Evening star., 1935-09-29
Annual Tour
Brings Piano
Artist Here
Rachmaninoff, With
New Compositions,
on Seasons List.

CERGEI RACHMANINOFF. the dis
tinguished Russian pianist and
composer. will arrive in New York
Monday, October Z. on the steo m hip
Bremen for his annual concert tour
of the United States. which brings
him to Washington for a recital at
Constitution Hall on Tuesday evening.
December 10. as one of the attractions
of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's evening
concert series.
Rachmaninoff will bring with him
several new compositions on which he
has been at work during the past
Summer at his chateau on Lake Lu-
cerne in Switzerland. He is keeping
secret the nature of his new compo-
sitions, according to c. j. Foley, his
personal representative.
He is very superstitious about dis
cuSsing a new composition until he
has written the last note of it," Mr..
Foley explained. "He has broken his
rule on several occasions in the past
and on each occasion something has
happened to prevent him from COM
pleting it. Discussion. he feels, takes
the edge off his inspiration"
Rachmaninoff spent the greater
portion of the past Summer at his
Swiss chateau. although he made a
concert tour of Spain. England. Swift
zerland and Scandinavia before set
ting down to his composition. He
never composes during concert tour;
he declares the two are incompatible
in his case.
This American tour will include %
concert appearances in eight weeks.
Four of his American concerts will be
as soloist with orchestras at Chicago,
St. Louis, Minneapolis and Phila-
delphia.
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X URT JOOSS and his ballet, which
makes its debut locally at the Ma
tional Theater January %. under the
auspices of Dorothy H. Dorsey Concert
Bureau, opens a four-week season at
the Globe Theater in London, Eng
land. tomorrow.
The ballet has a work stage for re-
hearsals at Darlington Hall, England,
an old estate where the ballet spends
its hours of preparation between tours.
The manor house of Darlington Hall
dates from the days of Queen Eliza
beth. Here, for bad weather, is lit
tie theater. with seating capacity of
500. In good weather the dancers
practice on a wide stretch of lawn
walled in by century-old clipped yews.
A tour of Holland, Belgium and
Switzerland will be made by the ballet
before coming to America for a sea-
son of six weeks.
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A BRAHMS-WAGNER program is
announced by DR.. Leopold Sto-
kowski for the first in the series of
four Thursday evening concerts to be
given this Winter in Constitution Hall
by the Philadelphia Orchestra under
the management Of the T. Arthur
Smith Music Bureau
DR.. Stokowski will conduct the
initial concert October "a, and the
concert December 10, at which Fritz
Kreisler, world-famous violinist, will
appear as soloist. Other guest con-
ductors will be Jose Iturbi, March IL,
and Eugene Ormandy, April 2.
In preparing his Brahms Wagner
program, DR.. Stokowski Is deferring
to popular demand and in all proba-
bility the program October "a will in
clude Brahms Fourth Symphony"
Wagner, according to present plans.
will be represented by selections from
"Tannhauser" and "Rienzi."
Stokowski recently returned from
Hollywood, where he experimental
in the field of movie opera" and
was given screen test in the char
acter of Wagner.
Movie operas are possible" he said.
For presentation as movies, of course,
Wagner, Mozart, Gluck, Bizet and
Debussy operas would have to be
edited. Operas will come back, as
things tmprove-and they are improv-
ing. Some of opera is too wonderful
to die"
Season tickets for the Philadelphia
OrchestraS four concerts will be on
sale until October 10 at the T. Arthur
Smith Music Bureau, 910 G street
northwest.
The advance sale indicates capacity
audiences. Especially heavy is the
demand for tickets for the concert
December l9. at which Kreisler will
be soloist.