Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1929, Page 64

g i i | ¥ H | H T o — o L MU SIC BY HELEN FETTER. HE wheel of musical events has many spokes. They might be labeled as festi- val, conference, prize award, ballet innovation, analysis of jazz, modern music, and many other similar subjects for con- stantly recurring comment. The wheel is always turning. Ever so often a new spoke in it catches the eye. Even more often a glmermi new coat of paint on an old spoke gleams in its mo- mentary passing. The Summer season invites comments of the lighter and more concise order. Any attempt to be serious and weigh the more problematic themes extensively is out of place. Quite a few inter- estin acts about musical per- sonalities have come to the music editor’s desk recently. They are herewith passed along as of pos- aible interest to such Washington musicians as are not frantically rushing to see to last-minute g::kmc 80 as to catch the next t for Europe. * % ok % 'ASHINGTONIANS who tended the Spring festival of chamber music at the Library of Congress in April, 1928, may re- member a delightful and distin- guished gentleman whose hair was very white atop his ruddy face and his blue eyes of that degree of blueness that is gener- ally designated as ‘“china blue.” Mr. Percy Scholes of London, England, an internationally rec- ognized musical authority, was the gentleman. Now, due to Mr. Scholes’ visit to this country at that time and especially his in- terest in the work he found in American schools, the weight of the coming first Anglo-American Summer holiday music confer- ence is laid at his particular front door. It seems that Mr. Scholes was much impressed by the spirit and magnitude of the conference of the Federation of Music Clubs, held in Chicago, and suggested that he wished other British musicians might have the same kind of contacts with Americans and their work. He told of music conditions in England and ex- pressed an eagerness for definite opportunities for Americans to meet the leaders in British music | education. The result was the appointment of two committees, one in England and one in Amer- a, who were charged with mak- g arrangements for a British- merican conference of musicians and music educators, which is to Pe held August 2-9 of this year in Lausanne, Switzerland. The lace was chosen as peutral terri- ry, where American and Briton who travel to meet each other will neither be host nor guest of other. The conference will follow immediately the great ‘World, Conference of Education, which is to be held in Geneva. ‘This will enable ‘mysic teachers and general eeducators to attend both m ¥ they desire, and will make it possibl¢ for the two associations to combine their re- sources in certain events. Lausanne - has many musical associatiops; among the com- posers who have found peaceful opportunity for work or rest there are Mendelssohn, Wagner, Tschaikowsky, in the past, and at present Paderewski has a house at Morges and Josef Hof- man has one above Vevey. * % X ¥ RS. FREDERICK 8. COOL- IDGE, one of the most fa- mous patronesses of the musical art in the world today, is noted for both her prize competitions and her festivals as leading fea- tures of the practical aspects of here interest in music. Recently the results of the two Coolidge prize competitions were an- nounced, although there was but one winner. Joseph Huettel of Czechoslovakia won a prize for a piano and wind sextet in two arts of three movements each. e work will be played October 7, at the Library of Congress. The judges were Georges Barrere, Philip Hale, Ernest Schelling, Leopold Stokowski and Carl Engel. The decision was an- nounced as unanimous. It was| stated that composers of 33 dif- ferent nationalities submitted 135 scores in the contest. The other countries represented were: The United States, Italy, France, Hol- land, Great Britain, Germany, Mexico, Austria, Ecuador, Hun- | guary, Australia, New Zealand, | Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua, Russia | and the Union of South Africa. | The other prize was not award- ed as, in the opinion of the Judges, none of the 11 works sub- mitted was of high enough merit, It was a $500 award for a com- position written for two pianos by | an American citizen. * ok % K OME news from Holland tells rather amusingly of Willem Mengelberg’s troubles with the tax collector. It is said that the Dutch authorities insist on taxing the musician’s entire yearly in- come, although he spends only three months of the year in Hol- land. Also, sums paid to him by various musical organizations of Europe and the United States al- ready have been subject to taxa- tion in those countries. As a re- sult, Mr. Mengelberg has retired from leadership of the Concert- gebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, which he has conducted for many years. Mr. Mengelberg should, per- haps, feel flattered that he is one of the rare examples of the musi- | cal fraternity who has worldly wealth of sufficiently large di- mensions to offer attractions to tax collectors all over the world. * ok K * 'I'H! United States Army Band will soon be home again from Qe land of castles and bull fights. Already the several weeks spent in Seville, where they played New World music at the Spanish- American Exposition, have slipped into history. Their imminent re- turn home is heralded by invita- tions issued last week by the director general of the Pan- American Union, who announced a concert of Latin American music by the United States Army Band and assisting artists on the esplanade of the Pan-American at- | | conquered London in five min- | Union Building Tuesday evening, | July 9, at 8 o’clock. | It will be interesting to hear | what the members of the band THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGT ! | Popuhr Violinist Bu, | | During Spring | may have to tell of their adven- | tures in Spain. | PR T last, some one has thought of a new name for jazz., An- ton Rovinsky, the concert pianist, calls it “robot music.” He says: “One who has listened to jazz for an hour on end must re: the deadening effect of its trip- hammer regularity. It is robot music, or, at least, the adumbra- tion of what perfect robot music would be. It is not the pulse of a living body, but the throbbing | of a machine.” | This is quite a logical comment | on the music which depends upon saxophones and drums for its basic qualifications to attain pop- ularity. The saxophone has the | blaring brass quality that is me- | tallic and impersonal. The drum | always has been used since the days of savagery for regulating human actions into a persistent, monotonous, machinelike ensem- ble. It is the musical herald of | “mass production.” Whether it | calls to war or festive celebration, | the drum is the instrument for | crowds. Jazz is the music of the masses in this day of restless, perpetual motion. With mechan- ical entertainment of all sorts, | from scenic railways to synchro- | nized photoplays; with inereas- ingly nymerous, but always me- chanical, modes of transporta- tion, is it any wonder that this “robot music” retains its appeal for people whose lives are built on mechanical lines and using mechanical instruments from the moment they fold up their day- beds into wardrobes in the morn- ing until they turn on the park- ing lights on their automobiles at night? | | ¥ ox % is perhaps worthy of passing notice to mention the numer- by London music critics in allud- ing to Rosa Ponselle, American singer, at the time of her recent remarkably triumphant debut at | Covent Garden. There were few who spoke of her as “Miss Pon- selle.” Other appellations used were: Madame Mademoiselle and even Signora—the last mentioned doubtless suggested by her fam- ily’s ancestry, for Rosa Ponselle is the daughter of Italian immi- gr::nt.s who settled in Connecti- cut. However, they all agreed that she came, she sang and she con- querrd. Leading comments from different papers said, according to _clippings recently received. London Daily Telegraph—*‘Miss Ponselle would have been almost fully justified in quoting apropos old Catalini’s nasty remark when she said, 150 years ago, that an ‘filzllish festival consisted of | “‘Mot, | For Miss Ponselle, on this, actual- ly her 'first, appearance in the most hallowed operarhouse in‘the world, bore the whole weight of the performance upon her shoul- ders on an evening when quite reasonably she might have been a little nervous. Hers is truly a glorious, voice, and her use of it, a trifie mannered on occasion, if you like, is no less glorious.” The Evening Standard—“Siz- nora Ponselle is not only a mag- bined with purity, has not been heard in Covent Garden for years ~but a good actress of the stat- uesque order. She did her utmost to make a lot of Druidical non- sense dramatically effective.” The Evening Channel—“Rosa Ponselle came to Covent Garden last night and conquered London | as she has already conquered America. She has a ypice that it is sheer delight to hear, a voice of enormous range and a delicate sweetness that intensifies as it rises in the scale.” The Daily Chronicle—"Mme. Ponselle’s Norma, in fact, proved her to be a great artist, alike in singing and acting. To these gifts she adds a striking stage resence, * * * One has never, n fact, heard curses in colora- tura so dramatically delivered as Mme. Ponselle, in act 2, when she discovers the treachery of her lovér, Pollione.” The Star—“It took her three minutes to conquer London. She had scarcely cut the mystic mis- tletoe with the sacred scythe and sung a few bars of recitative when we realized that we had here not only a voice, but a lady who knew how to manage it with supreme skill—and not only that. but musical and dramatic skill of | no mean order.” The Morning Post—“It may be ous_ different fashions employed | et cing ou six poupees.’| nificent singer—such power, com- ; C: | companist, ga ANNE ARLEN. YOUNG Washingtonian who has | #X become increasingly in demand | with her skill as a fiddler during the | Spring season just closing is | Arlen of 620 North Carolina avenue southeast. With Betty Wirt, planist | of the Marjorie Webs School of E: | pression, Miss Arlen has been appear- ing in instrumental and also vocal {numbers. Both Miss Wirt and Miss | Arlen have contralto voices, and they | give the popular “harmonizing” duets | quite successfully, Earlier in the sea- {son Miss Arlen directed the music for a leading Washington hotel many young school “sightseeing” in the National Capital. Marine Band. She plans to go to New York with Miss Wirt later in the Sum- mer for the coming season. Miss Arlen has written quite a number of popular songs and also numbers of the lighter classic type. Musigraphs NEW music club, organized this A year by senior students-under the general auspices of Pear] Waugh, Helen Bury, Alice C. Neal and Flora McGill Keefer; is the Gamma Tau Music Club The members are young pianists and and performance. “the Classic Form in | Music” has been the subject of study this | first season and at each meeting mem- ?ers have given illustrations of that sub- ject. The officers of the club are: President, Harriet Tall; vice president, Betty | Baum; secretary, Helen Farrington; treasurer, Alice Neal. Other members are Laura Pendleton Roege, Lillian Burke, Ivy Bethel, Frances Brooks, Catherine Crippen and Louise Ryan McNerney. Last Friday the club gave a program, with Louis Hollander and Mary Louise as assisting soloists, being presented under the auspices of Henri Sokolov. The members appearing on this pro- gram were Miss Baum, Miss Bury, Mrs. Tall, Miss Neal, Miss Brooks, Mrs. Burke and Mrs. McNerney. guest soloist at the annual memorial | service of the Knights of Pythias in Pythian Temple June 11. Mrs. Audrcy Gibson was accompanist. Louis L. Annis, for two years tenor soloist at the Church of the Covenant, announces that he regrets that he hi had to resign this position, as business connections make it impossible for him to continue in the church work at this time. ‘The Americanization School Associa- tion Orchestrs, Viadimir Vasa, directo: | presented a program last Monday eve- ning at the Y. W, C. A. hs arter: The orchestra gave selections by Mosz- ko h and ‘Dvora | Other selections of the evening werc: Violin duet by Felix Carrera and Angelo Manos; songs by the baritone, Gluseppe Bruno, accompanied on the piano by Mme. Marie Zalipsky; songs by Gei- trude Borzi, soprano, also acgompanied by Mme. Zalipsky; piano solos by Mrs. K. Y. Cowling and violin solos by Mr. Manos. presented an hour of song at the Y. W. . A. headquarters in the sun parior on the roof last Sunday afternoon. A feature of the program was Liza Leh- mann's “In a Persian Garden.” The smgx‘s were Ethel Btickles, wgzflm; Mabel Flehr, contralto; Horatio Rench, | tenor, and John Marville, bass, with Edith P B. Athey, planist and eccom- panist, Mrs. Hugh McKinnje of Takoma Park | is_substituting at the organ for Mrs. Howard Blandy, director and organist % ltheufldpckvflle Baptist Church, Rock- e, Md. ‘The Arts Club of Washington an- nounces that Ruby Smith Stahl, so- prano, and Mildred Kolb Schulze, a« ve a musical program a the Arts Club Thursday evening. Mrs Stahl's songs were divided into three groups, as follows: (1) “Aria de Gi % ; “Mermaid’s Song’ and “She Never Told Her Lo Haydn e tu m'ami, se sospir (2) “Nur wer d ‘Tschaikowsky; ingsnacht,” Sch “D'une Prison,”” Hahn, and “Car- al” Fourdrain. (3) “We'll to the Woods and Gather May,” Griffe! Boldier’s Bride,” Rachmaninoff; “The M > “The Last Hour,” said at once that Rosa Ponselle utes. * * * Whether the audi- | ence knew it or not, in listening | to Ponselle they were listening, 90 | per cent of them, probably for the first time to early nineteenth | century Italian opera as it used | to be sung. Indeed, as regards | pure vocal expressiveness, I have no hesitation-in saying that Rosa Ponselle is the best singer I have heard at Covent Garden since Caruso. * * * Bhe pos- sessed, apart from an exquisite voice of enormous range, with every register perfectly balanced. the greatest virtue that a singer can possess; to express invariably musical emotion. Not only, be it re- marked, in purely cantabile musie, but in the most florid passages.” SRR 2 Josephine Lucchese Plans To Sing in U. S. Next Ye OSEPHINE LUCCHESE, the “Ameri- can Nightingale,” who made such a brilliant success last season as Rosina in “The Barber of Seville,” has been re- engaged for the 1020-30 season of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. Miss Lucchese has been acclaimed by the press and the public not only of this country but also of the I cities of Europe as & leading coloratura sorrano of today. She announces that she will remain in America all next during which _Philadelphia re Co. audiences will have Grand the pleasure of hearing her in seversl ch 1 “Lakme,"” by the los, hich will be Wnich ‘s scheduled for revivel 4 § she used her voice | | T'HE dignified red brick church at the corner of Eighth and H streets northwest, the Calvary Baptist Churck, is a lzldln‘hglurch of that denomina- tion in Washington. It became particu- larly prominent in interest for the pub- lic during the period when Warren G. Herding was President of, the Umted States, for it was his church. ‘The choir of Calvary Baptist Church dates from 1924, when the present di- rector assumed that position. At first evening services. In December, 1627, when the new organ was installed, the choir became & regular part of the morning and evening services, T! choir is a modest but well of 26 volces. The aim of ”n Anne | where | folk stop while | Anne Arlen studied under William | Taylor, violinist in the United States | singers who meet for joint music study | Mrs, Dell Gilbert Sale, soprano, was | ‘The quartet of Hamline M. E. Church | “The | the choir served as an adjunct to the | A DELIGHTFUL musical score, imag- aginative and slluring, has been provided by one of America's versatile young composers, Edward A. Mueller, for “sherv%:‘d‘"' the Alfred Nuyldm]:hy of old England in the days of Rebin Hood, which is being presented Thurs- day evening at 8:15 o'clock at the Syl- van Theater, in the Monument Grounds, by the Community Drama Guild and under the direction of J. Milncr Dorey, who has made a short adaptation of the English classic for outdoor use. The full orchestra of the United States Marine Band, with Capt. Taylor Branson conducting, will play the over- ture and interlude music and will ae- company the McKinley Dancers in the fairy scenes. The choir of Epiphany Church, directed by Adolf Torovsky, will sing the beautiful cheral numbers pro- | vided by the composer, including the lovely “Song of the Fairies” at the close of the prologue, and the evensong of the nuns in the epilogue. Mrs. Hugh Brown, soprano, and Mrs. Roland Wil- limson, contralto, will be heard in one of the duets of the fairies, “The Forest Shall Conquer.” The beloved story of “Robin Hood and | His Merrie Men" in Sherwood Forest would not be complete without Alan-a Dale’s ballads. One of Washington popular _baritones, Robert Davidson, playing that romantie role, will be heard n “The Old Knight's Vigil," which is essentially reminiscent of the ballads of medieval England and the era of the Crusades. Another old ballad is to be sung by Esteban Cerdan as Blondel, King Rich- ard's minstrel, Mr. Cerdan being a new- | comer to this city, where he is now singing as a member of Bt. Patrick’s Church choir. ington Esteban Cerdan was a member of the National Opera Club of New York City and the Fique Choral of | Brooklyn, and has appeared in both | ‘prnf-.sumnll and amateur opera there Mrs. Edith H. Hunter, well known plan ist of this “Sherwood.’ Edward A. Mueller, composer of ora- | torios and many musical settings for dramatic works, wrote the music for “Sherwood” {n 1916, arranged originally Before coming to Wash- | , city, is accompanist for | %...... The Music for “Sherwood” Described by Composer | merely as a school production. When, shortly after, however, he was asked to put the music on the market with the | play itself, a great demand for the pro- | duction of “Sherwood” was noted, and |1t was not long before Alfred Noyes' | play. 83 arranged by J. Milnor Dorey and the musical score, as composed by Edward A. Mueller, were produced ail over the country. In the past few years this version, with music, has been pro- duced In every State in the United States, in Canada and in Australia. Mr. Mueller says he has rewritten the score three times, and had he known that his music was to be played here by the United States Marine Band he would have rewritten it again for the full orchestra which will play it Thursday evening under direction of Capt. Taylor Branson. Mr. Mueller has been in the city in conference with Capt. Branson and Mr. Dorey, and expects to return next week for the performance. When asked about the two ballads introduced into the play and sung by Blondel, the king’s minstrel, and Alan-a-Dale, he re- marked: “Blondel's song is the simplest form of ballad and is the most difficult to | compose. Tt is really a ballad such as | the old-time bards sang, and is written |\in the shart phrases of the archaic style. Alan’s song, on the other hand, is dramatic, with recitative and air This song brings out, the two phases of chivalry—humility and fervor—and is | written in real declamatory style. “The overture is in reality merely a | prelude, setting the mood for the play. | In composing it two motifs were em- ployed—the spirit of Fairyland and the death song of ‘Shadow of a Leaf.' thi combining the ‘fairy’ and the ‘mortal’ themes of the drama. As to the choral numbers, the ‘Miserere; sung in the last act, was based on a Gregorian theme. the words being taken from an old ehant, but the music being new. The fairy choruses and dances, ho ever, are entirely original in concep- tion and written in thematic style.” Mr. Mueller himself conducted a number of music rehearsals while he was {n the city, and expressed himself a5 delighted with the orchestra and cast. | College Commencement To Be Held Fridly Nig}n T nual commencement of the Wash- ington _College of Music, to be held at | Central High School Friday at 8:15 |p.m., will be opened with the playing |of Gounod's “Marche Pontificale” by | the String-Wood Ensemble, Fritz Maile | director and Evelyn Scott concert mas- |ter. This ensemble made its initial | appearance earlier this season with | considerable success. The group also | will close the program with Bizet's | “Recessional,” and will accompany Adele Delano in the aria “Thou Bril- | Gumprecht, Jr., he flute | obbligato. | “Rev. Jason Noble Pierce will give the | will play invocation and address to the gradu- | ates, and Weldon Carter, president of | the school, will present the diplomas. | Students who will appear as soloists {on this program are Mary Margaret | Gastrock, Gladys Dorothy Pinching, | Margaret Virginia Craig, Bertha Gor- | don, Clara Evelyn Scott, Adele Fassett | Delano, Winifred Marie Chamberlain |and Joseph Barbecot. The accompan- | ists will be Catherine Benson and Mar- | jorie Davis. All of them will receive | diplomas. Others receiving diplomas | are Charlotte True, who, with Mr. Bar- | becot, will receive the degree of bach- |elor of music; Eula S8mith Dorsey, to recefve the degree of bachelor of fine |arts in music, and Bernice Shepard, to receive a teacher’s diploma. ———— | Fairy Tale Opera Listed THE Steel Pler, at Atlantic City, said | to be more beautiful than ever in | celebration of Atlantic City's diamond Jjubilee, recently opened for the season. Leoncavallo's “Pagliacel,” the first opera of the season, given in English, attracted a large sudience to the ball- |room. The cast included principals of ’lhe American Opera Co. Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” will be done in English tonight with the following cast: Leonora Cori, so- prano; Bernice Schalker, mezzo-s0- prano, and Giuseppe Interrante, bari- tone, g:i_nnclplla of the San Carlo Opera Co.; ands Doria, contralto of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., and Alice Pischelis, soprano. Gluck’ rpheus” is announced for next Sunday, and Rossinl’s “‘Barber of Seville” for June 30. Both operas will be sung in English by principal$ from the Metropolitan and Chicago Civic opera companies. The season of 15 Sunday evening performances of opera in English will conclude September 15. A Bunday afternoon concert is given | by the opera principals at 4:15 o'clock |in the ballroom on the Steel Pierr The | opera performances begin at 9:15 o'clock. Both events are included in | the general Steel Pler admission. Jules | Palk is director of the musical events. Anna Sloan, violoncellist, has left | Washington to fill recital engagements | In Waynesboro, Pa.: Hagerstown, Md., | and elsewhere in that vicinity. Miss Sloan is instructor in this instrument at the Washington Conservatory of Music | in ‘Washingtor | will hold classes and | struction en the cello ing season. ive private in- luring the com- director and choir is primarily to sing the musical selections of the church | services in a creditable manner. ‘Thomas Moss, organist and director, may be seen at the console of the organ in the center at the front of the ac- companying picture. ‘The soloists of the ehurch’s quartet stand directly be- hind the organ console, and read, from left to right, Willlam F. Raymond, Blanche V. Kerr, Cleo 8. Parks and | Pred J. Eden. Mr. Moss was educated at Durham, | England, and Harvard University in this country. He studied music at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where his teachers included George W. Chax ‘Wallace Good: George ‘wick, . Haw ummm"fl’. » 'HE program of the twenty-third an- | For Atlantie City Tonight n and announces that she | {Lewis Atwater New Head | Of D. C. Organists’ Guild AT its special meeting, called for the | specific purpose of electing a dean and subdean, these offices not receiving majority votes on the regular election night, the American Guild of Organists. | District of Columbia Chapter, elected | Lewis Corning Atwater as its head dur- | ing the eoming season. | Charlotte Klein, A. A. G. O., was re- | elected subdean. Other officers elected by the chapter in May are: Secretary, | Mrs. Frank Akers Frost (re-elected): asurer, Mrs. James Shera Montgom- lery; registrar, Mrs. John Milton Syl- Sartelle, the latter of Winchester, Va. | liant Bird,” by David, in which Armand Vester (re-elected for the tenth time): members of the executive committee, | Edith Bateman Athey, Louis A. Potter, F. A. G | auditors, Victor H. Neal and Jean R. | Phillips.” These newly chosen officers | will not assume their respective offices | until September 1. It is- expected that ‘plans will be made durin- the Summer for the min- strel show some time early in the se | son. Several performances will be ar- ranged under the auspices of various | churches | | " 'The guild season begins October 7, 1929. = Carnegie Hall's New Organ. EDICATION of Carnegie Hall's great new organ doubtless will be a gala event in the musical life of New York City. Monday evening, September 30, a special program, consisting prin- cipally of organ music, is scheduled to be given before a selected audience to mark the dedication of the new instru- ment and the renascence of Carnegie | Hall, | Pletro A. Yon, concert organist and | composer, “organist of 8t. Patrick's Cathedral and honorary organist of the Vatican, Rome, is to be the featured soloist. Discussing the new organ, Mr. Yon has described it as completely equipped with a real Italian classical ripieno, the pipes which produce the overtones. In describing the ripieno Mr. Yon said i was an ensemble of several ranks of %l:u, each one producing an overtone. e main organ, he expiained, will have’ nine ranks of 549 pipes, ranging in size from those that resemble a lead pencil to pipes which measure several inches in diameter. “Who Is Who in Music.” 'HE new edition of “Who Is Who in Music,” edited by Dr. Bigmund ‘Spaeth, with the assistance of such dis- tinguished musicians and critics as Walter Damrosch, W. J. Henderson, Lawrence Gilman, Leonard Liebling, George Gartlan and Hugo Riesenfeld, represents for more than a routine book of reference and biograph e edi- tion appears to be unusual in many phases. It is wholly in is said to be the first book of its kind in that respeet. It contains a classified directory of musical people, according to the special fleld of endeavor, and also some 2,500 biographical skiWches of cotemporary musical personalities. rotogravure, and s Evelyn Davis presented a group of | students in a dance recital at Pierce Hall yester: aftegnoon, for which | cards were issued. CHURCH ¥ Blsnche V. Kerr, soprano, received her vocal training in Washington at the studio of Estelle Wentworth. Previous to coming to Calvary Baptist, she.was soprano soloist for three years at Pet- worth Baptist Church. Cleo Scanland Parks, studied plano at the Wi lege of Music. 2z0-contralto, ington Col- Vocal teachers were Conservatory, Baltimore, Md. For two vears she was & soloist at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and for She in concert and on the radio. Bhe was guest solojst last year at the Cape May, N. J.. music festival, and has been en- Baged for thip yeas. - O., and Allen H. Watson; | Edna Bishop Danfel, Alice Eversman | and George Castelle of the Peabody | jor portion of his voice training in | Washington, studying with Myron Whit- ney of New York and Washington. Mr. Piano and Song Recital At the Washington Club SENOR GONZALO DE ARANGO. | A JOINT recital by a young planist | new to Washington audiences and a young Cuban tenor, who is giving his first, formal program in public at thia time, will be held Tuesday night at 8:45 o'clock at the Washington Club. Mary | Alexander, pianist, recently came to | Washington from Paris, where she studied under Alfred Cortot. Senor de | Arango, who has been living here a couple of years, has many friends here. | He will sing Cuban songs and also fe ture 8 Hungarian song from “Alma de Dois,” by Serrano of Spain. In addi- tion to a number of lovely songs writ- | ten by Sanchez de Fuentes of Cuba, the | | singer will present. in a last group, songs | by Messina, McGill and Russell. Miss Alexander will play a group of Chopin works, including an impromptu, a prelude and a scherzo and a group of works by Brahms, Debussy and Dohn- | anyl. The event is sponsored by a group of | young lades of the diplomatic circles in Washington. | Service Band Dates L THE §. NAVY BAND. IT Charles Benter, leader, is now ing regularly at the Capitol on | day evenings. This week the conce: pens with | overture “Naiades,” | by Bennett, and Lillien Fairchild | Jesso will be guest | soloist. She will be heard in an aria for soprano, ‘Caro Nome,” fremn Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” | Mrs. Jesso former- |1y studied at the Damrosch School of Music and with eminent _{eachers in Rome, Paris and Milan. A premiere formance of sa’s new suite, “Cuba Land” will be Eitven at the Sylvan Theater Tuesday night. Two numbers of special note on the program at the Navy Yard on Wednes- day are Saint-Saens’ symphonic_poem, | “The Spinning Wheel,” and the “Danses Polowifsiennes,” from “Prince Igor,” by Borodin. ictor Herbert will be repre- sented in this concert with excerpts from “Naughty Marietta.” ‘The neighborhood concert this week | will be at McMillan Park, Pirst and | Bryant streets northwest, Thursday | night. “Il Guarany,” by Gomez, scenes | from the opera “Mignon” and'a fan- tasy on “Old Folks at Home” are among the numbers that will be given. Detalled programs of each eoncert | will be found in The Evening Star. i S | U. S. SOLDIERS’ HOME BAND. | The military band at the Unted States Soldie Home will give tire usual three programs in the bandstand Tues- , Thursday and Saturday afternoons this week at 5:30 o'clock, under the di- |'rection of John S. M. lermann, | leader, and Anton Pointner, | leader. | The program will inelude the usual combination of light and classical works. 1a; on- er- e 5 LILLIAN JESSO. | THE U. S. MARINE BAND. | The United States Marine Band, Tay- | lor Branson, leader, and Arthur Wit- comb, second leader, will give four pro- grams this week. Tomorrow at 8 p.m. them will play at the Marine Barracks, | Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Walter Reed Ci y | o'clock at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. regular Thursday concert will be re- placed by the band playing the inei- | dental music for the ptay, “Sherwood,” | to be given by the Community Center | Department at the Sylvan Theater, be- ginning at 8:15 p.m. Features of the Marine Band concerts will be cornet solos by Mr. Witcomb and Musician Kemp: “The Persian Dance.” by Moussorgsky: “Bavarian Highlands' Suite,” by Elga er's Apprentice” by Dukas, and “Ca- price Espagnole,” by Rimsky-Korsakoff. ‘The full programs will be published in daily issues of The Evening Star. . Elena de Sayn has offered & vickn scholarship and two part scholarships for talented students of that instrument for a period of study with her this Summer. Auditions will be held this | week. Appointments may be made by | telephoning Franklin 5552. SINGERS OF WASHINGTON—CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH CHOIR W. F. Raymond, tenor, had his vocal training with Edwin Evans of Philadel- phia, Pa., and Robert Gaylor of New York City. He has sung tenor roles with several oratorio societies, in addition to doing much concert work. He has been at Calvary Church for the past eight years. Fred Eden, baritone, received the ma. Eden, before coming to Calvary Baptist two years at Calvary Baptist Church. | Church, was director of church music s appeared in numerous recitals | at Trinjty Methodist | in Washin | tion at Calvary, Mr. Eden is heard fre- ember | iscopal chure.h n. In addition to his pos: quently over the radio and is & me of the Columbla Male Quartet, 'HE United States Navy Band, Lieut. second | 1 | | | JOSEPH BARBECOT will be presented in artist's_diploma recital at Barker | o the oidieg. Seventeontn snd | Association 3 Ve | K streets northwest, by Dr. Hugh | Roberts of the Washington College of | Music Wednesdagy at 8:13 p.m. Mr. | Barbecot will be assisted by Catherine Benson, pianist, and Mrs. Roberts, as hi is accompanist. The singer will present three groups including works by Sarti, | Mozart, Hahn, Debussy, Dupare, Bagby, | Eric Coates and Chaminade. Miss Ben- | son's selections will include composi- | tions of Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Beach and Lisat. Eva Virginia Johnson. formerly a student under Dr. J. W. Bischoff, gradu- ate In music from the University of Pennsylvania, and graduate also from | the University Extension Conservatory of Chicago, will present her annual re- cital of classes in piano and voice .m‘:; | & 24 and 25 at John Waesley g | Fourteenth ahd Corcoran streets north- | west, beginning each evening promptly |at 8 pm. Mabel Linton Wiiliams will bold her | ensemble commencement _recttal for piano puplls Thursday night at 8 | o'clock at St. Alban’s Guild Hall, Wis- | consin and Massachusetts avenues northwest. northwest. Karl Holer and Mr. Simon will be the accompanists. The students ting will be: Margaret Gilligan, Feeser, Margaret Franklin, Gladys Wilson Meech, Elaine Stearns, | Esther Stiles, Mary Turner, James L. | Jones, Lena Paris, Sylvia Notelevitz, | Rose Bright, John Russell Mason. Janet Sheppard, Mortimer Davenport and Adelajde Watson. Elena de Sayn presented a group of | students in informal recital at her | studio last Wednesday afternoon. Chil- dren between the ages of 5 and 16 par- was repeated Lily D. Grant presented some piano her studio. ‘Those pa: rticipal B | Mildred Newhouse, Mabel Wright, rt | Frances * Sullivan, Anne Cochrane, | | Martha Shelton, Josephine Brashears, Barbara Burrows and Sue Burrows. | sented some stus a piano rec | at her home last Friday night. Those taking part were: "wmmgm Downey, Dorls Koons, Menefee, Mary cissa Suilivan, Kathleen Johrden, Rol Horner, Jane Page Menefee, Conway McDevitt, Grace McDevitt and Fred- erick Fryer. All the children were small and 2n unusually varied collection of compo. sitions appropriate in thought for chil |dren’'s performances Wwas preaaqud, Among these composttions were: “Six | Silhouettes for Boys,” by Bernice Bent- ley; selicnnons’ = udz:’l: i~ s suite, “Alice in Wol : in Grandmother” Gaynor’s “Found Am“ and “Dance of the | by Mrs. Cresby Adams. { Corey, director, presented the annual series of operatic scenes in costume at Miss Corey's residence studio June 1. Marion Lawson Leonard gave artistic | and musicianly interpretations of the | scores at the piano. Each sceme was | preceded by & short resume of the era Miss C & opera by T S “Bal T ozze )" ‘Lucta di Lammermoor” - included: Bugenia Slattery, Gayle and 1d" Soderberg. and Those participaf Slattery, Margaret Gladys Hunt, | Josephine Elizabeth Hume. Fickenscher will present the mgx:‘:e’n of her jupior class in s re- cital at Joppa Temple, 4203 Ninth street, near ur, night at § o'clock. Those taking part will include: Eliza- beth van Geuder, Sidney Dorfman Evalyn Shahan, Philip Bveles, Carlton Howell, Wal Robert. Rose Sokol and John Hain, 3 S‘zflkfir, Lura Loomis, Ida Eveler, Georgia, Hopkins, John Oden and Mar- aret Shearer. . Much earlier in the month Miss | Fickenscher presented the members. of | intermediate and senior classes, at Pierce Hall. Those ting in- cluded: Ellsworth Everett, liams, Bernice Drissel, Shearer, Alice Scott, Hermon Hill, Ruth Hobbs, Gertrude Baily, Dorothy Sea- mans and Iantha Smith, Camille Allensworth presented -chil- dren of the Chlrlxdren's Music Schogl of ‘Washington in her annual rec une 10 at the Playhouse. ccnml::}m of graduation in the Fletgher Method Course were awarded to JI.:: Casky, Gardner Anderson, Marion , Louisa Stuart and Leslie Mai Vipend. Miss Allensworth was assisted this year by her sister, Evelyn Allensworth, a gifted young pianist. The students in the Takoma Park Children’s Music School will be pre. sented in_a recital Wednesday at the | Takoma Park Baptist Church. Those appearing in the earlier pro- gram included: Ruth Ann Butler, Bitsey Birney, Dorothy Jones, Henri- Mary Katherine Willis, | Mary Prances George, Ruth Bondy. Peggy Smoltz, Margaret Bier, Edna Roth, Audrey Kellogg, Bryant Engel, Mary Byrd Shearer, Jeane 0gg, Martha Frances Roth, Jeane Lowe, Douglas Stuart, Ethel Mai George, Laidler Mackall, Ruth Schoeneman, | Marion Lee, Gardner Anderson, Jane Caskey, Leslle Mai Vipond, Louisa | Stuart. Due to illness Charles Dot- | terer was unable to appear solos. A large audience attended the recital resented under the auspices of Made- | leine Aughinbsugh at Pierce Hall last | Wednesday. It was the third annual recita Pollio-Jarman, mezzo- contralto, with Mildred Kolb Schulze | at the piano, was assisting soloist. All| | puptls I a recital Friday, June 7, in| Wilma McDevitt, Nar- | bert, ‘Marionettes,” | at The Corey Opera Class, Gurle Luhel | wil- | Iva Smith, Hazel Reck, mons, Mary oy Evelyn Sackrider, Ireme yli‘at. Virginia Kendall, Schm! | M , Mary Elizabeth Ulrich, Eath- letucmiglb& ‘!'M’” rds Linthicum, Eliza- beth Nothingham, Doris Hm-fl.A ;’:exflt« Schrott, Margaret Hayes, lotte Pry. Marie Leonard , _Innis Skinner, Helen amn.n’. Dh‘_’Weese Shirley Streeks, Rose Brittor, Kathryn Teannarda, Adelaide Fickus, Comstance | ngr, Charlotte Mataja, Frances Owens, Fogle, Dorothea Loehl, Norma | Smith, Hilda Levin, Lois Fry, Mary | Kunna, Laura Dunawin, Frances Men- chini, Flora Sarie, Elinore Sprague and William Smith. Bffte A. Collamore presented the fol- lowing pupils in a recital at Wal- lace Memorial Da |e | Walter, Shackelford, Prances Rives, Mary Hutcl n, Margaret Chalmers, June , Mary Louise Miller. Miss Collamore was assisted by Nor- A. Stant, temor, and Howard A baritone. A number of Paul's Academy, were presented Among piano students from St. V street northwest, | Drain, | Knott, Mildred Leonard, Buffe, Catherine Richards, Josephine | Richards, Catherine Tassa. | Lucy M. Boyer presented her piano class in recital at the Women's City | Club Priday night. | Those taking part included Genevieve Adams, Gertrude Payne, Muriel and | Josephine Mereiman, * Caroline _Feller, | Mildred Brody, Rita Woods, Elenora | Schweitzer, Irma and Rita Halloran, Mildred Mullikin presented & grour of piano students PFriday evening in the auditorium of the Mount Vernon Place s takin se g part were Janet Barnes, cnn: beth Comxd.n H;g:ln Dgnlrd, Fran- Donovan, Helen Foley, Jerome Gun- dersheimer, Richard Holl: Price, La G, Virsing , Lawrence n, Quinn, Jean Sartwell, Mary Sartwell, Amelia Schmidt, Elizabeth Yost and Louise Young. g de Smallwood Mockbee has an- Gertru nounced an ensemble piano recital, to be given Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock | at Gunton-Temple Memorial Presby- terian Church, Sixteenth and Monroe streets northwest. JAmm will b'wmum Fairchild esso, & newcomer to Washington, o “Il Bacio,” and several other selec- 'Xfim'“"' in the recital will Miriam Beale, | Bucbanan, Cecilia Catts, Norma Cum- miford, Norma Curtis, Margaret BEly, | Lois Ernest, Lorraine Hall, Ruth Hoff- | man, Myra Mages, Marguerite Norris, | Dorothy O’'Meara, Marjorie Plitt, Fran- | ces Robinson, Mary Scott, Helen Tucker, | Marjorie Wins e, Mary Wright, Samuel | . Pennington, Frederick | Plitt, Robert Shankle and Irwin Steele. They will be heard in arrangements of | selections by Beethoven, :hubert, ! Hunmumeé, Saint-Saens, sh{‘mlfl, A studanot‘a‘ program was given at the | Liszt and others. Musical Art-last Friday when the following took part: Virginia Hughes, Mary Helen Mitdred Looker, Hanna Booth and 3 . | Ptano, | Cook, | dred De Witt Feeser; saxophone, Samuel An informal recital was_given last ‘ashington Wednesday evening at the W College of | Music by five members of the n, | college faculty—1Isabel Squibb, Emilic Mann, ‘Tamara Carter’ and | Dmitrief?, pianists, Lillian R. Latham, soprano. ~Miss Benson wa: | the accompanist for Mrs. Latham. The concert hall was filed with students |and friends, and thé program was greatly enjoyed. Rosiyn How St. Louis Achieves Paying Municipal Opera T. LOUTS opened the eleventh season of its far-famed municipal opera June 3 in the Municipal Theater, in Forest Park, by doing honor to a native St. Loufsan, Augnstus Thomas, whose *is the basis of “The pera officials announced that the advance seat sale for this year's 13 weeks’ season was more than $100,000. a new record in the opera’ v ‘This opera is_unique. a cent of ca . Tts charter permits it to make no profit. Any surplus of lereceipts over expenses for a season must be expended either in productions of increased magnitude in future season: jor in permanent improvements in the | theater which the le of St. Loui: |own—an open-air theater with 10,000 'sents. located in the heart of the 1,700- acre Forest Park. In 10 years audiences of 3,600,000 sons have attended. Cash more than $2,500,000 for opera c- tions, sold to the audiences at the aver- age cost of 71 cents a seat, have been taken in. It has been possible to ex- pend more than $250,000 in the perma- nent improvement of the theater. In the course of 10 years a repertory of 76 operas h‘l{;nbeen presented in 9¢ £t ess men and here are almos! 500 such guarantors. They advance in cash the first of each the amount of their guarantee. That is the opera's working capital. At the the young piamists played their com- positions from memory. | ., Those taking part were: Billy De| | Weese, Frances Bowie, Dorothy May | Borden, Constance Ward, Lois Bollm: Jane Hapdford, Thomas McHugh, Helens Leannarda, Deloise Ann end of the season it is returned to them without interest. In 10 years po man has lost a penny in municipal opera. Forty-five executives from municipal industrial and commercial enterprise: serve as a board of directors without one cent of pay. STUDIOS OF Sophocles T. Papas Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar, Ukulele 1221_CONN. AVE. DECATUR 387 WASHINGTON BESSIE N. WILD Voice Cuiture. Plano rudio 8854 Sth st Taxoms Park D ANO PLAYING JAZZ rllllflN'!l!zBI'iJ' ilfi fl'sflu IA)%?PHON!, BANJO, GUITAR Ul 3 . o chool of Popular Music 7 X2 238 Herman's School of Music Prof. Eugene S. Costa, Director a Plane Accordion truments bhione"Georsia S35+ © © WALTER T.HOLT School of Mandolin, Guitar and Banjo. Hawaiian Guiter and Ukulele . 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