Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-07
MUSIC FESTIVAL
OPENS TONIGHT
Joseph Huettel's 1929 Prize
Score to Feature FoUnda.
TONS Fourth Program.

The fourth chamber music festival.
to be held under the auspices of the
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Founds ton
at the Library of Congress, will open
with a program given in the little
music hail. especially built for these
night at 8:45 o'clock. The many guests
from out Of town for this festival have
been arriving since Saturday. IT IS
understood that invitations have been
accepted to the complete quota so that
the Sill seats in this auditorium will
be filled for each OF the five events.
The particular feature Of tonishts
program will be the first public per-
Torrance of the work which won the
advertisement Grotesque." by Joseph
Huettel. The work is scored for piano.
flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon.
Resides In AIexa ndria.
The composer, Mr.. Huettel was born
July l8. 1893 at Melnik. Czechoslo-
vakia. He studied music at the Prague
Conservatoire with Prof. v. Novak and
later with Prof s. Tsneieff in Mos.
COW. In 1915 Mr.. Huettel became con-
ductor Of the Imperial Ballet Orchestra
in Moscow. Two years later he accept
ed the position Of conductor OF the
state opera in Voronezh. Since 1920 he
has made his home in Alexs ndria.
Egypt. as professor OF music and a
conductor
Mr.. Huettels principal works are
"Asiyade." ballet written in 1915: two
symphonies. "Cagliostro" tpoeme SYM
for orchestra; incidental music 10 oscar
Wildes drama, "Salome";; "Fantaisie
Dansante" for violin and orchestra:
string quartet which was awarded the
prize of the Societe de Musioue de
Chambre de Prague in 1928. Les
Marionettes." for q chamber ensemble:
several songs and piano compositions.
tesQue,' for wind instruments and piano.
which is to be played tonight. The
above data concerning Mr.. Huettels
works were sent. At request to Carl
Engel chief OF the music division OF
the Library Of Congress. by the COM
poser.
TOniEht'S Program.
Tonight's opening number will he
Quintet in @. Opus Sc. No. q" writ
ten by Franz Danzi, who lived in Mann.
helm, Germany, over a hundred years
ago. Then follows q number In which
interest Is only second to that inspired
by the prospect of hearing Mr.. Huettel's
prize winning work. It is Beethoven's
Grand Fhgue, Opus 1874" which was
written as the original finale to the
String Quartet in B Flat" given first
performance in Vienna March 81, 1926.
Local musicians will remember hearing
this fugue in the series of events at
the Library of Congress, when all of
this composers string ouartets were
played by the London String Quartet.
Tonight, however, it will be Harold
Bauer's arrangement of the transcript
ton OF the grand fugue made by Bee
thoven himself for four hands at the
piano which will be played. Mr. Bauer
states In preface to his two-piano ar
rangement that this transcription has
been made solely with the view to sur
mounting the difficulty of performance.
Mr.. Bauer and Arthur Loesser will play
the transcription
Johann Sebastian Bach is represent
ed by his Sonata In Major for Flute
and Piano." which will precede the
playing of the prize composition which
forms the finale to his program
In addition to the two pianists above
mentioned. the Barrere Ensemble of
Wind instruments will be the artists of
the evening. The ensemble includes:
Georges Bsrrere. flute: Carlos Mullenix,
oboe: Fred van Ambureh. clarinet:
Rudolph Puletz. horn. and Angel del
Busto, bassoon.
Morning Program.
Tomorrow morning at 1l:l5 o'clock
a group of American folk sones, in
Guiding Negro exaltations and Kentucky
Mountain songs, will be given by Marion
Kirby and John J. Niles. the latter
being the collector Of the songs and a
Southerner by birth. paraphrase OH
three Negro Spirituals by Nathaniel
Shilkret, and "Obsequies of Saxophone'
by Werner Jansen, will be played by
wind instruments and percussion. The
chamber orchestra conducted by Mr..
Shilkret will play two compositions
which won awards for popular works
offered by the Victor Talking Machine
Co. They are RUDE Blooms Song of
the Bayou" which won $4,000, and
Thomas Griselles Two American
Sketches" which won $4,000. w. C.
Handy's now historic st Louis Blues"
as arranged by Mr.. Shilkret, will be
played also.
In the afternoon at o'clock. cham
Der music by Bruckner. Hugo Wolf and
Brahms will be played by the Roth
String Quartet Of RifdaDesf