MUSIC BY RADIO.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 October 1922, Page 8

MUSIC BY RADIO.

7 . ♦ ~- , . AN AMERICAN EXPERIMENT.' For a good many,years Mr Charles D. Isaacson, of .New York, has been an ardent believer in the remedial value of good music for pers<*is who nave suffered mental overthrow He has not been a theorist merely, but has put. hie ideas into effect, notably at the Hospital for Insane at Central ; lsiip, where a series oif fine concerts have been carried out under his diree- ! turn, designed to «quiet, spiritualise, entertain and improve the unfortunate in that institution, the largest in the country" (states the ~ San* Francisco -EiXammer). , It is recorded that the concerts have been looked forward to by the patients with enthusiasm, and that the medical superintendent, Dr G. A. Smith is a^ great believer in the potency of music'as a good influence over the asylum mmate3. v .Very recently Mr Isaacson decided to try the experiment of giving a S Ueew \ y- Ta? io' The co-operation of the Westmghouse Station WJZ, of Newark, was secured, and arrangements were made to give the opfra _ Cavallena Eusticana," competently ■greeted and with an'adequate cas{ Mr Isaacson himself telling the story ot ™ opera, also by telephone. Ihe^novel enterprise proved a very marked success. Something like 3000 inmates of the asylum gathered in the auditorium, and a- gigantic "loudspeaker," especially installed for the occasion rendered the performance almost as clearly as if the artists were present, instead of fifty miles or so away. Astonishment as well as delight was written on the faces of the audience, to all of whom the performance was absolutely novel, and many Jf whom had not known even of the existence of radio. It is said that