Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1933, Page 41

usic World Unites to Honor Memory of Wagner fEyes of Music Lovers Will Focus on Festival at : Bayreuth This Year When Fiftieth Anniversary of German Composer's Death Is Celebrated. By Alice Eversman. HE note on which this anni-; versary year has opened is the universal desire on the part of musicians to do thonor to the memory of Richard | “Wagner. Fifty years ago on Feb- | ruary 13 at Venice he finished a life full of hardships and bitter- | mess for himself, crowned at last| with the realization of his dreams. To the world he left not only the legacy of his works but a temple to art where the sacred fire which 2 kindled is kept burning from 'year to year. PBayreuth today stands unique as 2 monument to Mhe greatness of vision and the ‘greatness of genius of one man, Richard Wagner. What he has done for music as as yet never been surpassed r equaled, in spite of all that is ew and complicated that have been inspired by his radical de- partures in theme and form. The enormity of Wagner’'s genius is, in reality, only now being fully appreciated in a thoroughly un- Iderstanding way, due to the mu- isical advancement away from the trivialities that held sway for so many years. The persistence with ‘which Wagner held to his ideas during his lifetime and which finally drew the attention and co-operation of such men as Liszt and von Bulow has continued to intrude on the unresponsiveness | lof the sages of music until at last hey have given way and accord '$him his rights without fear of istake. Wagner was a storm center during his lifetime, and, lest this turbulent aura be forever dis- pelled, there has been a recent drevival of animosity against him. {Several books have been written %purporting to prove him a man more immersed in desire for per- | ysonal glory than the working out | of his genius. He is pointed at !as a_clever charlatan who an- ‘nexed the ideas of those greater than himself to weave them into | a fabric of his own by his sly manipulations. He is designated as a man of theatrical tendencies who made of his life a play and who could only function when in the midst of a drama of his own brewing. His egotism is said to have guided him to women with rich husbands, which he used to| his advantage through their warm feeling for him. Whatever the detractions of the envious or coldly minded, his mu- sic, which is the world’s only con- ‘cern, has not alone stood the test of time ‘but grown in significance with the passing years. He has been our educator. His insist- ance that he be listened to, which was so dominant in his life, seems ~still to continue, so that one can- | not escape giving the ear to his| melodies and the mind to his leadership. This leadership has made us familiar with a new music with depths of thought that cannot be easily exhausted. ‘Wagner suffered in his soul for | the rebuffs he received, but he was hard as regards his belief in him- gelf and had no sensitiveness where his work was concerned. He was grateful, too. To his old friend, who had remained true and faithful through many misunder- standings and adverse feeling, he made public acknowledgement of his indebtedness at the opening of Bayreuth. At the banquet after the performance, he fin- ished a speech with these words: “Here is he who was the first to give me his faith when no one knew anything of me and with- out whom you would never have heard a note of my music, my very dear friend Franz Liszt. | A short time before his death Wagner wrote to a friend, “I herewith declare that next to my | family the dearest of all things| to me is Bayreuth.” It was the| ultimate outcome of an idea that | had been firmly entrenched in| the composer’s mind for the last | 25 years of his life. Long before | his own great theatrical works| made such a possibili seem | necessary he wrote an article on a “Project for the Organization | of a German National Theater”| and continued to hammer at this | idea whenever possible. | Wagner wrote Liszt of his| dream “of some beautiful retreat far from the smoke and indu trial odors of city civilization where a “theater would be erected | simple ossible, perhaps | of wood the interior | ed artistic pur- s v Wagner's daughter-in-law still lives with her family, -5 to be en- larged by the building of a new auaition hall, a studio and a tea pavilion. The musical direction will be entirely in the hands of Tosca- nini with the exception of eight performances whicn come under the baton of Karl Elmendorf. Perhaps the finest tribute that has ever been paid to the great- ness of Wagner is the manner in which Toscanini has put aside personal feeling and overlooked much that required magnanimity to overlook it in order to assist at the festival. He is to be in- trusted with the first perform- ance of the Meistersaenger in Bayreuth since 1925. 1t may be inclusion in the Bay- | reuth program after a long absence that has aroused an unusual in- terest in this opera, particularly in Germany. Recently a perform- ance was given in Berlin under the direction of Furtwangler that attempted new departures in | scenery and interpretation which, ’however, was not the success that | had been hoped for. Stuttgart and Munieh have also made fresh stagings for “Die Meistersinger,” and in Stuttgart one of Wagner's first operas, “Die Feen,” was pro- duced. This opera was never given during Wagner's lifetime, but five years after his death it was performed in Munich and had a run of 70 performances. Viewed from our more enlight- ened angle as regards Wagner, it proves of decided interest, and on this hundredth anniversary of its composition it may find a lasting place among Wagner’s works. The spirit of Wagner animates Bayreuth. In this yearly festival the musical world unites to do honor to that spirit and rever- ence to the ideal that cleared it from any sordid or lowly motives | of the material existence. | * x % x N artist offering something different in the way of per- sonality and talent is Conchita | Supervia, the brilliant Spanish mezzo-soprano who will be heard at Mrs. Townsend’s Wednesday | musicale, sharing the program with Alberto Salvi, noted harpist. Two years ago Supervia sang | “L'Italienne a Alger” and “Cen- drillon” during the presentation of the “Rossini Cycle” in Paris. | It was not the first time she had been heard in Paris, for she made’ her debut at the age of 14, and sang her first performance there of “Carmen” at 15. However, her performances of these two operas aroused the excitement of the French press to such a degree THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 8, 1933—PART FOUR. Soloists of This Week and the Future Left to right: Ruth Wilson, violinist, who is making her Washington debut tomorrow night in a recital at the Willard Hotel; Ruth Washingtonian, who will make her American operatic debut January 22, when she sings here in 1 y pianist, who will be soloist with the National Symphony at its next concert: Conchita Supervia, Spanis send's morning musicale, and, below, in circle, Helen Marks, Washington contralto, who will sing in the Estelle Wentworth produ will be given January 20 at the Roosevelt auditorium. " at the Wi h mezzo-soprano, oprano and former Vladimir Horowif day at Mrs. Tow ne Mikado,” which Pons Concert Postponed. TI'E sudden illness of Lily Pons, sen- sational French coloratura of the M litan Grand Opera Co.. which necessitated the cancellation or post- ponement of all her immediate concert engagements, has temporarily deprived ‘Washington of the chance to see and hear this great artist at Constitution Hall next Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Wilson-Greene announces that tickets for the Pons concert will be honored later on this season, when Pons is ex- pected to return to the concert stage. In the meantime two extremely pop- ular offerings are announced by Mrs. Wilson-Greene for the week beginning next Sunday, when Rachmaninoff, the great Russian planist and composer, and the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus, Serge Jaroff, conductor, will both be heard at Constitution Hail. The Cossack Chorus, one of the most popular choral organizations ever to sing in the Capital, has not yet an- nounced its local program, but they urday night—on Saturday, January 21, at 8:30 o'clock, as the fourth attraction of the Saturday evening series. Rachmaninoff, who will be heard one week from tomorrow—on Monday aft- ernoon, January 16—has announced a brilliant program of Chopin, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt and other great com- posers, including some of his own. Tickets for both attractions can be obtained at Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Con- cert Bureau, in Droop's, 1300 G street northwest, or at Constitution Hall be- fore each concert. Chevy Chase Music News. EMBERS of the music section of that the story of her success was sent broadcast. She was besieged with offers to appear in every European capital. And an American visit must necessarily follow. The usually conservative London press calls her voice the loveliest heard in many a year. | They have also added a subtle compliment when the News Chronicle points out that “she is one of the few coloratura singers who may be described as good musicians.” The recent reopening of the Opera Comique in Paris offered Supervia another chance to ap- pear in “Carmen,” and again she took Paris by storm. The inten- sity with which she threw her- self into the role swept all before it, and she gave a presentation of superb acting and exquisite sing- ing. Her voice is of wide range with the lightness and flexibility of a soprano and again the strength and breadth of a con- tralto. Alberto Salvi has long been known as the “Wizard of the|Simonson, Mrs. Frederick Smith, Mrs. | Harp.” He began as a boy won- der to win acclaim, inheriting, doubtless, his leanings toward the harp from his father, who was an Italian harp maker from Ven- ice. His father made him his first harp and saw to it that his studies were so well carried out that he had no difficulty in win- ning a scholarship. The road on- ward to fame as a concertizing artist was not long or difficult, and today he 'stands at the top, a revelation, not only of what can be done on the harp, but of his own artistic sense. He has revo- lutionized harp playing. He has put power and character into this instrument, extracting unex- ted effects and has raised it to a higher plane of art. Under There would be the “de- | his fingers, the harp is a real 1tage of an invisible that the listener find himself “the in- voluntary witness of the techn cal evolutions caused by the un- avoidable view of the mechanical movements made by the musi- cians and their leader,” and where artists could concentrate “all their intellectual powers on one style and one to Bayreuth is the consummation of the composer’s desires. At the opening pilgrimage, 1n w‘?nm Liszt took part, he wrote: “The immense genius of Wagner has surmounted everything. His work (the Ring) shines on the world The blind cannot interfere with the light nor the deaf hinder the music.” This year speci have been made for rial celebration. New sets of scenery have been painted for the b round of the “Ring” music- dramas and for the “Meister- famous_designer Emil Preetorius of M ;3 conceived new forms to aid in carrying out on the enormous.scale such as Wag- ner had invisioned Gigantic masses of rock epitamize the home of the Northern heroes and their final Valhalla, and the effect is further emphasized by uncanny electrical devices. A new lighting equipment, includ- ing sky and shadow projection apparatus, has been installed in the Festspielhaus. One hundred and forty of the best scenic painters from all of Germany are at work on *“Die Meistersinger” setting. In the mighty festal pa- _rade at the finish a large part of the population of Bayreuth will participate with singing societies and schools forming the chorus. The Haus Wahnfried, where al preparations of scene masculine instrument, losing a certain feminine quality that has long been associated with it. Mr. Salvi has enlarged the harp lit- | erature through his compositions | and arrangements, and his pro- grams offer more than what is | usually attempted by a harpist. Pearl Wa Eap S ugh to Lecture. PEARL WAUGH, lecturer on the To- blas Matthay principle of piano technic, will give a summary of her il- lustrated talks tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the Y. W. C. A. This sum- mary includes “Weight Touch,” “From Pianissimo to _ Fortissimo Touch” and “The Principle of Progres- sion.” Miss Waugh recently attended | the meeting of the Toblas Matthay As- | sociation in New York and has given in Weight the memo- | many illustrated talks on piano technic | A and interpretation at the Y. W. C | this season. Service Band Concerts. | THE Marine Band and Orchestra wili | 4 give the following concerts during | the coming week ; Monday, January 9 at 3 pm., band | concert. the Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase have been asked to give a short program Friday at the evening session of the board of directors of the Gen- eral Federation of Women's Clubs at general federation headquarters. Pro- grams will be given on Wednesday and Thursday evenings by clubs from the District of Columbia and from Virginia. Ten members will give two trios for women's voices, “I Bring You Lilies From My Garden,” by Clara Edwards, and A. Emmet Adams’ “The Beils of St. Mary's.” Mrs. Archer Le G. Haycock, one of the members, will give a group of Negro dialect songs. Effie Colla- more will accompany Mrs. Haycock. The section will also present Jean Westbrook, violinist, who will play “La Guitana,” by Fritz Kreisler. Miss Westbrook, a pupil of Josef Kaspar, is studying this year at Peabody, in Bal- timore, with Frank Gittleson, concert master of the National Symphony Orchestra. Betty Baum, who will ac- company her, is also at Peabody study- with Mr. Sklarevski. Mrs. E. Hutson Russell and Mrs. Ed- win Hahn have arranged the program. The members who will sing are: Mrs. John J. Underwood, Mrs. Leon Bibber, Mrs. B. Emmert German, Mrs. Hahn, Mrs. William Graham, Mrs. Wi'bur David B. Guy, Mrs. Francis M. Shore and Mrs. August Koehler. Mrs. 8, Jay McCathran will be at the piano. NCW! Of “Thfi Mikadc‘" *“THE MIKADO" or “The Town of Titipu,” comic opera in two acts by W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sulli- van, will be presented by the Estelle Wentworth opera group, under the auspices of the Community Center De- partment, on Friday evening, January 20, at 8:30 o'clock in Roosevelt Audi- torium, Thirteenth and Webster streets The event is one of the musical pro- grams arranged for the Midwinter sea- son_here by the Community Center De- partment as part of its recreational plan for 1933. A travesty of Japan, “The Mikado” stands pre-eminent among Sir Arthur Sullivan’s many me- lodious masterpieces. “Brightly Dawns beautiful madrigal in _existence, sung by Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo and others, is_equaled by Yum-Yum's lovely song “The Moon and 1" to be sung here Betty Thornberry, Washington soprano, who has sung the role in the Shubert York City and other music centers in the East. E With Miss Thornberry as Yum-Yum, the other “little maids” will be Alma Harris as Pitti-Sing and Ella Neuland as DPeep-Bo. The famous gole of Katisha, an elderly lady of the court in love with Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado sentation by a young Washington con- tralto, Helen Mark, and the men in the cast will include Harry Crow, Raymond Baine, Ira Meyer, Eiliott Button and Harry Yeide. MUSIC to be played before the 11 o'clock services on _Sundays in Jenuary by Mary Minge Wilkins, A. A. G. O., at the Church of the Transfigu- ration will be as follows January 15--Choral prelude on the tune ‘Dundee’ i T:;'nu‘s ';‘IOVYL‘ e Tertius Noble 20—Two movements from ‘“‘Sec- ond Sonata” Mendelssohn Wednesday, January 11 at 8 p.m., or- | chestral concert. | Thursday, January 12 at 11:30 a.m., | band concert (Shut Ins) Dream Hour program. Friday, January 13 at 3 chestral concert. The concerts will be given in the auditorium at the Marine Barracks under the baton of Capt. Taylor Bran- on, leader of the United States Marine Band. Prominent numbers on the program to be played Wednesday night by the United States Navy Band at the band auditorium, Navy Yard, are Litolff's overture, “Maximillian Robespierre" and the ballet music from Borodin's opera, “Prince Igor.” The soloist on this program will be Musician Earl Miller, cornetist. . pm., or- The presentation of a Christmas operetta in connection with the regular Sunday schcol entertainment by the Junjor Choir of Transfiguration Parish was repeated by request on Wednesday. Both Senior and Junior Choirs are directed by Mrs..Wilkins, organist and chotr director of the parish. 'OLLOWING its holiday recess, the Choral Society of Washington, F Myron W. Whitney, president, will re- | sume its rehearsals next Tuesday eve- ning at Central Community Center. Choral work now undertaken will be in ration for the Spring concert. A. Potter, conductor, will give auditions to new singers at 7:30 o'clock, pending rehearsal. will be heard a week from next Sat-| the music of | Our Wedding Day.” said to b the most | all-star revival of “The Mikado” in New | | ! | J SSAY DOBROWEN, Russian-born | composer, who this year is a new- | | comer to the Philadelphia Orches- tra's group of guest conductors, will | s come here with this organization in | the double role of orchestral dircctor | and soloist. For his symphonic num- | bers at the concert in Constitution Hall on Tuesday evening, January 17, Mr.| Dobrowen has_ selected the Schumann overture “Manfred” and Brahms’ Sym- | phony No. 2 in D major. He will play | the piano part in the Bach Branden- | burg Concerto No. 5 in D major_for | piano, violin, flute and strings. The violin solo will be played by Alexande Hilsberg of the first violin section and the flute solo by Willlam M. Kincaid, first flutist. | As always, the concert will begin at | 8:45 p.m., ‘after which time, in accord- | ance with the usual custom, the doors will be closed and late comers not ad- mitted until after the first half of the | program. | | . The Bach composition is.the fifth of the six Brandenburg concertos which the master wrote for Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg. Hitherto orchestral writing had not been among Bach's achievements, and it is clearly evident that he aimed at as much va- riety as possible when he set out to compose his “concertos. | Eventually the Brandenburg con- certos found their way into the Royal Library at Berlin, where they remained until they were edited and published in 1850. "Of the fifth concerto it has been written that the work is notable “for a remarkably brilliant solo part for the clavier which in its turn has a flauto traverso and a solo violin as attendants. There is indeed an cnor- mously long passage of the most bril- liant description for the keyed instru- ments, unaccompanied, with every de- vice of execution embodied in it, illus- trating Bach's extraordinary inventive- ness in the line of virtuosity. not for | itself but as a means of expressing | | musical ideas” In this instance he | departed, of course, from the rule that |@ll instruments should play similar | | passages, for a great cembalo player SCAR LEVINE, violinist, | Samuel Stern, cellist, will i present the program for the | Sunday hour of music at o'clock today at the Y. W C. A. Mr. Levine and Mr. Stern arc members of the National Symphony Orchestra. Mr. C. C. Cappel, manager of the symphony orchestra, will speak | briefly on its organization and growth Mr. Fred Rice, chairman of music of | the District Chapter of the Inte | tional Federation of Catholic Alumnae, | | announces the January musicale of the | federation to be held Tuesday. January 17. at the Sears-Roebuck art galleries, 1106 Connecticut avenue. The Bern- heimer Trio will present a program of | vocal solos and ensemble music. | | Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, director | |and accompanist for the Madrigal | Singers, will have charge of the Sun- day music hour program at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the downtown cen- ter of the Y. W. C. A., 614 E street Those taking pert in_the program are | Elizabeth _ Waters, Elizabeth Taylor Copping, Elsie M. Graham, Mrs. Erb G. Thomas, Norma Hughes, Mary | Lerch, Edward L. Simpson, Willard Kemmerer, Erbin G. Thomas and Maj. Lee S. Tillotson. Miss Katherine Wil- | fley will talk on “Religion in Art” and will give an interpretation of the pic- ure “Saint Prancis and the Birds.” | The National Capital Choir, under | the direction of Dr. Albert W. Harned, will sing the anthcms “Praise Ye the Father,” by Gounod, and “Hark, Hark. | My Soul,” by Shelley, at the morning services ‘at the Universalist National Memorial Church. _Jessie Masters, con- | | tralto, will be soloist. Dr. Harned will | play as his organ prelude “Scherz | by Webb, as the intermezzo “Prayer,” | | by Reineke, and as the postlude “Rifoluto ” by Parker. | Lewis Corning Atwater, organist, will play a program of music by Jules| Massenet at All Souls’ Church (Uni- tarian), Sixteenth and Harvard streets, this afternoon at 5 o'clock | Alice Neal, contralto, sang a group of songs at the New Year reception of the | G. A. R., Department of the Potomac, | held at the Thomas Circle Club. Miss Augusta Palmer assisted at the piano. t ‘ Ruth Dewey, piano pupil of Edith B. [ 1" | Athey, played the incidental music for | the reading of “Why the Chimes Rang.” | | given recently by Frances Dewey, pupil | of the Hester Walker Beall Studio of the Spoken Word, Stoneleigh Court. | |r | _The January meeting of the Alumnae |Club of the Mu Phi Epsilon Music | Sorority will be held tomorrow at 8| |o'clock " in the home of Mrs. Herman | Fakler, 5542 Nevada avenue. A Haydn The_guest | program will be featured | soloist will be Edna Hopkins, violinist. |} | The National Sound studios, under | the cirectorship of Lewis Windmuller, | presented a New Year eve recital, with | | Margaret Tolson, pianist, as guest art ist. Each guest was presented with record of Miss Tolson's renditions’ and | of other recordings made during the evening. | | _ The Pelicia Rybier Music Club will | hold its next meeting Tuesday. Betty | Baum, pianist, will play ‘“Chacone, by Bach, and the “Ballade in G Minor, by Chopin. Pear] Waugh is organizing teachers’ training classes in the Toblas Matthay principles of technique and interpreta- ton. A demonstration will be given at ) Director and Soloist | ness and her studio, 1365 Columbia road like Bach could hardly be contented with setting down for it anything which any other instrument could play. The low movement is described as “a very expressive trio between the cembalo, the flute and the solo violin, marked auspiciously and suggestively ‘affetuo- 50, and full of elaboration and of beautifully cenceived figures, beautifully interwoven.” The br ound and somber romancs of Byror poem, “Manfred,” has been given tonal utterance by many com- osers, the two most eminent being umann and Tschaikowsky. The t effect that is sought in the qrig- onception is realized more nearly Schumann, and in Germany his “Manfred” has never lost its hold on the siage. The overture breathes the fevered melancholy, the somber pas- | sion of Byron's hero—gloom and de- light equally blended. Schumann's favorite numbers are said to have been the overture and the “Apparition of the Witch of the Alps.” Brahi 1877—just a year after the com- letion of the first—he finished the second symphony in D major. The first porformance of the latter was in Vienna December 30, 1877, and the critics hailed the D major as e work edominantly “sunny,” full of happi- and lyric grace. It comforted many who had found the C minor esoteric and severe, but was a_disap- pointment to others who were looking a repetition of its “sublimities whether of pain or joy” and so found the D major “pretty.” Time has set these two symphoni ke in ent light for the present generation, and of the profoundly brooding slow | movement with its tragic undertone it has been written that it “lifts the work into & region of exalted musical speech | where it keeps company with Brahms at his noblest.” Issay Dobrowen comes to the Phila- | delphia Orchestra Association for seven-week sojourn as guest conductc through the courte: cisco ~ Orchestra Association, where since the season 1930-1 he has been spending five months during each year. a Local Notes next Saturday. The A Capella Choir of the Pirst Congregational Church, under direct; Smith Stahl, will sing at th service this morning “Glo: Honor and Land quartet will give Spicker. The evening program will & “Ave Verun Corpus,” by Byrd, an tenor solo, Hamblen's “Benediction, Robert Giffen. Warren F. Johnson movements from Guy P Symphony” at the Church of the grims at 7:30 o'clock this evening. Irene Finch Wolz, guest soloist at th Church of Christ this soprano, will be Spiritual Science evening In the Morning of Life From Heaven,” by nixed quartet, Rock of Age: ea Franck singing Wildermere's " the finale of Vierne The Legend of the t, and “In Heav- by Cesta. Victor George conducted an ensem- ble of his violin pup at the parish reception given in th Nativity Chape Fourteenth and A streets northeast, r: cently e Frid: Morning Music Club will L a program next Friday fe the composers of the early teenth century. This program arranged by Katherine Lee Jen con- tralto, and will include the following artists Grete von Bayer and Helen Grimes, pianists: Mrs. Robert Le Fevre, soprano, and Myron Whitney, bass. Lena Cash of the W n College of Music has besn chosen panist for the Capital City Choristers. Friendship House will have a chil- dren’s program at the Five O'Cl Hour of Music today. Gwendolyn, Billy and Bobby Sutoon will give the program. House are cordially invited LG e e R el 'OUR music clubs at Gordon High School will resume inf work with the beginning of th preparation of the functions in which they will take p: The Boys' Glee three-part harmony. nine: been nsive inging in spond to in- | vitations to sing outside of the sche t latter part of J and will pr coliege songs which a with the boys The Treble will prepare three. s 1 sin, in response number of in Tt ance over radio March, when they nour program. The Girls' Glee Club, numb: girls, will work on_two-par si reparation for school activities other functions. ‘The Boys’ Choir, a group of 30 boys with unchanged soprano voices, sing almost entirely in unison, essisting at c! ssemblies at the school and other activities. All of these clubs took part in the Christmas Singing Pageant,” recently presented at the school, and will prob- ably take part in the Spring revue to be given later in the year, This work is done under the direc- tion of Mary Minge Wilkins, probably be in will give a palf- 40 in s 44 years of age when | in rather a dif- | of the San Fran- | All friends of Friendship |\ Junior and | Women's Cn'y Club News. A PROGRAM of piano selections will be given al the Women's City Club | this afternoon by Betty Baum, grad- uate teacher of Peabody Conservatory and member of the Washington Pian- ists' Club. Miss Baum will play two groups as follows 1 Bach-Busoni. ‘'Ch: ne."* B Flat Major. G E Major.” | le Oy G Minor.” | “The Mystic Symphon; as revealed by Cesar Franck in his “Symphony in Minor,” will be played and discussed at the fourth of a series of “Adven- | tures in Music” at the Women's City Ci on Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock instead of at 8 as previously announced. Mrs, Mary Izant Couch, pianist, chairman of music, will also include a potpourri from the opera, | “Schwanda,” by Weinberger. MUSIC Cri!icism Tall(. ELEN FETTER COOK, who is giv- ing a series of talks on the sub- ject of music criticism at the Wash- ington College of Music, 2107 § street, will resume the series following the holiday break in classes tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The subject this week will be “Sing- ers and Musicians” The methods of flerent famous critics, as well as the | underlying principles of criticism as applied to vocal recitals will be discussed. T January dates for the criticism re Januery 16, 23 and 30, | H and opera Supervia and Salvi anf‘ X Iarpls! o 'Ch]ldrfi Ruth Wilso riists appearing at Mrs. Law- ce Townsend's morning mu- sicale in the ball room of the Mayflower Hotel on Wednesda; of this week will include Co chita Supervia, noted Spanish mezzo- soprano, and Alberto Salvi, world-famed harpist, who was heard last season on a program with Mme. Supervia at this same series of concerts. The concert is scheduled to begin promptiy at 11:15 am. The program follows (a) “Prelude” from “Suite Bergamasque™ ®» 1‘ Lesson scene, e Barber of Sevil original version) C “The Lass With the Delicate HE a = Arasbesque No Mr Debussy (@) ®) A. Arne Seguidille “Carmen +e...G. Bizet Mme. Supervia v Paradist Mr. " Saivi (Tanadilla) .E. Gr anza V' E. Granados “El Majo Discreto il E._ Granados Albeniz a an: Rondo b5 R “‘Cantares’ S “Las Hijas del Zebedeo Maja costume designed by Andreu. Mme. Supervia At the pis ano. Ivor Newton. VIOLINIST iN PECITAL. UTH CALVERT WILSON, hailed by | "\ critics as the foremost woman vio- linist in America, will appear in concert tomorrow evening in the small ball room of the Willard Hotel. This will be the third and last of the series of concerts Ziven under the auspices of the Musical Artists of America. Miss Wilson's program gives excellent | scope for her technique, rich tone and bold interpretation. Just 20 years old, this native daughter of California has | credit. At 12, she many triumphs to h made her debut in New York, winning much favorable comment. Since then she has been studying with the famous Borisoff, appearing in concerts in St. Louis, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Boston. Her finesse and artistry, in- telligence and conception of music promise an evening of great interest to musical Washington. A fine violin by the famous Guag- danine (Jean Baptiste) is her prize possession, and adds greatly to her bow- ing artistry The high spot of her program will be the Brahms “Sonata in D Minor.” Other numbers include the *“Largo,” by Gluck-Ries; “Praeludium and Allegro,” Pugnani-Kreisler; “Nogun,” from suite “Baal Shem,” by Bloch by Schubert; Debussy’s “La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin,” “Sumare? by Mil- haud, and Brahms’ “Hungarian Dance No. 2" Minna Niemann will accom- pany Miss Wilson at the piano. Assisting Miss Wilson tomorrow eve- ning will be Edna Fisher Hall, con- tralto, also a California artist. She will give as the first number on her program “Lungi Dal Care Bene,” by Secchi; “Ewig,” by Wolf; Schubert's “Der Ted und das Maedchen,” Brahms' ‘“‘Meine Liebe ist gruen,” and later Tschaikow- sky’s “Tell Me Why” and “By a Lonely Forest Pathway,” one of Griffes’ best known songs. SYMPHONY ANNOUNCEMENTS. V/LADIMIR HOROWITZ, called the greatest pianist of the rising gen- Patnuses | anados Ave Maria,” | At Morning Musicale Mrs. Townsend to Present Noted Spanish Soprano n.s Concert Saturday. n in Recital. / will be soloist at the next conceri of ths National estra on January 19, mperor Concerto” of e complete program: Overture. “The Secret of Suzanne’ Perrar mphonie No. 68" . Tschaikovski o Beethoven t Horowitz. soloist ye: almost to the day, Horowitz e his American debut, which nad been preceded by eulogies from Europe in which he had been hailed a superhuman combination of Rubenstcin, Rosenthal, Paderewski, | Busoni and about every other pic- turesque and prominent pianist of t day and yesterda ‘The heralding was almost too much. Later, the young Russian pianist confessed to Coaductor ans Kindler 0 made an extended cOncert tour with him. playing joint cello-piano recitals, that never in his 24 years had he been so nervous as on the night of January 12, 1928, when he walked out on the stage of Carnegie Hall, past the men of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, bowed to a house filled with the world’s most blase audience, and sat down befere the piano to make his American debut. The avalanche of applause which crashed down upon his last chord of the concerto, and the papers the next day, told the story of “the most success- ful concert artist to appear before the American public in the decade It was, recorded the calm Olin Downes in the New York Times, “the wildest wel- come a pianist has received in many seasons in New York * * a whirl- | wind of virtuoso interpretation, amaz- ing technique, irresistible youth, elec- trical temperament.” During that first season, Horowitz made 36 appearances, 19 of them with the greatest orchestras in the land. No sooner was his second tour announced than it was completely booked. Last year, no longer a novelty but still a tremendous sensation, Horowitz returned again, and again public and press went to extravagant lengths to celebrate the playing of this extraordinary young pianist. Washington concert-goers will remember the tremendous ovation he received here when he played the Teschaikovski concerto last geason. Cynics have waited in vain for the “let down.” It has never come. Critics, recovering from the thrill of his vir- tuosity, have hunted for more superla- tives to describe his musicianship. Preceding this concert by a few days, | Dr. Kindler will bresent another Young People’s Concert at Central High School | on January 14 at 11 am. Conductor | Kindler will discuss more about form in | music. and the orchestra will play the | following program: AR L “Minu | “Minuet Mozart Boccherini First’ Symphony"” Beethoven raeludium um'* Jarnefelt Everybody sing *‘Drink fo Me Only With | .. _Thine Eyes English_Alr) % “Polka and Fugue FEe from “Schwanda’ Weinberger ‘The Friday Morning Music Club has donated 25 tickets to worthy students to hear this concert, and the American | Business Club will be host to 15 mem- | bers of the Boys' Band of the National | Training School. Tea and a Jesf. TEA. and a jest taken seriously, em- barked Claudette Colbert, one of four featured stars in Cecil B. De t “The Sign of ' upon a stage carcer that, its course to screen | achievements. | . The genesis was in 1924. Miss Col- bert was studying at the Art League |in New York: had ncver thought par- | ticularly about a stage career. At a IlPa one day she met Anne Morrison, -‘Ihv playwright, and jokingly asked her | for a | W part in her new play, “The Wild otts.” Miss Morrison took her lly in earnest, and almost before she ew it Miss Colbert was a full-fledged, if unimportant, actress. A “faked experience” of several sea- £ recounted in detail to Brock | Pemberton, was sufficient next to se- cure Miss Colbert the leading feminine | role in “The Marionette Man.” Since pt for an interlude in of “Leah Kleschna"—she d in nothing but leads. T st known Broadway “The Cat, Came | ,” “A Kiss in a t Train,” “The Pearl Great Pr “The Barker, T Bu La Gringo,” “Tin Pan Alley” and the The- Guild’s production of Eugene “Dynamo.” Miss Colbert's stage appearance Wwas a year ago| ‘See Naples and Die.” European Stars Arrive. LAST week marked the arrival in America for work in Fox plctures of two European performers, both fa- mous in England and on the continent on stage and screen ast seen on the screen s Dances,” arrived on the | men and left for Hollywood to begin | “His Majesty’s Car.” in which | nd El Brendel will have | g roles. The story was the screen by Hans Kraly. Another celebrity known abroad for v York on the Majestic and Hollywood almost imme- | “ M intely Angel's picture has not been decided upon yet, but she is ex- | pected to be cast in a produetion early | in_the year. T most_recent leading men | red with Miss Harvey and Angel have or are to appear in| Henry Garat, seen | Harvey in “Congress Dances,” been engaged by Fox for| Pri at Your Order,” in support | of Janct Gaynor. Frank Lawton. who ed on (he London stage in “London opposite Hehther Angel, just | leted a part in “Cavalcade,” the adaptation of the famous Noel oward play. Ghoe Girlel Sheink | CHDRL'S girls have shrunk since the! gay nineties When Paramount put in a call for chorines to appear in beer-hall scenes for Mae Wesi's starring picture, “She | Dene Him Wrong,” this fact became | tartlingly evide! Modern chorus girls average in! height een five feet two inches four and weigh usually 3 unds | In the days of V tor's, Suicide Hall and the other colorful Bowery dives which provide the background of ory now being filmed, chorus girls 1 more generous sizes Therefore it was with great difficulty hat a line-up of young women who cculd execute the stamping chorus routines of that early day and also measure up to the physical specifisa- | ticns required, were rounded up. These girls average five feet ten inches tall and weigh from 130 pounds | upward. They are reminiscent of the once popular ‘“beef-trust” burlesque | baltets | Harold Hecht, noted dance director of the Screen and theater, is putting | the girls through the paces of stage- | shaking routines which once made Bowery folks beat the tables with their beer glasses and shout wntll the gas chandeliers rattled. ;! who appe Miss Fox | an i months on Broadw: ! ment GALA grand opera presentation at popular prices has been arranged by Alfredo Salmaggi.. to be given here Sunday night, January 22, at the Wash- | ington Auditorium, with stars of the Metropolitan, Chicago, La Scala and other cpera companies of note in music centers of the world, appearing in a double bill, comprising Mascagni’s “Cav- alleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci.” ‘With Lola Monti Gorsey, prima donna soprano, formerly of the La Scala Opera and the Imperial Theater of Moscow and recently of the Chicago and the Ravinia Operas, singing the dramati role of Santuzza in “Cavalleria Rusti- cana”; will sing also Ralph Errolle, lyric tenor for five seasons with the Metropolitan and for the Chicago Opera; Luigi Bonelli, bari- tone with the La Scala Opera in Milan and other operas in Italy and one of the stars with the Chicago Opera for three seasons; Dorothy Secgar, lyric soprano of the Philadelphia Opera, and Lea Silva, contralto. seasons with | : Grand Opera Announced | . The American opera debut of a Wash- ington girl, Ruth Peter, in the role of | Nadda in “Pagliacci,” ‘will be one of | the important features of the occasion. Miss Petor has only recently returned | from Italy, where she studied for fivé | years and sang with success at the | Theater Royal in Rome, in Naples, in | Palermo and in Florence. She is sing- | ing her first American concert this week | in New York City in one of the Hotel Plaza concerts, and will return at once to begin rehearsals for her Capital City debut. Singing the role of Tonio in “Pag- liacci” will be the world-famous bari~ tone, Pasquale Amato, who sang for 12 years with Caruso at the Metropolitan Opera. Giuseppe Radaelli, dramatic tenor from La Scala of Milan, will sing the role of Canlo, in which he achieved success with Toscanini in Milan. Giu- seppe Bruno and Ludovico Oliviero will complete the cast of “Pagliacci.” The_chorus and orchestra will come | from New York. Gabriele Simeoni will | conduct both operas. Tickets will be Mae's Biograp]ny, MAE WEST'S childhood was spent in training for the stage and her later life in training the stage and screen to a proper appreciation of Mae West. Her parents were theatrical people and Miss West made her professional debut at the age of 5. After several vears in vaudeville she made her Broadway debut in the “Folies Bergere,” then played in “A La Broadway “Vera Violetta” ana “A Winsome Widow.” After these successes she re- turned to vaudeville for five years. specializing in imitations of George M. Cohan and Eddie Foy. She returned to New Yorl in Ned Wayburn' i and “The Mimic World” It wa ¥ she wrote her first play, This sensational production ran two years with Miss West as th star. “The Wicked Age” was her next play in which she also starred. Her greatest success, “Diamond Lil” followed. She’ wrote, produced and starred in this, playing it for thres yeers in New York, Chicago and on the road. The characters she portrayed had such popular appeal that Miss West gave vaudeville performers permission to do her type of thing and even wrote the sketches for them. More than a year ago she wrote her first novel “The Constant Sinner,” also called, “Babe Gordon.” It was a best seller and she turned it into a play which ran X She has writ| another book, a novelization of “Dia mond Lil” and is working on five mors She made her screen debut in “Nignt After Night” and then starred in “She Done Him Wrong,” an original story of her own. Champ to Tutor Solons. Once a world champion, Georges Hackenschmidt, who has been living for some years in Nice, France, is to teach members of the British Parlia- catch-as-catch-can and other forms of wrestling. They have estab- lished a gymnasium and have selected as their instructor the wrestler, who threw all rivals with ease 25 years ago, until the fateful night he met the American mat artist, Gotch. The Mongol horsemen in Central Asia are today seriously discussing So- viet_ideas and Marxist principals. ARMANDO JANNUZZI Grand Opera, Dramatic Tenor Voice Specialist Italian Method From La Scala, Milan, Italy Col. 4608 - 3403 14th St. N.W, " available at all leading hotels | Concert at Art Galleries. | A CONCERT will be given by the pu- | pils of the Assoclated Studios at the Sears, Roebuck art galleries, 1106 Connecticut avenue, on Thursday eve- ning at 8:15 | The following rendere Vilin—Allegro (C program will be rto, G Major, Opus s Viotth | naniel Breeskin.) | voice Mio Core Adel a, Carissimi Beethoven (Roce By de Lur (Helen Grim Piano—*Clair . .Debussy Che Faro S eniawski -Kreisler organized by is an affiliation of r combined studio The members of Sokolov, violin; Mme. Grete von Bayer, piano; Richard Lorleberg, cello; Adolf Tor . organ and theory, and Otto T. S , voice. nterests the faci itals e: Henri i MUSIC STUDIK ‘BESSIE N. WILD Fiano and Harmeny ¥ Mrs. Hamilt pupil of . Ge et no lesson: le ( hon I, Graded courses, ers_or adults. d { 3210 17th St. N.E. | Phone Decatur 2400-W gers, Acters, Announcers. Maestro A. Salmaggi Vocal Instructor m pil Formerly Directer of the Manhattan, Chicago and Havana Opera Companies | | || Teacher of Many Famous Radio and Grand Opera Stars Announces a New Class of RADIO SINGING Equipped with complete Universal micre phone apparatus for broadcasting tes Only papils with definite talent accepted. $3 per lesson. Course of 10 lessons, $23. Auditions Free by Appeintment 1627 Connecticut Ave. N.W.