The Washington times., 1927-08-22
FAIRF QUEEN OF
The BOW

Freakish In the extreme was
reception over the weekend for
loud speaker addicts. Southern
stations being prominent In 3
silence that was almost i'm.
penetrabIe. There wasn't such q
lot Of static noise, less than usual
for this time Of the year. But a
kind OF fog seemed to enveiOp
stations completely Saturday night
and almost as completely Sunday
night. Texas, Louisiana, Florida,
Tennessee and Alabama were the
only sections reporting Saturday,
and Cuba and a few Midwest
broadcasters last night.
One realizes how poor and cheap
and commonplace words are when
one hears such violin playing as
Sylvia Lent provided for radio
listeners throughout the continent
last evening during the Atwater
Kent concert. The feeling of having
been in the presence of a divine
thing one has in watching gor-
geous sunset, or the lights and
shadows of such natural poem as
Lake Louise, or the grandeur and
sense of everlasting power one finds
in Niagara, makes comment or de-
scription almost an impertinence.
Sylvia Lent played the violin as
only poetic mind can order its
playing, to bring all the music the
composers she interpreted intended
should be- brought from the strings
in a way that was distinctly her
own. 1t was a way that placed all
her listeners in perfect communion
with the great spirit of music, Civ
ing to them all the wonder and feel
ing of wellbeing only real music
played by an artist can give. She
proved herself, as Leopold Auer &C.
claimed her. the fairy queen Of the
bow.
HOW THURSDAY RAIN
MARS SATURDAY MUSIC
That a heavy rainstorm in New
York of Thursday should have a
profound effect on a concert pro-
gram played for Washington listen
ers Saturday seems a bit of
sketchy imagining-and yet that is
exactly what happened to the pro.
gram the Lewisohn Stadium Or
chestra provided through WRC for
washington radio addicts Saturday
evening. A rainstorm in New York
Thursday night made impossible the
first of two exhibitions by the
Fokine Russian dancers at the
Stadium with the orchestra playing
the music for the dance.
The result was that the Thursday
and Friday programs were given
Friday and Saturday and Washing
toms private radio concert was the
music of the last of the dancing
exhibitions. Washington gained
something in that part of the music
was the second, first and third
movements, in that order, oil
Tschaikowsky's sixth symphony
the "Pathetique"-which otherwise
we would not have heard-and which
few of us have ever heard played
so well.
In the Sunday evening program
the organ recital of Henry Siebert
was far and away one of the
finest that has been given in the
closing Sabbath hours. The first
number played was a bit too long
for regular radiotics who would
rather have their music in shorter
portions-especially medival music
such as this particular composition.
The remainder of the program, m
strumentally and voeally, and the
announcements of it, were all that
could be asked, however. The reg
ular Saturday and Sunday features
including such extras as the
Silver Spring festivities and the
Chrysler Orchestra concert from
WRC-were quite UP to the usual
mark.
In the other wave lengths,
WBAP, Fort Worth; WSMB, New
Orleans; kWKH, Shreveport;
WAX, Jacksonville, and PWX,
Havana, provided most OF the pro
grams-the South and Southwest
seeming to have the right of way
to the exclusion OF all other broad.
casters Saturday and Sunday, shar.
ing the Sunday time, however, with
one or two of the more Dowerful
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