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Music of Distinction
Inspires New Artists
Relative Importance of Various Ages of Art
Is Determined by Perfection in Achieving
Things Which Mean Success.
By Alice Eversman.
A QUESTION that must have been asked by each succeeding generation
since music became recognized as an art is of troubling concern also
at the present time. "Are the artists of today as great as were those
of a generation ago?" has been asked, is being and will be asked as
long as audiences retain their fond remembrances of the pleasure such and
such an artist has given them. And the question is difficult to answer, since
there is no way oi maxing an im
mediate comparison for many of the
artists of the past, still living, are
not in the proper form to submit to
such a severe measurement. In no
sphere does life take its toll as
thoroughly as in the artistic field for
the very basis of professional success
is the vitality and conviction of youth.
The success of an artist lies in his
effect on his listener, and this effect
may be influenced by many things.
There is the thrill that comes from
a first stirring to the meaning of
music and the quieter pleasure that
is felt in finding an artist who lives
up to an already established ideal,
an ideal which is the outgrowth of
study and experience. The moods and
circumstances oi ine moment aiso
count in the impression received and
these may surround an interpreter
or a program with a special glamour.
How to discount these influences is
the problem, for even the general
opinion of an artist may only be the
result of his being the best before the
public at that time. It is easier to
decide upon the worth of a composer
for his works remain to stand the
test of different periods, but the art
of a performer except since the in
vention of recording remains en
schrined only in the memory of his
listener.
As a matter of fact, it is unwise and
unfair to compare artists of the pres
ent day with those whose art is stilled.
"Sufficient unto the day,” are those
before the public now and their in
fluence on preparing the way for the
ones to follow'. As important as is
the character of art of the present
moment it is not nearly so important
as the standard of the future. The
responsibility of all artists points
toward the future where others will
take up where they have left off.
Working toward that end is the im
pulse which drives the sincere musi
cian and creates an eternal divine
dissatisfaction within himself which
is the stamp of the genuineness of his
endowment.
TTOWEVER, there are many things
to be learned about the older
artist which may give credence to the
idea that those of today are not quite
up to the standard of the past. Prin
cipally among these are the solidity
of musicianship and the devotion to
their work which were invariably at
tributes of the great musicians of for
mer years and less pronounced in
those of today. To be thoroughly
grounded in every angle that bore on
their particular branch of music was
the aim of all the great artists and
their lives W’ere one continual striving
to this end. As a result, we find
recorded side by side with their public
standing as professional performers,
their fame as composers, conductors
or teachers. Their devotion to art
invaded every daily activity and even
their social life was organized to aid
them in reaching the goal.
Can as much be said of the pres
ent type of artist? Is their knowledge
and Influence felt in creative or edu
cational fields where the artists of
the future are learning their trade?
Is one impressed through their per
formances with the seriousness of
their oalling and the tremendous re
sponsibility which rests on such
prominent figures? Are they preach
ing the gospel of thoroughness in
musical foundation and the sub
servience of personal glory to the con
tribution toward an ideal? Is it ap
parent that they are seeking con
stantly to develop themselves in a
more profound way than what will
appeal in a superficial degree to their
audiences? The answers to these
questions may also meet the com
parison between those of a past era
and those of the present which can
not be avoided.
'J'HE past few years has seen great
progress made in the develop
ment of technique and also in a
knowledge of the resources of instru
ments. We have therefore a new
school of artists, eminent exponents
of the new trend. They are brilliant,
interesting personalities, dazzling their
hearers with an astonishing profici
ency, and in some cases with a new
approach in interpretation. If they
have brought art so far forward that
their present efficiency must be the
starting point from which the coming
artist will be obliged to fashion his
career, then they have contributed
notably to the cause of music. If
this be true, the demand of the future
will be enormous, and are the young
musicians prepared to meet it? Noth
Concert Schedule
TOMORROW.
Washington Saengerbund,
Kurt Hetzel, director, Arcadia
Building, 8:15 p.m.
MONDAY.
Washington Choral Society,
Louis Potter, conductor, Me
morial Continental Hall, 8:30
p.m.
E. William Brackett, organ re
cital, Belmont residence. New
Hampshire avenue and R street
northwest, 8:15 p.m.
Ruth De Jarnette, soprano,
St. Andrew's Parish Hall, 8:30
p.m.
Navy Band, 1:30 p.m.
Army Band, 5 p.m.
TUESDAY.
ChexT Chase Chanters, J. Hor
ace Smithy, conductor, Pierce
Hall, 8:30 p.m.
Farm Credit Chorus, Robert
Frederick Freund, director, de
partmental conference room, 8:30
p.m.
WEDNESDAY.
Schubert Singers, Mrs. Chester
Adair, director, Barker Hall, 8:15
p.m.
Naxry Band, 11:30 a.m.
THURSDAY.
Ephram Rosen, piano recital,
1230 Sixteenth street northwest,
8:30 p.m.
Army Band, 3:30 p.m.
FRIDAY.
Washington Teachers’ Associ
ation, Nadia Boulanger, guest,
Sulgrave Club, 8:30 p.m.
Friday Morning Music Club,
final program arrangement,
Miriam Hilton, 11:30 a.m.
Naxr Band, 11:30 a.m.
SATURDAY.
Army Band, 10:30 a.m.
-—J
ing but unassailable security in musi
cianship will help the artist of the
future.
But, aside from these considera
tions, if we examine the fame of the
great artists of history, we will find
that after a certain educational point
had been reached their own mentality
was the cause of their reaching the
pinnacle of success. A real artist
can be taught just so far and no
farther. Prom that point on he stands
on what he is and the character of
his inward development. The world
has accepted youthful prodigies with
enthusiasm when they were the gifted
exponents of what they were taught.
A time comes in every prodigy's life
when he stands at the cross-roads
and the world waits breathlessly to
see what will happen. Will he emerge
as a real personality or will he fall
by the wayside when put upon his
own? The tragedy of those who have
not lived up to expectations is well
known.
gUT by far the greatest majority
have won their way to fame
through the sheer force and quality
of their mentality. They have taken
account of their own talent and de
veloped it in the only way possible for
them. To their solid musical under
standing they have added an untiring
devotion to their work, bending all
the power of their minds and hearts
toward perfecting themselves. They
have thought, studied and analyzed
and, under the strength of their de
sire, have kept the mental and emo
tional evenly balanced. The result
is a performance where the beauty
of a superior technical foundation is
matched by insight and depth of feel
ing. These thoroughly personal artists,
whose music is completely a part of
their personality, have forged a line
of communication between themselves
and their public through which to
work the magic of their musical dis
coveries.
When considering artists such as
these we may well look questloningly
into the future, asking if the coming
musicians are capable of such de
votion and thoroughness. Yet the
history of music shows very few
periods when progress was not made,
and the many opportunities, so much
more profuse than in former years,
of hearing the best music cannot
but bring new unfolding of talent and
ideas. The past has been a glorious
one, yes, but it is finished, and the
only gain to be had in remembering
it is to use it as a spur in working
for an equally glorious future.
CHEVY CHASE’S
I CHANTER ANNUAL
' ’J'HE Chevy Chase Chanters, under
the direction of J. Horace
Smithey, will give their first invita
tion Spring concert in Pierce Hall,
Fifteenth and Harvard streets, on
Tuesday. Although the Chanters have
been organized for more than 10 years
and have assisted similar organiza
tions in concerts, this will be their
first strictly Invitation Spring concert
and it is expected to be an annual
event. The Chanters will be assisted
by Elsa Raner, violinist, and Helen
Turley, oontralto, with Mrs. J. Hor
ace Smithey as accompanist for the
guest artists.
The program Is as follows:
I. _ ___
"Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee"
"The Autumn Sea" __ Gerioke
"Where're You Walk" ' ' HandeLSpros!
The Chanters.
II.
‘Reverie”_ _ c«r atnt*
••Ami amt if1 A Maa0r . Brahms-Hochstein
Andante from Symphonic Espagnole”
"Obertasa Mazurka" -Wleniawtkl
M!s# Raner.
m. ._
s^ubert
Marla Wiegtnlied” _1"V..Rew?
Mrs. Turley,
TV.
"Hark, the Vesper Hymn Jt Stealing."
"Nut Brown Malden" OoUege’so'ng
:;Mu»ic When Soft Voices Dig" IwSlIEJj!
John Peel _ English hunting tong
The Chanter*.
V.
Knows?”-Stickles
In Aiay _ . _^^_ Barnett
A Blackbird's Song”_mi Sanderson
Mrs. Turley.
VI.
Dear L^nd of Home”-Sibelius-Manney
Pirate Song” _ High
The Cossak”-MacDowell
The Chanters.
. Chord'' Sullivan-Brewer
'The Chanters Mrs. Turley. Miss Raner
and Mrs. Smithey at the organ.)
FESTIVAL WITH
BOY CHOIR SONGS
rJ,OMORROW evening at 8 o'clock
there will be held a boy choir fes
tival in St. John's Church, George
town Parish. The boy choirs of St.
John's Church, Georgetown, and the
Church of St. Stephen and the In
carnation will combine in presenting
a service of choral evensong with se
lected anthems and hymns. Sherman
J. Kreuzburg, M. A., organist and
choirmaster of the Church of St.
Stephen and the Incarnation, will con
duct the a cappella singing. E. Wil
liam Brackett, organist and choir
master of St. John’s Church, will
play the service, including the prel
ude and postlude. It has been some
ume since a service of this nature
has been presented, and It Is ex
pected that a boy choir festival in this
diocese will become an annual event.
The public is invited to attend. The
program:
Organ selections:
Prelude and Fugue in B-U major (St
Anne) _ _ _ Bach
Finale (Sixth Symphony)_ Wldor
Hymn tunes:
“St. Audrey” -Noble
“Darwall” (Descant by Shaw)__t>a,wall
“Ora Labors”-Noble
Anthems:
“O Brightness of the Immortal
Father's Pace” „ _ Voris
“Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C.“
„ Oadsby
“Rise Dp. O Men of Ood”._ Noble
“Glory to the Trinity”_Rachmaninoff
l.iflth Psalm" FYsnck
“God Be in My Head”_Davies
--
. Miss Hebb Presents Works.
J^LIZABETH LAMBERT HEBB will
present “An Hour of Inspirational
Music” on Saturday, May 1, at 8:30
o’clock in Barker Hall, when the pro
gram will consist of her compositions
for voice, piano and the dance. The
artists appearing are Grete von Bayer,
pianist; Emily Coville, soprano; Wil
fred Smith, tenor; Ann Gromley,
dancer, and a quartet from Howard
University In a group al Miia Hebb'a
spirituals. f
Local Artists in Coming Events and Pianist of Next Season
Brailowsky
Tours With
All-Chopin
Washington Recital Is
Included, With New
York Visit.
^LEXANDER BRAILOWSKY, the
celebrated Russian pianist, who
has already been announced in re
cital here next season, as one of the
attractions of Dorothy Hodgkin Dor
sey's second Sunday afternoon con
cert series at Constitution Hall, will
celebrate his ninth American tour
from January through March, 1938,
by playing a Chopin cycle at Town
Hall in New York.
In the course of six recitals at Town
Hall Brailowsky will play, for the
first time in the United States, the
entire 169 piano compositions of
Chopin, and to add further interest to
his single Washington appearance of
next season he will play an all
Chopin program when he appears
here at Constitution Hall on Sunday
afternoon, March 27, 1938.
Bom In Kiev, Russia, Brailowsky'*
first teacher was his father, who ran a
music shop and also taught music.
The child developed so amazingly
that wealthy relatives became in
terested and transplanted the entire
Brailowsky family to Vienna so that
young Alexander might become a
pupil of the great Leschetizky. This
was in the Summer of 1911 and less
than a year later Brailowsky was the
star pupil of Leschetizky’s class.
When the European war broke out
the Brailowskys fled to Switzerland,
where the young pianist continued
his lessons until the armistice. The
family then made another migration,
this time to France, where the youth
ful Brailowsky, after one appearance,
became the talk of Paris. Success
throughout Europe was followed by a
successful American debut, matched
by similar pianistic triumphs in South
America, Australia and New Zealand.
In addition to Brailowsky’s appear
ance, Mrs. Dorsey’s second Sunday
concert series will bring to Constitu
tion Hall next season Nino Martini,
tenor, Metropolitan Opera Association,
on Sunday afternoon, November 7;
the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus
for their eighth consecutive annual
appearance on Sunday afternoon, No
vember 28; Yehudi Menuhin, violinist,
after an absence of two seasons, on
Sunday afternoon, January 30; Grace
Moore, soprano star of opera, concert,
radio and screen, on Sunday sifter
noon, February 27; Lawrence Tibbett,
baritone favorite of opera, concert,
radio and screen, on Sunday after
noon, March 13, and Brailowsky two
weeks thereafter.
LOVETTE CONCERT
TUESDAY EVENING
rPHE Lovette Choral Club, Eva Whit
ford Lovette, director, will hold its
tenth annual Spring concert on Tues
day evening, May 18, at the Willard
Hotel.
William Cameron, harpist, will be
the assisting artist.
The choral numbers to be sung by
the club Include many of unusual in
terest, one being “Winds to the Si
lent Morn.” by Dorothy Radde Emery.
Incidental solos will be sung by Hazel
Cake and Nellie Barber Brooks, so
pranos, and Francise Bass Wilson.
Soprano Gives Program.
TE ROY LEWIS will present Ruth
De Jamette, soprano, in recital on
Monday evening at 8:30 o’clock at
St Andrew’s Pariah gall. New Hamp
shire avenue and B > Areet northwest
At right is Alexander Brailowsky, celebrated pianist, to be heard here next season in an all
Chopin program, presented under the management of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey at Constitution
Hall. Left, above, Helen Turley, contralto, who will sing ivith the Chevy Chase Chanters at Pierce
Hall on Tuesday evening and with the Schubert singers on Wednesday at Barker Hall Below
E. William Brackett, organist and choirmaster of St. John's Church. Georgetown, conductor of the
boys’ choir festival at the church tomorrow night. Mr. Brackett will also give an organ recital on
Monday evening at the Belmont residence.
- 1 - ■ ■- - - ■ - - - A-—
In Local Music Circles
A SERIES of piano recital*, be- '
ginning tomorrow and taking
place every Sunday afternoon
at 4:30 until May 30 will be
given by pupils of Katharine Fro6t
at the King-Smith Studio-School,
1708 S street northwest. The first
program ineJudes compositions by
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin,
Rimsky-Korsakov and Liszt. It will
, consist entirely of two-piano arrange
ments. Students participating in the
second recital, on the afternoon of
May 2, have made a special study of
modern music. They will present works
of modem composers, Ravel, Albeniz,
Hindemith, Prokovieff, Shostakovitch,
Copeland and Toch among others.
Those who will play at the various
recitals are: Florence and Josephine
Henderson, Patricia Benedict, Thea
dora Stover, Ann and Gladys Watkln*,
Virginia Spencer, Jane EofT, Suzanne
Marshall, Jane Allen, Jane Ellison,
Anne Rogers and Betty Tolbert.
Mrs. J. Frank Rice will sing Greek
folk songs in costume at the League
of American Pen Women Studio, In
the Grafton Hotel, on Friday evening
at 8 o’clock.
The Lyric Music Club, Dorothy
Sherman Pierson, director, will hold
its April program at the home of
Edith B. Athey Tuesday evening. The
subject for the evening will be
“Spring” and its songs. The girls
participating in the program are
Eileen Burger and Kathryn Walts, as
sisted by Mary Ellen Folmer and
Betty Steele Grant, Miss Athey at the
piano. Violet Warren Pierson, reader,
will present some Spring poems.
Felicia Rybier, concert pianist, will
leave today for New York City, where
she will remain until September. Miss
Rybier will conduct piano classes in
New York and fill several concert
engagements.
Charles Burton, Judy Conklin,
Weston Jones, Sylvia Radlsch and
Marjorie Reed, young singers from
Esther Linkins' voice studios, fur
nished the musical program for the
dinner of the Anti-Cigarette Alliance
Saturday, April 17. lone Hoffman
served as accompanist.
Mary Park Clements presented a
group of her pupils in a program of
violin solos and ensemble numbers on
the afternoon of April 17 in the Y. W.
C. A. assembly room. Those taking
part were Chester Burgess, Alan
Burke, Walden Croeson, Chester
Finch, Perry Fliakas, Anita Fominaya,
Eloy Fominaya, Richard Goldman,
Solon Kemon, Gordon Llnke, Francis
Staack and Leonardo Testa. Accom
panists were Maurine Burgess, Mary
Ware Goldman and Olive Constant
Pratt.
Jean Munn, mezzo-soprano; Georgte
Ramey, reader, and Ronald Eicher,
pianist, will present the program at
the Sunday hour of music at Friend
ship House, 324 Virginia avenue south
east, at 6 o’clock tomorrow. The
public is cordially invited.
The program for the music hour
today at 5 o'clock at the Y. W.
C. A, Seventeenth and K streets,
will be given by Ann Farquhar, cellist.
She will be assisted by Lois Abernethy,
pianist, and Edith Marshall, acoom
panlst. The public is cordially In
vited to attend.
A song recital of German, French
and English compositions will be given
at the Davis and Elkins College,
Elkins, W. Va., Friday evening, May
7, by Sanford Donaldson, baritone,
of Washington, D. C. Mr. Donaldson,
who has appeared in several song re
citals in Washington recently, is a
grand-nephew of Mme. Lillian Nor
dica, long a star of the Metropolitan
Opero Company. For the last five
years Mr. Donaldson has been a pupil
of Mme. Sera Flakshaar of Washing
ton.
Virginia M. Eads, a pupil of Mme.
Blanoa Renard, teacher of piano at
Arlington Hall Junior College, Ar
lington, Va^ will play two piano se
lections.
Haael Brown Piers has arranged a
program of readings and music for
the monthly musical tea of the music
seotion of the Woman's Club of Chevy
Chase, to be held in the home of Mrs.
Dwight R. Cooke, 44 Grafton Street,
on Monday at 2 o’clock.
Carolina Randell, violinist; Mrs. F.
F. Elliott, pianist; Mrs. Henry Par
rett, soprano, and Mrs. R. R. Tink
ham. reader, will be the assisting
artists.
The Gospel Four Quartet, assisted
by other quartets, will render a spe
cial program featuring gospel and
spiritual songs under auspices of the
young people of the Vermont Avenue
Baptist Church Friday at 8:30 p.m.
The program is sponsored by Deacon
George E. Onley. Rev. C. T. Murray
is pastor.
FARM CREDIT
CHORUS CONCERT
'J'HE Spring concert of the Farm
Credit Chorus, Robert Frederick
Freund, director, will be given Tuesday
evening at 8:30 o’clock in the De
partmental Conference Room on Con
stitution avenue between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets. The follow
ing program will be presented, ac
companied by Riethel Grim and Edna
Lee Freund.
"O Lovely Night". OfTenbach-Spicker
"Do You Know My Garden"_Wood
"As I Went a Roaming" _ Brahe
"Joy" -Cadman-Rlegger
The chorua.
"The Evening Star"_Wagner
"The Last Hour”_Kramer
"Nocturne"_ Curran
"Mountains" _Rasbach
Mr. Freund.
"Sylvia" _ Speaks
“The Goblins”__r_Parks
The ehorus.
"Old Black Joe"_Stephen Foster
"Sweet and Low” Barnby
Farm Credit Quartet.
"Indian Dawn"_Zamecnlk
"Morning" __ Speaks
The chorus.
Tickets are free and may be obtained
at the information desk in the Farm
Credit Administration Building, Thir
teenth and E streets northwest.
Program by Mr. Rosen.
OBERT RUCK MAN will present
Ephraim Rosen, pianist, in re
cital at his studio, 1330 Sixteenth
street northwest, Thursday at 8:30
p.m.
On Tuesday evening the first of
a series of grAup recitals will be pre
•mted. ^
i '
SPRING CONCERT
AT THE ARTS CLUB
rJ,HE Choral Group of the Arts Club,
Otto T. Simon, director; Katherine
Morrison at the piano, Grace Powell,
violin; Lyman McCrary, accompanist,
will give its Spring concert in the
Arts Club auditorium Thursday eve
ning, May 6.
The first part of the program would
suggest Spring’s awakening. These
numbers, two by Dvorak, “Blossoms of
Springtime,” “Around Us Hear the
Sounds of Evening”; “Sun and Moon,”
Gretchanlnoff, and “In the Fields,”
Rubets, closing with the romantic text
of “Annabel Lee," words by Edgar Al
len Poe, music by the English com
poser, Hugh Robertson.
The finale will present a group of
Shakespeare texts with music of the
English school: "Orpheus and His
Lute” (“Henry the Eighth”), "How
Sweet the Moonlight” ("Merchant of
Venice”), “O Mistress, Mine” ("Twelfth
Night”), “Sign No More Ladies”
(“Much Ado About Nothing”), “Where
the Bee Sucks” (“The Tempest”).
Grace Powell will play in connection
with the Shakespeare Group two num
bers of suite by Korngold from “Much
Ado About Nothing,” “Maiden's Bri
dal Dress” and “March of the Patrol.”
Also “Aria,” Schumann-Press; “Pa
van,” Kreisler; "Spanish Dance,” Gra
nados.
Members of tl0 Governing Council
of the Choral Group are Mrs, Charles
Bittinger, Rose Bright, Mary Black,
William Hugfa Dunn, Ool. Charles Per
ils sad Dr. George H. Girty.
Bori Leads
Solo List of
Orchestra
Symphony Presents
Best Selections in
Its History.
ORLD - FAMOUS artists will ap
pear in the concerts which the
National Symphony Orchestra will
give in Constitution Hall next Winter.
Announcement of the greatest list of
soloists the orchestra has yet pre
sented was • made by C. C. Cappel,
manager of the orchestra, lest week,
following a formal statement of the
National Symphony Orchestra Asso
ciation that with $85,000 in its sus
taining fund, It Is ready to go ahead
with definite plans for the 1937-38
season.
Pinal arrangements have been made
to present Lucrezia Bori, most beloved
of all opera stars. Miss Bori is gener- j
ally regarded as the orchestra's god
mother among the soloists, since she
was the first artist ever to appear
with the orchestra. She retired from i
a brilliant opera career last year, but
is now planning a farewell concert
tour for next season.
Joseph Hofmann’s appearance will
also have more than ordinary sig
nificance. The world’s greatest pianist
will be with the orchestra during a
tour celebrating bis 50th anniversary
as a concert artist.
Plans to present Moriz Rosenthal as
soloist with the orchestra are now
definite. The veteran pianist was
engaged to appear with the symphony
during the last season, but conditions
of a contract for another perform
ance in Washington prevented him
from joining the orchestra. He will,
therefore, give Washingtonians their
first opportunity to hear him as an
orchestra soloist next year.
Among the violinists will be Mischa
Elman and Joseph Szigeti, the Hun
garian violinist who scored so bril
liantly with the National Symphony
last season. Other soloists will in
elude Helen Jepson, Metropolitan
Opera star; Richard Crooks, distin
guished tenor of the Metropolitan
Opera, and Betty Jaynes, young so
prano who made a sensational debut
with the Chicago Opera Co. last Win
ter; Percy Grainger, world-famous
pianist who appeared in the orches
tra's last concert this year, and Ru
dolph Ganz, the popular pianist, con
ductor and composer. Negotiations
are now underway with several other
artists of equal importance.
The Monte Carlo Ballet completed
so successful an engagement with the
National Symphony last November
that plans are now made to present
the famous troupe of dancers in two
more concerts in which an entirely
different set of ballets will be given.
In another special event, the Vienna
Boys Choir will be featured. This
group of singers has appeared in the
Capital several times in recent years.
This, however, will be their first ap
pearance with a symphony orchestra.
Among other features, Hans Klnd
ler Is planning a Beethoven festival.
He expects to devote three concerts
to the series and use special soloists.
The crowning event of this will be a
performance of the Ninth Symphony.
STAGE NUMBERS
BY MUSIC CLUB
'T'HE final program of the Friday
A Morning Music Club, season 1936
37, will be presented on Friday at 11:30
a m. in Barker Hall, under the direc
tion of Miriam B. Hilton. It will in
clude scenes from the musical comedies
of Germany, England and America,
done in costume. All of the active
membership will participate.
On May 7 the club will entertain
at luncheon at the Columbia Country
Club. On May 14 the final board meet
ing will take place and on May 31 the
final busingM meeting will be held at
Backer Ha$,
Choral Society to Give
Concert Monday Night
Members to Be Assisted by Musicians Picked
From Symphony Orchestra—Louis Potter,
Conductor, in Festival Feature.
WHEN the Washington Choral Society presents its annual Spring
Festival Concert Monday night at D. A. R. Memorial Continental
Hall, one of the high points of the program will be the moment
when Conductor Louis Potter steps down from the podium to take
his place as soloist in the only Instrumental number of the evening—Cesar
Franck’s “Variations Symphoniques for Piano and Orchestra.” For this num
ber, Hendrick Essers will conduct thev
orchestra to be made up of members of
the Choral Society and members of
the National Symphony. Mr. Potter,
whose untiring efforts have had a
large part in bringing the Washington
Choral Society to Its present out
standing position among Washing
ton's musical organizations, is dis
tinguished also as a pianist of splen
did achievements.
•"T'HE 150th PSALM,” which will
A open the concert, offers a choral
dialog between the singers and the
orchestra, the chorus introducing
each verse whose theme is then de
veloped by the instruments—orchestra,
harp and organ. It has never been
offered in Washington before, as far
as is known, as it is a difficult work
to perform. On Monday night, the
harpist will be Sylvia Meyers, solo
harpist of the National Symphony;
and the organist will be Lyman S.
McCrary, at the Hamomnd Organ,
kindly provided by the E. F. Droop
Sons Co. for this occasion. This work
was composed by Saint Saens, in 1906,
and dedicated to his American friend,
Whitney Warren, a distinguished ar
chitect living in New York, but noted
for his work in the re-building of the
Louvain Library.
Then will come a group of madri
gals and part song, to be sung by the
chorus, unaccompanied. Dowland's
“Come Again, Sweet Love”; Arcadelt’s
“Now Spring In All Her Glory" (both
of the sixteenth century), will be fol
lowed by Cesar Cui's “Radiant Stars,”
a nocturne for men's voices; Palm
gren’s "Sorrow”; Moellendorf’s “Night
Whispers” and Taneyef’s "Sunrise.”
TN THE “Bridal Song,” from Cha
brier’s “Gwendoline,” the solos
will be sung by George Myers, tenor,
as Armel; Mildred Colvin, soprano, as
Gwendoline, and Sam Cotton, bari
tone, as Harald. A solo quintet will
be composed of Florence Ludy, so
prano; Bertha Morgan, contralto:
Paul Ledig, tenor; V. D. Kennedy,
baritone, and Harry E Yeide, basso.
The final number on the program
will be “'The Chambered Nautilus,"
Deems Taylor's splendid work, in
which the chorus of 100 voices will be
assisted by the orchestra and a solo
group, comprising members of the
chorus—Ruby Potter, soprano: Vera
Neely Ross, and Bertha Morgan, con
tralto; George Myers and Francis
Townsend, tenors: John Stinson, bari
tone and Harry Yeide, basso.
The concert will take place at 8 30
o’clock and music lovers are informed
that it is necessary to obtain tickets
in advance either at the Willard or
the A. A. A. ticket bureau, as no tickets
may be obtained at Continental Hall.
Half-Yearly
Session Day
Of Leaders
Music Teachers’ Full
Attendance Likely
at Special Event.
rpHE semi-annual business meeting of
the Washington Music Teachers’
Association will take place tomorrow
afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Wash
ington College of Music, 1810 Con
necticut avenue. A full attendance of
members is desired for participation
in the election of officers of the as
sociation. Mrs. Frank Byram. chair
man of the Nominating Committee,
will present the names chosen by that
committee and nominations from the
floor will also be entertained.
A vote will be taken as to the
wishes of the members regarding the
June 10 “birthday celebration."
The program meeting of the month
has been arranged for Friday at 8 15
o'clock. It will be held at the Sul
grave Club, 1801 Massachusetts ave
nue. For this occasion the associa
tion is presenting Mile. Nadia Bou
langer of the faculty of the Fontaine
bleau School of Music for American
Students in the palace of Fontaine
bleau, France.
The Boulanger family for more than
a century gave the Paris Conserva
toire many outstanding students. The
grandfather of Mile. Nadia won the
first violoncello prize in 1797: her
father, a Roman prize winner, taught
singing at the conservatoire for 27
years and in 1908 Nadia won second
grand prize, while in 1913 her young
sister, Dili, was accorded the first
prize, these awards being the first
of that rank made to women. Mile.
Nadia renounced composing to de
vote herself entirely to teaching, in
which she discloses the wonderfully
gifted intelligence which has gained
her world-wide reknown. Aaron Cop
land studied in PTance with Nadia
Boulanger, as did Roy Harris and
Walter Piston.
Arrangements have been made for
Mile. Boulanger to conduct teaching
sessions for eight hours on Friday at
the Washington College of Music,
when she will examine for criticism
works of several local composers, she
will also meet in class those students
desiring to discuss specific theoretical
matters.
JUNIOR CONTEST
AT BARKER HALL
'J'HE junior contest of the District
of Columbia Federation of Music
Clubs this year will be held on May
15 at Barker Hall, both afternoon, at
1:30, and evening, at 7:30. The time
for receiving applications has been
extended to May 8, but positively no
entries will be considered after that
date and counselors are urged by
the junior contest chairman, Mrs.
R. E. Espy, to get their applications
in at once. The general musical public
Is cordially Invited to attend.
Music Feature of Council.
'T'HE music program for the Forty
fifth Associated Council, National
Society of United States Daughters of
1812, for the week of April 26 at the
Willard Hotel, Is as follows:
The United States Marine Band
Orchestra, under the direction of Capt.
Taylor Branson, will play several
numbers. Dorothea Lawrence of New
York City will sing "Ah Love But a
Day,” by Beach; "The Call of the.
Maytive,” by Brahe.
Tuesday morning Mathilde Kolb
Bartlett will sing several patriotic
numbers accompanied by Dorothy
Radde Emery. Tuesday afternoon
Ethel Pyne of New York will sing
“Above the Clouds,” by Beecher, and
the aria "One Fine Day," from the
opera "Madame Butterfly,” by Puccini.
The accompanist will be Dorothy
Radde Emery.
Informal Recital.
MILTON SCHWARTZ, violinist,
"*■ member of the National Sym
phony Orchestra and first violinist of
the Washington String Quartet, and
Betty Baum, pianist, will give a joint
recital at the home of Miss Baum,
3520 Edmunds street northwest, to
morrow afternoon at 4 o’clock.
The program will feature a suite
for violin and piano written recently
by Mr. Schwartz, which will be given
a first performance. Miss Baum will
play Bach's "Partita In B Flat Major”
and the program will close with the
Beethoven "Sonata in O Major, Op.
SQ^Qlo. S,” for violin and piano.
SINGERS TO GIVE
SPRING CONCERT
'J'HE Schubert Singers, under th#
direction of Mrs. Chester Adair,
will give their Spring concert on Wed
nesday evening at Barker Hall. The
program, as is customary, will include
a Schubert group, consisting of "The
Erlking,” "Hark. Hark, the Lark" and
the “Ave Maria."
An arrangement of Rachmaninoff’s
"Prelude,” Jensen's "Murmuring
Zephirs” and Gounod's "Serenade”
will also be sung, while the last group
will be made up of popular selections
from their many programs, concluding
with Rubinstein's "Seraphic Song."
The guest soloist will be Helen
Turley, contralto, and the singers will
be further assisted by the Southern
String Ensemble, to be heard in two
groups.
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MUSICAL OFFERED
BY SAENGERBUND
rJ'HE Washington Saengerbund will
give a musical, under the auspice*
of the Ladies' Chorus, tomorrow eve
ning at the club's concert hall, Ar
cadia Building, Fourteenth and Park
road. The beginning has been set for
8:15 o'clock and friends of the club
are advised to come early in order to
secure good seats.
The program contains several inter
esting features. The Saengerbund and
the Ladies' Chorus will be heard both
singly and united in mixed chorus.
Kurt Hetzel, leader, will contribute sev
eral of his own Wagner arrangements
for piano, for which he is widely
known, and will also play one. of the
new Hammond grand organs, shown
for the first time at the club. Ludwig
Otterbach will be tenor soloist.
WOMEN’S CLUBS’
BENEFIT PROGRAM
^ PROGRAM entitled “The Eight
eenth Century in Art and Song’’
was given by Mrs. George B. Hinman
on Friday, April 16. for the District
of Columbia Federation of Women's
Clubs. Proceeds from the concert
were for the foundation fund, designed
to support the work of the genera)
federation.
Mrs. Hinman, who is chairman of
art of the fifth district of the Georgia
federation, took as her premise, “Art
Reflects Life,’’ and through the pic
tures from the famous art galleries
of the world gave a comprehensive
idea of the spirit of the times and the
national characteristics. Mrs. Hinman
was assisted by her daughter, Cera
Hinman, soprano, who sang songs of
each nation's costume in a reproduc
tion of one of the gowns of Mme.
Pompadour. The pictures used in the
lecture were sent especially from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art for the
occasion.
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Children to Sing.
nPHE Children's Community Chorus,
directed by Esther Linkins. aug
mented by a group of other boys and
girls in Miss Linkins’ own class of
singers, and by the “mothers" of the
members of the chorus, will be heard
in a preliminary program of songs,
preceding the third annual children's
festival circus, to be staged by the
Community Center Department in
Central High School Stadium. Satur
day afternoon, May 8, in which 2,500
boys and girls of Washington will par
ticipate.
The Children's Community Chorus
will be accompanied by four young
violinists, Elizabeth Conklin and
Ann Louise Dubs of Daisy FMcken
scher’s class, and Leon Testa and
Francis Staack of the class of Mary
Parks Clements.
Warren F. Johnson, Organist
Church of the Pilgrims
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Chorus of 100—Full orchestra
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