Young musicians

Press, 9 April 1981, Page 17

Young musicians

Listening

The young New Zealand musicians featured this week in the Concert Programme's “Young New Zealand Artists” showcase (tonight, 7.00) has flautist Susan Legg and harpist Anna Christensen. They play the Serenade for Flute and Harp by the American composer Vincent Persichetti. Then the Beethoven Trio in B flat, Op. 11 is performed by another talented young group — Richard Simpson, clarinet, Simon Barrett, cello and Allan Pearson, piano. Panel Game Aim! Macdonald joins the regular panellists Kenneth Williams, Peter Jones and Patrick Moore tonight in “Just a Minute” at 8.00 on National. When this BBC game began in Britain in the mid-1960s nobody forecast it would last as long as it did and have an audience' of millions in many countries. Nicholas Parsons, chairman of the panel, feels that the popularity of the programme

s due to the fact that the idea, ‘like all good ideas,” is very simple: The. format gives talented entertainers the chance to show off their verbal dexterity within confined and limiting rules, under challenging conditions. Antal Dorati The highly-esteemed Hun-garian-born conductr, Antal Dorati, celebrates his 75th birthday today. Dorati has three times visited this country, the last time in 1973, to conduct concerts, and is at present musical director of the Detroit Symphony orchestra. Tonight on the Concert programme at 9.00 Dorati conducts the London Symphony in the Sibelius Symphonic Poem Night Ride and Sunrise; and then, this time with the Philharmonia Hungarica, the Haydn La Poule Symphony, the Symphony No. 83 in G minor. St John’s Passion Bach’s St John’s Passion is

presented in a Concert broadcast direct from the Dunedin Town Hall at 8 p.m'. The Schola Cantorum of Dunedin can be heard from 4YC with soloists soprano Ruth Hawkey, counter-tenor Geoffrey Coker, baritone Peter Russell, and bass Harvey Brown. .• Songmakers The Songmaker’s Almanac is the name taken by a small ensemble of vocal artists with pianist director Graham Johnson touring New Zealand for the Music Federation. In their concert tonight, being broadcast direct from 3YC Wellington at 8 p.m. they present a programme they entitle ‘Schuberiad.” It is ’made up of songs by Schubert himself, by Mozart, and by lesser-knowh composers who were Schubert’s friends.