Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 21

1 Radio Symphonies FRUITVALE SCHOOL Visit toXasfro School Slated fEL CERRITO, Dec lIA visit to Castro School, i' model among new school plants, will be made Oakland Tribune, Friday, Dec. 1, 1950. 21 by members of the Bay Section Donal and Lawrence Streets. New books, teaching aids and device! garnered from the entire Bay area will be on display. DEDICATION RITES TONIGHT Wide Protests From Music Lovers of the Association for Childhood Education tomorrow from 11 a.m.

to 4 p.m. The school Is situated at By JOHN CROSBY Mrs. Cora A. Riser, director of and Engineering for the Oakland Public Schools: Charles flrhver the Oakland Board of NEW YORK, Dee. 1 Nothing) As.

an added Indignity, the assistant superintendent; Forrest music to a coast-to-coast audience is conceivably, the greatest contribution radio ever made to the rfi tak'n a mora severe kicking concerts are now transcribed. The Qtcy YP tonight will officially present the new $497,700 Fruitvale School to the community Dedication ceremonies of the 'around this year than symphony Micneii, administrative assistant, and Donald B. Rice, business manager for Oakland Public Schools. listener is hearing a concert which was given a week earlier at Carnegie Hall. Nothing in my' music.

Just a few years ago, tKi 20th and Broadway new school, 3134 Boston memory has brought such a storm American people. A few years back, in addition to the Philharmonic and the NBC symphonies, networks carried the Boston and the Detroit symphonies, too. Both have disappeared from the networks except for a rehearsal program of the Boston Symphony heard on Sat ihf.ilsated with especially on Sunday afternoons. Music Iqvera all over the country looked forward to Sunday afternoon -for the New s-York Philharmonic on CBS and Jor the NBC Symphony, These -were, and are, two of the finest a a -iL of protests to this desk. LISTENER PROTESTS "For 20 years," writes an outraged listener from St.

Louis to William S. Paley, "the Philharmonic was the nearest a listener ever got to an actual concert hall impression. There were the inevitable waits, pauses, latecomers; someone always coughed from coast to coast: there was the magic rustle and Crippled Children TcrRide Park Train Oakland's crippled children will be treated to a day of special train rides Sunday in Lakeside park. Arrangements were made with Jack Collier, owner and builder of the. train, by the 'Oakland urdays.

(Not a bad either, but hardly a recompense for the concert). Symphony music on the air Is certainly in terrible shape, Ctrrf(M, 1DM, far Th, Trlbana 1 stir of people gathered to listen and the curtain rise at endCOYengCr ACCUSed will begin at 8 p.m. with Principal Paul Fleming acting as master of ceremonies. Selmer H. Berg, superintendent of schools, will speak and Mr.

and Mrs. Redman Bertaud, presidents of the Dads' Club and P-T respectively, will accept the school on behalf of the Fruitvale community. Capacity of the new school is 525 students and in a floor area of 44,000 square feet, there are 14" classrooms, a a kinder-: garteh, a cafeteria, and an auditorium. i The reinforced concrete building was designed by Ponsford and I Price, architects, and was IfuiJti by John E. Branagh and Son, contractors.

Honored guests include: Oscar Price, representing Police Officer Winston W. Werner, dierctor of the Fruitvale Junior Traffic Patrol; Mrs. Louise Roinestad of the Dimond Branch Library; Robert W. Crawford, superintendent of the City Recire ation Department; Charles W. Whitton, director of Architecture of tuning.

This was no pro In Oakland Theth musical aggregation on eann. Symphony music on Sunday became an American tradition, 'something akin to, though on an 'infinitely higher plane than the ld band concerts in the park of years ago, Then NBC moved Ks symphony out of jU hallowed Sunday spot to make way for the vTord Theater, a triumph of over art which left music shaking "with indignation. Theater vanished long ago and today its period on NBC is filled by "Counterspy and Charlie Wild, a couple of whodunits which leem, in that hour, almost profane. NOW ON MONDAYS duction. This was the real thing, a live Would you transcribe a football game for broadcast the following Saturday so Robert L.

Carrington, scavenger of 3879 West: Street, was held to answer to Superior Court today for" one count of burglary of an automobile and also for that crowd noises and time-out delays could be edited out? Junior Chamber of Commerce, under the leadership of Kenneth Hammill. In co-operation with Collier and various homes for crippled children, the rides will continue from I to 4 p.m., starting at the Canoe House in Lakeside Park. The Youth Welfare Committee of the Junior Chamber which planned the train rides is also sponsoring an annual Christmas party in the Municipal Auditorium. Children from needy families will have an opportunity to see Santa Claus and receive gifts of toys and candy. "The Philharmonic has always; two prior convictions made us feel that we had tickets The defendant was bound over to Carnegie Hall.

Your decision; yesterday by Municipal Joseph A Kennedy. The prior convictions keeps us out. It tells us that we are only a second class audience. In the interval, the NBC has named were for car theft in August, 1948, and for petty theft been kicked all over the place and to mu.si5 is in Partu cor" wishes panionable, social; one toji junti 1949, both in Alameda foday it roosts in a spot on Mon taiK aDoui write aDoui it, reaa; County. 'days.

That, I submit, is pretty about it. Under your plan 1 snail 1 darned late for a symphony con al read about it before I ve heard the concert The result will be the editing-out of the listeners' happy sense of being present in Carnegie Hall." DEVOTED AUDIENCE From Houston, Texas, which takes pride in its culture, a listener complains that the Philharmonic has been dropped Cashmere Sweqfcrs- new low price! short 10 9 5 KJf 20th and Broadway CLEARANCE Furred and Fur-Lined COATS 6597 to 18756 cert. It is particularly disheartening in that position because it follows two and a half hours of 4 type of music which can hardly be mentioned in the same sentence with the NBC Symphony (he Symphonette, the Railroad 'Hour, the Voice of Firestone, the 'Telephone Hour and Bands of 'America. Following this clamorous assortment, a man's ear is in shape for the delicate nuances Of the NBC Symphony, which, Incidentally, is heard transcribed in some areas at a different time different way. This year CBS moved the Philharmonic, the first regular network symphony program, from locally -and will be restored iortfjH Onginally .) to 229.9) if a large number of protests are received).

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