Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1930, Page 56

BY HELEN FETTER. ABHINGTON last week had one of the most brilliant weeks of music V'V that has ever been en- joyed here for many seasons. With three operas, one orchestra, two| dance recitals, a lecture recital on the cantatas of Bach and three recital programs of concert mu- sie, including a “one-man” Amer- | ican: composer's progra there | was varied fare that exhilarated the imagination and broulml worthy representations of famous ;orkl, some of them rarely heard ere. This week continues with simi- lar promise, qualitatively speak- ing, although it is perhaps as well that the quantity is less. After all, musical indigestion is quite as distressing as any other variety. A Mme. Bori, always a charming, lished artist, unfortunately has ad to postpone her concert due to a severe cold. The German Grand Opera Co, that came to the National Capital with flying colors for the debut of its second American season last week and left for a tour that will earry it to the West Coast, with favorable comment from ublic and press, will conclude ts local ‘“season” with a per- formance of “The Flying Dutch- man,” by Richard Wagner. Ac- eording to a record submitted by an established musician of Wash- , the last presentation of this opera here was on February 11, 1 At that time the Senta was Emma Juch; the Dutchman, Ludwig; Erick, Bassett; Deland, Vetta; the Steersman, Pache, and Mary, Perring. The company was Mrs. Jeanette Thurber's American Opera Co. ‘The story of this opera is given elsewhere on this page. Wednesday will see the debut ' here of a young singer who has ! won scclaim with n%eraflc expe- rience abroad. Nina Velez-Danse- | reau, recently. the bride of Hector Dansereau, the brilllant young French pianist who was heard here in joint recital with Mary Garden two seasons ago, will share the program Mrs. Towns- end presents Wednesday with Beniamino Gigli, the great tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Co. The two singers, both operatic. will take advantage of their efi- clency in that branch of song and | g‘" arias and duets from well own 745 laturry the Cleveland String Quartet makes its public debut here, at the Library of Congress, in works by Mozart and two pres- ent-day eumgwl-n, Vittorio Rieti lock. and Ernest ern.r and modestly, a new hope for Washington blos- somed in the midst of all the bril- liant music last week. Sunday morning ‘week ago, and Mon- day, too, in“the dingy, huge hall of the Musiclans’ on E reet, 75 Washington musicians got together, amiably and with- ,out thought of compensation, to + engage in the first two rehearsals for the National Symphony Or- chestra. It _is & saying inherited from the early sixteenth century, ac- credited to-one Thomas Tusser, that “It is an ill wind turns none to . musicians: have been| quick to see the possible detri- mental effects of the perfection of “talkies,” especially for orches- tral interpretation of film scores, | in rd to the instrumentalists who depend upon the motion pic- | ture theaters for providing their living. The radio, too, has given mulfl:hu generally not a few anxious moments of pondering. Yet both these mechanical de-| vices have brought the finest as| well as other music to the atten-| tion of millions of people who| never thought of attending an orchestral concert and who, as| motion picture patrons, found their orchestral “overtures” only mildly semi-classical at best. Through mechanical devices pro-| grams have rushed to a place where managers of picture thea- ters feared to even gaze in con- templation. ere are too many really fa-| mous people saying repeatedly in | interviews “Musicians are in- clined to underestimate the taste of the general public” for there not to be some truth in this opin- fon. Radio, in particular, has shown the way this wind of pub- lie interest is blowing by the re-| auests for philharmonic and sim- | {lar programs. * ¥ ¥ % -OPERATION is one of the stabilizers ?r :lh‘g world beol‘ supposedly civilize uman - lnp. It )\’x by co-operation that | this National Symphony Orches- | tra is organized. It is by the con-| senting of 80 Washington musi-| cians, many of them distin- guished soloists, to rehearse to- gether without talk of present compensation, to give three con-| certs locally this Spring, that| hopes of a permanent symphonic organization for Washington have sprurg up afresh. It is particularly significant that these musicians are doing everything themselves. They got together and chose their leader— a highly qualified man who is head of the opera school of the Cleveland Institute of Music, to be their leader. The local mus cians also have paid in advance for the rent of the hall where they will give these three con- ce) uite appropriately, Con- stitution Hall. The musicians have gotten the pledged support of leading civic organizations to help them fill the hall with citi- * % * ¥ zens of the District of Columbia | for these initial concerts and to establish a permanent organiza- tion. Moreover, the very title of the orchestra augurs the breadth of scope that these men are aim—l ing for, as they call it, not a ‘Washington, but a National Svm- hony Orchestra, which they go to make representative of this country. Rudolf Schueller, born in Ger- man Czechoslovakia in 1884, whose musical training began ‘when he was 13 and who has been director ' of the court orchestra of Rumania and of opera in Ber- 1in. states’ that his prime object 1z to build a unified erganization | ance. yworthy of the Capital of the United States, which has such fine orchestras elsewhere, and to resent always at least one Amer- |lcan work on every program. “I think that is the way that a country should grow musically,” said Mr. Schueller last Monday, through its composers. One can only hear them and judge them by giving their works perform- As soon as we are suffi- ciently organized, I shall invite composers from all over the coun- try to send me compositions for consideration. The most impor- tant message that we have to de liver is the message of the Ameri- can composer, always giving one in each program.” % % 3 T that second rehearsal, Mon- day—as at the first, Sunday— one of America’s most eminent camgoun Wwas present, modestly yet keenly attentive to every note in the first two rehearsals here of his “New England Symphony.” Pink faced, smiling genially be- ‘hind his academic ‘Lfllfl, t- ting his white hair absent-mind- edly when he ‘was particularly absorbed in the reading of some more involved passage, Edgar Stillman Kelley stepped ly about in his long-tailed, schol- arly-style coat or sat with folded arms among the musicians as they went over phrase after phrase of his work, which is to be featured in the first concert the end of January. As Dr. Kelley explained, this symphony, which has been played by all the established orchestras and was first given at a music festival in New England, is based upon an old New gland hymn. It is given most effective treat- ment in the largo movement. Dr. Kelley happened to be in Wash- ington, en route New York from the West, and he stayed over a couple of days to hear these rehearsals of his work, which had been chosen by these men for the honor place on their first program. e expressed amazement, even with his long years of intimate experience with skilled and talented directors, at the immediate and intelligent grasp that Mr. Schueller had up- on the inner meaning of his mu- sic in this symphony. Mr. Schuel- ler had never seen the score be- fore Saturday night, yet by Mon- day noon there were not a few places where smooth, rich inter- g:euflon was given the truly autiful phrases of this music. In his informal remarks and an- swers to questions addressed to the writer during rehearsal in- termissions or pauses for correc- tions, Dr. Kelley would murmur, “Difficult” and “That's right,” with a cherublc smile spreading as phrase after phrase was con. quered by the Washington musi- cians and théir earnest leader. clude the overture to Wagner's “Tannhauser,” which Mr. Schuel- ler admitted with pleased sur- gnse the local musicians already ad well in hand; the “Preludes” of Liszt and “Suite I' Arlesienne,’ by Bizet. JFRANK FROST, a truly repre- sentative American musician, who became a brilliant business man, winning. success in the min- ing industry, and who, in spite of his wealth, still gets keen enjoy- ment from playing the viola in chamber music groups, is among the musicians organized into this symphony. Mr. Frost has been e{ec&d the president of the grou governing the rsonnel of this orchestra. Mr. t says: “The very sporting attitude of these musicians in their pledge to co-operate in every respect for this orchestra appealed definitely to me. I think that if we can give three concerts this Winter and make them successful, we should not only merit but secure the decided co-operation of the public, so as to make weekly con- erts many other events racticable for next Winter. This the only great capital in the world without a symphony or- chestra—in a Nation which has outstandingly fine orchestras, too. It is up to us to remedy this in a practical fashion, and I believe that these Washington men are going about it in the right way.” It really looks as though the dream of many Washington mu- sicians stands a chance of coming true in the near future. The ef- fort on the part of these 80 Wash- ington musicians, by their actu- ally getting into action co-opera- tively on this plan, deserves the limit of supg}a and good will on the part of Washingtonians. St. Alban's Quartet Sings At Country Club Today | THE st. Alban's Quartet, composed o Beatrice Seymour Goodwin, soprano | and director; Marie Koontz, contralio; | Granville Leef, tenor, and, Fred Schae- fer, bass, will present the program at the Congressional Country Club today |at 5 pm These WlfllTht hour musicales, given | in the Pompelian room of the Country | Club, are keenly anticipated by. the | members and their friends, |~ This quartet has received great com- mendation wherever it has appeared for its fine ensemble singing, as the | voices seem to blend unusually well Besides the quartet numbers, each sing- | er will give a group of salos. | - * ok k¥ | | ? |Heifetz Wil} Play . ere January 25 ASCHA HEIFETZ, world-famous vio- | | linist, is announced as the fourth attraction of Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Sat- |urday evening concert series at Consti- | tution Hall, at Eighteenth and C streets, Saturday, uary 25, at 8:30 p. Mr. Heifetz will be assist | Achron at the piano. Hurxrunm will | open with “Sonata in F Minor" (Tre- | mais). Anothi interesting number | will bé a concerto by Tschalkowsky. | Selections by Mendelssohn, Elgar, Strauss and Honeg as well as a composition by Heifets himaself, are | listed on program, which closes | with Hubay’s “Scenes de la Csarda.” So]die;n' Home Orchestra, 'HE orchestra of the United States Home Band (John 8. M. . The first program also is te in-| ) i D. C. Organists’ Program. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 12 1930—PART FOUR. SINGERS WHO WILL APPEAR IN CONCERT AND OPERA THIS WEEK DubLeEY MARWICK- ; Dutchman* i3 Tke Flin Polis 9( 70es) American Opera Comes A Week From Tomorrow ONI week from tomorrow evening— Monday, January 20, at 8 p.m.—the American Opera Co. will open a “sea- son” of opera in the English language at Poli's Theater. This company of young Americans twice before has cap- tivated Capital audiences with opera in their own langu As previout Mrs. Wilson-Greene will sponsor the local appearance. In keeping with its policy of present. ing at least one native opera each sea son, the Americans will open their third annual Washington season with the first presentation in this city of the new American opera, “Yolanda of Cyprus.” with book by Cale Young Rice and music by Clarence Loomis, A total of four operas will be given. CHARLES HEDLEY As Lieut. Pinkerton. ‘Tuesday evening, January 21, at 8 pm., “Mme. Butterfly,” Puccini's exquisite opera of America and old Japan, will be given, with Cecile Sherman as Cho- Cho-San and Charles Hedley as Pink- erton. “Faust” is announced for Wednesday evening, January 22, at 8 p.m., and “Carmen,” with Bettina Hall, will be presented at a matinee perform- anee the same day at 2 p.m. Emphasis is placed on the fact that | the librett! of these various operas have been carefully revised order to in- | crease their “singability” in the English languay while another outstanding feature of American opera perform- ances is the stress that is laid on the dramatic interest as well -as the music of the performance. Natalie and Bet- have the soprano leads in the four operas to be presented, are youngsters barely out of their teens, while the supporting - company - creates with its youth & dramatic realism that is amazing. LT "Peer Gynt Suite” Arranged - For Woman's Chorus AMONG the numbers o be sung by the Rubinstein Club at the first con- cert this season, to be held at the Wil- lard Hotel Tuesday, January 21, at 8:30 pm., will be three selections from Grieg’s immortal “Peer Gynt Suite,” arranged for women's voices by Victor Harris, ‘Two_other numbers of interest are “The Four Winds,” by David Stanley Smith, and Shelley’s arrangement of the famous flower song from Puccini's opera, “Mme. Butterfly. T the meeting of the District of Co- | lumbia Chapter, American Guild of Organists, held at Epiphany P. E.| Church last Monday evening, Lewls Corning Atwater, dean of the chapter, | presented a variety of interesting IEI-; tures, Mrs. J. Horace Smithey, ist ve brilliant in- terpretations in a brief organ recital of “Allegro and Scherzo,” “First Symphcny” (Magquaire), and “Canzone in A Minor” (K Eler She was followed by S. Edwin Moore, jr., A..A. G. O, organist-director at Epworth M. E. Church_South, who played with conservative taste and novel | effects “Benedictus” (Couperin), “Pray- | er” (Roparts) and “Legende” (Clokey). | The Madrigal Singers gave a group of | carols, traditional and modern, delight- | fully. One, a.soprano selo, was sung| by Elizabeth Waters. Another was the composition of Mrs. John Milton Syl- vester, registrar of the chapter, who also | directed, gave explanatory notes and | companied the singers. A plan was inaugurated to present a gift to the member drawing the lucky | number. T. Guy Lucas, organist and choirmaster at St. John's P. E. Church, | | was the fortunate winner this time, Growling enthusiasm and appreciation | Zimmermann, leader, and Anton Point- ner, assistant) will give three ‘concerts, as usual, Tyesda: ursday and Satur- day afterngons at 5:30 o'clock in Stan- | ley Hall, program will, as usual, | combine classic and lighter numbers, mark the reports of assistance rendered | | by this eh.g:er to churcl and musi- | cians who have been brofght together | in congenial work and #hose mutual needs-have thus been met through the medium of the chapter. | phosphorescent. | soliloquy, “The Term I= £nded.” tina Hall and Cecile Sherman, who will | she Nina VeLEz DANSEREAU- 11:15 o’clock at t! 4:30 pm. MONDAY. TUESDAY. “The Flying Dutchman,” by Wagner, at 2 pm., at ‘WEDNESDAY. Beniamino Gigli, tenor, and Mme. Nina Verez-Dan- sereau, soprano, in joint morning recital, at he Mayflower, SATURDAY. Cleveland String Quartet, at Library of Congress, at BenAMINO GiGLI- EVENTS OF THE WEEK Lucrezia Borl, soprano, song reeital postponed. Poli’s Theater, by the German Grand Opera Co. “The Flying Dutchman” to[S! Be Sung Here Tuesday. ;TH.I story of “The Flying Dutchman,” ‘Wagner's opera that closes the brilliant season of the German Grand Opera Co. in Washington with a mat- inee Tuesday at 2 o'clock, is one lovers of, legend know, but Wagner has treated it in such a stirring man- ner t it holds charm in the.reading as well as in the stage drama with its musie. The curtain rises as a storm is rag- ing—told with Wagner's forceful over- ture. Senta’s father is just bringing his ship to anchor, the scene/is on the coast of Norway. He is weary after his long struggle with the sea and leaves the ship to the steersman, who, to keep himself awake, sings a ballad to the south wind—that is to bring him home to his beloved. It is a lovely tenor song given by Alexander Larsen. man’s fearful ship with its spectral crew, whose faces are pale and eyes ‘The Dutchman, alone on his phantom ship, sings_:he f ous lor this is the sailor, a Dutch captain, who once tried to double the Cape of Good Hope in the teeth of a furious gale, and swore he would accomplish his pur- pose, even if he kept sailing on for- ever. ‘The devil heard the oath and condemned the unhappy captain to sail the sea until the day of judgment. He is permitted to come on land once in seven years, in the hope of finding the Jove of a faithful woman, which love | will release him from his fate. This time has again arrived. He tells it in this aria, strange music, half rec- itative, imaginative and wonderful. It telis of his hope of salvation. A night or so ashore, then another seven years to roam the sea throughout eternity. Daland, the. father of Senta, appears on the deck of the other ship and is astonished to see the strange craft. He wakes the steersman, and the two hail her. The Dutchman asks for a night's ter, for which he offers a generous sum. On hearing that the captain has & fair daughter, he FW marriage, & proposal that is left to the choice of the girl, Senta, though the gold has been a lure to her father. A wind Act. 1. ‘Women in Daland's house await his arrival, singing, laughing, chatting among themselves. They sing the famous “Spin: Chorus,” with its light tripping melody and its whirring springs up, and the boats set sail for| ‘harbor. accompaniment, like the steady rote of the uplnn!n!l wheel. Senta sits aloof, inattentive, her eyes fixed upon a fanci- ful rtrait of the legendary Flying Dutchman. The girls tease her, saying her lover, Eric, will be jealous. She asks that they cease the “Spinning Song” and let her hear the ballad of “The Flying Dutchman.” Since they refuse, she sings the ballad herself, the im, fantastic, terrible “curse” motive, reaking like a raw sea wind into the warm homelike atmosphere. The wind itself wails in fierce chromatics. Then | comes the salvation theme of woman's | love, one of the tenderest and most | melodious phrases in music. Her lover returns for a brief time; them Senta is left alone. ‘The door opens suddenly, and there [ | and they remain in awed silence. Da- 1and is delighted, announcing the pro- posal of marriage of the Dutchman. Love, in Wagner's entmnelns music, triumphs, and the couple are le: strange, half mystic rapture. Act TIL ‘The finale is more festive. ship is gay with lanterns. The cre is making merry over a safe voyage home and the wedding to be. things to eat. hey call once more. Then suddenly the sea rises, the air grows icy cold, a singular glow {llumines the strange ship. Her crew appear, misty, spectral flflx;l and begin a sepulchral chant. Di yed, the Norwegians cross them- selves and flee, followed by devilish laughter. The lights burn blue and die upon the stranger's decks and the ship and her crew disappear into the darkness. A tender farewell between Senta and Eric follows, which the Dutchman sees and misinterprets. He cries out, “All is lost—farewell,” declaring his identity, finding another woman false, and rushes to his ship, whose sails unfurl to a wild refrain of the crew, and the ship once more sets forth upon its endless quest. Sents, in wild exultation, rushes to ‘d‘:’!;t"m , “I am faithful unto in ‘Wagner apotheosis—can be seen the forms of the Dutchman and his eternal bride. The curse has been resolved by the love of woman. one true BORI RECITAL POSTPONED. Lucrezia Bori, celebrated soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Co., Who was scheduled to appear here in concert at Poli’s Theater tomorrow afternoon, un- der the local management of Mrs. Wilson-Greene, has been forced to postpone her program owing to a se- vere cold which has made it impossible for her to sing for the next week or | longer. This information was given Mrs, ‘Wilson-Greene by telephone from Bal- timore late Thursday night by Maud Winthrop Gibbon, Bori's personal man- ager, who stated that a cold which the singer contracted just before a concert appearance in Richmond last Wednes- day night had necessitated a complete rest for 10 days at least and that it had been necessary also to postpone the concert scheduled for Baltimore last Friday evening. Mrs. Wilson-Greene stated that as soon as officials of the Metropolitan Opera Co. could be consulted concern- ing Bori's operatic appearances in New | York it was expected that another date for her Washington concert could be | arranged, at which time tickets for tomorrow's concert would be valid. “THE FLYING DUTCHMAN"— Tu y. “The Flying Dutchman,” Wagner's gripping opera of a heroic sea legend, first produced at the Royal Opera’ company here with a Tuesday matinee, at 2 (sharp), at Poll's Theater. T. Arthur Smith is presenting this com- pany. The cast will be: Der Hollaender (the Dutchman), Richard Gross Daland Erie Steersman. Sent. Mary. elena Lanvin Two choruses, one of maidens for the famous spinning chorus, and the chorus of sallors, make this an opera larger in ensemble. Ernest Mehlich, noted conductor from Baden-Baden, conduct. Dresden, January 2, 1843, closes the| season of the German Grand Opera T GIGLI-DANSEREAU RECITAL— ‘Wednesday. Beniamino Gigli, leading tenor of the Metropolitan Grand Opera Co. of New York, and Nina Verez-Dansereau, & soprano new to Washington, will give | lower Wednesday. Signor Gigli is one of the great fa- vorites in the National Capital, as else- where. He is generally considered the successor of the great Caruso. Mme. Dansereau, the wife of the young _pianist, Hector Dansereau, heard here a couple of seasons under Mrs. Townsend's auspices, will make her debut locally in this program. She has a brilliant record in opera, having sung in opera houses in Nice, Cannes, Deauville and Monte Csrlo in the roles of Manon, Juliette, Mignon, Micaela and Sophie, he program will include: Gigli— Deél Mio Dolce Ardor,” Gluck, and air, “O_ Paradiso,” from “L'Africaine.” Mme. Dansereau— “Je Suis Encore Etourdie,” from “Manon,” and “Batti, Battl,” from “Don Giovanni.” Gigli— “La Reve,” from “Manon,” and “In the Silence of the Night,” by Rachmanin- off. Mme. Dansereau—"Mi Chiamano Mimi,” from “La Boheme.” Duet— ISOI\'E Fanclulla,” also from Puccini’s, opera. Mme. Dansereau—"Connais-tu |le Pays” from “Mignon,” and waltz | song from “Romeo et Jullette,” Gounod. Gigli—"Elucevan le Stelle,” from “La osca,” and “Vesti la Giubba,” from “I Pagliacei.” Miguel Sandoval will be at the piano for both artists. 3 CLEVELAND STRING QUARTET— Saturday. The Cleveland String Quartet will present a program in the chamber music auditorium of the Lil of Congress Saturday at 4:30 p.m. rey Lee At , ac chief of the musie division, has announcsd this eoncert and that the reservation of seats will be | handled, as ysual, through T. Arthur Smith. » The members of this quartet are Josef ! Fuchs and Rudolph all, : T "0 | | | | stands the Flying Dutchman of her | dreams. The eyes of the pair meet, | Daland's | a song recital at 11:15 a.m, at the May- | nterpretive ATHARYN PROST, i b | { { | | ft in a, and Priday, at 7:30 pm,, Smith Studio School. two days each time. playing. Mrs. Frost desires as with the bulwark of all going on to the real KATHARYN FROST. talks” that open this week, Thursday Talks On Piano Literature planist, who was Katharyn MacNeal of this city before her marriage, is offering some- thing unique in 10 “interpretive music at the King- Mrs. Frost comes from the North once each month, for The serles will] cover a period of five months, giving a glimpse into vital facts in music besides informal and delightful piano her audience those who love music and who desire to enrich their background that this pleasure may be quite an open book to them. Her process seems different [from the average lecturer. She starts music, Bach, romanticist, Chopin, then to Schumann. Her pro- gram will add much of the moderns— the while she touches on nationality, type, even definitely on form, have been Mrs. Jessle MacBride. Park o A man. ington, Hotel. Americas.” ists. assisted by Fellan Garzia, “distinctly America; Gemez, violoncello, will assist at the Mozart's “St a) Major" - (K. 428; 1783), Rieti's “Strin, written in l'fi. ey Among the moderns to be given in| her series, after Liszt and Moszkowski | , are Debussy, Pizzetti, Malipiero, Prokoflev, Milhaud, Castel- nuovo-Tedesco and Poulenc. Frost is being presented by She recently opened a series in the home of Mrs. Marshall Fleld, 3d, in New York City, and will play in other drawing rooms. at 5 Mrs. Frost is guest of honor,| through the courtesy of Mrs. Edwin B. at the musicale of the Y. W. t which Mrs, Parker is chair- Sunday :Western Worié Music For Arts Club Ball; HE music of the Western World, from earliest times to the present day, will play & prominent part in the: presentation of the “big stunt,” always an outstanding feature of the annual ‘Bal Boheme of the Arts Club of Wash- ‘This year the “bal” will take its brilliant place in_the Washington | season the night of Monday, January, 27, opening at 10 o'clock at the Willard | It is called “The Ball of the| The feature, to be known as the “Masque of the Adventurers,” will be a | colorful stage revue of the centuries, | translated to the Willard ball room an presented by hundreds of the city's art- | William ¥, Baker is director, with Caroline McKinley in charge of dance | features, and Marle Moore Forrest as| irman of the committee on music, Emma Prall Knorr and Sophocles T. Papas. | Colorful American music is being ar- ranged with the Meyer Davis Orchestra | by Mrs, Forrest and her committee, and | it is rumored that even the heretofore famous “March of the Wooden Sol-| dlers,” which in the past has been the accompaniment of the floor committee entrance on the night of the Bal Bo- heme, will this year be changed to a march, _— Carlton Cooley, viola and Victor de e Sl no in the final num- ber, Ernest Bloch’s “Quintet for Piano ;:’\;’ Strings,” which was written in The two preceding numbers will be Ting Quartet in E Flat and Vittorio F Major,” Bits of Life in Opera Careers “A Race for Home” ONI night about five years ago I was to sing with the Chicago Opera Co. in Pittsburgh. It was the final T | formance of their season there. ord had come to me from my New York home in the late afternoon that I was needed there urgently. From their| babyhood when my children fell il or| anything was wrong I canceled every- thing and sped to them. Quick consultation of the ume-uble‘ showed that a train left at 11:30 p.m. for New York. The opera of the eve- | ning was & long one, Verdi’s “Aida,” in which I would be needed up to the fall of the last curtain. Would I get| through in time to catch my train? Arriving at the theater, I at once questioned those in authority. They | encouraged me, saying that on the road | opera intermissions were always shorter, and that the scenery, being lighter, | could be more quickly changed. Know- | ing the circumstances, every one was sympathetic. Terribly anxious, I went out on the stage, determined to smother gnawing fears and sing my best. I had a woman friend in Pittsburgh, my Nrmghu. who as wonderfully efficient. had at once telephoned her of the situation. After the big ensemble in the second act she came behind the scenes. Her first words made my heart sink. The opera, late in beginning, was falling be- hind time schedule. ‘What she added gave me hope. Get- ting into communication with an official of the railroad, he had promised her to hold the train five minutes, maybe more. What I did not know in that moment, however, having reached the theater at 6 o'clock, was that a blizzard begm at 8, and heavy snow had been fal on ice-covered streets, where cars bound for a railroad station or any other point were skidding. That intermission lagged; so did the next, I grew wildly anxious as I went out for the “judgment scene” in the fourth act, which I so loved to act and sing. There were calls when the curtain fell, but my colleagues took them with- out me. It was 11:20 o'clock. The rall- road station was 2 miles away. Tear- ing to my dressing room, a coat was %h::wdn over my Amneris costume, and Half way down the stairs, my friend met me. “I hope,” she cried, *“th storm won't block up. I couldn’t stop nature, but I've got man going.” She had. Six policemen met us at the stage door. My friend’s car by some miracle appeared out of the awful tangle of parked and arriving vehicles and slid Great Work of Cherubini To Be Given Today THE New York Soclety of the Friends of Music has revived for perform- ance this afternoon another great choral work which will be a novelty to New York's concert-going public—Cheru- | 's “Requiem Mass in C Minor,” for | LOUISE HOMER. up at the curb. Snow-blinded, &lmost upset by the wind, I was pushed in. She followed. The race began. [, And it was a racel Clogging.snow lay on a sheet of ice. We slid, we stalled, we skidded.' But our erfl:s frozen. Wearing the Egyptian sand of Amneris, I was barefooted. My, cos- tume was flimsy chiffon. Nothing.mai tered. I would get off for home. Never before did I realize the fedlings of a queen. ‘There on the platform stood an array of officials in waiting. ‘Twe grabbed an arm each and carried rather than led me as my friend waved In a dra room com| ent I caught sight of my face. It horrified me. In trying to rub off the make-up dnrlnf our plunging race I had red the black hudh\';l on my enhchofi and the black beneath until I looked fke a savage in war paint. my costume was led, my' feet were sooty, Amneris' raven wig (which 1 still wore) hung wet and scr: I wondered that they had let me d at all. But that was nothing. Revolu- tions of the car wheels were slhging “Home, home, home!” B (Copyright. 1930.) a Musigraphis R. AND MRS. ALDEN will present a recital of violopcello t chorus and orchestra. Search |and piano music before the membérs of able records back ta 1900 reveals | the Friday Evening Music Club st the no previous performance of this music | meeting this week in Barker Hall.“They » by any of the city's concert organiza- | Will be assisted by Gertrude kyons, :}om.uur.hough it has been sung occa- | soprano. onally at the Oburch of St. Mary the |y, gopvis TWells, who has been , d | ch‘:rr?nu,m PaumsBeI i :1:.15‘ lll:L has reco:erhcd md‘ ;‘ul res;x:rfl:; ‘Today' ! g, both at her residence,. e ek i eces, Auditortum | ) hley terrace, in Cleveland PATK, and will include “Djvertissement,” by Domen- ico_Cimarosa, for viole d'amour and | & her studio.in the New Kensifigton, | harpsichord, which will be played by Fourteenth and Clifton streets. ' She | two of the’ world-renowned 't’:-.;’:gnuil{;m 8t ‘the lmtter ‘place” Tueadays. | 1 1 Old Instruments “Society—Henri .Casa- sdays and. Fridays, - During her | de founder. of the group, 'l,‘ll;uh has | lllness Mrs. Wells' classes were ,| | Just arrived in New York for an Ameri- |0y Alice Burbage Hesselbach and Mary ‘Tarbell Kenestrick. Felicia Rybler has issued cards an- nouncing an hour of music and a re- ception at 1635 Nineteenth streefeat 4 o'clock next Sunday._afternoon. - She will present Eleanor Blum_and ‘Eleanor Hul in the program. Flor- ence Yocum, District of Columbia win- ner of Atwater Kent auditior, will be guest soloist. , MissRybier leaves later this month for a concert tour in Florida. She will return early in March. i Elena de Sayn announces that-Alice Eversman, who has aris, France, for some time, has returned home for a brief visit, and is ding special classes for 10 weeks in Wash- ington, beginning January 20. ‘While can tour, and Mme. Regina Patorni- Casadesus. Artur Bodansky will conduct the | Cherubini requiem, which will be. sung by the Friends of Music chorus, trained | by Walter Wohllebe, the orchestra being that of the Metropolitan Opera. PR iy S Maxim Karolik's Recital. MAXXM KAROLIK, Russian tenor, will give a first formal song re- cital in Washington, Friday afternoon, January 24, at the National Theater. He is an artist of broad experience in { Russia, as well as recent successful con- | cert appearances in Boston and other cities. Hé comes as an exponent of songs that are complete dramfs, such as Chaliapin made his own. It is Russian _characteristic, undoubtedly. In |Abroad Miss Eversman wrote ‘a series Boston, Mr. Karolik was praised by thi |of diction exercises which were set to Transcript for a vital tenor voics at. | MUsic by Gabriele Lapierre. taining “almost Western standards of = A vocal quality. One says ‘almost.’ For | The Washington Conservatory of there are dark and somber qualities in | Music, Inc., announces through its pres- that voice which the Westerner knows |ident, Ernst Wiladimir Ladovitch, the not, which he can only assume must | eDgagement of Signor Angelo Liguorl somehow have their roots in the lan- |Of Naples, Italy, as head of its vocal guage which is native to the singer.~ | department. Signor Liguor! has taught Mr. Karolik, besides the Russian opera | the art of bel canto for 17 years, includ- repertory with “Pique Dame,” has in |ing opera. Signor Liguori will give au- his repertory “Carmen” and “Rigo letto,” | ditions mornings and afternoons at the His program here holds much that is | Washington Conservatory of Music, at unusual and represents a fine culture. | 1408 New Hampshire avenue, Dupont circle, where he will teach exclusively. Besides songs of Rachmaninoff, Bala- kirev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, he | There is no charge for the voice trial. This -afternoon at 5 o'clock 1 All will sing Debussy, Duparc, Chausson; also Pizetti, Cecconl, Casella, gouls‘ Cuhu{mhu.il:r::‘k '.Sll!eemh and o == arvard streets, Lew water, organ- The Marine Band Dates. (i, xil, preseit x' program ét-sarly THE United States Marine Band, Capt. | Helen Howison, soprano, who will .u.i Taylor Branson, leader, and Arthur | “Le Vieux St. Jean,” by Wachs, and Witcomb, second leader, will give three | “Ariette,” by Gretry (1771). Mr. Ate concerts this week. water will play numbers of Couperin, Tomorrow & band concert will be |D'Aquin and Rameau. 3 played at 4 p.m. Wednesday an orches- —— ‘Warren P. Johnson will give an n tral program will be given at . » et e P | recttal at th Chureh of the BagIes Friday a second orchestral concert wi be given at 3 p.m. All three progra at 7:30. o'clock this evening. He. will play “Marche Pontificale,” from *“Pirst will be presented in the barracks audi- Symphony,” Widor; - “Capriccia,” by torium. 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