The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-24
Fishing The Air
T0HE Radio CORPORATION Of amer
BY G. SHUBERT FRYE
All references are Central Standard Time

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TT7HE Radio Corporation of amer !
II lea has arranged to broadcast |
a special series of twenty-four edu- |
cational orchestral concerts next
season, beginning Oct. 26.
Walter Damrosch, veteran con-
ductor and dean of American musi-
clans will direct the new RCA Music
Education hours.
In response to nationwide de-
mand for an educational hour OF I
music for young people and children
next seasons program will be given |
Friday mornings at 10, so that it |
can be heard in the schools. 1t is |
planned to use twenty-eight stations |
of the Blue network covering the |
entire country between the Atlantic
Coast and the Rocky Mountains.
More and more since the first |
days of broadcasting, listeners and |
brCadcasters as well as educators |
have looked forward to the day
when radio broadcasting and recep- !
tion would be so perfected that it |
might be used for universal educa- +!
ton as we'll as entertainment.
Millions have been spent in re-
search and experimentation for the
purpose of discovering how radio
might best be used TO supplement |
and augment other methods of
education, and the Inauguration
next season, which has developed |
directly from the three experiment
tai concerts of Walter Damrosch
this winter, is an excellent begin
ming.
Damrosch, in commenting on his
new work, says:
7 am happy that my dream has come
poration of America, we shall be able next
winter to broadcast series of twenty
four educational orchestral concerts, with
explanatory comment, during school hours,
for an audience of American youngsters,
which will probably number from twelve
"The purpose Of the RCA Music Educa-
ton hour will be primarily to arouse en-
music as an artistic expression of human
emotions. Secondly to encourage self-eX-
6eTsope IN tbg q st6d9 o 9e Rppb and
ular curriculum of the schools This
should develop first of all, singing a
the high schools and colleges. the forma-
ton of school orchestras My experience
proven to me that all these -- things come rris
inevitably and naturally.
very short and simple explanations of the
music that the orchestra will play, of the
nature and character of the. different Or
chestral instruments, and something
about the composers"
A chorus of Singing violins"-
playing in unison-with all the vi
brant ttrobs of the human voice,
will introduce a new technique of
instrumental performance to radio
audiences tonight, when the Seiber-
ling Singers will add another mu-
steal rarity to their unusual pro-
prams. A group of violinists of in
ternational repute-as well-knoWn
in the instrumental field as the
SigerS are in theirs-Will broadcast
for the first time in this novel man
ner the famous Wilhelmi violin
transcription of 1.-THE Prize Song"
from Wagner's opera, die Neister-
singer" The violin chorus will be
supported by the orchestra under
the direction Of Frank Black.
James Melton, who arranged the
programs, will also be heard in the
broadcast tonight, which will be re-
ceiyed as follows:
Barcelona"
orchestra and Voices
Songs My Mother Taught Me-. .Dvorak
Tenor Solo
Tt7a
singer ........... ,.......... wagner
"pr,ond .. ,,inoQ0 Orchestra so.aos...
Fii7'lu = WINE Quartet '''''''' @anoerS0n
"Across the Still lagoon. .Loge
,e- Baritone and Tenor Duet
Orchestra and Voices !
The farm problem, an issue of
considerable Importance in all polit-
ical campaigns since the World War,
is to be the topic for discussion in
the voters Service" to be Eroad-
cast direct from the studios of the
National Broadcasting Company in
Chicago tonight at 6.
This is the first time that the
weekly voters Service" program
has been broadcast from Chicago.
The arrangement was made because
the National League of Women
Voters, which directs the program,
is holding it's eighth national con-
vention in Chicago and also be-
cause the program subject is Of par
ticular interest to the mid-western
States.
Three acknowledged experts,
Henry A. Wallace of Des Moines,
Professor Benjamin II. Hubbard of
the University of Wisconsin, and
Charles William Holman, secretary
of the National Board of Farm Or
CARNATIONS are scheduled partici-
pants in the discussion
The whimsical tale of rip Van
Wrinkle" taken from the sketch
book by Washington irving, will be
dramatized for NBC Red network
listeners at $50 tonight.
In the background, the music of
an instrumental ensemble will fol-
low the varied themes of the plays
action. Among the selections to be
heard are excerpts from the Flying
Dutchman, and the RED Mill'' and
the drinking song Brown October
Ale"
Paul Whiteman and his orchestra
will broadcast through the COM
bined National Broadcasting Com
pany's two eastern networks from
midnight to l o'clock, Wednesday
morning, during which blue Fan
tasy," a new symphonic jazz COM
position by Ferde Grofe, will have
its world premiere.
This special program, arranged by
Whiteman in cooperation with the
National Broadcasting Company, Is