2YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 16, 1 November 1929, Page 14

2YA Features

"THE service in the Vivian Street Baptist Church will be broadcast on

Sunday evening. The Rev. F. BE. Harrywill be the preacher. Afterwards, a concert to be given by the Municipal Band will be relayed from His Majesty’s Theatre. A FINE programme of classical items will be presented on Monday evening by the 2YA Orchestrina under Signor A. P, Truda, and the following supporting artists :-Mrs. Walter Fuller (mezzo-soprano), Mr. S. BE. Rodger (baritone), Miss Rene Goyder (contralto), and Mr. Charles Hdwards (tenor). Mr. Victor S. Lloyd will also relate another of his "experiences." The orchestrina will play "Laughing Waters," from Coleridge Taylor’s "Minnehaha Suite," a movement of

Schubert’s "Unfinished © Symphony," Sehumann’s) "Traumerei,’ Delibes’ "Czardas," and, by request, Mendelssohn’s "Spring Song.’ Mr. H. Temple White will give a brief organ recital, his items being "Hymn of the Nuns" (by Wely), "Pastorale in D" (by St. Clair), and Calkin’s "Festal March." Mrs. Walter Fuller, who is a newcomer to the microphone, is an artist of outstanding merit, haying been trained both in England and on the Continent. Her items will include twa of Rachmaninoff’s songs, "The Soldier’s ife’ and "Spring Waters," also Leroux’s -"‘Le Nid." The last-mentioned number will be sung in French. A POPULAR programme of a light ‘nature will be given on Tuesday evening, the contributing artists being the Salon Orchestra, under Mr. M. T. Dixon, Miss Myra Sawyer (soprano), Mr. William Boardman (baritone), Miss Lily Charles, and Mr. ©. Browne. Miss Charles will be heard in several popular song numbers, and Mr, Browne will entertain. with humorous _ elocutionary items. The Salon Orchestra will play as their opening number, the overture to "The Beautiful Galathea" (by Suppe). Further items by the orchestra will in clude a suite, "The Merchant of Ven~ ice," Raff's "Cavatina," a musical comedy selection "My Lady Molly," and "The French Military March" from Saint-Saens’ "Suite Algerienne." A feature of the programme will be the trio, "Farewell to Cuculiun" (by Kreisler), which will be played by Messrs. M. T. Dixon (piano); W. Haydock (violin), and Stanley Chapman (’cello). At 9.30 a "Columbia" dance programme will be presented. (THE Artillery Band, under the conductorship of Captain T. Herd, with the assistance of the Lyric Male Voice Quartet and Miss Margaret O’Halloran (elocutioniste), will provide the programme for Thursday evening. The band will play the overture to "La Gazza Ladra" ("The Thieving Magpie’), by Rossini, Bidgood’s "Opera Bouquet No. 1," an entr-acte "The Monk’s Dream," a fantasia, "Minstrel Melodies," and several novelty ites as well as marches and waltzes. Miss: Monica Malfroy (mezzo-soprano) will sing Debussy’s "Romance" and Dun-

x hill’s "The Cloths of Heaven," coupled \ with Rasbach’s "Trees." On Friday evening 2YA will relay from Palmerston North a performance of the musical comedy, "High Jinks," to be produced by the Palmerston North Amateur Operatic Society.