Evening star., 1933-04-23
Modern Music of All
Nations at Festival
Works of Ravel, Schoenbers, Pizzetti and Other
"Apostles of the New Ethics of Expression
to Be Presented at Library of Congress-
By Alice Eversman.

a few years ago. Pizzetti is a
thoughtful writer of superlative
gifts. who works increasingly to
perfect his conception of what
music today should express.
With the same leaning to opera
as Pizzetti, Bohuslav Martinu,
young Bohemian composer of
French education, has been con-
sidered by some as the most prom
ising of the younger generation.
Born with a gift for melody, rich
in inspiration and overflowing
temperament, he is strong in
sentiment without taint of senti-
mentality. His extraordinary
feeling for rhythm smacks some
what of jazz and his efforts to
embody all that is modern in life
leads him near to the use of that
metaphor. In this he approaches
the American composer, COPELAND,
who, like Martini, is Influenced in
his serious moments by the
French school where he first tried
out his wings.
While others have been con-
centrating on giving form to their
ideas, COPELAND is the only one of
the younger set who has construc-
lively helped along the cause of
the moderniSt by providing means
of having their works heard. He
says with truth: "A composer is
not composer until he has heard
his own brain child cry in public.
A man must hear his own works
in order to develop enough criti-
cal sense to avoid making the
same mistake twice" In company
with Roger Sessions, he has or
ganized a series of concerts in
which works of new composers
are heard and passed upon, and
has made an effort to bring the
striving writer's out of their iSo-
lation and bind them together in
a fraternity of seekers of the mu-
sical light. COPELAND is one of the
brightest stars in the American
musical heaven and promises to
write his name indelibly for the
country whose fundamental
rhythmic superiority he has I'M
derstood and perpetrated in ele-
vated form.
4 RECENT musical event of interest
to Washington was the successful
recital given by Mrs. S. Peter Wagner
in st. Petersburg. Fla. Mrs. Wagner is
a pupil of Mary Cryder of this city
and has coached with Frank La Forge
Of New York and Nine. Blanch Marchesi
Of Paris She is an artist member of
the Arts Club of Washington and has
appeared extensively in concert in the
East. Her recital in St. Petersburg,
held under the auspices of the local Art
Club, received most favorable comment,
the rare and beautiful quality of her
well trained lyric voice being specially
commented upon. A studio tea followed
the musicale at which were present
many notable people.
THE International Art Forum, Mime.
Amelia Cont, president, announces
two concerts to be given under its man.
agement at the Carlton Hotel On
April 80 Reno Bolognini Argentine
violinist, who is at present assistant
concert master of the New York Phil
harmonic Orchestra, will appear under
the patronage of the Ambassador of
Argentina, Senor DR.. Felipe A. Espil
Mr.. Bolognini will include in his pro-
gram two compositions by Argentine
composers which will be heard for the
first time in this country. On May I
the Art Forum will present Lavinia
Darve, lyric soprano and Maria Yudieva
and Vecheslav Swoboda. ballet masters
OF the Chicago Civic Opera