Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1937, Page 15

Divine Spirit of Music Clings to Eastertide Elements of Religion and Worship Are Found in Its Treasure House of Gems From Maste By Alice 3 faith and enthusiasm, while all about rebirth, in the tender blades of grass garb. It means, of vivid colors. In the churches overds the world, singers lift up their voices. Organs peal forth their joy and con- fidence in the ultimate realization of all man's desiring in a sublime trust that has no equal except in child- hood’s years. On every side the spirit of youth prevails, with its dreams, its beauty and its strength. Nothing on earth can match the atmosphere of this holy season, except music, and in its inexhaustible treas- ure house rests all of the elements which Christianity would have domi- nant in the daily life of humanity. ‘The magic key to open this treasure house is fashioned of the very attitude of mind to which all peoples are re- sponsive at Eastertide, and to which nature has contributed its powerful influence. Try as one will, it is im- possible to make of music a human invention, and all who would so try must reap & barren reward far from the noble end which the Redeemer intended music to serve. For after all analysis, it will be found that this glorious art, coming from no one knows where and going hence into the infinite, is the one means by which man’s affinity with the Divine, with the compassion and love which found climax on the Cross, and in the Resurrection, can burst through earthly bonds and stretch forth its angels’ wings. T WOULD seem, sometimes, that in making a cult of music, we have strayed far from the simple virtues which form its foundation. We would make of it an intellectual pastime and pride ourselves on our cleverness and superiority. We would make it a basis for scientific investigation and cultivate its exterior form to the| highest perfection, thrusting aside, as | too elemental, the rich loam of feeling and experience in which it should find root. We would bring it to the sophisticated level of thought of the present day and look upon what we have done and find it good. We would have lost forever that mar- velous contact with the noblest quali- ties of humanity which is the guaran- tee of our divine crigin. In order to maze music flower in resplendent blooms we must cultivate youth. We must cherish the hope, the trust, the enthusiasm and the love of beauty which we have known in younger years. In the Springtime of life comes the only full knowledge of beauty, & beau:y unspoiled and thrill- ing, capable of bringing exquisite pain in its contemplation. During that short space of life, compatable to the few weeks of glamorous Spring, an aura of vividness and of clarity sur- rounds everything which older eyes have lost the power to see. ‘Who does 10t remember the ecstasy that seemed to invade the very soul at the first hearing of some great musical masterpiece? Then, not only was the hesrt stirred, but uplifted to s plane far above this earth, where nobility and heroism held sway. Un- der the infuence of such a moment, all the yesrning for truth and great- ness seemed within realization. Or in the contersplation of a glorious sunset, how the mind and heart leaped beyond the ordinsry to a realm where beauty reigned, vhere love in its most per- fect form could be found, where sym- pathy and generosity were close at hand. Who does not remember the r Composers. Eversman. HE glorious season of Eastertide signifies both the birth of a new spiritual life and the renaissance of the earth in its fresh Springtime more than anything else, youth. In the religious world, Christianity is imbued anew with the attributes of youth, hope, us spreads the evidence of the earth’s , the timid young flowers and the riot | supreme faith in the goodness of | mankind and the rightness of destiny that was so strong in adolescent years? | And who cannot recall that, through (the strains of music, this faith was intensified and made true. | AS THE years pass, we look back on | that Springtime of youth, indule gently and a little shamefacedly, so sure are we that our riper unger- standing of life and the concentrated vision of maturity are better. But | are we correct in adjuring those reve- lations of earlier years and those dom= inating emotions in favor of the clear- sighted outlook of sophistication? Per- haps life demands that intellect and sobermindedness should direct what we do, but in the domain of music it can but close the door on the loveli- ness which exists there. We have erected a barrier that divides us from a complete understanding of the gifted natures who have created music for our enjoyment and benefit. For the secret of the great masters’ power is youth. Hidden in the heart of each of them was the same faith, the same exultation and the same | reaction to beauty which all of us know as part of youth. The differ- ence between us lovers or interpreters of music and the geniuses who con- ceived it lies in the fact that we have sealed those youthful visions in an inaccessible chamber of our being, 50 that the business of life could proceed undisturbed. They, on the contrary, retreated to that inner haven from the cares of the world and there took up again their youthful dreams and wove them into the imperishable fabric of their music. "THINK of the music of Brahms, of | Beethoven, of Mozart, of Schu- bert, and even of Bach, and compare it with the exterior character of the men as the world knew them. How | reconcile the gruff Brahms or the | surly Beethoven with the exquisite | imaginativeness of their musical | speech, unless one recognize a sanc- tuary in their inmost being where reposed all the unattainable beauty of which youth dreams and from which they drew out the pearls of their inspiration. And this very youthfulness of feeling of the great masters is often the reason why mu- siclans cannot penetrate to the depths of the meaning of their music and take refuge in proclaiming it difficult to understand. All we need, in order to establish relationship with these gifted ones, is to open the closed por- tals of youthful faith, love, hope and charity, and allow their shining light to guide us straight to the unsullied beauty which the church and nature commemorates today. “Let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, ‘With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, ‘To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.” “Il Penseroso,” Milton. CHAMBER MUSIC | FESTIVAL DAYS UN’DER the provisions of the Eliza- bett. Sprague Coolidge Founda- tion, the eighth festival of chamber music will take place at the Library | of Congress Priday, April 9, at 8:45 | pm.; Saturday, April 10, at 11:15 am. and at 8:45 pm. and Sunday, April 11, at 3:15 and 8:45 p.m. At the opening concert on Friday the program will consist of early chamber music by Purcell, Bach, Val- entini, Couperin, Scarlatti and Dies- sener, plyed by Alice Ehlers, harpsi- chordist, and the Coolidge Quartet. On Satarday morning the program will be devoted to works of Paul Hindemith, with the composer as violinist; Georges Barrere, fiutist; J.| M. Banroma, planist, and the Dessof! | Choir, Paul Boepple, conductor. Sat- urday evening the South Mountain Quartet, composed of Kathleen Parlow and Edwin Ideler, violinists; Conrad Held, violinist, and Willem Willeke, cellist, together with Gunnar Johan- sen, pisnist, will play Beethoven's “Quartet in E Flat, op. 127, Brahms’ “Trio in B, opus 8,” and the Kodaly “Quartet in C Minor, opus 2. Sunday at 3:15 p.m. the Coolidge Quartet will give a program consist- ing of the first performance of Ses- sions’ “Quartet, No. 1, in E Minor,” Brahms’ “Quartet in B Flat, opus 67," and Fitelberg’s “Quartet, No. 4" which won the 1936 Coolidge prize and will be played for the first time at the Library. On Sunday evening & chamber orchestra, under the di- rection of Carlos Chavez, with Paul Hindemith, violinist, will give the first American performance of Hindemith's new concerto for viola and chamber orchestra, “Der Schwanendreher” and compositions by Scarlatti, Haydn, Berezowsky and Chavez. NATIONAL PIAN 0 PLAYING TOURNEY TH.E National Piano Playing Tour- nament, Washington, D. C., Unit, sponsored by the National Guild of Piano Teachers, of which Irl Allison is founder and president, will be held during Music week at the Washington College of Music, it was announced to- day by the local chairman, La Salle Spier, 2235 Bancroft place northwest. Final Hotel Concert. 7 HE Roosevelt Hotel wil bring to close tomorrow evening, its series of Sunday ewening concerts. Tomorrow evening at 9:30 o'clock, the hotel will present the combined chojvs of the National Baptist Memorial Church &ind the Keller Nemorial Lutheran Church in a program of Easter music under the direction of George F. Ross, with Margaret Allen Ross, accompanist. The solosts will be Dorothy Scates, Juanita Clsxon, sopranos; Mabel Bar- rows and Helen Benham, contraltos; Adolph Turner and James Magill, bassos, and Rogert Ferguson, tenor, The chorus is made up of approxi- mately 50 voices. A DARTMOUTH MUSIC CLUB’S CONCERT 'HE Dartmouth College Musical Clubs will visit Washington on their Spring tour of the Eastern States. In a concert and formal dance sponsored by the Washington Dart- mouth Alumni, to be held at the Wash- ington Hotel on Thursday, the Dart- mouth College Glee Club will feature an evening of varied entertainment. The Glee Club, under the direction of Donald Cobleigh, has achieved widespread reputation in intercollegi- ate circles as one of the more finished organizations of its kind. High .spots of its program will be the rendition | of the well-known “Hanover Winter Song,” “the Twilight Song” and a more recent song entitled “Dartmouth Undying.” The text of this song was written by Franklin McDuffle, the re- ciplent of the Oxford prize for poetry. In addition to the lighter songs of collegiate vein, music lovers of Wash- ington will hear Clemens Sandresky at the piano. This young artist has been acclaimed for his concert work | in New York and Boston as the most promising pianist of his generation, difficult compositions of modern com- posers being a noteworthy phase of his repertoire. 1 Glee Club— “The Hanover Winter Song." Hovey-Bullard | “Gentiy. Johnny", Old Engl “Bpanish"Ladies” | SIS one nglish Capstan Cl “Keep in the Middie of she Hondc tnte” Negro Bon: “Tramp! Tramp! Trampt” - ¥ ; Victor Herbert, “Dartmouth Undying.” McDuffie-Whitford 1L, Piano solo, Clemens Sandresky. - ! apsody in ajor’ nanyl | II1. “The Don Khorblyz” a musical skit. IV. Musical novelties, Robert Mulliken V. Old and new colege favorites, | lege quartet VI. Modern music, the Barbary Coast Or- chestra. VII_ Glee Club “Eleazer Wheelock” “Gute Nacht” the col~ Hovey-Wurm 4 German Folk_Song old Turpin” Bridze The Twilieht Song” CottegS iete Son of a Gun' ege Ditt “The Years at the Spring " . i Browning-Beach “Men of Dartmouth” Hovey-Wellman {A CAPPELLA CHOIR FROM GUILFORD THE Guilford College A Cappella Choir will appear at the Columbia Heights Christian Church, 1435 Park road, on Monday evening next, at 8:15 pm. The personnel of the choir, led by Dr. Ezra Wels, includes some 60 people. Among their repertoire are “Blessed Savior, Our Lord Jesus” (1564), Hans Leo Hassler; “From Heaven Above” | (Schuman), “Hodie Christus Natus Est” (Palestrina), “O Praise Ye God” (Tschaikowsky), “The Day of Judg- ment” (Arkhangelsky), and others. SINGERS TO GIVE JOINT RECITAL 'HARLOTTE WALLACE MURRAY, mezzo-soprano, and Todd Dun- can, baritone, will appear in recital at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets northwest, Thursday at 8:15 pm. & | | | | D. C., SATURDAY MARCH 27, 1937. Season’s Last Orchestra Concerts {Symphony to Present Works Locally Popular Final Concerts of Season to Be Notable for Selections Which Have Appealed to Audiences—Comments Are Made. Tibbett’s Song Recital To Be Given Saturdayi I Dorsey, under whose managemente Tibbett will appear as the ninth and | penultimate attraction of Mrs. Dor- | sey's 1936-7 series of Sunday afternoon concerts and recitals at Constitution Hall. There will be no change in pro- | gram. In making this announcement, Mrs. Dorsey said that Mr. Tibbett, accom- panied by Mrs. Tibbett, Stewart Wille, his accompanist, and John Evans, his managerial representative, arrived in Washington last Saturday evening shortly after 7 o'clock, and went direct to the Mayflower, where Mr. and Mrs. Tibbett completed arrangements by telephone with Washington and Vir- ginia friends who were to be Mrs. Tib- bett’s guests at a box party at Con- stitution Hall the next day. HEN Mr. Tibbett arose on Sunday | morning, he complained of a| tightness in his throat, and by noon it had been necessary to call in an os- teopath in an effort to loosen his throat muscles by massage. Heroic treatment, however, brought no relief, and by 3 o'clock, one hour before con- cert time, it was apparent no per- formance could be given, and an agree- ment was reached on the spot to have Tibbett return to Washington on Sat- urday, April 3, and sing at that time. Mr. and Mrs. Tibbett, with Mr. Wille and Mr. Evans, immediately caught the first train for New York in order to enable Tibbett to cons It his own physician and take steps to | prepare himself for another important | concert the following Wednesday. Although Mr. Tibbett has been appear- ing in Washington for approximately a decade, last Sunday's performance was the first he has ever had to post- | pone in Washington and the occur- | rence was a source of the deepest re- | gret to the singer. | THE program that Mr. Tibbett will sing at Constitution Hall next Saturday afternoon, when he will be Concert Schedule Tomorrow. National Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Hans Kindler conductor, Con- stitution Hall, 4 p.m. Combined Choirs, National Baptist Memorial Church, Keller Memorial Lutheran Church, George Ross, director, Roosevelt Hotel, 9:30 p.m. Easter Sunrise concert, Na- tional Capital Parks Schola Can- torum, Arturo Papalardo, director, Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds. Monday. ‘Washington Music Teachers’ Association, Oscar Seagle, lec- ture-recital, King-Smith Studio Playhouse. Guilford College A Cappella Choir, Dr. Ezra Weis, conductor, Columbia Heights Christian Church, 8:15 pm. Navy Band, 2 p.m. Tuesday. Navy Band Symphony Orches- tra, Sail Loft, Navy Yard, 8 pm. Marine Band, 3 p.m. Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, 5:30 pm. Wednesday. National Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor; Percy Grainger, pianist, soloist, 4:45 p.m. Thursday. Marine Band Symphony Or- chestra, Marine Barracks, 8 p.m. Charlotte Wallace Murray, 8o~ prano; Todd Duncan, baritone; joint recital, Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, 8:15 p.m, Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, 5:30 pm. Friday. Friday Morning Music Club, Grace Powell, violinist; Mrs. Charles Imlay, pianist; Rose Pollio Jarman and Emily Coville, s0- pranos; Barker Hall, 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Lawrence Tibbett, baritone; song recital, Constitution Hall, 3 pm. Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, 5:30 pm. Postponed From Last Sunday on Account of w His Illness, Singer’s Appearance Here Is in Accordance With Plans. AWRENCE TIBBETT, celebrated American baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Association, whose song recital at Constitution Hall last Sun- day afternoon was canceled when the singer suffered a sudden attack of laryngitis, will sing here Saturday afteroon, April 3, at 3 o'clock, and tickets sold for the performance of last Sunday wil! be honored, without ex- change, at next Saturday sfternoon’s recital. This is the substance of & current announcement by Dorothy Hodgkin accompanied by Stewart Wille at the piano, follows: “Alleluja” (17th century Bymn)L_- oGl “Where'er You Walk “The Bailif’s Daught; Easter ©O'Connor-Morris Handel | /Der Wanderer’ Edward” ______ Ma'mselle Marie" ‘Lord 1 Want to allelujah Rhythm _Jacaues Wolfe Mr. Wille will play the Bach-Siloti prelude from “Cantata No. 35" and the Chopin “Impromptu in F Sharp Major.” Seats for the Tibbett recital ! are available at Mrs. Dorsey’s Concert. Bureau in Droop’s, 1300 G street northwest. ELSON EDDY, sensational new baritone favorite of concert, radio and the screen, will make his only concert appearance of the season at Constitution Hall next Sunday after- noon, April 4, at 4 o'clock, under the management of Dorothy Hodgkin Dor- sey. Eddy’s appearance in recital will constitute the tenth and final attrac- tion of Mrs. Dorsey’s 1936-7 series of Sunday afternoon concerts and re- citals at Constitution Hall. Mr. Eddy will be accompanied at the piano by Theodore Paxson, who accompanied him on the occasion of Mr. Eddy's Constitution Hall recital debut last April 12, when he was in- troduced to Washington music lovers by Mrs. Dorsey. Mr. Eddy’s program for next Sunday afternoon follows: Air, “Bois Epais” (Jean-Baptiste Lully); scene, “Gloire a vanna,” from “Monna Vanna” (Fevrier); “None but the Lonely Heart” (Tschaikowsky); “The Old Corporal” (Dargomizhsky); “Child’s Evening Prayer” (Moussorg= sky); air, “By the Walls of Ka- zan” (Moussorgsky); “Pruhlingsrei- gen” (Fleischmann); “Der Tod, das ist die kuehle Nacht” (Paxson); air, “O was ich mich betrube!” from “The Bartered Bride” (Smetana); “Zur Jo- hanninsnacht” (Grieg); “The Bell Man"” (Forsyth); “Bone Come a’Knit- tin’” (Wolfe), and “Serenade” (John Alden Carpenter). R — Sunrise Concert. HE Easter sunrise concert by the National Capital Parks Schola Cantorum, Maestro Arturo Papalardo, director, will take place tomorrow morning in the Sylvan Theater, Monu- ment Grounds. The chorus consists of 200 singers and there will be 2 soloists. In the event of rain the concert will be given in the Depart- mental Auditorium, Constitution ave- nue between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets. The concert is being presented under the auspices of the Depart- ment of the Interior, National Park Service. Given New Post LYNN L. GILCHREST, Who has recently been chosen director of the choir of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Mr. Gilchrest also is director of the Glee Club of the District of Columbia Democratic League and assistant_director of the Chevy Chase Chanters. Percy Grainger, left, pianist-composer, who will be the soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra in its final concert of the season Wednesday at 4:45 p.m., in Constitution Hall, and right, the latest picture of Leopold Stokowski, who will conduct the last concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra, in Constitution Hall, on Tuesday, April 6. Orchestra’s Successful Year to End Easter Concert and Solo Feature for Midweek Music. ANS KINDLER brings the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra’s 1936-37 season to a climactic close this week with two concerts in Constitu- tion Hall. An Easter “pop” concert at 4 p.m. tomorrow afternoon concludes the orchestra’s Sunday afternoon series, and a brilliant program at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday presenting Percy Grainger, celebrated pianist and com- poser, ends the midweek series and the season as well. Grainger, the orchestra management announced last week, will appear in the place of Moritz Rosenthal, origi- nally scheduled as soloists. The famous Australian artist will play two classical works for piano and orchestra—Cesar Franck’s “Symphonic Variations” and Franz Liszt's “Hungarian Fantasy.” The concert will also include several works which received large numbers of votes in the recent “request” bal- loting. Sunday afternoon’s concert will be given over entirely to the great sym- phonic favorites. In accordance with hundreds of requests received during the season, Dr. Kindler is placing on the Easter program numbers that will provide Washington music lovers with a real “pop” concert. Percy Grainger is no stranger to ‘Washington audfences, although he has not appeared here with orchestra for four years. The renowned pianist and composer has appeared with the National Symphony twice. He was one of the orchestra’s soloists in its first season, in 1932-33. His popularity resulted in another engagement for the following year. Since then his time has been occupied in concertizing throughout the world and in com- posing the songs and symphonic works for which he is as famous as he is for his virtuosic talents. Grainger was born in 1882 in Mel- bourne, Australia. His first music lessons were from his mother and & Melbourne music teacher. On the proceeds from several recitals he traveled to Germany and studied with Kwast and Busoni. In 1900 he went to London, beginning a series of re- markable concerts that made him known to and admired by all British music lovers. At the Leeds, England, music festi- val in 1907 he played the solo part in Greig’s piano concerto. The com- poser had been engaged to conduct the performance, but died only a month before the recital. Grieg had chosen Grainger, whom he held in great esteem, to be soloist on the occasion. Grainger made his American debut in February, 1915, at a New York recital. He enlisted as an Army bandsman in 1917, playing oboe and saxophone. A year later he became instructor at the Army Music School, and became a naturalized citizen. He has made his home in America since. Although he is now widely known as a composer, Grainger will appear with the National Symphony Wednes- day in the masterpieces of great com- posers of another day. The Liszt and Franck works will be features of the following program Dr. Kindler has announced for Wednesday afternoon: “Passacaglia and Fugue’ _ Bach “Sinfonia" _J.chr. Bach Intermission. Symphonic Variations, for Piano_snd Orchestra, Franck Hungarian Fantasy. for Piano and Or- chestra < szt Percy Grainger. Coronation Scene and Love Mysic from “Boris Godounov” ~ -~ Moussorgsky - —e Victrola Concert. N EVENING with the victrola will be held in the music division of the Public Library, Central Bulld- ing, Eighth and K streets, Tuesday at 7:30 pm. A Stokowski Comes With Orchestra Philadelphians With Soloist to Appear Here April 6. EOPOLD STOKOWSKI makes his one appearance in Washington on Tuesday evening, April 6, at 8:45 p.m., at Constitution Hall, leading the final local program this season to be presented by ihe Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. For this program Mr. Stokowski has chosen Brahms' “First Symphony” and the “Good Friday Spell Music,” from Wagner'’s religious opera, “Parsi- fal,” both of which are great favorites with Washington music lovers. For the unusual number on his program Mr. Stokowski has announced & con- certo for two pianos and orchestra written by Dr. Harl MacDonald, who is director of the Choral Society of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mac- Donald and his chorus of 150 appeared on the all-Rachmaninoff program which the Philadelphia Symphony presented earlier this year. The two young pianists who will play in Dr. MacDonald’s concerto are Jeanne Behrend and Alexander Kelberine. Miss Behrend, who is a native of Philadelphia, appeared with the Philharmonic Orchestra of her native city when she was only 11, as soloist in & Mozart concerto. Since then, in other appearances with orchestras under Mr. Stokowski’s, Fritz Reiner's and Artur Rodzinsky’s batons, she has developed from child prodigy to mature artist. She was the first pianist to be graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music. Josef Hofmann not only taught her, but also was first to sponsor her talents as & composer. He played her works in England and this country. The League of Composers in New York has presented some of them; also the Society for Contemporary Music in Philadelphia. Miss Behrend has studied composition under Rosario Scalero. With Alexander Kelberine, who is co-artist with her on the coming pro- gram under Stokowski's baton, Miss Behrend appeared in Poulenc's “Con- certo for Two Pianos” in the American premiere by the Philadelphia Orch- estra during 1935-6. These two young artists have played together in Boston with the People’s Symphony, in re- cital at the Institute for Arts and Sciences of Columbia University in New York, and with the National Symphony Orchestra in a Summer program in Washington. Mr. Kelberine was born in Kieff, Russia, studied under Rachmaninofl’s famous uncle, Alexander Siloti, ana also Ferrucio Busoni. He came to America in 1923 and is now a citizen of this country. He was the first artist presented by the Juilliard Musical Foundation in his debut in New York, January 30, 1926. Ber- nardino Molinari invited him to tour Italy in 1930 and 1931 and Alfred Cortot sponsored his appearances in Paris. He won special acclaim in 1932 for recitals of Bach and Bee- thoven works and in 1935-6 was soloist twice with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also is & composer and his Bach transcriptions are widely praised. This program, like the others by the Philadelphia Orchestra in Wash- ington, is presented by the T. Arthur Smith Bureau, 910 G street northwest. T I Quartet at Library. CONCERT of chamber music by the Pro-Musica Quartet will be given at the Georgetown Branch of the Public Library on Monday at 8:30 p.m., through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian, an- nounces. Owing to the limited seating ca- pacity, admission will be only by eard. By Hans Kindler, Conductor. E program for tomorrow’s goncert at 4 p.m. is as follows Schubert Strauss ‘Marrisge of No. 8 in Intermission. “Nutcracker” 8uite “Overture Miniature " “Danses Characteristique.” “Marche.” anse de 1a Pee Dragee.” anse Russe, Trepac.’ anse Arabe.” nse Chinoise " ‘Danse des Mirlitons.* “Valse des Fleur: Overture, “Tannhauser”_ -Wagner ‘The final two concerts of our season are going to consist largely of works beloved by the musical public in gen- eral and our Washington friends in particular. Besides the “Unfinished” Symphony of Schubert, the Brahms “C Minor” was 50 popular that I had originally decided to finish tomorrow's concert with this work. However, the Phila- delphia Orchestra announced that they were going to perform it in their final concert, and courtesy to a visit- ing organization made me decide on the following program for today. The first half will now consist of music written in and for Vienna. Vienna always has been a musicians’ paradise in several ways. It has the Tschaikowsky very spirit of music in its air, and | many have been the great masters who were irresistibly attracted by its charm. Gluck, Hadyn, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert, Brahms, Johann Strauss and countless “lesser lights” made it at one time or another their abode, and it seems that the music written there was often a reflex of this siprit of en- chantment. Certainly it was in the case of Mozart, Schubert and Strauss, and we therefore will play, first of all, the overture to the ‘‘Marriage of Figaro,” probably the gayest, most irresistibly mischevous of all musical overtures. THEN comes the immortal “Unfin- ished.” I have heard, played in and conducted this work since my early youth, but I yet have to experi- ence a performance where the mys- teriously descending basses at the beginning of the development section do not make my very spine tingle. To think that this work nearly was lost because of its remaining hidden for years after Schubert’s death in an attic in the country town in Austria for which he had written it seems unbelievable, yet such was the case. It was not found and played 4 until 35 years after the ecomposer's death! The question has often been asked: “Why was it ‘unfinished?’” To my imlnd it is not. The two movements are perfectly balanced as they are now, and I could not think of having any- ;thm[ added to it. | The Strauss walts “Voices of Spring,” probably the most vivacious |and sparkling of them all, will joy- | ously end the first half, and, with that, | the “Vienna” part of the program. In the second half we will begin with the “Nutcracker Suite,” the work which Tschaikowsky wrote “on commission” for the then Petersburg Opera House. As is often the case with Tschaikowsky, he becomes in his lighter works much more of & pure musician and s less morbid, | self-pitying neurasthenic, and there- | by succeeds in making us acknowledge those compositions without the reser- vations we otherwise and often have. And it is remarkable to see also with what simple means he achieved the manifold and colorful - effects in this little suite of master creations. All in all, the usual orchestra is used, but, for instance, the effect of | colorfulness of the overture, in which |only the lightest of instruments are employed (no heavy brass, no | trumpets, no percussion except the triangle, not even cellos and basses) | is nothing short of masterly. |"THE same holds good of the sense of contrast which he has em- ployed throughout; of the charming effect of the celesta in the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”; of the sense of desolation evoked in the “Arabian Dance”; or the humor of the low bassoons in the “Chinese Dance”; of the charming employe ment of three flutes and a solo trumpet in the “Dance of the Mirli= tons”; and of the startling effect of the harp, which he has skillfully reserved for the final “Valse des Fleurs.” Within the limitations of this orchestral palette only Wagner has achleved more, and it is partly for that reason that we will now end the concert with the “Tannhauser” over- ture. At this late date it is not nec- essary to “explain” the solemnity of the initial “Pilgrims’ Chorus,” the exe citing quality of the Venusberg music, and superb splendor of the finale. But it is well to remember that also here a great composer achieved thess ef- fects with exactly the same orchestral material that was used by all other composers of the same period, and with how much more surge of effect, of steadily mounting intensity and with what overwhelming sense of climax! In Local Music Circles 'HE Euphonic Quartet gave & pro- gram at the Washington Sani- tarium Thursday evening for the guests of the institution and their friends. The quartet is composed of Robert Eldridge, Irving Beckwith, Charles Eldridge and Merrill Dawson. Mrs. Dyer Parsons was the accompanist. The following young singers from Esther Linkins’ voice studios are con- | tributing solos in churches during the | Easter season—Judy Conklin, Cor- nelia Croesley, Sylvia Radisch, Mar- jorie Reed and Charles Burton. Miss Radisch has just assumed the direc- torship of the Young People’s Choir in | Brentwood Methodist Church. Evelyn P. Toye, pianist, and Alfred E. Toye, tenor, will give & joint recital Friday evening at the studio of Robert Ruckman. Dr. Toye has been study- | ing with Frank Bibb at the Peabody | Conservatory, and Miss Toye is & member of Mr. Ruckman’s piano class. Mathilde Kolb Bartlett, contralto, will be soloist at Foundry Methodist Church at the evening service tomor- row. Mrs. Bartlett was soloist at Foundry Church last Sunday evening an gave a program of Lenten music and Spring songs for the District of Columbia Branch of American Pen Women on Wednesday afternoon of the past week at the league's club rooms in the Grafton Hotel. Evangeline Tully gave a group of songs at the last musicale given by Felicia Rybiar, and was soloist for the American Legion D. A. Post, this week. Miss Tully was also featured soloist, with & group of Washington Opera Guild artists, at the Rialto Theater, Palm Sund: ‘Thelma La Dow was soloist for the Five Point Club banquet Monday eve- ning, singing later on the program given in the Department of Commerce Auditorium. The Sweetone Quartet of the South- ern Baptist Church will render a spe- cial program featuring jubilee and spiritual songs assisted by the Willow Green Female Quartet and other tal- ent at the Vermont Avenue Baptist | Church, Wednesday at 8:30 pm. All are welcome. This program is under the auspices of the young people of the church. Deacon George E. Onley sponsor. Jewel Downs will present Erna | Embrey, soprano, and Charlotte La- fon, contralto, in song recital at the Women's City Club Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock. The Wonkottnawi Club, & newly organized group of 18 boys and girls from the ranks of the piano pupils of Frances Gutelius Smith, met last Monday in the studios at 1408 New Hampshire avenue to celebrate the 252d birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach. His biography was given and Bach minuets, preludes, inventions and other pieces were played. A short business meeting concluded the Bach birthday party. The Nordica Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra, Walter T. Holt, director, will give a concert on Friday evening at 8:15 o'clock in Takoma Park Bap- tist Church under the auspices of the B. Y. P. U. The orchestra will be as- sisted by Edna Roche, soprano, and Bob Sutton. Other soloists will be Mildred Louise Sykes, Annabel Bird and Louise Teller. - Concerts by Marine Band. 'HE United States Marine Band and Symphony Orchestra, Oapt. Taylor Branson, leader, will give the following concerts during the coming week: Tomorrow at 7 a.m., the band will play for the Easter sunrise service under the auspices of the Grand Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of the Dis- trict of Columbia, in the Amphitheater, Arlington National Cemetery. Monday at 3 pm., the band will give & concert in the White House grounds during the annual Easter egg rolling. Tuesday at 3 p.m., the band will give the weekly Shut-Ins Dream Hour con- cert at the Marine Barracks. Thursday at 10:30 a.m., the band will participate in the tree planting ceremonies of the Osteopathic Wom- en’s Association at Haines Point. Saturday at 12:30 p.m, Music Ap- preciation Hour for 4-H Clubs, spon- sored by the United States Department of Agriculture. This will take place at the Marine Barracks. Due to other official duties, the con- cert scheduled to be played by the United States Marine Band Orchestra on Wednesday night is postponed until Thursday night, at 8 o'clock, when the following program will be given in the auditorium at the Marine Bar- rpis from Blo Time’ or violoncello. “'Kol Nidrei” Bolo (Musician Ralph Lanning,) “Dance of the Nymphs and Satyrs.” from “'Amor and Psyche.” Opus 3, George Schumann Valse de concert. “Roses from the, South” Strauss Overture, “Russian Easter.” Opus 38. Rimsky-Korsakow . Program at Club. THE Friday Morning Music Club will present Grace Powell, violinist, who will play the Bach sonata; Mrs. Charles Imlay, pianist; Rosa Pollio Jarman, soprano, and Emily Coville, soprano, who will sing songs ¥ Mary Ware Goldman on Friday at 11:30 am, in Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A. ~ MASTER CLASSES TO BE GIVEN HERE SCAR SEAGLE, well-known teach- er of singing, who will be in Wash« | ington Monday night for a lecture-re« cital before the Music Teachers’ Asso- ciation, will remain in the city until Wednesday conducting master classes for many of the local singers. His lecture on Monday evening, “Reminiscences of the De Reszkes and Their Principles of Voice Production,” will be similar to his weekly class lese sons held at the colony, discussing the principles of vocal production handed down by the great Jean de Reszke, and being illustrated by his own sing- ing. On Tuesday there will be both pri- vate lessons and master classes. All of these events will be at the King- Smith Studio Playhouse. Now teach- ing in New York and at Schroon Lake, Mr. Seagle was for 10 years assistant to the late Jean de Reszke in Nice, France. ‘Warren F. 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