The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
HUTCHINSON SHOWS
TOWERING GENIUS
IN PIAN0yPRoGRAM
Includes Own Works
With Masters Best
Other Local Music.

place because OF the worth of the
affair. comes this notice of Ernest
recital at Masonic Au-
ditorium the evening OF Decem-
Der 3.
The pianists program was as
follows:
Bach
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
Beethoven. Sonata Appassionata
Chopin. Ballade in G Minor
Allegro ma non troppO.
Chopin. .B allade in G Minor
Nocturne in d Flat, Three Etudes. G
Flat. op. 10. No. f Major, op. 10,
No. 3: A Minor. op. 25. No. IL.
Hutcheson. Prelude op. IL, No. ]
Caprice. op. II. No. 2.
Liszt. .Etude de Concert in Minor
Wagner Hutcheson
Ride of the Valkyrie
A debt of gratitude is due
Hutcheson for including the Bach
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, for
this work, one OF the very greatest
in all piano literature, is rarely
given, at least here. His perform
ance was such that IL challenges
approach. The complex sincerity OF
this work received a reading that
should be a standard.
The Beethoven Sonata Appassion-
alta was gloriously played.
or the Chopin group one can sin
cerely believe that Chopin himself
would have said bravo" As an
encore the pianist gave his own
transcription of the Scherzo from
Mendelssohn's Midsummer Nights
Dream" music. with a bewitching
staccato and elf-like rhythm.
In the last group the artist ap-
peared also as composer. playing a
prelude and caprice Of his own, the
latter a charming piece, fresh and
crisp, with a haunting slow middle
theme AS a concluding number he
gave his transcription of the Ride
Of the Nalkyrie." from the Wagner
music drtma The List 'Liebes-
traum. No. g." was a final encore.
closing a program which in its set
ting forth was epoch making
The recital was under the aus
pieces of the whitecroft Piano
School. which numbers among its
faculty Hutcheson pupils.
Under auspices of the District
Council, National Council of Cath
Ollie Men, a concert was given
Tuesday night at Gonzaga College
Theater. The artists were Edward
P. Donovan. pianist: Thomas A.
Cantwell, tenor: Miss Helen Gerrer.
violinist. and Glenn w. Ashley, &C
companist. An address was made
by Admiral william T. Benson.
president of the National Council.
Mr.. Donovan's numbers were:
Funeral March" Chopin; "valse. d
Flat Major" Chopin; "Scherzo, b
Flat Minor, Chopin: "Pappillons."
Schumann; Festival in Madrid"
Thome; Romance Sans Paroles"
Faure; "Troika en- Trainesux,"
Tschaikowsky; "Polonaise. B Ma
jor," Paderewski: ITO a Wild Rose"
Mcdowell; The Myrtles," Du-
bois; "Lindenblossom." Hoeberg:
Concert Paraphrase. Rigoletto,"
Verdi List
Miss Gerrer's numbers were:
"Obertass Mazurka," Wieniawski;
Souvenir" Drdla; "Scherzo," van
Goens.
Mr.. Cantwelrs numbers were:
A group Of Irish songs: "She Is Far
From the Land" Little Town in
County Down" Danny. Boy"
Another monthly concert OF the
National Community Chorus will be
Edna Bishop Daniel has issued in
vitations to a recital by artist pu-
pills at her studio, 1910 C street
northwest, next Wednesday evening.
The pupils are Ruth Peter. Cleo
Scanland and Pearl Shreve Jenkins,
and the hour is o'clock.
Miss Carriebelle Pitcher, pianist.
was presented last Sunday in the
second of a series of afternoon mu-
steals at the studio of Vivian
Church Matson. Her selections
were: Sonata in G Major" Haydn:
Polish Dance" Scharwenka Ara
besque," Chaminade; "Minuet."
Padsrewski and "Fruhlingsraus-
chen" Sinding. Mrs. Alice Morgan,
violinist. assisted and played
compositions by Schubert. Vieux-
temps, Gosseck and Kreisler. Mrs.
Matson closed the program with a
Scherzo and the Spinning Song"
by Mendelssohn.