OLITICS, sports and activities in all walks of life are contributing in bountiful measure to radio entertainment these days.

It is a most varied and interesting range of choice that is offered to the owner of a present day radio receiver for it embraces all phases of life from the serious to the gay.

Through it all one discerns the steadily increasing growth of the radio as a great auxiliary force in behalf of music, religion, literature, education and other agencies of human advancement.

It is no longer to be regarded merely as a device for popular entertainment but also as a real power in the formation of national tastes, beliefs and standards. Evidences of this are not lacking and will become increasingly apparent.

In this connection an interesting experiment in the field of music is the plan to bring symphonic music to the school children of the United States under the able direction of

Walter Damrosch.

For months he has been hard at work on the series of 48 concerts to be broadcast beginning October 26 over a great network of stations.

In the programs for the older boys and girls will be taken up to a limited extent the various forms which the great composers used. The whole purpose of the series is to develop a real love and appreciation of music. They are intended to supplement the musical work which many of the schools of the country are already carrying on.

Television, in connection with the radio has already received so much discussion and been the subject of so many predictions that many have been misled into thinking it wil soon be available for home use everywhere.

The scientists and research men, however, who are devoting themselves to the study television believe that many months must i tervene before difficulties can be so far over come that television sets can be sold, as radio sets are now sold, to the general public.

Just now, television is in the early stages infancy. Every art has to go through its stages of development during which a great deal of information must be gathered and the keenest minds in the art concentrated on its problems.

The public at large should know that tele vision at the present time is purely an exper The concerts are to be in four series, mental art though full of great promise for graded according to mental development from the third grade through high school and college. One series is for those in the third and fourth grades, a second for the fifth and sixth grades, a third for the seventh grade and

the future. Also that when television does come for household use it will not modify present radio receiver construction.

If and when the dreams for television materialize, the projector for home use will be ar

junior high school and the fourth for the high accessory attachable to any receiver that

schools and colleges.

In the development of these plans Mr. Damrosch is following the system so successfully used during thirty years of children's concerts at Carnegie Hall and the programs are made up entirely of the works of the great

masters.

gives satisfactory tonal reception.

This is a point of direct interest to those who already have installed radio receivers of

come convinced they should no longer forego
the
home pleasures and benefits that
any well constructed receiver now insures.

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DO NOT CARE TO WITHIN

SING ALONE

BY

Maria Teritza

SOPRANO

METROPOLITAN OPERA

COMPANY

Photo by Setzer, Vienna

ETHINK of singing as

a complete art. Yet to me the
human voice, divine as it is,
is not sufficient unto itself.
In grand opera, flute or piano
trill cadenzas with the col-
oratura; the full orchestra
thunders the chords of a

chorus. Opera stars do not sing alone.
If accompaniment is important in opera, it
is vital in concert work. Here the singer relies
entirely on the piano. Only when the piano's
tone harmonizes completely with the singer's
voice do you have that "sweetest strain'
"a song in which the singer has been lost."

I realized this during my concert tours on the Continent. But it was not until after my arrival in America that I found the piano which possesses this sympathetic tonal quality in the highest degree-the Knabe. When first I heard it, I was startled, so humanly eloquent was it. In its warm, rich tone, I seemed to hear myself singing. And soon I was singing. But I did not sing alone. The voice of the Knabe rose with my own and blended into it. My solo was a duet-and our duet was a solo.

Since then the Knabe has been my closest musical companion. It sings with me in my home in Vienna, and in my home in New York. It appears with me on the Metropolitan stage, and on the concert platform. And whatever I sing, the Knabe seems to express my emotion with a delicacy that defines every subtle shade of feeling. So the Knabe has become to me not only a perfect accompanist, but an inspiration, too, ever urging me to sing my best.

Like Madame Jeritza, you want a piano that can mirror your moods in music. Hear the Knabe- the humanly sympathetic quality of its tone. Then you will know why Jeritza chose it-why Ponselle, Martinelli and many others have chosen it, too. Why it is the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Why it is the ideal piano for your home.

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