Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1931, Page 100

3, 1931. e S e RSB SRS L 5 e o R R S e S RO GR N ARSI THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER i THE NAT SYMPHONY O! TRA of V/ashington, D. C. Hans II'ndler, Conductor. THIRD CUMODAY CONCERT. Co.. ition Hall, > or 13, 1931, at 4 P M. POLCGRAM. I Overture irom “The Marriage of Fgare’ ... .Mozart my No. 8" (“The Unfin- ished™) .. .Schubert Sunday, I ;ro Moderato.” an.» Con Moto.” Tantasy” (for piano IV Overture from “Rienzi”.....Wagner THIRD SYMPHONY CONCERT. Ccns (ution Hall, Thursday Afterioon, December 17, 1031, at 4:45 O'Clock. PROGRAM. I Overture from “Egmont”, .Beethoven II “Passacaslia™ (first time in Wash- ingion) .......Handel-Aleinikoft IOI “Conceilo, A Major” (for violin and orchesira; Mozart “Allegro Anerto,” “Adagio,” “Allc2ro Aperto.” “A D."” s > di Menuetto,” “Al- Aperto,” “Tempo di st, Sylvia Lent, violinist. ian dances (first time ir g «+es.Skilton “War Dance.” V “Finlandia™ « . 3ibelius BY E. de S. MELCHER. INCE a “prominent” Jocal musician made the astoanishing assertion that she (or he) lived only for the classicists and tbct any one who could swallow the n nists with any degree of pleasure was warped not only in taste, bt in mind and “Georshwin? Who is Gersh- win? I never heard of him. If he writes , he’s impossible,” it has seemed as though Elaps these times were a little out of joint. since this enlightening experience with . who is really well versed in the great rs of the past, but who refuses to have /thing to do with contemporaries (and hwin certainly has been a distinguished fontemporary and one who can no longer be ied as being partly representative of this , even if we don’t like it), it has occurred to us that if we are not willing to keep up the musical trend of these times, then are not keeping ourselves abreast with a Wery definite and a very important phase in Dausic. Even Mr. Kindler, who is a conservative at , said only the other day: “We're going play the moderns (meaning his orchestra) of them.” Now if Mr. Kindler and his estra, which grows in musical craftsman- by leaps and bounds, are going to attempt of the current compositions (what ever pened to the Casella suite?), does this that said lady or said gentleman above find it necessary to sit at home and brood r Bach and Beethoven? And because she, or is unaccustomed to a “Sacre du Printemps” this fact will make her eschew the other verting modern musical highways? | Only the other day Mlle. Yvonne Gall and rd Johnson proved, at & ‘Townsend usicale, that thece moderns are not to be ted out of court. is perhaps difficult to keep up with what is going on right under the nose of this nt generation. But since we must gauge lves by something, some one suggested wing up a short, simple questionnaire to d out what we know of the current flow of ic and what we don’t. The questionnaire Hows : + 1, Who wrote %, “and why?") 2. What current opera, recently produced, a cow as a leading character? 8. What American dancer has been talled $he American Wigman? 4. What famed American soprano retired 'om opera at 40 and from the concert stage ly the other day at 50? 5. What violinist’s fingers are perceptibly Bmger on his left hand than on his right? 6. What is the most successful opera the t five years has produced? (The answer t “Peter Ibbetson.”) 7. What orchestra leader recently made his ut as an operatic conductor? Where? And anhaw 8. Who has been commissioned $0 write a @uslml ode for the Bicentennial celebration? 9. What opera star once graced Manhattan’s ¥Music Box Revues™? 10. What is the oldest symphony orchestra @ the United States? 11. Who is the ccmposer of the recently Pompleted opera, “Helen Retires”? * 12. What well known conductor was once a fpember of the Philadelphia Orchestra? “Wozzeck”? (Some might 1 important new violinist played vinsky’'s recently completed violin concerto Berlin? 15. What members of the once flourishing ashington Opera Company will return here h the Cosmopolitan Opera Company in Jan- ? (The answer to this last one, in case baven't heard about this opera company, es Samossoud, conductor; Ivan Ivant- , tenor, and Ralph Errolle.) Three Concerts by the National Symphony. 1oscanini and the New York Philharmonic and Three Noted Singers in Recital. i H L Arturo Toscanini, the distinguished conductor who will lead the New York Philharmonic into action Tuesday, is pictured above in the center, and sur- rounding him, upper left, is Clair Clairbert, soprano, who will sing Wednes- day at the Townsend musicale; upper right, Lawrence Tibbett, to appear in recital tomorrow; and lower, left to right, three prominent local artists, 6-year- old Charlton Meyer, who will appear as soloist with the National Symphony, as will Miksa Merson (left), pianist, and Sylvia Lent (right), violinist. HE third children’s concert to be given by the National Symphony Orchestra will take place next Saturday morning at Central High School at 11 o'clock. Mr. Kindler has promised his young (and old) audience an interesting program, and fea- tured on this will be Charlton Meyer, a 6-year-old pianist, who has attracted consid- erable attention as a pupil of Prances Gutelius. Young Mr. Meyer will play Bach's “Minuet in G Major” and MacDowell's “To a Wild Rose.” Other soloists, will include Alfred Manning, harp; Bernard Parronchi, cellist; Emil Spitzer, English horn, and George Wargo, viola, The program will include Beethoven’s overture to “Egmont,” a Bach chorale, the Sibelius “Fin- landia,” and the audience will be asked to join in the singing of “Silent Night,” by Gruber. TH.E New York Philharmonic-Symphony Or- chestra opens its local season of three concerts Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at Constitution Hall, where it is presented under the auspices of the T. Arthur Smith Bureau. Arturo Toscanini will lead the orchestra and Adolph Busch, German violinist, makes his local debut as soloist. The program will in- clude Mozart’s “Symphony in A Major,” Bach’s “Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, in A Minor,” Franck’s symphonic piece from “The Redemption,” Beethoven’s ‘“Concerto for Vio- lin and Orchestra in D. Major” and Wagner’s overture, “The Flying Dutchman.” AWRENCE TIBBETT, baritone of the Metro- politan Opera Co., returns to Washington after a long absence from the concert stage in a recital, to be given tomorrow afternoon at 4 o’'clock, under Mrs. Wilson-Greene's manage- ment. This recital, which will be given at Con- stitution Hall, will include Massenet's “Vision Fugitive,” from “Herodiade”; “Dialogue Be- tween Tom Filuter and His Man,” Burleigh’s “Deep River,” Donaudy's “Vaghissima Bem- bianza,” “Preach Not Me Your Musty Rules,” by Arne-Endicobt, and many other interesting selections. Stewart Wills will be at the piano for Mr. Tibbett. RS. LAWRENCE TOWNSEND'S morning musicale Wednesday will have as guest soloists Mme. Claire Clairbert, soprano, who will be accompanied by Erno Balogh, and Richard Crooks, tenor, with Philip Evans at the piano. Mme, Clairbert will include on her pro- gram the aria from Mozart’s opera, “The Magic Flute”; the waltz from Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet”; “Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark,” in which a flute obbligato will be played by Mr. Achats; the “Bell Song,” from Delibes’ “Lakme,” as well as “Pourquoi” and other songs by Strauss and Giordani. Mr, Crooks will sing a program of German lieder and the aria “Racconto di Ro- dolfo,” from Puccini’s “La Boheme.” HE Harvard University Double Quartet, Douglas A. MacKinnon director, with Ralph Kirkpatrick at the piano, will be heard in this city for the first time Tuesday evening, De- cember 22, at Central High School auditorium under the auspices of the Community Institute of Washington. HE recital by Betty Kate Stone, 16-year-old pianist, will take place Tuesday evening in Barker Hall. Miss Stone is being presented by Norman Frauenheim, local instructor. She will play the Barh “Fantasy in C Minor,” Schu- mann’s “Sonata in G Minor,” Mendelssohn’s “Scherzo in E Minor,” the Brahms “Variations on a Theme of Paganini” and other composi- tions by Chopin, Ireland, Severac, Debussy and Liszt. NOTHER interesting recital, which will be given Friday of this week, will be the one in which Edith Virden-Smith will present Helen Donofrio, soprano, assisted by I. Iascone, flutist, of the National Symphony Orchestra. Miss Donofrio will sing the aria from the opera “Lucia di Lammermoor,” the aria from “Rigo- letto” and the “Bell Song” from “Lakme” and a number of other interesting songs by Sibella, Edward Potter (Washington composer) and Spross, HE Cosmopolitan Grand Opera Co., which comes to the National Theater the week of January 4, will have as director Jacques Samossoud, well known to Washingtonians; an orchestra of 35, and a ballet of 40 and 3 noted tenors, Dimitri Onofrei, Alexander Kur- ganoff and Ivan Ivantzoff. The repertoire al- ready announced includes “Rigoletto,” “I1 Trovatore,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “Pagliacci,” “Faust” and “Carmen.” ALL CHURCH MUSIC NOTES for The Star's Christmas Music DPage, Saturday, December 19, should be received by the Music Editor not later than Wednes- day, Decembr 16. . & o M usigmphs MONG the meost interesting of this season’s organ recitals will be the one presented next Wednesday evening at the National City Chris- tian Church at 8:15 o'clock by Rob- ert Ruckman. Mr. Ruckman has ar- ranged a particularly interesting program. He will be assisted by Paul Brightenburg, violinist, of the National Symphony Orchestra. This is the first of a series of recitals sponsored by the local chapter of the American Guild of Organ- ists, of which Charlotte Klein, F. A. G. O,, is dean. John H. Marville, bass, will assist Lewis Atwater, organist, in a program of Russian music this afternoon at 5 o’clock at All Souls’ Church. Betty Baum, pianist, will give a recital at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, in Baltimore, December 21. She will also give a benefit re- cital at the Jewish Community Center in Wash- ington, January 4. Miss Bawm has been a member of the Washington Pianist Club for several years. Louis Potter and Hans Kindler are selecting a work to be studied by the Washington Choral Festival Association Chorus. The next rehearsal will be held tomorrow evening at 8:15 in the music room at the Central Community Center. Lester Shafer of the Denishawn School in this city has gone to New York to assist Ted Shawn in the preparation of his newest cone cert production which will go on tour in Jan- uary and February. Mr. Shafer will design the costumes and take part in the program, as well as managing the production while on tour. R. Deane Shure, local composer, has been invited by the music commission of the Metho- dist Church to contribute a set of responses and incidental pieces for use in Protestant churches. Other composers who have been ine vited to contribute include Mrs. H. H. Beach, Harvey B. Gaul, James H. Rogers, Gordon B. Nevin and William Lester. Announcement has been made that a Christ- mas pantomime will be presented at the Church of the Holy City, Sixteenth and Corcoran streetzs, by ‘“‘Orchesis” of George Washington University, Thursday evening, at 8:15 o’clock. The George Washington Glee Clubs, under the direction of Dr. Robert Harmon, will sing carols and provide a musical background for the pantomime. Friendship House is to have a music program this afternoon between 5 and 6. Solos will be sung by Ethel Rody, soprano, and readings will be given by Vietta Drone}fi The Chapel Choir of the National City Christian Church, under the direction of Helen Turley, will present the afternoon program at the downtown Y. W. C. A. next Sunday after- noon at 4 o’'clock. Agnes C. Kelley, contralto, was guest soloist last Sunday at the Spiritual Science Church of Christ. Today the soloists will be Paul W. Deloe, bass-baritone, and Harry Marlowe, tenor, Elizabeth Gardner Combs, pianist, will give a Debussy recital before the service. Special music at today’s morning service at St. Margaret’s Church will include organ selec- tions, Handel's “Symphony From Solomon,™ and works by Milford, Widor and Walter 2 - 4 Nash, played by Charlotte Klein, F. A. G. O.; & soprano solo, sung by Mrs. C. C. McDonnell; the anthem, “Hail, Gladdening Light,” by Sir George C. Martin, and Vierne’s “Symphony Vi Finale.” Charles Burton, boy soprano, and a pupil of Esther Linkins, will sing a group of songs at the fathers’ meeting of the P.-T. A. of the new Powell School tomorrow evening. Marie H. Little will act as accompanist. Warren F. Johnson will give an organ recital at 7:30 o’clock this evening. He will play “Fantasia Prelude,” Rudolph Peters; “Caprice,” by Joseph Callaerts, and “Overture in G major,” by P. J. Mansfield. MUSIC STUDIOS. B Graduate of ROYAL ACADEMY OF VIENNA MRS. GRETA NIMMERRICHTER Piano Instruction—Beginners or Advanced Phone after 8 p. North 0869-W 2112 18th N.W. " BESSIE N. WILD !?iag Cul:‘lér‘e. P'ilam: :deV Harmony Studio, 6824 S5th st., ashi PHONE GEORGIA 32 e GraceHazard Wormelle Voice, Piano and Expression 3106 South Dakota Ave. N.E. North 5638 ROBERT RUCKMAN Organist National City Christian Church TEACHER OF PIANO Institute of Musical Art 831 18th St. N.W. 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