Famous Musicians Broadcast

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 11, 25 September 1931, Page 5

Famous Musicians Broadcast

" A SIGN of the times is the large number of famous musicians who are abandoning the concert platform for the broadcasting studio," said Mrs. J. Paykel, formerly Miss Kiva Stern, of New York, who arrived in Auckland recently after her marriage in Honolulu to Mr. J. Paykel, of Auckland. Since her first visit to Auckland last winter, Mrs, Paykel has given a number of pianoforte recitals in New York, and she became one of the most popular musical artists engaged by the National Broadcasting Company of America. "Damrosch is one of the celebrities who has left the concert platform for broadcasting, and he is now conducting an orchestra for one of the radio companies," said Mrs. Paykel. "Toscha Seidel, the violinist, is another famous musician who can now only be heard over the air. Heifetz, who held out for years against broadcasting, played for the radio last winter. Mischa Biman is also playing for the radio, and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and all the Metropolitan Opera stars arg

‘ broadcasting. These musicians first maintained that people would not go to hear them if they could be heard equally well over the wireless, but I think it stands to reason that the radio introduces them to a much wider public, which, having heard them over the alr, will go to see them on the platorm,"