THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 271, 1 September 1944, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

MONDAY "HERE used to be a toast among mathematicians in Cambridge: "Here’s to higher mathematics; may they never be of any use to anybody." This is still used as a shot to fire at those who regard education purely as something to fit'a boy or a girl to earn a living. Something the same may be said of one of the most famous educational movements in the world, the Danish People’s High Schools, which were founded a hundred years ago this year. You go to one of these Danish schools when you are over 18, and according to an English writer, none of the teaching is vocational. But it has been found that, indirectly, such subjects as history and literature make better farmers. The centennial of this movement is to be marked by two talks in the Winter Course series at 2YA, at 7.15 p.m..on Monday, September 4 and Monday, September 11. The speaker will be H. C. D. Somerset, who has seen these schools at work, and is himself attached to what may be described as the neareee approach to the Danish schools in New Zealand, the Feilding Agricultural High School and its Commuhity Centre for Adult Education. Also worth notice: 2YA, 7.55 p.m.: "Trains’:A modern verse anthology. 2YH, 8.0 p.m.: Napier ‘Victory Concert." 3YA, 9.25 p.m.: Opera "Carmen" (Bizet). TUESDAY ‘THE average newspaper reader is not nearly as familiar with the scene and action of the New Guinea battle-front as he is with the other battle-fronts. Aitape, Wewak, and Madang are just names to most of us, and not such vivid pictures as Florence, Cherbourg, or Caen. The U.S. Office of War Information has supplied the NBS with two recorded features in a series "Pacific Story" of which the first, devoted to the New Guinea campaign, will be heard from 4YA on Tuesday, September 5, at 8.0 p.m. Also worth notice; iYX, 8.12 p.m.;: Symphony No. 5 (Beet- * hoven). 2YA, 8.0 p.m.: "Tragic" Symphony (Schubert). WEDNESDAY ~« EVERYONE knows "Billy Boy," and there must be very few people who don’t know at least the first line of this famous song. But how many can answer it and say where he Aas been all ‘the day? How many really know where Billy Boy first came into being, and where he has been since then? "The Chorus Gentlemen," 2YA’s studio combination of male voices, has’ gone into the question and assembled some of the available evidence. You will hear Billy Boy in his familiar form, you will hear the variant which Vaughan Williams found in Sussex, you will hear him as he was when he had his sea legs, and you will hear him as Cecil Sharp heard him in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. That is, if you tune in to 2YA at 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 6. 4 Also worth notice: 1YA, 8.22 p.m.: "On Bredon Hill" (Butter- ’ BYA, 8.24 p.m: Music by Schumann (studio).

THURSDAY pOUR weekly talks dealing with Maori customs will be given in the Winter Course Talks series from 1YA by Olga Adams, lecturer in science at the Auckland Teachers’ Training College. The series has the general title "Some Observations on Maori Customs," and the first talk, "The Maori Lament" will be heard on Thursday, September 14. The title of the later talks will be, "Maori Proverbs" (September 14) and -"Maori Canoe Chants" (September 21 and 28). Miss Adams, who is an _ enthusiastic student of various aspects of Maori culture, has.given talks to several organisations from time to time in Auckland. Also worth notice: 2YA, 9.40 p.m.: 2YA Concert Orchestra (studio). 3ZR, 8.33 p.m.: NBS play: ‘‘No Casualties." FRIDAY HE Rev. G. A. Naylor will give a further series of readings from Station 1YA during September, and the theme wHich will run through his selections is indicated in his title ""The Moods of Man, reflected in poetry and prose." As from this week Mr. Naylor’s readings will be heard each Friday at 8.0 p.m. on Friday, September 8, headed "Romantic" being readings from Matthew» Arnold’s Tristram and Iseult. There- ' after, the Speculative, Heroic, Loving + and Tragic Moods will be illustrated from sources including the Holy Bible, Shelley, Marcus Aurelius, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Shakespeare, Carlyle and others. Also worth notice: 2YA, 9.40 p.m.: Central Band of the R.A.Fs 3YA, 8.0 p.m.: Choirs from a Military Camp. SATURDAY TATION 2YN Nelson has an item scheduled at 8.10 p.m. on Saturday, September 9, called "Kiss and Makeup," in the series Radio Stage. If it were one of a series entitled "Famous Reconciliations," Nelson listeners might know what to expect, but for lack of further information we are unable to guarantee that it will not be a dramatised cosmetics advertisement. In either case, however, whether it deals with the advantages of indelible lipstick or with the happier aspect of domestic rows, there _ will doubtless be a wide folowing of listeners with a personal interest in the subject. ‘ Also worth notice: 1YA,, 8.25 p.m.: Suite for Piano (Gordon ). 4YZ, 9.25 p.m.: "Wedding Cantata" (Bach), SUNDAY ‘THE reason why gramophone records are not as plentiful as they used to be is well known-the Army is using all the WAACS. But everyone likes to hear fuller explanations: of the stories that are told from the other side of the counter, and so station 4YA is going to tell its listeners more about this particular shortage at 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, September 10, in a programme called "Music and Munitions-a gramophone record factory in wartime," produced and recorded by the BBC. There will probabiy be some factory noises to be heard, but there will also be some good music. Also worth notice: sey; ate p.m.: Opera, "Dido and Aeneas" ell). 3YA, 3.0 p.m.: Music by Debussy. .