Holiday radio

Press, 1 September 1980, Page 16

Holiday radio

Peter Davis in Auckland continues the special holiday morning Concert programme shows for younger listeners this week. Again the mix each morning is of music, stories, a national art competition, and the Russell Duncan serial set in Australia’s early days, “The Runaways.”

Chopin contest The fifth of the prestigious Chopin international piano competitions in Warsaw in 1955 produced a host of names that were to be proven as talents of world stature. The winner was Poland’s Adam Harasiewicz; the runner up, Vladimir Ashkenazy; and third prize-winner, Fou Ts’ong. Other award winners who were to be celebrity artists who later visited this country in concert were Tamas Vasary, Andre Tchaikowskt, and Peter Frankl. Concert programme, 7 p.m. ‘Stabat Mater’

The medieval Latin devotional poem, the “Stabat Mater,” describing the sufferings of .the Virgin. Mary, has been set through the centuries by many composers. The recording .broadcast on the Concert programme at 7.27 p.m. is by the 18thcentury Italian composer, Boccherini. To be heard are soprano and tenor, soloists with the La Follia Instrumental Ensemble directed by Miguel de la Fuente, who is also solo violin. Domestic play Aspects of New Zealand culture are being specially featured on the Concert

programme,. and the play ■ at 8.20 p.m. is by a Wei- ] lington writer arid film . critic, Michael Heath. This . new play, “Breakfast” is something of a departure from Michael Heath’s ! more literary style in his earlier writings. Here he has tried to capture the feel of everyday life. The , play is a portrait of an i ordinary working class ' Roman Catholic family on a Southland Sunday -with their quirks and their hang-ups and the inevitable clash between the generations. The author shows the repetitions, the trivia, and minor crises of such a fairiily situation in a wry and sometimes painfully accurate fashion. ; Gee readings “Games of Choice” is . the title of the Maurice Gee, novel which will be read on the National programme over, the next three weeks.. Kingsley- ' ■ provincial bookseller, 'living- more in his past than;, in his present, plays the game of choices,’ . plotting- other t paths his life could have f b l 1 oiw e d j." Kingsley’s ■ father; living in a shack in his .garden,; is .the only, member of his farifily who can anchor, him .to reality.-, At Christmas, /when the family 1 is .entertaining guests, Kingsjey.’k; fantasy: world finally .t /crumbles. Then he.is able tb -make a real choice, to enter a game he has some chance of winning. National programme, 10.30 p.m.

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