Radio diary

Press, 3 March 1988, Page 17

Radio diary

Suggestions were in the [ 1970 s that the World was I about to enter a new) Ice I Age. Now predictions are!) that build-up of gases is j j creating a, greenhouse ef- ; feet that could raise the ■ Earth’s temperature byfour degrees in the next'l 50 years. lan Crooks talks I with Dr Jeremy Gibb, of the Department of I Con-1 servation, on the Concert j Programme at 9.30 this; evening, about the impact!' the greenhouse effect could have on New Zealand. j Philip i Liner ; visits Queenstown in Roundabout on National j Radio at 8.05 this evening. But he is not looking at The! Remarkables or i Lake. Wakitipu. Instead, he is on Tasmania’s West | Coast] where the little [mining town of Queenstown [ cowers under a I moon] I scape of hills stripped I bare by decades of fumes from the copper smelters] j ' 1 H Babies and insomniacs I have a programme all of ! their own on National i Radio at 8.05 p.m. tbj- I morrow. Time for Music i is devoted to lullabies i from everywhere. Some j were composed by such [ well-known compbsers asl

l■ i ! Brahms, Richard Strauss and Bedri'clr Smetana. See if you can stay awake Until the .end. [ ! Handeljs dramatic three-act oratorio “Belshazzar” is the Concert Programme’s first broadcast from the 1988 New Zealand International • Festival of the Arts. Singers are soprano Wendy Dixon, contralto [Nel HuizerJ counter-tenor [Geoffrey! [Coker, tenor Andrew [Baines and baritone David Griffiths. Robert Oliver conducts an orchestra of baroque ini' struments. | i 0 [ Oratorio [was the climax of Handel’s great creative works. Synthesising Italian opera, [ Greek tragedy, French I classical theatre, English [masque and central German passions in style, t'hei oratorio was seized on [by the musical public of eighteenth-cen-tury London as the best of serious ; performing' art. Handel [had developed the oratorio as a peculiarly English' genre. Listen to the Concert Programme at 7.30 on Sunday evening. Better , still, hop up to Wellington Town i Hail. The live broadcast is coming from there. —James Homes.