BROADCASTING

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 89, 24 March 1931, Page 3

BROADCASTING

NOTES ON PROGRAMMES IYA. Mr Barry Coney, the well-known Auckland baritone, presenting solos by Bach, Brahms and Mozart, will be featured on lYA's programme this evening. Also singing will be Miss Gwenda Weir (soprano). Mr. A. B. Chappell will give his weekly Topical Talk, and the Studio Octet, under Mr. Harold Baxter, will provide an orchestral programme. 2YA. • ■

Miss Gwladys Edwardes, the Australian soprano, will sing four fine songs at 2YA: "Mifanwy," "Mighty Like a Rose," "Coming Home" and "Valley of Laughter." Mr. Stewart Nelson's tenor solos will include ''At Dawning," "Down, the Vale" and "I" An Old Fashioned Town." Two songs by Romberg and two by the well-known Maori composer, Erima Moewa Kaihau, of Auckland, will be sung by Mr. L. Bent. The Sketches will present "The Last Post." Mr W Haydock will play as a violin solo "Legende," by Wieniawski, and a programme of popular music will be given V the Salon. Orchestra under Mr. M. T. Dixon.

4YA. To mark the anniversary of the death of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, a brief recital of his life and work will be presented by Mr Angus Gorrie at 4YA. The St. Hilda Band is to present, the instrumental section of the evening's programme. The vocalists will be Miss Constance Poole (contralto), Miss Rita Holmes (soprano) and Mr. Bert Rawlinson (baritone). Silent day at 3YA.