WEDNESDAY

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 14, 16 October 1931, Page 18

WEDNESDAY

Items from 1YA HE evening programme will be devoted mainly to Community Singing by the 1YA_ Broadcasting Choir and the Salon Orchestra, the song-leader being Len Barnes. Many of the old-time and new favourites will be sung, and listeners are asked to join in the choruses. 2YA Jottings At 8 o’clock the weekly International Programme will be presented, Dr, } Guy H.-Scholefield, O.B.H., being the 4 lecturer for the evening. Christchurch Features One of the most interesting portions of 3YA’s operatic classical programme will be that provided by Dorothy Filkins, L.T.C.L., a talented Christchurch composer and pianiste, who will play several of her own compositions. Another of Miss TFilkins’s pieces, "Nocturne," will be played as’ a ’cello solo by Harold Beck, and a violin composition will be played by Irene Morris. 4YA Topics ME. i. P. DESMOULINS, who recently relinquished his position of deputy-conductor for the Dunedin Choral Society, conducts a very fine church choir in Dunedin, known as the ° Hanover Street Baptist Church Choi which combination appears this everiing. The choir will present a varied programme of choruses, part songs, trios, and quartets. Included in their items are three popular "catches" or rounds-"The Bell Doth Toll," ‘"Scotjand’s Burning," and ‘‘Merrily, Merrily." "Catches" was the name originally given to them, and they were so called because of the way in which they were taken up and passed round in the inns of the Hlizabethan period. A description of the three "catches" to be presented .this evening will be given by Mr. Desmoulins. "Old Folks at Home," "My :Old Kentucky Home," / "Lift Thine: Hyes," "Night Hymn at Sea," "The Lost Chord," and a chorus entitled "Into‘the. Woods," and an old English melody which will have a rare appeal for’ all listeners-"‘O Little Town of Bethlehem"’-wili be perform--d by the choir,

Featurettes "Musical Portrait-Saint Saens" 2YA, Monday. Ashburton Cheral Society 3YA, Monday.. Community Singing 1YA, Wednesday. Dorothy Filkins, Pianiste 3YA, Wednesday. Old-time Dances 4YA, Saturday.