Around The Nationals

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 24

Around The Nationals

cast from the main YA stations. From Auckland there will be a broadcast from the cenotaph at 11 a.m., from Wellington the service at the cenotaph will be at 2.30 p.m., from Christchurch the broadcast will be from King Edward Barracks, again at 2.30 p.m., and from Dunedin there will be broadcasts from the Queen’s Gardens at 2 p.m, from the Town Hall at 3 p.m., and from the Anzac Day service at St. Paul’s at 7.30 p.m. Both 4YZ Invercargill and 2YH Napier will broadcast their local Anzac Day services. A NZAC DAY Services will be broadNEW batch of letters from Monica Marsden has arrived in New Zealand, and will be read from the main YA stations in the women’s morning programme. These new letters reflect the growing confidence of English people as their army and their armaments grow apace while the German Air Force is unable to inflict crippling damage. They are rather more dramatic than the earlier letters, but reveal just as wide a range of women’s interests, and the routine of life under the blitz. "THE chief play to be presented: by the '" NBS next week will be "Little Birds" from 3YA on Sunday, April 20. "Little Birds" is one of Graeme Holder’s most popular plays, and although written in New Zealand has been performed overseas. It is a pity to spoil the story for anyone who has not yet heard it, but it can be said that it concerns the deep love for little birds that inspires a cockney. Listeners will not be disappointed if they devote a quiet 35 minutes to this play. 'A COMPARATIVELY little known opera which contains passages of lyric beauty and moments of dramatic force, Andrea Chenier, by Umberto Giordano, is scheduled for presentation from 4YA on Sunday, April 20 in the NBS "Music from the Theatre" series. The author, who was born in 1867, is among the more prominent Italian com--posers, and Andrea Chenier is usually considered his best work. It is not the old-fashioned type of opera with set numbers, but follows the style of Verdi's later works. In this opera, Giordano has. taken for his theme the tremendous sweep of the French Revolution and gives us virile, dramatic music set to fine lyrics, and with the music of the Marseillaise used to great effect. EAN MACFARLANE will conclude her tour of the national stations with a studio recital from 3YA Christchurch on Sunday, April 20, when she will sing further songs from her repertoire. HENRI PENN, the English pianist " who has been accompanist to Oscar Natzke during his N.Z, tour, has been engaged by the NBS to give a series of piano recitals from the national stations. He will play from. 1YA on April 20, 23 and 25, from 2YA on April 29 and May 1 and 2, and will then return to Auckland for another recital on May 4. Later he will give recitals from 1YA and 2YA in association with Winifred Carter, harpist. , i » ft