Radio diary

Press, 6 April 1989, Page 19

Radio diary

Journalist Jenner Thompson has joined the panel of Plainly Paranormal, Plains FM 9.00 p.m. this evening, a magazine programme examining the unexplained and mysterious. Listeners can phone in experiences or questions on the paranormal. Fast-paced and interesting — even for sceptics.

* Avant-garde Soviet composer Edison Denisov is 60 today and the Concert Programme marks his birthday in Edison Denisov, at 8.00 p.m. this evening. Auckland University’s Gerald Seaman examines the life and of Denisov, who,

appropriately for one trained in mechanics and mathematics, was one of the first Soviet composers to follow the advanced serial techniques of western Europe. British ensemble Capricorn plays a Denisov sextet. Akhnten, Concert Programme 8.00 p.m. tomorrow evening, a portrait opera by American composer Philip Glass based on the life of the monotheistic pharaoh who ruled Egypt from 1379 to 1358 8.C., was first performed in 1984. Auckland composer David Hamilton introduces the recording of counter-tenor Paul Esswood singing the

and soprano Milagro‘Vargas as Queen Nefertiti, with Dennis Russell David conducting the Stuttgart Opera Chorus and Orchestra.

Saturday is the 100th anniversary of the. birth of English conductor Sir Adrian Boult, champion of new British music and founder of the 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra. The first of five programmes marking the centenary, Concert Programme 4.00 p.m. Saturday, has a recording of Boult introducing his personal all-British selection, including Elgar, Bax, Finzi and Bliss. James Homes