Evening star., 1927-04-18
RADIO IS ACCORDED
MUSIC WEEK PLACE
AtWater Kent Hour Selected
to Open Program Week
of May l.,

Radio is given official recognition
in the world Of music with an an
nouncement today by the national
music committee that the nation
wide celebration of music week be-
ginning May ], will be inaugurated
with a radio program.
The Atwater Kent Hour regularly
broadcast from WRC and IS other
stations, has been officially selected
to open the weeks program. A gala
concert has been planned, in which
number of famous artists of the
opera, and concert stage will partici-
pate. Among them will be Frances
Aida. Reinald Werrenrath, Mary
Lewis, Charles Hackett, Jeanne Cor
don and Paul Kochanski.
The growing importance of radio in
musical circles is further evidenced
in a census Just completed by a. At
water Kent. Answers to a series of
ouestions addressed TO thousands OF
radio listeners showed the chief re-
guirement of radio in the home to be
the furnishing of music. While the
maiority of radio owners replying
said they had purchased radio sets
for amusement. one owner III five
specified the reason as desire 10
hear fine music. AS to the kind of
program liked best, nine out of every
len expressed a preference for music
1t is estimated that the special radio
program which will signal the opening
Of National Music week can be re-
cefyed by more than so per cent of the
receiving sets in the United States.
The number reached by the WEAF
''red network" with which WRC is
affiliated. approximates 1887 900 in an
area of 525900 square miles contain
ing a population of 6S,052,00O.
Frank Moulan, comedian and out
standing interpreter of Gilbert Il Sulll'
van light opera, whose career began
as a choir boy, will be the featured
soloist tonight during the regular
weekly broadcast by Roxy" and his
gang" which will come to the WRC
audience between 1880 and $50 o'clock.
Many other outstanding attractions
make up WRC's program tonight,
chief among them, a tabloid version
of Offenbach's fanciful opera THE
F'aIes of Hoffman" to be sung by the
National Grand Opera Co.; a concert
by the A & p. Gypsies, and another
musical tour by Hires HarveGters,
who will Journey tonight to Germany,
a country rich in folk songs.
Selections from the Desert Song
and "The Lady in Ermine, well
known Broadway successes, will be
incIuded in the program of the Gyp-
sizes. John Barnes Wells tenor will
10 the soloist. The entertainment
promises to be of a more popular ma
ture than the usual type of program
presented by these nomads of the
wave lengths.
WRC inaugurated this afternoon a
Geries of operalogues based on three
of the four operas to be sung in
Washington by the Metropolitan
Grand Opera Co. Miss Julia Schilling
aresanted the initial operalogue, which
consisted of dramatic description of
the operas ia Traviata," "Cavalleria
Rusticana" and III Trovatore." Sub
seouent broadcastS will be made
Thursday and Saturday.
Dialing for distant stations last
night was not productive of satisfac-
find, and when finally Located finesse
Of dial adjustments was required TO
bring them in with clarAy.
Static also rumbled continuously
over all of the wave lengths, and,
while somewhat annoying it did not
have serious effect on reception.
Signals seemed to be weak, and what
ever the cause, it affected alike sta
tons in the super-power and less pow
erful groups.