The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-17
DAMR0SCH
IN SCHOOLS

The students of II high schools
and junior high schools OF the public
school system of Washington as
sembled with one million or moro
students in high schools and COL
leges in 20 States, served by IS
broadcasting stations, this morning
at 10 o'clock and heard the New
York Symphony Orchestra play
and DR.. Walter Damrosch wildly
describe three of the most exquisite
symphonic compositions in music.
Just read that paragraph over
again and let the amazing facts of
it sink into that thing we call tire
inner consciousness. The rudiments
of the idea cannot even be graspcd
by the human mind. One great
teacher and one great orchestra
actually IN thousands Of class
rooms, delivering lesson in music
such as no single educational in
stitution could afford to provide
save on rare occasions. When we've
reached the point where we can
realize the unlimited range OF edu.
cational opportunity radio offers
weIl have gone a long way toward
properly approaching the value OF
radio generally,
The schools this morning heard.
Schubert's Unfinished symphony, :
Bach,s "Afr for G String" and
saint Saens' Spinning Wheel OF
JTnnphale,'' three very different
kinds of music composed by three
of the greatest masters the world
has known.
MARINES OFFER
MUSICAL OPPORTUNITY
Incidently, while the high schools
have the radio equipment, might
we suggest that as many of the
students as care to gather in the
assembly hall again at $3.50 this
afternoon and hear the United
States Marine Band Orchestra play
the music of several of the other
great masters. Especially would
we commend to them the overture,
Berlioz' Roman Carnival" the
msky-Karsakow Flight OF the
BUNDLE Bee; our own Seigfried
Scharbau's Japanese Patrol" and
Els 'sBabylonian" suite. These
will give the students four other,
and equally distinctive and worth
while types of composition.
The big spot in the regular pro-
grams this evening will be that In
which Maurice Capitaine, tenor,
fills during the Jordan music forum
at 9:15 from WMAL. Capitaine is
tenor OF the Opera Comique of
Paris, who was sent to this country
as representative of the French
opera tenors. He will sing some OF
the music of Delibes' "Lakme"
this evening, as, Peggy Albion de-
scribes it.
The WRC exercises start at this
evening with a pair of old friends in
a revival OF a popular program
Erma Calvert and Kin Carroll in the
first of a new series Of Star radio
concerts. There will be an outburst
from the Mayflower group at 1880, a
Cities Service concert with new
cello arrangements at 8, an Anglo
Persian exercise at 8, the Lord Cal
vert quintet at $3.50 and soap bub-
BILE frothing at 10.
In addition to the imported feature
of the WMAL program, that station
win present a supper dance at 7.SO
and Bob Carbaugh and his curious
singing noises at 7:15. The Happi-
ness Boys hold forth from
WEAF at 1880. as usual of Friday,
at the same time the voice babies
learn to cry for will be heard from
WIZ. At $3.50 o'clock WIZ will pro-
vide White Rock and at the chew
ing gum divisersion-which is to be
filled with all sorts OF things. in
Guiding one Peter Gink,' delicious
bit of musical humor satirizing
Griegs popular Peer Gynt''. suite
and done in modern dance rhythm
on this occasion by xylophones.