John Peacock thriller

Press, 13 November 1981, Page 11

John Peacock thriller

A John Peacock thriller, “Attard in Retirement,” begins this week on National radio at 8.45 tonight. Walter Attard is an accountant on the brink of a quiet, roseloving retirement. As he prepares to close his office for the very last time one ledger is delivered. It is from his first client who started out in business at the same time as himself. Walter decides to return it in person, and find out how the years have treated his old friend. But though he seems to have prospered — on the site of his old office an enormous tower block now declares “Crawfield International Enterprises” — Arthur Crawfield himself seems to have vanished without trace.

Cushion Concert

Michi Inoue conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in a Cushion Concert programme being

broadcast direct from the Wellington Town Hall on the Concert Programme at 5.30 p.m. and 6.45 p.m. First the New Zealand Symphony is joined by visiting pianist Peter Frankl for a performance of the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto in C minor. Dinner music will be broadcast about 6.10 p.m. between the concert items. In the second half the orchestra plays Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Ballet.

‘Don Carlos’

Don Carlos, the tragic hero of the opera that Verdi based on Schiller’s play, is the son of the autocratic Philip II of Spain. The opera in four acts was first staged in Paris in 1867. The recording of Verdi’s “Don Carlos” to be heard on the Concert Programme at 7.30 tonight has Jose Carreras in the lead role and Herbert von Karajan conducting the soloists with the Chorus of the Berlin Deutsche Oper and the Berlin Philharmonic. Roger Wilson introduces “Don Carlos” for Radio New Zealand.

‘Time for Music’

This Friday’s “Time for Music” on National at 7.30 p.m. presents a musical journey beginning in the woods and fields of Bohemia, crossing to Bangor in Ireland with Owen Branningan who then takes up the Road to Mandalay. A Spanish dance from Granados follows, then songs of Paris from the Djinn Singers, and the journey concludes with Stanley Black conducting the London Festival Orchestra and chorus in music of Israel.

Jazz Dave Dallwitz, one of Australia’s foremost jazz composers, wrote “The Ned Kelly Jazz Suite” to be heard in tonight’s “Jazz Scene" from National at 9.15. Dallwitz claims the music is a response to locations and

his conception of the people there and their emotions. The music is performed by a group of top names in Australian jazz including Don Burrows, John McCarthy, Bob and Len Barnard and John Sangster. A highlight is the "Glenrown Lament,” a eulogy for Ned Kelly who died on the gallows a hundred and one years ago, on November 11, 1880. Symphony Rossini, Mendelssohn and Haydn make up the programme of a New Zealand Symphony concert recorded by Radio New Zealand this season and to be heard on the Saturday morning Concert Programme at 9.05. The conductor is Englishman Christopher Seaman and the soloist trumpeter Gordon Webb. Rossini’s Thieving Magpie Overture is followed by Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Nocturne and Scherzo. Finally Gordon Webb joins the orchestra for the Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat.