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The Washington times., 1922-04-23
IRISH FANTASIES
OF L0EFFLER
HEARD
TOO little Of the music OF

TOO little Of the music Of
Charles Martin Loeffler 10
heard these days in our concert
halls. Here is one composer who
does not advertise who Is not ex-
plotted by himself or interested
friends. Since his retirement from
active participation in the Boston
Symphony Orchestra he has lived.
in comparative seclusion. in Med
field. Mass. devoting his life to
the work he loves-composition.
Fortunately he has no material
worries and may therefore give
the fullest measure Of his love
and devotion to his chosen labor.
Loeffler is a towering figure.
Among composers living in this
country he has an enviable posi-
ton. None would dare gainsay
his command OF the technique OF
his art. None. I think. would
venture to deny his pre-eminence
as a maker of music. In such
compositions as "The Death OF
Tintagiles," Willamette du Diable,"
"Hora Mystica" and "A Pagan
Poem" he has written himself a
monument that will endure the
trial and stress of many years.
Recently the Boston Symphony.
Mr.. Monteux and Mr.. Mccormack
Joined forces in Carnegie Hall, New
York, in a performance OF three OF
five Irish Fantasies which Charles
Martin Loeffler has set for voice
and orchestra. Their beginning
goes back a matter OF fifteen
years, when David Bispham sang
two such songs then in arrange
ment for voice and piano. in
Jordan Hall. Boston. Their titles
were "The Hosting of the Sidhe"
and "The Host of the Air" Since
then, naturally in such moments
as Loeffler felt true inspiration
for writing, he has added "The
Ballad of the Fox Hunter" THE
Fiddler of Dooney" and "The
Song of Caitilin- nj Holahan." The
poems are. with the exception OF
the last, from the many which w.
3. Yeats wrote in Difference to
Irish folklore. THE Song of
Caitilin-ni-Hola is attributed
to w. Hefernan the Blind.
Loeffler draws on the full re-
sources of his orchestra, but he
makes speechful only what II
necessary to his purpose. II
single fiddle. a solitary oboe or
horn, may say what is in his
mind, that individual instrument
is suffered to speak. There's no
overwhelming of instrument force.
The color is spread cleanly,
smoothly, consistently. One may
see through this orchestration,
for its palette glows with trans
parent depths.-W. B. Murray,
in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Heifetz i'm Violin
Recital ON TUESDAY,

i A s c HA HEIFETZ, the re-
nowned violinist. who was to
have appeared in this city Febru.
ary as the fourth concert in the
first philharmonic course, will be
heard in recital at the National
Theater on Tuesday. April 25. at
4:3O. All tickets sold for February
7 will be good for this date. with
the exception of those bought for
the gallery. which will be redeem
ed at Mrs. Greene's concert bureau
on or before April "a.
Mr.. Heifetz's program will in.
clude Concerto. G Minor. opus 90
(Bruch); "Rondo Capriccioso"
(Saint-Saens); Air de Lensky"
from the opera Eugene Onegin"
(Tschaikowsky-Auer): "Valse"
Tschaikowsky): "Perpetuo Mobile
Riess); walters Prize Song" from
die Meistersinger" CWagner):
Introduction and Tarantelle"
(Sarasate).
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Music Featured by
PEN Women League

MUSIC lovers OF Washington
are going to have a real
treat during the League of Amer.
ican Pen Women's Silver Jubilee
Biennial Convention and Book
Fair, April 1928, at wardman
Park Hotel.
Mrs. Dorothy DeMuth Watson,
chairman of the musical pro.
grams which will be given every
afternoon from 4:30 to $50 o'clock
in the Book Fair" to which the
public Is invited, has arranged a
tea hour-when the following
artists will appear:
Tuesday. April 20, Mrs. Albion
will present four soloists from
the Washington Opera Company;
. Wednesday, Mrs. Rhea Watson
Cable: Thursday, the Treble Clef
Double Trio: Friday, Mime. Henry
Coquelet, soprano: Miss Bernice
Randall, contralto, and Walter
Sponsor pianist.
Tuesday morning at the OPEN
ing of the convention the quar-
tette from the Treble Clef Society
will give Mrs. II. II. A. Beach's
The Years at the Spring" from
Browning's "Pippa Passes"
There will be q number Of
American composers, members of
the League OF American Pen
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
David Nemser Violin
Recital at Lafayette L

DAVID NEMsER. vlollnist, who
is we'll known in Washington.
though he spent his student days
at the Musical Arts Institute OF
New York, and has also studied un-
der Fritz Kreisler. will give a re-
cital in the attractive Gold Room
Of the Lafayette Hotel, assisted
by Louis A. Potter at the piano
The recital is TO be on Thursday Of
this week. at 3 p. M, and tickets
may be had at the Lafayette HoteI.
Mr.. Nemser is Offering a program
that will appeal to lovers of mel
ody. as we'll as those who are ford
OF the virtuoso compositions Of the
great masters. He Will open his
program with the Handel Violin
Sonata in r major. Group one Will
include "Rondino" Beethoven,
"Nalse Triste" (Sibeliusl, "Bcr-
ceuse' CTschetchulin), Hymn TO
the Sun" Rimsly- -Korsakof0, "Old
Refrain" CKreisler).
Mr.. Potter, whose fineness Of
piano work makes him an interest
ing interpreter, will play "Rhap-
sodie" B minor Brahms). Min
strels" Debussy). Ballade" q
minor Chopin. The closing group
for VIOLIN Is "Sicilienne and R.gau-
don" TTancoeur). "Slavonic Fan.
tasie" CDvorak), Indian Lament"
Dvoral), Oriental Gun, Ia
Gitana" QHreislerl.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Francis MaCMillen
Violin Prize For
Women'S Biennial

A MOTHER prize has been pre-
sented for the violin contests
Of the National Federation Of
Music Clubs at the biennial
festival, to be held next year at
Asheville, n. c. 1t comes from
Francis MacMillen. one Of Amer.
ica's foremost violinlsts. The
following letter comes from S.
E. MacMiIlen. brother OF the
violinist. to the officers OF the
fCderation:
your letter forwarded and has
just reached me. Francis Mac
Millen will be delighted to offer
$3.50 prize for violin contest at
Biennial festival at Asheville.
He considers 1t a great privilege
to aid the federation in the great
work 1t is doing for music in
America.
"S. E. MacMILLEN."
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Found "Superficial"

A CCORDING to the critic Of the
Berliner Tageblatt, DR.. Loo
pold Schmidt, Mischa Elman II
touching but the outside OF his
violin art. At his Berlin recital
Elman played Tschaikowsiy's
violin concerto. DR.. Schmidt rec
ognizes his gifts and virtuoso
powers. but declares that his play
ing says nothing to him! 1T 10
common and depends on exterior
effects"
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
THE BEW|TCHING &
HENRY VIII
DANCES

PRoBABLY the finest examples
OF incidental music to Shakes
pearean plays are found in those
three exquisite numbers THE
Morris Dance" THE Torch
Dance" and THE Shepherds
Dance"
The composer, Edward German,
born in England in 1862. began
the study of music under great
difficulties. lie taught himself on
the violin. His energetic, deter.
mined nature was shown when
he organized and conducted at
the early age of six years q boys
village band. His career was
really begun before this time in
the capacity of a church organ
blower.
Best known OF his compositions
are these Henry VIII Dances"
which first publicly breathed
into being and matured under the
magic of his triumphant baton be-
fore a vast audience in the Globe
Theater, in London, in 1892.
Gracefully light and exquisitely
refined are the melodies that rip
rle through the brilliant, s'Irging
Torch Dance" and lazily develop
in the Enthusiastically original
Morris Dance" Plaintively mer-
ry in its rhythmic nature, and
subduedly echoing the vigorous
personality of the composer Is
THE Shepherds Dance" In these
compositions German has dis
played his exceptional skill in re.
markable orChestration.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Matzenauer Recital
AS Wellesley Benefit

TliE return Of Nine. Margaret
Matzenauer. the celebrated op.
era contralto, from the Metropoli.
tan in New York. in a song re-
cital next Wednesday afternoon at
Polls Theater. is an event Of great
interest to musical Washington.
That she comes for % high a cause
as the great endowment fund that
Wellesley College is raising, will
bring into her audience a spirit of
sympathy that the culture of her
programs will amply repay.
Nine. Matzenauer Is of Hun.
garian birth. Her father was a di.
rector Of the Royal Theater orches-
ira, and her mother a singer in
the opera company of the small
town in Hungary where she was
born. She made her operatic de-
but at Strassburg as Puck in
"Oberon." and three years later
went to the Court Theater in
Munich. For seven years she was
leading contralto at the Wagner
Festivals in Munich. Her debut
in the United States was with the
Metropolitan Opera Company in
1911 as Amneris in Aida" and
since that time she has been a part
OF the opera and concert life of
this country.
Tickets are on sale at Polls The
ater, or may be secured by mail
through the Washington Wellesley
Club, care Polls Theater.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
May Transpose Music
BY Adjustable Device

HOW composition may b.
transposed into any key by
the utilization OF a simple device
placed over the keys OF a piano
was recently demonstrated upon
the completion of a model of an
invention by DR.. Moritz Stoehr,
professor OF bacterioIogy at Mt. st.
Vincent College. The "transpos-
ing keyboard" is distinguished
from other foreign inventions OF
somewhat similar sort by the fact
that it is not fastened to the
piano in any way. and may be ad.
iusted or removed in an instant.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23

Women, who will exhibit their
music, autographing copies sold.
This will be the first time that
the public has been invited to
attend the Book Fair" as guests
of the organization during the
entire session. And also the first
time that official Washington has
taken an active part. On the
opening night the wives OF the
Senators and Congressman from
all States having members and
organizations exhibiting will be
in attendance as sponsors at the
various booths.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23

The week continues full of
events of interest, with a pro-
fessional violin recital Thursday
afternoon in the Lafayette Hotel,
when the popular violinist, David
Nemser, will give "a recital with
Louis A. Potter at the piano.
The Book Fair of the Pen
Women's League Silver Jubilee
Biennial Convention will have in
teresting recitals every day from
Tuesday, through the closing day
on Friday. with special "tea"
hour programs from 4:30 to $3.50,
to which the public is invited,
and three morning recitals. This
will be the first time the public
has been invited to attend the
Book Fair during the entire ses-
sion, the spaciousness of Ward
man Park Inn making this possi-
Bile.
THE city fathers of Minneapolis
are considering proposition to
give opera in the city parks in the
coming summer, eight perform
snces for $12,500; 5000 to 5000
persons to be seated at each per-
formance. the prices to be from 25
cents to 81. The plan is contingent
on raising a guarantee OF $4,000.
That is the kind Of thing that
puts heart into civic enterprise. Is
there any chance of Washington
opening the private purse and Civ
ing such an impetus to the many
worthy musical organizations that
put through a problematic winter
season, and needs must stop their
efforts in summer?
IF future historians have any
doubt of American interest in
opera, 1t will only be necessary to
bring up the recent productions,
in Chicago, of Prokofieff's opera
spectacle. THE Love of the Three
Oranges. This unusual and high
ly interesting modern work, it is
estimated, cost something between
$4,000 and 100000 toImount, re-
hearse, and put on the stage.
While these figures may not rival
the sums put out for big movie
productions" It must be remem-
bered that opera profits are con-
fined to the sale Of seats for a few
performances. and that the re-
msinder of the expenditures are
made up from private funds Of
opera guarantors. But all business
considerations aside. the production
OF the work in Chicago is a fine
tribute to American taste in music,
and in American willingness to
grant a hearing to living composers.
without waiting for death to make
them famous.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
"Captive," Says Note
From MAN to Wife

DAYTON, Ohio, April 15.-Pollce
have started a search for Charles
Payner, forty.flve, following the
receipt by his wife Of a note that
he is held a prisoner by three
armed men.
He left homo in possession OF a
large sum Of money. The note said
he is being carried south into
Kentucky.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Sing Little Every
Day and You Will
Live to BE 100

CROSSWICKS, n. j.,
April Is.
ESING a little every day."
was the advice OF Mrs.
Amelia Mapes, as she celebrates
her one hundredth birthday an
niversary. That. she says, Is
her secret of longevity.
Gifted with keen intellect and
good sight. the remarkable
woman is still active about her
house. reading. sewing and
singing.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Wife Comes Before
Mother, Says Judge

III yon'Ue a daughter, she's o
daughter for life.
But your sons your son till he
gets him rVJe."
LOS ANGELES, April IS.
WEARS ago some one wrote the
above jingle. Judge Summer
field ruled it was sound law. A
wife comes first, he said. and
ordered Harry Forst. prosperous
broker. to pay Mrs. Mabel Forst,
young and pretty, $50 a week
alimony.
1t was a case of "in-laws." Or at
least so said the wife. In the
Forst home, so went the tale. all
was smiles and sunshine. Forst
was making $4,000 a year. There
were no worries.
Then. the wife says, his mother
moved in. She made demands
upon her son. The wife resented.
Mother and daughter-in-law quar-
relied.
Hes my son." said the elder.
Hes my husband" returned the
younger. 1t was nip and tuck.
Il put It up to him. said the
wife, "either his mother move or
I move. He couldn't seem to un-
derstand that wife had a right
to expect to come first. He seemed
to forget he was no longer n little
boy, but a grown-up married man."
Then it. was the judge laid down
the law. He quoted the verse
above and added:
"A mans obligation to his wife
Is greater than his obligation to
his parents. First he must sup
port his wife. That done he may
then assist his parents"
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Russian Opera Co. is
En- Route for East

THE Russian Opera Company
that arrived In San Francisco
from the Orient and gave a season
Of Russian operas there some
months ago has reached New Or.
leans on It's way East.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
StokowSki Wnl Use
Mobile Color with
Music OF Orchestra
"Music for the Eye"
While Orchestra
Plays.
T .EoPoLD sToKowsK1 and the

7 ,EoPoLD sToKowskI and the
Philadelphia Orchestra early
next fall will demonstrate the
marvels Of mobile color utilized
In the Interpretation Of musical
art. Concerts are to be given with
color accompaniment-th combi-
nation Of a simultaneous appeal
to the eye and the ear-Mr. Sto-
kowski working in collaboration
with Thomas wilfred and his color
organ. a mechanical instrument
with which he is determining
light in rhythm, color. pattern.
tempo and intensity.
"CoLoRs," said Mr.. stokowski,
do not help me to inter
pret music. cannot feel more
deeply because my eyes visualize
dreams Of color that follow the
convolutions Of masterpiece.
Each note OF the scale, though. n
a definite color tone to me. r
sharp Is a golden brown, G a
steely blue, A fiat a dark rich
brown, A natural a brilliant red,
c natural a creamy white and so
on. but this doesn't mean that
actual colors thrown on a screen
would help me to appreciate q
great composition.
They do not help my interpre-
tation." he continued, "and yet
Wilfred's color vision has achieved
remarkable and beautiful effects.
His color forms affect me tremen-
dously and I am very anxious &c
have him work with me when we
produce Prometheus' in the fall.
we will use Skriabine's color
notation. which calls for Tat tones
Of color: but some time later I
hope to work out my own inter.
probation. with wnfred's cooper.
alton. and then. perhaps. we can
make use Of the fine depths Of
color that he achieves with his
amazing color forms"
WILFRED'S dream and ambi-
ton Is to design q building
that will stage to advantage the
wonderfully artistic effects he is
able to achieve with his color
organ. His imagination has con-
ceived an auditorium withou.
ornamentation. painted white or
gray, with rounded corners. He
sees, at the end Of the great hall,
a circular stage-opening from the
floor to the ceiling, which is cur-
ningly constructed so as to cause
the spectator to believe that there
is no top, no bottom. In some hid.
den place a symphony orchestra
will be concealed, in another
secret corner a large pipe organ,
and in still another the color
organ, which will flood the room
with light.
And this Is virtually what Mr..
Stokowski and the orchestra will
attempt tiSs fall. - Madeleine
James in Public Ledger, Philadel.
phia.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
WORLD ARTISTS AND
HOME EVENTS FILL
WEEKS CALENDAR

Wellesley College is to BE Beneficiary of Com
cert Here by Celebrated COntralto, Mime.
Matzenauer-JaScha Heifetz, Restored to
Health, Gives Postponed Recital ON Tuesday.
And David NemSer, VioliniSt, Will BE Heard
i'm Recital at Lafayette the PEN
women Link Music and Literature i'm Their
Four-Day Convention.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23


WI at
Un,etF Fund.-
completing the Philharmonic Course
crts
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
BY JESSIE MacBRHDE.

T WAS fiction that the music season
had closed. There is an altogether
attractive spring season ahead of us,
with concert artists of world renown
in Nine. Matzenauer, who comes on
Wednesday of this week in a benefit
concert for the Wellesley Endowment
The Washington times., 1922-04-23

Fund, being presented by the Wellesley Club of Wash
ingon and the postponed concert of Jascha Heifetz
one of the artists in the Philharmonic Course of Con-
certs presented by Mrs. Wson-Greene, whose illness
caused his recital to be postponed until TUESDAY,
afternoon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-13
Is BURIED BENEATH
HUGE LUMBER PILE
WHICH OVERTURNED
Was Watching Pile Driver at
Work When Pile Being Lifted
Crashed Into the Lumber.
HAD BEEN WITH RAILROAD
COMPANY FOR II YEARS
Well Known in Railroad Circles
Throughout Southeast and
West of Mississippi.
Especial 70 The JournaIl

PORT ST JOE, Fla, May 12.-one
Of the most unfortunate and deporabIe
accidents occurred at Port st. Joe this
morning at eight-thirty when Dennis
Sullivan, General Superintendent Of tho
Apalachicola Northern railroad was in
stantly killed. It appears Mr.. sullivan
was watching the driving Of some pill
ing and the end Of pile being lifted
started the lumber TO fan down and
he was buried underneath. Practically
all bones were broken.
Mr.. Sullivan came to Port ST. Joe
with the ApaIachicola Northern some
twelve years ago in his present capa-
city. and has host Of friends through
out the state who viii regret to hear
Of his untimely death. Prior to his
connection in this territory he had been
connected with the Missouri. Kansas
and Texas railroad, Missouri Pacific
and Rock Island and was wen known
west of the Mississippi river in rail-
road circles as well as IN the southeast.
Mr., Sullivan never held any public
office, however this did not deter him
from being an active part in all iegis-
lati-H affecting the people Of Florida
and his community He was a kind
and considerate friend TO all of his en-
ployees and more so 10 the patrons of
the railroad he served, and a severe
loss viii be felt in his death. He was
very active in civic affairs and only
within the last few days has been de-
voting much of his attention 10 the
erection OF the monument at Port ST.
Joe to commemorate the signing Of the
first constitution Of Florida which he
so ably fostered through the last legis-
lature.
A special train carrying the remains
and the family HIS wife. Mrs. Sunf-
van, his daughters, Mrs. T. " Scale
Mrs. T. =. Austin. and Miss Lorin
Sullivan will leave Port ST. Joe. at
nine-thirty Saturday morning for con-
nection with the Louisville and Nash
vile for Dallas, Texas, whore interment
viii be made on Monday. May Is.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-13
ANOTHER BIG ROW
OVER THE TARIFF
Republicans and Democrats in
Controversy Over Duty Pro
posed on Wood Alcohol.
tsy Tho AssoeIatsd Presal

WASHINGTON, May 1S.-Repub-
lican 1nd Democratic leaders in the
senate got into another row today over
the tariff the controversy centering
around the attacks of Republican
newspapers on the measure and on the
duty Of ten cents gallon proposed on
wood alcohol by the Finance committee.
There were charges Of filibuster from
the majority side and flat denials from
the Democratic side with counter
charges that the members of the com
mittee were refusing to give the senate
information about the rates on which
1t could act intelligently.
The editorials were presented by
Senator Simmons, North Carolina the
Democratic leader in the fight, who
a general assault on the bill
with the prediction that II It were pass
ed in its present form 1t would lead
the business of this country into a
debacle from which 1t will take us a
Of a century to resume It,
and the dire consequences Of which
to the American people cannot be
measured in words or figures"
Senator McCumber, Republican,
North Dakota, in charge Of the bill,
counter with a charge that the editor
iaIs were a part OF propaganda" and
the assertion that the prediction Of Sem
ator Simmons as to the result Of the
passage Of the bill was not "one half
as startling as would be the dire re-
suits II the underwood tariff law re-
mained in effect for another year. He
added that the Republicans were going
to put a protective tariff bilr' on the
statute books and would take the con-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-13
Shock Was Felt for a Radius of
Fifty Miles-TraiI of Light
Visible Many Miles.
tax rh. As.oeIa,sa Press,

NORFOLK. Va, May 12-The shock
of a twenty ton meteor which crashed
to the ground in an isolated spot in
Nottoway county, u miles from Black
stone last night, was felt for radius
of 90 miles while the brilliant glare
Of the incandescent body illuminated
the heavens over southern Virginia.
The trail Of light, as the meteor fell
in a slow curve from the zenith at an
angle of about As degrees, was visible
in this city, Richmond and at points
along the James river, creating gen
eral excitement and even CONSERVATION
on the part Of negroes.
The meteor, composed OF a metallic
substance, crashed into grove Of
oak trees with an explosive road some
distance from any house, making a
hole with en- area Of 500 square feet
and burying several trees with it.
Flames which Immediately shot up
were visible for mahy miles, while
trees caught fire.
A party of scientists and newspaper
men Immediately left Richmond and
this city for the scene, which IS 12o
IuAlGS west pA ~NQEAOAhS bAL Slib 1C6uALS
OF their investigation were not known
tonight, as telephone communication
was unavailable.
The shock of the fall was felt at
Lawrencevilfe. Petersburg, Chase City,
aad other points. At Lawrenceville,
100 miles west of here, windows were
rattled and houses shaken while at
Chase City similar effects were noted.
Automobiles on the roadways in
Mecklenburg county said 1t seemed as
though their cars had caught fire, so
great was the illumination.
In Norfolk the meteor appeared TO
be about half the diameter OF the
full moon and much like a street arc
light. It's tail Of orange brilliance
with sharp blue flame fading out at
the extreme end, apparently was about
ten or twelve times as long and fully
as broad as the body.
IN Richmond streak Of igiht was
noticed before the ball Of fire was
seen swirIing through space to be fol-
lowed BIZ the reverberations OF an ex-
plesion The entire southeastern skies
were illuminated as II by flash Of
tightening and a burst Of flame.