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r—8 TWO ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS THIS WEEK Artists in the Week’s Musical News Opera of 50 TH < Years Ago Recalled by Old Reviews Collection Is Pathetic Reminder of Forgotten Glory and Beauty for Music Lov ers. By Alice Eversman. reviews, from over 50 years ago, Opera in New York. Yellow an type used half a century ago the T pathetic reminder of forgotten glory, of long-stilled voices that once poured out their beauty to another generation One could find material for a lengthy dissertation on “What is fame?” ‘could the discouraging evidence of allg the hopes and striving that led to but & short-lived prominence be forgotten. For in reading over the casts of those operas given with pomp and ceremony, but few names mean anything to the | music devotees of the present day. The training, the talent and the sacrifices that helped fashion the careers of those stars of long ago could not cause their names to be inscribed in the rec- ords of immortal musical fame. But for a few the hglo of greatness persists today and will persist for all time. Adelina Patti, Marcella Semb- rich, Etelka Gerster, the tenor, Cam- panini, and Christine Nilsson are art- ists whose memory still pervades the musical achievements of this era. . OF‘ A performance of Patti in “La Gazza Ladra,” the reviewer leaves | this account: | “One of the first thoughts that guch a melodious outpouring as that which followed on the heels of her ertrance (as soon, in fact, as the turbulent applause of an audience that seemed beside stself with joy could be stilled) suggested, was that here was the last perfect representa- tive of the old art of beautiful sing- ing—a charming woman whose graces of face, figure and action were only ornaments to a perfectly bal- anced and divinely inspired musical nature. “Mme. Patti’s singing is a flower of precious odor, which it is given the present generation to enjoy. To describe how she sang would be gimply to rhapsodize; her sgngmg was not merely an exposition, it was @lmost a revelation of an art un- happily at present in its decadence. The day of the art of perfect sing- ing, as taught in Italy, is past and only lives in the beautiful voice and extraordinary execution of Adelina Patti.” L In the production of Beito's ‘Me- fistofele” Nilsson sang the part of Helen and called forth the following eulogies: “Helen is a character that is cut to the very form of Mme. Nilsson—regal in beauty and carriage, soul-moving in voice, serene in pose and gesture, | She moved through the opera last night like a veritable Hellenic queen. The beauty, the majesty, the puissant charm of a perfect woman of the clas- gic type—all were hers. “Signor Campanini. was the Faust whom we have seen in the opera be- fore, but fired with a greater degree of enthusiasm than ever. Not only was he singing the opera which he was chiefly instrumental in glvm; to American audiences, but he was sing- ing it under the direction of a brother in whom he has a proud and affec- tionate interest.” This brother became musical director and later head of the Chicago Grand | Opera in its earliest days. SOME of the reviews of the early performances of ‘Wagner’s operas | oring interesting comments on this new type of writing. The “Valkyrie” was performed in January, 1885. “With the production of ‘The Val- kyrie' last night at the Metropolitan | Opera House, Dr. Damrosch's Ger- | man performances reached their cul-‘ minating point. The ‘Valkyrie' was selected to celebrate this occasion be- | cause it is the most popular of Wag- ner’s latest works and because Wagner is with Germans, at the present mo- ment, the most popular of German composers, his works being more often presented and more warmly applauded in his native land than the works of | any of his predecessors. He is not so highly esteemed by Americans, the triumphs of Dr. Damrosch's season having been Meyerbeer’s ‘Prophete’ snd Halevy's ‘La Juive’ The Metro- politan was last night so packed with the German public that the success | of the opera, with all its oddities and extravagances, was assured from the rising of the curtain. “The radical defect of the opera is its monotony. All of its comic effects are unintentional. A spear plainly marked with Frau Materna’s name caused a titter. The sudden death of Hunding at a word from Wotan raised another laugh. But the true comedian of the evening was Brun- hilda’s horse. This docile beast, al- though trained to Mazeppa, had not sufficiently attuned himself to Wagner. There were passages that made him restive and almost persuaded him to leave the stage and abandon his histrionic career. But in view of this possibility the management had tethered him securely to a stump. “The music has grand moments. et all the characters fall into tedious declamation. Music such as this may appeal to a nation of special tastes and aptitudes, but the human tem- perament must be radically changed before it will appeal to the world at large.” | F LOHENGRIN it was written: “Other things than high notes engrossed the attention of last night's pudience, and many of the unobtru- sive instances of intelligent, artistic effort received prompt recognition and decorously expressed reward. It might be argued from this that the patrons of opera in New York are ripe for something better and nobler than the sweetmeats of the hurdy-gurdy yepertoire. It is a compliment to the performance that it must be set down 8s worthy of a more careful judgment than is ordinarily given to the amuse- ments of an evening. The interpre- tation of the work as a whole, no less than the accomplishments of each performer, furnish food for reflection.” The first performance of “Die Meis- tersinger” in this country “was wit- nessed by an audience of unwonted brilliancy and every seat and foot of standing room was occupied.” The music was spoken of in eulogistic terms with “some moments distinctly beauti- ful and some fraught with a strange impressiveness, while the skill and in- geniousness with which all are treated by a harmonist and contrapuntist of exhaustless resource is, for the stu- dent, a deep well-spring of edification and delight. Whatever verdict pos- terity may pronounce as to the lasting ODAY there came to the desk of this department a collection of old | sketches, and Prince. Dmitry Volkon- , of performances of the Metropolitan d brittle with age and printed in the e little pile of clippings is a mute and of music lovers. lished, his title to supremacy as a pro- ducer of instrumental music of depth, color and detail is not likely to be con- 4 tested.” The reviewers of 1883 were thor- ough, taking notice of every slight de- tail that could disturb the pleasure of the audience. For the performance of “Lucia”: ‘The scenery was perhaps nearly as old as the opera, but the interior in the second act might have looked better if it had been set straight.” And again, in writing of “Linda di Chamounix”: “The chorus was satis- factory and the Mont Blanc scenery of retiring modesty,” while the personal appearance of the prima donna in “Norma” also came in for notice with: “Her figure is now positively attenu- ated, and the extraordinary change from her former stoutness was in- stantly remarked upon in audible whispers.” Sic transit gloria mundi. —_— Russian Benefit. IN .COMMEMORATION of the “Day of the Russian Child,” the Wash- ‘Orchestra’s Children's Welfare Society is giving a | Season Here benefit entertainment at Pierce Hall | Opens Today on Saturday evening, November 2.| Simultaneously, the day is being ob- \Dr. Kindler Presents | Capital’'s Own in served in other cities throughout the “Egmont” Music. country where the society has branches. Mme. Marie Zalipsky, Washington The seond act of Tschaikowsky's | WXTH the dip of Dr. Hans Kindler's “Dame de Pique” will be sung by baton the tremendous strains of Marjorie King and Annet Rose, with | Beethoven's “Egmont” overture will representative of the society, and di- rector of the local benefit, is arrang- a chorus of Russian singers, many of fill Constitution Hall this afternoon ing, with members of her committee, a characteristic program of Russian music and dancing. | them members of the Russian colony | and embark the National Symphony here. An arrangement from Rimsky- Orchestra and its hundreds of patrons Korsakoff’s “Snow Maiden” will be | on a new season—the orchestra’s fifth. given by Elise Hastings and Countess ~ Musical Washington centers its at- Elizabeth Heiden. Mme. Natalie | tention on this concert. Supporters of Scheffer and Mme. Irene Mishtowt former years await a demonstration of will present one of their dramatic | the orchestra’s growth and musical de- velopment since last season. Hundreds sky and Mille. Lilie Zalipsky will ap- | of new friends look forward to the pear in an Oriental dance, “Lesg- | experience of & concert by the Cap- hinka.” Mlle. Zalipsky and Ronnie | jtal's own symphony orchestra. Cunningham will present & special | Interest is high, too, because Dr. arrangement from Tschaikowsky's | Kindler fittingly inaugurates a season “Nutcracker Suite.” In addition there | which promises an abundance of great will be Russian songs by the Russian music, with a brilliant program. | choir. | Immediately after today's cohcert, Pupils from the Bekefl-Deleporte Dr. Kindler will leave for Philadelphia, Institute of Dance and Mme. Zalipsky | where he has been engaged as the | will participate in the benefit, pro- first guest conductor of the season for | ceeds from which will go to help Rus- | the Philadelphia Orchestra. Taking up sian refugee children in this country. | the baton in Dr. Leopold Stokowski's absence, Dr. Kindler will conduct the Severe to‘Head Society. concerts of October 25, 26, 27 and 29 Washington Oratorio Society an- nounce that at the unanimous re- quest of the board, Howard E. THE Board of Directors of the in the Academy of Music. William van Hoogstraaten, distin- guished Dutch conductor of the New York Philharmonic Stadium concerts, comes to the Capital this week to Severe has agreed to resume his duties as president of the society. Mr. Severe resigned from this post in June due to pressure of other activities. ‘The rest of the officers and members of the board will continue as here- tofore: Dr. I H. Godlove, Evelyn youn g pianist, as soloist. :"fi"“ E.BLHWiedemanln, Maribelle * My van Hoogstraaten will also con- icol, Innis H. Hart, Alma Padgett,| guct the orchestra in' its first Balti- J. T. Richardson, Mary O'Donnell,| yore concert October 29. and William C. Whiting, with George | 2 B etorizenborn. continuing 8s €o0- | heging at 4 oclock this afternoon - | promises to be a capacity one, ad- aive tta ] o ormanreTor 1% 50 | vance ticket sales indicate. _Single del's “Messiah” at Christmas time, | tickets, which went on sale last Mon- has admitted more than 20 mw_day have met with popular demand. members to its chorus since rehearsals | At the same time the season tickets were resumed last month. Rehearsals | have continued to bring a heavy re- are held on Monday evenings at the |SPODse. and can be purchased today, Thomson School, Twelfth .and L |8ccording to C. C. Cappel, manager. streets northwest. Additional chorus| The box office at Constitution Hall conduct the National Symphony, while Dr. Kindler is away. Mr. van Hoogstraaten will be at the conduc- tor's stand at the secona concert of the season next Sunday afternoon. He will present Grace Castagnetta, The audience for the concert which | members are desired. should be made to George F. Kortzen- born, 1145 Connecticut avenue. B — Recital by Miss Nolte. MARIA VERONICA NOLTE, so- prano, will be presented by Ger- trude Lyons in a recital in the Salle de Recital Thursday at 8:45 pm. | She will be assisted by Arsenio Ralon, violinist, and Elena Crivella, pupil of Rudolph Ganz, as accompanist. The program will include compositions by Curran, Dvorak, Giordani, Gounod, Grieg, Hahn, Haydn, Margaret Ruth- ven Lang, Mendelssohn, Rabey, Schu- bert, Spross and Woodman. Cards of admission may be obtained from the office of the studio, 1325 G street. Service Band Concerts. THE schedule of the United States Army Band, Capt. Thomas F. Darcy leader, includes the following concerts to be given in the Army Band auditorium during the coming week: Monday—Concert at 6 p.m. Wednesday—Concert at 11:30 a.m. Friday—Concert at 4:30 p.m. Congert by the United States Sol- diers’ Home Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall, Tuesday evening, beginning at 5:30 o'clock; John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, associate leader: March, “Salute to America”_ ___ Overture, “The Hand of Feliow %9 e eusical Ean a) us ay'’ __ (b) “‘Aloha, Sunset Lai Excerot m the I ly leen’ Characteristic, M Walts suite. “Cold and Silver: (Youth and Old Finale, “Step WlthAg‘ “The Star Spangled Thursda; March, “Pershink's Crusaders Hungarian overture, “Halk Suite de ballet, “Arabian Ni 1. Danse des Odalisques. 2. Sinbad. A love duet . Ghasi. Scenes from the Fox trot novelf __Lincoln hip,"” Big E. T. Paull -Moniuszko Pinale, “‘The Police Pdrade” _____| “The Star Spangled Banner.” Saturday Evening. rch, *“The Palace of Peace”__Vandersioot "“Ihe Four Havmon Ghil- the “In My Palts capastoles value of what Wagner has accomp- 4 Pinale. Go”___. Spangied Banner. . e eiOn _the. “The Star It of organists has provided the mygic Appllcationsi“’m be open after 11 am. today.| | During the week the ticket sale Is conducted in the orchestra’s box office in the Julius Garfinckel & Co. store. —_— Tickets Placed on Sale. TIcKm‘S for the recital by Jan on December 3 will go on sale Friday, and will be available at the Willard Ticket Agency, the Shoreham Hotel, the Mayflower Hotel News Stand. Concerts Intimes, Elena de Sayn, di- rector, takes charge of mail orders and advanced reservations for other con- certs at 927 Fifteenth street, room 608. Egon Petri will play Janu- ary 14th and Andres Segovia Feb- ruary 4, under the management of Concerts Intimes. Kubelik was recently asked what compositions he enjoys playing best. The eminent violinist has no prefer- ences as far as his own repertoire is concerned, but is partial to great works like the Beethoven Concerto and Bach’s Chaconne, because there is always some new beauty to be found in them. He finds that show pieces are easier to play than many less complex works, in which the in- terpretation is elusive and hard to ex- press. Handel's ‘Largo’ is simple as regards notes, but it s big and uni- versal. It is a pity,” said Kubelik, “that pieces of simple construction are avoided by great players and left to students and amateurs who put into them ideas that are foreign to the music.” Long Recital Record. DWARD P. KIMBALL, organist of the Latter-day Saints’ Church, Sixteenth street and Columbia road northwest, played the 600th daily or- gan recital at that church on Thurs- day. The program included works by Mendelssohn, Lemare, Karg-Elert, Kinder, Ravenello and Glynn. ‘These daily organ recitals, which are a unique feature of the Latter-day Saints’ Church, were begun by Mr, Kimball on March 6, 1933, and played each week day at 7 p.m. since that time. More than 30,000 persons have attended these concerts, the programs of which are chosen so as to give covering all schools and periods. = In giving & full recital program each day Mr. Kimball is following the lspractice of the Salt Lake Tabernacle, ‘where, for more than 30 years, a staff for the musical hous. Kubelik at the Shoreham Hotel | variety to the frequent visitor, while| | the composers E SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBE | | e Frank Gittelson, left, concert 20, 1 master of the National Symphony, which today gives the opening concert of its fifth season with Dr. Kindler directing Right: Leopold Stokowski, eminent conductor of the Phila- delphia Orchestra, returns to this city on Thursday night to lead the orchestra in its first concert at Constitution Hall this year. Below are two Washington-musicians, who have recently won scholarships in prominent music schools. Left: Glenn Carow, pianist, who will enroll in the master classes of Alexander Sklarewski at Peabody Conservatory, and right, Wil- ilam Fletcher Smith, baritone, who will continue his studies at the Juillard Graduate School of Music, New York, this Winter. Symphony Orchestra Concert Opening of 1935-36 Season. “Egmont Overture” ......_Beethoven HE “Edmont Overture” was writ- ten by Beethoven for the play of the same name by Goethe. | In fact, Beethoven wrote quite | a series of incidental compositions for | the drama. The music is, especially | when we consider the period in which | it was written, extremely realistic, de- picting as it does, the struggle of the Netherlands against its Spanish op- pressor, the Duke of Alva—the woes and sorrows and tribulations, and the final triumphant liberation of this T | small, but indomnitable country in its | struggle for religious and political | freedom. three greatest (the others are the | “Leonore” No. 3 and “Coriolanus”), and is the splendid outcome of Beet- hoven's admiration for Goethe and his drama. “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”... Mozart Allegro, romanza—andante; men- uett; rondo—allegro. 'HE “Kleine Nachtmusik” is the best known of a series of com- positions which Mozart wrote for the purpose of entertainment by small groups of players. Other works of this kind are his “Cassations,” “Di- vertimenti,” etc. In this “Serenade,” however, the master suddenly strikes a more vital chord. It is written | for strings in the form of a short symphony in the traditional four movements and is imbued with vivid inspiration throughout, gemlike and delicately perfect in every detal Excerpts from “Boris Godounov,” Moussorgsky coronation scene, Introduction, love music. N “BORIS GODOUNOV” Mous- sorgsky gave us his masterwork. This Summer, on studying the score | of this magnificent work, the thought struck me how regrettable it was that much of the greatest”operatic music remains unheard by many American listeners, because of the rarity of the presentations of these works in our country. ‘With the exception of the repertoire of the Metropolitan, the offering of the American traveling companies necessarily consists of, perennially, the same works, “Aida,” “Pagliacci,” “Rigoletto,” etc. Mozart, Weber, Gluck, the Russians, the greater Verdi (of “Othello” and “Falstaff”) are rarely if ever heard. This seems an unnecessary deprivation, and it is for that reason I want to present this Winter a few of the “high points” of at least some of these works. This is done currently with Wagner’s works and rightly accepted, and can be done equally well with some of the more important, though less easily, avail- able” works'of the above-mentioned composers. In the “Boris” excerpts of today I have chosen the moody, typically Russian introduction, the superb coro- nation scene, a few bars of the re- morse of Boris, leading to the love music—next to Wagner's the most warmly sensuous, deeply inspired and rapturously irresistible love strains in the entire operatic literature. Symphony No. 6 (The “Pathetique”) Tchaikovsky Adagio, allegro non troppo; al- legro con grazia, allegro molto vi- vace, adagio lamentoso. MUSIC, as in all other things, fashions and tastes come and go. But when all is said and done, Tchaikovsky's “Pathetique” seems to Temain one of the half dozen favorite symphonies. During the years from 1920 to 1930 and other adherents of i The overture belongs to Beethoven's | Constitution Hall, Today at 4:00 Comments on the Program By Dr. Hans Kindler, Conductor. | the “neue sachlichkeit” (new matter- | of-factness) looked with scorn on the | “agonizing melancholy” of the Rus- | sian. _ But these attitudes, very healthy in their way, last just so long. and have never yet been abie to obscure permanently in the eyes of the public any work of art worthy of the name which has a strongly human element. And this element cannot be denied Tchaikovsky even by his most violent detractors. In fact, it is just this ele- ment they object to. Much, of course. depends on the interpretation in such a case. But every work of art deserves the best possible hearing. and when this is given it no public has yet been able to resist the message of Tchaikov- sky's last opus. ‘The composer had a premonition of death while writing the work, and it proved to be his swan song. The | four movements each definitely ex- press these feelings. The first im- grief and sorrow, followed by different ually to return to its initial mood. though now more resigned and tran- quil than at first. The second is an attempt at charm and gayety. The third a vigorous struggle, with more than a strong semblance of impending victory, frenetic in its surging toward the final return of its main theme. But the finale sounds the knell of despair, surrender and death, which leaves no unbiased listener unmoved, and which more than justifies the title of the work and the stirring ef- fect it produces. Sonata Recital. Tmzu: outstanding sonatas for vio- lin and piano will be presented by Betty Baum, Washington pianist, and Milton Schwartz, ‘Washington String Quartet, on Mon- day, October 28, at Pierce Hall, Fif- teenth and Harvard streets. Beetho- ven's “Sdnata op. 30, No. 3” will open the program, followed by the “Rain Sonata op. 78” by Brahms and the Medtner “Sonata op. 21.” Tickets are on sale at Mrs. Dorsey's Concert Bureau in Droops’, 1300 G street northwest. Plenty of Hay. FARm in the corn belt apparent- ly intend to insure themselves against another feed shortage should a drought play havoc again as it did last year. Many acres taken from corn production under the control program are now being employed for hay pro- duction. The result is that the largest hay crop in six years has been raised and, while the number of feeding ani- mals is insufficient to consume all the crop, plenty will be stored in the barns for future use, and a shortage in feed again is unlikel This year's crop is about 7,000,000 tons over the average and 30,000,000 tons over last year's record low. } Chinese Cotton Drops. FIARS of competition from Chinese growers of cotton are somewhat lessened with reports of this year's crop from the Asiatic republic. ‘There was a decrease of about 25 per cent in the acreage planted to cot- ton and the yleld is expected to be off about 1,600,000 bales. American seed has been used in China, but due to different conditions of soll, climate and methods of culti- vation, the quality has degenerated in many sections and s wide variety of results have been 935—PART FOUR. < OPE Famous Philadelphia HE first concert of the season by the Pailadelphia Orchestra, with Leopold Stokowski conducting, will be given at Constitution Hall on Thurs- day evening at 8:45 o'clock. ‘The program will include Brahm’s “Symphony No. 4 in E Minor,” which was written when Brahms was past 50, and which reveals the thoughtful side of the composer. At that time he was deeply moved by the trage- | dies of Sophocles and the music shows his preoccupation with this reading, especially in the fourth | movement. ! Stokowski has selected, for the | pleasure of those who have created | popular demand, a well-cut portion | of Wagner's “Rienze.” Written at the | age of 25, when he sought to beat Meyerbeer at his own game, Wagner found inspiration for the symphony in Bulwer Lytton's novel, “The Last| of the Roman Tribunes.” This co- | lossal work originally occupied from 6 o'clock until midnight. After the royal family and those of influence LENN CAROW, pianist and member of the Washing.on Notable New Impression By Kreisler New York Recital by Violinist Precedes His Visit Here. RITZ KREISLER, eminent Aus- trian violinist, who will inaugurate the 1935-36 recital season at Consti- | tuticn Hall, when he appears there on Wednesday evening, November 6, at 18:30 o'clock, as the first attraction of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's evening | concert series at that auditorium, gave one of the most brilliant recitals of his career in New York, a week ago yesterday, according to reviews that have reached Washingtca. Playing before an immense audience that filled every available seat in Carnegie Hall and overflowed on the stage, Kreisler played, with other selections, three of his own composi- tions which, up to last January, had been held to be Kreisler arriagements |of works by Pugnani, Couperin and | Tartini: The “Prelude and Allegro” which Kreisler formerly ascribed to Pugnani; the “Chanson Louis XIII” credited to Couperin, and the “Varia- tions On a Theme of Corelli” which Kreisler had previously announced to be his own arrfngement of a Tartini G Pianists’ Club, is a recent » winner of a three-year schol- | arship in the annual contest of tne | | Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore Mr. | Carow, who has appeared on the artist programs of the Pianist Ciub, | will be a member of the master ciass of Alexander Sklarewski. William Fletcher Smith. baritone, pupil of Gretchen Hood, is one of four students to receive scholarships this year al the Juilliard Graduate School of Music, New York, over several hunrded contestants. Mr. Smith’s early studies were de- voted to the piano and later the or- | gan. He was assistant organist to the late Edgar Priest at St. Alban’s | Cathedral, organist at the National City Christian Church and later or- ganist and choir director at St. John's Episcopal | town. Mr. Smith’s vocal studies were | entirely under the direction of Miss Hood. 2 Mme. Malda Fani d'Aulby, lyric soprano, will sing a group of songs at the “art tea” today at the studio of the League of American Pen Wom- 'en from 4 to 6 o'clock, when etch- ings by Minnie L. Briggs will be on exhibition. Prof. Fulton B. Karr will | accompany Mme. d’Aulby in his own | composition, “To a Dogwood Tree,” and Elena Crivella will be at the piano for the other numbers. Dorothy Sherman Pierson, soprauo, ‘ sang the Schumann song cycle, “Frau- | enliebe und Leben” last evening at the first meeting of the season of ine | German Literary Society, when the 125th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann was observed. | composition. He began his program | with the “Devil's Trill Sonata” of | Tartini and followed it with unaccom- panied Bach. Mr. Kreisler's performance at Con- Three Schumann numbers were played by Marjorie Gilreath, who also accom- . panied Mrs. Pierson. | [ Ruth Marie Gardner, soprano, vocal | mediately sounds a note of deepest | episodes of struggle and strife, event- | t violinist of the | | stitution Hall on November 6 will be | the first of four evening and Sunday | concerts to be presented under Mrs. Dorsey's auspices at the D. A. R. Auditorium next month. Lawrence Tibbett, baritcie, will give the first of a series of Sunday afternoon concerts there on November 10, while Lucrezia Bori, soprano, in a costume recital, is scheduled for the evening of Novem- ber 19. A joint sonata recital by Harold Bauer, pianist, and Albert Spalding, violnist, will be given on Sunday afternoon, November 24, at the same hall. —_— Programs for Convention. R. ALBERT W. HARNED has ar- ranged an interesting and inclu- sive musical program for the religious | services of the Universalist General Conventicn, to be held in the National Memorial Church, Sixteenth and S ! The following outline is given. Today—11 am. organ: “Adag Bourgault-Ducoudray; “‘Saraband Handel; “G Minor Fugue,” Bach “Give to Our God Immortal Praise,” Ross, and “The Silent Sea,” Neidlin- ger, the National Capital Choir, with Irene Koehl, soprano. 7:40-8 p.m, organ recital: “Ste. Anne,” Bartlett; “Intermezzo” (a minor sonata), Rhein- berger; “Serenade,” Pierne; “Contem- plation,” Friml. Choir: “Evening Hymn,” Purcell (with Jessie Masters, contralto) and Matthew's Choral Col- lect. Organ recitals will be given on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons from 4:50 to 5:10 o'clock. The following programs will be played: Monday, “Piece Heroique,” Franck; “Walther's Prize Song,” Wagner; “Hymne a Ste. Ceclle,” Gounod: “In Moonlight,” Kinder. Tuesday, “Theme and Variations,” Hesse; “Liebestod,” from “Tristan and Isolde,” Wagner; “Berceuse,” Spinney. ‘Wednesday, “Nocturne,” Mendelssohn; “Trau- merie,” Schumann; “Priere,” Jumal; “Slumber Song,” Nevin. Wednesday evening from 7 to 8 o’clock, “Symphony for Organ,” Bach:; “Morgenstimmen” from “Peer Gynt,” Grieg; “Madrigale,” Simonetti; “Largo,” from ‘“New World,” Dvorak. Choir: “O Praise Ye, God,” Tschaikowsky, and “The Day Thou Gavest,” Lee. On Thursday at 4:50 the Sibelius “Finlandia,” arranged for the organ by Dr. Harned, with a choral adapta- tion by Alex Matthews, sung by the choir; “Erotik,” Grieg, and “The Angelus,” Gray. Composer Presents Works. AN HOUR of inspirational music, compositions of Elizabeth L. Hebb, will be given in Barker Hall Saturday evening, November 2, 8:15 o'clock, by request. Ann Gromley, interpre- tive dancer, will give an East Indian dance preceding “An East Indian Lullaby,” to be sung by Maria Ver- onica Nolte, with Elena Crivella at the piano. Edwin Stefle will sing “Invocation,” “God’s Hand” and “Noc- turne,” and Ann Glidden will sing “The Message” and Adessa Ehrhart “The Voice of My Beloved.” Miss Hebb will play “Spanish Etchings™ and a suite of four pleces. The pub- lie is corgially 1nvited to attend, - . streets, October 20 to 24, inclusive. | teacher at the Gertrude Lyons Studios, | was guest soloist on the recital pro- gram given recently by Rose Crivella and at the joint birthday celebraiion of Mrs. Lyons and Miss Crivella at| the studio last Sunday. Miss Gardner is a pupil of the late Herbert "Wither- spoon and a graduate of the Chicago Musical College. Robert S. Campbell, baritone, is the | guest soloist tonight at the First Congregational Church. Robert Hobbs, baritone, and Malcolm Toone, violinist, have been guest soloists the last two Sunday evenings. | | The program for the Music hour at 5 o'clock today, at the Y. W. C. A,, Seventeenth and K streets, will be given by Dorothy Dixon Wright, as- | sisted by Phillip Baxter, tenor. Mae Eleanor Smith and Helen Farrington | will be hostesses for this program, to | which men and women are cordially invited. A musical program was given at the anquet of the Harriet Lipp Class held Wednesday at Hamline M. E. | Church, at which time Mrs. Thomas F. Law acted as toastmistress. The lsolom.s were: Ruth Ellen Dewey, Mrs, Fred Lane McGiffin, Edith Gottwals, accompanist; Frances Dewey and Lura Loomis, Mrs, William L. Evans, | accompanist. Donald Thomas entertained the | final session of the twenty-sixth an- | nual reunion of the Clan MacGregor a group of songs and arias, accom- panied by Kathryn Latimer. Mr. | Thomas will sing today at the Na- | tivity Episcopal Church. | Virginia C. Hunter has returned |from New York City, where she at- tended the opening of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. Warren F. Johnson, organist, will | play “Finale,” from “Sonata in G Minor,” by H. B. Jepson, before the evening service at the Church of the Pilgrims today. ‘The Washington Alumnae of Mount Vernon Seminary is arranging a series of “after-the-symphony suppers” to | be served at the field house of the seminary after each Sunday concert of the National Symphony, the pro- ceeds to be devoted to the alumnae fund for the students’ concerts. - ‘The monthly meeting of the Piano Teachers’ Forum will be held in the Sunday school of the Columbia Heights Christian Church, 1435 Park road northwest, on Thursday at 10:30 am. The public is invited. Mary MatheWs Taylor, pianist, who has been taking a course of special work with Willlam Green of Philadel- phia, has reopened her classes at Kitt's studio, and resumed her sched- ule as accompanist. A musical program under the di- rection of Mamie J. Allen will be part of the charity benefit to be given by the Ladies’ Oriental Shrine at the Shoreham Hotel on Wednesday, Oc- toker 30, Mrs. at the Willard Hotel last, evening with | N SEASON Stokowski’s Orchestra To Play Here Thursday Conductor to Open Series of Concerts at Constitution Hall. in Dresden had enjoyed the long performance, it was cut for popular audiences and proceeded on its tri- umphal way under the name of “Rienze.” The instrumental introduction to the third act of Tannhauser, called “Tann- hauser’s Pilgrimage,” and the Venus- berg music will complete the program. The introduction to the third act is a tone poem telling the story of his pilgrimage, when the penitent Tann- hauser goes to Rome, to seek forgive ness from the Pope. From then on is heard the passage of the pilgrim, end- ing the heavenly grace theme on the the “Dresden Amen.” In shortening the original overture, Wagner passed ftom the easy, old- fashioned master into the subtle and exacting Wagner heard in “Tristan.” The series of concerts will continue with those on December 19 and March 12, with April 2 closing the series. The Philadelphia Orchestra is, as usual, under the management of the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau, 910 G street northwest, usic Circles choir of St. John's Church, Lafaye ette Square, has one to Chestnut | Hill, Philadelphia, today to dedicate an organ at Greystock, the home of Mrs. Schuyler Volkmar, in memory of the latter's father, the late George C. Thomas of Philadelphia. The ded- ication will take place this afternoon and Mrs. Johnson will give a pro- gram of organ music at 4 o'clock. The Music Department of the Ta- koma Park Women's Club will hold its first program meeting Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Irvin L. Clark of Sligo Park Hills, Md. Dorothy Radde Emery, pianist, and Betty Ruth McDevitt, mezzo-so- prano, will be guest artists. An article on “Woman's Inspiration to Great Music” will be read by Mrs. Clark and the club's chorus. under the direction { of Mrs. Edmund L. Green, will partici- pate. Church, George- | The Newcomb-Bethesda Community Singers, under the direction of Ruth L. Morgan, have resumed their weekly rehearsals. This group of singers com= pleted its first season last Spring, ap- pearing on the program of the Fine Arts Group at the convention of the Federation of Women's Clubs held in Annapolis. Several numbers sung at that time will be repeated at a musi- cal tea next Sunday at the Battery Park club house, for which invitations are being issued. The Madrigal Singers, directed by Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, resumed regular weekly rehearsals on Tuesday evening, September 10, opening their ninth season. The group personnel is complete, and includes Elizabeth Taylor Copping. Winnifred Thomas Clark, Elsie Rogers Graham, Norma Hughes, Margaret Elliott Sheets, Mary Lerch Brice, George Roth, Leighton | Williams, Charles Hiller and Edward J. Henneberry. STELL il of K: ching, A LIPMAN, Pianist ccompanying. 1356 CCon va: BESSIE N. WILD | re, wiLL AM WEBSTER Protege of the late Enrico Caruso ¥ A student given opportunity as tenor with ‘Chicass Opera Co. 1ast. cens son. Jartial Scholarships under Sch arship Fund Assoclation to wol talented pupils. Nerth 9311, | | \ ink Helgn Genevieve Wagner Teacher of Piano Teacher’s Certificate, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Md. 4511 15th St. N'W. 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