THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 334, 16 November 1945, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

MONDAY E were in our seedsman’s shop the other day, collecting the weekly tation of lettuce-plants, when an aggressive male personnel buttonholed the seedsman and said, "Is it a fact that there’s no place but this in town where you can get Cliff's Kidney and you haven’t got any?" To which the seedsman replied, rearranging his boutonniere, "Well if there is, they ain’t Cliff’s Kidney." We don’t know if you are suffering from Cliff’s Kidney trouble in your district, but there may be other worries-green-sickness perhaps, or a little hoarseness in the tubers. To anyone lonely, worried, or needing advice on these problems we commend the talk by 3YA’s garden expert on "Detecting Plant Diseases." (7.15 p.m., November 19). Also worth notice: 1YA, 2.30 p.m.: Concerto in E Major for Violin and Orchestra (Bach). 4YA, 8.0 p.m.: Returned Services’ Choir. TUESDAY NTIL war came to the Pacific most Americans knew very little about New Zealand. Indeed, they used to wonder what we did when the tide came in. Even now their background knowledge of the Dominion must often be sketchy. Those who served with the 3rd Division in the Pacific, for example, if asked for a description of the kiwi would tell you that it is a predatory bird which flies by night, crying plaintively, "Loot, loot." We know that it doesn’t fly but beyond that our knowledge is sketchy too. Those who feel that they should know more, but can’t afford the fare to Hawke’s Bay to see the latest chick (most of us should and can’t) are referred to the talk by A. P. Harper from 3YA at 7.15 p.m. on November 20, in the series, "Our Birds in the Wilds." Also worth notice: ‘1YX, 8.12 p.m.: Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor (Tchaikovski) 4YA, 7.10 p.m.: Talk "Stewart Island To-day." ‘WEDNESDAY EARLIER this year Winifred Carter gave us a series of six recitals for solo harp from 1YA; on Wednesday, November 21, at 8.0 p.m. she will begin a second series, playing solo harp parts from classical sources and including a popular traditional song in each broadcast. Some of the music, not originally written for solo harp, has been specially rearranged by Miss Carter for these recitals. The harp Miss Carter will play is the one she "brought from America at the beginning of the war, the same one that she played for several years with big orchestras in the States. (See photograph, page 20). Also worth notice: 3YA, 7.30 p.m.: Songs by Schumann (studio). 4YO, 8.0 p.m.: Young People’s Concert (U.S.A. programme). THURSDAY ‘ON November 21, 1695, Henry Purcell, one of the greatest of English composers, died in London. It was the eve of the feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, for which occasion Purcell had composed more than one ode. So on Thursday, November 22, 1945, there -is occasion for some commemoration, and 2YA will mark the double event with extracts (statting at 9.40 p.m.) from Purcell’s opera, Dido and

Aeneas, It happens also that on the fol« lowing Sunday, 1ZM will present Dido and Aeneas (at 9.0 p.m.) and 4YZ will put on music from the masque Comus, at 3.0 p.m. Also worth notice: 3YA, 7.15 p.m.: Lincoln College talk. 4YA, 3.30 p.m.: Ecclesiastical Music. FRIDAY E once met two young men on holiday in the summer when our own fortnight was thirteen-sixteenths over, and we have never quite got over the feeling of insecurity and doubt we suffered when they told us that they still had two months to spend of their six months’ annual leave. What did they work at? We do not know. But whatever it was, legal or not, they made enough picnic money in the winter to see them through the summer. The A.C.E, talk from 4YA on Friday November 23, at 10 a.m. will be about "Summer Holidays"; this probably means the familiar meagre fortnight of sunburn and mosquitoes and not any halcyon six months’ escape-to the wilds. But, expecting some tips about sunburn, mosquitoes, D.D.T., tents and transport we intend to listen to it. Also worth notice: 2YA, 8.30 p.m.: English Country Calendar. 3YA, 8.22 .p.m.:_Concerto in E Flat Major (Mozart). SATURDAY DOMENICO CIMAROSA, whose Oboe © Concerto (arranged by Arthur Benjamin) will be heard from 1YX at 9.56 p-m. on Saturday, November 24, is one of those eighteenth century composers who had great vogue in their time and wrote reams of music to satisfy popular clamour, and now are known only by a few oddments. Cimarosa was an Italian, whose music had much in common, but superficially, with Mozart’s. His life was not uneventful. The king (his employer for a time) threw him into prison and condemned him to death for expressing enthusiasm for the French republican army on its entry into Naples in 1799; and although he was later pardoned and ordered to leave Naples, he died heartbroken. His music, which was mostly written before that, is distinguished by a happy touch for comedy and this oboe concerto is a charming work. Also worth notice: 2YA, 7.30 p.m.: "Can You Remember?" 4YZ, 9.30 p.m.: "Magnificat" (Bach). SUNDAY ‘THE staff of Station 2YD announces a series of stag parties which, it expects, will be attended by many thousands of listeners. And although they will be "men only" shows, wives, girl friends, and grandmothers will be welcome. If the eyebrows of readers who have reached this far have risen, they may go higher when they know what the first party is at 9.2 p.m. on Sunday, November 18. "Songs by Men" is the title of a cheerful quarter-of-an-hour in which eight Australians group themselves round a piano to present a minimum of talk and a series of songs ranging from Negro spirituals to swing. "Songs by Men" will be heard weekly for several weeks. A photograph of the party is on Page 21 of this issue. Also worth notice: 2YN, 7.0 p.m.: Composers from 1650 to 1750, 4YA, 8.7 p.m.: "The Poet's Love" Cycle (Schubert).