Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1929, Page 58

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, NOVEMBER, 10, {Remarkable Jewish -Artist In Program Wednesday MME. ANNA SHOMER-ROTHEN- berg, ofttimes called the “Jewish Yette Guilbert,” will be heard in her first Washi concert at the Jewish | Community ter, Wednesday at 8:15 | pm. She is the second artist in the ! , i national forum series sponsored by the K | educational committee, and the Middle ' . " o 1929—PART FOUR. YOUNG RUSSIANS TO APPEAR IN.- DANCE RECITAELS HERE JANUARY 9 AND 11 MUSIGRAPHS scholarship contest for promising young singers next Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Felicia Rybier, Polish pianist who ap- red in & recital here the middle of MUSIC BY HELEN FETTER. WAR.HSN E. JOHNSON will give an organ recital at the Church of the Pilgrims at 7:30 o'clock this evening. He will play m:n ll|1: 0 from “Fourth " ul ferne; “Vintage" HE invention of radio has created a tremendously wider and more varied audience for concert music and operas that are broadcast than would have been normally achieved with the older estab- lished methods of contact through this great country that is the United States of America in a much longer period. After all, we are only about 300 years old. Italy was enjoying Palestrina’s music and the early Cremona violins and in Germany the Bach family was creating the musical background of 400 musical Bachs for the ar- rival a few score years later of| Johann Sebastian when the sea-| sick Pilgrim Fathers steadied themselves on Plymouth Rock. As a result of modern invention it would seem that radio might well serve the general public oi this country much more practi- cally than any one other factor in | the matter of spreading real musi- cal knowledge, provided it is done| judiciously and artistically. Dr. Walter Damrosch is one of the ploneers in this fleld. It is a mat- tér of no small ‘musical signifi- cance that John Philip Sousa, the world’s “March King,” who is an American by birth, in celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday last week, remarked that he has seen more marvels in the last 25 years of his life than in the first 50 years. “Nothing astonishes me any more,” he is quoted as saying after having experienced the unusual phenomenon of hearing himsell conduct his own band. He is to repeat this feat over the radio on Thanksgiving day. “It is impos- sible,” added Mr. Sousa, “to sel any limit to mechanical ingenuity, particularly in America.” Behind the part that radio can| take as the vehicle for general musical education, there are many other necessary factors. No music season_has- seen such widely va- ried efforts, all of them interest- ln%, converging to this one great end. As John Erskine, teacher, writer and musician, remarked in an in- terview recently published: “It seems to me that we have magnificent material to work with. There are miles upon.miles of this country where people get no music whatever except through phono- graph records and radio programs No attempt is made to reach them. Concert tours are con- servative in route, leaving much of the country unprovided for. There exists a_ great music hunger among us, and any crudities of taste must be accounted for, not by a nltlvel’y inferior art-instinct, but by the fact that America as a wholé (not New York) has heard very little music. “There is a problem here that interests me greatly. The most crying need at present is not for more training of virtuosi and not provision for bringing rising tal- ent itan audiences that habitually get the best. The great need at the moment is to build up contacts between rising artists ‘and the country’s legion of ‘untoucheéd audiences.” * % % x IN the National Capital the cur- rent season has been a little slow in the matter of getting un- der way for the professional con- certs, but, on the other hand, there is a most remarkable in- crease of the organization of vari- ous new music groups, meaning the active participation in musi- cal endeavors of a great many more people than so engaged in previous years. There are some professional musicians who have expressed fear that the radio was going to prove detrimental to the interests of real music. On the| contrary, it seems to be inspiring more people to want to take part in musical events and also has stirred leaders to working out new and more worthy methods of holding the audience’s attention and also of educating that audi- ence to a point where they will feel it is necessary to see as well a8 hear music performed, not be- cause a famous artist is the per- former, but because the audience generally has learned enough about the production of music as individuals that they have a fel- Jow craftsman’s interest the way music is performed. Any one who has taken even a few lessons in china painting, for instance, has| a much keener and more respect- ful interest in every piece of ainted china that he or she sees| ater. So it is with music. Last week Vladimir Horowitz received no praise that was so complete as that given him by practically every pianist who was in that audience-and whose opinions were | later expressed elsewhere. There is a really amazing in- crease in the number of choral groups in Washington. Within the past week five brand-new groups have announced that they are meeting weekly for reheéarsals and planning ambitious programs | of real musical value. me are small and some are large. Prob- . ably some of them will overlap u little on the membership of other established choral groups. How- ever, there will necessarily have to‘ be a considerable new group to fill all these organizations and make it possible to materialize their plans. Four of these groups are an- nounced elsewhere on the page to- day for the first time. They are the Boloists’ Ensemble, directed by Otto S8imon, who won special notice for his motet group some seasons ago: Capital City Choris- ters, Mrs. Henry H. McKee, di- rector, also long established ir choral work here; the Capital Choral Club, which has as its nucleus of membership the mem- bers of the old Evening Choir of the Church of the Covenant. Claude Robeson, a third well known choral director, leading It, and the Girl Reserves’ Glee Club, Lucy Street directing. Last week Kurt Hetzel, who has appeared here publicly as pianist and' orchestra conductor. announced that he would direct the Washing- ton Choir, which aims at a mem- bership of 100. , 1t shouldn’t be long before Washington will be able to con- duct a truly lusty and competitive Bisteddfod of its own. 1 in his libretto dramatic verity a1 IN this matter of educating audi- ences, naturally the finest and most thorough work can be done with the small children through such endeavors as Ernest Schel- ling has made world famous in his special concerts for children. He not only gives them practical ex- | planations in words of one syllable | concerning the themes and their | treatment in classical composi- tions, but also gives them visible examples of how the various in- struments in an orchestra are played; that is, the kKind of effect that calls for oboes, for the differ- ent members of the horn family hzr other reeds, for violins, cellos, etc. The planting of classes in train- ing for the different instruments and also -for carrying on work similar to that originated by Mr. Schelling are leading reasons for the establishment of the National High School Orchestra which Jo- seph E. Maddy organized and di- rects and which comes to Wash-| ington for a concert March 1 at| Constitution Hall. This orchestrs | will give its first public concert,! outside the programs given at its Summer camp sessions, the end of February at the National Educa- tion Association convention in At- lantic City and will give programs in New York and Philadelphia pre- ceding the Washington appear- ance. It is the plan to take this orchestra, which each year has a varying personnel, being made up as it is of undergraduate students from the high schools all over the country, abroad in 1931. Last Summer a Washington schoolboy was the first to attend this camp as a member of the National High School Orchestra. He was William O. Tufts, jr., who graduated from Central High School last June and now is at- tending the music conservatory in ! Oberlin. Mr. Tufts }zmbnbly will get a special leave of absence for & week from his studies to appear on this brief tour in February and March with the orchestra. ) /A WASHINGTON musician who has worked out something that is “different,” as the saying has it, in #he way of interesting pupils not only in preparing for public performance of music, but for ' such appearances, is Prof. Josef Kaspar, known here for many years as violinist, peda and orchestra conductor. P% Kaspar has an entirely individual idea, as far as Washington is con- cerned, at least, in his large en- sembles of young students whc lay remarkably well, interpret- ng classical com; tions. Last Spring a special success was achieved in the presentation of Haendel's “Largo” from ‘“Xerxes"” by 40 students, ranging in size from 6 years old to advanced stu- dents in their late ‘teens. The “Meditation” from Massenet's “Thais” was given on an earlier occasion, Next Sunday at the Earle The- ater, a similar student ensemble will be presented by Prof. Kaspar, 40 children playing the popular violin selection, “Adoration,” by Borowski. The full orchestra and organ of the theater will give this ensemble accompaniment. More- over, the success of this idea is evinced by the fact that this per- formance next week is a “request rg-éngagement” on the part of the theater, as a result of the fa- in co-operation with each other () Atlantic States Federation. Mme. Shomer-Rothenberg, who comes to Washington following her successful concert appearance in_Aeolian Hall, New York City, will offer a_program devoted largely to Jewish folk music, with_introductory descriptions of each number, in English. Her informal talk about the music, giving the concert tite character of a lecture-recital, are said to be unusual and delightful. Her career to date has been varied and intensely absorbing. She has been an “artist” histrionically, ever since ehe was three yeam™ old, when she startled her father, a Russian pll¥rl(ht. and his friends, by her mimicry of the actors, in | their theater. Having been refused a stage career by her father, she turned her great talent to music, becoming a planist and singer and devoting a con- siderable portion of her time to the study of folk-lore and mythology, weaving fanciful and beautiful stories from these studies, from which she has complled an operetta of Jewish folk . Shomer-Rothenberg _studied singing with Piszarello, Lazar Samilof§ and Francis Rogers, among others. On she created a genuine stir among crit- ics and audience by the unusual pro- gram she presented, as well as because of her interpretative ability and beauti- ful quality of her natural singing voice. Outstanding numbers in Mme. Sho- mer-Rothenberg’s Washington concert will include “Der Schneider” (“Little ‘Tailor”), “Der Chedar Ingel (“The School Boy"). “Sholem Aleichem” (“Peace Be With You"), (“Alone”), and “Yahhel” Hallelujah™), Tickets for the concert are to be had at the Jewish Community Center. Talk on Liturgical Music. REV. J. LEO BARLEY, archdiocesan director of music and pastor of St. Pius_Church, Baltimore, will speak at St. Peter's Church tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. on the subject of liturgical music. Father Barley is head of the commis- sion appointed by Archbishop Curley to regulate and reform the music of the “Allein” (“Hebrew diocese of Baltimore. of the three types of church music, QGregorian chant, polyphony and ap- proved modern music and will include numbers by Ravanello, St. 8aens, Haydn and Palestrina. This service will be held in connection with the 40 hours’ devo- tion which opens at -the 11 o'clock mass today. “Soloist Enaemble‘: Organized. TTO T. SIMON, who has trained many choruses in Washington, has just organised at the Institute of Mu- sical Art, Inc, 831 Eighteenth street northwest, a group of woman singers to be known as the soloist ensemble. ‘The organigation will develop a dou- ble or triple octet, the voices carefully selected as to harmonious blend, all soloists, all good readers and seasoned musicians of ability. - Programs will be given of music by the best composers. Rehearsals are in- formal and short, lasting from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. each Wednesday. Technical problems, tonal color, the deeper emotional psychclogy of the mu- sical phrase will studied and interpretation.will be shap- ed in this way. Dorothy Coggeshall, a Vassar grad- uate and former accompanist of the Vassar Glee Club, will act 'as accom- panist for this ensemble. Members accepted so far are Eva Bright, Rose Bright, Lillian Chenoweth, Mrs, David J. Guy, Mrs. J. A. Hoeft, Lucy G. Lynch, Mrs. David Quinn, Janet Pickett, 1da Willis Seaton and Mary R. Turner. Washington Pianist Holds Unusual Classes vorable reception given the per- formance last June. There will be two lc{)elrlnces of the Kaspar ensemble, in the afternoon and evening next Sunday. It also is interesting to note that among the many instruments used on this occasion will be specimens of some of the great Italian and French makers. * ¥ X % HILE fresh, young minds arc supposed to absorb most quickly and thoroughly the seeds of knowledge, there are some very worthwhile efforts being made to give understanding background along musical lines to adults who have not been so fortunate as to have musical training in their youth. Elsewhere on this page to- day there is mention of three such endeavors locally, each differing completely from the others ex- cept for the basic idea. Miss Se- wall is giving a series of practical talks on music and music history. Kathryn MacNeal Frost dutlines an unusually interesting method of education for older persons in the literature of piano music. Mme. Anna Shomer-Rothenbeérg. who is to give a program of Jew- ish folk sones this week, will fol- low a familiar but usually wel- come example of giving short de- scritive sketches in connection with the compositions on her pro- ram. While there is initiative with the spur, too, of mechanical com- vetition for the concert fleld bv the radio. there is hope for a truly musical American nation. Ancestor of Operas To Be Sung Today LUCK'S opera, “Orfeo ed Euridice,” will be sung in concert form by the Society of the Friends of Music this afternoon in Mecca Auditorium, New York. This will be the society’s third performance of the season. Artur Bo- danzky will conduct. Margaret Matzenauer will sing the art of Orpheus, Ethyl Hayden that of urydice, and Editha Fleischer, Eros. he Friends of Music chorus, trained y Walter Wohllebe, will represent shep- herds and shepherdesses, furies and de- mons, heroes and heroines in Hades, specified in the opera for choral parts. The orchestra will be that of the Met- ropolitan Opera. The opera will be sung in Italian, “Orfeo,” first produced in 1762, has been described as the “great-great- grandfather of operas,” the foundation of modern opera, so radical was Gluck’s departure from the artificial writing of the period. Maki his aim a true fusion of drama music, he wu‘gnl:t o licity and wedded to the poetry & score En which, writes Henry Bellamann in a program note, “there are dignity and simplicity that actually realize the strength and harmony of Greek ideals.” The text, by Raniero di Calzabigl, of course, based on the classic legend, appy ending,” however, which reunites the lovers and spares Otpheus the traditional Tate of being torn limb from limb by the Thracian maidens. The part of Orpheus was writtén for the celebrated eighteenth century male contralto, Gaetano Guadagni, which ex- ins why in the present 08 :uuuw‘n:’nh-m to women, KATHRYN MACNEAL FROST. WASHINGTON girl, who first be- came noted as one of the few au- thentic exponents of the ultra-modern in piano technique, has worked out an extremely practical and original plan to give adult audiences understandini of musical values. Kathryn MacNeal Frost, whose initiative and talent in modern piano programs won her a very individual place in local music circles a few years ago when she returned to her home town after having spent a com- siderable time in New York, has been in Haitl for the past two years, where her husband, & naval officer, was stationed, except for short, hurried trips here to visit her family. Now Lieut. Comdr. Frost is to be stationed at Portsmouth, N. H., and in the intervening month, Mrs. Prost will be in Washington re- newing friendships and completing her s for transplanting her unique classes for adult audiences which be- came so successful with the naval and soclal circles at the station in Port-au- Prince. In an informal interview the other day, Mrs. Frost outlined the type of work that she handles with these “classes” and the idea secmed both ractical and extremely interesting. Whlle in accordance with establ principles, this idea of educatiny who have become interested in musical events without having the privileges of musical education as children to ive them understanding background, rs. Frost’s methods of application are individual to her. She gathers this group for an hour once a week and gives the simpler harmony lesscns, elementary ear training and also train- ing in perception of musical “form” by means of playing different types of iano compositions and explaining de- ils of each work. She plays the work through once with interpretation. Then she takes the different themes and the phrases, slowly working out first, sec- ond and third themes, showing when they occur, the differences in transi- tions to other keys or changes of tempo {in the same theme, and impresses these different things on her hearers. Then, later, she takes up other. legitimate readings than the interpretation which she has selected for this composition, | to bring out other lights and shadows in | meaning or emphasize different beauties of the structure of the composition or to center interest on virtuosity of the player, etc. General discussion follows each les- son. A repertoire of piano literature is I built up from early classie to ultr: .~ These are part! ly suc. cessful features of these A the occasion of her debut in New York, | Roman Catholic Churches of the arch- | The music for the service, sung by | the mixed choir under the direction of | Christopher 8. Tenley, will be selections | be discussed and . ) | l 1 | | This quartet of graceful young members of the Isadora Duncan Dancers from Moscow suggest, in the above picture, | the type T. alternating of New York. ful dance that is dominant in their popula r programs. Smith announces that these dancers will ma ke their debut in Washington next January with two recitals, with performances by the German Grand Opera Co., which also is under the general management of S. Hurok Rubinstein Club Announces Guest Artists of Year { THE Rubinstein Club will bring to Washington this season Lawrence Strauss, tenor, and Martha Whittemore, violoncellist. Mr. Strauss, who received enthusiastic | praise from the press last month, after his New York debut at Town Hall, is to be held at the Willard Hotel, January 21, at 8:30 o'clock. The guest artist for the second con- cert, May 6, will be Miss Whittemore, who has just returned to America after an extensive four-year cohcert tour through Europe. Information concerning associate membership in the club may be gotten from Mrs. Ethel Reed, 300 Carol street, Takoma Park, Georgia 1338-W. Those desiring active membership in the club are urged to arrange for auditions im- mediately with Mrs. Albert Volkmer, 234 Willow avenue, Takoma Park, Shepherd 2154. Capital Choral Club Is New]y Orgnnized A REUNION was held last Wednes- day evening of the members of the former evening choir of the Church of the Covenant, at which a majority of the old membership was present. For some time past the matter of reorgani- zation with a greatly augmented mem- bership and wider and more diversified fleld of musical activity has been under consideration, with the result that & new club had been formed to be known as the Capital Choral Club. Around the nucleus of the old membership will be gathered a large body of singers in- terested in the study and presentation of the best popular secular and sacred music. Meetings will be held Wednes- day of each week under the direction of Claude Robeson, aiready well known as the director of the Rubinstein Club, of the old Church of the Covenant Eve- ning Choir and of @he Mount Pleasant Congregational Church Choir. At the meeting Wednesday the fol- lowing officers were elected: President and director, Mr. Robeson; accompanist, Sue Blandy, formerly accompanist of the evening choir of the Church of the Covenant and of the Rubinstein Club; treasurer, Robert L. Duck; librarian, W. M. Richan; 1 committee, Mr. Milan, chairmi Mrs. George Tolson, Mrs, E. H. Reed, Mrs. Mary Bowen, Miss Sinclair and Blaine Lowry; secre- tary, Mrs. Tennille, 1207 Columbia road, phone Franklin 7500, who will be glad to furnish all information to those desiring to join the new organization. . Boston Soprnno Assists Youny Local Organins PAVL DE LONG GABLE will present the first of a serles of recitals by young Washington organists at the First Congregational Church Tuesday at 8 pm. Florence Reynolds, Kather- ine Fowler and Paul Gable each will play a group of three numbers. They will be assisted by the eminent Boston soprano, Emilia Serrazzi Glolosa, who will make her first appearance in Washington. Mrs. Gioisa's voice is sald to be of unusual beauty. She is former soprano soloist of the Portér Congrega- tional Churéh. ‘The organ used for this program is one of the largest in the city, being & four-manual instrument. It offers opportunity for the player to bring out the orchestral values of the organ. The pul of these recitals is to raise a fund to equip the organ with chimes. Contributions can be made the night of the recital. Another New Chorus. ’I’H‘ Capital City Choristers, & new mixed chorus, has been organized under the direction of Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee, known to Washington musical circles for & number of years as a di- rector and generally accomplished | musician. Dorothy Radde Emery, the accom- panist, 8 a graduate of Oberlin Con- servatory and a teached in this city. She is & member of the Friday Morn- ing Music Club and Washington Com- posers’ Club. ‘The , soloists of the Capital City Choristers are Ella Mintz, Edith C. Beebe and Estelle Johnson, sopranos; Mary Templin and Kathrine English, contraltos; A. 8. Parsons, Evans Brooke, John D. Johnson and Joseph A. Rose, tenors; Gilbert Clark, Erving T. Horn, and Herbert Frailey, bass. Eva B. McKinnle, whistler, and Erving T. Horn, violinist, are additional at- tractions to programs. ‘The officers of this club are: Mrs, Mae Leonard, president; Gilbert Clark, vice president; Mrs. Ella Mintz, treas- urer, and Mrs. Gladys B. Thompson, secretary. ‘The club is now in rehearsal and ex- pects to announce the onenlnx concert soon. The membership Is still open to tenors and contraltos. Applications should be made to the director, 1115 Clifton street northwest. A New Girls' Glee Club. THERI is & new glee club in Wash- ington of great promise. It was or- ganized by the Young Women’s Chris- tian Assoclation under the direction of Lucy Street, national director of Y. W. C. A. music, who has selected five sing- ers from each of the six Girl Reserve Clubs in the five senior high schools in the city as a nucleus of the club. Try-outs for this Girl Reserve Glee Club were held last week. The entire personnel will be announced within a few days, as the contests were close in many cases, owing to the interest of the girls and the excellence of their voices. The new glee club will be di- rected by Miss Street, assisted by the music chairmen of the Girl Reserve Clubs. This committee includes Ida Raffel of Tri-Hi at_ Business High School; Beatrice Spasoff of Adel- phi Club at Western High School; Mary Lesta Wakeman of Secours Club at Central High School; Lillian Hardy of Les Camarades Club mtllnum High School, and Ruth Nal of Semper Pidelis Club at McKinley High School. Rehearsals will n this week on a ram of carols to be sung in Decem- r, and a concert in January, at the time of the Girl Reserve convention in ) this city. The glee club als qwill assist in the annual operetta given by the Girl rves in the Spring. scheduled to sing at the first concert, | 1,000 Yearso TORONTO, Canada. A thousand years of English music will be celebrated here at the forth- coming_Bnglish music festival in the Royal York Hotel Wednesday through Saturday, this week. The festival offers unusual aspects of romance and re- discovery, featuring old dauces and music from the time of the iutenist composers to the present day. English song won a wide recognition early. Erasmus, writing early in- the sixteenth century, remarked that “the English challenge the prerogative of be- ing the most accomplished in the skill of music of any people.” Today we are beginning to undestand the importance not only of hearing good music but of making music, either as singers or as instrumentalists. In Tudor and Stuart, England this was taken as a matter of course. The composer Thomas Morley in the preface to “Plaine and Easie $n- teoduction to Practicall Musicke” (1597) regarded it essential to a gentleman's education to be able to take part in a madrigal, ||n,ln: his music at sight. Morley tells of a scholar who surprised & Tudor household by his ignorance of this art, so that, as the learned man confesses, “‘every one began to wend Yes, some whispered to others, de maunding how I was brought u Henry Peacham in his “Compleat Ge! tleman” (1622) makes it requisite * sing your part sure at first sight, witl all to Dllng'he same upon your violl or the exercise of your lute,” thus adding instrumental playing to the usual ac- complishments. John Murray Gibbon of who has arranged the coming festivi as well as Canada’s other major festi- vals, shows how greatly the Church aided in preserving English folk music. “We mention with gratitude the name of Thomas, the first archbishop of York, appointed shortly after the Norm: conquest by William the Conqueror,” says Mr. Gibbon. “This musical prelate instructed his priests to adapt sacred popular tunes, so that the ht remain in touch with the people. Thomas a Becket, archbishop of Canterbury in the tweifth century, when he went to Paris to negotiate the ‘*m‘u of an English princess to Louls: , was ‘preceded by 260 boys on foet in groups of six, ten or more together, singing English songs, according to the custom of the country’ Until the Reformation every boy was taught to sing plain chant, as training for the Montreal, 'Toronto Festival Honors f English Song | parish or cathedral choir, and even as late as the time of Queen Elizabeth music was one of the seven subjects ureclfltd for an Oxford degree in arts. It was not until the Puritan regime of the seventeenth century that singing began to be considered as anything but & necessary social asset.” At the festival this week several groups of artists will revive the golden age of English music and the dance. Among the artists to appear are the famous sextette known as the English Singefs; the English Folk Dancers, di- rected by Douglas Kennedy; the Hart House String Quartet and the cellist Felix Salmond. They will perform fif- teenth century carols, sixteenth century madrigals and notets, seventeenth cen- tury airs, sixteenth century catches, as wall of court and country dance tunes popular between the days of Henry V and Queen Anne. Besides such magic names as Byrd, Tellis, Weelkes, Orlando Gibbon, Morley and Purcell, the pro- gram will include modern English music, and will mark the Canadian premiere of the romantic ballad opera “Hugh the Drover,” written by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Morris and country dances will be featured at this festival on the first two evenings and the third afternoon. Di- rected by Douglas Kennedy, head of the English Folk ce Soclety, there will be six men and seven women dancers, ‘lcgmp-n\ed by violin, piano, pipe and abor. - Cecil Sharp, plonefr of the rediscov- ery of English dances, saw his first Morris dance in 1899 at Oxford, and at once set out to rescue the great treas- ures of English dance and song from oblivion. Since then he and his suc- cessors have collected 5,000 of them from all parts of England, adding to this collection some from the descen- dants of early Britigh settlers in the ‘mwnhlnl of Virgints and the Caro- inas. ‘The two most important English folk dances, are the Morris dance and the sword dance. Both are of ceremonial origin, and were formerly danced ex- clusively by teams of men at certain perfods of the year. Even in the per- dormance of these dances today by tra- ditional: teams traces of their original ritualistic purpose are preserved. Both dances are highly spectacular, and de- mand complete co-ordination and con- trol of bodily movement and a fine sense of rhythm and phrasing. First Music Lecture Listed for Tomorrow ’I'Ht first in & series of 10 lectures on the history and lprreclnmn of music by Maud G. Sewall, well known composer and musician of Washington, will be given tomorrow at 5 p.m. at the Institute of Musical Art. he subject will be “The Polyphonic Style,” inelud- ing works of J. S. Bach, tonality and the ancient modes, the building of the igue, ‘The other subjects for talks will in- clude -“The Sonata Form,” ‘“Philadel- rhh Orchestra’s Program for December 0,” “German Opera Co.'s Washington Repertoire,” “American Opera Co.'s Washington Repertoire,” “The Orches- tra,” “Breaking the Classic Bounds,” “New York Philharmonic Symphony Program of March 4,” “New Paths” and “Metropolitan Opera Co.'s Washington Repertoire.” Castanets™ Dances Here Next.Week LA ARGENTINA, the dancer who has created a furore for her Spanish numbers, is scheduled to make her first appearance in Washington Tuesday aft- ernoon, November 19, at 4:30 o'clock, at Poli's Theater. This is the second attraction in the artists’ course of after- noon coneerts. In presenting La Argentina in Wash- ington, Mrs. Wilson-Greene is bringing to the Capital for the first time an artist with & 'senality that New York critics have deglared to be the greatest since Pavioway grtival in America. A finc repertoir® ‘§s promised, including her famous “Lagarterana,” the impersona- tion of a peasant girl from Toledo; the flery “El amor brujo”; the “Cordoba” of Albeniz, and “Seguidillas,” danced without music, which have myriad com- plex rhythms to reveal this dancer's virtuosity on the castanets. Only & few years ago, La Argentina was unknown outside of Spain. Then came her debut at the Jardin de Paris in Paris and the public almost at once went mad over her. In an American season of 10 weeks last year, La Argen- tina duplicated, from coast to coast, her Parisian artistic triumphs. ‘The briefness of her American tour last Winter made a Washington engage- ment impossible, but this season the Capital will have opportunity to witness the dancer who has been called “the ueen of the castanets” and whose ar- tistry is proving a sensation. Seats are 1300 G street northwest. University Club Concert. AN evening of music will be presented under the auspices of the entertain- ment committee of the University Club of Washington, Thursday, at 8:20 p.m., when the first ladies’ night of the new season will be observed. The soloists on this occasion will be Gertrude Small- wood Mockbee, planist, and George An- derson, tenor, with Victor Boenau as accompanist. Mrs. Mockbee i8 particularly proud of the fact that she received all her mu- sical education in Washington. She gave her first recital when only 11 years old and began teaching piano three years later. Mr. Anderson is tenor soloist at St. Margaret’s Church. Mrs. Mockbee's numbers will include Lesche! 's arrangement sextet from “Luela di Lammer- moor,” for left hand alone. > Yy Mr. Anderson will sing songs Lully, Weckerlin, Pessard, d'Hardelot, Scott and Warford and the famous air, t's “L'Elisir d’Amour. ——— e Much position has sprung uj against the proposed Bule-gtrufbnup Canal, certaln claiming that the project is on sale at the concert bureau in Droop's, | Soldiers' Home Orchestra. THE band orchestra of the United States Soldiers’ Home, John 8. M. Zimmermann director, with Anton Pointner assistant, will give three pro- grams, as usual, in Stanley Hall this week. The program in each case will begin at 5:30 pm, and will include both popwiar and classical selections. | The dates are Tuesday, Thursday and | Saturday. Will Sing Songs by Local Composers ELVINA NEAL ROWE. NE of Washington's active young singers, ~whose - personality and charming soprano voice alike have many diplomatic and other events in the National Capital, Elvina Neal Rowe, has been chosen by two local compos- ers to sing their compositions at a spe- cial Washington composers' program to be given next Sunday afternoon at 5 glcl:ck at the Congressional Country ub. Mrs. Rowe will sing the premiere per- formance of a suite of songs written by Dorothy Radde Emery, entitled “Spring Blooms.” The songs are written for an ensemble including, in addition to the soprano, & violinist and violoncellist, and a pianist. In this first rendition, in addition to Mrs. Rowe, the others ticipating will be Mrs. Emery hemfl‘- the piano, Herman Hoffman, playing the violin, and Angelo Bernolfa, violon- cello. The words of these songs were written by Grace Thompson Seton. The other three in the suite are entitled “Eastern Poppy.” “Madonna Rose,” and “Late Chrysanthemum."” = Edward C. Potter will be represented by a group of three songs which Mrs. Rowe will interpret. The: . - d “Au- tumn.” For these the accom st will be another well known ‘ashington composer, R. Deane Shure. ‘The other numbers for the progra: are not yet announced, but it is under- stood that orchestral works by Sieg- fried Scharbau will be presented by a group of well known musicians, Mrs. Rowe also is the soloist tomor- row afternoon at the reception to be given for Mrs. Willlam Howard Taft by the Colonfal Dames. She will sing at that time Toselli's “Serenata,” Dvor- made her a favorite as a soloist for |E Symphony, (“Les Helires Bourguignonnes”), George Jacob, and “Softening Shadows,” by R. 8. Stoughton. Mr. Johnson will play Gustav Mer- kel's “Variatioms on a Beethoven ‘Theme,” preceding the service at 11 o'clock this morning. Mabel Linton Williams, planist, and her husband, Floyd Williams, tenor, both ha%W been particularly busy re- | cently with radio engagements. Mr. ‘Williams has been singing over the two stations WEAF and AL and Mrs. ‘Williams’ newly published song, “Dreams of You,” was given first performance by Freddie Risch's Orchestra. It is to be used in a Paramount picture. { Mrs, Willlams, & Washingtonian, is well | known as_pianist, teacher and as or- ganist at Foundry M. E. Church. ‘The music for the morning service at Christ Church, Georgetown, was se- lected to honor Armistice day. National hymns will be used and the offertory anthem will be DeKoven's setting of Kipling’s beautiful “Recessional” with the solo part taken by Barrett Fuchs, baritone, Mr. Fuchs is a young singer of great promise who has been sing for several seasons in Christ Church. All Souls’ Church, Unitarian, Six- teenth and Harvard streets, announces the resumption of the half-hours of or- g-n music on Sunday afternoons at o'clock. The organist, Lewis Corn ing Atw-;e’r, will I:‘el t-a-lat.«l in each PropEain by s voolie The following progrims will be sented this month: Todna early 1t ian music, the organist to be assisted by Flora McGill Keefer, meszo-contralto; November 17, modern Italian music, with John H. Marville, bass; November 24, Debussy music, with Helen Howi- son, soprano. The public 18 cordially invited. The program of early Italian for today will include “‘Ricerca estrina (1626-1504); “Pastorale “Burlesca,” Scarlatti (1683-1757) dicesti,” Lotti (1667-1740), sung by Mrs. Keefer: “Adagio ed Allegro,” Galuppi (1706-1784). Eva Whitford Lovette, who has been seriously ili at her home, 2008 Q street, for the past two weeks, leaves tomorrow for Atlantic City, where she will spend some time at the Hotel Dennis. | __The Lovette Choral Club meets each Monday night at 8 o'clock at the studio, 2008 Q street. Just before eaeh re- hearsal applicants are interviewed and auditions are given. Durln{vlhe recent iliness of the di- rector, 4 Whitford Lovette, Lorena Btockton Gawler has carried on the de- velopment of the new program abl music Pal- ast month, presented a_program at the home of ur.p and Mrs. !gedenck Philip Stieff in Baitimore a Iittle later in the month. bflhe is schedul&d 'g- ive :llolr- mal public program timo! n Jal ulpry. lnf announces that she will spend the month of February concertiz- ing in Florida. Herman Fakler, baritone, will sing by special request “Ye That Have Faith,” a patriotic DOI’I‘l by Bertha Cur- tis Johnson of Washington, at the Armistice day program tomorrow night at the Washington Auditorium, when President Hoover will give the address. Mr. PFakler's second number will be O'Hara’s “There Is No Death.” The United States Army Band will play the accompaniments. Kathryn Hill Rawls announces that the music committee of thé Georgetown Presbyterian Church has engaged Sadie Gibson as soprano soloist to take the place vacated by Mrs. Walter K. Wilson, who is now living in West Point. Mary Belle Beckham continues as contralto soloist and Mrs. Rawls is at the organ. A special Armistice day program is s planned for, today, when Alexander B. whridge will be guest soloist. The Eastern High Trio were guests at the first meeting of the Canadian So- ciety at the Mayflower Hotel Teusday, when they provided the musical pro- am. Leah Effenbach presénted Men- lssohn’s “Scherzo in E Minor” -as & piano solo. L. E. Manoly directed. At the special Armistice day service in the Prst Congregational Church to- day. C. Ridgway Taylor. baritone, will sing “Ye That Have Faith,” by Bertha Curtis Johnson. The poem which in- spired this song was found on the body of a dead Australian soldier on a bat- tlefield of Prance. Mrs. Johnson dedi- cated the song to the George Washing- ton Post, American Legion. -It was first sung at the celebration of their tenth anniversary, last March, Helen Gerrer Irwin, violinist, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gerrer, returned Thursday to her home, in Elgin, Il While in Washington Mrs. Irwin and Minna Niemann, pianist, gave an inter- esting program as one in the series of recitals at Trinity College. Eleanor Painter to Sing "Mldlmg Butterfly” 'LEANOR PAINTER will be heard in the title role when “Madame But- with the hearty co-operation of Al members. A valuable addition to the club is the planist as the new accompanist in the person of Pauline Lishman, who came from California lately to join the local music circles. At a recent meeting the club officials appointed Mrs. Audrey Koons secretary. Clay Coes, & young pianist new to Washington, has come to make his home here this Winter. He is g the residence studio of Robert Ruck- man, one of the most promising of the younger group-of pianists and organists, at 3414 Mount Pleasant street. Mr. Ruckman also is mnc‘nu at the studio of Douglas Memo! Church. _Both boys have been st with Edwin Hughes, former Wi ian, in New York City. They are working up & pro- gram of two-piano music and also Are lanning individual recitals for presen- tion later in the season. Nathaniel Bachrach, & young singer of Washington, who has been spending some time studying in New York City, for & month's visit, last week. Mr. Bachrach has been considerable broadcasting via New Yor! and Brooklyn stations;.and is to sing over local radio stations while here this month. There will be a patriotic musical service at Church of the Ascension at 8 o'clock tonight to commemorate Arm- istice day. 3 Soloists will be Lucy MacMorland, soprano; Arthur Parsons, tenor: Gilbert Clark, baritone; Herbert Prawley, bass, and Genevieve Girrits, ‘contralto. The music all will be appropriate to {the day. Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee is organist and director of the choir. The public is invited. A noted A Capella Choir of Los Angeles, Calif, formed a particularly interested and interesting group at the Philadelphia Symphony concert at Con- stitution Hall Tuesday. This choral group is making a Nation-wide tour of concert work, crossing the country in two large motor busses. able that Washington music lovers will not hear this organization at this time. Percy Grainger has publicly said of them that it is the finest p he has ever heard. They recen nfi“‘ fi- ams in New York and adelphia. the former occasiop, Mr. and Mrs. Grainger ‘were the choir’s guests. Fri- day night at Carnegie Hall Mr. Grain- "g‘rflhfl the choir as guests at his re- cl 3 Mme. Marie Zalipsky has opened a new studio, at 1801 Columbia road northwest, apartment 5, which was for- d) merl¥ opened with a party for musical a; folk last night. Mme. Zalipsky also Announces a Music y night. will be heard in the role of Pinkerton; John Barclay will sing Sharpless; Berta Levina will make her first appearance with the wmrmy this year in the role of Suzuki; Albert Mahler will sing the role of Goro; Arthur Holmgren will be ‘Yamadori: Beniamino Grobani, the im- ?erlll commissionér; Clarence Reinert, he bonze; Abraham Robofsky, the :‘s- ficial registrar, and Helen Jepson will be the stately Kate Pinkerton. Emil Miynarski will conduct and Wilhelm von Wymetal will stage the production. A special feature of all operas pro- duced by the Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. this season is the new and elaborate scenery and lighting effects. The set- ting for the Puccini opera is said to be especially beautifully. Roland Hayes, November 26 ROLAND HAYES, celebrated Negro tenor, is listed to be heard in Wash- mfihn for t time this season at Polf’s Thuw %mummm No- vember 26, ‘at 4:30 o'clock, as the first attraction ‘in 'Mrs. Wilson-Greene's philharmonic course of afternoon con- He will approximately 70 con- certs in the months of this Ameri- can tour. Roland Hayes holds the distinction of giving regularly each season three con- certs at Oai ¢ Hall, in New: Yor] g:: tnnree rlmre h:; Symphony H-'u. ?oa- . He also appeared profession= ally before the student bodies of Har- vard, Yale, Cornell, th, Vas: sar, Wellesley, Smith, Michigan, In- diana, Minnesota and other fafnous universities. Seats for this concert. as well as for other attractions in the philharmonic course, Are on sale at the concert bu- n:i in Droop’s, 1300 G street north- w 3 Aching for Fame. TOOTHACHE lifted Charles Mack, of the “Two Black Crows” team, over the borderline between mediocrity and inspiration such as leads to suc- cess on the vaudeville stage. An ach- ing molar—nothing else. ys Mack: “I used deliver my comedy rapidly with a silly grin at the end of each line, But one day I cultivated a terrific toothache and had to Yo on the stage before I could get it pulled or even treated. “I was in such misery that I couldn't have smiled for anyone. I began my act just as I felt—sad and uninterested in ev g. I was a hit. The sicker I got, the more solemnly I spoke. I was & riot, and so was my head. But I've kept that voice ever since, though the toothache has long vanished.” STUDIOS OF Vielin, -'-:uf';' gophocle?f. Papas Teacher of Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar Hawaiian Guitar and Ukulele 221 CONN. 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