Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1931, Page 98

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 29, 1391. THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA of Washington, D. C. Hans Kindler, Conductor. PROGRAM. Second Sunday Concert. Constitution Hall, This Afternoon, 4 O'Clock. Gwendoline Overture........... Chabrier Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D Minor, Handel Maestoso. Allegro moderato. Adagio. Allegro. Largo from “The New World"” SympRoONyY” .....c..cn00c00000 Dvorak “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in AR a0 a8 s wi o . .Delius “The Flight of the Bumble . Rin Korsakoff Caucasian Sgetches. .. .T (a) In the Mountain S (b) In the Village—viola, Mr, Wargo; English Lorn, Mr. Spitzer. (o) Procession of the Sardar. PROGRAM. Second Symphony Concert. Constitution Hall, Thursday Afternoon, 4:43 O'Clock Overture, “Marriage of Figaro”..Mozart Symphony No. 5, E Minor (from “The New World™)............ Dvorak Adagio-allegro molto. Largo. Scherzo (molto vivace). Allegro con fu Oco. “On the Steppes of Central Asia,” Borodin “The Flight of the Bumblc-Bee,” Rimsky-Korsakoff “Procession of the Sardar,” & -Ippolitow-Ivanow BY E. de S. MELCHER. IME” magazine had the following l l in its columns recently: “When & a professional-looking German walked quietly and unaffectedly across Boston's Symphony Hall stage last week there were sub- scribers who settled back in their chairs with the idea that the afternoon’s interest was over. The German, Adolf Busch, was unknown to most of them. He carried his violin as un- ostentatiously as if it had been a brief case. He was to play the familiar Brahms’ ‘Con= perto,’ ‘surely of less interest to an up-and- coming audience than Respighi's glittering ar- rangement of five Rachmaninoff ‘Picture Studies’ or Florent Schmitt’s gruesome ‘Trag- edy of Salome.’ «The Koussevitzky orchestra had a long symphonic introduction before Violinist Busch tucked his instrument under his chin, demon- strated a great talent worthy of great music. Busch, like Brahms, sccrns meaningless dis- play. In music alternately heroic and deeply tender, he displays an immaculate, full-toned technique, an interpretive sense marked by the same marvelous simplicity and restraint that he has succeeged in preserving in his pupil, poung Yehudi Menuhin.” The following is important to musicians here for two reasons: First, because Washington has approved of “Pupil” Yehudi with two gi- g'anMc demonstrations of musical affection, and, sqgond, because Mr. Busch is being brought here by Toscanini and will be the soloist with the New York Philharmonic on December 15. Young Menuhin has often spoken of his teacher—or rather his father for him—and the proof of Mr. Busch’s skill &8 a teacher is certainly stamped on the young “student.” No viclinist of recent years has been less publisized and more eagerly Woked forward to than Busch. That is why probably the Boston audience sank under its hats and prepared for sleep at the normal dpproach of the normal German. - Mr. Busch will not play Brahms when he comes here, but he will remain true to the Classicists. Mr. Toscanini will present him in Bach's “Concerto for Violin in A Major” end Beethoven’s “Violin Concerto in D Major.” “ His approach and the approach of Samuel DPushkin are being awaited in Washington eagerly. The latter is being sponsored here on January 15 by the great Philadelphian Mmaestro, Stokowski. Mr. Dushkin was recently raised to the heights by being selected by Stravinsky himself to play the solo part in his new “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.” While there was no tremendous cheering for the Stravinsky work when it had its initial rendi- tion in Berlin last month, there was for the young violinist. At the request of the com- poser he will play it in this country. It is said that it will be included on the program of January 15. While those who raged during last year’s performance of “Le Sacre” may do Ikewise over Stravinsky's new concerto, they will probably find much to excite them in the Almble fingers of young Dushkin. MONG the quictest and most interesting local organizations in this city is the Washington Composers’ Club. It meets once a month behind closed doors. It airs its mu- sical ideas and imageries before a select few. It accomplishes much and says nothing. Re- eently an impressive “evening” was held at the home of one of its prominent members— Dorothy De Muth Watson. The evening was devoted to the works of Dorothy Radde Em- ery. Many of her songs were sung by the QOepital City Choristers. Those who heard them were comparatively few. Only a selected Continued on Eighteenth Page Concerts by National Symphony, Kreisler, Grace Moore, American Composers and First Townsend Musicale This W eek. Among the noted musicians pictured above are, center, Hans Kindler, who has done so well by the National Symphony Orchestra; upper left, Samuel Dushkin, Russian violinist, who will play here in January; upper right, Yvonne Gall, who, together with Edward Johnson, opens the Townsend musicales at the Mayflower; lower left, that great violinist, Fritz Kreisler; next to him, Grace Moore, and lower right, Elena de Sayn, all prominently concertizing here during the weelk. RITZ KREISLER, who is making his only Washington appearance this sea- son on Tuesday afternoon at Constitu- tion Hall at 4 p.m., under Mrs. Wilson- Greene's management, will play Han- del's “Sonata in D Major,” Bach's “Sarabande and Gigue,” Mozart's “Concerto, G Major, No. 3”; two melodies by Rachmaninoff, “‘Marguerite,” by Albumblatt; Debussy's “La Fille au Cheveux de Lin,” Kreisler's own “Gypsy Caprice” and two tangoes. Carl Lamson will accompany Mr. Kreisler at the pianc. LLE. YVONNE GALL, who has been called “the best recital artist” and is one of the most popular French operatic sopranos, and Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera Co. will appear in the first of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend’s morning musicales at the May- flower next Wednesday at 11:30 o’clock. Mr. Johnson will open the program with a “Recitativo et Aria del 1'Opera ‘Sosarme,’” by Handel. He will also sing “Air from ‘Comus’ «Milton), by Dr. Thomas Arne; Pizzetti's “I Pastori,” Giannini's “Stornellata” and other songs by Quilter, Zeckwer and two folk songs. Mille. Gall's first group will include Dupare’s “L'Invitation au Voyage,” Faure’s “Claire de Lune” and two =selections from Gounod’s “Faust.” Later in the program she will sing a group of songs by Maurice Ravel—“Chanscn Popularies Grecques'—the ‘“Depuis le Jour,” air from Charpentier's “Louise,” and for a final number the duet, with Mr. Johnson, from “Romeo and Juliette” The duet from “Car- men,” “Parles-moi de ma mere,” will also be sung by these two noted artists, RACE MOORE, soprano of the Metropoli- tan Opera Co., will be heard in con- cert at Constitution Hall next Saturday eve- ning, at 8:30 o'clock, as the third attraction of Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Saturday evening con- cert series. Miss Moore's complete program has not been announced, but she will sing at least one big operatic aria as well as three song groups. The songs include: “Gia la Notte” (Haydn), “Gia i1 Sole Dal Gange” (Scarlatti), “Care Selve” (Handel), “Warnung” (Mozart), *“Botschaft” (Brahms), “Air de Lia” from “L’Enfant Prodigue” (Debussy), “Psyche” (Paladilhe), “Bonjour, Suzon” (Delibes), “Valse” (Arensky- Koshetz), “Tol Seule” (Tschaikowsky), “There’s Not a Swain on the Plain” (Purcell), “Charity” (Richard Hageman), “By a Lonely Forest Path- way” (Griffes) and “Joy” (Charles Wakefield Cadman). Miss Moore will be accompanied by Emanuel Bay at the piano. RS. H. H. BEACH, A, Walter Kramer and John Powell are appearing together for their only Washington recital, assisted by Elena de Sayn, prominent Russian violinist now re- siding in this city, on Friday evening at 9 p.m. at the Shoreham Hotel. The program will include Mrs. Beach's “Sonata A Minor, Opus 34"; Mr. Powell's “Sonata Virgianesque” and Mr. Kramer's “Symphonic Rhapsody in F Minor.” A reception will follow the concert. ARIL PASPAN, violinist, who will give a re- cital at the Carlton Hotel tomorrow eve- ning at 8:20 p.m., will play three Kreisler com- positions on his programs, the Handel “Sonata in A Major,” the Wieniawski “Scherzo Taran- telle” and shorter compositions by Drigo Auer, Schubert-Wilhelmj, Paganini and Gardner. ELIAN GARZIA is presenting Delphine Dodge Baker in a piano recital at the Arts Club next Friday evening at 8:30 pm., and Eleanor, Cclborn, pianist, in a recital at the same club on Saturday evening. Mrs. Baker will play the Grieg ‘“Concerto in A Minor,” two Chopin preludes, Debussy's “Clair de Lune” and “Minstrels,” and two selections by Secar- latti and Bach. Miss Colborn will play the first part of the Schumann “Concerto in A Minor,” the Bach “Italian Concerto,” Brahms’ “Rhapscdie in G Minor” and three compositions by Chopin and Debussy. HE Marine Band will give a concert to- morrow at 3 pm. in the auditorium of tre Marine Barracks., The regular Wednesday night concert has been canceled. The orchestra will give a concert on Friday at 3 p.m. NNOUNCEMENT has been made that Mary Wigman, foremost exponent of ‘“expres- sionism” in the dance and Germany's premier modern danseuse, will make her only recital appearance of the 1931-32 season in Washing- ton at the National Theater on Friday after- noon, December 11, at 4:30 o'clock, under Mrs. Wilson-Greene’s management. Musigraphs VELYN SCOTT, violinist, with Marjorie Davis at the piano, will play the Mozart concerto next Friday at the Friday Morning Music Club. Mrs. Robert Le Fevre, soprano, and Katherine Lee Jones, contralto, will present solos and duets on the same program. U MUSICAL “surprise” is promised his juve= nile audience by Hans Kindler, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washe ington, D. C., when the orchestra presents its second concert for children and young people at Central High School one week from next Thursday, December 10, at 4 o’clock. i Mr. Kindler declines to reveal the surprise feature, but one of the events of the concert will be the playing of “Old Kentucky Home" by the orchestra, with the audience singing the words. A Mozart overture exemplifying the dance element in music, the wood winds as demonstrated in the playing of Jarnefeldt’s “Preludium,” descriptive music, such as Men= delssohn’s “Spring Song” and “Spinning Song” and Sibelius’ “Valse Triste,” and Ivanow’s “March of the Caucasian Chief,” are among the announced features of the second program for Jjuvenile music-lovers. Flora McGill Keefer is giving a musicale this afternoon at her new studio apartment, where the trio from “Carmen” and English duets will be presented. Other songs by Mozart, Brahms, Puccini, Chadwick and La Forge will be ine cluded. Mildred Kolb Schuize will be the as= sisting artist. Harry Marlow, tenor, and Paul W. Deloe, bass-baritone, will be the soloists today at the Spiritual Science Church of Christ. Elizabeth Gardner Combs, pianist, will give an all-Mac= Dowell recital at 7:45 p.m. preceding this service. Helen Turley, contralto, will be the soloist at the memorial service held by the Eastern Star tomorrow evening at the D. A. R. Hall. The Rubinstein Club will hold a joint re- hearsal of the morning and evening groups Tuesday evening at 7:45 in.the small ball room of the Willard Hotel. Margaret Bittner, soprano, will be the guest soloist at tonight's evening service of the National City Christian Church. Cleo Lewis, soprano, will sing at the State Conference of the Sons and Daughters of the Republic on Saturday, December 12. Louis Thompson presented Catherine Lighte burn, contralto, in a song recital at Clarks= burg, W. Va., last Monday evening. Her nume bers included those of the Italian, German, French and American schools. Miss Lightburn has been re-engaged for the Spring Festival at Clarksburg under the auspices of the Marcato Club at that place. She was accompanied by Catherine McGee. Everett Stevens, pianist, and Betty Gray, soprano, will give the program at the 5 o’clock music hour at the Y. W. C. A. this afternoon. Mr. Stevens will play numbers by Bach, Beethe oven, Chopin and Mendelssohn, and Mrs. Gray will include in her numbers “The London Sketches,” by Manning, and other songs by Ward-Stephens, d’'Hardelot and Hahn. Dr. Huvgh Roberts will accompany Mrs. Gray and Fanny A. Roberts will be at the piano for Mr. Stevens. John Martin, dance :critic, will be heard in his second lecture at the Carolinz McKinley Stydio, 1731 Eye street, on Thursday evening, December 10, at 8:30 o'clock. Continued on Eighteenth Page MUSICAL STUDIOS. BENJ. LEVIN ANNOUNGES OPENING OF a Banjo & Ukulele Studio at 1519 Coun. 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