White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-11-05
SYMPHONY CONCERTS
TO Be HEARD OVER RADIO

Announcement has been made in
San Francisco that with the assistance
of the Standard Oil Company of Cali
fornia twenty-five symphony concerts
will he broadcast simultaneously, be-
ginning Sunday afternoon, October
24th, by Stations KGO, Oakland;
KPO, San Francisco, and XII, Los
Angeles, constituting one of the great
est link ups of radio stations ever I'M
.dertaken on the Pacific Coast.
Slime weeks ago public sub
scription was started in San Francisco
for $25,o00. Listeners of the Pacific
Coast were asked to send in con-
tribution 10 this fund, which was to
be devoted to protect the San Fran
cisco Symphony Orchestra against
loss in box csfce receipts because of
the fact that concerts would be broad
casted. Approximately SIS GOO was
raised and the Standard Oil Company
Of California agreed to subscribe the
sum necessary to make the undertak-
ing a. reality. In addition, the STAN
dard Oil Company has undertaken the
expense Of transmitting all of these
concerts ever telephone wires to XII,
Los Angeles, in order that the people
of Southern California may alao
have the benefit Of these concerts.
In order that radio listeners may
derive the fullest value and enjoyment
from the concerts, the Standard Oil
Company will make available each
week ct its Service Stations programs
for the concert of the following Sun
day.. This program will not only list
the compositions to be played but will
a'so contain a description of each
composition, which will enable listen
ers to follow the music and better un-
iderstand the story the composer
wishes to tell. The program will also
corfain "a story, continued In brief
sections fIom week TO week, of the
history of symphony music, which
will be of high educational value. If
the programs are preserved the listen
ers Of TIE Pacific Coast will at the end
of the series have splendid collection
Of musical rates. The first program
will be available October 18th.
The San Francisco Symphony
Orchestra, consisting of ninety artists,
is enc Of the leading organizations Of
its kind in the United States. Its
leader is Alfred Hortz, who. for th;r-
teen years was Wagnerian conductor
at, TIE Metropolitan Opera House in
New York. Mr.. Hortz is now enter
ing ul:on his twelfth consecutive sea-
son as conductor of the San Francisco
Symphony.
The concerts are scheduled to be-
begin at 2:45 p. m, Sunday afternoon.
James Kenneth Allen, sen of Mr..
ard Mrs. O.. F. Allen, has been named
on the Y. M. C. A.Ymembership drive
committee at the University of Idaho.
Mr.. Allen, WHO is member of Beta
Theta Pi fraternity, has been assigned
that house to canvass for members.
Mr.. Allen, junior in school, is
working for bachelor Of science de-
gree in education from the college of
letters and science.
j. E. Leander drove down from
Wenatchee Thursday to look after
some business matters here. He
said that he. and Mrs. Leander ex-
pect to move back to White Bluffs
about the first Of the year.
Miss Ellen Anderson left this,
Friday, morning for Portland. Or
egon. where she will enter the
Behnke- Walker Business college as
a student. She was accompanied
as far as Kennewick by her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund An
derson, and Mrs. 4. A. English.