Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
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BY HELEN FETTER.

T OCAL musical affairs are as
Stunning a livelier aspect al
ready, although it will be the end
of the month before the studios
all will be reopened and everybody
back ready for the new season
1929-30. The four leading musical
educational institutions are open
ing their doors tomorrow and all
have new and increased advan-
tages to offer to eager students.
Guest teachers are announced by
two Of them, innovations in I'M
usual classes are particularly fea-
tured at still another school,
and several scholarships are an
nounced at the fourth institution.
Private teachers studios and the
various musical clubs will begin
the season in October, although
preliminary announcements al
ready are forthcoming.
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THE Fall festival of chamber
music is to be held at the Lii
brary of Congress October Z. 8
and 9. This is unique invitation
series sponsored by the Elizabeth
Sprague Coolidge Foundation. To
these concerts critics, distinguish
ed musicians and other musical
authorities come by invitation of
Mrs. Coolidge from all over this
country and even Europe. The
national aspect of these events is
being particularly stressed. The
guests come to hear the best eff
forts of old and new composers
presented by internationally ia
NOUS Interpreters on these occa-
SionS. Every endeavor is made
to create truly representative pro-
grams of musical significance for
these events.
THE professional concert open
= ing of the season 1929-30 has
been listed as a gala performance
featuring American artists to
open the new Constitution Hall
of the D. A. r. Building Novem-
Der 2 under the management OF
Mrs. WilSon-Greene, who has just
returned from Europe and seems
to have recuperated from her Sc
we're accident which occurred last
Spring.
T. Arthur Smith, who is achiev-
ing the designation of the orcheS-
ira concert manager of Washing
ton, as he is bringing all but one
orchestra in the listed organiza-
lions of that type for the Nation
al Capital this year, opens his sea-
son with the first of four con-
certS to be given by the Phila-
Leopold Stokowskf conducting,
also in the new Constitution Hall,
November 5. This will be the first
orchestral program in the new
hall.
Mr.. Smiths bureau also an
nounces that the Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra, under Hen
ri ;Verbrugghen, will appear in
Washington February Is. Three
concerts will be presented by the
New York Philharmonic SYM
phony Orchestra.
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GTILL another month will pass
~ before Mrs. Lawrence Town
send presents the initial of her
established series of morning pro-
grams at the MayfloWer Hotel.
She announces her first date as
Wednesday, December 4. Her
other dates, also Wednesdays, viii
be December II and 18, January 3,
IS. % and 20, and February 5.
Mrs. Townsend is not yet an
nouncing her artists, but it is UNI
derStood that a world-famous
baritone and an American So
prano are to present the opening
Ioropram. Several new artists
have been added to her list, FOL
lowing Mrs. Townsend's trip
abroad earlier in the Summer.
There also will be the favoriteS
of earlier seasons.
UPEGGY" ALBION was in Wash
l. ington recently on a flying
trip from North Carolina, where
the Albions have been all Sum.
mer, while the baritone voice OF
Edouard Albion rang forth In re-
citals at various halls in that
State. Mrs. Albion reports that
the series of fecitalS has been
highly successful and already
there are bookings that will car
nv the family to Florida for en-
gagements in the Winter. Mr..
Albion, known in Washington
more particularly in the capacity
of impresario of the Washington
Opera Co., is to appear in formal
recital here early in December,
the exact date to be announced
later.
OPERATICALLY speaking, the
" coming season holds announce
ments to the effect that the
American Opera Co. is to present
some performances here in Janu-
ary, the German Grand Opera
Co. is to give several operas in
March, and although no definite
dates are set it is understood that
the Metropolitan Opera Co. is to
have several performances here
when en- route South, following
the close of the New York house
in the late Spring.
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ELSEWHERE on the page men
- ton is made that Sophie
BraSlau, the American contralto,
is, to sing the title role in Gar
men" when it is given early in the
season in Philadelphia by the
Civic Grand Opera Co. of that
city.
This brings to mind a comment
made in the New Music Review
in a late Summer issue to the eff
feet that Carmen" has been per-
formed in a novel manner at
Shanghai. AS the Chinese public
is ignorant of bull-ring manners
and toreadorS, Carmen was rep
resented as a laundreSS, Don Jose