Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
Behind the MicrOphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

DO EDITOR.
musical directors you will hear
are Gustave Haenschen and his
orchestra, the Detroit Symphony,
under the direction Of OSsip
Gabrilowitsch, featuring Jascha
Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler as guest
soloistS. Ignace Jan Paderewski
will accompany a concert featur-
ing the phenomenal youngster,
Jehudi Menhuin, while Ernestine
Schumann-Heink will sing the
Fri King of Franz Schubert.
1.-THE fiery Russian, Peter Hitch
Tschaikovsky, with selections from
the 'Oiseau de Feu' and the
Symphony Pathetique.' The troll
ka also will be heard. Ippolitov
Ivanov will offer the delightful
compoSition-'The March of the
Sirdar,' from the Caucasian
Sketches Modest Moussourgsky
will be selected as one of the COM
posers, with 'Khovantischina' as
his contribution to the program.
Among the other composers
you will hear are Jacob Ludwig,
Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Sc
bastian Bach, Ludwig Won Bee
thoven, Charles Camille Saint
SaenS, Richard Strauss (the ia
nous Till Eulenspeigels) Richard
Wagner, Moszkowski, Cesar Cut,
Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe
Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Carl Maria Won Weber, ChrtStoph
Willibald Won Gluck, Gioachino
Antonio RoSSini, Vincenzo Bellini,
Gaetano Donizetti, Arrigo Boito
and Amilcare Ponchielli, closing
with Hector Louis BertioZ, Fried
rich Won Flotow, Charles Francois
Gounod, Ambrose Thomas and
Alexandra G. L. Georges Bizet.
We regret that we will be unable
to present the works OF Giacomo
Puccini, as they are at present
under restriction"
NEW engineering methods are
continually being tried out
and put into effect at various
broadcasting stations, and along
| this line VIDAL at Baltimore has
done a considerable amount OF
individual experimenting with an
outstanding degree of success.
Comes now the announcement
| by Frederick r. Huber, director OF
Baltinore's 10,000-watt station
that under the supervision OF
G. w. Cooke, chief engineer,
novel method of broadcasting
pickup" programs-whereby the
announcer in the stations own
studios remotely controls the en-
tire broadcast-haS been put into
effect at VIDAL.
When the "Witching Hour" is
broadcast by this station or
Thursday nights from II O'Clock
to midnight this novel arrange
ment is employed, and those lis
tening in who hear the an
nouncer's voice against the soft
tones of the organ as a back
ground, will no doubt find it diff
ficult to believe that the an
nouncer is in one section OF the
city while the organist is in still
another part Of town. In fact, the
announcer is in the broadcastine
studios Of VIDAL, while John H
Eltermann, the organiSt who
broadcasts these 'Witching Hour
programs, is at the console of thu
James Wilson Leakin Memoria
organ in the concert hall of thu
Peabody Conservatory Of Music
In spite of this fact, however. thu
connection between the studio
announcer and the Peabody Con.
servatory Of Music during these
programs is never broken, such a.
was necessary in the old days o.
broadcasting, and SO successful i:
this pickup" method that to al
appearances the announcer il
speaking from the same micro
phone that is "picking-up" the
organ.
This particular remote contro
method at VIDAL is effected BY
means of a specially designed
fader which mixes the an
nouncer's voice with the organ
music. Incidentally, this fader
which is another radio device re-
Gently designed and developed by
WBAL's chief engineer, was origi-
nally installed for the purpose oil
fusing the local programs into the
opening of the network programs;
it is therefore serving a double
purpose through this latest use.
1