THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 374, 23 August 1946, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

Haydn on September 3 QNE listener to. station 2YC on Monday, August 26 at 8.32 p.m. will be Lili Kraus-she will hear herself as pianist with Simon Goldberg (violinist) and Anthony Pini (cellist) in a recording of Hadyn’s Trio No. 3 in C Major. We took the opportunity of asking Lili Kraus where and when the recording was made: "At No. 3 Abbey Road near Regent’s Park on the morning of September 3, 1939. Yes, we were interrupted to listen to the announcement of war." She added that No. 3 Abbey Road "is the most beautiful house in _the world; there I spent many and most happy hours in the H.M.V. recording studios." She explained that in the original editions-she has one dated 1799 -only the piano parts were written for the three trios in this set, the string vt paniment being improvised by the dlayers. » Fun and Guns OOL’S PARADISE, which has had a hearing from 2YA, is now going to 1YA, where it will be heard on Monday evenings, starting at 8.27 p.m. on Monday, August 26. It is a story-not exactly a serial, but better described as a crazy-show-cum-thriller-in which two masterminds, Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford, get mixed up with a gang of crooks, get trapped in a church tower while the ringers are practising, get rid of a dead body on the London Underground, steal a poliae car to escape from the police, apd finally succeed in defeating the crooks without having any very clear knowledge of what it was all about anyway. | \ Tauber on the Air HE Richard Tauber Programme which some listeners may have heard a few months ago in the BBC’s Pacific Service on Saturday evenings, has now come to the NZBS on BBC recordings, and is being heard from 2¥D Wellington on Mondays (at 8.30 p.m.). In this series Richard Tauber sings lieder, excerpts from’ opera, popular ballads, and new songs. He is accompanied by the George Melachrino Orchestra, and in each programme there is a guest artist. Gwen Catley, Billy Mayerl, Alan Murray (composer of "I'll Walks Beside You," who plays a piano solo), Irene Ambrus, and _| Vina Barnden (a young Adelaide pianist) are among the guest artists in the series. On page 25 of this issue, there is a photograph of Tauber as Schubert-from the film Blossom Time.

New Play CERTAIN WILDERNESS, by John Gundry, which 2YD will broadcast at 9.2. p.m. on. Wednesday, August 28, was the winning entry in the open section of the recent NZBS play competition. It is a grim drama of a possessive mother who killed both her stepdaughters, and of her son, who returned’ home to Schenectady at her request after his engagement was announced in New York. Why she made him go back, what happened when he got there, and what happened afterwards when he called to see his fiancée again-we leave all that for listeners to hear for themselves.

Plans and Planes HE Future is in the Air" is the title of a talk to be heard from 3YA at 7.15 p.m. on Tuesday, August 27. Recorded recently by Mrs. Eve Walker, Public Relations Officer for British Overseas pitweys peer the talk = un 4

has already been heard from 2YA. In it, Mrs. Walker discusses the future plans for British overseas civil flying, and the routes that are proposed, and describes what the passenger will find inside the new planes that are being built. The Hills of Home STATION 2YD has just begun a new serial (heard at 7.20 p.m. on Wednesday evenings) called The Hills of Home, a dramatisation from the studios of 3DB Melbourne (which produced Ngaio Marsh’s Overture to Death) of the novel by Eileen Finlay on the life of an aristocratic family in a small town in Gippsland, Victoria. The book itself is in three parts: "The Joy of Morning," "The Heat of Noon," and "The Calm of Night." The sheet that comes. with the records says there is a definite moral in this story-a moral about democracy. "The Aristocratic Boyds," says 3DB, "and the Hargreaves become one with the townspeople without losing any of their dignity or the respect of those more lowly born." Three important agents in this process are the Boyd triplets, the third of whom is always known as "Last one." Wyndham Lewis on the ChesterBelloc ‘

S genetously endowed in mind as in body, a full-blooded elephantine elf with a full-blooded love of life, an exquisite wit, and a robust faith-that was Gilbert Keith Chesterton, the author of "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and "The Flying Inn," and of "The Rolling English Drunkard Made the Rolling English Road." He must have been the source of more paradox than anyone else in English literature, unless Shaw beat him in that: field; and was just about tae best-loved figure among his fellows in Fleet Street and the London world of letters. The BBC has paid a fitting tribute to him in a Book of Verse programme (2YA Friday, August 30, 8.28 p.m., and 3YA Sunday, September 1. 2.30 p.m.), in which he is paired with his great friend Hilaire Belloc-the surviving half of the ChesterBelloc. The script is written by D. B. Wyndham Lewis. Melody Mixture NEW BBC light programme makes its appearance in the programmes we print this week. Melody Mixture (2YA

Saturday, August 31, 7.30 p.m.), is a half-hour programme by Jack Byfield end his Players; all the arrangements are done by Byfield, and he plays the piano.A distinctive feature of this programme is the use of the concert organ, played by James Bell, organist of the Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square. The session was originally known as Mainly Melody. Its signature tune, "Prelude to Romance," was written by Jack Byfield. London Music HERE is something about London that lends itself to music, and three modern English composers have written symphonic compositions about * it-

Elgar, Vaughan Williams and John Treland. Vaughan Williams’ Symphony, named by him "A London Symphony," is already very well known. Elgar’s overture "Cockaigne"

Ge SY London Town") is less familiar, though it is recorded: and is broadcast from time to time. John Ireland’s "A London" Overture is so far not known to us; but a recording of it has been made by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent and this will be heard from 2YH at 8.0 p.m. on Saturday, August 31. The overture was first performed at a BBC Sym,phony Concert in December, 1937.