Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
NJ u S &c
BY HELEN FETTER.

for this event, and the Lenox String
Quartet will play Beethoven's last
quartet. Tuesday evening the tes-
tival will close with performance
OF the eighth and ninth symphonies,
the Harvard and Radcliffe groups
again assisting and the soloists be-
ing Jeanette Vreeland, Nevada van
der Neer, Charles Stratton and Fred
Patton.
IN Washington during the past
L week nothing SO titanic as the
Boston festival has been attempted,
but there have been many and iaud-
able programs honoring Beethoven.
Friday, the 18th, the Friday Morning
Music Club honored him with piano
and violencello music and a short
sketch OF high lights in his life. read
by Mrs. Frank Howard. tuesday
morning. at the Washington Club,
Mrs. Eugene Byrncs directed Bee
thoven program that was exception
ally successful. in which Katherine
Seelye Wallace played the "Appas-
sionata Sonata" Mrs. Walter Wilson
sang songs by Beethoven and Miss
Maude Sewell read a very interest
ing paper on his life. These same
musicians, with Charles Trowbridge
Tittman, Washington basso, added
to their number, gave memorial
program at the Arts Club of Wash
ington, also under Mrs. ByrneS
direction. Thursday night. Miss
Anita Schade and a group OF must
clans OF the city gave a rather un
usual Beethoven program before the
members or the German Literary
Society last Saturday, and last night
Miss Mary Isabel Kelley, secretary
for the Washington branch Of the
Beethoven Centenary Committee, ar
ranged a Beethoven program that
was presented this Tooth exact ami
versary OF his death at the American
Association OF University Women's
Club.
Capt. William Santeimann chose
as his last symphony to be conducted
before his formal retirement, April
|. as conductor of the United States
Marine Band Orchestra, the Fifth
Symphony OF Beethoven on an all
Beethoven program at the barracks
Wednesday night, when a capacity
audience stood reverently as the
funeral march from the "Froice'
symphony (the third opened a pro-
gram that also included. as we'll as
the fifth symphony in full, a violin
concerto and the "Egmont' overture.
Thursday night Lieut. Charles Ben
ter and his Unitei States Navy Band
Orchestra CAV another all-Bee-
thoven memorial program at the
barracks. Last night, from s 40 till
10 pm, the night of Beethoven's
death centenary, the United States
Army Band Orchestra, Capt Viii
liam J. Stannard, leading. gave spe-
cial radio program of Beethoven
works, including: "Egmont" over
ture. andante from Fifth Sym
phony," "Minuet in G." three contra
dances for piano by Mrs. Paul Bley-
den, two songs. Faithful Johnnie"
and "Know'st Thou the Land" by
Dorothy Sherman Person; fantasia,
Souvenir de Beethoven" arranged
by Tobani, and including excerpts
from "Fidelio." "Pastorale Sym
phony,' Adelaide" "Prometheus,
All, Perfdio." Ruins of Athens"
and the fourth movement OF the
Fifth Symphony" the first move
ment OF The Moonlight Sonata"
and the aliegretto scherzando from
the Eighth Symphony"
x X
a ) a finale TO this memorial col
4 \ umn dedicated to Beethoven, it
would seem fit to quote his own
words on worldly wisdom. art and
life in general, as mirrored in the
following bits submitted to us By
DR.. Simon:
l. The boundaries are not yet fixed which
shall cali out To talent and industry:
Ivy Schindler)
2. Every day is lost in which we do not
learn something useful.
8. Man has no nobler or more valuable
possession than time.
T. Fore For, whigh i a unit win always pre-
yidea 1Capr .s a1'T book "h isIa = d.
3. King ami princes can create professors
and counseilors and confer orders and
men. august IS. 1872 TO Bettna Won
6. The truly wise man does, not, concern
himself with the good and evil of this
:. How stupidity and wrctchedness always
go in pairs. fDiary. 1917
{. Morality i the strength Of men who dis
tingulSh Themselves over others. and i ia
mine. TO his friend Zmcskalll
8. have never thought of writing for rep
utation and honor What / have iii my
heart must out: that Is the reason why
/ compose Remark 10 Czerny. accord
ing TO the autobiography
10. II is my sincere desire that whatever
shall be said of me hereafter shall adj
here strictly To the truth in every re
enect regardless Of who NAV be hurt
thereby. me not excepted ITO Schind-
ler}
II. True art Is selfish and perverse-it VIII
not submit % the mold of fattery.
Conversation book. March 1S20.)
l2. There o1ght to be only one large art
warehouse in the world. To which the
artist cot'id carry his art works and
ever he needed. As II Is one must be
half tradesman. ITO Hofmeister
January 1901
20 inca G ana Il peTit the muse slef 10 s 20
20 sleep IL is only that she mas awake
1926
/ IA Like the state. each man must have his
own constitution. fDiary. 1872
/ Is love NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and upright
ross. aud believe that the artist ought
not 70 be heliftIed; for, alas brilliant ~
/ privilege Of the artist to re FFysters
/ guest on Olympus all the time tnfor-
tiifl&tely vulgar humanity d~als him
/ DOWN only too often and too rudely from
publisher. Peters. June .. 1921
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