THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 486, 15 October 1948, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

Violin Sonata Series "THE first of nine violin sonatas to be played by Francis Rosner, with Wainwright Morgan at the piano, will be heard from 2YA _ this Sunday, October 17, at 2.17 p.m. It is Schubert’s Sonatina, Op. 137, No. 1 in-D Major, one of several small chamber pieces composed in 1816, the year of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies. The succeeding works in this series are the other two sonatinas in Opus 137, the three Delius sonatas, and the three Grieg sonatas. They will be heard at 8.0 p.m. on Thursdays and at 2.17 p.m. on Sundays until November 14. Francis Rosner is a member of the National Orciiestra of the NZBS who studied at the Vienna State Academy under Arnold Rose and later with Emil Hauser of the Budapest String Quartet. Before coming to New Zealand he had played in various orchestras and chamber music groups in Austria and the "Middle East. No Deceptions NE of the century’s great composers has made his home in Hollywoodsurrounded by the film colony but no part of it. His presence, it is said, sometimes makes film-makers a little uneasy, but every so often the word goes out to Igor Stravinsky that a movie mogul wants to see him. Once a Hollywood studio offered Stravinsky a fat purse to turn out three musical scores a_ year. Replied Stravinsky, "To turn out one worthwhile piece of mausic in a year is’ enough. To guarantee three is to make a deceit of art." Yet all his life Stra--vinsky has written music, often great music, to order-for people who would engage him on his own terms. The Firebird, Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring, among his best ballet scores, were com-' 'missioned. When asked recently which of his compositions he thought would still be current’@ hundred years from "now he named Petrouchka, The Rite of Mont The Soldier’s Tale, and Apollo But he believes that his later works will also come into popularity. The London Philharmonic Orchestra will be heard in ‘recordings of Stravinsky's Petrouchka from 3YZ at 3.0 p.m. on Tuesday, October 19. This is Kurow NE of the most active communities in the South Island (sorry, Mainland) must surely be that centred on Kurow, a small farming town on the. Waitaki River between Canterbury and Otago. Re-id-nts of the district form a closelyknit group who take a keen interest in the life around them, and recently they held a Community Week designed to give expression to their various comminal activities. Lectures were given on a host of topics from vocational guidance to soil erosion, a field day was held at a modern mechanised farm, and performances of music and drama, displays by school children. folk dancing, sports, and our ecclesiastical Brains Trust helped to add variety to the proceedings. . In attendance was a mobile recording unit of the NZBS, and four programmes of general, interest to listeners were made up from the aeveek’s happenings. The first of them, This is Kurow, will be.broadcast from 4YA at 7.5 p.m. on Tuesday, October 19. This is Kurow serves as an

introduction to the district, and will be followed on October 26 by a programme describing how a cdmmunity week is planned, and on November 2 and 9 by selected recordings made during the week itsclf. Harpoons and Hard-Tack ’HAL® hunts, sheep. shearing on Campbell Island, and comments on wild life in the sub-Antarctic play a large part in the series of talks Harpoons and Hard-Tack, which starts from 2YA at 4.30 p.m. this Sunday, October 17. The scripts ase by John Jackson, a retired whaler who played a prominent part in

the revival of whaling in New Zealand round about 1906, when he set off for Campbell Island with a party of scientists and others to help shear the Island’s sheep and to look (with Government permission) for a suitable site to set up a whaling base. From this initial voyage in the old Hinemoa many exciting adventures. resulted in those cold Southern seas, and they are all ably told by John Jackson. The talks are based on the manuscript of an unpublished béok which he has written since leaving this. salty, strenuous occupation. Discussion on Diaghilev N the month when Diaghiley would have celebrated his 75th birthday, two men who knew him well held a discussion in the BBC Third Programme. They were the dancer and choreographer Leonide Massine, who joined Diaghilev’s company in 1914; and Arnold Haskell, author of many bdoks on ballet, including a biography of the famous impresario. It would be difficult for any discussion on balletand particularly Russian ballet-to go on for long without the name of Diaghilev coming into it for, at one time, Diaghilev was the ballet in the capitals of Europe. He was 57 years old when he died in 1929, but in his comparatively. short life he had delighted the world with an entirely new conception of ballet, in; which was blended the very best to be found in music, choreography and the visual arts. A BBC programme called Diaghilev will be broadcast from 1YA at 10.13 p.m. on Wednesday, October 20. Royal Wedding Programme N November 20, 1947, an old lady in a Brisbane tram cocked her eye at the cloudless Australian sky and said, "My word, I am glad the Princess has such a nice day for her wedding." She may have been a bit adrift in her idea of time and space, but she was typical of the millions all over the world

> et eee Dee ti ee Oe ie og epee ee ae «a. de ae, 2d whose hearts were in London ‘that November day. When the BBC’s broadcast- of the Royal Wedding had ended enthusiastic messages of congratulation were received from all parts of the Commonwealth, and now listeners in this country will be able to recapture some of the thrills of the great occasion. The BBC Transcription Service has issued a sound picture compiled from the original broadcasts, in which listeners can hear again the Wedding Service in Westminster Abbey, the cheering crowds in the streets and outside Buckingham Palace, and the vivid description of it all by the BBC's team of commentators. The Royal Wedding will be heard from 3YA at 10.0 p.m. on Sunday, October 24. Britain Builds the Ships LYDEBANK, Tyneside, Belfast-the shipyards of Britain are working at top pressure, building over half the merchant ships under construction in the world. When the programme Building the Ships was recorded by the BBC

Transcription Service nearly five hundred were growing on the slips, a total of over two million gross tons, the highest figure since 1922. Listening to it, you will get some idea both of the practical side and of the romance of building the vessels that carry trade around the world. Building the Ships will be heard from 3YA at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday, October 24.