The Washington times., 1928-02-24
MARINES ST Ar
BEFORE MIKE +.


III DiaIlers kent the home stations
tuning last epening--by force of
circumstances that filled the air
4 with regular summer time as
sOrtn1enf Of craclxles, crashes and
bangs There was noise. every.
Wl1eres High power stations could
Il De identified--but listening to pro-
Grams from them was. task that
la9nOst radiOtics soon gave up.
Most of the wise radiotics these
days are making their Thursday
evening tunings include at least one
complete program--that of the Z. >.
Marine Band which Capt Taylor
Branson is using to deliver through
loud speakers some Of the finest
concerts we hear from either band
{ or orchestra-or from any radio sta
tion. John Daniels declared in his
carefree and positive way last even.
ing that the Marine aggregation is
4 the best military band In the world.
And then the band proceeded to play
In way that completely proved
what John had said.
We have seldom heard better
concert than that provided by the
band last evening, in variety and
general musical excellence and we
have never heard d brass band pro-
vide such mastery Interpretation
OF b great tone poem as was given
Of I4lszt's Iseiberstr Several
weeks ago In commenting on Cap
tain BransOn 3 expert direction we
called attention to the manner In
which he had utilized his wood wind
section to provide the subtle int0Ta-
Eioi1s orcllestras call upon the string
choir to supply.
IN aI1ieberstraum," originally COM
posed for the plano and later ar
RANGED for orchestra, the director
abandoned the wood wind, as a base
unit for the brass and seldom have
we heard such smooth. rich coloring
as those brasses gave this immortaI
ode. The tone produced was that
Of great organ without 2 symp-
tom OF blare or blusterjust q gor-
&aous, unfolding of tonal color
like the ever changing glow Of q
sunset melting from brilliant red
TO orange to tourquOise, to. purple
might with the woodWinds. In their
nadenzas and brilliant swirls coming
in and going out OF the picture like
the twinkling stars.
ESKIAIOS HELP
SAVE OLD IRONSTDES'
The old Ironsides'' program OF
The Cllcquot Eskimos was all that
could Be desired land again re-
called to listeners the fact that
Harry Reser and his men provide
them with the most vivacious hour
n music Of the week. The
versatile leader stuck to patriotic
music and songs Of the sea in his
endeayors last evening land did
-. .~@.. ee,s&1n = fs1nfeI, NJ = xgfra that
IS characteristic OF his work.
ADMIRAL phillip Andrews u. S. n,
chairman Of the National Con-
stitution Committee, told something
OF the needs Of the fund to rebuild
the old ship and the NBC an.
nouncer kept the purpose. Of the
urograrn ever before listeners.
Through crashes Of static the /
rich voice of Izetta Jewen Miller |
came to old Washington friends |
from WGY reciting the poetry of |
Robert Service and commenting on
II, IA the early evening. Time has
iii aoWfse dimmed nor shifting
circumstance changed q whit the
charm or expressiVeness OF this
gracious woman The regular pro-
gram features were regular in q
regular way from all sections. e.
Roberts Smitz, pianist, played De-
busy for the Ampico exercises and
Toscha Siedel committee u Mende-
7asolln concerto to the air, in its
entirety, during the Maxwell affair
both from WIZ, The WMAL
activities, with what seemed to us
about twice the power this station
usually employees, came clearer than
usual with excellent effect.