Evening star., 1932-01-21
CAPITAL MUSIC LOVERS HEAR
FAMOUS GERMAN NEXT WEEK
Bruno Walters Success in
Native Land Phe-
nOmenaI.
First Appearance Here Con-
.ducting New York SYM
phony Orchestra.

Bruno Walter, Germany's greatest
conductor and a veteran maestro in
symphony and operate fields, is max
ing his first appearance in Washington
on Tuesday of next week as conductor
of the New York Philharmonic SYM
phony Society. His local debut with
this orchestra will take place at Con-
Stitution Hall, under the local man
agement of the T. Arthur Smith Con-
csrt Bureau.
This maestro, whose success in Ger
many has been phenomenal, came first
to this country back in 1924, when
Walter Damrosch was leading the
weekly and semi-weekly concerts of the
now defunct New York Symphony So
ciety (Which eventually became the
New York Philharmonic and again in
1929 when the West heard him in a
series of concerts. During this season
| he was highly successful as guest con-
ductor with orcheStraS at San Fran
cisco, San Mateo and the Hollywood
Bowl. He is known in Europe, too, not
only as a symphonic conductor but as
an operate conductor.
First to Be Auspicious.
Mr.. Walters first concert in WASH
ington will be an suspicious affair not
only on account of his presence, but on
account of the program. A recent
change has been announced which will
substitute Haydn'S "B Flat Major
Symphony" for the Richard Strauss
Don Juan" The last part of the con-
cert will be devoted to Brahms famed
Second Symphony" and the remaining
work will be Prokokoieff THE Prodigal
Son"
When Mr. Walter recently took up
the baton left by Toscanini in New
York, w. j. Henderson, New York.
veteran music critic. said: THE proof
of the conducting is in tr.e performance
Mr.. Walter obtained admirable results.
He seized the interest of the audience
with his first number and held it till
the end" and apropos of the Haydn
symphony which we are to hear Mr..
Henderson said: 1.-THE new conductor
revealed himself as a deep lover of
HAYDN, one who has studied his scores
with a view to adapting their contents
to tf.e expanded conditions of the mod
ern concert. The technical features
of the conductors art which stood out
prominently were his finely adjusted
crescendi and diminuendi, his carefully
graded scale of continent dynamics, his
certainty OF attack and his preserVa-
ton of the balance essential to clarity"
Eagerly Looked For.
With the applause of the best known
music critics and an advance guard Of
lnvigorated music patrons Mr.. Walters
appearance here with the New York
| Philharmonic on Tuesday is being
looked forward to eagerly. Other than
the classical Haydn and Brahms the
| work of Prokokieff is of especial in
terest, since, as one of the sternest mod
ernists, he has often been referred TO
as "the cubist of music" This work,
which was first produced in Paris in
! 1929, has been signally hailed in one
country after another, and the composer
who, in 1921, conducted his own opera,
/ Love for Three Oranges" with the
| Chicago Opera Co, is we'll known over
here as well as abroad This fact, and
the Importance of Mr.. Walters first
visit to the Capital. make Tuesdays
concert especially noteworthy on this
seasons musical calendar.