2YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 22, 13 December 1929, Page 14

2YA Features

ON Sunday evening a‘ relay of Wa: evening service of The Terrace Congregational Chureh will be carried out. The Rey. C. W. Wickham will be the preacher on this occasion, the. organist and choirmaster being Mr. -H. Brusey. At the conclusion of the service there will be .a_ broadcast of "Messiah." This masterpiece of Handel is being given by the Lower Hutt Methodist Church Choir under the conductorship of Mr. Ernest Dawson, who will have associated with him the. following artists:-Mrs. Schmidt (soprano), Miss Constance Flamank (contralto), Mr. Charles Williams: (tenor), and. Mr. John Prouse.(bass). The organist will be Mr..Horman, and: the church orchestra will-be specially augmented for the occasion. , r ON Monday afternoon descriptive summaries of the third day’s play in the Wellington vy. England. cricket match at the Basin Reserve will be broadcast at stated intervals. The description will be in the capable hands of Mr. A, Varney, secretary of the Wellington Cricket Association. At 740 Mr. H. C.. South will give another of his interesting book reviews. The evening concert session will feature the popular Ariel Singers, who on this occasion will give a miscellaneous programme of solos, duets, and glees. Miss Hazel Rowe, the pianiste to the Wellington Orpheus Society, . will be the piano soloist on this programme. Miss Rowe’s -items’ will be Brahms’ "Rhapsody'in B Minor" and Debussy’s "Arabesque No, 2." . A feature of Monday evenini* " programme will be a one-act play by St. John Irvine, the well-known English playwright. ‘The | play, which is entitled "She was no Lady," will be presented by Mr. Victor S. Lioyd and Company. Two outstanding features .of the items to be played by the 2YA Orcestrina, under Signor Truda, will -be "Wingal’s Cave" Overture and the Second Movement of Schubert’s "Unfinished Symphony." Other items to be played include Brahms’. "Lyric Suite," Liszt’s "Liebestraum," and Saint-Saens’ "Dance Macabre." Mr. H. Temple White will give a brieforgan recital at approximately 9.5 p.m., his items being "Reve d’Amour" (by Corbett), "At , Evening" (by Kinder), and "The Min~’ ster March" (from "Lohengrin" ). { THE fourth day’s play of the Wellington v. England cricket match on Tuesday afternoon will be described by Mr. A. Varney, the intérvals -between relays being filled in with ‘items. from the studi6. ,

— --_ HE coneert session on Tuesday evening will be contributed to by Mr. Stewart: Nelson ‘(tenor), Mrs. Winifred Birch-Johnson (comedienne) and Mr. Spencer Furrell (popular songs). Humorous elocutionary items will be givén by Mr. Will ¥ates.’, "The instrumental portion of the programme will be given by the Salon Orchestra, under Mr. M.’T, Dixon: -~ THE items will include the "Stradella" Overture, "The Cossack’s Wedding. Fete,’ the "Hyde Park Suite," Haydn Wood's "Virginia" and a trio number, Godard’s "Second Valse in B Flat." .. A STUDIO programme, interspersed by Hutt election results, on Wednesday evening. HE Wellington Artillery Band (under the conductorship of Captain tT; Herd) and assisted by the Melodie Four Male Voice Quartet. Miss Gladys Hibberd (contralto) and Mrs. M. Thomas (elocutiongry numbers) will present an interesting and varied programme on -Thursday evening. The pand items will include the fantasias,’ "The Dawn of Spring" and "Robin Adair," a. medley ‘entitled "A Melodious Revue," a: cornet duet, "Heart’s Desire," and a gavotte entitled "Somewhere in France." ON Friday evening the Etude Quartet will provide a programme of vocal gems from light opera and musieal comedy, the Orechestrina, under Signor A.:P. Truda, playing items in keeping with the vocal numbers. The Orchestrina’s items include the overture to "Lucia di Lammermoor," An‘sell’s arrangement of selections from Offenbach’s operas, a selection from the musical comedy, "The Pink Lady," the opera, "The Girl of the Golden West," and the march from "Tannhauser.". Mr. and Mrs. Albert Russell, two of Wellington’s most popular entertainers, will provide the humorous portion of the programme.

ATURDAY evening’s programme will be of a bright, entertaining nature, those contributing being the Salon Orchestra;;.the Lyric Quartet, Miss Violet Roberts (contralto), Mrs. Mildred Kenny’s Guitar Orchestra and Mr. Jack Wilkinson: (comic songs).