2YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 17, 8 November 1929, Page 14

2YA Features

ON Sunday evening, the 57th Anniversary of the Trinity Methodist

Sunday: School, will be broadcast, the preacher on this occasion being the Rev. T. W. Vealie, the organist Miss Lillian Thawley, L.A.B., and the choirmaster Mr. J. W. Buchanan. At the conclusion of the church service a special studio presentation of the sacred cantata "The Rock of Ages" will be given by the choir of the Vivian Street Church of Christ. The choir

will perform under the baton of Mr. W. G. Carpenter, who will have associated with him the following soloists :-Mr. S. Baton, Miss Olive Hardwick, Mrs. R: Goldie, Miss Betty Goodwin, and ‘Miss E. J. O’Connor. Mr. George Gray will sing Willeby’s "Crossing the Bar," and the choir will\also render the anthem "Send Out, Thy Light." ONDAY is Armistice Day, and in the morning a relay of the service organised by the Wellington R.S.A. will be carried out. The evening programme will be in keeping with the day. Special items will be played bythe Studio Orchestrina under Signor Truda, and assisting vocal artists will also render suitable items.- The vocalists for the first half of the programme will be Miss Reta Grace (soprano), Mr. John Prouse (baritone), Mr. Hedley Aitken (elocntionist), Miss Hilda Chudley (contralto), and Mr. Lewis Campbell (tenor). The second half of the programme will be given by the Wellington branch of the League of Nations Union, the assisting artists being the Misses Mavis and Mona Castle, Mrs. E. Maslen (who will recite Austin Dobson’s poem "Before Sedan"), Mr. R. V. Hughes and Miss Zillah Castle. The last-named will entertain with. violin solos. A feature of this part of the programme will be a talk by Mr. F..L. Combs on the "Greatest Issue." * ‘THE Strollers’ Radio Party" will, with the assistance.of the Salon

Orchestra under Mr. M. Dixon, provide the programme on ‘Tuesday evening. Their items will comprise vocal solos, humorous numbers, and choruses from well-known musical comédies-alto-gether a bright and popular programme, From 9.30 until 11 p.m. listeners ‘will be entertained with a "Columbia" dance programme. N Thursday evening the band of: the first Battalion Wellington Regdiy ment, under the conductorship of Lieut. B. J. Shardlow, will render another of their interesting programmes, the outstanding features. being the selection "Rossini’s Works," Tschaikowsky’s "Chant Sans Paroles," Beethoven’s "Minuet in G," and Pether’s ‘Dawn of Victory.": Other’ items to be rendered by the band include ; marches, waltzes, and several fox-trots.. Assisting the band will be Mrs. Amy Dunn (soprano), Miss Ivy. Stanton (contral‘to), Mr. Claude Moss (baritone), and Mr. Stewart Nelson. (tenor). . Miss Esme Crow will be heard in humorous elocutionary numbers. ‘The Hutt Railway Workshops Orchestra" will also ° contribute to the programme, their 4 items being "The Broadway Melody," "You Were Meant for Me,’". from the popular talkie "Broadway Melody," "The Desert Song Waltz," and. "Under the Russian Moon."

‘ON Friday evening the Aerial Singers will contribute a programme of vocal gems from opera and musical comedy, a feature being the well known. quartet from "Rigoletto." Other items of interest ‘include’ the "Cobbler’s Song" from "Chu Chin Chow," a unison song from "The Beggar’s. Opera," the "Habanera" from "Carmen," "The Indian Love Call" from "Rose Marie," and the tenor solo "Ah! Moon of My Delight," from Liza Lehmann’s "In a Persian Garden." Mr. and Mrs. AIbert Russell, the well-known entertainers, Will be heard in several humorous solos arid duets. The 2YA Orchestrina, under Signor Truda, will play the overture to "Norma," a_ selection from — "Rigoletto" (by request), "O Star of Hye" from "Tannhauser," the Triumphal March from "Aida," and two weisical comedy numbers, "The Count of Luxembourg" and* "The Spring Maid." ATURDAY will mark the opening of "The All-Electric Exhibition" at the Town Hall, and arrangements have -been completed to relay the opening ceremony and the afternoon and evening programme. The Wellington Municipal Tramways Band, under the conductorship of Mr. BH. Franklin, will supply the programme on both occasions. In.the evening the band will be assisted: by Mr. W. Haydock (violinist), Miss Nora Gray (soprano), Mr. Ernest Short (baritone), and Mr. Dan Foley (tenor).