Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1933, Page 43

- ~ Modern Music of ‘ All Nations at Festival Works of Ravel. Schoenberg. Pizzett1 and Other *Apostles of the New Ethics of Expression™ to Be Presented at Library of Congress. By Alice Eversman. HE Coolidge festival of chamber music, which be- gins a three-day session at the Library of Congress to- day. will hoid up for public com- parison a leading exponent of modern music from each of the musically important countries of the moment Germany will be represented through the composi- tions of Hindemith, Italy by Piz- zetti, Austria by Schoenberg, France by Ravel, Czechoslovakia by Martinu and America by Cop- land. These men have definitely declared thdmselves for a new order of things musically and have constituted themselves apostles of a new ethics of expression meant to be more sincere and realistic than the objective heretofore held to be the aim of musical compo- sition. The trend of the “new music” | 3 1s animated by a spirit of inquiry. | It seeks to first analyze and then to represent with fidelity the pe- | culiar changes of thought and at- titude which have broken away from the old order in cther de- partments of life to a significant degree. Through a detached and impersonal point of consideration and a passionate desire to be logi- cal, the molders of this new school ferrit out the soul of the times and put it into a dress as prac- tical and unromantic as the find- ings which they have unearthed. The pattern does not lack beauty or poetical color, but, on the con- trary, has the beauty of truth in| its unadorned simplicity and the poetical freshness of sincerity. The bigness of the scheme on which it is built becomes more gvident with closer acquaintance and the, as yet, but dimly guessed possi- bilities of the future are there in seed which the soil of time will nourish. Perhaps the most internation- ally interesting composer of to- | He has pro- | day is Hindemith. claimed his intentions to make his music human and purposeful and to avoid impressionism and sentimentality. His complaint, however, is with the people for whom he writes. “The problem of modern music,” he is_ reported to have said, “is the creation of a new audience. People are passive, musically; they don’t really live. Old people want to hear old things and the young go to the cinema. The composer must create a new ‘contact and the new generation itself must do something.” This is undoubtedly the gist of the situation which today exists be- tween the modern composer and the modern listener. Hindemith has striven unceas- ingly to reconcile life and art, io elevate the one and to bring down the other to the level of our com- prehension. severed himself from the tradi- tions of the past and lives ade- quately and constructively in the present. He has carried his en- thusiasm for, and belief in, mod- ernism to the extent of writing for the mechanical instruments that supply a good part of the music of today and has definitely flaunted his banner in the toccato which he wrote for pianola and a suite composed for a mechanical organ. By many he is regarded as merely the follower up 6f the latest craze, but others recognize that he is creating a new angle from which to branch out into a complete record of the stern realities which make up the world of today. I 2 One of the most dominating personalities that has aroused the musical world to endless contro- versy is Arnold Schoenberg. Back and forth, pro and con, the decision as to his ranking has been shifted in a war-like argument much of the same type as seethed around Wagner when his new doc- trines first startled the public. A man of dynamic energy, vivid in- dividuality and wide interests, he has succeeded in bewildering his well wishers and his critics to al- most the same extent more than any other of the mod- ernists, the ultra-modern formula has exhausted itself and its ex- travagant expression gone out of fashion to be replaced by saner methods. He, himself, has passed through various periods_from his early passionate radicalism and today finds himself not so far away from the romantic tendency which he sought to repudiate. A recent performance in New York of his “Pierrot Lunaire,” generally acceded to be his greatest compo- sition, brought the same storm of criticism which its first perform- ance aroused in Berlin. Although | the musical world is more accus- tomed to harsh realism of subject and treatment, it hesitates to agree wholeheartedly that Schoenberg’s work has real ar- tistic vitality. The string sextet, «uarklarte Nacht,” which will be performed at the Library on Tues- day, is the best representative composition of a certain period of Schoenberg’s development and is one of the truest examples of his fine sense of structure, his style and real musicanship. It was about Schoenberg that Ildebrando Pizzetti waxed angry and contemptuous when, on his last visit to America, he was asked his opinion regarding him. He tore his modernism to shreds and placed him back side by side with Schubert as an inescapable ro- manticist. At the same time he voiced his credo that no com- poser or author should write the simplest thing until truly con- vinced that what he feels con- tains some germ of greatness. Pizzetti, a mggernist in every sense of the word, nevertheless refuses to have himself classed with any of the other modernist and claims he is on the way to establish an entirely new type of composition that will advance the new bend of music with giant strides. Ildebrando of Parma, as he was styled by his friend and admirer, D’'Annunzio, and the name he used professionally for several years, is best known in Italy as a composer for the theater. His operas have been conducted by Toscanini, whose sincere admirer he has been from the beginning of his fame, and it was through ‘Toscanini that his opera was pro- queed at the Metropolitan Qpera He has definitely | In him, | a few years ago. Pizzetti is a thoughtful writer of superlative gifts, who works unceasingly to perfect his conception of what music today should express. With the same leaning to opera as Pizzetti, Bohuslav Martinu, young Bohemian composer of French education, has been con- sidered by some as the most prom- ising of the younger generation. Born with a gift for melody, rich in inspiration and overflowing temperament, he is strong in sentiment without taint of senti- mentality. His extraordinary feeling for rhythm smacks some- |what of jazz and his efforts to embody all that is modern in life leads him near to the use of that | metaphor. In this he approaches |the American composer, Copland, who, like Martinu, is influenced in his serious moments by the French school where he first tried {out his wings. While others have been con- centrating on giving form to their ideas, Copland is the only one of the younger set who has construc- tively helped along the cause of the modernist by providing means of having their works heard. He says with truth: *“A composer Is not a composer until he has heard his own brain child cry in public. A man must hear his own works in order to develop enough criti- cal sense to avold making the same mistake twice.” In company with Roger Sessions, he has or- ganized a series of concerts in which works of new composers are heard and passed upon, and {has made an effort to bring the striving writers out of their iso- lation and bind them together in a fraternity of seekers of the mu- sical light. Copland is one of the brightest stars in the American musical heaven and promises to write his name indelibly for the country whose fundamental rhythmic superiority he has un- | derstood and perpetrated in ele- vated form. * ok ok x A RECENT musical event of interest to Washington was the successful recital given by Mrs. S. Peter Wagner in St. Petersburg. Fla. Mrs. Wagner is a pupil of Mary Cryder of this city and has coached with Frank La Forge of New York and Mme. Blanch Marchesi of Paris She is an artist member of the Arts Club of Washington and has | appeared extensively in concert in the| East. Her recital in St. Petersburg, held under the auspices of the local Art Club, received most favorable comment, the rare and beautiful quality of her well trained lyric voice being specially commented upon. A studio tea followed the musicale at which were present many notable people. x x % 'HE International Art Forum, Mme. Amelia Conti, president, announces two concerts to be given under its man- | agement at the Carlton Hotel. On April 30 Remo Bolognini, Argentine | violinist, who is at present assistant | concert master of the New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra, will appear under | the patronage of the Ambassador of | Argentina, Senor Dr. Felipe A. Espil. | Mr. Bolognini will include in his pro- | gram two compositions by Argentine | composers which will be heard for the first time in this country. On May 7 the Art Forum will present Lavinia Darve, Iyric soprano. and Maria Yudieva |and Vecheslav Swoboda. ballet masters of the Chicago Civic Opera. High School Orchestra. THE Interjunior High School Orches- tra, composed of 80 children from the 10 orchestras of the public junior high schools, will play at Wardman Park Hotel at 9 am. on Thursday and at the Fox Theater during music week on May 8 at 3 p.m. | " These children represent the picked players from the junior orchestras. The | ten schools furnishing children for this |group are: Deal, Eliot, Gordon, Hine, | Jeflerson, Langley, Macfarland, Paul, Powell and Stuart. Each junior high has its own orchestra. The enrollments range from 15 to 60 members. Langley | Junior High boasts the largest membor- ship, besides a band of 35 musicians. The junior high represents the seventh, eighth and ninth grades. . Jean Westbrook toBe Soloist EAN WESTBROOK, violinist, and the Chevy Chase Chanters will assist the music section’of the Woman's | Club of Chevy Chase, in its annual Spring concert to be given Wednesday | evening in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase | High School, | A feature of the concert will be the | singing by the Chanters of a new song | “A Voice.” written by Herndon Morsell, who is musical director of both organ- | izations. Miss Westbrook, who is a Peabody Conservatory pupil will be ac- | companied by Betty Baum. Mrs. J. | Harry Cunningham is section leader of | the women’s group. The accompanist for the numbers will be Mrs. S. Jay IMcCathrln and Mrs. C. W. Freitag of the music section and Leon Davis for for the Chanters. — Marion Rous to Lecture. MARION ROUS, pianist, who is ar- riving for the Chamber Music Festival direct from a concert at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., is to give an address for the Musicology Club of Washington *and its guests on Monday afternoon at 4:45 at the Phil- lips Memorial Gallery. Her subject is “What Makes a Cimarosa, a Recipe for American Music Education.” Miss Rous is the director of Greenwich Music In- | stitute, and has a wide reputation not | only as a music educator, but as a per- | former and lecture-recitalist as well. | Organ Recital Tonight. | IRGINIA CARRINGTON THOMAS, New York organist, who played | four organ recitals this week at | the D. A. R. Congress, will give an organ | recital tonight at Christ Lutheran | Church, Sixteenth and Gallatin streets northwest. The recital hour has been changed from 8 o'clock to commence at 8:15 p.m. The public is invited. Organ E;it;f&:;uday. | KATKARINE FOWLER ROGERS, or- | ganist, and Vesta Pollock Lynn, con- | W tralto, will give a recital under the auspices of the District of Columbia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists at the First Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets northwest, on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. Malcolm Toone will play a violin obbligato to one | of Mrs. Lynn's numbers. Paul De Long Gable will accompany Mrs. Lynn. ‘ASSOCia;Ed Studios COI‘ICCI’(. | A CONCERT will be given by the | pupils of Henri Sokolov, Grete von Bayer, Richard Lorleberg and Otto Simon, of the Associated Studios, at the Sears, Roebuck Galleries on Friday eve- ning at_8:15 p.m. The accompanists will be George Dixon Thompeon, Walter Sait and Mrs. Beruhelipegy THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 23, 1933—PART FOUR. Guest Artists and Prominent Local Musicians Tuesday evening. Left to right: Rudolfo Ducal, Argentine tenor, and Olarita Sanchez, Mexican soprano, who will be guest artists at the Pan-American Union concert which is being given Wednesday night, and Grace Ruble Harmon, vocal coach and accompanist for the George Washington concert on May 2. Lower right: Eva Whitford Lovette, director of the Lovette Choral Club, which is appearing in its annual Spring concert at Barker Hall on University Glee Club, which will appear in HE Lovette Choral Club will hold its sixth annual Spring concert in ning. Presented as guest artist will be Edith Marmion Brosius, known concert harpist. Assisting will be Betty Basim and Ruth Hobbs, violinists, of Wash- ington. The club is the development of a group formed in 1925 by the late Dr. Thomas S. Lovette and consists of 35 members under the direction of Eva ‘Whitford Lovette. Winifred Lakeman will be the accompanist. The soloists, who are club members, are Ethel Lynn Fast. Nellie Barber Brooks, Mathilde Kolb Bartlett and Francise Bass Wilson. ! Members of the Lovette Choral Club are: Marietta Brumbaugh, president; Margaret C. Smith, vice president; Elsie R. Aird. secretary: Mrs. W. Porte, treasurer: May Eyre, librarian; Lulu Volland, Beulah Burton Smith, Louise Hartung, Mrs. L. Frank Nye, Mathilde Kolb Bartlett, Florence Beale, Mrs. Charles V. Burnside, Mrs. Paul M. Cake, Mrs. Brooke Dodson, Mrs. Richard N. Edwards, Mrs. Henry F. Foulds, Mrs, Charles A. Gary, Frederick M. Graebner, Mrs. Freda Hill, Mrs. Albert R. Klaas, Frances Ma- gruder, Mrs. H. A. Matson, Mrs. George Moler, Lorena G. Mondereau, Margaret G. Mowbray, Caroline F. Rabe, Clar: Riese, Carolyn Schulte, Fay Bruce i Swenson, FPrancise Bass Wilson and Mrs. David J. Wilkerson. { AN all-request program of numbers from the musical works of Willlam H. Woodin, Secretary cf the Treasury, will be played by the United States Navy Band in the Sail Loft at the Navy Yard Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock: The composer will be present and the band will be under the direction of Lieut. Charles Benter. 2 ‘The program for the evening fol- lows: March. “Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” Lamento, *“The Unknown Soldier.” Clarinet solo. “Gypsy Valse. Musician. Charles Brendler. . Valse lento, “Spring Is in My Heart Again.” Symphonic_ suite. “Covered Wagon.” “On the Prairie End.” Arranged by George Drumm. Valse de concert. “Nan gujDedicated to Mrs. William H. Woodin) u of Mr Woodin's European and Orien- tal impressions: “"Chinese Magic." Seville " March, - (Dedicated to the New York City Police Department.) “Anchors Aweigh .’ “The Star Spangled Banner.” Monday. April. 24, at 10 am.—The meeting of the American National Red Cross in Memorial Continental Hall. Monday, April 24, at 3 p.m.—Band concert at the Marine Barracks. Monday, April 24, at 4:30 pm.—The orchestra will play at the Red Cross reception in tfe World War Memorial Building. Monday. April 24—The orchestra will play at the annual meeting of the National Scciety, United States Daugh- ters of 1812. ‘Wednesday, April 26, at 9 p.m.—The Marine Band Orchestra will take part in the Latin American music concert by the United Service Orchestra in the Pan-American Building. Friday, April 28, at 3 p.m.—Orchestral concert in the auditorium at the Marine Barracks. Wednesday night concert ‘The regular on April 26 is canceled. Junior Symphony Orchestra. pl.ANS are rapidly being completed for the formation of a junior sym- | phony orchestra for the purpose of giv- | ing experience and education to serious | students of orchestral instruments. It is to be organized along the lines of the National Symphony Orchestra, for which it is hoped the proposed or- chestra will be a training ground. The organization has the indorsement of Dr. Hans K‘B:.idsl:r'?e“:sd Mlmonlul'.s sponsors are TS . Mrs. Reeve Lewis, Mr. Frank mif." Mr. C. C. Cappel, Mr. Emerson Meyers and Mr. Fritz Maile. ‘The personnel of the orchestra is to be selected through auditions to be held at the E. F. Droop & Sons music house next Priday and Saturday, April 28 and 29. It is hoped that the material may be chiefly drawn from the high schools, although there will be no age limit and any one interested may apply for an audition. Any one interested in the proposed orchestra or any one wishing to arrange time for an audition may write the Junior Symphony Orchestra, care Mr. C. C. Cappel, 1111 Woodward Building, ashington, D. Last Concert of the Season. THE junior department of the Dis- trict of umbia Federation of Music Clubs give its fifth and last concert this season next Saturday eve- ning at 8 o'clock in the auditorium of the Department of the Interior Build- ing, F between Eighteenth and Nin- teenth streets northwest, under the di- rection of Ivalee Newell, junior chair- man Pupils of the following teachers will take part; Thomas D. Barner, Vir- ginia Bestor, Lillian Burke, Thelma Callahan, Couch, Louise Coutinko, Mary E. Gresham, Mrs. Charles V. Imlay, Arsenio Ralon, Etta Schmid Wells and Enid C. Wil- | Barker Hall at 8:30 next Tuesday eve- | Nellie Barber Brooks. Ethel Lynn Fast, Mrs. | ToPlay WoodiniSelectionat! Marine Band wiil play for th ing | Ferican Nations] Req | 614 E street, Y. W. C. A. today, at 5 | Local T a meeting of the German Lit- i erary Soeiety, April 15, Leah ) Effenbach. member of the Washington Pianists’ Club, played Beethoven's “Sonata in E Flat Major.,” Opus 27, and two “Etudes”, and the “A Flat Major Bal- lade.” by Chopin. Gretta von Bayer | played the Schumann composition for the melodrama, “Schoen Hedwig.” Anita Schade recited the Hebbel ballad. Dorothy Reddish sang at the mass meeting opposing recognition of Rus- sia by the United States. sponsored by the American Legion. The Washing- ton Gas Light Band accompanied Miss Reddish. Dorothy Sherman Pierson, soprano. will be guest soloist at the Spiritual Science Church of Christ this evening. Esther Lifikins gave a recital for four of her youngest voice pupils last Tues- day afternoon at her residence studio. Those who sang were Mary Lawler. Mildred Waldman, Tom Farrell and Kent Streeter. At the Church of the Brethren this | morning the quartet and choir will re- peat, by request, selections from the cantata “Be Thou Exalted.” by Heyser, which was sung in full on last Sunday evening. Members of the quartet are Jeanette Bittner, soprano; _Evelyn Brothers, contralto: Eugene Kressin, baritone, and David Weimer, tenor and director. Rosa Long is organist. ‘The Priday Morning Music Club will give its final program of the season next | Friday at 11 o'clock, Barker Hall, the | Y. W.C. A. A reciprocity program wiil | be presented by the Baltimore Music | Club, assisted by Frances Gutelius, of ithe local club, who will play the Brahms' “Scherzo, E Flat Minor.” The | following artists from Baltimore will |sing: Helen Stokes, soprano; Con- | stance Hejda, contralto, and Earl Lippy. baritone. Virginia Castelle and George Bolek will be the accompanists. {in Washington of Secretary of the Romance,” for violin, yesterday, at the authors’ League of American Pen Women at the Willard Hotel. Mrs. Roosevelt was the guest of honor. Winifred Lakeman ac- companied Miss de Sayne. Grete von Bayer, concert~ pianist, presented the second of the artist guest recitals before the Tuesday Evening Music Club. cn last Tuesday, at the | studlo, 1729 G street. The Sunday music hour pro at | o'clock, will be given under the direc- tion of the Finnish Club. The program | will consist of folk songs, music by | Finnish composers and a talk given by the counsellor of the Finnish legation. Mrs. William Hamilton Bayly, honorary president of the Y. W. C. A. will pre- | side. The public is cordially invited. The program for the hour of music today, at 5 o'clock, at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets, will be given by Katherine Lee Jones, contralto and Pearl Waugh, pianist. Miss Waugh will also accompany Miss Jones. The pub- | lic is cordially invited. ‘The musicians who are giving a re- ciprocity program at the Friday Morn- ing Music Club, April 28, and a group of the officials and members of the Beltimore Music Club and the Mary- land Federation of Music Clubs, will be entertained at a buffet luncheon fol- | lowing the recital by Frances Gutelius and Doree Germaine Holman, at the | Frances Gutelius studios, 1408 New Hampshire avenue. | = | Flora McGill Keefer, mezzo-contralto, will sing at the annual Shakespearian | banquet given by - the Washington | Readers' Club, at the Hotel Roosevelt, | Tuesday. Dorothy Radde Emery, ac- | companist will also render piano solos. William Berry was elected president of the Chevy Chase Junior Friday Eve- ning Music Club, at a called meeting of the group, Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. George Gravatt, on Le- land street. Other officers named were: Vice president, Jane Dunbar; recording secretary, Laura Jean Maurice; corre- sponding secretary, Graham Peters, and | treasurer, Donn Strausbaugh. Mrs. | Gravatt and Mrs. Katherine Dawson were appointed counsellors of the club | which is affiliated with the Maryland Federation of Music Clubs. ~Mrs. Gravatt will be the representative at the State convention being held in | Easton, Friday and Saturday. According to custom, the Easter mu- sic will be repeated today at the Church of the Epiphany. The organ will be two trumpets, tmmplm Estelle Wentworth will present mem- bers of her opera group a _song re- cital at the Women's City Club this afternoon. Those taking part include Alma Harris, Raymond Baine, Ira Meyder, Elliott Button and Harry E. Yeide. ‘Hazel Bachschmid, soprano, who has been’ living in Staunton, Va. for the years, director of the choir at Church, ama, _The pubiis.Js- sardially. inviied. i Elena de Sayne gave the first hearing | Treasury William H. Woodin'’s “Gypsy | breakfast of the National | with Helen Grimes at the second piano. | Notes afternoon. there will be solos and ensemble work by members of the choir who are all | Ding, May 2 at 8:30 o'clock at the pupils of Mrs. Bachschmid. Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee of Washington will be the accompanist. League of Foundry M. E. Church on Friday, April 28, at 8:15 pm. The Takoma Park Presbyterian Church choir, under the direction of Mrs. Albert W. Volkmer, will sing “Fear Not, O Israel.” by Max Spicker, and “Father, Thy Children Bow in Adora- Besides Mrs. Blchschmld.‘ } The Chaminade Glee Club will give mon as vocal coach and “accompanist, a program of songs in connection with | the club will present a program from a 'three-act play entitled ~All Night the library of such classical composers Long.” to be presented by the Epworth |85 Palestrina, Bach, Brahms, Grieg, tion” (a cappella), by Arthur Sullivan, | at the morning service today. Mrs. D. C. Jackson. organist, will play numbers by Rossetter Cole, Kinder and Lemare. Warren F. Johnson will give an or- gan recital at the Church of the Pil- grims before the evening service today. He will play “Madrigal,” Leo Sowerby; “A Sylvan Idyll” G. B. Nevin, and “Celestia,” Bainbridge Crist. ‘The Naticnal Quartet. Norma Simon- son, soprano:; Velma Snow, contralto: James de Valse Mann, tenor: Rawley Donohue, baritone, and Dorothy Radde Emery, accompanist. under the direc- {tion of Flora McGill Keefer, gave the opening musical program of the con- gress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, last Sunday afternoon Memorial Continental Hall. The quar- tet also gave last Sunday morning. the musical program in the lounge of the Dodge Hotel and in the evening at the Western Presbyterian Church. The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club. Mary Burnett, director, will use W Whitman's “I Hear America Singing,’ from “Leaves of Grass.” set to music by Harvey Gaul, for the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs weekly broadcast over WRC Wednesday, April 26, at 7 o'clock. Gertrude Lyons will sing tonight for the Daughters of the American Colonists at their annual banquet held in the Tose Toom of the Hotel Washington. ‘The Institute of Musical Art, 831 Eighteenth street northwest, will enter- tain next Wednesday evening at 8:15 with a recital of piano, violin and vocal numbers. On this occasion e follow- ing students will participate in the program: Piano, Erna E. Martin, Arthur E. Knowles and Glenn Carow; violin, Henry Hogan, Marjorie Wilson, Martha Davenport and Virginia Cure- ton: voice, Howard E. Severe, Beatrice Downer Holland and Jane Elise Hast- ings. Miss Mary Mullen will play a flute obbligato and the following pianists will serve as accompanists: Geraldine Stephens, Weltha Woolhiser. Stanley Rayfield and Dr. C. E. Christiani. Friends of the school are cordially in- vited to attend. ‘The sacred cantata, “Olivet to Calvary,” will be repeated at Takoma Park Seventh-day Adventist Church to- night at 8 o'clock. George Cornwell has arranged a series of four programs to be presented at the Sunday evening services of Calvary Church in Georgetown. This evening Mr. Cornwell will play organ arrangements of compositions by Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn. He will be assisted by Margery mezzo-SOprano. ‘The Capital City Choristers enter- tained a group of friends at their new studio, 1501 Connecticut avenue, after their ~regular weekly rehearsal last Tuesday evening. The club is devoting | all of its time now to the preparation for the concert to be held st the Jewish Community Center on May 18. The Zalipsky Music Club will meet Wednesday at Christ Church Parish Hall, Thirty-first and O streets, at 8:30 ofclock. Music from the works of French composers will be presented by Helen C. Klernan-Vasa, chairman of the Program Committee. A feature of the program will be the singing of “Agnus Del” by the Christ Church Choir. The choir is under the direc- tion of Richard Tuttle Bell, organist and choir director. A program was given by Dr. Emile Simon, cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra and his quartet, composed of Andri Cattani, first violin; Fritz Hauer, second violin; Samuel Feldman, viola, and Dr. Emile Simon, cellist, at the April meeting of the Huguenot So- ciety of Washington, held recently at the Mayflower Hotel. —_—— Noted Violinist Coming. T .-wllcs‘om “m;:l‘ - e E versity of North Carolina, assisted at the piano by Lilita W. McCorkle, will Vernon Place M. E. Church at 8 pm. The program follows: ‘Sonata. C Minor. Opus 45" ...Gries ‘Allesto molto et appasionato Allegretto_espressivo alia romanza e nim 1 “Concerto. B Mihor. Opus 64," Mendelssohn ‘Allegro ‘molto appasionato Andante \ Allegretto non' troppo Aliegro molto vivace ea: Mildred Himmelfarb, Russell G. Wright, | | | | | [ | at T. Arthur Smith's concert bureau. Annual Club Concert.’ THE George Washington University Glee Club will be heard in its an- nual Spring concert on Tuesday eve- ‘Willard Hotel. Under the direction of Dr. Robert Howe Harmon, with Grace Ruble Har- Gounod and Rubinstein. Some num- bers will be sung by the group of .36 men’s voices, some by the group of 40 women’s voices and others by the two groups combined. The concert this year is to be held under the sponsorship of the General Alumni Association of the university. . “The Pirates of benzance‘" ILBERT AND SULLIVAN'S comic opera in two acts, “The Pirates of Penzance.” subtitled “The Slave of Duty,” will be presented-by the Estelle Wentworth Opera Group at Roosevelt | High School Auditorium, Tuesday eve- ning May 9, under the auspices of the Community Center Department. "The Creation” to Be Given. HAYDN'S oratorio, “The Creation,” will be heard on Tuesday evening. May 2, at 8 o'clock. when the newly organized Washington Oratorio Society, conducted by George F. Kortzenborn and sponsored by the Institute of Musi- cal Art will present this musical work in_Central High School Auditorium. The soloists of the occasion will be Esther Ingram, soprano: George E. Anderson, tenor. and Neal Parrish, bass-baritone. Organ and piano ac- companiment will be used for this ora- torio and will be played by Marjorie Davis at the piano and Gertrude Dyer at the organ. MistiRoee et o Sing. EMILY ROOSEVELT, soprano, will appear as guest artist with the Rubinstein Club of May 9. Miss Roosevelt has appeared fre- quently in opera, in recitals and as; soloist with important choral and fes- tival organizations throughout the country. Tickets for the concert sre on sale Howard Glee Club to Sing. 'HE Men's Glee Club of Howard Uni- versity, under the direction of| Prof. Roy W. Tibbs, will be presented in the annual home-coming concert at 8:15 Tuesday evening in Andrew Rankin Chapel, as the concluding number of | chairman, Pan-American Concert HE orchestral concert held each Spring in the Hall of the Amer- icas at the Pan-American Union in Washington will take place this year on Wednesday evening. The United Service Orchestra will pre- sent 12 selections by Latin-A~erican composers which have not pr:.iously been played in the United States. This unique organization of 110 musicians selected from the Army, Navy and Ma rine Corps Orchestras, under the joint leadership of the conductors of the three service organizations, was created to play exclusively music by composers from the Southern republics. One of the numbers that will be featured in this program is a “Prelude, by Benone Calcavecchia of Montevidec, Uruguay. Senor Calcavecchia is leader of the Municipal Band and Orchestra in Uruguay's capital city, and his prelude was awarded the first prize in a compe- tition for compositions for grand or- chestra. ‘The United Service Orchestra is now provided with a complete collection of the unusual percussion instruments used in the interpretation of many Cuban and Venezuelan compositions and will play in the last portion of this program a selection by the famous Cuban com- poser, Amadeo Roldan, a number from his suite, “La Rebembaramba,” as well as a joropo, “Alma Llanera,” by Pedro E. Gutlerrez of Venezuela, which intro« duce native instruments. The assisting artists are Clarita San- chez, Mexican soprano, and Rodolfo Ducal, Argentine tenor. When_the late Enrico Caruso heard Clarita Sanchez sing in Mexico City he was s0 impressed by the beauty of her voice and her musicianship he sug- gested that she come to the United States and study with the eminent in- structor, Marcella Sembrich. She was for three years a pupil of this famous coach and in her first concert in New York was acclaimed by one of our most distinguished music authorities, Kurt Schindler, as “the foremost exponent of Lavin-American song in America.” Clar- |ita Sanchez's program will consist of songs from her native land with both piano and orchestral accompaniment, | She will appear in costume. Rodolfo Ducal was born in Mendoza, | Argentina, and when very young was | recognized as possessing a voice of un- | usual quality. He studied in his native | city and later in Buenos Aires. He has | appeared in the Latin Amercian repub- lics in concert and in opera. Among | his selections in the program at the | Pan-American Union will be “Estilo | Criollo” (native stvle), the first rendi- {tion of a song by the poplar Argentine composer, Teri Tucci. Senor Ducal will appear in gaucho costume while singing | this number. Parent-Teacher Activities Material for this column shouid be in the State office, 1201 Sixteenth street, not later than the first mail on Wednesday preceding Sunday on which publication is desired. The Annual State Convention will be held April 25 from 9 am. to 4 pm. in the audiorium of the Interior Depart- ment. * Registration will begin at 9 a.m. for which a small convention fee will be charged. The capvention will con- vene at 10 o'clock. The morning session will be taken up with the report of the committee on election procedure, revision of by-laws and reports of officers. The convention will adjourn at 12:30 for lunch. During the afternoon session resolutions wil. be taken up as well as reports of the State chairmen. Outstanding T“"S include Miss Mary Stewart of the De- partment of Interior, Miss Ella Gardrer. Children’s Bureau, and Miss Alida Bowler, national chairman, juvenile protection. The program will be inter- spersed with special music. At 6:30 pm. a dinner will be held at 1219 G street, in the second-floor din- ing room. Reservations must be made through Mrs. Thomas Young, 225 Rhode Island avenue northeast, or at the State office, not later than noon tomorrow. ‘The presidents’ reports are to published in the June Bulletin and must be received by the editor by May 15. Grant. ‘The association met with the West End Citizens' Association April 13. The speakers were Robert Lyons. president of the West End Citizens' Association James G. Yaden, president of the Di: trict Federation of Citizens' Associa. tions, and Dr. George F. Bowerman, chief librarian of the District of Co- lumbia. Music was furnished by the McKinley High School Glee Club and a solo by Miss Beatrice Phelps. John Quincy Adams. The last meeting of the season for the study P'oups of the association was held April 5. The meeting was at- tended by both groups of the study class, and tea was served at the ciose of the class. A book was presented by the grouos to Mrs. B. R. Wood, the leader, in appreciation of the time she had given. An executive board meeting will be held at the school April 24, at 3 pm Mrs. Jesse Smith, record book chairman. has sent to the State office a record book of the Adams Association. Truesdell. “Father’s night” will be celebrated at the meeting of the association Tuesday. After the business the meeting will be turned over to Gales Feaster, who is arranging a surprise program. ‘The executive board met in the school ThursGay. Plans for the annual Spring luncheon, which will be held in May, were discussed. Park View. allowing two members of one family to become members at a special rate. principal, Miss Emily Scrivener, she was presented with a gift and flowers by Mrs. Harvel W. Haun from the associ- R boetry and_poetry mote book con A and_poetry nof ol - test 1;’: gen added to the activities of the children by Mrs. Msude Burklin Kimball, auditorium teacher. The as- sociation voted to give appropriate prizes for the contestants. Mrs. George Corbin, grade mother chairman, announced the last grade mother meeting will be held M3y 3. Mrs. C. A. Davison, State publications and Mrs. L. H. Magruder, State child welfare magazine chairman, will speak. Mrs. J. B. Calbreath, grade mother for Mrs. Bolton's room, held a con- the lecture-recital series. Ecxi Moy iFostival ’I'HE FoX Film Corporation announced yesterday the Fox May Festival, a period during the ensuing month in which five new productions will be re- leased. ese fllms include “Zoo in Budapest.' e Warrior’s Husband.” “Adorable, old Me Tight" and “Five Cents a Glass.” —_— Suppression of Noises. The production of a motion picture with the talking accompaniment ealls for the elimination of all noises except those which it is desired to record. The matter has been found quite difficult, but it has been accomplished by the construction of a shield about the paratys to keep out all studio noises and the suppression of the sound resulting from the operation of the recording mechanism. An industrial “studio,” as noiseproof as a modern cinema production room with walls a foot and a half thick and double doors, has been built in the laboratories of the General Electric Co. for testing electrical apparatus. It is & room within a room. Within this in- ner room experiments are conducted to determine the amount and kind of noises, if any, produced by motors, fans and other kinds of equipment. The outer wall of this inner room is of sound-absorbing plaster. Next is hollow tile. Then comes an air space, felt, an- other wall of sound-absorbing plaster, more air space, sheet iron, more air space, lath work, and finally a thick layer of cotton waste. Mask and Wig Club, “OUT OF THE BLUES,” the Mask and Wig Club's 45th annual ction, which the University of to the Be- give a recital on Wednesday at Mount | o, for Wilmington, day they make their final appearance. ‘The local committee in charge, con- sisting of Pe and former participants, is under the chairmanship of Maj. F. Granville Munson, Darrell H. Smith being club e ev. Albert 2. Lacas, Jomm , H. Cochran Fisher, Ed- e ; Carl Smith Dow and ference and tea Wednesday for the mothers of children in that grade. John Clark of the Red Cross, who| conducted & first aid class, gave the final examination Thursday. The class entertained at a I r Mr. Clark in appreciation of his work. First aid cards will be awarded those who com- pleted the course at the May 4th regu- lar meeting of the Parent-Teacher As. sociation. Mr. Clark will give a demon- stration of the first aid work, assisted by three Boy and three Girl Scouts in uniform, and Mr, Linn C. Drake will be guest speaker. ‘Woodridge, Miss Catherine Watkins, director of kindergartens, was the guest speaker at the April meeting. Pamphlets entitled “Are You Your Child to be Happy?” were distributed. Puplls of Miss Whiton and Miss Lovell gave a Mrs. George Clemmer, Sumther round- up chairman, announced that the health day examination will be held in the school May 1 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. and requested that all parents having children who will enter the kindergar- ten or first grade for the first time in either September or February to get in touch with her. The Nominating Committee, composed of Mrs. M. C. Wilson, chairman; Mrs. D. J. Cooper and Miss Caroline F. Bar- nard, principal, offered the following for officers: President, Mrs. Robert B. first vice president, Mrs. W. B. ‘alve! gail Whiton; third vice president, Mrs. G. Giles; secretary, Mrs. Paul 1. Neu; haus; treasurer, Mrs. R. A. Lyon. Mrs. Henry Evans, student aid chair- man, requesfed donations of clothing be sent to the school April 25. Whe annual school Spring luncheon will be held in the school May 4. Miss Lovell's grade won the award for having the highest percentage of ap- | program. The constitution has been amended | This being the birthday month of the | grade entertained with instrumental music, recitations and songs. Those taking part were John Hartnett, Paul | Courtney. Charles Kriner, Louise Win- terfeldt, ‘Lucy Foxwell, Alice Russell, Margarct Hevener. Dorothy _Castl Hershel Riggle and Florence Litman. The award for attendance of par- ents was won by Miss Blandford's class. Wheatley. | “Kind to Animal” activities were in effect during the holiday week, par- ents and teachers co-operating to stress | its importance. Plans are being form- | ulated for National Boys' week April |29 to May 6, under the following topics: | Saturday, Boys' Loyalty Day; Sunda | Boys' Day in Churches; Monday, Boy | Day_in Industry: Tuesday. |in Schools; Wednesday. Bo; | Entertainment and Athleti day, Boys' Day in Health Da ning at Home: Friday, ' Day Citizenship; Saturday, Bo; Day Out of Doors. | Friday will be Kite Contest day for | boys and girls at Rosedale Playgrcund, | Capt. R. Mansfield of the Ninth police | precinct. will be among the judges for | this activity. | sMiss E. Gieger's first grade, with 31 children, had 29 mcthers awtend the tea given by her class. Appointment of the following chair- men have been announced: Member- chip, Mrs. M Burenstou: program, MTrs. Edna Rawlings; Hospitality, Mrs. Gene Starr; finance, Mrs. R. Hillsinge: ways and mea; H. Sengstack; | child welfare, Clarence Martin; bulletin, Mrs. C. Crummitt; student aid, Mrs. B. Kight: grade mothers, Mrs, N. Russell; Summer round-up. Mrs. D. Stevens; study groups, Mrs. H. Thomas; health, Mrs. A. Honey; thrift, Mrs. W. Loughery: safety, Mrs. Alice Brooks: music, Mrs. H. Mayhew; Ju= | venile Court. Mrs. E. Fisher; vacation activities, Mrs. R. Reed: gardens, Mrs. D. W. Johnscn; art, Miss K. Bresna- han; sunshine, Mrs. N Russell; re- freshments, Mrs. E. Weiner. | Fillmore. | The association meets tomorrow at 8 pm. Dr. F. W. Ballou, superintendent | of schocls, will talk on “Study in the | Wise Use of Leisure.” W. Elwood | Baker, secretary of the National Con- | gress of Parents and Teachers. will also addfess the meeting. his subject being | “The Parent-Teacher Movement.” Preparation has been made to give the Schick test to children who have | been enrolled for that purpose. This will be May 1. Henry D. Cooke. | A card party will be held in the | school auditorium April 28, at 8 p.m. The proceeds of this card party, which is sponsored by the Parent-Teacher As- | sociation, will be used to purchase a speedograph machine for the school. Blair-Hayes. A business meeting of the association was held at the Hayes School Thursday afternoon. The Spring luncheon was planned for May 9 at the Blair School. Mrs. A. | Ridout and Mrs. C. Thompson had | charge of the program. The topic being “Safety and Health,” Mr. Richard Tennyson, assistant supervisor of play- grounds, gave a talk. The fifth grade of the Blair School gave a play on the religious training in the time of Roger ‘Williams. Mrs. Pyron informed the association | of the Summer round-up work having been started in the schools and asked to be notified of all children entering school in September, 1933, or February, 1934, | _ Officers elected were: Mrs. R. S. | Pranklin, president;: Mrs. Perry, first vice president: Miss Craighill, ‘second vice president: Mrs. Kenefick, secretary, and Mrs. Nussbaum, treasus Curtis-Hyde-Addison. | The association met Monday evening |in the Curtis School. Mrs. Shorter, | chairman of the Ways and Means Com=- | mitiee, reported the success of a re- | cent card party given by the associa- tion for a children's party in May. Mrs. C. Hanake reported on the work being done by the members of the Hot Lunch Committee. Mrs. J. N. Saunders, state president, spoke on “The Value of Working To- gether.” A play, “Sleeping Beauty,” was given by the pupils of the group of buildings, under the direction of Miss Wilson, representing the Dairy Council. Those taking part were Dorothy Shultz, Fran- | ces Rolnick, Russell Minichella, Dor- othy Burrows, Howard Marhood, Fran- ces Butler, Ordessor Lomax, Shultz and Helen Hilleary. ‘The silver cup for the greatest num- ber of parents in attendance was won by Miss Lyddane’s 6AB grade Thomson. The association met April 6. Mrs. | Thomas E. Elkins, state Summer ound-up chairman, spoke on the ex- aminations and the follow-up of cases found to have defects. Charles E. Finckel, principal, on be- half of the association, presented Par- ent-Teacher pins to the treasurer, Mrs. Hope M. Garrison, and the Student Aid chairman, Mrs. Martan Thise. Nominations of officers was made for the next year by the committee. The election of officers will be held May 11. Miss La Salle of the Research Depart- ment will be one of the speakers. The state Student Aid chairman, Mrs. E. J. Dowling, and the sixth vice president, Mrs. Walter C. Jones, are expected to be_present. iy MUSIC STUDIOS. 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