Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1925, Page 62

By Helen Fetter. OREIGN musicians are still occasionally somewhat hasty in their judgmer.ts of America. “Views and Reviews,” in the Musical Quar- terly for April tell of the following instance: “A young English musician who was privileged last year to earn his *Tiving in the States, and did not disdain to return this year fc?r the same purpose, saw fit last Summer, upon reaching home for a vacation, to rush ‘among us. into print with the usual ‘impressions’ gleaned during his brief sojourn He conceded that ‘there are one or two things in which America is ahead’ of Great Britain, but hastened to add that ‘music is not one of these o e part ¢ wnonentity in 25 years’ time!"” “Indeed, Sir Oracle, what makes you sec so dark? ce in your own missionary work among our ‘people themselves'? confid He assured his countrymen that ‘where musical activity the people themselves is concerned Ameérica will still be a Have you so “Have you found us so unappreciative, so hard to teach? “Faults we have, undoubtedly, and many. One of them is that we s-are overtolerant of statements of this sort—statements which are so ob- vy untrue as to be stupid. deserve no more than a shrug and there is som is well to strangle it before it spreads. itics of our people may not be granted «-ously at heart the musical acti more than another quarter of a century, if that much. “doned, therefore, if we are anxious when we can feel satisfied that we brothers across the sea. 200 years. Has therc been no progress? America has_been tr And being stupid, they seem at first to a smile and a prompt dismissal. But ething to be said for, or against, the ‘pernicious thought! It Some of us who have most seri- We must be par- to hasten the arrival of the moment have caught up, musically, with our ving to do this for about ‘The question is futile.” * % ok K ICHOLAS MIAS OVSKY is by many considered the greatest Rus- sian composer of symphonic music now living. Victor Belaiev, in the May number of the Sackbut (London), gives an impressive account oi Miaskovsky’s work. No orchestral heard in America. In concluding his article, Mr. Belaiev writes: composition of his has as yet I;un “It is quite clear that the*average person forms no part of the audience to which the artist ins in which Russian artists, like Miaskovsky, live their artistic lives. inctively appeals, and that is the basis of the tragedy The composer cannot function without an audience—an audience that will un- derstand him and from whom the composer must endeavor to wring a response, so that his work shall not be conceived for himself alone. Under present conditions in Russia, such tragedy is everywhere articulate, and *one must conclude that neither in number nor in the faculty of apprecia- tion is an audience of this nature yet capable of formation. But 1t is in "%eing and will be formed. There is every sign that neither for Miaskovsky nor for others of our Russian composers is there any need to feel uneasy. A golden future for their reputations and their art seems assured, for we have in mind the reception which was given to the fourth and seventh symphonies of Miaskovsky when, -works were given for the first time on the 8th of February last, these before the new audience of the Mos- tow Association for Cotemporary Music.” * ¥ * X AL}-‘RED CORTOT, the French pianist, on his return to Paris from his visit to the United States gave the usual “impressions” to a reporter of Le Monde Musical. that a general w We may take comfort in Mr. Cortot's judgment . on each one of his visits to America he has noticed 2 marked progress, not in the nature of the performances, however, for - those are of a perfection wellnigh unsurpassable, “but in the compre- hension of the public. it 'HAT Moscow can boast of an orchestra, numbering 85 me Then, alas, there is still hope. * ¥ z which gets along splendidly without the guidance, if not the interference, of a conductor, is no longer news. But only recently has the fact become known that the principles which rule this orchestra have been adopted by “the class in composition at the State Conservatory of the Bolshevik capi- “tal. Th criticizing the others' worl In other words, the students have decided to dispense with a teacher. have discovered that they learn more by eac one analyzing and Astonishing as the step may seem at first, sober thought must acclaim it, if for no other reason because it holds the promise-of being a healthy departure from the “mutual admiration socie- ties” so common among composers (and other creative artists) the world over. * ¥ * X ARC DELMAS, a French composer, has won this yzar's 10,000 francs prize of the City of Paris. Besides winning the coveted Prix de Rome at the close of his studies in the Paris Conservatory, he has been also the inner of the Rossini prize, the Ambroise Thomas prize, the Chartier n ize and the Crescent prize. Dissonances, the little monthy review pub- .lished in Geneva, calls Mr. Delmas a_composer “fecund, but mediocre and without persomality.” \“prize works.” A * ¥ victim of the war. One is reminded of Hans von Bulow's estimate of * * NDRE CAPLET died last month in Paris at the age of 48, a belated The effects of poisoned gas to which he was ex- posed in the trenches round Verdun undermined his health. His constitu- -tion was unable to fight the pleuris to which he succumbed. As if he chad_felt the approach of the end, his last years were employed in com- position at an almost feverish pace. Caplet was one of the few really in- timate friends of Debussy's, whose fervent apostle and inspired interpreter The remained to the end. In the days of the defunct Boston Opera Com- pany he conducted the master’s “Pelleas et Melisande,” and gave the first and only scenic representation in America of portions from Debussy's “Le Martyre de Saint Sebastian.” After the war he shared with Rhene- Baton the conductorship of the Concerts Pasdeloup in Paris. His orches- tral arrangements of Debussy's “Children’s Corner” were approved and admired by the master himself. servant to his art. > Caplet was a modest, sincere musician, a : His powers as a composer scemed to take on new strength with the weakening of his bodily resistance. He was an accom- plished craftsman of taste and refinement. * % * K RTHUR HONEGGER must be counted among the most vigorous musi- I talents of our day. Taking his pla es”—was there ever a genuine artist who was not a “progres- ~he does not avert his look from what lies behind him. sive’ far in the front of the “pro- Nor does he furtively steal shy glances, but he frankly and calmly turns his head Ever No artist of true originality to study the past. elders. “progressive” owes a debt to his precursors and denies the indebtedness. The Revue Pleyel reports Mr. Honegger as saying, with regard to the influence of Wagner: “I have undergone it; I have sought and undergone other in- fluences, and have not suffered thereby. Debussy was right; music is ‘round us” Views and aspects of things and of works of art are changing. We are like coffee percolators are the result of the infusion who counterbalanced for me the w has been not less useful to me; Boiling water is poured on us. Our works T owe much to Gabriel Faure. It was he ight of Wagner’s authority. Debussy he has taught me to beware of pompous- ness and false emotionalism. But the first and best of my teachers, the one I never cease to take for a model, is Father Bach. T find in him all that T want. may have an opportun David.” * % It is greatly to be hoped that, as rumor has it, Washington ity to hear next Winter Hohegger's cantata, Le Roi O Mr. G. D. Rawle, 2 member of the board of examiners of the London College of Music, his stern and exacting duties have a compensatory feature in the wellnigh unbelievable replies he gleans from some of the students he examines. quoted a few sampl In a recent speech he made at Sheffield, Mr. Rawle One pupil described a scale as “a series of notes descending upward.” and scales had been variously defined as of tw kinds—"“diatonic and rheumatic, and neurotic.” composed enti means that you have to give the notes a bang,” and note sweeter and also makes it more solem: i ‘dramatic and chronic” and as “diatonic One description of the chromatic scale was that it was rely of semi-circles, and other -replies to questions were: yncopation is emphasis on a note that is not in the piece,” “Accent sharp makes a What examiner in this country could not match these answers with a crop of equally brilliant opinions. * o RIC BLOM discusses greatest amount of good to music. the public possesses by the lure of their names alone. artist, on the other hand. provokes c * ¥ The Peril of the Performer” in the May number of the London Musical News and Herald. araph picked at random from this thought-provoking article : definitely not the famous performers who, on an average e Here is a pertinent para- “It is quite imate, do the They lull such critical judgment as sometimes by the magic of their renderings, but often The small and comparatively unknown 3 riticism tration into the things he performs. of his performance and pene- A trashy piece of work, which a world-renowned soloist may present with impunity or even with profit, will leave the audien of ever so good an upstart cold, while a great work is often more satisfying to the pure musician in the latter’s hands, because the interpreter’s personality does not obtrude itself unduly. The concert- goer is not so devoid of taste and but he is deficient in self good sense as is commonly supposed, confidencew hen it comes to pitting his judgment against that of a musician of universal fame.” "One thinks involuntarily (and_regretfully) of such supreme artists a. and Fritz Kreisler, with their Iris New March for Sousa. *'THE League of Nations March,” a composition by George T. Bye, & New York newspaper man, has been accepted by Lieut. Comdr. John Philip Sousa, and will bé featured in the Sousa programs ‘during the famous bandmaster's *“third-of-a-century tou Mr. Bye, at pregent with. the Put- nam Syndicate, in-New York, has had o varied career as a Hewspaper man, including service with the New York World. fle has reported airplane hts, wars and peace conferences, and it was while he was at the peace conference in Paris early in 1919 that le conceived the idea for his march. It inciudes his impressions of Orlando, Clemenceau and Liloyd George, then premiers of Italy, France and Great Britain, respectively, as well as i ¥ Messrs. John MacCormack h lachrymosities.and rococo gumdrops. reminiscences of President Wilson. The selection of “The League of Na- tlons March” bears out in an interest- ing manner one of Sousa’s theores of music. Several years ago Sousa de- clured that he believed it possible to convey in terms of music almost any impression. At that time he said that he thought it was as possible for the individual to describe an event of a lo- cality as effectively by musical terms as by alphabetical characters. Now a. practical newspaper man has attempt- ed to express himself in terms of mu- sic with a story of four world figures at a crisis in the world's affairs. Incidentally, few march numbers except those composed by Sousa him- self have appeared on Sousa pro- grams for many years. “The Evening Star March,” written by W. J. Stan- nard, leader of the Army Band, was played here last year by Mr. Sousa's -organization, cond by the com- poser. 2 Washington Bass Busy. (CHARLES TROWBRIDGE TITT- MANN returned this. week from the Ann Arbor, Mich., music festival, at which he was soloist Thursday night, May 21, singing the baritone role in Rachmaninoff's choral symphony, “The Bells,” with the Chicago Sym- phony Orchestra, Frederick Stock conducting. The woérk is one of great dificulty and contains one of the finest baritone solos in any mod- ern work. Mr.Tittmann also sang the two bass solos from Bach's “B Minor Mass," a portio of this work beir given at the fest: val. Hill aud:- torium was filled'to capacity of This Spring Mr. Tittmann sang f the second time st the Mississip; State festival, Ma; ¢ and e sang Nevin's “Land of Heart's De sire” with the Choral Society of Ran dolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynch burg, Va. He also was soloist in Apr 1 in Franck's “Beatitudes” with th: Oratorlo Society of New York at Ca negle Hall. This week he is singin in the Bach “B Minor Mass” at th:| Bach festival, this year marking th: tenth time that he has been engagel for this festival. Washingtonians were very proud of Mr. Tittmann's fine work in the prc duction here in April of the “B Mino Mass.” C. T. TITTMANN. Marine Band Concerts Given This Week. THE CUnited States Marine Band William H. Santelmann, leader, and Taylor Branson, second leader, is well launched on its Summer schedule of concerts, This week there will be two concerts tomorrow, and one each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, making six in all and rang- ing fn location from the barracks to the White House lawn. Mr. Branson will direct many of the concerts. He also is the composer of the march “General Lejeune,” to be played tos mOrrow on one of the programs. The band leaves Washington follow- ing the concert on the White House lawn Saturday for Minneapolis, Minn accompanying the President to par. ticipate in the Northwest industrial fizposulom The band will return Ju The following are the week's pro- grams in detail Tomorrow at Barracks, the program will be March, “The Washington Times- Herald,” (Phillips); overture, “'Fra Dia- volo,” (Auber); serenade, “Heart of Harlequin,” (Drigo); valse lento, Tol” (To You), (Czibulka): euphoniu solo. “Fantasia, ‘Oh, If All Those dearing Young Charms, (Mantia), Prin. Musician Peter A. Hazes; suite de ballet, (23 cerpts from e Mikado, ‘March of the Toys,” from Toyland,” (Herbert): Marines’ “The Halls of Montezuma Spangled Banner. At Lincoln Park, row sect Marine Band March, “‘Gen. Lejeune,” (Branson); overture, “La Princesse Jaune,” (Saint Saens); Intermezzo, “Just a Gem,’ (Tobani); excerpts from “The Fortune Teller,” (Herbert); characteristic, “Re treat of the Tartars,” (Sellenick); wal “'La Gitano," (Bucalossi); grand scenes from “Ernani,” (Verdi), “The Star Spangled Banner. At Walter Reed General Tuesday, at 6:30 p.m., a concert by & section of the United States Marine Band will have the following program March, “General Bandholt nard); overture, “Don Cae: zan” (Massenet); saxophone solo, “Longing for Home" (Hartmann), mu siclan, Frank Wiblitzhauser; excerpts from “Rose Marfe” (Friml): “Hunga. rian Romance (Bendix); waltz, “The Girls of Baden” (Komzak); suite, Americana” (Thurban); ‘“The Star Spangled Banner. At the United States Capitol, Wed- nesday at 5 p.m. the concert by the United States Marine Band will in clude: March, “Illinols” (Woods): overture, “Egmont” (Beethoven); 1dy “‘Among the Roses” (Lake); euphoniun solo, fantasia, “Oh, If All Those dearing Young Charms” (Mantia) principal musician, Peter A. grand scenes from “The Pearl Fish ers” (Bizet); waltz, “Gold and Silver" (Lehar); ‘Reminiscences of Tschaikow- sky” (Goafrey); “The Star Spangled Banner.” At the Syvivan Theater, Monument Grounds, ‘I hursday, at 7:30 p.m., the United States Marine Band will play March, “Clear for Action” (Blanken- burg); overture, “Ri “Steuermannslied Chorus,” from * man” (Wagner); saxophone solo, “Sixth_Alr Varfe” (de Berfot). musi clan, Frank Wiblitzhauser; excerpts from “Eileen™ (Herbert); waitz, *S; of Flowers” (v. Blon: . “Sym. phony in F_Minor, 4 (Tschai- kowsk “The Star Spangled Ban- ner. . On the White House lawn, Satur. day. at 4 pm., a concert by the United States Marine Band, William H. Santelmann, leader; T: son, second leader, will gi program: March, “The Me: (Barnhouse); overture, “Tannhauser" (Wagner): “Hymn to the Sun” from “The Golden Cockerel (Rimsky-Kor- eakow); euphonium solo, fantasia, “Oh, if All Those Endearing Young Charms” (Mantia); principal musician, Peter A. Hazes; grand scenes from “IL Trovatore” (Verdi); descriptive “Spring Jubilee in the Alps” (Gungl) grand selection, “‘Songs of Scotland’ (Lampe); “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” p.m., at the Marine Hospital, Will Present Jazz Symphony COMMUNICATION has been re- | ceived from the concert bureau of the Wanamaker Store in Philadeiphia to the effect that a symphony based upon jazz and other popular American melodies will be played on the same program as an organ concerta in an evening program in the near future. Both works are by an American com- poser. The details follow Nearly one hundred prominent musi- cians will participate in a unique ex- periment in modern American music, to be presented in the Grand Court of the Wanamaker Philadelphia Store Friday evening, June 5, when a sym- phony orchestra, composed of 80 of Stokowski's men from the Philadel phia orchestra, an augmented popular syncopation band, the Grand Organ and four guest conductors will take part in a gala concert, illustrating phases of American, rhythm. The program will range from co- temporary popular of ‘“jaz: e especially arranged for the occasion, to a fullgrown symphony based on syncopated rhythms and melodies. An organ concerto alse will be plaved. The symphony, which will have its world premiere on this occasion, is the work of a noted American composer, Eric Delamarter of Chicago, who, in addition to being on® of America's finest organists, is assistant conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in association with Frederick Stock, chlef conduetor of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, and also of’ the Chicago Solo Orchestra. The work is scored for a full symphony’ orchestra and is in three movements, the first based on two popular melodies of some years ago, the “Grizzly Bear” and “The Honeysuckle and the Bee; the second movement upon several Lonesome Tunes from the Kentucky mountains, and the last upon rhythms of the fox | Wilson, Hazes. .. SPRING RECITALS Gutelius Recit: FRANCES GUTELIUS, pianist, will present a group in student re- cital at McHugh & Lawson's plano store studlo June 9. Noel-Irwin Recital. Nellie 15. Noel, pianist, and Frieda Hauf Irwin, violinist, assisted Ly Loulse Bernhelmer, ceilist, presented a group of students in recital at the i'irst Reformed Church Monday eve- ning. Clara Morgan Bernhelmer was the accompanist. Children taking part included Charles Wilpan, Walter Baum, George Martin, Robert Ball, Lillie Boxer, Edith Deale, Esther Lavisson, Mil: dred Garber, Robert Vought, Eléanore Mason Cohill, Mary Oliver, Augusta Clark, Blanche Runk, s Levin, Llizabeth Bernheimer “lora Lavisson. H. S. Music Assembly. At the major music assembly at Eastern High School Friday night the following students participated in the program Marie Miller, Esther Burgess, ierbert Cooper. Lydia Ed- wards, Margaret Cook, Marle Hickey, Mildred Spahr, Braxie Howell, Doris Bishop, Alicegene Graves, Mary Gast rock. Gertrude Wolfe, Vera Bonkam, Marlon Paull, Roberta Harrison, Evelyn Scott, Barnet Breeskin, Mar- { Brower, George Roth, Pauk dler and Eugene Stewart. Japanese Fantasy Recital, A noveldy in the form of a Japanese fantasy, in costume and actlon, was presented by the pupils of the vocal department of Gunston Hall School Monday evening. The fantasy was arranged and con. ducted by Nellie Floyd Culler, head of the department. The songs were con- trasting in character, following the Japanese models with their peculiar intervals built on the five-toned scale. The action of the singers was spon- taneous, naive and simple, befitting the portrayal of the little Japanese maiden. Characteristic dances were inter- spersed throughout the program, and in their dainty gracefulness were il- lustrative of the merry whirl of the Geisha girls amid the cherry bloom of the Flowery Kingdom. The effective arrangement of the stage as a Japanese garden deserves spectal mention. It formed an appro- priate setting for the gay colors of he kimonos and the blossoms—cher- bloom, lilacs and wistaria. Tt was adjudged & unique success, as well as a pleasing novelty in-the form of a song recital. Talbott Piano Recital. Those taking part in the plano re- cital presented at the Friends’ Church Friday night by Mary Tipton Talbott, assisted by Mrs. R. Alvin Richards, Elizabeth rpente: accompanist, and Marcel Prevost, baritone, include Dorothy Theus Baugh, Ruth Glasser, Emily Mary Pisapla, Frances Muriel Parsley, Marle Dorothy Kuhmerker, Evan Charles Brown, Raymond Winslow Lewis, Jacqueline Chamblin Edes, Juliet Parker Edes and Ruth Evelyn Giles, Ann Keliher, Pianist. Ann Keliher, student of the piano, was presented May 28 in the third an- nual recital serfes of the Pianists’ Club, by Mrs. Alice Burbage Hessel- bach, Her feature numbers were Saint-Saen’s arrangement of a ‘Ga- votte,” by Bach, the Chopin *Noc- turne in F sharp minor” and “Waltz in a flat,” and the Mendelssohn “Ca- pricio Brillante. She also played Schumann's “Warum” and “Auf- schwung.” Mrs. Hesselbach was at the second piano. linke Recital. Emma L. Minke presented a group in plano recital in her studio recently. Those taking part included: Beatrice Hoffman, Willlam Austin, Eveérett Dahl, Gladdis Smith, Frances Bartley, Evelyn Smith, Florence Holbrook, Betty Lum, Marian Bailey, Dorothy Fox, Helen O'Neil, Lorraine Lipphard, Ellnor Soule, Ray Easterday, Eliza- | beth Middleman, Frances Evans, Dor- othy Gravatte, Mildred Gees. Hoxsey-Michaelson Recital. Another of the group of interesting recitals given under the auspices of the Pianists’ Club of Washington was presented May 21 when Minnie Hox se; pupil of Wesley Weyman of New York, and Winifred Michaelson presented by Pearl Waugh and Mr. Weyman, gave a joint program. Miss Hoxsey played a Bach pre- |lude and fugue, MacDowell's “Sonata Eroica”, a_group of Schumann num- bers, and Mendelssohn’s “Concerto in |G Minor.” Mre. Christine Nilason Chindblom was at the second plano. Miss Michaelson played a group -of Russian _compositions, featuring Glaz- ounow, Rubinstein, Glinka-Balakirew. and Moussorgsky-Rachmaninoff, as well as a Bach fantasy and fugue and Liszt's “Concerto in E Flat Major” with Miss Waugh at the second piano. Easterbrook-Ratner Recital. Weldon Carter presented two young pianists in a recital in the hall of the Washington College of Music Wednes- day evening. Rebecca Easterbrook, who took her artist diploma in 1924, was first on the program, and Benja- min Ratner, who will receive his artist diploma from the college this coming June, gave the second half. The re- cital hall wag filled, with many unable to obtain seats, and the program was the most interesting given so far this season by the college. Both pianists showed splendid training and great promise. St. Louis Municipal Season THE seventh annual season of Sum- mer opera, under the auspices of the Municipal Theater Association of St. Louls, will open tomorrow night with financial success assured through the medium of an advance sale amounting to $100,000. If favor- able weather rules this Summer it is expected that the attendance during the 10-week season will exceed 500,000, with resulting receipts of ap- proximately $310,000. The previous high record for the St. Louls enter- prise was in 1923, when 426,000 per- sons attended the performances in 10 weeks. The ticket sales that year were $295,719. & The St. Louis project is heralded as being the one self-sustaining civic operatic venture in America. Its only losing year was in 1919, the first season, when the newness of the idea and unfavorable weather resulted in a deficit of $11,000 at the close of a six-week cycle. The deficit was met by public-spirited guarantors, who were repaid at the close of the 1922 season when operations resuited in a surplus of $41,000. The budget for the present Summer calls for expen- ditures of $300.000. The permanancy of the St. Louls venture in civic opera is assured by a reservation system which guarantees eason subscribers the same seat lo- ations each Summer, the option on the seats is exercised before September 1 each year. Re- newals for next year have passed the $40.000 mark. The admission prices for the St. Louis performances have been at a fixed level for the last five years. The highest-priced seats are in the boxes provided that | for which a charge of $2 per perform- ance is made. The first 12 rows are sold at $1.50 per seat, the next 12 rows at $1, the next rows at 50 cents and the next 12 rows at 25 cents. In addition to the reserved seating ca- pacity there are 1,300 seats free to first-comers. The association is encdeavoring to raise the artistic standard of the per- formances, and this vear is undertak- ing an ambitious repertory. The se son will be inaugurated with Johann Strauss’ opera, “A Night in Venice. Following in the order named will be produced Victor Herbert's “Mlle. Mo- Gilbert and Sullivan's “Rudd Vietor Herbert's “Her Regi- De Koven's “Rob Roy,” J lilan Edward’s “Dolly Varden,” Jak bowski's “Erminie,” Mascagni's “C: valleria Rusticana” and Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H. M. S. Pinafore” as a double bill, Lehar's “The Count of {;‘uxembour"‘ and von Flotow's “Mar- The cast is headed by Yvonne D’Arle, who has sung with the Metropolitan Opera Compan: Other principals are Eleanor Hen: Bernice Mershon, con- traito; Leo de Hierapolis, bariton Forrest Huff, tenor; Detmar Poppen, bass; John E. Young, principal comedian; William McCarthy, second comedian. and Roland Woodruff, ju- venile. The productions will be staged by Frank A. Rainger, who has been the association’s general stage director for the past three years. Charles Pre- vin, also a veteran of three years, is musical director. The chorus will be composed of 96 boys and girls selected from 200 singers who attended the association’s free chorus school The ‘Melting Pot’ MusicWeek A DNOTABLE standard for Music weeks all over the country was established by the celebration of the th annual Music week in New York. The chief campaign was laid in the sphere of the community and the children. Ten thousand children played their own music, sang their own songs, performed through their own orchestras, and - made all the music during the week. The activity of these children brought forward a list of music pa- trons such as the niusical life of the ry has not heretofore been able to call onut. To show the aduit popu- lation of the city just exactly what {the children do and accomplish, a pub- lic demonstration contest was staged rnegie Hall, May 3. Leopold world-famous teacher of the vio- consented to be a judge, also Efrem Zimbalist and Franz Kneisel. For the plano competition, Sergel Rachmaninoff, Leopold Godowsky, Harold Bauer and Ernest Hutcheso were judges. Alma Gluck led the committee of judges for voice, and Philip Egner, bandmaster of West Point, Fritz Reiner of the Cincinnati Orchestra, and Rudolph Ganz of the St. Louis Orchestra honored the chil- dren by acting as judges for bands and orchestras. These contests are a year-round source of encouragement to the chil- dren, and they set a goal for every girl and boy during the arduous months of practice while progress to- ward musiclanship goes on. The music contests are open to any child, ana, in certain classes, even to adults. In order to reach every corner of the community, the five' boroughs of Greater New York are divided into 48 districts,’ following the school dis- tricts, and each district has a chair- man. Thus parcelled out in small areas, the preliminary contests in the neighborhoods are intimate affairs, and every talented youngster within that school district a chance to and other writers of popular tunes of the day. 'Much has been written on the subject of the possible use of cotemporaneous jazz _rhythms by symphonic composers, but Mr. Dela- marter is the first composer to actu- ally have achieved this distinction. The Grand Court Organ, which has become famous through the recitals of Courboin, Dupre and the late la- mented Bossi, will be heard in another of Delamarter’s works, an organ con- certo with ~ orchests with Palmer Christian, a noted American organist from the University of Michigan, at the console. Both Mr. Christian and the concerto will make their Philadel phia debut in this concert, ag will Mr. Delamarter, who will conduct these play before a committee of excellent Jjudges supplied by the New York Music Week Association and get a rat- ing and criticism. Those who win an average of 76 per cent and over in these district contests are given a bronze medal and the right to com- pete in the borough contests, which means a second elimination contest from among the bronze medal winners. The winners in the borough contests must win an average of 85 per cent in order to gain their silver medals and the right to compete in the interbor- ough competition. For the first time this year, the famous committee of world known musicians already liated, consented to hear the children in the finale. A crowd that packed Carne- gle Hall to the rafters witnessed the coming of age of a distinct musienl life for the children of a great city. An important point about these competitions is that they are never tournaments. The guerdon which every child faces is that of excellence and the compettiions are not based on comparisons between performers. The contests were first organized two years ago and the first competitions enrolled 4,000 children, which grew to 10,000 this year. The standard of perform- ance among the children has kept pace with this growth and one of the out- standing features of the present Music week was the high-grade work shown by the children. In the interborough contest for the gold medals, where the famous musicians sat in judgment, Auer, Zimbalist and Kneisel gave marks as high as 97% per cent and the Messrs. Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Bauer and Hutcheson gave ratings as impressive. The need for musical en- couragement of very young children is shown in the fact that most of the children of unusual talent in the violin and piano are discovered in the ele- mentary and in the junior classes ‘which take in children under 10 for the elementary and from 10 to 15 for the junior. program will include several groups of popular music conducted by noted guest conductors: Dr. Hugo Risenfeld of the Rialto, Rivoli and Criterian Theaters, New York; Mr. Ben Bernie of the Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra, New York, and Mr. Gene Rodemick of the Hotel Statler Orchestra, St. Louis. Two-plano numbers will be played by Edgar Fairchild and Adam Carrol, pianists, and a group of short pieces for orchestra in characteristic vein by Eastwood Lane, a young American composer whose work -has been at- tracting much attention lately. Those interested in the development of a truly national idiom of musical expression will' watch with keen in- terest the n?t of _thi; Benefit Song Recital. OSEPH DI MEGLIO, Italian tenor, assisted by Katherine W. Hertz- berg, soprano, and Romeo Guarddi, accompanist, will present a program in the Sunday school house of the United Breth- ren Church, North Capitol and R streets northwest, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock for the benefit of a poor Italian family. The program will include: i Tutt from (Flotow) Tattinata (Leon cavallo), Maria” (Di JOSZPH DI MEGLIO Lou™” (Strickland), Mme. g “Elegie” (Massenet), ‘“Pale Moon (Logan), “Mother Machree” (Ball) Di Meglio; “Wake Up” (Philips), *“) Curly-Headed Babby" (Clutsam), Mme. Hertzberg; “E _Lucevan la Stelle from “Tosca” (Puccini); “Ave Maria” (Luzzi), “If My Mother Only Knew” (Nutile), Mr. Di Meglio. Dr. Alicja Simon. DR. ALIGJA SIMON was born into fusic. Her mother was an ex cellent planist. Musical surroundings of the best guided her childhood. When only 12 years old she began to collect and take down folk-songs which she learned from the peasants on her parents’ country place in Po land. These early pllections were the seed for her later exhaustive studies in the field of Polish folk- music. They flowered and matured in her hook on “The Polish Elements in German Music up to the Time of the Vienna Classics,” which was printed in Zurich in 1916. In this stimulating book Miss Simon traces the manifold influences of Polish music on that of Western Europe, from the earliest historic times until the days of Beethoven and Schubert Her book gains in value through the large number of musical examples and excerpts which are appended to it, and which are the fruit of the author's long and painstaking re- search among old lute tablatur served in the libraries of Cr: Warsaw, Vienna, London, Brussels, Berlin, Dreeden and Breslau Dr. Simon is eq . Italian Par Munichy ally well at home Russian!’ German English as she is in her native Polish tongue. She has written many articles in these various languages dealing with historical and - critical aspects of music. Nor has she mained aloof from its soclol question. Having spent the years of the war in Italy and Switzerland, she became Interested in the conditions among musicians during these times. This interest brought her in touch with the *‘co-operation intellectuelle” of the League of Nation In 1923 she was appointed to serv- ice in the “international labor office” to study the post-war conditions among European musician Her literary output is soon to be enriched by “A Survey of Musical History,” which will be published in Polish. Besides her research work in the leading libraries of Europe, Dr. Simon has had valuable experience in specialized lbrary science through the preparation of a bibliography on old lute music, undertaken for the Paris branch of the International Mu- sic Society, and through her connec- tion with one of the largest antiqua- rians and book collectors in Berlin. Thus she is eminently well equipped for her task in the Library of Con- gress. in Washingtor, where she joined the staff of the music division after her arrival in this country last December. Opera Wins Over Law. HREE men who would have been lawyers are now stars on the grand opera stage. They are Fred- erich Schorr, baritone; Giuseppe Danise, baritone, and Giacomo Lauri- Volpi, tenor. Schorr was grinding away at Blackstone when an {mpresario at Graz, Austria, heard him sing. From then on his rise was a succession of triumphs in Europe and America Lauri-Volpi started to study law in his native land at the University of Rome, but his singing attracted ats tention and he decided on an operatic cereer. For four years he was 3 captain of infantry {n the Ttallan army. After the war he continued his musical education. He made his debut in Rome and later was en- gaged by the New York Metropolitan Opera Company. Danise, a native of Naples, was given an excellent education and began the study of law as his pro- fesslon when he was urged to culti- vate his voice, and, after a European debut, also came to America as a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Now all three are entertaining American music lovers through radio, as well as from the stage. “Ermine” at Md. University. IRECTED by B. Louis Goodyear, thee Maryland opera club played ‘Erminie” to a large audience in the University of Maryland auditorium at_College Park Wednesday night. ‘While Katherine Baker in the title role and Marie Massicott, Margaret Haeseker, Winifred McMinimy and Ethel May Kharasch in lesser parts ‘were gliven a good share of applause, three male members of the cast were accorded. premier honors, As the Chevalier de. Brabazon, George Schmidt kept the audience in a merry mood during the entire three acts of the comic opera, while Doug- las Burnside and Cecil Propst, as Ravennes and Cadeaux, proved the most villainous of villains. Other principals weére Jack Bowie, Harry Kelchner, George O'Neil, Ed- ward Barron, Edward Evans. Stan- leigh Jenkins, Richard Bartlett and ‘Watson Ford. A chorus of 30 and a student or- chestra of 15 pieces assisted in the production. g e A microphone has been.installed in the famous pulpit of - the famous Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, and loud speakers in the distant corners of the vast edifice and in each of. the three gallortes. = - ETTA CRAIG will give her final out-ofitown costume recitals - for this season Thursday and Friday of this week at Perth Amboy, N. J. in the TFirst Baptist Church, and at Bel- mar, N..J. Marion Roberts Fisher, or- ganist at the First Methodist Church of Beimar, will be her accompanist ~ Miss Craig will continue her concert work on tne coast during the Summer, but will not accept the soprano soloist position at Saint An- drews -by-the-Sea, Allenhurst, where she has sung for the past two Summers, due to the continued mothe Miss Craig was especially active in the development of the musical part of the Georgetown pageant -held ves- terday at Montrose Park. illness of her Following her success as soloist at the Newark music festival and in recitals in Montclalr, Passalc, Ridge- wood, Paterson and other New Jer- sey cities, the newspaper editors and publishers of New Jersey have ex- tended an invitation to Svlvia Lent, Washington violinist, to play before the New Jersey Press Association at its sixty-ninth apnual meeting. which will be held in ‘the Hotel Aspinwall Lenox, Mass., June 26- Miss Lent will give a recital in th of the hotel following the business sessions of the convention. The forty members of the Wood- lothian Chorus of Washington will go to Leonardtown, Md., this week to give a performance of the concert that was so popular at its presenta- tion at Central High School recently, for the benefit of the Episcopal Church in Leonardtown. The singers also gave this program last Saturday auditorium | at the Home for audience that w ative and chee Incurables befor Charlotte Klei resignation ake effect Josephine Stafford itob | tralto, who girl in the Montrose Pai ignani's “Flow Dorothy ward C. Hall Page McKee I & concert Wednesd: Cleveland Park Congre for the benefit the wome clation of that churc Marie Duchon Dea soprano, sang at Potoma in Georgetown recentiy, accor by Marie Belt Oz Mrs. Dea 18 sololst at the Mount Pleaxant dist Church, also will give cor Prince Frederick. Md., Wednes Lancaster, Pa., June and burg, Pa., June 24 Franceska Kaspar Laws Emmettsburg, Md., Tuesday members of the Women's Clu At Kendall Baptist Churc Bradley will be the sopr tod She also will “Love Divine by Charles Nej! tenor, | Canada | “There will be a patriot | the church, Ninth and B west, at 11 o'ciock this r large chorus, several vocal = cornet and violin solos w feature program was by the Washington Musi Richard Gore with Trinity | Vernon, N. Y entered upon Gore was org: st Church until he mo Vernon in October has signed a ¢ opal Chur as organ his duties there aint A ed to Mou Summer Music in Paris. N interesting article on the Amer- can enfoying Bummer music in Paris during the month of May, now closing, has just been received from Willlam Rufus Scott, a member of the Star staff now visiting in the giddy capital city of France. Mr. Scott says “Unlike the American opera season, Paris in Spring is enjoving music to the fullest when the Metropolitan or the Washington companies are quies cent. In addition to the Theatrs Na- tional de 'Opera or grand opera, the season here 15 more vivacious than usual through the offerings of the American-French-Ttallan aggregation of atars, principally from connectlons ‘nited States and headed by Garden at the Theatre de la Galte-Lyrique. Sampling the national opera. as many Americans do (some men being dragged there by wives), an exception ally finished performance of ‘Rigo letto’' was witnessed. Incidentally, as supportinz those who advecate opera in English in America. it may be noted that this Italian opera was given in French, showing that this country also likes opera in its own language. Mme. Marguerite Monsy was a charming Gilda. M. Duclos as Rigoletto did his part with marked ability in acting_and singing. M. Rambaud, as the Duke, and the other principals were equally effective. A noteworthy aspect of the opera was the excellent accord between orches- tra and singers. “To the American visitor some fea- tures of the service stood out as unique. The gray-haired women j ushering in the orchestra section was one. They expected a tip for showing you to vour seat, and programs are sold at two france each, or about 11 Davison Glee 'HE Davison Glee Club, John R Monroe conductor, is planning a series of three subscription concerts for the coming season, the dates and other details - of which will be an- nounced later. The chorus, composed of 30 male voices, has just concluded a successful season. As has been the custom, the pro- grams offered will embrace a wide va- riety of choral compositions of the finer sort, including the impressive antiphonal anthems of Palestrina, De Pres, Sweelinck and old English mad- rigals of the Morley period, some of the standard choral works of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, groups of modern folk songs of Russia, Finland, France and America, including negro spirituels. Much of the work will be done “a capella,” the piano or a small orches- tra being used only where definitely indicated by the score. A Unique Scholarship. “AMERICA is the coming musical center of the world,,” according to a reported concensus of opinion among European as well as native- born artists of today, Progressive educators, realizing thls, have trans- ferred their pedagogical activities from abroad to this country in the bellef that the future of music lies in the United States. Prominent in this movement is E, Robert 8chmitz, who claims that he holds his classes in this country because “the atmos- phere, unweighted by the past, makes for progres: The announcement is made of a unique scholarship, to be awarded at the end of Mr. Schmitz’s Summer session held at Boulder, Colo., from July 29 to September 5. The scholar- ship is glven as an encouragement to those who have a vision broad enough to enter whole-heartedly into the unbiased spirit of the educational program of the classes. It is main- talned by a yearly appropriation from the master session receipts plus in- dividual contributions and consists of $100 and the interest on the funds of the preceding season, - The requirements include the fol- g interesting clauses: The best retation of any group of com- posers widely divergent in style or epoch, such as Bach and Debuss Scarlatti or Couperin and Stravinsky or Schonberg; Schumann and Casella or Mendelssohn and Szymanowski; the most co-operative attitude toward tbe work and fellow students; the highest attainment in resisting the lure of ‘“soloism’ by two-piano work; the best presentation of unknown or little kunown compositions of the pupil’'s own country; the best sight- reader “at-a contest of unpublished works written especlaily for Mr. Schmitz. by leading cotemporaneous musieians. e MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. Walter T. Holt Studios TENOR BANJO. MANDOLIN, GUITAR, BANJO, YAITAN GUITAR AND . n%l!—l Ensemble Practice with the Nordics . Clubs. Established 1884. PHONE COL. 048. 1301 COLUMBIA ED. cents. The sij rise was a r: on the floor bac first act almost 5 rose and went outside to This was repeated, though an extent, between other acts. was a full house, with man ers present, and toilettes th passed without descript incapacity in that respe Washington firemen would ha surpriged to s seats sold in the main aisle of the orchestra as the meats automati haps the fire hazard greatly increased “Applause was generous sistent. After the first ac tor, a man, was heard in good A canese to exclaim ‘Bos Dou! he was longing for the ‘Moulin Rouge or, the Comedie I'r aise. Howeve:, when the lovely qu et w ung b showed real enthusiasm aps ha ing learned to like it s phe graph at home! It was reeting an old friend “The Opera Comique patronized by Americar ing presentati ther individualistic precision in group the American gir] “Challapin is singir nof' three times here ing recitals; John McCormack is c the continent, and other artists higk favored in Washington make tourist feel at home musicall Club Prog’ram | On e rece: Glee ( Archibald rehearsa tion and the 1 ard | " th as to m >complished ection Rehearsals of the club are he 1914 Pennsylvania avenue north every 3 ning, Summer and ‘Winter, at 8:30. There are still some vacancies in the bass section open for real lovers of choral music who are willing to do a great amount of harc work for the satisfaction of achiev beautiful and worthwhile results 2 for the instruction contained in the work. Applicants should get in pe sonal touch with Mr. Monroe at tI above address, phone Franklin 6 Other communications should be dressed to A. C. Walling, manag at the same addre: Navy Band Concerts. THE program Tuesda at Montrose Park, R streets northwest States Navy Band, rector, will be: Mar \ er’” (Jewell): overture, {old); suite, “Summer Days"” s grand scenes from the opera ‘La I heme” (Puceini); valse, “Gold and & ver” (Lehar); fantasia, “Dixie” (Re! stedt): excerpts from “The Pirates Penzance” (Suilivan): popular, Cheatin’ on Me” (Yellen); finale, “The ar Spangled Banner.” The other program this week wiil be given Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.. the band stand at sthe navy vard. 1 ill include: March, “The Gatewa: City” (King): overture, *Midsummer Night's Dream” (Mendelssohn) de ballet, ‘““Masquerade” (Lacome grand scenes from the opera ‘Madame Butterfly” (Puccini); interme A Fresco” (Herbert); valse, “La Invita (Von Weber); excerpts from King Dodo” (Luders); characteristic Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (Jessel); finale, “The Star Spanz WASHINGTCN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 1408 N. H. Ave.. 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