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BY HELEN FETTER. HE coming seven days are, “But,” said Miss Scheff, “they scheduled to find a great|turned back gratefully to dear old deal of music and extremely | Victor Herbert. They agreed that varied programs in Wash- | nowhere at this time could one ington. Every type of music|find so rich and melodic a score lover or musician should find at|as this one of his. Victor Her- least one program to appeal tc|bert's music is already ‘coming his or her particular taste. New | back’ and it's coming back to York itself could not offer greater stay.” variety. Also several artists en- tirely new to the National Capital will have their debuts here this the ingratiating quality that week. |clings as has Victor Herbert's Much has been heard of the fa- | “Kiss Me Again.” Undoubtedly mous Mary Wigman School of more hearts have quickened their Dancing in Dresden, where “ex-|pace and more young people pressionistic dancing” had its in- | obeyed the suggestion of that song *w e JFEW melodies of the world have ‘THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, B .G DECEMBER. 8, 1929—PART FOUR. ORCHESTRA LEADERS, DANCERS, SINGERS AND INSTRUMENTALISTS APPEARING HERE THIS WEEK ception. Tomorrow two of the foremost exponents of this school, Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, are presented in an after- noon program, the first appear- ance, not only of the dancers, but also of any authentic interpreters | of the modern German school, | here. i Tomorrow evening a young| American pianist, Clay Coss, makes his local debut in formal recital at Barker Hall. Tuesday night Bernard K 8 baritone from Baltimor pears as soloist with the Interstate | Male Chorus in the first of their| Pprograms this season. | Wednesday the sensational Yyoung Spanish pianist who has been called by some “the modern | Busoni” and by other: youthful | Casals of the piano,” shares the morning program with the tely Maria Olszewska at the Mayflower. | It will be Senor Iturbi’s debut in| ‘Washington. i Emma Redell, who made her| home in Washington from early childhood until she left in her late *teens for New York to continue than has been the reaction to any one other song, in this country at least. Who that has gotten be- yond their middle 'teens doesn't have at least one warm memory of that waltz? It might be inter- esting to know that this waltz, like de Koven's almost equally popular “O Promise Me,” was not written in the first draft of the operetta score. Victor Herbert was in Saratoga putting the finishing touches on the score of “Mlle. Modiste” when Henry Blossom, who had written the libretto, and Charles Dilling- ham, the producer, came to him and convinced him of the neces- sity of an outstanding melody for the operetta. Mr. Herbert wrote and discarded scores of melodic ideas, and Mr. Blossom returned to New York after a few days, leaving Victor Herbert perturbed and still unable to find the melody he wanted. The next day the composer spent many hours idly fingering the keys of his piano, trying vainly to catch a melody. He finally | went to bed and to sleep, and in | his dreams a melody cameé to him. | He arose, turned on the light and | jotted down 32 bars of melody and | then went back to sleep. | The next day he called Mr. Dil- | lingham, and the producer, Miss | Scheff and Mr. Blossom came to | Saratoga to hear it. They all applauding the performance oi|agreed that it was a charming various compositions by the Phila- | melody, but Blossom and Dilling- delphia Symphony Orchestra,| ham thought that it would not be comes for the second and last time | adaptable to “Mlle. Modiste.” Miss scheduled this season as con-|Scheff, however, agreed with Vic- ductor of that orchestra in Wash- 1 tor Herbert that the melody was ington Tuesday afternoon. | ideally suited to her. The star and her musical career, has her con- cert debut here Thursday after- noon. * % k% THE courageous Leopold Stokow- ski, who has not hesitated to reprove his audience for hissing and also on other occasions for Emmas REDELL- IVa+|'onal (7hurs) The methods Mr. Stokowski st the composer finally overcame the employing, perhaps unconsciously, | objections of Dillingham and Blos- to obtain much comment in the|som, and the latter wrote the press seem to be commendable if | lyrics, which have since become Judged according to a recent|famous. The completed number statement issued by a confrere,|was put into the show and the rest Artur Bodansky, concerning in- i is a matter of theatrical history. fonsistencics on the part of theJ * % ¥ % atter. Mr. Bodansky, who, after hav- | ing appeared in print as claiming that radio was a factor sounding | the death-knell for opera, re-| turned with much enthusiasm | when asked to come back to the| Metropolitan to conduct the Ger- | man opera preformances. | “Last Spring I left the opera. I} gaid, and I meant it, that I should | not return. Now the season is scarcely a month old and I am back at the Metropolitan. This . 1s certainly inconsistency, but only a fool is consistent. Circum- stances alter the strongest resolu- tions. And my determination really was so strong that when I was first invited to resume con- ducting at the opera I rejected the idea as preposterous. * * * Now 1 find what would have surprised me most a few months ago that I feel a strong pleasure to be back with my first love (under condi-| tions, let me add, which will make | her more enchanting). There is something in the opera which gets in the blood and I, though I didn't | know it, must have been perma- nently infected.” All of which makes one wonder if Mr. Stokowski, too, will admit | that he has been inconsistent. P "HERE probably are not many public highways that have| been named in honor of com-| posers. One, however, a highway | that goes through the Middle West | —not the cultured East—has re- cently honored a writer of music Jowa and Minnesota have dedi-| cated a highway to the Bohemian | Antonin Dvorak, whose “New | ‘World” symphony will be played by the Philadelphians Tuesday. ‘This highway runs for 100 miles | up a scenie river valley in north- | eastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota, through the town of | Spillville, Towa, where Dvorak wrote part of this same symphony and is said to have received in- spiration for his popular “Humor- eske,” “String Quartet, opus 96" and “Quintet, opus 97.” | How much better to have a| Dvorak highway for many travel- ers than an expensive bronze or marble statue that only curious sightseers will heed as a memorial of a great pilgrim in the service of melody. * x ¥ X { SENTIMENT is an inborn in-| gredient in Americans. It is very different from qualities that | are dominant in the Old World | countries, but this makes it all the | more precious and individual to our own country. It is nothing to be ashamed of; quite the contrary It is alien to the queer, angular| new art that literature, painting| and sculpture. as well as mus ‘{ are sponsoring as recent “origi- nalitie: In all art that, through centuries, has received world-w recognition the simplicity of ger uine sentiment always has stood the test shiningly and-is. found in all the great cla: Last week a most touching ex- ample of American love of senti- ment was shown in the ovations offered to Fritzi Scheff. the gallant little trouver of operetta, who re- turned to Washington, where a quarter of a century ago she sang her figst English role in “Babette” for the first time in America. This time she came in a revival of | Victor Herbert’s “Mile. Modiste.” In a little reminiscent gesture in a very short interview, Miss Scheff told of how she had really loved her roles in the “big tent” of music—grand opera. How Musetta and the Daughter of the Regiment, in particular, were dear to her memory. Her brown eyes sparkled with the memorv. And she said, too, that before deciding on this revival her managers had scanned every possibility among the new shows with new melodies and ideas. '\ sics. | | R OSA Ponselle, the young Ameri- can who has become the dominating prima dona of the Metropolitan Opera Co. in New York, is represented elsewhere on | the page today with an article that tells of the difficulties in her reheasals for her first big role that meant her debut and the blossoming of a brilliant opera- tic career. At present Miss Pon- selle is having to prolong a rest necessitated by a severe case of laryngitis, aggravated by her try- ing to sing before her throat was sufficiently healed and strong. As a result, she has had to post- pone indefinitely her debut in the role of Donna Anna in the re- cently revived “Don Giovanni” although it is reported that she is expected to be well enough soon to sing less exacting roles. One remebers particularly the keen en- thusiasm with which Miss Pon- selle wrote back to America last Summer from Lake Como, that she was studying this role of Donna Anna and enjoying it thoroughly. Miss Ponselle’s article is the first of a series which The Star will print on the music page, giving interesting and often amusing in- cidents in the careers of various opera stars. Guest Soloist Today ANNE YAGO McGUFFEY. ANNE YAGO McGUFFEY, who was very popular here in light opera revivals two years ago at the President Theater, will be the guest sololst in the program of the early nineteenth cen- tury German music, played by Lewis Atwater, organist, this afternoon at 5 v'clock at All Souls’ Church (Unitarian). ‘The public is cordially invited. | The program follows: “Vorspiel” (Kunihild), Kistler; “Lento” and ‘Scherzo,” Jadassohn; “Ah! mon fils” (Le_ Prophete), Meyerbeer, Mrs. Mc- Guffey: ketch,” Schumann; “Du bist die Ruh,” Schubert, Mrs. McGuffey; “Vision,” Rheinberger. } Mrs. McGuffey has been contralto | soloist in Hamline M. E. Church for the past two months. She has concertized extensively with Frank LaForge and many leading artist. She came to Washington first under the auspices of T. Arthur Smith and made a very favorable impression with his opera company. She returned the following season (1928) with the De- ‘Wolf Hopper Opera Co. During this engagement she met Mr. McGuffey of the Southern Railway. They were mar- ried last December. Mrs. Anne Yago is now residing in Falls Church. | Mrs. McGuffey 1s the possessor of a | voice of unusual quality and range, it | being very full and rich, yet capable of BERNARD KO Memorial Conthi nen SSINE - +al Hall (7es) % PENELOPE and REBECCA TARWATER- Carlton Hotel (F+r) YVONNE ARIA OLszEwsKA /\Aayf lower Hotel (Wed) LEGINSKA- Constitution Hall -(Jaf) GEORG! and HAROLD KREUTZBERG - Polis (Mor) C LAY Coss- ‘Barker Hall (#on) EXPRESSIONISTIC DANCERS—TO- MORROW. ‘The expressionistic dance art of mod- ern Germany will be revealed to Wash- ington audiences tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at Poll's Theater, when Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, foremost exponents of this school of dancing, will make their debut in the Capital. Harald Kreutzberg astounded dance students of New York when he was presented in that city two years ago in joint recital with Tily Losch. e and Yvonne Georgl also created a sen- sation before American audiences last year. They began in New York last week a second tour of the United States, to take them to the Pacific Coast. They will be assisted at the piano by Fried- rich Wilckens, who has also composed the music for several of their ‘dances. The program follows: “Polonaise” (Chopin), “Dance of the Master of Ceremonies,” from Prof. Rein- hardt's festival play, “Saizburg” (Scott) ; “In the Twilight” (Milhaud), “Varia- tions” (Mozart), volte” (Wilckens), “Dance of Salome” (Scott), “Romantic Dance Scenes” (Debussy). “Spanish Im- pressions” (De Falla), “Three Mad Fig- ures” (Prokofiefl), “Mazurka” (Scria~ bine), “The Angel of Last Judgment" (Wilckens), “Persian Song” (Satie) and “Spirit of Evil,” Russian dance (Wieniawski). Seats for this recital are on sale at Mrs. Wilson-Greene's concert bureau, in Droop's, 1300 G street, and at Poli’s Theater tomorrow afternoon before the concert. CLAY COSS—TOMORROW. A young pianist, new to Washington, who ‘became established here this Fall, will make his debut in a recital in Barker Hall of the Y. W. C. A. head- quarters, Seventeenth and K streeis northwest, tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock. Mr. Coss studied for several seasons in New York under Edwin Hughes, fa- mous planist and pedagogue, formerly of Washington. Tomorrow night’s program will in- clude “Organ Prelude and Fugue in A Minor,” Bach-Liszt; “Sonata Tragica in G Minor,” MacDowell; “Ballade in A Flat,” “Mazurka in B Minor,” “Etude in G Minor, No. 24, by Chopin; “Pa- vane,” Ravel; “Octave Intermezzo,” Leschetizky; “Minstrels,” Debussy, and “Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 8, by Lisat. PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA— Tuesday. Leopold Stokowski will lead the Phil- adelphia Symphony Orchestra in the second local concert of the season at Constitution Hall, Eighteenth and D streets, Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. Mr. Stokowski has chosen the works of three old German composers to con- trast with Dvorak's popular symphony, generally known as the “New World Symphony,” No. 5, in E minor, for this program. . Six seiections from three Gluck works —*"Iphigenie en Aulide,” “Orphee” and “Armide”—will open the program. Bach's “Prelude in B Minor” and Haen- del's “Overture in D Minor” complete the first half. Dvorak’s symphony, upon themes found in the United States when -the Bohemian composer was living here, is the final number. Tickets are on sale at T. Arthur Smith’s bureau, in Kitt's music store, 1330 G street. INTERSTATE MALE CHORUS— Tuesday. ‘The Interstate Male Chorus, Clyde B. Aitchison conductor, will give its twen- ty-seventh concert Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. | Tovely pianissimo effects. “She will sing Hummell's “Alleluia” at the morning | service in Hamline M. E. Church, in the D. A. R. Memorial Continental Hall, Seventeenth and D streets, EVENTS OF THE WEEK. TOMORROW. Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, dancers, in expression- istic program, at Poli’s Theater, 4:30 p.m. Clay Coss, pianist, in recital, at Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A. head- quarters, 8:30 p.m. TUESDAY. Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Stokowski condticting, at Constitution Hall, 4:30 p.m. Interstate Male Chorus, Bernard Kossine, guest soloist, at Memorial Continental Hall, 8:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY. Maria Olszewska, contralto, and Jose Iturbi, pianist, in joint recital, at the Mayflower, 11:15 a.m. THURSDAY. Emma Redell, dramatic soprano, in song recital, at the National Theater, 4:30 p.m. FRIDAY. Program of Colonial music, first of Sutro Salon series, at the Carleton Hotel, 4 p.m. SATURDAY. Ethel Leginska, leading the Boston Woman's Orchestra, at Con- stitution Hall, 8:30 p.m. tenor soloist at the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore, has been engaged as soloist for this concert. He has ap- peared frequently in programs of dis- tinction, including several with Hilda Burke, & prima donna of the Chicago Grand Opera Co. Mr. Kossine will sing solos, and also, with the chorus, the tenor role in the cantata “The Nun of Nidros,” by Dudley Buck. Robert L. Feuerstein will accompany on the piano, and Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee will ‘play organ accompani- ments. ‘The program will include choral works by Leoncavallo-Harling, an old French air arranged by Stickles, Ingle-Smith, Pache, Chilean folk songs arranged by Devison, Jensen-Brewer, Podbertsky and ‘Waedenschwiler. OLSZEWSKA-ITURBI RECITAL— Wednesday. Maria Olszewska, world-famous con- tralto, born on a large estate along the Danube, and Jose Iturbi, sensational young planist, who hails from Valencia, Spain, will be joint artists for the sec- ond morning program to be given this season under auspices of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend at the Mayflower Hotel Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. Senor Iturbi will open the gram with Mozart's “Sonata in A Major, No. 9.” Later he will play “Rhapsodie, No. 2" (Liszt), “Jeux d@'Eau” (Ravel), “Feux d'Artifice” (De- bussy), “Pete Dieu a Seville” (Albeniz) and “Danse Rituelle de Feu” (De Falla). Mme. Olszewska's first group will be of Schubert’s songs— Der Tod und das Maedchen,” “Gretchen an Spinnrade” and “Die Post”” Later she will sing “Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer,” “Sapphische Ode,” “Von Ewiger Liebe" and “Mein Liebe uen” (Brahms), and ‘“Allerseelen,” “Zueignung” and “Ceacilia” (Richard Strauss). Her ac- companiments will be played by Fred- erick Schauwecken. Tickets are on sale at 1709 Twenty- first street and at the hotel. pro- EMMA REDELL—THURSDAY. A former resident in Washington, Emma Redell, dramatic soprano, will return for her formal debut in concert in what is practically her “home town” | Thursday at the National Theater at 4:20 pm. Béfore she went to New York to con- tinue musical studies after having been here, Miss Redell sang in two Washing- ton churches. From New York she went to Vienna, where she had her de- but in concert, followed by a tour in Europe and later several years of expe- rience in leading roles of 20 operas in German opera houses. She had her New York concert debut October 16 and received warm encouragement from critics and public. Thursday she will sing “Cavatina,” from “Marriage of Figaro,” Mozart “‘Sexto nel Core,” “Spirate pur Spirate” and “Perduta ho la Speranza,” by Do= naudy; air from “La Forza del Destino,” Verdi; “Dein Blaues Augen,” “Wehe, So Willst Du Mich Wieder,” “Aus Dem | Kirchhofe” and ‘“Vergebliches Staend- chen,” by Brahms; “War Ich Nicht €in 'Halm,” Tschaikowsky; “Wiegen- lied” Reger, and air from “Tannhau- ser,” Wagner; “Little Star, Where Art ou?”" Moussorgski; “My Lovely Celia,” Wilson, and “Yahrzeit,” Silberta. George Bolek will be at the piano. Miss Redell is presented by Virgnia Powell Harriss. Tickets are on sale at T. Arthur Smith's bureau, 1330 G street northwest. COLONIAL MUSIC—Friday. A program of colonial music will be presented as the first in a series of three even's sponsored by Miss Rose Sutro and Miss Otillie Sutro at the Carlton Hotel Friday at 4 pm. These programs are given in an atmosphere that emu- lates that of the European “salon,” with the audience seated in groups in com- fortable chairs about the room, of drawiig room propor ‘~ns, and a similar | inforn ality and intimacy’ in the actual | giving of the program. |~ Those participating in this first pro- gram will be Katherine Riggs, the charming young harpist, who is very popular in Washington; Penelope and Rebecca Tarwater, two young girls from ‘Tennissee, who have shown a decided ensenible talent in the singing of bal- lads and spirituals, and Edward Kivlin, clarinetist, of New York, who will be assisted at the piano by Lee Cronican. Cards for these salon events may be gotten from the Misses Sutro at 2230 California street, or at the Carlton the day of the event. BOSTON WOME ORCHESTRA— SATURDAY. Ethel Leginska, famous woman pian- | who more recently has become st, Bernard Kossine, for, several years' graduated from Business High School ' noted as _conductgfl and composer, will | bring the Boston Women's Symphony Orchestra to the National Capital Sat- urday at 8:30 p.m. at Constitution Hall. This will be the second attraction in Mrs. Wilson-Greene's course of Satur- day night concerts. This is sald to be the only women's orchestra of symphonic proportions touring the United States. Only thor- oughly competent musicians are ad- mitted to this organization. The Boston Women's Symphony Or- chestra, as its name indicates, was founded and organized in Boston, that center of American mmisical culture which has already given the world one of its greatest orchestras in the Boston Symphony, under Koussevitzky. The program will open with the over- ture to “The Mastersingers of Nurem- burg,” by Wagner, followed by Schu- bert’s “Symphony in B Minor” (the hed). In the third number Le- ginska will appear both as soloist and conductor, playing Liszt’s “Hungarisn Fantasy” at the piano, accompanied by the orchestra. One of her own num- bers, “Old King Cole,” will be pre- sented and the finale will be Lisat’s symphonic poem, “Les Preludes.” Seats are on sale at Mrs. Wilson- Greene's concert bureau, in Droop's, 130?1 g uu;eeéo ntmhvlvut, and will be available ai nstitution Hall the eve- ning of the concert. e . MacDowell Progrnm Toaay. THE Congressional ~ Country Club, through its chairman of music, Mrs. Dorothy DeMuth Watson, has an- nounced another unusual event for its twilight hour musicale this afternoon at 5 o'clock, when the program will be devoted to the music of Edward Mac- Dowell. As December is MacDowell's birth month and as MacDowell is rec- ognized as America’s greatest composer, it 15 especlally appropriate that this De- cember program should be devoted to his music. MacDowell's position today in creative musical art remains the same as it was 20 years ago, one of unassail- able independence and individuality. The soloists will be Cla; , planist, a newcomer to Wuhinxwyn‘cnldpil:obl::! Ruckman, & Washington boy who has been way from the city for a number of years, who will play the second plano part of the MacDowell concerto. Raw- ley C. Donohue, baritone, will be wel- comed back to Washington after his re- cent delightful successes singing with Roxy and his “gang” o ntfi I%oNew Ygrk,‘ STNIROAIIN r. Coss and Mr. Ruckman are grad- uate puplls of Edwin Hughes, formerly of Washington. This MacDowell program promises to be one of rare enjoyment, beautiful mu- sic beautifully interpreted. It will in- clude: Piano solos, “Air and Rigaudon,” Sonata Tragica in G Minor,” “Etude de Concert in F Sharp,” Mr, Coss; songs, “Sweetheart, Tell Me,~ “The Swan Bent Low to the Lily,” “Deserted,"” “My Jean,” “To a Wild Rose,” Mr, Don- ohue; two pianos, “Pirst Concerto in A Minor,” Mr. Coss and Mr. Ruckman. Marian Anderson to Sing Thursday at Howard U. THE famous Negro contraito, Marian Anderson, who has been heard here several times previously and is & popular soloist here, will give a recital ' Thursday, at 8:15 pm., in Andrew | Rankin Chapel of Howard University. IRED with enthustarm, I was practicing all day and far into the night. Safely locked in a top drawer of my bureau was the i Bits of Life in Opera Careers “They Didn’t Like Verdi” | priceless contract signed by Mr. | Gatti-Casazza, manager general of the Metropolitan Opera House, It was Midsummer, and in November I was to make my debut there as prima donna in Verdi's “Forza del Destino.” This meant to me the opening of the gates of Paradise. Prior to that my biggest dreams had never reached so far. But I could tell no one. Its sole announce~ ment must come from the Metropolitan, As a little girl of 13 I had started | out to earn my lving by singing be- tween pictures at a movie theater. The wage was $12 weekly. Next came a chance to sing in a cabaret at New Haven. A year of this and I traveled to New York to enter vaudeville, where I sang three years. Then I started taking vocal lessons, paying with money I had earned. After six months of them came my audition at the Metro- politan and a contract there, Do you wonder that I practiced day and night with such a glorious end in sight? Then the blow fell. Sharp rapping at my door announced it. There stood the slovenly figure of my toiling land- lady at the small hotel which I called home. Wrath and worry mingled in her face. “Don’t you know you're chnm{; all my lodgers out with your eternal yelling,” she fired at me. My voice, the voice which was to bring me a golden future, had chased her lodgers out! The thought struck me dumb. To tell her my wonderful news was impossible. And so, while I stood silent, she poured out all the hateful things people had said about my “eternal yelling.” At last I answered, “Some day you'll be sorry.” “Sorry or mot,” she snapped, “with your screeching day and night you've got to go.” That settled it. The door blni‘ed shut behind her. I sat down to_think. How was I to move with every mo- ment needed for practice? . Full of en- thusiasm and hope to do big things it meant a tragedy. My little belongings would not take long to move. But where? And how could I waste time in_the search? More tears flowed. In the midst of it the door opened softly. My landlady stood there. ; “Dearie,” she began. The word with her meant nothing. She called all her lodgers that. _Maybe another tirade was coming. But it didn't. “You see, dearie, it's this way,” she began, “when you sang the songs, ‘O Solo Mio’ and the like, I fairly cried it was so heartening. But when you started on that ‘patches’ thing we all went clean distracted.” For an instant I could not under- stand. Then it dawned on me that the big aria “Pace, Pace” sounded to her, in its Italian pronunciation of patche, like “patches.” And it was Verdi’s immor- tal aria in “Forza del Destino,” fated to bring me on my debut night at the Metropolitan a success that has kept me there ever since. I explained the aria to her, that it meant the turning of a tortured soul to heaven for peace. “Well,” she retorted, “of all the noisy ways to get your peace back that beats | | | | ROSA PONSELLE. the band! I'm a hardworking wom- an; if all my lodgers light out I'll have to light out, too, before the first of the month when the landlord comes to get his rent.” She wept at the prospect. “You work hard,"” I said, “and I wouldn't have that happen for the world. Tl go." At that she wept still more. “Oh, dearie,” she went on, “Why don't you sing them gentle things? Many's the time they've made me stop my work to cry, thinking of the old country. Don't be headstrong, give them loud things a rest.” By that time ready to start out on my long, hot search, I answered, “I'll be singing what you call these loud things from now on.” “Girls s that hard-headed,” was her weary comment. What seems bad often turns out well. Returning footsore from a _fruitless tramp, I did some thinking. If I took a better place than the one I had, my savings would tide me over until my fees at the Metropolitan allowed me to retain it. Two days later I was estab- lished far more comfortably, and my neighbors seemed to have no dislike to Verdi's music. My debut performance ended, and with the thrill of its excitement on me, I passed out of the stage door at the Metropolitan. A crowd stood waiting for me. Some one waved a hand. “Dearie,” called a familiar voice, “There couldn’t be no kick about tonight.” And we both laughed. (Copyright. 1929.) Musigraphs ‘The Friday Morning Music Club_will present a program next Friday at Bar- ker Hall, arranged by -Mildred Kolb Schulze. This is a concert by the Glee Club of the University of Soutn Carolina, directed by Maurice Matte~ son. The Glee Club of 60 boys will include %2 its program the classic com- posers as well as the modern. It wil sing a_group of Negro spirituals which have been collected, harmonized and published by Mrs. Schulze. ‘Warren F. Johnson will give an organ recital at the Church of the Pli- grims at 7:30 o'clock this evening. He will play introduction and fugue on Her program is not announced, but she doubtless will include groups of claesi- cal songs, as usual, in addition to Negro spirituals, i@ her selections. the choral “Ad Nos, ad Salutarem Undam,” by Franz Liszt, and “Caprice,” by E. J. Sturges. Mr. Johnson will play “Passacaglia in C Minor,” by Bach, preceding the service at 11 o'clock this morning. Alice Eversman, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera Company, who for the past three years has won renown in Paris, France, is expected to arrive in America for the holiday season. Con- cert engagements abroad frustrated her plans for coming here earlier. Mme. Eversman expects to devote some time to teaching in Washington in addition to her work in New York City. Elena de Sayn is in charge of arranging her schedule. Franceska Kaspar Lawson gave a re- cital for the Twentieth Century Club at Cresson, Pa., Tuesday. She returned to ashington Wednesday. The Capital City Choristers and members of the choir of the Church of the Ascension, Mrs. Henry Hunt Mc- Kee, director; Mrs. Alden Emery, ac- companist; Mr. Horn, violinist, gave a program last Friday night in the Sun- day school room at the church, when they gave both operatic and lighter se- lections. Guiseppe Bruno, young Italian bari- tone, who gave a successful concert last month, has been engaged for several re- citals in private homes during Decem- ber. Signor Bruno has his studio at 1211 Girard street, northwest. Oba Jan Gibson, lyric _soprano, as- sisted by Jeanette Lewis Doty, pianist, rendered the Thanksgiving program for the St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Northeast. Mr. and Mrs. August King-Smith have issued cards for a musical pro- gram to be given by Charles Cooper, pianist, at the King-Smith School, at 4:30 this afternoon. ‘The first recital entertainment of the Fall semester of the Dorothy Henneman School of Music was held Saturday. Particularly enjoyable were three com- positions—"Thine Blue and Tender,” by Lassen, he Dance of the Dolls,” by Poldini, and “Curious Story,” by Heller—played by Geraldine Parent (Continued on Ninth Page.) Miss Sewall's Lecture- Recitals. MAUD SEWALL, distinguished Wash- ington musician, a popular lec~ turer on musical subjects, will give a talk Thursday evening at the Arts Club, Miss Sewall's, subject will be “What Some of the Modernists Say About Themselves.” Miss Sewall will discuss Ornstein, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Ca- sella, Cowell and John Powell. This talk will be illustrated by Mildred Kolb Schulze, one of Washington's best known “modernist” interpreters, play- ing some of the compositions on_ the piano of those composers about whom Miss Sewall will talk. Miss Sewall is scheduled to give the third in her series of 10 talks at the Institute of Musical Art tomorrow at 5 p.m. Her subject will be the program which is to be played Tuesday by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Russian Music Program To Be Given Friday FLOR!.'NCE HOWARD will present a group of students, assisted by Kath: erine Floecker Cullen, pianist; Donna ‘Taggart, accompanist, and with program notes written by Mary Ware Goldman, at her residence, 3625 Sixteenth street northwest, Friday night at 8:30 o'clock. ‘The Tuesday Evening Music Club will open the program with Abenlief's ar- rangement of the folk melody, “The Nightingale.” Helen Neumeyer will sing “Trolka,” Frances Tucker and Lilllan Llewellyn will give duets and Ina Holtz- scheiter will sing a “Song of Little Rus- sia,” arranged by Zimbalist, Cooper will sing songs by Gretchaninoff, and Enid and Helen Williams and Helen Neumeyer will give songs by Moussorgs- ky. Cecile Littlefield and Catherine Gross will sing & duet from “Pique D:me."'l‘? Tschaikowsky: Miss Holtzscheiter 1 sing two Rimsky-Korsakoff numbers, and Mrs. Cullen will complete the pro- gram with piano numbers by Arensky and Rachmaninoff. Gounod Progrnm Tomg}l(. THE choir of the Church of the As- cension, Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee organist and director, assisted by H. W. Wood, violinist, will present a program of music by the French composer, Charles Gounod at the church, Twelfth street and Massachusetts avenue north- west, tonight at 8 o'clock. The opening prelude is taken from “The Redemption,” to be followed by the choral numbers, “Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies,” “Come Unto Him," “Ave Verum" and “God of Love.” Lucy MacMorland, soprano, will sing the offertory, “Ave Maria,” with violin obbligato by Mr. Wood. “Lovely Appear,” another chorus, will follow, with Mrs. Mintz as soloist. Mrs. MacMorland and Mr. Clark will sing “O Divine Redeem- er”; Mr. Coyle, tenor solo, “Forever With the Lord"; Mr. Clark, baritone solo, “The Peace of God”; Mrs. Mac- Moriand and choir, “Oh, Turn Thee Unto the Lord,” from “Gallia”; the choir, “Brightest and Best,” and postlude, to be selected, violin and organ. 5 STUDIO WALTER T. HOLT School of Mandolin, Guitar and Banjo, Hawaiian Guitar and Ukulele Established 1894 Ensemble practice with the Nordica Clubs 1801 Columbia Rd. N.W., Col 0946 BESSIE N. WILD Volce Oulture, Plano and Harmony Studio 6874 Bth st Tak: ., D. udio 687 Sigetkoma Fark. D. © Positively 5‘"‘“ né Persor | IN 20 LESSONS SAXOPHONE, BANJO, GUITAR Clarinet, Trumpet. Ukulele. Ete. chestra Training—Send for Booklet Christensen School of Popular Music 78 mx'su N.W. Distriet 1278 . OF WASHINGTON CLAY COSSs Pianist Recital, Dec. 9th 8:30 P.M. Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A. 17th and K Studio, 3414 Mt. Pleasant St. 3 Adams 4126 X Beatrice Seymour Goodwin 1406 H St. N.W. Phone Wisconsin 2049 TEACHER OF SINGING Director and sobrino sololst 8¢. Alban’s Choir ditions by_Appointment i Edward S. Bergh Teacher of Flute, Piccolo, Fife Studio and Residence Portner Apartments, No. 122 Tel. North 1421