The Week from 3YA

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 35, 13 March 1931, Page 5

The Week from 3YA

Some Notable Performers

APPEARING on 3YA’s programm: next week will be Miss Nellie Bilcliff, a Christchurch teacher of music, who has an excellent mezzo-soprano Yoice. — Mr. J. Haydn Williams, tenor, is a brother of Mr. T. D. Williams, the well-known 3YA artist. He was born in Wales and inherits the famil? musical talent. During the war he was on active service with the Navy in all parts of the world, from Archangel to New Zealand. His = ship was torpedoed on many occasions, but he bore a charmed life and had seyeral miraculous escapes. On one trip of the troopship Tahiti he: was a member of the naval crew in charge of the anti-submarine gun, this trip being in the nature of a "rest." Mrs. §. W. Williamson, who will’ sing for SYA on Monday evening, hails from Kaikoura. Listeners will enjoy her fine contralto voice, which will be heard on the air for . the first time. a Mr. Lyndon Christie, saxophone player, and his accompaniste, Miss Clive Winston, are well-known Chrisi~ church musicians. Mr. Christie has recently returned from Australia, where he has been for several years. He was conductor of the orchestra in the Wentworth Hotel Dance... Cafe, Sydney. His saxophone will be heard from 3YA on Wednesday evening. When listeners hear the contralto voice of Mrs. F. Nelson Kerr on Wednesday evening, they will hear 2 Christchurch singer who has appeared with much success at concerts given by the Harmonic Society. Professor R. C. Zimmermann, who is to contribute violin solos, with orchestral accompaniment, on .'Thursday evening, is a musician of very high standing in Christchurch, both as a violinist and conductor. Recently, when an Warthquake Benéfit Concert was given, he was leader in an orchestra, composed of some sixty professional musicians, under the conductorship of Mr. A. Bidgood. A singer from the West Coast, Mrs. H, Turnbull (mezzo-soprano), now of Dunsandel, will sing on Friday evening. She had the distinction of winning the championship at the Greymouth Competitions Society. The Hawaiian Harmony Tour, to perform on Saturday evening, is a new combination-three steel guitars and a banjo-uke-which will meet with the approval of listeners.