Radio diary

Press, 3 December 1987, Page 15

Radio diary

If you listened to the play “The Trouble with Frank,” on National Radio last evening, you should be ready to listen on the Concert Programme this evening to computer-con-trolled composition in Philip Norman’s music for the ballet, “Te Maia and the Sea-devil” — a sili-con-chip duet for keyboard and drum synthesisers. Norman talks about the music in “A Megabyte of Ballet Music.” Concert Programme, 8 p.m. Tartans, theatre and wine in Hobart and Launceston for Philip Liner in Roundabout on National Radio this evening. Liner is on a return visit to Australia’s island state, and seemingly enjoying every minute. National Radio, 8.05 p.m. Interview and talkback on radio Rhema’s Variety Hour tomorrow morning deals with attitudes to abortion in “Who Should Live — Mother or Child?” Radio Rhema, 10-11 a.m. Friday. Placido Domingo sings the role of Chevalier des Grieux in a compact disc recording of a Covent Garden production of Puccini’s, “Manon Lescaut” on the Concert Programme tomorrow evening. Soprano Mirella Frini is Manon, and Renato

Brusen is Lescaut. Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts the Royal Opera House chorus and the Phiiharmonia orchestra. First produced at Turin in 1893, “Manon Lescaut” established Puccini as a composer of opera. Concert Programme, 7 p.m. Friday. Those whose memories go back to the 1930 s can have an evening of nostalgic listening in Saturday Scrapbook on National Radio this week-end. Cavan O’Connor, “The Vagabond of Song,” can be heard on his 1931 recording of “Danny Boy,” in a walk down Memory Lane. Later in the evening “Scrapbook” has “Christmas with Grade Fields." In this 1966 8.8. C.-r-ecorded programme “Our Grade” sings the sacred, and the humorous. National Radio, 7.30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday. In Pressing On on the Concert Programme on Sunday morning Adrienne Simpson talks with young English classical violinist Nigel Kennedy, who had a dramatic impact on concert audiences when he toured with the N.Z.S.O. earlier this year. New Zealand audiences liked his relaxed style, his unconventional and improvised encores, and his mastery of the viola as well as the violin. His musical tastes flow over from the classics to jazz, rock and Indian music. Concert Programme, 1145 a.m. Sunday. —James Homes