MONDAY

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 7, 29 August 1930, Page 10

MONDAY

At 2YA, A REVIEW of "Books-Grave and Gay" will be given by Mr. H. G. South during the news and reports session. A distinctive programme will be presented during the concert session. The vocalists will include Mrs. Sara Clinton Hunt, Miss Hilda Chudiey, Mr. B. Crewes, and Mr. G. Austin Blackie. Songs at the piano in English and French will be featured by Mrs. Clinton Hunt. Miss Winifred Hill, an Auckland soprano, will sing "The Almond Tree" and "’I'was in the Golden Time of Spring." Miss Hilda Chudley, a young contralto singer who is rapidly making a name for herself as one of Wellington’s leading contraitos, will sing on this programme Landon Ronald’s "As a Dream," a Manx folk song, "Little Red Bird," and Dvorak’s famous "Songs My Mother Taught Me." Mr. G. Austin Blackie, one of Wellington’s most popular tenors, and one whose singing is always of a high order, will on this occasion sing Schubert’s "Serenade," Dorothy Forster’s "Rosamunde," and a traditional number, "Oft in the Stilly Night." Mr. E. Crewes is a new arrival in Wellington, having spent most of his time in the South Island, where he is well known. as a baritone soloist, who has performed successfully with the various musical societies of that island. One of a cycle of songs by Von Ahn Carse, viz, "The Amber and Amethyst," will be one of Mr, Orewes’s

items, his other number being two of Keel’s "Salt Water Ballads’-"The Wanderer’s Song" and "Cape Horn Gospel," The elocutionary portion of the programme will be given by Miss Moira Clouston, late of 1YA, Auckland, and her items will be "The Sphinx and the Woman" and "A Hard Case," the latter veing a humorous number. The major portion of the instrumental side of the programme at 2YA will be furnished by the Orchestrina, under Signor A. P. Truda, whose.items will include the "Fingal’s Cave" overture, a selection ‘from the "Coppelia Ballet," Rameau’s "Ballet Suite," "The Dance" (by Rossini), and a Strauss concert valse, "The Emperor’s Waltz." A pianoforte duet arrangement of Dvorak’s "Slavonic Dance No. 5" and Chopin’s "Polonaise in A Flat" will be played by the Misses Iris Mason and Jean Samson. The recordings incorporated in the programme will feature Weber’s "Clarinet Concerto" and violin solog by Yelli D’Aranyi, a Hungarian violinist who is a familiar figure on Continental and American concert plate forms. From Christchurch. At 7.30 there will be the usual monthly book review by Mr. B. Wiltshire, president of Linwood Public Library. The evening’s programme will be provided by the Municipal Band and assisting arists, Miss Hilda Hutt (soprano), Mr. James Shaw (tenor), Mrs. Margaret Williams (elocutioniste) and the Christchurch Broadcasting ‘Trio. The programme will be of a miscellaneous nature. Two vocal duets by the Rasona Duo will be "Love’s Sentry" and "Oh, That We Two Were Maying."

Broadcast from 4VA., The programme will be contributed by some of the finest artistes in Dunedin. The items will all be operatic. Mr. Hrnest Drake, the brilliant tenor, has chosen for his operatic excerpts "H} Luci van le Stella" (from "La -Tosca") and "Your Tiny Hand is Frozen" (from "La Boheme"). The Rev. L. North, who has been unable to appear before the microphone for some time, will delight listeners with Gounod’s popular "Vulcan Song" (from "Philemon and Baucis") and "Clouds May Rise" (the recitative and aria from Handel’s "Orlando"). Mr. North has a splendid broadcasting voice. Miss Mary Pratt, Dunedin's popular contralto, is an additional performer on this programme. An excerpi from. "Carmen" (Bizet) and "Ye Powers that Dwell Below" (by Gluck) will be sung. Miss Pratt possesses 2 voice of remarkable quality and diction of the "bel canti" style, that is a voice that savours of the Italian school of beautiful legato style of singing. The remaining vocalist on the programme is Miss Lettie de Clifford, who won popularity and praise from her work with the Dunedin Amateur Operatic Society recently.

-- Adding to the programme, the Studio Trio presents instrumental music, and Miss Anita Winkel, the talented elocutioniste, includes in her items an extract from Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night."