Word: 8h
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio's great free-show firmament were in their places for the long winter evenings: Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy. The Philharmonic had arranged to broadcast on tour; a hallowed hush awaited Arturo Toscanini next week in NBC's starchy Studio 8H. Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like Bingo if the antigambling goblins...
Radio listeners, as well as the 1,300 who filled NBC's Studio 8H, found that Composer Shostakovich had backtracked with a vengeance. His Fifth Symphony avoided the boisterous clatter that had marred his earlier "May Day" Symphony (No. 3). returned to the vitality and sincerity of the First Symphony which made him famous ten years ago. Dominant influences observable in it were not those of post-War modernists but of such romantic symphonists as the late Gustav Mahler...