Features from 3YA

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 30, 7 February 1930, Page 15

Features from 3YA

PAstToR A. BE. TEBAY will be the preacher at the Church of Christ, Moorhouse Avenue, on Sunday evening, when the service is to ‘be broadcast. The after-church concert will be relayed from 4YA. ON Monday evening, at 7.30, Mr. N. M. Bell, M.A., will give a lecture on "Wsperanto." ERRY’s Military Band, under Mr. J. Scott, will supply the programme of band music on Monday evening. Further instrumental music will be contributed by the Christchurch Broadeasting Trio. The assisting artists will be Miss Sylvia Marshall (mezzo-sop-rano), Miss Betty Hilliard (singing popular songs), Mrs. H. B. Naylor (contralto), Mr. BF. Lovett (tenor), and Mr. Ronald Foster (humorous reciter). HRA will be a delightful orchestral programme on Wednesday evening supplied by the Studio Octet under Mr. Harold Beck. Seven of McDowell’s delightful "Woodland Sketches" will be played. The "Woodland Sketches" are among the happiest tokens of MacDowell’s affection for the countryside. In these pieces we hear how his imagination responded ‘to the legends and folklore of Europe (he spent some years in study and teaching in Ger many), and to the beauties of the woodlands of his native America. The titles of the pieces to be played are: "To a Wild Rose," "Will o’ the Wisp," "From an Indian Lodge," "A Deserted Farm," "By a Meadow Brook," and "Told at Sunset." Other numbers by the Octet will comprise the ballet music from "Le Cid," and selections from the works of Verdi, Chopin. Chaminade. and Saint-Saens. > SomE fine operatic solos will be heard on Wednesday evening. Mrs B. Sluis will sing "Mother, You Know the Story" (from "Cavalleria Rusticana.’"). A solo from "Faust," "oving Smile of

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"Peer Gynt’) will be sung by Miss Sylvia Angus. Mr. Arthur T. Couch will sing "The Flower Song" ‘ (from "Oarmen."). Mr. Couch will also sing ‘From the Land of the Sky Blue Water," and "Ka Mate." Humorous elocutionary items will be given by Mr. Alan W. Brown. T 7.30 on Thursday evening there will be a lecturette by Mr. R. B. Alexander (Director of Canterbury Agricwltural College) on "Autumn Cultivation." This talk has been arraged for by the 8YA Primary Productions Committee. : FEATURE of the classical programme on Thursday evening will be Somerville’s beautiful song cycle "Wild Flowers." This will be sung by the Melodious Four, to instrumental accompaniment by the Broadcasting Trio. The supporting programme will also be mainly of a classical nature, Mr. T. D. Williams will sing "Glorious Devon" and "The Song of the Flea." Very interesting items on the programme will be three harp solos to be played by Mr. H. Glaysher, one of the finest harpists in New Zealand. Piano solos will be contributed by Miss Maud K. Stout and there will be recitations by Miss Florence Brewins. RIDAY evening’s programme will again be of the popular type. Two of Miss Anita Graham’s songs will be "Mayday at Islington" and "Buy My Strawberries." Mr. Sydney Andrews (tenor) will sing, among other songs, "Sally in Our Alley." Miss Kathleen Johns (mezzo-contralto) has chosen "Macushla," "Folk Song," and "I Know a Bank," as her items. Mr. Finlay Robb, whose bass voice always broadcasts well, will sing "Stonecracker John," "Beware of the Maidens," and "A Stave of Roving Tim." There will be humorous recitations by Mr. Jack Darragh. The dance music of the evening will be supplied by the popular Bailey-Marston Dance Orchestra. ON Saturday evening 3YA will relay from 4YA.