Evening star., 1935-11-24
Pianist Here
Next Sunday
AS Soloist. t.
Elizabeth Travis on
Program With
Symphony.

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young pianist, who has dis
tinguished herself both in America
and abroad as soloist with orchestra,
will be presented as feature artist in
the National Symphony Orchestra's
fifth Sunday afternoon concert next
Sunday in Constitution Hall. Miss
Travis is a native of Boston, Mass,
and among her outstanding successes
Is a brilliant performance with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
This young pianist has made sew
eral concert tours of Europe and has
trip. She played the Mozart &C Major
Concerto" for piano and orchestra, at
the Mozart festival in Salzburg last
August, and subsequently played in
Turin, Italy. Before returning to the
United States she made an appearance
as soloist with the Czechoslovakian
Philharmonic at Prague.
In the United States, this Winter,
Miss Travis will make several impor-
tant appearances in large music CEN
ters and already has engagements to
play next Summer in Rome, Italy;
Leipzig, Germany; Vienna. Austria,
and in other smaller cities of Europe.
In her Washington debut she will play
the solo part in LISTS Concerto in A
Major" for piano and orchestra.
DR.. Kinder will conduct the Bach
"Suite in B Minor" for flute and
strings, the flute solo part to be played
by Harold Bennett, the orchestra's
first f1utist.
From the South. where DR.. Kinder
and the orchestra spent the week of
November II to l6, giving a series of
symphony concerts, have come glow
ing reports of successes in the cities
visited.
The Atlanta, Ga, Constitution re-
ported that THE ovation Dr. Kinder
and the National Symphony received
from the capacity house (of 5000 per-
sonS) has been unequaled in Atlanta
in many moon. AS a conductor" :"
continues that paper, Hans Kinder is
an individual, distinctive personality,
a master interpreter, a Schooled mu-
Sician with an excellent sense of mu-
sical taste. His orchestra is compare
lively young, only in its fifth season,
but one recognizes in its work a mer-
tied place among the outstanding
One was impressed with its personnel,
most of them younger men than are
commonly found in great symphonies,
but there is fine maturity in their
work.
In Memphis, Tenn, Dr. Kinder and
the orchestra received this tribute
from the Commercial Appeal: "Dr.
Kinder has extraordinary technical
control of his men at all times, and
creates the impression of working with
one mighty instrument, so sure are
his conceptions and so crisp and sure
his attacks"
After its concert in Smith Memorial
Building in Lynchburg, Va, the
Lynchburg News reported: "The Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra responded
Ito the audiences rousing ovation)
with true virtuosity, in a concert
which has been unrivaled here for
many seasons" In Spartanburg. S. c.,
the Spartanburg Herald wrote: Those
attending the concert proclaimed it
one of the great musical events in
Spartanburg in recent years"
The trip south was the orchestras
first extended concert tour of the
season. A longer leave from the
Capital begins week from tomorrow
when an engagement in Bushnell Me-
mortal Hall, in Hartford, Conn, De-
cember 4, opens a series of six con-
certs, three Of which are in Canada.
On December the orchestra plays in
Ottawa, the capital of the Dominion of
Canada; the following night in Que
bee, and on December 7 in Montreal.
Then the symphony returns to the
United States to play at Skidmore
College, Saratoga Springs, N. Y, De-
cember 8, and In Orchestra Hall,
Boston, Mass, before returning to the
Capital =
The National Symphony played its
second concert of the season in Balti-
more last Tuesday before an enthusi-
aStic audience. DR.. Kinder, conduct
ing the orchestra there for the first
time this year, received most warm
reception.