Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1937, Page 18

THE EVENI NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1937, W Course of New Music Must Ret ain Tradition Superficial Output Lacks Inspiration Needed to Relieve Tension of Life and Create Lasting Impression of Real Art. By Alice Eversman. great writers of music, ahd fo B ments enter into the creation, of music. Strange as it may seem, elements are the nerves. We are so heart and mind that we overlook this«s very determining factor in a proper development of music, whether as an individual or collectively as a com- munity. The present day output of musical composition, and also the character of its presentation, make one still more conscious of the im- portant part that the nerves play in the production of music. Occasionally nervous temperaments have given great masterpieces to pos- terity, but these individuals are ex- ceptions, and whenever their work is mentioned their nervous desirability is also commented upon until one can- not but feel that had they been bet- ter balanced their talent would have produced still finer results. Today, in the hectic atmosphere in which we all live, this question of perves is a vital one, affecting every Pranch of art and none more seriously than music. The claim has always been that music should represent the era and the conditions of life, and surely we cannot complain that the present type of composition does not do just that. But what will be the end and what will be the gain? Are ‘we progressing or are we running into an impasse that will require a complete revision of our method of thought and feeling, if we would not stunt the growth of music on from the point to which the great geniuses of music have brought it? * ok Kk X MOST of the older generation, when they take time for it, shake their heads over the speed of the present day way of living, but feeling themselves powerless to stem the torrent, try to adjust themselves to the modish trend. This is ex- cellent from every point of view ex- cept that of art. Just a few hearings of the newest music or a glimpse at the newest book or painting and one must be conscious that something is wrong in the guiding motive behind the creation. If one has the opportunity to ana- lyze, it will be quite simply seen that the nervous tension of life today. the constant demand for the bizarre as stimulant for jaded nerves, the lack of desire to take time for patient working out of problems, and the cult that to be individual one must repudi- ste the established form, is the basis of everything that is done today in music. These pernicious influences have entered into the student body, the professional and the creative spheres of music. The result will either be a final burst of supreme inspiration as an unhealthy climax to nervous strain or a complete dead- ening of all effort when the satura- tion point is reached. Certainly the most serious effect of this wrong tendency is reflected in the type of music being written and accepted today. We are fortunate in having opportunities in Washington to hear what the so-called modern school is putting out, but, except for being able to keep abreast of the | times, that is the extent of the profit. Most conscientious musicians have a sense of responsibility toward modern | music, feeling that in some way they ought to like it, and thinking that it should be encouraged, since a poten- ECAUSE of the exquisite beauty of musical tones as combined by the r the subsequent inspiring effect it has on the listener, we are often apt to forget that certain physical ele- , the interpretation and the reception the most important of these physical busy advocating the cultivation of the | the presence of the vital forms of music, even under the guise of unfa- miliar terms. But most of it is purely superficial, conceived under the urge to be different and with the neurotic idea that the fevered imag- inings of nerve-tortured brains are | & valuable contribution toward music | growth. The effect of such music is disastrous on the listener and more | vitally on the ideas of the coming generation. Shakespeare calls music a “concord of sweet sounds,” and again “the | cause why music was ordained—was it not to refresh the mind of man after his studies or his usual pain?” If one go no deeper than in the physical effect which the modern harmonization has upon one, one would realize that a composition which leaves the mind fatigued and the nerves jangling is not producing the age-old accepted properties of music. Were a man to live in an environme:..® of piercing noise, he would soon feel a reaction, and be advised by a physician to seek a more soothing atmosphere. Yet, in the name of art and of duty, we sit through the same condition in a con- cert hall and think we are assisting at the development of music. The same lack of nervous stability is back of the attitude toward music study which every teacher will be- moan. How many students are will- ing patiently to lay a foundation through study of the mild classics or the soul revivifying works of the later geniuses. It is so much more excit- ing to have music in which noise and rhytixm predominate, where the har- monies are calculated to arouse quite the contrary from the spiritual con- cepts which have long been hailed as the particular reward of fine music. In the artistic development of pro- fessional musicians the state of the nervous system must be taken into consideration. How many careers have been wrecked or hindered be- | cause the nerves were not under proper control. All ideas to the contrary, | & real artist can be made only from | a thoroughly nervously healthy indi- vidual. For the basis of artistic work is physical and mental control, con- stantly exercised. The wear and tear | of public life are enough to shatter | the mnervous system without allowing the tension of living to exceed nor- mal. Musicians who know their only stimulus through exciting music will never be artists nor will they ever be composers of lasting repute. Relaxa- tion, quiet, contemplation, and general good health are the most necessary requirements for the making of artists. It is high time that we take a stand against the superficialities which sur- round the music of the present day. This applies to the layman as well as | to the musician, for nothing is to be gained in encouraging the output of music which harrows the nerves of the listeners. Real music will soothe the nerves, will give strength to the soul, and will awaken noble thoughts in the mind. Could one ask for a better standard by which to judge music, the full properties of which go far deeper than the mere clever invention of har- monies? And unless the nerves are tial genius may be hidden in their midst. But are we quite clear and | honest in our reception of this music, | and are we not being too kind in | agreeing to be tortured with the weird | sounds produced under the sacred name of music. | Now and then one can acknowledge | soothed, the more spiritual develop- ment can never take place. Remedy the nervous desires of the present gen- eration and our “new” music will pro- gress along the paths that have been made glorious by the genius of those gifted ones whose like has never been equaled in modern years. ALUMNI TO HEAR | COLLEGE SINGERS| THE A Cappella Choir of Nonh-; western University, on a tour of | concerts in the East including Car- negie Hall in New York, will be the | guests of Northwestern University | alumni on Thursday at a dinner to be held at the Y. W. C. A, Seven- teenth and K streets northwest, at 6:30. A concert will follow at Barker Hall at 8:30 for the Northwestern alumni and friends. The Northwestern A Cappella Choir was the first college organiza- tion of its kind in America and played an important role in develop- ing the art of unaccompanied singing in this country. Max T. Krone, the present director of the choir, was for- merly head of the school of music department at the University of Illi- nois and director of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory at Indianapolis. A feature will be two choruses from Taylor's recent opera, “Peter Ibbet- son.” Clarence Loomis will be repre- sented by two dramatic choruses, “Prince’s Day,” an Irish chorus based on a text of Thomas Moore, and “The Harp and the Willow.” Noble Cain will also be represented by his setting for a cappella chorus of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem, “Say Thou Lovest Me.” Concert Schedule MONDAY. Marine Band, 4 p.m. Army Band, 6 p.m. TUESDAY. Charlotte Gusse, piano recital, ‘Wesley Hall, 8:45 p.m. Gertrude Dyre Parsons, organ- ist; Aurelia Beck, contralto; joint recital, Emory Baptist Church, 8 pm. Navy Band, 10:30 am. Marine Band, 3 pm. Soldiers’ Home Band Orches- tra, 5:30 pm. WEDNESDAY. Marine Band Symphony Or- chestra, Marine Barracks, 8 p.m. THURSDAY. Allan Bacon, organ recital, Church of the Epiphany, 8:15 p.m. Army Band, 4:30 p.m. Soldiers’ Home Band Orches- tra, 5:30 pm. A Capella Choir, Northwest- ern University, Barker Hall, 8:30. FRIDAY. Friday Morning Music Club, “Contrasts in Music for Piano,” Beatrice Pinkney Jones; “An Ad- venture With Ancient Instru- ments,” Mary Izant Couch, Barker Hall, 11:30 a.m. Navy Band, 10:30 a.m. SATURDAY. Army Band, 11:30 a.m. Soldiers’ Home Band Orches- tra, 5:30 p.m. TOUR TO BE MADE BY FINNISH CHORUS THE chorus of the University of Helsinki, Finland, composed of 50 male singers, will make an American tour next season, opening with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, conductor, on December 31 and January 1 in Boston and in New York on January 6. This chorus, known in Finland as the “Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat,” ab- breviated “Y. L.” was founded in 1883. From its very beginning, the principal aim of the founders was the creation of Finnish choral music and they have contributed largely to rais- ing the standards of the Finnish ;:hora.l singing to its present high evel. Prof. Heikki Klemetti was its first conductor, and remained with the organization for 25 years. The chorus is now conducted by Dr. Martti Turunen, who has occupied the posi- tion for the last six years. During its existence of over 50 years the position of the Y. L. Chorus in the musical life of Finland is mani- fested in the fact that many Finnish composers have written and dedicated much of their music for male chorus to the Y. L. Chorus. Jean Sibelius, who is an honorary member of the chorus, has composed all of his most famous male-chorus music for this organization. On the forthcoming tour, the programs will be devoted exclusively to the music of the Fin- nish composers. The Y. L. Chorus has given concerts in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Swit- zerland, Austria, Hungary and Italy. The organization will visit this coun- try under the auspices of the Inter- collegiate Musical Council, Marshall Bartholomew, president, which last year presented the Budapest Univer- sity Chorus and a committee of prom- inent Finnish-American citizens. In America, the sponsoring group is headed by his excellency, Eero Jarne- felt, Minister of Finland at Washing- ton. Society’s Concert Plan. THE Tempo Chorale Society has issued a call to all members to rehearsals for its Spring concert sea- son, when star concerts will be pre- sented at the following named places: Sharp Street M. E. Church, Baltimore, Md.,, on Tuesday, April 27, 1937, at 8:15 p.m.; John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, Washington, D. C,, on Fri- day, May 7, 1937, at 8:30 p.m., and will close the series of the Community Center Department concerts at the Dunbar High School on Friday, May 21, 1937, at 8:30 p.m. In the effort sponsored by the soci- ety to raise funds for the flood suffer- ers, the prize went to G. W. Edmonds of 919 Westminster street northwest, and a check was presented to the District Chapter of the American Red Croas for flood relief. S Prima Donna on Star Course and Singers to Be Heard Next Week Left: Hall on Thursday evening. Right: Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey. A group of singers from the Northwestern Univer- sity A Cappella Choir, which will be heard in concert at Barker The concert is under the auspices of the Northwestern University Alumni Association. Gina Cigna, the latest soprano to create an out- standing place for herself at the Metropolitan Opera, will ap- pear here in recital next season, under the management of Symphony To Gain by Tour West American Music Has Rank With Classic on Its Programs. PLANNING the National Symphony Orchestra’'s first trip into the Midwest during the last week of this month, Hans Kindler, conductor, yes- terday announced programs in which the representative music of outstand- ing American composers will be blended with standard works of the classic repertoire. The high light of the orchestra’s westward journey is its appearance before the biennial meeting of the Federated Music Clubs in Indianapolis, although arrange- ments are now being completed for concert stops en route. Dr. Kindler and his musicians will | play three concerts during the two days, April 28 and 29, that they will be at the convention. In addition to two regular programs before delegates attending the meeting from State in the Union there will be a special concert on April 29 for chil- dren, in which Dr. Kindler will fol- low the pattern of his popular stu- dents’ concerts in Washington. Native American works will have a prominent place on all of the Indi- anapolis concerts. On Dr. Kindler's programs appear works by such com- posers as Harl McDonald, Mabel Danijels, Edgar Stillman Kelley, Edward MacDowell, Charles Sanford Skilton, and the Washington com- posers, Mary Howe and R. Deane Shure. Compositions by most of these musicians were introduced to Washington audiences by the Na- tional Symphony during its recently completed season. Harl McDonald’s “Rhumba” sym- phony and Mabel Daniels’ “Deep Forest,” two of the numbers to be played in Indianapolis, were enthusi- astically received when given their ‘Washington premieres by Dr. Kindler last Winter. ‘Washington will be well represented on the programs in the presentation of R. Deane Shure's “Circles of Wash- ington,” an orchestral suite inspired by scenes in the Nation's Capital, and ‘Mary Howe's “Spring Pastoral.” Both have been played by the National Symphony in Constitution Hall Shure’s composition, dedicated to Dr. Kindler, was given its world premiere by the orchestra in 1935., So success- ful was its performance that it was given a place in the orchestra’s annual request program at the close of that season. The composition also appeared on an orchestra program in Chautauqua, N. Y., last Summer. To these American works will be added several of the classical master- pieces that have proved favorites with Washington audiences. With Dalies Frantz, the young pianist, as soloist, the orchestra, on its first program for the federation will play the “Con- certo in E Flat” for piano and orches- tra by Franz Liszt. Another feature of the same concert will be & per- formance of the Brahms “No. 4 Sym- phony.” “The Entrance of the Gods Into Walhalla,” from Wagner's “Das Rheingold,” and the coronation scene and love music from Moussorgsky’s “Boris Godounov,” arranged by Dr. Kindler for symphony orchestra, will also have a place on this concert. The following night, when Shure's “Circles of Washington” is to be played, Dr. Kindler will also present Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony,” Glinka’s overture, “Russlan and Lud- milla;” Wagner's “Traume,” as well a8 several American works. ‘When the Indianapolis engagement is completed the symphony men will leave for Morgantown, W. Va., where they are scheduled for a concert on April 30. Although the orchestra, in the five years of its history, has been playing over an ever-expanding fleld in the East, it has never crossed the Alle- gheny Mountains. The trip to Indi- ana, therefore, makes history for the organization, and also adds to its pres- tige as a symphony organization, which, established in the National Capital, truly speaks for musical America. FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC SUBJECTS "CONTRASTS in Music for Piano,” by Beatrice Pinkney Jones, and “An Adventure with Ancient Instru- ments,” by Mary Izant Couch, are two subjects to be presented before the Friday Morning Music Club on Fri- day at 11:30 a.m. in Barker Hall. every | COAST ORGANIST IN RECITAL HERE THE District of Columbia Chapter of the American Guild of Organ- ists will present Allan Bacon, head of the organ department of the Col- lege of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif., in a free recital at the Church of the Epiphany, on Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Allan Bacon has been head of the organ department at the College of the Pacific since 1922. Formerly a resident of St. Louis, he received his early instruction in organ under Rod- ney Saylor and Charles Galloway, and was organist and choir director for four years at Kingshighway Pres- byterian Church of St. Louis. In 1919 he accepted the position of head of the piano and organ departments of Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa. In 1922 he became organist at the College of the Pacific, then located at San Jose but now located—since 1924—at Stockton. With a magnifi- cent four-manual Estey organ at his disposal, his annual series of recitals at the college auditorium has attracted the attention of music lovers and people of culture generally throughout Northern California. He was a soloist at the Pacific Coast Organists’ Convention held at Los Angeles in 1923, and soloist at the State Music Teachers’ Convention, held also at Los Angeles, in 1928. The present one is Mr. Bacon's sec- ond transcontinental tour. OPERA COMPANY HAS REHEARSALS Tl—:E Columbia Light Opera Co., Washington's new opera group, will begin rehearsals Friday evening, in preparation for a presentation late in June of Victor Herbert's “Sweet- hearts.” Rehearsals will be held at the Thomson School, Twelfth and L streets northwest, at 8 o'clock, with Monday evenings as the permanent rehearsals night, beginning Monday. Auditions for additional voices will be held this Friday at 7:30 and before the Monday meetings at the same hour. A company of 65 is desired, with 40 already having been accepted. Mlisic Feast Offered in Choral Form Spring Concert Has Aid of Symphony and Solo Talent. 'I‘HE “Bridal Song” from the opera, “Gwendoline,” by Chabrier, will be among the featured numbers of the Spring Festival Concert of the ‘Washington Choral Society, conducted by Louis A. Potter, in D. A. R. Memorial Continental Hall, Seven- teenth and D streets northwest, on zconday evening, April 26, at 8:30 o'clock. The - 100 voices of this choral organization will be assisted by members of the National Sym- phony in addition to instrumentalists of the society, together with a num- ber of well-known vocal soloists. Margaret Tolson, pianist, and Lyman 8. McCrary, organist, will be the accompanists. Chabrier’s “Gwendoline,” produced in 1866 in Brussels, shows a marked ‘Wagnerian influence, and requires a fully equipped and large orchestra in addition to the vocal demands on its singers. For this reason it has been seldom heard, and never before in Washington. A year or two ago the society was heard for the first time in Washington in Deems Taylor's “The Chambered Nautilus,” with the National Symphony Orchestra, and 80 great an impression was made upon local music lovers that its repe- tition has been repeatedly urged. This season Mr. Potter will again present the society in the Taylor work with chorus, solo group and orchestra. Opening with the Saint-Saens’ ver— sion of the 150th Psalm, with full orchestral, harp and Hammond organ accompaniment, the second number will be a group of madrigals, sung a capella, including works by Dowland, Arcadelt, Cesar Cui, Palmgren, Moel- lendorf and Taneyef. Of this group, only Taneyef's “Sunrise” has been sung here previously, and it is being repeated by request. The public is informed that tickets for this concert may be obtained at the door of Memorial Continental Hall, but must be obtained in advance of the concert at the Willard and the A. A. A. Ticket Bureaus, NEW ATTRACTIONS FOR COMMUNITY ELIZABE.'I‘H K. Peeples, director of the Community Center Depart- ment of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia, announces that next season a new series of enter- tainment features will be inaugurated under the department’s auspices at Roosevelt High School. These events will be thoroughly professional and of widespread inter- est and the series is planned as an additional cultural interest for Wash- ingtonians. It will include such attractions as Margaret Speaks, soprano, who is known the country as “The Voice of Fire- stone,” in this radio star's first appearance in Washington “in per- son” and in a complete concert recital of songs. Another unusual artist who makes his Washington debut in this series is Nimura, a Japanese whose dances show marked genius and individual- ity of concept and treatment. There also will be another important dance group, & famous mimic of celebrities of stage and screen in a series of characterizations, and possibly a col- orful choral group. These events will all be given at Roosevelt High School auditorium on Wednesday evenings throughout the season, exact dates to be announced shortly. All reservations are to be made on a national concert plan, with seats modestly priced and sold only for the entire series. Reserva- tions can be made now at Mrs. Dor- sey's Concert Bureau in Droop’s, 1300 G street northwest. D. C. FEDERATION BANQUET GUESTS MRS_ J. LESTER BROOKS, chair- man of the National Music ‘Week banquet, to be given by the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs on May 5 in the Na- tional Press Club auditorium, an- nounces that the guests of honor will include Dr. and Mrs. Hans Kindler, Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober of Norfolk, Va., national junior counselor; the new national president of the federa- tion. Philadelphia Orchestra’s Next Season Five Programs Have Been Arranged on Tuesday Nights. 'HE Philadelphia Symphony Or- chestra, which is under the man- agement in Washington of Renoux Smith, head of the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau, announces & series of five programs for next season in the National Capital. All five will be, as has become the custom with this orchestra, evening programs on five Tuesday nights at 8:45 p.m. in Constitution Hall. Eugene Ormandy, new regular conductor of the orches- tra, will hold the baton for four of these events and Leopold Stokowski will conduct one program. Three guest soloists have been announced so far to appear on some of these programs. These artists include the two great violinists, Fritz Kreisler and Joseph Szigeti, and the popular American baritone, John Charles Thomas. The dates for next season's five programs are: October 26, with Kreisler as guest artist, Ormandy leading; November 30, Leopold Sto- kowski conducting; January 11, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Febru- ary 1, Ormandy, with Szigeti as artist, and April 5, Ormandy conduct- ing, with Thomas as soloist. Reservations for the season for next year can be madé at any time at the Smith Concert Bureau, 910 G north- ‘west. For best locations it is impor- tant renewals be sent at once. JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB PROGRAM [E Junior Women’s Club will pre- sent Gertrude Dyre Parsons, or- ganist, and Aurelia Beck, contralto, in joint recital Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at the Emory Methodist Church, Brightwood. Mrs. Parsons is a member of the faculty of the Washington College of Music and is organist at Emory Church. . Miss Beck is one of the few ‘Washingtonians who have appesred on the Major Bowes radio hour, r throughout | Gina Cigna’s| Debut Here Is Assured Sensational Rise Has Been Feature in Operatic World. GINA CIGNA, the sensational new French-Italian prima donna so- | prano of the Metropolitan Opera | Association, whose Washington debut in recital will be made next season as one of the attractions of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's evening concert | series at Constitution Hall, is expected to appear in New York next season in the first production the Metropoli- tan has ever given Gluck's famous 170-year-old opera, “Alceste.” The leading roles will be sung in French by Mme. Cigna and Rene Maison, the Belgian tenor. Gina Cigna, whose name, incident- ally, is pronounced “Geen-yah Cheen- vah™ seems to have been, without doubt, the most outstanding singer to join the Metropolitan forces last season. Her debut there in “Aida” in January aroused a capacity audi- ence to ovational heights, and her every appearance thereafter, notably in revivals of “Norma” and “La Gio- conda,” promptly packed the Metro- politan Opera House with enthusias- tic admirers. She likewise gave a memorable performance in “Il Trovatore.” So emphatic was the success achieved by Mme. Cigna at the Met- ropolitan during the last Winter that heroic efforts were made by the man- agement to have her American visit extended two weeks, but the Italian government was adamant in its refusal to permit Cigna to remain away for a longer period. Mme. Cigna has been singing pro- fessionally only eight years, but in that brief period she has appeared in leading roles in the major opera houses of Paris, London, Rome, Milan, Budapest, Florence, Berlin, Vienna, Nice, Verona, Venice, Lisdon, Buenos Alres, Rio and now New York. Born of a French mother and Ital- ian father, Cigna's artistic talents first revealed themselves in painting, and to develop this gift she was sent to the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. She also took up the study of the piano at the Paris Conservatoire, where she was awarded the gold medal. During this early period, Cigna showed an intense interest in singing, but her parents, believing she should concentrate on the piano did nothing to develop her vocal tal- ents but made no effort to stop the youthful Gina from studying voice by attending concerts and listening to records of famous singers. While on a visit to Milan, Cigna managed to obtain an audition before Toscanini, for whom she sang por- tions of “Norma” and “The Barber of Seville” Definitely impressed, Toscanini advised her to study the leading soprano roles of “Trovatore,” “Aida” and “La Traviata,” and then let him her her again. A year passed before Toscanini heard her again and then he gave her a year's contract at La Scala, where she made her operatic debut in an Itallan version of “Rheingold.” In 1931 Cigna was invited to appear at the Teatro Reale in Rome and this was followed by appearances at Covent Garden in London, the Paris Grand Opera, the Berlin Staatsoper, the Vienna Opera, Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Afres and other famous opera houses. Her principal roles have been Aida, Turandot, Norma, Tosca, Giocando and Violetta in “La Traviata.” About a year ago General Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan invited Mme. Cigna to make an appearance with the Metropolitan during the last season and her first appearance was made at the “Met” on January 6, last. Already plans have been made for another visit by Cigna next season, during the course of which she will be heard in a num- ber of American cities in concert. In addition to Mme. Cigna’s appear- ance, Mrs. Dorsey’s evening concert series will also offer concerts by Rachmaninoff, pianist; Kreisler, vio- linist; Mme. Kirsten Flagstad, so- prano, and a performance of Mozart's “Cosi Fan Tutte” by the Salzburg Opera Guild with symphony orches- tra all at Constitution Hall. China, which gave women full | byterian Choir and Mrs | mer.” | | were inspired by HE Takoma Park Presbyterian Church Choir, with Lottie L. Volkmer, director, and Eliza- beth B. Jackson, organist, which will take part in the Sacred Choir Festival on Tuesday, May 4, in honor of National Music week, at Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South, under the auspices of the Dis- trict of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, will present a number called “O Silent Hills,” by R. Deane Shure. The work was written for and | inscribed to the Takoma Park Pres- byterian Church Choir and its, director, Lottie L. Volkmer. Dr. Clarence Blachly, the poet, who also lives in Takoma Park, wrote the words. The artists participating in the | concert given by the German Literary Society tonight are Grete von Bayer, planist, who will play compositions by Chopin, Schumann and Sibelius, and Charles Trowbridge ~Tittmann, basso, who will sing a number of ballads by Carl Loewe, including the famous “Edward.” Lucy Bricken- stein will accompany the songs. Anita Schade will give a short talk | on “The Creator of the German | Ballad as an Art Form.” Norman Frauenheim will present Charlotte Gusse in piano recital | Tuesday evening at 8:45 o'clock in Wesley Hall, Seventeenth and K| streets northwest. The program for the Sunday hour of music at 5 o'clock at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets, tomorrow, will be given by the string trio from the Washington | Missionary College. The trio is made | up of Dorothy Goodrich Ried, vio- | linist; Donald Ried, cellist, and Prof. William J. Osborn, pianist. In the | program they will include the Mozart “Trio in F Major” and several solos for violin and piano. The public is cordially invited to attend. On Tuesday at 8:15 the Business Women's Music Club will sponsor the fourth and last of their musical eve- nings for the season. The program at this time will be given by Anita Schade, who will lecture on Robert and Clara Schumann. Miss Schade will be assisted by Dorothy Sherman Pearson, soprano, accompanied by Edith B. Athey and Grete von Bayer, | planists. Mrs. von Bayer will also accompany Miss Schade's declama- tion of the ballad “Fair Hedwig” to the music of Schumann. Business women and their friends are cordially invited to attend. Music by R. Deane Shure will be featured by the Takoma Park Pres- byterian Church tomorrow evening at the 8 o'clock service. Mrs. Dudley C. Jackson will play organ numbers and Mrs. J. Frank Rice, soprano, and J.| L. Stinson will sing. The choir, un- der the direction of Mrs. Albert W. Volkmer, will sing an a cappella num- ber which Mr. Shute wrote for and inscribed to the Takoma Park Pres- A W. Volk- | Mrs. Albert W. Volkmer, contralto, | accompanied by Mrs. Dudley C. Jack- | son, presented a program for the | Woodridge Book Club’s annual Spring | In Local Music Circles luncheon at the Admiral Club Tues- day noon. The District of Columbia Federa- tion of Music Clubs, Eva Whitford Lovette, president, with Gertrude Lyons, State junior counselor, pre- sented members of 12 junior clubs in recital on Saturday eveninz, April 10, in the Salle de Recital at 8 o'clock. The following junior counselors, Lucy M. Boyer, Lillian Harmon Burke., Mme. Louise Coutinho, Mrs. Charles Imlay, Mrs. Albert N. Jones, Esther Linkins, Maria H. Martins, Carrie L. Sanders, Frances Cutelius Smith, Enid Staley, Sarah A. Tacker and Florence Vincent Yeager, presented the follow- ing students: Bernice Jane Anderson, Jean Marie Burdick, Joan Casterlin, Lillian Chandler, Mary Elizabeth Cochran, Dorothy Jean Decker, Claire Eliason, Belmont Farley, jr.. Arthur Fridinger, Mary Gray, Anna Le- mucchi Betty Lilienthal, Calbot Meyer, Helen Elizabeth Miller, Martha Jane Orr, Irving Wagner, jr.; Mary Jane Watson, Carolyn Wilson, Sylvia Radisch, Joan Riddick. There will be a Boy Choir Festival in connection with evensong at the Church of St. Stephen and the Incar- nation, Sixteenth and Newto northwest, tomorrow ey o’clock. The following S ilar service will be ! Church, Georgetown George Cornwell, composer-pianist, formerly of this city, has opened piano studio in Plainfield. N. J, w he is also music critic of the field Post. A group of young Washington com- posers from 6 to 10 years of age will present some of their original work at the King-S the Shoreham Hotel 4 o'clock, when the Austin, exp: p cal activity terns as various a basis f of head of tr hildre; division of the music department the King-Smith Studio-School formerly a member of the facul the Cornish School in Seattle. The Washington Opera Guild will twilight home of for the Y. W. C. A Wednesday, w gave a book r Madame Louise Cot ical Study Club at their meeting afternoon at Club. The program “In der Nacht” and “Ballade No. 2." by Liszt Both these compos the Greek telling of the love of Hero and Lean= der. Prior to playing these selections, Madame Coutinho read this legend aloud. |AUDITION WINNERS | ON CLUB PROGRAM THROUGH the courtesy of the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. winners in the recent Metropolitan Opera auditions of the air, sponsored by the Sherwin Williams Co., will appear on the program for the twentieth bi- ennial convention and American Music Festival of the National Federation of Music Clubs to be held in Indianapolis | April 23 to 29. The young singers, Maxine Stell- man, 27-year-old dramatic soprano | of Brattleboro, Vt, and Thomas L. | Thomas, 25-year-old Scranton, Pa., baritone will be heard at the federa. tion banquet, scheduled to be held Saturday evening, April 24, at the Claypool, headquarters hotel. Both singers have been given contracts for the Spring season at the Metropoli- tan. Appearing on the banquet program | with Miss Stellman and Mr. Thomas will be Milton Cross, dean of National Broadcasting Co. announcers, whose | announcements of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts have gained him a large following among music lover: He will speak on “Opera in America.” Mrs. Herbert Witherspoon of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Dr. Nikolai Sokoloft, director of the Federal Music | Project and an official of the Chicago | Civic Opera Co., will speak on varying | aspects of the same theme. Besides approximately 30 choral and instrumental groups from almost an equivalent number of States which are to participate, many of the out- standing artists of the American con- cert stage will take part. The list of soloists includes Beryl Rubinstein, pianist and director of the Cleveland Institute of Music, who will play Fri- day afternoon; John Charles Thomas, baritone, who will give a complete re- cital program Sunday evening; John Powel, pianist and composer, who will play & folk music program consisting primarily of the works of American composers on Tuesday afternoon, April 27; Dalies Frantz, young artist winner of 1933, who will be piano soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra on ‘Wednesday evening, April 28, and W. Lawrence Cook, Louisville organist, who is to present a recital program on Thursday afternoon, April 29. In addition to these solo performers, the program will feature a four-piano concerto on Friday afternoon with Rudolph Ganz, Beryl Rubinstein, Bomar Cremer and Dwight Anderson as the artists; an interesting team of Canadian duo-pianists, Scott Malcolm and Reginald Godden, who will play Sunday afternoon, April 25, on the program with the noted Kreiner String Quartet, and Rudolph Reuter, pianist, who will play with the equally well- known Chicago String Quartet on Tuesday evening, April 27. Important phases of the festival program will be the finals in the federation’s young artists’ contests, which will present the winners in 14 district contests. Preliminary con- tests are scheduled for Saturday, April 25, and finals Monday evening, April 26. Winners in the contests will be broadcast from 10:30 to 11 East- ern standard time over an N. B. C. network. Last Lecture by Mr. Gregor. THE lecture-recitals on Beethoven's last 10 sonatas by Henry Gregor at the Phillips Memorial Gallery, sponsored by the Junior League of ‘Washington in collaboration with Duncan Phillips, will be completed ‘Tuesday when Mr. Gregor will discuss and play the “Sonata in C minor opus IIL,” by Beethoven, the last one of the master. These lecture-recitals have met political rights in 1925, now has many women judges, policewomen and feminine soldiers. | | held in ATTEND MEETING OF FEDERATION E\'A WHITFORD LOVETTE, presi- dent of the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs; Gertrude Lyons, member of the national board of directors and State junior counselor, and Margaret Smith, treasurer of the District of Columbia Federation and delegate from the Lovette Choral lub, will leave this week for Indian- apolis to attend the biennial conven- tion of the national federation, April 23 through April 29 Leah Effenbach, pianiste winner of the State and district young artists' contest, will also go to Indianapolis to enter the finals. Her sister, Ger- trude Effenbach, will accompany her to assist in second piano work, AIEEE Compositions Featured. T THE symphonic concert to be given by the Marine Band Sym- phony Orchestra on Wednesday eve- ning at 8 pm. in the Marine Bar- racks, a feature of the program will be two compositions by Sfegfried Scharbau, principal musician of the Marine Band, which will be eon- ducted by the composer. “The Dome of the Capitol” is a musical setting to & poem by Samuel B. Pettengill, member of Congress from Indiana, which was especially written for the Sesquicentennial Cel- ebration of the drawing of the Con- stitution and is dedicated to Presi- dent Roosevelt. The composition was played last Summer during the orchestral season at the Water Gate and since then an arrangement has been made by the composer for mili- tary bands. Edwin Steffe, baritone, will sing the solo part on Wednesday evening. Glee Clubs Plan Concert. HE annual concert and dance of the George Washington Univer- sity Combined Glee Clubs will be the main ball room of the Willard Hotel on Thursday evening, May 13, at 8:30 pm The concert will be given by the Men's Club of 40 voices, the Women's Club of 48 voices and the alumni organization of 40 voices. The Brusiloff concert orchestra will fur- nish accompaniments for the ensem- ble. The clubs are again under the direction of Dr. Robert Howe Har- mon, with Paul DeLong Gable at the piano. Group to Give Concert. 'HE annual Spring concert of the Schubert Singers, under the direc- tion of Mrs. Chester Adair will be given Wednesday, April 28 at Barker Hall with Helen Turley, contralto and the Southern String Ensemble assisting. The program will include works by Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Gounod and Rubinstein. Warren F. Johnson, Organist Church of the Pilgrims Sunday Evening Studies ___ oo Krause Washington Choral Society Spring Festival Concert at D. A. R. Hall, 17th and D Sts. 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