Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1936, Page 20

T STUDENT RECITALS MARK Dancer on Program Tonight HE_EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, GROWTH OF MUSIC INTEREST * Music Club Recital Here Contests to To Be Given Be Spirited By Rethberg Students and Young ‘Debut in London Has Artists to Have Aroused Interest in Opportunities. Young Singer. 'HE District of Columbia Federa- 'HE recent vocal triumphs of Kirs- tion of Music Clubs announces ten Flagstad, at Covent Garde- that the 1937 biennial music contest &1 Tondon, iaened Sanewiins 10, by scure another recent Covent Garden for young artists and student musi~ event of unusual interest: The ap- cians will be held in March. Char- pearance there, for the first time on lotte Lippitt has accepted the chair- any stage, of Elizabeth Rethberg, manship for the District contests, and Metronolian Opecs sopeno, In ie will be glad to send or give bulletins fole cf the Marschallin In. Etreuss m’lt‘:m “;\}":el:sre;?t:ni}fid'blstr1cc of For many years, Lotte Lehmann has Columbia contests, the winners will D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936. Play at Convention Young Conductors Need Special Understanding Must Have Appeal to Public and Convince Musicians That Leadership Is Sure. By Alice Eversman, HE popularity of Toscanini and the difficulty which arose from his decision not to conduct further in America, as to who would be capable of filling the vacancy, discloses another problem in music that has not received sufficient consideration. Who is to replace the noted conductors when they decide to retire and what is being done to train young musicians adequately to fill the breach? Does the success of a con- ductor depend solely on his appeal to4r the public or on the merit of his musicianship? How is the coming Conductor to learn his trade and the development of both of these requisites for public success? At present it would seem that the appeal of a conductor’s personality have assimilated the directions for in- terpretations written in the score by the composer. When preparing a per- ‘Ionmnce of Brahms™ “Requiem” Sir | George Henschel wrote the composer |asking if the metronomic indications closely identified herself with thmw fully equals the value of his musician- | ghip with the public. If an unknown | conductor is announced it is safe to predict that the interest of concert- | goers will lessen without their making y attempt to find oui if the man something new to offer them. Again, a world-renowned name will draw a packed house, much of it the result of curiosity and that peculiar desire of many to say that they have heard the artists whose names are prominently in the newspapers. All this is not encouraging the choice of ! conducting as a profession among musicians. t is true th: he foremost orches- y would not consider ection to a neophyte, re the orchestras that can provide the necessary training in the work? There is need to consider this question seriously if the supply | of conductors is to be found in native circles without constantly recruiting from Europe. The reason that musi- | cians in Europe have continuous op- | portunity to develop themselves in the | art of orchestral conducting is that in | nearly every town there is either a | symphony orchestra, an opera orches- | tra or a conservatory orchestra where | aspirants are welcome to demonstrate | what they can do. | ’T"HE best training for any musician aiming at a conductorship is to be attached to an opera house. There he progressively learns the art, begin- ning with the smaller responsibilities back-stage that necessitate watching the score. | Opera conducting is excellent prac- | for it brings into play all the | ity of the m with the baton. | With so ma things to watch and the elastic directing which must be ready to follow the singer sometimes in unexpected ways, the conductor learns the exact measure by which he will achieve his interpretative re- sults. But where are the opera houses in the United States where a conduc- tor may have this experience? We need American orchestra leaders, and how ere we to get them? A man may be a splendid musician on some instrument and yet not have the ingredients of a good conducwr,‘ Nor does the extent of his knowledge | guarantee that he can give perform- | ances that will enthuse the public in his favor. There is something much | more vital needed than even these | o absolutely al elements, and | is the power to influence and | control a large body of men, many of whom are artists on their instruments. Also, a conductor must be able to gage | effects from another angle than that | of a solo instrument. It is naturally suppositicnal that the {ndividual planning for a conductor’s | career knows the repertoire thoroughly. | Not only must he be letter perfect in | the music and its tempi, but he must | | ti of tempi were to be strictly observed. Brahms answered: “I think here, as well as with other music, the metro- nome is of no value. Those which are found in my works, good friends have talked me into putting them there, for I myself have never believed taat my blood and a mechanical instrument go well together. Is this an answer? I know no better one; but what I do know is that I indicate (without fig- ures) my tempi, modestly to be sure, but with the greatest care and clear- ness.” N THESE few words of the great composer are summed up the great- est requitements of a good conductor— | knowledge of what the composer wants |and the personal vision to see what | elasticity of understanding is allowable to attain the desired interpretation. It is the personal vision that makes a conductor great, if it be founded on an unassailable knowledge. But all of this will be valueless if the leader does not understand how to make his men accept and reproduce his ideas. To make 100 or more men think and feel as one is the enormous task that a conductor must accomplish, The musicians of an orchestra can readily detect the quality of a director and are willing to accord him respect if he deserves it. But he must know his business in an all-embracing man- ner. and how to fit their descriptive tone into the balanced ensemble. Only when the men working under him are convinced of the truth of his knowl- edze in this matter will they be willing to follow his original interpretative ideas. The discipline of an orchestra is as important as the artistic work it does, | and both are in the hands of the man who can make his power felt and re- spected. How are the coming genera- tion ot conductors to learn this art of projecting personality in sufficient strength to make great music? orchestras have been formed under Government supervision, and the con- servatories are giving the instrumen- talists an opportunity to study the or- chestral literature. But even with this progress the young, ambitious mu- sician, who would train for the con- ductor’s place, is not hailed to the di- rector’s desk or otherwise provided for. WE NEED more American con- ductors of outstanding merit, conductors that the public will be eager to listen to. If we would have our native musicians taken care of, those who are fitted to hold the baton must not be overlooked. The future is opening out for this particular branch of music, and some day the supply of famous conductors will run out. With care, the meeting of such an emergency can be gradually begun by encouraging young musicians to study seriously to this end. i\/Iis‘s Cecil Engaged by | Orchestra Young Soprano Gets| Place Next Season | : Q With Symphony. VWINIFRED CECIL, & young so- prano who has achieved success in a phenomenally short time, has just been engaged to appear with| Hans Kindler, conductor, and the| National Symphony Orchestra next | &eason. Miss Cecil has appeared with the National Symphony before. She was brought here from New York for one of the “Sunset Symphonies” last{ Summer by the late conductor, Sandor | Harmati, when she introduced to| Washington music lovers a group of songs composed by Mr. Harmati. Back in New York Miss Cecil signed ® contract to appear regularly on the “Showboat” program and has been one of the ‘“Showboat” company since. She now holds a new contract to continue her microphone appear-| ances. In addition to this she finds| time for concert work. She appeared | in several cities last Winter, and in New York sang a recital in Town Hall on December 15, 1935. Miss Cecil is a native New Yorker, received most of her musigal !utmng} there, and made her debut in Town | Hall March 16, 1933. Now, after three seasons of concert work in America, she is going abroad, where, at the suggestion of Edward Johnson, man- ager of the Metropolitan Opera Co., she will make a special study of Italian operatic roles, and prepare for early appearances in them. Mr. C. C. Cappel, manager of the| National Symphony, announced yes- terday that Miss Cecil will be the orchestra’s soloist at the Sunday after- noon concert January 31, 1937, Rothier Sings, Lectures. I EON ROTHIER, famous Metropol- ~ itan Opera basso, who is giving a course of vocal art in Washington this Summer, will give a lecture illus- trated by songs Wednesday at Wesley Hall, 1705 K street, at 8:45 o'clock, under the management of Elena de Sayn, director of Concerts Intimes. Dorothy Bedford Paul will be the ac- companist. The subject of Mr. Rothier’s second lecture was chosen by his auditors last . Tuesday with the request to illustrate it with songs. The famous basso has been heard in Washington heretofore, mostly in opera upon the yearly visits of the Metropolitan Opera and also at one of Mrs. Townsend’s musicales. Tickets for the lecture may be had at the door or from Miss De Sayn. | 8 Y4 College Commencement. THE commencement exercises of the Preparatory School of the Wash- ington College of Music will be held on Wednesday evening, at 8:30 o'clock. Graduates listed to received their cer- tificates at that time are Leota Over- lade, Michael Agriesti, Mary Blatten- berger, Katherine Elizabeth Short, Elizabeth Wilson, Pierce Beij and Frances Perry. These students will participate in a program following the presentation of certificates by Fanny Amstutz Roberts. They are pupils of Robert Ruckman, Tamara Dmitrieff, Helen Miller, Charles Gauss and Sara Cooper Wollock. Fifty students of the first five grades of the Preparatory School will receive their awards at exercises beginning at 3 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, when their teachers will present them. Other faculty members represenied in this group include Lena Kash Holther, Elizabeth Rankin King, Willlam Hol- den, Fritz Maile, Grace Powell and Frances Dowden. A program will be played, which will consist of piano, flute and violin solos and ensembles. o Program for Delegates. VARIED program of music and drama will be presented by the Department of Playgrounds in co- operation with the office of National Capital Parks, on Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, at the Sylvan Theater, near the Washington Monument, in honor of visiting delegates to the annual en- campment of the 4-H Clubs now meet- ing in the city. The musical part of the program will consist of a brief concert by the United States Department of Agricul- ture Orchestra, conducted by Walter Bauer; songs by Jeannette Bittner and Eugene Kressin and three groups by the Girl Reserve Glee Club, under the direction of Mary M. Burnett, with Kathryn Latimer at the piano. The orchestra will play. Rossini’s overture to “William Tell,” “Solvejg’s Song” from the Peer Gynt Suite and “To Spring,” by Grieg; Dvorak's “Slavonic Dance No. 8,” and “Roses From the South,” by Strauss. The program of the Girl Reserve Glee Club, dedicated to the young guests from all parts of the United States, will close with the 4-H Club fleld song, in which the audience will be asked to participate. The program of the glee club follows: L “If You Ask Why We Love Singing." Tir1 Feters: Boag 1 palachian {:““mé‘um areh song L o o ve e’ uss “Oh. Litt tal I tle Star in the Sky. m. “Thine Byes So Blue and Tender." “Lift Thine Eyes" The Girl Reserve Ci ode “The 4-H Club Field Son He must know the range and ex- | pressive character of every instrument, | More | tonight at Gordon Junior High MARY DAY, Well-known local dancer, whose dance recital will take place School. Sale Buoys ‘Music Unit In New York Toscanini’'s Retire- ment Fails to Stem Rush of Renewals. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 19.—The sturdy old Philharmonic-Symphony Society | the departure of Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini, everybody thought, had been the Philharmonic. So his depar- | utre left everybody confident that the | Philharmonic would begin its 95th season next Fall in desolate condition. Not so. Subscription renewals are ac- | tually five per cent ahead of this time last season. More exciting to the Philharmonic board than that is the fact that new orders for tickets are ;33 per cent ahead of last season at | this time. This is by count of actual | cash—not of promises. Explanations Offered. | unofficial Philharmonic spokesmen. | the time for all good men to come to |is the fact that the season is six weeks shorter, thus allowing the many | who habitually stay in the country | through October to get home in time | for the November 5 opening. A third | is the greatly increased list of top flight soloists. Hofman, Schnabel, Ho- rowitz and such men pull at the box office, however high the purists hoist their nose at the idea of “disturbing” an orchestral program with soloists. Prices Reduced. Also, it is possible that the reduc- tion in season-ticket price, due to the shorter season, has helped, and that those interested have worked harder, not having Toscanini to lean upon. Lastly—the roster of conductors in- cludes at least one man completely unknown to the philharmonic audi- long enough to show what he can do. This is John Barbirolli, English- man of Italian background. The an- nouncement of Barbirolli's engage- ment to conduct from November 5 to January 10 provoked one or two' strong protests; the public, just hav- ing lived through the successful at- tack on Wilhelm Furtwaengler, re- acted favorably to Barbiroli. Or perhaps better business condi- tions make the difference. Nobody is sure. But the money is in the till Just the same. Cubans Give Program. ENOR AL VALENCIA and his Cu- ban singers and instrumentalists will be the entertainers at the World Caravan Guild tea tomorrow after- noon, to be held at the Washington Club. The soloists will be Marta de la Torre, violinist, and Juanito, vocal- ist. Following is the program: “El. Relicario” (with vocal), ‘Pasadoble de los Mantones” (Spanish). Young Artist MATTHEW MEZZANOTTE, Brilliant young violinist, who will play Sarasate’s “Gupsy Airs” tomorrow evening at the Belasco Theater. has lifted its head from the shoulder | upon which it has been crying since There are explanations offered by | Qpe is the public feeling that now is | the aid of the Philharmonic. Another | ence who will be with the orchestra | Musical Revival Is Foreseen| 150 Million Instruments Are Now Unused, Educator Says. HERE are 50 million unused | musical instruments in the United States, Dr. Joseph E. | Maddy declares. “It may not sound that now | that the windows are open,” says | Dr. Maddy. “But I believe it's true, | Of course, not all of these are pianos I include in the figure every instru- ment which can produce music, from | pipe organs down to mouth organs | and ukuleles. Some of us have taken | on the job of putting these 50 mil- lion music makers to work—at least | part of them. 1If all the unused | trombones and fiddles and pianos and such could be put to good use we | shouldn’t need to work for a musical | revival. We'd have it.” | Dr. Maddy is president of the Mu- | sic Educators’ National Conference, is on the staff of the University of Michigan, is head, with T. P, Gid- | dings, of the original Summer camp | for young musicians at Interlochen, Mich., and holds so many other berths | of one kind or other that he frankly | admits he sometimes has to check up | to remember which is which. He hasn't been in his Ann Arbor, Mich,, | | home for six weeks, and he may not | get there for more than a day or so | before his national music camp opens June 28. Then he will be away for another eight weeks, since the camp does not close until August 23 | He is of average or better height, young looking, slender and moves | quickly. A grin usually surrounds his | close-lipped mustache. The grin is a great help managing the 300 or more youngsters who annually spend eight weeks making themselves better musicians with the help of Michigan air. | These youngsters are of both sexes; | | they live in cabins, under careful | supervision, but with as little regu- lation as is possible. Everything | having to do with an orchestra or| band is taught, from drum majoring | (actually) to solo appearances with | symphony orchestras. A good deal of broadcasting is done, and that's good | | experience, too, Dr. Madd thinks. The camp is an outgrowth of an orchestra of high school players as-| sembled at Detroit from 30 States to play for the music supervisors in con- ference assembled. The date was| 1926, and the occasion attracted Nation-wide comment. The first camp was established in 1928. No- body has questioned, so far as Dr. Maddy knows, the artistic benefit of the camps. Getting money for them has not been as smooth sailing, how- ever. Dr. Maddy thinks life has few re- wards like those which come irom making boys and girls into intelligent musicians, Piano and Vocal Recital. 'HE public is cordially invited to attend a joint recital of groups from the piano class of Celia G. Luce and the vocal class of Esther Linkins, to be given in the Sunday school build- ing of Sherwood Presbyterian Church, Twenty-second street and Rhode Isl- and avenue northeast, Tuesday at 8 pm. The following pupils of Mrs. Luce will play a varied program of solos, duets and quartets (some for two pianos), by classic and modern com- posers: Helen Banks, Elizabeth Bar- row, Betty Cook, Jane Daniel, Emma Rhea Elliott, Jack Gilmore, Royal Haskell, Marita Hocking, Shirley Jennings, Helen Myers, Arthur New- some, Sylvia Sapperstein, Kathryn Smith, Betty Warren and Josephine Weare. Solos and duets will be sung by Charles Burton, Joseph Campbell, Judy Conklin, Weston Jones, Sylvia Radisch and Marjorie Reed. A group of choral numbers will be sung by the above soloists and the following chorus: Betty Black, Alden H. Em- ery, jr.; Robert W. Emery, Mary Louise ‘Harrison, Edith Harper, Eliz- abeth Killian, Dorothy Marsh, Calbot and Kenneth Meyer, Elaine and Wini- fred Newman, Dora Oddsson, Bill Petrie and Anthony Winston. In- cluded in the choral group will be “Night Song,” by Dorothy Radde Em= ery, for baritone and two-part chorus. Mrs. Emery and Stanley Lyles will serve as acoompeanisis. compete in the semi-finals, which will include the winners from Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, and will be held in Baltimore. The artist win- ners in this class will then take part in the national contest, which will be held in Louisville, Ky, in May. The student musicians who win in the semi-finals, however, do not appear in the national contest, as they are not expected to be sufficiently advanced to be ready for concert or operatic careers, but will be given certificates of merit, signed by the national presi- dent and chairman. Eve Whitford Lovette, newly elected president of the District Federation, states that already many requests for bulletins have been made. “Young artists who realize the value of competition, who desire contacts with world-renowned musicians and authorities, who wish to compare stand- ards with other artists, to create a bigger opportunity for development, the chance to win the $1,000 federa- tion award, or the Schubert Memorial appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia, or a major role in the Metropolitan, secured by the Schubert Memorial, are al- ready studying the required numbers, | or restudying them.” One of the primary objects of these national competitions, held every two vears, is to encourage musical educa- tion in the United States. Musical education must be had in this country, it is required of entrants. The student musicians’ contests are also of the greatest importance, be- cause it is through them that public attention is directed to the value of music study and interest aroused in talented musicians. Besides, thase contests often prove wonderful train- ing for entrance into the young artists’ contests later on Age requirement for young artist contests in piano, violin, and voice is 21 to 30 years; opera voice, under 33 years. Age requirement for student musican contest is 18 to 23 years. Further information may be had from the chairman, Mrs. Lippitt, At- lantic 1108, 125 Eleventh street north- east. e Service Band Concerts. '[HE United States Navy Band, Lieut. Charles Benter conducting. will play the following concerts dur- ing the week beginning Monday: - Monday, 11 am. “Hour of Mem- ories,” sail loft, Navy Yard SOPHOCL country to appear at the Art sent a group of her pupils in & piano recital Monday in the | Petworth Methodist Church, | New Hampshire avenue and Grant | Circle at 8:15 promptly. Pupils playing solos and two-piano Court, Betty Louise Heider, Annette | Sutton, Fred Powell, Peggy Ann Soper, | Doris Frazier, Paul Cramer, Doris Court, Virginia Baker, Betty Wheater, Virginia Perin, Doris Demaree, John Leffler, June Renshaw, Frank Her- | mann, Elizabeth Cramer, Harrison | Leffler, jr., Jean Sherwood, George Filgate, Gwendolyn Sutton, Genevieve Billhimer, Bob Sutton, Ann Filgate, iolxve Rickard, Margaret Omeara and Leon Briggs. Presentation of certificates to the winners in the Federation Junicr Con- test will be made by Eva Whitford Lovette, president of the D. C. Fed- eration of Music Clubs. Presentation | of other honors will be made by Rev. R. L. Wood. | Florence Howard will direct a wom- an’s choir of 50 voices selected from | the Burrall Choral Ensemble of Cal- vary Baptist Church and the Tuesday | Evening Music Club at the National Memorial Park Sunday afternoon. The program will include religious 2nd concert music with organ accompani- ments by Marjorie Davis. Camille Allensworth presented the students of the Washington Children’s Music Studios in two recitals at the Arts Club, 2017 I street nortawest. Monday, 7:30 p.m., at the Capitol. Tuesday, 10:15 am., sail loft, Navy Yard. Tuesday, 8 p.m. Sylvan Theater, Monument grounds Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., band stand, | Morrison, Mary Frances Rollow, Cor- | Navy Yard. Thursday, 10:15 a.m., sail loft, Navy Yard. Thursday, 3 p.m., Naval Hospital. Friday, 6:30 p.m., Formal Gardens, Walter Reed Hospital. The schedule of the United States Army Band, Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, | the school: Patricia Leadbetter, Billy | Hendrickson, Mary Jane Hayes, Mary | Lee Willson, Lee Hawkins, Mary Jane Carter, Nancy Hutson, Marguerite nelia Pickens, Jane Pickens, Phyllis Rands, Carol Collins, John Collins, June Haller, Genevieve Burch, Jean | Offterdinger, Teniey Jones | Butler, Guy Leadbetter, jr., | Luckett, Fenwick Slingrue, Constance | Cook, Jovee Garvin and Susan Jones. At the second recital, given Weanes- day evening, June 10, Miss Allens numbers are Dorothy Rudy, Louise | part, but this fact did not lessen the anticipation with which British critics and music lovers looked forward tc hearing Rethberg make her debu: m ES PAPAS, Guitarist, who is one of the five artists selected from the entire ists’ Recital in Minneapolis to- morrow in connection with the thirty-fifth annual convention of the American Guild of Mandolinists, Guitarists and Banjoists. In ‘Local Music Circles HELMA CALLAHAN will pre- | James, Jean Kauffman, Parker Lecraw, Elsie Nazarian, Betty O'Flaherty, | Prentice, Ernestine Rolls, Jane Thada, Patricia Trimble, Beatrice Weinsteir., Marie and Marjorie Wellens and Joan Yilek. Miss Collamore will be assis'ed on Monday by Howard Moore, baritone, and on Tuesday by the Wallace Me- morial Junior Choir. Mary Park Clements and Olive Con- stant Pratt presented tie followi solo and ensemble numbers at the Y. W. C. A. on Saturday: Gordon | Linke, Eloy Fominaya, Daniel Knowl- | ton, Norma Jean Andrus, Allan Burke, | Prancis Staack, Charles Goulding, | Merritt Mount, Solon Kemon, Richard | Goldman, Anne and Lawson Pendle- | ton, Larry and Ralph Conway, Janet | Thielscher, June Hall, Betty Sweet, Sidney and Donald Doll, Ross Bald- win, jr.; Barbara Houghton, Frances Goodman, Susanne McBride, Leonora | Ryan, Betty and Lois Jacobsen. Mrs | Pratt was the accompanist for the vio- | lin numbers. On Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock the pupils of Lucy M. Boyer were heard in a piano recital at the studio, | 1325 G street northwest. The stu- dents appearing on the program were Betty Bricker, Beverly Brody, Mary | Cullinane, Jane Cutsail, Nora Lee and | Dorothy Clodfelter, Virginia Eilbert, | Janet Guess, Helen Iden, Mildred \'Ktis(r. Helen Large, Shirley and Bet- | ty Lilienthal, Morton Nadelman, Irene Nimetz, Gloria Paquette, Jane Rathell, | Miriam Scott, Helen Saunders, Ge: aldine Van Bibber, Mary Jane Wat- | son, Bernice Willette, Dorothy and Anna Zatz and Annabel McClary. | Eleanor Coiborn presented the fol- | lowing pupils in recital on Friday, {June 12, at the Woman's City Clul | Jane Price, Jenny Lou Burns, Wilma, Shirley and Lorraine Young, Dorothy | and Barbara Allen, Rita and Elizabeth Widmayer, Janice, Jessie and Phyllis | Howland, Ethel May Seek, Betty Jane | | Wilson, Gloria Rue, Gertrude Chap, leader, includes the following concerts | worth presented the older girls. Caro- | Hattie and Bettie Ann Crockett, Viv to be given during the coming week: | line Embry, Ruth Lomond and Vir- | :an Dinger, Allan Bralove, Mildred | Monday—The Army Band Audi- | ginia Wright were awarded certificates | Si€Wart. Erwin Budyck, Lyda Miller, torium, 5 pm.; District of Columbia | of graduation in the elementary the- | Myra McCloskey, Pearl Morris and | World War Memorial, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday—Army Medical Center, Walter Reed General Hospital, 6:30 pm. Thursday—St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 2 pm. Friday—Band Auditorium, 3:30 p.m.; United States Capitol, 7:30 p.m. Concerts by the United States Sol diers’ Home Band, John S. M. Zim- mermann, bandmaster; Anton Point- ner, associate leader; bandstand. Tuesday, 7 p.m. March. “Call of Overture, “The Entr-Acte— (a) “The Song of Loyalty" prayer within our hearts) () “Melodie in Ab” (original) Zimmermann Excerpis from Musical Comed. °! rta Kern Oriental termezeo, “Arablan Nights." ni Waltzs Suite. “Folle Ivresse” __Waldteufel Pinal. “Citles rvice’” Bourdon “The Star Spangled Banner.” Thursday, 7 p.m. March. 8. Coast Artillery” Overture. “Coriolan” Bet Grand Ballei, “B Flying Dutchman Oriental Scene, “Bashi Baz Walts Suite. “The Flower Finale. “The Wallabies" “The Star Spangled Banner.” Saturday, 7 p.m. March. “Cavalry of the Clouds"___Alford Overture Calm Sea and a Happy Voyage” Mendelssohn Solo for boe, “Berceuse from Jocelyn.” ‘Gounod composer un- f the Wild" Losey Czar and Zimmermann Lortzing (the Coates Short ethoven The Wagner ouk” " Savasta of Italy.” “Liebeslied" known, ‘Ausician. Emil A. Spitzer. from the Musical Gy Princess’ “‘Bregeiro" Forget-Me-Not' Wi Osterman’ ngled Banner. (manuseript). Excerpts “The At Sylvan Theater. E United States Navy Band, con- ducted by Lieut. Charles Benter, will play the preliminary program for the second Summer festival of the sea- son Tuesday night of this week at 8 o'clock in the National Sylvan Thea= ter, at the Washington Monument, the event being sponsored by the Community Center Department and the office of National Capital Parks. At 8:30 o'clock the Blackfriars’ Guild of Washington will present the play that made Jane Cowl famous, “Smil- in' Through.” Reserved seats are available at the Willard, the Hotel Washington, the America Automobile Association head- quarters and the Community Center Department, as well as the Sylvan Theater on Tuesday night. In case of inclement weather on Tuesday, the performances will be presented on Thursday night. The Glee Club has suspended re- hearsals until September 16, 1936, when its weekly rehearsals will be resumed in the auditorium of the Potomac Electric Power Co. Building, | Tenth and E streets northwest. ! oretical work. Before receiving their | certificates these three little girls, | aged 10 years, gave a program each. Lorrain Benton, aged 10, and Jean McCandlish, aged 13 years, won the | highest honors in the solo contest in | the Federation of Music Clubs this year. Qthers on the program in- cluded. Mary Frances George, Mary Jane Greene, Martha Jane Kenndy, Ruth Ann Butler, Glenna Irene Potts, | Marie Pittenger and Ethel Mae | George. | The Columbia Music Club met | Wednesday evening at the home of the secretary, Elaine Smith of Alcova | Heights, Va. Election of officers took place, after which the meeting ad- journed until September. ¢ | Effie A Co]lan;r—e._tearher of organ | and piano, will present the following pupils in recital at the Wallace Me- morial United Presbyterian Church, | New Hampshire avenue and Randolph | streets, on Monday and Tuesday at 8 | o'clock: Mary Ann Ball, Evelyr and | Mildred Bean, Betty Ann Billhimer, | Evelyn Birmingham, Bonnie Bulla, | Arthur Carchedi, Lois Clark, Dorothy Cuatt, Alan, Josephine and Lois Davis, | Doris and Vivian Drennon, June El- liott, Jean Evans, Grace Exline, Nancy Lee Griffith, Marjorie Goggins. Betty Ann Harris, Helen and Vera Lee Given Degree MARYBETH GARVEY, Piano pupil of Fanny Amstutz Roberts and Edwin Hughes of New York, who receives her bachelor of music degree at the Washington College of Music tonight. b | Carolyn Seviour. I | Piano and organ pupils of Robert | Ruckman were presented in recital | last week at Epworth M. E. Church | South on Tuesday and Friday eve- ’mngs, Those appearing on the pro- | grams were Shirley Blackney, Ruth Hartzell, Irene Crosby, Margery League, Florence McCann, Grace Thompson and Samuel Goodson. Gertrude and Leah Effenbach are resenting their junior piano pupils in several Sunday afternoon recitals at their Dupont Circle Studio. To- morrow the program will be given by the following: Jean Dolfus, Diane Coonin, Dorothy Barry, Shirley Ap- plebaum, William and Jeanne Wheat- ley, Grace Freudberg, Mildred Stolar, ‘Hcrmnn Wertheim, Harvey Blumen- thal, Helen Pettit, Lucille Peck, Frieda Sherman, Rosalie Fonoroff and Frieda Bass. Lois Abernethy presented the fol- lowing pupils in piano recital this afternoon in Burrall hall: Bobby Abernethy, Peggy Anderson, Betty Bogardus, Evelyn Ann Bernhardt, Frances Breg, Mary Ann Brown, Clark Collins, Ruth Crouch, Virginia Lee Cusick, Mary Norman Dagger, Erna Marjorie Embrey, Edith Eubank, Nancy Finlay, Mary Ann Gowen, Sara Lee Greenberg, Robin Lees, West Mac- !kan, Ellis Manning, jr.. Elaine May, Ernestine McCord, Arthur Milford, | John T. Moss, ir.; Helen and Lenore Rainey, Betty Raymond, Jean Saver, Joy Wilson: Piano pupils qf Celia M. Benfer will give a recital in the Sunday school building of Sherwood Presbyterian Church on Wednesday at 8 pm. The following pupils will participate: Mar- garet Abbott, Marjorie Bletch, Elea- nore Allen, William and Mary Eliza- beth Catterton, Sophie Beth Charity, Jean Clark, Juanita Dranda, Laura Mary Eagleson, Janet Ellis, Mary and Joan Houch, Eleanor and Robert Ja- cobson, Margaret and Scott Kezer, Malinda Kierry, Harry and Jane New- by, Mary Ellen Miller, Karl and Pa- tricia Rhine, Mary Catharine Smith, Jane Walling, Julia Ward, Barbara and Jean Waller. Warren F. Johnson, organist, will | play “Symphonesque” Op. 12, James H. Spencer; “Consummation,” Walter Keller, and “The Bells of Hinckley” by Louis Vierne before the evening service at the Church of the Pilgrims tomorrow. Betty Baum, pianist and teacher, has | left for Boulder, Colo., where she will | Elaine Olson, Elizabeth Pitzer, James | pupils in a program of violin and piano | Horatio, John and Mary Sexton and | | the role. | London ecritics felt that Rethberg was not altogether at home in the ro) though the London Times critic wrote |of her performance: ‘“Her voice hes | & richness which readily softens | pathos, so that her change from rap- | tures in the opening scene (of Rosen- | kavalier) to reflections which result in | sending her young cavalier away to the dungeon gives the measure of the Marschallin’s character and place in the drama. Rethberg and Flagstad are an- nounced to appear here next season in | recital at Constitution Hall, as attrac | tions of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey’s eve= ning recital series. This series wi. | offer additional recitals by Fritz Kreisler, violinist; Serge Rachmani- noff, pianist, and Ezio Pinza, basso. The last named will appear in joint recital with Rethberg. Orders for the evening as well as for the two Sunday recital series sponsored by Mrs. Dorsey at Constitution Hall, next season, may be placed at Mrs Dorsey’s Concert Bureau, in Droop's | 1300 G street northwest. | Program of Indian Songs. OBERTA CAMPBELL LAWSON, president of the General Federa- tion of Women's Clubs, was heard in group of Indian songs at the annual luncheon of the District of Columbia Federation, held at the Mayflower Tuesday. Mrs. Lawson, who is a tribal descendant of the Delaware Indians {and a composer and well-known au- thority on Indian music. gave a group of songs arranged by herself. Lor- raine Sternberg was accompanist for Mrs. Lawson | Other music for the luncheon was | furnished by the United States Navy Band, Lieut. Charles Benter, con- ductor, which played popular airs dur- ing the luncheon, and accom;anied Flora McGill Keefer during tie sing- ing of “The Star-Spangled 3anner " Mrs. Keefer and Janet Coo! histler, were heard in “Listen to the Mocking Bird,” accompanied by the band, &nd Mrs. J. Frank Rice, <oprano, gave a group of old songs. Mrs. Rice, who was dressed in the costum> of the | period, was accompanied at the i iano by Gertrude Dyre, p.anist. | | ~— xR Columbia Buys More. PURCHASE by Columbia Studios of eight new story properties during the past five days brings that com- | pany’s seasonal buys to 31 Indications are that the rich har- | vest for authors and their agents is not | yet over, for all Hollywood studios are | planning increased production for the coming season, and the total output of | feature-length pictures during the year | is expected to surpass 500 for the first ime. r Columbia’s buys, in addition to those | recently ennounced, includes Meredith Nicholson's romantic story of Andrew Jackson, “Cavalier of Tennessee"; “Come Closer Folks,” an original by" Aben Kandel: “Counterfeit Lady,” an original by Edwin Olmstead; “Lovers on Parole” by Adelaide Heilbron: the | dialogue rights to the George Kelly | play, “Craig's Wife”; the Alice Duer | Miller stol “Birth of a Hero,” and two untitled originals by studio con- tract writers. | class, which will extend over a period of six weeks. Elizabeth Carpenter will present a group of young pianists in a recital at the Y. W. C. A, assembly hall Friday evening. They will be assisted by Elsie Douglas, soprano, and Helen Dennis, violinist. Those taking part on the program are as follows Buddy Douglas, Betty Neal, Dorothy Dennis, Jean Dibble, Forrest Neal, jr Jean Dumont, Anna Panor, Dorothy | and Ruth Carpenter. The Potomac Electric Power Co. Glee Club recently sang for the | senior and junior units of the Wash- | ington Council of Jewish Women, | father and son dinner at the George- | town Presbyterian Church, the Ki- wanis Club banquet at the Beaver Dam Country Club and for the Men's Club of Pinkney Memorial Episcopal Church, Hyattsville, Md. Wilma Benton McDevitt presented her pupils in a piano recital on Thursday at the Salle de Recital. Those playing were Annetta Flemer. Alice Herndon, Myrtle' Myree, Jane | Blue, Robert Becker, Josephine and Jane Gongwer, Page and Ned Schmitt, Anne Menefee, Kenneth McDevitt, Norma and Rae Alice Eb- | ner, Margaret Doonan, Jean Whit- | man, Lydia Frances Ewing, Henry Lybrand, Neeltje Virginia Donk and Frederick Lear Fryer. Pupils of Pearl Hauer will be heard in a musical program at the Wash- ington Club on Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Those listed to appear are Evelyn Hanson, Bobby Brown, Joyce Kummell, Maxine Greenberg, Helen, Dorothy and Eleanor Davis, | Frances Webster, Marie and Adella Errera, Alice Jones, Dick Lodge, Do- lores Renaud and Billy Clark. ‘The pupils of Mrs. Josie T. Frailey will appear in a piano recital at the Garden Tea House, North Capitol and E streets, at 8 o'clock Sunday evening. Mrs. Prailey will be assisted by Mrs. S. Pope, Mrs. Anna J. Ries, Mrs. R. Winfree and Mrs. Hope Hawayy. MUSIC STUDIO= Armando Jannuzzi Grand Opera Dramatic’ Tencr Voice Specialist join the master class under Josef and Rosina Lhevinne at the University of | Colorado. Besides private instruction, | | Miss Baum will pisy in the repertory Italian Method School of bei eantn Dist. 1403 332 Mith 3¢ MW 2 7