Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1930, Page 60

Latin Americ an Composers| Werite for Service Orchestra 'HE United Service Orchestra, which '™ was organized three years ago from musicians in the orchestras of the Army and Navy Bands to play exclusively music from the New World, has been augmented by musicians from the Ma- rine Band Orchestra. It is possible to make this organization the largest or- chestra in the world, as there are 250 musicians in_the three service groups stationed in Washington. The orches- tra, however, for the present will con- sist of 100 musicians. The leadership will be divided among the three con- ductors—Capt. Willlam J. Stannard of the Army Band, Lieut. Charles Benter of the Navy Band and_Capt. Taylor Branson of the Marine Band. A spe- cial program has been Erepnred for rendition by the new orchestra at its first appearance, at the Pan-American Unjon the evening of April 21. Leading composers of Latin America, appreciat- ing the special honor paid to them by the creation of th's musical organiza- ton, have sent their latest compositions for use in this “premiere” night. Of the seven compositions to be rendered by the oichestra, three of them will be played for the first time in any land and four will receive their first rendi- tions in the United States. ° Among the numbers to be given will be “Danza Salvaje,” an aboriginal dance by Luis Delgadillo, composzr-pianist of Nicaragua. Senor Delgadillo is recog- nized as one of the foremost students of the ' indigenous music of the Latin American lands. Alberto Alvarado of Mexico, composer of the “Yaqui Dance,” has provided the new orchestra with a symphonic divertissement, ‘“Corazon Latino” ¢Latin Heart), which is con- sidered one of the most impressive num- bers that has yet reached the United States from Latin American sources. It will be played for the first time. Justin Elie of Haiti has sent his latest composition, an evocation, “Night in the Andes.” Humberto Allende of Chile has provided the orchestra with a tone poem, “La Voz de las Calles” (The Voice of the Streets). Pedro Traversari of Ecuador, director of the national con- servatory of music of his country, has composed especially for the United Service Orchestra_a symphonic lyric legend, “Espiritus Incaicos” (Spirits of the Incas). Carlos Gomes, the great Brazilian composer of the opera “l! Guarani,” the overture of which 1s known in every land, had other operas to his credit. His grand fantasia from the opera “Lo Schiavo” (The Slave) has been arranged for grand orchestra and will be played for the first time at this concert. The Minister of Colombia to Wash- ington, Dr. Olaya Herrera, has been elected President of his country, and a new composition, a pasillo, has bzen composed in his honor by Hernando Rico of Colombia. This selection will be played in honor of the new Presi- dent, who will be present at the concert. An assisting artist will be Manuel Salazar, the Cosia Rican tenor, who 1s now with La Scala Opera of Milan, Italy, and for five years was with the Metro= politan Opera Co. of New York. Senor Salazar will sing a Latin American pro- gram. Luis Delgadillo, internationally known pianist-composer of Nicaragua, th2 other soloist, will play a number of his own compositions. Both artists have appeared in all of the musical centers of Latin Amcrica as well as in the capitals of Europe. The importance of this pan-American concert has been recognized by music critics of leading newspapers in the East, and a number of them will be present. A Spring Program Tuesday For Twentieth Cenmry Club FLORENCE HOWARD and her Tues- day Evening Music Club will give the program of the final meeting of the music_section of the Twentieth Cen- Yfiu’]}i Club Tuesday morning at Barker ail. ‘This last meeting has always dwelt on the theme of Spring, with its sun- shine and flowers, Mrs. Howard has chosen music from the sunny countries around the Mediterranean for her pro- gram, ‘The choruses will include “Dansons ‘Tous, Chantons Tous,” by Rameau; ex- cerpts from the “Feast of Hebe,” “A rilli,” by Caccini, “Santa Luci a) the “Nymphs' Song.” Neapolitan folk songs; “Down by the River,” French folk song and the “Cigarette Girls” chorus from Bizet's “Carmen.” Solos will include old troubadour songs, opera arfas from Jacopo, Peri, Masse- net and Bizet, and songs from the lit- erature of Alvarez, Francesco di No- gero, Dalcroz and Debussy. Soloists are Marjorie Brockett, Frances Tucker, Helen Neumeyer, Ina Holtzscheiter, Helen and Enid Willlams and Lillian Llewellyn, -~ Donna Taggart is the accompanist and also will give a brief talk on the use of the castanets. Mrs. Walter Hilton is acting music chairman of this section Mrs. L;nier A;\in Heads The Friends of Music EW YORK, N. Y.—By unanimous vote at the annual meeting of the New York Society of Friends of Music, Mrs. J. F. L. Lanier was again elected wesldent. and Mrs. Marius de Brabant, illard V. King and William M. Sulli- | van, vice presidents. Other officers and the board of directors remain as before. Mrs. Lanier thus resumes the active residency of the society which she founded in 1913, a position which she held continuously until last Fall, when she resigned, becoming honorary presi- dent. In the interim there has been no president, William M. Sullivan having acted as executive vice president. Mrs. de Brabant, the new vice presi- dent, is the daughter of the late Sen- ator William A. Clark and a sister of William A. Clark, jr., patron of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Sullivan presented to the annual meeting, March 10, held at the home of Mrs. Lanier, No. 123 East Thirty~ fifth street, a report of the society's work for the current year, pointing particularly to the great increase in the audiences at the Friends of Music con- certs, over previous seasons. The financial report showed a favorable out- look for next season. Plans for the 1930-31 season, with Arthur Bodanzky continuing as conductor and musical director, were discussed. An announce- ment of these plans will be made in the near future. —_— Marine Band Orchestra. 'HE United States Marine Band will ! give its usual three concerts during the coming week. The concerts will be held in the auditorium at the Maripe Barracks, under the direction of Capt. ;aylgr Branson, leader of the Marine and. The dates are Monday at 4 p.m., bagnd concert; Wednesday at 8:15 p. chestral concert; Friday at 3 p. chestral concert. ‘The feature of the Wednesday night concert, will be the “Symphony Concer- tante in G Major, Opus 31,” by Delphin Alard, for two violins, with orchestra accompaniment. The soloists are An- drew Bodnar and Delbert Allen. e ., or= Thomas Lovette's Music. 'A COMPOSER known and admired in ‘Washington, the late Thomas 8. Lovette, was represented in.a recital composed entirely of his works, man; in manuscript, arranged by Eva Whit- ford Lovette-Lowe and given at Pierce Hall the past week, in the music salon of the International Association of Art and Letters. Thomas Lovette was a Welshman, and though he had the cul- ture of study in Germany, where he won @& five-year scholarship at the Leipzig Conservatory, and a long resi- dence in this country, his music bears the unmistakable imprint of his native land and of England, his near neighbor. Lovette belongs to the romantic school of composers, though he has excelled in the realm of sacred music. A chorale and a baritone solo from his sacred cantata “God's Kingdom” were in the mold of a Handel, with dignity of declamation and elways a nice use of the -voice. Melody eminently to works, & melody that is never trite. One finds it ringing out like an aria in the right hand of & piano “Nocturne,” with a rhythmic col in the mpelling left, making it a notable work that nry S. Gregor played with warmth and a forceful gradual climax. In his songs one found a folklore spirit of Wales. They held pathos, or again a ballad quality akin to the Irish. Then there was the art song, amon whuhsln menottmxze, “l'rhe Clue] oflt D% was significant lor and m as_sung by ~l.‘3n' Wdord Lovette. “Thrope <. Love” was yet another sacred work that was vital and alive. One might offer Tibbett the of ;h“’l'h hich bined ity llow, W] com] a grim realit with a lyric mood that should Ifll-k!‘t useful to a dramatic baritons. One work for violin “Un Petite: Ro- manze,” played most thetically by | Paris and Jirs, Louis Robertaon, was well adapted to the instrument, with depth of tone, form, and an enticing touch of in at the close. An adaptation for of “All Through e Reaper,” from a poem of Long- -~ EarPl'lOne fol' Deaf Attending Opera Here ALTHOUGH grand opera it rather well established as to its traditions, the forthcoming season of the Metropolitan Opera Co. at the Fox Theater here, April 23, 24 and 25, wil introduce some- | thing new—something that even the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City cannot offer its patrons. That is the group of especially equipped scats in the theater which, through the dium of head sets, make it possible for patrons whese' hearing is defective to hear the talking pictures regularly pre- sented at that theater. These sets will bs available to those | attending the three operas to be offered | by the Metropolitan. The mechanical equipment of the sets will be switched to the “public address” system of the | theater, which will carry each of the famous singers’ voices through the wires to the head sets. These sets are so | adjustable as to make it possible for the | patron to control the volumse and adjust them to individual desires. i Ten seats in the mezzanine of the Fox Theater ar: so equipped at the present. It is planned to increase this number during the coming weeks so' that when the Metropolitan Co. comes next year every request for this added service will be fulfilled. Mrs. Wilson-Greene, manager of the ‘Washington Opera Association, Inc., sponsoring the opera season, has stated that never in the history of previous musical events in Washington has the response been so wholehearted so far in advance as the present instance. This indicates the extent to which music lovers will respond in the Na- tional Capital when conditions for the presentation of the operas are propi- tious. It is said that there will be a “diamond horseshoe” arranged at the Fox. Arrangements have been made to convert the right and left seats of the mezzanine into a series of boxes. These boxes have already been booked by many soclety leaders. Elaborate plans are being made in reference to the handling of traffic on F street for the three nights of the season. Inspector Brown of the Traffic Bureau and Mrs. Greene have had several con- ferences in this regard and a whole | corps of uniformed members of the in- | spector’s department will be on hand to facilitate the movement of cars and to avoid the slightest delay to-those at- tending the performances. News cameramen have already made application to be permitted to make flashlight phot iphs as celebrities ar- rive for the performances. ‘With every phase being so carefully worked out, indications are that the forthcoming season of opera will b “outstanding,” even in a city that is accustomed to “outstanding events.” s Interpretive Music Talks. ATHARYN FROST'S next pair of “Interpretive Music Talks” at the King-Smith Studio School will be given April 17 and 18 (Thursday and Friday) at 7:30 pm. A morning series also is being preserited at 11 a.m. on the same days at the Women's University Club, 1634 I street northwest. A pair of talks in May will complete the series. Mrs. Frost is presented by Jessie MacBride. Katharyn Prost brings something vi- tally new in her talks on music, which she illustrates brilllantly at the piano. Her elucidation of Pizzeti, after that fascinating Italian geuunlllty in music had been in Washington, proclaimed him, after all, a man of the opera, a phase of him we have not known. She played a selection of his from his opera, N Pisanell: “Dance of Poverty t Lot deep pitched, Oriental, Yet always an element of churchliness comes throug in Pizzetti’s music, with lyric moments likg the older Italians. Katharyn Frost is definitely a “current event” in music. —— Junior Coneert Postponed. TH! District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs wishes to announce a change of date for the final concert of the junior series from April 12 to April 26, at 8 pm,, in the auditorium of the Department of Interior, Nine- teenth and F streets northwest. An ambitious program is being pre- pared, consisting of two numbers for two pianos, two violin solos, a piano solo, a group of Stephen Foster songs, also a group of Spirituals, an ensemble number, a sextet of singers and a glee club group. ‘The public is cordially invited. Its co-operation is essen in in| forward the junior work of the federa- tion, as one of important aims of the serles is to accustom the students to performing before an audience. Mary ‘Ware Goldman, chairman, under ‘whose o hlvu‘\nen arranged this season, plan for a series next year, that more junior mem- bers of the federation may have op- portunity to participate. e Roland Hayes, April 20. OLAND HAYES, famous Negro 'f:."'flr'fln 3078t 8:30 i lock, {4 ven! 3 ), af i o'cl af the. Belasco, Theater. ded to “Negror - reached young ‘was invited to appear the historic Colonne Or- chestra. Then Vienna and Berlin were conquered. His singing became the talk of z whm"be returned to America great audiences awaited him in city after ‘The glt]. He 8] backgrounds, for it was written an i 4 "3:"»":&»‘3’.3““ who or ‘Academy ol htutte I Tomaon, 0 " Qa0 By Boston, del&l:h ties. his sixth tour Roland_Hayes try, THE .SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 6, 1930—PART FOUR. A NEW. BARITONE AND A POPULAR CELLI ON LOCAL PROGRAMS ROBERT DIETERLE! Universit anlJbl-'){ “To Magnify Music” DR. ALBERT HARNED. “TO magnify the ministry of mu- sic” is one of the special functions of the new Universalist National Me- morial Church, according to its minis- ter, the Rev. Frederic W. Perkins, D. D. This new ‘“national” chuch will first be opened to the ‘public next Sunday, Palm Sunday, in its handsome struc- ture at Sixteenth and § Streets north- west. Special musical services will be held there, to include Easter and the dedication Sunday, April 27. Dr. Albert W. Harned is director and organist. The National Capital Choir of 30 voices is the official choir of the church. They will not only give the music at the morning services, but will render great compositions of sacred music_at the vesper services at 4:30 each Sunday afternoon. In addition, distinguished guest organists will play from time to time on the Hutchinson memorial organ, the gift of the widow of the late Charles L. Hutchinson of Chicago, who was one of the charter members and an incorporator of the Carnegie Institute here in Washington. Dr. Harned has been an important figure in Washington music since 1913 through his organized choruses and his | church work as choir director and or- genist. Born in Philadelphia, Dr. Harned'’s organ studies began when he was a child, under the noted blind or- ganist David Wood, and he played in a number of churches of the city of his birth, From 1892 he combined the study of mechanical engineering at Le- high University with the study of organ under Hugh Clarke of the University of Pennsylvania. His bachelor of music degree was received in 1896. Vocal music then began to interest him, and the young engineer started a study of the vocal mechanism that included research work under the emi- nent Dr. S. Wier Mitchell of Philadel- phia. In 1903 he went abroad as a representative consulting mechanical engineer, and while there continued his research work along vocal lines, study- ing with some of the best known teach- ers of the world. Dr. Harned’s engineering is also recognized in the field of building. His latest work along nce n his h | line is in connection with the new g‘l‘e':t organ being installed in the Universalist Nr:uontl Mgemorill Church, He is a life member of the American Soclety of Me- chanica! Engineers, the National Press Club, the mficm Guild of Organists and is a Shriner. The National Capital Choir, under Albert W. Harned, has taken an out- standing position in both local and ns- tional music circles. The choir will sing Maunder’s sacred cantata “Olivet to Calvary” Palm Sunday for the vmr service at 4:30, and on Easter Sunday the vesper service will lnclud:" part 2 of Gounod's “The Redemption. The soloists are Irene Koehl and Alicegene Graves, SODranos; Jessie Mas- ters (assistant director) and Marjorie Soper, contraltos: Eugene Dahl, Lynn GlllehrestAlnd !::dln RB:‘:{!T. tenors; anui,n and Ardis Atkinson, assistant € | organist. ic Rehearsal No Pul:hi::or Be::l.x Festival ANNOUNCEMENTS have just been made of the final ents for | scripf the Bach. i';uvfl mm Me- morial Church, Lehigh University, Beth- e e fgal rehearsal of the “Mass in B Minor” will be held Sunday after- noon, May 11, be(lnnm, at 3 o'clock. The final ;ee‘hurul nm: .ttha ten can- tatas, never before , wl’l?‘ take n&m‘l#omg evening, May B i ear: there Will be no public rehearsal. o tide '{t‘xsd:, ‘Wednesday o 'gu!'esflvll .m., standard ;'“'; 17, 1:30 and 4 pm., ~ 16, 4 and Sa s stan time. All Contributions For “EASTER CHURCH MUSIC” Must be Sent, Typewritten, To the Music Editor, The Evening Star, Before EVENTS OF 1 NATIONAL SYP#PHONY ORCHESTRA y. The third and final concert of the series of three announced by the Na- | tional Symphony Orchestra of Wash- |ington _ during the late Winter and early Spring of this year, to demon- strate the proficiency of its personnel | and to stimulate the project of a sym- phony orchestra for Washington, will | be given Tuesday afternoon, at 4:45 o'clock, at Constitution Hall. Hans| | Kindler will conduct. [ Mr. Kindler, widely known as con- cert cellist and guest conductor, will be recalled as the conductor of the Na- tional Symphony's second concert, at Constitution Hall last month, on which occasion he scored an emphatic artistic success. Mr. Kindler started rehearsals of the National Symphony at Constitution Hall last Wednesday morning, and already he has thoroughly drilled the sonnel in the Wloéeemt program_se- ‘Egmont’ opening selection, followed by Tschai- kowsky's Shak rean fantasy, “Ro- meo and Jullet.” A brief intermission will follow this number, and the pro- gram will be resumed with two of Brahms' Hungarian dances, Nos. 5 and 6. Maurice Ravel’ ind Ar- Jarnefelt's m' The Wagnerian overture to “Rienzi” will close the program. The concert is managed by Mrs. Wilson-Greene. Young Mexican Soprano In Concert April 14 NEW voice to Washingjon audi- ences, that of Senorita Aurelia Co- lomo, Mexican coloratura soprano, will be heard in a program of songs at ‘Wardman Park Theater a week from tomorrow, April 14, at 8:45 pm. This young singer has been studying in Washington for \several years. This program will be her public debut. She will be assisted by Eleanor Colborn, planist, and Susan La Perle, whistler. Senorita Colomo herself will sing three groups of songs and glve an origi- nal Oriental dance. Her first group of songs will be favorite Spring songs, her second group comprises songs of Latin America and later she will sing | air “Un bel di,” from Puceini’s “Madam follow. | 1 the | day afternoons at 5:30 o'clock, in Stan- Butterfly,” and Ardit{’s “Se Seran Rose.” Local Pianist THE ‘Washington planist, Frances Gutelius, has just returned from Boston, where she attended the six- day Brahms festival. Miss Gutelius has written the following from her im- pressions gained at the festival: “Johannes Brahms, the great classic- romanticist, born in Hamburg in 1833 and died in Vienna in 1897, was hon- ored by a six-day festival of his mu- sic by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and as- sisting soloists the last week of ,March Boston. “As_the center of the controversy over his music, first aroused when Schumann hailed him as Beethoven's Tecopmise, 1% "Him w5 apostic of the an apostle of the music of the future; when Europe was divided between romanticists and clas- sicists, each eager to welcome him to their camp, Brahms maintained the even tenor of his way, content to work as best he might, and with little regard for the opinion of his cotemporaries. “One of the outstanding works to be heard (because of the proportions of the performers necessary for its pres- entation) was ‘A Germ: Requiem,’ in six movements, sung by Jeannette Vreeland, soprano; T lange, baritone, the Harvard Glee Club, Rad- the course werful music. PO"n ‘was not until the age of 43 that A From Brahms; Festival THIS WEEK THE WEEK TUESDAY. ‘The National Symphony Orchestra, Hans Kindler conduct- ing, will give the third concert at Constitution Hall at 4:45 p.m. THURSDAY. Robert Dieterle, baritone, and Malton Boyce, pianist, will give a joint recital at the University Club at 8:20 p.m. DIETERLE-BOYCE RECITAL. Thursday. | Robert Dieterle, a baritone new to| ‘Washington, and Malton Boyce, len-‘ ist, will give a joint recital at the Uni- versity Club Thursday at 8:20 p.m. Lewis Moneyway is directing the con-| cert. | Mr. Dieterle, who has come to Wash- | ington for special psychiatric work at | St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, studied \'oicei at the University of Michigan under | Theodore Harrison. He held the Theo- | dore Prescer scholarship for several | years and was soloist of the university glee club, which he accompanied on three transcontinental trips. He ap- peared on seven May festival programs in Ann Arbor and was soloist variously | under the direction of A. A. Stanley, with the University Choral Union, and Frederick Stock of the Chicago Sym- phony Orchestra. In Munich he studied German lieder with Countess Johanna von Bottemer. He recently returned from Germany, where he gave recitals in Munich and Vienna. This will his first recital since his return to_America. Malton Boyce, long established here as pianist and organist, needs no in- troduction. He has a record of bril- nt study and experience in Germany and in England, especially in Oxford, preceding his residence in Washington. Dr. Dieterle will sing three groups of songs. The first, old Italian, includes works by Durante, Scarlatti. Secchi and Sibella. The second, German li der, includes songs by Dvorak, Rubin. stein and Schubert. The third opens with an unusual song by Oliver King, a setting of “Israfel,” by Edgar Allan Poe. There also are songs by Frederick Keel, John Alden Carpenter and Bruno Huhn. Mr. Boyce will play a group of Chopin numbers and a second group of works by Palmgren, Weber and Liszt. Soldiers’ Home Orchestra. THE orchestra of the United States Soldiers’ Home Band (John S. M. Zimmerman, leader, and Anton Point- ner, assistant) will give three concerts, as usual, Tuesday, Thursday and Satur- ley Hall. The program will, as usual, combine classic and lighter numbers. Returns FRANCES GUTELIUS. once repelled, they now only add a e ous syyphonies. wers. piayed m four sym| were of festival. ‘Liebeslieder Waltzes," for pi- delightfully g “gnr ‘were . . Davison, conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, and G. Wallace Wood- worth, conductor of the Radcliff Choral Society, and small chorus from these organizations. Brahms wrote to publisher, Simrock: ‘The waltzes must appear as they are. * * * I hope it's & composition for house music and will b gy ur hear | Europe for the . | hour at each of his “Mme. Ma! dous ovations at his " ‘] concertos and a group of pieces, and also in ma?fimuc or plano and strings in P , with the Burgin Quartet. Hewu.dedmly.mficw:uo!m ap] B . Margaret Mal uer, at the top of her powers, also was accorded hearty appreciation when she sang & m‘g of four songs and the alto- solo in the rhapsody from Goethe's ° - reise im Winter,” for alto solo, male -CONDUCTOR WHO WILL APPEAR DOROTHY RADDE EMERY. OWING to increasing demands on her time as business mamager of the Capital City Choristers, Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee, who has been acting for this organization in the dual capacity of director of music and business man- ager, will give up the former position and devote her time exclusively to the securing of engagements for this group. Dorothy Radde Emery, who has been acting as accompanist, has consented to assume the musical jeadership of the club. In the short time that Mrs. Emery has been in Washington she has proved to be a capable musician in capacities including pianist, teacher, conductor and composer. These attainments, com- bined with an attractive personality, make her an asset to any organization. Helen Clark will be assistant con- ductor. Miss Clark is a concert pianist, and a member of the Pianists’ Club of Washington. She is now director of the junior choir of St. Margaret's Church, and though quite young has made a definite place for herself in local music circles. Commencing with last Monday's meeting the future headquarters of the club will be the studio of Hester Walker Beall, in Stoneligh Courts. At a musical tea there last Sunday in compliment to the choristers Miss Beall presented the Colonial Male Quartet, associste mem- bers of the club, in several delightful numbers. The quartet is composed of Harold 8. King and C. Evans Brooks. tenors; Nathan A. Clark and Roy A. Sabean, basses. RTURRTS " Verdi's “Masked Ball In Original Version WH‘EN the Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. presents Verdi’s “Masked Ball" at the Academy of Music, Thursday evening, the place of action of the story will be Naples and the period the early part of the seventeenth century, as was originally intended by the composer. For many years this opera been presented with the scenes Jald in Boston in the time of the Puritans, and some of the dominant characters in this Verdi work had to be so changed, in order io meet the difference in locale and period, that the opera suffered in its presenta- tion in a setting which was so much at variance with the original intention of the composer. ‘The principal roles will be sung by Bianca Saroya, Faina Petrova, John Charles Thomas, Alexandre Kourganof! and Ivan Steschenko. Others in the cast will be Henrietta Horle, Beniamino bani, Abraham Robofsky, Alfred De Healy. incidental dances by the corps de ballet under the direction of Catherine Littlefleld. Emil Mlynarski will conduct and Wilhelm von Wymetal, jr., will stage the production. Schubert Choral Club Gives Concert April 29 chairman of the Schubert Choral Club announces that a second con- are Landowska and the late Isadora Duncan. The Tech Opera Club Gives "Robin Hood™ written by Reginal ld de the American who made his ational Capital for many formances MUSIGRAPHS 'HRIST Church, Georgetown, will present Maunder’s sacred cantata, “Olivet to Calvary,” next Sunday eve- ning, Palm Sunday, at 7:30 p.m. Solos will be taken by Barrett Fuchs of that church, and Ross Farrar, tenor, of ‘Washington Cathedral. The choir will be directed by Mary Minge Wilkins, or- ganist. Alice Neal, mezzo-soprano, will_sing Wednesday a% the meeting cf the Poto- mac Chapter, D. A. R., accompanied at the.piano by Louise Ryan McNerney. Robert Ferguson regrets to announce | “his resignation as tenor soloist of the Church of the Covenant, owing to a transfer of his business connections to New York City. ‘Mme. Marie Zalipsky arranged a pro- gram of Russian music which was pre- sented Priday night at the Washington College of Music. The artists were Michael Shvetz, the famous Russian basso, and Emanuel Zetlin, noted vio- linist, who is now head of that depart- ment in the college of music here. A demonstration of motor-mental rhythmics was given in the studio of Ethel Hoffman Kane Friday afternoon by a class of boys from the Chevy Chase Country Day School. Members of the Progressive Education Association in session the latter half of the past week were invited guests. Edith B. Athey was at the piano. A program of medieval chorales ar- ranged for brass quintet was played at the Church of the Covenant Thursday night. They were recelved with much enthusiasm. Theodor Podnos, young son of Mr. | and Mrs., Alexander Podnos of 5309 Georgia avenue, this city, was given special distinction in, Baltimore March 27 when he was a soloist on the second program of the current season given by | the Peabody Conservatory Orchestra. He was the first child to win a scholar- ship in the conservatory who has also won the honor of being put on a pro- gram during the first year of his train- ing there, His scholarship is for three years, Master Podnos played the Wieniawski “Concerto in D Minor.” Gustav Strube conducted. The series of concerts is sponsored by the Peabody Institute of Baltimore, Otto Ortmann, director. Christine Lindbergh Levin, contralto, { of Washington, appeared in a song recital March 21 at &he Conservatory of Music of Highland Manor School at ‘Tarrytown-on-Hudson. Gertrude Bartel was accompanist and also played two { solo groups. Miss Levin's songs in- cluded works by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Duparc, Richard Strauss, Ponchinelll, Rummell, De Curtis, Bridges and Bauer. The Damrosch Club of Washington Conservatory of Music gave a program ‘Wednesday in the recital hall. It was the anniversary of the founding of this| club for small children and the hall was filled with little folks, their parents and friends. There are now 59 members. ‘Those giving the program were Willie Carey, Ernest Lenzner, Marietta Eckam, Sonny Reinsmith and Rose Pincus. The club membership also is open to | children of Maryland and Virginia. Ap-| plication for membership should be made at the school, 1408 New Hamp- shire avenue northwest, or to Rose Pincus, Cottage City, Md. Frances Kendall Brooks, 17-year-old pianist and composer, will assist Mrs. | Charles Wood, who is giving a travelogue on “Rediscovering Corsica” tomorrow evening in the Y. W. C. A. auditorium for the benevolences of the League of the Covenant. Miss Brooks will play Moszkowski's “Liebstwalzer” and a Corsican number, one of her own compositions. Katharyn English has been engaged as contralto soloist at the Church of g:; Ascension. Her duties will begin ay. the week end in New York City, stop- ping at the Ambassador Hotel. Percy Cox, assistant organist to Ed- gar Priest at the Cathedral, will sub- stitute for Mrs. McKee today at the organ at the Church of the Ascension. ‘The Friday Morning Music Club will present Mildred Schuize in the role of composer as well as accompanist this Friday at 11 am. in Barker Hall. Mrs. Schulze has written the musical settings to a group of old Negro folk songs, which has been collected from the folk lore of the South by Mrs. Ormond Lawson-Johnson, professionally known as Betty Kendall, who will sing these songs and tell stories about their origin The Tuesday Evening Music Club will present the third of its programs for shut-ins Tuesday at the Home for In- curables. These concerts are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Washington, The choir of the Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G street northwest, un- der the direction of Adolf Torovsky, will give the cantata, “The Message From the Cross,” by William Macfarlane, this evening at 8 p.m. Good Friday, April 18, at 8 pm,, the choir will sing the cantata, “The Seven Last Words,” by Theodore Dubols. A program of music was presented by the Chaminade Glee Club, Esther Lin- director, at the St. Elizabeth's Hospital Thursday evening. Jessie B, Blaisdell accompanied the club. Marion Blaisdell and Jessie Cooper, violinists, performed during the pro- gram. Community singing was a feature. ‘The Washington Alumnae Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon and their guests were recently entertained at the home of Inez Miller in Foxhall Village. One of the features of tMe evening was a pro- gram of music given by the husbands of members. During the past week the regular monthly meeting was held at the home of Edith Athey. The program commit- tee arranged a “stunt” which members were required to dem- onstrate talents entirely -unrelated to their known musical accomplishments. | The next meeting will be held Wed- nesday evening, May 7, at 8 o'clock, at the home of Helen Torrey in Burleith, 3720 S street northwest. Any Mu Phi’s who have recently come to make their home in Washington, or who may be visiting here, are cordially invited. ‘The jur . students of the Master School of the Piano held their monthly Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee is spending | program in | W Fay Greenberg, Fannye Kressin, Mollye Herson, Barbara Cohen, Helen Gar- finkle, Dorothy Bramo, Lucy Higgins, Josephine Bertolini, Doris and An- toinette Klesner, Frances and Americo Pittiglio, Rosalie Michaelson, Berenice Stein, Hannah Stein, Hilda Siegel, Blanche Siegel, Naom! Hals, Anna Rachlin, Betty Ray, Ellen Gardrer and John Brennan, J. Albert Riker, general representative of the Musical Courier, was in Wash- ington last Monday for the purpose ot attending the program of Lovette com- positions given in Picrce Hall. Irma Briggs, lyric sporano, was pre- sented by Gertrude Lyons in a group of Spanish songs, which were sung for the Spanish section of the Women's City Club, at their annual dinner, when Senor Don Juan B. Sacasa, Minister of Nicaragua, and Lieut. Col. Campbell B. Hodges, alde to the President, were guests of honor. Miss Briggs sang “Es- trellita” (Little Star), by Ponce, ar- ranged by Frank LaForge; “El Viejo Amor,” by Oteo, and “Marcheta,” by Schertzinger. Margaret Bowie Grant played the piano accompaniments. Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Randall will give a joint recital at Gunston Hall Echool, 1906 Florida avenue northwest, this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The ac- companist will be Robert Feuerstein, Mary Tarbell Kenestrick presented her class in an informal studio recital Saturday. Lives of imnodern composers were read. Marjorie Fakes won the prize for the month of March. Chil- dren taking part were Ardene and Eleanor Moreland, Ruth and Doris Hahberger, Gladys Murrell, Flora Blumenthal and Marjorie Fakes. The Evangeline Glee Club gave a concert at Concordia Lutheran Church Twentieth and G streets northwest, last night. Louise Walsworth is director and Roslyn Carter accompanist. As- sisting _soloists were Esther Celander, soprano, in a group of Scandinavian songs in costume: Klara Kamerud, ac- companist: Dolores Spence, violinist; Mary Mullen, flutist, and Miss Carter, planist. The event was for the benefit of St. Eric’s Lutheran Ohurch. ‘The public is invited to a student re- cital to be given at the Institute of Musical Art Friday at 8 p.m. The pro- gram will include a string trio, a pfnnn quintet and solos for voice, piano and violin. Those taking part will be Charles Hyder, Bernard Milofsky, Maurice Friedman, George Lake, Glenn Carow, Louise Cogswell, Martha Davenport, Lena Paris, Fred Talbot, DeWitt Feeser, Mildred Obear, Stanley Smith, Jose- phine Bergeson, Margaret Gilligan, Esther Spier, Mary Turner and Ross Bright. . Club Engages Violoncellist For Concert May 12. THE RUBINSTEIN CLUB will pre- _sent Martha Whittemore, violon- cellist, at the second and final concert of the season, to be held at the Willard Hotel May 12, at 8:30 p.m. Several new voices of distinction have been added to the chorus since the first concert. Mrs. Albert Volkmer, chair- man of audition, is still giving audi- tions and requests that those desiring membership get in touch with her at 234 Willow avenue, Takoma Park, tele- phone 2154, as soon as possible. Splen- did progress is being made on the new program. Berlin Annour:ces Dfam- And Music Festivals LAET year the City of Berlin arranged for the first time musical festivals, which were part of the season’s program and which proved successful in appeal to foreign visitors, especially Americans. It has been decided that these festivals shall be repeated this coming Summer. The state's theater in Berlin announces that they will be held from May 23 to June 16. ‘While last year's festivals intended to give a survey of forelgn music, espe- cially Italian operas which were per- formed under the direction of Arturo Toscanini, the aim this season is to give a comprehensive impression of the artistic standard of the German stage and operas. This, however, will not prevent foreign ensembles from appear- ing. Two concerts by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, under the ba- ton of Toscanini. will be given. Lauri Volpi, tenor of the Metropolitan, will be heard in Itallan operas. Another outstanding feature will be the Beetho- ven cycle, conducted by Wilhelm Purt- waengler, which. is scheduled for seven performances. Max Reinhardt will celebrate this Summer his twenty-fifth anniversary as the directoy of the Deutsche Theater. He will produce, with all the famous members of his cast, a number of plays, the openings of which are also sched- uled for the time the musical festivals are to be held. Included among the novelties to be offered by the opera houses are grand operas by Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. Detafls of the repertory will be given Ilater. These performances will follow new lines of production, similar to those which were tried in last year's per- formance of Wagner’s “Tannhauser.” In order to enable the majority of Berlin's population, as well as foreign travelers, who, most probably, will out- number last year's visitors owing to the “Passion Play” in Oberammergeau, to attend, all these performances are to be given at comparatively low prices of admission. This policy will be followed by other musical productions to attract. first of all, music fans. In the open courtyard of the former Imperial - ace, which has a seating capacity of 5,000, night serenades by the orchestra of the State Opera House will be ren- dered. 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