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Shawn Dancers Next Week.
TED SHAWN, dance artist, noted for

TED SHAWN, dance artist, noted for
the purely masculine quality Of
his work. spent five years developing
the ideas in the program to be given
by Shawn and his men dancers at
the National Theater a week from
Friday. January 18, at 4:30 pm, I'M
der the sponsorship of William AL
baugh, concert manager Of Baltimore.
In 1890 Shawn made a tour of
Germany and Switzerland without a
supporting company and learned def
nitely that many people were inter-
ested in dancing by men. In Boston,
three years later, during a week of
performances by the Denishawn Com
pany, Shawn presented his first pro-
gram by only men darcers-including
ensemble.
That Winter Ted Shawn began Civ
ing his first course of dancing at the
Y. M. c. A. College in Springfield,
Mass, where he still teaches when not
on tour. He selected few from that
first class and other men from his
1888 Denishawn Company and began
the initial tour Of Ted Shawn Men
Dancers. They gave lis performances
and covered $4,000 miles It was the
longest tour made In America by a
of dancers last year
Ted Shawn prepares these programs
at the Old farm called Jacobs PILLOW,
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gram she gave In New York at her
debut there a year ago.
X
p OMANTIC Spain, the traditional
~ land of the fandango, the jota
and the gypsy dancer, is slowly but
surely succumbing to the lure Of the
saXophone and the foxtrot, according
to La Argentina, Spain's great dancer,
who will make her first Washington
appearance in three years at the
National Theater Friday afternoon,
January 25, at 4:30 o'clock, under the
management of Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorsey.
The dances of old Spain, La Ar
gentina explains. were the heritage Of
the Spanish people. Today, one must
ask among the older generation for
details of these dances. That is what
La Argentina recently discovered
when she undertook to study the ira
ditional dance of Salamanca. one of
the provinces of the new Spanish re-
public.
Journeying to a tiny Spanish VIII
lage called Villares de la Refine, where
she was told she might see the Sala-
manca dance performed, La Argen-
tina was diSmayed to hear the sound
Of gramophone issuing from the in
terror of the shabby little inn of this
mountain village, wherein a group of
young people were dancing to the
tune Of popular American Jazz tune.
They were young people in no way
different from the youth of every
other village in Spain," commented
the dancer. 'When I asked them
about the Charrada, the traditional
Salamancan dance, they professed en-
tire ignorance of it.
Some one, however, remembered an
old man of the village who was wont
to boast Of his prowess as a dancer
in his youth. I sought him out and
persuaded him to show me the steps.
That dance is now in my repertoire,
and completes my collection of the
traditional dances of all of Spain's
provinces"
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Evening Orchestra Concert

pianist, Teresa Carreno, will offer Miss
Nash the opportunity OF displaying
her facile technique and wide range
of artistic sympathies. aided by the
master Interpretation of DR.. Kinder
and his orchestra.
WORKS Of IL great composers,
representing the music of II ma
tions, will constitute the major por-
ton OF the annual students concerts
to be given by the National Symphony
Orchestra under the direction of DR..
Hans Kinder at the Central High
School auditorium beginning Satur-
day morning at II o'clock.
The concerts have been arranged
in the form Of musical tour to vari-
GUS countries, with Dr. Kinder act
ing as guide and expositor The first
country to be visited will be France,
and the initial program will include
Ravel's Mother Goose Suite" and
Saint-Saens' Carnival OF Animals"
One Of the features OF these con-
certs will be the informal talks on
musical form by Dr. Kinder A side
trip will also be made on Saturday
through the orchestra to the violin,
cello and harp. with an explanatory
talk by DR.. Kinder on their relation
to the orchestral ensemble.
DR.. Kindler's complete program
follows:
Minuet. 'Musette" from Suite. ,Rameau
'Tambourin" from Ballet Suite"
1Sth century, ............ .Gretey
March. "HongroiSe" .. BerlioZ
Carnival of the Animals G9th cen
turyl ................. Saint-SaenS
Alleeretto from Symphony in D Minor"
Franck
"Gymnopedies' Satie
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Notes on Thurday's
Symphony Orchestra Concert
In Constitution Hall at :3OPM.
BY DR.. Hans Kinder, Conductor.
In Constitution Hall at $3.50

Voltaire, on the contrary. going
through life recognized as the most
brilliant wit and intellect of his day.
for long periods consulted and adu.
lated by the greatest monarch of his
time. rising from success to triumph.
a cynic in the complete (and not the
petty sense, adored by women until
his very end when he died, a wealthy
agnostic, at the very height Of his
fame, with all of Paris literally at his
doorstep.
But when we take the final census
OF the message which their work has
left us (Which is what counts in genius
as well as in less great humans) we
come to realize that, though their
way were different, they arrived at
the same final point-the one through
his heart, the other through his in
teIlect-a philosophic, happy and
deeply human acceptance of life as it
is, with all its human misunderstand-
ing and suffering and misery and dis.
appointments.
Surely when We think Of the mes
sage of the Seventh Symphony" OF
Beethoven, message of the greatest
happiness human genius has ever been
able to give to mankind, coming to US,
in music from deaf man, surely that
is the final and complete realization
of the dictum of Volaire's greatest
figure, Candide, when, after a life Of
the most fantastically grotesque disap-
pointments, he quietly concludes: III
faut cultiver son jardin" c'We must
continue to work our gardenD.
And the so deeply human as we'll as
divine frenzy of the greater artists of
Beethoven's conviction has found,
through his musical genius. no greater,
no more irresistibly compelling utter
ance than the paean of Joy which is
the Seventh Symphony"
Need we wonder that humanity has
accepted this gift as a miracle ever
to be marveled at?
"Finlandia" Sibelius
"Finlandia,'' with the "Valse Triste."
is the piece which has given Sibelius
worldwide popularity, but where the
former number is a charming trifle, the
latter is of more importance.
1t starts with the growing anger Of
a suppressed people. all the definite
decision to revolt in the following
martial STRAIN, all the high hope for
liberation in the yearning cantabile
melody after that, one of the most
moving in the literature of music;
and the climax which brings the work
to triumphant close makes it one
Of the most stirring, nationalistic. but
also and more truly so, universal com.
positions eXtant.
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Piano Recital Tonight

by special invitation. he played for
the first time in England. performing
there one of his own compositions, a
concert piece for piano and orchestra,
conducted by Sir Henry Wood.
1t was in November, 1923, that, as
the first foreign artist since the revo-
luton, he played in Russia. He was
called upon to play 81 times during
a period of 40 days before the public,
once giving three recitalS in a single
day
Petri's program. comprising three
Bach numbers. opens with the Pre-
lude, Fugue and Allegro, in E Flat
Major "Cappriccio' and italian
Concerto" A prelude. Choral and
Fugue," by Casar Franck, will form
the second number Brahms Three
IntermeZzi. Opus 1T" and his "Rhap-
sody in G Minor" will complete an
other group. the final Offering being
Twelve Studies, Opus 25," by Chopin.
Petri's appearance opens the Five
Star series of recitals on Sunday
nights at the National Theater, under
the local management of the T. Ar
thur Smith Bureau.
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"HE suite by Rameau is with
those of Gluck, Lulli and
Gretry) in the admirable ar
Il rangement Of Felix Mottl, the
German conductor of Wag-
merriam fame. Rameau, too little
known today except by musicians, was
one Of the great men Of composition
of the early eighteenth century, and
certainly the greatest French COM
poser of that period.
The suite consists Of stately MENU
etto, charming "musette," with the
familiar drone-base characteristic of
all works Of this title, and a remark
ably realistic "Tombourin." This
suite will serve as a chronological in
PRODUCTION to the "epitome of the
dance" which is to follow, namely,
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony"
Concerto in D Minor for Piano
and Orchestra" a".......... Mac cDoWell
Frances Nash.
Frances Nash, now Washingtonian,
known both here and abroad for her
artistry, will play the Mcdowell
Concerto" the best work in this line
America has yet produced.
Symphony No. in A Major"
Beethoven
One of the consultations of Iife-the
realization that things are not with
out purpose"-comeS from the con-
temptation that great spirits, notwith-
standing their different mental out
look (this due to differences in social
status, in the kind Of talent or genius
they possess, in the development of
this talent or genius, in their different
human relations, in a word, to differ
ences in their "fate'D nevertheless
can and often do arrive at the same
final conclusion.
Take the case Of Beethoven and his
near-contemporary, Voltaire. No more
different men can be imagined. In
Beethoven the heart, not the intellect,
predominated; in Voltaire, the reverse.
Beethoven, the offspring Of drunken
poverty; Voltaire, the son of a well-to-
do bourgeois. Beethoven deeply lonely,
suffering the greatest agony any one,
and especially musician, can suffer-
SoAAAs tAnOusA Ahc virtually
perpetual pauper, misunderstood in
his human relations as well as in
nearly all his greatest works, even by
his fellow musicians, cruelty deceived
and exploited by the very one he
most adored, his nephew Karl, rarely
humanity happy and then only for
moments. inherently and deeply re-
llgiouS, dying @ lonely and horrible
death at So.
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Mother Goose Suite" .Ravel
Musical instrument tour-Violin, cello.
harp.
..Msrseillaise."
"ESpana" Chabrier
The students concerts will be pre-
sented at tWo-week intervals, with
Germany the next port of call, jan
uary 26; Austria. Hungary and b.
hemia, February 9; Italy and Spain,
February %; Scandinavia and Eng
land. March 9, and Russia and Amer
ica. March %.
Season tickets are available, and
single admission tickets will be on sale
at the door after 10 O'Clock Saturday
morning.
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NOIIlulS DelIcT llluSlIdUcS WildJ CdIl
be accomplished by intensive and ef-
ficient direction than the growth of
the National Symphony. In the be-
ginning, it was faith in the ultimate
outcome that held the small band of
organizers together, but that was only
the motive power that led to a well
organized campaign to make the peo-
pie music conscious. The result has
been general realization Of the i'm
portance of symphony in the local
life as true and constant means to a
greater musical appreciation. The or
ganiZation has extended its appeal
beyond the ordinary music enthusiast
to many who, of their own accord.
would not have been actively interested,
but who now are loyal and eager to
aid in every way. From the ranks of
the children, through the outward
edges of the circle of music lovers to
those declaring their lack of music
knowledge, the influence of the Ma
tional Symphony has gone, winning
adherents in most unexpected places
1t required faith also to visualize a
Well-trained ensemble from the group
of musicians first assembled, with so
few experienced in playing the type
of music required. In four years,
through the concentrated effort of Dr.
Kinder, the orchestra has learned a
technique and musical understanding
which today places it on a noticeable
basis with older and better equipped
organizations. This alone is something
to be proud OF and grateful for when
itemizing the good accomplished dur
ing the past year. The increased at
tendance at the symphony concerts
and the warm appreciation of every
program is tangible proof that the Ma
tional Symphony is popular and
necessary force in civic culture.
From the progress made in the last
year, the National Symphony will not
only be able to increase its effective
ness this coming year, but undertake
wider activities that will attract Ma
tion-wide attention. The good results
will be felt in our music schools and
in the private studios through larger
enrollmentS by those whose talent has
been stimulated by hearing the best
In music. More knowledge on the part
Of students and music lovers will react
again on the performances and the
programs that the orchestra can give.
Once these two factors constructively
act one upon the other, there need be
no fear of the musical standing of this
city.
The large audiences that have taxed
the capacity of Constitution Hall at
nearly every concert in Mrs. Dorsey's
series are proof again of the growth Of
musical appreciation. Last year and
the year before such attendance was
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CON PETRI, pianist, will make
r his debut in Washington to-
| night at $50 at the National
Theater Originally intended
by his father as a violinist, he
was taught when but years of age
by his mother, and later by his father,
who was the Well-knoWn Dutch vio-
linist. Henri Petri. From his 7th year
he also received instruction in piano
playing from several teachers, among
them Richard Buchmayer and Teresa
Carreno, and later to complete his
munSical education he studied the
organ and the French horn. From
1899 to 1901 he was a member of the
Dresden Royal Orchestra and played
second violin in his fathers string
quartet.
1t was only at the age of 20 years
that Petri decided to become a pian-
ist, and he was encouraged in this
desire by the advice of Paderewski
and Busoni. His first public appear
ance as a pianist was made in Hol-
land, and twice he played at the court
before the Queen of Holland. In 1928,
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only occasional whereas this year It
Is practically general. 1t is encourag-
ing to realize that so many are anx-
iouS to hear the great artists and be-
lieve that a sacrifice made so that a
ticket can be purchased is amply re-
paid by the pleasure and profit they
receive. The manner of listening to a
program and the understanding of
what is good or trivial has undergone
a change so that artists do not permit
themselves to chose any type of mu-
sic for Washington audience. There
is an art in knowing how to be dis
eliminating listener without appear
ing cold and unresponsive, and the
character of an audiences receptibil-
ity is the galvaniZing power in the
artistic world. The type of programs
the visiting artists have presented this
year can be considered compliment
to the increased musical sensitiveness
of our public.
The past year has also seen more
organization in local affairs, all tend
ing to help and solidify the musical
life. The pianistS have taken the lead
in the finer cooperation Of teachers
and systematizing of aims and prin-
ciples. The Washington branch of
the National Teachers Association has
drawn all forms of music teaching to-
gether in mutually helpful organiza-
ton. The District of Columbia Chap
ter of the American Guild of Organ
lists is stimulating wider comprehen-
sion Of the organ and organ music by
its meetings and recitals, while the
Federation of Music Clubs is joining
in with every movement that will en-
courage a national or local recogni-
ton Of talent. Not only have these
endeavors brought worthwhile results
during the year just ended. but they
have paved the way for organized and
achievement this next sea-
son.
The choral groups and chamber
music groups have brought into prom
inence the music that might have been
overlooked without their help. The
character of their public performances
shows keener feeling of the respon-
sibility that rests upon them and an
earnest desire to fit themselves for
giving out the rich beauty of their
branch of musical literature
so as to lose none Of its poetry and
1t has truly been a good year mu-
sically. II it is to continue let all
work together with kindlineSs and
sympathy. with humility and sin
cerity, with no tolerance for anything
but the highest ideals so that not only
the outward reward of being con-
sidered musical center may be ours.
but the greater recompense Of finer
personal understanding may be had
by each and every one.
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Pianists' Club Musicale,

4 CHRISTMAS tea and musicale was
given by the Washington Pianists
Club, Mrs. Martin A. Morrison.
founder and director, December 90, at
the Washington College of Music.
Winifred Michaelson. director of the
wilmington. Del, Music School. and
Martha McAdams, artist members and
Leah Effenbach, active member Of the
club, together with Edward Dawson,
the clubs president, gave the musical
program. Mrs. Morrison was assisted
by Fanny Amstutz Roberts, Mrs. Hugo
Hesselback, president of the Washing
ton branch Of the National Teachers
Association; Mrs. Lloyd Henbest and
Mrs. Felian Garzia.
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in the Berkshire Hills of New Eng.
land. Last Summer audiences aver.
aged ESQ week, attending the weekly
demonstration teas in the old barn.
studio. At these times Shawn de-
livered brief lectures on varied phases
OF the art of dancing. followed by
Of basic movements and
patterns and dances into which they
were woven.
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~ NE OF the outstanding evening
concerts of the season will be
given by the National SYM
~ phony Orchestra in Consti-
tuition Hall Thursday at $50
pm. when DR.. Hans Kinder presents
Frances Nash, American pianist, in
MacDowells famous Concerto in D
Minor" The concert Is the second of
only two evening concerts scheduled
by the orchestra.
The complete program follows:
Menuetto.'" ''''''''' : f'A -N10''i
'Musette."
'Tambourin"
"oenesTto IN D Minor for PIANO and
"Larshetto Calmato"
presto Giocoso."
Frances Nash. soloist.
untermissionJ
Symphony No. :" Beethoven
POGO Sostenuto-Vivace."
''Allesretto.
Allegro Con Brio"
rlnIaHols .........s.... SlbelluS
Frances Nash was born in Omaha.
In private life she is the wife of Col
E. M. Watson, U. 8. A. She began
her study in this country, but made
her concert debut with the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra. She has
toured her native land extensively, as
well as Europe and South America,
appearing both in recital and with the
foremost orchestras Her deep sin
certify and devotion to her art. as we'll
as her brilliant musicianship, has
made her a popular favorite with
music lovers.
MacDowell's % Minor Concerto"
which was dedicated to the great
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Choir, Pianist and Dancer

"H HE Vienna Boys Choir (Die
Wiener Saengerknaben), who
will make their third annual
l. concert appearance in Wash
ington at Constitution Hall
two weeks from today as one of the
Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's Sunday
afternoon recitalS, are making a
transcontinental tour of the United
States entirely by motor bus.
This year the boys will perform an
operetta new to Saengerknaben au-
diences 1t is Der Hausliche Krieg"
cThe Household War;. by Franz
Schubert, himself at one time a mem
Der of the Saengerknaben. Also. the
program will include church songs and
songs of Vienna. including Strauss
Songs of the Vienna Woods" Schu-
bert's "Serenade," Brahms "Wach
auf' and Emmer'S "Sizilianisches
Jagdlied," with The Blue Danube"
and other examples Of the Viennese
school of song as encores.
The boys will be accompanied by
their rector, the Rev. Josef Schnitt.
and their musical director, DR.. Georg
Gruber.
X
ruth sLENCzYNsKI, child pianist
who will make her recital debut
in Washington at Constitution Hall
on January %. at 4:40 pm. as the
third of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's
Tuesday afternoon recital series, ar
rived in New York yesterday, after
nearly a years absence. and began
preparing -or her first l934-5 recital
in the metropolis next Saturday
evening.
Since her memorable debut in New
York something over a year ago and
the series of concerts that followed,
Ruth Slenczynski and her father, who
is her principal teacher, have been
abroad. studying and appearing in
concert and otherwise developing the
talent that Ruth first revealed to New
York audiences on November 13, 1893.
Ruth's program in Washington, it
is said, will closely resemble the pro-
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Chamber Music Society.

THE second candlelight program of
the Washington Chamber Music
Society will be given at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Frost, 26O1 Thir-
tieth street. week from Monday, jan
uasy IA, at o'clock.
The sponsors of these concerts will
be hosts at tea following the program,
which will include the Shubert Quin-
tet, with two cellos. two violins and
viola. and also the Dvorak Quintet.
Louis Potter will be the guest Of the
society and will be at the piano in the
Dvorak number.
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Organists Meet Tomorrow.

The regular meeting Of the D. C.
Chapter of the American Guild of
Organists will be held tomorrow at
$50 o'clock at Epworth M. E Church
South conducted by Robert Ruckman,
subdean and organist of the church.
The silver anniversary of the guild
will be celebrated when a musical pro-
gram arranged by Emily Dickinson
will be given.
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In Local Music Circles

Victor George, organist, is director Of
music.
On December % a musical program
was given at the Congressional Coun-
try Club by Aurelia Colomode Alfaro
soprano; Rosalmira Colombo, con-
tralto: Emita Colombo, mezzo-con-
tralto: Sidney Gottlieb, violinist. and
Mrs. David Book. accompanist.
Agnes Fealy, soprano, was soloist at
the reception held New Year night at
the Columbia Heights Christian
Church in honor of the Rev. A. P.
Wilson.
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Give Christmas Program.

( IN DECEMBEH 23 Christmas pro-
gram was given at the Eleanor
Rupert Home for the Aged, at which
$50 persons were present. Introduc-
tory remarks were made by Mrs. B.
Krumke, president Ladies' Aid So
ciety, and an address was given by
Thomas E. FARRELL, secretary and
treasurer of the home. The musical
program was presented by a string
THO. composed of Ludwig Manoly,
Robert Thomas and Edward Wayson;
Henry NeStor, baritone; Ambrose
Durkin, bass; Ruth Widmer, Nora
and Deloris Cussler, Theresa and
Elizabeth Herich. Evelyn Sheppard
and Brother Fritz Dramatic read
ings by Theresa Marguerite FARRELL and
Elizabeth Harmon completed the pro-
gram. The audience Joined in the
singing of Christmas hymns accom-
panied by the string trio.