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Duo’s Series Of Sonatas Concluded Third Coolidge Concert Also Is Givfcn By ALICE EVERSMAN. 'the Beethoven sonata series pre sented by the Belgian artists. Marcel Maas, pianist, and Alfred Dubois, violinist, at the Sulgrave Club con cluded yesterday afternoon. A large and distinguished audience has patronized the thrpe concerts, which were sponsored by the Countess van rier Straten and were given to help toward the work being done for poor churches by the Convent of Per petual Adoration. The two artists have made a real contribution to the musical life of this city in this series. They have brought the individuality of their talents and their polished musician ship to the interpretation of these works from a different angle and have revealed the lyric side of Beet hoven and stressed the spiritual tendency which beautified his mui cal creations. Yesterday’s program was fittingly jlimaxed with the Kreutzer sonata oreceded by another of the finest of Beethoven's output in this field, the "Sonata in G Major, Opus 96.” The opening number was the "Sonata in D Major, Opus 12, No. 1.” Mr. Maas’ superb playing imbued the Kreutzer sonata with brilliant color and warm feeling while Mr. Dubois’ expressive tone had an ethe real quality of penetrating sweet ness. Whiie it lacked the passion ate utterance which is usually asso eiated with the interpretation of this work, it was none the less lovely I in its particular character. His delicately adjusted bowing was j especially effect ive in the beautiful I "Andante Con Variazioni,” in which Mr. Maas excelled in the variety of his exquisite shadings. The "Sonata in G Major,” other i wise known as the "Cockcrow” sonata, is one of the most lyrical and most truly inspired of the remaining nine. The artists played it with reverence and understanding, plus n smooth ensemble and well-worked lout details. The “D Major Sonata,” , le?s colorful in its content, was pre ( sented writh the same thoughtfulness and sincerity which characterize the work of these artists throughout the cycle. \ * * * * A diversified program was given (last evening at the Library* of Con gress by the Coolidge String Quartet in the third of the six concerts under the Elizabeth Sprague Cool idge Foundation. It brought to gether the modernistic Tansman with Luigi Cherubini and Franz Schubert making it a little difficult h.owever to bridge the distance in style and ideas which these com posers represent. For originality both in thematic material and treatment, Alexandre Tansman’s “Triptyque,” written in 1930 and dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge, was the outstanding of the three quartets programmed. After pass ing through the first movement, jt’hich might be likened to a rough and solid door, a garden of exotic beauty was discovered in the andante. Here the composer has j given rein to his imagination and has entered a realm of fancy as full of charm and romance as a fairy*: tale. He suggests rather than depicte but all with a delicate touch and a drop of color here and there tmt remains as vivid parts of the whine. | There is a captivating quality in ahe atmosphere which he has created and an illusiveness that has more body than that associated with Debussy's music. The finale is a rapid, fleeing movement that dissolves into nothingness but clever as it is in its neatness and brightness, it is the second move ment that holds the essence of the composer's particular style. The posthumous ‘‘Quartet No. 5 In F Major” by Cherubini is an ex tremely graceful work, beautifully fashioned and pleasing in spite of the absence of any depth of thought. The Schubert "Quartet in G Minor,” composed a year after his first “Mass in F " has little of the free dom of expression and joyous spontaneity which mark his iater works. The members of the Coolidge group. William Kroll and Nicolai Berezowsky, violins, Nicolas Mold avian. viola, and Victor Gottlieb, cellist, were in excellent form last •evening playing with greater tonal sonority and finer shadings. Tire enseftble of these musicians has always been remarkably fine and was particularly to be noticed yester day in the Cherubini and the Tans man quartets. The auditorium was crowded and generously voiced ap preciation followed each number. Tomorrow at 3:45 p.m. the same rroup will play Haydn's "Quartet in D Major, Op. 64. No. 5.” Frank Bridge's “Quartet in G Minor” and the Brahms’ "Quartet in B Flat Itlajor, Op. 67.” Civil Service Ball Planned by Union A reception and ball honoring members of the Civil Service Com mission will be given by the District Department of the American Fed- | eration of Government Employes January 21 at the Kennedy-Warren Hotel. This is a part of the program tor observance here of civil service week. m A special guest of honor will be 1 John T. Doyle, first secretary of the Civil Service Commission, who is now retired. Arrangements are being made by a committee headed by H. D. Stro ple, assisted by Janet Donnelly, Mary Becker and A. J. Novak. GIVE YOUR THROAT THIS MEDICATED BATH ^To R©li©v©_ IRRITATION Coughs duo to Colds When your throat’s troubled with hus kine&s. dryness, a cough due to a cold ... let a Vicks Cough Drop dissolve naturally in your mouth. This bathes the tender throat tissues with soothing medication for 12 to 15 minutes. 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