The Washington times., 1926-11-06
M u SIC
BY Jessie MacBride-
MRS. COOLIDGE HEARD
As CONCERT ARTIST

AS CONCERT ARTIST
when Mrs. Elizabeth sprague
Coolidge chose Brahms as the COM
poser through whom to make her
debut in Washington. as pianist.
she challenged her own musician.
ship in the selection. For it Ii al.
ways true OF Brahms that he re-
veais, where he is understood, q
greater variety of musical feeling
than almost any other composer.
Mrs. Coolidge played her Brahlnss
in the Quartet iii "a with violin,
viola and cello from the Lenox
String Quartet ait the Library Of
Congress last evening, with such
flowing rhythm, such vital accent
and color IN her shadings, that we
listened to the music's self even
more than to tlle@ donor of the
Library of Congress perpetual
music festival.
The event was an important one
in the art world and IN the social
world. a distinguished audience cf
Washington and out-of-t0wn patrons
was assembled Ia the Library Of
Congress chamber music auditorium.
1t was also the first Of q series Of
pairs" Of concerts to be given by
the Lenox String Quartet, the sec
ond taking place this Afternoon at
4:30, in these concerts that are free
to the public, but that require cards
OF admission
The last two movements OF the
Brahms were deeply, gracefully
lovely. Mrs. Coolidge's playing was
instinct with the love Of Brahms,
She rang out her climaxes with de-
cisive vigOr or held to the soft.
rhythned cadences with covered tone
that kept her always in the en-
senble and 4 part Of the string
quality. The strings were dramatic
and rich in the adagio and held 20
the type iii the music with admir-
able strength. = 4 + ~.
The program, for quartet, was the
Haydn in +, opus q, 10. ana
ernest Bloch,s Landscapes, the
latter highly interesting ultR mod
ern bits Of impression In one. MT.
Bloch has given them program
titles OF NORTH" Alpine and q
south sea Island sketch In Tonga
taboo"
The first and last Of the Bloch
were the most convincing, there
tireiy new In the hIgh-keyed icy
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of North He held it together
with rhythm. yet with digsonance
of the new scale" he also kept 1t
entirely musical, with 81 deep iIriaer-
current in q plaintiye, lonely strain
that held vastness IN atmosphere.
The African dance of the last Of
the three was use of established
things, Of barbaric, "tum. tupI' in
phrase. Alpine, the second In
the series. was interesting In the use
OF the instruments but an adapta-
ton, seemingly, and that In strained
sounds reminiscent folk song mate.
rial. To me Mr.. Bloch has given In
the North something newly Gre
ated and more lofty than in the
Wolfe woIfinsohn, first violin,
played with great beauty and free.
dom in the Haydn. The second
violin tones OF Edwin ldeler were sig.
nificant in the ultra modern music.
As an ensemble the Haydn was less
united than is usual with these
artists who are bringing us pioneer
work and admirably interpreting IL.
Today the nOveItysOf the program
Is quartet by Frederick Jacobi
Woodruff Youngs, from the stu
do of EstelIe Wentworth, is filling
the tenor soloist position at the
sixth Presbyterian Church for the
present. -
The American Guild OF organists
ID. g. Chapter, VIII meet In the choir
room OF Epiphany Episcopal Church
on Monday evening, at 5 o'clock,
for the formation Of plans Tor the
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