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now sees the possibility Of new horizo
he will be able, perhaps, to achieve
that for which all true musicians are
striving, the disseminating OF knowl-
edge, so that music can be better
understood and by this means better
loved over the entire world.
For many people, especially IN
this country, music is still con-
sidered the interest of the in
telligentsia and this idea is the hard
est to combat. The beauty of music
should become so evident to every
one that the benefit which it can con-
fer will operate in stimulating the
love for the beautiful and in increas-
ing the strengthening power OF a
spiritual outlook.
The means at hand by which this
can be accomplished is the radio, and
Mr.. Stokowski has already attracted
much attention by his experiments in
sound transmission. The possibilities
of the radio are but touched upon to-
day. and Mr.. Stokowskis desire to de-
vote his time to finding way to in
crease its scope will assuredly bring
interesting discoveries. The ideal
toward which he is working and the
broad field of endeavor before him are
so we'll expressed in an interview re-
| Gently given by him, on the occasion
of his conducting of the General
Motors hour, that it is reproduced
herewith.
my FRIENDS have been saying
the past few days that I am a
fool to stop conducting" he said. Il
sincerely hope am not that and /
am certainly not giving up my con-
Quoting. I am going to conduct the
Philadelphia Orchestra on its first
transcontinental tour of about 40 cities
next Spring, for instance. I'm merely
going to give more time to research
because it is more important.
For several years have been trying
to educate and equip myself for this
moment, fortunate enough to work
side by side with physicists and en-
gineers In sound research laboratories.
| Now. il I am able to discover new
things about the application of sound
| science to music, or means for de-
veloping existing ways of projecting
or presenting music, hope to demon
strate them as conductor.
Creation and recreation go on for
ever. And the most wonderful power
for creation today is science. That is
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| time to science. have often thought
| that as conductor was experiencing
| the greatest thrill possible to me. But
I have been equally thrilled by my
work in science, especially so as We
reach the point where 1 can see that
we are about to extend materially the
very thresholds OF recorded and trans
mitted music in directions not even
dreamed of by me mere few months
ago.
II am firmly confident that through
the plastic modelling of sound, as ]
think it may be called, We shall be
able to take the music Of even the
| great Beethoven and Bach, and
through the modern sciences of radio
of wired radio and of disc and film
recording. re-create beauties in that
music which have never before been
heard or thought Of.
In all humility, think this work
is essentially that of a musician CO.
operating with physicists.
IT think We, are not far from the
time of the production of records
of high fidelity in quality and long
playing enough to present entire SYM
phonies with the whole movements
unbroken.
Il envision nearby time, when,
through the wonders of work now be-
ing done in sound science, We shall be
| able to place entire symphonies or
operas on fine machine, retire to a
chair and without moving or stirring
for two or more hours, alone and un-
disturbed, hear complete works broken
only into component movements Of
symphonies or the acts of operas.
There is now in America vast
music loving and music understanding
public, which did not exist even five
years ago, much less 10. Almost the
whole new generation, those from 13
to IS years old in particular, under
stand and respond sensitively to good
music.
1.-The credit for this amazing growth
and broadening of musical taste in
America must mainly be given to the
miracle of radio. We should all be
eternally thankful for radio, because
| it brings to us one of the greatest op-
portunities. the power to communicate
our thoughts and feelings to each
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