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MUSIGRAPHS

A COSTUME program of Spanish
music is announced for the current
meeting of the Friday Morning Music
Club in Barker Hall at IL am. Mary
Ware Goldman has arranged the pro-
gram which is to include piano numbers
by Mary Alexander, songs by Celia
Fioravanti and guitar selections by
Sophocles T. Papas.
John Prindle Scott, distinguished song
writer, is in Washington again on his
annual Spring visit, having arrived
here yesterday. A program of his COM
positions is to be presented March s. at
Foundry M. e. Church, under the di-
rection of Hazel Terrell Adair.
Elena de Sayn announces a students
recital to be given during the first week
of March at her studios, open to the
public.
Warren F. johnson will give an organ
recital at the Church of the Pilgrims
this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
He will play, Chorale-Prelude: eve
All Believe in but One God" Bach;
"Pantomime." H. B. Jepson. and Finale,
from Second Symphony" Widor.
Savona Griest presented a group of
students Of piano and voice in q recital
in her STUDIO recently before a large
appreciative audience
Those taking part were: Betty Kirk
man. Jean Swami, Clarence Adams
Kathleen Pearce, Winifred Smith,
Margaret Meme. Joseph West, Rachel
Merritt. Hilda Ball, Elizabeth Ahern
Joyce Cafferty, Mary Alice and Marion
Michael, Mary Elizabeth Tinsley, Lillian
Pruitt, Sarah Kirkman and Ruth
Creagger.
Breaking the Classic Bounds" Is the
subject Of the lecture to be given to-
morrow by Maud Sewall in her series
Of pm. Monday talks given at the
Institute OF Musical Art. Schubert and
the romantic composers will be dis
cusSed, also further expansion by Wag-
ner and List and Richard Strauss.
Lillian Fairchild Jesse, coloratura
soprano, native Of Jamestown, N, Y.
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has returned to her home town fol
several weeks. She sang a program
of operate selections before the Mozart
Club Of that city last night. ...
Mrs. Jesse spent one year in Wash
ington when she appeared in number
of programs, including some with the
United States Navy Band.
At the IL o'clock services this morn
ing at All Souls Church UNITARIAN
Flora McGill Keefer, mezzo-contralto
will sing THE Prayer Perfect" words
by James Whitcomb Riley, music by
IRVINE j. Stenson, Washington COM
poser. st Waited for the Lord, by
MendelSSohn, will be sung by Mrs
Keefer and Charles Trowbridge Tit
mann. This service will be broadcast
by WRC.
At 5 pm. the organist, Lewis Atwater
will play a program of early English
music. Mrs. Keefer will assist and will
sing "Nymphs and Shepherds" by Pur-
cell, and an ode by Ben johnson, Have
You Scene but a Whyte Lille Grow?'
to an air OF the early seventeenth CEN
fury.
Mrs. Henry F.. Dimock announces
that concert will be given at hel
home the evening of March 6, at $50
O'Clock, for the benefit of two philan-
thropies. These latter are a general
hospital and small orphan asylum fol
Russian exiles in Sofia, the capital OF
Bulgaria. s..&.N
Maxim Karolik, tenor, who is residing
in this city, Is donating his services for
this event. He will arrange and an
nounce the full program at a later date
The Lovette Choral Club and member
soloists will give a program at the bal
Of the California State Society in the
Italian garden Of the Mayhower Hotel
Thursday night. Secretary of the Int
rior Lyman J. Wilbur will be the guest
Of honor.
In addition to the State song Of Cali
fornia. the club will sing My Mother
Bids Me Bind My Hair" by Haydn;
River, River" Chilean folk song ar
CONTINUED on Fourteenth Page.)
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American Composers Works
Featured in Two Programs

TWO concerts in the Eastman School
of MuSic's composers series will be
given February 81 and March 6. Each
has a program in prospect of special
significance. February 81 there will be
given first performances Of Randall
ThompSon's new symphony and a
Concerto for Horn. Piano and Orches-
ira" by Mark Vessel.
Mr. Thompson is the latest winner
of the Guggenheim fellowship and rep
resentatives of the Guggenheim Foun-
dalton will hear his symphony at this
concert. Mr.. Vessel, formerly Of the
music department OF Northwestern
University, has just returned from Vi
emma, where his concerto was composed.
March 6 DR.. George w. Chadwick,
director of the New England Conserva.
tory of Music, will be guest Of honor OF
the school. Half of the program for
that concert will be devoted to perform
ance of works of this distinguished vet
eran among American composers. OF
special interest will be the playing for
the first time of DIR. Chadwick's new
version of RIP Van Winkle," q work of
his student days, now rewritten and
published by the Eastman School. DR.
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How Jimmy" Melton Got
His First Opportunity

IVES, ma'am, you'll see the Revelers
In person during this program.
The quartet appears several times, jim
my Melton and all"
Thus uniformed ushers in the New
York studios Of the National Broad
casting Co. reassure visitors on We'd
nesday nights. Thursday nights are
quite as busy. Just before the Seiber-
ling Singers 60 on the air.
Just few minutes longer, sir. James
Melton will be the soloist, so you can't
miss him"
James Melton will sing here Febru-
airy % as featured artist in the benefit
program for the Children's Emergency
Home.
Two years ago Jimmy" Melton was
unknown, an ambitious young singer,
fresh from college. He haunted the
offices of the Roxy Theater, patiently
returning time after time, In spite Of
repeated rebuffs. At last he threatened
to sing at the top of his lungs up and
down the Railways and corridors unless
some one consented to listen to him
in more dignified fashion.
The bluff worked Emo Rapee, the
unapproachable. finally appeared and
listened attentively. The youngster
was hired.
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Calgary Folk Festival Has
Twenty Immigrant Groups

CALGARY, Alberta.-Twenty Canadi-
an immigrant nationalities will take
part here in the forthcoming folkdance,
folkSong and handicraft festival to be
held here from March 10 to az. This
marks the third consecutive Great
West" festival to be staged within as
many years in the prairie provinces.
impressed by the value Of the inmi-
grants personal gifts to the Dominion.
Premier Brownlee of Alberta invited
the Canadian Pacific to stage the affair
at Calgary so that the native songs and
dances OF the cowboy and the frontiers
men might be added to the cultural
factors that are shaping the character
OF the new Canadian. The AFFAIR. a
KIND or costume pageant of all nations,
is under the musical direction of Harold
Eustace Key, and will have the co.
operation of the Alberta branch OF the
Canadian Handicrafts Guild.
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More Than $50 Singers
Are Enrolled for Festival

TwENTY-THREE church choirs and
~ choral clubs throughout the
city and in nearby Maryland and vir-
ginia already are represented in the
personnel Of the newly organized WASH
ington Choral Festival Association.
The first rehearsal was held Tuesday
conducted by Frederick Alexander, who
will come to the CITY once every month
from now until May z, when the big
choral festival will be staged at the
Belasco Theater as the feature of Ma
tional Music week in the Capital City.
In addition to the groups represented
Tuesday there were perhaps Is or 80
independent singers, not aff1liated with
any musical group, making in all q
total Of more than 100 singers already
registered. The association has been
Organized for "the promotion of better
choral music" in Washington. The
second rehearsal will be held Tuesday,
February IS, at Thomson Community
Center, Twelfth and L streets. with
Kurt Hetzel conducting in the absence
of Mr.. Alexander.
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Hetzel Lectures Tomorrow
On Orchestral Conducting

KURT HETZEL, we'll known Wash
ington pianist and conductor, will
give a lecture under the auspices of the
Junior League of Washington, at the
Willard Hotel, tomorrow, at 4:30 o'clock,
his subject being Richard Wagner and
the Modern Orchestra Conductor.Y
The lecture inaugurates q series OF
events scheduled for Mondays through
April IA. The proceeds will go toward
the leagues hospital fund, which
though not coming under the Com
munity Chest budget, is In the nature
Of an endowment and is department
that is to be enlarged. managed and
run by the Junior League under the
supervision and cooperation Of the
hospital.
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York concert will be under auspices of
the Juilliard Musical Foundation, while
at Philadelphia they will be sponsored
by the Philadelphia Civic Music League
The Washington concert will be Spon-
Sored by Senator A. H. Vandenberg OF
Michigan and Mrs. Vandenberg, whose
daughter, Elizabeth Vandenberg, will be
the piano soloist at the concert here.
The three Washington members of the
orchestra will be Minnie Clipker, vio-
llnist, Is years old. who graduated from
Mckinley Manual Training school re-
Gently as concert master of the school
orchestra; Charles Cook of Central
High, who plays the bass viol, and Mar
TIN Emerson, trombonist, also of Central
Minnie Clipker. the girl member of
this trio, has been q violinist since the
age OF 8, and even as far back as her
Columbia Junior High School days she
was concert master and soloist of the
school orchestra. Entering the McKin-
ley Manual Training School at the age
OF IL, she became a member of the
second violin section, under Dore Wal
ton, and on her recent graduation at
the age of Is she was concert master
Of the Tech" orchestra. Minnie has
also been assistant concert master of
the Americanization School Orchestra
and member of the Jewish Community
Center Orchestra. She plans to study
orchestral conducting at Peabody InSti-
tute in Baltimore.
Charles Cook of 1851 Euclid street
graduated from Central High School last
June as one Of Centrals most accom-
pIshed bass vol performers. In addi-
ton to his high school playing he has
had three years of professional work.
Martin Emerson, the trombonist, has
belonged to numerous musical organi-
cations, including the Washington Boys
Independent Band, one of the best
bands OF its type in the country. He is
also q member Of the orchestra, band
and brass ensemble at Central High
School. and Is director Of music for
the Town Players, one of Washington
leading amateur dramatic organizations.
Ludwig F. Mandy. instrumental SUI
pervisor Of bands and orchestras in the
Washington schools, is taking promi-
nent part in the preparations for both
the Washington and Atlantic City
events, having been made chairman of
the orchestra committee for the Atlantic
City concert by Prof. Maddy and Wal
ter Damrosch.
The Washington concert will offer a
program Of exceptional claSsicism OPEN
ing with Tschaikowsky's Symphony,
No. g." the 'Pathetique," and including
Grieg's Concerto In A Minor" and
Bloch's discussed symphony poem,
America
Music lovers and musicians are ex-
pected to be extremely interested in this
event. The receipts from the concert
will be given to the Interlochen (Mich.)
camp to carry on the work there of
Prof. j. z. Maddy, organizer and must
cal director, who also viii conduct the
washington concert.
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A Chamber Music Program
Arranged for Next Sunday

MINNA NIEMANN, pianist; Herman
: Rakeman, violinist; Frank Frost,
viola player and Ludwig Mandy. violon-
cellist, will present a program OF cham
Der music at Gunston Hall next Sunday
evening at S:15 o'clock.
The music to be presented will In
clude: "Trio,", first movement, opus IS,
Lazarus; Quartet" by Mozart; Inter
mezzo In c Major" Brahms: "Consola-
r Minor" Dohnanyi, and Trio
Espana," Chabrier.
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Schubert Choral Club
Announces Concert Soloist

TUTSoN RYDER, baritone, of New
York, will be the soloist for the
Schubert Choral Club at its last eve
ming of music, Wednesday, April 80,
in the gold room Of the Hotel La Fay
cite. according to announcement Just
issued.
Rehearsals of the club are held each
Monday night in Its studio, at the In.
stitute OF Musical Arts, at 7:45, and any
one desiring to become a member is
advised to communicate with the audi.
lions committee, Mrs. Emily Dickinson,
Adams 1867, or Mrs. Charlotte Lippitt,
Atlantic 1108, immediately, as the list
for this season will be closed with the
first rehearsal in March.
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Toscanini Conducts Here
In Program March 4

THE New York Philharmonic Sym
phony Orchestra brings the famous
genius conductor Arturo Toscanini to
Washington Tuesday afternoon, March
A.. under the auspices Of T. Arthur
Smith.
After 80 years with La Scala, Milan,
Arturo ToScanini resigned from that IA
nous opera house last Spring in order
to devote most of his energy to his
work as conductor of the New York
Philharmonic-S Symphony Orchestra. Be-
fore leaving, however, he crowned his
operate achievements in Italy with
added laurels from Berlin and Vienna,
where he presented La Scala Opera Co.
in brief seasons of opera.
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Gisli Here February %.

REMAINING GIGL1, leading tenor of
- the Metropolitan Opera Co., will be
presented in concert at Polls Theater
Friday afternoon, February 90, at 4:30
o'clock. This will conclude Mrs. Will
son-G reene's artists course Of concerts
at that theater.
Signor Gigli will be assisted by Mar
garet shotwell, pianist The tenor will
be accompanied by Miguel Sandoval, in
O program that will open with the IA
nous aria from Donizettis opera,
ma" and which also will include the
narrative from act three of Waener's
"Lohengrin" and the aria "Quando le
sere al placido" from Verdi's opera
"Luisa Miller"
Miss .Shotwell's programs viii Offer
selections BY AlbeniS. Chopin. Schubert
Taussig, Liszt and Strauss.
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Miss Ponselle will be accompanied at
the piano by Stuart Ross, who also will
play solos. The Ponselle program will
open with the aria, 20 hume tutelar,"
from SpontiniS opera. la Vestale," one
Of the sopranos outstanding operate
triumphs at the Metropolitan. It will
include the cayatina from verdi's IN
Around was stir; "Quell ruscelletto7
(Pietro D. Paradies). Gretchen am
Spinnrad" (Franz Schubert), Con
temptation" (Charles M. Widor), LES
files de Cadix" Cleo Delibes), 1.-THE
Message" (Rhea Silberta), THE Night
ingale" Ward Stephens), THE Vir-
gins Slumber Song" MAX Reger) and
Homage to Spring" alexander Mac
Fayden).
Mr.. Ross piano selections will include
Beethoven's German Dance No. l." the
Schubert-Liszt composition, "Du Dist
die Ruh," Chaminade's "Etude de Con-
cert" and Tschaikowsky's Theme and
Variations"
ALL-LISZT overwhelmingly.
Julia E. Schelling, lecturer, and
Miksa Merson, pianist, will appear In a
Joint program at the Mayflower Hotel
in the Italian garden Thursday at 4:30
pm. Lie music played ana the
sketches given by Miss Schelling all
will concern the life of Franz List.
Miss Schelling is very well known
here. for entertaining lecture-recitals.
She also Is noted as a writer on nlu-
steal subjects. Her brother, Ernest
Schelling, is one of Americas outstand-
ing composers. Miss Schelling will in
clude vivid account of events in the
romantic life of List in her three
sketches, to be entitled, Love, Death"
and Immortality"
Mr.. Merson, who is himself q Hun
garian and a pupil of one of Liszt's
greatest pupils, Emil Sauer, will play
the following compositions: "Sposalisio,"
Sonata in B Minor" (Which Wagner
is said to have called "Liszt's greatest
composition and one of the greatest
compositions ever created for the
piano"), Consolation in D Flat" Schu-
bert's "Erlkoenig" as transcribed by
List, "Sonetto 104 del Petrarca" and
Hungarian Rhapsodie No. 9" Carnival
Of Pesth).
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WHEN the National High School Or
w chestra, that fascinating juvenile
orchestra Of boy and girl musicians
from all parts Of the United States,
makes its bow to Washington in con-
cert at Constitution Hall Saturday eve
ming, March ], under management of
Mrs. Wilson Greene, it will have a
Washington girl as piano soloist, and
students drawn from Washington high
schools.
The National High School Orchestra
comes from the National High School
Orchestra and Band Camp at Inter
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lochen. Mich, to which come the cream
Of high school musical talent from ali
parts OF the United States. Not one
OF these boys and girls is more than 90
years Of age, and their presence in the
East is explained by the fact that they
will come to Atlantic City the last week
in February to play before the depart
ment OF superintendents of the National
Educational Association. which viii he
holding its annual meeting at the sea-
shore at that time.
While in the East they will play a
short series Of concerts in New York,
Philadelphia and Washington. The New
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Flora McGill Keefer
Gives Concert April q

D ECOGNITION seldom accorded to
N an artist in her own city is coming
rapidly to Flora McGul Keefer, one Of
Washington's outstanding singers, be-
cause of her increasing success in con-
cert work here and in other cities.
Mrs. Keefer, who made her first
formal concert appearance in the
National Capital last Winter with
splendid success, will be heard in her
second Washington concert April 4 at
the Hotel Mayfower, under the
auspices Of Mrs. Wilson-Greene. A
distinguished list Of sponsors and
patronesses for the event includes men
and women well known in ofncial, Dip
lomatic and social life in the Capital.
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A Faculty Recital.

THE Washington College Of Music will
: present Sara Becker, pianist, and
Romeo Guaraldi, baritone, both mem
bers of the college faculty, In a joint
recital at the college Friday at S:15 pm
This will be the fourth of q series oil
faculty recitals this season. students
and their friends are invited.
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Soldiers Home Orchestra.

THE orchestra of the United States
Soldiers Home Band John s. M.
zimmerman, leader, and Anton Point
ner, assistant) will give two concerts,
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at
$50 O'Clock, in Stanley Hall. The pro-
grams will, as usual, combine classic
and lighter numbers.
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Chadwick's Symphonic Suite" also will
be played, and the Chadwick Club, an
organization formed IN Rochester sew
eral years ago in honor of the COM
poser, will sing three short choral
numbers.
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A PROGRAMME INTIME" is SEIZED
n uled to be presented tonight at S:15
o'clock at the King-Smith Studio School
New Hampshire avenue at 8 street
northwest, Mr.. and Mrs. August King
Charles Cooper pianist Of the Peabody
Conservatory Of Music in Baltimore.
Mr.. Cooper has become a guest in
structor this season at the local school
The program tonight will include:
Haydn's Variations in r Minor, p
"Sgambati," by Gluck: Ballet des
Ombres Heureuses." Gluck- Friedman;
Sonata in A Major" Scarlatti; Sonata
Opus 5, in F Minor" by Brahms: q noe
turne, waltz and etude by Chopin
Reflects dams lEau," by Debussy: THE
Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss
Schultz-Evler arrangement.
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STRADIvARIUS QUARTET
Tomorrow.

The Stradivarius String Quartet of
New York will give its first program
in Washington at the Library of Con-
gress tomorrow at 4:45 pm. The event
will be held in the chamber music
auditorium Of the Elizabeth Sprague
Coolidge Foundation.
The Stradivarius Quartet was organ
lied by Alfred Pochon. second violinist
of the now disbanded Flonzaley Quartet,
about the time that that organization
was making its farewell tour. Formal
announcement of the new organization
was made May 9, 1929. The members
are: Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin;
NJ Pochon, second violin: Nicholas
Moldavan (also of the Flonzaleys)
viola. and Gerald Warburg. violoncello
The program tomorrow will be:
String Quartet in F major, opus H.
No. l." Beethoven; Petite Suite (from
Pictures at an Exhibition"), Moussorg-
sky, and String Quartet in G minor,
opus 81, No. l." Brahms.
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK

MONDAY.
The Sradvarius String Quartet program here at
the Library Of Congress, at 4:45 PM
TUESDAY.
The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Gabriowitsch
conducting with zmbalist as soos Constitution Hall at
4:45 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Rosa Ponsee Metropolitan prima donna, recital Polls
at 4S0 pm.
THURSDAY.
Julia Schelling and Mksa Merson aLiSZt program
italian Garden, the Mayfower at 4:30 pm.
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PHILADELPHIA STRA-
Tuesday.

Ossip Gabrilowitsch will conduct the
final program of the Philadelphia SYM
Efrem zimbalist, violinist, will be the
Soloist.
Instead of the Fifth Symphony" of
Tschaikowsky Mr. GabrilowitSch has
substituted the beautiful symphony in
D Minor" Of Cesar FTanck. Mr.. Zim-
balist will play TschaikowskyS Con-
certo in D Major" and LISTS Hun
garian Rhapsody No. 2" will be added
to the program.
This concert is presented under the
auspices Of T. Arthur Smith.
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ROSA PONsELLE-Wednesday.

ROSA PONSELLE-WedneSd
Rosa Ponselle, American dramatic
soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Co.,
ranked by critics as an outstanding
soprano of concert and opera, is making
her only concert appearance in Wash
ington this season at Polls Theater
scented by Mrs. WILSON, Greene as the
fourth attraction Of the philharmonic
course
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