THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 311, 8 June 1945, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

MONDAY NGLISH housewives were told the other day that they could soon expect less fresh meat, less bacon and less cooking fat; they were told, too, that they could look forward to a rise in the price of their main vegetable, the potato. Yet June, normally, is the month when the English farmer scans the countryside for promises of abundance. He sees the chestnut trees in blossom and all herbage in luxuriant growth. Chaucer’ called June the heyday of the year. And so when we hear from 2YA, at 7.47 p.m. on June 11, a BBC description of June in the Country Calendar series, it will be as well to remember food conditions in Great Britain as they are at the moment. Also worth notice: 2YN, 8.41 p.m.: Music by Rachmaninoff. 4YA, 8.49 p.m.: "Capriol" Suite (Warlock). ‘TUESDAY ANY of us, probably, have tucked away ready for an occasional airing, a few good "little Audrey" and "shaggy dog" stories. And when our turn comes round, some of us can perhaps produce a creditable sample of those curious little tales which were recently in vogue and which began with: "Confucius, he say ..." Whether any of these are to be introduced by 3YA we are unable to say, but there ‘will no doubt be many instances of ancient and sound philosophy in a talk on Tuesday, June 12, at 2.30, entitled "Wise Sayings from China." Also worth notice: 2YH, 8.49 p.m.: Ballade No. 3 (Chopin). 3YL, 8.0 p.m.: Music of the 17th Century. WEDNESDAY PERIODICALLY bread consumersand that means everybody — takes sides in the old arguments for and against brown and white bread on the family table. The brown bread adherents speak from the health angle; their opponents call them faddists. But whatever kind we eat, we know that there are times when bread is not easy to procure. For this there may be a variety of reasons. A recent article in The Listener made it clear that New Zealand does not keep itself in bread, although it could. In correspondence waste of bread was deplored and a plea made for home baking. One correspondent attributed shortages to lack of manpower for wheat-growing. It will be interesting to see how this subject is treated in an A.C.E. talk, "The Bread We Eat," from 4YA at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, June 13. Also worth notice: 3YA, 9.30 p.m.: "Pastoral" (Beethoven). 4YA, 9.33 p.m.: New York Radio Guild Play. THURSDAY HE Michael Krein Saxophone Quartet, which will be heard from 1YA at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday, June 14, is an English ensemble that puts the much maligned instrument to an unusual use and, if we are to believe the BBC Listener’s music critic, a highly effective one. The quartet plays light music by good composers, and good music by light

composers, in ingenious arrangements which make very original use of the combination. In this programme there are four little quartets by the French composer Jean Francaix, who was born in 1912, and is known to us here by a short string trio, and his orchestration of the ballet School of Dancing from music by Boccherini. In addition there are some pieces from Debussy’s "Children’s Corner" suite, including .the "Gollywog’s Cakewalk." Also worth notice: 2YC, 8.0 p.m.: Haydn's Quartets. 4YZ, 8.14 p.m.: Play "The Homecoming." FRIDAY ANY an imaginative writer has taken as his subject an ability to see into the future. One, by an ingenious method, permitted his hero a glimpse of the morning paper the day after a forthcoming race meeting and so presented him with the means of making a fortune. There are few New Zealanders whose thoughts do not fly in that direction when a race meeting is in the offing, but there are some-a minority, of coursewho go to races solely for the pleasure of seeing highly-bred and trained animals in perfect movement. Whether Fred Thomas chats about the performers or spectators or both in his talk "Veterans of the Turf" from 3YA at 7.15 p.m. on Friday, June 15, he will have a large audience. Also worth notice: 2YC, 9.1 p.m.: Sonata programme. 3YA, 8.43 p.m.: "Suite for Strings’ (Purcell }.» SATURDAY ADELAIDE HALL, a Negro singer who, for the last few years, has been appearing on the English vaudeville stage, is on the programme from 3YA on Saturday, June 16. One would ordinarily expect her to yearn vocally fot Dahomey, Tennessee, or for the steamboats of the Mississippi but, included in her programme "Starlight" at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday, June 16, will be "Heavenly Music," "Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen," "I Have a Vision" and "Ain’t Misbehavin’", from which it will 4 noted that she is favouring the spiritu type of song. Also worth notice: 2YC, 8.15 p.m.: "Requiem" (Faure). 3YL, 8.0 p.m.: Symphonic programme. SUNDAY E do not have to go far afield, least of all to the BBC, to know just how it feels to sit in the flat and freeze because the coalman hasn’t turned up. And Aucklanders who depend on gas for their heating would probably regard it as very cold comfort to be told that although winter has come, spring cannot be far behind. A BBC programme from 2YA on Sunday, June 17, at 4.30 p.m, will be particularly apt for, under the title, "Cold Comfort," it will be pegged on to the vagaries of the English aeehs Also worth notice: Q 1YA, 3.30 p.m.: Symphony No. 1 Ckieatadets vich). 3YL, 7.30 p.m.: The Stories of Christophee Robin.