The Washington times., 1927-12-22
ARTISTS
STAR IN AIR

Any kind Of q receiving set
should have been able to receive
almost any Of the programs that
broadcast stations committed to
the atmosphere last night, SO
clear was the air and in such
volume were the concerts that
came over the wave lengths.
There was little static noise, al.
though q bit Of code now and
then crept into loud speakers.
Interference was annoying, how
ever, even on the sO-caIled
cleared channels.
Washington broadcasts from
Washington's own musical resources
struck the high note of the loud
speaker program last evening and
gave all listeners not only excellent
entertainment, and much enlighten-
ment, but those who dream could
see in the demonstration great pos.
sibilities for the future If present
opportunities are an index to ulti-
mate achievement.
In no single program was this
more vividly displayed than in the
broadcast from the lounge of the
City Club by WMAL of the orches-
ira of the Technical High School
and the chorus Of the Wilson Nor
NAL School. The high school boys
and girls, who played a most am
bilious program and approximate6
at least some of its values, rep
resent, listeners were told, the
eighth step in orchestral instruction
given in the schools-steps that
lead from the lower grades pro-
gressively to the grand orchestra
of all the high schools--the ninth
and final step.
It is not so much what the boys
and girls did with their instruments
and with the colorful compositions
they played last night that holds
the interest of the listener with an
eye and ear to the future. It is
what they are doing-and what
they can be trained to do with
proper public opinion and support
to develop consciousness of the
poetry and romance and human
values Of music. Nothing I have
heard in Washington has given me
greater faith in the future Of music
In the Nations Capital, than the
enthusiastic work of those boys
and girls last night, coupled with
the short talk on how they received
their training and what it amounts
to.
FUTURE TEACHERS
FORM FINE CHORUS
The Normal School Chorus was,
as it has been for a quarter of a
century to my personal knowledge,
a well-trained body of young women
with fresh, young voices giving
real music to the world, as they
are trained to give it to their
future pupils.
None the less impressive was the
concert from WRC early in the
evening, and, under w. B. and A.
auspices, of the Choir Invisible,
directed by DR.. Alexander Hanne-
man. On such organizations as
this and such scholars and choral
directors as DIR. Hanneman, the
future of broadcasting rests in a
very marked way. That is why
we are anxious to see the organiza-
ton make more of the human and
poetic values of the music it sings
than of the theoretical and techni-
cal side of its work. In the pro-
gram last evening the Beethoven
Hymn to Night" which opened
the concert, was by far the best
performance. There was some hesi.
fancy in the attack in the Bo-
hemian folk songs and bit too
meticulous care in several of the
other numbers.
From WRHF another and differ
ent, as well as varied, group of
Washington entertainers produced
an excellent program between and
z O'Clock under the direction of Mrs.
Henry Hunt Mckee, of the Wash
ington Music Bureau. We hope to
hear more Of these smooth perform
arlces and pleasing artists. In the
Kit Hour Irene Jones, organists
and Jack Nesbit, baritone. gave us
an interesting program-that of
Miss Jones being especially fine be-
cause she utilized the organ to in
terpret a number of colorful mod.
ern compositions seldom heard on
such an instrument and yet far bet
ter adapted to its possibilities than
the average selection heard in such
concerts.
Tie regular programs imported
from the various chains were filled
with Christmas cheer, and good will
the performance of "Aida," by the
Sodero grand opera group of WEAF
being one of the best we've heard
from that source for many weeks.
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