Music and Radio: The Fall Outlook Full of Interest and Promise

CONSIDERATION of indoor entertainment that the Fall season ushers in reveals inviting prospects for lovers of music in all its forms and especially in connection with home enjoyment.

It has become increasingly evident that musical entertainment in greater measure than ever before has been placed within reach of young and old. Even those who in former years may have been more or less indifferent are awakening to the wonderful possibilities for home enjoyment insured by the Radio, the Phonograph and the Piano as they are offered today.

This is due not merely to the fact that interest in and appreciation for music has been awakened and stimulated throughout the country as never before. It is due also to the marked improvements in the instruments that play a major part in supplying musical entertainment within the home:—To their improved construction, their ease of operation, their improved tonal qualities and to new methods of recording for the Phonograph and for the Reproducing Piano.

Beauty and style of exterior appearance has also been developed to a high degree. Casements and cabinets designed with fine artistry and fashioned in various forms by master craftsmen to meet present day living standards and requirements afford a wide range of choice. In such form the Radio Receiver and Phonograph as well as the Piano becomes one of the most attractive of home furnishings as well as a never-ending source of entertainment.

There are too those of broad vision concerned in the production of such instruments who are doing much to encourage the art of musical composition in this country, to discover and develop youthful voices of superior promise and to inspire love of fine music in the rising as well as in the present generation.

Leading houses in the piano industry have long contributed towards these ends and done much for the advancement of music both within the home and in public. Leaders in the phonograph and radio field are also cooperating.

A notable instance of this are the liberal rewards now being offered by the Victor Talking Machine Company for original works of music by American composers. Twenty-five Thousand Dollars will be awarded for the best work of symphonic type not heretofore published or performed in public and which is within the scope of a full symphony orchestra.

Awards of Ten and Five Thousand Dollars are offered for the best and next best compositions within the scope of the popular concert orchestra.

This competition, open for one year and closing the coming May, is arousing widespread interest. The judges are of national and international reputation and full particulars are being supplied on request.

The Schubert Centennial this year is being sponsored by the Columbia Phonograph Company along lines that have added greatly both here and abroad to the ever growing popularity of this great composer. They are also conducting an international competition among composers in connection with his famous Unfinished Symphony that is certain to produce interesting results.

Meantime in the radio field the Atwater Kent Foundation, which last year sponsored a highly successful nation wide quest for the discovery of promising singers, is again offering rich rewards in money, musical tuition and fame through a National Radio Audition now under way in every part of the country along lines similar to last year’s.

These are but a few of the varied and many well-planned movements in behalf of good music and more of it the country over and for more of its inspiration and enjoyment in the daily home life of old and young.