Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1929, Page 36

THE MU BY HELEN FETTER. EN-GALLON felt hats, loud plaid shirts and chaps that end-in the spurred, high- heeled boots of the typical . ‘eowboy will compete with the gay blankets and beaded and feath- . ‘ered costumes of Indians for « picturesque triumph in musical events today and tomorrow in the National Capital of the United | States of America. Inauguration is upon us, and with it all the side- shows that make up the colorful pattern of American national life. The time doubtless will come + when an American composer will,‘ ‘"be as inspired by the traditional | legends and plaintive songs of the | cowboys as Moussorgsky and other Russian composers were inspired by the stories and songs of the Cossacks, those ferocious clans “who guarded the frontiers of their ' country so brilliantly. And surely, just as different from the Russian - music will be the American music .as the lonely self-sufficiency of “the cowboy is different from the # tribal attitude of the Cossack. Another national musical ele- | ment will be shown in the con- | cert tomorrow night by the American Indian Band Orchestra, which, with a membership made up of representatives from 16 tribal groups throughout the | country, will play during the in- augural ball. Again on Wednesday the efforts <of the earliest pioneers of this country will be applauded in the epic rhapsody written by Ernest Bloch, naturalized American citi- zen of California, who won the prize for a symphonic work of- fered by Musical America. In this work the first number is based upon Indian tribal melodies and old Puritan hymns, and depicts the life of the early white settlers in America. The second move- ment is said to describe the old South, beginning with the gay and carefree days before the Civil War, including old reels and hornpipes, a suggestion of “Swanee River,” the gay meas- ures of “Pop Goes the Weazel,” suddenly broken by the tragic measures of the outbreak of war, in which “John Brown's Body” and “The Battle Cry of Freedom” ~are heard. The third movement, entitled “The Present—The Fu- ture,” opens with a depiction of our own age of riotous jazz and pounding machinery. A long preparation leads to the an- nouncement in its full form of the anthem, “America,” which, to Bloch, represents the ideal which lies before our people. * X X X I'l‘ is through the folk music that forms the background of a country’s indigenous development that the great music of any na- tionality is written. Folk themes, if retained merely as folk themes, are not of inspirational quality, but when a Bach or a Beethoven takes the simple country dance and the melody that the peasants used for it as basic material from which they build dance Suites, sonatas, string -quartets and symphonies, then is the innate national significance of the music truly valued. At the present time Bartok is doing much of this in his extremely modern style of composition. Vaughan Williams’ rhapsody on Norfolk folk themes, heard here last week, was an ad- mirable example of this; During the coming week Signor Toscaninl will play Respighi’s third and final Roman musical picture, “Festa Romana,” inspired by the revels of the early feast-day cele- brations in historic Rome. This completes a Roman trio of varied impressions, including as the first two “Fountains of Rome” and “The Pines of Rome.” In the first division Rome’s glory of early days is evoked, the Rome under the Caesars; another movement features the Fall festi- vals, when the grape is ripe and the hunt is on. It is said, all in all, to be a Roman holiday for fair. Thus does one of the leaders of the group of present-day com- posers of Italy pay tribute to those early days of his land in tone- color suggested by the actual hi torical background. xxox % N France, Ravel, who has found inspiration for his newest work, a musical-play version of the sub- | bert Hoover. As J. Fred Wolle has | SIC the greatest heroine of all French i history—also seems to be con- sistent in this natural trend of the composer in his native land | finding inspiration from the fount | |of history. He is using as his text Delteil's book. M. Ravel has made some interesting comments | on the general trend of modern music that have recently seen | | the light of publication. In them | he speaks particularly of native | impulses of German and of French composers. He says, in| | part: | “Schonberg’s abstractness 1is| something rather different. In| certain respects, quite undeniably, he has been a leader of the move- [ ment, an initfator. But his sen- | sitiveness, at bottom, is Eastern: | and, do what he may, he remains | romantic. It is the younger Ger- | man composers who really achieve the abstractness they aim at. And | there is another feature which | strikes me as very curious in the | most recent German music: The | sharp division between music that aims at popularity and music which is purely scientific, intend- ed for the initiates only. I can think of no other instance of so marked a contrast—so far as re- gards, of course, music of a cer- tain standard; let it be quite clear, lest I am again represented as| saying something quite different from what I really said, that I am | not alluding to differences such as | exist between a shop.ballad and a string quartet! “In France there is a certain danger of the anti-romantic tend- | ency leading to an excess of sim- | plicity—to fragility and lack of | substance. Among the younger | French composers an interesting | one (not yet known in England) | is Manuel Rosenthal, a disciple of | Erik Satie. Satie of late has been | both praised to excess and short- | sightedly derided; but it must b2 | acknowledged that he has exer- cised an influence on several gen- erations of French composers; on Debussy, on myself. on the so- called group ‘Les Six,’ and on many younger ones, among whom. with Rosenthal, Delannoy de- serves special mention.” | * ¥ x % EFORE instrumental music! ever existed even in crudest | form, vocal music was flourishing | in many parts of a still semi-sav- | age world. Choral music is the | music of the Feople primarily, for | it is written for them and is pro- duced by them. To build a really | musical colony anywhere a choral | organization of first caliber will do more to create a sincere, deep- rooted love of music than any other one thing. ‘Washington, at the present time, is developing many riches in choral groups. Several different organizations have built gradually and from various angles, all focused, however, on the one cen- tral idea of fine choral work. All, too, have high standards for the compositions that they present. Within the past few weeks and the week opening tcday several fine programs have been given by local choral organizations. The National Capital -Oratorio Asso- ciation, Dr. Albert Harned, di- rector, will give the choral finale to the Bloch work as presented Wednesday by the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra. Last week the a cappella chorus of the First Congregational Church, Ruby Smith Stahl, director, presented an admirable program excellently —so excellently, in fact, that it was especially requested for repetition today. In the meantime several women’s choruses have been work- ing hard on programs and the big massed chorus festival group 1s busily engaged in preparing in its | separate groups for the program to be given under the leadership of Frederick Alexander in May. | type of work, the Westminister Choir of Dayton, Ohio, John Fin- ley Willlamson, director, makes its | temporary farewell appearance in Washington Saturday night. This group is wisely sponsored by a list of world-renowned folk, headed by President-elect and Mrs. Her- | oroved the breadth and depth of his great sincerity in building the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pa., so Mr. Williamson has built thor- oughly and sincerely in Dayton, ject, “Jeanne d’Arc”—named for To Publish American Music THE Cos Cob Press announces through its president, Alma M. Wertheim, incorporation for the purpose of fur- thering cotemporary American music by printing and promoting works of native composers, and aims to publish com= positions in orchestral and other forms. regardless of their commercial value, Under the informal sponsorship of the following conductors the press is assured the personal interest of leaders who will be a direct medium through which new music will find its audience: Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Sym- | phony: Leopold Stokowski of the Phil- rdelphia Orchestra, Fritz Reiner of the | Cincinnati Symphony, Nikolal Sokoloff pf the Cleveland Orchestra, Alfred Hertz of the San Francisco Symphony, | George Schneevoigt of the Los Angeles | Philharmonic, Willem van Hoogstraten | of the Portland Symphony, Sandor | Harmati of the Omaha Symphony, and Karl Krueger of the Seattle Symphony, | Sary for him to function effectively.” Ohio. made commercially successful. There is a growing conviction that American | composition is becoming independent, uthentic and truly of this continent, and that American composers, partic- ularly those who are writing music in the larger forms, find it difficult to have their works published and almost equally difficult to have them perform- ed. - With the interest and assistance of leading conductors, soloists, libraries, schools, etc., the Cos Cob Press should be able to give the American composer | the practical support which is neces- More Entries Announced For Biennial Contest | TWD ‘Washington contraltos have | been entered in the young artist group for the Biennial National Con- test to be held here April 27. They One of the true pioneers in this | * | rine SERGE KousSeviTzky”™ Poli's - Wednesday, SYLVIA LENT. Three young American artists who are widely known among the music lovers of Washington will have places on the program of the official inaugural entertainment to be held at the Rialto Theater tonight and tomorrow night. ‘They are Eleanor Painter, soprano, who will sing this evening; Sylvia Lent, violinist, and Hazel Arth, soprano, who will be on tomorrow's program. Both the latter are Washington girls. Miss Painter, who in private life is the wife of Louis Graveure, is interna- tionally known and recently completed a highly successful tour of Europe. Miss Lent is the daughter of the late Ernest Lent, well known Washington musician, who already has won an enviable position in her own right in the concert field. Miss Arth is the Washington girl who triumphed over 60,000 compstitors in the recent At~ water Kent natlonal audition contest. The other musical numbers at this entertainment ‘will bring to the Rialto stage the Republican Glee Club of Columbus, Ohio; the Hamilton Glee Club of Chicago and the Media Grotto Chanters of Topeka, Kans. Charles Colfax-Long's famous ple- turization of Washington, “The En- chanted City From Dawn to Dusk,” wilf be the film feature, The master of ceremonies will be a man known to every radio enthusiast in town, S. L. Rothafel, the inimitable Charles Courboin Plays Recital Here Thursday ‘HARLES M. COURBOIN, formerly organist of Antwerp Cathedral, will give a recital in Washington Thursday at 8 pm. in St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and New- ton streets northwest. Mr. Courboin is a native of Antwerp. He won the international organ prize when 18 years old. He is known throughout Europe and America for brilliant technique, prodigious memory and rave interpretive gifts. He wiil glve the opening program on the new three-manual organ in St. Stephen's Church, ‘The program for this recital has been selected with much care and is calcu- lated to bring out the full beauties and resources of the instrument. All music lovers and especially or- .lnnisu are invited to attend this re- cital, Mvsxc by the first band of American Indians ever to go on tour will be an outstanding feature of the inaugural ball at the Washington Auditorium tomorrow night. In addition to the program played and sung by these de- scendants of original natives of this country there will be music by the United_States Army, Navy and Ma- Band Orchestras and Paul Specht’s Jazz Orchestra, thus providing varied phases of typical American music. The service band orchestras will play National and State ! clally feature the music These men have shown their interest in the idea and have offered their sup- rt. Orchestral works by Aaron Copland, Louis Gruenberg and Emerson Whithorne | are: Mary Templin, 1315 Clifton street | |and Gertrude Meisel, 2370 Wisconsi | avenue. | the Each is preparing to render | same three required numbers: have been accepted for publication and ! will be availabie for performance in the | Autumn D'Arc,” by Tschaikowski; “Er ist The press has aiso under | K| consideration a number of other works | My Star” by Beach. All must be by cotemporary Americans, sung in English, ‘Farewell Ye Mountains,” frcm “Jeanne | trance of the varlous State governors. ‘The jazz orchestra will play for the dancing Quite the most colorful events, mu- sically, of the program arranged under the auspices of the committee of which Mrs. Lawrence Townsend is chairman gekomen“ (He Came), by Franz, and | and Edouard Albion vice chairma: | will bé those presented by the Indians. | There are 16 different tribes repre- SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON., D. C. MARCH 3, 1929--PART 4. Joun Fincey WILLAMSON, Usshinot Qudiforium. ! E ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL CONDUCTORS AND A SINGER HERE THIS WEEK ‘ ’ | Dororuy Vitson HALBAGH, J EVENTS OF THE WEEK TODAY. The A Cappella Chorus of the First Congragational Church, Mrs. Stahl, director, will give a concert at 4 p.m. at the TUESDAY. The New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra will give the final concert locally, under Arturo Toscanini, at 4:30 p.m. church. at the Natiopal Theater. WEDNESDAY. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor, will give a program at Poli’s Theater at 4:30 p.m. SATURDAY. The Dayton Westminster Choir will Washington Auditorium at AN A CAPPELLA CONCERT—Today. ‘The concert given Tuesday night by the A Cappella Chorus, Ruby Smith Stahl, , Was so extremely suc- cessful that, at the request of the in- augural committee, the chorus will re- 'at the program today at 4 o'clock at he First Congregational Church. The soloists will be Mrs. Stahl, sopran: Dorothy W. Halbach, contralto; Fran- cesco Lella-Lana, tenor, and Robert Harmon, bass. Visitors are invited to attend this service concert wiaen the include works by Bach, Arcadelt, Vul- -| pius, Kalinnoff, Schuetky, Jungst, Rach- maninoff, Mendelssohn, Tschaikowsky, Christiansen, Dickinson, Gaines, Nor- den, Arkangelsky, Robertson, Dett, No- ble, Grieg and Gounod. ARTURO TOSCANINI—Tuesday. A significant music event of the season will transpire in Washington Tuesday afternoon when Arturo Tosca- nini appears as conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Or- chestra at the National Theater. ‘Toscanini has an amazing faculty | for memorizing the most laborious and difficult compositions. He has a men- tal storehouse of over 100 operas and how many orchestral compositions have never been estimated. ‘The program Tuesday will open with Mozart’s “Symphony in D Major” (K. 385). This will be followed by ‘Festa Romana,” by Respighi. The third number will be “Iberia,” by De- bussey, and the closing number will be Wagner's overture to “Tannhauser.” kets may be secured at T. Arthur MUSIC FOR INAUGURAL BALL music will | give a program at the 8:15 p.m. Smith's concert bureau, 1330 G street northwest, in Homer L. Kitt's store. BOSTON ORCHESTRA—Wednesday. One of the outstanding musical events of inauguration week in Washington | will be the concert of the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor, at Poli’s Theater Wednes- | day afterncon at 4:30 o'clock under the local manegement of Mrs. Wilson- Greene. Mr. Koussevitzky will present for the first time in Washington Ernest Bloch's prize-winning symphony, ‘“America,” which Mr. Koussevitzky, with four other distinguished American conductors, unanimously selected in Musical Amer- ica's prize contest. The anthem which constitutes the climax of *“America” will be sung by a mixed choir of 125 | Washington singers, the National Capi- | tal Oratorio Association, Dr. Harned, | conductor. | The program also will include Mous- sorgsky's “Pictures at an Exhibition,” | orchestrated especially for the Boston | Symphony by Maurice Ravel, which has | been a feature of Mr. Koussevitzky's concerts in Boston and New York. Seats are on sale at the concert bu- reau in Droop's, 1300 G street north- west. DAYTON WESTMINSTER CHOIR— Saturday. ‘The famous Dayton Westminster Choir will appear at the Washington Auditorium Saturday at 8:15 p.m. un- der the local management of T. Arthur Smith. It is needless here to comment on the excellency of this choir’s sing- ing. Walter Damrosch, Willlam Men- y gelberg, Percy Scholes and Morini say that it is the world’s best mixed chorus. The program will consist of four groups, including compositions by Pal- estrina, Lotti, Bach, Grieg, Christian- | sen, Brahms, Dickinson, Kopoloff, Gaul, 1D\'on.k, Fisher, Lutkin and Schindler. A March 70;;:-::: iecital. |"THE March program in the series of i monthly organ recitals given this year by T. Guy Lucas, organist of St. ! John's” Church, on Lafayette Square, | will be presented Thursday at 8 p.m., in ! the church. The organ compositions will include | Bach’s “Fugue in E Flat,” “Prelude on © | the Passion Tune, St. Mary,” by Wood; CHIEF ROARING THUNDER. { Parry’s prelude on the same tune; “The Londonderry Air,” old Irish; “The by Saint-Saens; “Minuet in > by Beethoven; “Cantilene,” by Wheeldon; “Prayer,” by Guilmant; | “Toccata in G,” by Dubois. | There will be two vocal groups sung T J. Hopkins, H. Myers, T. C. Jeffers d C. B. Woods. They will give Far- rait's “Call to Remembrance,” Creygh- t's \“I Will_ Arise” and Dvorak's T~ ARTURO Toseanini Natbional_ Tuesclay , | Soloist This Week | MURIEL LA FRANCE. NE of the most popular singers who has appeared at the Fox Theater as guest soloist for the orchestral pro- grams, a young coloratura soprano who is said to be the special protege of | Mme. Amelita Galli-Curel, =famous | singer, will return to sing on the pro- | grams given at that theater during | inaugural week. The singer is Muriel | | La France, who seems to be as charm- | | Ing _to look at as she is reputed to be | | to listen to. | e o | Cowboy Band Plays Tonight I At First Baptist Church | THE Cowboy Band of Abilene, Tex, | composed of 50 young men reared | in West Texas, and most of them on cattle ranches, will give a concert at the First Baptist Church, Sixteenth and | O streets northwest, tonight at 7:30 | 83T | o'clock. The members are all either students or graduates of Simmons University. This is the official band of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, also of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers’ Association. It is the lifetime official band of the United Con- federate Veterans of America and has | been chosen as the official band of the | Texas special delegation in Washington | for the inauguration. These men took a leading part in | the musical program at the Democratic convention at Houston and also at the American Legion convention in San Antonio. Appearing with their purple and yellow woolen shirts, leather riding | “chaps” and huge scarfs, they are | picturesque. The wear the 10-gallon | Stetson hats and also high-heel boots, | the pride of all cowboys. “Hear them ride those tunes” is the slogan with which they h.ve been greet- | ed wherever they have played in the many citles of the more than 60,000 miles which they have traveled through 23 States. The Sunday morning program at the First Baptist Church will include the prelude, “Grand Choeur,” by Davis; “My Faith Looks Up to Thee,” by Schnecker, to be sung by the quartet, and the postlude, “Caprice,” by Rapp. Raymond E. Rapp is organist and cho director. The members of the choir are Erna Embrel, soprano; Helen Lan- caster, alto; George Leich, tenor, and Charles Moore, bass. “Les Fauvettes" in Program At Country Club Tonight THE charming group of young girls In dance and song selections—"Les Fauvettes"—that developed an original and very attractive type of costume pro- gram at the King-Smith Studio will present a program in the lounge of the Congressional Country Club tonight at 8 o'clock. The “Fauvettes” are Clara Hoffstetter, Rebecca Tarwater, Fritzi Mohren- stecher, Penelope Tarwater, Alexandra Endsley, Dorothy Ellicott, Jane Mc- Dougal, Margaret Hanby, Bonnie Mae Ridgely, Anne Dent, Katharine Wat- son and Polly Callender. The dancers will be Margaret Bunn, { Jane Pendleton, Joanne Pendleton, Una Randolph and Gina Mary Scotten. There will be old folk songs and spirituals _with other selections by Kreisler, Weber, Strauss, ‘Weatherly- Molloy, Nevin, Lemaire, Reichardt and | Holmes. Mr. King-Smith will be at the plano. The program is presented at the club. under the auspices of Mrs. Edward Hood Watson, chairman of music events there. ———— e Band Orchestra Dates i U. S. MARINE BAND. | MUSIG | WWARREN P. JOHNSON has been ap- pointed organist and cholrmaster of the recently erected Church of the Pilgrims in this city. He will preside over a three-manual organ which 15 now being installed. Mr. Johnson was for several years assistant organist at the Washington | Cathedral. He is well known as a con- | cert organist. | There will be special music at the | morning service at Keller Memorial | Lutheran Church today. when Evelyn Scott, violinist, will play the “Romance from Weiniawski's “Second Concerto in D Minor” and obbligato for “O Lord Most Holy,” Franck, given by the vest- ed choir, under the direction of Ger- trude Lyons. Gerald L. Whelan, bari- tone, will sing “There Is a Green Hill Far Away,” by Gounod. At the evening service the duet will be “I Will Ever Bless Thy Name" (Du- bois), by Mrs. Lawson and Mr. Whelan, 'nd the chorus for women's voices. List, the Cherubie Host (Gaul), with saritone solo by Mr. Whelan. Lillian G. Wines is the organist. Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee spent the last three days of the week in Penn- sylvania booking engagements for re- | |citals by Hazel Wegner Bachschmid, Washington soprano. This unusual program is in four | periods, depicting the season’s of the | year. In each group Mrs. Bachschmid dresses in costume appropriate to that | particular season, and sings a grou | of songs peculiar to that special time. Already there are several engage- ments in and near Washington with a number of appearances scheduled for out-of-town places. Substituting for Mrs. McKee at the jorgan for the Lenten services at Church of the Ascension Wednesday and Fri- day was Mr. Tilghman A. Lambert, a newcomer in Washington. Mr. Lambert ganist of the Bach Cholr and studied pupil of J. Fred Wolle. Mr. Lambert is going to make his home in Wash- ington. He will be available for church and concert work. | | - Several vacancies are still open in | “The Crimson Star,” the operetta which | the Washington Comic Opera Club is producing. Those interested should call Lincoln 5183 Mrs. Walter K. Wilson, one of the most charming sopranos in Washing- ton, will | temporary, at least, farewell recital at | the Friday Morning Music Club this | week, as Col. Wilson has been ordered to another Army post, George Beuchler, ~ baritone, will share the program. Kathryn Hill Rawls | will be at the piano for both singers. The Schubert Choral Club will hold a rehearsal Tuesday night this weck, instead of tomorrow, as would be cus- tomary. The postponement is due to the inauguration. Tuesday’'s meeting will be held in the gold room of the Hotel Lafayette at 7:45 p.m. Dr. Henry Selby entertained a small group of friends at his apartment last ‘Wednesday night when music was pre- sented delightfully and informally by Caroline Manning, contralto; Leonard is, baritone, and John Marville, basso, with Willlam Harms assisting at the piano. Among the recent activities of the Madrigal Singers, Mrs. John Sylvester. director, have been programs given 4n co-operation with the National Feder- | ation of Music Clubs at the Louise | Home and at the Walter Reed Hospital | (singing in the wards), where the music was most gratefully received. ‘Wednesday the group will present their program for the Community League of Woodside, Md., and tomor- row will be heard on the air over Sta- | tion WMAL. | There are several vacancies in the | tenor and base divisions of the chorus . of the National Capital Oratorio Asso- ! clation. Application for membershio | should be made through the secretary, | Mrs. M. L. Soper, 1317 New York ave- nue, who will arrange for auditions. Those who are registered but have not as yet signified their intention re- ding the rules which were adopted 2t the organization meeting February 12, should communicate with the secretary, as the full complement in each division will be chosen as soon as possible. ‘The director, Dr. Albert W. Harned, announces the continuing of the re- hearsals on “The Passion,” by Hay each Tuesday in the music room of the Central High School, beginning at 7:45 p.m. Flora McGill Keefer, mezzo-contralto, i 5 | a program of Scandinavian music at o'clock this afternoon at All Souls ‘Church (Unitarian), Sixteenth and | Harvard streets. | The musical numbers at the 11 | o’clock morning service will be given by Mrs. Keefer, Charles Trowbridge Titt- mann, bass; Richard Lorleberg, cello, and Mr. Atwater. The program will in- clude ‘“Andante” (concerto), Grieg: “Like as the Hart,” Allitsen: * die” (variations), Boell Bizet, and “Maestoso,” Karg-Elert. John H. Marville, bass-baritone, one of the most popular of the younger group of singers in Washington, was soloist at the Friday afternoon pro- gram at the Congressional Club last week. He shared, honors with John M. Baer, who gave & chalk talk. tion alternate with the choir in sing- ing the Plain Chant Credo at mass, while universal at Roman Catholic Churches in Europe, is not so frequent- ly heard in this country. St. Patrick’s Church in Washington is sald to have been the first in the Eastern States to inaugurate this custom. It was started last year and resumed this sea- son and will continue on Sundays dur- Ing Lent. Last Sunday the effect was said to have been particularly fine with the unanimous response from the con- C!ixltlon decidedly devotional in char- acter. Every Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock the service of the holy hour will be conducted with appropriate music by the choir. ‘Thelma Rice, soprano, was presented in a recital recently by Leroy Le\gh at his studio when she sang works by | Haydn, Grieg, Carmichael, Kramer, Treharne, Smith, Shaw, Beach and Lehmann. Macom McArtor was the | accompanist. ‘The Institute of Musical Art pre- has recently moved here from Beth- | lehem, Pa., where he was assistant or- be heard in what will be a | | will assist Lewis Atwater, organist, in. ‘The custom of having the congrega- | RAPHS sented an informal program by stu- dents at the school Friday night when shose listed to participate included Hanna Booth, Stanley Smith, Ges trude Masur, Katherine Wells, Marga- ret Gilligan, Samuel Gantz, De Witt Feeser, Claire Philomene Sgueo, Wil- liam Nation, Emilie Bishop and Morti- mer Davenport. Mu Phi Epsilon, Washington Alumnae Club, enjoyed a musical tea at the home of Inez Miller on Washington's birthday, when Ethel Gawler and Mrs. William T. Reed presided for the social honors. Esther Ott, New York soprano, a member of Xi Chapter of the Uni- versity of Kansas. came to the affair The program was presented by Miss Ot:, Helen Bellman, Herman Fakler, Mrs. Fakler and Lois Stunts. T! Washington Conservatory of Music's choral group, directed by Colin Clarke White, entertained & recent gathering at the school. A number of works have been selected for study and a tentative program is formulating for Spring concerts by this group of young singers. Mr. White has fully recovered from his recent iliness and is hearing new voices both for the choral group and for the conservatory quartet. Ernst Wiadimir Ladovitch, head of the violin department of the Washing- ton Conservatory of Music, announces a graded recital of his violin pupils for the first six grades, Thursday, in the recital hall of the conservatory. An ensemble of violins will give concerted numbers. ,The recital is open to the public. The Cantabile Chorus will entertain in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Henneman at the home of Mrs. Fred- erick J. Rice tomorrow evening. Mu- sical numbers will be presented by soloists of the club. ‘The National! Capital Choir, under the direction of Dr. Albert W. Harned, is leading the musical ministry at the | National Memorial Universalist Church temporarily holding services in the Am- | bassador Theater, Columbia road. | The special musical program chosen for this Sunday includes the anthems: “Holy, Holy, Holy," Stewart, and * Thou, Whose Sweet Compassion,” Maunder (a cappella). | _ Dorothy M. Marr presented & num- | ber of students in an informal piano | recital at her home February 23, The interesting program was pre- | sented by Marjorie Quinter, Margaret | Harrison, Barbara Brown, Jane Ayre, | Mary Jane Semmes, Mary Tudor Mor- | sell, Mrs. Hullings, Emily Kinsman, Dorothy ~ Warrington, Jean Kelley, Julia, Jean and Mary DeLashmutt, | Jane Irving, Margaret and Elizabeth | Benson and Ouida Shotwell. | Mrs. Marr, for several years & mem- | ber of the faculty of the Washington | College of Music, is teaching privately | at her studio home in Chevy Chase, Md. A delightful studio recital was held | Tuesday by the students of the George | F. Kortzenborn Voice Studio. The | many friends who attended were en- | thusiastic about the progress made by | the various soloists. - Those participat- ing were Mary-Belle Nichol, Lincoln Kreiling, Norberta Bramwell, Corinne Ballou, Eunice Wartman, Calhoun | Sanderson, Nora Bramwell, Geraldine | Stephens, Ann M. Bischoff, Marion Hines, Nellie J. Davis, Ellen B. Way and | Grace Thomas. Ernest Blech's ¢ A MERICA," Ernest Bloch's “epic | rhapsody,” the new prize-w ning composition wh'~h has basn plared | in New York and Boston with greot success. wi'l be brouzht to Washinei'n by Serge Koussovitzky when th~ FPre- | slan_conductor comes here with th~ Boston Symphony Orchestra to g'e | his second conrert of the season in Poli's Theater Wednesdav aftern-on | The performence of “America” vill ! quite fittingly take placs just aft>r the | inauguration. Koussevitzky was on~ of | the five awardine judges in the con- | test in which the score won. The | plece was played simultaneously in five | cities last December. Bloch divides his rhapsody into three | parts, the first depicting the America | of the Indians and early Puritan zet. | tlers. The second movement portr: the old South, with its ga e and the tragedy and sorrow brought by the Civil War. The last movement. entitled “The Present—The Future,” | sets forth our own jazs age and America.” thence builds up hopes of a more ideal future, The climax of the composition, ifl- | cently prepared, is a hymn to America, | in which the composer afirms his faith |in the greatness and idealism of this, | his adonted country. The culminating hymn will be sung by the National Capi- tal Oratorio Associatfon, Dr. Albert W, Harned, director. | One other score stands upon Kous- sevitzky's program—Moussorgsky's “Pic- tures at an Exhibition,” arranged for orchesira by Maurice Ravel. Mous~ sorgsky's score is a vivid and descrip- tive piano concerto, in which he thar- acterizes a series of pictures in an ex- hibition by his artist friend, Hartman. This suite has been orchestrated by | three different composers, but Ravel's arrangement is the favorite. Kous- sevitzky introduced this score to Europe | and America. o e g AS Ot}\ers SCG U!. | have often seen flim actors por- | tray plumbers. Also doctors, lawyers, merchants, beggarmen and thieves. Now the worm has turned—the proc- ess is reversed, and an actor is forced to portray himself as a plumber would see him! * Jack Mulhall is the victim. Mulhall is cast as a plumber in “Two Weeks Off,” a dialogue film, in which he is co-featured with Dorothy Mackaill. During one part of the picture, the plumber is mistaken for a movie actor, and is forced to play the role during a whole vacation he spends with a little | shop girl at a beech resort! “Seeing the back of my neck without | a mirror is easy in comparison to play- |ing that part.” Mulhall declares. “Ime | agine yourself forced to give an imita~ | tion of vourself as somebody else sees you! The best I could do for tips on | how it ought to be done is to have a | garage mechanic, a friend of mine, imi- tate an actor we both knew. I didn't tell him I was to play this part until afterward, and he gave me some good | tips without being conscious of it, for | he’s a good mimic.” STUDIOS OF Jeannette Lewis Doty Accompanist WASHINGTON 'WALTER T. HOLT | School of Mandolin, Guitar and Edwin F. Kalmus will be vice presi-| In addition to entrants previously | sented in the United States Indian Res- | “Blessed Jesu, Fount of Merey." | The United States Marine Band will dent of the corporation and will act as manager and distributor in the United States and in Europe. The press is ®nxious to receive serious manuscripts in any musical form, which should be gent to the Cos Cob Press, Inc., 209 West Fifty-seventh street, City With the co-operation of publishing houses, musical organizations and con- ductors in Europe, the new organization hopes to open the Continental field to American composers, a field which in the past has been closed to their ef- forts. It plans to make not only this country, but Europe as well, conscious of the current creative movement in American music. “The aim of the Cos Cob Press,” says New York | | announced, applications to be | on the contest program have been re- celved from Edith M. Wallack, 3933 | Betty “Baum, | pianist. | Extensive 3520 Edmunds preparations are closed before the final date of registra- tion, April 1. The contest, open for singers, pianists, organists, violinists and cellists, is be- ing conducted under the auspices of the D. C. Federation of Music Clubs. Winners in this city will enter the| semi-finals in Baltimore, May 4, and if | successful they will compete in the finals at Boston in June. placed ervation Band Orchestra. Military road, dramatic soprano, and | street, | trombone soloist, Mrs. Wertheim, “is not primarily a commercial one, but it is obvious that the American composer and his music will be better served if the press can be commitiee, \ The leader is Nasato Shunatona, a Carlisle grad- uate and a famous athlete during his coliege days. He also is a composer, dancer adept both | in native tribal dances and modern being | steps and authentic ts of hi { made by & group of musicians who do | feat e e ooihs not desire their identities to be dis- ' features has been the subject of works of art by varlous painters and sculptors. | He is a full-blooded Pawnee. Princess Palanki, a Choctaw Indian Wwho recelved a thorough musical edu- cation and has exceptional ability both as a planist and as a soprano, is re- lated to the first governor of the State of Oklahoma. Chief Roaring Thunder, most aptly | named, is a bass-baritone soloist of the Applica- | group ‘and has won international re- tions and full detafis may be obtained from Eva Whitford Lovette, 2008 Q| orful personality. He was educated a* street, who heads the local contest conservatories both here and abroad (hown for his beautiful voice and col- He is of the Chippewa Tribe, hY Sleep, Roaring Thunder and Hotonga. ( It is customary to see unusual names in the list of members in orchestras playing in Washington but probably none can claim the distinction that is won by the majority of names in this Indian group, including in addition to the above-named: Ross QGuard, Coolana Eagle, Deep Waters, Knife Chief, Naha Lesa, Chief Mountain, Tall Pine, White Deer, Po- Swearing Green, »ato, Laughing Wind, Curley Chief, Eagle Horn and Pehewah, : Wildflower, of the Cherok;c });Inuon. ! M e s one of the few women who has at- | : tempted & brass instrument in a band, | - USIC Fea*“,"‘f‘, In 4 tS‘:u plalis one of the largest tubas in | Bluebird” Production e worl | The male quartet that tours with the | [\/JUSIC and dancing will be features band orchestra and is made up of men | * of Maeterlinck’s “Blue Bird” when whe alternate in playing instruments ' it is presented by the business and pro- or singing, includes four such fanciful } fesslonal women of the Young Women's names as Blue Cloud Boy, Long Time ; Christian Association, under the direc- tion of Alice Sigworth Morse, Thurs- | day and Friday nights, March 14 and | 15, in Barker Hall, of the main Y. W. A. Building, Seventeenth and K streets. Dances have been arranged to Brahms' “Waltz in A Major”; German's | “Torch Dance”; and Grieg's “Asa’s Death.” Edith Dawson is accompanist for the dances, and between the acts, there is to be music played by Kathryn Moritz, violinist, a member of the Girl Reserve stafl of the. assoclation, give two concerts in the auditorium at the Marine Barracks this week. The concert Wednesday will be at 8 p.m. ;?da tu::e concert Friday afternoon will The programs will be of the usual standard, including popular classical werks and lighter compositions, too. There will be no concert tomorrow due to the participation of the band orchestra in ‘the inaugural ceremonies. SOLDIERS’ HOME ORCHESTRA. Soldiers’ Home Band will give programs Tuesday. Thursdey and Saturday at 5:30 pm., under the direction of John S. M. 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