One hundred years ago today, the July 19, 1921, issue of the Bismarck (ND) Tribune
carried this article about the organ concerts being broadcast by KDKA Pittsburgh, featuring “Famous Concert Organist” Charles Heinroth.

Heinroth was the director of music and concert organist at the Carnegie Institute. His Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon recitals were carried by telephone line to KDKA across town, and then over the airwaves by the recently licensed station. The newspaper noted that the concerts were listened to by a large list of amateurs in nearly all sections of the country.

The article predicted, correctly it turns out:

In the future, if the present developments keep on at their present pace, good music can be easily obtained by every citizen. It is fairly possible that small receiving sets will be installed in homes, in such a manner that by merely inserting a plug, recitals of the same standard as Mr Heinroth’s can be heard. That this is not a far-fetched idea is attested to by the fact that radio engineers are working on the problem at this very moment. Perfections and new adaptations have come very swiftly in the past two years so it is very probable that the individual radio set for the home is an article of the very near future.

Heinroth went on to become a professor at the City College of New York in 1932, and died in 1963 at the age of 89.