Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1930, Page 101

AR BUNDAY STAR, WASHINGT ON, D. C, NOVEMBER 9, 1930. WC K NEW/ OF THEM Events of the Week MONDAY. Stradivarius Quartet in recital, at * McKinley Auditorium, at 8:15 p.m. WEDNESDAY. Oscar Seagle, song recital, at the Mayflower, at 4 p.m. First of Mr. and Mrs. August King- Smith’s musicales. FRIDAY. Geraldine Farrar, in song recital, at Constitution Hall, at 4:30 p.m. Inaugural concert of Mrs. Wil- so;zi;Greene's afternoon artists series. HE Philadelphia Orchestra having \ tossed more or less of a bombshell in Constitution Hall last Tuesday evening by playing, superbly, the dramatic Strawinsky “Le Sacre du Printemps,” the music season may now be said to be definitely established and to have been given an impetus by Leopold Stokowski that it sadly needed. \ One of the most interesting announcements of the week concerns Mr. Paderewski, who, 1t is said, will play all of 10 Chopin numbers when THIS concert of Mr. Paderewskis is, incl- dentally, something to keep well in mind, and assuredly it is one of the great red-letter days of the musical season. For critical sleuths, who have been waiting with bated breath for this phenomenal Polish pianist to give his first concert after a long sickness and in the face of his recent seventieth birthday, have been sadly disappointed in the throwing of the¢ir uncom- plimentary words. It seems that Mr. Paderew- ski, in his opening concert at Carnegic Hall, New York, not only played a two-hour program with a -vizardry that left those present some- what breathless, but went on for another hour, playing about everything that anybody wanted, and seemed as if he were capable of doing the her way of musical stimulus. AN-mbundmotmamhubeenm § £ {1 Eggfigg §§ H 1] ; i i ‘- Farrar in Recital at Constitution Hall. Local Debut of Stradivarius Quartet. Announcements of the Week. A recent photograph of Geraldine Farrar. Am:longabueneeoerddlnem comes back to Washington Friday to appear in recital at Constitution Hall. Miss Farrar’s concert is scheduled for 4:30 o'clock and will inaugurate Mrs. Wilson-Greene’s artists course of afternoon concerts. The erstwhile prima donna of the Metro- politan Opera Co. will open her program with Mozart’s “Das Traumbild,” to be followed by four Schumann selections, including “Ihre Stimme,” “Soldatenbraut,” “Gruss” and “In’s Frele.” Next will come two songs by Schubert— “Gott im Fruhling” and “Liebe Schwartt aud Allen Wegen"—+to be followed by Wolf’s “Wenn du Mein Liebster,” Brahms' “Wiegenlied” and Strauss’s “Allerseelen.” Other songs will in- clude Gretry’s “Ariette,” Godard’s “D'ou Venez Vous!” Mendelssohn’s “Folksong,” Grieg's “Greeting,” Rubinstein’s “The Tear” and Franz Ries’ “A Song to Flora.” Miss Farrar will be assisted by Valentine Pav- lovsky at the piano, who will also play a number of pianoforte solos. Choral Group to Give Concert at D.A.R. Hall ’I‘Bl Force School Parent-Teacher Association has announced a concert to be given Jan- uary 27 at Constitution Hall by the National Capital Choir, under the direction of Dr. Albert W. Harned, for the purpose of organ- . izing an active alumni association. The announcement of this concert, which brings into the public eye one of Washington’s most important choirs, is of especial interest, inasmuch as this choir is the parent of the quite new. One of the oldest schools in Wash- ington, this school has among its alumni many people prominent in local and Government fields. The National Capital Choir, which has been chosen by the Parent-Teacher Association to give a full-length program on the night of January 27, has figured prominently in Wash- ington musical circles since its formation in the streets northeast, under the auspices of the Community Institute. This quartet takes its name from the four famous instruments in its possession. Alfred second by the Stradi- varius Quartet will begin at 8:15 pm. The pro- gram follows: = e, in D Minor, No. 13,” “Allegro Moderato,” “Andante,” “Menuette,” “Allegretto, Ma Non Troppo”—Mozart. “Prelude,” “Night,” - "—Ernest Bloch. “Quartet in A Minor, Opus 51, No. 2,” “Allegro Non Troppo,” “Andante Moderato,” “Quasi Minuetto, Mode- rato,” Finale, “Allegro Non Assai”—Brahms. ROBI and Ottilie Sutro, whose two-piano concert recital was erroneously announced soloists at All Souls’ Unitarian Church, at which Lewis C. Atwajer is organist. is Mrs. Keefer's third season at All 2 anm.mma: Bethel Synagogue, New York. furthermore, given song recitals at Continued on Twenty-second Page . Musigraphs HE fortieth annual benefit concert of the Vaughn class of Calvary Baptist Sunday school will take place Friday evening at 8:1§ o'clock. The soloists will include Florence Yokum, Elsa L. Raner, Alice S. Morse, Harry & Harth, Willlam F. Raymond and Fred East The accompanists will be Marie C. Hansen, Harry Wheaton Howard and Robert S. Thomas, THE WASHINGTON Alumnae Club of Mu Phi Epsilon will hold its next regular meeting on Monday evening at 8:15 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Olive Witters, Clarendon, Va. A pro= gram of Indian music will be in charge of Mrs, ~ Olive Pratt. Founders day, November 13, will be celebrated by the Rho Beta Chapter and the Washington Alumnae Club jointly with ® musicale and dinner at Tilden Gardens at 6:45 p.m. THE CONCERT by the Nordica Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra, Walter T. Holt, director, which takes place this Priday evening at 8 o'clock, will have as assisting artists Gladys Marks, rano; Howard Moore, baritone, and Esther Spier, pianist. THE 1 P. C, a choral club, held its regulag weekly meeting Thursday night under the di- rection of Dr. Edward P. Donovan. Mrs. Evelyn Stone Thomaides was the accompanist. ANITA SCHADE has issued invitations for & lecture which she will give Saturday evening at 8 o’clock at her home, 1529 Rhode Island avenue northwest. Mrs. Flora McGill Keefer will assist Miss Schade. R. DEANE SHURE will give a series of Sune day night recitals of Holland Psalms at the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church. - MAXINE SNAVELY, soprano, will be pre= sented this afternoon at the musicale of the Marjorie Webster School of Expression and Physical Education, accompanied by Martha McC. Stevens. THERE WILL BE a musical service at the Church of the Ascension tonight at 8 o’clock. The soloists will include Ella Mintz, Sue Gard= ner, Blanche Ramon, Dorothy Sinnott, Leslie Coyle and Roy Sabean, with Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee at the organ. THE NOCTURNE Club of the Washington College of Music offered a brief program at the meeting last Wednesday. Those participating included Betty Gray, Catherine Benson, Cons stance Gustat, Lena Kash and Celeste Pelton. THE SOLOIST at the German service of Concordia Lutheran Church today will be Alice ‘Wilcox, soprano, who will sing “Freu Dich Sehr Meine Seele,” by Von Weber. THE rehearsal of the Rubinstein Club will be held ‘Tuesday morning at the Willard Hotel, and in the evening at the Mount Pleas~ and Congregational Church, A NEW MUSIC Club was recently organized at the studio of Felicia Rybier, No. 2 Dupont treasurer. plans to meet the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. THE SCHUBERT Choral Club invites those ore at the Lafayette Hotel in the gold room at 7:30 . o’clock. THE HARVEY School of Music has moved