THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 543, 18 November 1949, Page 26

THINGS TO COME

HANGAREI and Rotorua listeners will be able to hear the National Orches‘tra at public concerts next week. Following its Auckland season the Orchestra will travel to Whangarei and give two concerts in the Town Hall there on Tuesday, November 22. In the afternoon a schools’ concert will be given, and in the evening a public concert, at which the featured works will be Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Three Choral Preludes (Bach-Ormandy), Sir Hamilton Harty’s "In the Antrim Hills" (from his Irish Symphony), and the Preludes to Acts I and III of Lohengrin by. Wagner. This concert will be broadcast by 1XN. The Orchestra will travel direct to Rotorua, where on Thursday, November 24, an evening concert will be given in the Majestic Theatre. The programme will include Dvorak’s Fourth Symphony, the Water Music Suite (Handel-Harty), and Sir Edward German’s Welsh Rhapsody, and it will be broadcast by 1YZ. On the following morning a concert for Rotorua school children will be given. Your Shout HERE are ways and ways of fixing standards of living, and altering them. The Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation decides

to raise the price of steel, and millions of people live a little differently because — of the change. The British Cabinet decides to devalue the pound, and a chain reaction is started which affects people | all over the world.’ Decisions like these are usually taken behind closed doofts;

sometimes no reasons are given, sometimes a few of the reasons, occasionally all the reasons, but if our standard of living is altered by a change in the price of wool this season, radio listeners can it happening, and everyone is in an equally good position to deduce the ‘reasons for the change. The shouting _starts in Auckland on Monday, Novem- : ber 21, when a full bench of buyers will bid for the first of the season’s clip. Station 1YA will relay the fateful sounds from the Concert Chamber, starting at a4 a.m. Cool, Clear Water : ‘TUESDAY is New Zealand day on the 2YA Women’s session. Every week the countfy and its people are looked over, not as a whole and at once, but in segments, building.up the whole gradually. A large part of the New Zealander’s leisure time is spent by wate, running or salt, still or breaking. We have our day at the beach and our long week-ends in a hut near the river gorge, our fishing holiday camped by a lake. On Tuesday, November 22, at 11.0 a.m. Arthur Feslier talks from 2YA about this particular segment of New Zealand life when he suggests lakes and harbours for holidays. Who Does It? S SKED where the flies went in winter time, the expert looked up coldly ’ from his microscope, and answered, "In warm, sheltered places wheré they are’

safe from interruption." Possibly there is an equally rational, unsatisfying answer to the question, "Who makes the new words in New Zealand speech?" It is pleasant and unscientific to hope that they spring, keen and armed, straight from the heads of the people, but anyone who listens to the radio and then listens to children talk must have an uneasy suspicion that serial script writers may have something to do with it. Anyone wishing to confirm or deny their own theories should listen to 3YA on Tuesday, November 22, at 7.15 p.m., when Dorian Saker will talk about "New Words in New Zealand Speech." The Women of Germany FFRAU ANNA HAAG, a well-known German writer who was recently asked by the American Occupation authorities to start a women’s newspaper in Stuttgart, has written two Letters from Germany which will be broadcast in 3YA’s Mainly tor Women session, starting at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, November 24. The letters were written before the West German Government was set up, and in the first of them Frau Haag describes the part that women are playing in the development of postwar Western Germany, with the encouragement of American and Eng-

lish women working there for the military governments. She thinks that the country’s future can and should to a large extent be moulded by its women. In her second letter she discusses unemployment in Germany, the country’s building needs, and the

rise in its cost of living. She was at the time of writing a member of the Landtag (Lower Chamber) of Wuerttem-berg-Baden in the American zone. Songs of the Lutenists "] HE first of three weekly studio recitals of Elizabethan "ayres," or lute songs as they were called, from the instrument originally used to accompany the singer or singers, will be broadcast

from 2YA at 7.30 p.m., on Thursday, November 24. Greatest of the lutenists was John Dowland of whom a contemiporary wrote, "He was the rarest musician that his age did behold." Dowland held at different times the post of Court Lutenist to the King of Denmark (at an enormous salary-equal to that of the ‘Admiral of the Realm), and that of one of the six such officials employed by Charles I of Britain. With him money came and went freely; he was latterly neglected, and he seems to have died somewhat poor and embittered. Among other lutenists to be represented are Thomas Campian. and Philip Rosseter, possibly cousins and certainly close friends, each a poet and musician in his own right. The recitals will be given by the Wellington tenor, W. Roy Hill. A New Cinderella "AND the prince falls in love with her, but she hurries away at midnight, losing one of her tiny glass slippers, and resumes her humble garb at the fireside. . . ." Yes, we all know what happened to Cinderella after that, how the prince found her again and married her, despite the hatred of her cruel stepmother and stepsisters. A new version of this old fairy tale has been issued by the BBC and it will be broadcast in 2YZ’s- Children’s Hour at 5.0 p-m. on Sunday, November 27. The story was freshly written by Muriel Levy for the programme and she begins it at the point where the ugly sisters and their father are preparing to go to the Palace ball, leaving Cinderella sitting sadly among the ashes. The music of the programme comes from Eric Coates’s fantasy Cinderella, and the production is by Nan Macdonald. The Queen was Furious Te be heard from 2YA, beginning at the end of next week, a BBC programme sefies called Queen Victoria was Furious tells the story of three women who fought for women’s rights and whose names have passed into his-tory--Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (one of the first women doctors), Emily Davies (who fought for and won university education for women), and Millicent Fawcett (pioneer in the struggle for women’s suffrage). Jonquil Antony, who wrote the scripts, took her title from one of Queen Victoria’s more outspoken letters: "The Quéen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘women’s rights,’ with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself... ." It was in 1860 that Elizabeth Garrett and her sister Millicent held. an indignation meeting with their friend Emily Davies about the limited, frustrating life to which girls were condemned in midVictorian society. It maddened them to look forward to an existence bounded by lady-like trivialities in the home or a marriage which meant complete subordination to a husband’s control. Elizabeth Garrett fought the whole medical profession for years before she was allowed to qualify as a doctor. When in 1871, she married James Anderson, a shipowner, she won the final battle-to show that a busy professional woman could also be a good wife and mother. Women who have the time to tune to 2YA at 9.31 a.m. on Sunday, November 27, will hear the first programme in the series-the story of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. ‘