Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1931, Page 93

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 17, 1931 ITH the Bach Pestival ended, the opera wilted, Constitution Hall dark, the Belasco housing only occasional dancing pro- grame and teachers and pupils muiling over what they have done and what they have not done during. the pest season, the music season proper ctands still and considers. It considers its pas: and its future and finds much therein worthy of reflection. Out of the local world rise up certain well tuned programs—witness some of the Friday Morning Music Club's recitals: out of the outside world great artists have pilcad for econsideration, and on the broad ho-izon of the future both merge into what should be & coming yeur of grand distinction. Yet before any speculations as to the past or the future one would like to pause a mo- ment in this mec¢hanical vale to pay respects %0 what is now only & memory of a great violin- ist and ecomposer, Bugene Ysaye, whose recent death has plunged the musical world into sin- cerest gricf. It seems fitting that®this artist, whose infiuence has been felt by most of the great violinists even of this generation, should have come to the end of his days in peace and quiet and much glory—for only recently an opera of his, “Peter the Miner,” was pro- duted in Belgium with all the eclat that one would imagine perhaps coming to only a much younger composer. Although he was not able to attend this performance, Queen Elizabeth bhad arranged for a special radio attachment which enabled him to hear it, and the ovation that his work received, the wild acclaim that was his afterward by the public of Liege, must have lingered pleasantly in his ear until the end. Thus, ripe with age and with bonors, he has gone on his way—rejoicing. DITH WALLACK found favor with the New York music critics. Her debut in “Aida” passed with all the flourishes. That should indicate much future prosperity. Her voice was szid to be excellent, especially in the upper ramges. Admirers came to her dressing room. “You'll be in the Metropolitan in two years,” they said. In looking over the notices one is acutely Rware of the fact that little is said of Mr. Ianuzzi, her teacher. Can the pupil have sung better than the teacher? And a babble of ., many voices answer ‘‘Verily—yea!” symphonies to0 be given during the first , according to Mr. Kindler, will be chosen (“Pate”) Symphonies, Mozart's G Minor, Haydn's “London” Symphony, Schu- bert's “Unfinished,” Tschaikowsky's Pifth and Sixth, Kallinikow's Second, Sibelius’ Second and Dvorak’s “New World.” A number of works symphonic in size, but not actually symphonic, also will find places on the orchestra’s programs during the eoming numbers will be Bach's suites, a Brandenburg concerto and “Passacaglia”; Handel's “Concerto Grosso,” Bizet's “Arlesienne Suite,” Mendelsschn’s “Midsummer Night's” music, Tschaikowsky's “Nutcracker Suite,” and the same composer’s “Romeo and Juliet” fantasy; Liszt's preludes, Bchubert's “Rosamunde,” etc.; Strauss’ “Don Juan” and Grieg's “Peer Gynt” suite, Overtures planned includ: Mozart's “Figaro,” Beethoven’s “Egmont” and “Leonore” over- tures, Weber's “Freischutz” and “Oberon,” Gluck’s “Iphigenie,” Glinka’s “Russland and Ludmilla,” Wagner's “Tannbauser,” *“Lohen- grin,” “Rienzi” and others. Mr. Kindler also is planning to give a number of smaller works, such as Ravel's “Puvane,” Debussy's “Aftermoon of a Faun” and “Petes,” Moussorgsky’s “Chant,” Wagner's “Siegiried” 1dyll, “Ride of the Valkyries” and preludes to acts I and III, “Di= Meistersinger”; Boredin's Polovetsky dances, Ippolitow-Ivanow's “Caucasian Sketches,” Sibelius’ “Pinlandia,” Rimsky-Korsakov's “Plight of the Bumblebee ” Chabrier’s “Espana,” etc.; Brahms’ dances and Delius’ “On Hearing the Pirst Cuckoo in Spring.” “Popular” concerts, at which the better kncwn and more popular classic music will be played, such as Strauss’ waltzes, Weber's “Invitation to the Dance,” E!gar's marches, etc., with soloists of national repute partici- peiing from time to time, also will be given. The children’s eoncerts will include shorter classics, like Bach's “Air and Gavotte,” Mozart's “Minuet,” Haydn’s “Minuet,” excerpts from Bchubert’s “Rosamunde,” excerpts from Men- delssohn’s “Midsummer Night's Dream.” Bizet's “Arlesienne Suite,” QGrieg's “Peer Gynt” suite, Tschaikowsky's ‘“Nutcracker Suite” and similar eompositions, These children’s concerts will be given with short explanatory lectures by the conductor and demonstrations of the different instruments of the erchestra also will be given. Student Recitals Attract Local Attention. Kindler Announces Symphony Plans. What the Artists Are Doing. Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, noted Washington basso, is pictured ebove. Mr. Tittmann sang last week at the Bach Festival. He and Mrs. Blandy, top left, and Esther Linkins, lower left, are assisting ot the program to be given by the Chaminade Glee Club. Cecilia Moreland, soprano, upper right, will be presented this week in recital. HE third in a series of four organ re- citals given by the District of Colum- bia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will be played by Lyman 8. McCrary, formerly organist of Holy Trinity Church, Middletown, Conn., tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock in the Church of the Epiphany, G street northwest. His program will include: “Choral in E Major,” Cesar Franck; “Minuetto antico e musetta,” Pietro Yon; “Prelude and Fugue in B Minor,” and the choral “When We Stand in Deepest Need,” by J. 8. Bach; “Pastorale,” P. de Male- ingraeau; “Scherzo in G Minor,” E. Bossi; “Pensee d’'Automne” and “Chant de Mal” J. Jongen; Dorian prelude on “Dies Irae,” Bruce Simonds; “Rose-Window,” H. Mulet, and “Pan- tomime” and “Toccata,” by H. B. Jepson. ERTRUDE SMALLWOOD MOCKBEE will present Prances Olton Robinson in a piano recital at the Metropolitan Baptist Chureh, Sixth and A streets northeast, Monday, May 25, at 8 o'ciock. Selections by Godard, Liadow, Rachmaninoff, Grainger, Mendelssohn, Scharwenka and Kowalski, as well as the “Con- certo in A Minor,” by Grieg will be played. Marie Duchon Deal, soprano, will be the assist- ing artist. LARA M. BERNHEIMER will give a song recital at the King-Smith Studio-School on Tuesday evening at 8:30 o’clock. TB! Lovette Choral Club is presenting its fourth annual Spring concert on Priday evening at the Willard Hotel at 8:36. o’clock. GM’I‘RUD! LYONS will present her 1931 class of students on Thursday evening in Barker Hall, Seventesnth and K streets at 8:30 o'clock. The public is invited. Ruth Bromson Navy Band to Be HE United States Navy Band, under the leadership of Lieut. Charles Benter, assisted by Margarita Cueto, Mexican soprano, and Mario Rejas, Argentine tenor, will be featured in the next Latin American concert scheduled at the Pan-American Union for June 29. The Navy Band will play .several numbers never before rendered in the United States. The eoncert on June 29 will mark a return appearance of Margarita Cueto in response to repeated requests. The other assisting artist, Mario Rejas, will appear for the first time on a Pan-American program. For some time he has been engaged in concert and operatic work. Senor Rejas specializes in Argentine pampa songs. This eoncert will be given on the at the Pan-American Union from 9 until 11 p.m., Eastern standard time. On July 27 the United States Army Band, under the leadership of Capt. Willilam J. Stan- nard, will play a program of Latin American music on the esplanade of the Pan-American Unjon. The assisting artists will be Consuelo Gareia Garza, Mexican soprano, and Leopoldo Gutierres, Chilean baritone, Logan, violinist, with Frances Bronson at the piano, Armand J. Gumprecht, flautista, and Margaret Bowie Grant will assist the class. Others who will appear on the program include Vesta Pollock, pianist, and Irma Briggs, so- prano; Herbert Molineu, Beatrice Aitchisen, Marian Bates, George Black, Audrey Dean, Graee Hart, Lucy Hopkins, Mary Junkin, S8arah Neifert, Marie Nolte, Jack Pearson, Scott Pol- Jock and Margaret Yakel. HE thirty-second annual concert of the Nor- dica Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra and Nordiea Banjo Club, under the direction of Walter T. Holt, will be given on Wednesday at Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets northwest, at 8§ pm. These organizations will be assisted by Myra MacCathran Myers, s0- prano; Howard Moore, baritone, and Esther Spier, pianist. Cnhu.m TROWBRIDGE TITMANN, bass, with Lucy Brickenstein, accompanist; Henry 8. Gregor, Dorothy Radde Emery and Karl Holer will be the assisting artists when the Chaminade Gilee Club celebrates the closing of its tenth season with a concert in Barker Hall, May 27, at 8:30 p.m. OROTHY SHERMAN PIERSON will pre- sent Edna Cecilia Moreland, soprano, in a song recital at her Connecticut avenue studio today. Miss Moreland will be assisted by Pran- ces Gutelius at the piano. OSSINI'S “Inflammatus,” from the “Stdbat Mater,” will be sung by 25 student voices on the program to be given by the pupils of Flora McGill Keefer on June 2 at the Willard Hotel. A trio by Strauss and several duets will also be featured on this program. Featured in Concert. SCHUBERT CHORAL CLUB, which ented musician, who has recently ecomie to Washington, and who specializes in accompany- ing. W. E. Braithwaite will again serve as con- ductor. The choir of the Church of the Ascension, Twelfth street and Massachusetts avenue north- west, will give its final musical service for the season tonight at 8 o'clock when the cantata “From Death to Life,” by Bartlett, will be ren- dered. The soloists will be Janette Parsons, soprano; Genevieve Gerrits, contralto; Leslie Coyle, tenor; Gilbert Clark, baritone, and Ella Mintz, who will sing a selection, with a cello obbligator solo by Louise Bernheimer. Musigraphs RACE HAZARD WORMELLE an- nounces a benefit recital to be given for the Brookland Baptist Church on Friday, May 22, at 7:30 pm. In honor of Lucille and Virginia Mc- Dowell. Besides piano solos and readings by the pupils, Mrs. Wormelle will sing, and assisting artists will inciude Flora Claytoa, violinist, and Helene Finnacon, pianist. The public is invited. At the final business meeting of the Priday Morning Music Club the following officers were elected for the coming year: Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, president; Mrs. Morris Wickersham and Mrs. Walter Hilton, vice presidents; Mrs, Hugh Brown, recording secretary; Miss Alica E. BEdwards, corresponding secretary; Kathering Riggs, treasurer; Mrs. H. A. Robbins, assistang treasurer; Miss Lucy Brickenstein, musical die rector, and associate musical director, Mrs, Frank Howard. The Board of Governors ic- cludes . Mrs. Prederic True, Mrs. W. H. wonl Bayer, Mrs. John Kendall, Mrs. Paul M. Tylery Mrs. Walter Gawler and Mrs. Ralph Barnard. The musical program for the National Ora< torical Contest at Constitution Hall next Bai- urday evening will again be provided by ihe Tech Symphony Orchestra of 70 pieces. FPound- ed 28 years ago this orchestra is the eld- est and one of the most important in the Jocal schools. For the past 19 years it has beeny under the able direction cf Dore Walten, eellirt. Next Saturday's program will include the Schubert overture from “Rosamunde,” the “Grand Fantasie” from Gounod's “Romeo and Juliette,” the minuet from Haydn's “Military Symphony,” Kreisler's “The Oldest Refrain™ and the “Cortege de Bacchus” by Delibes. The annual festival of pianoforte musie was held at Epiphany School, 3017 Q street northwest, last Tuesday evening. The follow- ing pupils of Mrs. W. G. Beers were includ®y on the program: Virginia E. Beers, Mirriam Muwrray, Fosamond Murray, Jacqueline Parker and Dorothy Irwin. Nettie Sadle presented a group of her younger pupils at a musicale last Sunday at her studio. Mitzi Clipker was guest artist, Among thoee taking part were Harriet hyhn. Edith Val, Esther Greenbaum, Thelma Fanar- off, Goldie Moigar, Audrey Friediander, Muriel Hertz, Edith Platt and Doris Glassman. Gene Btewart, organist, will give his final recital of the season at Waugh Methodist Bpis- eopal Church next Wednesday at 8 pm. The assisting artist will be Harlan Randall, bari- tone. The public is invited. The Madrigal Singers, directed by Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, will give a program of madri« gals, folk songs and other music in the parish BESSI ILD Veiee i Btadie. &"-'n'o"a"'.“?:at.‘.‘. aEn:r'h-.:,. KARL HOLER COMPOSER * Grand Opera, Dramatic Temor Voice Specialist Instructor of EDITH WALLACK Pramatic Soprane Italian Method From La Scala, Milan, Italy Col. 4608 3403 14th St. N.W.