RADIO BROADCASTING

Evening Star, Issue 20317, 28 October 1929, Page 7

RADIO BROADCASTING

TO-HIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND PROGRAMMES The changes which have taken place during the last two hundred years in the treatment ot law-breakers will. be described by Mr E. H. Dowsett, secretary of the Howard League for Penal Reform, when he speaks at 2YA on ‘Prisons.of Two Centuries.’ The programme for the concert session will be of a high order, the contributing artists being the Ariel Singers, the Studio Orchestrina (under Signor Truda), Miss Dorothy Tunes (a talented young pianist), and Mrs Martyn Williams (one of Wellington’s leading teachers of elocution). The orchestrina will play the tone poem ‘ Finlandia ’ as an opening number, a portion of Mozart’s ‘Jupiter Symphony,’ Friedman’s ‘Slavonic Rhapsody,’ a song suite of ‘ Three French Songs,’ Pierne’s ‘ Serenade,’ a characterisquo (‘La Filensc’), and Strauss’s well-known concert waltz, ‘ Wine, Women, and Song.’ A brief recital of organ numbers will be given by Mr Henry Mount. Mr Mount is the organist of St. Gerard's Redemptorist Church, and lias had experience both in England and abroad. His items will ho Lefcburc-Wely’s ‘ Grand Offortoire,' Coleridge-Taylor’s ‘Lament,’ and ‘ March in D,’ by Spohr.

At 9 o’clock at 3YA Mr H. G. Ell will give a talk about the Summit road. A band concert, into which will bo introduced a description of a wrestling match, Vance versus Gardcni, will make a very interesting evening for those who listen in to 3YA. The Woo!ston Band, under Mr R. J. Estall, will play Ord Hume’s march, ‘ Twentieth Century,’ and Rimmer’s march, ‘ Gallant and Gay,’ the overture ‘ Raymond,’ a selection, ‘ Sea Songs,’ Ketelby’s ‘ In a Persian Market. and a waltz, ‘ Angelina.’ A trombone solo, ‘ Drinking,’ will be played by Bandsman Williams to band accompaniment. Bandsmen Ohlsen and Parsonage will play f 'ornet and horn' solos respectively. The vocalists will include Mrs Nora Puddey (a popular mezzo-contralto), and a singer new to radio, Miss Eve Poison. Miss Poison possesses a mezzo-soprano voice. Two splendid male voices win also he heard, Mr C. R. Williamson (tenor) and Mr A. Gladstone Brown (baritone). ‘The Maid of the 'Mountains,' tlio well-known light opera, will form the principal attraction from 4YA, when the chief vocal numbers will bo sang by the 4YA Harmonists. There will be an excellent supporting programme, which will include another recital by Mr Angus Gorrie in his scries, ‘ With the Poets.’ On this occasion he will take Alfred Noyes. Silent dnv at IYA.