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National Gallery Receives Important New Sculptures By Florence S. Berryman. The National Gallery of Art has received a gift of three important works in sculpture from Mrs. Ralph Harmon Booth of Detroit, in mem ory of her husband, a noted col lector of art, philanthropist and at one time United States Minister to Denmark. The Greek head of a youth is the first example of classical art to enter the National Gallery. It is carved from a warm Pentelic marble with a tonality almost golden. The delicately modeled fea tures have the idealization char acteristic of Greek sculpture of the fourth century. B.C. This head is related In spirit to such rare exam ples of classical art in this country as the heads of women In the Boston and Toledo Museums and the Met • ropolitan Museum of New' York. The other gifts from Mrs. Booth fire medieval groups, welcome ac quisitions in the field of sculpture of the Middle Ages, of which the National Gallery heretofore had only one example, a Madonna ascribrd to Tinn da Camaiano, in the Kress collection. The first of the Booth gifts is a Pieta In alabaster, which belongs to the middle'Rhenish school of the • 15th century. Despite its small dimensions and delicate technique, this little group possesses the monu mental and expressive qualities characteristic of the best medieval work. The second group is an alabaster relief still largely retaining its original polyrhromy. It has been attributed to the 15th century Not tingham school of English alabaster workers. However, according to the gallery's announcement, certain su periorities in style and an unusual scheme of iconography indicate a different, origin—Upper Rhenish, j with perhaps influence from the Rhenish-Rimini school of the 15th ] century. Should this latter at tribution prove correct the Na tional Gallery of Art will be able to exhibit not merely an example j cf a rare school, hut. an object which links historically its extensive ‘ collection of Italian sculpture with ' its growing collection of Northern medieval art. Corcoran Gallery Opens Sales Exhibition. An exhibition of work by former , students and advanced students now attending classes at the Corcoran School of Art was opened yesterday 1 in the special exhibition room, too late for review today. The show Is sponsored by the school's faculty. Contributing artists were requested to keep in mind, first, that the quality of the work shown must be high; second, that each work should , be in size and motif one which ■ might enhance the average living room, and third, that the prices 1 he as low as $5 and not higher than S50. The show includes works in all media; it passed a jury composed of Mr. C. Powell Minnigerode. di rector. and Mr. R, M. Kaufimann, representing the trustees; Eugen Weisz and Kenneth Stubbs, faculty members, and Christine Westerstrom and Ralph Robinson, alumni. Rew York Etcher At Rational Museum. Etchings by Ralph Fabrl of New j York City comprise the current ex- j hibition of th° D1 vision of Graphic Arts. United States National Mu seum, on view on the first floor of the Natural History Building. Thirty-five prints are included. The work demon'irates the art ist's skillful, conservative technique, ; prodigious industry and cultivated j mind. But the last, mentioned is j responsible, perhaps, for an aspect open to criticism; many of Ms prints offer an "embarrassment of riches.” j They are too crowded and their in terest is diffused. One notes this with regret, for ; original subject matter is none too prevalent in contemporary art, and Mr. Fabri's subjects are individual, and reveal a sensitive mind pre occupied with the war in its many complicated relationships and its1 place in history. In not a few oi his plates, he has begun with Egypt and worked down to the present, j introducing monuments and figures from successive periods; Greece. Rome, the Middle Ages. Renaissance Italy, etc. This is the case with such plates as ‘‘Pursuit of Happi ness.” "What Now?” and "Pharaoh's Dream.” Ail the details of bis : plates are represented naturalisti csllv and his allegories give an effect of historical pageantry. He is haunted by features of the ! war. particularly searchlight beams, sweeping the dark skies and picking j out innumerable airplanes. He utilises these plane-filled ribbons of light in many of his compositions; tliev are strong and effective pat terns, although occasionally some what obvious. He also frequently J uses hordes of marching soldiers 1 and endless lines of tanks, as well j as their counterparts in rarlier j aces He has a marked gift for design and tonal contrasts. His prints with less complicated themes seem more effective; "At tda." “Caesar" and "Napoleon." for instance. Tire first-mentioned de picts the Huns on swift horses rac ing westward; it has a strong sense rf movement. "National Conven tion.’’ with an orator standing in the middle of a glaring battery of snotlights; "Piano Concert,” in which the light-flooded stage Is a white square in the darkened thea ter, and "Descent From the Cross.” a reverent, conception of the night scene, illuminated by light from the central figure, all reveal Mr. Fabri’s preference for dramatic artificial illumination. The artist was born in Budapest. Hungary, in 1894; studied architec ture for two years, then turned to the study of painting and etching a' the Roynl Academy of Fine Arts, from which he graduated with a professional degree. He came to the “The Dead Christ Supported by an Angel.” upper Rhenish, 15th Century, gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth in memory of her husband to the National Gallery of Art. United States in 1921. He has ex- j hibited extensively both in one-man | and group shows, has received a j number of awards, most recent be- j ing an honorable mention this year I at the annual of the Society of i American Etchers, of which he is a member. Wisconsin Etcher At Public Library. The current exhibition of prints by Armin Lanrirck at the Central Public Library is a delightful show by an artist who has mastered his! media: etching, lithography and line j engraving, and has a flair for pre- ! senting commonplace subjects in a I beguiling way. The library offers this collection of 27 prints merely as its December exhibition, but it j would be justified in calling it a Christmas sales show, for the prints are beautifully execut°ri. with non-j irritating subject matter, and rea son ' 1" prices trancing from $10 to ?1S). all factors calculated to apn.ral to the public. Although born in Wisconsin, Mr. Landeck studied at Columbia Uni- j varsity. New York City, and now1 lives in Litchfield. Conn. Most of his prints ?\ the library are of New, York eityseanes, old buildings, tena- I ments, street corners, bridges and j industrial structure ;, with a few in teriors of the artist's studio. Each j is a faithful representation of the subject as it appeared to the artist. \ But the beauty of his rendering gives ; some of these prints moods and j overtones. The stunning “Manhattan Vista."! for instance, a far-reaching view across roof tops at different levels, J s!:vsrrarer towers and occasional I g’;mp rs of rep,' on-like streets, eon- ' vrys much of New York's majestic 1 clamor. Of quite different c ha;aetrr is a night scene mot titled• of an ancient house on a corner illu minated bv a street lamp in the j rundown lower part of New York. It has a touching nostalgic ouality. Night scenes in the current show | are reminiscent of the etchings of similar subjects by Martin Lewis, j whose, work Mr. Landeek is said to admire. One of the latter’s night scenes on view is a striking litho graph entitled “The Shadow,” a truthful but eerie effect. The velvety surface of his etch ings. the lush softness of his litho graphs and tiie rich delicacy of his line engravings i apparently on woodi command one’s admiration for Mr Lnndeck’s craftsmanship. His ability to extract beauty from lowly subject matter is well exem plified in his "Shaker Stove." He was on the print jury for the great exhibition. “Artists for Victory,” just opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York City. This print show will remain at the Library until January 4. Guide to Art NATIONAL GALLERY. Constitu tion avrnue at Sixth street N.W - Paintings hv great masters Renais sance sculpture; IPth century French paintings len* bv French government and from collections Weekdays. 10 a m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays. 2 to 10 p m NATIONAL MUSEUM. Constitution avrnue at Tenth street N.W.—Na tional collection of fine arts, compris ing venous collections, miniatures. Division of Graphic Arts-—Etchings by Ralph Fa hr; during Decrmbrr. Natural History Building also Frnn sylvia Miniature Society exhibition. December 12 to January 17. Division of Photography—New York Camera Club annual, during December Sun days and weekdays (except Mondays*. 9 am to 4:30 p.m.; Mondays, 1 ;30 to 4 30 n.m. FREER GALLERY, Independence avenue and Twelfth street. S.W.— Chinese bronzes, sculpture, paintings. Near East potteries. Whistler’s “Pea cock Room,’’ paintings, etchings, lith otint.s by American artists. Daily (except Mondays), p a m. to 4:30 p m. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Depart men- of Fine Aris. First and East Capi’ol streets—National print col lection; cabinet of American illustra tions Special exhibition. “O Pi oneers.’’ through December. CORCORAN GALLERY Seventeenth strep* and New York avenue N.W — Paintings bv American artists, e.iso by 1 Pth c°ntury foreign artists, casts from antique Barye bronze-', works of cjtUcinporary sculpture. Clark col lect-on. old masters and modern Paincngs, rugs, laces, ceramic-, etc.; work bv Peggy Faron and Heinz War neke. from December 1. Corcoran ■ .umni ; nd students sales execution, December 12-January 13. ]f»43. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY. 1601 Twenty-first street N.W—Paint ings hv contemporary artists, chiefly of French and American school,- also prints. Christmas sal°s exhibition. Marc Chagall exhibition Weekdays. II am. to 6 p.m; Sundays. 2 to 6pm TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DIS TRICT OF COLUMBIA. 2330 S street N W —Containing rugs, tapestries and other textiles of the Near and Fa’ East Open Monday. Wednesday* ar.d Friday Hours. 2 to 5 p m Admis sion hr card. obfainable at the offcp of George Hew:?* Myers. 730 fif teenth street N.W ARTS CLUB. 20]7 I street N.W.— Paintings by John Pike, knhoeraph* by Stow Weneenroth. through De cember. PUBLIC LIBRARY Eighth and K sfre- N.W. Annin Lnndrek. De cen or; D. A. R MUSEUM. Seventeen’)! and I) s*ree;- N.W - - ’Childhood in Early America.1’ HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GAL LERY. 2U>! Sixth street y.w Un commissioned portrait, until Decem ber 21 WHYTE GALIJvRY. 1707 H street N.W —Color Drill s by French am is. PAN-AMERICAN UNION. Constitu tion avenue and Seventeenth street N W.—Special exhibition of Guate malan Art. (Free Admission to All the Above ) Chagall Exhibition At Phillips Gallery. Paintings in oil, pastel and gouache by Marc Chagall, which opened at the Phillips Memorial Gallery on November 29, and an nounced on this page at the time with a biographical account, intro duces an artist of international reputation who has been called "greatest of Jewish painters.” There is no room for argument about the merits of his work, for he long has been acclaimed by people of au thority on both sides of the Atlan "Russian Interior " by Marc Chagall, on view at the Phillips Gallery. —Court#** of Hm IfotlaM OoHorr. Iftv Tort. tic, his paintings have been pur chased by important museums and he has been praised in many books and articles on modern art. It is also certain, however, that Chagall is difficult for the layman to comprehend. He has himself sup plied a key by explaining that his world is viewed in the light of a refined and anxious, childlike sensi bility, a slightly romantic tem perament, influenced by memories of a troubled youth. It is personal and emotional painting and deals with the folklore ard imagery of his race, visions and dreams and conceptions completely foreign to most Americans. His expressionistic technique, his addiction to bright reds, greens and yellow's, and par ticularly his subject matter doubt less impress the rational-minded American as strange beyond de scription. In Chagall s paintings at the Phil lips Gallery one sees bird and don key headed figures with human | bodies; flying angels and crowded { Villages in which horses, carts and j chickens blithely ignore the law' of | gravity. A fairy-tale atmosphere ! characterizes these Russian village | scenes, but Chagall's “fairies’’ hap pen to be strangers to most of us, who grew up with English. German and French fairy tales .as well as those of the Arabian Nights, but few' of us met any Russian fairies. We must remember that the myths and legends and fairy tales of Chagall’s childhood are just as valid as ours. We will see that in his painting he reveals an unfettered imagination, with alternate sadness and gayety. Alexandria Library Shows Paintings. An exhibition of paintings by Anna Lunn of Beverly Hills opened at the Alexandria Library last Mon day to remain for a fortnight. Mrs. Lunn was born and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark, and for sev eral years was attached to the i Royal Art Porcelain Manufactur ing Co. as a designer and painter. The present exhibition is com posed of 16 oil paintings, the ma jority of California landscapes, flowers and still life. Mrs. Lunn lived in Pasadena for 18 years. She paints portraits occasionally, and a ! few figure subjects are included in I the current show. Exhibition Open I o 1 irglnia Artists. Artists now' living in Washington, | who were born in Virginia, are | eligible to submit work for the first i annual exhibition of contemporary Virginia oil paintings, to be held under auspices of the Irene Leache Memorial, at the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. It will be confined to original oil paintings on any subject by living Virginia artists not before publicly exhibited in Norfolk. Entry cards may be obtained upon application to Mrs. F. W. Curd, 724 Boissevaln avenue, Norfolk, ’ Va. Artists desiring them should apply promptly, so as to return the cards by December 17. Paintings are to be sent between December 28 and January 4. 1943. The exhibition will be open from January 10 to 31. A purchase prize of $200 will be given for the picture deemed best by the jury and it will become the property of the Irene Leache Memorial, to be hung in the Norfolk Museum. A popular prize of $25 will be determined by vote of visitors. The jury is composed of Mrs. Lewis C. Burwell, director of the Mint Museum. Charlotte, N. C.; Mrs. William Sloane, presi dent of the Hermitage Foundation, Norfolk, and the writer. Guatemalan Art At Pan American. In honor of Dr. Carlos Salazar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guatemala, who visited Washington during the past week, the Pan-American Union arranged a special exhibition of Guatemalan art, which will remain until the end of the month. It is a loan show, largely from Washington museums and private collectors. Many vividly colored and beautifully woven and embroidered textiles—garments, belts, scarfs and other- items, have been lent by Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cabot, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Dunn and other Washington collectors. Story of Recorded Music Is Told in Important New Book By Alice Ever smart. The history of the gramophone industry might seem, at first thought, a record of a scientific de velopment purely. It is much more than that, however, as F. W. Gais berg proves in his delightful book ‘‘The Music Goes Round,” published by the Macmillan Co. The life story of this great invention, one of the most remarkable of the cen tury, is a fascinating one, especially with all the inside data that one as closely connected with it since its infancy as was Mr. Gaisberg could give. The author begins very modestly with a description of the Capital City 50 years ago, surrounding Emile Berliner, the inventor, with a pleas ant and rather prosaic background for his revolutionizing work. Here Mr. Gaisberg, who at 16 years of age had already quite a reputation as pianist and general handy man with the / Columbia Phonograph Co., was brought in contact with the inventor of the flat-disc talking ma chine record and from that moment mounted quickly to the top in the industry. Although the major part of the book is given over to the later-day j experiments in different sections of j the globe and the great personalities whose voices were recorded for all time, the amazing and often lu dicrous story of the early attempts | and failures covered in the first [ chapter are the most interesting and revealing. It is entitled “Cylinder | vs. Disc” and tells of the efforts of Charles Sumner Tainter, who. with Alexander Graham Bell, set up the Volta Laboratory with the Volta Prize money they won for the in vention of the telephone, to popu larize the coin-operated talking ma chines. While busy recording Daisy Bell, i "After the Ball Was Over,” “The i Mocking Bird” and such like fa- j vorites. Mr. Gaisberg came in con tact with Mr. Berliner and witnessed j the making of the first gramophone i i record. The ups and downs of those early j days when Mr. Gaisberg was promi nently associated with the inventor is told with affectionate humor by the author. In 1900, the gramo phone was still a primitive affair, the records small in size, tinny in sound, since recording on wax had not yet been developed, and the ; repertoire limited to comic songs, ballads and band music. But the ! men. working together, had enor- [ mous faith, enthusiasm and vision , and as soon as possible ventured far i afield, to Europe and even the Far East. From then on the book becomes a history of celebrities who one by one were persuaded to make record- I ings. Tiie greater portion of these ; was under the direct supervision of j Mr. Gaisberg and his anecdotes of famous singers, from Patti down, j violinists, pianists, orchestra con- ! doctors, actors and political figures, all flourishing in the era when tern- ! perament and art were synonymous, ! are highly entertaining. Mr. Gaisberg was the first to re- ! cord the music of the Far East and ' to penetrate into the artistic fast nesses of Russia. All his experi- ! ences, side by side with the progres sive development of the recording industry, makes fascinating reading, told in a smooth, entertaining style I by Mr. Gaisberg. It is not only a | valuable book as a record of an im- j portant industry but, also as one in which the human side of the im- I mortals of the art is brought out j with great personal sympathy. Rudolph Serkin Concert Feature Dne of the Capital's outstanding holiday programs will be the Phil adelphia Orchestra's concert at Constitution Hall on December 29, featuring Rudolph Serkin, pianist! ; as guest artist. This is the only | performance not included on the j regular season tickets. Favorite lo- ! cations are available in any section of the house. Rudolph Serkin. whose first ap pearance in the United States was ! made here in Washington in 1933. playing with Violinist Adolph Busch in the Coolidge Festival, sky- j rocketed to fame in this country j three years later, after Arturo Tos- i canini introduced him as solo artist J with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Serkin is that rare artist, a child prodigy whose parents refused to allow' him to be ex ploited. Born in Czechoslovakia of a poor i 1 hut musically talented family, the boy at 4 could play the piano cred itably and read music with facility. His father, though needing money badly, refused offers of public tours for the child and placed him under the tutelage of Richard Robert in \ Vienna. He emerged from the se clusion of his studies only once during his childhood, to play with the Vienna Symphony when he was 12. His concert met with a storm of approval from audience and critics. ■ M-i ■ i i NOTICE To Choir Directors The special page featuring Christmas Music in the Churches will be included in The Evening Star of Satur day. December 19. instead, of Wednesday, December 23, as first announced. Programs and all details must be re ceived by the music editor in typewritten form not later than tomorroiv. No notices received after to morrow will be used. Recital Debut Vivian Collier, young colored so prano from Washington, D. C.. will make her Town Hall debut on Wednesday evening. Born in New York City, the only daughter of a clergyman, Miss Collier spent most of her childhood in New Jersey, where she was educated. Miss Collier recently sang the roles of Marguerite in “Faust" and Nedda in “Pagliacci" at Howard University. She received the bache lor of music degree from Catholic University of America and has com pleted requirements for a masters’ degree in music at the same lnsti- I tution. Lura Stover, soprano, who will sing one of the solo roles in Mendelssohn's “Elijah" to be given Friday by the Ca thedral Choral Society at the Cathedral. Millard Taylor, concert master of the National Sym phony, who will appear as soloist with the orchestra at today’s concert in Constitu tion Hall. Cathedral Choral Society Announces Fine Program The Cathedral Choral Society of Washington will give its first per formance of the season Friday night at 8:30 in Washington Cathedral, singing the Mendelssohn “Elijah” and a modern choral work, Robert Ward's musical setting to the Whit man poem, “Hush’d Be the Camps Today.” The chorus, which this year is under the baton of Guest Conductor William Strickland, will be augmented by the 75-voice choir of the Army Music School of Fort Myer, Va. Four prominent soloists have been engaged to sing the solo roles of the “Elijah": Lura Stover, soprano; Ger trude Berggren, contralto; William Hain, tenor, and George Britton, baritone, who will sing the title role of "Elijah.” The chorus and soloists will be accompanied by a 45-piece group from the National Symphony Orchestra and the great organ of the Cathedral. with Theodore Schaefer as organist. The four soloists who will appear with the chorus are well known to Washington audiences, either through previous personal appear ances here or through radio. Miss Stover has appeared with the Na tional Symphony as guest soloist. She has also sung with the American League for Opera, the New York Festival and the Oratorio Society of New York under Albert Stoessel. and last year won the Naumburg Foun dation Award and its attendant Town Hall Recital in New York. Miss Berggren’s singing career has encompassed the fields ef opera, musical review, radio, oratorio and concert. She recently sang the con tralto solo role of the “Elijah” in two outstanding performances of the work, that by the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston and that of the Hartford Oratorio Society and re Chamber Music At Library Friday The Geitrude Clarke Whittall Foundation in the Library of Con gress will sponsor a concert of chamber music in the Coolidge Au ditorium of the library on Friday evening, at 8:45 o'clock. This date is annually celebrated by the foun dation in the form of a concert in memory of Antonio Stradivari, the famous violin maker, who died on December 18. 1737. The performing artists on this occasion will be the Budapest String Quartet—Josef Roismann and Alexander Schnei der, violins; Boris Kroyt, viola, and Mischa Schneider, violoncello, as sisted in two of the numbers by Milton Katims, viola, and Benar Heifetz, violoncello. Tice program will consist of Brahms' second ‘‘Sextet in G Major, Op. 36,'' the “Mozart quartet in A major iK-4R4»," and the Tsehai kowsky “Sextet in D Minor.’’ “Sou venir de Florence, Op. 70.’’ The lat ter composition has only been given rarely in this country. When per formed recently by the same group on one of the series of Sunday morning broadcasts it elicited so many interested responses that it has seemed desirable to present the work once more in a public con cert. The tickets for the concert may be acquired starting tomorrow, 8:30 a.m., from the Cappel Concert Bu real in Ballard’s Music Store, 1340 G street N.W. Concert Schedule Today. National Symphony Orchestra. Dr Hans Kn'.d.rr. conductor. Millard Taylor, violinist, soloist. Constitution Hail. \ p.m. Scrgt. Hans Viceland organ recital. Covenant-First Presbyterian Church. 5 p.m. Sunday Music Hour. Christmas Carol Sine. Elizabeth Somers Glee Club. Dorothy Spencer Remsen, harp ist. assisting. YWCA. p m. "One Night in Bethlehem, ’ Wash ington Chapel Choir. D. Sterling Wheelwright, director. S:. Andrews Church. College Park fi:3i> pm Oreenbeit Community Center. 8.30 p.m Handels “Messiah.” Washington Missionary College Chorus. George W. Greer, director. Mount. Vernon Place Methodist Church. 8 p.m "The Messiah." Emory Methodist Church x p m. Christmas choral Vespers, First Baptist Church. 5 p.m. Tomorrow. Washington Chamber Music So ctetv candlelight concert. Phillips Gallery. r> p m. D. Sterling Wheelwright, organ re cital, L. D. S. Chapel, s p.m. Record concert. Jewish Community Center. 8:30 n m. ' Evening With the Victrola.” Pub lic Library. Eighth and G streets N.W., 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Marine Band. Marine Barracks. 12:30 p.m Soldie*> Home Brnd Orchestra, Stanley Hall. 5:30 p m. Wednesday. National Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Hans Kindler. conductor. Constitution Hall. 8:30 p.m. Marine Band Symphony Orchestra. Louis Savenno. contrabass, soloist. Marine Barracks. 8:15 D.m. I P. Sterling Wheelwright, organ re cital, L. D. S. Chapel. 8 p.m. Thursday. Soldiers’ Horn* Bend Orchestra. Stanley Hall, 5:30 p.m. Friday. Mendelssohn’s “Elijah.” Wards “Hush’d Be the Camps Today.’’ Washington Choral Society. William Strickland, director. Fort Myer Army Music School Choir assisting. Wash ington Cathedral. 8:30 p.m. Budapest String Quartet. Milton Katims viola: Benar Heifetz, cello, assisting; Library of Congress 8:45 p.m. Navy Band Symphony Orchestra. William Cameron, harp, soloist. Ma rine Corps Auditorium. 8:15 p.m. Marine Band. Marine Barracks. 1:15 p.m. Victrola concert. Christmas music. Public Library. Maryland avenue and Seventh street N.E.. 7:30 P.m. Satarday. j Handel * “Messiah ” Washington Missionary College Chorus ana A Cappella Choir George W. Oreer. di rector, Columbia Hall. 8 p.m. * i Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra. Stanley Hall. 5 80 pm. D. Sterling Wheelwright, organ re ©ltal. Edna Wheelwright, soprano, assisting. L. D. S. Chapel. 8 p.m. crntly completed a tour of 15 con certs through the Middle West. She also sang a role in the private premiere of Walter Damrosch's opera, “The Man Without a Coun try.” Both Mr. Hain and Mr. Britton will be remembered for their solo appearances last year with the Cathedral Choral Society in the Verdi "Requiem.'’ In addition. Mr. Hain has sung with the Schola Cantorum and the Oratorio Society of New York and has appeared sev eral times with the Worcester and Berkshire Festivals. Mr. Britton has filled many oratorio engagements, including those with the New York Oratorio Bacli Festival, under Albert Stoessel, and the Montreal Bach Festival, under Pelletier. The guest conductor of the so ciety, William Strickland, is an in structor at the Army Music School at Fort Myer, and this year is re placing Paul Callaway, the society's regular conductor, who is in the Army. Theodore Schaefer, who will accompany the singers at the organ, is organist and choirmaster at Covenant-First Presbyterian Church here. In addition to the singers and musician . members of the Cathedral clergy will take part in the service. There will be no admi • ion charge. Record Ravi civ By Elena de Sayn. "A Musical Portrait of Mark Twain,” a fantasia for orchestra, composed by Jerome Kern and pre sented by Andre Kostelanetz and his group <Columbia» expresses well the J spirit of America's beloved author. Mr. Kern is one of the three com posers who was prompted by Mr. Kostelanetz to contribute to a gallery of portraits in sound. The affection in which Mr. Kern held the famous novelist s-nce his boyhood lent in spiration to his pen and produced a work which has strength, dignity and humor. It is divided into five parts which have the following sub titles: "Hannibal Days," "Gorgeous Pilot House," "March" (Civil Wan. “Wandering Westward" and "Mark in Eruption," each of these contrib uting to the main objective of the composition. Chopin's "Twenty Four Preludes,” recorded on four discs by Egon Petri (Columbia i are ascribed to Chopin's Majorca sojourn, where he sought to regain his waning strength and health. These fanciful miniature tone-poems contain a great variety of moods combined with a clever workmanship. Some of these do not extend over 16 measures. Mr. Petri's prodigeous technique, singing touch and fine musicianship serve him in good stead in the performance of this opus. The recording of Bruch’s famous “G Miner Concerto.’’ for violin and orchestra, played by Nathan Mil stein i Columbia i. assisted by the New York Philharmonic Symphony, John Barbirolli, conductor, is a wel come addition to a .lolinist's library. A favorite with artists and students alike this concerto is more often mistreated in incompetent hands than any other. To hear a perform ance such as Mr. Milstein can give at his best, is a rare treat, indeed. Symphony Ends Triumphal Tour, Resuming Here Season Reopens With Concert This Afternoon Having returned from a '‘tri umphal tour" of the North Atlantic States, the National Symphony Or chestra resumes its season here in Washington with concerts at Con stitution Hall this afternoon. Wed nesday evening and again next Sun day afternoon. Today's program features Millard Taylor, concerlmaster. as the solo ist in the Sibelius “Violin Concerto." Conductor Dr. Kindler has chosen works by Wagner, Mozart and Wein berger to round out the program. After opening with the overture to “The Flying Dutchman." there will be Mozart's “Symphony No. 29 in A Major." The Sibelius composition will be followed by Weinberger s “Czech Rhapsody." The third Wednesday all-sub scription concert will mark the sec ond performance in Washington of Shostakovich's “War Symphony," this work written during the siege of Leningrad last year having first been performed by the National Symphony at its opening Sunday concert November 8. It will be pre ceded by two classical compositions arranged by Dr. Kindler: Smfoma to "Cantate No. 29. Wir Danken Dir, Gott," by Bach, and Handel's suite from “The Faithful Shepherd." Opera in English will be given on January 4. 5 and 6 at Consitutiop Hall by the Philadelphia Opera Company in joint presentation with tlie National Symphony Orchestra. Th.is event is doubly significant. The audience will be able to under stand the singing actors and follow i the story without resorting to a li bretto. It also marks the first time j that a major symphony orchestra will play with an opera company during its regular winter season. The Philadelphia Opera Company , was organized four years ago | through the enterprises of two men, | Sylvan Levin, formerly associated 1 with Leopold Stokowski, and David Hoeker. a former assistant manager of a Quaker City bank, who set themselves the following four-point : program: Grand opera in under 1 standable contemporary English; convincing acting as well as exquisite singing; a company composed of all ; American young, brilliant, persona j ble artists; productions to be mount ' ed in tasteful modern style. J. P. Hayes, manager of the Na j tional Symphony, has announced j the following operas for the Wash j ington engagement of the Philad°l phia Opera Company: Monday, January 4. “The Bat,' by Johann Strauss; Tuesday, January 5. “Mar riage of Figaro,” by Mozart; Wed nesday, January 6, a double bill, ! “The Cloak." by Puccini, and “The Old Maid and the Thief,” by Me notti. Candlelight Concert I The first candlelight concert of ■ the Washington Chamber Music Society at the Phillips Gallery this season will take place tomorrow afternoon from 5 to 6 p.m. The personnel of the quartet tak ing part has undergone a chance j since last year and will consist of j Messrs. Lusak and Sevely, violins; Wargo, viola, and Coppin, cello. The group will perform Luis Gianneo's "Quartet in C Minor” and Brahms' | “Quintet in G major. Op. 111." The latter number will have the assist i ance of Mr. di Piazza, violist. Oratorio Tonight The Washington Missionary Col lege Oratorio Chorus, under the : direction of George W. Greer, will be ! heard in Its sixth annual presents | tion of Handel's “Messiah” this evening at 8 o'clock in the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church. In j eluded in the chorus is the YMCA 1 A Cappella choir, and voices from various Takoma Park choral groups, i comprising a vested ensemble of over | 150 voices. The solo parts will be sung by Minnie Iverson-Wood, soprano; Nora Machlan-Beckman, alto; James Eaton, tenor, and Dale Hamil ton, bass; Patricia Greer-Weikel and ! Harold Doering, accompanists, i Appearing in its traditional Christ ' mas performance of Handel's “Mes j siah,” the Washington Missionary ! College chorus and A Cappella choir j will be heard Saturday night at 8 o'clock in Columbia Hall, corner of Carroll and Flower avenues in Takoma Park. In Local Music Circles i Eva Whiiiord Lovette will pre sent a group of her students at a ; musical tea this afternoon from 4 ; until 6 at her residence studio, 1736 j Connecticut avenue. Among the ad ; vanced singers will be Carolyn ' Schulte, Helen Dunbar. Mrs George Moler, Nina McCall Ruffner, Esther Smith Bond and Christine Shipman. A junior group will include Georgene Fox, Peggy Green, Alberta Owen, George Harvey, Ralph Moler and Charles Harvey, Sergt. Hans Vigeland will give an organ recital at Hie Covenant-First Presbyterian Church this afternoon at 5 p.m. Before entering the armed forces Sergt. Vigeland was organist and choirmaster of the First Con gregational Church. Gt. Barrington. Mass, and conductor of the Orpheus Male Chorus and the Berkshire String Orchestra, Pittsfield, Mass. A Christmas Carol Sing for every one will be the feature of the Sun day Music Hour at the Y.W.C.A. Seventeenth and K streets. Special music will be by the Elizabeth1 Somers Glee Club of the YWCA and Dorothy Spencer Remsen, harpist. The choir of the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church, under the di rection of Mrs. Albert W. Volkmer, with Mrs. Dudley C. Jackson at the organ, will present Its annual serv ice of Christmas carols this after noon at 5 o'clock. The soloists are Dorothy Skinner Walsh, Winifred C. Clark, sopranos: Mrs. Volkmer, con tralto; John L. Stinson, baritone. The public is invited. “The Christ Child” by Hawley will be sung by the adult choir of Al- i bright Memorial Church, Fourth : and Rittenhouse streets N.W., to- I night at 7:45. The choir is under the direction of Jessie Masters, with Rhea McIntyre at the organ. The soloists will be Alice Haig, soprano: Carol Walheim, contralto; Howard Ludwig, tenor, and Gerald Cotton, assisting baritone. The Washington Alumnae Chap ter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national honor music society will meet to morrow at the home of Mrs. Ben I Fisher, 1837 Plymouth street N.W., at 8 p.m. This will be both a busi i ness and social meetinc. All Mu Phis are invited to attend, but are ! requested to call Mildred Frame : and notify her in advance. KARL HOLER COMPOSER LYRICS RET TO MERIC Composition)! Harmonitrd and Arranged 3803 13th St. N.W. RA. 7ES£ * Mervin Cohan I TEACHER OF j Piano-Accordion RA. 1011 1 *27 JEFFERSON RT N.W. 171*2 CONN. AYE. LEWIS BROWN Composer—/nstruetor Piano and Theory 3615 Ingomor Ploce N.W. 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