BROADCASTING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 61, 23 December 1935, Page 7

BROADCASTING.

TO-NIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. i The wireless programmes to be broadcast to-night are:— 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (416m.—720k.) 8.0: Chimes. Derry’s Military Band (conductor, H. Gladstone-Hill), “Gladiator’s Farewell’’ March (Blankenburg) ; “Humoreske” (Dvorak). 8.12 : Recording, Lawrence Tibbetfi (baritone), (a) “Without a Song” (Youmans); (b) “Life is a Dream” (FreedStrauss). 8.18: The Band, “The Mikar do” Selection (Sullivan). 8.32: “Eh and Zeb,” the country storekeepers, in another humorous episode. 5.41: The Band, “A Reverie” Intermezzo (Ord Hume). 8.49: Recording, Frank Titterton (tenor), (a) “Neapolitan Love Song” (Herbert); (b) “Play to Me Gipsy” (Kennedy). 8.55: The Band, “The New Colonial” March (Hall). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. Q. 5: Talk, Rev. A. K. Warren, “The Social and Sentimental Side of Christmas.” 9.20: Recordings, Budapest String Quartet, Quartet in D Minor, Op. 56 (Sibelius). 9.54: Recording, Heinrich Sclilusnus (baritone), (a) “Captain Dreadnought”; (b) “Coming of Spring” (Hlugo Wolf). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 10.5: Talk, Mr T. W. Reese, “Our English Cricket Guests: Forty Years in Retrospect.” 11.0: Close down. IYA, AUCKLAND (650 k.) 8.0: Concert programme, featuring a recital byi the world-famous Spivakov-sky-Kurbz Trio: Tossy Spivakovsky (violinist); Jascha Spivakovsky (pianist) ; Edmund Kurtz (’cellist/. (1) Sonata for Violin and Violoncello: Lavghetto ; allegro giocoso; adagio; allegro (Handel). (2) Trio in D Minor, Up. 49 (Mendelssohn). 8.40 (approx.): Talk, Jane Mander, “Christmas in England; and New Zealand.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Ringside commentary on the wrestling bout, relayed from the Town Hall. 10.0': Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. 2YA, WELLINGTON (626m—570k.) 8.0: Chimes. A Chamber Music Programe featuring Barhms’"Sonata in F Minor, and Miss Constance Burt, the Australian soprano. Recording: Lionel Tertis, viola, and Harriet Cohen, pianoforte, Sonata Jn F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1 (Brahms). 8.28: A Lieder recital by Miss Constance Burt, Australian soprano, “Immer Leisler Wird Mein S'ehlumer” (“Fainter and Fainter is My Slumber”) (Brahms); “Bist Du” (“Soft as the Zephyrs”) (Liszt); “Aus Meineu Thranen Spreissen” (“Whene’er My Tears are Falling” (Schumann); “Das Kinderspiel” (“Children’s Pleasures”) (Mozart), 8.40: Talk, Canon Percival James, “The Religious Aspect of Christmas.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. Special weather report for alpinists. 9.5: A continuity programe. An hour with Albert Ketelbey. 10.0 (approx.) : Dance programme. 11.0 (approx.): Close down. 4YA, DUNEDIN (790 Kilocycles). 8.0: Chimes. The Concert Orchestra, conducted by James Dixon, “The World in the Open Air” Suite (Phillips). 8.15: Franz Volker (tenor), “Winter Consecration”; “All Souls’ Day” (R. Strauss). 8.21: George Ellwood (New Zealand ’cellist), “Kol Nidrei” (with orchestra) (Bruch); “Serenade” (Popper); “Sicilienne” (Ellwood); “Apres Un Reve” (Faure). 8.40: Talk, G. M. Cameron (lecturer in English at Otago University), “Christmas in Literature.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5 : The Faculty Players present “Quartet,” a play in four movements, by Cedric Wallis. 10.5 : Dance music.' 11.0: Close down.