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THt l-AMOLS .NBC SVMFHUNV 01iCHtSTR.\ ON THE STAGE IN Tilt U OIU-D S LAliCEST BROADCASTING STUDIO, 8-H, RADIO CITY. RIGHT — ARTTJRO TOSCANINI. TOSCANINI RETURNS TO NBC Maestro Opens Symphoni) Season Ooer Network on November l-. He and Stokoivski Each to Conduct 12 Concerts During Winter. IK EVER THERE was u time when music was needed and sought after, plaimers of radio programs believe, that time is now. More people than ever before, it has been found, are finding through music temporary es- cape from harsh and drab realities in an uncertain world. A Britain at war reports listening to more concert music in tiiis third vear of W'orld War II tiian ever before in its history. This wartime trend reflects a swing in popular taste away from dance music to Bacli, Beethoven, Mo- zart, Brahms. \\'agner. The London Philharmonic, playing nigiitly to jam- packed audiences in provincial Eng- lisii music halls, finds response greatest ill the most hea\ ily blitzed towns. Cheering news for an increasing army of music lovers in the U. S. is the announcement that there is to be no wartime blackout of the NBC Sym- phony Orchestra's popuhir broadcast concerts. The 1942-43 NBC S)inphony season will be formally launched over the NBC network Siindav, November 1, under the baton of .\rturo Toscaniiii, who is slated for twelve concerts dur- ing the 24-week season. Leopold Sto- kowski is to lead the remaining dozen Winter programs. NBC has frozen a new spot (Sun- days, 5:00-6:00 p.m., EWT) for the series. Five preliminary concerts, with guest iiatoneers, began Sundav, Sep- tember 27. A 125-stati(m network will carr\' the concerts, and the short \va\es will flash them to Latin America. Toscanini will be at the helm No- vember 1 and 8; Stokowski is to take over for five broadcasts starting No- vember 15. Toscanini will return De- cember 20 for an eight-week run. and then Stokowski on Februarv 14 for seven programs. Toscanini is to lead the two final Winter concerts April 4 and 11. The start of the new series marks the begiiming of Toscanini's fifth full sea- son with the orchestra, Stokowski's second. In 1941-42, the only period in which Toscanini was not billed as the organization's featured leader, the maestro took a sabbatical vear from broadcasting and Stokowski directed in his stead. Toscanini did, however, lead the group tliat season in fi\e spe- cial broadcasts under U. S. Treasury Department auspices and in the sensa- tional Western hemisphere premiere of Shostako\ieh"s Seventh Symphony. Return of the unit to exclusive NBC facilities comes after a nine-month ab- sence (save for the Shostakovich event) during which the orchestra was presented over the Blue Network. 1 14 RADIO AGE