New Zealanders abroad

Press, 3 September 1981, Page 15

New Zealanders abroad

Listening:

The actress, Lisa Harrow, is one of New Zealand's most successful artists overseas. She is a star of the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford and has appeared in many television plays. Recently she took a leading role, along with another New Zealander Sam Neill, in the Hollywood epic film, “The Final Conflict.” For this Radio New Zealand programme on Concert at 9 p.m. Lisa Harrow is questioned about her career by David Delany. Luscious

Young local musicians of outstanding talent are in a series of four programmes starting on Concert at 7.00 tonight. The young artists featured in this first pro-

gramme are clarinettist Peter Adams and pianist Terence Dennis. They play soliloquy by the young Christchurch composer Helen Mountfort, who has already won prizes with her compositions, and then the Premier Rhapsody by Debussy. Jazz drummer Frank Gibson, New Zealand’s top jazz drummer, has been backing jazz groups overseas for some time. Now back in this country he leads his own jazz group in a selection of his own compositions for a programme in the current “Jazz New Zealand” series on the Concert Programme beginning at 8.00 tonight. With fellow jazzmen Dave Fraser piano. Martin Winch guitar, Bruce Lynch bass, and Brian Smith saxo-

phone Frank Gibson presents his own Blues for Wynton Kelly, Beaver Fever and Song for Roseanne. • ‘Many A Slip’ A new series of the 8.8. C. panel game "Many a Slip” features Gillian Reynolds, Lance Percival, Eleanor Summerfield and Tim Rice. A newcomer, Lance Percival, became a household name in the 19605, in a series of TV shows, called “That Was the Week That Was.” The aim of the game is still for the contestants to spot the chairman’s deliberate mistakes to gain marks, but the entertainment and information are different. Only in "Many A Slip." for instance, can you learn with absolute certainty that a butterfly was originally known as a “flutterby”!