Radio diary
If you were lucky you got to the 1988 New Zealand Festival of the Arts, and if you were luckier still you had a seat at the Wind Section of the Orchestra of the eighteenth century concert. If you missed out, you have a chance to hear this unique orchestra on the Concert Programme this evening at 7.50 and tomorrow evening at 8. This evening the ensemble plays the Overture and three arias from the Harmoniemusik of Mozart’s “11 Seraglio,” and the Serenade No. 12 in C Minor (K 388 Another Mozart serenade, .No. 10 in B Flat (K 361 can be heard tomorrow evening. Conductor Frans Bruggen, early-music specialist and renowned recorder player, formed this small orchestra of 50 musicians
from 14 different countries, playing original instruments, in 1981. Bruggen directs and plays recorder. And there is more International Arts Festival listening on the Concert Programme this week. One interview recorded during Writers’ and Readers’ Week was of Elizabeth Alley talking to British writer Michael Holroyd. The first part of Holroyd’s biography of George Bernard Shaw is to be published in London next week. Holroyd is devoting 20 years to the work, for which he got an advance of $1.6 million. Listen at 9 tomorrow evening. On Wednesday evening at the same time there are readings from the Shaw biography. Many see the seas and oceans of the world as
very convenient garbage dumps, but scientists say this cannot go on. In Can the Seas Cope? on National Radio this evening at 9.35, marine biologist Dr Brian Bayne, chairman of an expert committee on the effects of pollution on the sea, and toxicologist Dr Paul Johnston, Greenpeace research fellow at London’s Queen Mary College, talk with Joe Ogden in a 8.8. C. discussion. Who remembers the theatre in Christchurch called the St Janies? Brian Clark, on his tour of theatres and opera houses, does. On Wednesday evening on National Radio, right after the 8 o’clock news, he visits the St James Theatre — theatre, music hall, cinema, and now ... James Homes
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