MONDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 15, 24 October 1930, Page 18

MONDAY

1YA Features [HE ‘station will be on the air at 11,45 .for the purpose of broadcasting trotting results at Alexander Park, 2YA Items T noon the station will be on the air.in order that. listeners may hear the results of the second day of the. Wellington Racing Club’s spring meeting. The vocalists this evening will include Mrs. W. Fraser Morrish (soprano), who will not be broadcast in New Zealand again. for some time, as it-is her intention after this performance to leave for Sydney. on holiday. -Mrs. Morrish will sing three numbers: "Nanette" (by Wilkinson-

Stevenson), "Lovely Month of May" (by Hammond), and "The Leaves and the Wind" (by Leoni). "Brian of Glenaar" and "Spanish Gold," together with Pinsuti’s "The King’s Minstrel," three excellent songs, should show Mr. Wilbur Davies’ fine baritone voice to advantage. Two Hebridean folk songs and two Hungarian folk songs will be . featured by the tenor soloist, Mr. Eric Rishworth. Mrs. W. B. Britton, a con tralto singer, with a voice that broad casts extremely well, will sing "Tullaby," by Brahms, @ Schubert number, "Faith in Spring," and Moz art’s "With a Swanlike Beauty Glid ing." A poem by Mrs. Hemans, "The Lady of Provence," and two humorous numbers, "The Motor Car Boy" and "Limericks," will be recited by Miss Zena Jupp. The piano soloist will be Miss Molly Cook, who will play "Two Bourrees," by Bach. The Orchestrina, under

Signor A. P. Truda, will play Mendelssohn’s "Overture in O,"’ "The Norwegian. Rhapsody No. 1," by Svendesing, Grieg’s "Norwegian Dances Nos. 1 and 2," Drigo’s "Magic Serenade," and "Oriental Dance’? by Howsgill, and "The: Gavotte" from Thomas’s opera "Mignon." From Christchurch )PHURE will be-the monthly: talk on books by Mr.’ EB. BH. Wiltshire, president of Linwood Library. The well-known Woolston Band, under Mr. R. J. Bstall, -will provide a programme. A» splendid selection of items will be given, including a eupho‘nium solo, "Star of Rive,’".to be played by Bandsman Anderson, to band accompaniment. Miss Jean Cherry, whose soprano voice is well suited to radio, and Mr..Oliver Foote (well-known as a 2YA- tenor), ‘will be new to 3YA listeners. Other artists will include the popular’ mezzo-contralto, Miss Kathleen: Johns..

At 4YA A SPECIAL orchestral combination of nine instrumentalists will make its second appearance this evening in a programme, principally instrumental. The combination contains some of the finest musicians available, and they will present classical, operatic, and musical comedy selections, and other light numbers, Among the selections are works such as "Tristan and Isolde" (by Wagner), "Coriolanus" (by Beethoven), and Mozart’s beautiful "Don Giovanni." Instrumental music is always greatly

appreciated and the ‘use of an orchestral combination to provide almost the complete programme (for there will be only two yocalists) will provide a very attractive evening.’ f