Evening star., 1932-03-13

" been erased from the
1 \ Metropolitan Opera Com
pany's books this year,
preparations are being made to
receive local music lovers in the
nearby city of Baltimore, whittier
New Yorks famous company will
travel the nights of April 18, 19
and 20. The first production
(Which comes on a Monday
will be "Tales of Hoffman," the
second, "Tannhauser," and the
third, 'L'Africana," and Frederick
R. Huber, managing director of the
Lyric Theater, has announced that
a special train will be operated
for WaShingtonians wishing to
attend these performances. This
arrive at Mount Royal Station,
directly opposite the theater,
shortly before 8 o'clock, and will
return Immediately after the per-
formance. An added feature will
be the inclusion of parlor cars and
dining cars, so that music patrons
can eat and be merry before and
possibly after the operas.
Among the many eXcitements
of this brief opera season will be
the appearance of the much
praised and famed Goeta Lung
berg, who has made such a SEN
Sation in Manhattan this season,
and who, since her travels from
her native Sweden, has caused
more of furor in the now de-
pressed city of New York than
any one short of a Lily PonS. Miss
Ljungberg will be seen and heard
as Elizabeth in Wagner'S Tam
hauSer," supported in a particu-
larly noteworthy cast by Law
renee Tibbett, Rudolf Laubenthal,
Julia ClauSSen and the excellent
bass, Ezio PIMA. The casts, too,
of the other operas are something
out of the ordinary. In Tales OF
Hoffman," Lily PonS will be Olym-
pia, Lucrezia Bori, Antonia, and
Grace Moore, Giulietta,. and in
'L'Africana" Rosa Ponselle will be
Selika; Gigli, Vasco Da Cana,
and Mario BaSiola (heard here re-
cently) as Neluska. Others to sing
in these operas will be Gladys
Swarthout, De Luca, Jagel, Leon
Rothier, Pavel Ludikar and Aida
Doninelli. The conductors will be
Louis HaSselmann and Tullio Ser
aim.
TN cooperation with the Greater
National Capital Committee
and under the direction of the
American Red Cross, one of the
most interesting of the Springs
musical events will be the SouSa
memorial concert, which will be
held at Constitution Hall the night
of April IT. This will come as the
climax of the bandmasterS' con-
vention, which is to be held here
that week. Present at this event
will be DR.. Gustav Theordore
Hoist, noted composer; as also
Edwin Franko Goldman, president
of the bandmaSterS' organization.
Mr.. Goldman has played to 800
New York concerts in the past IA
years, with audiences running
from 10000 to $4,000 persons. In
the last four years his audiences
have averaged 100000 a season.
With the increasing recognition of
his primacy in the ranks of band
masters, he has been invited to all
parts of the country as guest con-
ductor of important bands. With
his other multitudinouS duties,
however, Mr.. Goldman has found
time for a great amount Of COM
position. He will produce new
grand march, which will have it's
first production, and will be given
by the three United States service
bands at the concert on April II.
To come to the center of the
stage he now occupies, Mr.. Gold
man has been working inceSSant-
ly and with a single purpose since
the days of his youth. At the
age of 8 when he came from the
west to New York with his par
ents, young Goldman selected his
own life work. He expressed
desire to play a cornet and no
other instrument would answer
the nurpose so far as he was con-