PROGRAMMES FROM THE ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 466, 28 May 1948, Page 12

PROGRAMMES FROM THE ZB's

OLLOWERS of the modern dance band and its style will find something to their taste in a quarter-of-an-hour of recorded music by Artie Shaw and his Orchestra from 3ZB on Tuesday, June 1, at 3.15 p.m. When Shaw was in Wellington in 1943 he told an interviewer from The Listener that he liked blues for business, but Beethoven for pleasure. People who heard the arch-clarinettist then will now have an opportunity to see if business has become mixed up with pleasure, or vice versa. We suspect, however, that it will be business, as usual. x Bd ERIC WINSTONE is a journalist turned band leader. Now in his middle thirties, he started an instrumental quartet for broadcasting about seven years ago and has since built it up to a 20-piece orchestra. He will be heard from 3ZB at 8.30 p.m. on Monday, May 31, in such items as "Oasis," "Stage Coach" and "Pony Express,"

STATION 1ZB intends to present shortly a series of programmes by famous musicians who have visited New Zealand in the last 20 years. Recordings of some of the items they performed on tour will be broadcast, together with reminiscences of their visits, Starting this Sunday, May 30, New Zealand Concert Memories will be presented vat 4.0 p.m., the first programme featuring Richard Crooks, who was here in 1936. * * * ONSTANT LAMBERT’S first decisive success was the production of Rio. Grande, set to a poem by Sacheverell Sitwell, for chorus, piano solo, and orchestra, at a Halle concert in Manchester in 1929. It was based on the idiom of jazz, but proved completely satisfying as an imaginative work of art, Station 1ZB will present a recording of Rio Grande at 3.10 p.m. on Sunday, May 30.