THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 177, 13 November 1942, Page 2

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

ATURDAY evening, November 21, should be reserved by all listeners who wish to hear a programme of vocal and instrumental music by Beethoven. From 3YL, the programme will open at 8 o’clock with the "Leonora" Overture No. 3, Op. 72A, the most finished of the four published overtures the composer wrote during 1805 and 1814 for his opera, Fidelio. The Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 (violin, *cello, and piano), and some shorter instrumental and vocal works are included; at 9.22 p.m. the main work in the programme, the noble seventh symphony (in A Major, Op. 92), will be presented. The recording is by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, a rendering that lacks the fireworks of Toscanini’s more recent recording. But the seventh symphony is the seventh symphony, and we intend to hear it, believing that a Stokowski in the ear is better than two Toscaninis in the pigeonholes. San-Mary-Anne We are a little uneasy about "You and the Domestic Help Problem," which the A.C.E. will be discussing from 1YA, 2YA end 3YA on Monday next, If it is

to be us-and-the-domestic-help problem, it might be advisable to give our everloving wife something to go out and buy a new hat with that afternoon. On the other hand, if the A.C.E. is going to do the decent thing and take a realistic rather than a romantic view, there are probably lots of husbands who would be glad of a few labour-saving suggestions. Should we vacuum the carpets before doing the dusting, or vice virtue, and if we have to do that and make the beds and get the coloureds on to the line before going off to the office, what routine will allow us time to masticate the lumps in the porridge? ! Under the Umbrella Although Tennyson has told us it is spring that makes a young man’s fancy lightly turn to thoughts of love, it is not necessarily the softer aspects of this over-rated season that brings about e change of heart. In fact, in these days of big cities, it is just as likely to be the driving rain, the shelter of a shop awning, or the all-embracing umbrella that offers that fatal chance for gallantry (wasn’t it a puddle of water that gave Sir Walter Raleigh his big moment?). Anyhow, it is in this way that Jill Meredith, heroine of For Richer, .For

Poorer (the new ZB serial to be heard Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m., starting 2ZB November 18), meets David Morley. The obstacles arising from the fact that David is the son of a rich man and that Jill is the daughter of a poor one are indicated in the title, which also gives a hint of what we, may expect of the young people before the story is ended. Fit or Fat? In these days it would seem that if you don’t get fit one way you get fat another. And that is a lesson the Wideawakes intend to teach us in their new | 3YA session beginning at 11 am, on Friday, November 20. ,Under the general supervision of Miss Noeline Thomson, each female member of the Wideawake family, from Baby Wideawake to Mother, will give her special recipe for Keeping Fit. Historian’s Angle The Man-in-the-Street, were he to stray into the quiet and dusty atmosphere of: the reading room of the British Museum, the Mitchell« Library, Sydney, or any other haunt of would-be historians, and see the bent backs and studious expressions, might be astonished by the remark once made by a notable scholar that "there are few things more exciting than historical résearch." Perhaps this is what Eric Ramsden will tell us (3YA next Tuesday, November 17, 7.15 p.m.) in his talk "From the Historian’s Angle." Mr. Ramsden has had many years’ experience of historical research, especially in the Mitchell Library, a rich source for students of New Zealand history.