Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-13
THE supreme appeal of beauty
never had better example
than the apDeal of the


rain and wind slashed weather,
drawing crowds from far and
near to see them around the Tidal
Basin and the point last Sunday.
Beauty Is always the dominant
appeal of the National Capital to
visitors.
REAUTY for the eye and beauty
for the ear should go hand in
hand. In that newest and most
attractive of concert halls in this
city-ConStitution Hall--the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra closed
its initial, experimental season"
Tuesday afternoon. The group Of
80 Washington musicians who
have individually, in practically
every case, sacrificed hard cash
to give time to rehearSalS +or
these three concerts together this
Spring played nobly. They proved,
beyond doubt, that they have the
making of real symphonic or
ganiZation of great possibilities.
Such an organization should be
as much an asset to Washington
In time as the cherry blossoms
have proved to be.
Hans Kinder, conductor of the
two later concerts of the three
given, mentioned, in talk which
he gave before one of the WomanS
musical groups here, that when
he was a little boy, coming to
this country for the first time
from Holland, he went first to
Boston.
Boston did not mean beans to
me-" said Mr.. Kinder. 1T meant
the great Boston Symphony Or
chestra, which has worldwide
fame in every land where music
means anything at all. In Eu-
rope, of course. music means
much more than it might in some
other continents, for all European
countries are essentially musical"
NOV that the new orchestra,
organized here in January,
has shown such definite promise
in these three concerts, Speaker
Nicholas Longworth, chairman of
the orchestra committee, will soon
call a meeting, according to a
statement rlade by Frank Frost,
president of the orchestra, to be-
gin a campaign to place the flu
ture of this organization on firm
financial foundation. The edu-
cational and entertainment val
ues of such an institution as a
symphony orchestra in Washing
ton should be almost limitleSS.
Already one prominent citizen
of Philadelphia has offered $1,000
toward the project, provided
Washingtonians will match him
in sufficient number to make a
practical fund. Mr.. Kinder has
mentioned 100000 year for i've
years as the absolutely necessary
amount. It Is a very conservative
estimate, as the costs Of symphony
orchestraS go.
There is a long list of prominent
people living here who have lent
their names, with no further OBJ
legation, for the programs of
these concerts this Spring. 1t
would seem up to them to form
the practical nucleus of an asSo-
citation Of financial guarantors
for this effort.
IT is doubly, or perhaps one
should say triply, difficult to
create interest that counts in a
new large musical group. Within
the past five years there have
been two different but definite
efforts to establish large organi-
cations for musical performances
In Washington. Neither was
thoroughly successful. Both took
q great deal OF money from indi-
viduals who were willing to sup
port such endeavors to a reason
able extent and for a reasonable
length Of time. Although there
were loyal supporters for both
projects, who still lament their
decease, the majority of music
lovers and others who are really
interested in such things seem to
have let these former projects
alp painlessly into oblivion.
Naturally, this newest project
meets with a multiplied degree
of skepticism. This is unfortu-
nate. Never before has the whole
combination of conditions seemed
so we'll calculated to success. The
situation on the part of the musi-
clans who have formed the or
chestra Is such that they are will
ling to give utmost cooperation
to make this orchestra a success.
They have proved it in the way
that speaks most eloquently. They
have sacrificed money that they
could not afford to give up unless
1t were to mean real success to
them and a permanent organi-
cation that would, in time, con-
Stitute their chief form of income.
They have gambled in the true
pioneer spirit.
Mr.. Frost, their president, is an
American who has loved music
from childhood, who has wrested
wealth from the earth itself in
mining and who has lent more
than a helping hand to this group
Of Washington musicians, whose
pluck aroused his complete inter-
est. Mr.. Frost is making this city
his home now, and many people
who love music have already
heard beautiful music in the at
tractive music room of his home
on Normanstone Drive. Just last
Sunday evening Mr. Kinder, con-
ductor of the new orchestra last
week, who first became world re-
nowned as a cellist, gave a de-
lightful program of music on that
instrument there. Mr.. Kinder.
too, wants to make this city his
home, to bring his family here
and to build up an organization
that he believes is so much great
er a work than the giving of con-
certs by an individual artist.