WEDNESDAY

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 21, 4 December 1931, Page 19

WEDNESDAY

Auckland Notes T 7.40 pm. Mr, H. H. Nepia will give a talk on "Maori Poetry." THE evening programme will be devoted to a performance of Handel’s "Messiah," to be given by the 1YA Broadcasting Choir and _ the Salon Orchestra, under the conductorship of Mr. Len Barnes. From Wellington "THE usual weekly international programme will be featured. At 9 p.m. Dr. Guy H. Scholefield, O.B.E., will speak on matters of international interest. Featured at 3YA December with all its associations | of "The Messiah" and general Christmas music, may be well termed "Handel’s Month," and it is fitting that Hubert Carter should provide a Handel programme on this night. Assisted by Millicent O’Grady (soprano), Findlay Robb (bass) and Stanley Morgan (pianist), he will give excerpts from "The Messiah," "Jeptha," "Acis and Galatea," "Judas Maccabaeus" and "Imeneo." |The Studio Octet will also perform many of Handel’s compositions. From 9.30 to 11 p.m. a programme of dance music will be presented. ,

At Dunedin "FARMER BROWN Discusses Farming with the Instructor" is the title of a dialogue between Mr. R. B. Tennent and Mr. L. W. McCaskill to be given at 7.15 p.m. "4 Night With Schubert" is the subject of a lecture-recital by Mr. G. W. Johnstone, who will be assisted by ten artists. The evening should be pleasureable because seventeen of the best known songs of the "Master of Melody" will be teatured. A Schubert piano selection, "Impromptu in B Flat," will be played by Rona Thomson. This recital. will be augmented by splendid electrical reecordings, including "Marche Militaire," "Rosamunde HEntr’acte No. 1" and efiems from Schubert." 4