Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1933, Page 39

Music World Passing Mourns of Dr. Wolle Death of Celebrated Director Leaves Vacancy in ence of Famed Bethl ehem Bach Festival. By Alice Eversman. HE death last week of Dr. J. Fred Wolle, director of the Bethlehem Bach Fes- tival, not only leaves a va- cancy in the musical life of Amer- ica, but threatens the existence of one of our most important mu- sical organizations. For 33 years the festivals at Bethlehem have been the pride of this country and have received the praise and vespect of the entire world. They | have not only given a sense of solidity to our musical endeavcgs, but they have challenged the scepticism of critics of our mu- sical taste and silenced them. In answer to any assertion of the weakness of our love of good music we have been able to point to the Bach festivals and demol- ish every criticism. Too much honor cannot be paid the man who originated | them and kept them alive for 50 | many years. With uneiring judg- ment and unwavering standfast- ness, Dr. Wolle held to his ideals and was I rd>d by the awak- ening and growth of appreciation of Bach which he had foreseen. | He had faith in us and, like a| kindly teacher, he repeated his lessons of beauty until he had driven home and made apparent the grandeur of the music he espoused. In all our restless life and straying after each new at- traction he, alone, concentrated on his ideals of good music. Many a wandering and dissatisfied sheep he has brought back into the musical fold and given a re- newal of faith. In this day, when eagerness to accept the unusual | and alluring is universal, the loss | of one who held on to the tried and true is a catastrophe. Dr. Wolle had the good fortune to be born in a community where serious music had always been a | part of daily life and to have an | ancestry that prepared for him | Ms deep love and respect for its| most serious exponent. It is not difficult to understand the en-| thusiasm which filled him when, ! as a young student in Munich, he | heard Bach given in the grand | manner. The ideas that came to | him at that time he began to put | into shape on his return home. Enlisting the interest of the 115 singers in the Bethlehem Choral Union, which he had formed be- fore leaving for Germany, he pre- pared and in 1892 gave both the | St. John’s and the St. Matthew's | “Passion.” After this decided suc- | cess, he wished to give the mass in B minor, but its difficulties {rightened the singers and rather | than give himself to the produc- tion of other works, he agreed to the dissolving of the organization. For five years there was no Bach | given in Betjlehem on a grand | scale. 3 | When, in 1898, a group of ladies | asked Dr: Wolle to direct a mu- sical club they had formed, he re- | fused unless it be devoted to the | study of Bach. It was then that a number of singers in and near | Ezthichem were approached and | ventually a large enough chorus, willing to learn Bach, was formed. After 14 months of intensive study, Dr. Wolle’s great wish was realized and the mass was given at the first Bach festival in March, 1900. Since then, at each festival, it has been an estab- lished part of the program. Active in assisting Dr. Wolle to organize the first chorus Lucy Brickenstein of Washington. Miss Brickenstein has continued to serve on each succeeding com- mittee and to sing the soprano solos of the great mass. Anocther Washingtonian whose fine voice was often heard there is Charles Trowbridge Tittmann. Dr. Wolle had not only the genius to see the value of an in- tensive study of Bach, but he had the executive ability to carry out the business arrangements neces- sary to such an important per- formance. He bore the buggden of the financial direction as well as the arrangement and direction of the music. He made it a onec- man job and assumed this re-! sponsibility over a period of years. The Bethlehem Bach Fes- tival and Dr. Wolle are synony- mous. He garnered the music lovers from all the surrounding country and held the interest of these un- | trained singers. His tact and un- | derstanding of the psychology of the people he taught are illus- trated in the method he employed in reducing the difficulties of the |« study of the long choruses. Be- inning with the last line of the | ward to the beginning, realizing | that there is a subtle encourage- ment in mastering the climaxes first. Manv singers of note wer soloists with the yearly festivals, and celebrated musicians from all | over the country made pilgrimage to assist in reverent silence at the faithful and sincere rendering of the works of the great father of | music. With the passing of Dr. Wolle, the Bach festivals remain with- out a guiding hand. It will be difficult to find a successor to the man whose simple and uncom- promising attitude, deep musi- clanship and true love for music has served as pioneer and as re- lentless upholder of the value of | Bach as a constant educator and stabilizing influence in our musi- | cal life. Surely the spirit of Dr. Wolle must be in accord with the | sentiments of the famous war poem: To you from failing hands we throw The torch. hold it high. "d'/iw break faith with us who Be yours to e We shall not sleep—. * %k ok ¥ THE sixty-seventh of Mrs. Townsend's Musical Mornings which takes place on Wednesday, with Myra Hess, pianist, and ‘Hans Kindler in the role of cel- list, will be in the nature of a Jjubilee. Ten years ago, almost to a day, Mrs. Townsend began her series of musicales which were to introduce to the Washington pub- lic artists who have been ac- claimed the world over. To Mrs. Townsend’s musical ht is due the courage she showed in bringing many who had gained but their first renown and who since then have been placed among the world’s greatest artists. ‘This week will see reunited in Washington several artists who owe their first appearance here to Mrs. Townsend. Horowitz, who played with the National Sym- phony Orchestra, came quite un- known to this city on January 18, 1928, to be heard at the May- flower. On February 4, 1924, Dus- silina Giannini made her first re- cital appearance through Mrs. Townsend after her sensational debut in New York. Gieseking was welcomed last year as a newcomer and his recent appearance on her program, and his appearance next week again with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra attest the popularity he has gained here. Iturbi, Orloff, Brialowsky and Lawrence Tibbett are other fa- mous artists who can return here with assuranee by reason of their first introduction at the Wednes- day Musical Mornings. This Wednesday, Myra Hess, pianist, who also was brought here by Mrs. Townsend three years ago, will share the program with Dr. Hans Kindler, whose fame as a cellist preceded his re- nown as a conductor. At that recital there will be present Bruno Walter, who conducts the New York Philharmonic the evening before; Gieseking, who will be their soloist; 14 of the heads of every department of the National Symphony Orchestra, who have been invited to hear their con- ductor play, and several mem- bers of the New York Philhar- monic. e RUTH PETER, Washington so- prano, who has gained much fine praise in Europe, will not ap- pear in opera in this city as was at one time announced. Miss Peter is leaving soon for Europe and in consequence has refused all contracts offered her to_sing opera in America. Miss Peter made her European debut as Madalena in “Andrea Chenier” in Ferrara._naly, and later sang at the National Opera of Riga, in Warsaw, Covno, Toulouse and many other musical centers of Europe and is returning for fur- ther appearances. o TS Benefit Artists Named. THE list of Washington musicians who will assist the Ten O'Clock Club iy six benefit concerts to be given in February. March and April has just been completed. Edward MacDonald, director cf the club, announces the fol- lowing to appear on programs. in ad- dition to_those named last week. The Washington String Quartet (Milton Schwartz and Paul Brighten- burg, violins; George Wargo. viola; Sidney Hamer, violoncello); Emerson Meyers, pianist; Florence Yocum, so- prano; SyWia Meyer. harpist: Helen Fetter Cook, critic: Mr. Schwartz also as violin soloist on one of the pro- grams, and Rcbert Frederick Freund, baritone. The programs are being carefully worked out to give the audiences some- thing entirely different on cach of the &ix evenings. There will be included 2 costumed group in music of the Tudor period, with singers and old in- struments, a program of German music, including lieder, string quartet and plano music; a program of music writ- ten in sonata form for piano and vio- loncelle, a MacDowell program of scngs lin_and piano. Proceeds from these to be distributed with of the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs to help those in real need, especially musiciens in distress. The dates of the concerts are Febru- ary 14 and 21, March 14 and 28 4 and 11. et MR GrtIe s B el MRS PAUL CRIBLET of Townson, Md., president of the Maryland Federation of Music Clubs, will be the guest of honor at the musical to be given by the members of the music sec- tion of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase, tomorrow afternoon, at the home of Mrs. J. J. Underwood, in Til- den Gardens. Mrs. Wil Coll choir at Columbis Church, 3 by Wo! concerts are the assistance s, director of the Heights Christian ," by Burleigh. Dorothy a pupil of Alice Burbage Hes: will give three plano numbers, “The Flight of the Bumble Bee,” by Rimsky-Korsakoff- Rachmaninoff and Chopin's “Andante splanafa," and “Scherzo in B-flat Minor.” C. Guthrie will sing by Luigi Denza, and will give readings in Mrs. Ross Gunn costume, with Mrs. Bibber accompany- | terminated by Mrs. John A. Logan 2 les “Andente from i “Conzo- . S. Jay of the Lectures on Tsc};;ikowsky. | THE International Art Forum presents Mme. Natalia Rimsky-Korsakoff in a lecture on the “Life and Music of Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky.” The lecture is the third of a series of six, and is scheduled to begin at 4 o'clock next Saturday, at the Washington Club, 1010 Seventeenth street. Mme. Korsakoff is a niece of Tschalkowsky and recog- nized as an authority on his life. The musical portion of the program will be contributed by Mme. Louise Coutinno, pianist, and a former pupil of Egon Petri, Alexander Libermann and Eugen d'Albert. Mme. Coutinho's program will include: Tschaikowsky's Polacca de Concert Opus 72, No. 7, “Chanson sans Paroles in F,” “Marche Slav” —Opus 31, and “Suite from Ia Belle au Bols Dormant.” Tickets are available at the T. Arthur Smith Bureau, 1330 G street. Piano Pupils in Recital, UPILS from the Evelyn Mayers piano group ranging in age from 3 to 7 years, gave a demonstration in rhythm at the parent-teacher meeting held in the Filimore School 12si Monday night. These taking part were Catherine Kern, Mary Hickson, Dan Mayers, James Cal: lery and Mary Louise Lakeman. Cath- erine Kern played and transposed the “Cradle Song,” by Blake. Jamos Cal- lery, aged 5, played and transposed into nine different keys, “Johnnie” and “Sleep, Baby, Sleep,” from the Mary Bacon Mason collection. C. C. Capel, concert manager of the National Symphony Orchestra, gave & lecture on “Music and the Wise Use of Lelsure.” Ivalee Newell ted Emile Josesph and George in violin ‘aumbers. - THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO! D. C, JANUARY 22, 1933—PART FOUR : ApBearing Here in Musical Events | Upper, left to right: Walter Gleseking, pianist, who will be the soloist with the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday afternoon; Myra Hess, pianist, | playing Wednesday at Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's morning musicale at the Mayflower, and Sylvia Lent. violinist. who will be the soloist next Sunday with the | National Symphony Orchestra Continental Hall. Lower, left to right: Pasquale Amato, formerly of the Metropolitan | ington Auditorium; Serge Koussevitzki, who is bringing his Boston Orchestra here week after next; Club concert cn Wednesday, and, in oval, Clyde B. Altchison, conductor of the Interstate Male Chorus, which is ra Co., who is singing tonight in grand opera at the Wash- | n Gridley, tenor, who will be the soloist at the Rubinstein giving a concert Tuesday evening in Memorial LOUIS POTTER, JR. Who will be the soloist at the Schu- | bert Choral Club concert tomorrow eve- D | ning at Pierce Hall. and | and piano music, a pregram of music | soloist at the first festival was for harp and voice and a program | of music by French composers for vio- Service Band Concerts. URING the coming week the United States Marine Band and Orches- tra, under the direction of Capt. Taylor Branson, will play concerts in the audi- torium at the Marine Barracks on the | fellowing dates: ‘ - Monday, January 23, band concert at pm. Wednesday, January 25, orchestra oncert at 8 p.m. Thursday, January 26, band concert at 11:30 a.m. (shut-in “dream hour”). Friday, January 27, orchestra concert pm. The United States Navy Band Or- | chestra, Lieut. Charles Benter leader, | will play at the band auditorium in the Navy Yard Wednesday evening at 8 o'cleck. The program opens with the verture “Rosamunde,” by Schubert, and includes the “Babylon Suit:,” by Justin Elie, “Second Hungarian Rhap: usician Daniel Temkin, violinist, will be solcist on this program. | - . | e Wagnerian Lectures. | MIKSA MERSON, pianist, and Fran- ceska Kaspar Lawson, soprano, will of a series of Wagnerian lectures to be given today, at 4 p.m., at the Washing- | ton_College of Music. Mr. Merson will play Liszt transcrip- ast chorus, he proceeded back- |ing at the plano. The program will be | tions of “Tristan and Isolde,” and Mrs. i i assist Dr. Julius E. Schelling in the first Lawson will sing two arias from “Lo- hengrin,” accompanied by Fanny Am- stutz Rob: D-. Schel'ing's topic i3 o rd Wagner” £nd rh> a; s lecture cnly a col- n of Wagneriena pictures. Studio Musicale Today. \A STUDIO MUSICALE, piano and | voice, will be given by pupils of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Potter, at 1325 G street northwest, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The program will include piano music from early masters as well as moderns and a number of songs from | contemporary American composers. Those taking part will inciude Doro- i(hy McCullough, Eugene Edelin, Sally West (pupil of Theodosia Armes), Mel Yeun Hoover, Barbara Sweet, Margery | League, Jean Baade. Theodosia Armes, Rachel Merritt, Edith MacCartee, Fred | Gross, Gladys' Taylor, Carol Bishop, | Theodor Morgan, Margery League, Ber- tha Morgan, Rhoda Doyle, Doris Smith and Mildred Colvin. | | THE Washington String Quartet, | under the patronage of Mrs. | Harlan _P. Stone, Mrs. Frederick C. Hicks, Frank Frost, Hans Kindler and Mrs Edwin B. Parker, will be presented in recital at the residence of Mrs. Fred- | erick C. Hicks next Friday afternoon at | 5 o'clock. Milton Schwartz, Brigntenburg, first violin; will pley the following program | Quartette Allegro_moderato. Asses vif, tres rythme. Tres lent, pressez legerement. Vit et agite. Piano Quintette ... Allegro_brillante. Un poco largamente. herzo. esro, mo mon troppo. The assisting artist will be Emerson «eesees.. Bchuman The quartet, comprised of | Paul | second violin; . Géorge | Wargo, viola, and Sidney Hamer, cello, | Local Friday Morning Music Club will present the “Plano Con- | certo,” by Mozart, played by | with Dorothy Willa Semple | Radde Emery at the second piano next Friday. | Ruth Starkey, dramatic soprano, will be the singer on this program. Miss Starkey has recently come to Washing- | ton from New York, where she studied with Frank Bibbs. Miss Starkey ex-, pects to spend the Winter in Washing- ton at the home of her sister, Mrs. Al- | |den Pinckel. In the Summer Miss| Starkey is in charge of the musical ac- | tivities at Estes Park, Colo. { Georgia Miller was hostess at a musi- cale on Wednesday evening in her studio, | 1652 Newton street, assisted by a group ' of her senior pupils. Those taking part | on the program were Margaret Loane, | Elinor Webb, Norma Bell Carty, Elea- | nor Glynn, Murray and George Corn- well. Betty Waters, soprano, sang a group of songs. ‘ | The Sunday Music Hour program this | | afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Y. W. C. | | A. Seventeenth and K streets, will be | | presented by Delphine Desto, cellist; | Sara Beckerwpianist, and H. Phelps Notes tralto, and Zaida Wells. Marie Wells was at the piano. Dr. Emanuel Wad, pianist, of Balti- more, and Eugene Martinet, tenor, wiil provide the program for the Arts Club musicale next Tuesday. Mary Marriott Martinet will accompany Mr. Martinet in part of the program. Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, bass, will assist Lewis Corning Atwater in a program of Nineteenth Century French music at All Souls’ Church this after- noon at 5 o'clock. Mr. Tittmann will sing “Si La Rigueur,” from “La Juive.” by Halevy, and Mr. Atwater will play numbers by Guilme:nt, Du Bois and Saint-Saens. The music at the morning service of the First Congregational Church today includes: an anthem by Zachiver, to be sung by the A Cappella Choir; a con- tralto solo by Dorothy W. Halbach, and organ selections, “Cantilene Nuptiale,” “Solemn Prelude,” and “Intermczz.” Mr. Gable will also play a request num- ber, Handel's “Largo.” In the evening the choir will sing “Ave Verum Corpus” and the quartet. “Son of My Soul.” Mr. Gable will play the intermezzo from Bizet's “L'Arlesienne Suite,” “Rien- Recitalist DELPHINE DESIO, Bruno Walter Couducts UCH interest is being shown in the grand opera presentation tonight at 8:30 o'clock at the Washington Auditorium, when, under the direction of Alfredo Salmaggi, Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rus- ticana” and Leoncavallo's “I Pagliacci” will be sung. Maestro Salmaggl has arranged to bring to the Capital a number of grand opera stars, including Pasquale Amato, Giuseppe Radaelli, Luigi Bonelli, Ralph Errollo, Lola Monti-Gorsey and Della Samoiloff, Russian grand opera prima donna, who will be heard in the role of Santuzza in “Cavalleria Rusticana.” Madame Lola Monti-Gorsey, originally announced to sing this role. will be | heard instead in the role of Nedda in “Pagliacci.” Madame Samoiloff, the daughter of a world-famous Russian tenor, Giuseppe Samoiloff, made her debut with the Chicago Opera flve years ago in the role c. Santuzza and immediately there- aft—~ was honored by Benito Mussolini with .oe role of Aida at the opening of Volpe sang with her and Toscanini was | the conductor. Since that time Madame | Samoiloff has sung in Venezuela, Mexi- | co City and Buenos Aires. She has| only recently returned to the United | States. PHILHARMONIC CONCERT. RUNO WALTER, the distinguished German conductor, who directs the New York Philharmonic-Symphony | Orchestra here next Tuesday afterncon at Constitution Hall, is one of the fore- most conductors of the world. He is well known in London where every Spring he directs the German reper- tolre of the Covent Garden series. He also a rs regularly at the Summer festivals in Salzburg. His performances the Royal Theater in Rome, when Lauri | | Grand Opera Featured Tonight at Auditorium Salmaggi to Present “Pagliacci™ and “Cavalleria."” Philharmonic Tuesday. Myra Hess and Kindler at Morning Musicale. of the Mozart operas in Salzburg and Munich have been particularly cele- brated in the past. A few Winters ago he conducted in Russia with much suc- cess and was one of the first persons to visit the country under the Soviet regime. He is now regular director of the Leipsig Genwandhaus Orchestra. One of the features of the concert Tuesday will be the Schumann piano “Concerto in A Minof, op. 54, and it will be played by the famous soloist, Walter Gieseking, who played such a fine program at the morning concert last Wednesday at the Mayflower Hotel presented by Mrs. Lawrence Townsend. Mr. Walter will open his program with the Strauss tone-poem, “Don Juan.” ‘This wiil be followed by the Schumann concerto played by Mr. Gieseking. The closing number will be the Schubert “Symphony in C Major, No. 7."” Tickets are available at the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau. TOWNSEND MUSICALE. 'HE artists appearing at Mrs. Law- rence Townsend’s morning musicale this Wednesday in the ball room of the Mayflower will be Myra Hess, pianist, and Dr. Hans Kindler, cellist and di- rector of the National Symphony Or- chestre The progre Suite (15th e Prelude. nap Caix d'Hervelois . la plainte, I8 Mr. Kindler “Pive Bagatelles .....Beethoven Miss Hes s .Mary_Howe 3 Nin et N Six “Preludes” Chopin Miss “Bonata’ (by request) ... Cessr Franck Miss Hess and ‘Mr. Kindler. Ralph Angell at the plano for Mr, Kindler. c Hess. URING the recent celebration | of the thirty-fifth anniversary | of the first presentation of | “Cyrano de Bergerac,” under | the auspices of the American | | Academy of Arts and Letters, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University addressed to Walter Hamp- | den words of praise for his steadfast adherence to a policy of presenting only worthy and beautiful plays “through years made wretched by the drabbest varieties of what is called realism.” This was editorially referred to by | the Herald-Tribune as an “index of | the abiding tendency in humanity to- | ward the romantic and chivalrous.” The tremendous popularity of “Cy- rano” was to some extent paralleled by & more modern play, “The Barretts | of Wimpole Street,” which also swept | triumphantly across the country, al- though, of course, it has not attained the 860 times which Mr. Hampden has | played the gallant Cyrano. Nevertheless, it has achieved the | greatest success of any play of recent| | years end it focused the attention of | | the public on the great poet, Robert Browning, and renewed his fame to a point of ferver that had not been known since his great vogue some 30 years or so ago, for “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” was the beautiful love | story of Robert Browning and Eliza- beth Barrett. Now that Mr. Hampden is again play- ing “Caponsacchi,” in the title rols of which he played over 400 performances in New York, it will prove highly in- teresting to the same public which en- | | joved that delightful play of Rudolf Besier to realize that “Caponsacchi” A Worthy Policy. is based on Browning’s “The Ring and the Book,” the poet’s longest and most sustained achievement and the one in which Browning created another love story of equal beauty. In the opinion of that great English critic, Edward Dowden, there was probably some men- tal affinity between Browning's oW love story and that of “Caponsacch: Commenting on Caponsacchi's respon to Pompilia’s plea for aid when he re- plied, “I am yours,” Dowden wonders “whether this passion of the deliverer had suddenly taken possession of the future author of ‘The Ring and the Book' when, on his first visit to the house in Wimpole strect. he saw a lit- tle figure. chained, as he believed, to the sofa, a pallid face and the great, eager, wistful eyes. It is certain that at that moment the words ‘I am yours’ were spoken within his heart.” The new and vivid interest in Robert Browning, the man, will doubtless bring still greater interest in Browning, the dramatic poet, whose beautiful and thrilling story of tragic love has been 8o splendidly woven into dramatic form by the adept hand of Arthur Goodrich At the time of the first presentation of this play Willizm Lyon Phelps wrote: “The fact that Mr. Goodrich, with the co-operation of a truly great actor, has produced an intensely exciting and deeply affecting play. There is not & moment of dullness from tne beginning to the end, and different scenes | have been arranged with extraordinary skill. I regard this play as the chief event of the dramatic season in New York, and it is my hope that it will be- come a permanent feature on the American stage.” Cabaret Committee. ADDITIONS to the Cabaret Committee for the Bal Boheme of the Aris | Club are announced by Miss Marjorie Lowe, chairman, which is to be one of Clark, bass. Miss Becker will accompany | zi's Prayer.” from “Rlenzi,” by Wag- Who will give a recital at the Mount the entertainment features of this ball | Vernon Place M. E. Church on Wed-|on February 6. The new members of Miss Deslo and Mrs. Cecile Phelps Clark will be accompanist for Mr. Clark. The | | public is cordfally invited. lo fourth Mondays of each month, will have “Negro Spirituals” as its subject | |on January 23 at 5 pm. This hour is | devoted to a combination of music ap- | preciition and informal singing. This is open to the public. | ‘The National Capital Choir, under the direction of Dr. Albert W. Harned, will sing the anthems “Festival Hymn,” | by Dudley Buck, and “Like Noah's | Weary Dove,” by Banks, at the mornin; service of the Universalist National | Memorial Church. Dr. Harned will play | | three compositions by Gray as his organ | selections, “Andante,” *Adagio,” and | “Grande Choeur.” Mary Smuck and Lena Kash pre- sented students in a recital at the Washington College of Music recently. These appearing included: Ruth Ray- mond, Jack Ruffner, Betsy Ann Hulbert, Shirley Kornhauser, Ernest Rivardo, June Sperling, Billv Ristig, Raymond Pointer, Parkhurst Shore, Dolora Fow- ler, Charlotte Ridgewell, Hugh Dryden, Jean Sanford, Mimi Norton, Ellouise Cooper, Helen Marie Byars, Mildred Knofer and Lucille Moore. ‘Warren F. Johnson will play the fol- lowing organ music at the Church of the Pilgrims at 7:30 o'clock this eve- ning. “Ciacona con variazoni (Sempre Semplice),” Kark-Elert; and “Hymn of Glory,” Yon. Mary Apple, contralto, and Helen Calhoun, re:der, will give a program this afternocn et 5 o'clock at Friendship House, 324 Virginia avenue southeast. The public is cordially invited. Hungarian music will be featured at the meeting of the Zalipsky Music Club next Wednesday at the Bekefl Institute, ?2:&0?1 n.r:etnn’on,hw&s:. under the di- of lelen C. Kiernan- ;hhl.lmln of % Commin vt.t::' e program include the foliowing numbenlz‘y Franz Lisst: “Libestraum,” soprano solo, Marjorie Isaacs; “Du Bist Wie Eine Blume,” contralto solo, Ann Yago McGuffey, and “Hungarian Rhap- sody,” for two pianos, Eleanor Hulbert and Viadimir Vasa. Milton Schwartz will play the violin solo, “Herji Taki,” by Hubay; and a Hungarian dance will be presented by Ludmiller Plavsky. Anna_Davis Straub, soprago, and James De Valse Mann, te:or,g wc;m- penied by Margaret Annis, were the soloists last evening, at the 108th anni- versary binquet of Washington Com- mandry, Knights Templar, at the Ham- ilton Hotel. Mrs. Straub sang “Joy,” by Cadman, and “Moonlight and Roses,” by Leman. Mr. Mann sang “Play Gyp- sies, Dance ” by Kalman, Gypsies, “Without Song,” by Youmans. . Straub and Mr. Mann also sang the duets, “It was a Lover and His Lass,” by Walthew, and “Will You Remember,” by Romberg. Pearl Waugh will give her fifth il- lustrated talk, “The lu’nnciplea of Pro- gression in Groups snd Phrases,” at the Y. W. C. A. tomorrow morning. Miss ‘Waugh also announces that two tesch- ers’ training classes have been organ. m and = Jneeting in her studio on esda; am. & urday at 12 noon. a ot Walter Reed H o e 1A | by Minnie Volkmann, soprano, and S. | The Music Lovers' Hour of the Y. W. | Elizabeth Kerr, contralto, at the Mid- | . A. which meets on the second and | Winter session of the Grand Chapter | — 3. A musical program for the benefit of ner, and “Sortie,” by Dunham. program of secular music was given of the Eastern Star last Thursday at the Mayflower Hotel. The concert to be heard this evening from 7 to 9 from the lower lounge of the Shoreham Hotel by Maxim Lowe's Concert Orchestra, under the direction of Roul Da Costa. will jnclude selec- | tions from the well-known opera, “La Boheme,” by Puccini, and also one of 1KreLtler'.s popular compositions. | Intcutatc Cl'mrus CO!\CEI'Y. nesday of this week. Sketch With Music. AN original sketch of dramatic action, with congs, setting and costumes of the period of the late '80s in New York ¥, is to be presented by the Lewis Studio:, LeRoy Lewis directcr, at the Washingten Club, Tuesday evening, February 7, at 8:30 o'clock. The lines of the sketch were written by Helen Fetter Cock and include music gossip references to artists and critics | of that day. Adelina Patti, Col. Maple- | son, Henry T. Finck, Mrs. Reginald de THE Interstate Male Chorus, Clyde B. | Aitchison, conductor, will give the i & Koven and others of the period are in- cluded in the comments and anecdotes told by the group of actor-muricians. Those who will take part in this etch include Catharine Toomey, con- |first concert of its thirteenth season | tralto; Mary Owen, soprano: Raymond | Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in Memorial Con- | tinental Hall clude many interesting numbers. among | which are “Sunrise,” by Podbertsky {“The Broken Melody. by Sibeli “Suomi’s Song,” by Franz Mair; Verdi’ “Companions, Let's Drink and taken from act 1 of “The Bandit"; a Bohemian folk song arranged by Davi- | son entitled “Reaper’s Song”; Ham- mond’s arrangement of Walter Scott's poem “Lochinvar,” with baritone solo; “Ay, Ay, Ay,” arranged by Stickles, and | Kibalchich's “Czechoslovakian Dance Song.” “The Merry Musketeers,” by ‘Semla. conductor of the B. & O. Glee Club, is also to be included in this pro- gram, together with Mr. Aitchison’s composition, “When Twilight Dews.” Edwin C. Steffe, baritcne soloist of the National Cathedrel, will be the guest artist at this thirty-fifth concert, in “Lochinvar” and in addition give two solo groups of his own. Robert L. Fuerstein will accompany the chorus as usual. Delphine Desio Recital. ]DELPHINE DESIO will give a recital at Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South Wednesday evening at 8:15 o'clock. This is the first in the series sponsored by the music depart- ment of the church. Miss Deslo was born in Wi n, educated in Baltimore and Pnu':gel?gx?i-: the only blind person to enter and graduate from the theory department of Combs Conservatory of Music, which has been in existence for 48 years; made four-year course in three years. She studied cello under William Schmidt of the Philadelphia Orchestra; awarded scholarships with Josef Smit and Joseph Franzosa, one year duration with each. She 1s a member of the Mu Phi Epsi- lon National Musical Sorority and was formerly active in the Philadelphia and Matinee Music Clubs in Philadelphia. She has appeared on programs in Wash- ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Harris- burg, Atlantic City and other East- ern_cities. ‘The program follows: 1 inuett (d) “Moment Musicai® (&) “Rondino” on a them arranged by Kreisler. Minng Ladies’ on-this and he will sing the baritone sclo part | Pigott, baritone, and Mrs. Cari Chind- The program will in-| Dlom, pianist. SEIAE NS = Opera G roup Reorgani:ed. THE Washington Civic Opera Co. which last season produced “The Gondiliers” and “Yeomen of the Guard,” has been reorganized and will shortly begin rehearsals of another Gillbert and Sullivan opera, “Iolanthe,” under the direction of J. Humbird Duffy. For the present Mr. Duffy also replaces R. R. Edwards as general man- ager of the company. All rehearsals of the Washington Civic Opera Co. will take place at Thomson Community Center, Twelfth and L streets northwest, on Thur:day evenings, beginning next Thursday at 8 o'clock. Singers of Washingt:n are invited to enter the greup in preparation for the new opera. The cest of principals is | partially completed, but there is still cpportunity for new voices in the com- pany. One of the plans now being formu- lated is to invite cutstanding guest stars to sing with the local organiza- tion and to repeat in the near future both “The Gondoliers” and “Yeomen of the Guard” in a down! % Rubinstein Club Concert. Tfl! Rubinstein Club, under the di- rection of Claude Robeson, will give its first concert of the season Wed- nesday evening in the large ballroom of the Willard Hotel. The guest soloist for the evening will be Dan Gridley, American tenor. ‘The club will present the fololwing program: 1. “Afferentur Regi Virgines” (with violin obligato) Abel L. Gal “Laudate Dominum in_Sanctus Ejus. (The Rubenstein Club.) . Torelll Legrenz! _Richiard Trunk jRichard Trunk 3 Y. “The Spanish, Gypsies”... William Lester "ango). (Walta). e Rubenstein Club.) . Arfa—"Un di allazzuzo spazio” . .Glordano (Andres_Chenter.) o3 (Mr. Gridley.) . “Seraphic Seng” (violin obbligato). ubinstein-Gaines Contralto soloist—Mrs. Edith White. (The Rubenstein Club.) Danza Pasauita (Thy . (M. Gridiey.) 7. “Nymphs and Shepherds,” Harry Vibbard ke ‘Ribenstein” Club) will have the sssistance of ison Bush es accom; panist A brief talk will be given about the | and Dorothy Seamans will be the assist- et lected as the release title for Nina Wil- | the committee are Mrs. Anne Yago Mac- | Gufe and Mrs. Katherine Morrison. {Others on_ this committee are Mme. | Felian Garzia and Donald MacDonal The performance will be staged in i‘he dining room of the Willard Hotel. 12, 1 and 2 o'clock |#ongs. dances and skits with instru- mental music is being arranged by Miss Lowe and her committee. | Among those who will be presented | are the radio artists, Kroom Bagranoff, | Elsie and James Shannon, and Frank | Young. Ina Holtzsheiter, soprano; Justin Laurie and Charles Watts will be heard in groups of songs, and Evelyn Scott in violin selections. Dance numbers will be interspersed on the program under the direction of | Phil Hayden and the Hoffman-Hoskins | studios. | Koussevitzky Coming. | 'HE Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, conductor, will | make its only concert appearance of the | |current season in Washington at Con- stitution Hall one week from next Tues- day—January 31, at 4:30 o'clock—with Dr. Koussevitzky conducting. This con- cert will be the fourth attraction of Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Artists’ series of afternoon concerts at Constitution Hall. It is believed that Dr., Koussevitzky'$ program will include at least one| musical novelty brought back from a | Summer of research among the greatest | of European music. Seats for the Boston Symphony Con- | cert may be obtained et Mre. Wilson- | Greene's Concert Bureau, in Droop’s, | 1300 G street northwest, or at Constitu- | | tion Hall the afternoon of the concert. | | ———— | “The Woman Accused” Cast | cast of “The Woman Accused” now includes 22 players, among whom are: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Norma Mitchell, Lona Andre, Irving Pichel, John Lodge, Ger- trude Messenger, Jay Belasco, Donald Stuart, Gregory Golubeff, Robert Quirk, Amo Ingraham, Dennis Beaufort, Gay- lord Pendleton, .Jack La Rue, Henry Holman, Louis Calhern, Frank Sheri- dan, William J. Kelly, Alleen Riggin and Herman Brix. The 10 authors who collaborated on the story—Rupert Hughes, Vicki Baum, Zane Grey, Vina Delmar, Irving S. Cobb, Gertrude Ath- erton, J. P. McEvoy, Ursula Parrott, | Polan Banks and Sophie Kerr—also will appear in early sequences of the pic- ture. Paul Sloane will direct. Stusrt Erwin will play the lead in Zane Grey's “Under the Tonto Rim.” Robert E. Lee will do the screen adap- tation and Henry Hathaway will direct. Frances Dee, Randolph Scott, “Bing” Crosby, George Burns and Grace Allen and Richard Arlen are now in the cast of “‘College Humor.” ‘With_the signing of Dorothy Burgess, Hugh Herbert and Louis Calhern for featured roles in “Strictly Personal,” icture are Dorothy Jordan, Eddie Qui , Marjorie Ram- beau, Edward Ellis, Olive Tell and Helen Jerome Eddy. Ralph Murphy will “A Lady’s Profession” been_se- cox Putnam's story originally called “Good Company.” to date are Roland Yo Roscoe Karns, lor, De Witt Jennings, Billy Bobby Vernon, Dewey George jer and Warren Hymer. Norman McLeod will direct. 5 | conductor of the club, | Hillemacher. Choral Club Program. HE Schubert Choral Club, Beatrice Taylor. president, will present its annual public program at Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets, tomorrow night at 8:300'clock. Theguest conductor will be the honorary leader, Mrs. A. M. Blair, formerly of Washington and now residing in Boston, Mass. The guest scloist will be Louis Potter. jr., violon- cellist. Mary Matnews Taylor will be accompanist for the club and George Cornwell will be at the piano for Mr. Pctter. William E. Braithweite, regular will alternate with Mrs. Blair in directing this pro- gram. The violoncello numbers will include “Adzgic,” frem “Toccata in C Major,” by Bach. and “Gavotte Tendre.” by Mr. Potter also will play an obligato part in the Schumann work, “By Moonlight.” The club will sing “Nightfall Granada,” by Bueno; “Creole Love Song.” by Smith, and “Love’s Benedic- tion,” by Silver, in the first group; “The Three Singers” by Tours, with inci- dental solos by Mrs. Hoppe, Mrs, Braithwaite and Mrs. Shrader; “Cradle Song,” by Schubert, and “To Musi Victor Saar’'s arrangement of Schube in the second group; by Schumann, and “The Spinning Seng.” fre ing Dutchman.” by Wag: LT . in Junioricfllubs” Concert. THE anniversary of Mozart's birthday, which comes in the latter part of January, will be celebrated by the junior clubs of the District of Colum- bia Federation of Music Clubs, with a concert on_ Saturday, at 8 o'clock, in the Sears-Roebuck Art Gallery, 1106 Connecticut avenue northwest. The program will be made up of the works of Haydn and Mozart. Mrs. Charles Brooks Smith will give a short sketch of the Viennese background which in= | spired the music of that period. Pupils cf the following teachers will take part: Kathryn Arthur, Lucy M. Boyer, Mary Izant Couch, Frances Gutelius, Ivalee Newell, Mabel Potter Payne, Edith B. Athey and Enid Williams. The con- cert has been planned by Ivalee Newell, junior chairman, and the public is cordially invited. N Ponselle to Sing fiere. Tlfl'. severe illness of Lily Pons, sensa- tional French coloratura of the Metropolitan Opera Co., which neces- sitated the postponement of her ‘Washington concert, originally sched- uled for Wednesday afternoon, January 11, at Constitution Hall, has made it impossible for Pons’ management to fix a date on which the noted diva will be heard in the Capital. While Mme. Pons’ appearance re- mains indeterminate, Mrs. Wilson- Greene is announcing the forthcoming concert appearance of Rosa Ponselle, prima donna dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, who will be heard at Constitution Hall two weeks from to- morrow. Monday afternoon, February 6, at 4:30 o'clac] MUSIC STUDIOS. Grace Hazard Wormelle oice, Piano, Expression i Tiny Tois—Boys—Girls xpression and Dancing Privaie Instruction, Voice or Piano ARMANDO JANNUZZi Voice Specialist Italian Method From La Scals, Milan, Italy Col. 4608 3403 14th St. N.W. IE N. WI Veice_C