WEDNESDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 36, 20 March 1931, Page 21

WEDNESDAY

Auckland Features’ HERE will be a talk on "Physical Culture’ by Mr. Norman Kerr at 7.40 p.m. 0 . ‘ At 8 o’clock a concert to be given by the Whangarei Municipal Silver Band, under Mr. A. Dobson, will be relayed from Whangarei. Wellington Notes A PROGRAMME of recorded items u from overseas programmes will be ) broadcast this evening. At 3YA A DIALOGUE for the benefit of farmers will be given at 4YA, and also proadeast by 8YA. The speakers will be Messrs. R. B. Tennant and Mr, L. W. McCaskill, and’ the subject, "Farmer Brown talks about rotational grazing and criticises the system." Mr. Sydney Williamson’s Male Quartet, Miss Phillis Kinniburgh (pianist), and the Working Men’s Club Orchestra will provide the evening’s programme. The quartet comprises: Messrs. ©. R. Williamson, Sydney Williamson, J. J. Hall, and Leslie Fleming, and their numbers will include "The Three Chafers," "Because," "The Old Folks at Home," and "The Pilgrim’s Chorus" (from "Tannhauser"’). The solos will eomprise "The Secret," "Trade Winds," \ "The Lass with the Delicate Air," "Mine Enemy," "Nightfall at Sea," "Till Death,"- "The Clock," and "The Little Girl from Hanley Way." Miss Kinniburgh is a pianist who has played with distinction at competitions. She is an A.T.C.L., L.T.C.L., and A.L.C.M., and is a very finished pianist The Working Men’s Club Orchestra, under the baton of Mr. A, G. Heath, is an excellent combination composed mainly of professional musicians displaced from the "talkies." A popular programme will be played. As a piceolo solo, with orchestral accompaniment, Godfrey’s "Yankee Doodle" will be played by Mr. T. Amos. In "Alpine . Echoes," the cornet soloists will be Messrs. Fred Fox and Fred Chapman _ From Dunedin — THE subject for the afternoon talk by ‘ the Home Science DHxtension De-

_ partment of Otago University will be on "Teaching Manners." . A special "Beethoven Evening," every item being from the works of the famous composer. | During the evening, Mr. Max Scherek, president of the Society of Professional Musicians of Otago, will give a lecturette on Beethoven, and the vocal portion of the musical programme will be provided by the Harmonists’ Sextette, consisting of Miss Mae Matheson (soprano), Miss Evelyn Shepard (soprano), Miss Margaret Green (contralto), Mr. H. A. Johnston (tenor), Mr. S. Falconer (baritone), and Mr. W. B. Lambert (bass), with Mrs. ©. Drake as pianist. Specially featured will be the ‘Ruins of Athens," a wonderful work extremely popular with choral . societies and containing magnificent choruses and solos. The instrumental portion of the programme will be provided by Mr. Max Qpaharak and his string sextet.