Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1930, Page 58

BY HELEN FETTER. PEN your mouth and sing! This is, in effect, what singing teachers have said £ to pupils since time im- memorial. Yet between this sug- gestion and its complete fulfill- ment lies the entire technical gamut. of vocalization. As many famous poets have written from time to time, the aim of all art is to appear natural. However, it is the essence of natural beauty and not natural gaucherie that is this aim. It is the same thing as the seeking of a.crystal to suggest the clarity of water, but the crys- tal is sought to suggest that clar- ity without any of the ugly alien objects ‘that may be found in most water. A Washington singer, . Royal Mcllveen, -has just issued a little booklet in which he sets forth his | own particular theories about the art of singing. He says in the first paragraph: “Why are there so few ‘natu- ral’ ‘singers these days? Is it not bBecause voice teachers have so many pet theories of their own that they lose sight of the fact that singing is a perfectly natu- ral act and not something me- chanical, to be produced by hold- ing the diaphragm so, pouting the mouth such and such a way, or placing the tone on the tip of the | tongue, or some other such fool- ish idea?” ‘Later he suggests: “The acme of perfection in the technique of vocal art is to_be able to sing mentally - and forget about the physical control, of which there should be none. Singing is psy- chological!” The writer then takes up the points of relaxation, mental control of song text and later : of the music, the open throat and other subjects familiar to: 8]l students of singing, dis- cussed from Mr. Mcllveen’s point of view. g The difficulty with any one the- ory or set of opinions is that, al- though'it may appeal completely to one studerit of voice and prove that singer's practical inspiration, it may be totally alien to the chojogical make-up of another would-be singer. ‘Each individual must wander around mentally in search of his or her own particu- lar- experience in bringing about that state of mind when the light dawns full blown on these stand- ardized facts for singing correctly. He or she must feel the right- ness of his, own production en- tirely aside ‘from the suggestions of the finest teacher in the world. Once that is accomplished, the student has a chance to become a real singer, and in time will give his audience the benefit of his own convictions by actual per- formance that seems perfectly natural. There could hardly be a better example of this than Rosa Pon- selle, who had a beautiful voice | t; from birth, but who did not learn the art of becoming a real singer until even after she had had her first appearances on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. * &k x ‘HERE 'is a charming young singer:who ‘appeared here in recital last week Who is in & most interesting stage of developing into an artist. Emma Otero has a beautiful coloratura voice. She , obviously, has the real Yyearning to sing. Hers is not an academic, analyzing way of pre- senting songs. She seems to put her thought, merged with emo- tional power, into her interpreta- tion of each song, achieving the effect of sgontaneity and joyous- ness. At the same time, to a stu- dent of the art of singing her tilting of her head downward so as to throw her high notes cor- rectly into the proper place for best head resonance, her relaxed | jaw and other little significant gestures show her to be acquiring | the art consciously. | * ¥ % % T seems to the writer of this col- umn that Marcella Sembrich | mentioned the one absolutely nec- essary requirement for the devel- opment of a real singer. She said, in a short autobiographical sketch | written recently for the magazine | of the Curtis Institute of. Music: “I began at once to study the piano under Epstein, violin under Helmesberger and voice with Ro- kitansky. When the year was over, it was clear to me which gath 1 most longed to pursue, for keenly realized that with my voice I could express more elo- quently my reverence for the art that filled my soul. Few realize | how much hardship, discipline and self-denial I had undergone, struggling with poverty that hampered me throughout my years of study; but, in spite of all obstacles, I never knew discour- agement, always having felt an inner conviction of attaining my goal.” * * % ¥ THIS is a particularly interest- ing period in which to live, from many points of view. seems unusually interesting from the point of view of singers—past, present and future. Quite a clus- ter of the most brilliant stars known to song history have re- cently cascaded down the path of human existence and passed on into the unknown again. There are many connoisseurs who have set up loud wails and lamenta- tions because they believe that the golden age of singers is past. Perhaps so. Probably not. Lili Lehmann and Emmy Des- tinn were singers of titanic stat- ure vocally. They belong to the small group that includes the late de Reszkes and Caruso, who might well be lamented as leaders in their fleld, just as Mozart, Bee- thoven, Schubert, Brahms and other departed composers led in the field of composition. Mme. Frances Alda and Mme. Amelita Galli-Curci, as well as Geraldine Tarrar, are other op- eratic stars of perhaps not such magnitude, but each with a very definite individual place in the operatic sun, who have said fare- well to that form of vocal art to turn all efforts into other concert and radio channels. Even Mar- ion Talley, the youthful coloratura who was perhaps a victim of too- organized pushing for her own -, good, had her place for a few years in the twinkling operatic firmament. She now goes to bed with the chickens on her model |farm back home in the Middle West. ‘The art of singing is Polng on, however. Rosa Ponselle, who sings here this week in a concert program, is one of the outstand- ing young American singers and is showing marked development in the inner requirements of that art each time she is heard. John Charles Thomas and Richard Crooks are other young artistic singers of this country. The ra- dio is finding daily young people with the real temperament and personality, as well as beautiful voices, to be developed. All this, however, takes time. Surely it is reasonable to assume, with the increased and more nearly per- fected instruments for recording voices and allowing singers to | hear themselves and judge their }own faults more accurately than any teacher could ever tell them, | that ‘in time there will be more | great singers to carry on the royal mantle of their art down through the coming ages. It so happens that at this present time this lit- tle moment in the eons of: exist- ence—that it is a mechanical age, and great singers do not seem to have been born to blossom within these few years. The interested re- searcher can find other similar periods. For instance, in records of the period when Greece was at its greatest power one finds the names of sculptors- but not of singers. A At the present time the names of mechanical fienlusea are house- hold words all over the world, rather than the names of artists. There is one very young instru- mental artist, however, whose name is close behind. He is Ye- hudi Menuhin. Who knows but what some singer will join. that distinctive group without a mo- ment’s notice? * % % X N PHILADELPHIA recently Os- sip Gabrilowitsch, the Detroit | - | musician who is conducting the Philadelphia Symphony- concerts while Mr. Stokowski is on leave, gave a short speech expressing his own attitude in the matter of ap- plause as a method of apprecia- tion of effort. “Ever since I have been in Phil- adelphia on this visit the gues- tion most frequently asked me is, ‘May we applaud?’ . “Now,” said the condu quoted in of Brothe: ctor, as a newspaper of the City rly Love, “I want you to get away entirely from that idea of ‘may.’” This statement is reported to have been greeted with loud ap- plause, led by an eminent Penn- sylvania jurist, “When I took the baton for the present series of concerts,” con- inued Mr. Gabrilowitsch, “Mr. “Stokowski agreed I should play, do and say whatever I pleased. I am not, in this instance, speak- ing for Mr. Stokowski, who, in the political parlance of the day, is| conducting a noble experiment in the matter of applause.” Mr. Gabrilowitsch is said to have agreed that applause by the beating of hands together is a crude form of approbation. He expressed the hope that perhaps Mr. Stokowski and the Philadel- phia audiences could work out some better way. “But, at pres- ent,” he added, “it is the only way we have.” pared the attitudes of various “respectable and dignified city,” and adding: “When the orchestra plays there it there is nothing to be said.” The implication evidently was that the Capital was conservative in showing appreciation, for he continued, “but when we play the next night in Baltimore, you ought to see the difference. “These men of the orchestra are artists and they need apprecia- tion. It is a mistake to think you have done your part when you buy your tickets.” He then gave his current au- dience full permission to applaud when music pleased them and hiss when : it- didn’t. ‘A considerable portion of that audience arose, at theh su%‘gesuon of a woman in one of the front seats, and gave Mr. Gabrilowitsch a vote of thanks. The latter requested that when Mr. Stokowski returned the audience give him such a recep- tion he never again ‘would dare make a speech against ap- plause at orchestra concerts. And all this happened in the home town of Ben Franklin, right under the shadow of Independ- | ence Hall, in this “land of the free.” | e |Flora McGill Keefer ‘Gives Concert April 4 RECOONITION seldom accorded to an artist in her own city is coming rapidly to Flora McGill Keefer, one of ‘Washington's outstanding singers, be- cause of her increasing success in con- cert work here and in other cities. Mrs. Keefer, who made her first formal concert appearance in National Capital last Winter with splendid success, will be heard in her second Washington concert April 4 at the Hotel Mayflower, under the auspices of Mrs. W -Greene. A distinguished list of sponsors and patronesses for the event includes men and women well known in official, dip- lomatic and social life in the Capital A Chamber M.usic Program Arranged for Next Sunday MXNNA NIEMANN, pianist; Herman Rakeman, violinist; Frank Frost, viola player, and Ludwig Manoly, violon- cellist, will present a plx:mnm of cham- ber music at Gunston 1 next Sunday evening at 8:15 o'clock. ‘The music to be ted will in- clude: “Trio,” first movement, opus 55, Lazarus; “Quartet,” by Mozart: “Inte mezzo in C Major.” Brahms: tion in D Flat Major,” Lisst. F Minor,” Dohnanyl, and Espana,” Chabrier. Faculty Recital. THE Washington College of Music will present Sara Becker, planist, and Romeo Guaraldi, baritone, both mem- bers of the college faculty, in a joint recital at the college Friday at 8:15 p.m. ‘This will be the fourth of a series of faculty recitals this season. Students and their friends are invited. Mr. Gabrilowitsch then com-|Mr: cities, describing Washington as a |y, Flnys well, and|" 0 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 16, 1930—PART FOUR. ZIMBALIST- [More Than 160 Singers Are Enrolled for lgeltivil 'WENTY-THREE church choirs and 22 choral clubs throughout the city and in nearby Maryland and Vir- ginia already are represented in the personnel of the newly organized Wash, ington Choral Festival -Association. The first rehearsal was held Tuesday, conducted by Frederick Alexander, who will' come to the cit; once every month from now until May 7, when the big choral festival will be s at the Belasco Theater as the feature of Na- tional Music week in the Capital City. In addition to the groups represented Tuesday there were perhaps 25 or 30 independent singers, not affiliated with any musical group, making in all a total of mo.e than 160 singers already registered. The association has been ofganized for “the promotion of better choral music” in Washington. The second rehearsal will be held Tuesday, February 25, at Thomson Community Center, Twelfth and L streets, with Kurt Hetzel conducting in the absence of Mr. Alexander. Baltimore Pianist Plays Program Here Tonight CHARLES COOPER. “PROGRAMME INTIME" is sched- uled to be presented tonight at 8:15 o'clock at the King-Smith Studio School, New Hampshire avenue at 8 street northwest, Mr. and Mrs. August King- Smith sponsor the appearance .of Charles Cooper, planist of the Peabod; Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. . Cooper has become a guest in- structor this season at the local school ‘The program tonight will include aydn's “Vl;huom Minor, N y T Opus 5, in F Minor,” by Brahms; & noc- turne, waltz and etude by chcp;:: “Reflects dans I'Eau,” by Debussy; ‘‘The Beautiful Blue Danube,” trauss- Schultz-Evler arrangement. Hetzel‘Lectur.en Tomorrow On Orchestral Conducting URT HETZEL, well known Wash- ington pianist and conductor, will give a lecture under the auspices of the Junior League of Washington, at the Willard Hotel, tomorrow, at 4:30 o'clock, his subject being “Richard Wagner and the Modern Orchestra Conductor.% The lecture inaugurates a series of events scheduled for Mondays through April 14, The proceeds will go toward the league's hospital fund, which, though not coming under the <Com- munity Chest budget, is in the nature of an endowment and is & department that is to be enlarged, managed and run by the Junior League under the supervision and co-operation of the hospital. How "Jimmy:' Melton Got His First Opportunity "Y!B. ma’am, you'll see the Revelers in person during this program. ‘The quartet appe: several times, Jim- my Melton and all’ Thus uniformed ushers in the New York studios of the National Broad- casting Co. reassure visitors on Wed- nesday nights. Thursday nights are quite_as busy, just before the Seiber- ling Singers go on the air. “Just a few minutes longer, sir. James Melton will be the soloist, s0 you can't miss him.” James Melton will sing here Febru- ary 28 as featured artist in the benefit ;;lmgrnm for the Children’s Emergency ome, ‘Two years ago “Jimmy” Melton was unknown, ambitious young_ singer, fresh from college. He “haunted the offices of the Roxy Theater, patiently returning time after time, in spite of repeated rebuffs. At last he threatened to sing at the top of his lungs up and | in_more dignified fashion. The bluff worked. Erno Rapee, the unapproachable, finally appeared and listened attentively. The youngster was hired. B — Gifili‘ Here February 28. BENIAMINO GIGLI, leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Co., will be presented in concert at Poli's Theater rflaz afternoon, February 28, at 4:30 o'clock. This will conclude Mrs. Wil- son-Greene's artists’ course of concerts at that theater. or Gigli will be assisted by Mar- garet Shotwell, pianist. The tenor will be accompanied by Miguel Sandoval, in & program that will open with the fa- mous aria from Donisett{’ sere Al “Luiss. Miller. Miss Shotwell's selections by Albeniz, Y ‘Taussig, Lisst and Strauss. | 1 down the hallways and corridors unless | some one consented to listen to him ”Consfifufion Hall-(7zes) ROSA PONSELLE- MUSIG A COSTUME program of Spanish| music is announced for the current | meeting of the Friday Morning Music| Club in Barker Hall at 11 am. Mary Ware Goldman has arranged the pro-| gram which is to include piano numbers by Mary Alexander, songs by Clelia Pioravanti and guitar selections: by Sophocles T. Papas. John Prindle Scott, distinguished song writer, is in Washington again on' his annual Spring visit, having arrived | here yesterday. A program of his com- positions is to be presented Mareh 5, at | Foundry M. E. Church, under. the di- rection of Hazel Ferrell Adalr. Elena de Sayn announces a students’ | | recital to be given during the first week of March at her studios, open to the | public. ‘Warren F. Johnson will give an organ | recital at the Church of the Pilgrims this evening at 7:30 o'clock. | He will play, Chorale-Prelude: “We All Believe in but One God,” Bach;| “Pantomime,” H. B. Jepson, and “Finale, | from Second Symphony,” Widor, Savona Griest presented a group of students of plano and voice in a recital in her studo recently before a large, appreciative audience. ‘Those taking part were: Betty Kirk- man, Jean Swann, Clarence Adams, | Kathleen Pearce, Winifred Smith, Margaret Menze, Joseph West, Rachel Merritt, Hilda Ball, Elizabeth Ahern, Joyce Cafferty, Mary Alice and Marion ichael, Mary Elizabeth Tinsley, Lilllan Pruitt, Sargh Kirkman and Ruth Creagger. “Breaking the Classic Bounds” is the subject of the lecture to be given to- morrow by Maud Sewall in her series of 5 p.m. Monday talks given at the Institute of Musical Art. Schubert and the romantic composers will be dis- , also further expansion by Wag- ner and Liszt and Richard Strauss. Lillian TFairchild Jesso, coloratura soprano, a native of Jamestown, N, Y., LOCAL MUSICIANS | | Minnie CLIPKER- EMERSON- WH’EN the National High School Or- chestra, that fascinating juvenile orchestra of boy and 1l musicians from all parts of the United States, makes its bow to Washington in con- cert at Constitution Hall Saturday eve- ning, March 1, under management of Mrs. Wilson-Greene, it will have a ‘Washington girl as piano soloist, and le | three members of the orchestra will be students drawn from Washington high schools. ‘The Natiohal.High School Orchestra comes from the National High School Orchestra and Band Camp at Inter- | thropies. These latter are a general NATIONAL HIGH ORCHESTRA. Ny ; T // . MAnT N . CHARLES AMERICAN PRIMA DONNA AND TWO MUSICIANS IN PROGRAMS THIS WEEK Miska MERSON- [/ Polis - (ned) RAPHS has returned to_her home town for several weeks. She sang a program of operatic selections before the Mozart Club of that city last night. Mrs. Jesso spent one year in Wash- ington when she appeared in'a number of - programs, including some with the United States Navy Band. At the 11 o'clock services this morn- ing at All Souls' Church (Unitarian) Flora McGill Keefer, mezzo-contralto, will sing “The Prayer Perfect,” words by James Whitcomb Riley, music by Ervine J. Stenson, Washington com- poser. “I Waited for the Lord,” - by Mendelssohn, will be sung by Mrs. Keefer and Charles Trowbridge Titt- mann. This service will be broadcast by WRC. At 5 p.m. the organist, Lewis Atwater, will play a program of early English music. Mrs. Keefer will assist and will sing “Nymphs and Shepherds,” by Pur- cell, and an ode by Ben Johnson, “Have You Seene but a Whyte Lillle Grow?” to an air of the early seventeenth cen- tury. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock announces that a concert will be given at her home the evening of March 6, at 9:30 o'clock, for the benefit of two philan- hospital and small orphan asylum for Russian exiles in Sofla, the capital of Bulgaria. Maxim Karolik, tenor, who is residing in this city, is donating his services for this event. He will arrange and an- nounce the full program at a later date. ‘The Lovette Choral Club and member soloists will give a program at the ball of the California State Soclety in the Italian garden of the Mayflower Hotel Thursday night. Secretary of the Inte- rior Lyman J. Wilbur will be the guest of honor. In addition to the State song of Cali- fornia, the club will sing “My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair,” by Haydn; “River, River,” Chilean folk song ar- " (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) CONNECTED WITH Cook- lochen, Mich., to which come the cream of high school musical talent from all parts of the United States. Not one of these boys and girls is more than 20 years of age, and their presence in the East is explained by the fact that they will come to Atlantic City the last week | in February to play before the depart- ment of superintendents of the National Educational Association, which will be holding its annual meeting at the sea- shore at that time. While in ‘the East they will play a short series of concerts in New York, Mayflower(7xurs) Histo: of Instruments Used by Stradivarius Quartet. 'HE “Titian” Violin (1715).—This violin, popularly known as the “Ti- tian,” is, more correctly speaking, the ex-Comte de Sauzay of Paris. It re- mained in the possession of the De Sauzay family for many years, but finally passed into the hands of the well known Berlin dealer, E. Lachmann, from whom eventulll;olt ‘was purchased by Mr. Zimbalist, who used it in his concerts until it passed into the Wur- litzer collection, ‘The “Spanish” Violin (1723).—In re- gard to the Spanish violin, according to the Hill certificate, this has been in the Partello collection since 1895 and then went to Mr. Petersen in San Fran- cisco. ‘This instrument was in the pos- from 1780 to 1800. It was stated then that it was made of spruce of the choicest selection. The “Lord MacDonald” Viola (1701). —In Hill's book it is stated: “We now come to probably the best known exam- ple of the violas—that named the ‘Lord MacDonald.’ .. It was brought to Eng- land at the end of the eighteenth cen- tury by the Marquis dalla Rosa, and was subsequently successively owned by Lord MacDonald, Mr. Goding, the Vi- comte de Janze and the Duc de Cam- poselice. A record in our possession, made a century ago, gives the date as of the year 1701, but at some later time the last two figures were clumsily al- tered to read 1720.” The “Vaslin” Violoncello (1725).— “La Belle Blonde” is a magnificent spec- imen. The vicissitudes which this vio- loncello has experienced are, if rumor may be trusted, rather extraordinary. M. G. Chanot, sr., violin maker in Paris, during an excursion to Spain happened to see the belly of this bass hanging up with other odds and ends in the shop window of Ortega, a fiddle mender in Madrid. Chanot, who at a glance ap- preciated its value, went in and bought it for about 40 francs. He asked Ortega where it came from and Ortega replied that he took it from an old vicloncello which & lady of rank residing in the neighborhood of Madrid had sent to him to be repaired. As there were so many cracks in the belly, he had sub- stituted for it a nice new one of his own making. Chanot carried the belly away with him to Paris and placed it among the treasures of his shop. There it was seen some time after by Luigi Tarifio, an enthusiastic Italian collector, who was charmed with it and bought it from Chanot for 1,000 francs. Hav- ing ascertained that the violoncello to which this fragment originally belonged was in the possession of a lady living near Madrid, Tarifio at once set out to Spain. Now the lady, when she became aware that a gentleman had traveled a long way to look after her old bass with a vlew of purchasing it, thought, of course, that it must worth a great deal of money, and therefore said that she had no wish to sell it; she would, however, give it to him for 4,000 francs. Tariflo was only too glad to pay the sum, and having secured the bass, he carried it triumphantly to Paris. The first thing he did was to have the new belly removed and the old cracked one reinstated. = After its restoration M. ?nhy bought the instrument for 20,000 rancs, Soldiers’ Home Orchestra. IE orchestra of the United States Soldiers’ Home Band (John 8. M. Zimmermann, leader, and Anton Point- ner, assistant) will give two concerts, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 5:30 o'clock, in Stanley Hall. The pro- grams will, as usual, combine classic and lighter numbers. York concert will be under auspices of the Juilliard Musical Foundation, while at Philadelphia they will be sponsored by the Philadelphia Civic Music League. The Washington concert will be spon- sored by Senator A. H. Vandenberg of Michigan and Mrs. Vandenberg, whose daughter, Elizabeth Vandenberg, will be the piano soloist at the concert here. ‘The three Washington members of the orchestra will be Minnie Clipker, vio- linist, 16 years old, who graduated from McKinley Manual Training School re- cently as concert master of the school orchestra; Charles Cook of Central High, who plays the bass viol, and Mar- tin Emerson, trombonist, also of Central. Minnie Clipker, the girl member of this trio, has been a violinist since the age of 9, and even as far back as her Columbia Junior High School days she was concert master and soloist of the | school orchestra. Entering the McKin- ley Manual Training School at the age of 13, she became a member of the second violin section, under Dore Wal- ton, and on her recent graduation at the age of 16 she was concert master of the “Tech” orchestra. Minnie has also been assistant concert master of the Americanization School Orchestra and a member of the Jewish Community Center Orchestra. She plans to study orchestral conducting at Peabody Insti- tute in Baltimore. Charles Cook of 1761 Euclid street graduated from Central High School last June as one of Central's most accom- plished bass viol performers. In addi- tion to his high school playing he has had three years of professional work. Martin erson, the trombonist, has belonged to numerous musical organi- zations, including the Washington Boys' Independent Band, one of the best bands of its type in the country. He is also a member of thg orchestra, band and brass ensemble at Central High School, and is director of music for the Town Players, one of Washington’s leading amateur dramatic organizations. Ludwig F. Manoly, instrumental su- pervisor of bands and orchestras in the Washington schools, is taking a promi- nent part in the preparations for both the ‘ashington and Atlantic City cvents, having been made chairman of the orchestra committee for the Atlantic City concert by Prof. Maddy and Wal- ter Damrosch. ‘The Washington concert will offer a program of exceptional classicism, open- ing with Tschalkowsky's No. 6, the “Pathetique, Grieg's “Concerto in A Minor” and Bloch’s much-discussed symphony poem, “America.” Music lovers and musicians are ex- pected to be extremely interested in this event. The receipts from the concert will be given to the Interlochen (Mich.) camp to_carry on the work there of Prof. J. E. Maddy, organizer and musi- Philadelphia and‘Washington. The New cal ', .Who also will conduct the Wi ‘concest. seasion of the governor general of Cadiz | Famous Cellist to Conduct New Symphony Orchestra ANS KINDLER, celebrated cellist) and conductor, it is announced, will conduct the second concert of the newly | organized National Symphony Orches- | tra at Constitution Hall Friday after- | noon, March 14, at 4:45 o'clock. Frank J. Prost, president of the National Sym- phony, has just completed arrangements with Mr. Kindler, who appeared Feb- | ruary 7 in Washington at a Library of Congress concert. This announcement, it is said, signal- izes a new policy on the part of Wash- ington's new symphony orchestra, whereby guest conductors of national and international reputation will occupy the conductor’s stand at future con- certs of the orchestra, which made its initial bow to the music public of Wash- ington at a concert at Constitution Hall January 31. g The =~ orchestra managément also draws attention to the fact that the sec- ond concert will not be held February 26, as previously announced, owing to the fact that more time is needed for the preparation of certain important symphonic work, which the National Symphony expects to give at its next performance. | Although Hans Kindler is best known |as a concert cellist, he has had wide | experience with the baton, particularly | abroad in Rome, Milan, Vienna, Prague, Paris, Brussels and elsewhere, including | conducting experience with the Phila- | dflrhh Orchestra in Philadelphia, \ni which organization he was, for a time, first ceilist. EVENTS OF the Library of Congress, at 4:45 TUES! The conducting, with Zimbalist as 4:45 pm. at 4:30 pm. STRADIVARIUS QUARTET— Tomorrow. ‘The Stradivarius String Quartet of New York will give its first program in Washington at the Library of Con- gress tomorrow at 4:45 pm. The event will be held in the chamber music auditorium of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. The Stradivarius Quartet was organ- ized by Alfred Pochon, second violinist af the now disbanded Flonzaley Quartet, dbout the time that that organization was making its farewell tour. Formal announcement of the new organization was made May 9, 1929. The members are: _ Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin; M. Pochon, second violin; Nicholas Moldavan (also of the Flonzaleys), viola, and Gerald Warburg, violoncello. The program tomorrow will “String Quartet in F major, opus 18, No. 1,” Beethoven: Petite Suite (from “Pictures at an Exhibition™), Moussorg- sky, and “String Quartet in C minor, opus 51, No. 1,” Brahms., PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA— Tuesday. Ossip Gabrilowitsch will conduct the final p! im of the Philadelphia Sym- phony Orchestra in Washington Tue: day at 4:45 p.m. at Constitution Hall. Efrem Zimbalist, violinist, will be the soloist. Instead of the “Pifth Symphony” of ‘Tschaikowsky Mr. Gabrilowitsch has substituted the beautiful “S8ymphony in D Minor” of Cesar Franck. Mr. Zim- balist will play Tschalkowsky's' “Con- certo in D Major,” and Liszt's “Hun- garian Rhapsody No. 2" will be added to the program. This concert is presented under the auspices of T. Arthur Smith. ROSA PONSELLE—Wednesday. Rosa Ponselle, American dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Co. ranked by critics as an outstanding soprano of concert and opera, is making her only concert appearance in Wash- ington this season at Poll's Theater Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. She is pre- sented by Mrs. Wilson-Greene as the fourth attraction of the philharmonic course. Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, HANS KINDLER. Composers like Bloch, Schoenberg, Busoni, Ornstein and others have writ- ten works for Kindler and dedicated them to him, The National Symphony Orchestra is under the concert management of Mrs, | Wilson-Greene. THE WEEK MONDAY. The Stradivarius String Quartet, in debut program here, at pm. DAY, Gabrilowitsch soloist, at Constitution Hall at ‘WEDNESDAY. Rosa Ponselle, Metropolitan prima donna, in recital at Poli’s THURSDAY. Julia Schelling and Miksa Merson in all-Liszt program in Itallan Garden, the Mayflower, at 4:30 p.m. Miss Ponselle will be accompanied at the piano by Stuart Ross, who also will play solos. The Ponselle program will open with the aria, nume tutelar,” from Spontini’s opera, “La Vestale,” one of the soprano's outstanding orntle mum‘rhs at the Metropolitan. It will Include the cavatina from Verdi's Trovatore,” “'Twas Night and All Around Was Still”; “Quell ruscelletto” (Pletro D. Paradies), “Gretchen am Spinnrad” (Franz Schubert), templation” (Chat filles de Cadix’ Message” (Rhea Sl i ingale” (Ward Stephens), in's Slumber Song” (Max Rej Homage to Spring” (Alexander Mac- Fayden). Mr. Ross’ piano selections will include Beethoven's “German Dance No. 1.” the Schubert-Liszt com) ition, “Du bist dje Ruh,” Chaminade's “Etude de Con- | cert” and Tschaikowsky's “Theme and | Variations.” ALL-LISZT PROGRAM—Thursday. Julia E. Schelling, lecturer, and Miksa Merson, pianist, will appear in a Joint program at the Mayflower Hotel in the Italian garden Thursday at 4:30 pm., The music played and the sketches given by Miss Schelling all will concern the life of Frans Liszt. Miss Schelling is very well known here. for entertaining lecture-recitals. She also is noted as a writer on mu- sical subjects. Her brother, Ernest | Schelling, is one of America's outstand- | ing composers. Miss Schelling will in- | clude vivid account of events in the romantic life of thre sketches, to be entitled, “Love,” “Death” and “Immortality.” Mr. Merson, who is himself a Hun- garian and a pupil of one of Lisat's greatest pupils, Emil Sauer. will play he following compositions B “Sonata in B ‘Minor” (which Wagner is said to have called “Liszt's greatest composition and one of the greatest | compositions ~ ever created for the plano”), “Consolation in D Flat,” Schu- bert'’s “Erlkoenig” as transcribed by Liszt, “Sonetto 104 del Petrarca” and “Hungarian Rhapsodie No. 9" (Carnival of Pesth). r) and Toscanini Conducts Here In Program March 4 THE New York Philharmonic Sym- phony Orchestra brings the famous genlus conductor Arturo Toscanini to ‘Washington Tuesday afternoon, March 4, under the auspices of T. Arthur Smith. After 30 years with La Scala, Milan, Arturo Toscanini resigned from that fa- mous opera house last Spring in order to devote most of his energy to his work as conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Be- operatic achievements in Italy with added laurels from Berlin and Vienna, where he presented La Scala Opera Co. in brief seasons of opera. —_— American Composer's Works Featured in Two Programs TWO concerts in the Eastman School of Music's composers’ series will be given February 21 and March 6. Each has a program in prospect of special significance. February 21 there will be given first performances of Randall Thompson's new symphony and a “Concerto for Horn, Piano and Orches- tra” by Mark Wessel, Mr. Thompson is the latest winner of the Guggenheim fellowship and rep- resentatives of the Guggenheim Foun- dation will hear his symphony at this concert. Mr. Wessel, formerly of the music department of Northwestern University, has just returned from Vi- enna, where his concerto was composed. March 6 Dr. George W. Chadwick, director of the New England Conservae tory of Music, will be guest of honor of | the school. Half of the program for that concert will be devoted to perform- ance of works of this distinguished vet- eran among American composers. Of | special interest will be the playing for the first time of Jr. Chadwick's new his student days, now rewritten and published by the Eastman School, Dr. fore leaving, however, he crowned his | version of “Rip Van Winkle,” a work of | E: Chadwick’s “Symphonic Suite” also will be played, and the Chadwick Club, an organization formed in Rochester se eral years ago in honor of the com- poser, will sing three short choral numbers. Schubert Choral Club Announces Concert Soloist JUTBON RYDER, baritone, of New York, will be the sololst for the Schubert Choral Club at its last eve- ning of music, Wednesday, April 30, in the gold room of the Hotel La Fay- o‘;‘m. according to announcement just ued. Rehearsals of the club are held each Monday night in its studio, at the In- stitute of Musical Arts, at 7:45, and any one desiring to become a member is advised to communicate with the audi- tions committee, Mrs. Emily Dickinson, Adams 1367, or Mrs. Chariotte Lippitt, Atlantic 1108, immediately, as the :lhl: for this season will be closed with first rehearsal in March, . Calgary Folk Festival Has Twenty Immigrant Groups CADGARY. Alberta.—Twenty Canadi- an immigrant nationalities will take part here in the forthcoming folkdance, folksong and handicraft festival to be held here from March 19 to 22. This marks the third consecutive “Great West” festival to be sta within as many years in the pra rovinces. Impressed by the value of the immi- grant’s personal gifts to the Dominion, Premier Brownlee of Alberta invited the Canadian Pacific to stage the affair at Calgary so that the native songs and dances of the cowboy and the frontiers- men might be added to the cultural factors that are shaping the character of the new Canadian. The aff: kind of costume pageant of all nations, is under the musical direction of Harold ustace Key, and will have the co- operation of the Alberta branch of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild. STUDIOS OF WALTER T.HOLT School of Mandolin, Guitar and , Hawaiian Guitar d Ukulele Est: od 1804 [ ble \‘ b the N 1801 Columbia Rd. N.W., Col. 0948 Concert by Students and Symphonic Orchestra of the Institute of Musical Art At Vermont Ave. Christian Church Vermont Av: TUESDAY, A | Public Cordi - BESS WASHINGTON HERMAN'S SCHOOL OF U810 Piano, P! - Al T N LIGUORI of Naples. Iial {'The Sinsing Massire Who Sines" Artist p lr in 18 e i onee Teaching_Baclusively at the ington Conservatory of Music w o) Washi r{‘ D g LT TR AT E‘I‘ll PIANO PLAYING JAZL FiANo. PLAY SA)gaPHONE. BANJO, GUITAR A SLSicsSuiture. Pisno and Harmogs o ris T ipet, Ukul Bt Orchesira Trainase send for Basklet C’hfllcua.l'é;hnl of Popular Musle