From the tuneful twenties

Press, 20 January 1982, Page 16

From the tuneful twenties

Listening

Listeners who are of a. vintage that enjoys the popular music of 50 to 60 years ago ’ will be presented with some lighthearted and toetapping arrangements of 1920 s songs tonight, from Russ Sheppard's 23 Skidoo Orchestra from Dunedin and the Majorettes' vocal group. National radio. 8.00 tonight. Tchaikovsky From a Christchurch concert last season the Finnish conductor. Okko Kamu. has the New Zealand Symphony under his baton for a performance of the Tchaikovsky last symphony, the No. 6 in B minor. Op. 74. The composer, who died of possibly selfinduced cholera shortly after the first performance in 1893. himself authorised the name “Pathetique" for this final and intensely melancholic composition. Concert. 8.45 p.m. Symphonic poem The symphonic poems produced by nineteenth-century composers are explored further with works by Strauss and Liszt. Strauss's Don Juan has been recorded by the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta conducting while Liszt's Hungaria is performed by Bernard Haitink

and the London Philharmonic. Concert, 9.40 a.m.

The universe

"The 20th-Century View" is the second of two 8.8. C. talks about man's image of the universe introduced by Sir Bernard Lovell. Professor of Radio Astronomy and Director of Jodrell Bank Experimental Station. In this week's programme, astronomers talk about the first few minutes of the universe, and speculate about its end. Concert. 9.35 p.m. Radio play "There are eight people in this house and every one of us is a fugitive. We can't cope, you see. .." This is part of the' philosophy of Mr Khodary. who mixes comedy with wisdom in the unexpected selection of people gathered in the crumbling London mansion ' that he owns. But even Mr Khodary cannot forsee the violent end of his odyssey. Alan Jervis takes the' lead role in “Mr Khodary takes a House." produced bv Davina Whitehouse in Wellington. National. 8.45 p.m. Mozart David Oistrakh is both director -and soloist .in a

Berlin Philharmonic recording of the Mozart K. 218 Violin Concerto No. 4 in D. Concert. 7 p.m. Marie Corelli Victorian mothers forbade their daughters to read any romance by Marie Corelli and a public library banned her books. Her stories were a combination of lurid romance. intrigue. pious tracts and wild flights of fancv. For the age she lived in. these made up a magical formula for a sensationally successful writer. To the annoyance of her critics, as is revealed in this 8.8. C. programme (Concert. 9 p.m. tomorrow) Marie Corelli not only captivated an enormous audience, but also was admired and praised by such eminent people as Queen Victoria (said to be an avid Corelli reader) and Oscar Wilde. The Prince of Wales took her for rides in the royal carriage to talk about her books and tell her that she was ;"the only woman of genius we have."