W.E.A. Sessions.

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 8, 2 September 1932, Page 6

W.E.A. Sessions.

The Golden Age of British Musie To be broadcast on Wednesday, September %, and three succeeding Wednesdays, at 7.30 p.m., by Mr. Owen Jensen, e .B. No. 1: The Triumph of Oriana. No. 2: Instrumental Music of the 16th Century. . No. 3: Henry Purcell. No.'4: John Gay and the Beggur’s Opera. . The Triumphs of Oriana. FOLLOWING is a synopsis of the first talk :-- noe The world at large, and British people in particular, are wont to .depreciate the British taste for music and to refer disparagingly to the British capacity for producing great ‘compositions. Yet, in 1601, when Thomas Morley published "The ‘Triumphs of Oriana"-a collection of madrigals in praise of Queen Hlizabeth written by many of the great composers of the period-British music set the standard for the rest of Europe. This period has been called the yocal millenium and certainly the subjects of good Queen Bess were a nation of singers; when community singing was truly singing and was most surely a community effort. The national attitude might be summed up in the couplet "Since singing is so good a thing IT wish all men would learn to sing." The neglect of the madrigal to-day is due chiefly to the great change in outlook both musically and_ socially #hat has taken place since the Bliza-

QQPETIVAREAVELSUDRSULSELCEN TS SUTTTEN EU DATTINE UTED EDIT TET TE bethan era. Both the technique and the philosophy of music have undergone 2 metamorphosis; but to those who would don the Blizabethan mantle there is revealed a wealth of glorious music whose freshness and purity are but tarnished ‘by the process of time. The World Economic Crisis A SERIES of 4, commencing Thursday, September 8, 7.30 p.m., by Dr. H. Belshaw, Professor of Economics, Auckland University College. Nos. 1 and 2: Conditions Leading up to the Crisis. No. 3: The World Crisis. No. 4: Toward Recovery. Synopsis of the Four Talks. PHL material losses due to the war were quickly made good. but the ei

effects on economic, social and political organisation were serious, and even tually led to the economic crisis. The world of 1929 was a world suffering from serious disequilibrium. The addresses will be devoted first to analysing’ the factors making for this disequilibrium, ‘such as the lack of balance in production, political insecurity and growing economic nationalism. the effects of war debts, reparation and other factors in the movement of capital, the failure of monetary policy to cope with’ the new problems of society and the economic rigidity which prevented adjustment to changing conditions. The course of the crisis will then be traced and attention will be devoted to the collapse on Wall Street, which initiated the depression; the collapse of the Credit Anstalt in Austria, which

turned the depression into crisis, and the drain of gold to France and the United States which forced Great Britain off the gold standard. After a survey of some of the effects of the crisis, an attempt will be made! to indicate the main essentials to: recovery. This will involve some consideration of monetary policy, reparations and war debts, and the reversal of trade barriers.