Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 60

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C; MAY 5. 1929—PART 4. MU BY HELEN F Alice, the heroine of Lewis Carroll's delightful books of fantasy, were to step into the actual world today, she prob- ably would be even more bewild- ere than she was in that land “Through the Looking-Glass.” It is a day of shifting, readjustments in many ways and of novel valua- tions, too. In music, as well as other things, the Kkaleiodscopic pattern is changing with alarm- ing rapidity. One almost can hear the click of Time's wheel as it alters its spinning rhythms. Within the past 10 days in the alert music mart of the world, New York City, an opera more than 300 years old had joint premicre in that city with a work written within the current cen- tury. Moreover, even the title SIC FETTER. |scientific laws of harmony—the | modern stage has not yet evolved | its own scientific technique or | terminology for its expression. But may it not employ all means, so long as it be true to the funda- mental conception? To stir an emotional or intellectual response, may it not weave in all the ele- ments it needs, provided this be done with discretion and convie- tion? The esthetic result depends upon the selection and sensitive combination of the elements. “To convey a dramatic idea, an artist does not choose a lyric form; to create a fantastic dec- oration, he does not use profound dramatic contrasts. The form | | grows from the idea just as sure- |ly as the flower from the seed; | its proportion and line and color | PRINCIPAL FIGURES IN MASSED CHORUS FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY NIGHT Pianists’ Club Programs. THE seventh annual festival of piano- forte music given by members of the Washington Pianists’ Club in the audi- { torilum of the Columbia Heights Chris. | tian Church, 1435 Park Road north- west, opened last night at 8 o'clock with programs by /the two youngest members, Leah Effenbach and Glenn Carow. Their programs were given on the music page of last Sunday's Star, i g?dr will be reviewed in tomorrow's Star. i This introduction will be followed by four other equally interesting evenings, scheduled as follows: Tomorrow evening Virginia Bestor presents Edward Dawson, a promising young composer-pianist of 16 years, {'who recently gl‘ldulkd with the high- est honors of his class at Western High « School. He will play: 1. “Prelude and Pugue. G Minor." from the Well-Tempered Clavichord .. ... ac Tantasia. “Pantasia and’ Sonate. C Minor". SR pd ‘Prelude. D Minor” Nncturne, C-sharp Trude, P M ‘Rercouse'” “En Automni “Minor! ‘Concerto, © Mino: €ro con brio.. ond piano, Miss Bes son | | Thursday evening two girls who in | addition to serious music study are taking complete courses at George ‘Washington University, will divide the honors of the evening. La Salle Spier presents Virginia Shull (scholarship | student at G. W. U.) in her fifth annual | recital with the Washington Pianists’ ! Club. Her program follows: 1 ‘Prelude and Pugve. E-flat Majo ..dhe “Well-Tempered Clavichord" ‘Sonata. Opus 26, andante con variavoni scherzo, marcia funebre. rondo..Beetioven 1 F-sharp s 1 r. from T Tmpromptu, Impromptu, Major’ opin % cn (Reflections "in_the _Water) e 3z .. .Debussy Impressions of a ‘Braziiian Rustic Pesti- W e s +eeeeea.. Villa-Lobos I ‘Coneerto. G Minor,” second d third movements, Allegro scherzando, Presto. {nt-Baens Second piano, Mr. Spler. green Alice Burbage Hesselbach presents Harriet Nash, a second young promising composer-pianist and new member in 1 | this club. She will have the assistance D | of the well known artist. Myron Whit- ey of this city, who will sing one of Miss Nash’s songs. The program is as | follows; “opera,” as used for this composi- | are predetermined by its concept. | tion, did not go unchallenged.|But to carry the simile further— ‘There were those who preferred to call this work by Monteverdi— generally recognized as the “Father of Opera"—a ‘“cantata spantomime.” Along with this opera (which may not have been an opera) was a hallet which was much more than a ballet. Although the mimes on the stage were obviously the focal point of Stravinski's “Les Noces,” the instrumental use of solo and chorus voices in the orchestra pit, along with four pianos and the other more customary instru- ments, brought this work, too, .“within a hybrid classification. Not content with one such puz- 2ling program of dual complexi- |union must add to the spiritual ties, the following night found a Jarge proportion of the same au- | dience watching a ballet interpre- ‘“tation of Richard Strauss’ tone- !"poem—“Ein Heldenleben"—a de- cidedly vivid and dramatic event. Martha Graham and Charles “Weidman did such remarkable work in the principal roles of the dance-pantomime as to lift the whole to inspirational heights. On the contrary, the Strauss score, which had sounded so mo- mentous when played in Wash- ington in 1925 by the New York | Philharmonic _Orchestra, under ‘Willem Mengelberg, sounded sur- prisingly like high-class motion picture program music at the hearing in New York, when the ballet literally “walked away” »with first honors. The marvelous suppleness of Miss Graham’s . thanges from one pose to another, ,.always accenting the dramatic meaning of the music with look as well as with gesture, will linger -Jong in the memory. The orchestra playing the score was the Cleveland Symphony Or- chestra, Nikolai Sokoloff conduct- ing. This is an unusually fine or- g:gnzltion, which has been heard rarely within the past few seasons in the National Capital. The memories of that orchestra’s -last performance here, December "1, 1925, are particularly keen and pleasant. At the time they gave ean Sibelius’ “First Symphony,” Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome,” Mottl’s arrangement for orchestra 10f Gretry’s ballet suite, “Cephale ‘et Procris,” and Borodin's “Pol- ’bvtsian Dances.” Enthusiasm ran $o0 high that the unusual boon of .an orchestra encore was granted, +and Rimsky-Korsakoff’s “Bumble- bee” was played. On the program with the Strauss work in the recent New "¥ork production, the orchestra “won special laurels with the inter- pretation of Charles Griffes’ tone- poem, “White Peacock.” The miming here, too, was exquisite. The costuming and settings were ,original and showed imaginative restraint, a refreshing change from the glittering exactitude of \ “expensive revue costuming, with its Christmas-tree style of osten- tation. Only in the costuming of the three ladies described in the rogram cast as “the hero’s light oves,” was there a descent to “follies” styles. The modernistic severe setting with steps giving planes of differing levels, had an intriguing geometric simplicity, with a logical building up to the pyramid against a Maxfield Par- rish blue sky at the finale that was extremely effective. The colorful authenticity of the peasant costumes in the Enesco “Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1” pro- vided a last number, gay in mood and fascinating in the graceful use of folk material both in theme and dance step. Here were three examples of dance interpretations of classical | orchestral music. Shades of Alice’s “Looking - Glass,” how things have changed! Composers used to toss off ballet music in their spare moments, using up the lacey frills left over from more weighty styles of writing. Old- type ballet groupings then were obediently worked out in trios and pas seuls, etc., to fit the ac-| cented, sugary cadences. The matter of facial expression or dramatic interpretation by ges- tures never entered the problem at all. Now, in these new ballets, un- der the guidance of such an un- usual personality as Irene Lewi- sohn's, a march has been stolen upon the napping composer and he is liable to awaken soon and find himself like Alice and the Red Queen, racing wildly to simply keep up with himself. As the Red Queen remarked on that occasion. “Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.” His carefully worked-out sym- phonic compositions are being snatched from the dignified realm nf symphony orchestra afternoon interpretations and appropriated to exhibit the skill of the new- est exponents of a rejuvenated terpsichore. It is interesting to find the un- derlying motive in Miss Lewi- sohn's methods in this new ballet | work in the following direct quo- tation from her: “The stage, which is a com- | Exactly a century later it was re- |ican choir in a performance ra Burbank may find a method of cross-fertilization and thus create |a new specie—or another artist may take that flower, and in com- | bination with others create a dec- |oration that has form and line and rhythm of its own, still con- | sistent with the original inspira- itjon, ** * | “My concept of expression through movement is founded on a belief in the dignity and beauty of the human form as a part of the technique of life, and as a necessary vehicle for emotional expression both on the stage and joff; that there should be a union | of the lyric arts—and that such a | life of both the individual and the community. For I believe that the supreme aim of life is one with that of art to raise the in-| dividual out of himself and to identify him with his race.” * X kX ! STXLL another angle on the new ) ballet movement was shown in the programs presented over the week end in Newark, N. J.,, where Irma Duncan, one of the original group of adopted girls who be- came sincere disciples of Isadora Duncan, led the Duncan Dancers of Moscow, Russia, in some of their now famous programs, fea- turing the revolutionary group of folk songs and their dance inter- pretations. This, one of the most complete and logical of the schools of interpretative dancing, originally conceived by Miss Dun- can, and an inspiration to the Russian ballet in its sluggish days when the California girl first car- ried her startling conceptions to Europe, still remains a leading factor in the development of even newer schools of the dance. The crude, spontaneous quality of the singing in the revolutionary num- bers. combined with dramatic power in. the gestures and con- SyLvia LENT- New York Soprano Artist With Rubinstein Club "THE final concert of the Rubinstein Club for the current season will be presented at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday night at the Willard Hotel, when Julia Peters, New York dramatic sopreno, will be guest soloist. FREDERICK | ALEXANDER. MRrs. JOSEPHM .STODDARD- Miss Peters will sing three groups of selections, including in her num- bers familiar lieder by Schumann and Schubert, the air, from Wagner’s opera, e air, | “Pace, Pace,” from Verdi's “Forza del Destino,” and popular light numbers YLVIA LENT, violinist, o . introduction to Washington, being a native of the National Capital, | will_be the soloist at the concert| Wednesday evening at 8:20 at_Central | High School, which the Church Music | who needs | | eration of Music Clubs are sponsoring | as a part of the celebration of National | Music week. Miss Lent, who will play | in Plattsburg, N. Y., tomorrow evening, | will return in time for the concert and | present a group of compositions between | the choral numbers, which will be sung Sylvia Lent Is Soloist For Choral Festival Wednesday St. Denis and Ted Shawn in the Gre Theater. During one Summer he di- rected choral music at the California | State Normal School in San Francisco. | The chorus of 200, which has sung with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at its Christmas concert for six years, | Council and District of Columbia Fed- has been prepared and conducted by ‘1 Mr. Alexander. His work also is well known in Chicago, where he lectured on the history of music at the North- western University in Evanston during the Summer session last year. The concert Wednesday evening is under the auspices of & committee com- | | | JULIA PETERS. | by Woodman, Brownell, Taylor and Del certe; mass rhythms of the group as @whole, made stirring effects that wrung enthusiastic. bravos from even a Sunday afternoon audience. The trilogy—‘“Labor, Famine and Labor Triumphant”— was, perhaps, the most expansive- ly effective of all. The Amazonian quality of “Warshavianka” (revo- lutionary Russia of 1905) provided virile drama and opportunity for The club will present songs or ar- rangements of songs by Rubinstein- Claassen, Mozart-Saar, Mary Helen Brown, Lester and O'Hare. The con- ductor, Claude Rcbeson, will direct the numbers, and Ianthe Smith will at the second piano for the Belgian folk song, the regular pianist playing most of the accompaniments. Kathleen Culbertson will sing the soprano solos in the “Hymn to the Sun,” Victor Saar's arrangement of & work by Mozart. | a great variety of postures for the heroines falling in the imaginary battle, until the stage was several times more gory looking than after a Shakespearean tragedy. The Chopin and Schubert groups on the program were all too long, and too similar in style and mood. It was the final Russian revolu- tionary group that brought new life and meaning to an accredited form of dancing. * K ok K ’I'WO events of first importance to the country at large, musi- cally, and, incidentally, to the world, will take place over the coming week end. One of these is the performance of Monteverdi’s very first opera, “Orfeo,” at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., .by the music department of that school, Prof. Werner Josten, direc- tor. Mr. Josten is responsible for the American premiere of “Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinida,” just given a New York premiere as above mentioned. It is possible that “Orfeo,” if suc- cessful at Saturday’s performance at Smith College, also may be brought to the big city later on. Francesco Malipiero is reported to have edited the 300-year-old score of his countryman'’s opera. The other imposing event for the week end (Friday and Satur- day) is the performance of Bach’s “St. Matthew's Passion,” as it has reached the ripe age of 200 years exactly this year, at Bethlehem, Pa., by the Bach Choir. They also will do the famous “Mass in B Minor,” thus providing a rare combination of Bach composi- tions. The St. Matthew score was given its premiere performance in Leipzig, on Good Friday, 1729. vived by none other than Felix Mendelssohn. Now it is to be! | given by the world-famous Am:r- } or | which all tickets have been sold long since. * ok kX ASHINGTON will have its own | | choral festival Wednesday | night of this week, when choirs| |and choruses, including even a | children’s chorus of 100 voices {and a violin group of 20 children. |with Sylvia Lent, the youthful, but internationally famous Wash- | ington violinist, as the only solo artist, will present a Massed Chorus Festival, under the joint auspices _of the Church Music Council, Dr. J. J. Duffield, dire;‘t%r. ed- 1 | | | and the District of Columbia |eration of Music Clubs, Joseph M. Stoddard, president, at lCemral High School. The guest | conductor is Frederick Alexander |of Michigan. This is the third | such festival, and indications are that it will be by far the most |ambitious and brilliant. 'Program of Music Planned For All-States Hotel A SPRING entertainment, to be fol- lowed by dancing, is announced by May PFrances Jett for Thursday night, May 16, at All-States Hotel. Vocal and instrumental music will be featured. ‘The Elks’ Glee Club will assist and a class of children who have studied rhythmic dancing will be presented. ~ posite art force, draws on all me- | diums for its complete expression. | Like pure music or any other art form, it endeavors to create a! mood, to transport an audience into the realm of imagination, and it employs the same funda- mental laws—form, tone, rhythm, color. Music has evolved its own r Spring Concert Tuesday 'HE Davison Glee Club, John R. Monroe, conductor, will present the Spring concert at Plerce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets northwest, at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. Assisting soloists will be Cathreen Carrico, soprano, and William F. Santelmann, violinist. ‘The club will, as usual, present works of the highest caliber, including choral compositions by R. Vaughan Williams, Josquin des Pres, Enrico Bossi, Selim Palmgren, John Dowland, Charles Francois Gounod, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Karl Loewe, Johannes Brahms, Emmanuel Chabrier and A. Whiting's arrangement of the famous old Scotch song “The Hundred Pipers.” Miss Carrico, in addition to singing obbligatos with the chorus, will present the air from Mozart's “I1 Re Pastore” and “Pastorale,” by Henry Carey. i be |8t the North Woodward Congrega- | tional Church. by the 250 local singers in a massed |pcsed of the Rev. Dr. J. R. Duffield, festival chorus. | president of the Church Music Council; Frederick Alexander, head of Con- | Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard, president of | servatory of Music of the Michigan | the District Federation of Music Clubs: State Normal College, will conduct the | Charles D. Boyer, treasurer for the chorus. He has made -a number of | committee; Gertrude Lyons, assistant visits to Washington during the Winter | treasurer; Mrs Hardy and Mrs. Hunter in preparation for the concert and ar- | from the District public schools: Ruby rived the first of last week to direct|Smith Stahl, Wiliam E. Braithwaite, final rehearsals. Mr. Alexander, who [Imogens Ireland, Mrs. James Shera has beer® with the conservatory 20 Montgomery, Mrs. Edwin years, has had much experience in|Jessie MacBride, Edgar Priest, organist choral work. He is a graduate of the |and ehoirmaster of the Washington University of Michigan and has been a | Cathedral, and Louls A. Potter, one of | leading organist and choirmaster of De- | the leading organists and choirmasters troit for some years. He served the |of Washington. Woodward Avenue Baptist Church 16| The chorus, which will number nearly | years, was for six years with the Temple | thrce hundred voices, is composed of | singers from local church choirs and | clubs, the small groups having worked | together until the arrival of Mr. Alex- ander early last week. The final re-| The West Coast also knows Mr. Alex. | hearsal, which will be for all voices, ' ander’s work. He was, for four consec- will be held tomorrow evening in utive Sumers, director of music in | Epiphany Parish Hall, at 1317 G street, the University of California at Berkeley | at 7:30 o'clock. and conductor of the Greek Theater | A boys' chorus of 100 voices and a Chorus. He also was in charge of [group of 20 young violinists will pro- choirs for the pageent given by Ruth |vide unusual features on the program. Eight D. C. Winners Sent To Contest in Baltimore | |THE eight winners in the biennial | contest held in this clty April 27| went to Baltimore yesterday to com- | pete with the victors from Maryland, | Virginia and West Virginia. The event Beth El Church and for four years played the organ and directed the choir 1 Annual May Festival at Maryland U. This Week THE Little Symphony of Maryland University, B. Louis Goodyear, conductor, will be featured in the morn- Ing concert which opens the annual music festival at that school Wednesday at 11:15 am. The assisting soloists will be Jack Ladson, tenor, and James Decker, baritone, with Ruth Hays, vio- linist, and Mrs. Jessie Blaisdell as ac- companist. At 4:30 pm. the sudents’ band will | rooms of the Emerson Hotel and the | Maryland Casualty Auditorium. The Washington young competitors glve a concert on the campus. | declared winnners here are: Gladys F. | Thursday at 8 pm. the University |George and Edith M. Wallack, so- Chorus_will give a program in the | . : auditorium, with Flora McGill Keefer, |ronct: Margarct D. Davis, organist; prominent Washington contralto. as as- sisting artist. A feature of Mrs, Keefer's solo numbers will be her presentation of a song written by Mr. Goodyear Levine and Harry Cherkassky: violin- | ists; Betty Baum, pianist, and Mary Templin, contralto. ‘Those who are successful in this| Mr. Santelmann will play some obbligatos_and also will give as solos “Poeme _Elegiaque,” by Keller, and “Gipsy Dance,” by Nachez. of the school faculty, “The White Peacock.” district will represent the four-State | | was arranged to be held in the ball-| Washington College of Music Gives 56th Public Concert HE Washington College of Music will give its fifty-sixth public con- cert ir Barker Hall, at the Y. W. C. A,, day evening, starting promptly at There will be no cards of hose interested in the work ge are cordially invited. The string-wood ensemble of 35 mem- bers, under the direction of Fritz Maile, | with Evelyn Scott as concert master, | will be heard in three sketches by Mad Dowell 2nd “Le Carillion,” by Bizet, {and will accompeny Miss Winifred | Chamberlain, pianist, in the first move- { ment of the “Concerto in C Major,” by Becthoven. | ~Adele Delano, soprano; Joseph Ba: becot, baritone, and Elizabeth Stew: soprano, will Tepresent the voice d partment. In sddidon to Miss Cham- berlain, Mary Gastrock, pianist, will be heard. Fritz | Matle, violinist, will give a group e numbers, and Isadore Fischer included from the violin depart- ment. The Preparatory School of the college will be represented by six children in short bits of piano work, and Frances Harris_will give two violin numbers. | Miss Catherine Benson will be the ac- | companist. | Weleh >vang-er;. ;o Give Concert Here Tuesday | AN _internationally famous group of Welsh singers has been announced to come to Washington to give a con- Seventh and Randolph streets northwest, Tuesday at 8:15 pm. The group is known as the Cambrian Concert Co. | Included in it are Jeanette Christine, soprano; Glanville Davies, baritone: David Owen Jones, tenor, and Owen | Franklin, organist. | The program of composition to be presented features classical works by master-composers, with airs from fa- mous oratorios by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Haendel; songs by Johann Se- bastian Bach and Cesar Franck, and organ numbers written by Walong, De- bussy and Bach. The event is sponsored by the young people of the church and the price for admission is exceedingly moderate for the type of entertainment offered. Band Orchestra Dates U. S. MARINE BAND ORCHESTRA. 'HE United States Marine Band Orchestra _ will give the last orchestra concert of the season Wednes- | day night at 8 o'clock in the auditorium | at the Marine Barracks. This concert will be featured by the playing of the “Symphony in E Minor,” composed by | Retired Principal Musician Arthur | Tregina of the United States Marine | Band. This work is in four movements and is dedicated to the memory of the late Count Leo Tolstol. The overture to “Midsummernight's Dream.” by Mortimer H. Davenport, tenor; Oscar | Mendelssohn will be included in the program. The soloist of the evening, Musiclan Delbert M. Allen, violinist, will play this composer's famous “Vio- lin_Concerto in E Minor.” The program will close with the All concerts are free of charge and group in the national contest at Bos- pen to the general public. o ton in June. prelude to Wagner's “Die Meistersinger van Nurnberg.” CHURCH SINGERS OF WASHINGTON—THE SHRINE OF THE SACRED HEART HE Shrine of the Sacred Heart, at the corner of Sixteenth street and Park road, is one of the most. beautiful churches in the | Netional Capital. The con- [ sistently high standard of the music at .| this, & leading church of the Roman | Catholic faith, has earned a high repu- | tation for its choir. ‘The present mixed choir was organ- jzed in the Fall of 1920 by Mary Louise Sullivan, the present organist-| director. It is composed of 38 voices, including a solo quartet. Imbued with | high ideals, it has been kept together by a wonderful spirit of co-operation and enthusiasm. While its chief inter-| est. is the proper rendition of the music which forms part of the regular church services, on several occasions the choir has pleased capacily congregations | with the rendition of such works as| Rossini’s “Stabat Mater,” Dubois’ “Seven Last Words,” ele. ‘The choir also has given several sec- ular concerts, which have proven artistic and financial successes. The group also has been heard many times on the radio. Sacred Heart Church - | from the studio was in its experimental | Armand Gumprecht, | from the left, the church soloists are: has the distinction of being the first for man y years, under different direc- church in the East to broadcast|tors. She was formerly soloist in the | | Christmas midnight mass, from station | old Sacred Heart Church on Fourteenth | WRC in 1923, when broadcasting away | street, singing under L. E. Gannon and | ! and, with the | | passing of a boy choir, resumed her| position when the present choir was formed. Miss Latimer began her study of voice under Clara Baker Smith, director of the cholf of Immaculate Conception Church when, under her guidance, it| won much recognition. Miss Latimer also studled with Charles Raybold, who later took the chair of music at Yale; Signor Minetti of Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and Miss Mary Cryder, who presented Miss Latimer in some of stage. In the first row of the above picture, reading left to right, beginning third Talbert Haslett, baritone; Hazel Arth, contralto; Mary Louise Sullivan, organ- ist-director; Mabel C. Latimer, soprano, and Robert M. O'Lone, tenor. Mary Louise Sullivan, a native Wash- ingtonian, received her first musical training at Notre Dame Academy, where she became a piano student in the first grade of school. She received her Immaculate Conception Academy. Un- | der the scholarship award from the Atwater Kent Foundation, Miss Arth | elected to continue her studies in Wash- ington, where she is a vocal pupil of | Mary Jordan, and is pursuing other; branches of musical education under local teachers. Hazel Arth will be heard in the At- water Kent hour from New York this evening. She is one of the most pop- ular young singers in Washington. Robert M. O'Lone has a fine natural | tenor voice. This is his fifth season as soloist at Sacred Heart. Mr. O'Lone is a native of New Jersey, and when the family moved here in the Wilson administration he attended Gonzaga In the second recital of the evening | Felian Garzia presents Eleanore Col- | |born. This will make the sixth ap- pearance of this member in successive annual festivals of this club, the high- | .Balage | est record made by any member. She { will play: Eh e 3 | Song. “'Break, ‘Words by Tennyson) Harriet Nash Mr Myron Whitney. T 1. Concerto. A Minor,” first movement, Alle- sro_ moderato = ..Griex cond piano, Mrs. H | ~Saturday, the last evening of the | festival, Pearl Waugh presents Betty | Baum in her second program as & mem- i ber of this club. Miss Baum graduated recently from Western High School, { with “honors” in m | gram consists of the bers: “‘Suite Berzamasque. Un_ Sospiro” (A i “Concerto, A Minor.” second and third movements, andante, aliegro vivace, humann Second plano, Mr. Garzia. | ‘Tuesday evening Helen Corbin Hein) presents Kathryn Beck, who made her debut with this club last season and attracted attention at that time with her dramatic interpretations. Her program follows: ““Toce | “Sonata, Opus 90." firs | ‘con expressione.. “Widmung" (Dedication) . “Faschingschwank aus Wiel carnival scene). | “Concerto. E Minor." second movement. | Tomanze “Ehos usic. Her pro: following num: - *%a and Tugve. P Minor. o i Ty £aseie. ~pu Les Acicug” ad “Rhapsody, G Mino turne. E Mino B | Paraphrase, " Eugens ent, allegro | t movem B ~Beethoven . “Concerto, D Minor,” first movement, &0 appessionato Men¢ Becond plano, Miss Waugh. In the second recital of the evening, Py and the closing one of the festival, Prof. Second piano, Mrs einl. ! Sklarevski of the Peabody Conservatory, | _ In the second recital of the evening | Baltimore, presents Katherine Wardner La Salle Spler presents Martha Mc- Smith in a repetition of her third year | Adams in a recital which marks her | alumni-scholarship program. This oc- | fourth appearance under the auspices ! casion marks her fifth appearance with of this club. Friends of this talented | this club. Her program follows: young pianist will regret to learn that on this occasion Miss McAdams prob- | ably will make her last appearance in this city for some time, as she is soon | to accompany her parents to their new | home in Chicago. She will play: alle- humenn-Liset Rlennesa slssobn ...8chumann in | T “Prelude and Fugue. F-sharp Minor, from the “Well-Tempered ord”.. .. Bach “Sonata. Opus 53 (Waldstein). allegro con brio. adagio molto, allegretio moderato: prestissimo .. Beethoven | cert in the Petworth Baptist Church, ! B. Parker,, JAZZ I | “Prelude and Pugue, A-flat Majo: ! . the “Well-Tempered Clavichord “Sonate. B-flat Minor, Opus Dopplo ~momimento, scherzo, funedre, presto. . g Two etudes, “G-sharp Minor,” “C-sharp Minor . aey Scriabin hapsody, C Major’ Dohnanyi “Concerto. E-flat Major” (Emperor). first ‘movement. allegro ... Beethoven Becond pians, Mr. Spler. MUSIG RS. H. H. A. BEACH, to wh8m is granted with all due appropri- ateness the title of “dean of American ‘woman composers,” will sail for home May 18 on the S. 8. America from Bremen. She has sperft the entire Win- tion, and heard her new string quartet, which she completed while there, play- | ed early in the month of April. Mrs. Beach gave a concert before a large audience at the American em- bassy in Rome March 23, which was a marked success. She was the American tenor, Edward Alonzo Bartlett, who sang her settings of songs by Browning. Rudolph Reuter, young Ohicago pi- anist, who appeared in Washington ear- lier in the season in a chamber music program at the Library of Congress, has just concluded an unusually busy season, playing with the Minneapolis Symphony Orthestra. This was his | Mr. Reuter has been engaged for the season 1929-30 to appear with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under Eu- gene Gossens. He also has many re- cital dates for next season. Those in Washington who know Mr. Reuter well will remember his pluck in playing here in the chamber music program while suffering from a broken rib, broken just the day previous to the concert. Katharyn MacNeal, formerly prom- inent in Washington’s group of younger pianists as the foremost exponent in the National Capital of e ultra- modern in piano music, sends a line from Port au Prince, Haiti. which indi- cates that she still is keeping up her | music although married and living in a most exotic land. In private life the former Miss MacNeal is now Mrs. Leon Frost, wife of Lieut. Comdr. Frost, U. 8. N. She writes that life in the troples is “terrifically gay and most amusing” and that ‘“there seem to be more parties than ever before, to say nothing of the many visiting yachts and | tourists, atiracted here by the publicity | this island has had lately.” She then i alludes to the books “Black Majesty” | and “The Magic Island. | . In speaking of her music, Katharyn | MacNeal Frost says: “Somehow I've aged to keep up the music and have played a great deal. My piano has held | up beautifully. It is really a wonderful | plano for the tropics.” Mrs. Frost has | organized weekly “How to Listen to Music” classes, in which many have enrolled who are among the smart colony located at Haitli. Mrs. Frost also has given recitals on yachts as well as on the isiand before sudiences in- cluding Mrs. James Dunn, now of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. A. C. Mills- pough, also in Washington at present: | Mrs. Marshall Pield, Mrs. Dryden | Kuser, Mrs. Alexander Duer Irving of | ‘NQW York City, and others. | ter in Rome, Italy, busy with composi- | assisted by | | fourth appearance with that orchestra. | Rachmaninoft pis | Prelude. “E-flat Maios Myaskowsky Debussy | Sketeh ‘from “Bizarries” | “The 1sie_of Joy".. Presentation of hionors. All music lovers are invited to attend these programs. RAPHS | Constance Russell, one of Washing- | ton's most gifted child pianists, who has attained the age of 12 years, while play- | ing on public programs for at least the | past six years, won additional acclaim |lor her playing on a recent radio pro- gram. She presented classical selec~ | tions by Seeling, Litolff, Mendelssohn, | Beethoven and Liszt. | Little M!ss Russell was presented | under the ll;lglus of her instructor, Mrs. Routt-Ji -Manring. Oba Jan Gibson, lyric soprano; Jean- | eite Lewis Doty, pianist-accompanist, | and Florence Jane Adams, reader, - | sented a costume program at the | gress ‘Street Methodist Church PFriday cvening. Due to a serious illness of several . months’ duration, Miss Gibson has been | unable to fill previous engagements this season. She has been especially missed in Masonic circles, where her programs | are in demand. | Mrs. Doty, & well known teacher of | piano and string instruments, has re- cently returned to the city after an absence of several vears. She has | established her school at 3200 Seven- | teenth street. Miss Adams, popular local radio art- ist, was at her best in the numbers featuring child dialect. Myra McCathran Marks presented | Effie Mae Reeves, coloratura soprano, in | a song recital in her studio, last Sun- day afternoon. | _Howard Moore, baritone sololst of the Wallace Memorial Presbyterian Chu assisted Mrs. Reeves in a group of songs. James Russell Barr was the accompanist. George Cornwell, pianist, gave num- | bers of Chopin, Stojoushi and Rach- | maninoff, Charles Trowbridge Tittmann the bass soloist April 17, with Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto, Canada, when that organization gave the Bach “B Minor Mass” at the unveiling in St. Paul's Church of a memorial window to the founder of the cholr, now one of the most distinguished choral societies of America. Concerning Mr. Tittmann's singing, Hector Charlesworth in Saturday | Night said. “A decidedly fine impres- sion was made by Mr. Tittmann, a true basso with a voice of depth and volume suited to the auditorium and a very noble declamatory style.” Jerome Williams, pianist-composer, is spending the week end in Baltimore as the guest of Daniel A. McMahon, tal- ented young pianist, formerly of Ver- mont and now residing in that city. The Lovete Choral Club and Lillie Porter Bailey, organist, will be heard jointly in a benefit recital at the Chevy Chase Baptist Church at 8:15 Tuesday evening. The offering will be (Continued on Thirteenth P ! was the STUDIOS L. Z. PHILLIPS Teacher of Cornet and Trombone 1618 H_St, ) Fhone M. 6082 * PIANO PLAYING 20" LESSONS™ SAXOPHONE, BANJO UKE, Etc. FREE LESSONS If ¥ OF Chi n WASHINGTON Sophocles T. Papas Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar, Ukulele 1221_CONN. AVE. DECATUR 181 WALTER T. HOLT School of Mandolin, Guitar and jo. Hawaiian Guitar and Ukaulele Established 1894 Ensemble practice with the Nerdies Cluds 1801 Columbia Road N.W., Col. 946 principal organ instruction from George {her famous Sunday afternoon musical | College. and received his prineipal choir ! Herbert Wells of this city. She also has studied under Adolf Torovsky, and with Theodore Robert at the Peabody Con- servatory. She is a member of the Dis- trict of Columbia Chapter of the Amer- ican Guild of Organists. Mabel C. Latimer has been establish- ed for some time as one of Washington's foremost sopranos. She has been closely assoclated with Sacred Heart Church events. Hazel Arth, contralto, is well known as the winner of the Atwater Kent radio contest last December. Miss Arth has | been identified with the Sacred Heart Choir since it was organiged, and gained | her first experience in senior choir | work with them. Shortly after joining this choir she became the alto soloist, 4t that time being still & student at the ' training under Glenn Ashley with the old St. Aloysius male choir. He also has been tenor soloist at the Eighth Strect Temple. Talbert Haslett, a young baritone, is a resident of Alexandria, Va. This is ! his first season at Sacred Heart. He has been soloist at Christ Church, Enroll now far the SUMMER MUSIC SESSION Us) Edna Bishop Daniel INSTITUTE of VOICE Summer School Open Alexandria, and also at Holy Trinity Church, Georgetowa. ‘ T MUSICAL ART BT s " P TNV Ave. RW: