Listening

Press, 9 June 1980, Page 17

Listening

Auckland jazz

Jazz comes from the Auckland Radio Theatre this week with Murray McNab on keyboards, Andy Brown on bass, and Mike Walsh on drums. The programme features some imaginative interpretations of contemporary.music and evergreens. National programme. Mozart operas Composer of the week on the Concert programme this week is Mozart. Being examined in detail are his operas. Excerpts from some of them feature in tonight’s programme. They include the overture to “Apollo et Hyacinthus,” scenes from Act Two of “Mitridate, King of Ponte,” the overture to “U Songo di Scipione,” and an aria from “Il Re Pastore.” Canadian style The second programme in a nine-part series, “Commonwealth Literature,” features on the Concert programme tonight. Entitled “Canada, The Next 10 Years,” the episode is the first of two talks from Professor W. H. New, professor of English at the University of British Columbia. Tonight he searches for what could be defined as a Canadian literary style. As he does so, some interesting parallels with the New Zealand search for a cultural identity can also be drawn. Barenboim From the 1979 music festival in Berlin comes a recording of the Israel Philharmonic in performance of Tai’s Symphony written in 1978, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. On the Concert programme tonight. The orchestra is conducted by Zubin Mehta, with the piano soloist, Daniel Barenboim, in a recording that was supplied to Radio New Zealand by R.I.A.S. in Berlin.