The Washington times., 1928-07-30

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enough to prevent listening ana
then there were sections where
there was no noise and good
volume and clarity. Sunday eve
ming gave forth the same cOIldi-
lions with some brOadcasters deep
N 4 thick atmospheric pocket that
gave forth little to tuners.
Few better examples could be
found Of extremes in musical forms
than were presented last night when
DR. Theophile Wendt directed the Ma
flonal Symphony Orchestra ~ lts
first concert for the radio audience
Of WRC. The first part Of the pro-
gram provided q formal, subjective
symphony Of Mozart and the second
part a very lively, objective suite Dy
Vaughn Williams. When the ha0it
Of mind Of the listening and readlng
public returns to the point that u
can acclaim two volume novels, the
chances are the conventional TOUR
part and purely subjective symphony,
Of the Mozart and Haydn type VIII
have an appreciative audience. But
Postmaster General Harry New,
during the Saturday evening talk
he gave radio listeners, rather
emphasized the trend of the times
III the casual way he told of the
progress OF the afr mail-Of the pos
sibility Of sending q letter to the
Pacific coast Ill as hours over a
distance Of about 5000 miles. A
people living in an age of such
service, service that has de-
vel0ped because Il had q real and
vGfy useful objective to attain and
not simply through academic
scientific research though research
was necessary, will not listen Tor
an hour to music that simply
exhibits exquisite skill In composing
harmonies that mean nothing but
exhibitions Of composing skill.
Rather they want tunes that have
life and body and express feeling
or an idea such as the English
folk songs that constituted the basis
u the Williams suite, Theses they
Nfil tolerate being twisted and
turned, embroidered and hung with
1DnaI tassels.
Hence we believe that IL the Ma.
tfOnal symphony Orchestra wants ia
Eaease its audience and at the same
time give it something OF musical
culture the orchestra demon.
siratei it can do in very excellent
form 1t should confine its programa
to demonstrations of more modern
musical stylesd definite, objective
parts OF symphonies, tone poems
&c, rather than museum pieces,
iIlteresting to musical psychologists
agftI research students.
There was much in the air over
the weekend to keep the dial
twister occupied The Rev. Ernest
Gibbons, OF London, England. COM
pleted d visiting pastorate OF Cal
vary Baptist Church with an excel
lent discourse on prejudice and
liberation ID the Sabbath morning
hours Bishop Cooke, OF DelaN are,
occupied the pulpit in the Cathedral
open.air service in the afternoon.
The Weymouth Post, American
Legion Band, returned to the air
for a concert devoted to marches,
in which it presented compositions
Of our own composer-directors :
Santelmann, Branson, Benter, and
Stannard. David Lawrence gave an
excellent and timely talk on tam.
paign funds and. what the political
platforms say and mean about
them. and the Capitol Theater
demonstrated the stability Of its pro.
grams and endurance Of its audience
By celebrating the third anniversary
of Major Edward Bowes regime.
The Calvary Baptist Sunday School
singers provided an. excellent con-
cert through Wifi during the late
hours.