Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-06
OERSISTENTLY the national
- aspect of Washington is be-

- aspect of Washington is be-
ing stressed. President Hoo
= yer, it is announced, has &C
copied the honorary chairman
ship of the committee of gov
ernorS of the National Music
Week Committee, according TO
G. M. Tremaine, director of the
national bureau for the advance
ment of music.
Mr.. Hoover is the second PreSi-
dent of the United States to fill
the position. When President
Coolidge accepted the position in
1924 he expressed the hope that
the observance of Music week
might mark another milestone on
the way to the widest interest
in, and appreciation of, the best in
music culture"
Even so, with the head of our
Nation as head of the national
Music week plans, several seasons
have passed without Washington.
as city with representative music
groups organized for the purpose,
being listed among the American
cities celebrating Music week. This
ored throughout the country dur
ing the first week of May. The
various reasons for WaShington'S
civic reticence in participating
have as leading factor the fact
that at that time of year most
of the local studios are so oc-
cupied with Spring recitals that
anything in addition which is at
all ambitious, is impractical. How
ever, the Pianists' Club of Wash
ington makes a point of holding
its annual festival during Music
week. Also during the past three
years it has been the aim of the
choral groups that combine under
the joint banners of the Washing
ton Church Music Council and the
District of Columbia Federation
Of Music Clubs to give a concert
during that week:
WASHINGTON is first and fore
w most the National Capital.
Also it is a city with many civic
interests.
AS the National Capital there
are many things brought to Wash
ington and many people who como
to Washington that would never
be drawn here by civic interests OF
endeavorS. Among them is the
festival of chamber music pre-
Sented under the auspices of
the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Foundation at the Library of Con-
gresS this week. Authorities in
the world of music from all ove-
this and even many European
countries are the invited guests
at these events and the programs
are thoroughly universal in their
international and undated appeal.
The classiciStS, who always are
represented to some extent at
least, will be honored this year
with works by the famous three
BIS of music literature, Beethoven,
Bach and Brahms.
Franz Danzi, who lived in Mann
helm over a hundred years ago,
provides the opening composition
of the festival. Faure also is rep
of the festival. Faure and Bruck-
ner also are represented.
Two ultra moderniStS' works
form the features of the festival.
Josef Huttel is the Czechoslovak
composer whose advertisement
Grotesque" won the 1929 E.
S. Coolidge prize and which
will be given its first perform
ance anywhere. 1t is scored
for piano and five wind inStru-
ments. Paul Hindemith, whose
name is by now quite familiar to
musicians all over the world, is
represented by concerto scored
for organ and chamber orchestra
which is given it's American pre-
miere on this occasion,
America has plentiful share IT.
the opportunities given Emerson
'Whithorne and Ernst Bloch-the
latter the AmericaniZed COM
poser whose symphonic poem,
"America," was the heralded event
orchestrally last season = have
compositions listed, and an entire
morning program is devoted to
American folk music.
No attempt will be made here to
describe the compositions Of the
festival. That will be the object
of reviews following the events.
The artists giving the programs
during this festival all are inter-
nationally known, and several of
them have appeared either on
earlier programs in PittSfield,
Mass, where Mrs. Coolidge origi-
mated these events, or in Wash
ington in one of the three previ-
Gus festivals held in the National
Capital. The holding of these
events in Washington is signif1-
cant in that it brings one of the
finest cultural endeavors organ
lied in this country to the capital
of the country.
A MOTHER musical endeavor
that recognizes the Importance
of Washington as the Capital Of
the United States is that organ
lied under the auspices of the
Pan-American Union, DR.. Leo
Rowe, director, with Franklin
Adams, councillor. 1t is the pur-
pose of the Pan-American Unions
frequent concerts to acQuaint
audiences in the Capital of the
North American Republic with the
music produced in the 20 other
American republics, generally
spoken of as Latin America. In
Washington alone, Of all cities in
the United States, is it possible to
include in an audience for such
purpose the representatives of IS
nations as we'll as high officials in
the Government of the United