THURSDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 23, 19 December 1930, Page 19

THURSDAY

Xmas Features from 1YA Special sessions will be observed at a stations to-day (Christmas Day). 1YA, 3YA and 4YA will hold children’s sessions at 9 am. and 2YA at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m. 1YA will relay Divine service from St. Matthew’s ' Church. Canon Grant Cowen will preach and Mr. J. H. Philpott will be at the organ. The station will be on the air during the afternoon from. 3 o’clock on. At 7.30 p.m. approximately there will be a relay of the concert to be given in the Albert Park by the Congress Hall Band, under the conductorship of Mr. T. Paice, Christmas Day this year will mark the occasion of the opening of the Porirua Mental Hospital radio installation. This is to take place at 3 o’clock, and will be a unique event in that the official opening speech by the Minister of Health (Hon. A. J. Stallworthy) will be relayed from the Minister’s residence, Auckland. At the conclusion of the opening ceremony: a special programme of selected gramophone recordings will be given from the studio. Wellington Notes At 8 p.m. 2YA will be on the air with.a studio programme. The Orchestrina will play the following selections: "The Christmas Overture," a selection from the opera "The Jewels of the Madonna," the "Adagio" from Mendelssohn’s "Hymn of Praise," the "Polonaise" from the "Christmas Eve Suite’ by Rimsky-Korsakov, Massenet’s "Angelus," and a selection entitled "The Chapel Chimes." :

Xmas Day at 3YA . At 7 o'clock 8YA will relay a full choral evensong service from the Anglican Cathedral. Christmas carols will also be sung. The. concert programme will be one of superior standard. Recitals will be given by Mr. Rex Harrison (one of the finest baritones who has ever broadcast in New Zealand), Miss Cicely Audibert (soprano, with a reputation earned on the professional stage in Australia), Mr. J. J. Flewellyn (Dickens’ sketches), Mr. H. G. Glaysher (harp solos). and Mr. James Shaw (tenor, who was a B.B.C. artist). From 4YA T 10.30 a.m. 4YA will relay a church service conducted by the combined denominations. A feature of the 4YA programme, which has been arranged by Mr. Ernest Drake, will be the choral’ singing. The principal soloists who took part in the recent highly’ successful recital in the Town Hall will be singing. Of special interest will be a chorus of twelve voices, which will present all the Christmas carols ‘on this programme,