The Washington times., 1913-10-26
COURSE OF LECTURES
ON MUSICAL THEMES
Washington Society of Fine Arts
Announces Dates For the
Coming Season.

The extending OF the admlraDle work
of the Washington Society of the Fine
Arts into the field of musical lectures
last season was received with such gen.
eraI appreciation that course of Iec-
lures on The Development of the
Opera" has been announced for this sea
son. These will be given at the New
National Museum on Saturday evenings,
November l, December 6. January 3,
February Z, and March Z.
The lecturer will be the veteran musi-
cal editor of the New York Tribune
known as the dean of American mnslcal
critics. II. L. krehbiels activities as a
writer. lecturer. and editor extend into
every field of musical literature.
The subjects to be treated are: THE
Origin and Nature of the Lyric Drama
Invention and Development of Italian
Opera" Richard Wagner and His Art
Work." Wasner's Comedy Die Meister-
singer" and The Opera of Today.
For the first lecture the Society is 10
have the aid of the operate tenor, Paul
Bleyden, now resident here, with Mrs.
Bleyden at the piano.
Members of the society receive two
tickets to the members course of lee
turs of the Fine Arts and one ticket to
the music course, but they, as well as
a limited number of the general public,
krehbel's lectures on application 10 the
secretary of the society, Miss Leila
Mechlin, 1741 New York avenue.
Next Saturday at T. Arthur Smiths
the public sale for season tickets for
the concerts by the Philharmonic So
ciety OF New York will begin. and on
November IS tickets for the first con-
cert, which VIII be on November %. Will
go on sale. Advance orders are being
r, ceived and filed in order of receipt.
For the first appearance of the season
!, in, .lNi ntFf1 | Il ran
new concertmeister, will be introduced
as a soloist In recent seasons Mr..
Kramer has appeared with success as
sOlOist in many important concerts. His
first appearance in this country was
with the ThicagO symphony and later
pany.
The program for the first concert will
be Beethoven for the first part, with
Wagner for the second half.
The sale Of season tickets for the five
concerts of the Boston symphony Or
Chestra. which has been in progress al
Droop's Music Store since last Wednes-
day. is entirely fulfilling the eXpcCta-
tions of Mrs. Katie Wilson Greene. the
local manager. Concerts are to be given
on Tuesday afternoons at 1870, the dates
being November !. December >. January
i, February Il and March Il. There will
he no solOist at the first concert. In
December the sOloist will be Fritz
kreisler; in January Teresa Carreno;
in February. Madame van Endert. OF
the Royal Opera. Berlin, and in March,
Padercwski.
Active r"hrarsals were begun this
week by the Mntrt Choral Society un-
der the direction Of otto T. Simon for
the first concert of the season which
will be given on December 10
cat u
cial one. Durin" the evening the fol-
lowing members contributed vocal num-
hers: W. =. Rraithawaitc. Miss Ethel
Foster Miss Marian MHCFall. Mrs. Nor
gan bradford. Louis Thompson. and
John Waters.
For the opening concert the program
Will consist Of Motets Of the eighteenth
century and the NOR" modern school
of English AID Russian composers. An
interesting feature of the performance
Will he an unusual presentation of the
music Of Christmas.
Among the many fairy tales gravrly
told OF Padcr"wski and believed by the
credulous IS one which is supposed to
account for his marvellous deX'crity.
1t Is said that for Il half hour before
each concert his valet messages his
hands in hot water thus Giving them the
required supDl"neas. The story has q
certain foundation in fact Like most
other planlStS PadCrrwSki batheS his
nandS in teDid water before going on
IN, stage whom the day is cold and his
hands are accordingly = little stiff from
being exposed to low temperature
The suppleness Of his hands does not
come from any such easy method as
massaSinG il hot water. 1t comes from
hard and never CeasinG praCtiCing
Paderewski makes his appearance in
recital at the National Th"atcr Tues
dIV. November II. at I:3n
Puccni's beautiful LA Roheme'' will
be sung at the Lyric Theater. Balti-
more. on the evening of November by
a notable cast including several Of the
: best known stars Of tn" chicago Grand
Opera Company. The opera will be the
first of three I" he sung hv the Chicag q
organization at the Lyric during No
Vember. Mary Garden will be heard in
the title role of La TOSca' on Novcm-
Der II. and on November y WaGner's
"'Die Walkure" will be presented
The "Boheme" cast will include two OF