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Power of Radio Gives
Wider Field to Music
Growing Desire for Best Has Found Expres
sion in Remarkable Popularity of Concert
Stage as Well as Broadcasts.
By Alice Eversman.
AT THE close of the musical season there Is Justifiable satisfaction felt
on all sides at the manner In which serious music has been patronised.
The Increased attendance shows definitely that the appreciation of
good music has grown immeasurably and the reaction of the public to
programs and artists has demonstrated a better discrimination as to artistic
standard. As gratifying as this increased interest Is, we must, nevertheless,
recognize that were it not for tne«:
radio, this country would still be
struggling under the same conditions
which hampered it for so many years
in its efforts to become music minded.
Today the radio ranks with all the
educational activities that have been
organized for the advancement of
music, and its influence outstrips
every other effort in that it reaches
to points and people not coming
under the jurisdiction of regular
musical circles.
The power of the radio must be
recognized by serious musicians, and
•very assistance given it to keep the
standard high. To a certain extent
it may oompete with concert activities,
but on the other hand it will be help
ful, for, after all, there is a personal
satisfaction in seeing and hearing an
artist on the concert platform which
the radio cannot give. Then, too, not
all the best artists are on the radio
programs, so that their fame is of suf
ficient drawing power to assure them
a concert audience.
"DEPORTS from the different radio
studios interested in checking the
response throughout the country to
their best programs announce a preva
lent demand for the best in music.
An article in the “Education by
Radio” bulletin, published by the Na
tional Committee on Education by
Radio, does away with the “myth,” as
it is called, that “the majority of the
American people want entertainment
from their radios—they do not want
education.”
It goes on to say; “That myth, that
conviction, that assumption is now
dead. It has been slain in the last
nine months; murdered by the com
bined strength of 300.000 American
radio listeners. What does this prove?
It proves that millions of Americans
—ent educational programs prepared
to meet public tastes and interests.
This evidence challenges the moss
covered assumption that the public
demand is solely for entertainment
and issues a clarion call for a new
definition of “public interest, con
venience and necessity.”
'T'HIS, of course, has to do mostly
with other than musical programs,
yet it indicates a growing desire for
more cultural things which embraces
music. Recently William S. Paley,
president of the Columbia Broadcast
ing System, speaking before the Wom
en’s National Radio Committee, gave
this encouraging outline of the atti
tude of listeners toward the quality
of the music heard over the air;
"The radio audience of today is
receptive to more of the finer and
serious *music than ever before. The
standard of musical appreciation found
throughout the country today is sur
prisingly high. People are more and
more listening to music because they
like it, rather than because they I
think it is good for them. This status |
has been the result of a gradual
development and radio broadcasting
likes to think that it is largely re
sponsible for this. Radio has played
a most important role in enlarging I
Symphony
In Concerts
Out of Town
Four of South Made
to Be Followed by
Midwest Visit.
rALTHOUGH the National Sym
phony Orchestra ended its Wash
ington season with the gala concert
last Wednesday, it still has several im
portant engagements to fill out of
town. The symphony, led by its con
ductor, Hans Kindler, is now in the
midst of its second tour of the South
this season, and today is en route to
Jacksonville, Fla., for its first visit
to that State.
This final tour in the South, how
ever, does not complete the National
Symphony’s work for the season. As
previously announced. Dr. Kindler and
the orchestra will take part in the
biennial meeting of the Federated Mu
sic Clubs the week of April 26.
Stitll another important engage
ment is ahead for the National Sym
phony. It has been selected to sub
stitute for the Philadelphia Orchestra
on its regular radio program May 14.
This broadcast is in the Philadelphia
Orchestra’s series of radio programs
broadcast over a Nation-wide chain
of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
It is scheduled for from 10 p.m. to
10:30 p.m., Eastern daylight saving
time.
Visiting Orchestra Plays.
'T'HE First Methodist Sunday School
Orchestra of Muscatine. Iowa, will
furnish the music for the evening
•service tomorrow at Foundry M. E.
Church. This group of musicians,
which is making a short tour of the
East, is under the direction of Mrs.
A. C. Springborn.
The orchestra has a State-wide
reputation, having played repeatedly
©ver the air and also having furnished
programs at the Iowa State Fair three
years, Chautauqua programs, churches,
plays and entertainments.
It is composed of 40 musicians from
all walks of life, including doctors,
lawyers, business men and young folks
©f high school and college age. Some
©f the members are unusually talented,
especially Ruth Springborn. 19 years
old, who won first place on the
marimba-xylophone and piano in the
State and national high school con
tests. In 1933 Chicago World Fair
she was one of six soloists in the
Century of Progress 100-piece marimba
band. In 1935 she played in Europe,
New York and other United States
eities as one of the soloists with the
International Marimba Symphony Or
chestra. She is now a junior at the
American Conservatory of Music in
Chicago. As a member of the Sunday
school orchestra she plays with the
orchestra and will play a marimba
aolo on the program.
As a recreation the orchestra spent
five days at Wisconsin Dells last
Summer and this year is taking an
educational tour through the East on
two de luxe Northwcsjfen busses. The
•ervice tomorrow begifret 8 o'clock.
the Nation’s musical circle. The
broadcasters and advertisers of the
country are sensitive to this ever
enlarging interest and, I think it Is
safe to say, will respond by giving an
Increasing amount of thought and
time to this category of entertainment.
“Hearing great music regularly fos
ters musical curiosity. In a place
where there are only a few concerts
a year one must be content with
familiar things. As music is heard
more regularly, a greater variety is
demanded. This means that more
neglected music will get on the air.
It also means that new music will
have a better chance. It is surprising
how many first performances today
are also radio performances. The
listeners are not asking themselves,
‘Is this a modern piece?'—but ‘Is this
a good piece?’ ”
AT THE same moment comes a
general survey of the music
played on the General Motors Hour
since September 13, 1936. It states
that 90 per cent of the music used
during the season was selected from
the works of the following 20 com
posers: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms,
Wagner, Schubert. Mendelssohn, Cho
pin, Rubinstein, Tschaikovsky, Saint
Saens, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Massenet,
Verdi, Rossini, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel,
Puccini and Bizet.
In addition many seldom-heard
works were mentioned, such as ex
cerpts from Kodaly’s “Hary Janos,”
Koschat's French horn quartet,
"Songs from Styria,” Reznicek’s over
ture to "Donna Diana,” Shostako
vich's "The Bolt," Boughton’s “The
Immortal Hour,” several of Stra
vinsky’s compositions and outstand
ing works by Deems Taylor, De Falla
and others. These programs have
had the greatest artists of the world
as guests, being heard by countless
thousands who could never attend a
solo recital nor perhaps pay the price
of admission to one.
The more the general public hears
the finer music the more it will learn
to like it and be dissatisfied with
anything else. The consequences of
such an education are far-reaching,
deciding the music study of the com
ing generation and the future of
every local music organization as
well. The broadcasting stations are
anxious to know the reactions of the
public to their programs, and mu
sicians vitally interested in the pro
gression of music appreciation can
materially assist by writing in their
criticisms and suggestions.
If 300,000 letters asking for the best
music came in every month, the radio
program committees would naturally
respect this demand and try to meet
it. Growth will never be attained
unless musicians are active and
watchful, and, since the radio can
co-operate so decisively in helping
them reach the high standard which
is desired in the musical world and
which will react to their individual
benefit, it behooves this group to as
sist the radio with counsel and appre
ciation.
Concert Schedule
TODAY.
Lawrence Tibbett, Metropoli
tan Opera baritone, song recital,
Constitution Hall, 3 p.m.
TOMORROW.
Nelson Eddy, baritone, song re
cital, Constitution Hall, 4 p.m.
MONDAY.
Malton Boyce and choristers,
soloists. District of Columbia
Chapter, American Guild of Or
ganists’ meeting, Church of the
Epiphany. 8 p.m.
Navy Band, 2 p.m.
TUESDAY.
Philadelphia Orchestra, Leo
pold Stokowski conducting, Alex
ander Kelberine, Jeanne Behrend,
duo-pianists, soloists, Constitu
tion Hall, 8:45 p.m.
Marian Anderson, contralto,
song recital, Armstrong High
School, 8:30 p.m.
Navy Band Symphony Orches
tra, Master Everett Gayhart,
pianist, soloist, Sail Loft, Navy
Yard, 8 p.m.
Soldiers’ Home Band Orches
tra, 5:30 p.m.
Marine Band. 3 p.m.
WEDNESDAY.
Marine Band Symphony Or
chestra, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY.
Soldiers’ Home Band Orches
tra, 5:30 p.m.
Marine Band, fi a m. The band
will play for the Sunrise Cherry
Blossom Festival in Potomac
Park and also the same night at
7:30 p.m. for the Evening Cherry
Blossom Festival, at the Tidal
Basin.
FRIDAY.
Friday Morning Music Club,
Grace Adams East, trumpetist,
Barker Hall, 11:30 a.m.
Ann Sugar, piano recital, Arts
Club, 8:15 p.m.
Festival of Chamber Music,
Library of Congress, 8:45 p.m.
SATURDAY.
Soldiers’ Home Band Orches
tra, 5:30 p.m.
Festival of Chamber Music,
Library of Congress, 11:15 a.m.
and 8:45 p.m.
Program for Music Hour.
'T'HE program for the Sunday music
hour at 5 o'clock tomorrow at the
Y. W. C. A., Seventeenth and K streets,
will be presented by Mary Park Clem
ents. There will be a group of violin
solos played by Constance Ellen Tyler
and violin ensemble numbers played
by Helen Poster, Ethel Hicks, Martin
Hiden, Mary Keyes, Julia Robertson,
Francis Staack, Leon Testa, Ellen Ty
ler and Richard Wymond, accom
panied by Olive Constant Pratt. The
public is cordially Invited to attend.
Miss Sugar in Recital.
JpELIAN GARZIA will present Ann
Sugar in a piano recital on Friday
evening at 8:15 o’clock in the Arts
Club Auditorium. Miss Sugar will play
Bach’s “Pantasie and Fugue In Q
Minor,” Beethoven's "Sonata In P,
Op. 10. No. 2”; Chopin’s "Mazurkas
in C Sharp and O Sharp Minor,” a
group of Debussy numbers and
Beethoven’s "Concerto In E Flat, No.
5." with Mr. Garzifr. at the second
piano. (
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Two of the Finest Exponents of Different Branches of Music
Left—Nelson Eddy, baritone, whose recital tomorrow afternoon at Constitution Hall has been sold out weeks in advance. The
popular singer returns for his second appearance in recital in this city. Right—Grace Adams East, the noted woman trumpeter,
who gave a recital here with distinguished success last season, will play on Friday for the Friday Morning Music Club. Miss East
was the soloist at the Easter service at Calvary Baptist Church and last Sunday gave a recital at the United States Naval Academy.
She will return to Washington to play at the D. A. R. Congress and to fill other engagements.
'Nelson Eddy
In Program
Tomorrow
Second Annual Visit
Is Only Appearance
Here This Season.
j^ELSON EDDY, sensational bari
tone favorite of the concert stage,
radio and the screen, whose latest
cinema success, “Maytime,” is being
shown at the present time in Wash
ington theaters, makes his second an
nual recital appearance in person at
Constitution Hall, Eighteenth and C
streets northwest, tomorrow afternoon
at 4 o'clock, under the local manage
ment of Dorothy Hodgkin Borsey.
This will be Mr. Eddy's only appear
ance in Washington in person this
season, and it marks the tenth and
final attraction of Mrs. Dorsey’s Sun
day afternoon series of concerts and
recitals at Constitution Hall.
Announcement is made, however,
that Nelson Eddy has already been
re-engaged by Mrs. Dorsey for an ap
pearance here next season in concert
at Constitution Hall on Sunday after
noon, April 10, 1938, as an attraction
of one of the two series of Sunday
afternoon concerts that manager will
offer at Constitution Hall next season.
It was also stated that no seats are
available for tomorrow’s performance,
Mr. Eddy's concert having been sold
out weeks in advance.
Mr. Eddy, who will be accompanied
at the piano by Theodore Paxson, will
offer the following program:
I.
Air. "Bois Epais” Jean-Baptiste Lully
Scene. "Gloire a Vanna!" (from ' Mon
na Vanna"j_ Henri Fevrier
II.
Russian Sones In English.
"None But the Lonely Heart."
Piotr Ilytch Tschaikowsky
"The Old Corporal.”
Alexander Dargomlxhsky
"Child s Evening Prayer."
Modest Moussorgsky
Air. "By the Walls of Kazan" (Varlaam's
eong from "Boris GodounofT").
Modest Mousaorgsky
III.
Piano Solos
"Chaconne" _ George Frederick Handel
"Capriccio in E Major" Domenico Scarlatti
Mr. Paxson.
IV.
"Fruhllngsrelgen" Otto Fleischmann
' Der Tod. das 1st die kuhle Nacht,"
Theodore Paxson
Air. "O was ich mich betrube!” (Wen
zel's song from "The Bartered Bride,"
Bedrick Smetana
"Zur Johannlsnacht"_Edvard Grieg
V.
"The Beil Man” ...Cecil Forsyth
"Bone Come A-Knittin’ "_Jacques Wolfe
"Serenade”_John Alden Carpenter
In Local Music Circles
'J'HE mixed chorus of 100 voices
from the Montgomery Blair Senior
High School, under the direction of
Verna Metcalfe, will give a musical
service at the Mount Vernon Place
Church tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.
The chorus will be assisted by Dale ;
Cornor, 15-year-old organist, Chris
tine Stacy and Helen Graeves, pia
nists. Soloists will be: Billie Kellum,
soprano; Marguerite Folsom, contralto;
Alvin Fincham. Bruce Stedman, ten
ors; David Lawrie, baritone; Oliver
Youngblood, boss.
Ruth Behrend, former pupil of Etta
Schmid Wells and now a senior at
Peabody, was soloist at the second of
a series of Saturday afternoon musi
cales being given by Mrs. Wells and
her assistant, Miss Morrison-Smith.
Students of the Wells Studios who
also played today were Mary Jane
Briggs, Cornelia Claiborne, Ann Dist
ler, Ila May Maughn, Emelie Wisch,
Betty Breton, Marjorie Rosenthal,
Dorothy Goodman, Margaret Briggs,
Patricia and Bettigene Jerman, Jane
Elsie Miller, Alice Neuman, Flora
Blumenthal, James Duffy, Carl Ras
mussen, Joseph Wells and Ruth Ann
Harris, who also served as accompanist
for several Rhythm Band selections.
The Zionist Forum will present a
piano recital, featuring Betty Baum,
well-known Washington pianist, at
8:30 p.m. Sunday, April 11, at the
home of Dr. and Mrs. M. I. Bierman,
1401 Floral street northwest. Miss
Baum will be assisted by Louise Ehr
man, cellist, and Gertrude Plescow,
vocalist.
Under the direction of Nina Piozet,
a group of junior high pupils of the
John Quincy Adams School presented
a program last Saturday evening at
Walter Reed Hospital. The soloists
were Thomas’ Tolmie. accordianist;
Panos Vassiliades, violinist; Irene
Stinson, guitarist; Mary Jane Mc
Cracken, singer; Ann Lltzen, dancer;
Dorothy Taggart, Grace White,
Martha Tarver, Louise Mazzochi,
Laura Lee Brooks and Mrs. Piozet.
Harriet Wagner, president of the Park
View Woman’s Club, who arranged
the program, was also heard in solos.
A musical program was given Thurs
day evening in the parlor of the
Washington Sanitarium for the guests
of the institution, by the Melodic
Mixed Quartet, which is composed of
Margaret Stone, soprano; Jean Rob
bins, alto; Leland Shultz, tenor, and
Arden Reynolds, bass. Genevieve Hes
and Marian Dawson accompanied.
Evangeline Tally was soloist for
the Spring entertainment given by the
Blessed Sacrament Church on Wed
nesday evening, when ahe sang a
group of three songs, accompanied by
the Brussiloff Orchestra.
Ida Wood was soloist last Saturday
for the banquet given by Lebanon
Lodge. Mrs. Wood is an active mem
ber of the Washington Opera Guild,
under the direction of Mme. Gurie
Luise Correa.
Betty Baum, pianist, will be the solo
ist at the meeting of the Sisterhood
of the Washington Hebrew Congrega
tion on Monday afternoon.
The choir of the Church of the
Epiphany will repeat the entire pro
gram of Easter music tomorrow at 11
a.m. and 8 p.m. At the 11 a.m. serv
ice two trumpets and two trombones
and tympani will be used in addition
to the organ.
ORGANIST TO PLAY
AT GUILD MEETING
pOR the April meeting of the Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter, Amer
ican Guild of Organists, Charlotte
Klein, dean, has arranged for the
presence of Malton Boyce, organist
and choirmaster of St. Matthew's
Catholic Church, who, with his
choristers, will present both a capella
and accompanied examples in illustra
tion of Mr. Boyce's subject, "Catholic
Church Liturgical Music.”
This feature of the meeting will b§
presented from the auditorium of the
Church of the Epiphany. 1317 G street
northwest, at 8 45 Monday evening.
Members and their guests are invited
to attend. The regular business meet
ing will take place in the parish hall
of the Church of the Epiphany, at
8 p.m., preceded by a meeting of the
Executive Committee at 7:45.
At the close of Mr. Boyce’s program
the social period will be in order.
GLEE CLUB EVENT
OF JUNIOR LEAGUE
'T'HE glee club of the Junior League
A of Washington, under the direc
tion of Henry S. Gregor, will give a
concert on Wednesday, April 14, at 8
p.m., in the dramatic hall of Foundry
Methodist Episcopal Church, Six
teenth and P streets northwest. The
club of about 20 members will give
a program of Gilbert and Sullivan
favorites. Mr. Gregor, outstanding
pianist and composer, will play two
piano groups. The concert is for the
benefit of the Business Women's Cir
cle of the Home Missionary Society
of the church. Tickets may be pro
cured from members of the glee club
or members of the circle and at the
door the night of the concert.
Piano Team to Appear With Famous Orchestra
Alexander Kelberine and Jeanne Behrend, duo-pianists, who will be the soloists of the last
concert by thg. Philadelphia Orchestra fW* season on Tuesday evening-at Constitution Hall.
Leopold Stoka&tki will conduct. Vs
Song Group
In Anderson
Engagement
Contralto in Series
Presented Under
Howard School.
A/fARIAN ANDERSON, sensational
A contralto, will appear in recital
in the Howard University School of
Music series at Armstrong High School
Tuesday evening at 8:30 o’clock. The
story of her first professional appear
ance several years ago as a soloist
with the Philadelphia Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra has been pub
lished many times.
Her European appearances included
concerts in France. Holland, Belgium,
Italy, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Rus
sia. In 1935, when she appeared for
the first time in Vienna, the New York
Times correspondent cabled that she
was “the sensation of the season.”
Miss Anderson gave a series of re
citals in New York last season to sold
out houses. On Tuesday, accompanied
by Kosti Vehanen at the piano, she
will sing the following program:
I.
"Jesus Schlaft was soil lch hoflen” Bach
"Blst du bei mir” ("If Thou Be Near”),
Bach
"Der Floete weich Gefuel" Haendel
Aria from "Orpheus" ("Elie est morte").
Monteverdi
n.
"Aufenhalt” ("Ms Abode")_Schubert
"Der Doppelganger"_Schubert
“Fruhlingstraum” _ Schubert
"Ave Maria”_Schubert
ITT.
Aria. "Profet” CO Pretres de Baal”).
Meyerbeer
First aria of the fifth act.
TV.
"Come Away. Death” _ Sibelius
"Pioggia" (“Rain"i . Respighi
"Sopra un aria antica” (“On an old
Air") Respighi
“Canto di Prlmavera”_ Cimara
V.
“O Rock Me Julie”_Burleigh
African Rhythms Beers
O Boat. Come Back to Me "
"Frogs. Where Are You Going?”
“Anchor Line.”
MUSIC IN INTEREST
OF PUBLIC CLINICS
TN THE interest of the public clinics
A of the George Washington Uni
versity Hospital ‘‘An Afternoon of
Music” will be given on Tuesday, April
13, at 4:30 o'clock at the Sulgrave
Club. Mrs. Cabot Stevens, chairman
of the program, announces. The
artists appearing in joint recital will
be Mme. Malda Fani d'Aulby, lyric
soprano, who has achieved fame in
opera in Italy, and Sylvia Meyer, con
cert harpist of the National Sym
phony Orchestra. Mme. d'Aulby will
be accompanied by Edward J. Henne
berry and Mrs. Quinta Jensen Frey
will play for Miss Meyer in the fol
lowing program:
“Se tu m'aml" O. B. Pcrgoleal
"O del mio dolce ardor_ C. Gluck
"Zlngarella”-- _... _G. Paislello
Mme d'Aulby.
Impromptu. “Caprice" G. Plerne
“Four Short Stories in Music". _C. Salsedo
Pirouetting music box.
Behind the barracks.
Goldfish
Skipping rope.
“Chanson dens la Nult” (1827) C. Salzedo
“Le bon petit rot d'Yvetot” M. Grandjany
Miss Meyer.
“Beau Soir” C. Debussy
“Ballata Medtoevale”- _N. de Lucia
“Ouvre tea Yeux bleus”. J. Massenet
Duet Mme. d’Aulby and Miss Meyer.
“The Introduction and Allegro” (for
harp and piano) M. Ravel
Miss Meyer and Mrs. Frey.
“I Heard a Lady Sigh”_ _.H. Church
“Because” -G. d'Hardelot
“Love Is a Bubble"_ . F. Allltsen
Aria from "Butterfly” (One Fine Dayi.
G. Puccini
Mme. d'Aulby.
These artists will be assisted by
the Telephone Quartet, with James R.
Adamson, first tenor; George A.
Small, second tenor; Marlon B. Rey
nolds, baritone, and Raymond B.
Leavitt, bass. They will give two
groups of songs, with tenor and bass
solos.
Mrs. Edward Goring Bliss, general
chairman, and Mrs. Wilbur H. Collier
will supply ticket* upon phone and
written request. Tea will follow the
muaicale.
Exhibit to Aid Symphony.
'T'HE Phillips Memorial Gallery has
A completed plans for a loan exhi
bition of important paintings, most of
them by the older masters, which are
owned in Washington. They are to be
shown in its main gallery from April
16 to April 29.
There will be an admission charge
of 25 cents for the benefit of the Na
tional Symphony Orchestra. Invita
tions will be sent for receptions on the
opening and closing days, April 15 and
30, whfp the invited guests will be
asked to pay $1 to the orchestra fund.
Stokowski to Conduct
Philadelphians Here
Orchestra to Give Final Concert of Season
Next Tuesday—Leader Makes Tour Before
Returning to Hollywood Duty.
THERE is no more popular musician with concert, radio and even movie
audience* than the glim blond Leopold Stokowski, who cornea to Wash
ington next Tuesday for a single ‘‘personal appearance" conducting
the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra which he built to fame, in the
final program that group is to present in Washington this season at Consti
tution Hall.
Mr. Stokowski comes for a very brief Eastern tour with the orchestra
before returning to Hollywood, where,
he is starred In a Universal picture in
which Deanna Durbin (who sings on
Eddie Cantor’s hour) makes her ap
pearance In the leading feminine role.
The picture is to tell the story of an
orchestra and is called “100 Men and
One Oirl.” Mr. Stokowski says he likes
it very much because he simply “plays
Stokowski and doesn’t have to act."
rJ,UE8DAY evening Mr. Stokowski
has chosen to open his program
with Brahms’ “First Symphony in C
Minor." "Concerto for Two Pianos
and Orchestra,” by Dr. Harl McDon
ald, director of the Choral Society of
the University of Pennsylvania, is to
follow and the beautiful third-act
music from Wagner's “Parsifal,” in
cluding the “Good Friday Spell”
music, concludes the scheduled num
bers.
The concerto will have as the
pianists the young couple, Alexander
Kelberlne and his wife, Jeanne Beh
rend, both well known in solo and
two-piano concert work. Dr. Mc
Donald wrote this concerto last year,
completing it in Maine during tpe
Summer. During recent years a num
ber of McDonald’s works have been
given premieres by the Philadelphia
orchestra. Among them are “Fes
tival of the Workers” (1933), “Santa
Fe Trail” (1934), “Rhumba Sym
phony” (1935) and such shorter works
• ' — ■ - —
as "Lamentations of Fu Husuan,”
written for orchestra, chorus and so
prano solo, and “Three Poems for
Orchestra," on traditional Aramic
and Hebraic themes, which was per
formed this season.
JN DR. MCDONALD'S two-piano con
certo there are three movements
with several departures from the con
ventional design for compositions of
this character. The last movement is
particularly novel in that it Is a Juar
ezca, Hispanlc-Amerlcan in style, in
which devices used in many concert
bands are utilized. The opening move
ment has broad melodic line over
ostinato pattern in 'cellos, basses and
bassoons. It closes with a long cadenza
followed by sweeping double gllssando
in both pianos.
The middle movement has variations
on an original theme, largo-expressivo,
in three-two time. The Juarezca is a
dance of North Mexico, popular for
half a century along the border.
McDonald was born on his father’s
cattle ranch in the Rockies above
Boulder, Colo., and grew up in South
ern California. He began music study
at 4 years with his mother and simple
composing when 7. Later teachers
were Vernon Spencer, Ernest Douglas
and Zielinski. Reservations can be
made at T. Arthur Smith’s Bureau,
910 G northwest.
Tibbett Sings.Today
In Postponed Recital
Baritone Soon to Sail for England, Where He
Will Be Presented in Coronation Opera
Season at Covent Garden.
LAWRENCE TIBBETT, celebrated American baritone of the Metropoli
tan Opera Association and outstanding vocal star of concert, radio
and the screen, appears in full-length recital at Constitution Hall
this afternoon at 3 o'clock, under the management of Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorsey. This is the recital that Mr. Tibbett was scheduled to sing Sunday
before last, but which had to be postponed when Mr. Tibbett suffered a
sudden attack of laryngitis! It will be,;
his only recital or concert appearance
of the season in Washington and the
next-to-the-last attraction of Mrs.
Dorsey's matinee concert series at
Constitution Hall.
Tickets for the Tibbett performance
of March 21 will be honored at Consti
tution Hall today, without exchange of
any kind being necessary, nor will
there be any change in Tibbetts pro
gram, which will include the following:
l.
"Alleluia" (seventeenth cen'ury Easter
hymn' G. O'Connor-Morris
■ Where er You Walk" Handel
"The Bailiff s Daughter".. Old English
II.
"Der Wanderer" ("The Wanderer '.
Schubert
"Minnelied" ("Love Song > . Brahms
"Morgen" ("Tomorrow"1 Strauss
■ Hat Dich Die Liebe Beruhrt" ("If
Love Hath Entered My Heart"!-Marx
m.
"Credo." from "Otello"_Verdi
IV.
"Chumieigh Pair” John C. Holliday
■ Kingdom by the Sea" Arthur Somervell
"Edward" - - Karl Loewe
V.
"Ma’mselle Marie" - David Guion
"Lord I Want to Be" Stewart Wide
"Hallelujah Rhythm" __ ..Jacques Wolfe
Mr. Tibbett will shortly sail for
DISTRICT’S PLANS
FOR MUSIC WEEK
'X'HE District of Columbia Federation
* of Music Clubs, Eva Whit ford
Lovette. president, announces the fol
lowing plans for Music week, May 2
through May 8, sponsored by the
federation.
A sacred choir festival will be held
on Tuesday evening. May 4. at Mount
Vernon Place M. E. Church South,
the choirs participating to include the
Takoma Park Presbyterian. Mrs. Al
bert W. Volkner, director; First Con
gregational, Ruby Stahl, director; Cal
vary Methodist, Louis Potter, director;
Hamline Methodist, John Marville. di
rector; Mount Vernon Place M. E.
Church South, Deane R. Shure. di
rector. and the quartet of the Eighth
Street Temple, Louis Atwater, director.
The annual banquet of the federa
tion will take place on Wednesday,
May 5, at the National Press Club.
This will be designated by the federa
tion as Washington Composers’ day
and a concert by Washington com
posers will follow the banquet.
National officers of the federation
and noted guests of honor will be
present.
TRUMPETER GIVING
FRIDAY PROGRAM
g^RACE ADAMS EAST, trumpeter
from Berkeley. Calif., will be pre
sented at the Friday Morning Music
Club on Friday at 11:30 a m., at
Barker Hall. Mrs. East will play a
varied program of classic and modem
numbers, including her own transcrip
tions of many German lieder. On the
same program Frances Gutelius Smith,
pianist, will play the Mozart “Varia
tions.”
Final Navy Band Program.
ej'HE United States Navy Band Sym
phony Orchestra will play the last
concert of the season at the Sail Loft,
Navy Yard, Tuesday evening at 8
o'clock.
Frederic Feher of Vienna, violinist
and composer, will be guest con
ductor on this program and will
present two movements from his own
“Robber Symphony.”
Master Everett Gayhart, a Navy
junior, son of Comdr. and Mrs. Ev
erett Gayhart, will be guest soloist.
Young Gayhart was first heard in
public a year ago, when he played
Beethoven’s “First Concerto, C Major.”
This year he will be heard In the
first movement from Anton Rubin
stein’s "Fourth Concerto.”
The program is as follows:
Overture. “Magic Flute.”
..Wolfgang A. Moiart
Fantaate Orientale. “Islamey."
Mill Balakirev
8olo for the piano, “Fourth Concerto,"
first movement-- _Anton Rubinstein
Master Everett L. Oayhart.
"Bolero"__Maurice Ravel
Two movements from "Robber Symphony."
"Plttoresqur.”
Fredrick Feher.
“Sehnsucht Nach Wien.”
Conducted by the composer.
Symphony No. 5, Op. H7. .
~ Ludvig von Beethoveni
“The National Anthem." *
England, where he will make his
operatic debut during the coronation
opera season at Covent Garden,
London, In the title role of Eugene
Goossens' new opera, "Don Juan of
Manara," which will be given its
world premiere at Covent Garden at
that time. Mr. Goossens will per
sonally conduct the orchestra at the
premiere. His opera is based on a
libretto by Arnold Bennett and may be
produced in New York later as a
Metropolitan vehicle for Tibbett. After
the coronation opera season at Covent
Garden, Mr. Tibbett will appear as
guest start at a number of continental
opera houses.
At today's Constitution Hall re
cital Mr. Tibbett will be accompanied
at the piano by Stewart Wille, who
will contribute two piano solos to the
program: "Prelude from Cantata No.
35” (Bach-Siloti) and "Impromptu in
F Sharp Major" (Chopin). Seats for
today s concert may be obtained at
Mrs. Dorsey's Concert Bureau in
Droop's, 1300 G street northwest, or
at the Constitution Hall box office
after 2 p.m.
TOURNEY FOUNDER
COMES AS JUDGE
JRL ALLISON, founder and presi
dent of the National Piano Playing
I Tournament, will come to Washington
j to act as one of the judges of the en
| trants, La Salle Spier, local chairman,
! announces. The Washington unit of
the tournament, sponsored by the
National Guild of Piano Teachers, will
hold the local contest at the Wash
ington College of Music. 1810 Con
necticut avenue on May 6, 7 and 8.
The tournament is open to both
children and adults. It is one of 60
being conducted throughout the coun
try from February through June. Its
purposes are three-fold: To develop a
greater public interest in the piano;
to give piano students a rating of their
own musical ability in comparison
with other students, and to give teach
ers a yardstick by which to measure
their success with their pupils.
Each repertoire must include at
least one selection from the following
Program requirements for student
auditions in the tournament are avail
able to teachers free of charge. Na
tional headquarters of the Guild are
at 151 West Fortieth street. New York
City. Local headquarters are at 2235
Bancroft place northwest, care of La
Salle Spier. Chairmen of the local
committees are: Fanny Amstutz Rob
erts. arrangements; Mrs. Gene W.
Crist, guild membership: Pearl Waugh,
student certification; Elsie Hastings,
publicity, and Iva Loughlen Guy,
judges’ entertainment.
CALVARY CHURCH
CHOIR PROGRAM
A CONCERT by the quartet and
choir of 46 voices of Calvary
Baptist Church will be given in Wood
ward Hall of Calvary Baptist Church.
Eighth and H streets northwest, on
Wednesday evening, April 14, at 8:30
p.m., with Thomas Moss, organist and
choir director, conducting, and Henry
E. Kerr, assistant organist at the
Church of St. John, Lafayette square,
accomp&ning. The quartet consists of
Ema Embrey, soprano; Helen Perry,
contralto; William F. Raymond, tenor,
and Fred J. Eden, baritone.
The program will be as follows:
Breton folk songs_Liza Lehmann
Quartet "Sir Fanch and the Fairy."
Contralto solo, "I Dreamt My Love
Was Singing.”
Tenor solo. "The Ruby Necklace.”
Trio. 8. T. B., "The Nightingale.'
Contralto solo. “No Candle Was There
and No Fire.”
Quartet, "8t. Peter's Night.”
Peasant cantata (In costume).
Johann Sebastian Bach
Warren F. Johnson, Organist
Church of the Pilgrims
Sunday Evening
Novelletten, Op. 88-Kranaa
Armando Jannuzzi
Grand Opera Dramatic Tenor
Voice Specialist
Italian Method
School of kel canto
Adams 3687-J ^
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