Radio diary

Press, 1 December 1988, Page 11

Radio diary

Cosmotheka, on National Radio at 8.35 this evening, sounds like science fiction, but is a programme of music-hall songs. Cosmotheka was a music hall in Victorian times, the heyday of the music hall when this was the working-class night out. Singers Alan and Dave Sealey collect the songs of the old music halls. They bring the songs back to life in their own style. Musicologist Deryck Cooke is one of several who have worked to complete Gustav Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony. A performing draft of the symphony can be heard

in A New Recording, on the Concert Programme at 8 this evening. Riccardo Chailly . conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony. Cooke says his work is “pure Mahler.” Lifespan returns to National Radio this week, at 7.45 tomorrow evening, to talk about whether retirement provides continuity or change. Tere Scotney tells about her research into the expectations and experiences of retirement. Another chance to hear the magnificent American soprano Jessye Norman is offered on the Concert Programme at 7.20 tomorrow evening. She

sings the title role in Weber’s three-act opera “Euryanthe.” Other lead singers are Rita Hunter, Nicolai Gedda and Tom Krause. Marek Janowski conducts the Leipzig Radio Chorus and Staatskapelle Dresden. Much is talked about child abuse, but only now are we beginning to hear about abuse of the elderly. David Long, just through advanced nursing studies at Christchurch Polytechnic, wrote a paper “Abuse of the Elderly” for his final assignment. He talks about this on Plains FM on Saturday morning at 9.30. James Homes