BROADCASTING

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 90, 25 March 1931, Page 8

BROADCASTING

NOTES ON PROGRAMMES A concert to be given by the Whangarei Municipal Silver aaiiu under Mr. A. Dobson, will be relayed from VVbangarei to IV A this evening. An excellent programme has been arranged.

The weekly programme of recorded items from overseas broadcast entertainments will be heard from 2YA. Given in 4YA Studio this evening and also broadcast by 3VA, will be a dialogue for the benefit of farmers. The speakers will be Messrs. R. B. Tennant and L. W. McCaskill, and the subject will be “Farmer Brown talks about rotational glaring and criticises the system.”

Mr. Sydney Williamson’s newlyformed male voice quarte., Miss Phyllis Kinniburgh (piahiste) and the Working Men’s Club Orchestra will provide JVA’s programme. The quartet comprises Messrs. C. R. Williamson, Sydney Williamson, J. J. Hall and Leslie Fleming. Miss Kinniburgh is a pianiste who has played with distinction at competitions. The Working men’s Club Orchestra, under the baton of Mr. A. G. Heath, is an excellent combination composed mainly of professional musicians. As a piccolo solo, with orchestral accompaniment, Godfrey’s “Yankee Doodle” will be placed by Mr. T. Amos. In “Alpine Echoes,” the cornet soloists will be Messrs. Fred Fox and Fred Chapman. 4YA is featuring a special “Beethoven Evening.” Mr. Max Scherek, president of the Society of Professional Musicians of Otago, will give a lecturette on the famous composer. The vocal portion of the musical programme will be provided by the Harmonists’ Sextet, consisting’"of Miss Mae Matheson (soprano), Miss Evelyn Shepard (soprano), Miss Margaret Green (contralto), Mr. H. A. Johnston (tenor), Mr. S. Falconer (baritone), and Mr. W. B. Lambert (bass), with Mrs. C. Drake as pianiste. The instrumental portion of the concert will be provided by Mr. Max Scherek and his string sextet. To-morrow afternoon the home science talk from IYA, 2YA and 3YA, prepared by the Home Science Extension Department of Otago University, will be on “Vegetable Preserving.”