| Show Swing Gives Way to Classics As Talking Machine Reappears i EW YORK The The death N NEW of a swing mad 40 1930 decade finds classical music regaining its traditional place in American artistry so fast that phonograph manufacturers ers and radio networks cant can't keep up with the demand This Christmas season the old fashioned talking machine machine machine ma ma- chine has been streamlined while thousands of phonograph records records rec have been placed around the family Yule tree In keeping with a revival the like of which America has never seen before That sum lum the state of music mu sic at the end endot of ot a decade which sent lent ach Beetho- Beetho un en n and Wager Wag Wag- er fler scurrying for tor cover under un der a barrage of swing and brought them back again when swing had swung itself out The thirties also brought their share of good popular tunes A survey lurvey by the National BroadcastIng Broadcast Broadcast- Ing tag company revealed the following list of favorite tunes How now many do you recall 1929 1929 Happy Happy Days Are Here lIere Again 1930 1930 1 1 Got Rhythm 1931 1931 Stardust Fiddle Pia Play 1933 Love 1933 Love In lo Bloom 1931 1931 Waton Wheels 1935 Red 1935 Red Bed Sails Salts In the Sunset 1930 1936 Is 1 It True What They Say About Dixie Vlene lene Vlene 1938 1938 A T A-T 1939 1939 Over Over the Rainbow Musicians give radio much of th th credit for tor the rebirth of ot cJ classical music Grand opera once the play play- thing hing of a select few tew has been by regular broadcasts chief chief- ly Iy y over NBC during the Metropolitan tan season York Symphony concerts are broadcast throughout the he year two outstanding examples being the Saturday night NBC serica series se se- se rica ries under Maestro Arturo Tosca Tosca- nini and the CBS broadcast of NewYork NewYork New NewYork York Philharmonic concerts each Sunday during the winter season European Concerts Helped Until the war many concerts came from abroad In 1938 1038 for example 18 European orchestras contributed 24 21 programs to the NBC network There were three operatic ic Ie broadcasts from the Salzburg festival fes fes- fes in Austria one from Bayreuth and two from the Verdi anniversary festival at Turin In addition to network programs an Increasing number of Individual stations are now broadcasting regular regu regu- lar br periods of classical music One small station In New York broadcasts broadcasts broad broad- casts nothing else aU all day long longi |
