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SEASON CONTINUES WITH MANY CONCERTS SCHEDULED - ❖ '---* -A-A _ America Leads Nations In Music Appreciation _ l Noticeable Gains Made in Last Few Years, Partly Through Familiarity With Great Works on Radio Programs. By Alice Eversman. A SURVEY of the growth of musical appreciation in this country, made by the leading broadcasting companies, brings out the pleasant fact that from being considered one ot the most backward nations, musi cally speaking, in the world, the United States now leads all other civilized countries. European nations were the first to admit this new status cf affairs. It is also generally recognized that the radio, even more than the concert courses, is responsioie jor me, growing valuation of music, and par ticularly of good music. The broad casting concerns have a system where by the public’s response to various types of programs can be accurately determined, and the estimate which they arrive at is as correct as it is posible to find. From its 1935 analysis the National Broadcasting Co. announced: “More symphonic and chamber music, more famous artists and music ensembles, were heard over N. B. C.’s networks during 1935 than ever before in history. This iact. combined with tlie reports of those who book concert artists and musical organizations that the number of concerts to be given in the United States this season shows a marked increase, reveals that more art music is being heard by Americans and more money is being spent for art music in the United States than by any other country in the world.” J>ECENTLY M. Murray Weisman, president of Carnegie Hall, New York, with the co-operation of other executives, sent out a questionnaire to business managers of orchestras, con cert series and concert halls, and heads of music departments of various universities over the country, asking them to comment on the musical sit uation in their respective sections The report made by Mr. Weisman from the data received in answer to the questionnaires, and which was de livered in an address over the air last Sunday, was as follows: “First: Concert business is improv ing throughout the Nation, with the degree of improvement greatest in the West and Midwest and lowest in the East. "Second: The improvement is due not only to better business conditions generally, but to the appearance of new faces in the audience, many of them drawn there by radio. "Third: Attendance is increasing at concert series sponsored by colleges. An unusual report came from the University of Michigan, where Hill Auditorium, seating 5,000 people, is practically sold out for a season of 16 musical programs. “Fourth: A great many new concert series are being offered for the first time in many sections of the coun try.” A/fR. WEISMAN said further: "The x Philharmonic-Symphony concerts, broadcast from Carnegie Hall on Sun day afternoons, were recently voted by the radio editors of the country the second most popular musical pro gram on the air, leading by a sur prising margin the dance orchestras Of Paul Whiteman and Rudy Vallee. “Who, 10 years ago, would have foreseen such a change in the musical I taste of the American public? What is the portent for the future? Per haps we are on the threshhold ot a new era in the music affairs of this country. I believe that it is no dis credit to radio to point out that its audience has been materially in creased by the circumstances of the depression. When regular concert goers were forced, by reduced income, to cancel their subscriptions, they welcomed the opportunity to listen in on the air and they were a grate ful audience. When other thousands of people, who normally attended the theater and the movies, were forced to stay at home, they formed the radio habit, stumbled upon some Beethoven symphony or Brahms concerto, and found, for the first time, that they really enjoyed them and wanted to hear them again.” TPHE Editois’ Weekly has also gathered statistics dealing with the four lean years through which the country ■ has just passed, and bringing the survey up to the present time. It takes in the new Govern ment projects for the relief of musi cians suffering during the crisis. The interesting data are as follows: “Between 1930 and 1935 the num ber of permanent symphony orches tras increased from 62 to 164. This excludes the 14 famous symphony orchestras of New York, Boston, Phil adelphia and other metropolitan cen ters, to which, during these years, the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Orchestra and the Na tional Symphony Orchestra of Wash ington, D. C„ have been added. “While the number of professional luiiipaiJica ui nit,* saint* ptfiiuu decreased from 35 to 34, local groups of a sem-professional, student and amateur character last year reached 47—more than double the estimated number for 1929. Likewise, the num ber of chamber music ensembles in creased from 125 to 282. "This growth was supplemented by the establishment of 162 Federal music projects under the W. P. A. program, giving employment to 8,000 musicians formerly on relief in 19 States When fully developed, the Federal music program is expected to employ between 16,000 and 17,000 musicians on projects for 29 concert and symphony orchestras, 22 bands. 25 chamber music ensembles, 43 choruses and quartets, 20 dance or chestras and 3 light opera companies. "Between June 1 and September 15, 1935, some 1,738.000 persons heard 662 free concerts given by 19 of the W. P. A. concert units then in ex. istence. In addition, four large sym phony orchestras of roughly 100 men each, gave 172 programs attended by about 450,000 music lovers.” -- In Local Music Circles HENRY GREGORY composer pianist and head of the Piano Department of National Park Seminary, will give a lecture recital on "What Price Jazz?” at the University Club on Thursday evening St 8:30 o’clock. The Friday Morning Music Club will present an organ recital at West, cm Presbyterian Church, 1906 H street, Friday at 11:30 a.m. The fol lowing organists will give the pro gram: Edith Athey, Mabel R. Frost, Mrs. James Shera Montgomery, Kath ryn Hill Rawls and Mrs. J. Horace Smithey. Christine Church, soprano, is the assisting artist. William Webster, vocal- teacher of New York and Washington, will pre sent a group of his pupils at the Washington Club on Monday, March 2, at 8:15 o’clock. The following sing ers will be heard: Mrs. G. M. Myers, Dorothy Aiken, Mary McLeod, Mar garet Rogers, Jeanne Snow. Mrs. Arval Anderson, Ruby Arnold, Lillian Latham, Elizabeth Graebner, June Baer, Hallie Hoffman. Aubrey Becker, Erbin Thomas, Harry Chaconas, Mau. rice Thompson. Paul La Prade and Hobart Strieford. Hie junior division or the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs will give a program Saturday evening at 8 o’clock in the Salle de Recital, 1325 G street. Those appear ing are Betty Bean, Joann Croarkin, Doris Demaree. Rae Alice Ebner, Mary Gray. Jean Gordon. Janet Guess, Linea Hedquist, Lisa Inasawa, Weston Jones, Jean McCandlish, Josiah McHale. Ann Myers, Jacque line Neff, Hilda Parks, Olive Rickard, Joan Riddick, David Sickles. Ella Mary Steese, Nancy Wakefield. Jane Wells, Bernice Willett. Ruby Lee Wil liams. Iris Bland Smith will give a talk on Dalcroze Eurythmics. Warren F. Johnson, organist, will play "Intermezzo” and “Finale,” from •'Third Sonata,” by H. B. Jepson, be fore the evening service at the Church of the Pilgrims tomorrow. Felian Garzia, pianist, will play at the Women’s City Club, 736 Jackson place, Thursday at 8:15 p.m. This program is presented under the spon sorship of the French section of the Women’s City Club. Mr. Garzia’s program will include compositions by Bach, Scarlatti, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt and Strauss. Marjery League, soprano, with Willa Bemple, pianist and accompanist, will present the program for “he music hour tomorrow at 5 o’clock at the Y. W. C. A., Seventeenth and K streets. Olive Dean, president of the Education Council, will act as hostess. The pub lic is cordially invited. T. Guy Lucas will play his sixty seventh organ recital at St. John’s Church, Sixteenth and H streets northwest, on Monday evening at 8:15 o’clock. The program will Include the Bach “Fugue in E Flat” (St. Anne) and pieces by Brahms, Debussy and Schumann. The choir of men and boys will sing. gpiph&ny Church choir, under the (V, direction of Adolf Torovsky, will sing the short Lenten cantata. “Penitence, Pardon and Peace,' by J. H. Maunder, on Sunday. March 1, at 8 p.m. At 7:30 o'clock Mr. Torovsky will play the first of a series of half-hour organ recitals, to be given each Sunday eve ning during Lent. He will be assisted by the choir soloists. The February meeting of the Lyric Music Club. Dorothy Sherman Pier son director, will be held at the home of Grace Shannon Tuesday evening. A paper on the subject of the evening, “Tschaikowski,” will be read by Jean ette Higgins, while Frances Burger and Thelma Elizabeth Steele will illus trate with some of his songs, with Grace Shannon at the piano. The music section of the Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase will give a pro gram tea at the home of Mrs. Edward F. Loomis, 3914 Military Road. Mon day afternoon at 2 o’clock. The guest artist will be Dorothy Radde Emery, pianist-composer. Esther Holden Bib ber, soprano, and a trio composed of Mrs. William Collins, Mrs. Howard Hosmer and Mrs. J. Robert Biyant, jr„ will sing. Mrs. Raymond L. San ford will read a one-act play. “RELIGION TODAY” TOPIC Rev. John Edward Fort to Preach at Union M. E. Church. “Do We Need Religion Today?” will ! be the subject of Rev. John Edward Fort for the worship tomorrow morn ing at Union M. E. Church. The Young People’s meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. “The Man of Reality” will be the pastor's subject in the evening. The fourth quarterly conference will be held Monday at 8 p.m., with Dr. Benjamin W. Meeks, District super tendent, presiding. Jazz Lectures HENRY GREGOR, Composer-pianist, who will lecture on “What Price Jazz?” on Thurs day evening at the University Muh. Sylvia Lent, Violin,With Orchestra — Washington Soloist in Concert Here Has Won Fame. YLVIA LENT, the outstanding American woman violinist, will be soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra at its next concert in Constitution Hall on Sun day afternoon, March 1. Miss Lent, who has been acclaimed on many concert appearances in Wash ington, her home city, and who is dis tinctly an American artist, will occupy a featured place on this program. Hans Kindler, conductor, plans, also, to present the work of several Ameri can composers, some of whom are ex pected to be present. Always interested in the cause of American composers. Dr. Kindler has each season brought to his audiences as much of their work as possible. Sunday, March 1, one part of the pro gram will be all-American. Included will be recent compositions by FYanz Bornschein, John Powell, Bernard Wagenaar—all living composers—and others. These men have been invited to Washington to hear the concert in which the National Symphony intro duces certain of their works to Capital music lovers. Miss Lent will play the : “Concerto in G Minor” for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch. As a violinist Miss Lent has achieved \ her successes in an unbelievably short; number of years. She has concerttzed abroad as well as throughout the United States. Born in Washington, where her family still resides, sne re ceived nearly all of her education in this country. Her first teacher was her father, a cellist of note. Later she studied with Franz Kneisel. When the great Leopold Auer, the teacher of Heifetz, Elman, Zimbalist and other famous virtuosi, came to the United j States she was the first pupil whom he j Upon the advice of this world-famous | teacher she made her formal debut in Berlin while she was still in her teens. Her triumph there paved the way for recitals in Dresden, Leipzig and Mu i nich, the most important music centers j in Germany. When the artist made : her New York debut she received from the press the unanimous verdict—an | artist with a world career before ner. While one of the American works which Dr. Kindler will play next Sun j day will be new to the audience in i Constitution Hall, its composer, who j is expected to attend, is no stranger to Washington music lovers. John Powell, the Virginia composer-pianist, | has been here several times, and on j various occasions has appeared with i the National Symphony as a com j poser and as pianist. His last appear ance was last Summer, when at one of the "Sunset Symphonies” he played the Liszt “Hungarian Fantasy” with the orchestra. *• • VVVUK VUUVLt V w w 4kictl mond, where it is playing four pro grams this season, the National Sym phony presented in a world premiere one of Mr. Powell's latest compositions for orchestra. Both Mr. Wagenaar and Mr. Bornschein are also recognized as important artists in the present-day musical scene. The orchestra will play its third | students' concert in two of Washing ton's high schools the coming week, j Dr. Kindler and his men play Thurs ! day afternoon in Central High School: ! Friday afternoon in Eastern^ High | School, and the following Monday in Western High School. This time Dr. Kindler will center | his program around the title, "Form ; and Color dn Music." He will continue the development of form, started in ; the second concert, by discussing and | playing parts from concertos and ; modern symphonies. He plans to play ; the first movement from the Brahms’ j "No. 2 Symphony.” Explaining color in music, Dr. Kind | ler will call attention to the character of national, patriotic and descriptive music. Among the selections to be played will be “Barcarolle,” of Men delssohn: Greig’s "Norwegian Dance” and Gliere’s "Russian Sailors’ Dance.” There will be a demonstration of the instruments in the brass section of the orchestra for the benefit of the young listeners. Tickets for these concerts may be obtained through the schools, or at the respective school auditoriums, just before the concert. Artist to Play in Home City SYLVIA LENT, Noted American violinist, who will be soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra Sunday. March 1, in Constitution Hall. Lecture at Library. ■JJNDER the provisions of the Eliza beth Sprague Coolidge Founda tion, Dr. Edmund H. Fellowes of Windsor Castle, England, will lecture in the auditorium of the Library of Congress on Friday at 4:45 o'clock. His lecture will be “Tudor Church Music.” The lecture will be illustrated with phonograph records made under his direction by the English Singers and the St. George’s Singers. Dr. Fellowes has not spoken in Washing ton since 1927 and plans to abandon his American lectures at the end of this season. Admission is free, but by ticket only. Tickets can be obtained—until the supply is exhausted—at the T. Ar thur Smith Concert Bureau, at 910 G street northwest, beginning Tuesday, at 9 a.m. Telephone and mail or ders cannot be accepted. Because of the limited capacity of the hall, tickets should be called for early. Seats can be reserved only until the hour set for the beginning of the lecture, after which time an effort will be made to seat those who have been unable to obtain tickets. Persons unable to use their tickets are requested to re turn them before the day of the lec ture. A Cappella Choir Concert. 'T'HREE groups of ensemble numbers, sung without accompaniment, will feature the sixth annual Lenten con cert by the a cappella choir of First Congregational Church, conducted by Ruby Smith Stahl, on Monday night, March 16, at 8:30 o’clock in the May flower Hotel ball room. The choir will repeat, by request, three numbers sung previously at Lenten concerts, one of them being Maud Sewall’s “Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee,” sung last season for the first time by the choir; also Trowbridge’s “Peace Be Unto You,” for'male voices,: and "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella,” which has become a tradition at the Lenten concert. Compositions by Bach, Brahms, Palestrina, Nicolsky, Lewandowski. Gretchaninoff, Arkhangelsky and other famous writers of chorales will be included in the program of this occa sion, in which there will be a number of Incidental solos by the solo quartet, including Dorothy Wilson Halbach, contralto; Don Waite, tenor; Dale Hamilton, basso, and Mrs. Stahl, soprano. Paul DeLong Gable is the accompanist of the choir. Talks on Chopin’s Life. pELICIA RYBIER. pianist, teacher and authority on Chopin, will1 give a brief talk on the composer's life at the musical evening of the Public ; Library Recordings Group oh Tues- j day at 7:30 p.m. in the music division < at the central building of the Public Library, Eighth and K streets, Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian, has announced. In addition to Miss Rybier’s talk on Frederic Chopin, Elsa Z. Posell, chief: of the music division, will supervise the playing of a number of Chopin re- j cordings, including the famous "Rev- j olutionary Etude’’ and the "B Minor j Scherzo.” As the seating capacity is ’ limited, persons expecting to attend are asked to notify Mrs. Posell before : Tuesday evening. Bach Recital by Friskin. 'T'HE February meeting of the Wash- j ington Music Teachers’ Associa tion will take place Monday evening at 8.15 o'clock, at 1227 Sixteenth street northwest through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Steele and Minna Nie- j mann. James Friskin of the Juilliard In stitute of New York will be the artist i of the occasion, giving a Bach lecture recital. Mr. Friskin has paid the teachers an especial compliment in selecting to play the "Goldberg Varia tions.” Announcement of the date and hour at which Mrs. Roosevelt will receive the Washington Music Teachers' As sociation at the White House will be made at this meeting. Applications for membership in the association should be made to Myron ; Whitney, chairman of the Membership , Committee, 1624 H street northwest. Forum Presents Artists. 'T'HE February recital sponsored by tire International Art Forum on Wednesday evening at the Washing ton Club, 1010 Seventeenth street, features a program of operatic and modern classics. The program presents Estelle Gates, soprano, in works of Debussy, Griffes, Martin Shaw, Delibes and Arensky Koshetz: Kathryn English, contralto, in numbers by Verdi, Hageman, Car penter, Eric Wolff, Wintter Watts and LaForge, and Grace Powell, violinist, playing compositions by Purcell, Gluck-Elman. Bach, Debussy, Debus and Boulanger. Tickets and programs are available at the T. Arthur Smith Bureau, 910 G street northwest. Mile. Pons Would Find Charm in Duties of Decorator •> ——-----* _; Famous Singer Admits Big Thrill in Music, Finds Home Beauty Is Magnet. By Mile. Lily Pons. VERY one !n a while I find myself wondering what I’d like to be if I weren’t an opera star. The tnought is | particularly insistent after a trying ; concert tour, when I am speeding back 1 to the Metropolitan Opera House and 1 to New York’s bustle. The rushing hills and lowlands, and the regular melody of the tram wheels are a perfect accompaniment to a day dream. And yet I always answer the question the same way. If I weren't an opera star 1 should want, more than anything else in the world, to decorate people’s homes for them and to work and live in the country. I would want to bring beauty and color and warmth Into the lives of many people. I should want to sur round those I know’ with the charm of Prance as I know it—a charm which flourishes so well in the Ameri can countryside, too. In no other way could 1 do these things better than as an interior decorator. Outside of my singing, no other profession would give me more satisfaction. J THINK that this avocation (which 1 practice even now) U a natural antithesis to my profession as a singer. No matter how much I love singing, I must nevertheless recognize its disadvantages—the Irregular life— the photographs, costumes, rehearsals —the constant moving from town to town, living, as It were, practically in a trunk. Interior decorating would give me freedom—freedom to enjoy regular hours, to spend week ends and vaca tions In toe. country—something I ' never seem i I should not start my new profes sion as a novice. Besides long hours spent in poking here and there in dusty old shops and solemn museums, I have already designed my home in France. So, perhaps, as a decorator I wouldn’t get the gong. Personally, 1 prefer lovely old fur niture—the sturdy and the graceful works which follow the designs of French masters, the deep warm tones of old tapestries, the simple colorful fabrics of the French peasantry. When X t$ink of the fun X have had to collecting old French porcelain with an eye to the rugged old beams of my Norwalk house, of the joyful trouble of wrangling until I got the proper shades of tan, brown and orange for my living room. Is It any wonder that my friends Invite me to their homes in fear and trembling, knowing I shall probably insist on changing a whole house over. In doing over my house in Con necticut, 1. probably acted like the popular conception of a prims donna. Everything had to be iust ao and X Prefers Old Furniture With Touch of French Color and Real Warmth. refused to take “nearly right” for an answer. The dining room is in a high key. Victorian rosewood chairs and the wrought-iron supports of a long refectory table are painted white. The walls are pale blue, the uphol stery and table top pale green. My window, deep set under an oak beam, is filled with red geraniums and ivy and across the window shelf parades a line of swans. JJERE I do become an interior dec x orator! I shout "Provencal” from the cellar to the attic—I should put a breath of it, at least, in every nouse I had anything to do with. Nothing is so comforting to me in a low moment as my Provencal living room, with its soft blue-greens, reds and browns, its rubbed beams and white plaster walls. Then suddenly, in the midst of this day dreaming, there comes a thought! Suppose some one said, "All right, Mile. Pons, if you want to, go ahead and be an interior decorator. But, remember, no more singing!” That is usually enough to make me real ize how much opera and singing mean to me! I remember, for instance, the strong, heady feeling of applause after an aria; I think of the thrill of a debut, of an opening night; of singing great music to eager audiences, with some of the greatest artists in the world; of living for a few hours the high drama and excitement that is grand opera. I know that I could never really give up the excitement the glamour, the sheer hard work of opera and concerts. But there's no law against fchink in* J Ballet With Organ Gives Originality Galpern and Famous Group of Dancers to Appear in March. 'T'HE unusual program, combining x organ music and balie,. Interpre tation of masterpieces written for the “king of instruments,” which was to have been presented by Lasar Galpern. Russian danger, and his ballet of 20 people, with Virgil Fox at the organ, at Constitution Hall Tuesday, has been postponed until early in March. The program is sponsored by the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau, and 40 per cent of the proceeds will go to funds for the Volunteer of America. Mr. Galpern, an outstanding expo nent of the Russian school of dancing, has worked out not only the choreo graphic designs of his dances—which include interpretation of the various “voices” in a Bach "Fugue” and “The Prodigal Son,” by Cesar Franck—but also has designed skillful sc-een back grounds and the costumes for his dancers in colorful manner. Mr. Fox, 21-year-old American or ganist, has won recognition both in Europe and America. When 17, he won the National Federation of Music Clubs’ biennial festival prize. Later he studied in Parts with Marcel. Dupre. He has been called a “natural” organ ist, which gift, along with thorough musicianly training, has won him wide recognition. Mr. Galpern studied the art of ballet under the great master who also taught Nijinsky and Pavlowa—Legat. He has taught in the Chamber The ater, in Moscow, and directed ballets in Germany and Italy. He was guest artist on programs in Paris with Ni jinskaya, and from 1929 till 1931 ballet master at the State Opera House of Cologne. Mr. Galpern presented Scriabine’s ballet, “Sonata.” at the formal opening of Radio City Music Hall, m New York, a few seasons ago. SERMONS ANNOUNCED BY REV. W. M. MICHAEL “For Their Sakes'’ and “The Closed Door” Will Be Themes for Services Tomorrow. At the morning service in Eldbrooke M. E. Church tomorrow Rev. Walter M. Michael will use “For Their Sakes” as his sermon theme and in the eve ning, “The Closed Door.” The Young People’s Society will be entertained in the parsonage at tea at 5:30 and will meet for the devotional service in the church at 7 o'clock. The Community Ladies’ Bible Class will meet in the church Monday eve ning for election of officers and social. The members will participate in the corporate communion service to be held in Foundry Church Wednesday evening, this service taking the place of the regular midweek service. The Married Couples’ Club will have a dinner and social in the parish hall Thursday with Dr. and Mrs. Louis Maxwell in charge of arrangements. Second Wagner Lecture. 'T'HE second of the three lecture-re citals on "The Life of Richard Wagner and the Trilogy" being given by Julia Schelling will take place Tuesday evening at the Washington College of Music at 8:15 o’clock The lectures, which are the same that Miss Schelling gave at Bayreuth in 1930 and 1931, will be illustrated with slides from a rare picture collection. The subject on Tuesday is “The Valkyrie” and "Siegfried,” for which Fanny Am stutz Roberts, pianist, will play the music associated with the story. Change in Concert Hour. rJ,HE sponsors of the candlelight concerts which are held at the Phillips Memorial Gallery announce that the March 2d concert will be gin at 5:30 instead of at 5, due to the children’s concert of the National Symphony Orchestra scheduled for that afternoon. Harrison Potter, pianist, will come from New York to be the guest artist with the Pro-Musica Quartet, which includes Mr. Robbins, Mr. Essers, Mr. Sevely and Mr. Hamer. They will Play the Haydn “Quartet in D” and the Cesar Frank “Quintet in F.” Pons Concert Tomorrow Is Notable Music Event Four Other Attractions for Constitution Hall to Be Given During Month of March. iL/Y me glamorous rrenc tan Opera, concert, radio and i tion. “1 Dream Too Much," ' Constitution Hall tomorrow al song recital, under the management be Pons’ only public appearance in \ Pons will be assisted by Bernard accompany her at the piano. She will aiso be assisted by Domenico Xascone, flutist, who will play the flute obbligato of Benedict s “La Capinera." The program follows: I. "Grand Concerto (Opus 14) In F Minor” -Wieniawski Mr. Ocko. II. “Pamina’s Aria” (Irom “The Magic Flute”) -Mozart ‘Cherubino’s Aria” (from "Marriage of Figaro”) _Mozart "Queen of the Night Aria” ifrom “The Magic Flute”)__Mozart . HI • La Capinera” _Benedict (With flute obbligato.) . IV "La Matson Grise’’_Messager Le Bonheur est Chose Legare.” . . , _ Saint-Saens Aria from "The Barber of Seville”-Rossini Intermission. V. "Come Unto These Yellow Sands" La Forge "Gavotte’ _Popper "Summertime” _Gershwin Tarantella” -Panovka VI Romance -Rachmaninoff Contretemps’’-Bernard Ocko ■Guitarre" -Moszkowski-Sarasate „ VII. "Bell Sons.” from Lakme”_Delibes gEATS for the Pons recital tomorrow afternoon will be on sale at the Constitution Hail box office, after 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. Lour outstanding attractions are announced for presentation at Consti tution Hail during the coming month of March under the management of Mrs. Dorsey. The first will be the Metropolitan Opera Quartet, consisting of Helen Jepson, soprano; Charles Hackett, tenor; Richard Bonelii, baritone, and Rose Bampfon. contralto, who will be heard at Constitution Hall on Tuesday evening, March 3, at 8:30 o’clock. Mr. Bonelii and Miss Bampton appeared i coioraiure soprano of the Metropoli he screen, whose first cinema produc es recently shown locally, comes to ternoon at 4 o’clock In a full-length of Dorthy Hodgkin Dorsey. This will Washington this season. Ocko, violinist, and Arpad Sandor will )• —’ here last season with the Metropolitan Opera Quartet, which had Grace Moore as its soprano and Edward Johnson, now general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Association, as its tenor. The quartet will be heard in an all-operatic program of arias, duets, trios and quaretts from standard oper atic music and should prove one of the vocal delights of the season. ^jRACE MOORE, the star of opera, concert, radio and the screen, is announced in recital at Constitution Hall on Sunday afternoon, March 8, 1 at 4 o’clock. Special attention is | called to the fact that Miss Moore was originally announced in recital for | March 29, but owing to certain changes ! in her itinerary, it became necessary to change the date of her recital to | March 8, when all tickets for the ; March 29 concert will be honored. The third March attraction will be Josef Hofmann, world-famous pianist, , who is now' making his 50th anniver sary tour, and the fourth and final j March attraction is Gladys Swarthout, mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan ; Opera. Owing to the exchange of dates be j tween Miss Moore and Miss Swarthout | for their Washington recitals, all Swarthout tickets will be accepted at Constitution Hall on Sunday, March 29. despite the fact that they were originally printed for March 8. Seats for all four attractions are now available at Mrs. Dorsey’s Concert Bureau, in Droop's, 1300 G street northwest. Concert Schedule Tomorrow. Lily Pons, song recital, Con stitution Hall, 4 p.m. Monday. Bach lecture-recital by James Friskin at Washington Teachers’ Association meeting at 1227 Six teenth street northwest, 8:15 p.m. Navy Band “Hour of Mem ories” program. 11 am. Army Band, 6 p.m. Tuesday. Lecture on “The Valkyrie” and “Siegfried” by Julia Schelling at Washington College of Music, 8:15 p.m. Navy Band Symphony Or chestra, 8 p.m. Marine Band, patriotic shut ms dream hour. 11 a.m. Soldiers’ Home Band Or chestra. 5:30 p.m. Recordings group concert, pub lic library, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Evening program presented by artists of the International Art Forum at Washington Club. Navy Band, weekly concert on young peoples’ music appreciation course, 4 p.m. Army Band, 11:30 a.m. Marine Band and Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m. Thursday. Lecture-recital, “What Price Jazz?” by Henry Gregory, Uni versity Club, 8:30 p.m. Navy Band, patriotic half hour, 11:30 a.m. Soldiers’ Home Band Or chestra, 5:30 pin. Friday. Lecture on “Tudor Church Music” by Dr. Edmund H. Fel lows of Windsor Castle, England auditorium, Library of Congress, 4:45 p.m. Organ recital presented by Friday Morning Music Club at Western Presbyterian Church, 11:30 a.m. Army Band. 4:15 p.m. Marine Band. 3 p.m. Saturday. Soldiers’ Home Band Or chestra, 5:30 p.m. Echaniz to Play March 4. JOSE ECHANIZ, distinguished Cu ban pianist, who is appearing in concert Wednesday evening, March 4, at the Willard Hotel grand ball room under management of Beren Brook Artists, is appearing two days later as guest artist with the Phila delphia Symphony Orchestra in the American premiere of the Malipiero Concerto, conducted by Iturbi. The appearance of Ernesto Lecuona, originally announced for March 4, was canceled owing to his illness. Hurried long-distance calls found Echaniz to fill the breach, and Wash ington music lovers will have the op portunity to hear another of Latin America s greatest artists. Marta de la Torra, generally acclaimed as the leading woman violinist from below the Rio Grande, was originally sched uled as assisting artist to Lecuona, and will appear with Echaniz, playing a group of Spanish compositions. She will feature "El Poema de una Sapluquena” for violin and piano by the noted Spanish composer, Joaquin Turina. She had the honor of play ing the world premiere of this number in Seville with the composer at the piano. Echaniz. whose full name is Jose Maria del Sagrado Corazon de Echaniz y de Justlniani, is appearing for the first time in Washington, although his fame has been established for some years with music critics of the lead ing music capitals of the world. Bom in Havana, of Spanish, French and Italian ancestry, Echaniz comes of a long line of professional musicians and patrons of music. Young, hand some and intellectual, he belongs to the brilliant school of pianists. Tickets are available at the Willard Hotel and at Beren-Brooks Artists’, 1341 Con necticut avenue. .. % , ... .. Charles Trowbridge Tittman, bass, will assist Lewis Atwater, organist, in a program of music of George Wash ington’s time tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock at All Souls’ Church, Unl Philadelphia • Orchestra’s 3rd Concert Jose Iturbi to Come as Conductor and at the Piano. 'J'HE Philadelphia Orchestra will give its third concert of the season at Constitution Hall on Thursday, March 12, with Jose Iturbi conducting and at the piano. Iturbi’s American tour included ap pearances with orchestra under Stokowski, Mengelberg, Reiner and I others. A great pianist, as remarkable < a personality and a musician as vir tuoso, the Spanish pianist arrived in . this country for the first time in Oc ! tober, 1929, sailed again for Europe in January, 1930, and in a little more than three months had made his name a household word in musical America. Iturbi was recently decorated by France with the Cross of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He has also, I within the past year, distinguished ! himself as a conductor of rare ability. Tickets for the Philadelphia Or chestra are on sale at the T. Arthur , Smith Concert Bureau, 910 G street. -. Noted Coach Opens Studio. YJAESTRO ARTURO PAPALARDO opera conductor and vocal coach | of New York, will open a music stu dio in Washington about March 15. One of the features planned by I Maestro Papalardo will be the forma ; tion of a different sort of choral group | for men and women whose avocation is singing. This group will be pat I terned somewhat along the lines of the Schola Cantorum of New York and will be trained in a varied repertoire including operatic compositions. The | chief object of this group is to provide a real outlet for all those who have a genuine love of singing. As director of the Suffolk Operatic Society in Long Island, Maestrc Papalardo trained his artist students and his non-professional group to ap- i pear in costume recitals and opers with Metropolitan Opera stars as guesi artists. He expects to find sufHcienl I material in Washington to produce j several quartet combinations. In addition to the choral group 1 every branch of the singing art wil : be taught, from individual instruc ! tion in tone production and style coaching in opera, oratorio, classic and modern song literature, to clas! | instruction in voice, which will in j elude training for duets, trio6 and the j several quartette combinations. Maestro Papalardo. who plans tc divide his time between his studios ir New York and Washington, has con j ducted opera in Italy. Russia, Soutl ! America. New York and twice on torn ' j in the United States. He is equally ! famous as a teacher and coach o: many famous singers and stars of the ' Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Among them are Lucrezia Bori, Ethe i Parks, Dusolina Giannini. Rafaelc I Diaz, Toti dal Monte and many oth- 1 - I ers. He was also coach of the Met j ropolitan Quartet, with Prancei j Alda, Marie Sundelius, Rafaelo Diaz | Alfredo Martino and many othei | professional groups. [-— fe£ witf s?: v^tf.^»52Sgil - SOPHOCLESPAPAS GUITAR. 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