Evening star., 1934-06-24
THE second Of the series of Summer

ne SECOND OF The series OF summer
concerts, given annually by the
Pan-American Union, will be pre-
sented on Tuesday evening, from 8 to
1880 o'clock, in the Aztec gardens of
the union. The United States Marine
Band, under the leadership of Capt.
Taylor Branson, will render the in
strumental portion of the program.
The assisting artist will be Francisco
Tortolero, lyric tenor, of Mexico. The
first hour of the concert, from to
10 o'clock, will be broadcast over the
facilities of the National BroadcaSting
Co. and will be sent by short wave TO
the other republics Of the American
continent over the stations OF the In
ternational General Electric Co. at
Schenectady and the Westinghouse
Electric Il Manufacturing Co. at Pitts
burgh. The entire program. from 9
TO 1880 O'Clock, will be broadcast over
the Navy Station NAA.
Francisco TortOlero. the assisting
artist, is q native Of Mexico and made
his debut in 1915 with the ImpulSura
Opera OF Mexico, where he remained
until 1917. In the succeeding six
years he was with the Bracale Opera
Co. touring South America and sub
sequently appeared as soloist with
Torreblanca's Mexican Tipica and
Lerdo de Tejada's Orchestras on their
tours of the United States. He then
appeared with the Chicago Civic
Opera, the San Carlo Opera and the
Hippodrome Opera Company Of New
York. and has also made numerous
concert tours. In his program Senor
Tortolero will include several new
compositions
At the forthcoming concert Capt
Branson has included in his program
as a special feature new band ar
rangement of melodies of Stephen Col
Inns Foster, the American troubadour.
The presentation Of this new compost
ton, which is in the form of medley,
has been made possible through the
action Of ]. K. Lilly of indianapolis,
who. desirous of bringing the people
of the Americas into closer acquaint-
anceship with this typical folk music
of the United States, conceived the
idea OF having Is of Fosters most
beautiful and familiar songs grouped
into O special arrangement for fun
military band, with the purpose OF dis
tributing it gratis to musical organiza-
tions throughout the new world. The
work OF compiling and arranging this
medley has been done by Luis Guz-
man, native of Colombia, and a MEM
ber OF the United States Marine Band
The arrangement includes selections
from THE Glendy Burk," "Gwine to
Run All Night" Hard Times Come
Again No More" "Jeanie With the
Light Brown Hair, Open Thy Lat
tice, Love-" Some Folks" MY Old
Kentucky Home" "Old Black Joe" J."
Ring de Banjo" "Oh! Lemuel,"
Come Where My Love Lies Dream
ing" THE Tioga waltz-The Voices
That Are Gone" Beautiful Dreamer. !"
"Massa's in de Cold Ground" ;" "Ohl
Susanna" and finale. "Old Folks At
Home" Through It's rendition in the
concert on Tuesday. this compilation
will for the first time be brought to
the attention of the people of Latin
America and subsequently copies OF
the arrangement will be distributed
by the Pan-American Union to mu-
sical organizations throughout the
continent.
In the program have also been in
cluded compositions from most OF the
countries of Latin America. The pro-
gram will also be featured by violin
solo with harp accompaniment by Mu-
sician Albert F. Schoepper. violinist,
and Musician Joshua M. Tyler. harp
ist: cornet solo by Musician Winfre1
Kemp, and xylophone solos by Musician
Wilbur Keefer.