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orchestral music remained
more or less outside the pale, with
the exception of the occasional visits
by the Philadelphia and Boston Or
chestras. Music lovers in all parts of
the United States, as well as in Wash
ington, had often dreamed of an Or
chestra for the Nations Capital that
would compare favorably with orches-
tras in the capitals Of other countries.
The dream was not realized until
the National Symphony Orchestra
came into being; now the orchestra is
making Washington, the center Of
political life, mecca for music lovers,
and contributing in no small measure
to the cultural advance of the popu-
lation.
The National Symphony, a mere
child among the orchestras, is only
years old. In that brief period, under
the able guidance Of DR.. Hans Kinder,
the conductor, the orchestra has es-
tablished reputation that is Nation
wide. and it is generally recognized as
a national asset.
1t was organized in the first year
OF the depression, and has encoun-
tered the usual difficulties that con-
front new organization, but its
growth has been steady and consistent.
In 1881. the year of the orchestra S
birth, contributors to the sustaining
fund numbered 100. Last year the
contributors numbered 1000. and in
cluded music lovers In all parts of the
United States, as well as in Wash
ington.
Increasing patronage attests to the
orchestra's undiminishing popularity
In Constitution Hall, where the Or
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Coming Musical Events

Fugue," laundering out the BASES Of
Chopin's "Winterwind" etude with
truly masculine force, and impartins
an incredible note of passion to ths
first and last movements of Beetho.
ven's "Pathetique" sonata.
Veteran music critics confessed thai
they attended her recital expecting u
be bored and remained to he astound.
ed In spite other marvellous pianisti,
ability, the child remained a child
and between numbers she was at pain,
to see that her white recital dress wa.
not becoming unduly wrinkled.
The fame of Ruth Slenczynski ane
her amazing performance spread from
one end Of the country to another
The press associations sent storie
from coast to coast and across tn,
oceans. Magazines came out with
articles on this amazing child prodigy
A few more concerts followed. TheI
Ruth was taken to Europe for mort
study and few more concerts.
La Argentina, the brilliant spanisl
dance celebrity, whom Doroth.
DOAoCy VIII R4C 4CoCAI Al
recital at the National Theater OF
Friday afternoon, January Is, at 49,
o'clock, gave two more performance
in New York the past week. in whicl
she revealed at least two additiona
dance creations that are new u
American audiences.
Appearing at Town Hall In Nev
York last night and last Thursda.
night, La Argentina afforded metro
politan audiences the first glimpS
of "Sacro Monte" new dance mum
Der that is derived from the gyps
| dances of Sacro Monte, the gypsy set
| tlement above Granada. She ais
danced another new number, callet
Gypsy Sketch" 1t is expected tha
her program here will also includ
| the uch-discussed Madrid, 1890
number which La Argentina frs
danced at her New York recital t
| week ago yesterday, as well as tn
'Zapateado" number.
Argentina's dancing on the curren
visit impressed the Manhattan critic
with a profound sense of her maturing
artistry. John Martin, dance criti
Of the New York Times. found tha
her return, after an absence of thre
years. made it doubly clear how com
paratively dull the intervening sea
sons have been without her" MI
Bohm in the Herald-Tribune callel
her 'the most glamorous figur
among living entertainers. while "
| j. Henderson OF the Sun declare,
that Argentina stands alone in he
! field"
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r. GEORG GRUBER, mu-

r. GEORG GRUBER, mu-
sical director, and Rector
Josef Schnitt, dean of the
- Wiener Saengerknaben, will
both come to Washington
with the choir boys when that group
Of juvenile singers pays its third an
nual visit to Washington. at Consti-
tuition Hall, Sunday afternoon, Janu-
ary 20, at o'clock. as the first of
Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's 1885 Sun
day afternoon recital series.
The choir will enact, in costume,
Franz Schubert's operetta, Der Haus-
liche Krieg" ("War in the House
boys play all parts, masculine and
feminine, and their stimulation OF
coquetry and feminine wiles, as well
as the sterner and more direct mascu-
line qualities Of the various characters
in these operettas, Is said to be drou
delight, as well as q musical treat.
In addition to the operetta, the choir
boys, who were first organized over
400 years ago by imperial decree OF
the Austrian Emperor Macmillan to
become an adjunct of the Vienna
Court Orchestra, will sing church
songs by sixteenth-century composers
and songs Of their native Vienna. The
church songs are 20 Salutaris Hostia"
(Nascus), In Dominica Palmarum"
(Gallus), "In Feria v. Maj. Held" &C.
P. da Palestrina) and "Repleti sunt
omnes" (Gallus). The secular songs
are Schubert's "Serenade." Brahms
"Wach auf," Emmer's "Sizilianisches
Jagdlied" and Strauss "Geschichten
aus dem Wienerwald.
Seats for the attraction are now on
sale at Mrs. Dorsey's Concert Bureau,
in Droop's. 1900 G street.
Ruth Slenczynski. the 10-year-old
girl pianist whose Washington recital
debut at. Constitution Hall on Tues
day afternoon, January %, at 4:40
o'clock has already been announced
by Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey, will play
her first New York recital of the cur
rent season on Saturday afternoon,
January II. at Carnegie Hall. Ruth
will arrive in the United States from
a European concert tour next Sunday
afternoon.
Not since Yehudi Menunin burst on
public notice as a boy OF 7 a decade
ago, has any child artist created the
furore in American musical circles
that was aroused by the sight of a
little chubby 9-year-old girl, barely
able TO reach the pedals of a concert
grand. drawing amazing volumes of
tone from the instrument, displaying
an amazing technique with such music
as Bach's "Chromatic Fantasy and
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Rehearsal of Elijah"

THE Washington Oratorio Society.
which presented Handel's Mes
siah" last Sunday at Central High
School, will resume rehearsals on
Monday, January 7, at the Thomson
School, Twelfth and L streets north
west Work will bes on Mendels-
sohn's Elijah" wht Ill be given
in April This grea work requires
a large chorus. and the society is ac-
cepting applications for membership
through It's conductor. George F. Kort-
zenborn. at ll45 Come 'ticut avenue.
A substantial reduction il dues is an
nounced, effective January l. The
society'5 policy of selecting its solo,
lists from among its own members
whenever possible will be continued
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Soloist With Symphony.
THE engagement of Viola Mitchell

he engagement OF VlOla MITCHELL,
American violinist, to appear as
soloist with the National Symphony
Orchestra Thursday afternoon, Feb
ruary 7, was announced yesterday.
Miss Mitchell will be heard in Mali
piero's new concerto, for which she
holds exclusive playing rights in this
country.
She first presented the concerto In
Boston. December 8, with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, and as DR..
Kinder is very anxious to afford
Washington music lovers the oppor-
tunity of hearing this work by the
greatest living Italian composer. he
Immediately secured the engagement
of Miss Mitchell. Her appearance here
February will increase the present
list of guest artists to eight, one more
than originally scheduled by the Ma
tional Symphony for the remainder Of
the season.
Miss Mitchell was born in Pitts
burgh. At the age of IA she was the
youngest pupil of Eugene Ysaye, noted
Belgian violiniSt. Ysaye guided her
education and developed her profess
sional career until his death, in 1929.
Her Brussels debut in 1928 took place
under the personal patronage of the
Queen of the Belgians, with United
States Ambassador Gibson and other
notables present. Since then Miss
Mitchelrs career has been a succession
Of triumphs in Germany, England,
France. Holland, Italy and America.
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mission" in place of the present space
radio" and recalls his demonstration
last year in Constitution Hall, when he
directed the orchestra in Philadelphia
from q box in the hall, as proof of
what effects can be obtained. He
sadly remarks: 1T Is an amazing
thing that this possibility has existed
now for two years and that no use
has been made Of it. The potentiali-
ties of music with reference to dynamic
power and frequency have reached
new heights of Elasticity and con-
trolled power never dreamed of in the
past as possible of attainment. Yet
nothing has been done to give these
new possibilities of sound to the vast
music-loving public throughout the
country.
Symphonic and operate music
come from the radio in incomplete
and changed form. Instead of the
$4,000 frequencies per second which
are necessary for the adequate trans
mission of orchestral music, radio lis
| teners in most of the homes are hear
ing at present up to about 5000 fire.
quencies or vibrations per second. and
sometimes fewer. The part of the
music which should be conveyed from
5000 to $4,000 frequencies is obviously
lost" This can be overcome, he be-
lieves. if the channels apportioned by
the Radio Commission be widened.
LIE also asks for a revision of the
receiving sets so that they may
approximate the effect received by the
ears of q listener in a concert hall
The present one-way transmission
gives the quality of music that one
would hear If listening with one ear.
and as no two ears hear to the same
degree, he feels that something OF
this difference must be brought into
the radio If nuances of music are to
be more apparent over the air.
New electrical instruments which
are in the process OF invention abolish
the strings, bows and tubes of the or
chestra family. Infinite shadings will
be possible when these minute details
are better understood and used in
radio music.
Electrical production OF tone may
some day revolutioniZe the manner of
composing music. The composer will
be able to record directly into sound
his musical ideas instead of first writ
ing them on paper. 1t is not too much
to say that wired transmission has
opened possibilities that may ulti-
mately revolutionize the whole world
Of music"
Certainly music is reaching a turn
ing point in its development, and the
future may have many interesting
tendencies. If the combination of
effort can be strong enough, there is
no reason why We shall not be able
to listen to the best music, in place of
its inferior substitute, while waiting
for the experiments of such men as
DR.. Stokowski to bear fruit It is in
teresting to follow DR.. Stokowski's S
clear and logical reasoning for the
betterment of the art he has so whole
! heartedly and capably served.
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certo' Three "Intermezzi. Op. H."
by Brahms, his "Rhapsodie in G Mi
nor" and Chooin's Twelve Studies,
Op. 25,' complete the program.
Following Egon Petri, in the five
star series of recitals by world-fa-
nous artists will be three who have
never been heard in Washington be-
fore: Goeta Ljungberg, Swedish So
prano from the Metropolitan Opera :;
Dorothy Sands. admittedly the ''su-
preme Contemporary mistress Of i'm
personation"; and Igor Stravinsky,
dynamic composer-pianist, who will
close the series with Samuel Dush-
kin in late March. The famous basso
Feodor Chaliap:n will come on March
10.
Single tickets and season tickets at
the T. Arthur Smith Bureau.
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r THE music hour today at 5

A T THE music hour today at 5
n o'clock at the Y. w. c. A.,
~ Seventeenth and K streets,
4 \ Mrs. Lewis Bartlett will tell
the stories of several famous
Christmas carols. including % Little
Town Of Bethlehem" and Silent
Night" These and others will be
sung by the audience, led by Mrs.
Bartlett. Mrs. G. c. Barrett will be
the accompanist. Men and women
are cordially invited.
The Children's Community Choir
of the Community Center Department,
Public Schools. will present the pro-
gram for the Y. w. c. A. music hour
at 4 o'clock. at 6l4 E street, today,
under the direction of Esther Linkins
Caroline Mylroie and Marjorie Reed,
both 9 years Of age, will be the solo,
lists. accompanied by Louise Dale
Leeds. E Street Girl Reserves will
serve as hostesses for the tea hour,
at S o'clock, following the musicale.
The Lovette Choral Club will be
heard, at the National Woman's Dem
ocratic Club. in a program of chorases
and solos at o'clock this afternoon.
Francise Bass Wilson will sing "A
Song the composition of Charles S.
Hamlin. Mrs. Hamlin is president Of
the Democratic club. Other soloists
will be Ethel Lynn Fast, accompanied
by her daughter Betty Ann, who will
sing Song Of the Open" by La Forge,
and "Ho, Mr.. Piper" (Curran), and
Hazel Cake, who will sing Bird Song
81, @EF
group Of carols. followed by a group
whence. o Shepherd Maiden" Gay
will also sing Sibelius' Dear Land
OF Home" from "Finlandia." The
program will close with Mozart S
Gloria in Excelsis.'
Hazel M Williamson presented stu
dents from her piano class on Thurs
day evening at her studio. Those
participating we're John Miller, Homer
Cummings, Donald Corby, George
Everett, Bob Montgomery. Harold
Pierce, Lowell Conger, Robert Boil
linger. Jack Wright and Franklyn
students will be presented this Thurs
day.
Lillian Harmon Burke presented a
group Of her pupils in a piano recital
Tuesday evening, December 18, at her
studio, 500< Fifth street. Those who
played were Betty Jeanne Gimmer.
Billy Freas, Barbara Streeter, Betty
Ann Cooper, Ruby Lee Williams, Mar
jorie Pledger. Mary Claire Maloy,
Mary Ann Cheatham and Belmont
Farley. jr.
r. Guy Lucas announces the third
OF the monthly organ recitalS on the
last Monday In each month for to-
morrow, at Sis pm. in ST. Johns
Church. Sixteenth and H streets.
The program will include a group of
Bach numbers. the first movement Of
the Schubert Unfinished Symphony"
the slow movement from Schumann's
"Rhenish Symphony" and pieces by
Arensky and Parry. These recitals
are free (there Is no collection), and
the public Is invited.
A program Of Christmas music was
given by the Young Peoples Choir of
the Takoma Park Seventh-day Ad-
Z ventist Church, assisted by the church
choir and other artists. Sunday eve
ming. Preceding the program, Mrs.
L. H. Rednan gave q short organ
recital Of appropriate numberA
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ary 6, at $50 o'clock in the National
Theater Of the celebrated Dutch
pianist, Egon Tetri, as the first artist
in the five-star series. offered by the
T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau.
Egon Petris program on that oc-
casion will include also, by special
request, the Cesar Franck-his Pre-
lude. Choral and Fugue"-which so
many persons have asked to have
Petri play in his Washington concert
that it has been arranged to substi-
tute 1t for the originally announced
Beethoven Sonata Op. Ill in C Mi
nor"
Three numbers. by Bach, will serve
as the first part of the concert; Pre-
ludes Fugue aud Allegro, fiat ajor"
"Capriccio,". and his Italian Con-
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TO THE sincere music lover, who has
suffered from having his exalted
mood shattered, after hearing a mas
terly musical performance, by the in
trusion OF banal advertising speeches,
or has searched in vain for something
more elevated than jazz music or
grooming. the evidence of a concerted
movement to aid music is welcome.
Too long have the listeners been
obliged to hear inferior programs, and
artists have themselves suffered from
the need of keeping in mind the fact
that commercial hours are given first
preference. Donating their services,
for the most part, and giving valuable
time in preparation. they are often
told at the last moment that their ap-
pearance has been Cancelled to give
place to a paying program of perhaps
mediocre talent.
Stokowski had something Of this in
mind when he advocated Government
control Of the radio. William A.
Orton, in an article entitled "A Future
American Radio Policy" for the "Edu-
cation by Radio" says: ANY govern
ment must make up its mind, as be-
tween two alternatives. Either the
control of popular broadcasting must
be positively directed with a view to
the maintenance and improvement OF
cultural values, or 1t must be mainly
negative in character, allowing radio
to become simply an additional means
of mechanical entertainment. A posi-
tive control necessarily compels the
adoption Of certain standards. A neg
atiye control leaves these, on the
whole, to chance. The assertion that
public control would necessarily be
politically biased can be dismissed, in
view Of the experience Of Great Britain
and the record Of other administrative
agencies Of the Federal power in
America. In any case. the chances Of
such direction are better in the hands
OF public servants than in the hands
Of commercial enterprises"
X
! A ND Stokowski writes: eve are
in a significant creative stage in
the development of an American musi-
cal culture. Musically speaking. we
have passed the central point of the
oCPI CSSlOll, olld orc OAl Jul way
ward There is bound to be new
expression of the creative forces Of
American life in music. In broad
casting two features are important
programme and technique. The stand
ards of both are set. in the long run, by
public taste II the public steadily
and firmly demands higher average
Of quality in programs. and trans
mitting and reception equipment that
is up-to-date, both will be created. A
few isolated individuals cannot bring
this about. 1t is Everyman who must
ask and who will receive"
Beyond this, Stokowski goes into
the mechanical end of the production,
and through a wide personal expert
ence offers suggestions as to how both
the sending and the receiving Of mu-
sical programs Of magnitude can be
perfected. He advises wired trans
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StOkOwski Makes Plea
For Better Radio Music
Equipment, He Thinks. Should Be Adequate to
Demands of Artistic Taste and
PROGRAMS Improved.
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

TINE Importance the radio in the future Of music has
| nearly for time. Also
fact valuable service has only Just begun and
that If it continue in effectiveness will require both
revision and supervision No less parsonage than Leopold
sokowsk from whom can always expect new and con-
recently into print in the Atlantic
Monthly better radio
mission.
In his article he likewise undernes certain needs that have
already been sened by others who feel that determined
effort must be made bring into prominence the educational
artistic offerings above the purely amusement adver
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At St. Patrick's Church the Christ
mas music will be repeated by the full
choir at the solemn mass at 10
O'Clock today. On New Year day the
choir will render Christmas carols and
hymns at the low mass at IL O'Clock.
The music will start at 1880 am,
under the direction Of Jennie Glen
nan.
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Program Repeated.

4 TWELFTH night candlelight serv-
"A ice will be given by the Washing
ton Choral Society, conducted by Louis
A. Potter. in Epiphany Church next
Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock,
when, in addition to parts Of the
Christmas candlelight service held two
weeks ago, the society will be heard in
additional numbers especially appro-
pirate TO the Twelfth night season.
The capacity audience that heard
the Choral Society in the Christmas
candlelight program and many of those
who were unable to get into Epiphany
Church for the event have sent in re-
quests that the program of that oc-
casion be repeated on Twelfth night,
as fully as possible.
Cornelius The Three Kings" will
be feature on this program, and the
society will rehearse the new program
Wednesday night at Epiphany Church
in preparation for the event. The
public is invited to attend.
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To Play Request Number.
TREMENDOUS interest is being
shown in the appearance in
Washington on Sunday night, Febru-
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At left Beveridge Webster American pianist who will play for the
first Washington Wednesday
beside NoTena Norwegian
pano the Metropolitan who will share the
Mitchell voinist
February
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Program for Wednesday.

THE young American pianist, Bev-
eridge Webster, who recently
made his official debut in this country
in New York. will be introduced to
Washington music lovers on Wednes-
day at Mrs. Lawrence Townsend S
morning musicale at the Mayfiower
Hotel. With him on the program will
appear Eide Norena. Norwegian So
prano Of the Metropolitan. who sang
here last Winter.
Mr.. Webster was born in Pittsburgh
and as pupil Of I. Phillip at the Paris
Conservatoire had the distinction Of
being the only American to receive
when graduating the coveted grand
prix'' of that famous institution. His
concert career has taken him all over
Europe, in recitals and as soloist with
the most celebrated orchestras, and
the praise he received is Of the super
lative kind, enthusiastically acclaim
ing him as one of the finest pianists
before the public today. On November
II he made his first American appear
ance at Carnegie Hall with the Phil
harmonic Orchestra under the direc-
tion Of another American. Werner
Jansen. He played the MacDowell
ID Minor Concerto" and one of his
reviewers wrote of his performance
Here is piano playing of youthful zest
and fire and of musical inclination"
His program on Wednesday will
open with Mendelssohn's "Rondo
Capriccioso" and contain groups OF
Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Brahms and
Weber.
Since singing at the Wednesday
musicales last year, Nine Norena has
added to her many operate triumphs
on her return last Spring to England
and France, where she is a particular
favorite at the opera. Her roles at
the Metropolitan are the lyric one
such as Gilda in "Rigoletto," which
are unusually appealing in her clear,
pure soprano. She Is q valuable ad-
dition to the opera roster and equally
successful in recital. The full program
for Wednesday Is as follows:
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Monday

Gertrude Michael in
The Notorious Sophie
Lang. Geo. o Brien.
The Dude Ranger
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Sunday

Gertrude Michael in
The Notorious Sophie
Lang." Geo. O'Brien.
The Dude Ranger. "
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w WASHINGTON has long been
the home of visible art. of
wv painting. sculpture and
architecture, but until 1881
orchestral music remained
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Photopla>s at Washington 7heaters This Weel

WEEK OF
DECEMBER 30
Academy
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-08
Perry-Brooks Wedding
Solemnized on Sunday

Simplicity marked the nuptial serv-
ice performed at st. Georges Episco-
pal church at 2 o'clock Sunday after
noon during which Miss wilma Perry,
Minot, became the bride Of Joseph
Brooks, Livingston, Mont.
The service, read in the presence
Of few relatives and friends, was
the first marriage to be performed
by the new st. Georges rector, Rev.
N. E. Ellsworth, since his arrival in
Bismarck. Rev. and Mrs. Ellsworth
became acquainted with the bride and
other members of her family during
their residence in jamestown.
Miss Florence Fritch. the church
organist, played the nuptial music,
including the Mendelssohn and "Lo-
hengrin" marches. Miss Rita Muir
ply, accompanied by Miss Fritch
sang THE Voice That Breatled Ger
Eden" by Gauntlet.
For her wedding the bride wore q
Rothmoor suit Of dark brown mix
ture and brown accessories and car
ried shower bouquet Of Talisman
roses tied with deep pink tulle. Mrs
Corinna Fechter, Bozeman, Mont.
sister Of the bride, wearing dark
brown crepe ensemble with mink fur
trim, was matron Of honor.
Fred NJ. Brey, Minot, brother-in-
law Of the bride, attended Mr.. Brooks
Covers were laid for "A guests in
Guiding Rev. and Mrs. Ellsworth and
several relatives and friends who
were here for the wedding at the din
ner served after the ceremony at the
Prince hotel. The wedding cake
which was decorated with pink and
white, formed the centerpiece for the
table which was deliberately decorat-
ed with bouquets of pink roses and
white chrysanthemums and sprays of
autumn leaves. The bride cut the
cake as the dessert course was serv-
ed.
Among the wedding guests. besides
Mrs. Fechter and Mr.. Brey. were Mrs
Brey. Miss Mildred Brey, Miss Marie
Robertson, Mrs. Myra Hurd, Mrs