The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-09
WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

The 10 round non-title, lightweight boxing bout between Tippy Larkin and Lulu Constantine will be broad cast from Madison Square Garden tonight over WATR at 10 o'clock.
 A Stradivarius violin, valued at $5O,000 from Henry Fords Edison Institute museum will be used for the February 12 broadcast of the early American dance orchestra which plays on Saturday nights at 8 D. m. (EWT) over the Blue net work the tunes to which many gen. erations have danced.
 The orchestra consists of a dull elmer, a violin, bass viol and an accordion. Frequently the comblna- tion of instruments includes the 'Maude Powell" GuarnertuS used by the famous American woman vl- oliniSt.
 The leader of the early American orchestra, who also calls the dances, is Benjamin B. Lovett, an old-time dancing master whom Henry Ford brought to Dearborn to teach early American dancing in the schools oI the Edison institute. In the twenty odd years that Lovett has been teaching early American dance forms, it is estimated that more than 100000 persons have acquired knowledge of what, until MT. Ford revived interest in it, was becoming 8 lost art.
 John W. Vandercook, famed war correspondent, world traveller, au- thor and Blue network commen- tator, is now subbing for Raymond Gram Swing over the Blue Monday through Thursday at 10:0O p. m. EWT. Swing is on vacation for a week or ten days.
 In addition to those duties, Van- dercook also is heard on the Friday and Saturday news commentary over the Blue at 10 p. m., EWT, and divides the Where Do We Stand?' assignment on Sunday at 500 p. m. EWT, with John Gunther or tht latter's weekly substitutes during Gunther's extended absence. Leopold Stokowski and the NEG Symphony orchestra will present the world premier of the symphony No. 4" by the American composer George Antheil on the General Motors Symphony of the Air" pro- gram Sunday, Feb. 13 (NBC, 5 p. m EWT). Other selections on tho program are Debussy's "Engulfec Cathedral and Butterworth's "A Shropshire Lad"
 George Antheil stunned the mus ical world in the late 1920's witf his Ballet Mechanique" composed for an amazing array of instru' ments, including an airplane pro- peller. His opera Helen Retires' also created sensation with widely differing opinions on its merits Another ballet, Fighting the Waves" was enthusiastically re- ceived on it's presentation by the Abbey theater in Dublin.
 The new symphony brings a change in Antheil's style. It Is more impulsive, more emotional than his previous compositions. Architecton- ically it follows a modernized sym phony style.
 The concert opens with the De- pussy "Engulfed Cathedral. This prelude is based on an old Breton legend of cathedral sunken in the waters, which emerges on clear mornings with its bells tolling.
 George Butterworth died at twen- ty-four. killed in battle in the First World War. His symphonic rhsp- sody "A Shropshire Lad" is based on the poems of A. E. Housenan. At It's first perfcrnanrp. Sir Adrian Boult said, If he had lived. But terworth would probably have been one of the leaders of English music" The concert concludes with the ARtheil symphony.
 The winner of the first annual Fawcett Aviation Award, presented by Fawcett Publications for scien- tific contribution to aviation as a