FRIDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 21, 5 December 1930, Page 19

FRIDAY

Auckland Items [THAT very popular quartet, the New Zealand Four, will provide the vocal music for this evening’s con"eert. Orchestral items will be given Y by the Orchestral Octet under the direction of Mr. Harold Baxter, and the items include the Bastern Dance"Chang," "Tales of Hoffmann," and the fantasia "The Water Melon Patch." The programme will include a short gramophone lecture-recital. 2YA Features Me. AND MRS. RAY KEMP will be heard in solos and duets from musical comedies. Humorous items will be given by the popular 2YA entertainer, Mr. Will Yates. A novel turn will be furnished by Mrs. R. M. Cummins, who will sing popular songs with ukulele accompaniment, this being the first time items of this nature have been broadcast from 2YA. Mr. J. F, Skedden, an artist who has made a special study of syncopated piano novelties, will also contribute items, his"zumbers being "Coaxing the Piano," "Old-fashioned Locket," and "I’ll Always be in Love with You." Suitable orchestral items will be played by the Orchestrina under the baton of Signor A, P. Truda. Christchurch Programme MISCELLANEOUS items, including vocal selections, humorous sketches and orchestral music by the Studio Octet will be heard from 3YA to-night. Broadcast from 4YA A NEW mixed quartet, to be known . as the Celeste Four, will make ry its first appearance, and should provide some excellent, bright numbers. he members of the quartet are ‘Misses Rita Holmes and B. Rawlinson, and Messrs. James Simpson and L. Cachemaille-all artists of talent. They will be heard in exracts from the song-cycle,

"Wlora’s Holiday," by Lane-Wilson, as well as a variety of solos and duets. The most popular duet from Mozart’s "Magic Flute" is to be sung by the soprano and the bass, Mr. H. Dalziel, a brilliant marimbaphone player, will broadcast novelty numbers. In the elocutionary section of the programme, there will be a fifteen minutes’ sketch by Miss McGregor and Miss Newbold entitled "Square Pegs." The 4YA Trio will present light numbers and a cello solo is to be played by Mr. Palmer. The programme contains all types of music from the latest song "hits" to the higher forms of classical music.