Early black music

Press, 18 March 1982, Page 19

Early black music

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The Concert radio programme has been broadcasting a series, concluding this week, about the traditional music of black Africa and what happened to it in America. This final programme is called “Field Hollers and the Emergent Blues". Field hollers are seen as the direct predecessors of the downhome blues and the emergence of a standard blues form. Tonight at 10.25. Chopin sonata The prize-winning pianist, Chia Chou, recorded from a Christchurch recital he gave during his New Zealand tour last year, plays the Chopin Sonata No. 3 in B minor, 0p.58. Concert, 7 p.m. Arts in N.Z.' Aline Sandilands, in Dunedin, has compiled and introduces the Concert Programme's weekly regional survey of the visual and performing arts around New Zealand. Tonight, 7.30. Panel game The panel for the 8.8. C. comedy programme “Just a Minute" on the National Programme at S p.m. today is

Kenneth Williams. Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo and Patrick Moore. Chairman, as usual, is Nicholas Parsons. New writing The first of this year's programmes broadcast fortnightly on the Concert Programme about New Zealand writing, bookselling and publishing will be heard today at 9.30 p.m., with a repeat on Sunday at 4.30 p.m. “New Writing” is produced and presented’by Elizabeth Alley. N.Z. poetry The ex-patriate New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock, now resident in England, visited her homeland last year and she is the subject for the fourth and final of the current Concert Programme series “New Zealand Poetry’’' tomorrow at 9.40 p.m. She discusses aspects of her work, and its geographic and emotional influences, with Elizabeth Alley.