THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 476, 6 August 1948, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

Fish Story A POLITICALLY non-partisan friend of a friend of ours once said that he had only three big hates in the world ‘e-capitalists, communists, and boiled fish. And when we get ‘down to such a watery level as that we must admit

that after all there isn’t a great deal to, be said for fish dished up out of a pot. It is usually tasteless and mushy, probably bony, and altogether unpalatable to

most people, unless it is doctored up with parsley or some, other tasty catalyst. But, as every woman should know, there are more ways of cooking a fish than simply boiling or frying it, and Hawke’s Bay housewives who want to find out a thing om two in this line should tune in to the Home Science talk More Fish Recipes, which will be broadcast from 2YH at 10.0 a.m. on Monday, August 9. Back From Afrita VIOLINIST, Margaret Stokes, who some years ago contributed, under her maiden name of Stoddart, to many 1YA musical programmes, will on Wedpesday, August 11, make her first broadcast since her return to Auckland after several years’ absence abroad. Mrs. Stokes studied at the Royal College of Music, London, being a contemporary there of Eugene Goossens, and then went to the Continent, where she gained concert experience in Riga, Latvia. Later she came out to New Zealand and settled in Auckland for some years, during which time she became well known in local musical circles. Then followed a trip to South Africa and an engagement with the Capetown Municipal Orchestra, which she left to join her husband who had been posted to Massawa, Abyssinia, and now, with her husband, she has resettled in Auckland. With Jean Blomfield, a regular 1YA contributor, at the piano, Mrs. Stokes will play on Wednesday Delius’s Sonata No. 2. The broadcast will begin at 8.19 p.m, (see photograph on page 21.) : ; Daily Dose HO is your favourite among the great composers? Rossini: was once asked. He replied: "I take Beethoven twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day." Such is the fame and affection Mozart has always enjoyed among his fellow-composers.. He was of course the extreme example of infant precocity. He showed promise of his genius at the age of three, and early notes kept by his father contain such surprising remarks as "Wolfgang learnt this minuet when he was four," and "this minuet and trio was learnt by Wolfgang in half-an-hour at half-past nine on January 26, 1751, one day before his fifth year.’ Listeners to 1YX

will be able to hear plenty of Mozart’s music next week. At 8.0 p.m. on Monday (Angust 9) his Symphony No. 38 in D Major ("Prague’’) will be broadcast in a recording by Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. At 8.0 p.m. on Tuesday his Clarinet Concerto played by Reginald Kell, with the same orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent, will be heard, and at 8.0 p.m. on Thursday his Quartet in D Major, K.575. "Prince Igor" LEXANDER BORODIN was a medical man and a professor of chemistry, holding many official posts. He founded a School of Medicine for Women; and, unlike some doctors of to-day, his urge to, write led him not to fiction but to music. His artistic activity took a leap forward when he met Balakirev and became a member of the group known as "The Five" or "The Mighty Handful." He wrote two symphonies, chamber music, songs,

piano music, and the opera Prince Igor (left unfinished but completed by his friends Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazounov). His work, admirable as it was, was done amidst the distractions of a busy professional life-generally, as he said, in the little leisure given him by a bad cold in the head. His death was sudden; he dropped dead at a party. Listeners to 2YH on Wednesday, August 11, at 10.10 p.m., will hear K. Derjinskaya (soprano) and A. Pirogov (baritone), accompanied by the Bolshoi Theatre State Orchestra, in a scene from Act 1, and the same orchestra and choir in the Polovtsian Dances, with chorus, from Act 2 of "Prince Igor. Hitler's Narrowest Escape R. TREVOR-ROPER, who inves- * tigated the facts of Hitler’s death and wrote a book about his discoveries, also used his material in the production of two BBC programmes. The first, called" The Last Days of Hitler, was broadcast here a few months ago, and the second, which deals with the bombplot that nearly’ cost Hitler his life, will be broadcast from 3YA at 9.48 p.m. on Monday, August 9. The complete background to this attempt on Hitler’s life is far too complex to fit into one broadcast, but the documentary programme The Plot Against Hitler contains the kernel of it, showing how

the group headed by Count von Stauffenberg (who planted the bomb) gradually emerged from the general opposition to Hitler, and how nearly their attempt succeeded. Trevor-Roper compiled *his programme from a number of sources, including the diaries and interrogations of participants in the plot, police reports, and accounts of eye-wit-nesses who were actually in the room when the bomb exploded. Murder in Retrospect HE latest NZBS play provides an essay in detection that will test the deductive powers of all keen "whodunit" fans. It is called The Devil in the Summerhouse, and the script is by John Dickson Carr. As the play opens, Carr’s celebrated Dr. Gideon &ell and an eminent barrister named Marvin Brown are talking over an old unsolved murder that they were both concerned with in their salad days. Many years ago a friend of Brown’s, Mrs. Isabel Burnham, had rung-to tell him that her husband had been shot, and Brown had gone to her assistance. Burnham, an apparently heartless philanderer, had been waiting in the summer-house at his home to meet a young lady named Angela Fisk, while over in the main house the rest of the family were having tea-all except Burnham’s brother-in-law, Captain Stanfield, who was practising on the family shooting-range in the basement. At five o'clock Burnham was shot, but as far as could be found out, no one had been. near the summer-house at the time. Who did the killing? In talking it over once more, Brown and Fell come across a piece of evidence that had remained unnoticed all these years. Astute listeners may be able to anticipate their retrospective solving of the case if they tune in to 2YC at 8.0 p.m. on Sunday, August 15. ‘