Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1933, Page 41

Famed Boston Symphony Once Student’s Dream Great Orchestra Originated in Idea of Henry Hig- ginson. Young Har;vard Sg}lolar. Who Founded it and Later Contributed a Million Dollars. By Alice Eversman. N Tuesday afternoon the Boston Symphony Orches- tra under the direction of Serge Koussevitzy ~ will pay its only visit to Washington this season. Orchestra patrons of this city have had several .occa- sions to hear and compare the most celebrated orchestras in this part of the country as well/as en- joy the individuality of 'several famous conductors. The: Boston Symphony Orchestra stands for stability and progressiveness and with the added brilliancy of the name of Koussevitzy it' means originality and, above all, the (%intessence of good musician- 8 '1%9 Boston Symphony Orches- tra is the second oldest in the United States giving pre-emi- nence only to the New York Phil- harmonic_which is its senior by, 39 years. The story of the orches- tra’s inception and growth is a human story cf benevolence and farsightedness, a man’s dream realized, a conviction justified. It is an example of the strength of his belief in our ultimate reaction to music provided the opportunity was given us tg hear it year by year until its power had had time to work upost us and we had geawn to love it. Henry L. Higginson was a young Bostonian student who first learned of cultural affairs at the University of Harvard. His in- tentions were to become a banker, but before completely finishing the course of studies, he left to 0 to Vienna to spend four years n training his voice, practicing the piano and trying his hand at composition. Then the Civil War claimed his services in America and he did his duty to his coun- try, rising from rank to rank until, being seriously wounded, he was forced from action. After the war, when he took up the occu- pation of banker, which he had first decided upon, he neverthe- less continued to be a part of every movement that had any- thing to do with music or any other educational undertakings. The impression of those student ears when, day after day, he stened to the best music the great capital of Vienna had to offer, was never effaced and through the years of post-war re- adjustment and his own struggle to advance materially, he dreamed and planned. During this time there had be:n many attempts to form an orchestra. Although orchestra musicians were scarce, the few there were, were gathered to- gether periodically and a concert given. Theodore Thomas, at that time demiciled in New York, was the moving spirit in all things or- chestral and with untiring zeal he managed to hold together an orchestra, and do some touring, so that various cities, including Beston had an opportunity to hear an orchestra and know something_of the fine composi- tions that had been written for it. With this as a foundation and with personal prosperity aiding him, ~ Mr. Higginson finally reached the point where his dreaming and his planning could bear fruit. In 1881 he set aside $1,000,000 by way of endowment and announced to the Boston ublic that there would be estab- ished “an orchestra which should play the best music in the best way and give concerts to all who could pay a small price.” He called on Europe to obtain good musicians and took the best America had to offer at that time. He formed an orchestra of 60 men to give 20 concerts from the middle of October to the middle of March on Saturday evenings in the Museum Hall of Boston. He aid them for the concerts and 'or their preliminary “careful training” and bought a substan- tial library. The public was charged from 25 to 75 cents for a single ticket. George Henschel was the first conductor chosen. Born and edu- cated in Germany, Mr. Henschel achieved fame before he reached Boston as a concert singer and, after his American sojourn re- turned to Europe to win further renown as a vocal teacher and the founder of the London Sym- phony concerts. However, his thorough training in all branches of music made him eminently fit- ted to carry out Mr. Higginson’s idea. For the first three years of its existence Mr. Henschel di- rected the Boston Smphony Or- chestra. The second conductor, who suc- ceeded him, was Wilhelm Gericke. Resembling Mr. Henschel, he, too, had a Viennese education and much practice as conductor of the Gesellschaft's Concerte in Vienna. When he took over the baton of the orchestra, he used his energy and knowledge to weed out the E unworthy and replace them with experienced men and work for the highest proficiency in the public performances. His first im- portant step was to engage Franz Kneisel, then with the Bilse Or- chestra of Berlin, as concertmas- ter. During the five years that Gericke remained in Boston and for 13 years thereafter Kneisel held this position. At the con- certs which the Boston Symphony ave at the Chicago World's Fair t was Kneisel who was called upon to direct them during the absence of the conductor. 11l health compelled Mr. Gericke to pass on the baton to Arthur Nikisch. No more picturesque conductor than Nikisch has ever been known and from earliest childhood he had shown unusual talent for music. When still a student he was chosen to be spokesman for a group of musi- cians who were sent to welcome ‘Wagner in the historical year of the laying of the corner stone of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. At the concert which was given on that occasion, and where Wagner himself directed the performance of Beethoven’s “Choral Symphony,” Nikisch played in the orchestra among the first violins. Many triumphs followed each of his appearances when he later was a famed conductor and once, after an exceptionally fine performance Schumann’s “D Minor Sym- ghony," he was publicly thanked y Mme. Schunfann. Such was the conductor who next took over the destinies of the Boston Symphony and brought to bear his profound musicianship on their further training. Durin the four years that he remaine in this country, the public had many opportunities to hear a va- riety of works that heretofore had not been included in the orches- tra’s repertoire. From Vienna a2gain came his successor, Emil Pauer, who, after five years in Boston, continued in America as conductor of the New York Philharmonic concerts and eventually became director of the National Conservatory in New York. Dr. Carl Muck was another find of Mr. Higginson and he con- tinued at his post for many years bringing the standard of the or- chestra to as near perfection as possible. War, that had interfered with Mr. Higginson’s early life, came agein to cause a temporary sus- pension of what he was trying to accomplish and after being the sole supporter of the orchestra for 37 years, he turned over the directing of its destinies in 1918 to a board of trustees. In 1924 Serge Koussevitsky be- gan the longest continuous term as conductor of that orchestra and has brought it to new and surpassing heights. He came, heralded by the fame of his “Con- certs Koussevitsky” in Paris and the new impetus he had given to music in Russia. During the past nine years of his Boston leader- ship he has won a warm place in the appreciation of the Ameri- can public for his upholding of ideals that were a part of Mr. Higginson’s dream. o ox % 'HE passing of Katie Wilson- Greene writes finis to a glo- rious musical adventure. he braved many difficulties that the treasures of music could be ac- cessible to the public of Wash- ington. She laid the corner stone of a substantial musical edifice and saw it grow with surprising rapidity during her lifetime and had the consolation of knowing that what she had done was good. The impetus she has given will spread out in ever widening circles and to her will go the honor of having started it. Were it not for her bigness of courage that made her willing to gamble everything she possessed to carry out her idea, the influx of famous artists and the forming of the habit of concert going would have been delayed many years. She it was who realized that there was culture here that was being starved and wealth enough willing to pay provided that need was satisfied. Mrs. Wilson-Greene had the clearness to see that it was a deli- cate undertaking and that any effort to present but the best would bring a disgust that could never be overcome. For that rea- son she wasted no time, but be- gan at the top, sought the best and paid the big prices for the best. In the struggle she made Washington known as a city where great artists would be wel- comed and raised herself to the presidency of the National Concert Managers’ Association, where she presided over the activities of artists and managers over the en- tire country. From one initial concert to the complicated handling of big or- ganizations, such as the Metro- politan and Chicago Operas, has been Mrs. Greene’s record. Wash- ington has become familiar with the elite of genius and musical talent, and to the memory of Katie Wilson-Greene, who made all this e_osslble, goes the respect and gratitude of those who have enjoyed the fruits of her labors, * X x X { MUSICAL Washington mourns this week also the loss of Dr. Hugh R. Roberts, well known vocal teacher and flresldent of the Washington College of Music. In the eight years of his residence in this city, he has endeared himself to many friends and won an im- portant place in the city's musi- cal life. " He labored to lift the teaching standards in all depart- ments of the college and brought well known artist-teachers from New York to act as inspiration. He worked untiringly for the cause of music. During the re- cent convention of the National Music Teachers’ Association, his activities and his assistance were felt throughout and, while re- maining in the background, he nevertheless contributed in’ no| little measure to its success. A man of such high ideals, wide in- l terests and constructive energy cannot be easily replaced. * * x x MFRS}(])N Mf [EYERS, pianist- eacher of the Institute of Music, has had the unique experi- ence of knowing that his work has made an impression in China. Following an announcement in The Washington Star a few weeks ago that he was offering a piano scholarship came a letter from a Russian girl living in Shanghai, China, asking for ?articulars and signifying her desire to come to Washington to study. Carmela pon.lelle Coming, MAEBTRO ALFREDO SALMAGGI Will offer as his second gala oper- atic performance Bizet's ‘“Carmen,” with the distinguished Metropolitan opera prima donna, Carmela Ponselle, gflt:: :sm-.d at thethh]nmn Audi- unday night, Fel 830 o'clock. "© b Plans for this opera include at pres- ent the reappearance of two or more of the stars of last Sunday night's suc- cessful operas, including Giuseppe Ra- daelll, Pasquale Amato and others, but the cast is not as yet definitely decided upon, except for Carmela Ponselle. g Clark to _B.e Honored. GILB!RT A. CLARK, director of music at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Sixth and A streets northeast, celebrates his 35th anniversary as choir director of that church on Tuesday evening. A reception has been ar- ranged that evening in his honor. Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee, organ- ist, has selected Mr. Clark’s favorite selections for today's gervioes. . Upper, left to right: Lotte Lehmann, soprano, who is one of the artists at the season’s final Townsend musicale, which is being held Wednesday at the May- flower; Hugh McAmis, prominent organist, who is coming program which will be presented at the Bal Boheme. to Washington to give a recital Tuesday even! , and Marjorie Lowe, who is in charge of the musical Lower, left to right: Mme. Camilo Osias, who will sing this afternoon at the Women's City Club; Paolo Marion, featured at the Townsend musicale, and Gilbert A. Clark, director of music at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, who is celebrating his thirty-fifth anni- versary as choir director of the church this week. Music C]\lb NCW!. 'HE District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, Gertrude Lyons, president, elected Mrs. Etta Schmid Wells, as recording secretary at the Mid- winter business meeting held last Mon- day evening in the Sears, Roebuck Art | Galleries, to fill the office made vacant by the death of Mrs. Eula Alexander, last September. Miss Esther Linkins, extension chair- man, reported that five clubs had re- cently federated. making a total of 67 federated organizations in the District of Columbia. The new clubs are as fol- lows: Etude Junior Music Club, Mrs. Sarah A, Tacker, counselor; Mt. Rainjer Junior Music Club, Miss Flora M. Clay- ton, counselor; Young Musicians’ Club, Mrs. Mary Izant Couch, counselor; the two senior clubs, the Lovette Choral Club, Mrs. Paul N. Brumbaugh, presi- dent, and Mrs. Eva Whitford Lovette, director; the Student Nurses’ Glee Club, Miss Pauline Hoflus, president, lnd‘ Miss Esther Linkins, director. Miss Thelma Callahan resigned as junior contest. chairman, and Mrs. Mary Ware Goldman, first yice president; Mrs. Charles Brooks Smith, second vice president; Ivalee Newell, junior State counselor, were appointed as committee to meet with the president to select another chairman. Mrs. Evelyn Sewall Mayers, junior counselor of the Evelyn Sewall Mayers Junior Club, has been invited by this committee to take charge of the junior contest and has graciously accepted. Mrs. Charles Brooks Smith, second vice president; Miss Esther Linkins, extension chairman; Earl Holer, treasurer; Mr, F. S. Drake, presi- dent of the Capitol City Choristers, and Ivalee Newell, junior counselor, were appointed as a committee to interest musicians of the city in the MacDowell Colony Endowment Pund, and will meet with the president, Gertrude Lyons, Pri- day, February 3, at 2:30 p.m., in the Mayflower Hotel. Mrs, Charles Brooks Smith, Earl Holer, Mrs. Etta Schmid Wells, Miss Richard Hamlen Jones, first Massa- chusetts State president of the Federa- tion of Music Clubs and member of the National Board, attended the meeting. Members of the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs gave a diversified program. Dorothy Hobley, pupil of Alice Bur- bage Hesselbach and member of the pianist club, was guest artist and played Chopin’s “Scherzo B-flat Minor.” About 200 persons attended the program. g Roaring Eighties Music. HEN the little dramatic sketch, “Music Gossip After the Opera,” is presented at the Washington Club, 1010 Seventeenth street northwest, a ‘week from Tuesday at 8:30 p.m., music written during that period known as “the roaring eighties” in the soclal history of the United States will be presented. Also various numbers that antedate that period will be included. The singers in the sketch are Mary Owen, soprano; Catharine Toomey, mezzo-soprano, and Raymond Pigott, baritone. Adolf Roland has the one purely dramatic, non-musical role in the sketch. . This entertainment, with lines writ- ten by Helen Fatter Cook, is directed | by Le Roy Lewis of the Lewis Studios. o McAmies Organ Recital. AT the National Christian Church on ‘Tuesday at 8 o'clock, a recital will be given by Hugh McAmis, who is one of the Fellows of the American Guild of Organists and organist at All Saints’ Episcopal Church at Great Neck, Long Island. Mr. McAmis has & wide ex- perience both abroad and at home and has played in Texas, where he was mu- nicipal organist at San Antonio, as well a8 in numerous other centers, for public and private audiences. The recital Tuesday will be the first during the current Winter season of- fered by the District of Columbia Chap- urdc‘fs the Art:etr}llm ugl‘l“m 1?‘11 Organists and is open e c. The program will include the !ougwln‘: Chorale on “Der Tag. der ist 50 Freuden- reich’ ... J. 8. Bach Adagio e Dolce from the “Third Trio Sonata.” Trio from the cantata “Was Mir Be- hagt."” Local JNSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ART will present a recital by advanced students next Wednes- | day. The recital will be held in the Recital Hail, 831 Eighteenth street, at 8:15 o'clock. The program will be given by piano, violin and vocal soloists and a trio for two violins and | plano. Those who will participate as soloists are: Plano, Erna Martin, Dana Charles and Glenn Carow; violin, Anne Marley, Daniel Gevinson, Stanley Smith, Martha Davenport and Marjorie Wil- son; voice, McQuarrie and Esther Melick Ingram. The accompanists will be Marjorie Davis and Hanna Booth. A joint recital by Anne Yago McGuf. fey, ‘contralto, and Katherine McClin- tock Ellis, pianist, will be this week's musical presentation by the Friday Morning Music Club. The recital will take place at 11 o'clock at Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A ‘The Esmu Club (Etta Schmid Music Club) held its bi-monthly meeting at the Sears-Roebuck Gallery last Satur- day. Flora Blumenthal, soloist, included in her program numbers by Bach, Kuh- lan, Raff and Paderewski. To avoid conflict with the children's series con- certs of the National Symphony Or- chestra, the dates of th> February re- citals have been changed to the 11th and 25th of the month. ‘The Felicia Rybier Music Club met last Tuesday in the Sears-Rocbuck Art QGalleries. After a reading by Helen Spasoff on “Haendel” Delphini Decio played a sonata for the cello by Haen- del. She was accompanied by Sara Becker. Paigan Burroughs, accompanied by Mary Taylor, sang several German songs. Eleanor Hulburt and Herbert Bokoloff played a Haendel sonata for piano and violin. Handel's “Messiah” was given last Sunday evening in connection with the centenary jubllee of the Concordia Lutheran Evengelical Church, Twentieth and G streets northwest. The chorus was trained under the direction of John R. Monroe, organist and choir director of the Ccncordia Church. The Wash- ington Orchestra Society, C. E. Chris- tiani, director, furnished the accom- paniment. The soloists were: Cathreen Carrico, soprano; Henrietta. Flynn, con- tralto; Raymond Escherich, tenor, and Edmund Simonton, Ruby | Notes | Howard Samsel, bass. The entire pres- | entation was under the direction of Dr. C. E. Christiani. Lewis Corning Atwater, organist, will i drale Engloutie,” “Arabesq band Fille aux Cheveux de Lin,’ “Cecrtege” and “En Bateau.” Warren F. Johnson will play the fol- lowing organ music at the Church of the Pilgrims &t 7:30 o'clock this eve- ning: “Finale” (Stella Maris) from “Pirst Symphony,” by Weitz, and “Berceuse,” by Maniere. Mjyran Marshall, soprano, will be the guest coloist at the Spiritual Science Church of Christ this evening. Rho Beta Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority will give a musicale and benefit bridge party at the Roosevelt Hotel next Wednesday at 8:30 o'clock. The musical program for the evening has been ar- ranged by Tamara Dmitrieff and those participating are: Esther Strite, con- tralto; Kathryn Latimer, pianist; Wil- helmina Amiss, violinict, and Lena Lash, accompanist. A special musical service will be pre- sented at the Mount Pleasant Ccngre- gational Church this evening at 8 oclock, when the Mount Pleasant Chorus, assisted by the solo quartet, comprised of Elde Schulze, soprano; Mery Apple, contralto; Willlam Shana- han, tenor, and Herman Fakler, bass, will sing the “Saint Cecilia Mass,” by Gounod. The quartet is under the di- rection of Norman Little and Claude Robeson will be at the console of the organ. John 8. DeForest is the pianist. The solo parts will be taken by Miss Schulze, Mr. Shanahan and Mr. Fak- ler. The Chaminade Glee Club, Esther Linkins director, and Mrs. Howard Blandy, accompanist, will present a program at the Home for Incurables to- morrow evening. Jiri Kubelik will contribute some tenor solos and two club members, Elleen Lee and Marguerite Pope, will be | heard in a duet. Hugh McAmis, organist of Great Three Little Maids fplny the following numbers by Claude | Debussy at All Souls’ Church (Unita- | Cabaret Program. ITA REYOS, who will be remem- bered for her striking rendition of the part of the Duchess in the per- formance of “The Gondoliers,” by the Civic Opera Group last year, will be heard on the cabaret program now | being arranged for the supper hours at | the Bal Boheme, at the Willard, Febru- |ary 6. She will sing a group of Span- ish songs and will appear in Spanish costume. Anne Yago McGuffey, who is a mem- ber of the Cabaret Committee, will sing a Russian song during the playing of a Russian skit, and will be in Russian costume. Other soloists will be Ina Holtzsheiter, soprano; Charles Watts, jazz songs. Justin Lowrie, who will give a scene from the opera “Pagliacci”’; Radio Art- ist, Kroom Bargranoff, and Elsie and James Shannon. Miss Evelyn Scott will entertain with violin solos, and pianists on the program will be Ruth | Walker, Marjorie Davis, Frank Young | and Harry Woodard. | A spirited dance program is to be | part of the evening’s entertainment fea- {turing the Hoffman and Hoskins | dancers and Willlam Rodon. Marjorie Lowe is chairman of the cabaret, assisted by Donald MacDonald 3d, who will act as master of cere- monies; Anne Yago McGuffey, Mrs. Katherine Morrison and Mme. Felian Garzig. Neck, Long Island, who will give a re- cital under the auspices of the D. C. Organist Guild Tuesday night at the National Christian Church, will be the stay in Washington. Mr. McAmis will g0 from Washington to Duke University, where he is scheduled for a recital. The p! m for the hour of music at 5 o'clock today at the Y. W. C. A., Seventeenth and K streets, will be pre- sented by Edith Hoffman Jones, so- prano, and Howard Moore, baritone. Mrs. Emily G. Dickenson will be accom- panist. The Sunday vesper service at the downtown center, Y. W. C. A, 614 E street, at 4 o'clock will be a Czecho- slovakian music hour under the direc- tion of Mrs. Jendra Malia Nolan, as- sisted by Lucy Burton and Rosalie Mil- ton. Mrs. J. Wingfield will preside. Thelma Callahan presented a_group of her piano pupils in an annual mid- year recital at her studio, 605 Taylor street, Friday evening, January 20. Compositions of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Schumann, Tschaikowsky and Mac- Dowell were played by Dorothy Sislen, Jackle QGarner, Eulalie Ball, Eleanor Tacy, William Billhimer, Genevieve Billhimer, Edwin_Billhimer, Katherine Ann Van Pelt, Harry Klee, Adelaide Margaret Carpenter, Margaret O'Meara, Helen Klee, Lorraine Crawford and Car- roll Mallonee. Pickenscher will give her first students recital of the season Tuesday evening at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, Fourteenth and Gallatin streets. The students who will partici- pate are Joseph Joers, Edward Villalon, Coursen Conklin, Paul Smith, Miriam Resides, Ellen Mary Wright, Kalmon Marmes, Mary Conklin, Lois Clark, Ross Stevens, Betty Grothe, Laura Loomis, Frank Renaud, Beniah Whitman, Philip Capel Wright, Cornelia Grothe and Alice Scott. The Friendship House hour of music today at 5 o'clock will be given by the following artists: The Alice D. Harvey Trio, Mrs. Marshall Guthrie, soprano, and Fannie May Henbest, pianist, who will also accompany Mrs. Guthrie. A musical recital was given at the last meeting of the German Literary Society Saturday at the home of Anita Schade. Minnie Volkmann sang a group of songs by Mozart, Straus, Ganz and Schaefer, and LeRoy Lewls, baritone, sang com- positions by Fielitz, Rahn and Berwald. Mrs. Carl Chindblom, accompanist for the singers, played the piano part of the German melodrama, “Mozart,” and compositions by Peterson, Berger and en. A trio, Opus 42, by Nils W. Gade, was played by Alice B. Harvey, piano; Anna Ulke, cello, and Berna- | Hugo dette Berrard, violin. February 18 the soclety will observe the fiftieth anni- versary of the death of Richard Wagner. At the tea which Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee is giving at Rossdhu Castle to- day musical numbers will be furnished by Vivienne Gillmore, soprano; John Rogers, bass-baritone, and Elisabeth QGardiner -Coombs, planist and accom- panist. ' - guest of Victor L. Boenau during his! Norwood, Mary King, Olive Rickard, | SPEctators Koussevitzky, Lehman; Lent Here This Week Boston Orchestra Plays Tuesday—Miss Lehman and Paolo Marion at Townsend Musicale Wed- nesday—Sylvia Lent Today With Symphony. YLVIA LENT, acknowldged the greatest living American woman & native Washing- tonian, will be soloist this after- noon with the National Sym- ny Orchestra in Constitution Hall at 4 o'clock.. She will appear in the Saint-Baens Concerto on the following program: Overture, “Don Juan” CPathetiaus Brmphon ‘Concert : “Valse Triste" . - Sibelius “Pomp and Circumstance ...Elgar Miss Lent has proved ane of the big- gest musical finds of recent years. Not only is she American-born, but prac- tically all of her training has been gained in this country. Her first teacher was her father, a cellist of note. Later she studied with Franz Kneisel. When Leopold Auer, the greatest violin teacher of them all, came to the United States, Miss Lent was the first pupil he accepted. Upon the advice of this master she decided to make her formal debut in Berlin. This she did in 1922, while still in her 'teens. Concerts in Dresden, Leipzig and Munich followed, were a success, and her annual concerts in Germany have been to crowded houses ever since. | Miss Lent made her New York debut | on March 5, 1923. Her work since that | time has fulfilled the verdici of the | critics—that she was an artist with a | world career before her. Since then | her technical mastery, pure singing | tone and superb musicianship have | been heard with every great orchestra | of the country, as weil as in innumer- able recitals. | The Lent household, at 1523 Cor- coran street northwest, is a truly musical one—members of the family . . Mozart, chaikovski .Baint-Saens IT was announced today that on Fri- day, February 3, at 8:30 pm., the National Symphony Orchestra will piay | in Mosque Auditorfjum, Richmond, Va. | Many Washington music enthusiasts and supporters of the orchestra are planning to attend. John Powell, the well known composer-pianist, will ap- | pear as soloist in the following program: | “Grave and Allegro.” from * r Concerto” Ghs - Bach | “Pathetique.” Symphony (No. | ‘Tschaikovsk! | “Rhapsody Negre" -....Powell | John Powell. pianis . Entr'acte. “Kowantchina”. . ... Moussorasky “Praeludivm” arnefelt | Vorepiel to Act’ 1. “Die Melstersinger Wagner THE campaign to raise the guarantee | fund for 1933-34 is now under way, | with a reorganized and augmented Women's Committee, doing splendid work. At a recent meeting Mrs. Tracy Dows was re-elected chairman of this group and Mrs. Edwin B. Parker and Mrs. James Crawford vice chairmen. | The committee was enlarged to include | an increased number of business and professional women. and more than a scare of subcommittees have been or- ganized. It is planned to have the Women’s Committee ultimately com- | prise 300 persons, more than double its present size. | HE reading list announced by the | Public Library relative to this aft- | many, ernoon’s concert is as follows. “‘Mozart,” by Marcia Davenport; “Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky,” “Fae by Arthur Hervey, ‘Jean Sibelius,” in “A Survey of Contempo- rary Music,” by Cecil Gray, and “Sir Edward Elgar,” by J. F. Porte, BOSTON SYMPHONY CONCERT. THE Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, conductor, will give its only concert of the current sea- son in Washington at Constitution Hall on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, with Dr. Koussevitzky conducting. Dr. Koussevitzky has announced & notable program for Tuesday afternoon, opening with Weber's overture to “Oberon.” The symphony will be Bee- thoven's “Seventh in A Major, Opus 92,” in four movements, poco sostenuto, vivace; allegretto; presto, assal meno presto, tempo primo; allegro con brio. There will be an intermission of 10 minutes after the sympheny. Directly after the intermission, Dr. Koussevitzky will introduce to Washing=- ton for the first time, a tcne poem, “Tapiola” by Sibelius, the Finnish com- poser, which the Boston Symphony con- ductor brought back from Europe last Fall as one of a number of scores new to American audiences. “Tapiola” Is one of Sibelius' maturer tone named after Tepio. the Finn forests and streams—a sort Pinnish mythology. Two Wagner compositions will close the program, the first being “Walde [ weben” (“Forest Murmurs”) from “Sieg- fried;” the other being the overture to “Tannhauser.” TOWNSEND MUSICALE. OR the closing concert of Mrs. ‘Townsend's series at the Mayflower the artists will be Paolo Marion, tenor, and Lotte Lehmann, the celebrated so- prano from the Vienna, Berlin, Lone don and Chicago Operas. Mme. Lotte Lehmann, who gathers up fame wherever she stops to sing, is one of the finest artists before the public today. She is a master lieder singer as well as an opera artist, and an eloquent and authentic interpreter of the great traditions. Born in Ger- she first came to America in 1930, bringing the decoration of the Legion of Honor that France had be- i1 | stowed on her, Sweden's Medal of Art and the distinction of honorary mem- bership in the Vienna Staatsoper. ..Giordano (a) Vi : febe’". ....Brahms (b) Brahms (c) Brahms (a) * () @) ®) (¢) “Trasun (d) “Dich haeus (@) - (b) (e * See Strauss T 5 Strauss to” from "the ‘last’ act of “Lohensrin’ .....Wagner Mr “Traum Durch o Mme. Lehman Marion @) Die Daemmerung. (b) “Wiegen| (¢) “Caecll Duet sct III. “Lol ann n Mme. Le " Marion Mr. Balogh at the piano f Mme. Lehmarn. Mme. Osias in Recital. ‘ PROGRAM of songs will be ngen‘ at the Women's City Club this aft- ernoon by Mme. Camilo Osias, wife of the resident commissioner of the Philip- | pine Islands. Mme Osias will appeer in native costume and will be assisted at | the piano by Eva Whitford Lovette. Her program is as follows: | “Kundiman"” (Love Song), in Tagaloj | “Panagninip” (A Dream). in Tagglok e “Madaling Araw” (At Dawn) in Tag; “Kenca Pilipinas” (To You, Filipinas) in Tocano ... . 3 3 siaten Written for ‘and dedicated to th lisud” (A sigh of Sorrow a iname of Philipptne ) tional flower). in Spanish 2 “Maria Clara” (a Piiipino patriotic son in Spanish E .. Hern: “Mikado" to Be Repeated. | GIL'BERT AND SULLIVAN'S “The| Mikado,” which last week caused such favorable comment when given by the Estelle Wentworth Opera Group | under the auspices of the Commumzy% Center Department, will be sepeated by popular demand at Roosevelt High School Auditorium, Thirteenth and | Allison streets northwest, Friday eve- ning, at 8:30 o'clock, with the cast of principals and the same excellent chorus that appeared last week. | Tickets, both reserved and general | admission, are now on sale by the Com- munity Center Department in Frank- lin Administration Building, Thirteenth and K (National 1300). Also at the American Automobile Association, the Willard Hotel Ticket Bureau, and the ‘Washington Hotel Newsstand. S T U, “Trial by Jury” Wednesday. **TRIAL BY JURY,” Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, willl be given by the choir of Calvary Methodist Church, | Columbia road near Fifteenth street, | on Wednesday, February 1, at 8:15 p.m. The performance last Spring of this | work by the Calvary choir was such a success as to cause many requests for | its repetition. The same cast will bel‘ heard—Carol Bishop, Clifton Moore, Theodor Morgan, Fred Gross, Joseph ‘Wells and Elmer Carlson. ‘The chorus of thirty voices will be heard as jurymen, bridesmaids and Louls Potter is musical director; Bess C. Miles, dramatic director. y Wants News of Needy Cases | ’I'H! TEN O'CLOCK CLUB is seeking news of the most needy cases among the families of local musicians | to whom to give the proceeds to be | raised by six benefit concerts, to be | given February 14 and 21, March 14 1and 28 and April 4 and 11. Already Edward MacDonald, director | of the club, which has its headquarters 1 at 1603 K street, has a list of several cases of real need, given him by the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, Mrs. Gertrude Lyons president. Any information will be gratefully received by either Mr. MacDonald or Mrs. Lyons, and can be addressed care of the club’s above address. Lucas Ord.nn Recital. T GUY LUCAS, organist and choir- * master of St. John's Church, will give his forty-seventh organ recital tomorrow evening at the church at 8:15 o'clock. Mr. Lucas has included many request numbers in the following pro- “Pantasia and Fugue in G Minor” “Fyners] Marcn” _Bach ‘Sonata. ;Chopin | -Croten Jeflers, 2 A <o Handel “To the Evening Star’ (Tlnnhluurbh‘n“ “Minuet in G" Beethoven “Bweet Was the Boni’ ths ‘Virsin Sang” H. Schulbe, W. Bruckart S Fieott 6. In HOnOX’ Of SOU!Q. THE SOUTHEAST GLEE CLUB, made W. Bell, Mrs. Arthur H. Bry Joseph F. Costantino, Mrs. Joseph Thume. Jchn C. L. Ritter. Vernis Absher, Miss A. Wettengel, Miss Helen Bowmen, Miss Estelle Wentworth, Mrs. Mary A. Bessemer, Mrs. Morgan Otter- back, Wilired C. Page and Howard Stein 2od other local singers of the Southeast, will participate in the exer- cises in honor of the late John Philip Sousa on Tuesday, February 14, in the Buchankn auditorium, Thirteenth and D strects southeast Catherine Toomey Soloist. CATHERINE TOOMEY, mezzo so- prano, will be the guest soloist with Maxim Lowe's Concert Orchestra today in the lower lcunge of the Shoreham Hotel from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Miss Toomey has chosen two numbers from Verdi's opera “Il Trovatore” “Stride la Vempa and “La Folla Indomita,” and also 2 well known composition of Vane derpoll, “I Did Not Know." _MUSIC STUDIOS. _ “Grace Hazard Wormelle Voice, Piano, Expression Class v Tois G Expressio; Private Instra 106 S. Daketa Av ARMANDO JAN o NUZZI Grand Opera, Dramatic Tenor Voice Specialist Italian Method From La Scala, Milan, Italy Col. 4608 3403 14th St. N.W. * BESSIE N. WILD Voice Culture. Plano and Harmeny Studio. 6824 5th N. PHONE_GEO! Classes in the Pedagogy of Music Classes in Musical Pedagogy, with demon. stration of children's work in piano. 15 hour lessen: Starting Week £$10.00. of F EdgarT. | Washington Musical Institute 1201 Clifton St.—Adams 7891 Class Lessons in" PIANO and VIOLIN Beginning Week of Feb, 6, for 20 Weeks, $10 Washington Musical Institute 1201 Clifton Adams 7891 ¢ The Wlshin College of Music, Inc., and Preparatory School 28th Year ‘There is no sub= stitute for cer- tainty in the mat~ ter of well planned, correlated and fully accredited courses for the music student with professional aims while the musi- cal amateur benefits from the high standard set by the College and to which its teachers must respond. Its Diplomas and De- grees are certified to by the Board of Education of the Dis- trict of Columbia. Lecture—“The Life and Work of Richard Wagner,” by Julia E. Schelling, assisted by Francesca Lawson, soprano, Mikso Merson, planist. Illustrated by _unique lantern slides, Sunday, January 29th, at 8 o'clock. 2nd Semester opens February 6th. New classes now forming. Private lesson fees from $1 to $4 & half hour. Class Tuition N Dérmitories 2107-09 S St. Potomac ll4’