Evening star., 1928-09-09
M u SIG
Y YASHINGTON'S music sea-
a 1 son for 1929 is started.
BY HELEN FETTER.

IN
Wv The first concert of tn
' new music year was pre-
sented last night at the Pan
American Union, when the re
quest for tickets far exceeded th
seating capacity and many had t
be put on the waiting list for tick
cts later in the season to anothe
of the popular concerts of Latin
American music. A detailed re
view of this first program will b.
found in the news columns of to
days Star.
The counselor of the Pan Amer
lean Union, Mr.. Franklin Adams
also has announced that tW:
other important concerts have
been scheduled already for thi.
season. The first will be giver
Tuesday evening, December i8
when the orchestral numbers viii
be played by the United Service
Orchestra, and the program vii
form part of the series of events
attending the meeting called in the
National Capital by the Secretary
of State of the Congress of Arbi-
tration and Cancellation of Pan
American Countries.
The other big concert date that
is listed by the Union is April 2
which is the first Tuesday after
Easter. The guest soloistS for
these events will be announced
Iates in the year.
n FORECAST of the season into
Al which music-loving audiences
axe about to step shows many new
AID interesting developments. A
1few concert manager, DR.. Dudley
until this season known here prin-
cirGlly in educational circles, will
present the first professional ar
lists recital of 1929, when he
Sponsors Josef Hofmann's recital,
the opening program of the
Washington Cooperative Artists
Course of Evening Concerts at the
Washington Auditorium, Thurs
day, October Is.
This new series of concerts,
which is cooperating practically
with local welfare organizations
and educational institutions, aims
to present eight programs of
music by leading artists at very
reasonable prices and at hours
when a great many people not
able to get away to attend after
n&On events, may have the oppor-
tunity to hear as fine SoloiStS and
groups in short evening concerts.
The project seems to be arousing
wide interest and friendly Coop
IeTation on the part of organiza-
tlons and public alike.
AS a result of the enthusiastic
response that he has received for
this course of professional con-
certs by internationally known ar
lists, DR.. Dudley is today an
nouncing second course of pro-
grams to be given, in most part,
on Sunday afternoons, which will
give local talented soloiStS and or
ganizationS of artistic standing
opportunity to appear in pro-
grams that. in manv cases. feature
some of the worlds leading ar
fists. This plan is given in more
detail elsewhere in these pages.
THE concert season promises to
L be filled morning, afternoon
and evening with varied and col
orful programs. Mrs. Wilson,
Greene is presenting her usual
three afternoon series of five pro-
grams each, and orchestrally
speaking, T. Arthur Smith has a
dazzlingly brilliant array of con-
ductorS for the five programs TO
be presented by the Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra and the
three by the New York Philhar-
monic- Symphony Orchestra. Mrs.
Lawrence Townsend will have
eight morning musical programs
with two famous artists, many Of
them in Washington debut, on
each program. With DR.. Dudley'S
first professional course Of con-
certs, this group of four leading
managers will offer the public 80
first-rank professional artists
programs.
No operatic news of definite
nature has been received for an
nouncement. It would seem prob
able that the Metropolitan Opera
Co. might again include Washing
ton in the annual Spring tour, but
that is yet to be determined. The
Washington Opera Co. is also
making no formal announcement
of definite dates for performances
this year, although Mr.. Albion
shows in an interview printed
elsewhere in this issue that he is
buSily engaged in building the
national aspect of the company
which already has to it's credit the
first performances in opera given
many young American artists.
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THE schools of music have had
l. one notable increase in num-
ber. DR.. c. e. ChriStiani has
opened the doors of the Institute
of Musical Art, and is both presl-
dent and head of the violin de-
partment of that school, with
Frank GebeSt, his able second, as
head of the piano department
and Otto Torney Simon, who be-
came famous as a director oi
motets, as head of the voice de-
partnent.
Two Washington music schools
have the Joint distinction of cele-
brating this Fall the twenty-fiftE
anniversary of their establish
ment. These schools are tht
washington College of Music anc
Nine. Won Unschuld'S UniverSit.
of Music. The Washington Col
lege of Music has had somewha
of a reorganization and new elec
ton of officers during the Summe
and opens its new season tomor
row with Weldon Carter, head o
Art