Top artists

Press, 14 September 1981, Page 15

Top artists

Stanley Holloway is the person Peter Harcourt has chosen to typify artists who are "out on their own” as entertainers this week on National radio at 8.00 tonight. Though perhaps best remembered as Eliza’s dustman father in the stage and film version of “My Fair Lady." Stanley Holloway had a long-established reputation in show business, in everything from Music Hall to Shakespeare and from opera training to concert party. Memories of some of his best-known earlier performances are recalled by Peter Harcourt in this programme. Jazz The historic Esquire All Stars concert at the Met in New York on January 18, 1944, is sampled again this week for Ray Harris's "Change of Pace" Monday programme at 9.15 p.m. Some of the "all star” great names there were Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton and Red Norvo and Coleman Hawkins and Art Tatum. The

general excitement of the occasion more than compensates for the lack of hi-fi standard in quality listeners have come to expect today. Jack Speirs The New Zealand composer, Jack Speirs, introduces his composition, Three Poems of Janet Frame. He then conducts a performance by members of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with soprano soloist Wendy Dixon. Concert, 7.45 p.m. Readings Maurice Gee’s’ novel “Plumb" is regarded by some to be the closest we have yet come to “the great New Zealand novel" and certainly the book is a powerful and evocative picture of aspects of New Zealand life earlier in this century. "Plumb" has been adapted for radio by Robin Fry and is read by Alan Roe in 18 parts. The third and fourth parts are being broadcast on the Concert Programme this week; tonight, 7 p.m.