The Washington times., 1925-11-02
THE | library Of
CONGRESS-
FETE
Al Ovation for Mrs. Coolidge
and Many Incidents Of
Festival Of Music
De- JEsSIE NIaeBRIDE

The coolidge festival which
from NOW on is to be known all
over the world as the Library IF
Congress- Festival of Chamber MI
sic lis past. gloriously past!
The thrill OF the three days of
exquisite music held tangible evil
4Ience after the morning session OF
last Friday when the benefactor
to music, to America, to the Ma
tionaI Capital Mrs. Elizabeth
Sprague Coolidge acknowledged
for the first time the applause Of
the enthusiastic audience.
That audience rose in q body,
as the donor 81 the Coolidge Foun-
dation appeared on the stage Of
the little auditorium, making be-
room thunder with applause. VII.
lem lViIleke. cellist welcomed her,
with the presentation Of huge
cluste chrysanthe munls. A
speech was demanded
THE words were modest. She
said that she did not want thanks.
,Congrat ulations were due all
around! For the cooperation Of the
Library, meaning the nation ITSELF
for that Of the great artists: Tor
the spirit that had made the re-
alization of this dream Of hers pos
sible.
The words of the world win con.
tinue to Flow to this lady for all
The years that this great music
Foundation brings toge. her great
art in the creation and the execu
tion OF musics beneath the roof of
a Government building
First Lady Meets Pioneer
50 many Incidents occurred to
make these three days epocfaal
There was the moment when Mrs.
Coolidge, the First Lady 81 the
Land stood at her seat ia the
front row to greet Mrs. Coolidge.
the donor 81 the Elizabeth sprague
Coolidge Foundation Tor Music.
II was the meeting and the con-
gratulations Of two women to
whom the entire world may look
with pride and appreciation women
the world may emulate 10 their
advantage
Charles Martin Loeffler, whose fine
q santicle to the Sun was given a
first time hearing, and Franz
LAl4SlSrt VI luE ArtHOd6 u fAH11sSA
Quarter, met III the aisle recalling
to many how these two great artists
at, one time held chairs side by side
tn the great old days Of the Boston
symphony Orchestra, Mr. LOaffIer
as concert. master, MI. KneIseI ais
assistant c0ncert-fnaster
Or to see Harold Bauer put his
arm over the shoulder OF Ernest
Hutchinson, and to wonder what
they were saying about some of
the new music. Mr.. Bauer did look
tense over some of the modernism.
He relaxed to q mood of recsp-
tiyity, when the first program re-
solved into pure music with the
Handel concerto.
FinaI Programs 81 Festival
The final programs Of Friday
brought out two prize compositions
written as Coolidge commissions uf
1926" One was the Pizzetti Trio
IN "A, the other the Howard Hanson
Quartet opus %.
The Pizzetti trio was played will
rare perfection by the Elshuco Trio
of New York William Knoll WiIIen,
Willeke and Aurelio Giorni at the
,,iano. 1t bore no radicalism but
held beauty and dramatic interest
It belongs to the romantic school d
Rubinsfein or Grieg, with no ex
traordinary departure from the
forms Of yesterday
The Hanson Quartet. given ex
quisitely By the Chamber Music So
ciety Of San Francisco Louis Per
singer. Louis Ford. Nathan Fire
stone and Walter F'erner brought
out the forceful, virile music thai
was not in usual form. but gave
much solo opportunity to the play
ers. It opened with cello solo
was In Oriental vein. Truly won
derfuI." was the comment upon IL
its spirit of modernism being Iikeneo
to Ernest Ploch.
Nine. Marie Romaet Rosanoff as
sisted this ensemble in the lovely
Schubert Quintet. obus 163. that
closed this internationally great fes
tival.
To Washington high honor is due
in the presence. three times on these
programs. OF the National Strine
Quartet OF this city-Henri Sokoloy