Specials on radio

Press, 3 July 1978, Page 11

Specials on radio

When the Auckland composer and director, Julian Lee, leaves for the Sydney scene his departure will mean a big loss to New Zealand music. Tonight, however, he directs the Auckland Neophonic Orchestra in the first programme of a series on the National Programme. Tonight’s radio concert, beginning at 9.15 p.m. includes some of Julian Lee’s own compositions. Denis Glover’s fans should be rewarded later in the evening by the first of three readings by Ray Henwood of “The Hand on the Window.” It could be a fantasy; it could be science fiction. It is a short tale about a young man who. although he does not believe in the supernatural, experiences a mysterious “hand on the window,” and a chair that induces visions, and meets “beings” who have materialised. (National Programme, 10.30 p.m.) Disciples of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church are a religious group claiming several hundred thousand followers around the world. In the United States they have been the centre of controversy and several court cases have been brought against them for allegedly kidnapping young people from their parents and brainwashing them. In New Zealand they periodically come to the attention of the media.

Professor Frederich Zontag, a philosopher and theologian from Pomona College, California, has studied this religious movement. In a talk on the Concert Programme this evening (7.45 p.m.) he explains the Moonist movement to Aline Sandilands.

Reliving their pasts in a Lower East Side bar in New York are a school teacher, a Vietnam veteran, a gay i actor, a fading blonde who had nursed an ambition to become a second Marilyn I Monroe and a hippy protester. These are “Kennedy’s [Children,” washed up into i the seventies.

The original Circa Theatre cast, Judy Fyfe, Grant Tilly, Jean Betts. Simon O’Connor, Susan Wilson, and Bruce Phillips are in the Radio New Zealand production.