BROADCASTING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 109, 18 February 1937, Page 9

BROADCASTING

TO-NIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. The wireless programmes to be broadcast tonight are:— IYA. AUCKLAND (650 k). 7.0: News and reports. 8.0: Elizabethan music (what modernists owe to the sixteenth century composers). 8.4 U: Recordings : Albert Sandler and his Orchestra, ‘‘Listen to Liszt” (arr. David Bor). 8.47 : Dino Borgioli (tenor), La Barcarola Della Marangona” (arr bade ro); “Gondoliera Veneziana ’ (Sadero). 8.54: Godfrey AndolpV Concert Orchestra, “To an Oriental God” (descriptive) (Letter). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Reserved. 9.20: Band music (recorded). Vocalist, Mavis Beadle. Salvation Army Massed Bands, “New Zealand Warriors” March (Coffin) 9.24: Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, “The Arcadians” Selection (Monckton). 9.22: Mavis Beadle (soprano), (a) “Spring’s Holiday (Walker) ; (b) ‘‘Country Folk” (May Brahe). 9.38: Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, “Accession Memories.” 9.46: Massed Bands at Crystal Palace, 1933, “Sweet and Low” (Barnby). 9.50: Mavis Beadle (soprano), (a) “The Enchanted Forest” (Montague Phillips) ; (b) “I Know How to Tie Ribbon Bows” (Dourlens). 9.56: Massed Bands at Crystal Palace, 1933, “And the Glory of the Lord” (from “Messiah”) (Handel). 10.0: “Let’s Laugh.” Another programme of comedy dance numbers, with interludes by Cyril Barnett (yodelling and guitar). 2YA. WELLINGTON (526m—570k). 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals from Dominion Observatory. 8.0: Chimes. Potted Revue, No. 5. Half an hour of varied variety and vaudeville. 8.32: A further incident in tho lives of the Japanese house-boy and his employer, “Frank Calls for Assistance.” 8.46: Talk: Mr Johannes Andersen, “Literature and Peace” (2): “Personalities at the P.E.N. Congress.” 9.6: Weather. Station notices. 9.11: Ethel Wallace (violinist) presents Rondo (Schubert); “l’Alouette” (Glinka, Balakireff); Praeludium and Allegro (Paganini, Kreisler); “Sclion Rosmarin” (Kreisler). 9.27: Doris Black (soprano), “Gathering Berries” (Rimsky Korsakov); “Recit et Air de Lia” (Debussy); “Ah! ,Lo So, Piu Non M’Aranza” (Mozart). 9.38: Recordings : A cinema organ recital by Sydney Gustard, Medley of Popular Classics: “Un Peu d’Amour” (Silesu); “In a Bird Store” (Lake). 9.51: Peter Dawson (bass-baritone), singing “The Vagabond” (Vaughan Williams) ; “The Gay Highway” (Drummond); “The Strong Go On” (Thayer). 10.1: Music, mirth and melody. 11.1: Close, down. 3YA. CHRISTCHURCH (416m—720k) 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals from Dominion Observatory. 8.0: Chimes. Recordings: Bernard Lee, Richard Littledale, Katherine Hynes, John Gar side and Roland Caswell, “Ten-Minute Alibi” (an impression of the play) (Armstrong). 8.11: Herman Trio (instrumental), “Pierrette” (Chaminade). 8.14: Barnsby Williams (character actor), “The Town Crier” (Williams). Sketch Artists, “The Good Old Coaching Days.” 8.28: Victor Olof Sextet, Minuet (Boccherini). 8.21: Stan Cater and Jack Rawling (original sketch), “Stan and Jan.” Tho inimitable Devonshire rustics bow to the microphone (Cater and Rawling). 8.38: Those Four Chaps, “Taking the Air” (Comber). 8.45: Alfredo Campoli Trio (violin, ’cello and piano), “Traumerei” (Schumann). 8.48*: Andre Cnarlot, Gwen Farrar, Norah Blaney and Edward Cooper (sketch), “French as She is Learnt” (Watling); “Atmospherics” (Jeans). 8.56: J. HT. Squire Celeste Octet, “Amina” (Lincke). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Talk, Mr Leicester Webb, “World Affairs.” 9.20: Dance music. 11.0: Close down. 4YAj DUNEDIN (790 Kilocycles). 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Gardening talk 8.0: Chimes. 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitsky, Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105 (Sibelius). 8.24: Elisabeth Schumann (soprano), “Bad Weather”; Serenade; “All the Fond Thoughts”; “My Father Said” (R. Strauss). 8.32: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Robert Heger, “Feuresnot” Love Scene (R. Strauss). 8.40: Recorded talk by W. W. Bird, late Superintendent of Native Education, “Songs of the Maori” (No. 3). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, “Transfigured Night,” Op. 4 (Schonberg). 9.37 : Gerhard Husch( baritone), “Elegy to the Nightingale” ; “The Slsi-Run-ner”; Venetian” Intermezzo; “Forget-Me-Nots” ; “Playful Bargain’ 7 (Kilpinen), 9.49: Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitsky, “Bolero” (Ravel). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.