FOR DOMINION DAY
WHEN, and why, is Dominion Day? Ask a patriotic New Zealander and -he’ll probably be able to tell you that July 14 is Bastille Day, that the Americans eat turkey at Thanksgiving, and -almost certainly he can inform you of the date, day and time of the Melbourne Cup. If you pin him down, he'll try to start talking about the prospects of. beating the Springboks in 1960, the vanishing potato or the internal malfunctioning of his car. Away with cliffhanging, then. Dominion Day falls on Wednesday, September 26, and com--memorates the day in 1907 when New Zealand, from being a Colony, became a Dominion. The NZBS plans to mark Dominion Day with a link broadcast from all YC stations at 7.30 p.m. of a programme of "music by New Zealand composers, played by the National Orchestra under James Robertson. The works to be heard are Doris Sheppard’s The Puff Overture; Soliloquy for Strings, by Larry Pruden; Song of the Antipodes (Douglas Lilburn), Three Poems by Thomas Campion (Ernest Jenner), and Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Viola, by Max Saunders, Though we may not dash around putting out more flags for The Day here in New Zealand, there’s no harm in hoping other people will appreciate the light under our modest bushel. To that end, the NZBS has this year prepared three programmes for broadcast overseas-two for the BBC and the third for broadcasting services in Canada, Australia, Siam and Malaya. The programmes which will go out in the BBC’s General Overseas Service are a concert by the National Orchestra and
the Schola Cantorum, and a programme of Maori songs introduced by Lindsay Macdonald-a former NZBS announcer and now one of the General Overseas Service announcers. The programme for Asia and our fellow Dominions is an impressionist documentary feature, Sounds of New Zealand, written and produced by Basil Clarke. This programme is a patchwork in sound of life in this country-of New Zealanders at work and at play, of new New Zealanders (i.e., those who have arrived since Kupe), and old New Zealanders, like the kiwi. New Zealand’s past is sketched and its future foreshadowed in the mighty sounds of Wairakei and Roxbureh Hydro.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 894, 21 September 1956, Page 30
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367FOR DOMINION DAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 894, 21 September 1956, Page 30
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