FRIDAY

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 39, 11 April 1930, Page 15

FRIDAY

Good Friday Broadcasts Broadcast From 1YA. At noon the three-hour devotional services will be relayed from St. Mary’s Cathedral, the preacher being Canon William Faneourt, and the organist and choirmaster Mr. Edgar Randall. At 7.30 p.m. there will be a relay from Beresford Street Congregational Church of Combined Congregational | Service, the preacher being the Rev. R. C. Roberts, B.A., B.D. Following this service there will be a special programme of sacred music. The vocalists will be Madame Mary Towsey and Mr. John Bree. Mr. Cyril Towsey will play two _ pianoforte solos, "Waltz" and "Impromptu in A flat." Mr. Karl Atkinson will conelude the programme with a gramophone lecture-recital, entitied ‘Passion Music." From 2YA. N Good Friday programmes in keeping with the day will be broadeast. At 3 o’clock a relay of the ceremony in St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Church of "The Stations of the Cross,’ will be broadeast. At 7 p.m. the can-

tata "Olivet to Calvary," will be relayed from St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, Wellington South. The choir, which has been specially augmented for the occasion, will be assisted by Mr. Harry Phipps and Mr. W. Binet Brown, as soloists. Miss Lillian Thawley will act as organist, and the choir will be under the conductorship of Mr. W. A Gatheridge. Following the conclusion of the cantata, a studio concert will be given by the 2YA Orchestrina, and the following vocalists: Mr. John Prouse. Miss Anne Sullivan, and Mr. E. W. Robbins. From 3YA. AT™ 11 a.m. a service conducted by the Rey. T. W. Armour, under the nuspices of-the Ministers’ Association, will be relayed from the Oxford Terrace Baptist Chureh, The special preacher will be the Rey, L. MeMaster. At 7.80 p.m. there will be a relay from the Anglican Cathedral of Bach’s "St. Matthew’s Passion," to be sung by the

Cathedral Choir. A studio concert will follow. From 4YA. THIS morning, at 10.30, a service held in Moray Place Congregational Church, under the auspices of the Council of Christian Congregations, will be broadcast by 4YA. | In the evening there will be a pregramme in kecping with the day.

It will open with a recording of a selection from Stainer’s "The Crucifixion," as sung by the B.B.C. Choir. Local artists contributing to the programine will be Miss G. Burt (contralto), Mr. R. C. Bellhouse (baritone) and the Celeste Quintet, while solos will be provided by Mrs. C. Drake (piano) and Mr. C. Roy Spackman (violin).