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Events of the Week TODAY. “The Other Wise Man,’ to be repeated Monday and Tuesday, at Luther Place Memorial Church. MONDAY. Concert by Cornell Musical Clubs at the Shoreham Hotel at 8:30 p.m. HE New Year, in the matter of local music is making so little noise that celebrations are difficult to visualize. After a week of “Messiahs,” more or less, all over the place, with emphasis on Mr. Hetzel’'s choral efforts at Central High School, there is such a calm as the Sea of Galilee might envy. The New Year floats in on a tide totally void of accompaniments by musical cymba or trumpets, and a whole week elapses before activities assume any kind of worthy proportions again. Even if, however, the concerts of the great are muted during the coming week, and one is forced to look back wistfully on Paderewskis, Tturbis, Cossackers and Clairberts, the week following brings German music and musicians into the foreground. And this is something well worth checking off on the “musts” of the calender. This year’s German Opera Company, with the new manager, J. J. Vincent, is quite out of the ordinary. Apart from Juliette Lippe, who took herself off on a tangent musical cloud, the company is full of the same prodigious talent that marked it so auspiciously last year— plus much that is new—and, according to Mr. Vintent, who tramped all over the continent in search of talent—remarkable. Prominent in the long roster of stars who will sing out their hearts and souls on the stige of the National Theater beginning a week _ And then theré is that dance recital of Mary Wigman at the National on the 9th, which is of such very great interest to all who are smitten with the dance bug, or AN!Wbootupp&uoutheApplebnhmim. called, provocatively encugh, “What Do You Know About Music?” The bright red cover says that it has 5,000 questions and answers on the inside, and that it is. “A liberal education for every music lover.” There seems to. be little doubt about the lat- author, Albert W. Weir, has provided this with are harmony, folk songs, grand opera, light opera, music criticism, stringed instruments, music magazines, percussion instruments, music copyright, wind mstruments, Indian music, mu- sical history, musical form, sacred music, choral music, chamber music, the orchestra, painting and music and music terms. This is only a very small percentage of the many music fields that it delves into and pumps with devastating thoroughness. The questions are likely to pucker the brow of the most astute musical generalissimo—in- deed, one wonders if even St. Cecilia herself, in her most patronizing moments, would be able to snap out correct replies without rustling around her own priwate dictionary. Here are a Mst of some of the milder queries: “What four stringed instruments preceded the violin?” “What Amer- ican woman violinist, born at New York in 1868, played the Bach double concerto with her teach- er, Joseph Joachim, at the Crystal Palace in London?” “How were orchestras conducted in the days of Handel and Bach?” “What is a ‘leit-motif’?” “What does the word ‘tenor’ really mean?” “When was the term ‘sonata’ first used?” And below are listed some ques- tions that seem not so easily answered: What English king had a band of 14 trum- pets, 10 trombones and 4 kettlodrums? What celebrated painter selected a flute oon- eert by Frederick the Great as a subject? What modern German composer wrote a symphonic poem based on “Macbeth”? What two beautiful waltzes by Ziehrer are still popular? What is the rhythmic peculiarity of the ezardas? ‘What other Spanish word means the same - *“bolero”? . What is the difference between noise and musical sound? What eminent English composer wrote the *Hymn for Aviators” during the Wosld War? What are Walits? 3 What popular German comedian wrote the Jullaby “Go to Sleep, Lena Darling”? How is kettledrum music written? The answers to all these are safely tucked away in the back of this large and generous book. To say that some of them do not seem especially important might be unkind. But it is true. Many of them, however, will ignite the curiosity of the most sage and venerable art- ists and, as a mental tonic strongly flavored with musie, it should do for the children, any- where from 19 to 99. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 28, 1930. - N New Year Week Brings Cornell Clubs and “The Other Wise Man”—Additional News. Katherine Riggs, harpist, and Judy Lyeth, dancer, soloists in. the production of “The Other Wise Man.” USIC of the Oriental countries and traditional melodies of the time of Christ will play an important part in the presentation-of Dr. Henry Van Dyke's dream-legend, “The Other Wise Man,” to be given for the sixth consecutive Christ- mas on December 28, 29 and 30 at Luther Place Memorial Church on Thomas Circle. The Hebrew mother in the drama will sing her babe to sleep with an ancient Hebrew lullaby, “Oi, Shlof Mein Feigele,” arranged beggar at the temple the “Kol Nidre” and other traditional melodies as she asks alms of the Pharisees, and the Parthian slave girl, in interpretive rhythm, will portray the “spirit of the oppressed” in her _ritualistic dance, suggested by the pass- over music played in the final episode by Katherine Riggs upon her harp. Miss Riggs, as the minstrel, has chosen for instrumental numbers, for scenes and entractes, Stoughton’s “Persian Suite,” Mac- Dowell’'s “Les Orientales,” Brittain's “Oriental Suite,” “Ase’s Death,” from Grieg's “Peer Gynt Suite,” and the “Benedictus” from Gounod's “St. Cecelia Mass,” as well as an ancient Polish choral, Chopin’s “Prelude in C Minor,” and Borodin’s “Reverie,” as the people of Jerusalem make their way through the Damas- cus Gate to Calvary. Beautiful carols of the Christmas season will likewise be introduced by Miss Riggs in the musical accompaniment, chosen to deepen the spiritual atmosphere of this religious drama which is offered each year as a Christmas ceremonial service for the people of the Cap- ital City. Preceding the presentation of the drama itself, which begins at 5 o’'clock this afternoon, and at"8:30 o'clock tonight, Monday and Tues- day, an organ recital of Christmas music will be rendered by Margaret Sykes Hammerness, which will include “Adoration,” by Borowski; “Andante,” from the “First Symphony,” by Beethoven; pastoral symphony from “The Messiah,” by Handel, and “Ave Maria,” by Bach-Gounod. The organ recital will begin at 4:30 for the afternoon presentation and at 8 o'clock on all three evenings. WORDeomeltmthehflhollthmM the Cornell Musical Clubs, whose con- cert comes Monday evening, have responded to the blandishments of the highbrows in glee club music only in part. The Cornell clubs will include in their program at the Shoreham Schumann’s “The Two Grenadiers,” and they will also sing a wide variety of college songs and several far from classical stunts for voice and orchestra. ‘The program lists a song called “The Clock,” which depicts the anger of a Scotchman who finds after winding his clock regularly every day for nearly 20 years that it is an eight-day clock. Along with the chorus performance of Daniel Protheroc’s “The Pilot,” there will be a =olo, “The Border Ballad,” taken from Scott’s poem, “Monastery,” and sung by a young Scottish- American, now a sophomore at Cornell, Bruce Boyce. ‘Besides being a soloist in the glee club, Boyce pulled an oar on the Cornell fresh- man crew st Poughkeepsie last Spring. Out of Town Notes. HE dance world is tonight in a furor, over New York way, where the American debut of Mary Wigman, scheduled for the eve- ning at the Chanin Theater is taking place. Not only will Kreutzbcrg and Georgi- ites be there, but Isadora Duncanites from whom she is said to have learned much in her early dancing days, and many and sundry other dancers who were wise enough to get their tickets in the early crocus season will be on hand. This is definitely the most important dance occasion that has come to these shores in a long time, and especially interesting to Washington, even from long dis- December 10 seems to have brought forth cheers that have swept all the way east to New York and points South. Especially since the Continued on Twenty-second Page Musigraphs T a meeting of the German Literary Society, which was held the night of December 20 at the home of Anita Schade, the following program was pre- companist: “Amaryllis” (Air de Gavotte, Louis XIII), & duet sung by Ethel Lynn Fast, so- prano, and Paige Burtoughs, contralto; “O Thaut We Two Were Maying” (Nevin); a Negro spiritual by Dett, “There’s a Meeting Here Tonight”; a lullaby by Anita Schade, “Good Night,” sung by the choral club; “Cantique de Noel,” by Adolphe Dett; “Silent Night,” and the “Hallelujah” chorus from the “Messiah.” Warren F. Johnson will give an organ recital at the Church of the Pilgrims at 7:30 o'clock this evening. He will play “Rhapsody on an Old Walloon Carol,” Guy Weitz; “Noel Ecos- sais,” Guilmant, and “Christmas “Fantasia,” by Faulkes. Oba Jan Gibson, soprano, rendered ;emnl‘ groups of operatic selections for the Texas Club last Saturday evening. Emilie Mann was at the piano. The Glee Club and orchestra of the Langley Junior High School will give a concert in tha Lutheran Church of the Atonement this eve- ning at 8 o’clock. The program will be under the direction of Miss Bowen. Solos will be given by members of the school organization. Loramne- Gerardi will sing “Cantique de Noel.” This is a special song service to which parents of the children are cordially invited. ‘There will be special music offered at both- services today at Foundry Methodist Episcopal Awaits,” and in the evening the cantata, ‘@h2 Holy Night,” by Brewer, will be sung. Anton musicians include Mabel Linton Williams, or- ganist; Mary Sherier Bowie, soprano; Adessa Ehrhart, contralto; Horatio Rench, tenor, and J. E. 8. Kigsells, bass. A special service of music will be given to- night at the Sixth Presbyterian Church at 8 o'clock. The choir, under the direction *of Muriel Day, will sing the cantata, “The Star, of Bethlehem” (Harker). The soloists will in- clude Gladys Marks, Jean Ramsay, Paul Gott- wals and Howard Moore. Both the junior and the senior choirs of Christ’s Church, 620 G street southeast, num- . “ring 60 voices, will take part in special serv-: ices this morning and evening. The cantata, Spencer’s “The Story of Bethlehem,” which had its first presentation last Sunday, will be re- peated again tonight at 8 o’clock. Last Tuesday evening the Arts Club presented “a program of Tudor music,” which included among its soloists the Madrigal Singers, under the direction of Mrs. John Sylvester; Sade Styron, Edith Le Fevre, soprano, and Sophocles Papas, guitarist, as well as the Misses Clements and Miss Hicks, Miss Becker, Mrs. Foster, Mr. Potter and Mr. Hain. The program, arranged by Sade Styron, is said to have been among the most attractive of the year, the costumes, the singing, the plhying—everything, in fact—eut- doing itself for the occasion. Special Christmas music has been “arranged for All Souls’ Church (Unitarian) this moming, with Flora McGill Keefer, mezzo-contralto; Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, bass, and Lewis Atwater at the organ. The latter has planned a special concert of Russian music for 5 o’clock this afternoon. Brightwood Park M. E. Church Young Peo- ple’s Choir will present “The Holy Night” Christmas cantata at the 8 o'clock service this evening, under the direction of Mrs. Savona Griest, with Edwin Steele at the organ. Solos will be sung by Sadie Jarvinen, soprano; Salli@ Chesser, contralto; John Wilcox, tenor, and Mr. Balthus, bass. Mrs. Fred Rice sang several soprano solos in the program preceding the Christmas day wed- ding of Miss Gertrude Nicholaus and Guy . Marcellino. T. Guy Lucas will give his thirty-fourth organ recital at St. John's Church Monday evening at 8:15. Chrisimas carols are included in the program, At the morning service today of the National - City Christian Church the Deagan Tower Chimes will be dedicated. They are the gift of Lewis E. Grigsby of Los Angeles, in memory of his wife. The evening program will be a carol™ service, the two choirs being assisted by Walter , trumpeter, and Herman R. Hoffman, violinist, of the Marine Band Orchestra. The Lowe-Nevins concert orchestra will give - a program of unusual music at the Shoreham - ;i&t:lmhevenmc. Raoul de Costa will con- MUSICAL STUDIO. BESSIE N. WILD Voice Culture, Piano and Harmony - Studio, 6824 5th st., Takoma Pl:k. D. C Phone Georgia 3233