Three days of radio

Press, 11 July 1980, Page 11

Three days of radio

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Immigrant music The music of the American Scandinavian immigrant communities is featured in a bracket of songs in the National programme’s “Time for Music” at 7.30 p.m. today. They are sung by a “real” Scandinavian, a young professional singer and actress from Stockholm, Anne-Charlotte Harvey. Other music to be heard includes excerpts from Offenbach and Mozart. “Leonora” The plot that was to serve Beethoven for his opera, “Fidelio,” was well used by the time the master came to it. Both the French composer, Gaveaux. and then the Italian, Ferdinando Paer, had produced earlier versions from the libretto by Bouilly. It is Paer’s “Leonara,” an opera in two acts, which can be heard in its first recording on the Concert Programme at 7.50 p.m. today. Jeremy Commons introduces the opera for Radio New Zealand, as he will in later weeks the other operas on this same theme. The recording tonight is with the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Maag. The heroine, Leonara, is sung by Ursula Koszut, and her imprisoned lover, Florestano, by Siegfried Jerusalem. “Jazz scene” Albums recorded in London and Sydney can be heard on “Jazz Scene” on the National Prograrfime at 9.15 p.m. today. In London American composer and arranger Don Sebesky last year recorded three of his compositions with the Royal Philharmonic. One of the pieces was com-" pletely original, the others being his reconstructions and arrangements of themes by J. S. Bach and Stravinsky. These share the “Jazz ’ Scene” programme with Dave Liebrr.an and his quartet, who vi-.ited New Zealand earlier this year and who recorded an album on an earlier visit to the Antipodes in 1979. Rubenstein The famed pianist, Artur Rubinstein, in a series of

six programmes can be heard playing the complete Chopin Mazurkas. In the second programme, on the Concert programme at 7 p.m. today he plays the Mazurkas Op. 17 Nos. 1-4 and Op. 24 Nos 1-4. Submarine life In “Spectrum” tomorrow Alwyn Owen looks at life under the ocean wave — in submarines. He speaks to Jack Blampied and Ted Chpwles, who both worked on submarines during the last stages of the Second World War. We learn of their experience of submarine life, which encompassed the horrors of depth-charging and the rancid smell that permeated submarines because air was unable to escape their confines. Alwyn Owen also speaks to Pat Fenton, who offers a different experience of submarines — from after the war until the time when nuclear ships first appeared on our oceans. National programme, 9.15 a.m. “Scrapbook” The National programme’s weekly get-to-gether for older listeners always includes requests. Those with a piece of music they would particularly like to hear can write to “Saturday Scrap- ■ book,” P.O. Box 2092, ' Wellington, and the resident Saturday night host, Graeme Thompson, will play. it. Along with requests, the programme also includes old-time dance music with Phillip Liner at 8 p.m. A popular i radio feature from the late • 19405: “The Secrets of Scotland Yard” begins at 9 p.m. The storylines in , this dramatic series were reconstructed crimes taken from the factual records i of Scotland Yard. The “Secrets of Scotland Yard” was compered by Clive Brook, a distinguished British stage and screen actor who died ■ in 1974.