Evening star., 1934-03-11
BY DIR. HANS KINDLER.

Conductor National
DR.. Kindler's comments on proxra
this afternoon at pm.
A DISTINGUISHED American
N contralto, Sophie Braslau, and
~ music of considerable un-
usualness and variety make
up the program of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra's concert
which will begin this afternoon at
o'clock in Constitution Hall. The pro-
gram will be as follows:
Overture in Minor. Handel -Elsar
Ell Amor Brujo". =. de Falla
Introduction.
Night.
Song Of Loves Sorrow.
The Specter.
Dance Of Terror.
The Magic Circle.
Midnight.
Ritual Fir. Dance.
Entr acte.
Song of the Firehy.
Dance and Song of Love.
Sophie Braslau.
untermission.)
Soviet Iron Foundry (by request.
Mossolov
Chant Russo" Moussorgsky
"Capriccio Espagnol'. Rimsky -Korsakov
Alborada tVivo e strepitoso).
Variazoni tAndante con moto).
Alborada Vivo e strepitoso).
Scena canto gitan0 (Allegrett0).
Fandang0 asturiano.
Overture in D Minor. Handel -Elgar
The Overture in D Minor" by Han
del-Elgar, was put on the program to-
day because it is one of those works
wherein the recently deceased English
master expresses his reVerent admira-
ton for one Of the great composers
of a by-gone day, who found in Eng
land the recognition which was his
due
Handel, principally noted for his
choral music, has written a number
of fine works for the orchestra of his
day. That orchestra was, of necessity,
limited. and very often the emotional
content of Handers compositions is
bigger and more important than the
medium for which 1t was, of neces-
sity, planned.
Elgar, realizing this, has taken one
of the grand opening movements of
one of the concerti grossi and made
it into an overture of great and pas
sionate splendor.
Ell Amor Brujo". "..............de de Falla
The overture Is followed by a
modern work by the greatest of con-
temporary Spanish composers. Love,
the Magician" is a sequence Of Or
chestral pieces, interpolated with
movements in which the voice takes
part. The orchestration is unusual,
and very restrained in an aScetic
and nearly burning sobriety typical
of the Spanish character. No trom-
bones. no cymbals, no bass clarinet,
etc, are used at all. The piano, how
ever, is added to the orchestra, and
the effect OF the entire orchestration
shows how much a great master can
achieve in the way OF tone color with
even a limited palette.
Originally the work was q ballet in
one act, with incidental songs The
story is of a gypsy girl, who, having
once loved gypsy, cannot love again
because his specter stands between
her and her prospective bridegroom.
A dance of exorcism Ohe famous
Fire Dance" which is well known
from piano transcriptions) proves to
be without avail. Another girl, Lucia
volunteers to try her wiles on the
specter, succeeds, and thereby frees
the lovers from the spell. Thus Love
the Magician (El Amor Brujo) has
conquered
The score is a mixture of pas
sionate, languorouS, mystic, gay
savage, and other moods, all accord
ing to whatever the text of the work
wants to express. The interpolatec
songs, however are all Of gypsy char.
acter. very dark in color, and will be
sung by Sophie Braslau, who also did
the work with Toscanini in New York
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Soviet Iron Foundry. Mossolov
After the intermission We have put
in the Soviet Iron Foundry music
by the young Russian composer, Mos
solov. We have played this during
the past season. For our present re-
quest program, large number of
votes were given for this particular
work. AS. however, there were, with
the exception of the "Bolero" which
again topped all other works in num-
Der Of votes. many works with very
nearly the same number of votes. ]
have taken this particular one and
put 1t in previous program, as to
O nf Sr1
would be impracticable
There is Just one thing about this
music of the iron foundry which !
would like to emphasize, and that is
that it is legitimate music. With
that I mean that for one thing, all
the effects which come from the Or
chestra are produced by using the
different instruments in quite a nor
NAL way, and that it is only the COM
bination of these sonorities which
brings forth what is commonly ac-
cepted as the particular sounds which
a factory is supposed to make, trans
mitted into musical material.
1t also is worth while to emphasize
that the form Of this piece is quite
perfect, and simple; also that the
main theme, played by the horns, is
very stirring one. More than that,
the composition has all through it
the spirit of relentless and victorious
labor.
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Cnant HusSe .MouSSorgSky
The Chant Russo" of Moussorgsky
is simple, straightforward, Russian
melody without any problem" at
tached to it, and will quiet the nerves
of those auditors who might have
been upset by the previous work on
the program!
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"Ca2riccio Espagnop 4. I. .Rimsky-Korsakov
The final composition on the pro-
gram of today will be Rimsky-Kor-
SakOv'S Spanish Caprice"
Toward the END of the nineteenth
century, Spanish art having come to
the Paris exhibition and found an
enthusiastic welcome, it made a spe-
cial impression ON the European
artists of the day. The results were,
in music, number of compositions