Listening

Press, 17 July 1980, Page 13

Listening

Arts survey Nicholas Tarling in Auckland presents at 7.30 p.m. this week’s Concert programme regional survey of the visual and performing arts around New Zealand. The programme is repeated at 10 a.m. on Sunday.

Quiz show With Claire Raynor, Bettine Le Beau, Tim Rice, and Bernard Cribbins as tire team, and the writercomedian, Barry Took, as the chairman, the 8.8. C. “Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral” has been described as one of today’s most entertaining radio quizzes. It is based on the old parlour game, “Twenty Questions.” A mystery voice tells the audience and the listeners at home the name of a certain object. Team members, who know only that the object is an animal, mineral, or vegetable, try to identify it in less than twenty questions. National programme, 8 p.m.

Auckland concert The visiting conductor, Franz Paul. Decker, was recorded ■ with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra at an Auckland concert earlier this season, and part of the programme is presented at 8 p.m. on the Concert programme. They play the Schumann Genoveva Overture and then are joined by the Israeli violinist, Boris Belkin, in a performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto in D.

Von Webern >. Jack Spiers, at 9.30 p.m. continues his series of illustrated talkss for the Concert programme in which he introduces the complete output of the Austrian composer, Anton von Webern, who died in 1945 and is a key figure in the development of 20th century music. In his second programme tonight, which he calls Tonality and Beyond, he uses as illustrations Webern’s Pgssacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1 (1908), the Entfleht auf leichten Kahnen, Op. 2 (1908), and two early groups of songs composed between 1907 and 1909.