Radio diary

Press, 1 June 1989, Page 15

Radio diary

By

JAMES HOMES

New Zealand baritone Roger Wilson talks about the work of a repetiteur, one who coaches operatic singers in their roles, in Focus, Concert Programme 7.15 this evening. He found repetiteur coaching varied from opera house to opera house. This is the first of a seven-programme series on visual and performing arts.

Not often we get to hear the harmonica on radio — or anywhere else, for that matter — these days. New Zealand harmonica player Brendon Power, National Radio 9.05 this evening, gives us the rare opportunity. . Two hours of country music followed by three hours of nostalgia on Plains FM from 7 tomorrow evening. Two of Plains most popular shows, U.R. Country, with John Hobson, and Turning Back the Clock, with John “Mr Nostalgia” Newman to keep you entertained until midnight. Conductor John McGlinn developed an interest in the musical “Show Boat” 20-odd years ago, when he saw a New York revival. This interest became almost an obsession as he worked to reinstate material that had been dropped from revivals and recordings of the musical. McGlinn’s reworked "Show Boat” running nearly four hours, begins in The Lighter Stage, Concert Programme FM 3.15 Saturday, with Act 1. He conducts the Ambrosian Chorus and London Sinfonietta, with Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Teresa Stratas and Bruce Hubbard in a new recording.

Try not to miss the simulcast of the U.S.S.R. Symphony Orchestra in the second Tchaikovsky concert recorded in Wellington, Concert Programe FM and Television Network 2 Sunday at noon. Yevgeny Svetlanov conducts the Fifth Symphony.