Twenty questions

Press, 10 July 1980, Page 17

Twenty questions

Bernard Cribbens, the British film; TV and radio actor and singer, joins the 8.8.C.’s “Animal. Vegetable or Mineral” team this week (National radio, tonight). Along with Claire Raynor, Bettine Le gc-u and Tim Rice he will be playing the “twenty questions” game. The resident team members respond to the game with a mixture of guesswork, humour, uncanny skill and the occasional stroke of genius. The music of Webern A 11 h o u g h generally thought of as a “contemporary” composer, the Austrian Anton von Webern died in 1945. In a series of 10 illustrated talks Jack Speirs introduces the complete works of Webern on the

Arts in N.Z. Aline Sandilands, in Dunedin, has compiled and introduces the Concert programme’s weeklv survey tonight of the "visual and performing arts around New Zealand. This programme will be repeated on Saturday morning.

Symphony concert

The visiting conch-ctor, Niklaus Wyss, was recorded earlier this year at a Dunedin concert with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in a performance cf the Bee'.hoven Symphony No. 2 in D. Conductor and orchestra are then joined in this recording (Concert radio) by American pianist Walter Hautzig in the Schubert/Liszt Wanderer Fantasy.

Listening | XWBWWI

Concert programme tonight. In the first programme, entitled “To live means to defend form,” he looks at the man, the evolution of his sound world and his impact on the music of this century. America sings Choral music by American composers 'in the years between 1920 and 1950 is presented in six special programmes on concert radio. The series begins this week with music by William Schumann, Elliott Carter, Wallingford Riegger, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Roger Sessions.