The Washington times., 1927-10-13


tive. Generally speaking, recep-
ton was fair last evening, but
tuning needed to be exact and
some stations ordinarily easily
tuned were rather difficult to find.
Late in the evening conditions
cleared up q bit and programs
came to receivers clearly and with
great volume.
The Washington dial twister who
wandered from his own local broad.
casts last evening missed about the
best assortment of entertainment
and some Of the finest and most
artistic interpretations of real music
that have been heard Of on the wave
lengths for many weeks. Mabel
Garrison, in full possession Of one
or the most glorious soprano voices
In existence which she can use, when
she is feeling that way, with the
greatest cOloratura skill we know,
was the big star Of the evening on
the Aeolian program. Last night she
excelled the best effort we ever
heard her make and came through
the loud speaker with three songs
OF the most varied character that
none but the most expert could sing
and few could interpret with the art
of the Garrison intelligence and per-
feet vocal organ.
Whenever Garrison has been
scheduled to sing we have hoped
she would do the "Hymn to the
Sun" from NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. fan.
tastic opera, "Coq d'Or"-and last
night that was the first thing she
sang! There isn't a trickier bit
of music for a coloratura to ne
gotiate than this and there isn't
a voice we know that can do it
like Garrison's. She sang it with
the Metropolitan Opera Company
at the original performance Of the
opera in this country and amazed
her audience-but c en- then she
didn't sing It as she did last night.
In her third song she presented
an adaptation Of the famous Chopin
mazourka, the Russian ballet made
famous in its original tour of
America in 1914 or 1915. The piece
is full of queer lal intervals
but Garrison accomplished every
one of them and gave the idea
she did that sort of thing every
little while just as a pastime. AS
an exhibition of singing and as
demonstration of the art OF music
we've heard little in radio to equal
1t and nothing to surpass it. We
take particular pleasure in record.
ing this because the last time Gar.
rison sang for loud speaker de.
livery she was a very distinct
flivver.
MUCH MUSIC
WEARIES AUDIENCE
The Lennox String Quartet ap-
peared as the program partners of
Miss Garrison and presented a ,)er- |
formance of the Londonderry air |
that was well worth hearing. Again |
the Aeolian Company presented
what we feel is too much for a
single program-and last nights |
program was of only half hour
duration. I do not believe the com.
pany can accomplish it's purpose of
encouraging more universal de.
sire for good music in this way
the audience cannot digest so
much and is wearied by the mental
effort of listening to it. One
such performance as Garrison's is
sufficient for an entire evening,
as a matter of fact.
AAC PC1AOL Va 1HO 6GEs
CARS Opera" an a Maxwell hour
offering from WIZ, and it's antenna,
was an excellent effort to exhur1e
an antiquity, with a very good
company, but beyond that served
little purpose. We'd like to apollo.
gfze for an error of our own in
the advance notices Of this opera.
BY a slip Of the typewriter we
made it appear that the first per.
formance was given in this country
in 1850 and we should have writ.
ten 1850.
The Goodrich zippers made their
first appearance as a WRC attrac.
ton last evening and made q very
distinct hit with an excellent |
orchestra, instrumental aoloists and |
fine quartet. Likewise, Kathleen |
Stewart, staff pianist OF WEAF. pro.
vided listeners with about as fine a |
bit of piano playing as we've heard, |
In her Interpretation of Sibelius'
Romance" TO fill in time between |
the excellent production Of
''Iolanthe" and the Zippers.
The WMAL exercises surpassed |
themselves with the usual Wednes- !