Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
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y day, many of the church
programs today mirror the senti-
n1ent in their music, including
several ambitious presentations OF
cantatas. The month Of Novem-
Der, which closes this week with
only one outstanding professional
program, that OF the American
Negro tenor, Roland Hayes, has
had leiSurely progress muSically
since the first large musical pro-
gram, the gala event at ConStitu-
ton Hall, November 5, which in
augurated that new auditorium as
a music hall. Mr.. StokowSki, who
presented the first orchestral con-
cert. of the season, also in THAI
hall, returns early In December
for his second and last appear
ance scheduled for this year, con-
Quoting the orchestra in a second,
rather oddly assorted, program,
given in detail elsewhere on this
page. Later, the Philadelphia or
ganization will give two programs
in 1880, both under the leadership
of OSSip GabrilowitSch.
Music lovers of Washington
generally seem to. feel reminiscent
pleasure over both the piano re-
cital of Vladimir Horowitz and the
more recent dance recital of La
Argentina, The Library of Con-
gress has. not given a November
program, but uShered the month
in most favorably with the Ameri-
can debut of the Lener String
Quartet of Budapest the very end
of october.
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ONE of WaShington's long eStab-
lished musical organizations
which sponsors programs weekly
by leading local musicians and &C.
caSionally brings a distinguished
musical authority from out of
town for lecture recital, the Fri
day Morning Music Club, is to add
another name to the latter list
this week. For the third program
of the season the club will pre-
sent Godfrey O'Hara in a recita.
entitled 1.-The Philosophy and HUI
NOR of Music" Friday morning.
Previous particularly memorable
talks have been given under
the clubs auspices other sea-
sons by Carl EngeL chief of the
music division of the Library of
Congress, when that brilliant
writer, composer and critic. talked
on jazz" and DR.. j. Fred Wolfe
director of the Bach Choir of
Bethlehem, Pa, for 80 years, has
given two talks centering about
the life and works of the great
composer of Leipzig, who has
proved one of the greatest writer's
in the field of music, yet who was
never known as brilliant concert
artist, but rather filled the routine
post of organist and choirmaster
in a church in that German city.
Mr.. O'Hara, who talks this Fri
day, is an American composer,
born in Chatham, Ontario,
Canada, in 1882. He received his
education in Chatham Collegiate
Institute while studying music.
He came to the United States from
Canada in 1904 and was natural
ICED in 1919. 1882 st
Mr.. O'Hara is noted chiefly as
writer of songs, His first success
came in 1913 when Caruso selected
one of his songs, to sing on con-
cert programs. Many other art
lists followed. Former Secretary of
the Interior Franklin K. Lane ap-
pointed Mr.. O'Hara to serve as Gin
Structor in native Indian music"
before the war, when Mr.. O'Hara
was one of the. pioneers in the
work of Army song leading, being
sent by the War Department to
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, in June, 1917
Probably the best known of his
songs is There Is No Death" q
very dramatic song with origi-
nality in melody and fine suitable
ity OF tune to the words. There
doubtless are some who will re-
member Mr.. O'Hara'S appearance
in Washington several seasons ago
when the radio was still a COM
parative novelty and he came here
as a featured musician with
''RoXy'S Gang" in programs for
the benefit of the soldiers. OF his
Soldier-day songs, ''K-K-K-Katy"
was particularly popular, and he
has written about $50 other songs
as well as compiled "Harmoniza-
tons of Canadian Folk Songs"
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IN the current issue of Overtones,
the monthly publication of the
Curtis Institute of Music, Josef
Hofmann, pianist extraordinary
and director Of the institute,
brings up most interesting point
in his brief open letter addressed
to members of the musical faculty.
Mr.. Hofmann says in this letter:
Probably all of us have often
wondered how we happened to