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

works by List. This will be pre-
sented by Julia Schelling, writer
on music who is sister to Ernest
Schelling, American composer
and Max Merson, Hungarian
pianist. This is scheduled for the
italian Gardens of the Mayf1ower
Hotel February 20.
AN unusual event for the Arts
Club of Washington will be
the program to be given there
Tuesday night by Leland Logan,
a young American tenor who is
blind. Mr.. Logan is only %, yet
MS case is truly unique in that
ne is the only American singer,
blind since early childhood, to
study and actually appear in
operate performances in Italy
Mr.. Logan halls from Colorado
and, because of his large gift and
his persistence in spite of appar-
emily insurmountable obstacles,
won the respect and practical
support of scholarship from the
American Foundation for the
Blind, Inc. Charles B. Hayes, a
member Of the administrative
staff of that organization, has
interested himself personally in
this boys case. Mrs. Hayes head
ed a party that took the boy
abroad and remained with him
while he was gaining experience
there last Spring and Summer.
Mr.. Hayes himself brought
Logan to Washington a few weeks
ago to have some musical author
tiles hear him and to present him
in a program before the Lions
Club.
The writer Of this column heard
Leland Logan in some solos and
duets with a soprano in an in
formal program. The boy has a
lovely quality of voice.
His Italian teacher is re-
ported to have said that he would
be ready to sing at the best opera
houses 10 years from now. In the
meantime he needs much study
and has always to consider that
he has a great deal more work to
do than the normally equipped
singer in learning all his stage
business" second hand.
In the December issue Of Out
look for the Blind, Mr.. Logan has
an interesting article entitled
Europe Without Sightseeing"
He says, in part:
ITO the average person Europe
means cathedralS, art galleries,
picturesque peasants In strange
costumeS-in fact, a series Of
mental pictures retained from a
rush of sightseeing. I have the
unique distinction of being one
OF the few Americans to 60
through Europe without even so
much as an hour of sightseeing.
The Impressions I cherish are the
sounds of morning in Italy: the
music full Of warmth and sun
shine, sung by the peasants: the
intelligently measured and mel
low scheme of things, based upon
an inbred culture; the intangible
with Paris, paradoxical
Paris, the wanton and the prude
among the cities of the world.
I have heard the street
cries or Paris, and the full,
throbbing voices of italian peas
ants, immeasurably lovely on the
evening air."
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GRACE MOORE who makes her
concert debut in Washington
Wednesday at a morning affair.
studied voice In this city in q
school Of music conducted by
Mrs. Wilson Greene. She shared
q program at the National The
alter with Giovanni Martinelli.
and her success at that time in
Spired her to continue her studies
in New York and seek a really
professional career as a singer.
Later she came back to Washing
ton, in Irving Berlin's Music Box
Revue" and, following that, spent
years in study and gaining ex-
perience in opera in Paris and
Nice. Just year ago she made
her debut at the Metropolitan in
New York as Mimi. Now, she
returns to the scene Of her school
days. a mature concert artist.