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...Plate of Gold. When the U. S. special puffed into New Flower, a coal-black band with an olive-skinned conductor blared "The Star Spangled Banner." Amid a 17-gun salute Abyssinia's Crown Prince greeted the beaming U. S. Ambassador and his stern escort, Brig.-General William W. Harts, U. S. A. Smartly escorted by native cavalry the U. S. party clattered off to their hotel, dined there that night on the King of Kings' own gold plate, loaned for the occasion as an especial mark of Royal favor...
Clanking along through Indiana in a daycoach in the early 1890's, the conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra removed his cuff and jotted down on it a tune. A young journalist, who was spending his vacation traveling with the conductor and his orchestra on tour, asked for a copy of the air. At a hotel that evening the musician scribbled the song on a piece of notepaper, gave it to his admirer. The journalist liked it, learned to play it, rendered it so often that his friends later called it his song...
Under the head of "sustaining" programs (where the chain or the local station pays for the talent) are the 27 concerts to be broadcast (Columbia) by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Last week listeners heard Erich Kleiber, new Berlin conductor (TIME, Oct. 13). They will hear Arturo Toscanini in November, later Bernardino Molinari. Fortnight ago the Boston Symphony under Sergei Koussevitzky gave its first program exclusively for radio (N. B. C.) but the Boston Symphony will not broadcast regularly until Symphony Hall conditions are more favorable than they are now. The Metropolitan Opera continues to ignore radio. The Chicago Civic...
Mechanically as well as musically important was the program played by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and sponsored by Philadelphia (Philco) Storage Battery Co. Last year at his first Philco radio concert Conductor Stokowski was incensed because mere engineers were entrusted with the transmission of his music, had the power to spoil his surging crescendoes, his fragile pianissimos. The season over, he entered upon a series of experiments with National Broadcasting Co.'s head mechanics, commuted all summer between his Connecticut farm and Manhattan. The result is a device whereby he can do his own monitoring. He stands...
...great music is an increasingly popular form of advertising. The Minneapolis Symphony will broadcast this year in the service of the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. The Omaha Symphony works every Sunday morning for Barnsdall Refineries Inc. of Chicago; the Rochester Civic Orchestra every Wednesday evening for Stromberg-Carlson radios; Conductor Walter Damrosch and a symphony orchestra Saturday evenings in a General Electric hour; Conductor Howard Barlow and a symphony orchestra Tuesday evenings for Philco; the Los Angeles Philharmonic every Thursday evening over a Pacific Coast network for Standard Oil Co. of California. Of famed individuals scheduled to broadcast this season...