The Washington times., 1925-09-07

CONCER 7
SEASON
AHEAD
RecitaIs, orchestras, Operas
Offset Lure of Art
Colonies
By JESSIE Mcbride

10 reckoning her magic wand to
invite her votaries into that in
describabIe wonderland.
There is no substitute for
music"-was the slogan at Holly
woods famous "owl Concerts,
out in the California mountains
this summer.
Nearer home, the music editor
had the rare privilege of visiting
four colonies various kinds
where concentrated thought is
given to the arts of drama and
music.
At home we are faced with
great prospectus. The imposing
list of artists and productions for
the Concert Season of 1925-26" is
q matter of genuine pride in the
increasing demand for beauty by
the people of Washington.
It's but a month ahead!
October opens the music sea-
son with the gala concert of the
March King" John Philip Sousa,
and his famous band.
Opera inaugurates the more
formal season, when T. Arthur
Smith, Inc. presents, on October
Is, Donizetti's delectable little gem,
t.L,Elisir d'Amore elixir of LOve),
sung in English by the William
Wade Hinshaw Opera Company. 1t
also inaugurates return to the
popular Ten star" concerts at
popular prices, this and a Mozart
opera being included in the ten.
Music Managers Offer
So far our seaJ6n includes con.
cert courses presented under the
management Nof the T.. Arthur
Smith, Inc, Concert Bureau, by
Mrs. Wilson-Greene. by Peggy Al
bIon, a series of five concerts in
the Washington Society of the
Fine Arts lectures and recitals, the
Musical Mornings" Of Mrs. Law
renee Townsend.
The Chicago Opera Company will
again come under the management
Of Mrs. Wilson Greene The Wash
ington Opera Company, Edouard
Albion, general director. will pre-
sent seven operas. THE Washing
tonians'' under Rollin Bond will
give several community operas.
The orehestras to be heard in
ciude the Philadelphia Orchestra In
five concerts: the New York Sym
phony Orchestra, in four concerts;
the Philharmonic Society of New
York in three concerts; the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, in two con-
certs; and the Cleveland Symphony,
Ia one concert.
>Rumor- is alive, also. with reports
of two vigorous efforts to create
a symphony orchestra of its own
for the National Capital. May joy
and success attend it, Where, oh,
where, is there great Capital of
great nation without its SYM
phony?
A rich and fascinating promise,
Il it not?
Twenty-four concerts are sched-
uled between October Is and the
New Year.
Inspiration i'm Our u. 8. A.
And what inspiration do we bring
from wandering far a-fieId of ac-
tivities at home?
We've watched the budding of
the American Institute of Opera
Art. under Max Rabinoff, at Stony
Point-on the Hudson That's a fas.
cinating story all it's own that
must wait a week or so for the
telling. We will have tangible
proof OF the Institute" this win.
ter!
We lifted the curtain on crea-
tive art in America, at the famous
Mcdowell Colony in the hills OF
New Hampshire. where Americas
greatest composer, Edward Mac.
Dowell, is receiving an immortal
ity here and now through the crea.
tive work done there by painter,
literati, composers of today.
Harriet Ware, one of the "big
five of American women COM
rare day at her rwo-century-old
cret. but something natively Apneri-
can in big mold is taking form in
her creative music scheme. So
the telling of that must wait.
The famous art colony. at Prov
incetown, Mass, on the very tip
of Cape Cod, brought home to the
visitor in the picturesque person
of Felix Mahony, painter, who is
summering there. The Little
Theater" movement was quite alive
with the transformers and the
Wharf Players"
Our own student-lad, Prentiss
Taylor, of the scenic department
Of the Junior Rams Head Players
here, was studying there with the
painter, Charles Hawthorne, and
making a setting for one play of
the. little theater group.
At Peterborough, again, there
was the Mariarden Players. Set
in the hills. this student camp for
the drama is achieving some fasci.
mating things in costume design
and staging.
Why worry about what We as
Americans, do not de. Go out and
seek what is being accomplished
and you will find refreshment and
encouragement to keep zest with
what promises to be the most bril-.
liant music season that the Ma
ttona1 Capital has ever enjoyed
Make your own prospectus, and
decide, at once, how much of these
riches you are going TO make your
own.