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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
Queen of the Castanets"
Dances Here Next Week

7 A ARGENTINA, the dancer who has
~ created o furore for her Spanish
numbers, Is scheduled to make her first
appearance iii Washington Tuesday aft
ernoon, November 10, at 4:30 o'clock
at Polls Theater. This Is the second
attraction In the artists course Of after
noon concerts.
In presenting La Argentina in Wash
ington, Mrs. Wilson Greene is bringing
to the Capital for the first time an artist
with q pGbs0nality that New York critics
have d0Bared to be the greatest since
Pavlow3$ arrival in America. A fine
repertoire IS promised, including her
famous "Lagarterana," the impersona-
ton Of peasant girl from Toledo; the
fiery lei amor brujo"; the Cordoba"
of Albeniz, and "Seguidillas," danced
without music, which have myriad COM
pick rhythms to reveal this dancers
virtuosity on the castanets.
Only few years ago, La Argentina
was unknown outside of Spain Then
came her debut at the Jardin de Paris
In Paris and the public almost at once
went mad over her. In an American
season of 10 weeks last year, La Argen-
tina duplicated, from coast to coast,
her Partisan artistic triumphs.
The briefness Of her American tour
last Winter made q Washington engage
ment impossible, but this season the
Capital will have opportunity to witness
the dancer who has been called 1.-The
queen of the castanetS" and whose ar
tistry is proving a sensation. Seats are
on sale at the concert bureau in Droop's
1900 G street northwest.
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Ancestor of Operas
To Be Sung Today

CLUCKS opera, "Orfeo ed Euridice,"
~ will be sung in concert form by the
Society of the Friends OF Music this
afternoon in Mecca Auditorium, New
York. This will be the societyS third
performance of the season. Artur Bo-
danZky will conduct.
Margaret Matzenauer will sing the
part OF Orpheus, Ethyl Hayden that OF
Eurydice, and Editha Fleischer, Eros.
The Friends of Music chorus, trained
by Walter Wohllebe, will represent shep-
herds and shepherdesses. furies and de-
mons, heroes and heroines In Hades.
specified in the opera for choral parts.
The orchestra will be that Of the Met
ropolitan Opera. The opera will be
sung in italian.
"orfeo," first produced in 1852, has
been described as the ''great-great-
grandfather of operas" the foundation
of modern opera, so radical was Gluck' s
departure from the artificial writing OF
the period. Making his aim a true
fusion of drama and music. he sought
in his lihretto dramatic verify and SIM
plicity and welded to the poetry score
In which, writes Henry Bellamann In a
program note, there are dignity and
simplicity that actually realize the
strength and harmony OF Greek ideals.
The text by Raniero oil Calzabigi. is.
| of course, based on the classic legend
with a happy ending" however. which
reunites the lovers and spares Orpheus
| the traditional fate of being torn limb
| from limb by the ThrAcian maidens
| The part of Orpheus was written fol-
| the celebrated eighteenth century male
contfalto, Gaetano GuAdagni, which ex-
plains why in the present performance
all leading roles are assigned to women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
"Soloist Ensemble"
Organized.

OTTO T. SIMON, who has trained
many choruses in Washington. has
Just organized at the Institute of Mu-
steal Art, Inc, 83l Eighteenth street
northwest, a group of woman singers to
be known as the soloist ensemble.
The organization will develop dou-
BILE or triple octet, the voices carefully
selected as to harmonious blend, all
soloists, all good readers and seasoned
musicians of ability.
Programs will be given of music by
the best composers. RehearSals are in
formal and short, lasting from 7:15 to
B:l5 pm. each Wednesday.
Technical problems, tonal color, the
deeper emotional psychology Of the mu-
steal phrase will be discussed and
studied and Interpretation. will be shap-
ed in this way.
Dorothy Coggeshall. Vassar grad
uate and former accompanist of the
VaSSar Glee Club, viii act as accom-
PIANIST for this ensemble.
Members accepted so far are Eva
Bright, Rose Bright, Lillian Chenoweth,
Mrs. David J. Guy, Mrs. J. A. Hoeft,
Lucy G. Lynch, Mrs. David Quinn,
Janet Pickett. Ida Willis Seaton and
Mary r. Turner.
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Capital Choral Club
Is Newly Organized

A REUNION was held last Wednes-
"A day evening Of the members Of the
former evening choir Of the Church Of
the Covenant, at which a majority Of
the old membership was present. For
some time past the matter OF reorgani-
cation with greatly augmented mem.
bership and wider and more diversified
field OF musical activity has been under
consideration, with the result that q
new club had been formed to be known
as the Capital Choral Club. Around
the nucleus Of the old membership Will
be gathered q large body of singers in
terested in the study and presentation
of the best popular secular and sacred
music. Meetings will be held Wednes-
day of each week under the direction
of Claude Robson, already well known
as the director OF the RubinStein Club,
Of the old Church of the Covenant Eve
ming Choir and of Che Mount Pleasant
Conversational Church Choir.
At the meeting Wednesday the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President
and director, Mr.. Robson; accompanist.
Sue Blandy, formerly accompanist Of
the evening choir of the Church Of the
Covenant and of the Rubinstein Club;
treasurer. Robert L. Duck; librarian,
W. M. Richan: social committee, Mr..
Milan, chairman: Mrs. George Tolson,
Mrs. E. II. Reed, Mrs. Mary Bowen,
Miss Sinclair and Blaine Lowry: secre-
tary, Mrs. Tennille, 1907 Columbia
road, phone Franklin 1909, who will be
glad to furnish all information to those
desiring to Join the new organization.
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Toronto Festival Honors
1000 Years of English Song

parish or cathedral choir, and even as
late as the time of Queen Elizabeth
music was one of the seven subjects
specified for an oxford degree in arts
It was not until the Puritan regime OF
the seventeenth century that singing
began to be considered as anything but
q necessary social asset"
At the festival this week several
groups of artists will revive the golden
age of English music and the dance.
Among the artists to appear are the
famous sextette known as the English
Singers; the English Folk Dancers, di-
rected by Douglas Kennedy; the Hart
House String quartet and the cellist
Felix Salmond. They will perform f1f-
tenth century carols, sixteenth century
and notets, seventeenth CEN
fury airs, sixteenth century catches, as
wall of court and country dance tunes
popular between the days of Henry V
and Queen Anne. Besides such magic
names as Byrd, Tells, Weelkes. Orlando
Gibbon, Morley and Purcell. the pro-
gram will include modern English
music, and will mark the Canadian
premiere Of the romantic ballad opera
Hugh the Drover," written by Ralph
Vaughan williams.
Morris and country dances will be
featured at this festival on the first two
evenings and the third afternoon. Di-
rected by Douglas Kennedy, head Of the
English Folk Dance Society, there will
be six men and seven women dancers,
accompanied by violin. piano, pipe and
Cecil Sharp, pione& of the rediscov-
cry of English dances, saw his first
Morris dance in 1899 at oxford, and at
once set out to rescue the great treas
ureS of English dance and song from
oblivion. Since then he and his sue
cessors have collected 5000 of them
from all parts of England. adding to
this collection some from the deScen-
dants of early British settlers in the
mountains of Virginia and the Caro-
linas
The two most important English folk
dances. are the Morris dance and the
sword dance. Both are of ceremonial
origin, and were formerly danced ex-
clusively by teams Of men at certain
periods of the year. Even i'm the per-
dominance OF these dances today by ira
CitionhI teams traces of their original
ritualistic purpose are preserved. Both
dances are highly spectacular, and de-
mand complete coordination and con-
troll of bodily movement and a fine
sense of rhythm and phrasing
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A New Girls Glee Club.

THERE Is new glee club in Wash
ington Of great promise. 1t was or
ganized by the Young Womens Chris
tian Association under the direction Of
Lucy Street, national director of Y. w.
c. A. music, who has selected five sing
ers from each of the six Girl Reserve
Clubs In the five senior high schools in
the city as a nucleus of the club.
Try-outs for this Girl Reserve Glee
Club were held last week. The entire
personnel will be announced within a
few days, as the contests were close in
many cases, owing to the interest Of
the girls and the excellence Of their
voices. The new glee club will be di-
rected by Miss Street, assisted by the
music chairmen of the six Girl Reserve
Clubs. This committee includes Ida
Raffel of Tri-Hi Club, at Business
High School; Beatrice Spason OF Adel-
phi Club at Western High School; Mary
Lesta Wakeman of Bon Secours Club
at Central High School; Lillian Hardy
of Les Camarades Club at Eastern High
School, and Ruth Nails Of Semper
Fidelis Club at Mckinley High School.
Rehearsals will begin this week on a
program of carols to be sung in Decem-
Der, and q concert in January. at the
time of the Girl Reserve convention in
this city. The glee club ais owill assist
in the annual operetta given by the Girl
Reserves In the Spring.
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Rubinstein Club Announces
Guest Artists of Year

THE Rubinstein Club will bring to
Washington this season Lawrence
Strauss, tenor, and Martha Whittemore,
violoncellist.
Mr.. Strauss. who received enthusiastic
praise from the press last month. after
his New York debut at Town Hall, is
scheduled to sing at the f1rst concert,
to be held at the Willard Hotel, January
81, at $3.50 o'clock.
The guest artist for the second con-
cert, May 6, will be Miss Whittemore,
who has just returned to America after
an extensive four-year concert tour
through Europe.
information concerning associate
membership in the club may be gotten
from Mrs. Ethel Reed, 800 Carol street,
Takoma Park, Georgia 1338-W. Those
desiring active membership in the club
are urged to arrange for additions i'm
mediately with Mrs. Albert Volkmer,
234 Willow avenue. Takoma Park,
Shepherd 2l54.
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Remarkable Jewish Artist
In Program Wednesday

NINE. ANNA SHOMER ROTTEN
IA berg, ofttimes called the Jewish
Yvette GuilLert," will be heard in her
first Washington concert at the Jewish
Community Center, Wednesday at 8:l5
pm. She is the second artist In the
national forum series sponsored by the
educational committee, and the Middle
Atlantic States Federation.
Mime. Shomer- Rothenberg, who comes
to Washington following her successful
concert appearance in Aeolian Hall,
New York City, will offer a program
devoted largely to Jewish folk music,
with Introductory descriptions of each
number, In English. Her informal talk
about the music, giving the concert the
character of q lecture-recital, are said
to be unusual and delightful.
Her career to date has been varied
and intensely absorbing. She has been
an artist" histrionically, ever since che
was three years old, when she startled
her father, Russian playwright, and his
friends, by her mimicry OF the actors. in
their theater. Having been refused a
stage career by her father, she turned
her great talent to music. becoming a
pianist and singer and devotinE a con-
siderable portion of her time to the
study OF folklore and mythology,
weaving fanciful and beautiful stories
from these studies, from which she has
complied an operetta Of Jewish folk
songs.
Nine. Shomer- Rothenberg studied
singing with Pizzarello, I.azar Samilo1
and Francis Rogers, among others On
the occasion of her debut in New York
she created a genuine stir among crit
les and audience by the unusual pro-
gram she presented, as well as because
of her interpretative ability and beauti-
f,il o,Ialify NJ her natural QinOipo y,nica
Outstanding numbers in Nine. Sho-
mer- Rothenberg's Washington concert
will include Der Schneider" ("Little
Tailor"), Der Chedar Ingel C"The
School Boy'). "Sholem Aleichem"
CPeace Be With Your, ALLEN"
"AloneD and "Yahhel" ("Hebrew
Tickets for the concert are to be had
at the Jewish Community Center.
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ONE Of Washington's active young
singers. whose personality and
charming soprano voice alike have
made her q favorite as q soIoist for
many diplomatic and other events in
the National Capital, Elvina Neal Rowe,
has been chosen by two local compoS-
ers to sing their compositions at spe-
cial Washington composers program to
be given next Sunday afternoon at
O'Clock at the Congressional Country
Club.
Mrs. Rowe will sing the premiere per-
formance of a suite of songs written by
Dorothy Radde Emery, entitled Spring
Blooms" The songs are written for an
ensemble including, In addition to the
soprano, a violinist and violoncellist,
and pianist. In this first rendition, In
addition to Mrs. Rowe, the others par
ticipating will be Mrs. Emery herself at
the piano, Herman Hoffman, playing
the violin, and Angelo Bernolfa, violon-
cello. The words of these songs were
written by, Grace Thompson Seton. The
other three in the suite are entitled
Eastern Poppy" Madonna Rose" and
Late Chrysanthemum"
Edward C. Potter will be represented
by group Of three songs which Mrs.
Rowe will interpret. They are Desc
lation," ITO the Beloved" and AT
tumn" For these the accoApantst will
be another well known Washington
composer, r. Deane Shure.
The other numbers for the program
are not yet announced, but 1t is under
stood that orchestral works by Sieg-
fried Scharbau will be presented by q
group of well known musicians.
Mrs. Rowe also is the soloist tomor-
row afternoon at the reception to be
given for Mrs. William Howard Taft by
the Colonial Danes She will sing at
that time Tosellrs "Serenata," Dvor-
axis Songs My Mother Taught Me-"
and NAH Indy LOU" with Katherine
Morrison at the piano. Tomorrow
morning Mrs. Rowe viii sing Del Riego's
"Homing" on the Armistice day pro-
gram ut American University.
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Another New Chorus.

THE Capital City Choristers. a new
mixed chorus. has been organized
under the direction of Mrs. Henry Hunt
Mckee, known to Washington musical
circles for q number OF years as di-
rector and generally accomplished
musician.
Dorothy Radde Emery, the accom-
PIANIST, Is a graduate of Oberlin Con-
servatory and a teached in this city.
She Is a member of the Friday Morn
ing Music Club and Washington Com
posers' Club.
The soloistS Of the Capital City
ChoristerS are Ella MintZ, Edith C..
Beebe and Estelle Johnson. sopranos;
Mary Templin and Kathrine English,
contraltos; A. s. Parsons, Evans Brooke,
John D. johnson and Joseph A. Rose,
tenors; Gilbert Clark, Erving T. Horn,
baritones, and Herbert Frailey. bass.
Eva B. McKinnie, whistler, and Erving
T. Horn, violinist, are additional at
fractions to programs.
The officers of this club are: Mrs.
Mae Leonard. president; Gilbert Clark,
vice president; Mrs. Ella MintZ, treas
urer, and Mrs. Gladys B. Thompson,
secretary.
The club is now in rehearsal and ex-
poets to announce the opening concert
soon The membership Is still open to
tenors and contraltos. Applications
should be made to the director, Ills
Clifton street northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10

n WASHINGTON girl, who flrSt be-
a came noted as one of the few au-
thentic opponents of the ultra modern
in piano technique, has worked out an
extremely practical and original plan
to give adult audiences understanding
Of musical values. Kathryn MacNeal
Frost, whose initiative and talent In
modern piano programs won her very
individual place In local music circles q
few years ago when she returned to her
home town after having spent a con-
siderable time in New York, has been In
Haiti for the past two years. where her
husband, q naval ofilcer, was stationed,
except for short, hurried trips here to
visit her family. Now Lieut.. Comdr.
Frost is to be stationed at Portsmouth,
N. H., and In the intervening month,
Mrs. Frost will be in Washington re-
newing friendships and completing her
plans for transplanting her unique
classes for adult audiences which be-
came so successful with the naval and
social circles at the station in Port-au-
Prince.
In an informal interview the other
day, Mrs. Frost outlined the type of
work that she handles with these
Glasses" and the idea seemed both
practical and extremely interesting
While in accordance with established
principles, this idea of educating adults
events without having the privileges
of musical education as children to
give them understanding background
Mrs. Frosts methods of application are
individual to her. She gathers this
group for an hour once a week and
gives the simpler harmony lessons,
elementary ear training and also train
ing in perception of musical form" by
means of playing different types of
piano compositions and explaining de-
tails of each work. She plays the work
through once with Interpretation. Then
she takes the different themes and the
phrases, slowly working out first, Sec
ond and third themes, showing when
| they occur, the differences in transit
| lions to other keys or changes Of tempo
| in the same theme, and impresses these
| different things on her hearers. Then,
| later, she takes up other legitimate
readings than the Interpretation which
| she has selected for this composition,
4! to bring out other lights and shadows in
meaning or emphasize different beauties
| of the structure Of the composition or
/ to center interest on virtuosity of the
! player. etc.
| General discussion follows each les
SON. A repertoire of piano literature is
built up from early classic to ultra
modern. These are particularly sue
cessful features Of these classes.
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Eleanor Painter to Sing
Madame Butterhy"

Eleanor PAINTER will be heard in
- the title role when Madame But
terny" is presented by the Philadelphia
Grand Opera Co. at the Academy Of
Music Thursday night Ralph Errolle
will be heard in the role Of Pinkerton;
John Barclay will sing Sharpless: Berta
Levina will make her first appearance
with the company this year in the role
Of Suzuki Albert Mailer will sing the
role Of Goro: Arthur Holmgren will be
Yamadori: Beniamino Grobani, the inn
perial commissioner; Clarence Reinert,
the bonze; Abraham Robofsky the of
fetal registrar. and Helen Jepson will
be the stately Kate Pinkerton. Emil
Mlynarski will conduct and Wilhelm Won
Wymetal will stage the production.
A special feature of all operas pro-
duced by the Philadelphia Grand Opera
Co. this season is the new and elaborate
scenery and lighting effects. The set
ting for the Puccini opera is said to be
especially beautifully.
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TORONTO, Canada.

TORONTO, Canada.
A thousand years Of English music
IA will be celebrated here at the forth
coming English music festival In the
Royal York Hotel Wednesday through
Saturday, this week The festival offers
discovery, featuring old dances and
music from the time of the lutenist
composers to the present day.
English song won a wide recognition
early. Erasmus, writing early in the
sixteenth century, remarked that "the
English challenge the prerogative Of be-
ing the most accomplished in the skill
of music OF any people" Today we are
beginning to understand the importance
not only OF hearing good music but Of
making music, either as singers or as
instrumentaliSts. In Tudor and Stuart,
England this was taken as matter OF
course. The composer Thomas Morley
in the preface to "Plaine and Easie In
PRODUCTION to Practical Musicke" U590
regarded 1t essential to a gentleman's
education to be able to take part in a
madriEal, singing his music at sight.
Morley tells of q scholar who surprised
q Tudor household by his ignorance OF
this art. so that, as the learned man
confesses, every one began to wonder.
Yes, some whispered to others, de-
llOW was bAOuShb uPs
Henry Peacham in his "Oompleat Cen
tleman" 1622) makes 1t requisite Ito
sing your part sure at first sight, with
all to play the same upon your violl or
the exercise of your Lutte" thus adding
instrumental playing to the usual ac-
compliments
John Murray Gibbon of Montreal,
who has arranged the coming festival,
as well as Canada's other major festi-
walls, shows how greatly the Church
aided in preserving English folk music.
we mention with gratitude the name
of Thomas, the first archbishop of York,
appointed shortly after the Norman
conquest by William the Conqueror,
says Mr.. Gibbon. This musical prelate
instructed his priests to adapt sacred
words to popular tunes. so that the
Church might remain In touch with the
people. Thomas q Beckett, archbishop
Of Canterbury in the twelfth century,
when he went TO Paris to negotiate the
marriage Of an English princess to Louis
VII, was preceded by ESQ boys on foot
in groups of six. ten or more together,
singing English songs. according to the
custom of the country Until the
Reformation every boy was taught to
sing plain chant. as training for the
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Talk on Liturgical Music.

d EV. j. LEO BARLEY, archdiocesan
N director Of music and pastor of st..
Plus Church, Baltimore, will speak at
st. Peters Church tomorrow at 1880
pm. on the subject of liturgical music
Father Barley is head of the commits
sion appointed by Archbishop Curley to
regulate and reform the music of the
Roman Catholic Churches of the arch
diocese of Baltimore.
The music for the service, sung by
the mixed choir under the direction of
Christopher s. Tenley. will be selections
of the three types OF church music,
Gregorian chant, polyphony and APP
proved modern music and will include
numbers by Ravanello. st. Saens. Haydn
and Palestrina. This service will be held
In connection with the 40 hours devo-
ton which opens at the IL o'clock
mass today.