THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 209, 25 June 1943, Page 2

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

‘MONDAY ORE early instrumental music played on virginals, recorders, and the violin will be heard from 2YA at 7.58 p.m. on Monday, June 28, when — and Ronald Castle will present a programme "Music of Old Europe." First a sonata (for recorder and Clavier) by J. C. Pepusch, who arranged the music for The Beggar’s Opera; then a pair of French dances by Marin Marais: "La -*Musette’ and "La Matelotte." These will be followed by English folk dances, played on two recorders, which will only need to be as pleasant sounding as their titles-‘"All in a Garden Green," "Dick’s Maggot," and "Greensleeves and Yellow Lace." Perhaps we should again warn listenets that "maggot" in this context means nothing more loathsome than "a whim, or fancy." The programme ends with an adagio and allegro for violin by Arcangelo Corelli, | Also worth notice: 3YA, 9.25: Trio in D Minor by Arensky (studio). 4YA, 8.1 p.m.: Masterpieces of Music (Dr. Galway). TUESDAY (CECIL Day Lewis, the English poet, is the speaker in the third of the series "Books and People," recorded from a BBC shortwave transmission, Lewis describes one of the novel situations that war has produced in England -a queue of people awaiting the release’ of a book, a book with the head of a London fireman on its dustjacket, surmounting the title "Front Line." It is the official story of the Blitz, compiled from all the available sources, Listeners may learn how these official books are produced, and something about the people who produce them, by tuning in to 2YA at 11.0 am. on Tuesday, June 29. Also worth notice: 1YX, 8.0 p.m.: "Hamlet" Overture (Tchaikovski). 2YA, 9.25 "Petrouchka" (Stravinsky). WEDNESDAY STATION 3YA is just beginning a new series of Winter Course talks on "Recent Advances in the Social Sciences." On June 23 comes the first talk by Dr. Sutherland on "Understanding the Past." This will be followed by talks on Understanding Human Nature, Understanding the Child (by Dr, Field), and Understanding Society. We cannot expect that in 15 minutes or so the speakers will be able to help us much in our understanding of any of these things, but we may confidently expect to hear something interesting. about the method used by experts to gain the knowledge upon which our _ social sciences are based. Also worth notice: 1YA, 8.0 p.m.: Bach Sonata in G Minor (studio). YC, 9.0 p.m.: "Till’s Merry Pranks" (Strauss ) 4YO, 8.0 p.m.: Symphony No, 4 (Brahms). THURSDAY " HE Finale" which H. C. Luscombe will talk about from 1YA at 7.15 p.m. on Thursday, July 1, in his series of talks on the Symphony, has suggested many different possibilities to different composers. There was’ Haydn, who dropped a hint to his prince-em-ployer that the orchestra needed a holi-

day by writing a last movement that enabled the players to pack up and l.ave until only two remained; there was Beethoven, who introduced voices and made them raise a vast pean of joy to the words of Schiller; but to our artist

"The Finale" evidently suggests the scurry of players and conductor towards the excited climax of a -. movement, Also worth notice: 2YA, zs 25 p.m.: Music by Casale com4¥A A, 9.25 p-m.; Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven). YZ, 8.0 p.m.: Patriotic English and Welsh concert, FRIDAY ROM Canada to the Transvaal, from Percy Grainger to the Agincourt song of 1415, "Everybody’s Scrapbook No. 3" brings another wide choice of "things worth _remembering" for listeners who may tune in to 2YA at 8.14 on Friday, July 2, The first scrap is South Africa's most famous tune, Sari Marais; the background of this and other soldiers’ songs of the South African war is vividly presented. Then Sir Alan Cobham describes in. his own words his experiences during the memorable Cairo-to-the-Cape flight of 1926, and the discovery that there was spray 1000 feet above the Victoria falls. For more music the page of the scrapbook turns to the tune "Shepherd’s Hey," written down by Cecil Sharp and made famous by Percy Grainger’s arrangement. Also- worth notice: 1YA, 9.39 p.m.: Suite for Two Pianos (Rachmaninoff ). 3YA, 8.0 p.m.; Flute solos by Trevor Hutton (Studio). 4YZ, 8.0 p.m.; César Franck Symphony. SATURDAY ~~ "AH hope they give me a job fighting" drawled the band leader Kay Kyser, fearing publi¢ opinion when the Office of War Information appealed for him on the ground that his band out-performs all other entertainers of the troops, and that he had sold 95 million dollars’ worth of war bonds. Kyser, who comes from the little town of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, explained: "This puts me on a real spot. If ah pass the physical and they give me a band job, people will all say ah’ve got a soft touch. If ah don’t they’ll all swear it was a put-up job." The well-publicised case of the Rocky Mount draft board’s refusal to allow the O.W.I. appeal had its anti-climax in the finding of the medical board that

Kyser was unfit for service. A programme of dance music by Kay Kyser’s band will be heard from 2YN at 9.0 on Saturday, July 3. Also worth notice: 1YA, 7.30 p.m.: Suite for Piano (York Bowen). 3YL, 8.0 p.m.:, Music by Wagner. SUNDAY NGLISH as she is spoke has for a long time been a source of worry, and indeed despair to those who have not had the Englishman’s privilege of being brought up with her. Other languages may have the same difficulties with prepositions-such as the difference between being run into, run over, run off with, or merely run in-but it is pronunciation that defeats even the most painstaking foreigner. Why should "more," "paw," and "door" all rhyme quite satisfactorily, while "through," "plough," and "though" all demand individual handling? And these are just the words of everyday speech, When we come to names like Cholmondeley and Beauchamp things get really difficult even for the native-born. Even the most practised of radio announcers must at times have been known to blench, and we shall listen with expectant admiration to the 4YA official who announces the song by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser ‘"Maighdeanan na H’-Airidh" next Monday evening. In fact there are few of us who will not profit by the talk on Sun-, day, July 4, by Professor Arnold Wall from 1YA on "Our Speech and Its Pitfalls," Also worth notice: 2YA, 2.0 p.m.: "Death and Transfiguration" Peger i 3YA, pr "An Arrangement in Grey and 4YA, 2.30 p.m.: Symphony No, 8 in F Major (Beethoven ).