Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1940)

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j .kj / dc>r FEDERAL PROTEST SEEN IF ASCAP BLACKOUT Duplicating a similar performance held recently at the San Francisco Exposition, which it is alleged was deliberately ignored by the radio stations, the American Society of Composers will sponsor a Cavalcade of American Music at the New York World's Fair on Thurs¬ day, October 24. This may prove the first Eastern showdown in the big fight between ASCAP and NAB. How many stations or networks will broadcast this performance remains to be seen. If there is a duplication of the West Coast radio blackout, it is understood the Composers will address a strong protest to President Roosevelt, the Federal Communications Commission and Congress. said: Gene Buck, returning from the ASCAP show at San Francisco, "The fact that the Fair was able to draw such a crowd for a special event without a bit of help from radio is proof that any¬ one with an important message to put across to the public can still do it exclusively through the press. It shows that, in contacting the public, newspapers still come first. " The New York World' s Fair Cavalcade will comprise the highlights of American music, composed and written by members of the Society. It is being given as part of the ceremonies celebrat¬ ing its TwentyFifth Anniversary. There will be two concerts, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. Both will be free to the public. The afternoon concert will feature the Rochester Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and symphonic works of members of the Society, including Henry Hadley Deems Taylor, Dr. Howard Hanson, William Grant Still and Morton Gould. The evening concert will have Gene Buck as Master-ofCeremonies and will be devoted to a Cavalcade of American songs of the past and present. There will be a tribute to the memories of Victor Herbert, ASCAP ' s Founder; John Philip Sousa and George Gershwin . The following composers and authors have come from Holly¬ wood for the occasion: Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jean Schwartz and Walter Donaldson. An extra added attraction will be Gene Autry, the cowboy singer-composer, who wil sing some of his own Western melodies. The partial program of composers and authors who will appear in person and who will either play or sing their own composi¬ tions, follows: Irving Berlin "God Bless America"; George M. Cohan 'I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy"; "Give My Regards to Broadway", "Grand Old Flag"; Jerome Kern "Ole Man River", "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", All the Things You Are"; Sigmund Romberg "Lover Come Back To Me", 6