Saturday Morning for Saturday 21 January 2012
Guest details for Saturday 21 January 2012
8:12 Suzy van der Kwast
Suzy van der Kwast immigrated to New Zealand from the Netherlands in the 1960s, and opened Suzy's Coffee Lounge in Wellington in 1964. Her story is told in Suzy: a Coffee House History by Susette Goldsmith (Quill, ISBN: 978-0-473-17318-0).
Interview from the programme of 4 December 2010
9:05 John Waters
American filmmaker, actor, writer and shock auteur John Waters rose to fame in the early 1970s with a string of cult films (Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living), before achieving mainstream success. He continues to make films and write from his home city of Baltimore, and visited New Zealand in late 2011 to perform his one man show This Filthy World, which draws on material from his most recent book, Role Models (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, ISBN: 0374532869).
Interview from the programme of 10 September 2011
10:05 Playing Trombones with BonaNZa
BonaNZa is New Zealand's premier trombone quartet and has given many performances in diverse places to audiences of up to 150,000 people. The collective resumes of the players (Tim Sutton, Douglas Cross, Matthew Allison, David Bremner) include memberships of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, The New Zealand Dominion Centenary Concert Band, Stroma, New Zealand Chamber Brass, La Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, the National Youth Brass Band of NZ, and the National Brass Band of NZ, and performances and recordings with many other artists including Crowded House, Sting, Diana Krall, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Meatloaf, Ray Charles, Burt Bacharach, and Shirley Bassey.
Interview from the programme of 7 May 2011
Music played on the programme
Tim Buckley: Sweet Surrender
From the 1972 album: Greetings from L.A.
(Reprise)
Played at around 8:55
The Crests: 16 Candles
The 1958 single
(Coed Records)
Played at around 9:05
Johnny Mathis: I Want To Fall in Love
Unreleased 1981 recording from the 2011 box set: Chic Organisation Vol 1 “Savoir Faire”
(Rhino France)
Played at around 9:50
The Rolling Stones: Can You Hear Me Knocking
From the 1971 album: Sticky Fingers
(Rollings Stones)
Played at around 9:55
The Beatles: Flying
From the 1967 album: Magical Mystery Tour
(Apple)
Played at around 10:58
Playing Trombones with BonaNZa
BonaNZa: William Tell Overture
Live in the Wellington studio of Radio New Zealand
Played at around 10:05
BonaNZa: A Winters Willow
Live in the Wellington studio of Radio New Zealand
Played at around 10:20
BonaNZa: Hungarian Dance
Live in the Wellington studio of Radio New Zealand
Played at around 10:40
BonaNZa: Amazing Grace
Live in the Wellington studio of Radio New Zealand
Played at around 10:45
BonaNZa: That’s a Plenty
Live in the Wellington studio of Radio New Zealand
Played at around 10:55