BROADCASTING CONCERTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 October 1924, Page 7

BROADCASTING CONCERTS.

ALL RIGHT FOR HYENAS. BUT NOT FOrTgALLI-CURCI. LONDON, Oct. 11. Mr Lionell Powell, agent for Madame Galli-Curci, the prima donna, whose four concerts at the Albert Hall have been booked up for weeks ahead, refuses to entertain the suggestion that her songs should be broadcasted before she 'leaves England. “Broadcasting is all right,” he says, “for unsuccessful artists and also for ‘zoo’ hyenas, but no first-class artist ever sings in a broadcasting studio, and none ever will, and at the same time, retain the power to draw an audience. Madame Galli-Curci receives from £IO,OOO to £15,000 for singing for a gramophone record. “A BOON,” SAYS SPANISH SINGER Madame d’ Alvarez, the Spanish contralto, denounces managers for inserting clauses in contracts forbidding artists to participate •in radio concerts. She says that broadcasting is such .a boon to the sick, the crippled, and the vast army of the afflicted, unable to attend concerts and operas, that the melody which broadcasting bad brought into their lives should not be snatched away.