Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1930, Page 64

MUSIC BY HEL! T was midnight of the last) day of August. In fact, the faintest suggestion of the dawn of the 1st of Septem- ber was already becoming a cer-| tainty on the horizon. The waters y about the resin- S outhampton. The rain drizzled with an elusive yet penetrating persistence that was definitely annoyi train from London had dispatched its hordes of American tourists onto the pier where the great westbound steamer was scheduled to appear to pick these same travelers up three long hours ago. Every one, with only the very few exceptions of the more experienced travelers, for whom this was not the end of “my first trip abroad,” had rushed and| jammed and squirmed along the| ier from the train, maneuvering nch by inch to crawl toward the end beyond the examiners of pass- ports and luggage where the great vessel that was to take them | home was expected to appear at any moment. And when at last the tenders from that ship did cast their ropes ashore and take the heaving, dampish and ex- ceedingly weary throngs to their creaking decks the only buoyancy to be noticed anywhere was be- neath, rather than above their keels. The whole situation was eloquently summed up in one sen- tence, uttered in a resigned tone by an American flapper, who, ob- viously, would normally be quite a flippant young person. She said: “Well, we Americans will travel.” Statistics, as well as less intricate means of indication, show that we are indeed a wanderlusting Nation. Of course, if our pioneer ancestors had not had this qual- ity, we would never have been born in this country. Also, we are, as a race, primarily ambitious. According to Mr. Webster's useful book, this quality, “ambition,” is defined as “a going about to solicit or obtain an office or other de- sire.” In other words, the fact that Americans are ambitious would account quite easily for their national characteristic of restlessness and desire for travel. In the latest parlance we “want to go places and do things.” *oxox % 'HIS year again finds both the number of would-be travelers and of European festivals on the decided increase. It is interesting to find the Europeans building their music programs and playing | up every possible angle of such festivals, as well as the dramatic festival of Oberammergau, to at- tract the interest of our com- patriots when they are not chained irrevocably to Paris by the shops and aperitif time along the Rue de la Paix. | In addition to the Bayreuth Wagnerian festivals, which this year feature Arturo Toscanini as guest conductor for several of the performances, and the usual Wag- nerian series in Munich, with Max Reinhart’s dramatic festival events in Salzburg, there is an- other angle of the music fleld that is having the spotlight turned upon it. This is the educational angle. In both Vienna and Salz- | burg the Austro-American Insti- tute of Education announces in- ternational music courses. All the usual musical subjects, such as history of music, theory, com- position, piano, violin, cello, viola da gamba, singing, chamber mu- sic and organ are listed, with dis- tinguished Austrian maestros in the faculty. Physical training, dance and rhythmics also are mentioned. In Salzburg is an or- chestral academy to be held July 5 to September 5 (during the Salz- burg festivals), when a faculty including such famous individuals as Clemens Krauss, director of the Vienna State Opera; Bern- hard Paumgartner, Franz Schalk and Bruno Walter will hold classes. There also is an international dance congress to be held in Dres- den, and, of course, there are al- ways the Conservatory for Ameri- cans at Fontaineblea France, and the Academy of Music in Rome. It looks as though, if American music teachers and students must have a sea voyage and wish to en- joy the sights and festivals thai are European, they also would not have to neglect their studies. * % ox AT the same time, there are even more music education or- country send- ng pamphlets, and appeal- lists of music students teachers. Summer ‘“‘master classes” provide the shibboleth for many who haven't made up their to go to foreign lands ‘There are not a few definite in- for students in the hips offered at chautau- other Summer music colonies For students of orchestra, there is the now thoroughly established National High School Orchestra Camp in Michigan. There also are choral conductors’ classes, harp colonies, solo training in mountain settings for singers, pianists and other instrumental- ists. Any one sufficiently ambi- tious can get training in almost a line of musical endeavor and at the same time have vacation trimmings in the part of the United States that he or she would most prefer s Summer. - 'HE American Opera Co. has been affected by the recent wave of financial depression. Va- ! have either cut hdrawn entirely, temporarily. all funds backing the company. This makes rehearsals in the Summer and a Winter sea- son of productions on tour impos- sible. The company will have no productions next Winter. They will wait until the season 1931-32, when they plan to give a 30-week season instead of the 22-week series of previous years. Howard Taylor of the concert bureau sponsoring the American Opera Co. stated last week that the stock market break was en- tirely responsible for the year's suspension of production. He is quoted as saying that the national aroduction fund requires $150,000 (in two leading hotels. | co-operation N FETTER. for the basic expenses of rehear- sal at the company's Summer studios, at Magnolia, Mass., and the production of its repertoire. During the coming season, the organization will be revamped. The national plan of the com- pany, especially built up with a national board of directors to be announced upon Mr. Taylor's re- turn from Europe in late August, will emphasize the touring values of the company. - x x PICTURESQUE and impor- tant figure in the music world passed on to other realms when Nathan Franko succumbed to a paralytic stroke in a Long Island sanitarium last week. Born in New Orleans, 69 years ago, Mr. Franko made his debut in concert work at Steinway Hall, New York, when he was 8 years old. Like the Menuhin and Ricci Soon after that first appearance on any stage lit- tle Nathan Franko was chosen by Adelina Patti to accompany her in programs on a tour. Later he went to Berlin to study. When he returned to the United States he became a member of the orches- tra of the Metropolitan Grand Opera Co. In time he became concert meister and then, in 1905, conductor of this orchestra. He held this position at the time of the company's appearance in S8an Francisco, just when the great fire of 1906 made history in that city. It was naturally a very exciting time, and Mr. Franko did not manage to get his company back to New York with any heroic ef- forts on his part. In fact, a for- mal statement published at the time gave a very different impres- sion. Throughout this artist's career he was doomed to have varied spectacular events mark his path. He left the Metropolitan and or- ganized his own orchestra to play He con- ducted the first outdoor symphony concert in Central Park. It really was through his efforts primarily that the plan to make good music popular by free concert perform- ances was adopted by New York. At one time Franko was to lead | his orchestra for a demonstration of Communists who had engaged the Metropolitan Opera ouse. Franko insisted that they rise at once and sing “The Star Spangled Banner.” en he played the “Internationale,” which was re- quested. And then he ordered his orchestra out of the pit and left the Communists to their own de- vices, minus further music. Nathan Franko—whose nephew, Edwin Franko Goldman, has been conductor of concerts in Central Park for 12 years—played with many of the world’s greatest mu- sical artists, including Von Bue- low, Leopold Damrosch, Theodore Thomas, Anton Seidl, Adelina Patti, Luigi Arditi, Dr. Karl Muck. Leopold Stokowski, Artur Bodan sky, Victor Herbert, Henry Had- ley. Caruso, Isadora Duncan, Emma Eames, Melba, Sembrich, Nordica, Gadski, Ternina, Schu- mann-Heink, Jean de Reszke, An- tonio Scotti, Josef Hofmann, Eu- gene Ysaye, Kreisler, Saint-Saens, Rosenthal, Joseffy and others. Atwater Kent Auditions Are Planned Locauy AT a meeting of the committee which is sponsoring participation by young District of Columbia singers in the Atwater Kent Foundation's fourth national radio audition, held in the studio at station WRC, Dr. A. W. Har- ned, chairman, appointed chairmen of two subcommittees to undertake an in- tensive canvass to develop interest in the local contest. Chairman Harned named Mrs. Wil- liam Lee Corbin, president of the Women's City Club, as chairman of a subcommittee to acquaint the various | women's clubs of Washington with the purposes of the audition. Mrs. Kathe- rine Hertzberg will head a subcommittee which will make a special canvass among Jewish organizations interested in music. Chairman Harned invited all music teachers in Washington to attend a meeting in the studio of WRC, National Press Building, Wednesday. The chair- man called a full meeting of the District sponsorship committee in Plerce Hall Wednesday evening. Dr. Harned reports that splendid has been enlisted from local music workers and an elaborate campaign is planned to bring out all amateurs who are eligible to compete prodigies of | today, he was a virtuoso violinist | | at that brief age. | | “Royal | gagements as accompanist for the sea- THE SUNDAY Sousa Conducts as Guest Of British Government |LIEUT. COMDR. JOHN PHILIP 8OU- SA has accepted the invitation of the British Government to conduct his new march, “Royal Welch Fusiliers.” upon the occasion of its presentation to | the British regiment to which it is dedi- | cated at the regiment’s thirtieth anni- versary celebration of the Boxer Expe- dition, to be held in London June 25. Sousa, accompanied by Brig. Gen. George Richards and Capt. Jonas H. Platt, who will attend the ceremony as the official representatives of the U. S. Marine Corps, will sail from New York for London on the S. 8. France Tues- day. The Royal Welch Fusiliers, one of the oldest and most famous of Brit- | ish regiments, and a regiment of United States Marines marched together to the relief of Tientsin in 1900. Among the | besieged Americans and Europeans in | Tientsin was President Hoover, then a | young mining engineer, and Mrs. Hoover. | The first American performance of Welch Fusiliers” took _place | before President Hocver at a dinner of the Gridiron Club in Washington, about | two months ago. Sousa at that time conducted the United States Marine Band, returning for the evening to the position which he held from 1880 to 1893 when he resigned his commission in the Marine Corps to establish his own organization Sousa will return from England in time for the thirty-eighth annual American tour of his own organization beginning in the early Fall. popular accompanist as well as Honolulu, where they will be stationed ATHRYN HILL RAWLS, who| K piano soloist and organist, will leave Washington June 30’ with for three years For the past four years Mrs. Rawls has become established as a ! her husband, Maj. Rawls, and their three children to sail in August for has been organist at the Georgetown | Presbyterian Church. Her final en- son just closed were playing for Emily Coville, soprano, in two groups of songs at the commencement exercises of Sid- well's Friends School June 8, and ac- companying Ruby Smith Stahl, soprano, in a program given for the Canadian Club banguet. Mrs. Rawls has certainly made a niche for herself in local musical en- deavors and will be missed. The Corey Opera Ensemble gave one of its operatic revues, scenes from | famous operas in costume, June 6 and 7 at the home of the director, Gurle Louise Corey. Miss Corey gave a brief | explanation preceding each scene. Ma- | rion Lawson Leonard gave artistic sup- port at the piano Singers appearing in scenes from “Faust,” “Carmen,” “Rigoletto,” “Cav- | alleria Rusticana,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “Orpheus and Eurydice,” “Martha" and “Lucia di Lammermoor” were: Mar- aret Slattery, Gayle Hunt, Eugenia lattery, Elizabeth Hume, Rose Sokol, Gladys Hunt, Josephine Soukup and a goup for the sextet from the Donizetti )pera, called “The Overtones.” Olga Krumke, who has been soprano soloist at Grace Church, Georgetown, this season, gave a program Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. A. J. At- kinson, who made it the occasion of a shower in honor of Miss Olga Helphen- stine. Last Sunday afternoon Miss Krumke sang at the annual Spring concert and dinner at the Ruppert Memorial Home, Anacostia, and recently at the ocountry home of Mr. and Mrs. Schutt of Georgetown on the occasion of their golden wedding. Mary Ross, organist of Grace Church, was her accompanist. ‘Thomas N. Leef, bass soloist at Grace Lutheran Church, will sing for the Lutheran meeting in the Clarendon | Theater at 7:30 p.m. today. Mr. Leef will be accompanied by Ma- rion St. John Aldridge, organist of the same church. The Gamma Tau Music Club pre- sented a recital Tuesday in the assembly | room of the Y. W. C, A. Those partici- | pating included Dorothy Woodin. Min- | nie Hoxsey, Alice Neal, Harriett Tall, | Loulse Ryan McNerney, Helen Smeltzer, Lilllan Harmon Burke and Helen Bury. Mildred F. Pullman, pianist, and Alice Hall, singer, presented a program over | Radio Station WJSV, Mount Vernon Hills, Va, recently that was very suc- | cessful. | Last Saturday Miss Pullman and her | brother, Ernest H. Pullman, jr, both | of Manor Park, gave a concert at the Red Cross Hall, Walter Reed General Hospital, for the soldier patients. Mr. Pullman gave saxaphone selections, A special musical service for Trinity Sunday will be held at both the German and the English services at Concordia | Lutheran Church, Twentleth and G| streets northwest, where John R. Mon- | roe is organist and choirmaster. At! the German service at 10 am. the Davi- son Glee Club will sing the following numbers: “Cantate Domino" (a cappella .. Von Hasler Cherubim Song” (a cappella). Rachmaninoft | Lasst die Himmiische Chore Ail Vereint” from “S8amson”.....G. . Handel At the English service which follows ' at 11:15 the full chorus choir of more than 50 voices will sing: Chorale. “Sanctus” from “Missa As- sumpta es Maria” (a cappells). Palestrina Anthem, “Cherubim Song~ (a cappella) Offertory, “Sanctus” from “Bt WA .. s Soloiat,” Hor i | The quartet from the Church of the Ascension — Lucy MacMoreland, s0- | in the great radio singing contest. Cash | prano; Kathryn English, alto; Leslie awards of §25.000 and free music schol- Coyle, tenor, and Gilbert Clark, bari- arships await winners of natioaal finals. | goro 'with Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee as | Art Promoters’ Club End Year With Concert THE Art Promoters' Club gave last musicale of the year Thurs- day at the home of Mme. de Lagnel when the officers of the soclety enter- its | | tained at a reception in honor of the | members, Mme. Louise presented “Cl followed by the thoven's “Moonlight Sonata.” Mme Coutinho's work has won the snthusi- asm of music critics in this country and abroad. Margaret Louise O'Brien, lyric so- prano, sang two songs by La Forge, “Song of the Open” and “Little Star.” "As an encore, she gave Curran’s “Dawn.” Her recitals in Richmond and Washington have attracted many. Pauline Bruner and Eleanore Colborn, junior members of the Art Promoters’ Club. also appeared in recital. Miss Bruner sang Cyril Scott's “Lullaby,” Come to the Fair.” and “By the Waters of the Minnetonka” with Miss Colborn at the piano. Later Miss Colborn played “Seguidilla,” by Albeniz; “Rhap- sody in F Sharp Minor.” by Dohnanyi, and “Poionaise in A Flat.’ Leona Bixler, soprano, Hermann Lohr’s “Ah! Though the Silver Moon Were Mine,” Wintter Watts’ “Wings of Night,” and "“Danny Boy” with Victor Neal accompanying her. Mr. Nea] played as solos Palm- gren’s “May Night,” Rheinberger's “Bal- lade in G Minor,” and Cyril Scott's Lotus Land.” utinho, concert pianist, nne” (Bach-Busoni), contributed Lena Kath and Celeste Pelton were initiated into Rho Beta Chapter. Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority, Tuesday at the chapter rooms of the Washington Col- lege of Music. Following the initiation ceremony Rho Beta Chapter entertained the members of the graduataion class of the colisge at a reception. Tamara Dmitriefl and Catherine Benson played the Liszt “Concerto for Two Pianos,” Evelyn Scot! ive several violin num- bers and Je Barbecot, guest artist, pres-nted sev baritone solos in Eng- lish and French. st movement of Bee- | director and accompanist — presented several selections on the program of joint memorial services of District of Columbia lodges of the Knights of Pythias at Pythian Temple Tuesday. f Mrs. Dell Gilbert Sale, with Mrs. Sin- | clair Booth as accompanist, was the | soloist of the evening, singing O'Hara’s There Is No Death.” Hugh Ramon, tenor, assisted by Elizabeth ~Gardner Coombs, pianist, 2 a group of songs following the Juncheon of the Lions Club at the Mayflower Hotsl Wednesday. He sang “On the Road to Mandelay,” by Oley Speaks, which proved the most popular number with the club. Mr. Ramon has come here recently from Seattle, Wash., | where he is known s & concert and radio artist. Mary Dowd of this city is studying | with Mme. Luella Melius, noted Ameri- | can coloratura soprano, taking lessons | with her in New York every week until | the middle of July, when Mme. Melius | will sail for Europe to spend the Sum- | mer Martin A. Dowd, pianist, took a les- son with Edwin Hughes, teacher and writer on music, formerly of Washing- ton, but now living in New York, when Mr. Hughes stopped in this city with the Dowds for a week end the first of June on his way home from Havana, Cuba. Amy Alki Bustin, dramatic soprano, | will be soloist at the reception given by the National Woman's Party Tues- day evening. This will close Mrs. Bus- tin's Winter season of engagements. Blanche Ramon of Seattle, Wash., will be the second soprano soloist, as- sistant to Ella Mints, at the Church | of the Ascension during the Summer months. Miss Ramon is sald to have a voice of dramatic quality. ‘The vocal program of the Elks' Flag day exercises at Central High School this afternoon will be given the Lovette Choral Club. ellie rber Brooks, lyric soprano, will-be the soloist. The accompaniments will yed by Elsie Cranmer. Yesterday ternoon the club gave a Flag day program from WOl STAR, WASHINGTON, 193 P 0. JUNE 15 American Collects Tunes From All Over the World DOROTHY GORDON., BY ROSE PATTERSON. ONDON, June 1 (N.ANA). had paused in her flight through the byways and villages of the old earti in order to take London to her heart again, I sought out Miss Dorothy Gor- don of New York and asked her to tell me where she had been last and whither would be fitting. Traversing one of those cool court- vards down at Buckingham gate, T came upon her in her blue curtained and elegant_apartment. It was heavy with the perfume of great bowls of red roses, lingering reminders of London's en- thusiasm at her last concert A lovely picture she was. ‘n her lime- green chiffon velvet neglige and little orange slippers. The bright colors ac- centuated the loveliness of her dark hair and pearly teeth. “S80 you sing to the children every- where you go,” I said. “Tell me, do you keep the adults out?” ~As she | chjigren, as. for exam ,they pull those old barges on the Volga | “Why should I bother?” she laughed. | “All the children seem to love my songs —from two, or even younger, to a dred!” “And what a lot of trouble you to in collecting just the seem right traveled and I “And wherever That means going among the peasant eople of a country, in the small vil- ges, whether by way of the Irish jaunting cart, the French mule cart, the Russian droshki or the Kentucky jolt wagon—the worst of all. “My latest adventures were in the Kentucky mountains, where I found the romantic, tall mountaineers, a real An- glo-8axon colony, speaking and singing ure Elizabethan English and all behav- ng with the courtesy of a Sir Walter Raleigh. After penetrating as far into their country as was possible by auto, I had to complete my journey by joit- cart—my, how my bones ached!—but what joys we found. These mountaineers have lived out of contact with the world without and kept their songs and b: hun- | | | |am that person to my finger tips. | people lads perfectly pure for two centuries. I | soon made friends of the children and the old fiddlers and learned to play upon their simple, primitive dulcimer: ““Have you ever come ACross such & wonderfuily preserved eolony, keeping its own songs, in Europe?” I asked her. “Yes?” she replied. “It is rare, but T found the same thing in Sicily—a little company of people who were atill pure Greek. From them I gathered one or two beautiful melodies. But in most of my travels through Europe I found, of course, mixtures of many races in | totre of more than 400 folk songs now.” peoples’ songs, even in the Gypsy tunes | of Hungary and Czechosiovakia.” Finds Many Work Songs. “And they are children's songs that you collect?” I inquired. ‘In Bavaria and the Negro States of America—the mammy songs—I have gathered children’s ditties, but in most countries, I have found that the peasant-folk have not had time for sing- ing many songs to thelr children. They have to work and the tunes they make are those they sing at their work. How- ever, these folk often have very simple dittfes and melodies that appeal to ple, those of the North American Indians, who are very simple people.” “Did you hear the Volga boatmen singing their world-famous song?” “They sing it just the same today as| as they did way back in the days of slavery, where it had its origin.” And Miss Gordon could not help but swi her slim, pale-green self backward forward on the settee and sing me “Eh mgh—nyem!” (Pull, boys, pull) in a soft, sweet voice. Sometimes Miss Gordon is queerly housed and fed upon her travels. In the Kentucky mountains she slept in a | log cabin on a mattress made of corn| husks, Sometimes she is fortunate, she | says. In the old French villages of the Midi she has eaten the most de-| lectable food, prepared by the peasants. I supposed that she had to go about ! getting her folk songs in strange ways sometimes. “Indeed I do” she agreed fervently. “I have crept like a thief behind doos listening to mothers rocking and sing- | ing their babies to sleep, stealthily writ- | ing the notes down. And I have made ardent, desperate love to an Italian peasant to wring out of him at last a | longed-for tarantella.” Sings in Original Tongue. “Do you sing all these folk songs in their own languages?” “Always,” sald Miss Gordon. “Lan- ages seem to come naturally to me.| speak some eight languages quite flu- | ently and sing in more besides. And. what is more, I can become a Russian peasant, an Itallan girl or a North American Indian with the grentest ease. Once I am dressed in the costume, 1; You see, I have moved and lived among the | themselves, and I know how | they think and feel. I can change my ! clothes very quickly, and my costumes are meticulously accurate. I would never wear 80 much as one Russian bead upon an Italian dress, for ex- ample." And you dance, t00?" “Yes, I do the folk dances.” “Do you have lessons?” “No,” she laughed. “The dances just come naturally to me. too. I pick them' up and carry them off with me as I do the sonj “What a large collection you must have,” I said “Yes," she | nd eed. “I have a reper-| “And what about the accompa#i- ments?” 1 asked her. | “Sometimes I have accompaniments made, but they are always very simple.| Sometimes 1 have no accompaniments; sometimes just a tom-tom.” And here she fetched me her tom-tom, the painted and decorated gift of an Indian chief. “Here is an interesting thing," said Miss Gordon. “I have found he same type of song in half a dozen different nations, which, I maintain, is a proof that human nature is the same the world over.” MUNICIPAL THEATER, EDITOR'S NOTE—The following is the sizth of a series of articles written by the distinguished ington architect, George Oakley Totten. ir.. who points out the unusual featurés of opera Rouses all over the world. In Washington, Capital without _an Rouse, these articles should be of special interest, as there are several plane in_state of being formu- iated for an opera house here. a National BY GEORGE OAKLEY TOTTEN, Jr.| OUTH AMERICAN countries have always been associated with Spain by the average American, thought of as still furthering and possessing the spirit of adventure, the art and romance of the picturesque European country. The republic of Brazil stands out as the only country in South America not set- tled by the Spaniards, having been dis- covered by the Portuguese and remained under the rule of that country until 1889, when the present republican form of government was set up. The love of good music and the drama, coupled with the developed ar- tistic sense of the Latin American, pro- duced the municipal opera or theater here, as in other South American coun- tries. The illustration is of this famous Municipal Theater, one of the most | handsome and finely appointed theaters in the entire southern continent. Lo- | cated in the foremost industrial city of | South America, this building, dedicated | month at Mackinac Island, Mich., and | to the opera and the drama and de- | Frances Cole was named alternate. A signed to satisfy the artistic hunger of | speciall; its_people, $1,600,000. was erected at a cost url A large portion of this sum from amounts appropriated to other uses and diverted to the theater by pop- ular preference, the balance being made up by taxation, a thing to which the —By Courtesy of the Pan-American Unlon | South American seldom objects for such | & purpose. | the Wagnerian system of planning, hav- | bullding is carried out in | rated, the exterior suggesting the world- | famous Paris Opera House in design. | SAO PAULO, BRAZIL. The Sao Paulo Theater incorporated ing the musicians situated at a lower level than the orchestra seats. The jood taste and is very beautifully furnis and deco- The most important building of this type in Brasil is the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. This was illustrated in The Sunday Star of May 25, Musical Alumnae Club Has Election of Officers | HE last meeting of the season of the | Washington Alumnae Club of Mu Phi Epsilon, national musical sorority, was held at the home of Helen Torrey last week. Newly elected officers for the coming year were installed, as fol- lows: President, Helen Beliman; vice president, Helen Torrey; secretary, Fran- | ces Cole: treasurer, Olive Witters; his- | torian, @arrol Wagner; publicity, Mary Fakler. Helen Bellman was named delegate to the national convention, to be held this | called meeting to receive re- ports of the convention will be held at the home of (Mrs. Earl) Carrol Wagner, | Wilhelmina Amiss, Pri was obtained from & surplus left over |14 Rhode Island enue ynorthwest (tel- 3), fl!’ 9. ephone Potomac ay &t lock the club will have a picnic in Rock Creek Park for of “The Beautiful amilies. members and their f plan students included: Adele Meriam, Fred- erick Roop, Elizabeth Mullin, 0—PART FOUR. Washington Musie College Gives Commencement Plans THI faculty of the Washington College of Music announce that the twenty- fourth annual commencement will be held at the college, 2017 S street north- west, Thursday at 8:30 pm., when Dr. Hugh Roberts, president, will present the diplomas and confer degrees upon the graduates. ‘Those to receive degrees are: Tamara Dmitrieff, bachelor of music, specializing in plano; Sara Cooper Wolloch, Ruth Peters and Grace Tyler Powell, the same degree in theory. Teachers' diplomas will be awarded to Neitie Sadle, Wini- fred Marle Chamberlain and Bettie | ScPtember for college Marie Gray, the first two in piano, the third in volce. Graduate diplomas will be presented to Dorothy Lee Leighty, Max Short, Lena Kash, Helen Francis Rohrer, Shirley Oxenberg, piano The graduates’ recital programs will be divided between Tuesday and Wed- nesday evenings at 8:30 o'clock at the college. Tuesday, Miss Rohrer, Miss | Sadle, Miss Oxenberg, Miss Leighty and | Mr. 8hort will appear. Wednesday, Miss Pelton, Miss Gastrock, Miss Chamber- lain, Mrs. Gray and Miss Kash wil perform. Thursday night the actual graduation exercises will be followed by & reception for the graduates and their guests, Band Cnncert Datee THE U. S. MARINE BAND. THE music for the two performances of “The Tempest,” to be performed under the auspices of the Community Drama Guild Thursday and Friday at 8 pm., will be played by the orchestra of the United States Marine Band, Capt. Taylor Branson, leader. The schedule of strictly band pro- grams by this organization during the current week will include: Monday, at 8 pm., program at the Marine flh_{r_rr::& liesday. at 7 pm, Ao SHot3ital fednesday. at 7:30 pm., progr United States Capitol. FEREATaE ‘l‘l the Syi- program at Mount Thursday. at 8 pni. program van Theater, with ‘“The Tempes ‘The detailed programs will appear in dally issues of The Star. THE U. S. NAVY BAND, Brahms' “Academic Festival” overture will be the opening number on the pro- gram to be presented by the United States Navy Band, Lieut. Charles Ben- ter, leader, at the Capitol tomorrow night. Of ‘special interest in this con- cert will be the appearance of Senor Rolg, director of the Municipal Band of ana. A cornet solo, “Grand Rus- sian Fantasia” (Levy), played by Mu- siclan B. Gardner, will be another fea- ture. The program for the concert at Du- pont Circle Tuesday night includes the overture “Egmont” (Beethoven), Liszt's “Second Hungarian Rhapsody” and a trombone solo by Musician J. Cimera. Other concerts scheduled for the Navy Band this week are Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 3 pm. and Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the band- stand at the Navy Yard, and Prid evening at 6:30, Walter Reed Hospitai THE SOLDIERS' HOME BAND. The band of the United States Sol- | diers’ Home, John 8. M. Zimmermann leader and Anton Pointner assistant, will give three concerts as usual— Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday after- Mary Gastrock and Margaret | interesting feature of the vocal recital by the pupils of Otto T. Simon, to be given at the Institute of Musical Art, 831 Eighteenth street, Fri- day evening, 8 o'clock, will be a mixed | quartet of students under 20 years of age—Sylvia Koshelevsky, soprano: Mar- | garet Gilligan, contralto; Carson Frailey tenor, and DeWitt Feeser, bass. As Mr. Frailey and Mr. Feeser both leave in work in other cities, it will be the only presentation of this quartet. Other students who will take part in the program in songs, arias and duets are Rose Bright, Louise Cogswell, Mar- garet Franklin, Edna Jones, Mary O'Donoghue, Lena Paris, Arthur Par- sons. Clare Jean Speaker and Mary R. Turner. ‘The composers to be represented are Caccin, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schu- bert, Mendelssohn, Thomas, Donizettl, Rossi, Delibes and Ponchielli. The pub- lic is’ invited. Pearl Waugh presented Lillian Har- mon Burke in a piano recital at her studio June T a teacher of young students who were presented in the programs of the Junior Federation of Music Clubs’ cently, Mrs. Burke herself specialized in this program in modern numbers, seldom played and sympathetically performed. She played “Melodie in E Major,” by Rachmaninoff; “Lumineuse Fountaine,” by Bortkiewicz; “Mazurki in F Sharp Minor"; “Bells of Anacapri,” and “Prelude” from “Suite Pour le Piano,” all by Debussy. The first half of her program was devoted to works of the old masters—Chopin, Beethoven, Lisat and Schumann. Lucy M. Boyer presented students in a plano recital at the Women's City Club Friday night. Those on the program Jean Daugherty, Helen and Anas Agrafiotis, Adams, Martha Ludwig, Grace and Bennie Contristan, Elenora Schweitzer, Elise Fisher, Margaret Lustig, Blanche Locke, Leonora Raboy, Irma and Rita Halloran, Josephine Merelman, De Witt Thorne, Carolyne Feller, Frances Bretier, Mildred Brody, Ruby ' Shoofal, Edith’ Palfrey, Doris Mandley, Bernice Willet, Raymond Dare and Margaret Clore. were: Mildred Mullikin presented students in a recital at her home yesterday afternoon. ‘Those taking part were Janet Barnes, Mary Brawn, Helen Conard, Frances Donovan, Helen Foley, Olive Harris, Richard _Hollander, Martha Byrd Kemon, Frances Linthicum, Irma O’Shaughnessey, Margaret Ruth Ellen Platt, Alice Jean Sartwell and Mary Sartwell. Eleanor Phillips, Norwood, Mrs. Charles Glenn Wells, assisted by Mrs. Millard Lewis Kenestrick, will present a group of students in a piano recital at the Cleveland Park Congre- gational Church Friday at 8:15 p.m. All who are interested are invited to attend. Mrs. Routt Johnson Manning will present students in an “hour of music,” plano music, at_the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church tomorrow at 7:45 p.m. ‘Those participating will include Clark noons at 5:30 o'clock, in the bandstand. | Hawkins, Barbara Thal, Barbara Culley, The full programs, which combine | Harry Borjes, Mary Ann Somervell, light and classical selections, will be | Judith de Lima, Darragh Nagle, Con- published in daily issues of The Star. Coolnd(e Music Festival In October in Cl’ucnfio [ELIZABETH SPRAGUE COOLIDGE, donor of the chamber music audi- torium in the Library of Congress in Washington, announces, via Hugo Kort- schak, chamber orchestra conductor, that a festival of this type of music will be given under her sponsorship in Chicago October 12 to 16, 1930. ‘The Brosa String Quartet of London, Harriet Cohen, London planist, and Emma Luebbecke-Job, a pianist from Frankfort, will be artists to be heard for the first time in this country during this festival. A number of the compo- sitions represented will receive their first performance. The programs of the festival are an- nounced to be as follows: L Sunday. October 12, at 830 PM. Olga Averino, soprano: George Barrere, fute: Iwan d'Archambeau. _violoncello: William Kroll, violin: Emma_La b, Nahoum Benditzky, Leigel, flute piano: Marcel Honore, oboe; Ernest % Josef Vieland, Viola, 'and Chamber Orches- ira, conducted by Hugo Kortschak. Program Unaccompanied suite of violoncello in E-fiat. B e e Bach Sonatina in ‘canon form for 3 flutes. opus 31 ok Hindemith No.'3 i Sonata ' “for o Bac “violin® E-major ... Intermission. Die Serenaden.” cantata for soprano. oboe, viola and vigloncello, opus 35... Hindemitn Sonata for flie and piano, No. in IO 0o o e . Bach concerto with Chamber Orchestra. “dindemith Piano . Morday. Qctober 13. at 3:30 P.M Harriet Cohen, Piano. And the Brosa Quartet of London, Program String quartet in C-sharp minor, opus 131 Beethoven iolin and violoneello, Bridge ntermission Legend.” for piano and viola Bax Choteokraphic Buite,” for string quartet. S2anto Trio for piano, v 1. Tuesday, October 14, at 8:30 P.M. Olga Averino. soprano: Iwan d'Archam- beau., violonceilo: George . flute: Rudoiph Reuter. piano. Brosa Quartet and Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Hugo Kortschak Program of Ttalian Music “Ritrovari.” for 11 instruments. Sonata for flute and piano. ... B Three songs (on popular Italian verses) for soprano and string quartet.... _Pizzeti Intermission. Sonata in D major {or violoncello and th e ondu Malipiero Pilati piano Songs ... S . Monteverd String auiariet. .. Castelnuovo v Wednesday. Oetoher 15, at 3:30 P.M George Barrers, flute: Jacaiies Gordon. violin: Iwan d Archambeau. violoncello; Lec Pattison, piAno; Josef Vieland. vioiin. Program Sonata for violoncello and pian Sonatina for violin and viol Tntermis Partita for violin and piano, opus 48, effer Trlo for flute, viola and violoncello, ogus 40, Strube no 00 Kricka V. Thursday. October 16. Quartet Lee Pattison. piano harp: marcel Honore. oboe. bassoon. horn and double bass. members of Chicago Svm- phony "Orehestra: Ohamber Orchestra, con- ducted by Fre ock. at 8:30 PM Georze Barrere. Lu ' conduetin Intermisison. Quintet for pian iwo violins, Violoncello Concerto for ‘st Frederick Stock conducting . These_events will be given in_the James Simpson Theater in the Field Museum in Chicago, Il ‘The conferring of degrees and the commencement recital of the Von Un- schuld University of Music were held in the baliroom of the Willard Hotel June 6 rgaret Alexander, graduate of the artist planist course, received the de- gree of master of music. The bacca- raureate address was divered by Allard H. Gasque, Representative from South Carolina. Other students, not graduates, ap- pearing on the recital program were presented by Mme. von Unschuld, in : Prof. Juon van Hulsteyn, in vio- lin; Myron Whitney, voice, and Jacques Vanpouke, in elarinet. _The William Moss, Laurette Martin, Evelyn Foster (bachelor of music), Virginia Coffman, ances Brunt, Ell- wood Backenstoss, Ruth Truitt. | i i | stance Russell, Casson Crittenden, Amanda Chitum and Maxine Duvel. An invitation is extended to all who are interested. Daisy Pickenscher, teacher of violin, violoncello and_piano, will present her advance ensemble class in a recital at Pierce Hall, All Souls' Church, Sixteenth and Harvard streets northwest, Thurs- day at 8:15 pm. Trios, quartets and uintets will be included in the program. eaturing works by Sibelius, Debussy. Are Offered EN the Chautauqua musical sea- son opens at Chautauqua Institu- | tion, Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., in July, students and visitors will find a program more complete and more varied than any given in past years. The presence at Chautauqua of a number of the world’s foremost musical interpretets, a prog; of symphony and chamber music concerts and operatic perform- ances, and a Summer school program which includes accredited courses in public school music and instrumental and vocal instruction, make the inst! tution comparable 'to the famous musical centers of Europe, Chautauqua, known as the “Summer city in the woods,” becomes also “the Summer city of music.” Returning to Chautauqua for the ninth time with the same orchestra, Albert Stoessel will present symphonic masterpieces from July 15 to August 23. Mischa Mischakoff, recently appointed concertmaster of the Chicago Sym- hony, is concertmaster. Georges arrere will be associate-conductor and solo-flutist. He is known throughout the world as a foremost artist and as | leader of the Barrere Little Symphony. Guest conductors during the Summer are Dr. Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music, and Sandor Harmati, brilliant young Hun- garian. | Ernest Hutcheson and John Erskine head the list of soloists scheduled to | appear with the orchestra, who also in- clude: Horatio Connell, baritone: Mischa Mischakoff, violin: Georges Barrere. flute; Harrison Potter, piano; Milo Mileradovich, soprano; Mary Katherine Akins, 'soprano; Brownie Peebles, contralto; Edward Molitore, tenor; Alfredo Valenti, basso; Robert Crawford, baritone; Joseph Pigzo, harp, | and Walter E. Howe, organ. Mr. Stoessel has included a number of works by American composers, such | Boriik, recital re- | Alice | Mildred | Linthicum, Virginia | Louse Price, | | at Chautauqua Saturday, July 5. Student Recital Programs [ AN Sachs, Franck, Haydn, Gluck-Saint Saens, Schumann and Faure, ‘The students participating will in- clude Wallace Alden, Robert Barrett, Signey Dorfman, Hermon Hill, Ruth Hobbs, Georgia Hopkins, Lura Yoomis Robert Rosenthal, violin, Ruth Hays and John Oden, viola: John Hain, Wayne Hill and Philip Wright, ‘cello, and Gertrude Bailey. Bernice Drissel and Iantha Smith, piano. Miss Fickenscher presented her inter- mediate class in a recital at the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church Thurs- day, when, in addition to several men- tioned above, the following took bart Margaret Shéarer, Alice Scott and Ida Eveler Friday, at the same church auditoriim Miss Fickenscher presented her junior class, Including Jean Volland, Edward Villalon, Nancy Heefner, Ross Stevens Lois Clark, Ellen Mary Wright, Doris Udoft, Betty Jane Stevens, Wayne Hill, Hugh Scott, Elizabeth van Geuder, Betty Sullivan, Carlton Howell, Ralph George Hopkins and Violet Hobbs. A brilliant planist and | The Junior I. O. M. A. Club of the Institute of Musical Art celebrated the final meeting of the season by A chil- dren’s party, given in the recital hall of the institufe The program, which was in charge of | Eugene Otto and Jean Dulin, respec- tively president and secretary of the club, consisted of plano, violin, expres- sion and dancing numbers by pupils of Emilie Bishop, Frances Hubbard, Re- becca Dial, Ann Watts, B. Frank Gebest and C. E. Christiani. After the program refreshments were | served by the hostess, Mrs. Alice Long Bridwell, assisted by Mrs. William E MeCain ‘and Mrs. William Humphrey. |, The following pupils participated in the program: Jeanette Stein, Barbara Kibbey, Kathryn Wicky, Richard Rus- sell, Nellle McCatn, Helen Stein, William McCain, Jean Colangelo. Lorena Mur- ray, Churchill Downing and Edward Frazier. | Mabel Linton Willams will present her students in a plano recital Friday | at Foundry M. E. Church at 8 p.m Floyd Willlams and Mrs. James Hoyer | will be the assisting artists, Joset Kaspar will present a group of his younger violinists from the junior class in s0lo and ensemble work at his residence, 1217 M street northwest, this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. All those in- terested are Invited. Those giving solo numbers will be ylvia Pesner, Alvin Kay, Dan_Rassin, Sylvan Mazo, Meyer Laskin, Barbara Caton, Abraham Lynn, Albert Perga- ment and Betty 8ahm. The accompan- ists will be Dora Minovich and Irene Lerch. The final two selections will be en- semble performance of the intermezzo from Mascagni's “Cavalleria Rysticann” and the andante of Tschaikowsky's “Fifth Symphony.” Children participat- ing in this ensemble who are not men- tlon above include Arthur Avignone, Priscilla Barrows, Solly Breeskin, Dan Goldman, Willard Jones, Murray Lit- man, Robert Merrit, Julia Neff, Sydney Salus, Louls Sherwood, Alvin Sperling, Rosa Susser, Betty Rose Sutton and Julia Warner, Madeleine Aughinbaugh _presented students in her fourth annual piano re- cital at Plerce Hall Wednesday night. The assisting artist was Rose Pollio-Jar- man, mezzo-contralto, who sang a group of songs by Bizet, Pergolesi and Densmore, with some Negro spirituals as arranged by Mildred Kolb Schulze. Mary Iva Smith, a goung dancer, gave a solo, accompanied by Norma Smith, Plano students participating included: Rose Britton, Evelyn Sackrider, Shirley Streeks, Hazel Reck, Ann Reck, Doro- thea m",’{' Dorls ~ Anderson, ' Robert | Keleher, Regina Wright, Wiiliam de Weese, Jane Reuss, Dorothy Hoke, Mary | Iva_Smith, James' Britton, Doris Cun- “(Continued on Seventh Page.) Multiple Music Interests at Chautauqua 1r;ptmmt:nuhl’ muslcfl. cond;'xcun e!um | plano teaching and practice | and observation. Under the direction of Ernest Hutche- | son, dean, Juilliard Graduate School of | Music, New York, Chautaugua Music | School's plano department offers study in piano music and three master courses in interpretation, lectures and concerts. | The voice department, under the direc- tion of Horatio Connell of Ourtis Insti- | tute of Music, Philadelphia; the violin | department, with Mischa Mischakoff as | director; an organ department; in- | struction in flute, under Georges Bar- rere, and instruction in fretted instru- | ments by Lucella Allen, complete the | range of musical work offered by the | Chautaugqua Summer schools. Opportunities to win scholarships in piano, voice and violin are afforded | Chautauqua_students who compete in | the scholarship competition to be held The Juilliard School of Music will award three scholarships, one each for pianc | voice and violin, for music study ai | Chautauqua | American citizens between the ages of | 16_and 30. Candidates should be The Curtls Institute of Music will send a group of students to Chautnuqua | to study there under Mr. Connell, Chautauqua’s Junior Orchestra and Children's Choir, conducted by Mauret Hunkins is still ‘another feature of the Chautauqua season. Musical Studios of Washington FREE MUSIC LESSONS of anv musical m; siven with pur o B RRENER'S as Janssen, Griffes, Eichheim, Hanson, Whithorne, Guion, Stoessel, Goldmark, | Kramer and Gardner. In addition to | standard symphonies, the program in- | cludes four important compositions new le Lawrence. | tirnes” Miss Alexander played the concluding number, the Sci Danube by Johann Strauss. ler arrangement mony, the Waltee grad ¢ to_ Chautauqua “Four S, audiences: Bloch's Episodes,” Prokofiefl’s “Class ymphony.” Debussy's “Three Noc- and Bach's “Peasant Cantata. Oper the Chautauqua musical season. The Opera Association, with Albert Stoessel as general director and Alfredo Valenti as stage director, was launched last year. Vital and colorful performances in English of well known grand operas, with modern stage settings designed by Margaret Linley of the Theater Guild, will * include Gretel.” “The “Martha” and “Madam Butterfly. | The Chautauqua Chamber Music So- | ciety will enter upon its third _ve-r.‘ Choral singing will be featured with performances of several oratorios and | other choral works under the direction of Prof. Robert Lee Osburn, with Harris | Potter of the Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N. Y., as associate conduc- tor. Organ recitals are to be included vegularly, Prof. Walter E. Howe of Abbott Academy, Andover, Mass., pre- siding at the institution's great organ. For the music student who wishes to pursue Summer studies in an environ- ment affording the utmost in cultural and recreational activities, Chautauqu offers courses accredited by New Yorl University. ‘The public school music department 1s organized and conducted under the general supervision of Dr.| Hollls Do head of the Department | of Musle, School o(H!:dunuon. New York University. The" university will | grant the same credits forgourses com- pleted at Chautauqua re allowed | for similar courses offered &t the New York University Summer teaghers and supervisors of Olasses will be nvdn‘:_ll-m-a |mmu actice, sight reading, dict B i ot ‘music elementary uln:ol les of , m is another fmportant phase of | | HERMAN'S SCHOOL OF MUSIC Accordion. String Instruments. W, '] 4188, WALTER T. HOLT and Ukulele Estableshed J894 Sawsmble practies with the Nesgics Ciuvs olumbia Rd. N.W., Col. 0946 INSTITUTE MUSICAL ART Summer Term Begins Tomorrow Enroll at Once B o OTT RE Oreh 831 liu. 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