Evening star., 1927-04-03
NJ i S &c
BY HELEN FETTER.

Tweedledum and Tweedledce combi-
nation OF musical history. Two OF
the most famous works from the
hands OF these musical twins were
given excellent production under
Winthrop Ames for the recent re-
vival and presented in Washington
last week" Iolanthe and The
Pirates of Penzance. Thursday
night music from several OF the
comic operas On which they collabo-
rated so successfully will be sung
and one of Sir ArthurS finest com
positions in another tield--thc set
ting for Longfellow 5 Golden Leg
end" 1t is interesting. in passing.
to note that Sir Arthur attracted
much attention by his musical set
sing for Shakespeare Tempest,
for which Ian Sibelius. the Finn, SO
recently made a musical overture
that has aroused much discussion
that that was presented here at the
last concert this season of the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra.
THE rest OF April will be we'll
l. filled with activities. Helen
Howison and Charlotte Hartmann
two popular young singers, will ap-
pear in joint song recital Tuesday of
Holy Week and the remainder of
that week will be occupied with re-
ligious programs Of Eastertide
music In Easter week proper the
chief attraction will be the four
operas to be given here by the
Metropolitan Opera Co: La
Traviata," Friday night; La Bo
heme" and "Cavalleria Rusticana." y"
Saturday afternoon, and III Trova-
tore" Saturday night Also on Fri
day night. April p. the Harvard Glee
Club will make its annual appear
ance in the National Capital 1t is
unfortunate that these dates should
conflict. but the Harvard schedule
although not publicly announced
was made out very carly in the sea-
son and it is impossible to change
the date. This glee club made fine
showing and won much praise in
comment on the work in the "Missa
Solemniss" and the Ninth Sym
phony,' as presented under Mr.
koussevitsky in the recent Beetho-
ven festival in the city of the baked
bean. There were 140 men from the
glee club took part in the mass and
l25 of them in the symphony. III
conjunction with a women's chorus
from Radcliffe College.
There are other tentative plans
for April musical events not yet so
completed that they may be an
nounced. but there will be little op-
portunity for any one eager to hear
good music and plenty of it to be
denied that pleasure.
THE dance is one form of musical
- entertainment of general appeal,
yet there has been little ballet to
enliven the current musical season
apart from the incidental dances in
opera performance. One really
unique opportunity to enjoy au-
thentic and fascinating dancing was
afforded last Monday night when
Maria Montero. the Spanish dancer,
gave three typical yet widely diver
gent dances at the Spanish fiesta at
the Mayfower. Accompanied by
her own pianist, Emelio Martinez,
this dancer, formerly of the royal
opera house of Madrid, now with a
studio established in New York,
came here as guest to offer her
talent for the benefit of the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Senorita
Montero speaks only Spanish and
has to have an interpreter for most
conversations. In New York she
dances in private homes and has her
own orchestra of Spanish instru-
ments. There have been few if any
i'll Washington within the past few
years who handled the castanets
with the remarkable skill and elo-
quence that Senorita Montero
showed. Her first dance, in many
ruff1ed white lace costume. was ex-
quisite; the peacock dance. of a
more folk type. was admirably en-
acted as well as danced; the last
dance. that OF dancer of the people
with "bull-ring atmosphere" both in
mood and action. completed a color
full trio of numbers.