Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1930, Page 56

MU HIS being an immodest age, and one that flowers with personal and exuberant rhapsodies, it seems only just to hear, now and again, & musician come to the fore with a completely honest opinion of him- self. So it is with a mixture of admiration and wonder that one listens to Jose Iturbi saying to a flock of reporters on his return to this country: “I am not the great- | est pianist in the world, but by| no means the worst. Audiences | in America have surprised me with their appreciation of my playing.” This seems like a fairly ade-| quate summary of the gentleman | in question. It might, too, have| been written by a critic anxious THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 26, SIC mettle tested for the first time on these shores. The program will include the Mozart “C Major Quartet,” Violin and Violoncello,” and the Debussey “Quartet.” x x x % Harriet Cohen, the assisting artist, has not beeh heard in this country before. She has, however, been a favorite on the contin for some time, according to Berlin and Spanish crities. In Chicago, recently, she seems to have distin- Brosa Quartet at the first concert ety given last Monday. Miss Cohen, incidentally, is to give a recital of her own at Town Hall to bridge a difficult situation— neither to wallop nor to exalt. It| hits the nail so nicely on the head | that one can't help speculating | on whether the first line came to | Mr. Iturbi through a long and| ainful mental tide. For certainly this/ virtuoso's words have been re- {:hrtnted generously throughout e country since their debut, and have met with much and varied comment. They have, further- more, been trafficked throughout the kingdom with no minclnf of surprise—for to some the idea that a musician should put him- self plainly on the table and diagnose his technical musical powers has been a sore and sorry point. * k x % As matter of fact, there have been few artists so frank concern- ing their judgment of themselves. Although the musical prodigy is not apt to be a modest, blushing violet, whispering lugubrious op- probriums of himself to a lone and wilting wind, he is not inclined toward the more blustering ex- pressions of self-praise much be- yond the pale of his own studio. To a fellow crony, to a devoted help- | mate, or to a foreigner unblessed with a musical heritage, he may | confide that his vocal ar piano powers are really something worthy of attention. But outside his lyrical backyard, he is given to guarded silences, or to veiled and unfathomable estimations of his actual worth. The fact that Mr. Iturbi got the jump on the critics is something quite new. He placed himself so neatly in his exact category that one should like others to do the same for the simplification of opinion. Hence, if Mr. Kreisler on his recent return from Europe had only said, “I am the greatest violinist in the world,” or Jeritza | on her return confided that she| was the Metropolitan Opera’s best | soprano, it might have done a lot of . For a time it might stir up the heated voices of argu- mentative souls, but again it might shock these into a deep and thankful silence, and then rouse other kindred spirits to placate themselves honestly, so that one would no longer hear the Kreisler- Heifitz battle for supremacy, the | Paderewski-Hoffman duel in- dulged in by opinionated minds— even the stirring Toscanini-Kous- sevitski-Stokowski triangle might | be wafted away from the bloody, talkative battleground. * % % % One of the most tedious exer- cises of modern times—and ancient as well—is to have things | catalogued into “bests” and “bet- ters.” So many pseudo erudities are not satisfled with merely enjoying music and musicians, but must hustle the artists into a definite class. Perhaps the cinema, with its endless questionnaires de voted to “Who is the best, etc.?” has been in a measure re- 8] ble for this. Certainly, ere are many thousands whose brain-children are consistently devoted to “I think Miss So-and- 80 is the best pianist in the world —and better than—because” Why, oh why, one may not enjoy something without this twentieth- | century pestiferous comparing of | mountains with molehills and| vice versa? | There is probably no answer to | it all—except that this is a nerv- ous mental era with an endless argumentative horizon. When Mr. Iturbi said he was not the best pianist in the world, but cer- tainly not the worst, he was hitting a nice medium—because he is after all a distinguished some time in November. 1t is hard, with so little material at hand, to introduce Miss Cohen in proper fashion. A small pamphlet is here, however, which tells about her, and for want of its own methods: “Miss Cohen is visiting America at the invitation of Mrs. E. 8. Coolidge to participate in the chamber of music festival to be held in Chicago and at the Library of Congress during Octo- ber. A particular sensitiveness to ensemble forms single her from among several European pianists whom this country is destined to know sooner or later, and it is phony Orchestra has promptly ar- ranged for her appearance in December. Over a period of sev- eral years her name has fre- quently been mentioned here, so she comes as no stranger to musically informed circles, and our interest in her has been singularly piqued by the fact that most of Armold Bax’s piano works are dedicated to her. To many it has seemed a paradox that this striking English girl, so distin- guished as an exponent of Bach, should with such ease reach the musical extremes and be equally arresting in the modern idioms of Anglo-Saxon, French, Spanish and Italian compositions.” She appears to be known every- where and to know everybody. One finds her in the company of Bernard Shaw and Arnold Ben- nett as well as among the mu- sicians énd the painters. S8he has played with most of the important orchestras of Europe. All of which makes Thursday’s concert something of a real event. & GERTRUDE LYONS, Who has resumed her courses at her west, where she will be assisted by Margaret Bowie Grant, a pupil of Ernest Hutcheson, as head of the piano depart- ment. Miss Lyons' advanced students will sasist her in her radio programs. Music Association to Meet In St. Louis November 29 pLANB for the meeting of the Music Teachers’ Natlonal Association at St. Louis on November 29 to 30 are rapldly being completed by Howard Hanson, president of the association, and the Executive Committee. The program for the St. Louis meet- ing has been prepared with this con- sideration in mind. The first session, devoted to a discussion of “Music in Higher Education,” will have to do not only witn professional education in mu- sic, but also with the status of music in the liberal arts college, and will be | presided over by the president of the | National Association of Schools of Mu- sic and the chairman of the M. T. N, A. exponent of what he calls “the instrument of percussion.” before him. There must have been, incidentally, present in the group that surrounded him, a volce that said “Don’t you think, Mr. Tturbi, that you're just about the best pianist?” Whereupon the expert generalissimo of the keys replied with what seems to be well-nigh history and in such fashion as must have tingled the ears of those present. “I am not the best, but not the worst.” Splendid! And now, with the possibility of a shower of wrath coming this way, it might be interesting to find out who is the best and who is the worst! The latter would be especially | He | modestly refrained from saying| that he is the best—or better | than, etc. He spoke, in fact, after | one’s own heart and according to | no principles that have been laid | Committee on Colleges and Universi- ties. In the same way, the second ses- sicn will have to do, not with public school music itself—a fleld which is exhaustively covered by the supervisors’ national conference. Thus the M. T. N. A. will serve as a most valuable meeting ground for men in all branches of the music profession. Each session will be devoted to a dis- eussion of one general problem, sub- divided into four or five sections. In this way a concentrated discussion of an important general topic in several of its phases will be assured, paving the way for a stimulating general discus- slon at the end of each meeting. L T interesting. NO advance trumpeting of any kind seems to be heralding the approach to this city on Thursday next of the Brosa String Quartet of London and the young English pianist, Harriet Cohen, although this would seem t0 be one of the really interesting cnamoer music concerts of the year. at the Founder's Concert of the “Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation,” at the Library of Congress, on Thursday evening— before an audience that must necessarily be large since rumor has it that the tickets have long since been exhausted. Reports from Chicago, where these musicians first played in| this country, lured thither by Mrs. | Coolidge for her chamber music festital, indicate that the British- | ers are well deserving of the fame | they have acquired in their own | country. A young and continentally not too well known quartet—since last year “Survey of 1ta’ the “Founders' Day” concert at These artists are playing| Frank Bridge's “Trio for Piano,| guished herself, as also with the | of the New York Beethoven Soci- | significant that the Boston Sym- downtown studio, 1325 G street north- | Maier and Pattison Are Making Farewell Tour HEN Guy Maier and Lee Pattison, prominent two-plano soloists of the American concert fleld, appear at Con- stitution Hall on Saturday evening, November 8, Washington concert audi- ences will be seeing and hearing this famous piano ensemble for the last time, as this season marks the farewell tour of these noted artists. they feel they of their ca- reers in this particular fleld of music. The repertoire of two-piano musie, they point out, is not sufficiently abundant to remain fresh after 12 years of con- cert use, and both wish their concert | audiences to remember them at the highest stage of their musical develop- ment, Although Maier and Pattison expect to dissolve their long association, they will not disappear from the American music field, for Mr. Pattison proposes to devote most of his time to compo- sition, while Maler will continue to develop his ideas for children’s and young people’s concerts. Their farewell tour will easily be the | most extensive of thelr careers. Begin- ning in Chicago on October 12, Maler and Pattison will give recitals in not less than 50 cities before they close | their tour in the Spring, including a concentrated tour of the Pacific Coast. Two New York appearances will be made this season, on November 9 and rocess of mental mastica- | first-hand knowledge perhaps she | Pebruary 21 on, or just flowed in on a natural | may be summarized according to| . . A. Announces Musical Programs HIS afternoon at 5 o'clock the Young Women's Christian Associa- tion. Seventeenth and K streets, the nal prnfnm of “music for the out-o! | doors” will be presented by Betty Gray, | soprano; Aurelia Beck, contralto, and Catherine Benson, pianist and accom- pani . [ Seginning mext Sunday, November 2 a series of programs will be inaugurated offering “Music for the Harvest Sea- son,” arranged by Mary M. Burnett, secretary for music with the Young | Women’s Christian Association here. | The opening program will be given by | Mrs. Helen Turley, soprano soloist at National City Christian Church. The third Sunday concert in November will present Mrs. Raymond Dickey, violinist, and Alice Edwards, soprano, and the fourth Sunday will feature the’ Choir of the Church of the Ascension, di- | rected by Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee. | The final program in this series will | take place November 30, offering a “service of praise and thanksgiving” | appropriate to Thanksgiving. | TAll Sunday afeerncon programs are open to the public. Y. W.C Vablin\Recitallioi BYHE] At Carlton November 3 | ANNOUNCEMENT has been made that Magda Lavanchy, violinist, will give a concert at the Carlton Hotel Monday afternoon, November 3, at 4 o'clock. Miss Lavanchy, who was born In Zurich, took up the study of piano at the age of 5, and two years later de- | cided to include the violin in her mu- | sical accomplishments. At the age of | 8 she appeared on the concert platform with a program that included violin and piano selections. After studying with evident success at the De Ribaupierre Institute in Lau- sanne, Miss Lavanchy toured France, Germany and Switzerland, playing at one time second violin with the De Ri- baupierre Quartet. She later studied with Adolph Busch and Eugene Ysaye. The program follows: “Passacaglia.” Sammartini Nacheg; Saint Men o) “Con- rpor a) Le P Bere ‘Anca Seidlov niawskl. OporiGonrsniORare: PERA, oratorio and sacred song will be featured in a special course this Winter at the Washington Musical In- stitute by Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes, head of the voice department and of music education there. This study, as plan- ned by Dr. Barnes, will take up the story of opera from its inception in 1600, the earliest operatic efforts; the Italian, French and German grand opera, as well as the modern schools, the music drama of Wagner and a num- ber of American operas. Oratorio will be covered in the course, and sacred song composition discussed and pro- fusely illustrated. Dr. Barnes will also give a special course in choir training and elementary conducting, designed as a practical aid to choir directors. azurka. accompanist, Mardu_Whittemore on Music School Program M ARTHA WHITTEMORE, cellist, will be a featured artist during Sunday evening's broadcast of the U. S. School of Music program, under the direction of Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, composer and music authority. The program goes on the air at 8:15 Eastern Standard Time u'.‘fli( the Columbia Broadcasting net- work. Another assisting artist will be Wal- lace Cox, baritone. Part of the broad- cast will be utilized by Dr. Spaeth in pointing out simple ways and means | through which persons with limited musical education may understand and appreciate all programs. He will stress the comparative ease of musical study in the home. Philadelphia Opera. ‘THE Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. | announces that on Thursday eve- | ning, October 30, a double bill of two widely contrasting works will be pre- | sented, when “Pagliacci” will be given in conjunction with Puccini’s “Gianni | Schicen.” In “Pagliacci,” John Charles Thomas, well known American baritone, will make his first appearance here this season, singing the role of Tonio. Arol do Lindi, who made such a favorable impression as Radames in last week's production of “Aids,” will be the Ca- nio. This will be Lindl's last appear- ance with the company prior to his return to La Scala, Milan, ZENAIDE HANENFELDT, Whose ether concert at D. A. Mem: Hall postponed m"m‘:%o.tmeludl o eamoes o8 U150, b i oo the Drevives Sonioing dnte the Library of Congress. r MAKING DEBUT IN THIS COUNTRY HARRIET COHEN, Prominent English planist, who is assisting the Brosa String Quartet of London in a program of music being presented of Congress. this Thursday evening at the Library Events of the Sgason All concerts, unless otherwise stated, Constitution Hall. are to be held at November 4—Philadelphia Orchestra, at 8:30 p.m. November 8—Gala evening concert of Wilson-Greene series, featuring Edward Johnson, Emma Otero, Salvi and Guy Maler and Lee Pattison, at 8:30 p.m. November 14—Geraldine Farrar, at 4:30 p.m. (Wilson-Greene series). November 18—Maxim Karolick, at 4 :30 p.m., National Theater. November 20—John Philip Sousa and his band, afternoon and evening concert. November 26—Jan Ignace Paderewski, at 4:30 p.m. (Wilson-Greene series). November 29—Clare Clairbert, Belgian coloratura soprano, at 8:30 p.m. (Wilson-Greene series) 3—Opening _concert of Fiftieth Anniversary Bi December December Mayflower. December 3—Second concert of the the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s eethoven Festival, at 3 p.m. . 3—Mrs. Lawrence Townsend’s first morning musicale, at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Anni- m. Anniversary Beethoven Festival, at 8:15 p December 3—Second concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s An- versary Beethoven Festival, at 8:15 p.m. December 5—Third concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Anni- niversary Beethoven Festival, at 8:15 p.m. December 6—Fourth and final Orchestra’s Anniversar: voices, Serge Koussev December December Mayflower. ember 11—Fritz Kreisler, at 4:30 cember December December (Wilson-Greene series) 16—New York Philharmon! Mayflower. January at 8 pm. January the Mayflower. January 13—Beniamino Gigli, at 4: January Mayflower. January pm. January January January Mayflower, January January the Mayfiower. January 31—Roland Hayes, at 8:30 3—The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Greene series). T the Mavflower. 7T—John Charles Thomas, 10—Grace Moore, at 4:30 p.m. (Wi 13—Yehudi Menuhin, at 4:30 p.m. ( 17—The Philadelphia Orchestra, at 8 24¢—Maria Jeritza, at 4:30 ..—John McCormack, the 10—The New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, 4:30 p.m. 20—8erge serles, at 4:30 p.m. Freiburg “Passion Play” ‘Opens Tomorrow THE Freiburg “Passion Play,” from Freiburg, Baden, Germany, will be | presented at the Washington Audi- torium tomorrow night, October 27, and week. The play, with an interesting musical score, is a dramatic conception of “Passion week,” the trial, death and resurrection of Jesus. It is presented by the Freiburg Players, who for gen- erations have inherited their roles. Adolf Fassnacht, manager and director, is also the Christus. He is the eighth Fassnacht to play the role since it has been in the family, which acquired it in 1760. The play itself is backed by 866 {;‘" of eontinuous presentation in Freiburg and every principal eity of | Europe. It is intimately associated '"i'h Lht‘ha great ‘U%vmny bt‘h Pre}:ur 3 'or years the play toured Eu) wuam continuously, re- turning to iburg at stated times for presentations in the cathedral. Glee Club Program. ! HE Davison Glee Club, John R. Mon- roe conductor, will give a concert at Concordia Lutheran Church this eve- ning, presenting a program which in- cludes church music_covering a period | of four centuries. The club will be as- sisted by Cathreen Carrico, soprano, and Mabel Kennedy, mezzo-contralto. The accompanist will be Loulse Prescott, planist. The program follows: “Let Us Now Praice Pamous M “'Arise, O Ye Servants of God “Noon Quiet in the Alps” (a “Rhapsodie” from Goeth Winter” (with contralto solo Kennedy) ... “Three Plcture erof Babel".... X ~Rubinstein THREE ANTIPHONAL ANTHEMS, J .Palestrina Offertory d du Meine Bee « iss "Carrico.) | o et 1 Yo . Beéthoven olo” by Miss Carrice) | | “Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee"...Bach | .« - | New Title for “Beau Ideal.” SOMETHING _descriptive of riding hellions and fighting demons has| long been wanted by Radlo Plotures to | supplant the title of Herbert Brenon's | “Beau Ideal,” sequel to “Beau Geste.” | The title tocsin. was sounded with a | loud bawl by Mr. Brenon. With titles| to the right of him, titles to the left of him and titles in front of him, the di- | rector reached deftly into the pile and | lucked out ““The Devil's Battalion” for is pieture. Ralph Forbes, Lester Vail, Don _Alvarado, Otto leson, Leni Stengel and Paul are In its concert of 9—Philadelphia Orchestra, 10—Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's second morning musicale, at the 27—New York Philharmonic Symphony Society, at 4: 28—Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's seventn morning. musica "Rachmaninoff, final concert of the Wilson the Boston Symphony y Beethoven Festival, chorus of 200 itzky _conducting, at'3 p.m. 8:30 pm. p.m. (Wilson-Greene series). 13—The Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus, at 8:30 p.m. ic Symphony Soclety, at 4:30 p.m. 17—Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's third morning musicale, at the 5-6—The German Grand Opera Co., at the National ‘Theater, 7—Mrs. Lawrence Townsend’s fourth morning musicale, at 30 pm. (Wilson-Greene series). 14—Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's fifth morning musicale, at the 15—Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgle, dancers, at 4:15 . h(WHmn-Greene series). oseph Hofmann, at 8:30 p.m. (Wilson-Greene series). 20—The Philadelphia Orchestra, at 8:30 p.m. 2 21—Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's sixth morning musicale, at the . e, at -Greene series). at 4:30 pm. (Wilson- p.m. (Wilson. t of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's morning musicales, at at 8:30 p.m. (Wilson-Greene series). n-Greene series). Wilson-Greene series). :30 p.m. &m. (Wilson-Greene series). te to be announced later. at -Greene “Festival Mass" Opens Friends of Music Season HE Republic of Chezoslovakia will be officially represented this afterno 8t the first American performance of Leos Janacek's “Festival Mass” which will open the season of the Soclety of Friends of Music at the Metropolitan Opera House. Dr. Ferdinand Veverka, the Minister Plempotennary, and Dr. J. Novak, the Consul General here, have been invited to occipy boxes in recogni- tion of the national character of the concert, at which, besides the Janace! mass, works of his countrymen, Sme- | tana and Dvorak, will be given. The chorus of the Friends of Music, Augmented to 160 voices for the con- certs at the opera house and trained by Walter Wohllebe, chorus master, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra will take part. The “Festival Mass” will be sung in English. It was first per- formed in November, 1927, in Brno (Brunn), Czechoslavakia, and later at Prague, Berlin, Geneva and other Euro- an cities. It is receiving its first per. lormance in England this month at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. AR, ki s B S OTILIE AND concert at the Ma: of the MacDowsil . ’ ‘Who are giving a I 930—PART FOUR Completes Fortieth Year As Church Organist HERMAN BRUCE FOWLER is cele- brating today the completion of 40 years' service as organist and director of the choir of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Alexandria. Mr. Fowler studied the plano and gan with the late Dr. John W. , to accept the position of organist and director of 8t. Paul's Choir. St. Paul's Choir has made an envi: able reputation for itself musically under the guidance of Mr. Fowler. Many singers who have made success in opera, concert and choir work have sung with Mr. Fowler, either as members of the ! quartet or guest soloists. Among them | may be mentioned Louise Homer Stires, Virginia Evans O'Brien, Estelle Went- | worth, Albert Parr, Kenneth Ogden, Will C. Mills, Jessica Re Qua Cole, Mattie Wade Wools, Richard Wirt, J. Harris Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Witman, Carrie Evans Hulfish, Re- becca Pollard Hulfish, Harrle White, Margaret Ogden, Mrs. Stephen Field, Mrs. Robert F. Gooding, Hebe Carter Sturgis, Mae Greenwell Downham, Maud Harding Anderson, Vera Germond, Eve- lyn Howard Sheridan, Madge Veitch Palmer and many others. Each Lenten season since 1906 at least one cantata has been sung, lnd| these services have always attracted large congregations. Musigraphs R. AND MRS. CHARLES KEEFER have issued invitations for the first of eries of Sunday afternoon musical teas to be given at their apartment in Somerse. House beginning this Sunday afternoon. The artists will include Helen Dalby, Dan Thew Wright, jr., Helen Bury, Frances Cole, H. S. Snyder | and Robert Davidson. | A new quartet has been formed under | the direction of Mary M. Wilkins in Georgetown and has announced itself as ready for engagements. This quar- tet, composed of university men, is composed of Leon Bryner, Barrett Fluch.l. Robert Fuchs and Robert Rig- gles. At a recent banquet at the Mayflower Hotel in honor of Dr. Hauser of New York Giuseppe Bruno, baritone, was the sololist, assisted by Elizabeth Gard- ner Coombs at the piano. The thirty-second organ recital by | T. Guy Luc: t St. John's Church will take place Monday eveningat 8:150'clock. | The program will include Bach's “ e | in E Flat.” Handel's Suite from “Water Music,” Shure's “Peace of God” and Salome’s Grand Choeur.” Ruby Grims- | ley will offer the “Ave Maria"” by Bach- | Handel, and Costa's “I Will Extol Thee, O Lord.” A program of songs was presented at Barker Hall last Tuesday evening by Cornelia Harkness, soprano, and LeRoy Lewis, baritone. Mil Kolb-Schulze was the accompanist. Mrs. Charles J. Cassidy, pianist cf the Grace Gilchrest Studio; Irving | Lean, violinist, and Priska Kaspar, ac- | companist, of the Anton Kaspar Studio | furnished ‘a program of music at a re- ception given by the junior class of the day division of Washington College of Law on Sunday afternoon. Florence M. Yocum, twice winner of the District of Columbia finals in the | national radio audition, will be the | soprano soloist at the fortieth annual concert of the Vaughn class of Calvary Baptist Church on Friday evening, No- vember 14, in the Sunday school house. "l‘he ‘Tuesday Evening Music Club, Florence Howard, director, announces its first shut-in program of the season at Neighborhood House on October 28. ‘This is the first of a series of concerts for the hospitals institutions of | Washington sponsored by the Kiwanis | Club of this city. The Washington Conservatory of | Music on New Hampshire avenue an- | nounces its annual Fall vocal scholar- ship contest. It is intended to award a scholarship to each of the four prin- cipal voices as well as -baritone and | mezzo-soprano. Those wishing voice trials may secure same by telephoning | Signor Liguori's secretary at North | 6244 for an appointment. The Junior Choir of the Chureh of the Pilgrims, Esther Linkins, director, will sing at this evening's service “Prayer of Thanksgiving.” and Edward Fuller, boy soprano, will sing “Thou g{m Keep Him in Perfect Peace,” by 'OX. New members will be admitted to the choir for the first time on Sunday eve- ning, November 9. A junior recital of students of the Washington Musical Institute, 1201 Clifton street northwest, was held last Friday evening, October 24. The fol- lowing puplls played: Doris Bowles, Jean Yadkowsky, Jeanette Stein, Mil- dred Simons, Sophie Pollock, Frances Gregory, Helen Furr, Sylvia Tolstol, | Charlotte _ Anderson, Gloria Carter, | | Margaret Russell, Evelyn Eibender and | Ruth Diamond. | ‘The soloists he German service at Concordia Lutheran Church today | will be Harry Meiners, boy soprano, and | Robert Volland, tenor. They will sing the duet “O du Liebe, Meiner Liebe," by Stainer. Warren F. Johnson will give an organ recital at the Church of the Pilgrims at 7:30 o'clock this evening. He will play | “Sonata No. 1 on the Chorale,” “Com- mend Thy Ways Unto the Lord,” J. A. van Eyken, and “Cantabile,” M. E. | Bossi, | The rollou1n;;r}6-lm will be | sented at the Friends Church at oclock this evening: “Praise Ye the Father” ( i LT oy 0 g R S Minor [t B 1) ga lt, plsno; “The ( layton (vielin dna-Mae Miller " (Gael), Ll “llll. )!l': Pfred stanton.~pi {Schumann): Ton | 165, “Forchitgnt A re- 45 y farc | pleces of musical logic in exutencn,‘ Musicians By W. J. Henderson. Music and OES it not seem likely that the root of the present ation in musical art is the feverish search for o originality ever determined effort to produce it? Sup- pose one pauses for a moment to con- sider Beethoven and his ways. He cer- tainly was not what we of today would call an original composer. The germinal theme of the first movement of the fifth symphony is about as bald and | commonplace as a musical motive can | be. But see what the man did with it. The building up of that first move- ment is one of the most significant The result is irrefragable masterwork of tonal archtecture. Perhaps if aspiring young musicians | of today would give ‘more time and | deeper study to the art of developing simple thematic germs we should have more good, and less eccentric music. Perhaps, too, if these same young mu- sicians would spend less of ‘their time | trying to discover what magic fluid passes from the baton of a Toscanini to | an orchestra and would stay at home | and occupy their evenings with inten- | sive study of Beethoven's quartets, they would learn more about the mysterious methods of the creative mind. “But,” objects the young musician, “sitting at home with Beethoven's quar- tets will not give me the power to invent fruitful musieal ~ This is incontastable; but it may hel; him to realize that hundreds of the. matic roots, out of music has grown, have meeting to be undistinguished. Some- times composition is like literary writ- ing. Probably Robert Louls Steven- son could have written an elegant and even aristocratic essay on a dish mop. It was not the subjec. ulways, but the treatment, that made Macaulay en- trancing. Mencken says brilliant things | z;hu'. books which died on publication y. ‘The young modernist, mounted on his gl’l:wflnl polytonal charger and with shattering lance in rest, goes forth to demolish the polite manners of the classics and to blind us with the light- nings of his own weapon. He is going to be original above all things. Often he is. He makes themes such as no man before him, not even Bach or Brahms, ever made. And then a lot ‘ of us hardened sinners who are merely waiting for musical beauty sit up in our orchestra chairs and say: “Well, what of 1t?” gOMt of the young musicians who *) desire to study the wa: old masters may find help in mental two-volume work, “Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music," recently published by the tireless Oxford University Press. This work discloses the results of immense labor and re- search and it has been edited with scrupulous care and extraordinary fudg- ment by Walter Wilson Cobbett. whose preface is & model of modesty and sound sense There is also an intro- ductory essay written by that fine and accomplished scholar and crtic, Sir Henry Hadow. Such a work defles the reviewer. He can only invite attention to the con- tents and some outstanding articles. All the important chamber music com- positions of leading composers are musical quotations are used to assist in this department. The . tiful | editor's 30 pages on the Beethoven quartets will undoubtedly stand the test of time. They were written by a mu- sicologist, who 1s also a player, and who has got very close to the heart of the master. The editor has also con- tributed the 25 pages of a study of the chamber music of Brahms, which in excellence, challenge those on Beethoven. \Grace Moore Appeared in. - First Concert at National WHIN ‘Washingon was selected as the city to witness the premiere showing of Grace Moore’s first motion pleture production, “A Lady’s Morals,” which became current in the Capital & week ago, circumstances were once| again deepening the affinity that seems | to exist between this city and the pro- fessional career of one of the Metro- politan Opera Co.'s opera stars. For, strange as it may seem, Wash- ington not only witnessed the premiere of Miss Moore's first picture produc- tion, but this city also saw her begin the course of musical study that led later on to the Metropolitan. And what is perhaps stranger still, Wash- ington was the scene of Moore's first concert appearance, ite the | fact that many music lovers here be- lieve that the coming appearance of Grace Moore in concert this Winter will | mark her concert debut in the Capital. Mrs. Wilson-Greene, who is present- ing Miss Moore in her artists’ course of | afternoon concerts at Constitution Hall | later this season, not only supervised the opera star's early musical studies, but was the manager who brought about the singer’s first concert appearance as assisting artist on the same pir¢ with Giovanni Martinelli, Metropolitan Opera tenor, at an afternoon concert at | necticut avenue. the National Theater during the war period. It seems that Grace Moore about 1017 was entered as a student in the musical school which Mrs., Wilson-Greene and her husband, the late Thomas Evans Greene, then conducted on upper Con- Mr. Greene, deeply impressed by the qualities of voice re- | vealed by this schoolgirl from Ten- nessee, undertook the cultivation of a voice which he recognized as unusual. Shortly afterward Martinelli heard Miss Moore sing, and seemed so inter- ested that when Mrs. Wilson-Greens asked his permission to present Grace Moore as an assisting artist on his pro- gram at the National Theater he con- sented at once. The rest, of course, is musical his- tory. Grace Moore, then a somewhat frightened schoolgirl, but nevertheless possessed of much of the remarkable poise and showing gromixe of great vocal powers, quite charmed the audi- ence which heard her during Marti- nelli’s recital, though none even dreamed that before them stood a future star of the Metropolitan whose name in less than 15 years would be a musical house- hold word throughout America—the m | same Grace Moore who comes to Con- stitution Hall this Winter, billed as “leading soprano, Metropolitan Opera.” STUDIOS OF WALTER T.HOLT School of Mandolin, Guitar and B , Hawaiian Guitar and Ukulele Establ 1, e Nordiea Clubs Ensemble practi flfl‘ 1801 Columbia Rd. N.W., Col. 0946 PIANO STUDIO The Washington College of Music Potomac 1848 Tolophone for Appointment MAUD G. SEWALL Will Conduct a Class in HISTORY and APPRECIATION F MUSIC AT THE INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ART 831 18th St. N.W. On Thursdays at 5 P.M., Beginning ctober 30. EVERYBODY INVITE Price for Course of 20 Less THE INSTITUTE OF Studio 131019th North 7305 WASHINGTON » lg ll‘ Planist and Teacher Pupil of Carl Leimer. Director, Hanover Conservatory. and Prof M Bender, Royal High Sch Music, Berlin-Charlottenburs, N. Y. BARITONE Teacher of Singing Head Voice Dept. Chevy Chase School ‘Wednesdays by Appointment MAY ELEANOR SMITH 720-3 2215 14tk St. N.) . Recitals ral Clubs and Rhythmic Dancing. cital” programs arranged. Can assist voice students in foreign languages. Ex- cellent sight _reader. Highest recom- mendations. Reasonable prices. Special rates for violin and voice students. 2151 O St. N.W., Apt. 102. Ph. N, 8268 MUSICAL ART, Inc. C. E. CHRISTIANI. President B. FRANK GEBEST, Director Distinctly a school of the Music. Classes and private instr est art uetion for beginners and advanced students. Enroll at any time. 831 Epi,.‘““u'“l' 3:[ NW. " BESSIE N. WILD ““Val.!l“?l;l:.:‘é..‘gl‘?o Il OTTO TORNEY SIMON gl Vil Ly o ctures for Saday, November 4. 40 F. INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ART 831 18th St. N.W. t in and Art Sor Sight Reading First Congregational Church 10th & G STS. N.W. Appointments made—The Porti atur_2721 ROSE SUTRO, Hotel November 12 under the ausplces of Washington, " - f Gértrude Lyons‘ | Studio i 1325 G Street N.W. Nat'l 1836 Individual and clsss Instruc- Coac! in Oraterie, tion. hing Opera and Classic songs. Sight M" Tone Symbols. Stu- dents’ Studio Recitals. MAR GARET BOWIE GRANT pupil of Ernest Hutcheson in charge of Pianoforte Department and Studio Actwnln VESTA POLLOCK Assistant Accompanist ' = to any music D or _Art d * Teacher e. Freparatory School Afliated for Childreri JAZZ VON UNSCHULD UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC, inc. Mme. Marie von Unschuld, Pres. 1644 Columbia Rd. N.W. Phone Col. 5265. 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