The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-10
NEYERGOLDNAN
MINIATURE"
SYMPHONY
Retail Merchants Radio Assn.
Sponsors Tonight's WRc
Symphony Orchestra.

Have you been listening to the
Meyer N. Goldman Miniature
symphony Orchestra over WRC
Radio each Thursday evening?
They give their third concert next
Thursday evening, so ''listen-in"!
Sixteen concerts are assured by
this little symphony OF fifteen
men. The Retail Merchants Radio
Association have sponsored these
concerts. paying for the services
Of conductor and players. so it IL
their gift to all radio fans.
|, Big news has just been received
concerning Meyer Goldman.
Mr.. Fosse, manager Of the Wash
ington Auditorium. has just ap-
pointed Mr.. Goldman musical direc,
tor for the new auditorium. Sc
the Miniature Orchestra" promises
to grow into greater things.
We know Meyer N. Goldman aE
former director of the orchestra
at the Shoreham Hotel and of the
Hotel Washington. He is now
bandmaster for the National
Guards band Of fifty men. AS
musician he Is a versatile artist
for both string and brass instru
ments, though his own instrument
is the violin, playing sometimes the
cello.
Mr.. Goldman was a Peabody Con.
servatory of Music student. He
wishes to emphasize the fact that
his aim is pure symphonic music,
not jazz.
For Big Orchestra.
Out of this nucleus Of an orches.
ira, Mr.. Goldman is planning a de.
velopment that may reach our long
dreamed-of Washington Symphony
Orchestra, building the organization
to sixty players.
A campaign is under way to
make this a Peoples Orchestra. >
1t will be carried on during the
remaining fourteen weeks II the
weekly radio concerts.
Next season, in the great Wash
ington Auditorium, with its 5000
capacity, it is planned to give a
symphony concert under the
sponsorship Of the Washington peo-
pie.
Two thousand people are being
asked to. subscribe SO ten dollarsl
year each to this Goldman Sym
phony. This will entitle them to
ticket for each concert, that Is
for at least ten concerts. AMI il
the response is adequate this may
reach fifteen concerts for each sub.
scriber.
A Peoples" Project.
Music by popular subscription,
the best of music, is a thing that
has flourished in other cities, par
ticularly up"n the impetus given
each community by a huge audi
torium.
Prices for these concerts will
range from 81 to rs cents, This
means music for everybody.
The orchestra will be of inesti-
mable benefit, perhaps, to other
musical organizations. 1t could
serve for the Washington Opera
Company, under Edouard Albion,
who would bring in their own opera
conductor. 1t would serve as an
established unit for the Peoples
Opera Company, under Robin Bond.
It's worth thinking about. Par.
ticularly with the Auditorium
strongly behind it.
Already Mr.. Goldman has been
giving music lovers such music as
the Schubert's Unfinished Sym
phony," the music to "Ruy Bias, .
the lovely WaIdteufel waltzes, the
William Tell" overture.
His son, Norman Goldman, a
gifted violin student of Z. Z.
Christiani at the Washington Col.
lege OF Music, will be a solo vic.
linist with the orchestra. EIe is
still in his teens" so that shows
the opportunity" open to Wash.
ington in this dream Of Meyer N.
Goldman.