THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 256, 19 May 1944, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

MONDAY ~UGENE ORMANDY is the name featured from 2YA at 9.40 p.m. on Monday, May 22, in the series "The Man with the Baton," but that does not mean that this orchestral conductor: has arrived in New Zealand-the music used will be recorded. Ormandy is the first conductor to leave the United States under the programme for acquainting the United Nations with "things American," and his work will shortly take him to Australia, where he will tour the country broadcasting and giving orchestral concerts. Also worth notice: 2YA, 8.43 p.m.: "A Woman’s Life and Love" (Schumann). 3YA, 9.25 p.m.: Trio in C Major, Op. 87 (Beethoven). TUESDAY IM, ANY people have the idea that manpower with its attendant problems is a creation of the last four years. A glance at our illustration, however, will show that in the coaching days manpower was as important as horsepower, and like many features of our. New Zealand life, disappeared only to return with renewed vigour and under a different guise after several decades. Maybe Rosaline Redwood will tell you about manpower shortages on Tuesday, May 23, in her talk at 7.15 p.m. from 4YZ, "Tales of the Coaching Days"Also worth notice: 1YX, 9.1 p.m.: Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53 (Dvorak). g 2YA, 7.30 p.m.: "Peer Gynt" Incidental Music (Grieg). 4YO, 8.0 p.m.: Sonata for Violin and Piano (Debussy ). WEDNESDAY ANY listeners will appreciate the gay melodies and restless rhythm of the typically Southern music which will be heard from 2YA at 9.45 p.m. on Wednesday, May 24. This programme, which is a BBC production, consists of recordings by a small orchestra formed expressly for the purpose of playing Latin American music in Great Britain. "Monia Liter and the Southern Serenaders" brings to the reputedly cold grey climate of Britain the warm, Tomantic music of South Americalively Peruvian Folk Dances, songs from Ecuador, Argentine and Brazil. Other recordings by the same ensemble will be heard from 2YN, Nelson, at 8.0 p.m. on Friday, May 26. Also worth notice: 2YC, 8.0 p.m.: NBC Symphony Concert. 3YA, 9.30 p.m.: Missa Solemnis, Op. 123 Bee en). 4YO, 8.0 p.m.: NBC Symphony Concert, THURSDAY ‘TF you are a listener to music, and "have never before heard of a composer called Hamish MacCunn, then you are one of those for whom the BBC intended the recording which 1YA will play at 8.43 p.m. on Thursday, May 25. It is one of a series of special recordings made to acquaint the British listener with the hinterland of ‘British music. Hamish MacCunn was a Scotsman who wrote music, and if that is not enough to make him memorable, there is the fact that G.B. Shaw thought much of MacCunn’s work when he was @ music critic. He lived from 1868 to 1916, and his romantic overture "The Land of the Mountain and the Flood," was the work with which he sprang into

prominence at the age of 19. It has been recorded, fittingly, by the BBC Scottish Orchestra, under the baton of the Scottish conductor, Ian Whyte, Also worth notice: 2YA, 9.40 p.m.: 2YA Concert Orchestra. 4YA, 8.42 p.m.: "Royal Fireworks Music" (Handel). FRIDAY O more standing in the queue for hours with aching feet for the brown wool for Johnny’s pullover or the dark green for the jumper you simply must

have to go with that new skirt. Instead, tune in to 4YA at 10.0 a.m. on Friday, May 26, for the A.C.E. Talk "Dyeing Wool with Natural Dyes." You will then discover that the antidote to the foot troubles you have contracted standing on hot pavements in high-heeled shoes, waiting for those precious 12 skeins, is to don your most comfortable pair of old brogues and tramp the hills in search of mosses and lichens. With those and your new spinning wheel, you can make that dream cf pre-war plenty a reality. Also worth notice: 2YA, 8.0 p.m.: English Songs (Studio recital). 3YA, 8.28 p.m.: Military Male Voice Choir and Mixed Choir (Studio). SATURDAY WIDER coverage will be given to the local bodies elections by the NBS on Saturday, May 27, than has been customary before. Arrangements have been made for one station in each centre (which means Napier, Palmerston. North, Nelson, Invercargill, and other provincial towns) to give progress teports of local results in the evening. Station 1YA, for instance, will be a receiving centre for returns from the Auckland Province, 2YH will cover Hawke’s Bay, 2ZA will cover Manawatu and so on. In addition, these stations will give final results on the Sunday morning, and then at mid-day on Sunday Station 2YA will present a resume of the national position. The National and Commercial stations will be cooperating with the returning officers in these arrangements. Also worth notice: ss 1YX, 9.0 p.m.: Music from the Hungarian Masters. 3YL, 8.0 p.m.: Music by Mozart: Symphonic programme. SUNDAY DISCUSSION in New Zealand has centred almost as much around the hour at which "The Man Born to be King" has been broadcast as around the actual production. Starting from Sunday, May 28, however, this series of plays by Dorothy Sayers will be heard from 1YA

at 2.0 p.m., for it is, of course, a popular misconception that it is a feature for "children only." The fame of the plays has preceded them in their travels, and Aucklanders who have been trying in vain to tune in to 2YA during the last six weeks will welcome the opportunity to hear the plays which caused such violent controversy in England even before they went over the air. Also worth notice: ty. 8.10 p.m.: Piano recital by Anderson yrer. 4YA, 9.22. p.m.: Trio in E Fiat, Op. 70 (Beethoven). a