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