Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1937, Page 18

B—4 x» THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Whole World to Share In Chopin Broadcast Poland’s Week in Observance Of Anniversary to Begin With Great Program. By Alice Eversman. MUSIC. D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1037. Opera Singers and Pianist in the Musical Limelight MUSIC. Rosa Ponselle to Sing Recital Tomorrow Metropolitan Star to Appear Here in Opening Event Of Sunday Series. to participate in the National Music Festival to be held in Poland in observance of the 98th anniversary of the death of Frederick TOMORROW morning at 11:30 o'clock the entire world will be allowed Chopin. By means of an international hook-up, the music of Chopin will flood the air in a manner the composer never dreamed of, presented by + & mixed choir from the Province of Masovia, where Chopin was born, and Henry Sztompka, pianist, another famous Pole, Paderewski. In ‘Warsaw, where the broadcast will take place, Mr. Sztompka will have the honor of playing on the piano upon which Chopin worked out many of his compositions and which has been reverently taken care of in the National Museum of Warsaw. Mr. Sztompka is the third pianist to have been accorded the privilege of play- ing on Chopin’s piano. The celebration will continue throughout the week in Poland. The street in Warsaw named for the com- poser will be decorated and his music will be played at the Chopin Mcuu- ment. The cottage where he was born in 1810 at Zelazowa Wola, near War- saw, will attract many pilgrimages ta view the mementos of his early days in his native country and the years of his Paris career, which repose in this small museum. It will be a week when Poland will delight in honoring her son, who immortalized the joys and sorrows of his people in music. "A LTHOUGH no similar celebration is planned elsewhere, music lovers all over the world will participate in spirit in this loving remembrance of & great musician. Wherever great music is played, Chopin's works have never failed to awaken a wholehearted response, no matter what the degree of musical education may be. In spite of the fact that Chopin was a thor- oughly national composer, finding constant inspiration in the popular themes of aristocracy and peasantry alike, he is able to ally all nationali- ties to his by reason of his under- standing of the heart of a nation. Through him, the soul of Poland was made known to the world and the world has been grateful. In comparison with other com- posers, how unique is Chopin. A man of intense sensitivity, he did not storm about his woes nor ruin his beautiful nature by bitter thoughts. He did not thunder out the passions of humanity nor strive to enclose in epic form the story of his people. Rather he spread the gospel of hap- piness, charm, and vitality, as though to urge that no matter what the sorrow, it should be met in a con- quering spirit. It is this refusal to submit to defeat, so characteristic of his nation, that Chopin has glorified in music. O ONE better than Chopin knew what it meant to suffer. The urge of music was strong within him, yet his physical condition did not match his spiritual strength, nor was his sensitive soul equal to battle with the rough common-placeness of life. His only respite from this unceasing strug- gle was to retire within himself and there see the world as he wished to see it and himself as a vigorous ex- ponent of joyous and graceful living. He who had little strength to dance wrote his waltzes, mazurkas and polon- aises with flery zeal, and sang into MUSIC TEACHERS’ BUSINESS SESSION 'HE semi-annual business meeting of the Washington Music Teach- ers’ Association will take place tomor- row at 5 o'clock ,at 1810 Connecticut avenue. Names of new members will be announced, and any member wishing to present the names of prospective members may do so at this meeting, #0 the board can pass upon their applications in time for them to attend the first program meeting. The tickets for the concerts of the National Symphony Orchestra will be given to those drawing winning num- bers. These tickets were obtained with the credit for the association's syb- scription to the sustaining fund of the orchestra. In order to stimulate and encourage the music student, the association is sponsoring & “pianists’ contest.” With the kind co-operation of Dr. Hans - Kindler and the National Symphony Orchestra, the winner of the contest will be accorded an appearance with the orchestra, and be featured as soloist in the last students’ concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Constitution Hall in March, 1938. Purther details of this will be an- nounced at the meeting. ‘The first program meeting will be on Monday, October 25, at 8:15 at the Arts Club, 2017 I street. The pro- gram will be “A Talk on Development of the Art Song in America,” by Prof. ‘William Treat Upton, professor emeri- tus of the Oberlin (Ohio) Conservatory of Music. This will be illustrated by four groups of songs by some of the outstanding singers in the association, with Mrs. Emery at the piano. Concert Events . Are Scheduled A CONTI BERENGUER, concert * manager, announces a series of four events for the coming season, three of which will be presented in the -Rflemh Hotel ball room and the fourth at Constitution Hall. On November 4 - -the Metropolitan String Ensemble, as- sisted by Sylvia Grazzini, soprano, and Amelia Conti, solo harpist of the Met~ ropolitan and Chicago Civic Operas, will open the series. On November 29 a gala performance by Mercado’s Tipica Mexican Orchestra, with out- standing soloists, will be given in Con- stitution Hall, and other events at the Raleigh will be a recital by Robert ‘Weede, baritone of the Metropolitan and St. Louis Municipal Operas and member of Radio City Music Hall Quartet, on January 4, and a joint ap- pearance of William Penny Hacker, planist and Juanita Cansino, Spanish dancer, on January 20. Organ Recital ONE of the highlights of the 10th an- niversary celebration at Takoma Park Evangelical Lutheran Church, which will take place this week, is the organ recital by Gene Stewart tomor- row evening at 8 pm. Mr. Stewart will be assisted by Mrs. Theodore P. Fricke, soprano, graduate of Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, and a pupil of the late Herbert Witherspoon, and Frederick Wells, violinist. A new orgatron, recently installed, will be wsed for the recital. pupil ofe~ his ballads and romances all the poetry of his own delicate soul. He knew loneliness, nostalgia and disillusionment, yet his spirit never faltered. He was separated from his loved family, but he kept the bond of affection vitally alive through his let- ters, each of which ended with “Love me.” He idolized his country, yet was never to see it again after he rec- ognized that he must seek the de- velopment of his genius in foreign lands. A silver urn holding the soil of his country, a gift from admirers on his departure from home, was ever with him and accompanied him to his tomb. When those to whom he had attached himself in affection left him and a lingering death stared him in the face, he found solace in the quantity of violets with which he liked to surround himself. And when death at last overtook him, he asked that a friend might sing, s0 that his spirit could be borne away on the wings of his beloved music. HAT a heritage has he left the world and whit & task to match it in interpretive intelligence. To real- ize the deeper utterances masked under the lovely exterior is a difficult accom= plishment and one that demands a spirit akin to the composers. Certain elements made for Chopin’s success during his lifetime, and these same ele- ments are necessary in his interpreters to make Chopin a success today. It is true that the form and melody of his composition carry a universal and never-failing appeal, but that is not the beginning and end of his power. And that is not the end Chopin destined for his music nor the type of message he wished to convey. He meant his music to speak of the heart burnings of humanity and at the same time to stimulate the spirit to bear them with courage and with the determination to survive their harrowing effects. From his nearly lifelong habit of gaz- ing across into eternity he had dis- covered the justness and inevitable goodness of Fate, and this conviction he has left to posterity. Nothing ex- emplifies this better than his “Funeral March,” where the nob!>, solemn measures soar above human grief to the calm, uplifting security of Infinite Compassion. In his flights of lyricism there is a purity and perfection not of this world. No pianist is without a Chopin reper- toire, but how many of them can re- produce or think to reproduce these in- tangible elements that are the essence of the composer. Chopin was his own best interpreter, and his style was so different from that of other pianists of his day that it was constantl being remarked upon. After a concert in Paris his compatriot, the Polish poet Mickiewicz said to him, “You have in your fingers an orchestra of butter- flies.” What better summing up of Chopin’s art could there be than this remark, for his music is replete with the glorious coloring, the charm and spirituality of this most delicate of God’s creatures, who earnestly and courageously fulfills his destiny. HOLIDAY PROGRAM BY CHORAL UNION VO important choral works are slated for performance at a local theater by the National Choral Union on December 21. The program is ap- propriately chosen for the Christmas season and will represent compositions never before heard in Washington. The National Choral Union, 125 voices strong, is now preparing this concert under the personal direction of Hugh Ross, director of the Schola Cantorum of New York and one of the leading choral conductors in the United States. The particular works for the De- cember performance are “Fantasy on Christmas Carols,” by H. Vaughan Williams, for chorus and orchestra, and the pageant “Bethlehem,” by Rus- sell Boughton, for chorus, solo voices and orchestra. Auditions for chorus members in this concert will close at Epiphany Church Tuesday at 7:30. The National Choral Union is found- ed as a medium for the improvement and stimulation of local church choirs. It is in reality a training school where choirs and choristers may directly benefit under the instruction of a su- perior conductor. The organization is indorsed by leading clergymen and prominent organists, many of the lat- ter being represented in the choirmas- ters’ course conducted by Hugh Ross. It is through the results of such ac- tivities that the clergy see a definite means for improving church music standards, and through the formation of an afliated group, the Church Mu- sic Society, a means of passing these improved conditions on to the congre- gations of Washington churches. In Recital GENE STEWART, Organist, who will give a recital tomorrow evening at Takoma Park Evahgelical Lutheran Church. & Theater, and right, Edwin Steffe Jormance of “Pagliacci” on Mo Olga Samaroff-Stokowski. Louise Caselotti, contralto, next Saturday evening with the Columbia Opera Co. at the Rialto Jor the first time in an operatic role, that of Sylvio in the left, who will sing “Carmen” , local baritone, to be heard here er- wday night. Below, Leach Effen- bach, local pianist, who has recently been awarded the Fellow- ship for piano at the Juilliard School of Music. Miss Effenbach left Sunday for New York to continue her studies with Mme. OHeredA at Ria In Coming Series. impossible. Thanks to the radio, th of music writers in the press, however, ful place as a universal art. It is this new interest that has en- abled the Columbia Opera Co. of New York, after successful seasons in Bal- | timore, Albany, Rochester, Quebec and countless other opera-less cities, to bring nine of its most popular presen- tations to the Rialto Theater next week beginning Monday. And it comes not as & ‘“‘noble experiment,” but com- plete with everything traditionally ex- pected of grand opera stars, chorus, ballet, orchestra, scenery—all devel- oped through several seasons of suc- cessful performance. Among the outstanding principals are Louise Caselotti, mezzo-soprano, whose famous “Carmen” has won her plaudits with the San Carlo, the Hip- podrome and New York Opera Cos. Ralphe Errole, tenor, and Rocco Pan. discio, baritone, of the Metropolitan; and such acclaimed Columbia favorites as Elda Ercole and Luisa Coronina, sopranos; Mario Palermo, tenor; Al- fredo Chigi, baritone; Gretchen Haller, Dupre Visit Here to Be Guild Event Famous Organist At Catholic University. MARCEL DUPRE, the famous French organist from Paris, will appear at the Shrine of the Immacu- late Conception, Catholic University, next Sunday, October 24, at 4 p.m. His appearance in this city is under the auspices of the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists. In 1820 Dupre startled the musical world by the almost incredible feat, for the first time in history, of playing perfectly from memory the entire or- gan works of Bach in a series of 10 extraordinary recitals at the Paris Conservatory. This accomplishment involved the memorizing and playing of over 200 different pieces and 2,000 printed pages of music. One of the most talked-of events with which any organist has ever been connected with Marcel Dupre's playing of the musical program at the wed- ding of the former King of England, the Duke of Windsor. The event was publicized the world over and Dupre's name has been brought to the atten- tion of millions who had probably never heard of him before, although for the last 20 years he has been at the top of his profession.. Y. W. C. A. SUNDAY SEASON OF MUSIC THE first Sunday music hour of the season at the Y. W. C. A, Seven- teenth and K streets, is announced for tomorrow at 5 o’clock. Elena de Sayn, violinist, has arranged the following program: “Concerto” (for violin and viola—frst part) e Mozart Norma Coombs, Miss de Sayn. “Coneertina Fortnoft Mary. Alice Ferguson. “Golden Sonota™ (for two_ violins). Purcell Mary Alice Ferguson, Miss De Sayn. 3 Tirndelll “Mistica’ 2 % Spinnine Wheel” “Popper-Aner “A la Russe” 5 - Vieuxtemps Miss De Sayn. PFrances Berkman will be the accom- panist. A cordial invitation is extended to men and women to attend these in- formal music hours, planned for each Sunday from October to May. \ e — Columbia _Opera Week Ito Leading Classics Are Chosen For Presentation Here rs ago—when grand opera in America IME was—and not so many yea was the exclusive entertainment of the born concert-goer. To attempt to tour the country with seven-day stands in cities the size of Wash- ington at prices within the range of every pocketbook was considered e motion picture and the enthusiasm opera has been brought into its right- mezz0-s0prano, basso. The ballet, chorus and orchestra, largely drawn from Metropolitan per- formers, lends smooth and experi- enced support to the principals. To make Washington's brief opera season as complete as possible, Im- ‘presarlo Armand Bagarozy arranged | to transport nine individual produc- tions here for the seven-day series, The operas, selected as the most popu- lar in the Columbia's repertoire, are: “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagli- acci,” Monday night; “Rigoletto,” Tuesday night; “Faust,” Wednesday ight; “Barber of Seville,” Thursday ‘La Traviata,” Friday night; “Martha” (in English), Saturday mati- nee; “Carmen,” Saturday night; “Lu- cia Di Lammermoor,” Sunday matinee; “Il Trovatore,” Sunday night. Single tickets for each performance are now on sale at the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau, 910 G street northwest. and Lloyd Harris, CHANTERS’ MUSIC FOR CHEVY CHASE THIRTEEN holds no fear of hoodoo for the Chevy Chase Chanters, who this week start their thirteenth year of choral singing. This popular choral organization of professional and business men still includes many of its charter members. From the waiting list, membership is to be enlarged in some of the voice parts, which will further improve the shadings and balance of tone with which a performance by this club has become synonymous. The singers will continue under the direction of J. Horace Smithey, formerly of New York, whose first year of leadership of this organization culminated in a Spring concert last May. After completing several previous radio engagements, the club was invited by the National Broadcasting Co. to sing on the pro- gram opening the new studios of WMAL and WRC in the Trans-Lux Building in July. Officers for the coming season include: William A. Rogers, president; Ross A. Rudd, vice president; Thomas H. Clafly, secretary, snd Lynn L. Gillchrest, treasurer. LECTURE RECITALS IN PIANO HISTORY NORMAN FRAUENHEIM, pianist, will give a series of eight lecture- recitals on the history of the piano literature and the evolution of musical form beginning Monday. The lectures will be illustrated by Mr. Frauenheim at the piano, with masterpieces of the great composers from the English Vir- ginilists of the sixteenth century up to and including Debussy. Entire pro- grams will be devoted to Bach and Beethoven. The course is under the sponsorship of Mr. Joseph Horgan, and the first meeting will be held in her home in Brandywine street Monday morning at 11 o’clock. The subject to be discussed will be the origins of musical expres- sion, the evolution of scales and the influence of church style, folk-song and dance upon the early examples of instrumental music which will be player. The lecture-recitals will take place on consecutive Monday mornings at 11 o'clock, the second being in the home of Mrs. Edward H. Everett, 2304 Massachusetts avenue, on Monday, October 25. —— Flora McGill Keefer, mezzo-soprano and teacher of singing, announces the opening of her studio at 181¢ G street northwest for the season. Local Music Circles ILLIAM WEBSTER Dorothy Remington, teach= ers of singing at 1635 Con- necticut avenue, anmounce the names of the cast for their first production of opera this season. “Rigoletto” will be sung at Roosevelt High School in December, with the following singers: Rigoletto, divided between Joe Allen Jones and Edwin Drinkard; Gilda, divided between Mrs. E. P. Coffey and Marye Durst; the Duke, John Seate; the Usher and the Page, Herbert Lupton; Madalenna, Florence Hilker. Characters of the opera other than these have not been definitely decided upon, although sev- eral students are trying for the parts. Arturo Papalardo, director of the National Capital Parks Schola Can- torum, announces the completion of two newly formed women's and men's octets. These groups are now study- ing a fugue and double fugue from Verdi’s “Requiem” as well as a mis- cellaneous program to be broadcast by the Columbia network. An important change in rehearsal schedules of the schola definitely states the time for ‘Wednesday evenings at 7:30—women’'s sections—and Thursday evenings at the same hour for the men’s sections. All rehearsals are held at the schola headquarters, 1317 F street northwest. Appointments for membership in the schola or augmented octets may be made by telephone. Lillian Harmon Burke announces the reopening of her piano studio at 5004 Fifth street northwest. The Har- mony Music Club held its first meeting at the studio Monday, October 11, at 4 o'clock. Judy Conklin, Weston Jones and Calbot Meyer, pupils from Esther Linkins’ Voice Studio, with Charlton Meyer, piano pupil of La Salle Spier, and Karlian Meyer, pianist, will pre- sent a varied program of solos and duets Tuesday, in the home of Mrs. Cabot Stevens following a missionary luncheon in honor of Mrs. Marshall, wife of Rev. Peter Marshall, new pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. The Piano Teachers’ Forum, Thelma Callahan, president, will hold its Oc- tober meeting Thursday morning at 10:45 in the auditorium of Homer L. Kitt, 1330 G street northwest. Ed- ward Dawson, pianist, will be the guest artist of the morning. All members are urged to attend, as thedtnmnl election of officers will be held. Elsa Louise Raner, violinist, has re- sumed teaching in her studio at 1430 Belmont street and also at the Ma- deira School, where ahe is head of the violin department. Margery League, soprano; Lenna Orr Gauss, alto; John M. Hall, tenor, and Robert Ewing, bass, have been re-engaged to sing at Trinity M. E. Church this year. The quartet sings at the morning services and is aug- mented by the chorus choir at night. The choir elected the following officers at its first meeting: Marie Gott, president; Louella Baily, secretary; Helen Baily, treasurer, and Robert Baily, librarian. The choir is under the direction of Emma Louise Thomp- son, organist. Thomas N. Leef, director of music at the Chevy Chase Baptist Church, announces that, starting tomorrow, he will present & new adult chorus choir of 25 voices, supported by a solo quartet. The soloists for the com- ing year will be as follows: Katherine Murrell, soprano; Klasle Douglas, soprano; Nellie White, contralto; Phillp Baxter, tenor; Harry Crovw, L} and , bass, and Thomas N. Leef, bass. The | organist will be Mabel Test. Dorothy Radde Emery presented the teaching staff of the Emery Studios in recital on Thursday in the ‘Woodside Methodist Church in Silver Spring. The program was presented by Willa Semple, Ione Hoffman, Jes- samine Hartman and Dorothy Emery, pianists, and Herman Hoffman, vio- linist. The Georgetown Presbyterian choir has returned to its place in the serv- ices of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church. A limited number of va- cancies remain in the choir, especial- ly in soprano, contralto and bass sec- tions. Persons desiring to sing with the choir are asked to consult Mrs. Frank Akers Frost, the organist and director, at 1328 Jonquil street. The annual election of officers took place recently at the annual business meeting, when the following were elected: President, Robert L. Hul- burt; secretary, Martha Ann Kotila; treasurer, John C. Page (who was elected in June to be the permanent treasurer) ; librarians, Mrs. E. F. Free- man and Joseph Campbell. Anna Sloan, cellist, has opened her new studio at 1824 Quincy street and is now forming a small orchestra for the study of classical music. Any one desiring to join should apply at the studio Wednesday evenings from 7:30 to 9 o'clock. Mrs. William T. Reed has resumed her vocal teaching at her residence studio, 2608 Cathedral avenue. She will again have charge of the vocal department of Martha Washington Seminary, with which she has been associated for a number of years. Gertrude Lyons, well-known con- cert soloist and voice instructor, has been invited for the tenth time to sing for the memorial service, held biennially by the Supreme Council of the thirty-third degree Masons, A. A. 8. 8, of the Southern jurisdiction, which is held this year on Monday, October 18. Mrs. Lyons is the only woman who has ever been thus hon- ored. She will be assisted by Trump- eters Joe Humpherson and Warren Simpson, and Harry G. Kimball will preside at the organ. The Stein Trio, assisted by Carl Jaspan, their teacher and coach, will play at the Washington Hotel Audi~ torium tomorrow at 3 p.m. The occa- sion is a memorial service being held for the late Sydney Shostock, who was killed in the Spanish civil war. New Choir Head. 'ELIX FOUDRAY, who has assumed recently the duties of choir direc- tor at the National Baptist Memorial Church, is & native of Missouri. He formerly was asosciated with St. John's Evangelical Church, Evansville, Ind. While in Evansville he conducted the civic choir of 400 voices, composed of 26 choirs of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths. He is a graduate of Drury College and later studied singing with Arthur Burton, Chicago, and Frank La Forge, New York. He studied theory and composition with A. Madeley Richard- son of the Institute of Musical Art, New York, and church music with Dean Walter Henry Hall and Charles H. Doersam, Columbia University. In his new office Mr. Foudray desires to build & volunteer choir from the church membership. He extends an invitation to all who are interested to come to the Friday evening rehearsal Lo Opera and one of the outstanding native-born singers in the history ROSA PONSELLE, celebrated dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan of American music, will open the 1937-1938 concert season in Wash- ington tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, when she appears in f ull- length recital at Constitution Hall as the first attraction of the seres of Sunday afternoon concerts sponsored by Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey. Stuart Ross will accompany Miss Ponselle, who will open her program with the aria “Adieu, Forets,” from< ~ e - Tschaikowsky's opera, “Jeanne d’Arc.” She will then sing an extensive group of five numbers, including “Quel Rus- celletto” (Paradies), “Nur Wer Die Sehnsucht Kennt” (Tschaikowsky), “Vergebliches Standchen” (Brahms), “A I'Aime” (de Fontenailles) and “Ouvre ton Coeur” (Bizet). Mr. Ross will then play two piano solos, the Rach-Kelberine “Chorale,” from “Can- tata No. 22" and the Bach-Samaroff “Organ Fugue in G Minor.” e Immediately after the intermission Miss Ponselle will sing two arias, “Ad- dio del Passato,” from Verdi's “La Tra- viata” and “Chanson Boheme,” from Bizet’s “Carmen.” Mr. Ross will play the Brahms “G Minor Rhapsodie” and Chopin’s “B Minor Etude,” after which Miss Ponselle will sing another group of five songs, including Giles Hig- gins' “My Lovely Celia,” Grieg's “Eros,” Herbert Brewer's “Fairy Pip- ers,” Rachmaninoff'’s “The Soldier's Bride” and Frank La Forge's “Into the Light.” P Symphony To Present Sea Theme Tone Poem Made One of Season'’s Novelties. 'HE excitement of catastrophe on the high seas will invade the con- cert hall this season when the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor, plavs, for the first time in Washington Robert Braine’s composition, “S O S Braine’s brief tone poem is one of more than half a dozen novelties an- nounced for presentation during the National Symphony's seventh season. Included in the list is the first Amer- ican performance of a suite by Maurice Jaubert, one of the most prominent of the younger French composers, residing in Paris. Also new to Washington will be William Walton's “Facade,” Dr. Walter Dam- rqsch’s “Ode to Abraham Lincoln,” Paul White's “Suite” and a “Sinfon- ietta” by Nicholai Miaskovsky, dis- tinguished modern Russian composer. Another important modern work to be played will be Vaughan Williams' “London” Symphony. Williams, one of the greatest English composers of today, has been influenced by Eng- lish folk songs in his compositions and this symphony incorporates many familiar London street noises—such as the cry of the lavender seller, the Jingling bells of the hansom cab, the Westminster chimes and the playing of a mouth ofrgan. Robert Braine, composer of “S O S,” is a young American composer who was born in Springfield, Ohio now associated with the National Broadcasting Co. in New York. His compositions include a number of tone poems, several based on stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, several string quartets and three operas. “Facade,” the product of another | English composer, William Walton, | who is considered | a series of delightful parodies on such | popular dance forms as the waltz, | tango, fox trot and on jazz and folk songs. It was originally composed to accompany the recitation of poems by Edith Sitwell. The witty accompani- ments soon outshone. the text they were intended for. Recitations omitted, the brief pieces were orchestrated for full symphony and that is the version Dr. Kindler will play here. Dr. Damrosch will himself conduct his “Ode” when he appears with the National Symphony February 6. An- other composer-conductor appearing with the orchestra is Rudolph Ganz, who will direct a performance of his own “Animal Crackers,” in addition to playing as piano soloist on January 9. Other modern works to be given in- clude “En Saga,” symphonic poem by Jean Sibelius; an overture by David Van Vactor, Middle Western composer, and excerpts from Stravinsky's ballet, “Petrushka.” Also planned is a per- formance of the rarely-heard work of Gustav Mahler, “Songs of a Way- farer.” At the opening concert, October 31, the Wagnerian Festival Singers will appear with the National Symphony in a series of Wagnerian excerpts. Season tickets for the National Sym- phon; two series of concerts—12 Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m., and 8 Wednesday evenings at 8:30 p.m.— may be obtained at the box office in Julius Garfinckel & Co.’s store, Four- teenth and F street northwest. College Pianist. PHILIP HEFFNER, 21-year-old pi- anist of New York, where he has been a pupil of Edwin Hughes, will play the following program at the Washington College of Music tomor- row evening at 8:30 o'clock. “Fantasie and Fugue in G Minor” “Sonata in G Minor “Polonaise in' C Mino Barcarolle” ----Chopin “Pavane” Ravel “Intermezzo in Octaves”..Leschetizky “Tenth Hungarian Rhapsody.. .Liszt Mr. Heffner had recent appearances at Findlay College and at Capitol Uni- versity in Ohio and he also played in the Summer series of concerts con- ducted by Mr. Hughes in connection with his New York City Master Class. Bach-Liszt Schumann " “Berceuse,” Hotel Concert. TH!: third in the series of Sunday evening concerts being presented at the Roosevelt Hotel will be given jointly by Alice Finckel, pianist, and John Alden Finckel, violoncellist, to- morrow at 9:30 p.m. The instrument used by Mr. Finckel was made in 1810 by George Panormo, one of the most noted of the Stradivarius school of craftsmen. Included in the program Mr. Finckel will play numbers of his own composition. These musicals are under the direc- tion of George F. Ross, local musician. 4 under He is | of which are | the outstanding | | younger composer of that country, is | Rosa Ponselle is a soprano of Ital- ian descent who was born in Meriden, Conn., and whose youthful talent so impressed the late Enrico Caruso that he urged her to prepare for an oper- alic career. Six months later, on November 15, 1918, she made her oper- atic debut at the Metropolitan in “La Forza del Destino” opposite the great Caruso himself, achieving an operatic triumph that has since made musical history. Her appearance in Washing- ton at this time marks the first op- portunity Washington music lovers have been afforded to hear tne great dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan at popular prices. Seats for Miss Ponselle's concert are obtainable at Mrs. Dorsey’s Concert Bureau, in Droop's, at 1300 G street northwest, and at the Constitution Hall box office tomorrow morning after 10 o'clock. ORMANDY TO LEAD; “KREISLER, 6UEST 'UGENE ORMONDY, who will lead the Philadelphia Symph- ony Orchestra in its first pro- gram of the season in Washing- ton at Constitution Hall a week from next Tuesday evening at 8:45 o'clock, has announced in full the program to be given at that time. The opening selection will be Johann Sebastian Bach's beau- tiful “Prelude and Fugue in B minor” as arranged for orches- tra by M. Caill gifted com- poser member of e orchestra. Following this, Fritz Kreisler, world-famous violinist, who is guest artist of the Philadelphia organization on this program, play Bach’s “Concerto in E major for Violin and Orchestra.” After the intermission Mr. Kreisler will play Mendelssohn's popular “Con- certo in E minor” and the or- chestra will close the program with excerpts from Wagner's op- era “Siegfried.” The T Arthur Smith Concert Bureau is presenting this orches- tra in Washington and reserva- tions can be made at the bureau 910 G street northwest | RUSSIAN WELFARE GROUP’S MUSICALE |"THE Russian Welfare Group in Washington, of which Mrs. J. J. Mack is president; Mrs. W. Joukowsk: vice president, and Vladimir Grodsk: secretary, announces that a musicale will be given at the Washington Club Friday night, October 29, at 8:30 o'clock for the benefit of Russian chil- dren. This Russian children’s day program is given each year and the funds raised by the Washington group of Russian welfare workers in this way are sent to the orphanage for Russian children in New Jersey and to other organiza- tions inthis country or abroad where the need is especially great | This year artists who are giving their services in this program include | Mme. Malda Fani d'Aulby, sopr | Elena de Sayn, Russian violin Tania Gnoochefl, Russian dancer, and Tamara Dmitrieff, Russian pianist The detailed program will be an- nounced next weel Center Program, THE Community Center Department of the District of Columbia Public Schools has chosen Margaret Speaks, soprano, to be the opening event on the new series of programs which the department is sponsoring this Winter in the auditorium of the Roosevelt High School. Miss Speaks will sing there Wednesday evening, November 3, at 8:15 o'clock. She is nationally famous as “The Voice of Firestone.” It is probable that Miss Speaks will sing a number of American and Eng- lish songs, for she is a firm believer in singing in the language of the audience. She is descended from pio- neer settlers who migrated from Eng- land, and her father was a political leader of her native State, Ohio, at the time of her birth and later became a Representative in the United States Congress from that State, The coming week is the second and final week in the campaign inaugu- rated for this new series of events, which also includes two dance pro- grams, “Ballet Caravan,” on Decemh~r 1, and “Nimura and Kay,” March 23, and one dramatic attraction, “Juliet Delf,” February 23. The series’ tickets and information are available at the campaign head- quarters and at the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau, 910 G street. CARL JASPAN VIOLIN ||]COACH COL. 2514.M * Warren F. Johnson, Organist Church of the Pilgrims Sunday Evening Pedal Etude Plum Prelude and Fugue C Major . . . Bruckner Frank Kneisel Teacher of the Violin Finckel Studios of Music 1418 Rhode Island Ave. N.W. Talephone Pot. 1948 Lessons by appointment Pau ORGAN RECITALS Washington Chapel 16th St. & Columbia Rd. N.W. Mon., Wed., Fri.—8 P.M. (Ne Collections) By D. Sterling Whealwright ArmandoJannuzzi Grand Opera Dramatic Tenor Voice Specialist Italian Method School of bel eante Adams 3687.J 519 Oak St. N.W. (Cor. 16th) A A