The Washington times., 1927-11-04
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RADIO PRAISE

The radio receiving Jury Of last
night can assure the court of
public interest that static espiOn.
age on the programs Of broad
casting stations did not prevent
good reception from most sections
although the forces that would
block the justice in the distribu.
tiOn Of brOadcaSts were busy,
Their crashes and hOWis could be
heard here and there with cOnsid.
cradle force. There was some in.
reference between stations on
conflicting wave lengths and fad.
ing was pronounced.
BaritOnes ruled the wave lengths
last evening-and IL MIR. Atwater
Kent. Of Philadelphia. isn't required
to deliver a prize to a certain Mary.
land youngster with an especialiv
rich. true voice who sang as M. I
In the contest addition from WRC
last evening. it will be because there
IL an unusually fine lot of baritones
developed by the contests in other
parts of the continent.
Whoever No. ] happens to he or
where he comes from, we haven't the
slightest idea, but We do know he is
equipped not only with voice of
surprising quality but an intelli.
gence to use everything there is in
such voice. far beyond that usually
developed by youths of an age to par.
ticipate in the singing competition
heard last evening. He elected ia
81 n Of he .AKPfio,,It
tone arias-difficult because If re
quires as much of emotional under
standing as of vocal skill--the ERR
tn" from The Masked Ball" OF
Verdi. When we tuned the contest
as he was in the middle of the aria
we thought wee made a mistake and
were hearing grand opera perform
ance. Whether this youngster wins
prize or not from Atwater Kent. he
has magnificent voice and manner
of singing, and we hope he continues
to use il for the Qualification oi
music and his own happiness and
profit.
BONELLI SCORES
IN OPERA BROADCAST
That we were more or less in a
mood to be rather highly critical
regarding baritOning when we tuned
the addition Is evidenced by the
fact that we'd been listening to the
triumph OF Richard boaelIi, the
baritone of the Chicago Civic Opera
Company, who seemed IL have
things all his own way in the
broadcast of the second act oil
"Traviata, as the new Balkite con
tribution to radio entert linment. As
we received the broadcast from
Baltimore, Pittsburgh. Boston. and
finally from Chicago. We gathered
that Bonelli was stealing the show
from Claudia Muzio. the SoCra no
prima donna and Tito Schipa, the
tenor
The second act il the baritone s
big opportunity in the Verdi adapta
ton of Dumas Camille. but
we've seldom heard 1t sung as
Ronelli did last night. Il is true,
also, that for some reason the bari.
tone registered in the micrOphones
in a much better way than the
soprano and tenor, whose voices
We're sometimes but vaguely defined
and again threatening 10 blast. In
the second scene the soprano came
through at times with clear defini
ton. but the tenor suffered from
the limitations of broadcast equip
ment throughout the perfo! nance.
With a very deep sense Of APP
probation for the effort. wa are OF
the opinion that broadcas;iag from
the stage OF any theater. ana espe.
cially stage of such proportions as
the Auditorium in Chicago, will al
ways he unsatisfactory. 1t is hardly
fair 10 the singers or the great
music they sing to subject them In
such handicaps, That Bonelli was
SO much better heard than his fel.
low artists is. We believe, largely a
happy accident of hroadca sting