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MU SIC By Helen Fetter Soviet gove scha; covering the « startling disclosures from th The composer's entries, for nment has secn fit to publish the diaries of P. I. years 1873-91. Those who awaited is publication have been disappointed. the most part, are brief, pages upon pages containing nothing but the names of persons with whom life brought him into contact, day by day. But with Tolstoi, for instance, whom he his comment is fuller when he deals calls “incomprehensible, incomparable and solitary in his unfathomable majesty.” There are interesting side- lights on Tschaikowski's opinions Mozart was his god. He placed gquartets he “hated”—that is his exp Bizet’s “Carmen.” Tschaikowski's about the music of other composers. him beside Christ. Beethoven's last ression. We know his enthusiasm for life, written by his brother Modeste, gave to the world, many years ago, interesting excerpts from Peter’s letters and diaries. Among the lattes he kept on his voyage to America fi He visited Washington. in New York, 1895, runners of the present skyscraper, very superstitious. to live on the thirteenth floor HE Inter vals this year. The first, in Pra be devoted to orchestral works exclusively. music, will be held at Venice early be heard in Venice are two Japancse pieces by the American, Henry heim, whose “Oriental Impressions r one of the most extensive is the one ! or the inauguration of Carnegie Hall, Even in those days the fore- Tschaikowski s overawed him. was, He could not understand that any one should want rational Society for Contemporary Music is giving two festi- to last from May 1-15, and will The second, for chamber Amoug the music to gue, i in September. " were performed in Washington one of the three concerts given last year in the Freer Gallery through the munificence of Mrs. “Oriental Impressions.” arranged by played in Washington by Mr. Stoko * ¥ ETER of the words “bel canto,”. gave which, in true tenor fashion. he scc a little longer than is pardonable Singer as “a Bulgarian by birth, an I by unpunctuality.” Since when are hat direction? Oscar Wilde said t it all depends whose time he was talking about: straggle into the hall during the first numl ing and rustling, deserve the blame their conception of time. 5 HE Bristol (England) Madrigal Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Two of these the composer for full orchestra, were wski and his men * RAITSCHEFF, a tenor, who evidently still knows the meaning a recital in Berlin, not long ago, at ms to have kept the audience waiting One of the critics referred to the talian by voice-method and a Russian | Russiaus such notorious offenders in hat “punctuality is a waste of time. People who noisily rs of a concert, with clatter- if concert-givers are too Russian in Society is planning to cclebrate the 300th anniversary of the famous English madrigal composer, Orlando Gibbous, on June 3, with festival c and instrumental compositions. - The oncerts devoted to some of his vocal interest in a cappella singing of Eng- lish and Italian madrigals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has in late years made great gains, It is “English Singers.” consisting of six markable success both in England to visit America next Autumn and *® K RSULA GREVILL editor of It is rumored that the group known as the members, who have won such a re- and on the European continent, are will be heard in Washington. * % ; the Sackbut (London) writes: “The really great teachers of interprctation are those who train their stu- dents to inquire for themselves, rather than copy, however perfect, a model, and T have met few singing capable of interpreting the modern able to appreciate the moderns usua teachers who, being ex-singers, were song; for the singers who are most Iy remain singers rather than become teachers; and you cannot, with the best results, teach others what you dislike and cannot understand yourself. Interpretation is surely a matter of brains rather than of voice, so far as teaching is concerned. Some of . Lt the best lessons I have had in ‘my life were from men who could not sing a note; but they knew what was required and drew a picture so bravely that I could see for myself what was wanted, and with never a note sung. Miss Greville is an accomplished singer with an unusually flexible soprano voice. Her interpretations of modern songs were heard again this Winter in New York. * k ’I'HERE are conflicting reports afl unfinished opera, “Turandot.” * K o oat as to who will complete Puccini's One report has it that Arturo Tos- canini will orchestrate the third act of the opera; according to another source the work will be done by Mascagni. composer-pianist, also died in the mi Ferrucio Busoni, the famous idst of writing an opera. He was en- gaged in the composition of a “Faust,” which is now to be completed by one of his last pupils, Philip Jarnach. * % ORG VOLLERTHUN, a pupil in composition of Radeke and Gerns- heim, has written an opera, “Iceland Saga” its first performance at the Opera vhich recently received House in Munich. Mr. Vollerthun is a man of about 50.. The critics thought that the austere and somber world of the Nordic tales was well reflected in the music. Apparently the third act of the opera made the best impression. But it is hardly a work that would recommend itsclf to those who are looking for post-prandial cheer. One of the characters in the opera i s named Glum—absit omen! CONCERTS Philharmonic group in,recital at the First Congregational Church today at vespers, at 4:45 p.m. Horace Alwyne's lecture on the gram of the season at 1734 N noon at 4:30 o'clock. .. and tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. last Philadelphia Symphony pro- street northwest tomorrow after-, United States Marine Band concert at the barracks tomorrow at 3 pm. Philadelphia Symphony Orchestr. ater Tuesday afternoon at 4 “Martha,” a_and Cortot at the National The- :30 o'clock. Community . Center production, at Central High School Tuesday night at 8 o'clock: at Eastern High School Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. Efrem Zimbal United States Marine Band conc also), Friday night at 8:15 o'clock, Bruno Huhn, American compos st, violinist, in recital at Poli's Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. ert in band auditorium (broadcast in i T, nitial Washington recital at Rauscher’s Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Philharmonic Group—Today and Tomorrow. - The Philharmonic Group of New York, consisting of Dorsey Whitting- ton, pianist; Carl Schlegel, baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and “harles King. pianist-accom- panist, will give three different pra- zrams at the First Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets northwest Mr. Schlegel is appearing with the permission of the Metropolitan Opera ompany At 4:45 p.m. today this group will present the followigg program: Piano, “Intermezzo, E Flat Major" (Brahms), Jeossaises” (Beethoven): ritone solo, “Ave Marie” (Schubert); piano solo, Berceuse” (Chopin), “Fantasie Impromptu” (Chopin) At 8 p.m., Mr. Schlegel will give two bharitons solos and Mr. King will play Melodie” and “Elegy,” both by Rach- maninoff. Tomorrow night, at 8 p.m., the con- cert program will be: “Varfations on & Theme by Beethoven’ (Saint-Saens), Mr. Whittington and Mr. King; “Salve Regina” (Parker), “Ungeduld” (Schu- hert), “Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt” (Tchaikowsky), “Song of the Open” (La Forge), Mr. Schlegel; “Fantasic in Minor’” (Chopin), 'May Night” almgren), “Dreamer’s Tale” (Peter- kin), “Reflections on the Water” (De- bussy), “Shepherds, Hey” (Grainger), Mr. Whittington: “In a Temple Gar- den” (Spross), “My Prayer” (Squire), “Ho! Mr. Piper’ (Curran), “Pro- logue to Pagliacci” (Leoncavallo), Mr. Schlegel; “Espana” (Chabrier), Mr. Whittington and Mr. King. Horace Alwyne—Tomorrow. Horace Alwvne, director of the mu- sic department, Bryn Mawr College, who has been giving a series of in- teresting lecture-recitals on the pro- grams presented here by the Phlia- delphia mphony Orchestra. this Winter, will give the last of the se- ries tomorrow afternoon at the Fed- eration of Women's Clubs headquar- ters, 1734 N street northwest, at 4:30 o'clock. The compositions to be dis- cussed are listed in the orchestra’s program. printed elsewhere on this page. These lectures are sponsored by the local alumnae chapter of the college, Mr. ‘Alwyne will appear in recital with the Washington Madrigal Soclety during the coming month. U. S. Marine Band Concert Tomorrow and Friday. The remalning Marine Band Or- ohestra’s night concerts will be given ¥riday nights at 8:16 o'olock in the band suditorium at the Marine Bar- racks, Instead of Wednesday nights, There has been insistent demand for the broadcasting.of these con- certs and station WCAP, having its program filled with studio recitals Wednesday nights, asked this change be made in order that it might broadcast the programs of the Marine Band Orchestra direct from the band auditorium at the Marine Barracks. The regular Monday afternoon or- chestra concerts will be continued at | 3 p.m.. the usual time. | Tomorrow afternoon's program will | be: March, “Call of America” (Van | der Mehden): overture, “Figaro’s | Wedding” (Mozart): “A Baker's Boy and a Chimney Sweep,” from “The Debutante” (Herbert); “Rustle of | Spring” (Sinding). excerpts from “Tales of Hoffman” (Offenbach); waltz, “The North Star” (Waldteufel): | descriptive fantasia, “In a Clock Store” (Orth); suite, “Caucasian | Sketches” (Ivanow); Marines’ hymn, | “The Halls of Montezuma,” and “The Star Spangled Banner.” Friday's concert at §:15 p.m. will be: March, “The Washington Pos: (Sousa); overture, “Roi la Dit" (De- libes); suite Espagnole, “La Fete de Sevilla” (Tavan); violincello solo, “Kol Nidrei” (Brush), musiclan, Fritz A. Mueller; grand scenes from “Car- men” (Bizet): waltz, “Tales From the | Vienna Woods" (Strauss); orchestral | suite, “Peer Gynt” (Grieg); Marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma,” and “The Star Spangled Banner.” Philadel p]'EMOrchestra, Tuesday. The Philadelphia Orchestra will play at the National Theater Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, with Leo- pold Stokowski conducting. Alfred Cortot, French planist, who was heard recently in a delightful recital here, will be the soloist. The program will include: “Sym- phony in B Flat Major” (Chausson) ‘Fete<Dieu a Seville” (Albeniz), “Con- certo for Piana and Orchestra, No. 4, in C Minor" (Saint-Saens), and the Tailleferre “Concerto. This concert marks the close of the | appearances of this orchestra at the | National Theater, as concerts mnext =meason will be given at the Wash- ington Auditorium, where the greatly increased capacity makes it possible for the hundreds who have been un- able to secure seats in the past to obtain desirable locations. Applca- tion blanks, with subscription rates, may be obsained from the T. Arthur Smith, Inc, Concert Bureau, at 1306 G street. - “Martha,” Tuesday and Wednesday. Flotow's opera, ‘“Marth | will be _ipresented Tuesday and Wednesday h- | Church Specials TODAY at-4:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek parish, J. H. Maunder's well known Baster cantata, “Olivet to Calvary,” will be sung under the direction of H. H. Freeman. The soloists will be Mabel Witman, soprano; S. Elizabeth Kerr, contralto; Warren Terry, tenor, and Horuce Lake, bass. Next Sund: at the same hour, the choir will sing “The Darkest Hour,” by Harold Moore, assisted by Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, bass. Percy Cox will give the fifth in the series of Lenten organ recitals at Eplphany Chureh, Wednesday after- noon, at 4 assisted by Emily | Marsin, sopranc. T. Guy Lucas, organist of St. John's Church, Lafayette Square, assisted by Katharine Riges. harpist, will pre sent the following program Satur- day afterncon at 4:45 o'clock: Fugue on’ the chorale “Wir Glauben All in i 107 (Havh); two chorale pro- Sacved Head, Surround- nd “In fir ist Freude” ithe horal: from ti ch): har (Hasselman) s slow movement from Symphony” (Schu- (Faure): “Audante in reh” (Bl Boul i ( ens): “Th Rhenish mann); har, Meditation” (Iahn); D" (Hollins); mperial M gar). Tho last in this series will be given Muy 6, st Sunday, at 4 pm., and Good Friday, at 8 p.m., the church choir will slng “The P'assion of Our Lord,” | by Schuetz. As the conclusion of this sixteenth century work Is missing, Mr {Lucas has attempted a finale of his {own. - 5 of thef of the Advent, presentation of God's Time Is Best,” lust Sunday, that proved successful It probable that this is the first complete Hach cantata ever given in Washington N John R. Monroe, director ehoir of the Church an ambitious is Chureh sniith, ¢ The choir of St Job corgetown, August Kin nist and director, will give a cof- rt of sacred music tomorrow eve- ning at 8 o'clock The publie is in- vited. The choir will I sisted by pranos and four contraltos program will feature: Organ prelude. “Prayer” (Lemaigre): an- | them, “God That Madest Earth and | Heaven” (Matthews): “Lord God fof Abraham,” from “Eitjah” (Men- delssohn), Richard McCarteney; an- | th rhis Is the Day” (Gaul); solo ! My ask” (Ashford), Miss Clara | Hoftstetter; duet, *“The Crucifix” (Faure), Mr. Myers and Mr. MeCar teney: anthem, “The Radiant Morn" (Woodward); solo, “The Lord Is My | Light” (Allitsen), Harry Myers; an- them. “God Is & Spirit’ (Bennett King-Smith), women's chorus; offer- tory, Spring Song’ (Mendelssohn) anthem,™ “Benedictus Domine” (Beach): postlude, march from “Die Meistersinger” (Wagner). Special music eill be given today at Epworth M. E. Church South by Louis Potter, director; Edwin Moore, organist, in honor of the Southern fethodist Conference being held here The music will include: Orzan pre- lude, “Cradle Song’, (Delbruck); an- them, “T Waited fof the Lord” (Men- delssohn), with solos by Miss Rams and Miss Harstin: trio, “Praise Y (Verdi), Miss Ramsey, Mr. Welch and Mr. Potter; organ postlude, “Grand Chorus” (Lemaigre for morning service; recital at 4 organ, “Sun- rise” (Jacob) and “Caprice Heroique” (Bennett); anthem, “Still, Still With Thee" (Speaks): solo, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” (MacDougall), Frances Boteler, and organ postlude, lae- stoso” (Boellmann). The music for today's services at thie Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church South, under the direction of R. Deane Shure, will be as follows: Morning, organ prelude, “Le Doux Reve" (Leschetizky), Mrs. Frank A. Frost: anthem, “Lord, Thou | Alone Art Great” from “St. Paul” | OMendelssohn): quartet with soprano obbligato. “The Prayer in the Woods™ | (Abt), Mrs. J. Frank Rice, W. Arthur. McCoy, A. Clifford Wilkin, Howard P. | Batley and James P. Schick; organ | postiude, “Gloria,” from “Twelfth Mass" l-(Mozart); evening, first public per- formance of “The Shenandoah” sym- phonic suite, by Shure, at the organ recital at 7:40 o'clock; eanthem, “Thanks Be to God,” from “Elijah" (Mendelssohn); quartet, “There’s a Beautiful Song” (Stebbin): organ postiude, votte in E Flat” (Roeder) evenings by the Community Center Department at Central High School and Eastern High School, respectively, under Estelle Wentworth and Albert Parr's direction. The cast of local singers includes Betty Thornberry, Nina Norman, Ellsworth Condron, Russell Coudrey, Woodruff Youngs and Albert Parr. The entire opera will be given with attractive stage settings and costumes, and a complete cast of well trained Washington singers from leading church choirs, George Washington University Glee Giubs and various neighborhood musical groups. Both programs will start promptly at 8 p.m. Zimbalist, Wednesday. Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist, will be heard in recital at Poli's The- ater Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock. Zimbalist's tone is unique. His command of the technique.of the in- strument is complete and his inter- pretations are individual. Mr. Zimbalist's program will in- clude “Sonata, D Major" (Haendel), “Concerto in G Minor” (Hubay), “Im- provisation on a Japanese Tune” (Zimbalist), “Molly on the Shore” (Grainger), “La Gitana” (Kreisler), “Liebesleid” (Kreisler), “Carmen Fan- tasie” (Bizet-Sarasate). Seats are on sale at Mrs. Greene's bureau, Thirteenth and G streets. Bruno Huhn, Saturday. Bruno Huhn, well known as an American composer of delightful songs, will give his first recital of his compositions in Washington next Saturday afternoon,/April 4, under | the auspices of the local alumnae club of Mu Phi Epsiion national musi- cal sorority, at Rauscher's, in the ball room, at 3 p.m. This is the third and final recital in the series for the benefit of the MacDowell Colony. Mr. Huhn has appeared here before, but only at White House musicals, when he came to accompany some singer, for he is considered an accompanist par excellenc % Mr. Huhn was born in England and lived many vears In Australia. He is now a naturalized American. Gret- chen Hood, soprano, and Raymond G. Moore, baritone, and the Monday Morning Music Club, Mrs. W. E. Hil- ton, director, will sing Mr. Huhn's numbers, with the composer at the plano. The program will he: Baritone solos, “Love's Triumph,” a song cycle ecret of Bacchus,” “Tsrafel,” “Den. ny’s Daughter,” and “Back to Ire- Love's Phi- “When Summer | Endeavor U Changes™” (considered by Mr. Huhn as his best song), and “Eldorado”; duets, “The Hunt" and “Ships That Pass in the Night”; ensemble songs for female voices, “Blest Pair of Sirens,” “The Message,” “The Unknown.” Tickets are on sale by Mrs. E. H. ‘Watson, secretary of the club, at 1112 Fairmont street northwest; telephone Columbia 5397, or at Rauscher's, just before the cqneert. EFREM ZIMBALIST Polis ~fi/é‘//(efdij ASCHA HEIFETZ, whom many consid oung violinist r the greatest in the world today, will make his one ap- varance in Washington this season at the Washington Auditorium April 19 un- der the auspices of the Peggy Albion ! Concert Bureau. This will not only be Mr. Heifetz's only #ppearance this season, but will prob- ably be his last appearance in this city for nearly two yearg, as he is contem. plating going to Burope for an extensive tour abroad nest year. This tour, it is said, was postponed so that the violinist could secure his American citizenship papers by remaining in this country the quired length of time. Tickets are on sale at the concert of- fice in Arthur Jordan's piano store: Harvard Glee Club. HE Harvard Glee Club will make its annual visit to Washington on Thursday. April 23, at 4:30 o'clock at the National Theater under the local management of the T. Arthur Smith, Ine, Concert Bureau. Washing’ton Prog’rams LL members of the local tion of Music Clubs are to be the guests of the local Christian fon at a moving pieture lecture entitled “Glimpses of Our Na- tional Parks—Our Scenfc Wonder- lands,” by Arno B. Cammerer, assi ant director of the National Park Service, in the Metropolitan terian Church, Fourth and B streets southeast, Monday, April 6, at 8 p.m. Both the National Federation of Music Clubs and the U of Christian Endeavor are to hold conventions in Portland, Oreg., in June and Juiy, respectively, so this lecture should be. particularly inter- esting to those who contemplate the trip. Nan B. Stephens of Atlanta, € €WIFd vice president of the national boird, stopped in Washington a few hours recently to confer with Miss Linkins. Miss Stephens came here from Roanoke, Va. where she had been a speaker at the Virginia State convention, and was on her way to speak at the Maryland State conven tion in Baltimore. Additional organizations having re- newed membership for the ensuing year include the Rubinstein Club, Wilson Norman Glee Club, the Even- ing Choir of the Ohurch of the Cove- nant, the Vipivoce Juveniles and the Vipivoce Juniors The Melody Club, Blanche Polkin- horn, director, {s a new junior club having joined the federation Artists and associated Laving renewed membership are Mrs, Charles W. Fairfax, Helen Corbin Heinl, Mrs. Samuel E. Winslow, Eth- elyn B. Smart and Mabel coln, All organizations are urged again to select federation secretaries to represent them at the monthly board meetings and attend to bulletin dis- tribution in their respective organi- zations. Any one contempating at- Federa- members tending the convention in Portland is | invited to a meeting at the home of Miss Linkins, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, 3615 Newark street northwest, when a representative of the Pennsyl- vania Raflroad will outline the trip and answer questions, The Dalgleish MusicgStudy Club made plans Monday for its annual dance, May 4, at the Hotel Roosevelt. A musical program was given by Pauline Knoeller, at the plano, and two singers, Peggy Wooton and Doro- thy Riley. Alice Barnes read a com- prehensive account of the life of Liszt Mary Helen Howe, coloratura so- prano, and Marie Howe Spurr, planist, will furnish the musical program at the League of American Pen Women Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The art group will act as hostesses. Ruby Potter, soprano; Marie Koontz, contralto; Louis Potter, pianist; Her- man Hoffman, violinist, and Mildred Raymond, reader, will be heard in concert Friday at 8:15 p.m., in the Second Baptist Auditorium, Fourth street and Virginia avenue southeast. This will be one of the last oppor- tunities to hear Mr. and Mrs. Potter, who will soon leave to take up their work at Charleston, W. Va. Mrs. Potter has been soloist with the Sec- ond Baptist choir since February 1. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Lovette will hold ‘a musical this afternoon at their studios. Mrs. Lovette will present Mary Templin, contralto, of Houston, Tex., recipient of a scholarship in voice from the Texas Federation of Music Clubs for the present vear; Lorena Stockton Gawler, soprano, formerly of Plainview, Tex., and Jack Charlton ‘Ward, mezzo-soprano, of Beaumont, Tex., who will sing songs composed by Dr. Lovette; also Winifred Borck Leonard, who will give readings set to music. Beatrice Koch, pianist, of Kane, Pa.; Gladys Hillyer of Palacios, Tex., and Marian Rosendorf will give piano se- lections. Gretchen Hood and Roy Easter, sing- ers; Katharine Seelye Wallace, George ‘Wilson and Mrs. C. E. Linger, pianists, and the United States Navy Band Or- chestra presented musical selections during the banguet of the District Chapter of American War Mothers Wednesday evening at the Hotel Roosevelt, - Ivalee Newell, violinist, was assisting soloist in the program of secular music presented by the quartet and senior and junior choirs of the Petworth M. B. Church recently, under the aus- pices of the Woman's Guild. Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler was soloist at the last meeting of the Progressive Musical Club at. the home of Mrs. Abbic Higgins, who also played several invited | Presby- | ed Societies | Kent Lin- | BrunO Hunn | Ravschers ~turday | | | CARLSCHLEGEL Fitst Congregational Clurch ‘Uodaj and Jomorrow | piano numbers. Both Mrs. Gawler and the hostess gave short remarks on | salient points in the success of vocal | and piano students ) Flora Mc Sparrow, Ann Francis Smith, 3l Keefer presented Ellen Thorpe, Phyllis Price. | Doris Hartshorn and Peggy Duke in a recital at her studio | Monday evening, assistad by Marie | Hansen at the piano. The selections included old Ttallan numbers as well | as many light modern compositions. Frances Gutelius, pianist, will be | soloist for the Tuesday Evening Club | |this week. Some arrangements of | Western mountain melodies will be in- cluded in her program At the Friday Morning Music Club the current program will be: Brahms' “Sonata for Plano and Violin, No. 1. fn A Major.” Helen Heinl and Elsa Raner: folk songs. “Nina" (Tamara). Venetian, and “La Partida” (Alvarez), Andalu- | | sian, Mr. Paul Bleyden: ntasie in D Minos” (Mozart). “Sonata in A™ | (Scarlatti), and 1, opus : Etude, opus Nocturne, No. 2, opus and Waltz in £ Minor | (Chopin). Zoe Walson: son cra- | ment” (MacDermid) ¥ -Ho'™ | (Leoni). and “Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride” (O'Hara), Paul Bleyden. ee Club, Esther ertrude Walter, ac- | companist, assisted by ra Bry- lawski, contralto; Helen Belt, violinist, |and John Shaddick, baritone, pr su-n(-(li {a pleasing’ program at the City Club | Tuesday night. Composers represented | included Chaminade, Schumann, Pader- ewski, Warlock-Leighter, Winston, Ware, Rubinstein, Hinman, Cox, d'Hardelot., Bond, Mendelssohn, d’Am- brosio and Galbraith. The Chaminade | Linkins, director: Rho Beta Chapter, Mu Phi Epsilon national honorary musical sorority | was entertained Tuesday by Clara Wolfe and Mabel Ward at the home of the former. An hour of music was given by Rebetca Easterbrook, Lois Stuntz and Dorothy Russell, pianists; Mabel Ward, Betty Thorn- berry and Nelle Canine, singers, and Eveiyn Scott, violinist, with a final choral number, “Triangle Song.” by the entire society. Mary A. Cryder presented the card scene from Bizet's. “Carmen” at her studio last Sunday afternoon. The singers included Josephine Lorenzo in the title role, Helen Mitchell and Helen Fish as’ Frasquita and Mer- cedes, respectively. The scene was enacted in costume and sung in French. It was received with en- thusiasm and its repetition demand- ed. Miss Fish also sang “La G rometta” (Sibella). Catharine Crow- ley was the accompanist. Elena de Sayn, violinist, who has been especially active in local music circles this season, will present the {to { tion| Third Program B week fsom tomorrow April 6, in the ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel, Mrs. David Allen Campbell will present the third con- cert in the Spring festival of all- American artists, which is being given under her auspices, as chal man of music of the Natfonal Council of Women. The program will feature Frederick Dixon, planist. He wiil be assisted by James Stanley, basso, and Kath- arine Foss, - mezz0-soprano. Mr. Dixon is a native of Nebraska and has had his training entirely in this country under famous teacher: Ho has studied in New York City and has appeared with success in reeltals in that metropolis. He has just re- turned from his second tour to the ’acific coast, This will be his first appearance In Washington. Mr. Dixon has been styled “the American Rach- maninoff.” “His numbers will include MacDowell's mata Erofea,” in four movements, and works of Chopin. James Stanley, who was an impre sive Pllgrim at the first concert, is a popular coucert and oratorfo singer of New York Katharine Foss is the daughter former Representative Foss of Iilinois. Miss Foss has been singing with grati- fying success in Chicago. Tickets can be purchased at the May. flower Hotel, where information may be obtaiued from Mrs. David Allen Campbell, apartment 273, The mideity ticket headquarters Homer L. Kitt's, 1330 G street. Local Glee Club Music. HE George Washington University Male Glee Club has scheduled three oncerts for the first week of Ma: hey include a concert at the Par View Christian Church, May 1; one at Grace Reformed Church, May 6, nd at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, May . The organization is entially “glee” club. However, it has shown ability to present compositions requir- ing finished wsinging. Robert Harmon is the director, It is the plan of the club this yea give asx many local concerts poss Programs have been given at many of the churches at popular night, | prices. A feature of the organization is the glee club jazz band. These boys play well and their part of the pro- gram is always enjoyed Cornell Professor in Musical. KARAPETOFF, engineering at Cornell University, will give a musical at the New National Museum April 23 under the auspices of the Cornell Alumni Society. About a vear ago Prof. Karapetoff, a native of Russia, lectured in Wash- ington on the Einstein theory of re tivity, fllustrating his scientific talk with g model of his own constru This time he appears in a dif ferent role. He is a musician of note and plays both the piano and the cello. Although the program is as yet incomplete, it is understood that he will play some of his musical com- positions and recite one or two of s poems. His poem, “I Am an American,” is widely known and is considered as an excellent piece of literature. Prof. Karapetoff is best known as a sclentist and engineer. He has been practicing and teaching engi- neering in this country for more than 20 years, serving at Cornell most of that time. A graduate of both Russian and German universities, he holds several scientific degrees, and LADIMIR 1 V sar of | before coming to America served as consulting engineer of the Russian government and also as director of railways. Owing to his anti-royalist sympathies ho was forced to leave his native land fn 1902. In this country he has been in the mervice of the Westinghouse Electric Manufactur- tng Corporation. the J. G. White Cor poration and other well known en- gineering and electrical organiza- tions, During his stay in Washington the rofessor plans to attend the annual ssions of the American Physical ociety, where he will deliver a sci- entific talk Three Philharmonic Con- certs Next Year. NOUNCEMENT is T. Arthur Smith, Inc Bureau that the New York monic Orchestra will present a series of three concerts in Washington next season. ey will be given at the National Theater Tuesday after- noons at 4:30 o'clock November 17, January & and March 9. made by th Concert Philhar- lege of Music, presented a group from the repertoire class in recital Mon- day evening. Paul Bliss' idyll, “Night, O Lovely Night,” was sung by 13 voices, Mrs. M. L. Groomes sing- ing the contralto solos. The person- nel ingluded Miss Stewart, Mrs. Reis- tig, MISs Lemford, Miss Moffat, Miss Delano, Miss Wooster, Miss MacPher- =on, Miss Pool, Miss Robertson, Miss Sanderson, Mrs. Webster and Miss Schloop. Assisting were Fritz Maile, violin ist; Edgar Kidwell and Lucian Fur- land, baritones, and Burros Williams, pianist. A group of promising children studying the piano was presented in recital by Weldon Carter, Roslyn Car- ter, Emilie Bishop, Marion Gertrude Dyre and Benjamin Ratner at the Washington College of Music | Friday included Woodley, Jeanette Kirsch, Thelma Greenberg, Helen Dick, Margaret wanson, Helen Platt, Amber Young- blood, Clara Benedict, Harry Broad- bent, Alice Jones, Ina Eldridge, Elea- nor Johnston, Eleanor Gary, Salda May and Louis Ratner. evening. Sylvia Those performing Altman, De Sayn Stfing Quartet in its first recital at the First Congregational Church April 15, under the auspices of and for the benefit of the Business Women's Council. Charles Wengard, conductor of the ‘Washington Choral Soclety, an- nounces that, due to the fact that the Washington Opera Company present- ed “Aida” here earlier in the season, the society will change its plan for giving this opera in concert form as the final program this Spring and will substitute for it “The Swan and the Skylark,” written by Arthur Goring Thomas. This work was given its initial performance in Eng- land at the Birmingham Festival of 1894, New members will be admitted at the society's rehearsal tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, at the Thomson School, Twelfth and L streets. Netta Craig, soprano, and Mrs. George Walson, planist, gave a mu- sical program at the headquarters of the American Association of Univer- sity Women Tuesday night. Works by Cadman, Chopin, Rimsky-Korsa- koff, Gounod, Scott, Grainger, Man- ing and Clokey were given. Miss -Craig and Helen Murray, pianist, will furnish music for the twentieth anniversary of the Hver- may Club of Georgetown at the home of Miss Emma Nourse, on Q street. Eleanore Colborn, Pauline 'Graff, Eleanor Glynn, planists; Elizabeth Waters, soprano, and Warren Terry, tenor, gave the musical numbers at 2 meeting of the MacDowell Music Club last Sunday. Miss Colborn also was the accompanist for the singers. Composers represented were Mac- Dowell, Liszt, Chopin, Boyle, Schu-' bert, Rebey, Grieg, Miller, Robinson and/O’'Hara. — 'ugh Roland Roberts, head of the vocal department, Washington Col- A recent novelty in piano recitals was “The Romance of Norway,”" a se- ries of Grieg compositions, presented with operetta setting and folk songs and dances under the direction of G. W. Crist of the Conservatory Pre- paratory School, assisted by the Melninger Orchestra, at Emerson Hall. Norwegian costumes lent pleas- ing color to the program. Alexander Henneman announces a new class in harmony and composi- tion at the Washington Music Studios. The work emphasizes harmonic pro- gressions, and is not the usual course in harmonic writing. Accuracy of hearing is stressed. A preliminary meeting to discuss, this class and an- other in rudiments and terminology of music Will be held at the studios, 1764 K street, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. ~ Joseph Kaspar will present a group of violin students in an hour of musfc Triday night at 8:30 at his residence, 1217 M street northwest. The program will be: “Sonata in A Major” (Handel), Isaac Minovich; “Andante” (Dittersdorf) and “Minuet” (Mozart), string quartet, composed of Isaac Minovich, Robert Lawrence, jr.; Josef Kaspar and Herman Sevely: Allegretto from “G Major Concerto” (Bohm), and “Schoen Rosmarin” (Kreisler), Paul Brighthouse; “Aria" (Pergolesi), “Minuet” (Ph. 1. Bach), “Waltz" (Kuhlau), Miekie De Graeff and Joset Kaspar; “Concerto No. 22, in A Minor,” first movement (Viotti), cadenza by David, Isaac Minovich; Russian group transcribed by A. Pochon, “Sarabande” (Blumenfeld), “Fuga” (Liadov), “Mazurka” (Soko- lov), “Song of the Volga Boatmen™ (folk song), by string quartet, same as above with exception of Robert Lawrence replaced by Louis Mark- wood. _ The - accompanists will be Dora Minovich and Mary Daly. of | a4 ATHARINE McNEAL, leader among the young exponents of modernists’ music in Washington, ex- pects to sail for Italy from New York April 15 gnd ng return to Wash- ington until Octo- ber. Miss MeNeal plans to go first to Naples and make a short tour of the Ttalian lakes before go- ing to Parls, ar- riving there wbout the end of May, She expects to spend four months in the French capi studying the new est music and playing the works, especially of the French modernists, for the composers them- selves. Upon her return to Americ she is planning to give a series of recitals in Washington and male a concert tour. During the present season, Miss McNeal has been working out three particularly interesting recital pro- grams, including four two-piano cor certos by Rimsky-Korsakoff, Ma Dowell, Cesar Franck and George Gershwin. The last mentloned is two-piano arrangement of the unique Rhapsody in Blue.” Her programs will include groups by Poulanc, De- bussy, Chopin, I chumann and Brahms. Particularly interesting are the Poulanc numbers, which featurs the tallet music from “Les Bische,” with an insinuating waltz theme throu, out that has haunting beauty. It is n unusually melodious work for the modern school. The three new petual motion sketches of Poulane are equally Intriguing. The first has a simple melody with the same haunt ing quality as the theme of the i the second is orlental in and color; the third fs delicate suggests fairy music, tinkling little bells, somewhat after the of the “Pixie Ring Suite, valdo Warner. Miss M Neul plays these very well, Her Katharine McNeal, bal mood and espect | cinating. profes- | Harding, | Priscilla | Debussy also is individual and fas- the exquisite . the eerin “Shepherd. Httie-heard works a inal interpretation and his etudes are | given fresh reading. s voung Washington pianist is attempting the ardens in the Ra Submerged Cathedral Hey,” “Moonlight” and “Prelude. Chopin's n, Miss Me Iy | Her programs will include | Musigraphs [unusual and deserves dation for her originality as her talent comme: well Julia Culbreth Gray has returned to Washington from a six weeks’ tour through the South, giving recitals in North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia and Florida. In April Mrs Gray will leave again for a similar | tour in Alabama and North Carolina, | Katharine Fowler pointed to the position of org: at the Central Presbyterian She will assume her duties ne day. She is stud. Farnham of New has been ap- st Church. t Sun- ving with Lynnwood York Ruth Hansford Snodgrass has been Y all means the musical event of which has certainly no {in noteworthy perfor |certs and opera tion of Bach's the Bach Choir, April 18, Auditorium. This will be time the Bach Choir will be Washington. It is one of occasions at which the choir has sung outside of its annual festival in Bethlehem, Pa. Since last year's fe tival .had to canceled because of the severe iliness of Dr. J. F. Wolle the conductor of the choir, the per- formance in Washington will be iooked forward to with all the more eagervess. It 1 attract people not only from the District of Colum- bia but from the surrounding towns and nearby cities. The soloists will soprano; Mabel Nicholas Doughty Trowbridge basso, Washington to hear the cho - convention of the World Fellowship Through Music organization, which will hold a three-day session here April 15, 18 and 17._Dr. Phillips of Epiphany, Dr. Jason N. Pierce of the First Congre- gational Church, and Rabbi Simon of Eighth Street Temple are most important this season, been lacking es of con- “B Minor Mass," by at the first heard in the few be Mildred Faas, Addison, contralto; tenor, and Charles Tittman Washington opportunity Ernesto Vallejo, Violinist. RNESTO VALLEJO, 14-year-ol& Filipino violinist, has been called the best violinist in the Far East. The youth is coming to Washington through the courtesy of the represent- gtives of his country hers, to play at the entertainment given in honor of the World Fellowship Through Music by the University Club the night of -April 17, the day following the appearance here of the Bach Choir. Mr. Vallejo will be_ accompanied on the piano by Kurt Hetzel, European conductor, associated here with the Washington Opera Company. This youthful prodigy was “discov- ered” by Mischa Elman, well-known violinist, during one of his visits in the Philippines while on a concert tour of the Orient. After hearing the lad play, Mr. Elman remarked that it was a crime to keep him away from the great advantages of study in America and on the continent, where he could perfect his technique and get excellent training. The Philippine government took his suggestion, and Vallejo is now in New York under the tutelage of a leading instructor of his instru- ment. After completing his course in America he will go to Europe and study with leading musicians of the continent. He then hopes to give concert tours of both America and Europe. MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. ‘Washington Conservatory of Music 20308 Now Humpshire ‘Ave. No. 1 Dupont Circle OLIN—PIANO—VOICE AND 35 OTHER DEPARTMENTS EDGAR T. 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PRACTICE ROOMS the | | will be the presenta- | embraces all creeds among | th | Protestant | the world over engaged Cleveland Church. & ing of the Club recently as soprano soloist at the Park Congregational e was sololst 1 meet- Columbia Heights Art Francis Rydz, Pol tenor of the unpronoun who has not appeared in cital here for time, at the =il rnski public rs was soloist ding anniversary party of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barber of Chevy Chase and also sang at the recent banguet glven by of Mount St. Sepulchre ciscan Monastery, member At both the Knights of the of which he Fran frairs n the singer sang light, popula T8, with a Polisi song, “Maniu, daj ze buziraz’ (mean Ing in simple Englis nfe, Give Me a Kiss"), as the novel featurs of the first program The second i Vernon Church day in a series of being given Place Methodist South will be held evening at 5 o'clock ilee Club of the Universit nd will sing The maining concerts series will be by Adam Geibe organist and eminent bi-weekly the Mount 1 composer, | the annual concert of the Mount Ve non Chorus, which this year will be choral concert, the program Ing of choruses from mans great oratorios. The chorus v assisted in this concert b Lorleberg, cellist, and the Vernon Quartet consis of 11 tichard “The Shenandoal, suite written by R Deanc reetor of music of the M Place M Church South Band, and which was ded cated to Capt. W + 1L Santlemat director of the 11 be played from an organ transseription by the composer tonight, at 7:40 o'clock the Mount Vernon Flace ¢ n The highly il worl movements, Departure T Return the phon re, d it Vernon for th band pirots Clouds™ an 1 The The ton Le Paradis cently Camden, N, J dance records released of Washi fiying trip 1 make ral new will probably ‘b SU few weel whic within the & Bruno poser, whe cital comy Washingtof two disti is that when allow the fac to becom on the sional sala Huhn will appear, ir d of his works iturday o given i rnoon, One of them he does n mus help abroad he told W a profes 0 he was engaged entire the trip t testimonia s travelling knows is a recent steward trip fron that o make salads pver. At the end of sengers signed about Wwo! them to salads, none he was a musi stimonial fra the wall of his studi ity, which he shows of with deal de o tha knowing He has and hanging o in New York ( to his friends glee. and er. Mr. Huh practical considers it great the best ymorist, and The Bach Choir Here. noted citizens who are tak ing part in the plans ings. This convent be even international nE a leac the meet is intended to in scope and For this rea son the choice of Ba ass is espe be it t on of the n spiritual message the ritualist church al Catholic is limited n o text not expres s the te mass set omposer. of human aspiratior by greatest com poser the world has known The performance will be into aftern and eve similar to the way i “Parsifal” ha: performed in Eu rope and America. The singers wi be supported by an orchestra consist ing of members from the Philadelph Symphony Orchestra. The number of these players in the string section will be larger than it has ever beer in any performance of the mass git by the Bach Choir. It is felt that this increase in the strings is neces sary in order to achieve a proper bal ance between strings and wind instru ments. Therefore, it is probable tha Washington will hear a more perfect rendition of Bach's immortal score thar has ever been given on this side Atlantic. ‘ it is the voicin, divided ing sections which Wagner's is Notes on Bach In view of the coming performalics of Bach's "B Minor Mass," some o John Monroe's notes regarding th composer and his religious works . Dprove interesting ] “Johann Sebastian Bach, the might iest figure in music, was born Eisenbach, Germany, in 188, died in 1750 at Leipsic. As Leonardo da Vinei summed up in one man ith ntellectual glory of the Renai so Bach was the incarnation spiritual glory of the The idea that there was immedfat access for the soul of man to heart of God, which idea was the su stance of the Reformation. was t sourca from which flowed the might iest of his master works of religious music. There has grown up a lege that Bach Is too remote for the tds of the ausleal laity, that his idjor is without emotional power to mov: and his utterance complicated. Alas Is religion to be siruped in septi- mentality and are there no compli cations in the spiritual encountes o life? Those who sit in sponglike ease In Sion will drowse over and resent Bach, for he requires exhaust ing labors to perform and humible and devoted listening to recelve, but has it not been written, ‘Woe to them that are at_ease in Sion!'?" &ne of ‘the Reformatior MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. BESSIE N. WILD Yolce Culture. Piano and K Studio, 6824 5th st., Takoma F Plone_Adams H MISS AMY OLEMENT LEAVITT | PIANO, VOICE AND HARMONY Coaching and Accompanying 708 _Elsventh Street N.W. Apeiment! 83. Walter T. Holt Studiog TENOR BANJO, MANDOLIN, | GUITAR, BANJO, HAWAIIAN GUITAR AND UKULELE. insemble Practice with the Nordical Clubs ablished 1804 PHONE COL. 946. 1501 COLUMBIA ED. SAXOPHONE Piano, Tenor Banjo, Guitar. Drums, e In 10 to 20 Lessons Rag, Jasz_and Popular Music a spech Come i, write o phoue for booklet. Fre lessons 1t you buy instrument from us. | CHRISTE 2 SCHOOL OF MUSIC _ 1382 G Bt N.W. Main 1978, _ Year Book Mafled