The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-11
: KEITH PICTURE REVIEWED
SoIoists Named
For Symphony
Concerts

The list of the soloiSts who will
appear with the National SYM
phony Orchestra next year is
practically completed, C. C. Cap
pei, manager of the orchestra, an
nounced today.
For the Sunday concerts, which
have been increased from eight
concerts to ten for next season,
the following artists have been
engaged for the dates as indi-
Gated:
MiScha Elman, violin virtuoso,
February "a; Sophie Breslau, bril-
liant contralto heard with the
orchestra last year in De Falla's
Eel Amor Brujo,' February 10;
Josef Lhevinne, the great pianist,
will make one of his rare Wash
ington appearances when he plays
with the orchestra on November
IL; Bartlett and Robertson, the
distinguished duo-pianists, will
play some rarely heard piano-and-
orchestra music on January 13,
and Gloria Perkins, 10-year-old
violinist, who made her debut
with the orchestra last year, will
return again on November Is.
SOloist From "Met"
For the Thursday Series, the
orchestra has engaged Lucrezia
Bori for the opening concert on
November /. This will be an eve
ming concert and will begin at
$50. The addition of the magni.
ficent Metropolitan Opera Com
pany soprano to the program
should make this concert one Of
the most important concerts Of
the season, both from a musical
and from a social standpoint.
Harold Bauer, we'll beloved in
Washington and one of the truly
great masters of the piano, will be
soloist on March 81. Myra Hess,
probably the greatest woman plan
list on the concert stage today,
will be soloist on February 81.
Olga Averino, who gave such a
successful concert here last year
at the Library of Congress, will
sing with the orchestra on De.
cember 6. She has recently won
distinct triumphs both in Boston
and Philadelphia, when she sang
with the orchestras of these cities.
Frances Nash, Americas fore
most woman pianist, will be soloist
at another of the orchestra's eve
ming concerts, scheduled for Jan
uary 10. Concert audiences in
Berlin, Paris and New York have
heard this pianist with the major
orcheStraS of these three cities,
where she won much critical &C.
claim.
Great Artists
With this splendid list of artists,
the concerts of the National SYM
phony Orchestra provide the rare
combination of an excellent Or
chestra, a brilliant conductor and
some of the greatest artists in the
world as soloistS. The National
Symphony Orchestra Association,
with its two series of concerts thus
provides a completely satisfactory
program for the entire musical
season of 1934-35.
During the past week Conductor
Hans Kinder completed his series
Of appearances as guest conductor
with the famous Concertgebouw
Orchestra in Amsterdam. Accord.
ing to the cable received by Mr..
Capped from Mr.. Samuel Botten-
helm, manager of the Concertge-
bouw, Kinder received a tremend-
GUS ovation at the completion Of
the concerts. Kinder will now go
to London to play a series Of
cello concerts for the British
Broadcasting Company, and then
return to this country for the re.
mainder of the summer. He will
conduct the Philadelphia Orches-
ira in Robin Hood Dell for series
of concerts for the first week in
August.