Radio diary

Press, 29 September 1988, Page 19

Radio diary

If you haven’t made it to Expo, Philip Liner will take you there on National Radio at 8.05 this evening. This is the first of five programmes from Brisbane’s World Expo 88. Liner reports on the New Zealand pavilion along with Max Cryer, Chris Moon and Owen Eagles. Composers seen as living in a vacuum, disturbing and being needed by nobody, is the melancholy view of composer and Cambridge music professor Alexander Goehr, as he continues analysing where classical music is going. His fifth lecture

"Let the People Sing,” in his 40th Reith Lecture series, can be heard at 9 this evening on the Concert Programme. J. Alfred Prufrock, wearing his white flannel trousers, features in the Bath Festival Celebration of the T.S. Eliot Centenary on the Concert Programme tomorrow evening at 8. Involved in the festival concert, marking the birth of Anglophile Eliot in 1888, are tenor Adrian Thompson, coun-ter-tenor Nigel Short, baritone Henry Herford and pianist Graham Johnson. Eleanor Bron reads the poems. Hear “Five-Finger

Exercises,” “The Journey of the Magi,” part of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” verses from “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” and John Dankworth’s setting of “Under the Bamboo Tree,” from "Sweeney Agonistes.” Shearing, Basie and Brubeck make good listening on Jazz Scene, on National Radio tomorrow evening at 9.05. George Shearing, joined by bass player Ray Brown and drummer Marvin Smith, begins with tracks from his Concord jazz album “Breakin’' Out.” There’s

music from Count Basie’s last album, and Dave Brubeck provides the finale. Verdi’s masterpiece Rigoletto is the third of a simulcast opera series on the Concert Programme at 12.50 on Sunday afternoon. Action in the opera has been moved from sixteenth-century Mantua to Little Italy in New York in 1950. Mark Elder conducts soloists, chorus and orchestra of the English National Opera. Marie McLaughlin is Gilda and John Rawnsley Rigoletto. Watch on Television Two (with the sound turned off). James Homes