TO-NIGHT’S RADIO

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 158, 31 March 1931, Page 7

TO-NIGHT’S RADIO

Vocal Features from 2YA In a scries of songs with orchestral' accompaniment, Miss Belle Renaut (contralto) will be featured at 2YA this even ing. Iler items will be: "My Heart is Singing,” "When the House is Asleep,” “A Song Remembered,” and “Absent.” Supplementary vocal numbers on the programme will be given by the Lyric Quartet, in concerted and solo form. Several of the items will have orchestral accompaniment. Mr. Roy Hill will sing, with violin obligato. Braga’s “Serenata.” The quartette number, “Lullaby Moon,” will also have violin obligato. In the singing of “Oft When Eve Has Rest Bestowed,” the male voices of the quartet will be unaccompanied. The instrumental side of the programme will be provided by the Hawaiian Harmony Four, and the Salon Orchestra. A particularly' tine programme has been arranged for IYA. Opening the programme, the IYA Broadcasting Choir, under the conductorsbip of Mr. Len Barnes, will present two choruses from “The Messiah." A short suite by Coleridge-Taylor, to be played by the Orchestral Octet, will fol low. The choir will then present the radio play, "Evangeline,” which has been specially adapted from Longfellow's poem. This will be followed by the rendition of “Messe Solennelle" (by Gounod). Details of the Wellington programme are:— 2YA, WELLINGTON (720 kc„ 41(i.7m.). 3.0: Chimes; selected gramophone recordings. 3.30 anil 4.30: Sporting results to band. 5.0: Children's session, conducted by “Uncle Toliy” and “Jumbo.” 0.0: Dinner session: New Symphony Orchestra, “Toy Symphony” (Romberg); Concert Orchestra, “Minuet" (Boccherini); International Novelty Orchestra, “Lazy Pete” (Kersten); Zonophone Salon Orchestra, “Old Rustic Bridge” (Skelly); International Novelty Orchestra, “Eva" Waltzes (Lehar); organ’. Sidney Gustard, “Cuckoo” (Jonasson); International Novelty Quartet, "Over the Waves" (Rosas) : Paul Godwin Quintet. "Minuet" (Bolzoni); International Novelty Orchestra, "Carmen Sylva" (Ivanovlcl) ; Zonophone Salon Orchestra, “Killarney" (Balfe); International Novelty

Quartet, "See Me Dance the Polka”; Paul Godwin Quintet. “Love After the Ball" (Czibulka): Concert Orchestra, "Sous Bois” (Staub) ; organ, Sandy Macpherson, “I Promise” (Hirseb, Wilhite); National Symphony Orchestra. “Zampa” Overture (Herold). 7.0: News session, market reports and sports results. 7.40: Lecturette by a representative of the Agricultural Department, "For the Man on the Land.”

8.0: Overture, Salon Orchestra (conductor, Mr. M. T. Dixon), “Virginia" (Haydn Wood); Fantasie, “Tosti’s Popular Songs" (arr. Godfrey); vocal. The Lyric Quartet, “Oft When Eve Has Rest Bestowed"; baritone, Mr. Will Goudie, with orchestral accompaniment, (a) “Nita Gltana" (Newton) ; (b) “Keep on Hopin’ ” (Maxwell). 8.25: Hawaiian Instrumental, The Harmony Four, (a) “Pagan Love Song” (Brown); (b) “La Paloma” (Yradier); (c) “E Pari Ra” (trdtl.). 8.32: Contralto, Miss Belle Renaut with orchestral accompaniment, (a) “My Heart is Singing" (Sans Souci) ; (b) “When the House is Asleep" (Halgh). 8.38: Accordion duo. Gellin and Borgstom. (a) "Blaze Away March” (Holymaun); (b) "Gladiator's Farewell" (Biankenburg). 8.44: Vocal, The Lyric Quartet, with orchestral accompaniment “The Barefoot

Trail” (Wlggers): tenor, Mr. Chas. Williams, witli orchestral accompaniment, "Tim Gav Highway” (Drummond). 8.50: Violin. Erica Morinl. "Gavotte” (Lully). 8.54: Suite. Salon Orchestra. “A Lover in Damascus” (Woodforde-Findei . 9.2; Weather report and station notices. 9.4: Band. H.M. Coldstream Guards, “The Wee MacGregor. Patrol.” 9.7: Tenor. Mr. W. Roy Hill, witli violin obligato. “Serenata" (Braga): vocal, The Lyric Quartet, with violin obligato. “Lullaby Moon.” 9.13: Hawaiian instrumental, The Harmony Four, (a) “Medley of Choruses” (arrgd. J. H. Thomas) : (b) “Aloha Oe” (Liliuokalani); (c) "This is the Hour” (trdtl.). 9.21: Contralto, Miss Belle Renaut. with orchestral accompaniment, (a) “A Song Remembered” (Coates); (b) “Absent” (Metcalfe). 9.27: Selection, Salon Orchestra, "Sunny" (Kern). 9.33: Monologue, Will Fyffe, “Daft Sandy.” 9.41: Bass, Mr. W. Binet Brown, with orchestral accompaniment. “Devonshire Cream and Cider” (Sanderson). 9.45: Selection, Salon Orchestra, “Three Little Maids” (Rubens) : “Latest Dance Novelties." 10.0- God Save the King.