Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1936, Page 16

"‘B—4 K THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1936. MRS. TOWNSEND’S CONGERT SERIES BEGINS MONDAY Noted Singers Offered New Blood, New Ideas ‘Restore Metropolitan Manager Hopes to Extend Opera Season, Having Support of A 11 Classes—Sympathy for American Artists Shown. By Alice Eversman. HE successful opening of the Metropolitan Opera House for another sea- son carries a note of hope for the future. crisis which threatened it seem Not only does the financial to have passed, but the entire policy of its new manager, Edward Johnson, promises that the progressive epirit which has characterized his every move will add to the prestige of the great institution. All classes of society gratitying uemonstration of the growth of appreciation of opera in this coun- | try. He has brought new blood and | new ideas into the old system, new | singers, many as yet unknown to the American public, and new directors who, if given the chance, will un- doubtedly aid in that forward prog- ress which the modern trend of thought demands in music, as in everything else. | One of the hopes of Mr. Johnson is to extend the season to 10 months. During the depression the season had been shortened and various cam- paigns were attempted to tide it over as well as could be. The taking over of part of the financial responsibility | by the Juilliard Foundation ayd the addition of a popular-priced season, when young American artists would be tried out at the close of the regular one, was the first intimation that the old order of things had passed and that in the future new policies would | direct the management. The plan of @ longer period of opera than has been the rule seems feasible under the re- organized system. | Mr, Johnson has searched in Europe | and America for new singers, and | being a singer himself, he has known | how to select his talent. He has also | had the courage to drop many of the older artists from the roster, to make room for the newcomers. According to announcements, these will be given an opportunity to prove themselves as quickly as possible, after which will come a process of weeding out of the inefficient. Mr. Johnson's sympathies are with American artists, and he has said, and whenever possible proven, that they will be given first consideration in the casting of the roles. There sre many American singers not en- gaged at the Metropolitan this sea- | son who are_ fully able to fulfill all requirements,’and if those given their chance this year are of the metal of great operatic singers, the future’ of American artists and in consequence of American art is assured. 'HE following article recently re- ceived by this department re- garding a new collection of American folk songs may prove of interest to those who specialize in this particu- lar line of vocal music. “Melodies that grew from the color- ful life of early America on the plan- tations of the South, in Yankee vil- lages and towns, and from wartime days in the colonies, have been brought back from the past in a series of 50 old American songs as- sembled and reproduced from the originals in the Harris collection of American poetry and plays at Brown University. “The collection of songs contains some of the best native American | folk ballads, many of them long since | forgotten. Prepared to ‘rescue a part | of our rich musical heritage from the | oblivion to which it has sunk,’ the | series has been republished in fac- simile with explanatory notes by Prof. B| Foster Damon, curator of the Harris :glie:tton. assisted by Susanna Mat- | “The reproduced collection, covering the period from 1759 to 1858, omits the work of Stephen Foster and com- positions written at the time of the Civil War and afterward, all of which is already easily obtained, but covers are rallying to his support, which is a — a wide range of sentimental and hu- morous songs, folk music and leg- endary ballads. “The earliest songs published in facsimile are ‘Brave Wolfe’ and ‘The Death of Gen. Wolfe,’ written in 1759, concerning the British general who captured Quebe from the French. ‘Brave Wolfe' was long popular and was a boyhood favorite of James Rus- sell Lowell. Both songs are among the first of their kind. - AMERICA‘S oldest patriotic air | has been republished—‘The Lib- erty Song,'—by John Dickinson, first heard in 1768. John Adams enjoyed it and sang it at a dinner of the Sons of Liberty. The air was popular throughout the Revolution, together with ‘The American Hero' a stark and inspirational war hymn. Described in the series as ‘one of the oldest bugnt cork melodies,’ Prof. Damon has included ‘The Bonja Song,’ written about 1820. The light-hearted ditty was adaptable to the ancestor of the modern banjo— a gourd hollowed out and strung. “Fhe song introduced a vogue for Negro music, accelerated by ‘Coal Black Rose’ in 1827, the first great Negro comic love song, describing the adventures of Sambo and his treach- erous, amour. It was followed by ‘Jim Crow,’ the first song to introduce Negro dancing to the stage and the first American song to make a hit abroad. ‘Jim Crow’ presented the Negro sympathetically. “Chronologically through the 1840s other f@presentative Negro songs ap- pear in the Harris collection’s repro- ductions, such as ‘Clare d€ Kitchen,’ ‘Zip Coon,’ parent of ‘Turkey in the Straw’; ‘Ole Tare River, ‘Tell Me Josey, Whar You Bin,’ ‘De Boatman's Dance,’ ‘Lubly Fan,’ source of ‘Buf- falo gals,’ and ‘De Floating Scow.’ Most of the music is decorated with colorful caricature illustrations.” From the group of songs that were popular at social gatherings and on the ge, the music and words of “The ky Sarpent” are especially picturesque, according to Prof. Da- mon. It is a melodramatic song of the death of two lovers by snake bite in the hills of Springfield, Mass., written in 1840 from actual happen- ings. NE of the earliest death theme songs is “Qld Grimes,” written about 1817 by Albert Gorton Greene,! founder of the Harris collectiony probably when he was a sophomore | at Brown. Mourning for loved ones found more sentimental expression in “On the Lake Where Drooped the Willow,” describing how “with Au- tumn’s leaf she perished,” and in “Lily Dale,” a song about a maiden whose life ended with “wild rose blos- soms o'er her little green grave.” The rollicking ballads among the | Harris collection reproductions in- cludes “Corn Cobs,” or “Yankee No- tions,” published about 1834. It is a folk development of the earliest ver- sion of “Yankee Doodle.” Another is “A Yankee Ship and a Yankee Crew,” which appeared in 1837 after spring- ing from a sea chanty phrase. Whimsy in a boarding house is found in “Hen- rietta,” or “The Stolen Kiss,” a song of 1848. In Local Music Circles 'ELICIARYBIER, well-known Wash- ington pianist, has left for Flor-| F ] {da in order to fulfill several concerts | there, One of her appearances will| be under the auspices of the Mana- Zucea Music Club in Miami Janu- ary 5. She will return shortly after to Washington. Due to her :bsem‘e,’ the Felicia Rybier Music Club will| meet Wednesday, January 13. No-| tices will be sent out. | The annual Yule presentation of | Handel's “The Messiah” will be given by the Tempo Chorale Society of lhe} Dunbar Community Center at the) Dunbar High School Auditorium, | First and N streets, tomorrow at § p.m. The following soloists will take part: Ethel Gibbs Gray, soprano, | and J. Obelton Holmes, jr, tenor.| ‘The guest soloists will be Evelyn Carter Russ, contralto, and Ernest Allen of New York City, basso. The oratorio is being sponsored by Mrs. Carrie Knox, community secre- | tary, and Dr. W. Scott Mayo, cirec-| tor. Betty Baum, pianist, presented hrr‘ 10-year-old pupil, Phyllis Schwartz, 8t a recital tea in her studio on De- | cember 20. Miss Schwartz played two Bach “Inventions,” Gounod “Serenade,” “Gavotte,” by Martini; “Sonata G Major.” Beethoven and “Mazurka,” “Prelude” and “Waltz," | by Chopin. ‘Thelma Rice will be the guest solo- | 4t at Marvin M. E. Church South tomorrow when she will sing “The In- fant Jesus,” by Yon, and Macon McArtor, organist and choir director, will play the following numbers: “Christmas Pastorale,” by “Prelude on Adeste Fideles,” by Kreckel; “Shepherd’s Song,” by Guil- mant, | | Mary Harter, lyric soprano, will be presented by Gretchen Hood at the meeting of the International Art Forum on January ® when the co- artist will be Margaret Tolson, pianist. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Torney Simon | and the members of the Orpheus | Quartet, Hazel Gem Hughes, Elaine | Sebring Ford, Jesse Nussear, George | Randolph Balthis, will be entertained | &t the University Club for Women to- | morrow afternoon. The tree will be | lighted and a Christmas program of Handel, Mendelssohn, Colyn, Prae- | torius will be given. ‘The cantata, “The Christ Child,” by €. B. Hawley. will be sung by the choir | of the Church of the Epiphany tomor- | row at 8 pm., with the following solo- | fsts: MeTjorie King, Nancy William- | gon, Raymond Baine, Ambrose Durkin | son, soprano, and Edith Athey, pianist, | music | will be the assisting artists. and Adolf Torovsky at the organ. A Evangeline Tully, a prominent mem- ber of the Washington Opera Guild, will be speclal soloist Sunday at the | Spiritualist Church, where the music is under the direction of Marion Leonard. Margaret Shaw was soloist on Christ- mas eve, and also led the large audi- ence in the annual carol singing of the | Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. | Miss Shaw is a member of the Wash- ington Opera Guild, under the direc- tion of Mme. Gurle Luise Correa. The Potomac Electric Power Co. | Glee Club entertained the Men’s Club of Pinkney Memorial P. E. Church at | the parish hall, Hyattsville, Md., on Monday evening, December 21. Harry E. Yeide, director; Cornelia Long Kin- | sela, accompanist. GUITARIST TO GIVE FEBRUARY RECITAL! ANDRES SEGOVIA, famous guitar- | <™ ist, will give a recital at the Wil- lard Hotel, Wednesday evening. Pebru- ary 3, presented by Concerts Intimes, | Elena de Sayn, director An advance sale of a special section of seats at a low admussion price will begin tomorrow at the Talbert Ticket | Agency in the Willard Hotel. ——— To Preside at Forum [EDWIN HUGHES, guest teacher of | piano at the Washington Col- lege of Music, has again been chosen | to preside at the piano forum to be | held during the annual convention of the Music Teachers' National Asso- ciation. The convention will be held in Chicago this year, and the plano forum will take place on the after- noon of December 29. The speakers and their subjects will be as follows: Mme. Olga Samaroff- | Btokowski, “Combining General Musi cal Culture With Piano Teaching”; Lilias Mackinnon, “The Secret of | Memory”: Otto Ortmann, “Investiga- tions on Piano Touch and Tone,” and | John Thompson, “Music Study as an Avocation.” | Mr. Hughes will give the third of | his series of lectures on “The Tech- nique of Interpretation at the Piano” at the Washington College of Music on Monday evening. Lecture on Weber. NITA SCHADE will give a lecture on the life and compositions of Carl Maria von Weber at a meeting of the Business Women's Council at the Covenant First Church on Tues- NHEr second photoplay. 'Singers Who Are Exponents of Varied Vocal Art T T T > Two Artists OfHighRank To Be Heard Lily Pons, Rosenthal to Appear Here on January Dates. 'O notable recitals, both to be given at Constitution Hall, are announced for. January by Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey The first will be that of Lily Pons, coloratura soprano of the | Metropolitan Opera Association, who will be heard on Sunday afternoon, January 17 at 4 o'clock The other will be the recital of Moriz Rosenthal, sensation 73-year-old piano virtuoso and last outstanding pupil of Lisat, who will be heard on Sunday after- noon, January 24 at 4 o'clock Rosenthal is appearing in place of Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist, whose American tour has been sharply curtailed because of illness, and who will not be heard in Washington at all this season. Lily Pons, undoubtedly the most phenomenal coloratura this country | has heard since the heydey of Galli-| Curci, has just returned to the East after months in Hollywood making 8he finished in time to report for opening of the Metropolitan Opera n in New York, and between operatic and radio appearances, she will appear in con- cert during an extensive tour that briggs her to Washington the third Sunday in January, No intimation has yet been given by Miss Pons’ management as to what program she will sing here on Janu- ary 24. > Moriz Rosenthal, who will play at Constitution Hall on Sunday after-| noon, January 24, has Treturned to | America after an absence of seven years to achieve a sensational suc- cess at his first New York recital of the season, and to fascinate millions of radio listeners with the Rosenthal style im a coast-to-coast radio prn-i gram that marked this famous pianist's | first introduction to broadcasting Rosenthal is one of the last con- necting links- between the great days of nineteenth-century Vienna, when | men like Von Bulow, Tausig and Liszt | were in their prime, and the present- day America. He is not only a pupil | of the great Franz Liszt himself, but | also of Rafael Joseffy, Carl Mikuli and | the great Galoth. For six years court pianist to the King of Rumania, | Rosenthal was known and admired by | Brahms, Wagner, Paderewski and | other great musical figures of his day. Rosenthal's management is stating that he will not return next season. Accordingly, it is possible that Wash- ington is hearing Rosenthal under ex- ceptionally timely circumstances. Seats for the Pons and Rosenthal recitals are on sale at Mrs. Dorsey's Concert Bureau, in Droop’s, 1300 G street northwest. CAPITAL TO HEAR PIANO TOURNEY National Guild of Piano Teachers, Irl Allison, president, has announced its plans for the fourth annual national piano play- ing tournament to be held in 1837 ‘The tournament will open in Los/| Angeles in February, and will be held in at least 50 cities, including Wash- ington, D. C. All piano students are eligible for | the tournament, which offers them an opportunity to play programs before & prominent judge and receive a rating of their musical ability. Each tourna- ment player receives a certificate of rating and is eligible to a place on the national, State or district honor rolls. The tournament also furnishes the plano teacher with a yardstick by | which to measure his success with his | pupils. Four thousand students participated in the tournament last | year in 40 cities. ‘The guild will also issue at the be- | ginning of the new year the first| National Directory of Piano Teachers | of the United States, which will lm.i the names and addresses of piano teachers compiled in State sections. ‘The directory will also ggtalogue the leading makers of pianos, piano deal- ers, publishers of piano teaching material, composers of piano music, the houses that handle books and sheet music for the piano and the national honor roll of piano students in the 1936 tournament, It will be dis- tributed to piano teachers, music | | day evening, Dorothy Sherman Pier- stores, book stores, publishers, libraries, | schools, colleges and uni- versities, conservatories, chambers of 5 Left: Mary Apple, contralto, one of the principal singers in this year’s presentation of “The Other Wise Man” at Luther Place Memorial Church, tomorrow afternoon and evening, and Monday and Tuesday nights. At right is Brachah Zfirah, noted interpreter of Palestine and Oriental folkl in recital with Nachum Nardi, ning, January 3, at the National low, John Charles Thomas, po; Opera, giving the program with tralto, at the opening concert gre, who will be heard composerspianist, Sunday eve- Press Club Auditorium, and be- lar baritone of the Metropolitan Enid ‘Szantho, Hungarian con- of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's series Monday morning at the Mayflower Hotel. All-Mozart Program Prepared by Symphony Miss Hess, World’s Pianist, to Appear as Outstanding Woman Soloist With Kindler Organization, Opening New Year. A N ALL-MOZART program with Myra Hess, the wn}ld's outstanding woman pianist, as soloist, 1s the event with which the National Sym- phony Orchestra opens it's concerts of the new year Bunday, January 3, at 4 p.m, in Constitution Hall. In this concert both Hans Kindler, as conductor of the orchestra, and Miss Hess will appear in works have been recognized. Both haveg— been acclaimed for their Mozart in- | terpretations. | Miss Hess’ clarity and lyricism made her interpretation of the Brahms' piano “Concerto in B Flat,” which she played with the orchestra last year, & high point of Washington's music season. Returning to play the Mozart | “D Minor Concerto,” & work of cry= | this great English | stalline beauty, pianist shows that a composition of a very different kind can also be a per- fect vehicle for her art. Dr. Kindler has announced this program: “Jupiter 3 Concerto. iss Overture. “Der Schauspieldirektor,” “Maurerische Trauermusik.” ymphony.” D Minor Piano - Hess 'I’HE *“Jupiter” Symphony is = favorite with Dr. Kindler, and he has received special praise for his in- terpretation of it, as well as other works of Mozart, o The “Jupiter” is coocidered the greatest of Mozart's 39 symphonies, | commerce, music journals and other | agencies of information. | The headquarters of the National Guild of Piano Teachers is at 151 West Fortieth street, New York City. Sponsors of the tournament and directory in Washington, D. C., in- clude La Salle Spier, 2235 Bancroft | place, general chairman; Fanny Al Roberts and Pearl Waugh. FOR BACH CHOIR | E Bach Choir resumed rehearsals | October 1 for its thirtieth festival, to be held Friday and Saturday, May 28 and 29, 1937, with over 95 per cent of last year’s choir enrolling for this year, to which have been added select- ed voices, bringing the total enroll- ment to about 280. Of the six cantatas selected for the Friday program, four are new to Beth- lehem. Two of them, “Out of Dark- ness” and “God Is My King,” belong, with that other remarkable work given in 1918, “God’s Time Is Best,” to Bach's earliest years--he was but 22. A third new work will be one of two with which he introduced himself as cantor to the Thomaskirche in Leip- zig—"“The Heavens Declare.” Of works already presented, “Now Hath Balva- tion,” in 1918, and “Sleepers, Wake,” through which their special talents and was his last. It was composed under the most pressing circumstances. His wife ill, and with debts hanging heavy on his shoulder, the indomitable Mozart, summoning all his physical and creative strength, composed this symphony in a six weeks' period, the Summer of 1788. The “Jupiter” is, of course, a stand- ard symphonic classic, and appears in the repertoire of every major sym- phony orchestra. This, however, is not true of two works Dr. Kindler has announced for the program. The overture “Der Schauspieldirektor,” and ths “Maurerische Trauermusik” are soldom heard, and Dr. Kindler pre- sents them because he believes a sym- phony orchestra should bring to its audiences performances of great works, infrequently played in today's concert halls. The orchestra, now in recess for the holidays, will reconvene Friday for rehearsals, preparing for next Sun- day’s concert, the first of 1937, last given in 1920, belong to Bach's ripest years. On Saturday the “Mass in B Minor” will be given in its com- plete form for the thirtieth time. Federation Contest HE Twelfth Blennial Contests for Young Artists, sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs, will take place in the early Spring. The State contests will be held about March 1. The winners will then com- pete in the District contests, the date and place to be announced. The win- ners in the District contests then en- ter the national contests. Three cash prizes of $1,000 each will be presented by the federation to the winners of first place in piano, violin and voice.: Two cash prizes of $500 each will be awarded to the two opera voice contestants who are con- sidered by the judges to be worthy of competing for the Schubert memorial award of a major role in the Metro- politan Opera. If not ready to enter the Young Artists’ Contests, pupils may enter the Students’ Contests. The bulletins giv- ing full information for each con- test may be had from the State con- test chairman, Charlotte G. Lippitt, 125 Eleventh street northeast. | Christmas Drama Has New Appeal “Other Wise Man” Is to Be Repeated With .Added Features. S!:ASON by season, in the renowned Christmas drama, “The Other Wise Man,” certain changes and innovations take place within the scenes them- selves that make its appeal and its beauty greater than ever before. Ut~ terly simple in its presentation, acted as it is, all over the church auditorium, with groups making their entrances and their exits in the aisles, in the chancel, in the choir, with music played by Katherine Riggs on the harp, both interspersing and accom- panying the voices, the scenes move swiftly and without intermission. The interlude. of “The Temple of the Seven Spheres” is one of the more recent additions to the rendition of this drama which has been widely ac- claimed, and this year the Three Wise Men, enacted by J. Edmond Veitch, Elliott Button and Eugene Kressin, will be accompanied by six attendants—all singers—utilizing the “We Three Kings of Orient Are” to splendid effect. The attendants in this episode will be John Johnson, as the messenger; Frank Stewart, J. E. Strawser, Robert §. Allen, J. Zaff Rogers and Ernest Johnson. Christine Irish, appearing in the final episode as one of the two beggars at the temple gates, and Nina Norman, also appearing in this scene, form the central figures in the changing scene, as the people of Jerusalem come and go through the Damascus gate toward Golgotha. They sing an old Polish choral, and Miss Irish sings the “Kol Nidre” and snother traditional Hebrew melody, “The Old, Old Question.” The two cantors in the temple, unseen, sing “The Call to Worship” and “Addir Hu,” and, later in the climax of the drama, “On the Way,” the singers be- ing J. Edmond Veitch and Eugene Kressin. Oriental and Persian music is played by Miss Riggs in the early episodes, later going into the more subdued He- brew music, and in the final scenes the harp takes up trpditional Hebrew Passover music, Chopin’s “Prelude in C Minor,” “The Benedictus,” from Gounod’s “St. Cecilia’s Mass,” and & final glorious “Ams is the opening, manuel,” by Mary Apple. Choirs and choral groups well known in the city will sing the preliminary program of Christmas music, begin- ning at 7:30, and 15 minutes of organ music, beginning at 8 p.m., will pre- cede the ceremony of the offertory at 8:15. The drama opens at 8:30. The doors of Luther Place Me- morial Church will be open to the pub- lic at 7:15, and will remain open until the church is filled. Thereafter no more persons may enter the church, and the doors will be closed. Entrance to the church is at Fourteenth and N streets northwest and at Vermont ave- nue and N atreet. The drama will be given tomorrow afternoon and eve- ning at 5 o’clock and 8:30 o'clock and on Monday and Tuesday at 8:30. The public is invited. CAPITAL SINGER IN OHIO ORATORIO T LIMA, OHIO, this afternoon and evening, in Memorial Hall, the Bach Choir of Lima, under the direc- tion of Rhea Watson Cable, is giving “The Christmas Oratorio” by John Se- bastian Bach. This will be its third presentation in Lima. Flora McGill Keefer of Washington, D. C; is the contralto soloist. This festival of Bach's music at Christmas time is creating unusual | interest in the Middle West, and is being sponsored by the citizens of Lima. : Mrs. Cable is well known in Wash- ington as a pianist and composer and her new fleld of conducting is being watched with interest. CHRISTMAS MUSIC AT THE ROOSEVELT A SPECIAL Christmas program of choral music will be presented at the Roosevelt Hotel tomorrow eve- ning at 9:30 o'clock by groups from the National Baptist Memorial and the Keller Memorial Lutheran Church choirs. The soloists on the program are Dorothy Scates, soprano, and Adolph Turner, baritone, of the Na- tional Baptist Church, and Robert Ferguson, tenor, of the Keller Memo- rial Church. | ciety upon the payment of a fee of In Mayflower Musicale Charles Thomas of Mme. Szantho appeared privately day's concert will be her official debut her success was so great that her stay | Winter assured. Mme. Szantho is from the Vienna Opera, but has sung at three of the Bayreuth Festivals and was engaged for the entire Wag- ner “Ring” cycle at Covent Garden last May. John Charles Thomas, who began his operatic career at the Royal Opera House in Brussels, has for the last several seasons been heard in this country in opera, concerts and over the radio. The following program will be given by the two artists: ““Tu lo, Sal"_ _ Ar i T Arioso. “Dank 8¢ Dir Herri “Immer Leiser Wird Mein “Traume"’ e 2 Dchl\lmm,::“d' (Mme.” :'firml-flplnmn'!" colette™ - - Aria. ““Vision Pusifive. ‘Tho: (Mr. Thomas.) “Urlieht.” from the “Second Symphony. al was prolonged, and her return this | . Enid Szantho of Vienna Opera and John Metropolitan to Be Presented by Mrs. Townsend. RS. LAWRENCE TOWNSEND'S series of Monday morning musicales at the Mayflower Hotel begins Monday, when the program will be presented by Enid Szantho, Hungarian contralto, and John Charles Thomas, baritone, of the Metropolitan Opera. in Washington last Winter, but Mone in this city. Co'ng to this country last year for a limited engagement f$—— “Bmlek” udgene Zador o 8 from ' “Hamiet mbro (Mr. Thomas.) - — “Allersesien.” * Zustenung. ichard 8trau (Mme. S2antho) - “Green Pastures’ 'Wiltrid Sanderson “Dialol Between Tom PFiluter and His _Je George Siemon Paul Ulanowsky it the piano for Mme. Szantho, and Carroll Hollister at the piano for Mr. Thomas. On Monday, January 4. the artists to be heard are Georges Enesco, vio- linist, composer and conductor, and rds | Pelix Salmond, noted British cellist, The program will consist of solos by each artist and the first performance in America of Mr. Enesco's “Sonata for Cello and Piano," written for Mr. Salmond with Mr. Enesco at the piano. The concerts are held on successive vel ¢ | Mondays at 11:15 o'clock, the change from Wednesday mornings being made this year. Three Dance Groups for| Series Here Trudi Schoop Comes With New, Striking Comic Features. URING the next three months, William A. Albaugh, Baltimore manager, brings to Washington three dance groups in a series of programs. Of outstanding interesting is the fact that two of the three especially fea- ture the comic and gayer side of life's problems. Trudj School, young flaxen Swiss dancer, who made her debut in Wash- ington last season with her group of miming dancers, returns for a pro- gram this season Sunday evening, January 10, at the National Theater at 8:30 pm. Announcement has been made that her second program will have new and different features from the first, although there will be repeated some of the dances given last year. Trudi herself has been persistently called “the Charlie Chap- lin of the Dance.” Shé has a rare instinctive gift for mimicry and com- bining pathos and comedy in a man- ner not unlike the famous screen comedian's interpretations, but her gestures and approach to each theme are distinctly her own. ‘The other amusing ballet program will be Jatques Oartier's ballet-nar- rative of “The Life of Louis XIV,” March 5. Uday Shan-Kar, Hindu dancer, brings his East Indian ballet in colorful dances February 9. Reservations can be made now at Kitt's music store, 1330 G n.w, Vocal Scholarship. TH! directors of the Academy of Vocal Arts will award a free scholarship to celebrate their entrance into their new building in Philadel- phia. This scholarship will be open to any young woman or man possess- ing a voice and other characteristics necessary for an artistic career and who is unable to pay for his or her education. Desiring at the same time to honor American operatic music, the Board of Directors, headed by their president, Mrs. Clarence A. Warden, will name this scholarship “the Peter Ibbetson scholarship.” Deems Taylor, the composer of the opera after which the scholarship is named, will head the committee to select the winner in the final exami- Immnl. These will take place some | time in November. In the meantime preliminary hearings will be given to all applicants by the dean of the academy, Edgar Milton Cooke, who is also head of the vocal department. The winner of the scholarship will receive the complete course in vocal development, general musical train- ing and stage technique under Edgar Milton Cooke, teacher of singing; H. Maurice Jacquet, composer, conduc- tor and operatic coach, and Victor Andoga, stage director. All information concerning the nec- essary requirements and appoint- ments for auditions may be obtained | from the secretary, Academy of Vocal Arts, 1930, 1932 Locust street, Phila- delphia, Pa. i SALZBURG OFFER FAVORS STUDENTS HE Salzburg Society of America | which exists for the purpose of promoting interests in the cultural institutions of Salzburg will offer to its student members 10 per cent re- duction on the sale of festival tickets for the performances of the coming season. The society will endeavor to care for the needs of its student mem- bers while they are in Salzburg. The society student membership cards are obtainable through the so- | $2. The funds thus derived will be used to furnish a scholarship for the study of music at Salzburg by an American student suitably selected by a duly authorized committee. The society solicites suggestions as to the method of selecting the stu- dent in question, and would welcome opinions on the specific branch of musical study which would prove most valuable to an American music stu- dent. Special Carol Service. Asncuu. musical service of Christmas carols will be given at Foundry Methodist Church tomor- row evening at 8 o'clock. The choir Philadelphia Concert Has Fine Setting Orchestra to Bring Rachmaninoff and Large Chorus. < UGENE ORMANDY will bring not only the great Russian pianist and composer—Serge Rachmaninoff —as guest artist when the Phila- delphia Symphony Orchestra gives the third in the series of five pro- grams in Washington this season, Tuesday evening, January 12, at 8:45 o'clock, but also brings singing soloists and a chorus of 150 mixed voices. These singers come expresaly to put on in Washington for the first time here Rachmaninoff’s famous sym- phony, which is known as “The Bells" symphony, inspired by the famous poem of America’s Edgar Allen Poe. It was written in Rome in 1013, and finished in Russia that year. The symphony is the third by Rachman- inoff and Opus 35. It was given tlt:"nnt American performances in The soloists who will sing the prin- cipal parts in this work are: Agnes Davis, soprano; Fritz Krueger, tenor, and Ellwood Hawkins, baritone, The chorus of 150 voices is from the University of Pennsylvania, of which Dr. Harl McDonald is director. Dr. McDonald is head of the depart- ment of music at the university. He also a member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia orches- tra, and his own compositions fre- quently have been programmed. The other of Rachmaninoff's two compositions which make up this un- usual program is that composer’s “Concerto No. 2 in C Minor” for piano and orchestra in which Mr. Rach- ;I:rltlllmfl himself will play the piano Reservations can be made at this time at the T. Arthur Smith Con- cert Bureau, 910 G st. n.w. LATIN-AMEEC_AN EVENTS IN MUSIC IN KEEPING with the great interest in Latin-American affairs which has followed President Roosevelt's visit to the Inter-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, the Beren-Brook Artists Bureau has scheduled the appearance in Wash- ington of two outstanding artistic af tractions from Mexico and Cuba. On January 28, the colorful Mexi- can Tipica Orchestra, directed by An- gell Mercado, will include Washing- ton in its first American tour which is proving a triumph in every sense of the word. Its concert in Chicago at Orchestra Hall, recently, was such & success that a return engagement was immediately arranged for Jan- uary. On February 15, Beren-Brook will present Jose Echaniz, the brilliant Cuban pianist, who distinguished himself last season during several soloist appearances with the Phila- delphia Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York City. Both concerts will take place in the Willard Hotel ball room. Tickets and programs may be obtained at Kitt's, 1330 G atreet n.w. HOWARD CONCERT BY ALTON JONES T!-m third concert in the Howard University series will be given by Alton Jones, pianist, on Tuesday eve ning, January 5, 1937, in Rankin Mee morial Chapel, university campus. Alton Jones, distinguished Amer~ ican pianist, was graduated with hon- ors from the artists’ course at the In= stitute of Musical Art, being passed by a jury composed of Ernest Hutche= son, Harold Bauer and Wilhelm Bachaus. The following year he ape peared as soloist with the American Orchestral Society, playing the Liszt “E flat Concerto,” Chalmer Clifton conducting. In 1925 he made his de- but at Aeolian Hall, winning imme- diate recognition from the press. Warren F. Johnson, Organist Church of the Pilgrims Sunday Evening Christmas Pastorale - Fantasia Armando Jann Lemare will be assisted by Evelyn Baird Long, soprano from New York: Charlotte LaFond, contralto. and Robert M.| Sheehan, baritone; Henry Smith Gregor, organist; Justin Lawrie, tenor scloist and choirmaster. i Grand Opera Dramatic Tenor Voice Specialist Italian Method School of bel canto. Dist. 1403 732 11th St. NW. *