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THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY
OF.CHES1 RA
of W.' hington, D. C.
Hans IFnJler, Conductor.
THIRD SUNDAY CONCERT.
Co. 1 ution Hall,
Sunday. D’C-nYjrr 13, 1931, at 4 P.M.
PROGRAM.
I Overture from "The Marriage of
Figaro".Mozart
II “Symphony No. 8" ("The Unfin
ished") .Schubert
“Allegro Mod era to.”
“Andaatr Con Moto.”
Ill “Hungarian Far.tnsy” (for piano
and orcirvstr*) .Liszt
Soloist. Mi"Ua Merson, pianist
TV Overture from “Rienzi”.Wagner
THIRD SYMPHONY CONCERT.
Cons ;ution Hall,
Thursday Afternoon, December 17, 1931,
at 4:45 O Clock.
PROGRAM.
I Overture from "Egmont”. .Beethoven
n “Passacsglia" (first time in Wash
ing, on i .Handel-Aleinikoff
III “Concerto, A Major” (for violin
and orchestra; K219).Mozart
"Allegro Aperto,” “Adagio,”
"Allegro Aperto.”
“Adagio.”
“Tempo di Menuetto,” “Al
legro Aperto,” “Tempo di
Menuetto.”
Soloist, Sylvia Lent, violinist.
IV Two Indian danced (first time ir
Washington) .Shilton
(a) “Deer Dance.”
(b) “War Dance.”
V "Finlandia” .. 3ibelius
BY E. do S. MELCHER.
SINCE a “prominent” local musician
made the astonishing assertion that she
(or he) lived only for the classicists
and thct any one who could swallow
the modernists with any degree of
pleasure was warped not only In taste,
but in mind and "Grrshwin? Who is Gersh
win? I never heard of him. If he writes
jazz, he’s impossible,” it has seemed as though
perhaps these times were a little out of joint.
&nd since this enlightening experience with
baa who is really well versed in the great
Masters of the past, but who refuses to have
Anything to do with contemporaries (and
ftarshwin certainly has been a distinguished
Contemporary and one who can no longer be
Benied as being partly representative of this
Me, even if we don't like it), it has occurred
|j0 us that if we are not willing to keep up
With the musical tiend of these times, then
Me are not keeping ourselves abreast with a
WKf definite and a very important phase in
Music.
Even Mr. Kindler, who is a conservative at
Peart said only the other day: “We’re going
p> play the moderns (meaning his orchestra)
of them.” Now if Mr. Kindler and his
stra, which grows in musical craftsman
by leaps and bounds, are going to attempt
t of the current compositions (what ever
ppened to the Caselia suite?), does this
m that said lady or said gentleman above
find it necessary to sit at home and brood
jwr Bach and Beethoven? And because she, or
he, is unaccustomed to a “Sacre du Printemps”
Chat this fact will make her eschew the other
ftiverting modem musical highways?
i Only the other day Mile. Yvonne Gall and
•Mzard Johnson proved, at a Townsend
nnisicale, that the^e modems are not to be
Mooted out of court.
tBt is perhaps difficult to keep up with what
* Is going on right under the nose of this
present generation. But since we must gauge
purse Ives by something, some one suggested
Drawing up a short, simple questionnaire to
pud out what we know of the current flow of
Bmsic and what we don’t. The questionnaire
■allows:
' 1. Who wrote “Wozzeck”? (Some might
|BH. “and why?”)
2. What current opera, recently produced,
fcftd a cow as a leading character?
S, What American dancer has been called
*he American Wigman?
4. What famed American soprano retired
from opera at 40 and from the concert stage
0»2y the other day at 50?
5. What violinist's fingers are perceptibly
linger on his left hand than on his right?
6. What is the most successful opera the
Cit five years has produced? (Hie answer
t “Peter Ibbetson.”)
7. What orchestra leader recently made his
Befoul as an operatic conductor? Where? And
|p what?
8. Who has been commissioned to write a
|puslcal ode for the Bicentennial celebration?
9. What opera star once graced Manhattan’s
•{Music Box Revues”?
10. What is the oldest symphony orchestra
Ifi the United States?
11 Who is the cvmposer of the recently
|orr, pie ted opera, “Helen Retires”?
12. What well known conductor was once a
fpember of the Philadelphia Orchestra?
13. Is it true that there are 57 United States
Wavy Bands?
14. What important new’ violinist played
Cra vlnsky's recently completed violin concerto
Berlin?
15. What members of the once flourishing
Washington Opera Company will return here
fath the Cosmopolitan Opera Company in Jan
P«y? (The answer to this last one, in case
Baa haven't heard about this opera company,
Ijp Jacques Samossoud, conductor; Ivan Ivant
w, tenor, and Ralph Errolle.)
Three Concerts by the National Symphony.
Toscanini and the Nezv York Philharmonic
and 'Three Noted Singers in Recital.
Arturo Toscanini, the distinguished conductor who will lead the New York
Philharmonic into action Tuesday, is pictured above in the center, and sur
rounding him, up/ter left, is Clair Clairbert, soprano, who will sing W ednes
day at the Townsend mu sic ale; upper right, Lawrence Tibbett, to appear in
recital tomorrow; and lower, left to right, three prominent local artists, 6-year'
old Charlton Meyer, who will appear as soloist with the National Symphony,
as will Miksa Merson (left), pianist, and Sylvia Lent (right), violinist.
THE third children's concert to be given by
the National Symphony Orchestra will
take place next Saturday morning at
Central High School at 11 o’clock. Mr.
Kindler has promised his young (and old)
audience an interesting program, and fea
tured on this will be Charlton Meyer, a
6-year-old pianist, who has attracted consid
erable attention as a pupil of Frances Gutelius.
Young Mr. Meyer will play Bach’s “Minuet in
G Major” and Mac Dowell's “To a Wild Rose.”
Other soloisteL will include Alfred Manning,
harp; Bernard Parronchi, cellist; Emil Spitzer,
English horn, and George Wargo, viola. The
program will include Beethoven’s overture to
“Egmont,” a Bach chorale, the Sibelius “Fin
landia,” and the audience will be asked to join
in the singing of "Silent Night," by Gruber.
THE New York Philharmonic-Synphony Or
chestra opens its local season of three
concerts Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at
Constitution Hall, where it is presented under
the auspices of the T. Arthur Smith Bureau.
Arturo Toscanini will lead the orchestra and
Adolph Busch, German violinist, makes his
local debut as soloist. The program will in
clude Mozart’s “Symphony in A Major,” Bach’s
“Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, in
A Minor,” Franck’s symphonic piece from "The
Redemption,” Beethoven’s “Concerto for Vio
lin and Orchestra in D. Major” and Wagner’s
overture, “The Flying Dutchman."
I AWRENCE T1BBETT, baritone of the Metro
1— politan Opera Co., returns to Washington
after a long absence from the concert stage in a
recital, to be given tomorrow afternoon at 4
o'clock, under Mrs. Wilson-Greene's manage
ment. This recital, which will be given at Con
stitution Hall, will include Massenet’s “Vision
Fugitive,” from “Herodiade”; “Dialogue Be
tween Tom Filuter and His Man,” Burleigh’s
“Deep River,” Donaudy's “Vaghissima Bem
bianza,” “Preach Not Me Your Musty Rules,”
by Arne-Endicofct, and many other interesting
selections. Stewart Wills will be at the piano
for Mr. Tibbett.
MRS. LAWRENCE TOWNSEND'S morning
musicale Wednesday will have as guest
soloists Mme. Claire Clairbert, soprano, who will
be accompanied by Erno Balogh, and Richard
Crooks, tenor, with Philip Evans at the
piano. Mme, Clairbert will include on her pro
gram the aria from Mozart’s opera, “The Magic
Flute”; the waltz from Gounod's “Romeo and
Juliet”; "Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark,” in which
a flute obbligato will be played by Mr. Achats;
the “Bell Song,” from Delibes’ “Lakme,” as well
as “Pourquoi” and other songs by Strauss and
Giordani. Mr. Crooks will sing a program of
German lieder and the aria "Racconto di Ro
dolfo,” from Puccini's "La Boheme.”
THE Harvard University Double Quartet,
Douglas A. MacKinnon director, with Ralph
Kirkpatrick at the piano, will be heard in this
city for the first time Tuesday evening, De
cember 22, at Central High School auditorium
under the auspices of the Community Institute
of Washington.
THE recital by Betty Kate Stone, 16-year-old
pianist, will take place Tuesday evening in
Barker Hall. Miss Stone is being presented by
Norman Frauenheim, local instructor. She will
play the Bach "Fantasy in C Minor,” Schu
mann's "Sonata in G Minor,” Mendelssohn’s
"Scherzo in E Minor,” the Brahms "Variations
on a Theme of Paganini” and other composi
tions by Chopin, Ireland, Severac, Debussy and
Liszt.
ANOTHER interesting recital, which will be
given Friday of this week, will be the one
in which Edith Virden-Smith will present Helen
Donofrio, soprano, assisted by I. Iascone, flutist,
of the National Symphony Orchestra. Miss
Donofrio will sing the aria from the opera
"Lucia di Lamnermoor," the aria from "Rigo
letto” and the "Bell Song” from "Lakme” and
a number of other interesting songs by Sibella,
Edward Potter (Washington composer) and
Spross.
THE Cosmopolitan Grand Opera Co., which
comes to the National Theater the week
of January 4, will have as director Jacques
Samossoud, well known to Washingtonians; an
orchestra of 35, and a ballet of 40 and 3
noted tenors, Dimitri Onofrei, Alexander Kur
ganoff and Ivan Ivantzoff. The repertoire al
ready announced includes ‘‘Rigoletto,’ “II
Trovatore." "Romeo and Juliet,” "Hansel and
Gretel,” "Pagliacci,” "Faust” and “Carmen.”
ALL CHURCH MUSIC NOTES
for The Stars Christmas Music
Page, Saturday, December 19,
should be received by the Music
Editor not later than Wednes
day, D ecembr 16. ... j
AMONG the most interesting of this
season’s organ recitals will be the
one presented next Wednesday
evening at the National City Chris
tian Church at 8:15 o’clock by Rob
ert Ruckman. Mr. Ruckman has ar
ranged a particularly interesting program. He
will be assisted by Paul Brightenburg, violinist,
of the National Symphony Orchestra. This is
the first of a series of recitals sponsored by the
local chapter of the American Guild of Organ
ists, of which Charlotte Klein, F. A. G. O., is
dean.
John H. Marville, bass, will assist lewis
Atwater, organist, in a program of Russian
music this afternoon at 5 o’clock at All Souls’
Church.
Betty Baum, pianist, will give a recital at the
Peabody Conservatory of Music, in Baltimore,
December 21, She will also give a benefit re
cital at the Jewish Community Center in Wash
ington, January 4. Miss Baum has .been a
member of the Washington Pianist Club for
several years.
Louis Potter and Hans Kindler are selecting
a work to be studied by the Washington Choral
Festival Association Chorus. The next rehearsal
will be held tomorrow evening at 8:15 in the
music room at the Central Community Center.
Lester Shafer of the Denishawn School in
this city has gone to New York to assist Ted
Shawn in the preparation of his newest con
cert production which will go on tour in Jan
uary and February. Mr. Shafer will design the
costumes and take part in the program, as well
as managing the production while on tour.
R. Deane Shure, local composer, has been
invited by the music commission of the Metho
dist Church to contribute a set of responses
and incidental pieces for use in Protestant
churches. Other composers who have been in
vited to contribute include Mrs. H. H. Beach,
Harvey B. Gaul, James H. Rogers, Gordon B.
Nevin and William Lester.
Announcement has been made that a Christ
mas pantomime will be presented at the Church
of the Holy City, Sixteenth and Corcoran
streets, by “Orchesis” of George Washington
University, Thursday evening, at 8:15 o'clock.
The George Washington Glee Clubs, under the
direction of Dr. Robert Harmon, will sing carols
and provide a musical background for the
pantomime.
Friendship House is to have a music program
this afternoon between 5 and 6. Solos will be
sung by Ethel Rody, soprano, and readings will
be given by Vietta Droney.
The Chapel Choir of the National City
Christian Church, under the direction of Helen
Turley, will present the afternoon program at
the downtown Y. W. C. A. next Sunday after
noon at 4 o’clock.
Agnes C. Kelley, contralto, was guest soloist
last Sunday at the Spiritual Science Church
of Christ. Today the soloists will be Paul W.
Deloe, bass-baritone, and Harry Marlowe, tenor.
Elizabeth Gardner Combs, pianist, will give a
Debussy recital before the service.
Special music at today’s morning service at
St. Margaret's Church will include organ selec
tions, Handel's "Symphony From Solomon ’*
and works by Milford, Widor and Walter H.
Nash, played by Charlotte Klein, F. A. G. O.j
a soprano solo, sung by Mrs. C. C. McDonnell;
the anthem, "Hail, Gladdening Light,” by Sir
George C. Martin, and Vierne’s "Symphony V:
Finale.”
Charles Burton, boy soprano, and a pupil of
Esther Linkins, will sing a group of songs at
the fathers’ meeting of the P.-T. A. of the new
Powell School tomorrow evening. Marie H.
Little will act as accompanist.
Warren F. Johnson will give an organ recital
at 7:30 o’clock this evening. He will play
Fantasia Prelude,” Rudolph Peters; "Caprice,”
by Joseph Callaerts, and “Overture in G major,”
by P. J. Mansfield.
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