THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

) | | | : ! ; ‘Gift from Isobel Baillie \V HEN Isobel Baillie was in New Zealand recentfy she included in her concerts to the delight of audiences the old French carol "OQ Leave Your Sheep." A copy of this carol has been sent by Miss Baillie to Miss C. M. Herbert, who is in charge of music at St. Cuthbert’ College, and the col- | lege choir will include it in their programme of part-songs when’ they broadcast, under Miss Herbert’s baton, from 1YA at 7.40 p.m. this Saturday, October 9. Another number will be the seldomheard cantata "The Sun Worshippers," by Goring Thomas, in’ which _ the soprano solo will be taken by Jessie Signal (see photographs on page 21). Gastronomical N spring many gq family man must wonder when he is going to start sprouting long ears and a coat of fur as he sits*down to his daily dose of sweet young lettuce, crisp radish, and small tender carrots with spring -enions.

Perhaps he feels the time has .come when he should do as Nebuchadnezzar did and have as nibble at the lawn. and save his wife the trouble of preparing that. tasty morsel with its

side-dish of fresh brown bread, cold asparagus, ‘and pressed tongue or ham. | Or maybe he just loves it all, and | simply can’t get enough of nature’s \health-giving vitamins. But if the _young housewife doesn’t know how to make the best use of all the lush vegetables and fragrant herbs the garden holds at this time of year, let her tune in to 2YA’s Home Science talk at.10.25 a.m. on Wednesday, October 13, when she will hear a learned dissertation upon that. ‘topical gastronomical subject Seasonal Salads. |New Zealand Composers AN entire concert of works by New *" Zealand composers will be given by the Auckland Lyric Harmonists Choir on Wednesday, October 13, and the first hour of the programme will be broadcast by 1YA, starting at 8.0 p.m. Listeners will hear choral works by V. E. Galway ("The Shepherdess"), Thomas Rive (‘Winter’), Dorothea Franchi ("Magnificat"), and Ronald Dellow ("A Song of Red Things"), pianoforte by Ernest Jenner ("Skating" and "Morning Ride") and Henry Shirley . ("Moonsilver" and "Fancy Free"), and Douglas Lilburn’s "Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano." Dr. Galway, who, like Ernest Jenner, is @ "New Zealander « by adoption," 1s Dunedin City organist; Thomas Rive is Lecturer in Music at Auckland University College; Ernest Jenner is + well known to listeners as a pianist and for his broadcasts to schools; Henry Shirley is president of the Auckland branch of the Society of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand; Dorothea Franchi, a Phillip Neill Memorial Prize

winner, is now studying at the Royal College of Music in London; Ronald Dellow, organist and choirmaster of an Auckland Congregational Church, won the University Centennial Music Scholarship for 1943: and Douglas Lilburn, whose works have attracted favourable attention overseas as well as in New Zealand, lectures in music at Victoria University College. The concert will be conducted by Claude Laurie. Chapter and Verse 'NDER the title Chapter and Verse the BBC has issued five programmes composed mainly of readings from the Bible, the various passages being linked with music. These programmes are ideally suited to a quarter-hour’s contemplative listening, and in four of them the readings are taken from the Books of Genesis, Daniel, Psalms, and Revelation. The fifth is a Requiem programme, made up of a_ speech of Pericles, the poem For the Fallen, a sonnet. and dirge by Shakespeare, and lines from Milton’s Lycidas. The reading from the Book of Psalms was made by the late Rev. Eric Loveday shortly before he left for Australia, while some of the other readings are by the British actor Stanley Maxted. Listeners to 4YA will hear their first Chapter and Verse programme at 2.1 p.m. on Sunday, October 17. For Young and Old T never was easy to keep an enterprising Scot on his own side of the border, so it is not surprising that one of the leading Scottish personalities of the BBC’s Children’s Hour is now popping up in many parts of the wofld. He

is Lammy iroot, a trout of consider- _ able character whose adventures in his local burn are followed eagerly by children — and grown-ups too for that matter — throughout Scotland. A big fan-mail for Tammy comes into

the BBC's Scottish studios; hundreds of animals have been named after him, from a barge horse to a greyhound; a Glasgow newspaper, runs a comic strip about him, and many children firmly believe he’s real. His inventor is Lavinia Derwent, a Scotswoman who works in the educational department of a famous

publishing house. Nelson listeners who are young in heart should enjoy the programme Tammy Troot, which will be heard from 2XN at 7.0 p.m. on Wednesday, October 13. Safe Question hedee' how safe is a safe deposit? The ~ plot of the NZBS play to be heard from 2¥C on Sunday of next week centres around this knotty problem, and may end up-by persuading listeners that # mattress, a hole in the garden, and an old sock can’t be such bad places to hide ons’s surplus cash in after all, The play concérns’ two brothers who run a real estate business, and have wantonly embezzled several thousand pounds of their principal client’s money. When the client dies and the whole murky business comes to light, one of the brothers decides to go to jail forthe crime, but carefully stows away four thousand pounds of illegal takings in a safe deposit concern in London before he does so. What happens when he comes out and gets tangled up in the toils of his own cunning listeners will find out by tuning in to 2YC at 8.0 p.m. on Sunday, October 16. The title of the play is Safe Deposit, and the duthors are James J. Eaton and Norman Hillas. \ Sweet Revenge EMEMBER that big chap who used to bully you at school, made yuu chase cricket balls, run errands to the tuck shop, or. write his French prose for him? Suppose that years later you got an opportunity of having your revenge. The man who bullied you comes into your office to apply for a job, not just any job, but an important one worth about a thousand a year. Would you refuse him point-blank or would you take a more subtle form of revenge by giving him the’ position he wants? The latter course is taken by Mr, MacAndrew in an entertaining BBC feature Very Good, Mr. MacAndrew, which will be heard from 1YA at 8.1 p.m. on Monday, October 11.