SUNDAY

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 21, 4 December 1931, Page 18

SUNDAY

From 1YA HB service to be conducted in St. Mary’s Cathedral will be broadeast. A special feature of the evening programme will be several com- . positions of the local.musician, Barry . Coney. Mr. Coney is known through‘out New Zealand as an excellent baritone singer, and many young singers are indebted to him for his helpful advice at the various competitions, which he adjudicated. Mr.. Coney is also an excellent pianist. He has studied extensively in England and gained high degrees in both singing and pianoforte. For some months past, he has devoted himself to. composing, and the Auckland public has already heard much of his work. Supporting yocal ‘iumbers will be broadeast by May’ Bray and Len Barnes. Instrumental items- will be contributed by Carl Whitmore (violin), and Lalla Hemus’ (’cello). Mr. Coney will play twelve waltzes, and will also accompany the instrumental solos. The remainder of the programme will be furnished by the Salon Orchestra, under the direction of Harold Baxter.

‘Broadcast from Wellington f ESD evening service in The Terrace .Congregational Church will be relayed, the preacher being the Rev. H. W. Newell and the organist and choirmaster Harry Brusey. The studio concert will be given by the Wellington Municipal Tramways Band and 2YA artists, Of special. interest will be a story, "The Lady and the Tiger," as told by Mary Cooley, who will be well remembered by listeners for her outstanding performance in "Joan of e," Keith Grant (baritone), who has lately completed a series of engagements with the Australian broadcasting stations, will be heard in a group of Schubert’s songs, and in Béethoven’s "Adelaide" and "The Great Awakening," by Kramer. Joyce Woodward, a singularly sweet soprand,: will make a welcome reappearance at 2YA. The Wellington Municipal Tramways Band will play a splendid programme, including the poetic march, "The Vanished Army," dedicated to the "First Tiundred Thousand" by its composer, .Alford. : Christchurch Topics THE REV. RUGBY PRATT will be the preacher at Durham Street Methodist Church, when the service will be broadcast. The organist will be Allan Welbrock, L.A.B., and the choir conductor ©. N. Sargeson. The studio concert will feature well-known Christchurch artists, including Cecily Audibert (soprano), David McGill (tenor), and Maisie Ottey (pianiste). The programme will be mainly of an operatice-classical nature. Dunedin Notes TN the afternoon an address on Christian Science, by Dr. Albert F. Gilmore, of Boston, U.S.A., will be relayed. The evening service in St. John’s Anglican Church (Ven, Archdeacon W. A. R. Fitchett) will be broadcast, Mr. WwW. H. Allen being the choirmaster. A relay of 3YA’s studio concert will follow.