THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 266, 28 July 1944, Page 2

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

MONDAY HERE is a winter course talk title in 2YA’s programme for Monday, July 31 (at 7.15 p.m.), which may have caught your eye already-‘"History and Rotten Potatoes," the final talk in the series of "Life’s Secret Armies." The title may puzzle you now, but if you tune in then Dr. I. B, Blair, of the Department of Agriculture, will tell you what it is all about-the economical and even historical effects of the visitations of crop blights. What would the New York Police Force be, for instance, if a potato blight had not caused many Irishmen to leave their famished country about 100 years ago? Also worth notice: 3YA, 9.25 p.m.: Music by Debussy, 4YA, 9.25 p.m.: Music by Mozart, TUESDAY URING World War L, Pastor Niemoller was a submarine commander in the German Navy and was awarded the Iron Cross for his services. By 1933 he was a pastor in Berlin, and in 1937 was imprisoned for "misuse of the pulpit." After a short period of freedom in 1938 he was finally sent to a Concentration Camp, where he received the same treatment as was meted out to thousands of pastors, priests, and monks who defied Nazism and all it stood for. "Cavalcade of America-Pastor Niemoller" is the title of the U.S.A. Office of War Information Programme which will _ be heard from 4YA at 8.0 p.m. on Tuesday, August 1, Also worth notice: 2YA, 8.24 p.m.: Piano Concerto in B Flat (Mozart). 3YL, 8.0 p.m.: Modern Composers, WEDNESDAY HAT is it that makes your flesh creep and_ your hair stand on end; what

is it that causes your knees to knock together and the cold sweat to run like a torrent? Why do you crouch shivering, your eyes on the door, your breath caught at your lips lest it shatter the silence and betray your presence? Well, of

course there’s only one answer to silly questions like those, and Station 2YA proposes to give it at 8.13 p.m. on Wednesday, August 2 in co-operation with the BBC. The title of the programme is "The Ghost in Your House." Also worth notice: 1YA, 8.0 p.m.: Quartet in E Flat Major by Faure (Studio). 2YC, 8.0 p.m.: Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129 (Schumann) THURSDAY N the early Stone Age, and probably in the late Stone Age as well, the best man around the caves was the man who could swing the heftiest club. "Packing a fair wallop" was the only passport to popularity in those days. However, the Four Clubmen, featured in the BBC recorded programme of that name, are not the hard-hitting sons of the granite that their ancient namesakes were. The Four Clubmen are sweetsounding vocalists presenting unusual arrangements of unusual items. With the

Four Clubmen is James Moody at the piano. This programme will be heard from 2YA at 9.45 p.m. on Wednesday, August 2, and from 4YA at 10.0 p.m. on Thursday, August 3. Also worth notice: 1YX, 8.0 p.m.: Trio in D Major, Op. 79, No. 1 (Beethoven). 4YA, 8.17 p.m.: Concerto for ’Cello and Orchestra (Elgar). FRIDAY N his organ recital from 3YA on Friday evening, August 4, Dr. J. C. Bradshaw will play a composition by Harvey Grace, a well-known English writer on music, who died this year. Grace was for many years editor of the Musical Times, and wrote as ‘"Feste"’ "Ad Libitum," as well as over his own initials. He was born in 1874, and became an organist in his thirties, His book The Complete Organist (1920) was very popular with performers of the instrument. os Also worth notice: 1YA, 7.30 p.m.: Men and Music: William Boyce. 3YA, 8.0 p.m.: Violin Music and its Background (Studio). SATURDAY \, T 8.0 p.m. on Saturday, August 5, Station 3YA will relay from the King Edward Barracks, Christchurch, the opening of the New Zealand Industries Fair by the Hon. D. G. Sullivan. When we were young we called it the Winter Show, and the children who go this year (some for the first time in their lives) will probably call it the Winter Show too, but Mr. Sullivan will no doubt call it the Industries Fair. Once, you used to trudge round in a layer of sawdust and lolly-papers and watch the machine that stamped the boot-polish tins, or paid a shilling for the privilege of a most deceptive "box of chocolates" in some game of skill. Or if your purse could only run to pence, there was that other sugary delusion called candy-floss. Once, you could even try out a free toll call to any part of the country, That may all be changed, but no doubt some of the old atmosphere will be there, and perhaps the sawdust too, Also worth notice: os 7.30 p.m.: Commercial Travellers’ sv. Pa by Brahms, SUNDAY BROADCAST of interest to Catholics throughout the Dominion will be a relay by 3YA from the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Christchurch, at 11 a.m. on Sunday, August 6, when the newly-ordained Bishop, the Most Rev. Patrick Francis Lyons, D.D. will be enthroned. The ceremony will be followed by Solemn Pontifical High Mass and the sermon will be preached by His Grace Archbishop O’Shea, of Wellington. The music for enthronement will will be sung by St. Bede’s College Choir, conducted by Rev. Father Bennett, and the Mass will be sung by combined choirs, conducted by W. A. Atwill. The organist will be J. F. Skedden. To enable listeners to follow the enthronement ceremony, it will be described by the Reverend Father » Daly. Also worth notice: 2YA, 9.50 p.m.: Clarinet Concerto (Mozart). 3YA, 3.0 p.m.: Music by Schumann.