Cooke’s tour of music

Press, 26 November 1980, Page 23

Cooke’s tour of music

Listening

Alistair Cooke will continue tomorrow his personal choice for the 8.8. C. from music by popular American songwriters. In tomorrow’s programme he selects from the songs of V i n ' e n t Youmans. Youmans was in the United States Navy in 1917 and showed some of his music to the company’s bandmaster, who happened to be John Philip Sousa. Later a pianist, he then had his first Broadway production in 1921 and in 1933 went on to Hollywood. He contracted T.B. the following year and suffered ill health doing very little writing through to his death 12 years later. Some of the w e 11-known Youman’s titles Alistair Cooke will be sampling in the programme are “Tea for Two,” “Deep in My Heart,” “I Want to be Happy” and No, No, Nanette.” National programme, 3.07 p.m. tomorrow. Honegger The' Swiss-born French composer, Arthur Honegger, died on November 27 25 years ago. To mark the anniversary of his death the Concert programme will broadcast tomorrow at 9.30 p.m. two

of his major works. First the Paris Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch plays Honegger’s 19-11 composition, the Symphony No. 2 for strings and optional trumpet. Then the cellist, Paul Tortelier, can be heard as soloist in his 1934 Concerto for Cello and Orchestra with the French Radio and Television Orchestra conducted by Georges Tzipine. Jazz finale The final of the series of Concert programme contributions which have highlighted leading New Zealand jazz groups can be heard tomorrow at 8.25 p.m. The group featured will be the Auckland Jazz Quartet. Haydu Antal Dorati, the veteran international conductor -,’ho has recently made headlines with his threat of resigning from his post with the Detroit Orchestra in the United States, will feature on the Concert programme tomorrow conducting Haydn at 8 p.m. Dorati conducts the Philharmonia Hungarica in Haydn’s Symphony No. 7 in C (Le Soir). Arts survey The final of the Concert programme’s regional weekly surveys of the visual and performing arts in New Zealand will come tomorrow from Dunedin at 7.30 p.m. Compiled and introduced by Aline Sandilands, the programme will be repeated on Saturday on the Concert programme at 10 a.m.