Radio diary

Press, 2 November 1989, Page 13

Radio diary

By

JAMES HOMES

First recording of music by Dougias Lilburn for an Auckland University poetry reading in 1952 is heard, on the Concert Programme at 7 this evening. “Salutes to Seven Poets,” a suite of incidental music for violin and piano, lay in a drawer for 36 years before being found and recorded recently by violinist Dean Major and pianist Rae de Lisle.

Beethoven’s First and Ninth (Choral) Symphonies make up the entire concert by the Auckland Philharmonia from

the Auckland Town Hall tomorrow evening, Concert Programme at 8. Visiting German conductor Erich Bergel conducts the orchestra and the Auckland Choral Society, with soprano Wendy Dixon, contralto Lauris Elms, tenor Christopher Doig and bass Grant Dickson.

National Radio has older listeners in mind with Take Five, tomorrow evening at 8.05, a programme of mellow music, interviews and readings. Haydn Sherley is the host.

Have you caught The Beeb’s Lost Beatle Tapes,

National Radio at 3 on Saturday afternoons, yet? If you haven’t, you don’t know what you are missing. . Very early Beatles singing at special 8.8. C. sessions, and among the songs some never released on record.

Open concert of the visiting Villiers Piano Quartet comes from the James Hay Theatre in Christchurch on Saturday evening, Concert Programme at 8. Two works will be broadcast: Mozart’s G minor piano quartet, and the romantic one-movement piano quartet by Sir Arnold Bax.