SATURDAY

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 42, 2 May 1930, Page 11

SATURDAY

From 1YA. ° N Saturday afternoon Mr. Gordon Hutter, sports announcer, will deseribe the Rugby football from Eden Park. The Orchestral Octet will play during the evening session, and two very interesting items are included in their numbers: a saxophone duet entitled "Plantation Echoe" and Coleridge Taylor’s suite, "Petite Suite de Concert.’ The popular Bohemian Duo will appear in steel guitar and vocal novelties. It is interesting to note that this combination was for some time on tour with Williamson’s Celebrity Vaudeville, The Snappy Three will again be heard in some of the latest hits. Two more new artists will be heard on this programme. Miss Adele Taylor (mezzo-soprano) was for some time with J. C. Williamson’s and has just completed a tour with Pat Hanna’s Diggers. A firstclass bass-baritone, Mr. Arthur Wright, is making his first appearance at 1YA He possesses a very fine voice, and is well known throughout various parts of the Dominion as an excellent artist. Humour will be provided by Mr. S. W Marshall. Dance music will be given until 11 p.m. ‘ (Concluded on page 21.)

Programme Features

(Continued from page 11.) At 8 o’clock a relay of the Wellington Harmonic Society’s first concert of the 1930 season will be carried out. This society is well known to the Wellington public for the splendid programme it arranges, and to distant listeners for the excellent way in which it eomes "over the air." The programme will be a varied one, and will include the following numbers by the choir: "Summer Is Gone" (Coleridge Taylor), "The Song of the Gale" (Foster), "I Saw Lovely Phyllis’ (Bevan), the Madrigal, "In Going to My Lonesome Bed," a Negro Spiritual, "Talk About That a Child Do Love Jesus," and "The Challenge of Thor." Hebridean songs will be a feature of the programme, as the society has engaged Miss Gretia Don, a Scottish soprano recently arrived in New Zealand from a successful tour of the United States. Miss Don has made a special study of these songs, and will contribute two groups of songs to the programme. The Salon Orchestra, playing under the conductorship of Mr. M. T, Dixon, will play the "Slavonic Rhapsody" by Friedmann, "The Marche Algerienne," by St. Saens, and Mr. W. Haydock will play as a violin solo with orchestral accompaniment

the "Andante" from Lalo’s "Symphony BHspagnole." From 3 and 4YA. "OULD Doctor Maginn (not previ‘ously sung at 3YA) will be one of Mr. Leslie Fleming’s songs. Others will be "The Queen of Connemara" and "The Company Sergeant-Major." Songs from "Hit the Deck," "The Student Prince," and "The Vagabond King" will be sung by Miss Khura Hart-Stewart. Miss Alice Chapman and Mr. Chas, Lawrence will present three sketches." English concertina duets will be played by Theo and Frances Gunther, and a bright instrumental programme wil! be provided by the Studio Octea. This programme will be relayed to 4¥A. SUNDAY, MAY 11. THE evening service of the Taranaki Street Methodist Church will ‘be relayed on Sunday evening. The preacher will be the Rev. T. R. Richards, and the organist and choirmaster Mr. H. Temple White. The band recital of the Port Nicholson ‘Silver Band will be relayed from the Opera House atthe eonelusion of the church service.