THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 258, 2 June 1944, Page 6

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

MONDAY OST of us have seen bread growing whiskers, and some of us-not many-have bought mouldy pies. We have seen grey mould on old damp cakes, black mould on damp wallpaper, blue-green mould on rotting oranges. But not many of us know the names of these accretions, their family connections, or their prospects in life, though some of us know vaguely that they do live. We even suspect that some live to our advantage and some to our disadvantage, but beyond that our minds are a blank. Well, so far, we may have had an excuse. We have not been told the story-or not told often enough to remember. Besides, we have not often been told that it is an important story. But we shall not have an excuse after Monday, June 5, because on that day Dr. I. D. Blair will broadcast the facts from 2YA in simple enough language for all to understand. He will start with mouldy pies, and lead us on gently to Gorgonzola and Stilton. But if we don’t want to miss him, we must be tuned in and listening at 7.15 p.m. Also worth notice: 2YA, 8.2 p.m.: Quartet in D Flat (Dohnanyi). 3YA, 9.25 p.m.: Divertimento for String Trio (Mozart) 4YA, 8.10 p.m.: Masterpieces of Music. TUESDAY "SCIENCE and Music" is the title of the Winter Course talk to be, given by A. C. Baxter, M.Sc. from 4YA at 7.15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 6. As Mr. Baxter is a scientist, there may be more science than music for the listener who tunes in at that time, unless Mr. Baxter accompanies himself with a couple of tuning forks, or even that tuneful invention of Pythagoras, the monochord. The monochord first demonstrated a fact that nowadays is weil-known to anyone who has ever lived through the wall from a young violin student-that a vibrating string will produce certain notes of the scale if it is divided in certain mathematical proportions, and will produce certain other notes, not in the scale, if the proportions are incorrect. Also worth notice: 1YX, 9.1 p.m.: Piano Concerto in E Flat (Mozart). 3YL, 8.0 p.m.: Music by Brahms. 2YA, 8.20 p.m.: Symphony No, 2 (Beethoven). WEDNESDAY ‘THE suggestion that Macbeth should ‘" be "modernised "for the films with the witches turned into newspaper editors with blue pencils and green eyeshades, occurs in the comedy by John Carr: "Never Tell Parents the Truth," which will be heard from 2YA at 8.15 p.m. on Wednesday, June 7. This BBC production tells how a retired Shakespearian actor "acts" . for his son, and after a reversal of situations finally gets his way. It is a quick, light comedy full of humorous if improbable incidents. Also worth notice: -2YC, 8.0 pm.:-"The Wreckers" Overture SYA 880 bees "A KeahenBrtighoty" (Vaughan . wh ng p.m.: "Science Lifts the Veil"

THURSDAY F Thomas Edison had been born several hundred years earlier, the gramophone might have been invented in time to record for posterity some musical performances of extraordinary interest-the first performance, for instance, of the violin sonata the Devil

played to Tartini, or some of J. S. Bach’s organ playing, wherein the master was alleged to play such notes as he could not reach with fingers and feet, by means of a stick held in his mouth. As it is, the gramophone is a very recent invention by historical standards, but even so, it has preserved many performances that are already gathering historical interest, from those of Elgar and Rachmaninoff to Gershwin and Berlin. Station 3YL will recall some of them at 9.45 p.m. on Thursday, June 8. Also worth notice: 1YX, 8.31 p.m.: Clarinet Quintet (Mozart). — 2YC, 8.0 p.m.: Quartet in F, Op. 135 — (Beethovén ). 4YA, 8.16 p.m.: Andersen Tyrer (pianist). FRIDAY \ AGNER remarked that the whole English character was expressed in the first eight notes of Thomas Arne’s "Rule Britannia." However this may be, a great deal of it might be found in any of Arne’s songs, which are plain-deal-ing and direct, and seem to have been composed in the open air. It is chiefly by these songs that Arne is remembered to-day, and especially’ by certain Shakespearian ones, such as "Where the Bee Sucks" and "Under the Greenwood Tree." At 9.54 p.m. on Friday, June 9, 1YA will broadcast a BBC programme based on Dr. Arne. Also worth notice: 2YC, 9.0 p.m.: Sonata in B Minor (Chopin). 3YA, 8.35 p.m.: Songs from "The Winter ‘ Journey." 4YA, 9.33 p.m.: Twentieth Century Poetry (Readings). SATURDAY AT 8.34 p.m. on Saturday, June 10, 1YA will broadcast the "Ra Ha!" chorus-the chorus of warriors-from Alfred Hill’s cantata "Hinemoa." The libretto of the cantata, written by Arthur Adams, was taken from the legend of the Maori girl, Hinemoa, who left her tribe and swam across Lake Rotorua for the love of a tribal enemy, Tutanekai. This everyone knows, as everyone also knows who Alfred Hill is. But how many remember Arthur Adems, who was born in Lawrence in 1872, was on the Evening Post, Wellington, at. one time, and was a war correspondent in China during the Boxer

rebellion. He was also associate editor once of the New Zealand Times, and at some time edited the Sydney Bulletin’s Red Page. It is said that he wrote the lyrics of "Hinemoa" in. spare moments in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, when he was a reporter. Also worth notice: 1YX, 9.0 p.m.: Piano Concerto in A Minor (Grieg). 2YC, 9.10 p.m.: Symphony concert, conducted by Toscanini. 3YL, 8.0-10.0p.m.: Music by Bach, SUNDAY ‘THE setting for the serial Forbidden Gold, which will begin from 2YD at 9.33 p.m. on Sunday, June 11, is not far from 2YD itself, and if readers do not recognise in our illustration the hills behind Wellington, that is because we have taken it from the printed synopsis of the play which came from Australia with the records. The serial is adapted from Will Lawson’s novel There’s Gold in the Mountain, and according to the synopsis, it is "packed . with action, love, hate, treachery and jealousy." Also worth notice: 1YA, 9.33 p.m.: Symphony No. 4 (Besthoven), 3YA, 3.0 p.m.: Music by Elga 4YZ, 8.0 p.m.: Andersen Rs oa (pianist).