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Suitable Hall for Music
Needed by Capital City
Mass Events Held Elsewhere in Music Week
Are Reminders of Washington’s Loss
in This Entertainment Line.
By Alice Eversman.
ANNOUNCEMENTS have been pouring in for some time of the plans
of the Federation of Music Clubs for the great festival of the year
and of the Nation-wide celebration of music week. Merely to read
these over, to know of the original plans successfully operated to
encourage the musical development of every portion of the country down to
the smallest village is inspiring. The numbers of adults and children recruited
for mass events, tne gigantic enwr-j
prises staged in the auditoriums of the
leading cities from coast to coast,
bring home with real conviction the
sincere desire for more and better
music that will reach every type of in
dividual to brighten daily lives. The
sad part about all these history-mak
ing events is that none of them can
take place in the Nation’s Capital, and
why? Because there is no adequate
building where such large enterprises
can be held.
What about the proposed audito
rium? Are the leading musicians of
the city doing their duty toward mak
ing clear the absolute need for such a
place, and are they doing their best to
have a properly equipped hall for mu
sic included in any of the planning?
One cannot reiterate too often the
great necessity for two things, a large
and a small hall for music events.
And what is more important still not
just any kind of a hall will do. There
must be constructed an auditorium
specially designed for music, yet In
spite of these specifications, it need
not be put aside exclusively for music.
Whatever is done to make a hall suit
able for musical presentations will also
benefit those who use it for any other
purpose.
AS Txifcj season uiawa w »
every one who attends concerts
must be impressed with the dearth of
proper halls. Constitution Hall is
ideal, but it has its limitations. Where
are the smaller halls, conveniently lo
cated. where events that will draw but
small audience can be given in com
fort to all concerned? In all this
lovely city of beautiful and grandiose
buildings there is not one place that
one can point to with pride as a real
temple of the greatest gift of God to
man, music. Surely this state of af
fairs has gone on long enough and it
Is time that we energetically plan for
■ remedy.
The chief asset of such an under- '
taking, but one difficult to impress
upon those in power, is that two such
halls would be self-supporting. There
would be no need for charity or for
many months to pass before financial
results would be apparent. Simply to
make a list of all the musical and
dance events of the year, big or small,
with the cost of the halls beside them
would give an idea of a round sum
that could be, offhand, counted upon
If combined in one direction. Add to
this the many choral, student and
like events that come every season
and the sum augments. Many more
schools, teachers and music clubs
would be glad to increase their public J
presentations if they knew there was
an attractive place to give them. Not
only that, but more artists and more
attractions could be brought here if
that question, “Where could it be
held?” did not always remain unan
awerable.
f\ ND in speaking of an “auditorium,”
*"*• there is no need to visualize a vast
structure designed for many thou
sands of people. This again would
defeat the end, as has been proven in
the past. But If such an enormous
hall is wanted, there are many ways
of getting around the difficulty of
sise by studying some of those already
in operation in various cities where
special devices shut the hall olT for
the desired number. The main points
are the questions of acoustics, stage
and location, with the last perhaps
the mast important. No matter how
ideally constructed, if the auditorium
is situated in an inaccessible place,
its usefulness is doomed. Most every
one will stop to consider the time and
the cost of traversing the entire city
to reach a place far from the center
of town.
Naturally the question of acoustics
must be considered. The minute a
hall has the reputation of bad acous
tics, it is finished, as far as a paying
success is concerned. There are many
examples of bad acoustic planning
in the city which even experts brought
from Europe have been unable to rem
edy. A hall that is correct acousti
cally for music is also correct for con
ventions or any other kind of assembly
where speakers or music may have to
reach the farthest spectator. Too
much stress cannot be laid upon this
important factor, and modern science
has developed many new ideas in this
respect.
J^IKEWISE modern science has oc
cupied itself with stage construc
tion and lighting and all the new in
ventions are at the disposal of the
planners. The stage must be large
enough for large presentations, but, at
the same time, there are many inven
tions that will allow of the diminishing
of space for a smaller platform. There
is also the idea of a double stage, each
projecting into a different room that
could do service for a large or small
hall. In fact, there are so many new
ideas that it would be merely a ques
tion of choosing what suits the local
needs best. Novel experiments by
Maude Adams and by foreign theaters
in lighting have brought artistic and
labor-saving results.
If one but studies the progress in
theatrical presentation from the time
when Wagner wrote so voluminously
on the subject to the present day,
when the keenest minds have seen
the immense possibilities in it, one
would be full of enthusiasm. We, in
Washington, have a serious problem
before us, one that has been talked
about continuously, but the solving of
which has stopped with talking.
Since the inauguration the subject
has come up in a way to indicate that
at last something constructive is to be
done about it, and in this the musi
cians should be most vitally interested.
But, like all things connected with
music, unfortunately, we will not be
taken seriously unless extra effort is
put forth. If nothing comes of the
project now, when will such an oppor
tunity arise again?
Hayes Songs
Offered at
Armstrong
Tenor to Appear in
Program of Most
Varied. Class.
ROLAND HAYES, tenor, will appear
at Armstrong High School under
the auspices of the Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity on Friday evening at 8:30
o'clock.
Mr. Hayes, who is outstanding as an
Interpreter of the classic masters, of
German lieder, spirituals and modern
songs, will be accompanied by Percival
Parham, one of whose songs and sev
eral arrangements will be included in
the program. The following numbers
will be sung by Mr. Hayes:
•‘Alma Del Core" (PastoraleI.
Antonio Caldara (16/0-1 <36)
•‘Jesu Seelenangst."
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1/50!
"Pack. Clouds Away" (matin song! Handel
"For Music" . - . — . - Franx
"O Kuhler Wald" - Brahms
"Der Gang Zum Liebchen” Brahms
•‘Extrait de l'Enfant Prodigue.’’
Claude Debussy
"Air Vif” (Airs Chantes) Francis Poulenc
"Thought Takes Off" Helen Hopekirk
"People Who Have Gardens" (ar
rangement) Helen Hopekirk
"Dawn" Coleridge-Taylor
"Mother to Son" (poem by Lang
ston Hughes i Percival Parham
••Triptych on the Life of Christ."
With Recessional
"Sister Mary Had But One Child"
i Nativity i Arr. by Percival Parham
Iztt'l Boy" (Christ In the Templei.
Arr. by Percival Parham
"You Mus' Be Newborn Again” tChrist
Said to Nicodemus).
Arr. by William C. Heilmann
"Roun' ’Bout de Mountain" (Re
cessional! Arr. by Percival Parham
Tickets are on sale at the office of
the Washington Tribune, 920 TJ street
northwest.
SONG RECITAL AT
WASHINGTON CLUB
AT ME. SARA FLAKSHAAR will pre
1 sent Sanford Donaldson, bari
tone, in a song recital at the Wash
ington Club on Wednesday evening at
8:30 o’clock. The assisting artist will
be Grete von Bayer, pianist, and Vic
tor Neal will be the accompanist. Mr.
Donaldson has appeared in concert
several times this season, recently
assisting Mme. Flakshaar in a joint
recital under the auspices of the
League of American Pen Women. The
program for Wednesday evening will
be as follows:
•'Per Wanderer”_Schubert
"Mondnacht” _Schumann
"Fruhlingsnacht” _ . ... .Schumann
"Immer Leise Wird Mein Schlummer,”
Brahms
"Vergebllehes Standchen”_Brahms
"Llebliche Wangen”_Brahms
"Raindrop Prelude” __Chopin
"Fantasle Impromptu" _ Chopin
Orete von Bayer.
"Die Lorelei”__ Frami Llsgt
"Morgen" _ _Richard Strausa
"Thine Eyes So Blue”__ . Lassen
"The Crying of Waters” . Campbell-Llpton
Wotan's "Abschled von Brunhllde,”
from the opera "Die Wallture."
Richard Wagner
--a .
Singer at Roosevelt.
OITA ROZADA, noted mezzo-con
tralto, will be presented in concert
tomorrow evening at 9:30 o’clock at
the Roosevelt Hotel in a varied pro
gram, wearing a Spanish costume.
Mme. Rozada, who is of Spanish ex
traction, will sing several Spanish
•ongs.
Concert Schedule
TOMORROW.
Gladys Swarthout, song recital.
Constitution Hall. 4 p.m.
Georgetown University Glee
Club. Joseph Barbecot, baritone,
soloist, Gaston Hall, Georgetown
University, 8:30 p.m.
Rita Rozada, song recital,
Roosevelt Hotel, 9:30 pm.
National Capital Choir, Dr.
Albert W. Harned, director,
Gounod's “Gallia,” National Me
morial Churcfr, 11 am.
Y. W. C. A. Music Hour, Elsa
Busch, Margaret Hall, two piano
recitals, Barker Hall, 5 p m.
MONDAY.
Arthur Howes, organ recital.
St. John's Church. Sixteenth and
H streets northwest, 8:30 p.m.
TUESDAY.
“Pinafore,” Wentworth Opera
Group, Roosevelt High School,
8:30 p.m.
Coolidge Quartet, Library of
Congress, 3:45 p.m.
Julia Schelling. assisted by
Bthel Pyne. soprano, lecture
recital, Twentieth Century Club,
1 3 p.m.
Marine Band, 3 p.m.
Soldiers' Home Band Or
chestra, 6:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY.
Sanford Donaldson, baritone,
song recital, Grete von Bayer,
pianist, assisting, Washington
Club. 8:30 p.m.
Marine Band Symphony Or
chestra, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY.
Coolidge Quartet, Library of
Congress, 3:45 p.m.
“Adventures in Music,” Mary
Izant Couch, assisted by Helen
Turley, contralto, The Schubert
Singers, Mrs. Chester Adair,
director. Women's City Club.
8:30 p.m.
“Symphonologue.” Charles Ed.
Russell, Marjorie Davis, pianist,
assisting, Arts Club.
Soldiers’ Home Band Or
chestra, 5:30 p.m.
FRIDAY.
Edythe Marmion Brosius, harp
recital, Sulgrave Club, 4:30 p.m.
j Roland Hayes, tenor, song re
■ cital, Armstrong High School, 8:30
p.m,
Friday Morning Music Club,
j Evelyn Scott, violinist: Dorothy
Sherman Pierson, soprano; Alice
Brooks, pianist; Barker Hall,
, 11:30 a.m.
SATURDAY.
Soldiers’ Home Band Or
chestra, 5:30 p.jn.
"Symphonologue” at Club.
0N THURSDAY evening the Arte
Club will give another in the
series of symphonologue*, when the
program will Include a discussion of
the works to be played by the National
Symphony Orchestra during the
month of March. Charles Edward
Russell, who received his symphonic
education under the great musical
pioneer, Theodore Thomas, will dis
cuss the music, stressing particularly
the Brahms “C Minor Symphohy,” as
sisted by Marjorie Davis at the piano.
Friends of the club who are Interested
will be welcome.
Artists in the Musical Limelight of Coming Attractions
Gladys Sivarthout, pictured at left, the interesting mezzo
soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, will be heard in a full-length
recital tomorrow afternoon at Constitution Hall.. Former appear
ances here have been as co-artist with other noted stars. In the
center is Ted Shawn, dancer, as he was photographed while on a
vacation. He brings his famous group of man dancers to Con
stitution Hall on Monday, March 15. At right. Ethel Pyne. concert
soprano, who will sing at the Wagnerian lecture-recital to be
given by Julia Schelling for the Music Division of the Twentieth
Century Club on Tuesday afternoon.
Whiteman
To Feature
Symphony
Famous Leader, With
His Own Group, in
Joint Concert.
IMMEDIATELY upon the news of the
A sensational success of the White
man-Philadelphia Orchestra combina
tion, Hans Kindler, most enthusiastic
as always about bringing that which
is of the most vital interest in musi
cal development to the Capital, trav
eled to New York, arranged for In
terviews with both Deems Taylor and
Paul Whiteman, and persuaded both
of them to appear with the National
Symphony Orchestra in the same ca
pacity as they had done with the
Philadelphia Orchestra,
Paul Whiteman, dean of modern
, American music, will conduct the Na
i tional Symphony Orchestra, aug
mented by his own world-famous
j group, in a typical Whiteman con
i cert of brilliant contemporary com
; positions and favorite symphonic
1 works on March 17 in Constitution
| Hall.
“Music in the Whiteman manner"
i has been more than ever discussed
I since the popular maestro's appear
l ances this season with the Philadel
phia Orchestra in Philadelphia and
New York. Such sensational num
bejis as Ferde Grove's “Tabloid Suite,”
musical candid shots of a modern
newspaper; "Thank You, Mr. Bach,"
a work by Van Phillips, based on a
theme from Bach's preludes and
fugues, which attempts to show that
Bach was the father of “swing'' music
and succeeds in being one of the
high entertainment spots of the con
cert: “An Essay on Waltzes,” Adolph
Deutch’s ingenious suite, whose se
quence tells the story of the waltz
; from the days of the minuet to the
j street song, modern Vienna and op
I eretta vogue of today; these and other
| modern compositions which have been
; successfully introduced by Whiteman
will be included on his program.
Living program notes will be given
by Deems Taylor. As guest artist for
the interpretation of "St. Louis Blues,”
Mr. Whiteman will have Casper Rear
don. youthful virtuoso, who is conceded
to be the world's premier “hot”
harpist.
Featured on the program will be
Rodgers and Hart's widely-acclaimed
“All Points West,” given its world
premier by the dean of American
music at his New York concert with
the Philadelphia Orchestra. “All
Points West” is described as “a com
bination of orchestral tone poem, dra
matic aria and recitation, the whole
presenting a musical reflection of the
thoughts that run through the head
of a train announcer as he ushers out
the various expresses and locals from
the station, watching other people go
places, and never going anywhere him
self. The dramatic song and recita
tive will be given by Bob Lawrence,
young baritone, who has distinguished
himself on stage and radio under
Whiteman's sponsorship.
Other featured artists on the pro
gram will be the famous King's Men
Quartet, composed of Ken Darby. Bud
Linn, Rad Robinson and Jon Dodson,
singing the tricky song arrangements
which have made them a hit on all
Whiteman concerts, and Roy Bargy,
in the spotlight at the piano for the
Inevitable finale number, “Rhapsody
in Blue,” by George Gershwin.
In Operatic Role
RICHARD HILL,
Tenor of the Estelle Went
worth Opera Group, who will
sing the role of Ralph Rack
straw in "Tinafore” on Tues
day evening at the Roosevelt
High School.
In Local Music Circles
THE Friday Morning Music Club
will present Evelyn Scott,
violinist; Dorothy Sherman
Pierson, soprano, and Alice
Brooks, pianist, on Friday at 11:30
a m. at Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A.
A special musical service will ?
given tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock at
Foundry M. E Church by the Male
Glee Club of Washington Missionary
College. In the absence of the direc*
tor. Prof William F. Schadel. Justin
Lawrie will conduct. The soloist at
tomorrow morning's service will be
Evelyn Baird Long, soprano.
Elizabeth Cates, pianist graduate of
the Von Unschuld University of Music,
will play at the reception for State
officers given by the Catherine Mont
gomery Chapter and for the Martha
Washington Chapter. D. A. R.. and
w'lll give a piano recital this Spring.
Miss Cates has recently played at the
Political Study Club, the Native Club,
the Lucy Holcomb Chapter, the Mary
Bartlett Chapter and the Abigail Hart
man Rice Chapter, D A. R.; the Ta
koma Women's Club and at the Arling
ton County Red Cross benefit.
At the Y W C A. music hour to
morrow at 5 o'clock, the program will
be given by Elsa Busch and Margaret
Hall, duo-pianists of the music faculty
of St. Timothy's School, Catonsville,
Md.
Mabel Flehr, contralto, will assist
Lewis Atwater in a program of music
by Franz Liszt at All Souls’ Church,
Unitarian, on tomorrow afternoon at
5 o’clock.
The first half of the “Passion Ac
cording to St. John," by Johann
Sebastian Bach, will be given at
Concordia Lutheran Evangelical
Church, Twentieth and G streets
northwest, tomorrow at 8 o'clock In
the evening by the Concordia Cantata
choir. The soloists are Cathreen
Carrico, Henrietta Flynn, Raymond
Escherich, David Raab. Howard
Bursley, Howard Samsel and William
Thomas.
During March, at services of the
Georgetown Presbyterian Church, Mrs.
Frank Akers Frost, the organist and
choir director, will use four more of
the offertories recently composed by
Mrs. Dudley C. Jackson, organist of
the Takoma Park Presbyterian ;
Church. The offertories will be played
as follows: ••Trio,” three tone poems,
"Ftoreat Majesty,” ‘ Afterglow in the
Hills" and "Sun Through Mists.”
The piano students of Lucy M. Boyer
will be heard in recital at the studio.
1325 O street northwest, this evening
at 8 o'clock. Those taking part will j
be Helen Large. Bernice Willett, Janet J
Guess, Helen Saunders, Irene Nimetr,
Shirley and Betty Lilienthal, Morion
Nadelman, Jane Rathell, Mary Culll- j
nane, Ethel Brooks, Virginia Eiibert, j
Nora Lee, Dorothy Clodtelter, Geral
dine Van Bibber, Mildred Keiser, |
Mary Jane Watson, Jane Cutsall, I
Helen Iden. Jean Thomas, Beverly
Brody. Gloria Paquette, Virginia
Layne, Emily Walker, Belva Hardesty,
Anna and Dorothy Zatz.
Le Roy Lewis, baritone and voice
teacher at the Catholic Sisters’ Col
lege of the Catholic University of
America, will give a private concert
at Trinity College Tuesday afternoon
for the sisters and students. He will
be assisted by Mary Owen, coloratura
- soprano, and a quartet composed of
! Miss Owen, Lenna Gauss, contralto; j
I John Hall, tenor, and Robert Ewing, !
baritone. Louis Malone will be the
accompanist.
—
The Chevy Chase Chanters sang
j two groups of songs at the meeting
of the Theodore Roosevelt Masonic
Lodge Wednesday evening. Tomorrow
evening the Chanters will furnish the
music for the first of a series of
vesper services at the Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church, at Chevy Chase
Circle and Connecticut avenue.
The first public program of the
newly organized "Little Symphony"
was given in Columbia Hall, Wash
ington Missionary College, last Satur
day evening under the direction of
George Wargo, viola soloist with the
National Symphony Orchestra. The
numbers given were excerpts from
Schubert's “Unfinished Symphony”
and “The Nut Cracker Suite.” by
Tschaikowsky; Largo,” Handel; "Cele
brated Minuet.” Boccherini; "Traume.”
Wagner, and "Valse Triste," by Sibe
lius.
The Little Symphony was assisted
by the College Orchestra, which played
Godard's "Adagio Pathetique" and
Haydn's ‘ Minuet," from "The Military
Symphony.”
CLUB TO PRESENT
LECTURE RECITAL
pTHEL PYNE, soprano, will assist
J Julia E Schelling in a Wagnerian
lecture recital for the music section
of the Twentieth Century Club on
Tuesday at 3 o'clock. She will be ac
companied by Malton Boyce.
Miss Pyne, formerly of New York
City, has appeared professionally in
more than 125 cities in the United
States and Canada, in concerts, re
citals, as soloist with orchestras,
church engagements and radio. Her
repertoire includes operatic arias, con
cert songs, ballads, oratorios and
church music in seven languages.
-•
SHAWN IS WRITING
ARTISTIC HISTORY
rPHE development of an entirely new
A art form, uniting the athlet? with
the artist, is accredited by critics to
Ted Shawn, leader of the notable
group of man dancers who will give
a single performance in Washington
at Constitution Hall, Monday evening,
March 15.
The startling idea of an entire eve
ning’s program for man dancers was
first evolved by Mr. Shawn three years
ago. and he resolved to venture a sea
son's tour. Shawn now laughs at the
tribulations of that inauspicious start
in 1933.
On financing as slim as . the pro
verbial shoestring, the group took off
from New York in a motor cavalcade
of third-hand cars, which the dancers
had to drive themselves. The artistic
adventurers ate 15-cent lunches when
necessary, changed tires when blow
outs occurred in lonely places in the
midst of snowstorms, unpacked the
show, hung the scenery and lights and
played before audiences of farmers
and cowboys clear to the coast.
In a small Texas town an organisa
tion of 50 cowhands announced they
were going to break up the show, ob
jecting “on principle” to man dancers.
But the brilliant performance so inter
ested then that they forgot their
threats completely.
From such pioneer adventuring the
Shawn dancers in three years won
complete recognition. Now they are
regarded as authentic creators of a
significant and virile art form. They
come to Washington fresh from a
series of spectacular successes in this
country, England and Cuba, where
they have been writing artistic his
tory with their imaginative and bril
liant choreography.
! NATIONAL MUSIC
WEEK OUTLINED
A LTHOUGH the observance of Na
tional Music Week is scheduled
for May 1, the 4,500 member clubs of
the National Federation of Music
Clubs, in communities from coast to
coast, marshaled by Mrs, Grace Wid
1 ney Mabee of Los Angeles, Calif., are
1 already deep in plans for the observ
ance.
With her call to observance of Na
: tional Music Week, Mrs. Mabee offers
concrete suggestions for uniform pro
grams in each community.
‘Make Sunday, May 2. ‘Music in
Religious Education Sunday,' ” is one
of them. Vesper services, choir festi
vals and hymn festivals are suggested
as appropriate phases of the program
for this day.
“Devote one day to American music
and the American composer, honoring
especially such composers as may be
living in your community,” la a second
suggestion. "Music in Schools and
Colleges” and “Music in Motion Pic
tures” are other topics which music
clubs are asked to emphasize.
Local federated clubs are asked to
make the climax of the week a
music forum, conducted by State or
local federation officials, with repre
sentatives of women’s clubs, civic or
ganizations, churches, schools, frater
nal organizations, chambers of com
merce and city officials participating,
with discussion focusing upon the
present music needs of the community.
A choral and orchestral festival fea
turing local talent might well come
as a finale to such a forum, Mrs.
Mabee points out.
Song Recital at Howard U.
'J'HE next recital in the Howard Uni
versity concert series will be given
on March 16 by Louise Bunge, con
tralto. Miss Burge Is a graduate of
the School of Music at Howard Uni
versity and has held a scholarship in
the Juilllard Graduate School for
three years.
Artists on Club Program.
T-IELEN TURLEY, contralto, will
A sing with the Schubert Singers at
the third adventure in music which
Mary Izant Couch will conduct on
Thursday at 8:30 o’clock at the Wom
en’s City Club, 736 Jackson place. The
title of this program is "Minstrels and
Troubadours." The Schubert Singers
are under the direction of Mrs. Chester
Adair. 1
Georgetown
Glee Club in
Home Event
Campus Concert Has
Mid-Lenten Place at
University.
''TOMORROW evening the George
town University Glee Club, a male
chorus consisting of 40 voices, under
the personal direction of Edward P.
Donovan, will present its annual mld
Lenten concert on the university
campus in Gaston Hall. The Glee Club
will be assisted by Joseph M. Barbecot,
baritone, and a students’ orchestra.
Mr. Barbeeet. who is well known in
musical circles, has sung with the
dub before.
During the last two months the
Glee Club has appeared before many
colleges and varied audiences in Wash
ington and Baltimore, including the
Massachusetts Society, the Phi Beta
Kappa Association of Washington and
the Knights of Columbus.
The following is the program:
"Stout-Hearted Men”_Romberg
"Drum Serenade"_Loewe
"Reverie -Tsehalkowsky
"Gypsy Twilight".._Arehangelskv
"Walti Themes'’_Strauss
Olee Club
Arioso, from "Benvenuto”_....._Dlaa
Mr. Barbecot.
"O Ksea Vlatorum "
Isaak (fifteenth century i
•'Ave Maris Stella '_Grieg
•'Praise Ye the Lord '_Brahms
Glee Club.
"D Une Prison”_...._Hahn
"Cimetlere de Campagne"__Hahn
Mr Barbecot.
"Oh1 Nobody Knows de Trouble I've
Seen''-Negro spiritual
Noah. Noah. Demme Come In.”
Negro spirtual
De Ole Arks a-Movertn' ’..Negro spiritual
Variations— Old King Cole_Forsythe
Sons of Georgetown "- Alma mater
Selection-The orchestra.
WENTWORTH CAST
IN “PINAFORE”
'J'HE popular Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta. "Pinafore,” will be pre
sented Tuesday mght. at 8:30 o'clock,
in Roosevelt High School Auditorium,
by the Estelle Wentworth Opera
Group, sponsored by the Community
Center Department. It will be the
first in a series of Spring events, pre
sented with the co-operation of the
Community Center Department, and
is the result of many requests for Its
performance.
Nina Norman, who will sing the role
of Josephine, the captain's daughter,
has been on the professional stage one
season in "Desert Song” and one sea
son in "My Maryland,” and appeared
In leading roles also with the Wash
ington Civic Opera. Ray Baine, who
will assume the role of Sir Joseph
Porter, was leading tenor in "Fools
Rush In” in New York City, and has
sung not less than IS roles in light
and grand opera with the Washington
Civic Opera and the Wentworth group.
J. Edmond Veitch, who is returning
to his original role of Capt. Corcoran,
has appeared promlnentl. in local
drama groups, Including the Roadside
Theater, Washington Players. Shake
speare Society, and is a leading mem
ber of the Schubert Singers. It will
be his first appearance with the Went
worth opera singers for several years.
Of the remainder of the cast, Rich
ard Hill, who will sing the role of
Ralph Rackstraw, has appeared with
the George Washington Troubadours
and is now tenor soloist at St. John's
Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square.
Harry E. Yelde, appearing as Bill
Bohstay, sang for a number of years
with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem
and is now director of the Pepco Glee
Club. Kenneth Burgess, the Dick
Deadaye, is a new member of the
group. Margaret Phillips, appearing
as Hebe, has sung a number of leading
roles with the Wentworth Opera
Group, as has Mildred Sherman.
Reserved seats at the Willard Ticket
Bureau, Washington Hotel newsstand,
American Automobile Asssoclation
and at the box office at Roosevelt
Auditorium on Tuesday night.
Lovette Club Event.
“PCHOES OP ERIN," the fifth cal
endar event of the season, will
be presented by the Lovette Choral
Club on Monday at 8:30 o’clock In the
club room of the District of Columbia
League of American Pen Women,
Grafton Hotel. Associate members
and guests of members are invited.
Louise K Hartung. president, will
be the hostess and Mrs. Roccoe King
is in charge of the program. Evelyn
Scott, violinist, will be the assisting
artist. Artist club members appear
ing on the program include Hazel
Cake, soprano; Francise Bass Wilson,
mezzo-soprano, and Elsie Cranmer,
the club accompanist, who will be
piano soloist. The Choral Club will
be heard in an ensemble number.
Folk dances will be given by a
group including Marjorie McGann,
Carol Shea, Kathleen Davis and
Gloria Cone; also dances by Eileen
Jordan, all from the Alice Louise
Hunter School of Dance.
Miss Swarthout Gives
Only Recital Tomorrow
Star to Appear Here at Constitution Hall
With Well-Balanced Program—Lawrence
Tibbett Later in Month.
THE outstanding musical event in Washington tomorrow will be the song
recital of Gladys Swarthout. star of opera, concert, radio and the
screen, at Constitution Hall at 4 o’clock, under the local management
of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey Miss Swarthout's recital will be the
eighth attraction of Mrs. Dorsey’s 1936-37 Sunday afternoon concert series
at Constitution Hall.
Gladys Swarthout, mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Association
•I1U, «ibliJU UIC loot iww OCBOU1U, ■!!'(
emerging luminary of the screen and
the air waves, Is making her latest
concert appearance in Washington
dose on the heels of her recent screen
appearance in "Champagne Waltz."
Tomorrow’s appearance, however, will
mark her only public appearance in
Washington this season.
X/IISS SWARTHOUT made her Con
stitution Hall debut In a joint
recital with Nino Martini nearly two
years ago. Prior to that time she had
appeared here in a morning musicale
and tomorrow’s concert marks her
third appearance in the Capital. For
this occasion. Miss Swarthout has se
lected the following program;
"Di Questra Cetra” (Gluck), "Amor
Dormiglione’’ (Strozzl), "When I Am
lAid in Earth,” from "Dido and
Aeneas” (Purcell), "Femmes, Battez
vos Marys,” old French, arranged by
Arnold Bax; "Wiegenlied” (Straussi,
“Valse de Chopin” (Joseph Marx),
"Die Mainacht” (Johannes Brahms i,
"Heimkehr Vom Feste" (Leo Blech),
"The Albatross" (Jaroslav Kricka),
"Pioggia” and "Scherzo” (Respighi),
"Con Amores” (Fernando J. Obradors),
"El Vito” (Joaquin Nin), "The
Harp.” manuscript—first time (Ernest
Charles), "Velvet Shoes” (Randall
Thompson), "Love Was a Beggar.'
manuscript <Hennion Robinson*.
"Clovers,” written for and dedicated
to Miss Swarthout (Charles Kings
ford) and "Wild Song” (Olive
Dungan*.
Seals for Miss Swarthoul’s recital,
at which she will be assisted at the 1
piano by Fritz Kitzinger, are available
at Mrs. Dorsey's Concert Bureau in
Droop’s, 1300 G street northwest, and
at the Constitution Hall box office
after 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
J^AWRENCE TIBBETT, baritone of
the Metropolitan Opera Associa
tion and outstanding star of concert,
radio and the screen, will make his
only concert appearance of the 1936
37 season in Washington at Constitu
tion Hall on Sunday afternoon, March
21, at 4 o’clock, under the local man
agement of Mrs. Dorsey. Mr. Tibbett s
performance will constitute the ninth
Sunday afternoon attraction to be
given at Constitution Hall this season
by Mrs. Dorsey and will be the next
to the last attraction offered by that
manager this season. Tibbetts pro
gram will be announced later. Seats
are already available at Mrs. Dorsey's
Concert Bureau, in Droop's, 1300 G
street northwest.
Tour Made
By National
Orchestra
Return to Capital to
Be in Concert of
Unique Type.
TAURING the past week the National
^ Symphony Orchestra has been
playing through the South and to
morrow reaches Sweet Briar College in
Virginia for a concert at 3 o'clock.
Since leaving the Capital last Mon
day morning the orchestra and its
conductor, Hans Kindler, have ap
peared before six capacity audiences,
totaling nearly 12,000 listeners. The
tour began Monday night with a con
cert at Richmond, Va. Then on suc
cessive evenings there were engage
ments in Roanoke. Va.: Chattanooga
and Knoxville. Tenn, and Asheville,
N. C. After tonight's appearance in
Sweet Briar, the orchestra entrains
for Harrisonburg. Va., for a concert
there tomorrow night. Then the mu
sicians start home.
An even more extensive tour of the
South begins April 1. when the
orchestra appears in Raleigh, N. C..
followed by a two day engagement at
the music festival In Columbia. S. C.
Then the orchestra goes to Jackson
1 ville. Fla., Spartanburg, S. C.. Win
throp College at Rock Hill. S. C.. and
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Winston-Salem, and Greensboro,
N. C. As soon as the orchestra re
turns from the present trip rehearsals
begin for the Constitution Hall con
cert of next Sunday afternoon when
Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, the
distinguished British duo-pianists, will
be soloists.
With the assistance of these artists
Dr Kindler will present a program of
unusual appeal to Washington music
lovers The first half will be devoted
to the works of J S Bach and C. P E
Bach. Numbers will be played as fol
lows:
"Passarazlia and Puaue” J 8 Bach
■ Double Piano Concerto in E Flat."
C. P E. Bach
Bartlett and Robertaon
"Double Plano Concerto" Francis Poulenc
Bartlett and Robertson
•Meflsto," wait* _ . Franz Liszt
Washington seldom has the op
portunity to hear any of the works on
this program. The C. P. E Bach
double piano concerto has not been
played here for several seasons, and
the Poulenc work is a recent com
position. which Bartlett and Robertson
are introducting to America this
season.
The noted British duo-pianists are
appearing with the National Sym
phony next week for the fourth time
In three seasons.
They appeared with the New York
Philharmonic this January at the final
concert conducted there this season
by John Barbirolli, the English mu
sician, who was a fellow student of
Miss Bartlett’s at the London academy.
The two artists received high praise
from New York critics following their
Philharmonic engagements.
MUSIC PILGRIMS
ASSIST SCHOOLS
jyjUSICAL pilgrimages to country
schools to interest the teachers
and pupils in music are among the
methods of advancing musical interest
in remote communities which have
just been recommended by Mrs. Dud
ley Chaffee of Frankfort. Ky., chair
man of rural music of the National
Federation of Music Clubs, to the 46
State federations in the organization.
Activities in Shelby County, 111., where
such musical pilgrimages have been
undertaken with great success, are
cited by Mrs. Chaffee as a shining
example of what may be accomplished
along this line.
The Shelby County activities are
directed in large measure by Shelby
ville's Women’s Club, which six years
ago started a campaign to make rural
Shelby County musical. The first step
was a survey of rural schools of the
county to determine how much
musical talent existed; the second a
series of musical entertainments in
the schools given by adult talent fur
nished by the club. Following that
came a rural school competitive music
festival which proved so successful
that it has been held each year for
the last five and has disclosed an un
suspected wealth of musical talent.
The most recent activity in the
county has been the perfection of an
organization to conduct country-wide
hymn-memory and hymn-playing con
tests and to encourage Junior and
senior choruses, harmonica bands and
similar musical groups, which wll’ put
on contests and concerts in connec
tion with ehautauquas and county
fain.
Harp Solos,
Old Melody
On Program
—
Mme. Brosius Takes
Some Selections
From Bards.
pDYTHE MARMION BROSIUS,
concert harpist, will be heard in
recital at the Sulgrave Club on Fri
day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Mme.
Brosius has arranged many of the
old melodies used by the bards of
i Scotland. Wales and Ireland for the
{ Irish harp and will include several
j In her program, which will be given
' in the following order:
i
"Bourree" _). S Bath
’Minuet Rameau
"Prelude' Chopin
Harmonious Blacksmith"_ Handel
•Gavotte” Gres
* Manurkt" gch'ickf
"Chanson fie Pecheur”_ Zabrl
"Am 8Drinsbrunnen _ Zabei
II
Tunes, to be announced, of the ancient
harpers of Scotland. Wales and Ire
land. Dlayed on the Irish harp. (Ar
ranged by E. M B.)
III
"Arabesque” Debussy
"Minuet d'Amour" ipoem, "Theresa
bv Jules Claretiei Massanet
"Oitans ithe gypsy) _Hasseiman
Concert Valse" Hasse'mans
"les Follets" - Hasseiman
"Chaconne Durand
1 PattuRlla Soagnuola" _ Tedesehi
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FLOOD CHANGES
CONVENTION PLAN
rpRANSFERENCE of the twentieth
biennial convention and American
j Musical Festival of the National Fed
eration of Music Clubs from Louisville.
Kentucky, to Indianapolis is an
nounced by Mrs. John Alexander
Jardme of Fargo. N Dak., national
president. The change was made be
eai:se of the devastation occasioned by
the flood.
The dates for Indianapolis will be
the same as those for Louisville—April
23 to 29. Headquarters have been
transferred from the Brown Hotel,
Louisville, to the Claypool Hotel. In
dianapolis. The program ir. the main
will remain unchanged. The Nation
al Symphony Orchestra will give its
scheduled concerts. Thousands of per
formers will participate in the adult
musical events and more than 1.000
juniors in the observance of Junior
day.
Concerts and other musical events
will be given at the Indianapolis
Theater, a few doors from the head
quarters hotel, and business sessions
will be held in the ball room of the
Claypool.
The Burroughs Concert Chorus of
Indianapolis has been added to the
groups appearing on the program and
Indianapolis will also contribute its
Civic Symphony Orchestra and a
nucleus for the massed orchestra
which is to be a feature of Junior day,
observed April 29.
Convention committees, undaunted
by the change in the plans, are going
briskly forward with rearrangements.
Hotel reservations are being rapidly
transferred and Mrs. Jardine an
nounces that the attendance will
reach the record mark promised,
which was estimated at 5,000 to 8.000.
In announcing the transference of
the convention city, Mrs. Jardine paid
high tribute to the dauntless courage
of the Louisville Convention Commit
tee in attempting to go on with con
! vention plans in spite of the adverse
conditions. "It is a challenge to those
j of us who are faced with the realiza
j tion that a festival in Louisville is
! impossible.” she said. "We accept
Louisville's decision with deepest
sympathy and understanding."
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Monthly Musicale.
'T'HE Felicia Ryber Music Club will
! give its monthly musicale Wed
nesday at 8:30 p.m. The participating
artists win be Louise Bernheimer,
cellist; Frances Jackson, mezzo-so
prano, and Helen EpasofT, pianist.
Helen Herbert-Peck, a student of
Irish in America, will give Lady Greg
ory’s "Rising of the Moon.” Cards
will be sent out.
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—
Warren F. Johnson. Organist
Church of the Pilgrims
Sunday Evening
First Mavemtnt. Sonata G Minor Kraas*
Armando Jannuzzi
Grand Opera Dramatic Tenor
Voice Specialist
Italian Method
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