WEDNESDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 30, 6 February 1931, Page 19

WEDNESDAY

From 1YA (COMMUNITY singing by the 1YA ’ Broadcasting Choir, under the ~. conductorship of Mr. Len. Barnes, will be broadcast this evening. Community singing has always proved*very popular, and on this occasion the choir will contribute approximately two hours of happy song. There will be two solo-ists-Misses Gwenda Weir (soprano} and Gladys Brooke (contralto). The choir will be assisted by Mr. Reg . Morgan and his orchestra, and many of the old songs and some of the latest hits will be included in the programme. OYA Notes. "THE second of the Overseas Programmes for the weekly Inter-national-Night at 2YA -will:be broadcast this evening. . =" Christchurch. Features A VERY bright vocal programme wii] ~. be broadeast. "Most of ‘the num‘Bers will be of a light nature, the programme eoncluding with the ‘quartet ‘singing Scott Gatty’s "Good-night." ~* From Dunedin ‘THE ‘afternoon talk by ‘the Home Science Hxtension Department of Otago University will be on "Vegetable Preserving." | ot : At 7.15 p.m. there will be a dialogue by Messrs R. B. Tennett and Mr. L W. McCaskill on the. subject: "Farmer Brown considers selling his farm,’.’The dialogue, will also be broadeast by . The beautiful Indian song cycle, ‘« "Lhe Golden Threshold," from the \. words by the Indian poet-Sarojini Naidu-set, to musie by Liza Lehmann, will be sung at 4YA by Miss Mae Matheson, Miss Margaret Green, ‘Mr, H. A, Johnston, and Mr, Stuart Falconer, °

In the miscellaneous portion of the programme the following solos will be sung; "Lascia Chiapanger" (by Handel), "Stay My Beloved," "Oh, That It Were So," "The Garden.of Allah" and the "Drinking Song" from "The Student Prince."