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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24
New York Symphony Feb.

WALTER DAMRosCH, conduct
of the New York Symphony c
chestra, Will make his final appel
ance of the season in Washingtc
with this famous orchestra at Poll
Theater February 9 at 80 o'clock.
a gala Wagner program" The {
chestra, however, will appear hel
March 16 for it's final performance
the season, with Otto klemperer Il
guest conductor.
Wagners first and last opera g
"Rienzi" and "Parsifal," have bee
selected for excerpt presentation
February g. There will be four sol
singers, Della Baker, Kathryn Meisl
Ernest Davis and Frederic Baer. an
a chorus of 300, who will be broug!
here by special train. The chorus
composed Of members of the Matine
Musical Club of Philadelphia, Mrs
Helen Pulaski lines, director. and tn,
University of Pennsylvania Glee Club
DIR. H. Alexander Matthews, director
Mr.. Damrosch will present five eX
cerpts from "Rienzi"-the overture
the chorus of peace messengers. the
duet for Irene and Adriane. the brave,
and the battle hymn-while the sec
ond half of the program will he de
voted to the cathedral scene from ac
l of "Parsifal," including the process
sional of the Knights of the Hol,
Grail. the ceremony of the Lords Sup
per. the lament of Amfortas and the
divine prophecy. Mr.. Baer will sins
the role Of Amfortas.
Seats are on sale at Mrs. Wilson
Greene's Concert Bureau, in Droop's
1900 G. street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24
Staccato Notes..

NINE. ERNEsTINE sCHUMANN
HEINk, who is even now fra.
dltion among great singers. has Just
announced that she will celebrate the
fftieth anniversary of her Initial con.
cert appearance at the age of Is, with
concert tour, beginning next No.
vember.
She will sing Erda in the perform.
ance of "Das Rheingold." February
20, and in the March 10 perforna nee
OF Slegfrled' at the Metropolitan
Opera House in the performance of
the Niebelungen Lied" cycle this
year. Her first operate appearance
was in Dresden in 1878 and her debut
al the Metropolitan Opera House was
made p years ago. Few are the ar.
lists who have a record OF half ii CEN
fury of concert work
Although Paderewski and kreisler
are actively before the musical world
more than ever this year. the New
York critics are finding a spare mo.
nlent TO nail with unusual acclaim two
new young artists in their early 30s-
w alter GieSeking, a German pia nist
and Josef SZigeti, a Hungarian violin
list, both of whom seem possessed of
that rare quality that makes for a dis
Junction above that of virtuosity.
Left Pouishnoff. pianist. who made
his temperance in America before a
packed house recently in New York.
was hailed with marked enthusia SIN
by an audience which included many
famous pianists and other leading
musicians. As a result of his success;
at TINS concert, other New York. re-
cltaiS are being arranged for Tues
10 e hi Il
Anna Case. operatice soprano, il is
rumored according to notices sent
out from Los Angeles. will marry
Comte Pierre de RaTney. said to he of
one of the oldest families of Brittany
rs soon as that gentleman is complete
~ freed by divorce from his present
wife. The count is appearing in motion
pictures in the meantime and Miss
Case is homeward bound from Homo
lulu.
Evelyn Herbert. formerly a soprano
of the Chicago Civic Opera COMPANY
and seen in Washington this season in
a leading role of The Love Song +"
mas ISSUED statement advising
American girls to keep away from
grand opera. She adds. II sang
Mimi in La Boheme' and other roles
with the Chicago Civic and prot,a blv
IT hadn't suddenly lost my voice
through illness and been forced to be-
gin all over again upon my recovery.
L probably should be in grand opera
yet. Thank heavens, / am not. and T
never expect or hope to be again,
have far more happiness, am paid far
more money than the average prima
donna in grand opera receives. and
although l have more work to do, r.
is less monotonous. Isn't it worth
considering, girls?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24
Famous Opera Tenor Hon
ored During War.

WHEN the Belgian government
ordered Fernand Ansseau, the IA
nous French and Belgian tenor. who
will appear here with the Chicago
Civic Opera Company in Louise" and
Carmen" at the Washington Audi
torium February 10 and 10, TO remain
out of the trenches during the great
war and cheer the folks behind the
lines with his singing. Ansseau was
paid the greatest tribute of his career,
according to his own reckoning.
lie had arranged to sing at the Paris
Opera in 1914. but the outbreak of
hostilities shattered this plan. He
Immediately hurried back to Belgium
and reported for war duty. as every
able-bodied Belgian was doing at that
time. While Ansseau waited for u
uniform and a gun, the Belgian gov
eminent decided that the famous tenor
would do his country more good with
his voice than with his marksma nship,
so he was promptly ordered to tour
Belgium and France in a series of con-
certs that was effective enough in its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24
MUSIGRAPHS

Ethel Lynn Fast, Dorothy Hubbard:
contraltos, Christine Levin, Mary
Templln; lenors, Stephen II. Field
Daniel e. Morgan. and bassos, VIII
liam II. Clark, d. Breeze Jones.
Albert Almoney, Baltimore tenor,
who is an earnest seeker into the COM
plicated realms of ultra modern music
and who was heard here in programs
with the Rubinstein Club and Mrs
Gerrit Miller, jr.'s morning of modern
music, will sing some unusual num-
bers In program to be given for the
benefit of ST. Leo's Italian Orphan
Asylum. in Baltimore. Thursday eve.
ming in Stief Hall at SIS O'Clock
Songs in his program stated to be sung
for the first time in Baltimore will be
"ChiegEo al Lido" by Porpora: Res
pighi's 'Nevicata." RecH's Berger
cite" Cimara's "Stornello," Peggy"
by Cox; 20 Mistress Nine" by Roger
Quilter: plantation Love Song" by
Deems Taylor, and The Holy Child"
by Martin.
The next organ recital to be given
in St. Agnes Church will be on Sun
day evening, February 7. Helen c.
Crouch will give the following pro
gram:
. fIfsIiTfe Heroic .'.......-...F SGls
90
"Andante." sonata No. 49,. Rheinb@r s,sr
First Movement. Sonata No. | Borowsk
Largo NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Handel
Franceska Kaspar Lawson gave re-
citals recently in Harpers Ferry, w.
Va. and Hyattstown,' Nd In the lat
ter program Mrs. Lawson was assist
ed by her l3.year-old niece, Monica
haspar, who played the Wagner
Schuett Wedding March" from
"Lohengrin"; LISTS "Liebestraum.
with encores by Raft and Rachmani-
noff. Mary Garrett reader also con-
tributed to the program and was Mrs
Lawsons aCcompanist.
This active Washington soprano is
now on a tour of ten recitaIs, all be
fore Women's Clubs of Marlinton, Gas
saWay, Sutton, Beckley, Webster
Springs. Logan. Anderson, Point Pleas
ant. w. Va: Ashland Ky, and Clifton
Forge, Va.
Phyllis Fergus, remembered as
charming interpreter Of her own com
positions in Washington last Spring,
broadcast program last Thursday
evening via WJAZ, assisted by Louise
Hattstaedt Winter. NeSta Smith, Mrs.
Norman Parker and George Smith
Fannie Shreve Heartsill, soprano;
Lillian Chenoweth, Contralto; Charles
t.. Myers, tenor; Francis p. Heartsin,
bass, and katherine Cullen. pianist,
compose the group who, cooperating
with the Federation of Music Clubs.
will give the program at John Dixon
Home this week,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24
Fine Manners
Next for Gloria

GLORIA SWANSON'S next produc
ton for Paramount will be Fine
Manners. an original story by James
Ashmore Creelman. Eugene O'Brien
Is TO have the leading male role.
MI. Creelman also is adapting the
story to the screen in collaboration
with Townsend Martin, who is 10 he
the supervising editor. It has a back
ground OF modern society life.
;, FRANK futile, who is at present
directing Miss Swanson in Tho r.
tanned Lady" will direct the fortt
coming production. Work is to he
begun on 1t as soon as possible after
the completion of The Unframed
Lady
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24
Moiseiwitsch Recital
Here February Is

Benno Moiseiwitsch, brilliant p,,s-
sian pianist, will give his first recital
here February Is, the seventh of the
Pegsy Albion concerts, in the Auditor.
Molseiwitsch gained his mastery of
the piano at the Imperial Conservatorv
IN odessa, where at nine he won the
ftuplnstein prize, and at Vienna, where
ne STUDIED under Leschetizky.
ne mace his debut in England IS
years ago, toured the British IsIes VIII
great success for a number of wears
accepted an invitation to play in Aus.
tralla S music centers. and now is max
ing his seventh concert tour of Amer.
lca tickets for Mr.. Moiseiwitch's
first concert here will be available to-
morrow at the Albion bureau, 1899
q street northwest,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

purpose to win him public thanks and
communication from the King of Bel
GUM, as we'll as a decoration.
Ansseau says that, regardless of his
subsequent success as a singer
nothing can exceed the depth of such
a tribute, paid to him at a time whei
Belgium apparently needed every MAJ,
who could shoulder a gun for activ
service. Such a thing in America
probably would have aroused mus.
criticism.
AnSseau'S two appearances with tt
Chicago Civic Opera Company at the
Auditorium next month will he mad,
in support of Mary Garden in Louise
and Carmen" Baklanoff is to b.
featured also in Louise" Will.
Charles Hackett. Titta Ruffo. Charlie.
Marshall and Giacomo Rimini ar,
other prominent singers VINO will have
featured roles in the other two opera
to be given at the Auditorium by the
Chicago company the same week
"Otello' and "Rigoletto."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24
Navv Band Concert.

THE program Wednesday, at 1880
pm, at the United States Marine
Corps Institute Hall, Eighth and
streets southeast by the United States
Navy Band Orchestra, Charles Benter,
leader, Will be
March. Hands Across the Sea- ,Sousa
.. Overture "Eurvanthe Won Weher
= RaIiet music. Prince Igor Borodln
Ia5 Dance of the slave maldens.
fb) Dance of the archers.
lei Grand ensemble.
Excerpts from The Singing Girl Herbert
:. Cioster scene from "kamenoi Ostrow
r waltzes, Woodland Dreams" ..Waldteufel
:, FANTASIA "Espagnole" Hosmer
s suite SIN Brittany. kr1ens
(a) In Saint-Malo.
}b) Gavotte of Duchess Anne.
1c) The Strand at Parame.
di Feast in Brittany
Star SpangIed Banner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24
Rubinstein Club Changes
Date of Next Concert.

THE Rubinstein Club, to accommC
date many of its patrons who d,
sire to attend the performance Of II
Chicago Opera Co, has changed Il
date of it's club concert of February
to March 80. All tickets for F'ebrua!
9 will be good for the latter date tt
next concert will be March 8, WI
Fraser Ganee, eminent Scotch ba
tone, as guest artist.
The club contest for the soloists
the March 80 concert was held V,
terday. a voice trial will be he
each Tuesday evening at o'clock
the ballroom of the New Willard HO'
for singers to join the club. The
are a few vacancies
Rehearsals will be Tuesday nigl
instead of Tuesday mornings W
further notice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

Maria Elise Johnson, violinist, of
New York City, is in Washington Wis
iting her cousins, Representative and
Mrs. Maurice Thatcher, and while here
will give group of selections on the
program of the Kentucky Society at
the Willard Hotel Tuesday evening.
Earl Carbauh will sing and Mrs. Carl
Chindblom. will play Miss Johnson's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24
M u S | c.
By Helen Fetter.

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known opera Samson Della to be given BY the Washington
Opera Company pianist
who will make his icc debut Thursday New York irened
reviewers their hair all daily because
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several There when et three day in
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season 10 ol'e TINS ye"'' -
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

4 FTDR an absence of eight years,
Wilhelm Bachaus, eminent pianist,
a returned to this country and will
= presented at the National Theater
Thursday afternoon.
Bachaus first came to this country
4 1912. He was widely advertised as
he favorite pupil of Eugen d'Albert
and winner of the 5000 francs Rubin
stein prize. He was accounted most
uncommonly imaginative artist, hav
ing been for years under d'Albert, it
follows necessarily that his reading
of the classics, especially of Beethoven,
were authoritive in the full sense of
the term.
Remembering the impression he
made when he was last here, it is safe
to predict that he will find no warmer
welcome anywhere than that he will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

Sylvia Lent, violinist, returned to
New York Immediately following her
chicago recital January 10. She then
appeared at Upsala College, East
orange, n. j., and before the HARLEM
philharmonic Society at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, New York. She was
in her home town. as an artist at
a musical given in honor to Speaker
of the House and Mrs. Nicholas Long.
worth at the residence of Senator and
Mrs. D. A. Reed, in Washington
ID. c., January 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24
Marine Band Concert

the band auditorium. Marine
Barracks, Tuesday. at 40 pm. a
concert by the United States Marine
Band Orchestra. William II. SanteL
mann. leader Taylor Branson, second
leader. Will have as the program:
l. March. With Shot and SHELF. Bilse
. Overture. Mignon' ........... Thomas
j. az "Berceuse" ....... Him IL
drama "Kuolema'' ..'.. Sibelius
!. Grand scenes from 'Rigoletto'' Verdi
D. Two movements from the suite al
Ca} "Reverie du SSoir" i.;E9e eli1i ae'is
Reve-le'D. allegretto quasi an
tbJ 'Marche Mlitaire Francaise''
allegro glocoso.
8. Waltz. Vienna Blood Strauss
/ "Polonalse" 0nus -. No s.. .Glazou mitS
Marines hymn. The Halls Of Montezuma =
IL" star Spaugled Banner
Owing to changes to he made in
the band auditorium, the monthly
symphony program scheduled for
Tuesday night, January 20, will be
postponed until early IN February.
The regular weekly concerts. how
ever, will continue on Tuesdays at 80
pm. and Or Fridays at $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

Godfrey O'Hara. gifted composer.
was III Washington last week with
soXy'S gang. and gave several anus
ng variations of his wartime hit"
Katy, Beautiful Katy" on the pro-
ram. y more serious work. The
living God also was on the pro
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

PRODUCERS Mcgowan. Jones and
Mem have commissioned J. p. Nc.
Evoy, author of The Pottars -
write a Spring revue. TO he calIeI
Americana 1926" 1t will be produced
at the Greenwich Village Theater
they also have acquired the rights
70 "R0Om at the Ton :" q neu. cnrnad,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

Edwin Hughes, pianist. will leave
New York for concert trip to Florida
early in February. In Miami Mr.
Hughes will hear his "Serenade" for
Nomen's voices performed by the
Aeolian Chorus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

At the Maurice Francis Egan me-
mortal ceremonies to be held under
the auspices of the international AS
ISOLATION of Art and Letters Wednes-
day at the Mayflower Hotel. at $3.50
pm, Mrs. Thomas S. Lovette will
direct part of the musical program,
presenting three quartets, the compo-
sitions of the late DIR. Thomas S.
Lovette They are: "All Through the
Night" Welsh folk song, arranged for
four voices; "Garnlwyd," Welsh
chorale, and THE Kingdom of Our
Gracious Lord chorale.
The Vocalists will be: SOPRANOS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

At st. Margaret's Church this after
noon there will be a special musical
service by the vested choir, when
Maunder's Epiphany cantata, Beth
lehem," will be sung, with organ and
instrumental accompaniment. The
>oloists Will be Myra NJ. Marks. W. W.
CAN'T and A. l.. Lambdin. Mr.. Gantz
will sing at the offertory The Song
of the Three Kings. ID. b. Macleod
is organist and choirmaster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

Eva NJ Z. Williams was soloist
Monday evening at a meeting Of the
Methodist Social Union. held at the
Metropolitan NJ. Z. Church. Mrs.
Williams sang songs by Billiard,
Ronald, Reichardt and Augusta Ro-
toll She was ably accompanied at
the plano by Mrs. A. C.. Christie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

Wednesday evening at S o'clock
Jewell Downs will give the first stu
dents recital of the season at her
studio, 1928 Connecticut avenue.
The following will present the eve
nings program: Mary Thomson,
Elizabeth Burgandine, GIendora Ella
son, Henry Cherner, Gertrude Swarth-
out, Jesse R. Wilson, Alice B. Haig,
Clement Giebel, Edith Hoffman Jones,
Gwendolin Taylor.
Edith Hoffman Jones. Coloratura
soprano, sang "Je veux vivre," from
Romeo and Juliet" by Gounod. and
"Nillanelle," by Dell Acqua, at a must
cal tea given at the Wesley NJ L.
Church, Chevy Chase, last Wednesday
afternoon. She was accompanied by
Mrs. Downs.
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