Evening star., 1934-03-04
Recitals Include Ballet
AndSeveralSongP Programs
Monte Carlo Company at National Today and
Sophie Braslau to Be Featured With
National Symphony Next Sunday.

to be given in its entirety. The COM
plete program follows:
Overture in Minor .Handel-Elgar
Ell Amor Bru1o" DE Falla
lIntermission)
tBy request.
Chant Russo. e...............M .Moussorgsky
Capriccio Espagnol. 49,. .Rimsky- -KorsaEov
Miss Braslau hardly needs an ir tro-
duction to Washington concert audi
ences. She was born In New York of
Russian parents. She began her vocal
training at the age Of 13 and gave
her first recital when she was 18, In
Richmond, Va, substituting for Louise
Homer, who was i'll. She became a
member of the Metropolitan Opera Co.
when she was 90
The opening overture Sunday will
be the ID Minor Overture" of Handel,
arranged by Edward Elgar, the re-
nowned English composer who died
just two weeks ago.
There have been 80 many requests
by concert-goers to have Mossolov's
Iron Foundry" played on the 're-
quest program" concert Of March rs,
as well as so many requests for Ravels
"Bolero" that Kinder has decided to
play the Russians ultra-modern ma
chine music" next Sunday, 50 as not
to crowd both of these ultra-modern
compositions on one program. Ravel's
'Bolero" has received more votes than
any other work for the request con-
cert, and will, unless superseded at
the last minute by sudden flow Of
votes to another popular work, be
played on March 25, the final Sunday
event of the year.
THE last children's concert was given
yesterday. The last students
concert will be given on April 7. Be-
tween these dates there are Two
Thursday concerts, March IS and
April 5. The orchestra will play In
Pittsburgh dts debut in that city,
March and end its Baltimore series
March IA. There Is also an engage
ment for 81 picked men Of the or
chestra March % in Harrisonburg,
Va, which Kinder will conduct. This
same program will be given here at
Howard University on March ~. Ne
gotiattons are also under way for the
entire orchestra to take part In the
music festival at Charlottesville, Va,
April %, and also to present a music
festival here on May 2 with the COM
bined choirs and choral societies tax
ing part
Indications are at present that the
campaign to raise the 100000 neces-
sary to guarantee a season Of concerts
Is progressing more slowly than last
year. A meeting will be held shortly
by the various committees engaged in
the drive. Among the leaders Of the
teams are Mrs. E. F. Andrews, Mrs.
Alan Kirk, Persis Myers, Mrs. Reeve
Lewis and Mrs. Carey Brown. Those
working on the teams include Mrs. L.
Corrin Strong, Mrs. Franklin Ellis,
Mrs. James Dunn. Mrs D. Emery, Mrs.
Dean Acheson, Deborah Dows, Anne
Eustis. Carlina Sheridan, Gertrude
Laughlin, Marian Stevens, Katherine
wilkins and Sylvia Lent.
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TITO SCHIPA, leading lyric tenor
of the American operate and re-
cltal stage, will be presented in song
recital at the D. A. r. auditorium on
Tuesday afternoon, March 20, at 4:4o
o'clock as the third attraction Of the
Dorsey Tuesday afternoon music Sc
ries.
The current season marks Schipa's
appearance as leading tenor of the
Metropolitan Opera Co., following his
sensational successes with the now
defunct Chicago Civic Opera Co. dur
ing the years of its greatest aff1uence
and prominence. He was also a star
of the now-famous Summer opera sea-
son at Ravinia Park, Chicago, and
with the San Francisco and Los An
geles Opera companies each season.