Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 5

SODIETIES T0 HOLD ~ UTDOOR SERVICE 11 S. ARMY BAND For Impaired Vision -~ TOCLOSEJULY 1} TOPLAY I SPA Music of Ancient Indians of Latin America Will Be Given at Seville. i BY PAUL V. COLLINS. The United States Army Band has been specializing on a revival of Indian | music of the Latin countries and will | carry it over the seas to Spain when appearing at the exposition in Seville next month. It is not North American music that the musicians have suddenly become enthused with, but Central and South ! American — Aztec. Toltec and Inca music. It is a marvelous discovery madi by music lovers to find those great pre Columbian peoples so cultured and so filled with Teal harmony and melody that in comparison the clessics of the ©Old World are challenged for beauty. Engineering Shows Skill. The Inca empire was as large as all | the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. Nobody can estimate tne number of its population, but its great wealth was uncovered by the conquerors under Pizarro. Their civilization was demonstrated by their engineering of | Toadways through the mountains. ! Their poetic imagination was shown in their legends. One tribe of Andes Indians built round the great bird, the condor, the mvth that once the earth was so smallJn comparisc 1 that a con- | dor, whose nest was in the sun, picked | it up and few away with i.. The In- cans say that a condor has died and | the earth is grieved when storms and | earthquakes strike. And so the “Passing of tae Condor,” | composed by an Inca musician hun- | dreds of years ago, is music which | thrills and moves the souls of savages and the civilized. It is one of the | choicest selections played by the Army | Band. Thought Earth Like Egg. | Incidentally, it should be noted that | the Inca legend pictured the earth in the shape of an egg—a ball—rather | than the idea of the ancient Europeans of old that it was a flat disk around | which the sun and moow rose and set | daily. In the mountain pastures, the shep- herds call their flocks of llamas by playing on “pipes of Pan” exactly as did the ancient Grecian shepherds. These Pan-pipes are made of reeds, or hollowed wood or baked clay, the tubes varying in length, to give the different notes. Sometimes the tubes are in double, or quadruple or treble rows, tied with thongs of fiber. The Pan-pipes were in common use When Pizarro invaded the land. Andeans Have Diety. Former Gov. Charles S. Osborn of Michigan, writing on his travels, says that in Peru there are tribes who are said never to have seen a white man, yet he adds: “Some of the tribesmen | are pipers and have musical reeds not | dissimilar to those used up to the pres- ent day by certain peasants of Siclly and which are thought to be the true syrinx, or shepheard's flute, invented by Pan, according to the myths of the PP Romans, as well, gave credit to| the god of the flocks and pastures, first to Inuus and then to Faunus, quite im- partially, and_these primitive Andeans also have such a deity to whom they blow great blasts from their Pandean pipes as they summon their llamas. They played tunes upon the Pan- flutes for Pizarro’s band of invaders in the early years of the sixteenth cen- tury. They have survived to this day and are now given by the Army Band. ‘While neither literature nor written music of the ancient Andeans was pre- served, due to the Spanish conquerors, many of the original instruments have been discovered and also pictures of the musicians in the act of playing them have been found painted on clay vases. The folklore melodies have come down from generation to_generation amon the isolated tribes. In R. et M. D'Har- court’s book the author presents some studies amounting to more than 200 lines of hitherto unpublished songs and instrumental pieces which he had re- corded on phonographs, as delivered by descendants of the Inca tribes. Some Yet Can Be Played. ‘This method, he says, has been more fruitful in Peru than anywhere else, except in Egypt, in preserving the art of the ancient times, for, due to the dry- | ness of the climate along the Peruvian coast, many well preserved instruments have been discovered burled in the sand, often beside vases of funeral ceremonies. ‘There are y musical instruments in such preservation that Jt is possible to make them vibrate with musical sound, and the author adds that he hears from a flute just exhumed notes that have slept through the centuries. There were rattles, gongs, drums, cymbals, zylo- phones, trumpets and even stringed in- struments. | Not all the instruments were in use | all over the continent. The flageolet | was commonly used in Peru, but un- known in Mexico. Aztec records have been preserved by hieroglyphics, but such were unknown to the Incas. So| the fleld is not only rich, but varied in its resources and characteristics, Adams Gathered Scores. A few years ago Franklin Adams, now counselor of the Pan-American Union, spent some time in South Amer- ica. Mr. Adams in his younger days played in an amateur band and has never gotten over his love of band mu- sic. Mrs. Adams becampe greatly in terested with him in ¥hat they dis- covered in South American music, and when they returned to the United States they brought with them hun- | dreds of music scores. Mrs. Adams lectured on the subject. Mr. Adams talked about it to the musicians of the various bands connected with the Gov- | ernment—the Army Band, the Navy Band and the Marine Band. At first | the leaders declined to become interest- | ed, preferring only the “classics” of the old masters of Europe, and counting | the Indian music with jazz or tom-toms. ‘Willlam J. Stannard, leader of the Army Band, was the first to begin try- || ing out the ancient Indian scores of Latin America. Then began a systematic search for more selections through correspondence with musical directors of bands in all the countries of Central and South | America, through the Union, and when the Army Band gave | concerts in the Hall of Ambassadors of ||/ the Pan-American Union the diplomatic | || representatives of the countries whence | came this unusual music became en- thusiastic. Then the director general, Dr. L. S. Rowe, called the attention of the Secretary of War to this rare fea- ture for interesting the world in tendance at the exposition in Seville. Some of the original Indian music has been “interpreted” by the Spanish descendants of the Conquistadores and the later Spanish settlers in those coun- tries, and while the root of the music is Guanani, Inca, Mayan, Toltec and Aztec, some of it also has a Spanish flavor. Much of it is in a minor key. or is interpretative of the tragedies of the Congquest, or in the spirit of the original life of the ancients, with their folklore and myths. Exhibits Are Extensive. Congress appropriated $700,000 to cov- er all costs of the United States ex- hibits at the Seville exposition. The exhibits are the most extensive ever shown at any of the world fairs, so far as concern this country. They depict the history, the development of the wilderness, 'the maps of the Spanish explorers of the continent and the de- velopment of the resources of the coun- try. But there will be no feature of Upper, left to right, center: Curtis J. Stannard, leader. Lower: Thomas F. Darcy, second Bingert, third leader. liam D. Alway, commanding, and Capt. Wil- leader, and Warrant Officer Theodore weird but splendid music, based upon the antique music first heard by the Conquistadores. The cost of” this will be approximately $25.000, which is ap- $700,000. A considerable part of the permanent buildings to be bequeathed to Seville after the exposition. So the project of sending the band to the exposition, which originated in the Pan-American Union, was indorsed by the War Department. The United States Chamber of Commerce became so interested that it provided one of the most elaborate flags ever made—an embroidered Great Seal of the United States Government upon a rich blue silk ground—to constitute the band “colors.” New instruments, silver plated, have been provided, and new uniforms. Instruments Reproduced. Some reproductions of the aboriginal instruments on which the same music was played centuries ago before Pizarro and Cortez came, made by the most skilled artisans of the present genera- tion, are included. A week ago, in the auditorium of the McKinley High School, an audience of 2,000 music lovers, including the diplo- matic staffs of pan-America, listened to a recital of selections which will be part of the many programs prepared for the European trip. ‘The band sailed on the Leviathan yesterday and the Leviathan passengers will have the pleasure of its daily con- ccots en route. It carries three leaders —Capt. William J. Stannard, Capt. Thomas F. D'Arcy, Theodore Bungert propriated out of the total fund of | rest of the appropriation will go into | ! |and Capt. Curtis D. Alway, military | commander of the band. The itinerary includes arrival in Cherbourg May 10; Madrid, May 12 to 15; Seville, May 15 to 25, where it will give three concerts daily. short stop in_Barcelona, it will reach home June 26. | (Copyright, 1929.) 'FUND IS DISCUSSED AT “DRIVE” DINNER | Meeting Is Held Preliminary to | Campaign for Raising Bal- timore's Quota. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE,? May 4.—Prelimina | to the campaign for raising Baltimor quota of $100,000 of the fund for build. ing a national Lutheran College for ‘Women near Silver Spring Montgomery County, a dinner was held at the Em- erson Hotel last night, with Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of the Secretary of Labor, as guest of honor. Among the sponsors for the dinner were Mayor Broening and Mrs. Broen- ing. Rev. Robert D. Clare is a director of the Maryland Synod for the college and Dr. J. C. Byers is president of the synod. The Lutheran College for Women is fostered by the board of education of the United Lutheran Church in America. After a | Massing of Colors Feature at Cathedral Sunday Before " Memorial Day. More than 50 military and patriotic organizations will participate in massing-of-the-colors service in th: open-air ampitheater of the Washing- ton Cathedral at 4 oclock on the afternoon of May 26. which is the Sunday before Memorial day. The United States Marine Band will play for the group singing and the Voctory Post Drum Corps and the Overseas Drum Corps will march in the procession. Bishop Freeman has appointed Rev. Dr. G. Freeland Peter, canon of the Cathedral, committee. Preparation has already been made for the seating of 15.000 persons. The service Military Order of the World War, which has appointed the following committee: Capt. George F. Unmacht, chairman; Maj. Gen. C. C. Hammond, Capt. Ariington A. McCallum, Maj. En- nals Waggaman, Capt. Paul V. Collins, Capt. i Capt. Capt. R. W. Schumann, H. N. Wallin, Col. and Maj. W. W. Comdr. Nixon Iieut. Courtland Burns. Among the organizations which have signified their intention of joining in the service are the Army and Navy Union, American War Mothers, Sons of the American Revolution, American Red Cross, American Women's Legion, Daughters of the American Revolution, | Children of the American Revolution, | | Daughters, | Spani¢h-American War, American Legion, Aztec Soclety, Boy Scouts. Daughters of Union Veterans, Civil War Order of Cincinnati, Daugh- ters of Cincinnati, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Colonial Dames of America, Columbia Historical Military Order of the Carabao. Scions of Colonial Cavaliers. Disabled Veterans of the World War, Descendants Signers of the Declaration rder of De Molay. Veterans of Forefgn Wars, United States Flag_Association. Militarv Order of Foreign Wars, Ladies of the G. A. R.. G. A. R. Department of the Potomac, Girl Scouts Tiouse, Girl Scouts, Order of Indian Wars. Job's Tegion of Loyal Women. and Edwin Of Leipzig, N. Lewis to serve on the arrangements | fame, a medal and a $2.500 prize for his important discoveries in physics, is DR. WERNER HEISENBERG Germany, who has won | | | | |Mrs. Dougherty Asks All Who | Have Canvas Bags to Return Them. ] | The Thrift Shop, 504 Tenth street. | | operated for the benefit of four child welfare agencies in the District of Co- lumbia, will close July 1, for the Sum- | mer, it was announced last night by Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, chairman of the committee in charge. | In order to place the affairs of the shop in good order before closing, Mrs. wougherty issued an appeal to all per- sons who have been given large can- | vas bags belonging to the shop, to | bring in or send in the bags. with the conations to the stock of the shop, as soon as possible. The stock will be put on the shelves and the bags | cleaned and stored for the Summer. The Thrift Shop will reopen the | only 28 years old. He is a visiting pro- | day after Labor day in the Fall. to Society, | of Independence, | Dames of the Loyal Legion, Military | Order of the Loyal Legion. Order of Tafavette. Mavflower Descendants, Na- | tional Patriotic Council, journers. United Spanish War Veteran: National Lineal Society of the Spanish War. Naval and Military Order of the Sons of the Revolution. Spanish-American _ War Nurses, Society of Veteran Office Third District of Columbia Infantry, United States Daughters of 181 ‘Woman's Rellef Corps. Auxiliary Snan ish War Veterans, Washington Unit of the Women's Overseas Service League, Military Order of the World War, Wal of 1812 Societv. Woman's Naval Service, Order of Washington, N. S. Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. Vietory Post Drum Corps. Bethlehem Chapter Drill Corps, No. 7, O. E. 8, | and Daughters of America. Benefit Gard;n Party. A benefit garden party to raise an educational fund for the orphans of service men will be given at La Colline, 3900 Cathedral avenue, May 25. The advisory committee, which is sponsor- ing the fund includes Mrs. John Allen Dougherty, Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Mrs. Edwin St. J. Greble. Rear Admiral Spenser Wood and Wol. Wade Hampton Cooper. National So- | | | is sponsored by the | fessor at the University of Chicago. 3 De;ths Reported. The following_deaths have been reported 4o the Health Department during the last hovrs Susan R. Burche. 87, Homeopathic Hos- pital Auna J. Collins, 79, 1208 10th st Emma’ i Yaste. 73, 216 9th st. ne. Garfield Hospital Hutchins, 68, 1868 Ingleside ter- 61, Jane B. Potter, 68, hel H. ray Richard P. Hutchins, E. Perry. 63, Casualty Hospital John Houghton, 62, Emergency Hospital. Abraham C. Luber, 61, 1110 Columbla rd. John H. Dewdnes.' 60. 1633 W st. s.e. 50, 2238 Nichols ave. Rosa A. Bachofner, e Thomas I Allen. 58. Providence Hospital. Rose E. James. 58 815 Varnum st Elaine " E. Cox, 43, George Washington At B, B 3 obert E, Bro 493 Holmead pl. ‘iknllllhA V. McCo 34, CA!II&IU‘DHOP Catlton Ballou. 29. C Williom 3 Enneey 83 2T, arompital pital Paul Drullard. 4, Children’s Hospital. wuline Swau, 2 months, Childrens Hos- Matthews, 83, 1734 T st. roll. 60." Freedmen's Hospital. 58. 116 V st. n.w 4. Gallinger Hospital, Henry, 53, Gallinger Hos- Jumes H. Hunter, 50, Garfield Hospital. Carrie Williaj 458 Washinston st. james Nicke) Casualty Hospital Willis H.” Ho Walter Reed Hospital. Clarence Davenport. 34, Galiinger Hospital George L. Shaw, 31, Gallinger Hospital. Violet Robinson, 1. Children's Hospital. Andrew Parker. 7 days, Children's Hos- pital Grace A. Hurd, 4 days, 1618 1st st. 4; mi Hos- \iherine Jemmia Ci Cora L. Matthew: John Jennings Christopher C. pital 1868 Ingleside | | resume its activities for the benefit of | | the four organizations. | Appreciation for the support ten- dered the Thrift Shop to Children's | Hospital, one of its beneficiaries, has been expressed by Miss Mattie M. Gib- | son, superintendent of the hospital, in a letter to Mrs. Dougherty. | “For & long time"” wrote the super- | intendent, “I have had it in mind to tell “you something of the great and | definite benefits the hospital has |reaped from the splendid work done by you and your committee and helpers at the Thrift Shop. | “The generous checks that you have | sent us have enabled us to fill at once | some long-felt needs in equipment in | the wards. | “We have put an electric refrigerator | of ample size in the special diet kitchen | and also have installed three others, one | on Ward A, one on Ward B and one in | the laboratory. | “This equipment represents a won- | derful contribution from the Thrift | Shop and not only insures more efficient | service but_will continue through the years to effect a saving in refrigera- tion cost. | “It was most kind of you to remem- ber our needs and send us the linen rhich I assure you will serve a useful purpose. 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