Listening

Press, 26 September 1980, Page 11

Listening

Scholars sing The Scholars, an ensemble of ' five talented young English vocalists who toured New Zealand for the Music Federation this year, can be heard on the Concert programme tomorrow at 9.05 a.m. from part of a recital they gave in Auckland. All formerly members of King’s College Choir at Cambridge, in this programme the group, with its speciality of close unaccomp a n i e d part-singing, present English sacred music, music from the court of Henry VIII and English madrigals. ‘Scrapbook’

Bill Stuart, a Nelson farmer, features on the National programme’s “Saturday Scrapbook” at 8.20 p.m. tomorrow again. He will continue his talk about the different bells he has encountered around New Zealand. At 9 p.m. a story ' from “The Black Museum”, series features. This series, which dates from .the fifties, is a collection of dramatised cases which revolve around relics stored in the Black Museum at Scotland Yard. Orson Welles will narrate tonight’s story.

N.Z. Symphony The Australian conductor. Patrick Thomas, a newcomer to New Zealand concert audiences, will have the ; New Zealand, S y mph on y Orchestra under his baton at •' the Wellington Town Hall ..tomorrow evening. From the second half of the concert, the Concert Programme is making a direct broadcast of the Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E flat. Concert programme, 9 p.m. tomorrow. Violinist recalled The noted French violinist, Jaques Thibuad, was born 100 j jars ago tomor row. He died in 1953, and his centenary will be marked on the Concert programme by two of his fine recordings. They are the Mozart Sonata No. 17 in A, K. 526, with Margeurite Long, piano, which was recorded in 1943. He can then be hard with Alfred Cortot, piano, and Pablo Casals, cello, in the 1928 recording of the Schumann Trio No. 1 in D minor, Opus 63. Concert programme, 10 p.m. tomorrow.