Evening star., 1933-03-05
TOscanini Is Heroic
Character in Music World
This Year Is Known for His Prodisious Memory
and Perfection of Musical Balance.
By Alice Eversman.

this long period, when Washing
ton was often without dependable
orchestra music Of its own, oppor-
tunity for hearing the monu-
mental symphonic works was
furnished by this group of musi-
clans. It's record of 80 years of
unbroken performances places it
as the worlds second oldest Or
cheStra, the dean being the IA
nous GewandhauS Orchestra of
Leipzig. During that time no con-
cert was ever Cancelled and only
two moved from their announced
date when the deaths of President
Cleveland and of its conductor,
Anton Seidl, caused them to be
temporarily postponed.
It's unique organization is partly
responsible for its longevity for
its policy is to take care Of its
members during their years of
activity and provide for their
care when old age has stiffened
their fingers or shortened their
breath. Its professional musi-
clans form an ideal communistic
corporation divided into three
classes Of memberS-actual, hon.
orary and honorary associate.
The first honorary member
elected by unanimous vote was
Vieuxtemps in 1843. Since then
Spohr, Mendelssohn, Jenny Lind,
Liszt, Wagner, Rubenstein and
Dvorak are some of the famous
musicians upon whom. this dis
tinction has been conferred.
The idea Of guest conductors
brought many men of fame to
this country for the first time.
Eduard Colonne, instigator of the
famous Colonne concerts of Paris,
the conductorship of which, until
recently, was in the hands of the
beloved Gabriel Pierne; Sir Henry
Wood of the London Symphony
concerts, Felix Weingartner of
Munich, Richard Strauss of Berlin
and Victor Herbert, who wrote
and played a cello concerto dedi-
Gated to the Philharmonic, are
some of these.
It is with regret and recogni-
tion that this last concert will be
attended, regret that this perfect
ensemble with its distinguished
conductors will be heard here no
more and recognition for the love
OF orchestral music it created,
which has eliminated in the for
nation of our own National Sym
phony. May we hold high and
carry on the ideal it has taught
us.
THE Metropolitan Opera Com
pany's performance of "Tris-
tan und Isolde" on Wednesday,
March IS, at the Lyric Theater in
Baltimore, will have a cast par
excellence. Perhaps never before
has so many famous Wagnerian
singers appeared together in this
supreme muSic-drama. Isolde"
will be sung by Frida Leider, who,
after unqualified success at the
State Opera in her native Berlin,
was acclaimed the ideal Wag-
merriam soprano at Covent Garden
and solidified her fame this sea-
son at the Metropolitan. The
Danish tenor, Lauritz Melchior,
who belongs to the great ones of
Bayreuth and is a general IA
vorite In European opera houses,
will be the Tristan. The Bran
gaene Of Maria Olszewska has
won her renown at the operas of
Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Hamburg,
Leipzig and at Covent Garden,
London, and Friedrich Schorr,
singing "Kurvenal," is a promi-
nent figure in Wagnerian opera
wherever it has had its finest pro-
duction.
No finer vehicle for these splen-
did artists could be found than
this passionate drama by the man
whose death anniversary has
been so universally commemo-
rated. All the desire, grief, sor-
row, despair and ecstasy that was
familiar to the Titan of Bayreuth,
and which he immortalized in
this opera, will have the pick of
the operatic world as INTERPRETERS.