THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 183, 24 December 1942, Page 2

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through N interesting Christmas broadcast will be "Forgotten Masters", a recital presented by Zillah Castle (violin and recorder) and Ronald Castle (virginal). Three masters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will be heard again through the medium of the instruments they themselves knewThomas Woodcock, a once popular English composer for the flute; Godfrey Finger, a court musician of James IL; and Francois Francoeur, a violin composer of the eighteenth century French school. Connoisseurs of early music should tune in to this recital from 2YA on Monday evening, December 28. On The Campus We have had opportunity from time, to time, chiefly through the eyes of Hollywood, of glimpsing America from the outside in, but not often from the

inside out. If ball games, fraternity and sorority pins, degrees in angling and angling for degrees are not the main ingredients of the college pie, there is some excuse for our thinking they are, and also for our artist who has perhaps overstressed the muscles and the oomph of the undergrads shown here. Mrs. Faith Mathew in a talk from 2YA next Tuesday will show whether we are right or wrong. Slippery and Versatile There has been so much talk recently about the uses to which simple household products can be put, that we shall not be surprised to hear that eeling expeditions have resulted from Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson’s talk on "The Versatile. Eel" next Wednesday morning from 2YA. We had always imagined eel as a slimy and unpalatable dish standing between the weatherbound tramper and starvation, but perhaps we may now look forward to eelskin shoes and gloves. Even the tail might make a Christmas novelty for Aunt Agatha. Think of its possibilities as a door-knocker! Cash As Cash Can We can’t help wondering if there’s some collusion between the organisers of the Health in the Home session and the For My Lady session; because from 1YA on Tuesday the former will deal with something called "The Vanishing Vitamin" and on Wednesday from 2YA the latter will call a spade a spade and simply talk about "Hard Cash". Recognising the well known fact that cash is always hard to get, and about as easy

The Programmes as a country show’s greasy pig to hold, we feel that some recognition should be given to these organisers who have apparently hit upon an excellent new name for that lamentably limited and elusive triumvirate, the nimble threepence. Listen To The Silence! This silence is beginning to get on our nerves, it is becoming so palpable and so visible and so audible. First there was someone giving a talk on a coloured silence-wasn’t it white?-and now it’s been pointed out to us that there are frequent sessions given over to something called Music for Quiet. If we go on like this we'll probably find that Silence, which we thought we had encountered once or twice while out angling alone, is not what we thought she-was or at any rate not all she should be. To acquaint ourselves with one of the new facets of her character we must tune in to see if we can hear anything when Music for Quiet is broadcast from 1YX on New Year’s Day. Here, There and Everywhere From ships and shoes and sealing wax Nelle Scanlan is now taking us "Here and There" in a new series of talks beginning from 1YA next Friday morning (January 1, 10.45). Looking back over the ups and downs, the down and outs, the way backs and the merry-go-rounds, she will give us some of her memories of the’ good old days and the bad old days as we or our mothers or our grandmothers remember them. Merry Wives In Music Verdi’s opera Falstaff has not recently been heard over the air, so listeners should welcome it on Sunday, January 3, from 3YA. It will be pleasant to hear

Sir John Falstaff groaning in the washbasket while the merry wives of Windsor sit on it and chat, Sir John falling into the river or Sir John groaning under the attentions of fairies, wasps, flies and mosquitoes in the forest. After all 16th century horseplay set to 19th century music is a pretty good performance for a man in his 80th year, as Verdi was when he composed the opera.