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Evening star., 1935-02-24
Symphony Orchestra Gives
TwoProgramsDuringWeek
First, Today, Will Be Made Up of Slavic Music,
Including Tschaikowsky Concerto-All-
American Program Next Thursday.
BY Hans Kinder.

Introduction TO first and fourth
acts Of "Khovanstchina."
Moussorgsky
"HE program Of today is entire
ly Of Slavic music. This nat
urally includes Bohemian as
i well as Russian music. The
salient characteristics of this
music are contrasts between sadness
and gayety; a direct, -philosophic
outlook with, in consequence, direct
emotional appeal. Hence, description
is not essential, and it may suffice to
state that the incidental music to
"Khovanstchina" is by Moussorgsky.
who is more and more acknowledged
to have been the real genius of nine
teenth century Russian music.
The first is descriptive of a sunrise
over the steppes, with the booming
Of church bells in the far distance,
while the second one Is in the way of
a continuation Of this, with a moving
and hymnlike tune, sung first softly,
and later. in forte by all the violins.
"The Moldau". "............''s 'smetana
THE symphonic poem, 1.-The Mol
dau," is by Smetana, who was
the father of all Bohemian music. His
music was inspired by patriotism, the
love Of his country and his people and
by strong feeling for the soil, hence
the folk songs Of his native Bohemia
were one of his greatest inspirations
and he used them to excellent effect
in the description of today's tone
poem.
The subtitles explain the music
aptly. It is Smetana's major orches-
trail work and the one by which he
will live.
Two Slavonic Dances. .Dvorak
A MONG Smetana's disciples in his
"A faith in and delight in folk music
was Dvorak. The two Slavonic
dances by the composer of the New
World Symphony" which we will play
today are contrasting in mood-one
melancholy and nostalgia. the other
one exuberant and with an ever-in-
creaSing exhileration.
SOIlCcICO III ~ hdJOT 1OT tIOlIII
and Orchestra" ... Tchaikovsky
THE Tchaikovsky Concerto" the
greatest work of its kind to come
out of Russia, will entail the services
Of the superb violinistic art of Mischa
Elman. Mr.. Elman is identified,
more than any other violinist. with
the Tchaikovsky Concerto" In this
great work he made his first sensa-
tional triumph, and no one so far has
been able to obliterate the impression
he made in this composition. Many
new fiddlers have appeared since, but
today, in all the maturity of his art,
Elman still stands unrivaled in the
Interpretation Of what for years was
considered a work Of such impossible
technical difficulty that it practically
lay dormant until he made it known
to and believed by the musical world
at large. What is more. it also has
directness of emotional appeal. which
has since made it deserved favorite
with audiences everywhere.
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In Local Music Circles

LIE gypsy 1Tall at the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School Auditorium
on Thursday. March Z. at $50 pm.
Sylvia Kaplowitz, Washington &C
cordionist, will be guest soloist, and
will appear with Mr.. Freund in their
original Tony and Sylvia" act.
Marian Venable will dance a gypsy
number and also appear with the
chorus in its finale, italian Street
Song"
The performance is for the benefit
OF the Music Committee of the Gen.
tral Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, Bethesda, Md, and is being
sponsored by the various community
organizations of Montgomery County.
Tickets may be obtained at the Witt
Hamiu Music Co., 1910 G street.
A musicale by piano and violin pu-
pills OF Francis Garzia and Mile. de
Porry will take place Friday after
noon at 4 o'clock at the Maret School.
Those participating are Jane Segal,
Similar Carol, Billy Treble, Beverly
Livingston, Roger Beneteau, Mary
Ferguson, Catherine Crane and John
Gray.
The Octavians. male octet, .di-
rected by Paul Gable and assisted by
Dorothy Halbach, contralto, and Carl
Walther, xylophonist, will give a pro-
gram of sacred and secular numbers
at the First Congregational Church
on Friday at $50 pm.
Helen Benham, contralto, and Mrs.
F. P. Pfeiffer. violinist, will present the
program at the o'clock hour of music
today at Friendship House, 324 Vir-
glnla avenue southeast. William I.
Weber is the accompanist. The pub
lie is invited.
LIE Roy Lewis, baritone, will be the
soloist at st. Andrews P. e. Church
this morning.
A program of music of Washineton's
time will be presented this afternoon
from to $50 o'clock at All Souls
Church CUnitarian), Sixteenth and
Harvard streets, by Charles Trow-
bridge Tittmann, bass, and Lewis
Corning Atwater, organist
T. Guy Lucas announces his sixtieth
organ recital in St. Johns Church.
Sixteenth and H streets northwest, at
8:15 pm. tomorrow. The program
includes the Bach Little Fugue In
G Minor" and pieces by Grieg, De-
busy, Rachmaninoff and Saint
Saens. The choir will assist. There
will be recital, played by visiting
organists, every Monday evening at
8:15 during Lent.
Lucy M. Boyer will present q group
Of pupils in a piano recital at the
studio, 1925 G street northwest, Sat-
urday evening. Compositions for one
and two pianos by Bach, Mozart,
Beethoven. Clement, Heller, Grieg,
Mendelssohn, List and Granger will
be played by Claire Eliason, Helen
Large, Jane Auer, Janet Guess, Ber-
nice Willett. Imogene Garges, Shirley
Lilienthal, Morton Nadelman, Helen
Saunders, Miriam Scott, Shirley
Beazley and Jane Rathell.
Warren F. johnson. organist, will
play three movements from the Sym
phony for Organ, Op. S." by Augustin
Barrie, before the evening service at
the Church Of the Pilgrims today.
In observance of the 25oth ami
versary Of the birth Of George Fred
erick Handel the program for the
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March Concert

Among the concert attractions of
early March in Washington is the
coming joint sonata recital at Con-
stitution Hall Tuesday afternoon,
March S, at 4:40 O'Clock, of Ossip
G Gabrilowitsch, "the poet Of the piano"
and conductor of the Detroit SYM
phony Orchestra, and Albert Spald-
ing, young American violinist. This
concert will constitute the fifth and
final attraction of Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorsey,s Tuesday afternoon recital
series, season of 1934-35.
Preliminary program announce
ments indicate that Gabrilowitsch and
spalding will offer Brahms Sonata
in D Minor, Opus 108"; Mozart's so
nata in E Flat Major, K. $780," and
Beethoven's Sonata in A Major,
Opus A."
The Dorsey Bureau also announces
that the concert of John Charles
Thomas has been Cancelled for the
season on account Of the baritone's
illness. This concert was originally
scheduled for February g.
Evening star., 1935-02-24


the OdeSsey and Iliad to the accom-
paniment of the cithara, and shortly
afterward one Terpander improved
its form and wrote the first music
properly set down for this instrument
Socrates took up the study of the
cithara when he was we'll advanced
in years and achieved a real pro-
ficiency of execution.
Not much cultural good can be ac-
credited the infamous Nero, but he
fancied himself as a musician, and
his vanity caused him to bring back
from Greece the most celebrated
citharlst of the Olympian games and
give him place of prominence at his
court. Perhaps it is because Of his
introduction of this instrument into
the Roman life that the early Chris
tianS preferred it for their religious
praise the Lord on the lutte and the
psaltery CT 10 strings"
Chaucer and Shakespeare speak of
it IN their writings and 1t became one
OF the favorite instruments at the
court of Queen Elizabeth. A famed
composer. Francesca Corbetti, wrote
a Saraband for the guitar which
caught the fancy of every one so
that it was said that the whole
gultarey at court were trying at it
and God knows what a universal
Strumming there was" A pupil of
his, Robert de Wise, composed an
'Allemande" which he inscribed,
"Tombeau de Monsieur Corbetti" and
which in its opening measures is
reminiscent OF a passage in the
"Eroica" Symphony.
The introduction OF the guitar into
Spain by the Moors started the vogue
OF guitar playing in that country
among high and low. The greatest
composer for the guitar of all time
is Spaniard. Ferdinand Sor. whose
Prelude, Theme and Variation" will
open Mr.. Segovia's program. Although
the limitations of the guitar tone may
have been the cause of the few works
written expressly for it by the we'll be-
loved masters of music, many of them,
such as Boccherlni, Paganini, Weber,
Berlloz, Schubert and Gounod, sought
the proper evolution of their melodies
by means of the guitar, while the mod
ernistS. Ravel, Stravinsky, Laparra and
several others have contributed con-
slderably to its literature.
Mr.. Segovia's recital will round out
the musical season in unique fashion.
Singers, violinists. pianists and cellists
there have been in large measure, and
it has become the habit to divide the
musical literature of the world be-
tween these different divisions of the
musical art. Other instruments are
seldom heard. perhaps because the in
terest in them is so slight and oppor-
tunities to be heard so rare that mu.
sicians feel the time given to per-
fecting themselves to an artists statue
is time lost. From the enthusiastic
accounts that follow every Segovia re-
cltal, one can expect the reward of
hearing a superb master in both the
technical and interpretative sense as
well as the occasion to enjoy a revela.
ton OF the musical capability of that
modest but romantic instrument, the
guitar.
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Thursdays Concert.

IT is my sincere hope that the "all-
American" program will be pa
Jronized by all those who are
interested in the development Of
art in this country. Unless such
patronage is given, no art can con-
tinue to exist; it will inevitably die,
as, in the last analysis, performance
consists of two halves, each Of which
is equally important. Neither can
do without the other-the playing and
the listening parts. No performance
is complete without a successful COM
bination Of these two.
For the particular program on
Thursday have chosen music Of
different schools and trends. The
overture by Daniel Gregory Mason,
with which the concert opens, Is in
the more classical Brahms tradition,
and the work of master of his craft.
Symphony No. g." Randall Thompson
THE piece de resistance will be
Thompson's Symphony No. q"
The symphony is abounding In inter-
esting thematic material which Is
exceliently treated in rhythmic pat
terms of sparkle and charm. The first
movement, in a way, is the most i'm
portant. but the second has such
direct and fine appeal that it GER
tainly is not less fine. The scherzo,
full of CT Ioss-rhythms, seven-four, and
with a typical blues" part in the
trio, makes for contrast, while the
final movement, full of snap and go"
brings it to a resplendent and logical
close.
The other works speak largely for
themselves. More American than any
other composer. to my mind, is Roy
Harris. 1 could not imagine any one
but an American writing this particu-
lar kind of music, which reminds one
Of stretches of prairie land, Of the
vastness of this country. of the pioneer
spirit. His is a most convincing mes.
sage.
Joe Clark Steps Out" by vardell,
represents the spirit of the South.
quote herewith the composers own
explanation:
This composition is based on the
well known folk tune. "Old Joe Clark"
This tune has number of variants.
The one I have chosen vas heard by
me during my childhood in Robson
County N. c. The words of the verse
and chorus with which ! was familiar
were these:
You can ride the old gray horse.
/ will ride the roam,
! want you to court your own sweetheart
And leave mine alone.
Chorus.
Rock rock. old Joe Clark,
Rock. rock. say
Rock. rock. old Joe Clark
For I'm goin away.
"The Chambered Nautilus"
Deems Taylor
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS" is
a composition on an allegorical
poem Of Oliver Wendell Holmes by
Deems Taylor, the author Of Peter
Ibbetson" and other works, which to-
day place him in the front rank of
contemporary composers.
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Music Contest Saturday.

THE biennial music contest sponsored
by the National Federation OF
Music Clubs will be held next Satur-
day afternoon at l o'clock in Barker
Hall. Seventeenth and K streets north
west. Fourteen competitors will be
Judged to select the winners who will
be entered in the semi final contest
to be held in Baltimore on March
is. The final contest will be held
in Philadelphia during the week OF
April IS, when young artists from all
parts of the United States will vie
for the four $1,000 cash prizes and
appearances with the Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra and the Metro
politan Opera Co.
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Nautilus" for chorus and orchestra.
In the latter number the Washington
Choral Society of 100 voices, of which
Louis A. Potter is director, will par
ticipate. The program is as follows:
"Chanticleer" Overture,
Daniel Gregory Mason
symphony No. g.. Randall Thompson
Allegro.
Largo.
Vivace.
Andsnte moderato-allegro con
spirito-largamente
"Chorale for Strings" ...... .Roy Harris
"Joe Clark Steps Out" Charles Vardell, lr.
1.-THE Chambered Nautilus" for chorus
DR.. Kinder has invited the COM
posers to attend this concert and they
have signifled their intention of being
present Thursday afternoon to hear
their works interpreted.
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Quartet Concert Series.

4 SERIES of three concerts will be
"a given by the Washington String
Quartet in the patio of the Carlton
Hotel on March II, March 18 and
April /. The concerts will be open
to the general public this year. In
previous years they have been pre-
sented to only limited number of
subscribers.
Following are the programs to be
presented: Monday, March 11-"Quar-
tet in G Major" (Mozart), "Serenade"
(Wolf), Quartet" CDebussy).
Monday, March 18- Prelude"
tBach). KAISER Quartet" (Haydn),
Quartet in A Minor" (Brahms).
Monday, April 1-"Quartet" Had.
ley), prelude and Fugue" (Michaelis),
Quartet in E Minor" (Beethoven).
The concerts will be given In the
afternoon at o'clock.
Evening star., 1935-02-24

music hour today at pm. at the Y
w. c. A., Seventeenth and K streets,
will be made up entirely of his compo-
sitions. The program Is being given
by members of the Alumnae Club OF
Mu Phi Epsilon, musical sorority, and
is in charge of Vera Nicely Ross. The
following members will assist: Fanny
Mae HenbeSt, who will give sketch
of the life of Handel with illustrations;
Esther Strife. contralto; Inez Miller,
soprano. and Grace Powell, violiniSt.
Men and women are cordially invited.
The Wednesday Afternoon Womens
Club Of the E Street Community House
will meet at 4 O'Clock Wednesday for
music program arranged by Hazel
Brown Pierce. Helen Hunter is in
charge of general arrangements and
Mrs. James Anderson is hostess. The
program consists of a violin ensemble,
Mary Parks Clements. Alice Tyler,
Teresa Pyle and Ethel Hicks, with con-
tralto solos by Hazel Downs Wilson.
Readings will be given by Teddy Graft
and Hazel Brown Pierce will give
several piano solos.
La Sale Spier will present six pupils
from his senior class in a midseason
piano recital at the American Associa-
ton Of University Women club house
on Wednesday evening. Those par
ticipating are Helene Finnacom. Jessie
Blaisdell, Jane Esch. Barbara Brown.
Phila Belle Burk and Chester Nor
rill, jr.
A benefit concert is being arranged
by the choir of st. Andrews Episcopal
Church, under the direction of Minnie
Volkman. on Monday, March 4, at 2400
Sixteenth street. They will be assisted
by May Bradley Allen, contralto, as
guest soloist.
The Felicia Rybier Music Club Is
having musical program at its
meeting on Wednesday. The follow
ing soloists will participate: Esther
Ingram. soprano; Howard Severe,
baritone; Cecily Adams Brown,
pianist.
The Miner Teachers College Glee
Club will sing at the Epworth League
service Of Asbury M. E. Church,
Eleventh and K streets, this afternoon
at 6 O'Clock. Cornelius w. Jenkins,
organ student at Howard University
School of Music, will play several
numbers.
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Like oil OpdIlldTuS, OeSOVla played
the guitar from early childhood, and
by the time he was Is years old had
completely mastered the limited rep
ertoire then available. At this time he
began seeking a means to adapt the
compositions written for other in
struments by the great composers for
his use on the guitar To do this he
was obliged to develop an entirely new
technique in order to expand the
means of expression to do justice to
the works already so perfectly inter-
preted by the celebrated artists of
other instruments. The involved po-
lyphony of Bach suite is reproduced
without loss Of effect by Segovia on
his six-stringed instrument and the
varied tone color of a Haydn minuet,
q Handel Sarabande or Schubert's
"Moment Musical"
On his program Of Wednesday will
be heard Bach's "Chaconne." the piece
de resistance of every violin virtuoso's
concert program. This famous work
has also tried the ingenuity of other
composers in their attempts to adapt
1t to the piano and the orchestra.
WtOtS d pldIlO dCCONlpd1ll-
ment for it, while Wilhelmj arranged
an accompaniment for an entire or
chestra. Brahms made piano version
Tor left hand alone. and Busoni tran
scrlbed 1t with rich and colorful
effects.
1t remained for Segovia, however, to
discover its practicability for the
guitar. Bach, who wrote many extraor-
dlnary works for the lutte, seemed to
have this instrument in mind when
ne composed the 'Chaconne" in the
key of D minor, which is the kew
most comfortable for a brilliant guitar
technique. Consequently. there is no
need OF changing the violin version for
use on the guitar, but the technical
proficiency necessary to bring out the
harmonic scheme can only be properly
taken care of by an artist Of supreme
musical gifts.
Since Segovia startled Europe and
South America by the Wizardy of his
playing, many Of the modern COM
posers have fastened to try their
hand at writing for his concert pro-
grams. Turina, De Falla, Roussel, the
Mexican composer, Ponce, Torroba and
Tansman are few who have dedicat-
ed works to this artist.
The modern musical world has
grown so accustomed to the guitar as
an instrument for lighter music and
mostly as accompaniment for singing
that its romantic history and once
prominent place in music has been
entirely lost sight Of In its earlier
form it was called the Lutte, and
many are the references in the Bible
to its use. David sang to the music
OF the lutte, and before. him, Jubal,
who is even credited with its inven-
ton. At any rate. it was the prin-
clpal instrument Of sacred ceremonies
or public celebrations, and its per-
formers were accorded the greatest
honors by the Hebrews and later the
Egyptians.
Greece knew of the Lutte as early
as 1000 B. c.. and it was called by
them the "cithara," which is the
name used by the Greeks to this day.
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1--WE members of the Washington
4 Composers Club will be rep
resented in the concert to be

- Composers Club will be rep
resented in the concert to be
- given Tuesday night at $50
o'clock in the Navy Yard sail
loft by the United States Navy SYM
phony Orchestra. under the direction
OF Lieut.. Charles Benter. The concert
will be open to the public It will be
broadcast over the American Broad
casting Co. station VOL.
The Washington composers whose
works will be given are Edward C..
Potter. LaSalle Spier, R. Deane Shure,
Louis Malone, Mary Howe and Alden
c. Finckle. A work by Robert H.
Greenwell will also be played "Haba-
nera," Spanish number by Lieut..
Benter, will complete the program.
The musical program of the "Stu-
dents Night in Germany" to be held
in the auditorium of the music build
Ing at the Catholic University on
Thursday at 8:15 pm, under the aus
pices of the Travellers Club. will be
under the direction of Karl Schmukl,
who will be assisted by Anneliese
Ruehl, Johanna Koeing and Franz
krenkel. The German singing quar-
tet has appeared at various social
functions in Washington, among
which was the symphony orchestra
under the direction of DR.. Hans
Kinder.
DR.. Kurt Hetzel has temporarily
taken over the conductorship of the
Washington Orchestral Society, found
ed by the late DR.. Christiani. Re-
hearsals are being held on Tuesday of
each week at GA E street northwest.
There are still vacancies to be filled
in the string and brass sections of
the orchestra.
The fourth of a series of musicales
under the direction of Hazel M. Will
Hanson is scheduled for today at
pm. at the Congressional Country
Club. Dorothy Tyler, soprano, and
Flourney, Hugo and Amelia Olmstead,
violinist, cellist and pianist, respective
ly. will be the soloistS.
The February meeting of the Wash
ington Music Teachers Association
will be held Tuesday at 8 pm. in
Barker Hall of the Y w. c. A., Sew
enteenth and K streets. Egon Petri,
Dutch pianist, will address the asso-
citation, taking as his subject How to
Practice" Mr.. Petri will give short
piano recital at the end of his talk
The program previously announced
for February has been postponed until
March. at which meeting Sylvia Lent,
concert violinist will play. Miss Lent
has arranged the program in memory
of her father, the late Ernst Lent.
The Nordica Mandolin and Guitar
Orchestra and the Nordica Banjo
Club, Walter T. Holt director, will be
heard in a concert on Friday eve
ming at the Madison School audito-
rum, East Falls Church, Va, under
the auspices of the Falls Church Vol
unteer Fire Department. Supplement-
ing the ensemble numbers, the follow
ing soloists will be heard: Mildred
Louise Sykes, Hawaiian guitarist
George Maxwell. tenor banjoist; Mar
tina Borcorselski, whistler; Howard
Moore, baritone; Catherine Schofield
Honse, soprano, and Mr.. Holt, man.
dolinist. Guitar accomplishments will
be played by Alice E. Hill and piano
Accomplishments by Evelyn Wells.
The washington Gypsy Chorus
under the leadership Of FL Captain
Robert Frederick Freund, viii present
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Sings for State Society.
NGME. MAZDA FAM, the celebrated

Italian lyric soprano, will sing at
the reception and ball given by the
Connecticut State Society Wednesday
night at the Willard Hotel in honor
Of the Attorney General and Mrs.
Homer S. Cummings and the mem
bers Of Congress and their wives from
Connecticut.
Nine. FAM is a former pupil OF the
great baritone, Battstini, and a grad
uate of the Conservatory of Rome.
During her operate career she has
sung the title roles in the famous
operas Tosca, Fedora, Isabeau, La
Boheme, Andrea Chenier, Pagliacci
and La Traviatta and others. All
natives Of Connecticut and their
friends are cordially invited to attend
this event.
Evening star., 1935-02-24
Marian Marsh and
Ralph Morgan in
Girl of the Limber-
lost" Comedy.
Eddie Cantor in
kid Millions"
Cartoon.

Comedy.
Man Who Reclaimed
His Head"
"BeSt Man Wins
Serial. Cartoon.
W. C Fields and
Babv Leroy in
Its a Gift"
Serial. Cartoon,
w. C. Fields and
Baby Leroy in
TITS a Gift"
Serial. CONS. Cart.
Reb Russell in
Fighting Through" ="
VIM. Cagney in Lost
in the Stratosphere.
Ann Harding in
biography OF q
Bachelor Girl.
Cartoon. News.
Wheeler B. Woolsey in
Kentucky Kernels"
Travel reel.
Rand rael
Warner Baxter in
Hell in the Heavens"
Circle Canyon"
Serial. News. Cart.
Chas. Bickford. "A No
torious Gentleman.
Randolph Scott in
"Thundering Herd"
Marian Marsh in
Gene Stratton Porter's
Girl OF the Limber-
lost"
Randolph Scott in
wagon Wheels"
Comedy. Cartoon.
Return Of Chandu."
Charles Bickford in
"A Notorious Gentle
man." Bruce Cabot
in "Redhead."
Randolph Scott in
Rocky M o U n tain
Mystery" Ser. Com.
Cartoon. Sport reel.
Randolph Scott in..
Home on the Range"
DAY in the Life Of
ptonue outntuplets."
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NH hemian composers will oc-
wv cupy the attention of DR..
1 i Hans Kinder and the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra
in Constitution Hall this afternoon.
The guest artist will be Mischa Elman,
violinist, who has not been heard in
Washington in two years.
DR.. Kindler's complete program
follows:
Introduction acts and 4 ..'Khovanst-
china" ......M Moussorgsky
Symphonic poem. Die Moldau". smetana
Source of the Moldau.
Forest Hunt.
Peasant Wedding
Moonlight Nymphs
st. Johann's Cascades.
Moldau River.
Two Slavonic Dances" Dvorak
Concerto in D Major for Violin and Or
chestra" INTERNATIONALLY
Allegro moderate.
CanZonetta: andante
Finale: Allegro vivacissimo.
Mischa Elman. soloist.
Mischa Elman needs no introduc-
ton to Washingtonians. The phe-
nominal qualities that he displayed in
the opening years Of his career and
something more are still in his play