PRAIRIE REGION SCHEDULE TIMES January 4-10,1953 Issued EachmWeek by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation VOLUME VI—No. 2 ISSUED AT WINNIPEG, DECEMBER 2B $l.OO PER YEAR This Week: Sask, University Talks (Page 2) The Winnipeg Drama (Pages 3 and 6) 20 Questions Returns {Page 4) Prairie Farm Forums {Page 4) PHILLIPS, cover subject this week, is BETTYthe charming vocalist heard in the Leicester Square to Broadway program from Vancouver on Tuesdays (W-9;30 p.m.; K-X-8:30 p.m.). Here she poses in a costume suggesting the Gay Nineties era from which most of the Leicester Square to Broadway music is drawn. The program is one of the oldest on CBC networks. Miss Phillips is also heard this week with a vocal and instrumental ensemble on CBC Wednesday Night. Terence Gibbs was a time when anyone who spent THEBEmost of his waking hours thinking about classical music was looked on as something of a stuffed shirt, who would cringe visibly at the men- Broadway Belle: Betty Phillips hill-billy tion of a tune or a “whodunit,” and per- series on Sunday nights. But when he isn’t buried British Army. Later he became an officer in haps the make a fetish of untidiness and long hair. deep in an operatic score or plans for a big con- Eighth-Eleventh Sikh Regiment, serving in Burma Nowadays he’s just as likely to look like Terence cert, when he’s really relaxed with his feet up, as and India until 1945. In his spare time he gave Gibbs of the CBC’s Toronto studios who, with his likely as not he is tuned in to something as un- informal lectures on music appreciation to the bow tie, short hair and boyish appearance, could classioal as Rawhide or Prairie Schooner. troops, continued his music study through books pass for a producer of jive and hep-cat revues. He has crammed a lot of musical experience into and records, and decided that music, rather than Actually, Gibbs is responsible for producing some his 31 years, beginning with piano study at school agriculture, would be the field for him after the of the CBC’s most important programs of serious in England, where he was born. Between his war. music—the CBC Symphony Orchestra and CBC graduation and the outbreak of the Second Great “My worst wartime experience,” he recalls, “had Opera Company productions, some CBC Wednes- War he spent a year at Wye Agricultural College nothing to do with battles. I became ill in Burma day Night broadcasts, and the Distinguished Artists in Kent, and then found himself a private in the and they put me in (Please turn to page 2) Page Two CBC TIMES and amusing piece about a Scrooge- from The Snow Maiden (Rlrasky- Back in England after war NOTES Korsakov). Chorus: God Eternal (tra- the he way like character who learns the hard ditional arr. A. Koshetz); The Miracle studied piano, composition and theory Recital. Pierre Brabant, pianist. From how to appreciate the good-will and of Christmas (traditional); The Lord at the Guildhall School of Music in companionship men. It Is Born Today (traditional arr. W. two years, Montreal. of his fellow Bohonos); By the River Jordan, and London for and soon after Ballade in A Flat, op. 47 (Chopin): had a network debut and the follow- Rejoice O Mankind (traditional); The was appointed assistant artist manager La cathedrale engroutle, (Debussy); ing spring won a first prize in com- New Joy (traditional arr. A. Koshetz); of the Decca Record Company there. Suite for Plano (Pierre Brabant). Glory to the Lord (traditional arr. M; petition with plays from all over the W-10:30 a.m. K-9;30 a.m. X-3:30 a.m. Lysenko). “Recording had been virtually at a continent in the annual awards at the W-10;00 p.m. K-4:30 p.m. X-4;30 p.m. standstill during the war,” he said, Institute for Education by Capital Report. Alexander Uhl from Ohio Radio. “and the Company was anxious to It was broadcast again by the CBC Washington; Charles Woodsworth String Quartet. String quartet by build up a large repertoire of classical in 1946. Then, in 1950, Peterson was led Ottawa; and an overseas speaker. Rimanoczy. From Vancouver. records, using their latest development from asked to enlarge it to a one-hour play Jean de p.m. K-12:03 X-12:03 -full-frequency recording. This is a W-l:03 p.m. p.m. for the Sunday night Stage Quartet No. 6 Op. 39 by Boccherini series. Quartet (Satz) Op. Posthumous by method which captures the harmonics Religious Period. Rev. H. W. Vaughan, Response from listeners indicated that Schubert. as well as the fundamental tones, they to hear so W-ll:00p.m. K-10:00 X-10:00 would like it again, p.m. p.m. making recording to Zion United Church, Brantford, Ont. it the much closer Andrew Allan has scheduled for the original musical performance than W-l:30 p.m. K-12:30 p.m. X-12:30 p.m. tonight. Drainie, who played the John Sask. University. The' first of four talks had previously been possible. The job lead in the other performances, will N.Y. Philharmonic. New York by members of the faculty of the Uni- took me on a period of continent- Phil- be heard as Mr. Mulrooney this time, con- versity of Saskatchewan. purpose cruising with a recording unit, seek- harmonic-Symphony Orchestra too. From Toronto. The by Bruno Walter; Irmgaard of the series is to show that a prairie ing and engaging the finest musicians ducted W-8:00 p.m. K-7;00 p.m. X-7:00 p.m. Seefried, soprano. From CBS. university has a multiple purpose; it and instrumental groups, among them Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. advances knowledge; it helps develop the Paris Conservatorie Orchestra, 385—Haffner (Mozart); Symphony Weekend Review. An analysis of the our natural resources; it trains stud- singers of the Vienna State Opera, No. 4 in G Major for Orchestra and week’s news by Burton Keirstead of ents Holland’s famous Concertgebouw, and soloist (Mahler). and stimulates professors to Montreal. the spent W-2:00 p.m. K-1:00 p.m. X-1:00 p.m. better things. Dr. J. Spinks, Dean of London Philharmonic. I W-9:10 p.m. K-8:10 p.m. X-8:10 p.m. Graduate Studies who has co-ordi- about 30 hours a week recording. Many of the Air. Rev. Gordon V. nated the series, will be the first performances were put on disc Church Speaker. Techniques for right Crowfoot, Ontario Street Baptist Our Special speaker. He will discuss the nature of on the spot, while others were reaching of the went Church, Stratford, Ontario. agreement among groups research in Canada and defines some done in London when artists people will be discussed by Stuart applied to England for concert engagements. Dom. 2:30 p.m. MST of the fundamental and back- Chase, American writer on sociological ground research work being done at One of the work I supervised was the topics who, time ago, a University opera by the Glyndebourne Critically Speaking. A review of some made the of Saskatchewan. Dr. Orfeo survey of organizations that had de- an even co- Opera Company. And one of my first network programs will be Spinks envisions closer French veloped systems for avoiding an im- specialists programs, after joining the CBC in broadcast by Gerard Pelletier, editor operation between the in passe in group arguments. He wrote a working together on 1948, was the same opera!” Le Travail, weekly paper of the science, all basic of book about his findings, called Road Agriculture, Catholic Syndicates. Clyde Gilmour scientific research in Gibbs thinks public taste is becom- to Agreement, and is also the author Chemistry, Biology will speak on movies and a book re- Medicine, and ing enormously enlightened and good of Tyranny Words an'd The Proper Physiology. David Walker, viewer will also be heard. of producer. music is no longer being regarded as Study of Mankind. K-ll:15 p.m. X-I1:15 p.m. W-3:30 p.m. K-2:30 p.m. X-2:30 p.m. entertainment for the chosen few. The p.m. Thursday, Jan. B—W-7:15 p.m. W-9:20 p.m. K-8:20 X-3:20 p.m. CBC Symphony Orchestra he says, is Chamber Music. de Rimanoczy filling a very big musical gap by pro- Jean Artists. Greta Vesper Hour. string quartet. From Vancouver. Distinguished Kraus, gramming works of the elder con- harpsichordist, and Dembeck, Theme: The Epiphany. Dalton Baker an Quartet in F Major (Ravel). John temporaries—and has had enthusi- From Toronto. directs the choir in the hymns: As response. W-5:30 p.m. K-5:30 p.m. X-5:30 p.m. violinist. With Gladness Men of Old, Brightest astic Sonata in G Minor for Violin and And Best, and Angels from the Realm Harpsichord, and Bourree Nos. 1 Symphonies. con- of Glory; and the anthems—O Wor- Little Orchestra and 2 from the English suite In A ship the Lord, and Whence Is This Too Bulky Newspapers.—The pres- Minor (J. S. Bach); Les Molsson- ducted by Roland Leduc. Goodly Fragrance, both written by ent size of the Sunday journals goes Concerto in G major for Flute and neurs (The Reapers) by Francois Mr. Baker. E. V.