The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-02

Recitals OF piano and other music,
jazz concerts and speeches by min
isterB and iaymon. broadCastcd by
radio, are becoming vieuX jou, But
tho singing OF an entire opera into
tho wireless telephone In something
new under tho sun. Tho phonum-
suon first took place ON March 15.
when from 1880 to . o'clock IN the
evening Mozart'a "Improsario" was
sent out from tho Westinghouse sta
tion. WIZ, in Newark. N. j.
Five days earlier. ON March 10,
William Wado Hinshaw had ad-
dressed a presumptivo audience OF
10000 from this station. An inn
presarlo in tho flesh, Mr.. Ilinshaw'S
criticism Of modern music, pnrtic-
ularly Its stepohild, jazz; his pungent
comment on the commercial opera
houses OF tho day and their Cinder-
ella enterprise OF opera In English
his Discriminate praise OF tho Mozar-
team opera Comlquc and It's true heir,
tho Gilbert Sullivan repcrtolrc--all
this proved him an idcalist as well
as Snowman.
Now suppose yourself one OF the
100000 OF March 10. YOU have
heard Mr.. llinghuw's speech, and it
has carried conviction, lut though
you may live In or near New York,
the chances are that YOU belong 10
the proportion OF the coo, 900 which,
dwelling outside tho metropolitan
circle, regards opera AZ caviar This
once. al least when YOU can hear
St free, YOU will hear Il; but you do
not expect too much Of IT, not
amusement or genial pleasure; ocr-
talnly not the narrative Interest OF
a play acted out yIsibly
At the appointed hour Mr., Him
shaw approaches a mouthpiCco in
the Newark radlu station, ANA hay-
ing adjusted II To his considerably
moro than average hDight. explains
hat THE lmprcgnriu' viii be sung
for you exactly as n IL sung ON the
stage, except whore your cyelcss-
ness makes necessary an extra line
or two to explain the action, tie
tells you--what many music lovers
already know--that tho society OF
American singers owed It's Otguni4u
tlOn TO the unexpected success OF
this little Mozart work, on itE pro-
duction in New York In 1915 In
translation by II. L. krehbiol, with
the addition OF ari0s such aA that
OF the queen OF the Night" from
die Iaubcrflotc." Then he intro
duccs TO you Percy IIemus, successor
TO David Bispham In tho title role.
that OF "Schikaneder," librettist OF
"zauberfloto" and general manager
OF the Vienna opera in 1856. lIcmus
takes Mr.. lllnshAw's place at tho
transmittcr for "a moment, speak
ing 80 that you may catch the quail
ny OF his voice, In tho same way
Regina Nicarino (Mmo, HoteD,
Hazel Huntington CMme, Dorothc0
IhlChD, Thomas Mclranahan (MO-
saril and Francis Tyler (phllip, the
nephew OF schlkanedcr) are intro
duccd
What follows Is a smooth per-
formauCo easily understandable, ac-
Cordmg 20 letters which have come
in from distant cities, In all except
perhaps, some OF the ensembles,
Considerable rehoarsiug was neccs-
sary to make this possible, for each
singer had TO be ready to take his
place instantly at tho trausmittor.
The mouthpiece ~ so small that for
the duets, trios and 80 on, heads
had 90 be crowded together.
BY way OF peroration, MIR. Him
shaw stated that he hoped TO have a
theAtcr In New York, for the pro-
ductiun OF opera COmiQue, from
which performances might be broad
,nsted The wireless telephone, in
his belief Is the moments version
uf the phunosraph which, in It's
sarly days, was regarded by musi-
clans with the dread which hand
,yeaVers used TO feel toward machine
iooms. II opera can be heard foy
notpinR by anyone having access tC
a vvireless telephone, who will sup
MORT the stage performances
pnhitc Mr.. Ilinshaw answers, re
cr,sitsd from these listeners-in.
To signalize the occasion, mem
bers OF the Westinghouse starr gu