Evening star. [volume], December 07, 1938, Page B-2, Image 20

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OrganConcert
Presented by
Bernier
Program Second
In Howard U.
Series
By ALICE EVERSMAN.
The second concert of the series
sponsored by the Howard University
presented the noted organist, Con
rad Bernier in a diversified and
interesting program last evening in
Rankin Chapel. Although the organ
Is not remarkable for its responsive
ness or its mellowness of tone nor
was the audience as large as it |
should have been, Mr. Bernier i
played with the utmost artistic con
centration and gave a performance j
which revealed his fine discernment
and musicianship.
Perhaps the most outstanding
characteristics of Mr. Bernier’s play
ing is the poetry of his conceptions
and its expression in a wide variety
of color effects. His style Is dis
tinctly individual and, together with
his keen appreciation of the mean
ing of what he interprets, there
is at his command a flexible tech
nique and true judgement in the
use of the resources of his instru
ment. His pedal facility equals that
of his fingers and his ability to
make the one subservient to the
other is accomplished with great
clarity.
This point was well demonstrated
in the "Fantasy and Fugue in G
Minor” by Bach, with which the
program opened, and where the
important interweaving of parts in
the Fugue was beautifully developed.
The imaginative quality in Mr.
Bernier's playing, an arresting ele
ment at all times, gave great charm
to Daquin’s "Noel et Variations”
which followed, and one was im
pressed again with the particular
fineness and originality of his in
tuition.
Full Powers in Play.
Guilmant's “Sonata in D Minor,
Op. 42“ became more than a number
whose scope called into play the
full powers of the performer, for
as Mr. Bernier gave it, it was as
richly hued as an old tapestry where
the threads of color are each of su
preme importance in the splendid
whole. One followed with unceas
ing interest the various themes and
the contrasts which Mr. Bernier at
tained bringing into evidence the
many possibilities of the organ.
Unfortunately this was all of the
program that we could stay to hear
but following the Sonata came three
works by Cesar Franck, “Pastorale.”
“Choral in A Minor" and “Piece
I Heroique," the Allegro from Widor’s
| “Sixth Symphony” and the first per
formance of "Eclogues" by Mr.
Bernier. This triptych, "after read
ings of Vergil," was identified in its
movements as ia> "When the dew
on the tender grass is sweetest to
the cattle," <b> "May your reed and
my voice be joined in a song' and
<c> “Behold, all rejoice in the age to
come." The program concluded with
| Vierne’s “Westminster Chimes ”
Recital at Sulgrave Club.
At the Sulgrave Club before a
distinguished audience of ample
i size, Norman Frauenheim gave a
: piano recital last evening which
! Programed works from Bach to
Paderewski.
Mr. Frauenheim was in especially
good form and played with finely
modulated tone and great care for
nuance. His well grounded tech
nique, which can be brilliant when
needed, was used with finesse in
! gaining minute effects of great value
substantiated by a skillful pedal
control. There was well stressed
musical thought and a poised de
livery in each of his offerings and
particularly outstanding in the Bee
thoven "Sonata, Op. 31. No. 2.”
The first part of the program
beginning with the Bach-Liszt "Pre
lude and Fugue in A Minor" con
tinued with Haydn's "Variations in
F Minor,” Mozart's "Rondo in A
Minor,” the Beethoven "Sonata” and
Schumann's "Toccata.” Following
the intermission came a group of
Chopin including the “Nocturne in
F Sharp Minor,” the "Polonaise in
E Flat Minor," two Mazurkas and
three Etudes, Debussy's "Reflections
in the Water,” "The Maid with the
Flaxen Hair” and "The Wind Over
the Plain” and, in conclusion, Pad
erewski's "Nocturne in B Flat” and
“Cracovienne Fantastique.”
The artist was given a most
friendly welcome and much ap
plause after each number.
The astronomical light year Is
5,880,000,000,000 miles.
What May Be Earliest Traces
Of Man in America Told Here
Carnegie Institution to Exhibit Tools of Age
Preceding Wraithlike Folsom Man
By THOMAS R. HENRY.
Finding of what may be the most
ancient horizon of man in North
America was reported today by an
thropologists of the Carnegie In
stitution of Washington.
Stone spearheads and knives of
human beings who evidently pre
ceded the wraithlike Folsom man,
who hunted mammoths and extinct
bison in the closing days of the
last ice age, will form part of the
exhibit of scientific accomplish
ments being prepared for the an
nual meeting: of the trustees on
Friday.
The most striking of the new
finds, it was announced, were made
by Dr. M. R. Harrington. Carnegie
research associate, on the edge of
a dry California lake bed. The site
is a fossil "alluvial fan,” the ma
terial for which was washed from
a small nearby canyon during the
period of heavy rains which fol
lowed the retreat of the glacial ice
about 15,000 years ago.
Artifacts Found.
Near the surface were found typi
cal Folsom points, the curioilsly
flaked spearheads which are charac
teristic of the ancient hunters. At
lower levels, indicating they must
have been deposited earlier, were
found samples of a curious, triangu
lar type of spearhead and a class
of stone implements shaped like a
willow leaf, which might be either
knives or spear points. There also
was a peculiar oval stone object,
grooved lengthwise, and a peculiar
type of hammer stone. One spear
point was found at nearly 7 feet
below the Folsom level. The deep
est of all the artifacts, a piece of
obsidian showing signs of chipping
by human hands, was more than 12
feet below the surface. At present
soil from the nearby canyon is de
posited very slowly, and there is
some evidence that the same con
dition obtained 15,000 years ago.
This would indicate, Mr. Harring
ton points out, a great stretch
between the first visits of the Fol
som hunters and the original camp
ers on the spot, who evidently came
for the obsidian rock, which was
ideal for making weapons.
Erosion Reveals Past.
Probably, says Mr. Harrington,
“the site was first inhabited by
man when the higher mountains
were still covered by Pleistocene ice
and the lake was full of fresh water.
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Then came the rainy period which
marked the end of the ice age. The
primitive seekers for obsidian
camped again and again, probably
during the summer, on an alluvial
fan, which was gradually building
up. Finally Folsom man appeared
on the scene and found the place to
his liking.
"At last the pluvial period drew
to a close. Without enough water
to feed it, the lake began to shrink
through evaporation, and the Fol
som hunters of the mammoth and
the giant bison came no more.
Gradually the top or the alluvial
fan, receiving no more soil washed
down from the canyon, beian to
waste away, allowing the Folsom
implements it contained to drop
down to the level which forms the
surface today, where they became
mingled with the products of earlier
people.”
Another Find Announced.
Another find of human remains
was announced by Drs. Alden Mil
ler, Hildegarde Howard and Chester
Stock in the celebrated Rancho La
Brea tar pits in California, which
have long been a classic ground for
remains of ice age animals. These
finds place in a clearer light the
relation of human beings to the time
scale of the Pleistocene era. The
large and extinct forms of birds
of prey found in other parts of the
asphalt deposits are greatly reduced
in number, while there is a marked
increase in the numbers of existing
species. Practically all the larger
forms of Pleistocene mammals, in
cluding the saber-toothed tiger, have
disappeared. Only the horse and
prong-horn antelope remain of the
great assemblage of hoofed crea
tures which were dominant over
most of the continent 25,000 years
ago. All the formidable types of
flesh-eating animals are gone, and
the coyote, not greatly different
from the animal of today, was the
most fearsome creature left.
Humans in Oregon 10,000 Years Ago.
The evidence from this tar pit is
that man made his first appearance
in North America during a transi
tion period when animal life was
changing into something close to
the dominant forms of today.
Other finds to be included in the
Exhibit show that human beings
were present in Oregon at least
10,000 years ago. This is indicated
by stone knives found below pumice
which came from a volcanic erup
tion at the present site of Crater
Lake. The makers are believed to
be contemporaries of the P’olsom
man, who, living entirely by hunt
ing, clung to the high planes which
were covered with bison herds. The
ancient Oregonians, it appears, led
a more settled existence, since re
mains of their basketry are found.
There may be some connection be
tween them and the ancient basket
makers of the Southwest.
Following the meeting of the trus
tees these exhibits of early man
will be open to the public on Satur
day, Sunday and Monday. There
will be daily lectures describing
the exhibits.
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