The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-18
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| PEAK TONIGHT !

The business of providing all
sorts and conditions Of music for
the dialling fraternity appears to
reach it's peak every week on Wed
nesday-in such measure that there
is little else coming into the loud
speakers from early evening until
late at night. This evening will be
no exception to the rule-if any
thing it will emphasize it a bit
more enthusiastically than hereto
fore.
The United States Marine Band
will start the exercises, for WRC,
at o'clock with concert at the
Capitol Plaza and will present the
usual carefully planned program,
just as 1t has been doing at this
particular place for more than half
century.
The most widely circulated music
Of the evening will be the United
States Army Band concert at the
Sylvan Theater which WRC will
pass on to WEAF in New York,
and from that point eight other
broadcasting stations viii pick it
up and send it out over the middle
parts Of Canada.
ARMY BANDS
VARIED PROGRAM
The program prepared by Capt.
William Stannard for the Army
Band broadcast this evening is one
of the most varied that organiZa-
ton has attempted and ranges from
the heavy orchestral overture of
Ambrose Thomas, composed for
his opera, Raymond" to trick
music with the trombone. The
Raymond" overture is about all
that is left Of the Thomas opera,
although the opera was more or
less a success at the time 1t was
produced. It is a rather inclusive
sort Of piece-even for an over
ture which Is supposed to be In
elusive. Thomas seems to have put
most Of the brilliance and dramatic
effect of his particular style Of
music into the piece-hence it is
a favorite for orchestral and band
production and is sometimes used
for ballet.
Speaking of ballots brings us
naturally to the third number on
the bands program, which is the
ballet music from William Tell"
Here is another opera which passed
into oblivion leaving only its over
ture on orchestral and band pro-
grams as a reminder that there had
ever been such composition. Cap.
tain Stannard has dug out OF the
past the buried score of the operas
ballet, however. and will present
it this evening.
STOCK LEADS
THE PHILHARMONIC
Frederick Stock, director Of the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, will
make his appearance this evening
in New York as conductor Of the
Philharmonic Orchestra, in the pro-
gram WIZ will broadcast at 1880.
The program, by the way, Is
typical Stock production. starting
with the Goldmark overture, "In
the Spring." and including Cesar
Franck's great symphony in D
minor, the Strauss tone poem, Don
JUAN" the love scene from Act II
Of Tristan and Isolde" and Rim
sky-Karsakow's 'Capriccio Espag-
nole."
From Chicago-and Station WGN
will come another musical novelty
ILIiS SNSHli6 LUZ IIOS6 VINO can TUNE
that station, in the form of one of
Henry Selinger's Arabian Nights"
entertainment. This musical hour
is something on the order Of Louis
Katzman's program for his Anglo
Persians heard Friday evenings.
Selinger belongs to the same radi-
cal musical group as Kaufman, and
can be depended on to do everv-
thing that can be done with the
material with which he has to
work.
c. Earle Jennings, the basso who
filled in so acceptably at WRC
during one Of the periods when
WIZ transmission became all wet,
Is to have recital of his own this
evening at $50, Immediately after
the fermential saxophonists and the
tooth-cleaning troubadours have
performed their weekly stunts.
The evening will be brought to a
close with the production of OF
fenbach's THE Grand Duchess" by
the WEAF light opera contingent
under Sn1oro'C