The Washington times., 1926-03-11
|'Romping Around.
the
Radio Dial :
-By Gardner Mack

The divergent ways of the ftinda
mentalists and the modernistI
among orchestral conductors wal
accidently given last evening By
radio for the benefit OF those fol
whom such things have concern
and who troubled themselves t.
compare the methods of Cesart
B Sodero and Lieut.. Charles Benter
u. IS. N. Sodero's orchestra, from
WEAF, presented a concert OF ex
ceIlent modern music in y mos
orthodox manner. Both the Navy
Band Orchestra and the Sodert
organization opened their pr0grami
with Cigars ''Pomp and Circum
Il stance march, the most distinctive
feature of the two performances
being the circumstance. that neither
had an orchestra Big enough tc
accomplish the English spectacle
81 piece.
Il From the opening number on
the fundamentalism OF Sodero lost
i IN comparison with the modern
i initiative OF the wielderx OF the
Il navy baton. Lieutenant Benter's
i Rimsky-Karsakow number Scher-
j ezade" showed his resourcef ulnessl
j initiative and courage. And ia
Saint-Saens spinning Wheel" the
i New York orchestra was very
i orthodox 80 much so that It failed
10 get all out OF the piece there
| Is in It. In the Dance OF the
/ Hours number the Soder0 or
Hganization forgot, as many orches.
tras do, that this il q great mum.
Der FOR the instruments primarily
because 1t is q great ballet and
it should be played with an idea
OF the rhythm OF the dance rather
than as an exhibition Of tone
/ building and orchestration.
Hans Barth, pianist, and Ninc
Ruisi, baritone, gave an excellent
account Of themselves as the solo
lists with the Sodero performance.
Mr.. Bartt's playing OF the Nc
Dowell concerto FOR piano and or;
chestra. showed the orchestra in Its
4 biggest and most satisfactory per-
Torrance asaweH as Exhibiting some
livery fine piano playing BY the
soIoist.
The sIky-bIue geOrgette mani
cure scissors should be awarded
WRVA, Of Richmond, Va, for
making more revolutions per min
ute In last nights fading com
petition than any other station.
True.-WJZ faded more completely
and with excellent control but Il
didn't have the speed 81 its Vlr-
ginia cOmpetitOrl WMBF At
/ Miami made 3 fainf-Ilearted try
i for the hOIaOrs but gave it up
when WIZ started exhibiting
itself.
Aside from that, last night was
4 not bad. There WAS noise, Of
course, and unnecessary inter
ference from code all over the
dials, but the South and West
were both strong and the latter
most easy to tune late IN the
evening.
/ Announcer Philips Carlin's comedy
Irelief to the ftoothpaste syncopatOrs
wasn't really needed because the
lIpanas were iii good form when
IWEAF started them going-but It
twas really good for the first fifteen
or twenty minutes. Incidentally
IWEAF ought to thank the air gods
for having In its studio forces such
satisfactory fillers-in as Kathleen
EStewart and WinIfred Bartlett.
Their piano wisdom and skill came
in handily last evening. The night
was very complete WEAF per-
Torrance, the in-and -outness Of most
other stations making them 1nsatis-
factory most OF the time.
There are three very definite rea-
sons why dial twisters in search of
musical thrills should tune In on
WGY, Schenectady, at $40 this
evening. First, because the Roch-
ester Philharmonic Orchestra viii
play a concert at that hour--ahd
Everybody who owns q camera or
buys plates or film or sensitized
paper has contributed to the fund
that organized and supports that
i orchestra. Second, because Eugene
i Goossens, the most famous English
composer of modern music, is the
conductor OF the orchestra. Third,
j because the chief feature OF the
| program TO be. broadcast will be
lTschaikowslxy's Fifth Symphony
The Rochester Orchestra Is the
one tangible thing that has come
i from the. effort to establish an
| American academy of fine arts with
| the Eastman photograph millions OF
l profits This doesn't mean that the
1 foundation isn't doing great work.
/ It is. 1t simply means that most
of 1t does. not. reach the public di.
/ rectly as does the music of the
orchestra. Engene Goossens, who
/ heads the music. department of the
/ foundation, is recognized today, as
one of. the most important persons
| of the music world, whose delicate.
poetic, compositions have placed
his name among the musical immor.
| tails while he yet wears mortal
form. One Of his composition
''The Eternal Rhythm" will be
played by the orchestra tonight.
It's intense hunlanity-the ele-
mental humanity of Shakespeare
and the Hebrew prophets, OF
| Michael Angelo and Abraham Lin
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