3YA Items

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 21, 6 December 1929, Page 14

3YA Items

eee, [HE service, conducted by. the Rev.. A. E. Tebay, in Moorhouse Avenue Church. of Christ on Sunday evening will.be broadcast by 3YA. The broadcast to.follow will be a relay from Dunedin of a concert to be given by the St. Kilda Band. A WELL-VARIED programme will be given by Derry’s Military Band under. Mr. J. M. Seott on» Monday evening. Instrumental items will ‘also be played by the Studio Trio. Miss Kathleen Chapple (soprano) will contribute to the vocal side of the ~pro- ~ gramme, singing "Golden Dancjng Days" and "Fhe: China Doll." Migs Belle Renaut will sing "Off to Market, Johnny," and "Banjo: Song." Baritone items by Mr. B. H. Collett will inelude "The Blind Ploughman." Two humorous elocutionary numbers’ will be given ‘by Miss Mavis Ritchie. ]{XxCHRPTS from "Merrie England," the most successful. light opera written in England since Sullivan died, will be presented by. the Salon Quartet. on Wednesday evening. It is a tale of the- spacious days of Good Queen Bess, when (as we like to believe) the’ English were a. frolicsome folk and.-ready. at any moment to "kick their heels or smoothly prance in. rustic rout or courtly dance." . All the principal vocal numbers of the: opera will be sung. Miss Corrie’ Aslin will take.the part of Bessie Throckmorton ,and. Miss. Dulcie Mitchell that of Jill All Alone and Queen BElizabeth. Mr. H. Blakeley will be Sir Walter. Raleigh, and the role of the Parl of Sussex will be filled by Mr. J. GraPa r

m Young. The Studio Octet under ~@\r, Harold. Beck will supply: the: in. *}trumeéntal music, which will include "Triumphal March" from "Aida," Ballet Musie from "Le Cid,".and.Mac- . Dowell’s "Woodland Sketches.’ Two fine elocutionary numbers will ' be | given by Mr. R. R. Wills, "Britons Beyond.the Seas’ and extracts. ..from Browning’s "Pied Piper." — . QN Thursday at 7.30 there will:be a ; talk to farmers on .°""Weaining Lambs on Rape or Supplementary Feeds for Sheep." re Excerpts. from Gounod’s "Faust" will be featured on. Thursday evening’s programme, the vocalists being Madame Gower Burns, Miss ‘Mavis Spiller, Mr. Ernest Rogers, and Mr. J. Filer. The supporting vocal .programme will be of a miscellaneous © and very interesting nature. Among the numbers to be sung will .be ‘Shipmates 0’ Mine," "London Town," "Il Bacio," and "A Perfect Day." During the evening recitations will be given by Miss Lily Hughes, — "4 Broken Web" and "Crossing the Bar." An instrumental programme will be provided by the Studio, Octet under Mr. Harold Beck.: ‘ HERE will be a "popular": type of programme on. Friday" evening, followed by a dance music session, The contributing artists will be Miss Maud Stringer’ (singing two Maori songs and "Three Fishers"), Miss Alma Finnerty (songs at the piano), Mr. J." Smyth (baritone solos), Mr. Geo, Titchener , Chumour), and Messrs. Norton Collins and George Bennet (violin and accordion). PROGRAMME of old favourite vocal numbers and old-time dances has been arranged for Saturday night, It will be a particularly enjoyable concert. The contributing artists will be Miss Nellie Lowe, Mr. Bernard Rennell, M. Chas. Lawrence (mirth and melody), Mr. Jock Lockhart (Scottish humour), Mr. Hiram Dunford (humorous recitations), and the Willyams Dance Orchestra. The old-time dances will continue till 11 p.m. ®