SATURDAY

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 48, 13 June 1930, Page 25

SATURDAY

1YA’s Fare. T 11.45 a.m. the station will be on the air to broadcast the results of the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting. At 2.45 p.m. a football match will be relayed from Eden Park. In the evening there will be a relay from the Auckland Town Hall of the Municipal Choir concert. The programme will conclude with dance music at 11 p.m. 2¥A Features. The Test Match THIS afternoon this station will carry out a broadcast of the first Rugby test match between the British Rugby team and New Zealand. This match, which is being played at Dunedin, will be relayed by means of land line direct from the ground. The evening programme will be one of outstanding merit and interest in that it will be a relay of the second of the Wellington Philharmonic . Orchestra’s concerts of the 1930 season. A splendid: programme has been arranged, the programme opening with the overture to "A. Midsummer Night’s Dream." This will be followed by Tschaikowsky’s "Symphony No. 6" ("The Pathetique"), which is generally conceded to be one of the finest ‘works from the pen of this eminent Russian composer. Another feature will -be "Grieg’s "Concerto in A Minor," written for piano and orchestra. This number has been broadcast before, but it is a

number that can stand repeating, being popular with all classes of listeners. The soloist on this occasion will be Mr, Ernest Jenner, who has only recently arrived in the Dominion from the Royal Academy of Music, London. . , The orchestra will also play the "Prelude? to Act 3 of "Lohengrin," and Moussorgsky’s "Gopak." Miss Alma Clegg will assist the orchestra with vocal numbers: The Programme at Christchurch. "THE programme will be of the variety type. . There will be songs at the piano by the Joyous Pair, who will present some of. the latest popular airs, Mr. Leslie Stewart will sing "My Old . Shako" and other popular songs. Bass — solos to be presented by Mr. Leslie Fleming will be "Young Tom 0’ Devon," "The Farmer’s Pride’ and "The: Gld Toby Jug." Mr. N. G. Goffin will play two cornet solos. There will be sketches by The Mascots and humour in song and story by Mr. Jock Lockhart. ’Cello solos by Mr. Harold Beck will be "Chant d’Amour" and "Dance of the Gnomes," while selections will be played by the Broadcasting Trio. From 4YA, NOTHER soldiers’ entertainment, this being the broadcast of a reunion of all veterans of the Great War, will be presented. The. chairman will be Sir Andrew Russell. The concert programme for the evening will include a play to be produced under the direction of Major F.. H. Lampen and chorus numbers by. the Returned Soldiers’ Choir, under Mr. J. Leech. Voealists and an ‘orchestra will support. .