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"A SERIES of 10 students concerts
"A by the National Symphony Or
chestra was announced last week by
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor, as the
symphony began its Christmas recess.
The students series will include four
more concerts than were played last
year. Instead of all being presented
in Central High School Auditorium,
which last year was found inadequate
for the great numbers who sought ad-
mission, concerts this year will be in
various high schools, and one will be
In Constitution Hall.
The first of the series will be played
January 16 in Central High School.
The same program will be played the
following day, January II, IN Eastern
High School, and on January 20 in
Western High School. There will be
a series of three in each OF these
schools, making the concerts con-
veniently available to students living
in all parts of Washington. Then
there will be a final concert, March 81,
in which the combined audiences from
these schools will hear the orchestra
play in Constitution Hall.
Those in the high schools will be
given on week days at $3.50 pm, con-
venient time both for the young listen
ers and for parents who have to pro-
vide transportation for them.
DR.. E. N. c. Barnes, director OF music
in Washington public schools, has
pledged his support, and with his staff
of music teachers will play an I'M
portant part in bringing the symphony
programs to the attention of the boys
and girls, and in organizing the young
audiences. Music supervisors in pa
rochial and private schools, also will
cooperate.
Dr. Kinder, under the general title
of How to Listen to Music" plans to
give the children an insight into the
finest music in symphonic literature.
At the first concert he will talk about
MELODY and Rhythm" and will open
It with Schubert'S "Marche Militaire, "
and include movement from Schu-
bert's Unfinished Symphony" and
music by Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn,
TSchalkoVSky ana wagner.
The second program has the title,
"Form in Music" and for the third
concert DR.. Kinder will discuss Form
and Color in Music" The fourth con-
cert-the one in Constitution Hall
will be titled Color and Imagination
in Music" and will include works of
Mozart, Bach, Saint-Saens, Delibes,
Strauss, Chopin and Skilton, the
American composer.
The young people will sing with the
orchestra at each program, and
in addition to the final concert
400 senior and Junior high school
students, trained by DR.. Barnes, will
sing two selections. A demonstration
of the various instruments Of the Or
chestra will be another feature of
the concerts.
In order to enable boys and girls
throughout Washington to familiarize
themselves with details of the How
to Listen to MuSic)) series, and with
the music that is to be played in them,
circulars have been printed, and may
be obtained at the Office of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra Associa-
ton, 1113 Woodward Building.
Before the Students Concerts begin,
however, DR.. Kinder and the
orchestra will resume their regular
Constitution Hall concerts. The next
concert will be January 9, when the
second Thursday night program of
the year will be presented.
The highlight of the Symphony's
Midwinter season will be the Brahms
Festival, details for which have now
been announced. Myra Hess. the dis
tinguished woman pianist; Hans
Kinder, cellist; and the Musical Art
Quartet will be artists in the event.
Memorial Continental Hall, which
adjoins Constitution Hall, has been
engaged for the Chamber Music pro-
grams of February l and 8. Miss
Hess, DR.. Kinder and the string
quartet will appear on those pro-
grams. The February concert will
be at pm, and is included in the
regular Sunday series of symphony
concerts. With Miss Hess as soloist,
Dr. Kinder will conduct the orches-
ira in an all-Brahms concert.
Further information regarding this
Brahms Festival can be obtained at
the National Symphony Orchestra
Association Office in the Woodward
Building.