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PRAIRIE REGI SCHEDULE January 3 . 9, B Issued Each Week by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation VOLUME VII-No. 1 ISSUED AT WINNIPEG, DECEMBER 24, 1953 S1.OO PER This Week: f:',urnber .ltltsie- Quartet of Recorders (Page 2) •• Musical Personalities (Page 3) • J/fltH:OltVer Theatre-- The Beggar of Dr (PaKe 4) • The Beggar's Opera (Page 5) * EVERAL timt.'S a year members of the Citizem' SForum National Advisory Board meet to discuss and review plans for [uniTe discussion broadcasts on the cae Trans-Canada network. Our cover photo was taken at a recent Board meeting in the Toronto offices of the Canadian Association for Adult Education, joint planners of the Forum project with the cac. It shows (seated, left to right) J. ALEX EUMISON of Queen's University, MRS. R. }. MARSHALL of the National Council of Women; CARl. RI::INKE of the Canadian Chamber Topicality Counts tvith Cilizerls' Forum. Planners of Commerce, the REVEI\END KENNETH \VILLS of the Canadian.Conncil of Churches, MRS. ISABEL Nations Association, the Canadian Manufacturers' bers in the Vancnllvcr area. The panel will include \VILSON, Forum's national secretary, and MISS Association, the Canadian A.<;sociation of Consumers journalist and critic Clyde Gilmour, Dr. N. A. M. MARGOT THOMPSON of the Canadian Congress of and the National Federation of Home and School. MacKenzie, president of the University of British Labour; and (standing, left to right) Dn. E. A. At the meeting pictured, particular interest was Columbia who served on the Massey Commission, CoRBETT of the C.A.A.E., BEIL"I'ARD TROTTER of taken in tile Citizen's Forum topic scheduled for and Alex Mitchell, a business executive. Many Van the CEC and S. MATIllEWS of the Canadian Cham January 7: \Vl1at Do \Ve Expect from Canadian L'Ouver citizens have been watching American TV ber of Commerce. The Board also provides for TV? To be chaired by Bernard Trotter. this broad· programs and their own CBC-TV station will have spokesmen from the Trades and Labour Congress, cast will be pre-recorded at a public meeting in been on the air just three weeks by the day of the the Canadian Citizenship Council, the United Vancouver attended by many listening-group mem- hroadcast. Page Two CBC TIMES « « NOTES » » SUNDAY CHORALE. Choir con OUR SPECIAL SPEAKER. Irwin ducted by W. II. Anderson; Filiner Edman, lecturer and writer, will dis TV Network RECITAL. William Stevens. pianist. Hubble, organist. Tom Taylor, pro cuss the question: Can Reasonableness CBC Accept& Joint C.N.·C.P. Tender From Montreal. ducer. From Winnipeg. Be Revised? He believes that for all Anc1antino and Allegro (Padre Rossi) ; Introit (A.lldcrson); Guide Me 0 the noise and fury in North America, Ottawa-CBC general manager, J. A. Glgue (Karl Heim'ich Grann); Son Thou Gl'eat IelJov<lh (Hughes); Th'e there is a strain of common sense and ata In E Flat (Haytln); Prelude tn B World's Desire (Anderson): Teach Ouimet, has announced that the flat, Opus 2:1, NO.2 (Racbmaninoff). Me 0 Lord (Attwood); I'll Praise My humour evident in all circles, and in Corporation has accepted the joint W-I0:30 a.m. K-9:30 a.m. X-9:30 a.m. Maker (traditional); The Old Year time the outside world may have its tender of the Canadian National and Now Away Is Fled (traditional); All faith restored, too. New Yorker maga Beautiful tllc MarcIl Of Days (tradl Canadian Paci6c Railways to provide zine has published some of his light CAPITAL REPORT. Arthur Blakely tlonal) : RI n g Out Wild Bells television network service from To (Fletcher); The LOI'd's Praycr verse, and he has written a novel and from Ottawa, Alexander Uhl from ronto to Windsor and from Montreal (Langdon). several philosophical books. Washington, and an overseas speaker. W-6:00 p.m. K-6:00 p.m. X-6:00 p.m. to Quebec City. Financial details were W-9:20 p.m. K-8:20 p.m. X·8:20 p.m. W.l:03 p.m. K·12:03 p.m. X·12:03 p.m. not announced. CHAMBER MUSIC. The Duschenes The Toronto-Windsor link will pass RELIGIOUS PERIOD. Brigadier R. Recorder Quartet, directed by Mario LITTLE SYMPHONIES. Orchestra through Kitchener, Hamilton and Lon Gage, Salvation Army, Vancouver. Duschenes, with Dvora Goldberg, conducted by Roland Leduc. From don, thus making direct network serv· W.I:30 p.m. K-12:30 p.m. X-12:30 p.m. David Hubel and Ellyn Dusehenes; Montreal. ice available to television stations in John Newmark, pianist. From Mont Symphony No. 39 in E Flat (Mozart). those centres. CP and CN expect to N.Y. PHILHARMONIC. New York real. W-9:30 p.m. K-8:30 p.m. X-8:30 p.m. have a temporary link operating be Philhannonic - Symphony Orchestra Suite (from Muslque de Iole, for re tween Toronto and London before corder Quartet) by an anonymous Christmas. The CBC is now providing conducted by Bruno Walter. 16th century French composcr; Eng WINNIPEG CONCERT. CBC Win CFPL-TV London, with network pro W-2:00 p.m. K-l:00 p.m. X-l:OO p.m. lish Dance (recorc1er solo) by an nipeg Concert Orchestra conducted by anonymous 13th century composer; gram service by means of kinescope, Stantlpes (Dance for two recorders) Eric '¥i1d; the Ukrainian National or film recording. Permanent facilities CHURCH OF THE AIR. Rev. Gordon by an anonymous 13th century Eng lIome Chorus conducted by Walter I1S11 composer; Sonata in G Minor, for will probably be completed by the Brown, Runnymede United Church, rccorder and plano (G. F. ILandel); Bohonos. Norman Lucas, producer. time stations in Hamilton and Kitch Toronto. Ricercar, fOI' recordcl' quartet (0. From Winnipeg. ener are ready to go on the air, and Dom. 2: 30 p.m. MST P. Palcstl'ina); Suite for three rc Orchestra: Overture Miniature rrom corders (Johann ChrislOph Faber Nutcracker Snlte (TchaikOYSky); then extended to Windsor as rapidly 1730); and Sonata In F Major, for lIung-arian Peasant Songs (Bela as construction conditions permit. The recorder, Uute and piano (J. B. Bartok): Polovetzlan Dances (Boro CRITICALLY SPEAKING. C I y d e Locillct). Quebec City link with Montreal is Gi Imour on movies, Gordon Sinclair on lJin); Fantasy on a Cossack: Dance After 1700 the recorder was replaced (DarKomiySky). ChOrus: God Eter also expected to be completed in 1954, radio programs and Blair Fraser on nal; The Lonl Is Bortl Today; Song by the side-blown flute but in recent probably in time to coincide with the books. of the Moon; Rejoice 0 Mankind; years it has been enjoying a new popu Carol of Gooet \Vlshes; By the RIver opening of a television station in Que W-3:30 p.m. K-2:30 p.m. X-2:30 p.m. larity, the serious musician realizing Jordan; Gort th'e Omnipotent. W-I0:00 p.m. K-4:30 p.m. X-4:30 p.m. bec. that it is in true character with 17th ASK THE WEATHERMAN. At the and 18th century music. Tonight the The contract between CBC, Cana close of each old year it has been Dnschencs Quartet will show the vari SERENADE. A new half-hour show dian National and Canadian Pacific customary for reporters on world om; uses of the recorder. It will of relaxed and intimate listening be calls for network facilities to be avail events to cast a contemplative eye present it as a solo instrument, in trio gins tonight. Orchestra conducted by ahle eight hours daily and for such back over the happenings of the pre and quartet combinations and with John Avison with soprano Nora Gren additional services as the Corporation vious 12 months. Now the weather piano. The program will range from nan and baritone Ilarry Moss6eld. may require. man. R. A. Hornstein, has decided to the music of the 13th to the 18th cen George Robertson, producer. The get into the act and review the tury. The Duschenes Quartet, founded songs will be for the most part weli weather of the year, starting with to three years ago, is made up of soprano, known and well-loved old ballads like day's broadcast and continuing for tenor, alto and bass recorders. Beautiful Dreamer, Ah Sweet Mystery The Prairie Gardener four weeks. Certainly, the spectacular W·6:30 p.m. K-6:30 p.m. X-6:30 p.m. of Life, and the like. The emphasis I I weather events of 1953 aroused great ,...·ill be on tile simple approach with public interest. Abnormal incidents of Summary of Broadcast of December NBC SYMPHONY. NBC Symphony a view Lo light entertainment. ,almost everv kind resulted in incon 27, 1953. venience, hardship and devastation. Orchestra conducted by Cuido Can W-lI:00 p.m. K·IO:OO p.m. X-I0:00 p.m. From Halifax. telli. Plarming for 1954 W 5:05 p.m. K-4:05 p.m. X-4:0S p.m. W-7:00 p.m. K·9:00 p.m. X-9:00 p.m. eBC Networks. - On March 31, This talk was an introduction to a 1953, there were 43 stations con series of garden planning talks and 'WEEKEND REVIEW. An analysis of DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS. Pameia nected to the CBC Trans-Canada net dealt with Tree Planting. Grant Lewis, pianist. the week's news by Andre Laurcndeall work; 48 to the CBC Dominion net J~tlJdes SYlllphoniques (Schumann). of Le Devoir, Montreal. work; and 20 to the CBe French net Next Sunday's talk will be about W-5:30 p.m.