The Washington times., 1928-12-18
'DAYTONS|NCERS'
SCORE HIT
IN AIR

Touring the wave lengths last
night was good will endeavOr,
with only stats yawps and
crashes here and there to show
that the atmosphere can still do
its. stuff. The crashes and bangs
were not so disturbing as to pre-
vent brOadcasts from all sections
being heard with reasonable
volume and clarity There was
the usual code and interference
between overlapping frequencies.
Something akin to human SYM
phony-and something akin to the
| first use of the human voice we've
| heard for sometime-came to radio
listeners last night when the Cen
eraI Motors program makers so far
forgot their Broadway complex as
to stray west of the AlleghenIes
and broadcast a program by the
| Westminster Choir of Dayton, Ohio.
and the Cincinnati Symphony Or
chestra from Cincinnati.
Radio listeners have seldom heard
such choral singers-if they ever
| haye-as that DR.. John Finley Will
liamson's organization gave them
last evening" The Westminster
Choir of Dayton has been famous
throughout the United States for
years and is preparing TO make a
tour of Europe. In time 1t expects.
to achieve sufficient reputation to
be known in New York. But
whether that rather unheard of and1
hitherto unattained achievement
ever comes to them-the perform
ance they gave last night will be
rated by music lovers as the finest
thing General Motors has provided
for it's customers-each and every
general motor. including the cousins
in Canada!
The singing of God is Spirit
by the choir, alone, and of the
famous "Hallelujah" chorus of the
Messiah, /" with the orchestra, were
equalled. The first named revealed
the so singers as a human SYM
phony. most of the background of
the great work being hummed in
harmonies that were ever changing.
rolling in sonorous chords that
provided listeners with such a. thrill
as they seldom get.
ORCHESTRA ALSO
REGISTERS WELL
The orchestra, directed by the
dynamic Fritz Reiner, provided an
equally magnificent program. We
might suggest to General Motors
that there is a chorus in North
field, Mimi, that could give quite
as good a. performance with the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra;
that Ossip Gabrilowiteh, one of the
worlds most famous and greatest
pianists directs a symphony orches-
ira in Detroit that the Apollo
Chorus of Chicago and DR.. Stocks
orchestra-that every city broad
casting General Motors program
could provide something as fine and
as novel and as artistically great
for radio programs--and give radio
listeners an opportunity to hear
America first.
Another feature of the evening
affairs that might pass unnoted
was the finale program Of the Gil
bert Sports Talks for Boys, in which
the facts were developed that the
youth of the country selected an all
America football team that differed
in but two positions from that
selected by the experts for Golfers
and in those two positions the
boys gave first place to players the
experts admitted were running their
own choices very close. Schramm's
excellent trio sat in for Cloyd Gill in
the Home Sweet Home affair with
considerable success in the early
evening, and the Firestone and
grand opera exercises pleased
Varfously minded customers in their
various ways, as did the other loud
speaker products of the evening.