MONDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 1, 18 July 1930, Page 22

MONDAY

PROMINENT VOCALISTS 2YA’s Programme.. At 3.15 this afternoon the representative of Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., will give her usual weekly talk on home crafts. The usual weekly book review will be given at 7.40 by Mr. H. C. Smith. The concert programme promises to be of a very high order, those con- . tributing being Miss Gwladys Edwardes (late of Sydney), Miss Jessie Shmith (late of Melbourne), and Messrs. G. Austin Blackie and Geo. Neel. Miss Edwardes will feature songs by Schumann, Schubert, and Brahms, and Miss Shmith’s songs by

Hageman, Franz, Oley Speaks, and Dunhill, also a number that has not yet been broadcast in New Zealand, viz.. "Over the Dark, Still Silence." Two compositions by Landon Ronald and Clay’s evergreen "I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby" will be sung by Mr. Austin Blackie. Mr. Geo, Neel will be heard in two numbers of a bright, rollicking nature that should suit his voice-*The Song of the North Wind" (by Michael Head), and Sanderson’s "Devonshire Cream and Cider." The solo pianist for this progriimme will be Miss Molly Withers, who will play Weber’s "Moto Perpetuo." ‘ The orchestrina, under Signor A. P. Truda, will play Beethoven’s famous overture, "Coliolanus," Tschaikowsky’s "Lac des Cygnes," a "Freischutz Fantasie," a selection from ‘Lilac Time," and Dvorak’s "Humoresque." "A feature of the programme will be a one-act play, "The Man in the Stalls," by Mr. Victor Lloyd’s Company. This play is from the pen of the famous playwright, Alfred Sutro, and is one that will hold the attention of the listeners right throughout its performance. From 3YA., R. O. H. FRANKEL, of Lincoln Agricultural College, is to speak from 3YA at 7.30 on "Heredity as Applied te Agriculture and Racial Hygiene." , The programme by the Woolston Band at 3YA will contain plenty of variety. Two fine marches, "The Laurel Wreath’ and "Imperial Echoes" will be played, also Verdi’s overture, *Nabucondenosor," a selection, "Gems of Italian Opera," the patrol "Cock of the North," and a selection from "Lucia di Lammermoor." Badsman E. Williams, champion trombone soloist, will play "Winning Spurt," to band accompaniment, A horn solo will be played by Bands--man F,, Turner. The vocalists for the evening will be Miss Sylvia Angus (soprano), Miss Kathleen Fond (contralto), Mr. W. J. Bischlager (tenor), and Mr. E. A. Dowell (baritone). It will be a very. popular programme, 4VA Attractions. "THERE will be the usual W.D.A. talk from 4YA at 7.40. 4YA has a special attraction this evening in the broadeast on relay of a concert to be given in the Town Hall by the Royal Dunedin Male Choir. The soloists will be Madame Winnie Fraser (soprano), Mr. Thos. Bauchop (tenor), and Mr. J. BE. Berton (bass). Violin solos will be played by Mr. W. C. Gay and elocutionary items will be given by Miss N. Osborne, The choir’s items will comprise folk songs of the Hebrides, Irish folk songs, Greig’s ‘‘Recognition of' Land" (soloist, Mr. C. S. Hawes), a double chorus and the part song "Thou Comest Here to the Land." The last-mentioned number has been composed by Dr. V. HE. Galway (con-

ductor of the choir) on Tennyson’s "Ode to 'reedom," and dedicated to the choir.