Listening

Press, 14 August 1980, Page 15

Listening

Elytis poems Odysseus Elytis has. long been regarded as Greece’s foremost living poet. Last year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Michael Harlow talks about Elytis’s writings and reads his poetry on the Concert programme at 7.20 p.m. tomorrow. Nutcracker

“Time For Music” on the National programme at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow features a Tchaikovsky waltz from the Nutcracker Ballet, a waltz which is all too often forgotten in the light of “Waltz of the Flowers.” The choral “Waltz of the Snowflakes” is danced as Clara and her Nutcracker prince approach the magic kingdom where Clara is entertained by the famous Divertissement. Enesco’s “Roumanian Rhapsody” No. 1, "London Fantasia,” and a quartet of songs from the late Heddle Nash can also be heard in tomorrow’s programme. Mahler

Alma Mahler, daughter of the famed Austrian composer and - conductor, Gustav Mahler, reminisces about her father and about

associates and musicians who played under his baton. The programme tomorrow is narrated by William Malloch and is followed by. a performance of the Mahler Symphony No. 6 - in A minor. The New York Philharmonic on this recording is conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Concert . programme, 8.17 p.m. tomorrow. ‘Jazz scene’ Among the artists appearing in “Jazz Scene” on the National programme tomorrow at 9.15 p.m. are two whose recent deaths were a loss to jazz on the American West Coast. They are the saxophonist, Richie Kamuca and the trumpeter, Blue Mitchell, who are heard together on an album dedicated to Charlie Parker. Also on tomorrow’s programme is a group called Quadrant which consists of Milt Jackson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, and Mickey Boker. To conclude, Freddie Hubbard plays flugelhorn with an orchestra directed by Glaus Ogerman.