Week-End with Music
Abstract
WEEK-END T HE Columbia Broadcasting System' s “Week-End With Music, “planned as an intermission interlude in a symphonic broadcast, has engendered so much nation-wide enthusiasm that it is regarded by many as a high spot in the Sunday afternoon concerts of the New York Philharmonic (3:00 to 4:30 p.m. EST), sponsored by Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Each week-end, three high school students are selected to come to New York City, all expenses paid, for a round of concerts, opera, musical shows and interviews with stars of the music world, climaxed by the Sunday afternoon Philharmonic concert. The very process of selecting three talented high school musicians from thousands of nominees-with the resultant publicity-awakens general interest in the work of high school musicians and their teachers and, of course, also stimulates listener interest in the Philharmonic broadcasts. Each invitation to audition for the broadcast is regarded as a distinct personal honor, and an actual selection becomes an event of proud triumph for the particular community represented. The MENC and other prominent music organizations cooperate with teachers and principals in the selection of the students, who are chosen on the basis of outstanding musical and scholastic ability-plus an