WEDNESDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 10, 19 September 1930, Page 11

WEDNESDAY

Programme From 1YA. -F'ROM 12.30 p.m. to 1.80 p.m. the community singing at the Auckland ‘Town Hall will be broadcast. The 1YA Broadcasting ‘Choir, under the direction of Mr. Len Barnes, will be welcomed this evening. Some of the numbers to. be. performed have already been heard, and were so highly commented upon that repetition has beeri asked for. As an innovation there will be two short community sings by the choir, and. this-will enable many listeners who are unable to attend the community singing during the day to join. Two members of the choir will be heard in solos-Miss Chrissie Foster. (soprano) and Mr. Jack Dickie (baritone), the latter making his first appearance at this station. The programme will be varied by instrumental items, including a violin solo by Mr. J. Whiteford Waugh, a pianoforte solo by Mr. Towsey, and concerted numbers by the Studio Trio. 3YA Items. Two songs by Morley, who lived at the time of Shakespeare, and was possibly his friend, will be heard from 3YA. One, "Now is the Month" will be rendered as a quartet, and the other, "It was a Lover and his Lass," as a solo. Miss Corrie Aslin will be heard in one of the songs. Another quartet by the Salon Quartet, will be ‘the old Scottish favourite, "Duncan Gray." Varied vocal solos and numbers by the Studio Octet, under Mr. Harold Beck, should make the programme enjoyable. From .4YA, A RELAY of a concert by the Otago Society of Professional Musicians will be relayed from the Town Hall. Four local choirs are to perform,.and. 4YA’s Studio Trio has been engaged. to provide the instrumental section of the concert.

The soloists are Mr, Ernest Drake (tenor), Mr. G. W. Johnson (baritone), and Misses Mary Fraser and Koa Oliver (piano).