Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1931, Page 91

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 25, 1931. BY E. DE S. MELCHER HE SUDDEN news of the demise of the Floreine Hurley ¥ounda- tion Concert Course comes as a sad Dblow. Not only did this seem an especially interesting project for the city to under- take, but many persons had looked forward with particular joy to welcoming back Mary Garden, Chicago's fiery songbird, long absent from this monumental city. The announce- ment came unexpectedly toward the end of this week—‘because of artist canceliations,” etc.—and one begins to wonder just what hap- peed to all these articts, or perhaps if it was something other than the artists. At any rate, it seems that neither Miss Garden, nor Mlle. Clairbert, nor Doris Kenyon, nor any of the others will appear here this season. HE always welcome “Founders’ Day Concert” at the Library of Congress (the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation) is to take place Friday of this week at 4:30 pm. The program will be devoted strictly to Ludwig von Bee- thoven, and will be offered by a trio composed of Severin Eisenberger, piano; William Kroll, violin, and Alexander Barjansky, violencello. The selections will include the Sonata in G Minor for piano and violoncello, Op. 5, No. 2; the Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, and piano works including the Andante in F, Ecossaise in E and Three Bagatelles. HE delay of the manuscript of the Casella- Pierne-Respigghi suite, probably tomewhere on the bright blue ocean, has necessitated a change of program for the first National Sym- phony Orchestra concert, and Mr. Kindler will include a trio of 16th century Dutch tunes which he has personally arranged and dedi- eated to the orchestra. The program wil! other- wise remain as announced. F particular interest to Washingtonians is the advent here of D. C. Dounis, one of the important violin technicians of these times. Prof. Dounis, who is making up his mind whether he will stay here for a week, a month or a day (he is at present the guest of Mr. Sophocles Papas) is the author of those ex- ceedingly important and exceedingly difficult violin studies which Prof. Adolf Busch has said are “of utmost value to every violinist.” Said to be even more strenuous than the prolific Sevcik and used by many of the great in the concert world—Albert Spalding uses them— and if you look in at the window of Helen Ware's studio you'll find that she is using them—Mr. Dounis’ many works are indorsed on the continent, in England and in New York. One of his studies, “The Artist's Technic of Violin Playing,” is said to be so difficult that unless you are among the first ten virtuosos there is no use even looking at it. But the others modulate down the path of progrsss and they are all stimulating—as is their author. HIS city should be greatly interested at the news that Richard Copley has taken Lillian Evanti under his managerial wing and that he is launching her on an American tour this season. Miss Evanti, mentioned at consider- able lengths in these columns on her return to her native city this summer, after a few years of operatic triumphs abroad, will not only appear in most of the large cities, but she will (as previously suggested) be the guest artist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra un- der the direction of Gabrilowitsch. Further- more, it is said that when a certain famed maestro of this city heard her sing a few days ago he was so struck by the beauty of her voice he very nearly engaged her then and there— but that, as the story book says, is a secret. THER news which should interest the local music world is that Lisa Gardiner will pre- sent the much-looked-forward-to De Falla ballet, “El Amor Brujo,” on Saturday, the 14th of November, at the Arts Club. This, incidentally, will include a short intro- ductory talk by Katherine Frost on the music, and will precede another performance of the ballet to be given before the Vagabond Players in Baltimore. Members of the cast will be Harry Wilkins, Richard Edwards and Jane Dunscombe, as well as Miss Gardiner and a group of dancers including Christine Stewart, Alice L. Hunter, Faye Rogers and Eda Vomaeka. And, to use an everyday expression of a popular columnist, “recommended” among recent events are: Minna Nieman’s piano play- ing at' the Art's Club; the sudden extraordi- narily beautiful voice of Vittoria de Andreis (whom Oscar Seagle did wonders with this Summer); the smooth, legato tone which Carl Jaspan produces out of his violin; the new Dutch songs which Mr., Kindler has arranged for the first performance of the National Symphony Orchestra (they are Jmost delight- ful) and the news of Julia E. Schelling’s highly successful second season at Bayreuth during the past torrid Summer. Texas Lags in Radio S a radio State Texas runs far below some of those with a greater concentfation of population. For the entire State there are re- ported to be slightly over a quarter of a million sets or only about 18 to every 100 families. In fact, one county, Zapata, with 599 families listed in the census, has not even one set, while Yoakum County has but four. Founders’ Day Concert Takes Place Friday at Library of Congress— Concert Course Is Canceled for Season. Mary Garden, who has just returned to this country and opened her concert tour in Chicago. She was scheduled for an October appearance in Washington but this was canceled during the past week. City, will be offered by the West- minister Choir when it appears at Ommwuon Hall, on Wednesday eve- ning, November 4. One of these, “The Death of the Choir Boy,” was dicovered by John Finley Williamson during the European tour of the choir in 1929. This ballad is the work of Antoni Nicolau, Catalin composer. Healy William’s “A Clear Midnight,” written for and dedicated to John Finley Williamson and the Westminster Choir, is also one of the highlights of the forthcoming program. It was first sung by the choir on its tour of the country last Spring. The hymn “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” will be sung by the Westminster Choir, assisted by at least 500 voices of trained choir singers of this city, who are participating in the concert in honor of the guest singers. Norton Little is chairman of the local com- mittee and is being assisted in the assembling of local choral groups, for participation in the concert, by Mrs. Gertrude A. Lyons. NUMBER of choral selections, said to AMmmbeenmnginmeCspml HE Wilson-Greene concert season of 1931-32 will be formally opened this year with the concert at Constitution Hall on Thursday after- noon, November 5, at 4:30 o'clock, of Serge Rachmininoff, the celebrated Russian pianist and composer. During the month of November Mrs. Wilson- Greene will present four concerts. The first of these will be, as stated, Rachmaninoff’s piano recital on November 5, while the other three will be, in the order named, Lily Pons, on Monday afternoon, November 16; the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus on Saturday eve- ning, November 21, and John McCormack, noted Irish tenor, on Saturday evening, November 28, all at Constitution Hall. Four concerts are scheduled for Decem- ber—Fritz Kreisler, violinist, on December 1; Grace Moore, soprano, Metropolitan Opera, on December §; Mary Wigman, German danseuse, on December 11, and Lawrence Tib- bett, baritone, Metropolitan Opera, on Decem- ber 14. All four artists, except Wigman, will be heard at Constitution Hall, the latter artist giving her recital at the National Theater. Eight other Wilson-Greene attractions will be presented after New Year day, making a total of 16 attractions so far announced in Mrs. Wilson-Greene’s three concert series. DOLF TOROVSKY, organist and choir director of Epiphany Episcopal Church, assisted by the solo quartet of the church, will present the third program in the Washington Composers series now being given on Sunday afternoons at § o'clock today at the Young Women’s Christian Association. Musical num- bers composed by Mr. Torovsky will be fea- tured in the program by the quartet and by the accompanist, Mrs. Davis C. Book. Members of the quartet who will sing this afternoon are LucCy Macmorland, soprano; Nancy Williamson, contralto; Wilbert Bagra- noff, tenor, and Ambrose Durkin, bass. ATHERINE RIGGS, harpist, of Washington will give the program for “chapel” on Fri- day morning of this week at 10 o'clock at American University. Miss Riggs will play a group of harpsichord numbers, a group of modern numbers and a group of familiar old songs that are associated always with the harp. The Music Committee and Choir of Calvary Church in Georgetown will sponsor a series of concerts at the church during the coming sea- son. The first program will be given on Friday evening at 8:15 o’clock, by Eva Stauffer, a Bal- timore violinist, and Elvia Alpress Meyer, pian- ist of this city. A recital which included Betty Baum, pianist, and Marie Powell, soprano, was given at the home of Anita Schade, president of the Ger- man Literary Society, at the opening meeting of that organization. Mrs. Powell was accom- panied by Mr. Richard Bell. The Felicia Rybier Music Club was officially reopened last Wednesday at Miss Rybier's studio on Dupont Circle. A musical program and a reading on Debussy were presented. The Institute of Musical Art announces a course in the history and appreciation of music under the tutorship of Maud G. Sewell in 20 round-table sessions, beginning Tuesday, No- vember 3, at 5 o'clock and continuing on the following Monday afternoons to March Z1. These round-table sessions will make a sur- vey of music from the primitive to the modern. Included in the curriculum will be studies of music of the ancient Oriental civilization, of the Greeks, folk music in Europe during the Elizabethan period and the development of opera in Florence. Of the greater writers of music the pupils will be given the opportunity to study the compositions of Handel, Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Dvorak, Debussy and including the modernists, Stravinsky and Schoenberg. Warren F. Johnson will give an organ re- cital at the Church of the Pilgrims at 7:30 o'clock this evening. He will play “Deuxieme Legende,” Bonnet; “Ave Maria,” Guilmant, and “Toccata in F” by P. J. Mansfield. Musigraphs ANS KINDLER, director of the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra, was th2 guest of honor at luncheon at the King-Smith Studio-School last Wednesday. This was Na- tional Orchestra day at the King- Smith studios. 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