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Vocalists and instrumentalists performing musical literature will be presented in a half-hour program which promises to be truly outstanding. The first one will be heard on Saturday, August 3rd.
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In May, announcement was made by Columbia that an Advisory Board would be organized to raise the standard of children's radio programs. (This was the result of a suggestion made by the Women's National Radio Committee at a radio conference on March 25th. Columbia is the only radio company which has adopted the idea.) The Board is now complete and includes Dr. Arthur T. Jersild, of Teachers' College; Mrs. Henry Breckinridge, Chairman of the Municipal Arts Committee of New York City; Mrs. William Barclay Parsons, Jr., President of the Parents' League; Newel W. Edson, of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan, Chairman of the Women's National Radio Committee.
Nominated as the worst musical program on the air: "Home on the Range"— the serialized story of Western life for which John Charles Thomas dons cowboy chaps and a ten-gallon hat weekly. When it is considered that this artist literally packs concert halls on every appearance with people who pay to hear him sing his own musical literature, it is maddening to hear him as an "also-ran" on a mediocre program.
Frank Black's Sunday night symphonic broadcasts provide a pleasant threequarters of an hour for music-lovers. NBC might well cut fifteen minutes from some other program and give Mr. Black a full hour on the air.
Another program where good music is performed and the selections wellchosen, is Wallenstein's Sinfonietta. 9 :00 to 9 :30 P. M. E. D. S. T. on the WOR-Mutual network.
WOR broadcasts the popular Lewisohn Stadium concerts every Saturday evening at 8:30 P. M. E. D. S. T. as well as the operas presented at the Stadium on Thursdays at the same hour.
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A little station with a big idea — Station W2XR in New York City. This is on the air only four hours daily — from four to eight o'clock — but it has set a standard for itself that larger stations might well emulate. It features serious music, giving as little attention to jazz as the networks devote to good music. Instead of offering fourth-rate vaudeville to conform to its limited budget, W2XR supplements its studio talent with recorded masterpieces. Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony, Concerto in D Major by Brahms, Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor by Tschaikowsky, Excerpts from "Die Walkure" by Wagner
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