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Summer music really can be made the most delightful pastime if you'll follow this fine writer's suggestions
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By CARLETON SMITH
Wide World
Above, the Hollywood Bowl, where thousands gather to listen to good music. Left, meet "Joe Green," famous composer. It's Giuseppe Verdi when literally translated into Italian.
A LETTER from a reader of this column came to me last week. The writer was a young girl, one who hadn't listened much to classical music until she started reading how to get more fun and enjoyment out of it in Radio Mirror.
She wrote: "It's much more fun lately to listen. But, Mr. Smith, one bad thing about it is that now, just as we're beginning to enjoy these musical programs, and get more out of them, they are going off the air. Soon the Philharmonic will be gone, and the Opera, and all the programs you've been telling us about. Maybe by next fall I'll have forgotten all about them, or lost interest."
It was a grand letter, and I enjoyed having it. But the writer was wrong when she said that all the good programs will be off the air this summer. There will be many of them. And, even though the Philharmonic and the Opera will be gone, a new, lighter, gayer, infinitely charming kind of program will take their place.
In fact, by next fall, I imagine this nice young girl will
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be more fond of music than ever before. Because, summer music can be made the most delightful, romantic pastime imaginable.
This summer we'll be listening to music from the Hollywood Bowl, which is an outdoor stadium where thousands of Californians gather to listen to music beneath the stars and amid the beautiful flowers and grasses and the wonderful Hollywood trees that are the marvel of the world. Some of these concerts will be broadcast and in different parts of the country many other concerts performed, in outdoor surroundings will be heard over the air such as the Lewisohn Stadium concerts from New York, the Robin Hood Dell concerts in Philadelphia, the Nippert Stadium concerts in Cincinnati, and broadcasts of the Army and Navy Bands from the banks of the Potomac in Washington.
It would be marvelous if we could actually attend these beautiful concerts, and if you are anywhere in the vicinity I should certainly advise you to do so. But, if you are not — if you are living in some small town in Indiana, or Iowa, or Minnesota — you needn't worry. Because, I'm going to tell you just exactly how to get the same thrill from them as the people who are actually attending. Perhaps you will get more of a thrill.
First of all, watch your Radio Mirror Program Guide for these broadcasts scheduled each month. Then, invest in a small car radio, if you haven't one already, or, if you haven't a car, buy the radio for some neighbor and plan to "attend" these glorious concerts together during the summer. (-Continued on page 82)
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