Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
Behind the Microphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

States, the president and secretary
of the bar association and an as
Sociate justice of the Supreme
Court, are listed among the speak
erS. The first of these talks will be
heard through the N. B. C.. system
Tuesday night. The others are
scheduled February S, IL and 10.
Guerney E. Newlin, president of
the bar association, will open the
series. He will be followed Febru-
airy 5 by SilaS H. Strawn, special
envoy to China and former preSi-
dent of the bar association. Emory
r. Buckner, former United States
district attorney for New York,
and Joseph NJ ProShauer, asSoci-
ate justice of the Supreme Court
will speak February II and 10, re-
Spectively.
Each talk will be of 80 minutes
duration and the speakers are eX-
pected to deal in simple language
with the everyday legal problems
that confront the average Ameri-
can citizen at some time in his
Workaday life.
Walter Damrosch, dean of
American musical conductors, has
been inspired by the success of the
educational concerts which he has
given over the N. B. G. network.
Tens of thousands of letters re-
ceived from all parts of the
country, he says, indicate that
millions of children in the ele-
mentary and high schools as we'll
as college students, have accepted
his novel method of imparting a
knowledge and appreciation of
good music.
Il am amazed" he said, "at the
quickneSs with which this has
been accomplished. Thousands
of radios have been installed in
the schools, not only in the large
cities, but in the smaller towns
and villages as we'll. In some cases
the funds for the sets were sup
piled by the school authorities or
local women'S and parent-teacher
associations. In others the cost
was covered by money subscribed
by the children themselves.
I'm the beginning I looked on
these concerts as an experiment.
Already 1 am sufficiently encour-
aged by the results and by letters
received from educators all over
the country who have been OBJ
serving the effect, to feel that we
are laying a foundation for a ma
tional musical culture on which
beautiful and permanent edifice
will later be raised.
1.-THE concerts have now been
going on for more than three
months. They will continue
through May 10 along the lines
which I outlined in the beginning,
two each Friday morning. W.
have already taken up a number of
the instruments of the orchestra
specifically, Before the end of the
series I hope my young listeners
will be able to identify the various
strings, Woodwinds. brasses and
percuSSionS. From the results al
ready apparent I feel I am not
overconfident in promising that
by the time the series of concerts
is finished the works of the great
masters will have left their mark
upon millions of our young
people"
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We have letter from Elmeda
AnSell, secretary of the division Of
music of the Library of Congress,
announcing that the concert of
the Gordon String Quartet of Chi
cago in the chamber music audi
forum Of the Library Tuesday
night will be broadcast by NAA.
The concert will begin by $50
o'clock.
The quartet is COMPOSED of Jac-
ques Gordon and Walter Hancock,
violins; Clarence Evans, viola, and
; Richard Wagner. violoncello. Ru-
dolph Reuter-, pianist, will assist.
The program is composed of three
groups of compositions by Sow
berby, Carl Engel and Joseph
Haydn.