Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-20
NJ u SIC
BY HELEN FETTER.


ever, and has been given perform
ance there by Beatrice harrison,
British celliSr, who, incidentally,
is familiar musician here, where
she has been heard several times.
A dispatch from the Associated
Press IN London last Tuesday
says: Musical talent of United
States Ambassador Charles G..
Dawes was displayed to the Brit
ish public last night for the first
time. A melody for cello and
pianoforte he had composed in his
youth was played at a concert in
Wigmore Hall. Newspaper critics
were kindly in their comment. 1t
is melodiously and automatically
written, and If not great music, Il
is pleasant from the point Of view
of the listener said one. An
other described it as a pleasant
and elegant trifie.'"
1t Is reported that his sudden
visit to the United States prevent
ed the composer from hearing this
rendition of his work. The writer
remembers quite distinctly the in
picious kinship to a small boys
grin that appeared on Mr.. Dawes
face on a couple Of occasions
when his work had been per-
formed here and he was seated in
vice presidential aloofneSS in one
of the stage boxes. He seems to
be one composer who has the rare
gift of not taking his work too
seriously.
T Asst Fall a string quartet from
Budapest, heart of the gypsy
country that is Hungary, landed
at New York and journeyed to the
unpretentiouS auditorium on
South Mountain, PittSfield, for
merly a barn and with church
pews as its seats, to make their
debut in the United States in Mrs.
Frederick s. Coolidge's festival Of
chamber music. This was the
Roth String Quartet.
This Fall still another string
quartet comes with fiddleS tucked
under their arms from the capital
of the gypsy land to make their
American debut. This time it is
the Lener String Quartet, and
they will have their first appear
ance in America in washington
for the Founders day concert a:
the Library of Congress. They
will be honoring the birthday an
niverSary Of the same Mrs. Cool
idge, originator of the Elizabeth
Spra"ue Coolidge Foundation.
The Roth String Quartet also
played Founders day concert at
the Library of Congress, giving
the one last year. It will be re-
membered that they interpreted
Superbly the Quartet in G" by
Mozart. The Lener String Quar-
tet is to interpret another compo-
sition by Mozart, the Quartet i'll
B Flat" which was written two
years later, as the opening selec-
ton Of its program a week from
Wednesday. The largo from
Haydn's String Quartet in D,
Opus 76. No. 81 viii be played to
commemorate the death of Oscar
Sonneck, first chief Of the music
division, the Library Of Congress.
Mr.. Sonlleck died 0ctober30; 1928.
The final number on this program
is to be Schubert's Quartet in D
Minor"
The members of the Lener
String Quartet are: Jeno Lener
and Joseph Smilovits, violins;
Sander Roth. viola, and Imre
Hartman, violoncello.
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| A MOTHER very practical memo
rial to the late Oscar Sonneck
is the recent gift by the Bee
thoven Association Of New York
City of $4,000. The check for
this amount was presented by
Harold Bauer, president of the as
ISOLATION, to Dr. Herbert Putnam
librarian to Congress, October 6
on Mr.. Sonneck's birthday, the
day preceding the opening of the
fourth Coolidge festival of cham
Der music at the Library Of Con-
greSs.
The aims of this memorial
are as follows: 1.-THE Beethoven
Association of New York City, ar
organization known for its high
AluoANaA PdAO uAOc hLAO PLAAIdl-
thropic aims, in order to honor
and perpetuate the memory Of
Oscar G.. Sonneck, it's late secre-
tary and historian, has presented
to the Library of Congress in
Washington the sum of $4,000, tc
be designated as the 'SonnecS
Memorial Fund The fund, like
all similar donations, will be ad-
ministered bv the Library Of Con-
greSs Trust Fund Board, of which
the Secretary of the Treasury, An
drew w. Mellon, Is chairman. The
income from the fund will be de-
voted to the aid and advancement
Of musicology, by offering, through
the music division in the library
annual prizes or stipends for origi
nal contributions to musical re-
search and scholarship. in the his
torical, esthetic or critical field"