THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 201, 30 April 1943, Page 2

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

"MONDAY ‘THE 2YA Winter Course talks, which begin on Monday, May 3, promise to be hot on a topical topic. They are entitled "A Citizen’s Guide to Modern Government," and in the course of his talks (13 in number), Professor Leslie Lipson, of Victoria University College, will discuss such things as the democratic spirit, the institutions of democracy, equality, the need for security, as well as the challenge of dictatorship. Also worth potice: , 1YA, 10.45 a.m.: "Memories of a Mission House." 2YH, 9.25 p.m.: Vaughan Williams ‘‘London Symphony." 3YA, 6.0 p.m.: Woolston Band. ’ 4YA, 8.0 p.m.: ‘Masterpieces of Music." TUESDAY USIC by Beethoven for Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin listeners is the order of the day in the programmes of 1YX, 3YL, and 4YO for Tuesday, May 4. At 1YX at 9.0 p.m. there is the Triple Concerto, Op. 56. At the same hour, from Station 3YL, Christchurch, listeners wlil hear the eighth in a series qf Beethoven's pianoforte sonatas which are being played in sequence each week, the recordings being those made by the accepted definitive exponent of Beethoven’s piano music, Artur Schnabel. The sonata for this date is Op. 14, No. 1 in E Major. For Dunedin listeners, again at 9,0 p.m., 4YO presents the Quartet in’ B Flat, Op. 130, the one which originally had for its final’ movement the composition now known as the Grosse Fuge. Also worth notice: 2YA, 8.0 p.m.: NBS String Orchestra. 4YA, 7.15 p.m.: "Science Looks Ahead." WEDNESDAY HOSE of us who have never,shad the misfortune of too great affluence, may wonder why so many opprobious terms, have, throughout the ages, been bestowed on our friend with the initials £ s d. He is called variously Filthy Lucre, Ill-gotten Gains, the Root of Evil, and the Mammon of Unrighteousness, not to: mention other terms all more or less. condemnatory. The radio play "Money, Money, Money,"’ which you may hear from 2YA at 8.3 p.m. on Wednesday (May 5), will give you a further insight into the nasty things that may be done for money and the nasty things that may happen to you if you do them. If you have ever had thie urge to pinch the winning ticket of an Art Union off the rightful owner and pitch him into the sea (having first made sure that he could not. swim and then stabbed him), you should listen ih to 2YA. The moral is "Don’t. It Doesn't Pay." The ending is as eapepected as it is grim. Also worth notice: . 1YA, 8.0 p.m.: Organ recital by Murray Fastier. 3YA, 6.45 p.m.: Winter Course Talk. 4YO,*8.0 p.m.: Bloch: Violin Concerto, TRURSDAY, 5 Qe As much a favourite with the children who have been introduced to it as Prokofieff’s Peter and the Wolf, the

Carnival of Animals, a Zoological Fantasy by Saint-Saens will be broadcast specially for children from 3ZR, Greymouth, at 5.0 p.m. on Thursday, May 6. In it are Long-Eared Creatures (where the violin imitates a braying jackass), Tortoises, Lions, Cocks» and Hens, an

Aquarium, Kangaroos, and, of course, the Swan. The composer has. his little joke here and there, such as quoting his own Danse Macabre in a section called Fossils, and quoting "The Dance of the Sylphs" (from The Damnation of Faust of Berlioz) on the double bass in the piece called "The Elephants." ‘ Also worth notice: 1YA, 9.25 p.m.: Studio recital by a military camp band. 2YA, 9.37 p.m.: Famous American Orchestras. y ne 4YA, 8.17 p.m.: Bach: Piano Concerto (Studio). : FRIDAY WE all know that it takes more than « a Grade 1 medical test and a uniform to make a good soldier, and what that "more" is may ‘vary from country to country and from camp to camp, Few of us can fail to be interested in the training that a British soldier undergoes before he feels himself a finished product. The story of how Sam, (and he has a Yorkshire accent, too). becomes a soldier is told in the BBC series "The Making of a Soldier." Sam comes home on leave and admits that now that he is a Commando he is a real soldier, and little by little the family piece together his recollections of the various phases — in his training. You may hear how this is done from 2YA on Friday, May 7, at 8.3 p.m. Also worth notice: 1YA, 8.0 p.m.: Sibelius: Symphony No. 3. 3YA, 8.8 p.m.: Christchurch Ladies’ Choir, 4YZ, 8.0 p.m.: Brahms: Symphony No. 1. SATURDAY PROGENITOR of the man next door who is taking a correspondence course in panel-beating, and probably some relation of the trombone-player in the downstairs flat who practises in bed and hits the ceiling on the low notes, was Tubal Cain "instructor of every artificer in brass and iron." And because the Auckland Lyric Harmonists are doing

a choral work by Thomas Dunhill called Tubal Cain at 8.44 p.m. on Saturday, May §8, our artist has given us his idea of a possible family scene involving the three sons of Lamech- Jubal, "the father of such as handle the harp and organ," Jabal, "the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle,’ and Tubal Cain, the subject of our research, It is to be hoped that the Lyric Harmonists have made arrangements for.such sound effects as might be proper to the scene our artist has imagined. : Also worth notice: 2YC, 9.0 p.m.: Haydn Symphony No. 886 3YL, 9.0 p.m.: Verdi’s Requiem. 4YA, Trots from Forbury Park. SUNDAY : F the Italians still cry "Long Live Vittorio Emmanuele, King of Italy," they are also perpetuating the name of their greatest opera-composer, in an acrostic on his name: Viva Vittorio Emmanuele Rei D’Italia. In his own time, Verdi had trouble with the censorship, and after he; had been forced to alter one of his operas, the people of Naples supported. Verdi, identifying him with the cause of Italian Independence, and scrawled the ambiguous "Viva V.E.R.D.I." on the walls of the city. There are two substantial broadcasts of Verdi next week-end (see Saturday’s features above), of which one is the opera Otello, a setting of Boito’s adaptation uf the Shakespeare play. This will be heard from 2YA at 8.5 p.m. on Sunday, May 9. Also worth notice: : 1YA, 3.30 p.m.: Bach: Two-piano Concerto, paso 3.30 p.m.: Mozart: "Prague" Syme y: 4YA, 8.15 p.m.: Organ Recital: Dr, Galway,