The Washington times., 1927-08-24
Feminine TENOR.
MAKES DEBUT .

Freak conditions prevailed on
the air ways last evening with
little or nothing coming to re-
celvers save programs here and
tIIere-and Shreveport, La. What
programs could Be tuned, outside
Of very nearby stations, seemed
70 suffer from asthma-except
Shreveport. ~. There was fad
ing and Interference and now and
then q heavy crash Of static
save, Of course from Shreveport,
y. Altogether q poor night for
chasing distance sunless one
tuned Shreveport!
Usual things happened into loud
speakers last night--usual programs
lin most unusual ways and with
most unusual results. Ruby Helder.
the British woman tenor furnished
the greatest novelty and an epoch
making contest with a skillful pianist
who was perhaps the worlds worst
accompanist, during the Radio Caval.
cade. Incidently the Cayalcale pro
Yided listeners with one OF the best
all around entertaining programs
We've heard. But then, the Cayal.
cade does that each Tuesday eve
ning--the difference between Tues
days being that each week the pro.
gram seems to be better.
Those listeners who didn't believe
there was such a thing as a woman
tenor had the fact definitely proven
When the star of the British Broad
casting Corporation made her Amer.
lcan debut. Her voice is of true
tenor quality and excellent range.
She sang with both skill and inteili.
gence two very we'll known tenor
arlas and sang them we'll despite the
determined efforts of the person &C.
companying her to kill all vocal
effects and ruin cliImaxes whenever
possible.
To register q hit under such a
handicap was a real triumph-and
Miss Helder did just that. Incl.
IDENTIFY | think most radiotics will
agree they would rather hear her
sing over the radio than see her
IN concert-as a charming woman
with a voice like hers would be
such a contradiction of everything
we've been used to thinking and
feeling about femininity that the ef-
feet wouldn't permit us to appre.
ciate the music.
ORCHESTRA AND
ORGAN CONTINUED
In the Eveready program the I'M
usually intelligent use of the organ
with the orchestra was the out.
standing feature. Nat Schildkret's
musicians played a vacation pro.
gram, and did most of it exception.
ally well. The playing of Schu.
MAINS lovely "Traumerie" was as
fine bit of orchestral accom-.
plishment as we've heard.
Incidently may we pass a few
bouquets to Hugo Mariani OF WIZ
Tor the unusual way in which he
directed his orchestra in the Con.
unentals" program, particularly in
the section of Ippolitow-Ivanoff's
caucasian Sketches that was
played?
We've never heard quite the
same Instrumentation used in this
bit OF Oriental atmospheric music
the use of the clarinet in place OF
the oboe being particular effective
even though We believe we like the
oboe best in the part. Mariani
was q bit ambitious in trying to re.
produce the grand chorus, 'The
Heayans Are Telling with the
limited number of singers at his
command, but he did fairly well
at that, -,
Phil spitalny came back in the
Mole Club from WMAL to give the
customers second helping Of his
very clever transposition of SYM
phonic music to the jazz .iIliom. Az
was the case last week, most of the
selections were fragnentary and
jumped abruptly from theme : tC
theme, but they served the PURPOSE
Tor which they were intended, which
was to entertain. -