Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Until 1938, serious, civic-minded WNYC had no time for comedy. But that January, New York City's new City Council replaced its old Board of Aldermen, and WNYC moved in to broadcast the sessions. In no time this unique program had an estimated 750,000 listeners. East Side stores, bars, cabbies, business executives, housewives tuned it in regularly. There were arguments fit to kill, rare old Fourth-Ward oratory, Tweedledums-&-dees all over the house. One week listeners might be treated to an afternoon of old Roman allegory, in re the city's garbage policy. Democrat Hugh...
...high-binding comedy, the WNYC program was peerless. But to the Council's newly elected 1940 Democratic majority of 14, it was a pain in the caucus. One ancient City Father summed it up: if it took the aldermen over 100 years to make fools of themselves, the Council accomplished it in two. So last fortnight New York City's City Council voted, 13-to-7, to keep WNYC's and the public's nose out of the Council's business...
...first group contains works by Bach, Mozart, and Handel. The Mozart song, an aria from La Clemeza de Tito, will be done with a clarinet obligato. The middle groups consists of the Schumann song-cycle. Frauenlibe und Leben. A group of modern French songs will complete the program...
...song with its text is considerably less abstract and has a great deal more mass appeal than an instrumental work. It is rather hard for the average singer to resist the temptation to sing down to a public. Very rarely does one find a singer who will announce a program which does not-contain at least one group designed to attract a crowd...
Boston has in Isabel French an artist completely devoted to the task of singing only the music which she considers great and worthy of a hearing. She has announced a program for Thursday evening in Jordan Hall which makes no concession to popular taste...