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Evening star., 1932-03-06
Yushny's Blue Bird.
VASCHA YUSHNY'S sparkling 6

NASCHA YUSHNY'S sparkling and
captivating Russian revue, '"The
Blue Bird" offering IS episodes OF
laughter, romance, music, caricature
and heartbreak, comes to the National
Theater one week from next Tuesday
afternoon-on Tuesday, March Is, at
4 80 pm. to be exact-as the fifth and
final attraction of Mrs. Wilson -Greene's
artists series of afternoon musical
events and, incidentally, the final at
traction Of the 1872 season for that
manager.
The Blue Bird" is the importation
Of S. Hurok, the impresario who has
given America such outstanding attrac-
tions as Pavlowa and the Ballet Russo.
Chaliapin, the great Russian basso;
Mary Wigman, Germany's great dancer;
the Teatro di Piccolo and many other
offerings of novelty and entertainment
appeal
Music by RimskyKorsakov, Borodin,
Moussorgsky, GlauZunov and other
Russian masters of melody forms a
background for the various episodes of
the production. and while the entertain
ment frequently becomes hilarious and
gauche the music is always classic in
its odd, Russian way.
Evening star., 1932-03-06
Radio Travel Program.

THE eighth in the series of radio
l. travel programs sponsored by the
District of Columbia Federation Of
Music Clubs will be broadcast Tuesday
evening at 6:15 o'clock.
Gertrude Lyons, president of the fed
Grafton, has invited guest artists to as
sist in a presentation of miscellaneous
numbers from music of foreign coun-
tries. Countries represented on the pro-
gram will be Poland. "Etude in C
Minor" Chopin, Leah Effenbach;
Russia, The Angel (Rubinstein),
sung by Gertrude Lyons, Sarah Neifert
and Lucy Hopkins; Germany, THE
Walnut Tree" (Schumann-Saa Mrs.
Lyons, the Misses Neifert and Hopkins;
Austria, Midnight Bells" (Kreisler).
played by Arsenic Ralon, violinist;
Scotland, Sing Again the Auld Scotch
Songs OeeSon). Loeb Lomond" and
Bonnie Dundee" (Dibdin) sung by
MacGregor Brown, baritone Mrs. Lyons
and MacGregor Brown will be heard in
two duets, Tuscan Folk Song" (Car-
raciolo) and "Barcarolle" from Tales
of Hoffman" (Offenbach), Gertrude
Dyre and Villa Sample, accompanies.
Miss Efenbach will be heard in
"Valse Brilliante" (Mana-Zucca) as the
closing number.
Evening star., 1932-03-06
A Capella Concert.

Patri." by Palestrina, and "An Easter
Hallelujah," by Vulpius Dickinson, to
be sung antiphonally by the quartet
and the chorus.
Two numbers Of unusual interest will
be There Was a knight of Bethlehem y
by Boernschein, one of Americas best
known modern composers. who will
come over from his home in Baltimore
for the concert. and Christ Is Risen"
by Billings -Clokey, which is being sung
in honor of the Bicentennial, as It was
written and sung in George Washing
tons time.
The final group will comprise num-
bers by Rachmaninoff. Harry Burleigh,
Balakireff and Christensen, Beautiful
Saviour" being given by repeated and
enthusiastic request since last years
Ienten concert. In this number Doro-
thy Wilson Halbach. solo contralto of
the choir, will be heard in the obbligato
part. ,
Ruby Smith Stahl, who organized
and conducts the choir. is solo soprano;
Francesca Della-Lana is solo tenor and
C. Ridgway Taylor is solo bass.
Evening star., 1932-03-06
DR.. Barnes Ten-Year Record

THE man who organized and led the
chorus of 1000 at the opening exer-
cises of the George Washington Bicen-
tennial celebration at the Capitol Plaza
February % and put over the musical
program for the National Education As
sociation Convention, is just rounding
out his tenth year of service in the Dis
trict public schools.
After experiences as a music super
visor in New England and song leader
at Newport. r. l., Dr. Edwin N. C.
Barnes came to Washington as director
of music in the local school system in
1922. He first came into prominence
here when he led 5000 children in a
serenade to the late President Harding
and Mrs. Harding at the National
League grounds. in June. 1923. This
proved to be President Harding's last
public appearance in Washington.
DR.. Barnes Brigade Band" started
the year before he came to Washington
has become one of the best school bands
in the country. Senior and Junior high
school orcheStraS have been fostered
with the result that the Inter High
School Festival Orchestra and the Inter
Junior High Festival Orchestra made
music history in the recent meetings of
II 900 educators who attended the De-
partment of Superintendent Conven-
ton in Constitution Hall One-half
hour program of the high school group
was conducted by Hans Kinder Of the
National Symphony Orchestra.
DR.. Barnes song. Washington, Fair
Capital" was sung by 1000 children
February % on the Capitol Plaza He
is also the author of number of books,
including Who's Who in Music Edu-
cational' and Music as Social and
Educational Asset" For the past four
years he has been working on a college
text book featuring three centuries of
American composition. The cantata
Lincoln" of which he wrote the text
and R. Deane Shure the music, has been
performed twice in Constitution Hall;
last Fall for the International Oratori-
cal finals and recently for the National
Education Association Convention.
Evening star., 1932-03-06
Sacred Music Programs.
THE National Capital Choir will pr

THE National Capital Choir will pre-
sent two programs of sacred music
in the Universalist National Memorial
Church. Sixteenth and S streets. on
Wednesday evening, March 9 and Is,
at 8:l5 o'clock The program for the
first concert follows:
Mendessohn
20 Saviour OF the World" .......... Moore
Irene Koehl and Eugene Dahl
Surely He Hath Borne Our Grief" Mes
a Song Of Penitence' Beethoven
Jessie MastersD
20 Man. Behold Thou Thy Master" Carr.
Riegel from old song Of the Bohemians).
20 Praise Ye God" .......... Tschaikowsky
"Jesu. Friend OF Sinners" "........ .Gounod
And God Created Man" C'Creation'l.
Edwin Singer)
'All Thy Works Praise Thee"
Ancient Hebrew melody
miss MasteTs.)
20 Worship the King, French carol
Hail, Gladdenins Light. Geo c. Martin
"A capella.
The public is cordially invited. Albert
w Harmed is organist and director
Evening star., 1932-03-06

THREE groups of widely varied
choral numbers, representing the
best of the worlds sacred music Of past
generations and the present day, will
be sung by the A Capella Choir of
Washington at its second annual Lent
en- concert on Friday night at a quar-
ter Of 9 O'Clock, in the ball room of the
Mayflower Hotel.
The first group, opening with GLORY
Now to Thee Be Given" by Johann Sc
bastian Bach, will include How Far Is
1t to Bethlehem?" by Shaw; 20 Praise
Ye the Name Of the Lord" by Tschai-
kovsky; The Christmas Song" ar
ranged by Damrosch, and the italian
Carol of st. Michael, also chorus for
male voices, Grace Be Unto You," by
Trowbridge.
In the second group will be heard a
dramatic number by MacKinnon. Lord
Christ Came Walking; Gretchaninoff's S
only Begotten Son; BENEFITS God
Is a Spirit which is usually heard as
a quartet, but is most effective as
choral number, as well as Gloria
Evening star., 1932-03-06
Y. w. C. A. Music Hour.

EMILY COVILLE, soprano, and Al
~ bert Pergament. boy violinist, will
be the featured soloists at the Sunday
music hour at the Young Womens
Christian Association today at o'clock,
in the fourth floor assembly room,
Ivalee Newell, violinist and Mary Ware
Goldman, pianist, are also presenting
Vivaldi's Concerto in D Major, for 4
Violinists," with their instrumental en-
semble, including Mary Park Clements.
Julia Robertson. Emil Guthei, 1nez
Becker, Helen Foster, Daisy Ficken-
scher and William Test.
Miss CoviIle will sing group Of
songs, with piano accompaniment, and
a number with the instrumental enSem-
BILE, and Albert Pergament will likewise
do group of solos
The public is invited to attend the
program, which is repetition, by re-
quest, of the program recently given by
Miss Newell and Miss Goldman, at the
Friday Morning Music Club.
Evening star., 1932-03-06
N. Y. PHILHARMONIC-S SYMPHONY.
CIR THOMAS BEECHAM. distin-
logue, compiled by Claire Refs. 1880.

logue, compiled by Claire Refs. 1880.
VV835R3.
An exceedingly interesting index to
our contemporary composers. listing
their works and giving a record Of per-
formances. unique feature is the
inclusion of works in manuscript.
So This Is jazz by H. o. Osgood. 1925.
VV83 .Os3s.
The best way to know Jazz
is to dance to it: the best way to learn
to chatter about it is to read this
book. ."-Genevieve Taggard.
Among Those Who Make It.
Arturo Toscanini. by Tobia Nicotra.
1929. VW10.T638nE.
Perhaps the most renowned of or
chestra conductors with an interna-
tional following, the leader of the ia
nous La Scala Orchestra of Milan is
now giving a major part of his time
to the Philharmonic Symphony Of New
York.
Sergi Koussevitzky and His Epoch, q
Biographical Chronicle. by Arthur
Lourie. 1881. VW10.K85l.
To virtuoso on the double bass, ap-
plying his art to the rigors of the con-
ductor's desk, has been given the dis
tinction of bringing the moribund
Boston Symphony Orchestra back into
the ranks of the leading symphony or
ganizatrons of the world.
My Musical Life, by w. J. Damrosch.
1928. VWl0D187m.
A pleasant biography, including
numerous amusing anecdotes about the
great and the near-great in the musical
life Of two continents during the last
half century. 1t contains, besides,
good bit of musical criticism which,
for the most part, is sound and free
from undue caprice"
George Gershwin, Study in American
Music, by Isaac Goldberg. 1881.
VWlo. .G327g.
Now that Gershwin has raised jazz
rhythms to symphonic status he must
be considered seriously as among the
foremost contributors to American mu-
sical development This intimate biog-
raphy gives a popularized picture of
the composer as a genius whose mold
has been formed by his environment.
Marching Along. Recollections OF Men,
Women and Music, by J. P. Sousa.
1928. VW10.So87.
The recollections are rich in Incl
dents and continuously amusing-a
valuable contribution to the archives
OF Americana"
Evening star., 1932-03-06

TINE combined Glee Clubs of
George Washington University,
under the direction Of DR..
Robert N. Harmon, will give
program in the Sunday school
auditorium of the Mount Vernon Place
M. E. Church South on wednesday
evening at pm.
Warren F. johnson will give an organ
recital at the Church of the Pilgrims
at 7:3O o'clock this evening. He will
play Allegro" from the Fourth So
nata." by Capocci "Melodia Serena" by
Mauro- Cottone. and a composition by
a Washington composer. Lyman S.
McCray, The Basilica," which the
composer has dedicated TO Mr.. Johnson.
Carl Jaspan, concert violinist, has
returned to his studio, at 8l4 Seven
teenth street. after a successful six
week tour of Southern Florida. Mr.
Ss.pan's engagement for series of re-
citalS at Florida Winter resorts fol-
lowed his concert at the Carlton Hotel
in october Of this season.
Cathreen Carrico. soprano; Rosa
Polio Jarman contralto. and Antonio
ferrar, yiolinist, will be the solOists at
the next Friday Morning MUSIC CLUB
meeting in Barker Hall.
Flora McGill Keefer mezzo-soprano,
will assist Lewis c. AtWater, organist,
in halfhour program of Bach music
this afternoon at 5 O'Clock at All Souls
Unitarian Church. Mrs. Keefer will
sing "Laudamus TIE" and "Qui SedeS,
from Bach's Mass in B Minor"
Flora Blumenthal represented the
Esmu Club at the Federation of Music
Clubs program last Saturday night.
Vera Via, contralto. was the Soloist
ct the Wednesday night Lenten service
at ST. Andrews p. z. Church.
The Retsof Glass of the First M. E
Church South, Hyattsville. Md, is pre-
Senting the Chaminade Glee Club In
concert Tuesday evening at O'Clock.
Assisting artists will be Morfudd Thomas
and Ralph c. Masters. Esther Linkins
Evening star., 1932-03-06
Emma Redell on Air Todav

WAsH1NGToNIANs will be inter-
ested to learn that Emma Redell.
the local girl who has risen to a posi-
tion OF prominent in the world of opera
and concert, will be heard over Station
WIZ of the N. B. C. New York studios
today at pm. on the Walter Damrosch
hour. She will sing the two roles of
Elizabeth and Venus IN "Tannhauser.
by Wagner. She will sing for the first
time in English
Miss Redell is soon to sail for an ex-
tensive operate tour in South America.
Evening star., 1932-03-06

TINE final concert of its Sunday
afternoon series and the last
concert but one of its SYM
phonv series for the current
season will be given this week
by the National Symphony Orchestra
of Washington, D. c., Hans Kinder,
conductor.
A brilliant festival of orchestra mu-
sic will mark the termination Of the
Sunday afternoon series at Constltu-
ton Hall this afternoon at 4 o'clock,
when Johann Sebastian Bach's &C
Major Concerto" for three pianos and
orchestra. with Mary Howe, Anne Hull
and Helen Heinl, pianists. as soloists,
will inaugurate program that will also
include two short choral numbers
"Jesu, Joy Of Mans Desiring" from
BachS cantata, Herr und Mund," and
Cesar Franck's "150th Psalm"-with
100 singers Of the Washington Choral
Festival Association Chorus participat-
ing The program likewise offers four
excerpts from Manuel de Falla's one
act ballet. "El Amor Brujo," and Franz
LISTS symphonic poem, Les Preludes."
The program announced by Con-
ductor Kinder for the seventh SYM
phony concert, to be given at Constitu-
ton Hall next Thursday afternoon at
4:45 o'clock. will be given additional
distinction by the appearance thereon
as soloist of Ossip Gabrilowitsch, inter-
nationally famous as pianist and con-
ductor, playing Mozart's ID Minor Con-
certo." for piano and orchestra. The
program will also include Bach's
"Adagio and Fugue," Strauss tone
poem, Don Juan" and two selections
from Berlioz's "Damnation Of Faust
"Danse des Sylphes" and "Rackoczy
March"
MARY HOWE, one of the three piano
A'A soloists appearing on this after
Moons program with the orchestra, is
we'll known in Washington and
throughout the United States as both
pianist and composer, her composition,
"Dirge." having recently found place on
an orchestra program under Conductor
Kindler's direction. Mrs. Howe and
Anne Hull. the second soloist, have
given numerous two-piano concerts. in
Guiding concerts with the Cleveland,
Baltimore and Russian Symphony Or
cheStras, as well as recital performances
in various Eastern cities Helen Heinl,
the third piano soloist. is also Wash
ington performer who has elected
marked critical attention for her work
and who has appeared extensively as
Soloist on various Nationwide radio
programs.
The Washington Choral Festival As
sociation Chorus is one Of the outstand-
ing choral groups of the Capital and
represents the amalgamation Of the
Washington Church Music Council and
the District of Columbia Federation of
Music Clubs Rehearsals have been
progressing for several weeks under
Louis Potter's direction.
Evening star., 1932-03-06
Marine Band Concerts.

THE concerts scheduled for the
U. S. Marine Band and Orchestra
during the coming week will be as fol-
lows:
Monday. March 7, at 3 pm, band
concert; Wednesday, March 9. at 8 pm.
orchestra concert; Friday, March IL,
at pm, orchestra concert.
Evening star., 1932-03-06
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Music Today.

In connection with the appearance
of the Philharmonic Symphony So
ciety of New York and the several
concerts by the National Symphony
Orchestra in Washington during the
next two weeks the Public Library calls
attention to the following works on
modern music and its leaders.
Music in America.
Our American Music, by j. T. Howard.
1881. VV83 H83
"A pleasantly written compendium of
most of the facts that might interest
students and laymen. The influences
of the church, the Indian, the Negro
are made evident and appraised. Nat
urally, the music of today makes up a
good share of the volume"
An Hour With American Music, by
Paul Rosenfeld. 1929 VV83R72.
Mr.. Rosenfeld deserves the utmost
credit for writing the first book on
American music. He has given a
boundary Of some sort to a subject
which is positively bewildering in its
ramifications and has made an attempt
at an assessment. Jeffrey Mark.
Music in American Life. Present and
ululc, Uy L. [dLlLlS. 4oO&
VV83Z12.
The purposes of this book are. first.
to show what is being done in all sorts
of communities, schools, homes and
other channels of life to enjoy or to
provide for others enjoyment in music,
and secondly. using what is as basis,
to show what might be done in each
of those channels of life"
Tune in America; Study of Our Com
ing Musical Independence, by D. G.
Mason 1881. VV83M38.
An interesting and needed argu-
ment for the musical education of the
American people and for an art-con-
scious, intelligent. less commercial con-
duct on the part of the influential radio
broadcasting companies"
The Modern Temper.
Music, 1s6O-ls3O, by A. J. Swan. 1929.
VV1Sw2.
An appraisal of modern tendencies
in the English, French and Russian
schools.
Modern Russian Composers. by Leonid
Sabaneyeff. 1927. VW10.9Sal2.E.
In addition to studies of such COM
posers as Skryabin, Prokofyeff and
Rakhmaninoff this useful work has
chapters on the various musical groups
now working to advance the art, the
American group of Russian composers,
and the musical creative art of the
Russian revolution.
Modern French Music, by E. B. Hill
1924 VV39H55
A professor of music at Harvard has
written a volume which, lin view of the
dearth Of good musical criticism in
America, appears especially dis
tinguished"
American Composers Of TODAY = .ata-
Evening star., 1932-03-06
PROGRAM NOTES.

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S &C
Major Concerto" for three pianos
and orchestra, which will constitute one
of the outstanding features of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra's concerts
this afternoon. is regarded as one of
that composers most imposing instru-
mental compositions.
Written, in all probability, between
1870 and 1888. it is believed, at this
time. to have been intended by the
composer for performance with his two
eldest sons and Bachs celebrated house
orchestra, which, at that time, had at
Evening star., 1932-03-06
Plans Are Under Way for
Open-Air Opera Company's
Presentation of AIDA
Giant Operatic Spectacle VIII Be Given In June at
Griffith Stadum-Former Director of Manhat-
tan Opera Company Announces Plans.
Bv E. de S. Melcher.

appalling conditions York Philharmonic in the pa
New York far music of Toscann is the pill mrchar
Evening star., 1932-11-06
Burton Holmes Again.

THE world is fortunate in its posses.
sion of the modern camera, the
expert colorist and the travel lecturer
BY these material means We are enabled
to satisfy, temporarily at least, the urge
to travel, to go places and see things
Burton Holmes, of all travellers, is, per-
hapS, the best equipped to communi-
cate the joys and to recreate the ex-
citement of that supreme travel adven-
ture, The World Cruise"
He recently circled the globe for the
fourth time and brought back with him
picture record Of the facts and sights
of life as they exist today in Europe
and the Far East. This epic voyage OF
constant fascination. enhanced at
every point by Mr.. Holmes informative
great screen at the National Theater
next Sunday afternoon. The itinerary
embraces an effective perturbation of
all the various ports of call from Van
couver back to New York and affords
intimate glimpses of California, Hawaii
Japan, China. the Philippines, the
Dutch East Indies. Egypt and other
countries. The still pictures in color
have never before been shown and the
original motion scenes are fresh from
the camera.
This is the first in a series Of five
new travel revues to be presented by
Mr. Holmes on this and the following
four Sunday afternoons. other topics
in the course being: Bali, the Last
Paradise; Joys of the New Riviera
and Sights of Southern France"
Vienna Life" and Doing Europe on
a Budget"
Evening star., 1932-11-06
"ShOW Boat" Coming

the most delightful moments in
Show Boat" "Ravenal," the capti-
waiting gambler. who wins the heart
Of Magnolia" has his melodies,
too, suave. ingratiating, wonderously
tuneful A background such as this, a
book as perfect and score SO attrac-
tive were all that Mr.. Ziegfeld needed
for what he considered the most pre-
tentious production of his career. And
he selected a cast which is incompatible
for its brilliance and varied talents.
The role Of Magnolia is portrayed
by Norma Tefris, who already had won
the New York critics for her extraordi-
nary work in "A Night in Spain, "A
Night in Paris" and Little Nellie
Kelly" To Helen Morgan fell the role
of Julie" Sammy White and Eva
Puck, one of Americas best comedy
dancing teams, are playing important
parts. The cast, indeed, is such re-
markable one that it is almost impos-
sible to give due space to each member,
but further mention at least must be
made of Jules Bledsoe, who created the
role of Joe in Show Boat; William
Kent. Paul Keast. Bertha Belmore,
Annie Hart, Laura Clairon, Jack Daley,
Allan Campbell. George Blackwood,
Robert Farley. Thomas Gum and the
famous Jubilee Singers. not to mention
the rs glorifled Ziegfeld beauties.
Evening star., 1932-11-06
Play Tournament.

THE 1888 District of Columbia One
act Play Tournament, conducted
under the auspices of the Community
Center Department, will take place the
last two weeks in February, opening the
week of Monday, February 13, and clos
ing with the finals on March i. All
events of the tournament this year will
take place at the new Roosevelt Audi
torium, Thirteenth and Webster streets
northwest.
All groups must register on or be-
fore January Is, 1888, to take part in
the tourney; and application blanks
will be ready for distribution at the
Office Of the Community Center De-
partment in Franklin Administration
Building on November Is.
Not more than "a groups may enter
the tournament and these groups will
be accepted in the order of receipt OF
registration. There will be six evenings
Of preliminary contests, with four plays
presented each evening. Authorities OF
the drama and the art of the theater
will serve as judges of the preliminaries
and CT the finals.
The Tournament Committee for 1893
comprises Mrs. E. K. Peoples, Mrs. Ma
RE Moore Forrest, Miss Bess Davis
Schreiner, Gideon A. Lyon, DR.. w.
Hayes Yeager and Denis E. Connell. A
copy of the tournament rules will be
furnished each group upon application
to the committee at the Community
Center Department, National 1900.