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JANUARY, 19 3 0
Ohio Soprano and Georgia Tenor Win Atwater Kent Auditions
Both Singers Aspire to Concert Work In Preference to Operatic Careers
MISS GENEVIEVE I. ROWE, 21 years old, of Wooster, Ohio, has returned to her home. So also has Edward A. Kane, 22, of Atlanta, Ga.
This fact, under ordinary circumstances, would be of little interest outside their immediate circle of family and friends. But Miss Rowe and Edward Kane aren't in ordinary circumstances these days. They are the winners of the National Radio Auditions, finals of which were held in New York, Sunday night, December 15 th.
As such, they returned to their homes burdened with honors, memories of gala entertainment, t u i tions, broadcasting contracts and cash prizes. Returned to the glory of the prophet who brings honor on his or her home town. Returned to fresh honors from their own people that pale in magnificence only before those they received in the National Capitol of Music — New York.
Also, it might be noted, they returned home to prepare afresh for study in the concert field, from which both turned aside, momentarily, for their efforts in the auditions.
Grand opera holds little charm for this year's radio winners, both declared, soon after they had received their awards.
"I am interested only in the concert stage and it is in this field that I will endeavor to carve a place for myself," they chorused almost as one when they received their awards of $5,000 each at the conclusion of the audition finals through the NBC system.
Both declared they had never had other than concert ambitions, and that they would devote the two years of study, furnished by the Atwater Kent Foundation as part of the award, to furthering their early wishes.
"Unless the lure of the microphone proves too strong," Miss Rowe, who made her radio debut during the prelim
inary auditions, declared, "I plan to remain entirely in concert work."
Kane expressed himself as equally fascinated by broadcasting. Both declared they got the biggest thrill of their lives in the knowledge that they were singing through a coast-to-coast network in the audition finals.
The youthful Georgian, "the big fellow with the strong tenor voice," has been a vocal student since he was 17. And Atlanta folks knew him long before he had even thought of this year's auditions.
Long before he began serious voice study, Kane was regarded as a "boy with a good voice." Quartets were considered incomplete unless he sang the tenor and he was called on often as soloist before clubs and churches.
Active in College Glee Club
During his student days at Emory U n i v ersity, young Kane was noted for his activity on the college glee club. It was there that his voice drew attention of Atlanta's musical people and launched him on a career of serious study.
For the past several years the youth, who graduated from the university with an A. B. degree, has been soloist of the North Avenue Presbyterian Church, in his home city. He is a son of M. H. Kane, a banker.
Although he has no aversion to formal dress — in fact, "rather likes it" — Kane was the only one of the five male singers competing in the audition finals to appear in street clothes.
"Gee, I feel rather out of place," he remarked just before he started singing his "Celeste Aida'' into the microphone.
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