Around The Nationals

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 122, 24 October 1941, Page 24

Around The Nationals

HE majority of our readers will, we hope, have derived some profit from the articles on health which have been appearing each week in The Listener. To supplement these, Dr. H. B. Turbott has just begun his second series of health talks, which can be heard from 1YA on Tuesday mornings, and from 2YA on Wednesday mornings, and which will be broadcast from the other National stations shortly. Talks still to come include ‘Measles," "Mumps," "Care of the Teeth," and "The Use of Aluminium." Most of the talks are concerned with the health of the child, and should appeal therefore, to mothers. me Bd * TAGO listeners, particularly if they are keen Competition-goers, will probably be familiar with Miss Margaret Boult, who has been winning awards for pianoforte playing at various Otago festivals since she was 10 years old. She will also be remembered as solo pianist to Denis Dowling, when he toured Southland during his last visit to New Zealand. Miss Boult will be heard from 4YA this Thursday (October 23), at 8.12 p.m., when she will play "Berceuse" by Chopin, "Island Spell" by Ireland, and "La Danse d’Olaf" 3 Mangiagalli. * * * |TEAN Marie Leclair, the 19th century French composer, began his early career as a ballet dancer at Touren, and in his early ’thirties migrated to Paris, where he held a position of some importance as a violinist. Then in his early "forties, he gave himself up entirely to composing for the violin, and the high technical demands of his compositions did a great deal to enlarge the scope and powers of the instrument. There is, however, nothing in his works to explain why their writer should have been murdered one night in the streets of Paris, outside his own door-unless, of course, it was the revenge of some baffled virtuoso. A_ studio recital of Leclair’s best-known work Sonata in D Minor for Two Violins and Piano, by the Westminster Trio, will be heard from 1YA at 8.16 p.m. on Wednesday, October 29. * % Es {J ‘HE two outstanding figures in : French music in the 19th century are probably Cesar Franck and Debussy. Debussy as the leader of the Impressionist movement and Franck representing the school of heavy romanticism. Yet in spite of the difference in their art, Debussy was able to write of Franck as "one of the greatest" of great musicians. The music of Franck is personal in idiom, and there is a certain mystical exaltation about it, owing in part, perhaps, to the composer’s early preoccupation with church music, and in part to the influence of Bach, Beethoven and Liszt. Devotees of Franck will be able to hear his Sonata in A Major played by Alfred Cortot and Jacques Thibaud, in 2YC’s Chamber Music Hour, at 9.28 p.m. on Friday, October 31,