Radio diary

Press, 26 June 1989, Page 19

Radio diary

By J

JAMES HOMES

Misogynistic Swedish writer August Strindberg's “The Virgin Bride” is The Monday Play, Concert Programme at 9 this evening. A wedding could end feuding between two families in a remote Swedish village if the bride can wear the virgin’s crown. This 1970 s 8.8. C. recording was the first English-language version of the play. Incidental music, some by Strindberg himself, is based on Swedish folk tunes. Robert Parker’s The A to Z of Jazz, Concert Programme 8.30 this evening, working steadily through the alphabet, has reached the Dorsey brothers, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald. Borodin’s Quartet No. 1 in A is heard in Shostakovich Quartet, Concert Programme 8 tomorrow evening, a live concert from the James Hay Theatre in Christchurch.

The Quartet also plays the Shostakovich Quartet No. 4 in D. Borodin’s second quartet is never out of the repertory, but his First Quartet is rarely heard. Palau, a tropical paradise in the Western Pacific, in 1979 was the first country to draft a nuclear-free constitution. The United States Administration has tried unsuccessfully to have the constitution overturned, and the 14,000 population is bitterly divided over Palau’s relationship with America. Palau — A Trust Betrayed, National Radio 8.05 Wednesday evening, is the first of two A.B.C. documentaries on events since 1979. Five minutes of vital listening in Technical Report, at 7 on Wednesday evening. This is the first of six guides to stereo-FM broadcasting in the run-up to YC network changes. You could start worrying if your radio has no FM band.