Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02
NJ U SIC
BY HELEN FETTER.

nous works. Ernest Newman, ia
nous critic for the London Times,
put his finger Immediately on the
value of this newest device when
he said:
Some years ago I wrote a lit
tie book on Wagner in which I
gave the usual stories of the OPP
eras, with the usual musical mo-
tiveS.' A friend of mine conscien-
tiously read the book through, not
because he was particularly musi-
cal, but because, strange as it may
seem, he was fond of me. He
wrote me afterward that he liked
the stories well enough, but that
the quotations beat him. Every
time the page was broken by a
stretch Of music type, he said, it
was as if the train had gone into
tunnel while he was reading his
paper, but with this difference
that when he came out of the or
binary tunnel he could pick up
the sense of the article where he
had left it, while the musical tun-
mel made an unbridgeable gap
each time in the sense of what he
was reading. This difficulty has
been surmounted at last by the
new photographic music. 1t
is the soundest and most compre-
hensive thing of its kind that has
ever been put forward. The
plain man can now get his ana
lytical notes as of old, but instead
of losing himself in a tunnel when
he comes to a musical quotation,
he finds that the reproducing pi-
ano plays it for him without any
trouble on his part and, more
over, it is played for him by a
flrSt-rate pianist"
x x X x
THIS is a week when orchestra
music is in the air persistently.
The National High School Orches-
ira, which appeared here in a
program last night at Constitu-
ton Hall, also recently gave pro-
grams in New York when Ernest
Hutchinson was the Soloist) and
Philadelphia. It is interesting to
learn that the double purpose of
these programs was to raise funds
for scholarships for deserving
youngsters to attend the 1890
camp session this Summer at In
terlochen, Mich, and to win sup
port for the trip the orchestra is
to make to Europe a year from
this Summer.
A RTURO TOSCANINI, the or
cheStral lion of Milan. makes
his only Washington appearance
Tuesday with the Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra of New York.
He is announced to conduct the
overture and Venusberg music to
'TannhauSer. It is interesting
to remember in this connection
that he has been announced as
the conductor for all perform
ances Of this opera and Tristan
und Isolde" at Bayreuth this
Summer. 1t will be his first ap-
pearance in these famous festi-
walls.
Also, it is heartening to learn
that all rumors to the effect that
the New York orchestra will not
come to Washington next year
after its European tour have been
laid low. The committee here an
nounceS that the necessary guar
anty has been arranged and the
orchestra will give some concerts
here next Winter.
Still third high light that
gloWS about this orchestraS ap-
pearance here Tuesday emanates
from the fact that so Washing
ton boys and girls who play In
high school orchestras were given
season tickets to the three per-
formances Of this orchestra here
this season. They are all on tip
toes to hear the great Arturo.
That is practical philanthropy
and an invaluable gesture in the
cause OF musical progress here.
PIzzETTI, whose latest opera.
Fra Gherardo," was given its
American premiere at the MET"
In New York earlier this Winter,
Will be generously represented
and make a personal appear
ance" here this week. Mr.. Tosca-
mini will play "Rondo Veneziano"
by this young man Tuesday after
noon, and will appear Wednesday
afternoon with a group of assist
ing musicians in a program of his
chamber music works and songs.
Signor Pizzetti is now director
OF the Milan Conservatory of Mu-
sic. His latest opera, Just COM
pleted, is entitled 1.-The Stranger"
('Lo Straniero"(.
This composer says that all
Italy is keenly awaiting the ar
rival there a few months hence
of the New York Philharmonic
under Toscanini, and that most of
the concerts have already been
sold out for the American orches-
ira.
x X X x
THE Southern State of Tennes-
see has the honor of present.
ing two fine singers before an
audience tomorrow night at Mrs.
Eustls' house in a benefit for the
birthplace OF that great Southern
general, Robert E. Lee. One of
these two singers, the young So
prano, Grace Moore, was heard
here early this month in a recital.
The other, Oscar Seagle. was
heard in a program last Fall be-
fore a necessarily small, invita-
ton audience at the King Smith
School here, where he has been
coming this season as guest
teacher.
Mr.. Seagle, leading exponent of
the methods of the great tenor,
Jean de ReSzke, is a musical in
dividual of eminence. He not
only has a gorgeous voice himself
which has won for him hearty
praise both in New York and as