PROGRAMMES FROM 1ZB

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 33

PROGRAMMES FROM 1ZB

N response to requests, 1ZB will play, at 8.30 a.m. on Sunday, November 28, a-musical story for children (told by Paul Wing) with orchestra and sound effects. This is the tale of Little Black Sambo’s Jungle Band, wherein ; Sambo teaches the animals of the jungle how to make music. Characters in the story are the elephant, carrying a bass horn, the brown bear with a saxophone, a monkey with a piccolo, a tawny tiger with a bass drum, a chimpanzee with a mandolin, a baboon with a bassoon, a black bear with a saxoplione, and a honey bear with a very small saxophone. * x * HE Grand Canyort suite by Ferde Grofe, American composer, will be presented from 1ZB by Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra at 1030 p.m. | this Sunday, November 21. Grofe is known mainly as the orchestrator of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. He started his career working in a bank, but later took to the road as a pianist with carnival shows. Later he played with symphony orchestras and in this way met Paul Whiteman, with whom he worked for 10 years as pianist. * oa * A SESSION called Behind the Micro- _ phone, which has been broadcast by 1ZB for the last six years, has now been

replaced by a programme entitled How Do You Do? which is heard every Wednesday at 10.0 p.m. In each programme, Rod Talbot will introduce a representative of some particular vocation and interview him or her with a view to finding out the interesting points of the job. ‘The session will not be conducted from any prepared script, the idea being to make it as spontaneous as possible.