NEXT WEEK’S RADIO

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25459, 3 April 1948, Page 3

NEXT WEEK’S RADIO

DUNEDIN’S TURN FOR MUSIC

Four concerts within the week from Saturday to SatWday, April 3 to 10, will perhaps make up to Dunedin music lovers for their long wait for the National Orchestra, and Isobel Baillie. They will also test the concertgoing capacity of the citizens who last season seemed to be the stay-at-home, radio-listening type rather than the going-forth, hall-fining type. The muffled complaints I have heard from the impatient ones have been based on the original report that Isobel Baillie was coming to New Zealand to sing in the Otago centennial celebrations; but perhaps it was sis well for some of the fireworks to be expended before that beautiful voice rose upon the southern air. At least it can be taken for comfort by all who have been waiting that Isobel Baillie’s voice seems to come more clear, more pure, with each recital; the only thing listeners next week will lack will be words to describe what they hear. This evening Miss Baillie will sing a “Carmen” song—and as the opera is to be presented first in Dunedin, listeners will not need long memories to make comparisons in May—and the rest by Mozart; a new programme, as far as I can tell. The orchestra will give the first New. Zealand performance of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 4. Q» Monday evening Miss Baillie will sing with a mass of male voice choirs from Invercargill and Dunedin; on Wednesday evening the National Orchestra will give a concert with those choirs: on Thursday evening Miss Baillie will sing from the 4YA studio; and on Saturday, April 10, again from the Tdwn Hall, she will sing with the National Orchestra and the combined choirs. All these concerts will be broadcast by 4YA. In addition, listeners to 4YA on Saturday eveningj. April 10, may hear the Southland Boys High School Septet singing a list of five songs from Mozart to "Shortnin’ Bread.” I don’t imagine it is the same septet I heard in 1940, nor yet the one I heard in 1946; but year after year these boys are well trained by their director, Kennedy Black, and should be heard. QUIZ

A few weeks ago a newspaper advertisement called for applications from New Zealanders wishing to take pqrt in a monster intelligence quiz to be conducted by radio telephone from country to country. The New Zealand team and judges have now been chosen’ and all the questions and approved answers have been examined by the judges. Listeners to all YA and auxiliary stations will be able to hear the Australia-New Zealand contest on Tuesday, April 6. after the 6.30 p.m. news. The programme will be rebroadcast by the commercial stations on Sunday evening, April 11. There are four members of the New Zealand team, all men: S. E. Craig (Auckland) and J. B. Mora (Christchurch), are teachers; D. P. Wallace (Dunedin) is a medical student; and E. R. Dearnley (Wellington) is in the Census and Statistics Department/ The judges are the Australian High Commissioner, A. R. Cutler, V.C.; professor lan Gordon (English), and Professor F. L. W. Wood (History), of Victoria University College.

THAT CHILD Parents, teachers, and aunts in range of 3YA may very well wish to reserve next Wednesday and Friday two quar-ter-hour periods m which to hear a few ideas on the problems of bringing up children. Thfe first is on Wednesday afternoon —the first of a recorded seriefe heard recently from 2YA and IYA—on "Child Psychology: the Child’s Daily Life,” by Miss K. F. Hursthouse, who has lived the gruelling round of life in a hostel for difficult or maladjusted children. The second, on Thursday evening, a talk by Dr. Ralph Winterbourne, senior lecturer in education at Canterbury University College, is “Home and Life: Parent-Child Relationship.” This talk is tp.be the first of two on the subject. REALISM v. RETICENCE The first of 4YA’s studio discussions (the others have been recordings of discussions heard originally from2YA> will be heard on Friday evening, April 9: "Let’s Have It Out; Realism or Reticence in Novels, Films, and Plays,” is the title. Alex Graham is to be the chairman, and the speakers will be Mrs Richard White, who is known to listeners as Dorothy Neal White, an expert on children’s books; John Moffett, editor of the "Otago Daily Times”; A. L. Haddon, principal of the Bible College, Glen Leith; and Dr. Basil Howard, liaison officer at the University of Otago. There are other controversial subjects coming up for these discussions—some of the subjects have been dealt with already in Wellington, both in the 2YA discussions and in the 2ZB Citizens’ Forum—including one, “Are New Zealanders Complacent?” which caused a good deal of warmth to be generated inside and outside the studio when a panel of women attacked it last • year. That particular discussion was recorded, and was broadcast from 4YA not long ago. It will be interesting to see what a new group does with it.

RECOMMENDED Two Sunday programmes to be heard: from 3YA eacn Sunday afternoon, a good 8.8. C. critical programme called “in the W'ords of Shakespeare.” From 4YA next Sunday evening, April 11. the N Z.B.S. production of “1116 Lady Vanishes,” from the film script. But alas for the vanished original magical team —Whitty, Wayne, Radford.