THINGS TO COME
A Run Through The Programmes
ISTENERS should be interested in the Municipal Organ Recital to be relayed by 4YA on Sunday evening, November 8. Dr. V. E. Galway will be assisted by the Technical College String Orchestra under the conductorship of Frank Callaway, the newly appointed Director of Music at the School. At 8.15 the orchestra will join with the organ in a‘ performance of Handel’s Organ Concerto in G Minor, and, at approximately 8.35, the orchestra will play a bracket of pieces for string ofchestra by Dr. Vernon Griffiths, and the first performance of a short work for piano and strings by Dr. Galway. Brave New World All our yesterdays, as the late Sir Frank Benson pointed out on several occasions, have lighted fools the way to dusty death, and to-morrow, and tomorrow, and to-morrow creeps in the
petty pace from day to day. Which has a somewhat more pessimistic sound than "Science Advances: Our World of Tomorrow," the title of Doctor C. M. Focken’s talk from 4YA next Tuesday. It is, course, all in the point of view. Many may yearn for the day when there will be bigger buildings, longer bridges, faster ’planes, louder wurlitzers, lovelier film stars. Some, contrariwise, may sigh to think that even the clodhopping Kulack, collectivised, and caught up in the whirl of the new civilisation, no longer sits on the steppes and stares. Canadians With Wings We suspect that the hero of Flying for Freedom is flying — not straight but via the usual zig-zags of serialsfor the bonds of matrimony. But apart from Love Interest, which after all makes serials go round, Flying For Freedom, the new feature beginning at 2ZB on Tuesday, November 10 (and continuing on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m.), gives an accurate picture of the life and work of the men of a Canadian Flying Unit stationed in England. All the anxieties, responsibilities, adventures, rescues and escapes that go with dangerous flying are built into the story. Knock, Knock, Knock Listeners who enjoy watching for special messages of signals in musicthe famous coach horn in Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony, for instance, or the
| walk of the cat on the keyboard in; Domenico Scarlatti’s "Cat’s Fugue" — will be able to listen for the "three masonic knocks on the door of the Temple of Wisdom" (Percy Scholes) if they tune in to 3YA at 9.27 p.m. this Sunday, November 1, when Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute will be presented in the series " Music from the Theatres." The three "knocks" are played by the trombones in the Overture and are introduced again later in the opera. Sportin’ Dawg A spaniel comes to judgment in the talk which Mrs. A. M. Spence-Clark will give from 3YA next Tuesday. Unlike the pekingese and the papillon which she spoke on last (and which are lapdogs) the spaniel is a sportin’ animal, and consequently one in which we are personally interested. We have no lap anyway. But when one is out with a gun, a spaniel is useful, particularly if it is young and frisky, when it can take all the blame if there happens to be nothing in the gamebag. As we said, it is a sportin’ animal. And we commend to your attention whatever Mrs. SpenceClark has to say about it. You may be sure it will all be according to cocker. Camouflage! Ever since Birnam Wood first came to Dunsinane, army commanders have recognised the camouflage value of cover. But long before Lady Macbeth the housewife was awake to the camouflage value of loose covers, and so when spring brings with it the urge to refurnish the furniture, harassed husbands are confronted by the spectacle of the winterworn armchair shrouding itself in budding branches and the chesterfield blossoming like a rose. But the organisation of this desirable camouflage cannot well be left like the provision of natural | cover, to the care of nature, and so once more the A.C.E. steps into the breach with a talk from 1YA, 2YA, and 3YA next Monday afternoon on "Making Loose Covers".
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 175, 30 October 1942, Page 2
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679THINGS TO COME New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 175, 30 October 1942, Page 2
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