Radiodiary

Press, 28 December 1989, Page 15

Radiodiary

By JAMES HOMES British composer, arranger and pianist Stan Tracey with his Big Band plays A Tribute to Duke Ellington, national Radio 3 this afternoon. Ellington, possibly the most important figure in jazz history, has influenced many musicians. Tracey assembled 15 top musicians, among them Peter King, Art Theman and Tony Coe, for this tribute,

recorded at the 37th Bath Festival. Richard Burton, Concert Programme 9.10 this evening, a BBC retrospective, has Paul Vaughan looking at the life and work of “a great actor gone to seed.” F;l--low actors, directors and critics reminisce about Burton, who died five years ago aged 59, and there are excerpts from Burtons’s Dylan Thomas

readings. Try not to miss. Records banned from air play to avoid offending some listeners or because of protest from pressure groups are heard in Banned, Plains FM 6.50 tomorrow evenings. Presenter Paul Featherstone plays records he . has collected over the last 10-15 years. Into the New Year — A

Salute to 1990, Concert Programme 8 Sunday evening, is a three-hour celebration with New Zealand singers and music makers, among them soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, bass-baritone Donald Mclntyre and organist Gillian Weir. William Southgate conducts the NZSO in his Bach revisitation, Brandenburg Concerto No. 7, and the N.Z. String Quar-

tet plays David Farquhar’s String Quartet. Good listening to end the year. Saying Goodbye to the 80s, National Radio 9 Sunday evening, is an ecumenical church service from the First Church in Invercargill. The Reverend David Winfield presents this service of celebration and thankgiving. Good listening in 1990.