UN Anniversary Programme
[ NITED NATIONS ALBUM, broadcast by 1YD, 2, 3, and 4YC, and all YZ stations on February 6, at 9.15 p.m., will be taken up with the anniversary of: the Declaration of Human Rights. Human Rights Day is December 10, the Declaration having been signed on that day in 1948. The first anniversary celebrations took the form of a concert at Carnegie Hall, New York. This was broadcast by United Nations Radio, and a-quarter hour of excerpts was recorded and sent to the NZBS. In the transcription Sir Laurence Olivier reads movingly the Preamble to the Declaration, which expresses noble sentiments everyone can subscribe to in a general way. Olivier’s sincere art brings home to the full the value. of these sentiments, however stereotyped they may have become. Aaron Copland, the well-
xnown American composer, wrote specially for the occasion,, a work he called Preamble, which is given its first performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. The first part of Preamble is purely orchestral; the last is a recitative of some of the Preamble
to the Declaration, with orchestra accompaniment. This‘ is declaimed by Sir Laurence Olivier. Lastly there is a stirring performance of the Shostakovich United Nations March, played by the Boston Symphony, with words sung by the members of the Collegiate Chorale.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 554, 3 February 1950, Page 21
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220UN Anniversary Programme New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 554, 3 February 1950, Page 21
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