Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-07

- THOUGH yesterday, ut q late after
N noon hour, Beethoven scores and
~ instruments were being hustled into
temporary exile, the memory Of the
past week is stin strongly with VS..
Maestro Koussevitzky and his Boston Orches-
ira, after giving the finest and most complete
resume of Beethoven that we are likely ever TO
: have. has gone to the Back Bay district and
we are left practically Beethovenless, since the
Philadelphia Orchestra has removed this veteran
composer from its scoreboard and planted
Brahms IN hts stead Tuesday nights pro-
gram.
But although festivals are no more, the mnsi-
cal curtain is still very high in the skies. and
this coming week is in no way q iet-down. New
corners and old friends are being awaited with
eaeerness. There is the immaculate EtOkOwsk1
and his Philadelphians and Kreisler, who viii
DO everything that there is to be done with
the violin, possibly just bit better than any
body else. And there is Jose Iturd and the
Don Cossack Chorus to see and hear 1or the
first time.
Mr.. Iturbi and the Don Cossack Chorus have
been sensations since they came to this
country They have crowded Carnegie Hall
every time they have appeared, police having
had to subdue the crowds that greeted the
latter not 50 long ago. rturbi is the new wizard
from Spain, who Is reported to have q splendid
sense Of humor and special liking for new
clothes, new cigars and new aHtUmobi1es.~ OF
him the eminent critic. w. J. Henderson. says.
k1S OocS 1AOt KNOW now 70 pzAy W1xMu64Cduys
And about him there is much that ts 1nterest-
ing, since, unlike many piano virtuoeOs who
keep their hands and fingers In cotton most Of
the time, Mr.. Tturbis faRorite sport Is boxing,
which, u Is said, he INDUCES In freely and With
obvious delight. He is furthermOre scheduled
to play IS concerts during this years visit to
America, his concert at the MayGower On we'd
nesday being somewhere In the middle umpty.
umphs.
WHEN . singer comes 10 town Who has not
been heard either In New York or Paris
o. South America, the stamping ground Of %
many embryonic artists-she d. net apt to be
90 popular rs one who has been heard before
the more expensive footlghts. However, the
mast week has seen Nine. Clare CaAiEbezt we'd
coined into this city's musical hold with unusual
spontane4ty, and sine sang not onky Once bat
twice, which would indicate at the outset some
thing very unusual.
The unusualness COMES not emily through the
fact that neither New York nor Paris have
heard her and that although called repeatedly
by both cities she Is in no hurry 10 visit them.
but rather in her voice, which b unlike any
coIoratua heard IN recent years. E0c Mme.
Clairbert Is unQuestionably great artist and
o modest one. BY nov she must be aware that
q gift such as she possesses is rarely TO be
found, and yet she still seeMs TO be surprised
when told that she has voice which is-etc.
It b. perhaps, unfortunate that Washington
couldn't have seen Nine. Clairbert in an 0peraEic
role, Tor the singing drama Is her specially.
She says that she is trife frightened Of the
concert stage; that she is more at home when
she Is acting. And she says, too. that the
difference In audiences at these two kinds of
performances is remarkable. "Ln opera" she
said recently, Audiences let themselves 90,
while at q formal concert they sit back and
listen, but are extremely cautious about ap-
plauding" And then. discussing the various
cities IN which she has sung since her appear
auce IN this country, Mime. Clairbert rather
upset tradition by saying that she found Boston
the waxmest musical city she had struck.
sl6ost appreciattve and most enthusiastic" she
said md then went on to say that Washington
was nice-very nice-but somehow, sadly enough,
Boston had sprung out first. Which 3d. perhaps,
IS Il should be- considering the recent migra-
ton % the Boston Orchestra and al that they
hEOught u during the week