Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

only alI-Wagner orchestra concert
Of hte year. OSSip GabrilowitSch
regular conductor Of the Detroi;
Symphony Orchestra, conducted
two concerts of the Philadelphia
aggregation admirably and won
particular honorS for his per-
Torrance as pianist with the or
cheStra In Brahms Concerto in
B fat" Artur Rodzinski, able
second conductor of the Philadel..
lphia Orchestra, led the fourth pro-
gram. He won many admirers
locally for his Interpretation of
Brahms Symphony No. l." LA
Mer," by Debussey, and the nov
city, Hay ,Janos," by Kodaly
Eugene G\Nssens, the young Brit,
ish conducSAr, led the orchestra in
the final of the five programs, e
program that was not particu-
larly distinguished, although it
was interesting to hear de Falla'S
Three-Cornered Hat" suite again
and the premiere here Of Vaughan
Williams Norfolk Rhapsody"
| The Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra of New York gave three
programs under Willem Mengel-
berg, Fritz Reiner and Arturo
Toscanini, respectively. OF the
three, the last remains flaming
memory of inspiring music, made
more inspiring under a giant
among musicians and an orcheS-
ira that seemed entirely new un-
der his direction. The hackneyed
overture to "Tannhauser" was
given inspiring new meaning with
Toscanini's Interpretation. He
also brought, in manuscript, the
third, final tone poem in the series
based on Roman history, natural
and otherwise, written by Otto
rino Respighi. This one was
called Roman Festivals" Next
season ToScanini is scheduled for
one program here. Mengelberg
and Molinari are to conduct the
other two programs.
The Boston Symphony, under
Serge KouSSevitzky, presented
two programs, including in them
new works by Bloch giving the
prize-winning America" with q
local chorus provided by the Ma
tional Capital Oratorio ASsocia-
ton, DR.. Albert Harmed, directory +.
and Honnegger, the latter being
represented by his Rugby" An
unfamiliar work to local au-
diences also was the "Gymno-
pedies," by Erik Satie.
Not so well heralded, perhaps,
but surprisingly fine for the two
years only that the group has had
| for actual performance, was the
Women'S Symphony Orchestra Of
Boston, Ethel Leginska, director.
The feature of the more impor-
tant of the two programs given
here was the presentation Of the
List Hungarian Fantastic, !" with
Miss Leginska playing the piano
part and directing too. This Or
chestra is to appear here during
the coming season in regular
| concert course.
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WASHINGTON heard 20 profess
w Sional singers, with two Civ
| ing two programs. Those two
were Rosa Ponselle, the brilliant
prima donna Of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, and Roland
Hayes, the famous colored tenor.
Both Americans. Other particu-
larly successful vocal recitalists
were: Sigrid Onegin, Anna Case,
Louis Graveure, Edward Johnson,
Maria OlzewSka, Lucrezia Bori,
Beniamino Gigli, Milan Petrovich,
Ruth Townsend Petroyich, Nine.
CALI Curci, Mihail Shvetz (fa-.
nous Russian singer, Flora Nc
Gill Keefer and Emma Roberts. A
unique event was the appearance
here OF Nine. Gamma Walska in a
song recital, assisted by Giovanni
MARITIME.
InNLY four world-famous plan
~ lists appeared in programs and
six noted violinists. The pianists
were: Josef Holman, Serge Rach-
maninoff, Myre Hess and Vladi-
mir Horowitz. The violinists
were: Yehudi Menuhin, Jascha
HeifetZ, Fritz Kreisler, Paul Koch
anski, Yelly d'Aranyi and Eddy
Brown. OF them all, the 12-year-
old Yehudi and Kreisler dominate
the memory.
One of the best Of the young
American violiniStS did not pre-
sent a recital program here, but
instead, stole the honors of big
| choral festival with the magic Of
her fiddling. She was Sylvia
Lent-who, incidentally, Is a
Washingtonian.
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TWO big professional choral
L groups visited Washington.
They were the Prague Teachers
Chorus, mentioned above, and the
popular Westminster Choir Of
Dayton, Ohio. Both were well re-
ceived, the latter having a spe-
cial program at the White House
| Just prior to sailing for what have
proved conqueSts in European
cities.
There also was much local
choral work that was of fine cali
Der. This, along with' other To-
cal performances that seemed
particularly worthy of end-of- the
season comment, will be discussed
in this column next week, along
with the mention Of the chamber
music performances, both numer-
Gus and indicative of more mu-
sicianly trend generally in the
music being given in Washington.
The whole season shows plainly
; that the day of the recital artist
| is getting briefer and the number
who, as individuals, still hold the
power of attracting standing
room only audiences Is decreas-
ing.
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