Radio diary

Press, 24 March 1988, Page 15

Radio diary

If you haven’t caught up with the 1988 International Festival of the Arts on the Concert Progamme yet, this! is your last chance. This evening Pibrre Boulez conducts the Ensemble InterCqntemporain, tomorrow there’s a James K. Baxter play, followed by more Boulez and the E.1.C., and for the finale on Saturday evening is the mighty Sarah Vaughan. Don’t miss.

Boulez, founder and president of the E.l.C.,[is the single most influential figure in contemporary music, and the ensemble is regarded as the finest. In two concerts, direct from Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre, are modern classics from Edgar Varese, I Karlheinz Stockhausen, Arnold Schoenbergh and Boulez himself. Eight o’clock this| evening; [nine tomorrow evening. j| j[ [ (“Jack Winter’s Dream” by James K. Baxter] with [ music by Ashley Heenan, is' set in Otago ip the recent past, and in the days of the gold rush. I Baxter’s lyricism develops a I yarn, with a narrator using strong poetic language to comment on the characters and bridgb the two time levels. Swagman Jack Winter beds down [in the ruins of an old pub and dreams, of the days 'of gold l . Listen at 7.30 p.m. tomorrOjW. , hours of the incomparable Sarah Vaughan, backed by pianist George [Gaffney, bass player Andy Simpkins and drummer Harold Jones, starting at 8 on Saturday evening, promises a fabujlous finale to the arts festival; Sarah’s enormous durable talent has made! her one of [the greats of jazz and popular music. 1

And if you want still more of the festival,! tune to the Concert [Programme on FM at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday, switch on your television to Network Two, turn ! off the TV sound and settle back to watch and hear the simulcast of Stravinsky’s ballet “The Splider’s Tale.” I;

National | Radio’s Lifespan series comes to an end tomorrow evening, with a thought-provoking programme on retirement. People 60-plus are: stereotyped as being over the hill, but consultant Jacqueline Thorp believes reorientation better expresses the meaning of retirement. She talks with Margaret Earle at 7.45. : James Homes