American Music Needs Recognition at Home Worthy Policy of Selfishness Would Give Wider Opportunities in Country Which Shows Appreciation of Such Talents. By Alice Eversman. WHEN the Dickstein bill, proposing a limitation of the Importation of foreign artists was made public, it focused attention on a subject which has great bearing on the future of music in this country. Being the kind-hearted Nation that we are, it seemed Incredible that the United States would discriminate against the stimulus to art which foreign artists have undoubtedly brought to these shores. There is much to De saia on doui siaes oi ine question, foremost among which is the necessity of America waking up to the need of a selfish attitude, if it would foster the artistry within its midst and which is receiving acclaim all over the world. Where great art is concerned, there must ever be a desire to share it, but the outstanding talent of every coun try has little difficulty in reaching the recognition it deserves, and these are not the individuals who would suffer from any closed attitude toward art by this country. It has long been an accepted fact that each country develops Its national putlook in art, keeps it in a form un derstandable for its own people, and protects its native exponents. This country is the only one which has placed the foreign artist above its native talent and poured its money into the laps of strangers and given them Its enthusiastic support. We have needed foreign artists and have prof ited by knowing them, just as we have needed and profited by the im portation of laborers to help in the vast commercial enterprises for which we are famous as a Nation. But the time came when a limit had to be placed on immigration in order to give Americans a chance to earn a liveli hood and now the time has come to admit the same need as regards artists. W^hile Americans were brilliantly original In contributing to the progress of the material side of life, they had to go to school to learn the rudiments of art. Foreign teachers, foreign artists and foreign managers were our instructors, and for many years we earnestly sat at their feet and reverently absorbed all their knowl edge. We were so humble in our at titude that seldom was there a question as to the quality of instruc tion we were receiving. Modestly we established conserva tories of music, advertising every foreign teacher on the faculty, and were astonished that now and then some American artist stepped out from these schools and challenged the recognition of the world In later years, because necessity forced us to remain at home, and because of the energy of a few local citizens, the musical activity of this country has Increased enormously, imbued with the same progressive spirit which has distinguished all our endeavors. What has not as yet become general knowl edge is that, as a nation, we are far in advance of all others in musical standards and. to a great extent, in musical appreciation. A stay of reasonable length in other countries, with a study of conservatory cur riculum* and concert and opera pro ductions, will prove that statement. Now, wbth all that in being done to educate the young people of this oountry in music, what will they do afterward? Will they be able to earn a living with music or have assistance in perfecting themselves in some line? What does the future hold for all the students and the earnest and talented individuals? If orchestras, the con cert and opera fields and the best teaching positions are filled with foreigners, what will all these count less Americans have to look forward to? It is only sensible that America take care of its own and reserve every opening for their promotion. EUROPEAN countries make no secret about their favoring native talent and it is growing more and more difficult for outsiders to become a part of their musical life. Protests naturally arise from Americans -who have in some way found their first « -- Concert Schedule TOMORROW. Henry-Gerard Rainville, vio linist, Congressional Country Club, 8 p.m. Winifred Michaelson, pianist, music hour, Y. W. C. A., 5 p.m. MONDAY. Dorothy Seegax, soprano, cos tume recital, Wardman Park Theater, 8:45 p.m. Edwin Orlando Swain, baritone, recital, Women's University Club. Cremona Quartet, Pierce Hall, 8:15 pm. Navy Band, Sail Loft, Navy Yard, 1:30 p.m. Marine Band, 5 p.m. Army Band. 5 p.m. TUESDAY. Lovette Choral Club, Eva Whit ford Lovette, director, Willard Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Elena de Sayn, violinist; Thora Hinshaw Seaton, lecturer; Tschaikowsky program, Barker Hall, 3 p.m. Peggy Norris Hutson, soprano; Richard Hill, tenor; Marvin Gardner, baritone, assisting, Pierce Hall, 8 p.m. Margaretta EcklofT, soprano; John Hall, tenor; Robert Ewing, baritone; joint recital, St. An drew's Parish Hall. 8 p.m. Army Band, Walter Reed Hos pital, 6:30 p.m. Soldiers’ Home Band, band stand, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY. Navy Band, Sail Loft, Navy Yard, 11:30 am.; bandstand, Navy Yard, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY. Piano Teachers’ Forum, Mount Pleasant Christian Church, 10:45 a.m. Recital, students Robert Ruck man, Barker Hall, 8 p.m. Navy Band, Naval Hospital, 3 p.m. Army Band, 3:30 p.m. Soldiers’ Home Band, band stand, 7 p.m. Marine Band Symphony Or chestra, Marine Barracks, 8 p.m. FRIDAY. Helen Spasoff, piano recital, Washington Club, 8 p.m. Dorothy Raynor, song recital, Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, 8:30 p.m. Navy Band, Sail Loft, Navy Yard, 11:30 a.m.; Veterans’ Hos pital, Mount Alto, 6:30 p.m. Marine Band, 11 a.m. SATURDAY. Army Band. 10:30 a.m. Soldiers’ Home Band, band stand, 7 p.m. * 1 opportunity for public work in Europe, i but this only emphasizes the wrong attitude here in America. Why must 1 American singers go to Europe to have practice in operatic roles? Why must pianists and violinists have European concert experience before they can interest? their compatriots? Why must students go to Europe for "atmosphere” and spend years in learning a foreign language and to adjust themselves to a foreign stand ard? Why can we not create such op portunities and such "atmosphere” in America? Of course, the seriousness with which Europeans study music and the broadening influence of contact with an older civilization are bene ficial to artists, but the American public has such splendid access to the best music nowadays that a romantic setting or the novelty of association with other nationalties is not essential. The only thing which matters is thinking and working in the right direction, and surely, now, we are able , to do that in music as we are able to do it in other things. But such thinking and working will never be stimulated unless we can convince ourselves that our efforts are worthy of nation-wide recognition and support. A few of our artists are welcomed abroad, and, of course, there are many foreign artists that we are honored in including in our Winter seasons. For these, the doors are wide open in every country. But the lesser artists, the fine and solid musicians, are, many of them, helpless against the influx of foreigners in positions which they could just as well occupy. Many cannot earn a living, and many eat their hearts out in sorrow that, in spite of all their talent and study, they are not wanted in their own country, but must give way to foreigners of no greater ability. It is for the protection of i these fine musicians and the en I couragement of those coming after, i that a policy of selfishness is advo i cated in Americans. rJ''HE future of American musicians is a serious problem, which will have to be solved. Above all else, we must stand back of each other and generously encourage every attempt worthy of consideration. We must be proud of our schools and proud of our talented musicians, for we are greatly gifted in this line, if we only would recognize it. In our primary school days we learned the proverb about the prophet in his own country, but surely, as adults, we do not need to model our attitude on it. It would be safe to wager that, if Americans de manded only native talent, the num ! ber and quality that would be unearthed would astonish the world. At least, it might be given a fair trial, and -there always remains the possibility of a return to our old ■ attitude, if we experienced a ■ disappointment. -•— CANADIAN TO PLAY ! ON FAMOUS VIOLIN J-JENRY - GERARD RAINVILLE, 1 the young FYench-Canadian vio linist, son of the distinguished Cana dian statesman, the Hon. Henri B. Rainville, will make his recital debut in Washington at the Congressional Country Club tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock, on which occasion he will have the association of Stua Ross, pianist, who for the last 12 years has been pianist on tour with Rosa Pon selle. Mr. Rainville arrived from Europe on the Italian liner Rex on May 6 after a season of engagements in Central Europe and along the Riviera, where he was held over for additional en gagements at Nice, Cannes and Monte Carlo. With him he brings his superb Antonius Stradivarius violin, made in Cremona, Italy, by the great master in 1697, on which he will play his re cital tomorrow. Stuart Ross will play two groups of solos on the program. -• Recital by Mr. Frauenheim. ORMAN FRAUENHEIM, Wash ington pianist, will give his only recital this season at Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets, on Friday evening. May 21, at 8:45. Mr. Frauenheim has recently returned from an extended tour of the South, where he has many return engage ments for next season, including con certs in many of the musical centers of that sector. Mr. Frauenheim's teaching activities have been extended to New York and Connecticut as well as Washington, where he maintains a studio. He has concertized in many of the world's prominent cities, appearing in New York, Paris, London and in Madrid, under the old regime at a command performance at the palace of the In fante Isabelle. He was a pupil of Lazare Levy at the Paris Conserva toire and Sigismund Stojowski in New York. The program for May 21 follows: "Prelude and Fugue In A Minor" "Andante With Variations in P llinor/*1* ' ine e,riKing_ Schubert-Llszt Nocturne in F Maior" Chopin -Chopin _ Chopin ._~Dubussy -Debussy Sklarevski to Teach Here. ALEXANDER SKLAREVSKI, Rus sian pianist, will conduct master classes in piano from June 1 to July 15, at the studio of Rose d’Amore, 1501 Connecticut avenue northwest. A native of South Russia, Mr. Sklarevski started the study of the piano at an early age, graduating from the Imperial Conservatory in Petrograd in 1908. His concert tours have taken him all over the world, including the Par East, when he filled more than 250 engagements. After successful appearance in the United States and Canada, he was invited to join the faculty of the Peabody Con servatory in Baltimore, which position he accepted in 1923 and has held con tinuously ever since. In addition to his teaching, Mr. Sklarevski continues his solo recitals and ensemble work. Reservations for the master classes in Washington may be mads through Mias d'Amore. . Artists to Appear Here This Week and Soloists of Next Season Piano Player Verdicts in Tournament Washington Results Given by Head of Local Chapter. oi me wasnmgion cmapier ox xne National Piano Plrying Tournament, announces the following results of the local auditions, held May 6, 7 and 8, There were 135 pupils entered, who had prepared programs totaling 866 compositions. The following honors were awarded: National honor roll, highest honors —Phyllis Allwine, Phtla Belle Burk, I Anthony Chanaka. Ruth Alice Davis, j Eleanor Hulburt, Betty Jenkins, Nancy Leachman, Shirley Levin, Myrna Macklin, Phyllis Schwartz, Margaret Wood Smith, Gertrude Troutman and Charlton Meyer. National honor roll, high honors— James L. Buckler, Judith Conklin, Wil liam Drewry, Celia Goldsman, Mary Graves, Jean Guy, Mary Henning, Alice Ingersoll, Marilyn Lauter, Sara Ann Levenson, Arthur McNerney, Mary Elizabeth Miles, Eoto Russell, Helen Virginia Smith, Janice Smith, Julia Ann Warthen and Janet Mac Donald West. National honor roll—Betty Bean, Lucia Perez and Nancy Robinson. State honor roll, highest honors— Charlotte Hawthorne. State honor roll, high honors—Fran I ces Berg, Jacqueline Blunt, Reta May Carothers, Eloise Cogswell, Juliet Frost. : Patsy Garaney. Jean Hedquist, Max well Howell, Robert Milligan, Betty ! Moore, Jacqueline Neff, June Ney, Lsa bel Sadler. Betty Walker, Ruby Lee i Williams and Julia Yamall. State honor roll—Alan Davis and ! Jean Evans. District honor roll, highest honors— Mary Camilla Calnan, Paul Horn, Elizabeth Raiford and Selma Schwartz. District honor roll, high honors— Betty Bell. Anna Bezdikian, Henry Bowman, Mary Frank Burtner, Ar thur Carchedi, Marian Canby, Mal cilm Crandler, Kenneth Cogswell, Carolyn Rose Cowper, L othy Drum mond, Francis Fabrizio. Mary Alice Poor, Ann Friedman. Howard Gaines, Doris Goldberg. Eva Ooldenberg, George Graves, Eugene Griffin, Laura Jane Gott, Paul Griffith, jr.; Emily Haas, Lots Harman, Donald Haw thorne, Eleanor Hill, Gloria Hyssong, Sonia Katz, Lillian Kaufman, Mary Frances Keiser, Laura Koppel Anne Kuldell, Helen Kuldell, June Kuldell, Kathleen Kuldell, Charles McDougal, Dr. and Mrs. H. J. R. McNitt, Naomi Miller, Jean Moore, Eleanor Morrison, Bettie Moulton, Yuvonne Neff, Bryan Ogden, Mary Ogden, Patsy Pond, Richard Radcliff, Suzanne Radcliffe, Patricia Robertson, Virginia Roe, Rosemary Rolls, Nancy Sehearer, Mar garet Brantley Smith. Walter Stein bouer, George Warren Swift, Giaela Teichman. Jane Walsh, Mabel Wille brandt, Grace Yates. District honor roll—Antoinette Bo zieuich, Jean Burtis, Nancy Collomb, Sidney Cousins, Leslie Eva, Mary Fus sell, Roger George, Vera Lee James, Florence Lyman, Ara Mesrobian, Wal ter Peacock, Valerie Popham, Dorothy Ritter, Mary Ann Rob, Margaret Jean Stead, Barbara Townsend, Lina Walk er, Jean Wilkins, Gary Wilkinson, Margaret Eislnger, Dorothy Danly and Barbara Latta. Teachers who entered pupils were Fanny Roberts, Lucia Mackenzie, Elena Crivella, Helen Miller, Mrs. For rest Phippeny, Rose d’Amore, Mar garet Tolson, Hazel Norcross, Virginia Holland, Violet Ihre, Effie Collamore, Phila Belle Burk, Evelyn Mayers, Betty Baum, Mary Tighe, Lillian Harmon Burke, Gene W. Crist, Elise Hastings, Pearl Waugh, Dorothy Emery, Iva Loughlen Guy, Marguerite Lucker, Mabel Frost, Lucille Hawthorne, Alice Harvey, Mrs. Lois Abemethy, La Salle Spier. __ DOROTHY SEEGAR’S MUSIC OFFERING DOROTHY SEEGAR will present a unique program of songs, in which she employs the elements of voice, dance and costume at the Wardman Park Theater on Monday evening at 8:45 o'clock. Frederick Bristol, pianist, who recently gave a successful Town Hall recital in New York, will assist Miss Seegar. The program will be as follows: I Women Court Lady. 'L'EventaH" _J. Massenet Peasant. "Chanson de Marie Antoinette'' Myron Jacobson Amorous. "Berceuae Amoureuae" _ Theodore Stearns Radical. "Rebel Son*’’-Everett Stevens n. "Balinese Ritual’’-Everett Stevens "Old Greek Processional." _ __ Pindar arr. by Thlerfelder The Madonna. "LExtase de la Vlerae"_J. Massenet Intermission. in. "Poissons D’Or" _Debussv ' General Lavlne (Eccentric! Debussy "Prelude On. 32. No 10",.Rachmaninoff ‘Etude On. 1ft. No. io"_Bortklewicz Hr. Bristol. IV. Songs of the - Elegant 80s. Gay OOs. Tickets are available at Dorothy Dorsey's Concert Bureau In Droop’s, 1300 a street northwest. At left is Edwin Orlando Swain. New York baritone, who will be heard in recital at the American Association of Uni versity Women's Club on Monday afternoon. Right, the noted Hungarian violinist, Joseph Szigeti. returning next Winter as soloist 7cith the Philadelphia Orchestra in February. Below, left, Henry Gerard Rainville, French-Canadian violinist will give an interesting program including the Schubert “Sonata in D major” at the Congressional Country Club tomorrow after noon. assisted by Stuart Ross, pianist, and right, Eva Whit ford Lovette, director of the Lovette Choral Club, which will give its Spring concert on Tuesday evening at the Willard Hotel. Choral Club To Present Its Program Soloists Engaged in Spring Concert of Lovette Group. 'T'HE annual Spring concert of the Lovette Choral Club will be held on Tuesday evening at 8:30 at the Willard Hotel. Eva Whitford Lovette will conduct, assisted by Francis Bass Wilson, assistant director. Elsie Cran mer, club accompanist, will play the entire program. William T. Cameron, harpist, is the assisting artist, and Carolyn Schulte, lyric coloratura soprano, will be pre sented by the club as an artist mem ber. Miss Schulte will include in her songs a composition by Dr. Thomas S. Lovette, in whose memory the club is named. Hazel Bergstrom Oake will sing incidental solos in two of the choruses. Washington composers whose names will appear on the program are Mrs. Alfred S. Gillett, Dorothy Radde Emory and William Cameron. The complete program Is as follows: Choral prologue. "Salutation.” Snmuel Richards Gaines (Dedicated to the National Federation of Music Clubs.* "The Seasons’ (Swedish folk song). Arranged by Samuel Richards Gaines "Spinning Song” (German folk song). Arranged by A. AslanofT "Dancing on the Greeny fold English dance) Arranged by Manney The Lovette Choral Club. "Lasciatemi Morire”_Monteverde "Tarentella”__Panofka Carolyn Schulte, soprano. "The Heavens Are Telling” Beethoven The Choral Club. "Pavanna.” Unknown Composer. 16th Century "Chaconne” _ Durand "Prayer” Mrs. Alfred S. Gillett William T. Cameron, harpist. "Dedication” Robert Franz "Elfin Dance” Edward Grieg The Choral Club. Intermission. "Winds to the Silent Morn.” __ Dorothy Radde Emery "Evening Prayer in Brittany” Chaminade Incidental solos: Hazel Cake and Fran cise Bass Wilson. The Choral Club. “The Star” James Rogers “Heart of a Rose” Thomas S. Lovette "Voci di Primavera” Strauss Carolyn Schulte. "Spirit Flower” Campbell-Tipton "The Sleigh” Kountz-Baldwin Francise Bass Wilson, assistant director. The Choral Club. "Dance of the Gnomes”_Rogers "Fraicheur” _Salzedo "La Desirade”_ Salzedo "Romance” _ Cameron William T. Cameron. "The Water Fay”_H. W. Parker Incidental Solo. Hazel Cake. "Song of the Danube” (tales from the Vienna woods) Johann Strauss The Choral Club. -- ■ m POLITICAL STUDY CLUB BREAKFAST 'T'HE musical program at the annual breakfast of the Political Study Club will be given by Martha Byrd, soprano, and William Moran, tenor. The breakfast will take place Wed nesday at the Mayflower Hotel. Miss Byrd will sing Arditti’s “H Bacio” and "The Last Rose of Sum mer,” while Mr. Moran’s numbers will be the aria from Balfe’s "Bohemian Girl,” “Then You’ll Remember Me,” and Grosvenor’s “I Carry You in My Pocket.” The duets “Love Me To night,” from “The Vagabond Lover,” and “Will You Remember?” from “Maytime,” will conclude the program, which has been arranged and pre sented by Mrs. George Oliver Gilling ham, chairman of music. Edith Vlr den Smith will aoccmpany the singers. Kindler Sails For Musical Tour Abroad Symphony Chief Has Engagements as Guest Leader. TAR. HANS KINDLER, conductor ^ of the National Symphony Or chestra of Washington, will sail for Europe this week to fill the first of a series of guest conducting appear ances for which he has been engaged this Summer. Sailing Wednesday aboard the liner Normandie, Dr. Kindler will go first to Paris. Later he visits Holland and Belgium, where he will conduct in The Hague, Scheveningen ai.d Os tende. His soloist in the Holland con certs will be Rose Bampton, the Met ropolitan Opera Company mezzo-so prano. In addition to filling these and other engagements the Washing ton conductor plans to spend consider able time, while abroad, gathering material to present before National Symphony audiences in the Capital next Winter. Returning to the United States next month Dr. Kindler will begin a sched ule of conducting engagements that will take him all the way across the country. Dr. Kindler will be at Ra vinia, the beautiful Summer opera and concert center located just north of Chicago, in mid-July. He will be a guest conductor of the symphony orchestra there for concerts on July 17, 18 and 19. Then he will start immediately for the West Coast, where he will be guest conductor in the fa mous Hollywood Bowl from July 22 until August 10. The Hollywood Bowl, the largest natural amphitheater in the world, will present its sixteenth season of Summer concerts this year. As usual outstanding musicians, including solo ists and conductors, will assemble there from all parts of the world. To Give Program Martha Byrd, soprano, and William Moran, tenor, soloists at the annual breakfast of the Political Study Club on Wednesday at the Mayflower Two Famed Violinists To Be Heard Programs of Season Are Arranged by Philadelphians. TWO of the mo6t famous violinists in the world today will appear with the Philadelphia Symphony Or chestra in programs in the series of five to be given at Constitution Hall Tuesday evenings next season, accord ing to the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau, which has been presenting this orchestra in Washington for more than a quarter of a century. The opening program, October 26, will mark the appearance of Fritz Kreisler, with Eugene Ormandy con ducting. Kreisler, master both of the violin and of the art of composing mu sic for it, has not appeared here with orchestra for two years. Last season, on the same date, October 26, he opened Mrs. Dorsey’s series as a solo ist. The other great violinist, younger than Kreisler and a Hungarian, whereas Kreisler is Viennese, who comes with the Philadelphians on Feb ruary 1, 1938, with his fellow country man. Ormandy, conducting, is Joseph Szigeti. His debut in Washington was at the Library of Congress with the brilliant French pianist, Alfred Cortot, in a sonata program. Since then Szigeti has made two tours around the world. His debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski was made 10 years ago in Beethoven's “Concerto.” The third soloist for the series lo cally next year is the American bari tone, John Charles Thomas, who first made his mark in the popular field of operetta as the leading star of “Apple Blossom Time.” Then he began the concert work which is still his most popular field and also did a great deal of singing in opera both here and abroad. He was guest artist with the former Washington Opera Co. both before going abroad to win laurels in France and Belgium and since. Mr. Thomas will be soloist on the final program of the Philadelphia Orchestra in Washington next season, April S, when Eugene Ormandy will conduct. Leopold Stokowski will lead the or chestra in its local program November 30 and the other of the five programs will be presented January 11, with Ormandy holding the baton. Season reservations can be made now at the Smith Concert Bureau, 910 G street northwest. JOINT OFFERING OF TSCHAIKOWSKY |}LENA DE SAYN, violinist, and Thora Hinshaw Seaton, lecturer, will combine in presenting a Tschai kowsky program Tuesday at 3 o’clock in the afternoon at Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A. The program will be given under the auspices of the music division of the Twentieth Century Club. After the book review of “Beloved Friend” by Mrs. Seaton, Miss De Sayn will play the “Serenade Melancholique,” “Melo die” and the “Concerto in D Major,” all of which are Tschaikowsky’s repre sentative compositions for the violin. Malton Boyce will be the accompan ist. PEABODY ARTIST IN PIANO RECITAL A USTIN CONRADI of the Peabody Institute of Music in Baltimore will present Helen SpasofT in a piano recital on Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock at the Washington Club, 1010 Seventeenth street. Miss Spasoff is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory, where she has been studying during the last two years with Mr. Conradi. The program includes compositions of Bach, Bee thoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and others. Pons’ Good Luck Charm. CEVERAL years ago, when the opera ^ ‘‘La Sonnambula” was revived at the Metropolitan expressly for Lily Pons, the opening night found her extremely nervous. Just before her first entrance she clipped a small piece of cloth from the drop curtain and held it throughout the performance. When Gatti-Casazza smilingly asked her why she had done this she replied, "For luck.** In Local Music Circles AT THE closing meeting of the German Literary Society to night Wilhelmina Spanhoofd Walter, soprano, will sing lieder by Schubert, Wolf, Mahler and Strauss, with Grete von Bayer at the piano, and Grace Powell, vio linist, will play the “A Major Sonata" by Brahms, accompanied by Lyman McCrary. The seventh and last of a series j of Spring recitals by piano students j of Robert Ruckman will be given at Barker Hall, in the Y. W. C. A. Building at Seventeenth and K streets, on Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. The following students will be heard: Michael Agrie.sU, Elizabeth Applegate, Katherine Butler, Travis Butler, George Harvey Cain, Mar- ; garet Copeland, Dorothy Goebel, Ruth Hartzell, Mary Ellen Huie, Alma Douglas Jerome, Lillian Krick, Ethel Minot Lehman, Robert Mead, Ruth Nave, Barbara Nelson, Irma Nor wood, Daniel J. O’Rourke, Ira Pearl man, Jesse Ridgeway, Ephraim Ro sen, Charles Forrest Ruppert, Ger trude Sherman, David Tate and Eve lyn Toye. On Friday evening at 8.30 o'clock In the parish hall of the Mount Pleas ant Congregational Church, Columbia road at Fourteenth street, a recital will be given by Dorothy Raynor, American opera soprano. Mrs. Ray nor was with the American Opera Co. and appeared in Washing ton In Puccinis "Madame Butterfly.” She will be accompanied by Claude Robeson. The recital is being given under the auspices of the Fireside Group of the church for the benefit of the Junior Choir. A silver offering will be taken at the door. The public is cordially invited. The Community Center Depart ment is in need of a good used piano suitable for outdoors at the Wash ir^ton Monument for the Summer festival programs, which will open for the 1937 season about June 16 to continue throughout the months of June, July and August under the Joint sponsorship of the Community Center Department and the office of National Capital Parks. Already, due to request of Eliza beth K. Peeples, director of the Com munity Center Department and of the Summer festivals, a number of pianos have been offered by public spirited citizens of Washington, but to date no instrument has been found that will be able to withstand the rigors of a Summer on the Sylvan Theater stage, where It is In use every week for rehearsals and per formances. All persons having a piano which they are willing to donate to the success of this season's Summer fes tivals are asked to communicate with the Community Center Department at the earliest possible moment. Virginia Sellars, soprano, made her operatic debut as Mocaela in "Car men" on Friday evening with the Columbia Opera Co. of New York at the Maryland Theater in Baltimore. Miss Sellars is a scholarship student at Peabody Conrervatory of Music. Baltimore, and i former student of Helen Turley of this city. The third of & series of piano re citals by pupils of Katherine Frost took place Sunday afternoon at Studio House of the King-Smith Studio School, 1708 S ftreet northwest, when Jane Allen, Jane Ellison, Virginia Spencer, Anne Sogers, Betty Tolbert and Suzanne Marshall played a pro gram which inclided several two-piano arrangements of classical works. Miss Frost will present her junior students thus afernoon at 4 o'clock. Patricia Benedict Josephine and Flo ranne Hendersos and Gladys and Anne Watkins will give a rerita, of short works by Each, Grieg, Chopin. Schubert, Beetho'en, Gluck Brahms and several mod*m compisers. The Piano Teackers’ Forum will hold its May meeting rext Thursday morn ing at 10:45 o’dock in the Mount Pleasant Christlar Church, Park road west of Fourteenh street, when Alice Burbage Hesseltach will speak on "Credits in Music for High School Pupils Taught b' Outside Teachers." Vocal solas will oe given by Marjory Wilson. This is the last meeting of the season and al members are urged to attend. Parkhg space will be found in rear of the cnurch. Thelma Callahm presented a group of her pupil-, in f two-piano recital at her studio, 605 Taylor street north west, last Montay. Those playing were Sibyl Gre«nleaf. Jean Oliver, Genevieve Billhiner, Dorothy Rudy, ; Olive Fewell. Pail Cramer, Arir.ett" ; Sutton, Elizabeth Cramer, Gwendolyn Sutton. Virginia Baker, Marian Bona vita, Fred Powel, Ann Fiigate, Har irson Leffler, jr.; Frank Herman. Jean Macey, Virginia Perin, John Leffler, Olive Rickard, Margaret O'Meara, George Fiigate, Veon Briggs and Jean Sherwood. Thut as a singer at the age of 5, wien she sang solo parte in a black-ace minstrel. She was determined tc become a concert pianist, and it ws while acting as accompanist for avoice teacher that her decision was nade to become a singer. To securi dramatic train ing she spent two years with a dra matic stock compaiy in the South. She went to Nw York City for further study uner Edith Olandt and after a montl was selected as prima donna in "faughty Marietta" for one of the compnies that toured the East. Following that she was en gaged for the prim donna roles in all of the Victor Herbert musical productions. After two years n musical stock and repertoire coipanies she re turned to New Yon for additional study under Frank ^a Forge. Dur ing this period sh< filled engage ments for concerts aid radio broad casts. solo and qurtet work in churches, directed misical plays and glee clubs and was ssistant super visor of music in puHc schools. SOLOS AND IUETS BY THREE SINGERS J E ROY LEWIS will ore-sent in re cital Margaret Ecloff, soprano; John Hall, tenor, and lobert Ewing, baritone, on Tuesday vening at 8 o'clock at St. Andrew’s Parish Hall, New Hampshire avenue and V street northwest. Miss EcklofT. who is 6 years old, will make her debut as avocalist. She will be heard in a grout of solos, as well as in two duets, ae with Mr. Ewing, "La cl darem la nano,” from "Don Giovanni,” by Mozrt, and an other with Mr. Hall, "Voageurs,” bv Sanderson. Frederick Waver of Bal timore will be the accospanist and also will be heard in a grup of piano solos. The public is cordaliy invited. Warren F. Johnson, Organist Church of the Pifrims Sunday Evenly Choral Fantasia and Double futue from On. 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