Best broadcasts of 1938-39 (1939)

Record Details:

Title:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Date:
1939
Publisher:
New York : Whittlesey House
Volume:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Leaf #:
000531
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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SEEMS RADIO IS HERE TO STAY 0 Ludwig ! Have you got your hearing back ? We call your hallowed bones! We shout. Do we disturb your dust ? How restful is your rest there in Vienna, anyway ? Death is too long a leisure, we suspect. For one of such invention. You must be out assembling harmonies somewhere. But listen, Master: hear: Music. — Sneak in. Narrator. — There are more ears attending you tonight Then ever you imagined could perceive a note : And all at once; this instant. More by millions than you ever saw In continents of concert halls. Your music gets around these days. On plains, on mountains and on shores you never heard of. You are heard tonight. Your music beats against a sounding board of stars; It flows in raptures down spillways of space; It sweeps, precisely in the pattern you set down. Across immensity. Music. — Up full to conclusion. Narrator. — You see, Beethoven? You have not been changed By so much as a hemidemisemiquaver. Let’s turn our microphone And hail a hunk of loam in Stratford. O Shakespeare! William Shakespeare! We are calling from a land you’d like to be acquainted with : Four dozen federated states in North America Not far from those Bermudas that you wrote about. Here are new Venices and Elsinores New Athenses and Troys, 507 1