Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1937, Page 14

Music Donations Give Professional Burden Leaders Who Are Interested in Standards for Capital Indorse Efforts to Find Remedy for This Phase of Studio Activity. By Alice Eversman. HIS is ¢he season of the year when mursic schools and private teachers are giving student recitals to demonstrate the type and amount of work done during the Winter sessions. Many times these recitals reveal & number of greatly gifted musicians, for whom one can visualize @ career in music, and also bring up for inspection the teaching principals of the city. Very often these regitals are accepted as necessary encourage- ment for students and as advertise-« ment of schools, but there is a deeper meaning to these local endeavors which cannot be passed over SO lightly. For, after all, what every one most desires and works for is that the Capital be recognized as a musical center, with all that this implies of increased patronage of local teachers. I1f one is to keep in mind this splendid goal, certain angles of local problems must be brought up from time to time for further consideration. First and foremost is the question of unity of purpose between musicians, & purpose which should include both teacher and pupils and as laymen, the families of students and the organiza- tions featuring musical programs throughout the year. If such unity can be attained and preserved, there 18 no need to worry about the future for there will be a readiness to co- operate and an open-minded attitude capable of unlimited results. 'O ANALYZE the situation, let us begin with the students, since, | after all, not much can be accom- plished if there is not the proper material to work with. Accepting unreservedly the premise that music study is not only desirable but abso- lutely essential for every child, no matter what the talent, there is the question of how much encouragement should be given brilliant pupils to plan for public work. Mere facility and cleverness or even studiousness will not guarantee the advisability of & public career. The first ingredient to be looked for is good health. With- out this foundation the strain of constant practice and the nervous dmin of concert appearances Wwill| quickly take their toll. Following in the inventory of qualifications are the intelligence and feeling of the student. Considering the countless numbers of talented musicians in this country it is astonishing that the list of great artists is so small. The reason is that the cultivation of the things that make for superior artistry is not suf- ficiently stressed in the glamour of picturesque achievement. Thinking and feeling in the student must be educated and brought into perfect balance, so that neither the one nor the other overflows of the other arts, the imagination will be stirred, the feelings deepened end the inspiration toward progress constantly kept alive. If a student is not capable of reacting to such stimuli, he has not the qualifications to make an artist. IGHT here is where the teachers and parents come in. They are the ones to supervise and judge of the character of the reaction, if it be the more valuable type. Both parents and teachers are prone to wax lyrical over the ability of some child and‘ plan in a headstrong fashion for a career in a manner that may damage | the future musical interest of the child irreparably. An attempt must be made to sound the depths, but if after experiment nothing is discov- ered, it is a crime to plant notions of musical greatness in the mind of a | student simply because he is clever @t musical display. All teachers have had experience with demanding parents and many times are forced to go against their better judgment in order to pacify them. No teacher deliberately wishes to hold back a promising pupil, but in too great | abundance. By reading and the study | | it. solely of sentimental character or of | no one knows better, not even the parents themselves, the limitations of & student. We are presuming, of course, that the teacher has a stand- ard in mind, one that will be ae- ceptable in working toward the uplift of music in the community. If such a standard be lacking, the teacher has no right to follow his profession, for the harm that can be done by easy-going and uncultured teachers infects the musical consciousness to leave everlasting damage. In no other profession except music would incompetence be tolerated, yet it is a commonplace occurrence that people with but a smattering of musi- cal knowledge set themselves up to instruct the young. In their desire to make a showing and to cater to the vanity of students and parents, they are guilty of unforgivable mis- deeds in the name of music. day is past when those incapable of earning a living at any other work, take to the genteel occupation teaching music. If the Nation's Cap- ital is ever to win respect from the musical world for its standards and output, careless and teaching must be abolished. BUT suppose a crop of unusual talent should suddenly be dis- covered in our studios? What will be done to help them toward recognition and the more important objective of receiving a return on the cost of their education? Will the clubs and other organizations that publicize their musical events continue to add that the artists are donating their services? Will they plan to spend any sums for inconsequentials of the entertainment and blandly accept the services of the musicians, the brightest spot in their celebrations? If the idea would only be universally accepted that there are two sides to the musical question, each of equal importance, the artistic and the finan- cial, then there would be self-respect | among musicians and those profiting by their art. Why is it that if there always music that must suffer? This is a shameful condition to exist and one unworthy of a nation willing to spend in order to have all the luxuries possible. Music is a profession; if not intended as such by a pupil, it is for the teacher. It means bread and butter, clothes and a roof over the head, just the same as his profession means to a lawyer or a physician. ‘When a family lays out a considerable sum—and it is considerable, running into thousands, if there is earnest desire for the best—the members have a right to expect that their child can earn a reasonable living by music. These thoughts are favorite sub- cians, yet nothing is ever done about The clubs still continue to adver- tise the fact that they never pay for their musical programs, and teachers continue to make concessions in the matter of money rather than stand on their dignity. This department would be glad to hear from entertain- ment chairmen of organizations and from teachers who have ideas to pass to solve this most depressing problem of how one can earn a living through music. If those interested in music in Washington would unite in work- ing out some ideas on this point they would set an example to other com- munities and gain the everlasting | gratitude of those who would profit by the increased enthusiasm with which the beautiful art of music is followed. In Local Music Circles YLVIA KAPLOWITZ of the Homer L. Kitt Studios of Music will present a series of three recitals during the month of June. Frederick Farris, accordionist, and Rita Rubenstein, pianist, will be pre- sented on Sunday, June 6, at 3:30 p.m., at the Homer L. Kitt recital hall, 1330 G street. Mervin Cohen, ac- cordionist, and Miriam Madden, pianist, will We presented on Sunday, June 13, at 3:30 p.m, at the same recital hall. Sunday evening, June 20, at 8 o'clock, at the Playhouse, 1814 N street, Mrs. Kaplowitz will present her advanced group in an accordion and piano recital. The public is cordially invited to at- tend any or all three of these recitals. The May meeting of the Lyric Music Club, Dorothy Sherman Pierson, di- rector, will be held at the home of the treasurer, Mary Ellen Folmer, Tuesday evening. A paper on the subject of the evening, “Handel,” will be read by Florence Dordell, and the following members will participate in singing Handel songs: Kthel West Bonuso, Eileen Burger, Mary Ellen Folmer, Mina E. Gardner, Thelma Burger, Elizabeth Grant, Edna Cecilia Moreland, Betty Sando, Inbebord Stone and Kathryn Waltz with "Edith B. Athey at the piano. Violet Warren Pierson will also en- tertain with appropriate readings. Edwin Porter Brereton, a pupil of ‘Washington Musical Institute, as- sisted by Louis Potter, jr., cellist; Ed- ward Dawson, accompanist, presented & musical program on Thursday, May 20, in the recital hall of the institute. Mrs. David C. Book presented a number of her pupils in a piano recital on Friday evening at her studio in Rosemont. This was the first of a series of recitals to be held and the following pianists were heard: Beverly Allen, Lillian Miller, Mary Kennedy, Frances Kidd, Courtney Lynch, Lula Frances Moss, Betty Strader, Betty Clark, Jennie Amann, Martha Lou May, Jean Hulfish, Joyce Wood, Barbara Briggs, Lela Payne, Nancy Washing- ton, Annie Jones, Marguerite Bailey, Elizabeth Briggs, Helen Dunn, Betty Kiger, Margaret Eddington, Clara Jayne, Robert May and Robert Gaha- gan assisted by Rosalmira Colonro, contralto soloist of Washington, D. C. ‘The second of the series of reci- tals was held on Saturday afternoon and the following pupils were pre- sented: Jane Wallace, Jennie Amann, Harriet Hammond, Margy Morris, Betty Long, Joan Hulfish, Beatrice Wishard, Ellen Babcock, Alberta iges, Katherine Anderson, Anita b Jane Devers, Louise Saunders, Marjory | Nell Tinkle, Vivian Long, Betty Kiger, Viola Gompf, Virginia Jones, Mary Brookings, Polly Stephenson, Anna Lou Talbott, Robert Berry, Cameron Robets and Robert Gahagan, assisted by Mrs. Albert M. Briggs, soprano soloist, and John Kiger, jr., violinist. The third of the series of recitals will be held the first week in June. The Interdenominational Chorus will render a special program at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church fea- turing gospel and spiritual songs under the auspices of the young peo- ple of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, Dea= con George E. Onley sponsoring the program. Rev. C. T. Murray is pastor. Sigma Alpha Iota, national hon- orary sorority, will hold a dinner and business meeting for its Washington alumnae on Thursday evening at the Highlands, Connecticut avenue and California street. Reservations may be made through Hazel Brown Plers. A musicale was presented by Ed- ward J. Henneberry Sunday afternoon at 1230 Sixteenth street, when the fol- lowing musicians were heard: Lenore McComas, Norma Henneberry, Edward John Copping, jr.; David Richardson, jr.; Fern Duey Schneider and Fran- cesco Della-Lana. The program was concluded by a group of numbers by Mr. Henneberry. Martha Gwinn, Baltimore pianist, and Mrs. E. Colvin, jr., soprano, ac- companied by Ethel Martin Blackwell, gave a benefit concert for the Regional Scholarship Fund of Radcliff Col- lege at the home of Mrs. Jouett Shouse Sunday afternoon. The concert was sponsored by the Radcliff Club of ‘Washington. Ruth Pinch will present & number of her pupils in recital on Saturday afternoon, June 5, at 3:30 in her coun- try studio at Hillmead. Those taking part are Alice Garner, Jane Gray, Anne and Nancy Misson, Ann and George Myers, Alicia Noval, Ida Hume Peach, Margery Teal, Betty Blue, Jimmy Morrison, Gilbert H. and Fran- cis Gloyd Awalt, Patty Sutton and Margie Kempton. Marvin Gardner, baritone, will give a recital on Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis M. Bartlett, 4511 Argyle terrace. He will be ac- companied by Dorothy Emery. Mr. Gardner sang for the National League of American Pen Women at the Wil- lard Hotel in April and as assistant nrt:st recently in a concert in Pierce Hall. Iva Loughlen Guy is presenting a fl The | of | incompetent | is a question of money saving it is | jects of conversation among musi- | on on these questions in an effort} THE EVENING Song Group Of Y.W.C.A. In Concert Glee Club Has An- nual Spring Program on Thursday. THE eleventh annual Spring concert of the Elizabeth Somers Glee Club of the Y. W. C. A. will take place Thursday evening at 8:45 o'clock in the court yard of the new Strong Resi- dence. This will be the first concert of the club since moving into the new home given by Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong. Two years ago the club gave its first al fresco concert in the gar- den of Mrs. Edwin B. Parker, Y, W. C. A. chairman of music, and the club has kept up the custom by glving one out-of-door concert each year, Mary M. Burnett, head of music in the Washington Y. W. C. A,, is director of this group of 35 girls and Edith L. Dawson is the accompanist. Assisting the club on Thursday will be the Bernheimer Trio, consisting of Clara Moran Bernheimer, soprano and pianist; Elizabeth Bernheimer, violin- ist, and Louise Bernheimer, cellist. Following is the program: NATURE SONGS, “The Star” (Arranged b: R"'I"“es H o dfl £ Y Ralph L. Rogers Baldwin) ~--Franz Schubert Ernest Charles by Carl Deis) A irch Tree louds™ - _ = (Arranged Glee club. na Bambin by o Clara Moran Bernheimer ana trio. “Herennde” __ .. __ S -=v-—--Widor MP":%:‘L'}‘OEY:: Trio in D Minor,” first Bernheimer ;"Hu. LOVE SONGS. “The Nightingale's Song" dell UsmnuulnA- ey o S rranked by Victor Harrls Arranged by Deems Taylor Glee Club. “Der Freishutz" ario, piano, carto pio.___ o Clara Moran Bernheimer, Eber Riley, accompanist. SELECTIONS FROM THE OPERAS, “Awake! For Soon Will Dawn the Day" (chorale from 'Dic Melster- singer) Richard Wagner Arranged by C. F. M. Prayer from “Haensel and Gretel,"” Engelbert Humperdinck Arranged by Wallingford Riegger Scene and praver from “Cavalleria Rusticana . Mascagnl Arranged by H. Nilson “Good Night” (from "Martha', tiedrich von Flotow Arranged by Robert E. Austin Glee Club. (“Canzone piano --Weber ISLAVIC SOCIETY GIVES PROGRAM ,ON WEDNESDAY evening at 8:45 | o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. ‘W. Duncan McKim, 1701 Eighteenth street northwest, a musical will take place, given for the members of the Slavic-American Society of Music and fine arts, Elena de Sayn, president, through the courtesy of Mrs. McKim. Mrs. McKim, formerly Leonora Jack- son, violonist of European and Ameri- can fame, will present a formal program of violin music; accompani- ments will be played on the piano and the organ. Mrs. McKim has the distinction of having been decorated by several crowned heads of Europe before the war, and appeared as soloist with the world's greatest orchestras. 'FEDERATION TO BE BALTIMORE GUEST 'HE 1939 biennial convention of the National Federation of Music announced by Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober. national president. able time is May and the exact dates will be decided later. In selecting Baltimore the com- | mittee was motivated in part because of the especially strong financial guar- antee, the largest in its convention history, because a $1,000 prize for the young artists’ contests has already been donated, and because the prox- imity of Baltimore to New York's World Fair, which will then be in progress, will constitute an additional inducement to delegates. The Baltimore Music Club, one of the largest and best known music clubs ih the country, will be host for the affair, but the invitation comes from all the musical organizations of the city, including the Peabody Con- servatory of Music. The arrangements as to hotel and convention headquarters will be left to a Biennial Program Committee, to be appointed at the September meet- ing of the Board of Directors of the federation to be held in Chattanooga. While detailed program plans will also be left to the committee, it is known that symphonic and choral music will again be stressed as at the biennial of 1937. So successful was the children's con- cert at the recent biennial convention in Indianapolis that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, under the di- rection of Ernest Schelling, will prob- ably be invited to give a children's concert, Mr. Schelling having estab- lished a particularly enviable reputa- tion in this important field. group of her pupils in a piano recital this afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Women’s City Club. Those on the program are Rene Wilkins, Willlam Cogswell, Barbara Harter, Alan Fitch, Nancy Abbot, Ellen Mae Burgdoff, June Ney, Nancy Wakefleld, Robert and Willlam Hartshorn, Jacqueline Blunt, Betty Walker, Julia Ann War- then, Harris Ball, Betty Bean, Jean Guy and Mary Graves. State honor roll certificates (seven pieces) with high honor won in the recent local piano playing tournament will be presented to June Ney, Jacque- line Blunt and Betty Walker; national honor roll certificates (10 pieces) to Betty Bean, and national honor roll certificates, with high honor, to Julia Ann Warthen, Mary Graves and Jean Guy. Agnes Simmons gave a farewell Jenny Lind recital on Sunday at White Haven, accompanied by Mrs. F. D. Benton. This is the fourth twilight musicale to be given by an artist of the Washington Opera Guild. Mrs. Simmons ‘preceded her songs with a short explanatory talk on epi- sodes in the life of Jenny Lind, and was costumed in an exact copy of the gown worn by that singer on her first American tour. Mrs, Simmons will do extensive concert work in the West, where she will make her home during the next few years. Evangeline Tuily gave a program at Opportunity House Sunday afternoon. She was accompanied by Marie Morris, director of these musical events. The Baptist Sunday School Union of the District of Columbia and vicinity will hold a Spring Music Festival tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church, Rev. Earl L. Harrison, pastor. More than 300 children of 16 Sunday schools from this city and vicinity are expected to participate in this festival, held under the supervision of the music department ef the union. A \ Clubs will be held in Baltimore, it was | ‘The prob- | STAR, WASHINGTON a Peabody student. D. SATURDAY, GLENN CAROW, Washington pianist, who is the first to receive the cash prize offered by Mrs. John Cyrus Distler of Baltimore for excellence in piano playing. Mr. Carow is continuing his studies at the Peabody Conservatory and the prize will be given annually to Golden Year Of Hofmann Is Observed Music Leaders Have Plans for Event in November. . F NATION-WIDE interest is the announcement made in New York City this week that a jubilee concert | will be given at the Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday evening, No- vember 28, to celebrate the fiftieth an- | niversary of Josef Hofmann's Amer- | ican debut as a concert pianist. | A committee composed of six of the | most distinguished figures in the mu- sical life of New York, among them Dr. Walter Damrosch, dean of Amer- | ican composers. is responsible for the plan. They include Mrs. Vincent As- tor, Rawlins Cottenet, Marshall Field, Harry Harkness Flagler and David Sarnoff, presidert of the Radio Corp. of America. There is singular appropriateness in having the stage of the Metropoli- tan selected for the scene of the jubi- lee concert. It was at the historic Metropolian Opera House on Novem- ber 29, 1887, that Hofmann, as a boy of 10, made his American debut and was acclaimed the world's greatest prodigy. And now, at the peak of his career and acclaimed as the world's greatest pianist, Hofmann will play | at the same Metropolitan Opera House | | next November 28, just 50 years, lack- | ing one day, from the time of his first appearance in this country. Never | before has a great instrumentalist | celebrated a golden jubilee in Amer- ica. Intended originally solely as a trib- ute to Dr. Hofmann, the golden jubi- lee concert with Hofmann performing | will be not only one of the most note- worthy and history-making musical | | events ever to take place, but also | | perhaps the season's most important | benefit, since in keeping with the generosity to music and musicians | which has been Dr. Hofmann's | marked characteristic, he has ar- | ranged for the proceeds to be given to | | the Musicians’ Emergency Fund. which fosters the talent of young artists and | conserves and rehabilitates that of | older performers. He has been keenly interested, al- ways, in the careers of young musi- cians and has been one of the fore- most supporters of the work of the | Musicians’ Emergency Fund. Indeed the advent of his third son, Peter, last | February was marked by the issuance | of an ingenious card upon which he suggested to interested friends that they send to him, Mrs. Hofmann and Peter not cards, flowers or gifts by way of congratulations, but instead check made out to the Musicians’ Emergency Fund. PIANIST TO GIVE RECITAL SUNDAY LIZABETH CATES, pianist, will be presented by Mme. Mzrie von Un- schuld in a piano recital at the Women's City Club, Sunday, June 6, at 8:15. Miss Cates has included in her program compositions of Bee- thoven, Bach, Chopin, Strauss and On Glee Cl | servatory faculty. Kreisler Has New Honors In Belgium Violinist to Present Recital Here Next Season. WORD has come from Europe to the effect that Fritz Kreisler, celebrated Austrian violinist, who will appear here in recital at Constitution Hall next Winter as one of the attrac- tions of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's evening concert series, has been hon- ored by the Belgian government, which has presented him with the plaque of the Order of Leopold for his services to Belgian music. The presentation of the plaque was made recently in Berlin by the Belgian Minister to Germany, Count Jacques Davignon, representing King Leopold of Belgium. Kreisler lives on the out- skirts of Berlin, to which he recently returned after a concert tour of Eng- land and the continent. Other attractions to be presented by Mrs. Dorsey at Constitution Hall next season in her evening series are Rachmaninoff, pianist; the Salzburg Opera Guild, direct from Salzburg, Austria; Gina Cigna, French-Italian dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, and Kirsten Flagstad, the sensational Norwegian soprano, also of the Metropolitan. An illustrated cir- cular of concert attractions will be forwarded on request to Mrs. Dorsey at Droop's, 1300 G street northwest. PIANO PRIZE WON BY WASHINGTONIAN TTO ORTMANN, director of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, announces that Glenn Ca- row of Washington is the first recipi- ent of the Elizabeth Distler Piano Prize of $100 for excellence in piano playing. Mr. Carow, who is & pupil | of Alexander Sklarevski, was one of seven contestants for the prize, which was awarded by judges selected from the personnel of the Peabody Con- The contestants for this prize are restricted to those giving at least one individual recital during the year, and each contestant must be further certified by the teacher and the director. The prize will be given annually to a Peabody student by Mrs. John Cyrus Distler. PIANO GROUPS TO BE PRESENTED 'HE Emery Studios are presenting the piano students of Dorothy Radde Emery, Willa Semple, Ione Hoffman and Jessica Hartman in a series of recitals beginning this after- noon with the Beginners’ Class, fol- lowed by a recital by four of the ad- vanced students. to be held at the studio of Willa Semple, 2007 I street. On Tuesday evening Mrs. Lewis M. Bartlett will open her home for a re-, cital by the eight students winning honors on the District, State and na- tional honor rolls of the piano tourna- ment. The fourth recital, of inter- mediate and advanced students, will be held Thursday evening at the ‘Woodside Methodist Episcopal Church. ub Program Clara Moran Bernheimer, soprano and pianist, who with her two daughters, Elizabeth, violinist, and Louise, cellist, form the Bernheimer Trio, the assisting artists on the annual Spring concert of the Elizabeth Somers at the Strr\m residence. 1é Glee Club on Thursday evening > MAY 29, 1937 Arranged by Ballet Russe Monte Carlo Dances to be Given Here Next Season. DEF'INITE plans to bring the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe to Washing- ton for a return engagement with the National Symphony Orchestra next March 9 and 10 were announced last week by the orchestra’s management. The famous ballet company will ap- pear in two programs, both entirely different from the performances given with the orchestra last Winter. A high light of this second engagement will be a presentation of Debussy's “After- noon of a Faun.” This number and many others will be staged in the same brililant man- ner as were last year's programs. In fact, it was the success of the per= formances last year that led to the completion of plans to once more com- bine the Monte Carlo organization with the National Symphony. Previous to last year the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo had made al- most annual apeparances in Washing- ton. Its wide following more than filled the theater in which the troupe gave its performances. A year ago, when it was announced that for the first time the ballet would appear in ‘Washington combined with a complete symphony orchestra—and one of the Nation’s major orchestras, at that— unprecedented enthusiasm broke out as lovers of both the symphony and the ballet anticipated the concerts. At the same time there were many who feared that the ballet perform- ances, even with the support of a sym- phony orchestra, could not be effec- tively staged without the property fa- cilities of a regular theater. But so convinced were Dr. Kindler and ballet directors of the need for adequate symphonic support for the company’s interpretations that they became de- termined to overcome all obstacles. They met the test by placing on the programs here some of the most diffi- cult and epectacular numbers in the Ballet Russe repertoire. One evening the “Choreartium,” the ballet's su- perb interpretation of Brahms’ “Fourth Symphony,” was staged, while on the other evening of the engagement there was presented the brand-new ballet interpretation of Berlioz's “Symphony Fantastic.” So enthusiastic were the audiences that crowded Constitution Hall for both concerts that a re-engagement of the company for the symphony's 1937- 38 season has been taken for granted since, Next season’s programs also will in- clude numbers which require a large orchestra to set them off to best ad- vantage. Debussy's “Afternoon of a Faun,” a work which all the great symphony orchestras keep in their concert repertoire, is such & number. Essential to any successful interpreta- tion through the medium of ballet would be a finished performance by & complete symphony orchestra. Dr. Kindler, announcing plans for presenting the Ballet Russe here again, stressed the fact that the programs will consist of sets of ballets entirely different from those presented last year. One of the concerts will be in the symphony’s midweek series of con- | certs, and will be one of the features | offered patrons who obtain season tickets, | MUSIC FACULTY RECITAL PROGRAM A MUSIC faculty recital will be given at Gunston Hall tomorrow | evening, at 8:30 o'clock, when the program will be presented by Minna Niemann, pianist, and Gretchen Hood, soprano, accompanied by Malton Boyce. Following is the program: IBrelude and Fugue C Minor” | “Ch (by request) “Rondo Capricioso” Miss Nies Se Florindo jemant Bach Bach-Hess Mendelssohn e fedel Del Mio Amato Ben' Widmung” = “Meinie Liebe ist grun = Miss Hood. Scarlatty Donaudy _Schumann Brahms “Intermezzi’ Brahms Brahms ~-Chopin Chopin Chopin “Sonate Op. 35 First Movement' Miss Niemann. Ouvres tes yeux bleus” Massenet drigal” Chaminade iocca la Neve'_ S5 Cimar, | “Ein solcher ist mein Freund" Erich Wolft Miss Hood. Clair de Lune Reflet dan Teau Tl Neige “Roses of the South’ Debussy _Debussy < Oswald Strauss-Schuett & Miss Niemann Canterbury Fair” (old English). Leslie-Smith Frank Moir Miss Hood. Concert Schedule TOMORROW. Minna Niemann, pianist; Gretchs en Hood, soprano; Guston Hall, 8:30 p.m. Marine Band, Memorial day service, Amphitheater, Arling- ton Cemetery, 12 noon. Memorial day service, 2d Division Memorial, 2:15 p.m. MONDAY. Marine Band, Marine Barracks, 5 pm. Army Band, Army War College, 5 pm. TUESDAY. Anne Farquhar, cellist; Elizabeth Rankin King, planist, Wash- ington College of Music, 8:30 p.m. Lyric Music Club, Dorothy Sher- man Pierson, director, May meeting. Marine Band, Walter Reed Hos- pital, 6:30 p.m. Soldiers’ Home Band, bandstand, 7 pm. ‘WEDNESDAY. Marvin Gardner, song recital, 4511 Argyle Terrace. Marine Band, United States Cap- itol, 7:30 p.m. Navy Band, sail loft, 11:30 a.m.; bandstand, Navy Yard, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY. Elizabeth Somers Glee Club, Strong residence, 8:45 p.m. Navy Band, Naval Hospital, 3 pm. Army Band, War College, 3:30 pm. Soldiers’ Home Band, bandstand, 7 pm. S FRIDAY. Pupils of Fanny Amstutz Rob- erts, Emanuel Zetlin, Edmund Ender, Dorothy Tyler, Wash- ington College of Music, eve- ning. Navy Band, Walter Reed Hospi- tal, 6:30 pm.; sail loft, Navy Yard, 11:30 am. Army Band, St. Elizabeth’s Hos- pital, 2 pm.; Capitol, 3:30 p.m. SATURDAY. Army Band, 10:30 a.m. Marine Band, 12:30 p.m. Soldiers’ Home Band, 7 p.m. Young Pianist Wins Cash Award Return Visit|Nelson Eddy Confesses He Admires Simple Life Dr. Kindler of National Symphony Makes Contact With Public Also and Finds Eddie Cantor Confused With Great Singer. By Dr. Hans Kindler. and he continued: meeting artists, and we get some very only day before yesterday I had an- other one on this line!” “You did,” I asked him, “and who was that?” He seemed to enjoy my curiosity, for he added: “Guess who?” I told him I hadn't an idea. “Well, all right, I'll tell you who it was. Eddie Cantor. You know him, don't you?” I told him no, I didn't have that pleasure, and asked him whether he had been as funny as he was supposed to be. “Funny? No, he wasn't funnyl” ‘Whereupon I inquired what he might have been doing in the neigh- borhood. “Why, he was singing in a concert at Raleigh.” “Eddie Cantor, a concert?” I asked in_astonishment. He answered, “Sure, why not?” A sudden suspicion had come over me and I asked him, “Are you sure it was Eddie Cantor?’ “Sure as can be.” I persisted, “Are you positive it was he?” “Why, yes, why not?” | son Eddy?” Another big smile, and, “Oh, now, sure 'nough, that's right, that'’s who it was—Nelson Eddy. I got them mixed up!” So much for fame! 'HE next day, on my return trip, I was reading a book, when sud- denly I heard a voice next to me say, “And how's Mr. Kindler these days?"” I looked up and here was Nelson him- self. I hadn't seen him in 10 years. Before that time we had both lived in Philadelphia and given concerts together. And I was pleased to see that he had changed but little—per- haps a trifle more gray at the temples, & few lines here and there—but with the same nice, big, open-faced smile on his Irish countenance. I was naturally delighted to meet him, and asked him to sit down. We reminisced about the “old days,” and after a while I told him the story of the railroad conductor and the mix- up of the Eddies. He doubled up with laughter, and it warmed the cockles of my heart to see how com- pletely unspoiled he had remained, in the face of the kind of success which would have turned the head of many another man. Suddenly an idea came to me, and on the spur of the moment I asked him: “Tell me what are you inner reactions, both as & man and as an artist, toward the particular kind of adulation which is yours these days?” A rather weary and wistful look came over his face, and he asked me what I thought was a rather pathetic question in return, “Would you believe me if I told you the truth?” If nothing else would have made me be- lieve in his innate honesty, his hearty roar at the story at his expense would have, and I told him so. “Well,” he answered, “you see that man over there,” pointing to his man- ager across the aisle, who was having i an advantage over both of us by sleep- |ing the sleep of the just, *well, if that man could guarantee me at the | beginning of the season that I could travel without having to get out at the wrong side of the train upon my arrival in a city where a concert is announced for a certain date; if I wouldn't have to go through boiler rooms in order to get to my room in | the hotel; if I wouldn't have to go | through the ordeal of thousands upon “thousands of autographs during the course of the season, not to talk of Yes, sir, some very fine ones . . . Why, 4 “Couldn’t it possibly have been Nel- | N OUR recent, tour, while going from Rock Hili to Chapel Hill, the conductor of the train, after examining my tickets, suddenly said: “Aren’t you the leader of this here National Symphony Orchestra?” I confessed. Whereupon a large-sized smile appeared on his face, “Well, now, I'm sure proud to meet you. I always enjoy fine ones right here on this here road. | the more personal annoyances, I would guarantee him $10,000 in ad- vance. And that is the truth.” I DID not doubt hira. Why should not this kind of rather maudlin enthusiasm be distasteful to a fine and sensitive person? But ewen if I would have doubted him I would ! have seen the truth of his remark shortly afterward upon arrival in Greensboro, where we had a “lay= over” of an hour. He suggested a cup of coffee in the drug store of | the station. Only a few people were in the station, but we had not been in the drug store for longer than five .minutes when eight persons had come | up and asked him for his autograph! | For the sake of the honor of the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra I must confess that three of them requested mine, too, but I am certain I shone only by reflection. We talked some more upon our return to our Pullman, and he ex- pressed his very definite and clear- eyed views of the cruelty involved in a career in Hollywood, of the fact that some one who had been “tops” out there could never accept a sec- ondary position, and that su a person, after the proverbial seven “fat” years, which a career out there lasts on the average, means abso- lutely nothing from a box-office point of view afterward in the eyes of the ones who make and break the desti- nies of their stars. “I wouldn't want to live out there for anything in the world after I'll be through. A nice little place on the New England Coast for me. I love that part of America more than any place in the world. I used to go there every Summer and live in a tent. It was marvelous and so easy and simple and healthy and naturall Now I pay $12,000 a year for rent in | Hollywood, and I'm only there half the time.” HE SEEMED so sincere about it that I silently wondered why he didn't “go” for this ideal this very minute, but I didn't ask him the question, knowing only too well how, after all, fame and wealth and repu- tation and applause and success are strong and powerful magnets. Instead, I told him I had fust ac- quired a little farm in Maryland my- self, and described it in minute a enthusiastic detail. “Boy, oh, bo; he sald, “are you lucky! The con- ductor of the National Symphony Or- chestra and at the same time a farmer! Well, when I get through with the movies I'll do the same thing, and I'll come and sing oratorios with you and the orchestra for nothing. That’s my ideal of a singer's life. You seem to have achieved yours,” he added with a rather wistful smile, I explained that my life also had its difficulties, its hazards and disap- pointments and constant problems. He understood and agreed, and within my heart I in turn understood his nos- talgic longing for escape. So we talked and smoked for another hour, until Winston-Salem, the destination of my | next concert, was announced. The train stopped, the porter took my bags and we went to the platform together. Then we shook hands, glad to have run across each other once again in this curious world of artists who travel from one place to the next. As I was walking away he shouted after me: “Listen. If you ever get sick of that farm of yours, let me know, will you?” ‘Music Year End Active For Pupils College of Music Has Series of Recitals During Week. ‘HE calendar of pre-commence- ment programs at the Washing- ton College of Music includes several for the ensuing week. This evening Marjorie Vesta Wilkins will play a piano recital; on Tuesday at 8:30 o'clock Anne Farquhar, cellist, will be assisted by Elizabeth Rankin King, pianist, in numbers by Saint-Saens, Ravel, Debussy and Richard Strauss. On Friday evening a group of ad- vanced students of Fanny Amstutz Roberts, Emanuel Zetlin, Bdmund Ender and Dorothy Tyler will pre- sent piano, violin and vocal reper- toire. Mr. Zetlin, head of the violin de- partment of the College of Music for the past nine years, has received word of the appointment of his pupil, Jac Gorodetzki, as concertmeister of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Gorodetzki has been a student of Mr. Zetlin's for five years. Last year he won prix d’honneur in the Con- cours Bellan and graduated with first prize from the Paris Conserva- toire. He was heard in recital in Town Hall, New York, April 14, and received commendation from all the critics. Edwin Hughes of New York closed his series of lectures on the esthetic basis of musical expression with an exposition of the comparative de- mands of the music of Mozart and of Chopin. Included in his playing excerpts was the Chopin “F Minor Fantaisie.” Dorothy Tyler's students sang & recent evening's voice recital. Those heard were Catherine Delaney, Doris Beckwith, Marguerite Moncure, Doris Goldblatt, Marcella De Chene, Marion Dilling, Mrs. Norwood Casidy and Bertha Banck, their repertoire cov- ering a& wide range of significant vocal literature. Helen Miller and Edwin Hughes are jointly presenting Ruth Alice Davis, a young pianist of Baltimore, on Sunday, June 5, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Elizabeth Rankin King of the Preparatory School faculty used the regular Friday afternoon playing hour last week for her students, oconsist- ing of Dorothy Dale, Mary OCappel- man, Alice Richards, Eleanor Ong, George Tolley, Ruth Dryden, Mar- garet Jean Driftmeyer, Reed Garver and Thelma Barr. Edward Aikman, young cello pupil of Anne Farquhar, and Helen Potter, violinist, pupil of Grace Powell, assisted. Another Pre- paratory School program was given by Norma Jean Seiler, Thelma Cox, Mil- dred and Norma Banck, Maidee Coff- man, Erin Marie and Emory Woodall, Virginia Lee Cusick and Dalsy Zabel, all young pianists from the class of Mary Beth Garvey. Alice Jean Ingersoll played & sig- nificant program on Thursday eve- ning which included the Bach three- part “Invention in D Major,” the Mozart “D Minor Fantasie”; a Chopin group, the “Nocturne in G Major,” the “Impromptu in A Flat,” the “Ber- ceuse” and the “Ballade in A Flat”; the Mendelssohn “Scherzo in E Minor”; Debussy's “La plus que lente”; Griffes’ “White Peacocl Edward MacDow- ell's “1620” and “Bre'r Rabbit” and the “Allegro Moderato” from the “G Ma- Jor Concerto” by Beethoven, for which the second piano part was played by her teacher, Fanny Amstutz Roberts. Miss Ingersoll achieved national honor roll with high honors as ranking in the recent local tournament of the national piano playing tournament. Last Sunday evening pianists from the class of Tamara Dmitrieff were heard in solo and duo numbers. Those playing were Gloria Masgoret, Frances Perry, Margaret Cooley, Audrey | Hamblen, Florence Favinski, Leota Overlade and Marion Wolberg. MUSIC TEACHER OFFICERS NAMED | ADDI’I‘IONAL officers of the Wash= ington Music Teachers' Associa= | tion unanimously re-elected at the last business mecting are: Treasurer, Dorothy Neff Tyler; programs, Mabel Duncan; membership, Myron Whit- ney, and hospitality, Etta Schmid Wells. Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, who is & member of the board as representa- tive of the associate members, also was re-appointed by the president of the association, Mrs. Hugo Hessel~ bac! PIANO TUNING EXPERT WORK | 37 YEARS EXPERIENCE | SCHAEFFER 1428 IRVING ST. N.E. POt. 0989 Armando Jannuzzi Grand Opera Dramatic Tenor Voice Specialist Italian Method School ef bel cante Adams 3687- § 1519 Oak St. N.W. (Cor. 16th) ® /