The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-06
AMERICAN
ARTISTS
HERE
One Concert This Week Is
Promenade Festival in
MayfIower Ballroom

NFusic events of next fortnight:
TonipI1t. 8:3O-PrOmenade con-
cert. AlI-American artists, May
Monday, April Ii, S:15-ROssini's
opera siBarber Of Seville" by
Washington Opera Company
Washington Auditorium.
Thursday. April is, 4:3O and at
S-BacI1 CtOir Of Bethlehem, Pa,
IN Bach B minor Mass. Washing
'0F Fr id April II, s:sO-Munz.
rioIinisf. in recital. Students Con-
cert Series, Central High School.
Sunday, April 10. 3,30-Milt0n
Schwartz, yioliniSt. in recital. Ma
Sunday. April 10. e:3O-Jascha
Heifetx. viOIinist, In recital. Wash
IngtOn Auditorium.
Mrs. David Allen Campbell, chair.
man Of the music department or
the National Council or women,
announces the third promenade
CONCERT in the spring festival OF
All.American Artists. II VIII take
place tonight in the ballroom OF
the Mayflower Hotel at $50 o'clock,
A0Q Will 16dLu4 = CSCA ~ A<AeAC&Ap
pianist, assisted by Katherine Foss,
bass baritone.
Mr.. Dixon has been termed ''the
American Rachmaninoff," and Max
Smith. music critic of the New
York American. calls him the best
pianist of the younger generation.
He will play the Mcdowell Sonata
Eroica" and a Chopin group, the
1Ballaade" opus So. "Waltz" A flat.
and "PoIonatse," opus So. In New
York he was given four encCrss
after his Chopin, which he Is said
TO interpret very delightfully."-.
Katherine Foss Is coming back
to a city Of friends made during
the years when her father was in
Congress here. She was q pupil Of
Mary A. Crydar OF this city and
recently in Chicago she has won
many successes. Miss Foss viii
sing an aria from Korngold's
opera, die tode Stadt," giving the
'Marietta's lieb EUR Laute," with
also grou POT songs of Debussy,
Fourdrain, Woodman and Mac
Fadyen. George H. Wilson will
accompany her.
James Stanley win be a notable
addition TO the program. His virile
personality and resonant bass voice
have made him favorite on the
concert stage. Mr.. Stanley, with
Eleanor Stark Stanley at the plano,
WIN give LES trpis eapitaine," old
French, arranged by Frank Bib:
q song OF Caldara, lie Miroir," Of
Ferriari. and s'Vision Fugitive from
Massenet's Herodiade. He will
close the program with Handel's
Caesars Lament" 'iCargoes," by
D0bson; My Message" of D'Harde-
lot, and THE Mad Dog" by Leh.
mann. Tickets are on sale at the
Mayflower news stand and at the
Homer L. Kilt Piano Company.
New Violinist At Central.
Mieczyslaw Num-, young and
sensational Polish pianist. win
appear at the Central High School
Auditorium. Friday evening, April
II, at $50. under the auspices of
the Community Center Department
q the Public Schools. This win be
the last concert in what is known
a. the Students Course"
Young NUM-, still in his twenties,
Is one Of the most successful
claimants for pianistic honors that
has arrived in this country in a
long time. He made his American
debut in 1922, followed by a second
recital shortly afterward. His sue.
cess was SUCH that he was immed,
lately engaged as soloist with the
New York Symphony Orchestra.
Last year he had an interesting
tour Of the Orient, including China,
Japan and Australia.
Tickets are on sale at Mrs.
Wilson-Greene's concert bureau in
Droop's.