U.N.’s decline

Press, 10 February 1983, Page 15

U.N.’s decline

In his first annual report as Secretary General of the United Nations. Mr Perez de Cuellar declared: "We are perilously near to a new international anarchy." He reminded diplomats that the United Nations was being increasingly defied by member states which felt powerful enough to do so. On the Concert programme this evening Bob Berry. Rossalind Higgins and Jonathon Power examine the future of the U.N. for the 8.8. C. Promenade Concert From the BBC. comes this concert recording of a 1976 Proms concert with the Northern Sinfonia conducted by Christopher Seaman with Swiss oboe virtuoso Heinz Holliger as soloist. (Concert programme this evening.) The works to be heard are Haydn's Symphony No. 44 in E minor: Reicha's Scena for cor anglais and orchestra; and Haydns Symphony No. 88 in G. Clara Haskil This is the second in a series of eight programmes devoted to the Rumanian pianist Clara Haskil. who despite impoverished circumstances and muscular atrophy from an early age. became one of this century's finest interpreters of the

Viennese classics. In tonights programme (Concert! Clara Haskil performs Schuberts Piano Sonata in B flat. Jung Retrospective The final programme in this series in which the thinking. revelations, experiments and personality of C. G. Jung are revealed through dramatised readings of his autobiography and rare interviews with Jung and some of his closest associates, can be heard on the Concert programme this evening. In the final years of his life. Jung wrote his autobiography and came upon the secret writings of his wife Emma on the psychological meaning of the Holy Grail. He withdrew from the world after his wife's death to conclude his life-long search for the self. The Aloe This long short story by Katherine Mansfield is the first draft of the later, more famous “Prelude." It was published in a new edition last year by the Port Nicholson Press.’ researched and edited by eminent New Zealand poet, writer and critic Vincent O'Sullivan. Serialised for radio in 11 parts, the story is read by Helen Moulder on the National programme this evening.