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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1948: Grover A. Whalen, Chairman of the Committee of the Golden Jubilee Celebration, reports on plans for the event.
1950: This is My Block presents a docudrama about a man who embarks on a quest to clean up his neighborhood and discovers the Sanitation Department can help him
1966: Richard Nixon talks to the Overseas Press Club about the course of action in Vietnam.
1978: Richard Marshall talks about "Art About Art," on Round and About the Guggenheim with Mimi Poser.
1987: Author Joan Didion is Leonard Lopate's guest on this edition of New York & Company.
1991: The Loren Schoenberg Jazz Orchestra performs for Around New York, hosted by John Schaefer.
2001: The News Department reports on bomb scare at Grand Central Station.
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WNYC's 'Town Baritone'
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
Some Municipalities Have a Town Crier... Frank Doblin is 'Town Baritone' of WNYC.
"Frank C. Doblin, protege of the great Victor Maurel of Metropolitan fame, is the man of parts--and high notes--- in question. He has sung for the taxpayers and out-of-towners since the earliest days of WNYC, the municipality's own transmitter. No more fitting choice could be made, write the fans, because when he is not pursuing his musical hobbies Mr. Doblin follows his vocation of tailor de luxe for the society folks in Brooklyn....
"There is nothing of the New Yorkese tinge to the highly-trained Doblin accents. He sings in German, French, and Italian as well as English. Week after week he displays an amazing repertoire. Hundreds of programs have been given by Mr. Doblin, as his contribution to civic service....The city pays no artists, but those who regularly appear before the microphone in the Municipal Building are of the highest artistic standing...
As an indication of the baritone's interesting civic contribution..[we can list] the following selections from recent Doblin concerts at WNYC: "Mephistopheles Serenade" from Faust (Gounod), "Quande Ero Paggio" from Falstaff, the "Evening Star" of Tannhauser, the inevitable "Toreadore" from Carmen, Ich Liebe Dich (Grieg), Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (Tchaikowsky), Un Doux Lien (Delbruck),...[and the list goes on.... ] "
Source: Photo and excerpts from Eric C. Palmer's, "Town Baritone Is Title Boasted by Doblin of Station WNYC," Radio Digest, April, 1930, pg. 108.
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