BROADCASTING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 16, 31 October 1935, Page 10

BROADCASTING

TO-NIGHT'S PROGRAMMES. The wireless programmes to he broadcast to-night are:— 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (416m.—720k.) 8.0: Chimes. Grand charity concert, arranged by the New Zealand Broadcasting featuring Percy Grainger (world-famous pianist, composer and conductor), assisted by the Christchurch Harmonic Society and Chamber Orchestra (conducted by Mr Victor Peters). Assisting artists: Miss Blanche Atkinson, pianiste; Miss Althea Harley-Slack, pianiste; Mi George Martin, organist; (relayed from the Civic Theatre). All-Grainger programme: 1. Choir and organ, “Recessional,” for choir and organ (words by Rudyard Kipling). (Conducted by the composer.) „2. Chamber Orchestra, “Green Rushes,” Passacaglia on an English folk song. (Conducted by the composer.) 3. Choir and Chamber Orchestra, love verses from “The Song of Solomon.” (Conducted by the com-, poser.) 4. Piano solo by Percy Grainger, “Ramble on the Love Duet from Richard Strauss’s opera, “The Rose Rearer” (“Rosenkavalier”). Paraphrase on the “Flower” waltz from .Tsehaikowsky’s “Nutcracker” suite. 5. Folk song settings for choir, (a) “I’m Seventeen Come Sunday,” choir and two pianos, (b) “Irish Tune from .County Derry.” Choir unaccompanied. (Conducted by the composer.) (c) “Shallow Brown” (Sea Shanty). (d) “The Hunter in His Career.” 6. Piano and Chamber Orchestra, (a) “Handel •in the Strand.” Clog dance for piano and strings, (b) “Blithe Bells,” for tuneful percussion and chamber orchestra. Aluminium marimba, Ella Grainger. (c) “Spoon River,” American folk-dance, set for chamber orchestra. 7. Two Australian pieces (choir): (a) “Australian Up-country Song.” Choir unaccompanied. (Conducted by the composer.) (b) “Marching Song of Democracy,” for choir and chamber orchestra. (Conducted by the composer.) 10.0 (approx.); Dance music, including another interlude with the Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors.

2YA, WELLINGTON (526m.—570k.) S.O: Chimes. The Ormandy Orchestra, selection from “Sunny” (Kern). 8.7 A further incident in the lives of a Japanese hopseboy and his employer, “Settlement.” 8.21: “Music at Your Fireside,” 8.36: Recording, The Ormandy Orchestra, selection from “Naughty Marietta” (Herbert). 8.40: Talk, Major-General B. S. Merlin, “Adventures of a Page at the Russian Court (final of a series of four). 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.0: Recordings, a recital by Adele Kern, soprano. 9.15: Recordings, a recital by Vasa Prihoda, violinist. 9.31: Recordings, a Handel recital by Keith Faulkner, baritone. 9.42: Recordings, Sir Hamilton Harty, conducting the London; Philharmonic Orchestra, “Water Music Suite” (Handel). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody.