OUTSTANDING BROADCASTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 133, 8 June 1939, Page 23

OUTSTANDING BROADCASTS

June 11. —Brahms's "Double Concerto in A- Minor, Op. 102," played .by Jacques Thibaud (violin) and Pablo Casals ('cello) with the Pablo Casals Orchestra —IYA. Commentaries on the arrival of their Majesties the King and Queen in New York, rebroadcast from Daventry; Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci"—2YA. Programme by the Ashburton Silver Band—3YA. Dorothy Davies, New Zealand pianist, and "Victoriana" (Part 5), "The Exhibition of all Nations" —4YA. June 12.—Professional wrestling match—lYA. MacDowell's "Sonata in D Minor" ("Norse Sonata") and wrestling match at the Town Hall—2YA. Frederick Page, pianist, "Sonata in D Major" (Mozart) —3YA. Returned Soldiers' Choir's first concert of the 1939 season—4YA. June 13.—The 2YA String Orchestra in the first New Zealand broadcast of Gabriel Marie's overture "Le Seigneur de Kermor"; civic reception to Archbishop O'Shea, relayed from the Town Hall—2YA. June 14.—The Westminster Trio, "Sonata for Two Violins and Piano" (Loeillet) and a 8.8.C. recorded programme, "Breakfast with the Bullfinches"— IYA. Readings by O. L. Simmance, with music—3YA. June 15.—Concert by the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union Band—lYA. Recital by Jean McFarlane (New Zealand contralto) and a programme of music for Royalty—2YA. Chopin compositions, presented by Dorothy Davies, New Zealand pianist, Memories of the Ballet —("Les Sylph ides")— 4 YA. June 16.—"1s New Zealand Rugby ! Deteriorating?"—the first.of a series of discussions by Mark Nicholls; Jean McFarlane, contralto —2YA. A recital by Haagen Holenbergh, formerly solo pianist to his Majesty King Christian V of Denmark —3YA. Readings by Professor T. D. Adams,, with music—4YA. June 17.—Recital by the Auckland Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Choir — IYA.