The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-23
WAVELETS
BY ED LEAMY

New York,-The premiere concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under it's new sponsor will be heard over WATR and Blue Network at new hour, from S:30 to 9:30 p. m., on Christmas Day, and at that time each Saturday thereafter.
 Coincidental with the sponsorship of the orchestra, Clifton Fadiman, noted figure in radio and literary circles, has been engaged to act as intermission speaker for the bread casts beginning on Christmas Day. MT. Fadiman, who will act as com- mentator on these broadcasts for limited time only, is well known as the literary critic of the New Yorker Magazine, a post he has held for eleven years.
 The Christmas Day broadcast of the orchestra, under Dr. Serge Kous- sevitsky, will include a performance of George Frederic Handels Con- certo Crosse for String Orchestra in B Minor, No. 12." This is the last of a group of concertos which Ham, del wrote for strings. The orchestra will also play Sibelius' Symphony in E Flat Major, No. 5, Op. 82." The symphony, of dramatic grandeur. colorfully expresses much of the noble sentiment typical of Sibelius' work.
 The Boston Symphony was found- ed in 1881 by Henry Lee IgginSon Jr., is the pioneer symphony orches- tra of the United States. From the very beginning, under it's first con- ductor, Sir Georgt Henschel, it be- came the exemplar in America of great symphonic performance.
 With the years and under the leadership of such conductors as Wilhelm Gericke, Arthur Nikisch, Carl Muck a. Pierre Monteux, the Symphony came to be regarded as one of the finest in the world.
 In 1924, Serge Koussevitsky ar- rived in America to become con- ductor. Under his inspired leader ship, the Boston Symphony has been moulded int srperlative single in- strument performing with insight, brilliance, and power.
 Jr. has made the whole field of symphonic literature its oWn--and it's performances from the earliest works down to contemporary Amer ican compositions.
 If names like Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchsjkovsky are familiar to Boston Symphony Concert goers, so also are names like Roy Harris, John Alden Carpenter, George Ger shWin, and other American Sym- phonic composers.
 Olin DoWnes, music editor of the New York Times writes that "The Boston Symphony has no superior in the world" And an editorial in The Boston Herald had this to say: "Is the Boston Symphony Orchestra a luxury or a necessity? It is both -- luxury because, in the longest term of any its conductors, Serge KoussevitSky, now entering tn c nineteenth year of conductorship. has brought i" to an unprecedented pitch f beauty and power. It is a necessity because no other single agency can do more for the bruised spirit of man in such time as this
 Vice President Wallace and Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the President, will be successive guests of Ernest K. Lindley on NBC'S Washington Re- ports on Rationing" program (Sun- days, 300 p. m. EWTD. Wallace will speak December 26 and Mrs. Roosevelt will be interviewed Janu- ary 2.
 Mrs. Roosevelt will recall high lights of her 1943 activities, in cluding her trip to Australia and the South Pacific.
 Four girls of the pin-up variety and one lucky lad, known to isten- CTS of NBC's Kraft Music Hall' as the Music Maids and Lee, will have due cause for celebration ome February. For then the singing group will celebrate its fifth anni- versary on the Binug Crosby pro- gram.
 True, there have been changes in the groups personnel. Romances, careers and the war have seen to that. But friendship cngendered over long hours of working together remain, and the aggregation still boasts two of its original members. Alice Ludes and Denny Wilson.
 Some eight years ago, Alice and Denny were two-thirds of a trio trying out off singing job at Paramount. Their chief competi- tion came from another trio which included Trudy Erwin, now Bing Crosby's singing partner. Each group admired the other so much that they decided to join forces, add more voices, and form an oc- tet. After some experimenting with vocal arrangements, the personnel was cut to five the five girls who were to be known as the Music Maids until thre eyears ago, when Hal Hooper, their arranger, stepped in to pinch-hit for one of the girls and remained With the group.
 When the Maids heard that audi tions were to be held for a spot on Kraft Music Hall," they rehearsed every day for month, arrived at the NEG studios with a fine case of collective .jitters and were promptly hired. Since then their staurchest patron has been Bing Crosby, who not only insists that they remain on his program but has boosted one of their members. Trudy Erwin, to stardom.
 Radio will link the home folks and Americas fighting forces on Al lied battlefronts the world over when NEG broadcasts a three-hour Christmas Day program Saturday, December 25 which will be heard in Southern New England between 9 .0O- 5 .()O n m. over WTIC. The