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Evening star., 1935-12-08
Canada Visit
InSyrnphony
Tour Ended
Orchestra to M ak e
Pre-Holiday Plans
for District.

MYTH new laurels, gathered on its
' nrSt extended trip North. the
National Sympathy Orchestra returns
to the Capital this week, and will
make two-pre-holiday appearances in
Constitution Hall.
Last night the orchestra played in
Montreal, Canada, giving the last of
three concerts in Canadian cities.
This series. the first the orchestra has
played outside the United States, be-
gan Thursday night, when DR.. Hans
Kinder conducted the Symphony in
Ottawa, the capital of the Dominion
OF Canada.
This afternoon the National Sym
phony plays in Saratoga Springs,
N. Y, before an audience at Skid
more College. Tomorrow it plays an
important engagement in Boston,
Mass, appearing in Symphony Hall,
home of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra. Leaving then for the Capital,
DR.. Kinder and his men will arrive
in time to complete rehearsals for
their next concerts in Constitution
Hall-two of the most important con-
certs played by the orchestra this
season.
At the first of these concerts, at
4:45 pm. Thursday, Dr. Kinder pre-
sents an orchestral program featuring
the Washington premiere of the Sym
phony No. l." by Shostakovich, the
celebrated Soviet composer. The
second concert comes next Sunday at
4 pm. This program will be an all
operate one, presenting IRA Petina,
mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan
Opera Co., as Soloist. AS a high
light of the program the orchestra
and Miss Petina will give outstanding
excerpts from Bizet'S opera, Car
men"
Miss Petina has won an enviably
place for herself as one of the young
est of Americas brilliant mezzo-So-
prano artists. For two years she has
been on the artists roster of America s
leading opera company. She comes to
Washington to make her debut in the
Capital under the most favorable of
AACuIIlSJd1lCCSy 1Of LII. hlIlQlcT pre-
sents her in concert of works in
which she will be perfectly at home
All the selections will be from the
field of grand opera.
Miss Petina will sing excerpts from
several operas. The climactic part OF
her singing, however, will come in the
presentation of the colorful gems
from the score of Bizet's Carmen.
DR.. Kinder plans to devote the en-
tire second half of the concert to this
opera. His selections, beginning with
the overture, include the ever-pop-
ular "Habanera," the "Seguedilla, y
and the "Chanson Boheme," and the
Gard Scene" to mention the arias
in which Miss Petina will be heard
and the preludes to acts II, III and
~, which the orchestra will play.
The first part of the program will
open with the overture to Die Meis-
tersinger" of Wagner. Among other
noted operas from which excerpts will
be drawn will be Verdi's "Othello."
Evening star., 1935-12-08

under the dynamic leadership OF the
diminutive Jaroff, the Don CoSsack
Chorus gave its 3,000th concert in New
York something over week ago, and
the chorus appearance in Washington
this afternoon marks its sixth annual
consecutive appearance in the Capital
three of which have been made under
Mrs. Dorsey's management.
AS usual, the CoSsack Chorus pro-
gram will be divided into three parts,
the first of which is devoted to Russian
church music by Gretchaninotf
Tschaikovsky, Kastalsky, Tschesnokoff
and Bortniansky. The second part
consists of Cossack songs, intermingled
with folk melodies, while the third part
of the program is similar to the second,
with possibly more folk than Cossack
music However, the second portion
of the program will offer distinct
novelty in the form of a vocal history
of the chorus and its leader by
Schvedof7.
THIS history in song of the Cossack
Chorus begins with the call of
the Cossacks to arms in 1914, describes
the conflict with the intermingled
strains of God Save the Tsar" and
Deutschland uber Allies" suggests the
climax of the struggle of nations and
the beginning of the Russian revolu-
ton, the civil war between Red and
White Russians that follows, the
Punishment of the Cossacks to con-
centration camp in Bulgaria, their
homesickness, illness and the death OF
many; their formation into a chorus,
and their march to musical victories.
The Volga boat song is another
vocal jewel of the Cossack concerts,
while today's program will offer the
song of the Indian host from Rimsky-
KorSakov's opera, "Sadko"; the popu-
lar song from the same composers
THE Invisible Town Kitesh and the
Maid Fevronia"; an old polka, ar
ranged by Dobrowen; "Lezginka," a
Caucasian song by Scvedoff; two Cos
sack songs arranged by Jarof, and
other typically Cossack Chorus songs
that have never failed, in the past, to
electrify audiences.
Seats for the Cossack Chorus con-
cert will be available after 10 o'clock
this morning at the Constitution Hall
box Office. The concert begins at
4 O'Clock sharp.
A MOTHER great recital program Is
announced for Tuesday evening
at $3.50 o'clock at Constitution Hall,
when Sergei Rachmaninoff, the great
Russian pianist and composer, makes
his only recital appearance of the
current season in Washington on
Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's evening
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Gardiner Dance Recital.

THE concert of the Lisa Gardiner
Dancers and the Washington
Composers Club, at Roosevelt audi
torium on Wednesday night at $3.50
o'clock, under the auspices of the
Community Center Department, will
feature musical works by Mary Howe,
Dorothy Radde Emery, Henry Gregor,
Edward Potter, r. Dean Shure and
La Sale Spier. interpreted in dance
form by Miss Gardiner and her group,
with the composers at the piano.
Two dance pantomimes by La Sale
Spier will be offered on this third
joint program of the Gardiner Dane
ers and the Composers Club. Bow
cry" with Alice Louise Hunter and
the entire dance group assisted by
a number of Washington's young
actors, is one of Spier's pantomimes,
and the other is entitled "The Last
Knock" with Anton Hardt as a poor
artist who dreams of success and a
girl" only to awaken to disillusion-
ment. The girl" will be danced by
Marian Wolberg, and other members
Of the group will have important parts.
Three episodes from Deane Shure's
"Lyric Washington" will offer Mirror
Pool" by a trio of dancers; Boat
ing on the Potomac" by group, and
''Topsy on Tenth Street." by a duo.
Mary Howe's "Valse Plaintiv'' will be
danced by Mary Day, and Mrs.
Emery'S Desert Call" a number
based on Balinese themes, will be one
of the effective group numbers.
Miss Gardiner will herself be seen
in but one number, Henry Gregor's
"Nocturne FantaStique," which she
will dance with the visiting guest
dancer, Michael Nicholoff, who is COM
ing to Washington from Baltimore
especially for this event. Gregor's
pantomime, ""The Kings Highway"
will also be included on the program,
with Greta Ruth Atkin as the little
king" and her army" of four-Polly
Prickett, Fills Speich, Constance
Carey and Marian Wolberg.
Potter's contribution to the pro-
gram is ballet, to be danced by the
entire Gardiner group, taken from
his opera, "Ishtar," with Deane Shure
at the piano.
Tickets have been placed on sale
for this concert at the Hotel Washing
ton and Hotel Willard, the American
Automobile Association and the Lisa
Gardiner Studio; also with members
Of the Washington Composers Club.
Evening star., 1935-12-08

CHE became one of the most popular
prima donnas at the opera, but
was in no ways considered star, in
our understanding of the word. Tales
of her beautiful voice reached Frau
Wagner at Bayreuth, and she was
asked to sing there, which she did
with great success, yet the news Of a
new Wagnerian soprano was scantily
broadcast.
In 1929 she received an offer from
the Metropolitan, but was too busy to
answer the letter. When a contract
was finally signed for her appearance
last year, there was little said In the
newspapers, and no attempt on her
part to arouse interest in her first
performance through advertising. She
came quite simple, and loosed her
glorious voice in the famous opera
house ana electrified the distinguished
audience with her luscious tones, so
that it readily realized that at last it
was hearing a truly great singer.
Although her name is now known
throughout the country and she has
been feted and Showered with every
attention that an adoring public could
think of, she Is unspoiled and still
incredulous that all this fame is really
due her.
Kristen Flagstad is a prodigious
worker She is constantly studying,
practicing several hours, even on the
days of her opera appearances. Her
physical endurance is tremendous and
she never suffers from nerves. Time
and again in the roles of the great
Wagnerian heroines she has proved
her rare gifts both as a singer and an
actress. Today she is recognized as
the greatest singer on the operatic
stage.
HER voice is rich and full from the
lowest tone to the upper limit Of
her range, and she sings the difficult
music as freely and naturally as If it
were some simple ditty sung in the
salon Of her home. Her acting is a
logical development of her unpreten-
tious manner, infused with the glow
of her fervor and immersion in the
character. On the stage she is not
Flagstad singing the role of Brun-
nehilde, Isolde or Kundry as the case
may be, but living embodiment of
these majestic characters. In her por-
| trayals goddesses take on human form
and the passionate sentiments of
Wagner's heroines are revivified with
strength and tenderness.
To her there is nothing sensational
about her art. for 1t is SO entirely a
part of her being. She is an artist of
the period that knew Schumann-
Heink at her best, when tending her
home and her children went hand in
hand with fashioning an operate
career. Or Destine or Sembrich, or
the many others of past era who
drew inspiration for their art from
the homeIy duties of everyday life
without recourse to high-flown adver-
Using Perhaps, through the example
of Flagstad, a new type of singer will
develop who places art above all per-
sonal consideration.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Weeks Events at College.

THE weeks calendar at the Wash.
ington College of Music lists a
piano recital by Elizabeth Thompson,
pupil of Robert Ruckman, to be given
this evening at 8:45 O'Clock. Mrs.
Thompson will play the Bach "Chro-
matte Fantasy and Fugue," the Mac
Dowell Sonata Eroica," a Chopin
group containing the ''F Minor Etude,"
the ID Flat Nocturne. three Pre-
ludes," and the Debussy "Children's
Corner Suite" and "L'Isle Joyeuse."
Monday evening. at BIS o'clock,
Edwin Hughes of New York City gives
the next in his series of lectures on
modern piano technique. In this
series each lecture is complete in itself,
taking up some special phase Of TECH
nique and correlating it with musical
Interpretation with illustrations at
the piano.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Department Orchestra.

A RECITAL of symphonic dance
music will be presented on We'd
nesday evening at $3.50 in the audi
torium of the Department of Agricul.
ture South Building, Fourteenth and
independence avenue. by the Agri-
culture Departments Symphony Or
cheStra, conducted by DR.. Walter
Bauer of the department.
The program consists of five groups
Of dances. The first, reminiscent Of
merrie England at the time of King
Henry VIII, includes Edward Ger.
mans Nell Gwyn," three dance melo.
dies rejecting the peacefulness of
rural England and her people of those
times. Two national dances, Schar.
wenka's Polish Dance" and Dvorak's
"Slavonic Dance No. g." follow. The
third group comprises Moszkowskis
Spanish Dances" and two Persian
dances by Rubinstein from "Feramors. 4"
Following a brief intermission, two
additional groups of dance music will
be presented. Saint-Saens' "Danse
Macabre" and the "Children's Dance"
from Humperolnck'S opera, 'Hansel
and Gretal." contrast Death and
Youth. In 'Danse Macabre" a violin
solo depicts the weird dance of the
skeletons which ends as the clock
strikes four and the cock crows.
An added feature in the last group
of dances will be the rendition by
David Manley, tenor soloist of the De-
partment Chorus, of Autumn Leaves, %
a song composed by Stuart S. Moore
of the department, with orchestra ac-
compartment, and performed for the
first time in public, and a selection
| from Lehar's operetta, "Paganini," ;"
with Eileen Crimmen, accompanist,
concluding with the famous Blue
Danube" with orchestra accompani-
ment.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Children to Perform.

THE Children's Community Chorus,
- directed by Esther Linkins, will
feature the pre-Yuletide season here,
when on Sunday afternoon, December
is, at S:45 o'clock, in Luther Place
Memorial Church, Fourteenth and N
streets, the Christmas Story In Song
and Drama" will be presented by
children's choral groups from John
Burroughs, Thomson and Wheatley
Community Centers, assisted by other
young singers between the ages of 6
and 20 years, who will be heard In
numbers chosen and arranged by Miss
Linkins, assisted by Florence Hinman
and others.
The program, which is sponsored by
Mrs. D. E. Middleton, Community
Center secretary, will have the dra-
matte action directed by Edythe
Lazaroff Goldman, with Marie
Humphreys Little as organist and
Helen Belt as violinist Seventy y-f1ve
boys and girls win participate In the
program, which will include carols
taken from the muscal lore OF many
lands.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Public Library Concert.
THE Washington Public Library Re

THE Washington Public Library Re-
cordings Group announces an all
request recordings concert, to be given
at the music division Of the Public
Library, Eighth and K streets, on
Tuesday at 7:30 pm. Some of the
composers to be represented on this
program are j. s. Bach, Brahms.
Beethoven, Schubert, Ravel, Debussy,
List and Berlioz.
The group was organized to give
to the music lovers of. Washington the
great works of the masters, as inter-
preted by world-famous artists and
orchestras. Each concert is devoted
to the outstanding works of one COM
poser, preceded by short talk deliv-
cred by member of the group. To
date, Scarlatti, Hayden, Mozaft and
Beethoven have been covered.
This organization is under the di-
rectorship of Mrs. Posell, music divi~
sion librarian, and its officers are:
Martin j. Norris, president; Henry
Sokol, vice president. and Helen Knox,
secretary. Admission is free.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Recital at Kane Studio.

GERTRUDE, PRICE WOLLNEh
- composer pianist Of New York,
whom Ethel Hoffman Kane has in
vited a group Of guests to hear in re-
cital next Sunday evening at the Kane
Studio of motor -mental-rhythmics,
has made several valuable contribu-
tions to other arts in their relation
to music.
The incidental music for the dram
atization of "The Scarlet Letter" given
by the American Laboratory Theater
Of New York. was arranged by Ger
trude Price, as Mrs. Wollner is known
professionally.
For the interpretive dance, Ger
trude Price has contributed much
original music, feeling that the rhythm
of the dance gives an imaginative liv-
ing quality to the field of musical
composition. Noted for her piano
improvisations, Gertrude Price Woll-
ner holds that creative music" her
topic for next Sunday evening. is a
medium Of expression that more Of
Us may learn to use with facility.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Comments by DR.. Hans Kinder, Conductor
on the
National Symphony Orchestra
Concert
Thursday at 4:45 PM, Constitution Hall

edition., by the Spanish composer,
Granados. Inspired by legends about
the great Spanish painter and re-
puted lover of the then Queen Of
Spain, Francesca Gaya, it draws from
the rich source of Spanish folk music.
1t has, contrary to the popular be-
lief that all Spanish music is fam
boyant and brilliantly gay, a fine no
bility, an aristocratic reserve, con-
trolled yet passionate intensity.
"Rosenkavalier WaltZes- Strauss
THE Richard Strauss waltzes, from
the masters famous opera "The
Rosenkavalier," are among the jewels
in this dance form. They sound
simple and delightful and hide. as it
were, the strong and occasionally dis
sonant harmonic complexities which
are typically Strauss. They are de-
served favorites of the concert-golng
public and have, besides great variety,
all of the Viennese 'schmiss" which
gives them the irresistible appeal that
all really inspired waltzes have. Be-
sides this, their symphonic character
gives them a place Of honor by them
selves.
Symphony No. l-------ShoStakovltcn
SHOSTAKOvITCH, the official COM
~ poser of the Soviet, is today 80
years old. For one to be as eminently
successful as composer at such an
early age invites suspicion. What Will
| the future bring? Is this success not
a proof of a wunderkind precocity
which will run dry?
/ No one, of course, can predict how
/ human genius will develop-1 it de-
velops at all. But there is one char
acteristic which counts enormously In
/ favor of a continued development OF
the brilliant young Russian. That is
an element of irresistible vitality
Those who subjectively did not like
the composers near notorious ano
sensational opera, Lady Macbeth OF
Mzinsk," or who. because Of esthetic
considerations. effectively rejected it
nevertheless had to admit this vitality
which at moments completely swept
them of their feet.
Granted then this vitality, all the
rest is in the laps of the gods. AS tc
! the mastery brilliance of the young
creator, there can be no question
Personally I consider this first sym
phony a great, yes, an irresistible
work. 1t is singularly clear, lucid anc
compact, therefore of toGay; it SAY
it's say" concisely and stops. Its har.
mony is not hyper but astringen
in spots. The form is not strict il
the old-fashioned sense, but it is logi
cal and therefore satisfying,
The first movement has fine. pre-
else and cold detachment, which, be
cause of the intensity of these quail
ties. becomes irreSiStibly vital anC
convincing. The second movement
too, has a rather Sardonic air, anC
reminds us that "gaiety is at
premium in Russia today" The th1rc
movement is melancholy, has noblJ
brooding depth and leads to bolc
and sinister climax, which, in turn
connects it with the finale. This
movement is the finest; in it Shos-
takovitch throws off the reserve oi
the first three parts and we discover
a most interesting, deeply human
figure of fine and deeply sympathetic
countenance. am very happy indeed
to be able to be the first one to intro
duce such a work of this highly gifted
young Russian to our Washington
| public.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Lecture at Chace School.

THE second in the series Of dance
symposiums which are being held
this season at the Marian Chace
School of the Dance will be conducted
this evening by Mary Gresham at 9
o'clock. The subject of this evenings
lecture and discussion is THE Rela-
ton of Music to the Dance" Miss
Greshams wide background in music
and her interest in the dance for a
number of years make her especially
fitted to speak on this subject. Owing
to the fact, also, that there is a wide
diversity of opinion as to the relation
of music to the dance, the open forum
discussion should be most interesting.
The lecture is open to all those
who are interested in the dance from
any angle, as will be all the lectures
later in the season.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Edward Rechlin Recital.

HDWARD RECHLIN, noteu Amerl-
can exponent of Bach and con-
temporary composers, will be heard in
an organ recital at the Universalist
National Memorial Church, Sixteenth
and S streets, tomorrow evening at
8:15 o'clock. The recital is given un-
der the auspices of Trinity Lutheran
Church, and is in commemoration of
the 250th anniversary of Bach's birth.
The public is cordially invited.
Evening star., 1935-12-08

Christmas music I'm the churches
intended for publication in The
Star on Saturday, December FL,
must be received by the Music
Editor not later than Wednesday,
December Is. and must be type
written If possible.
Evening star., 1935-12-08

keynote in Flagstad Art
Is Simple Naturalness
Operas Greatest Singer Has Power to Elec
trify Audiences Without Spectacular
Effort.
Bv Alice EverSman.

yHEN Mrs lawrence Townsend presents sem rssen Flagstad on De
Wv the Mayhower will be the first opportunity in many years
local music lovers Of the old STYLE
endowed with glorious dramatic talent
simple concentration her art who takes stock
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Cossack Story in Song,
Today's Music Feature
Former Russian Imperial Cavalry Officers in
Concert-Strong Interest in Rach-
maninOff Recital.

the Cossack Russian Male Chorus
Constitution Hall
of Dorothy Iodgkn Dorsey
third attraction Mrs Dorsey
events the D. A. R. auditorium
cavalry officers Of the Russian imperial
Evening star., 1935-12-08
-HURSDAY'S concert. the third
of the current Thursday series,
will be given as follows:

L ~ NOAASNAbf SAAS VIII "a
of the current Thursday series,
will be given as follows:
Funeral Symphony" -Locatelli
Lamento: Largo.
ALA breve ma moderate.
Grave.
Non presto.
La Consolatione: .Andante.
played without pauSeO
Waitzes from Der Rosenkavalier" Strauss
(Intermtssion.l
Symphony No. l in ? Minor
Allegretto.
Allegro.
Allegro molto-lento-allegro motto.
First time in Washington.)
FUNERAL" symphony -LOcatelli
Locatelli as a creative artist is little
known and this principally by violin
lists. He. wrote the most difficult violin
music of his day. and. in fact, except
by Paganini, it has not been surpassed
In technical brilliance.
But in this symphony, which was
written upon the death of his wife,
he honorably joins the best composers
of his time 1t is a curious work.
Personally, I consider it early pro
gram music" although it is. with the
exception Of the last movement, not
classed as such.
The beginning and the ensuing
fugue are strongly expressive Of the
grief and mental anguish Of a mans
soul in suffering. The second move
ment is like a dance of the blessed
spirits" reminding one Of Gluck and,
in its rhythm, of certain Bach move
ments Tin the Matthew Passion, for
instance). The next movement, al
though still full of sadness. is less
somber, more reconciled; and the
finale, La Consolatione,' in its gayer
mood quite definitely convinceS us
that by now the composer was feeling
better - and who knows? - perhaps
even ready to marry again!
Locateli was born in Berganio In
1893 and died in Amsterdam in 1854
AS he lived the larger part of his life
in Holland, and this work was writ
ten in Rome, 1t probably belongs to
the early eighteenth century.
The next two works on our program
of Thursday are excerpts from con-
temporary operas.
The first is an intermezzo from the
opera "Goyescas" (probably interpo-
lated after the printing of the score
as it does not appear in the original
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS,

Notice is hereby given, that John Swedman and Thorulf Lehman, h a V e been appointed,by the Pro- bate Court, for the Precinct of Cape Nome, Territory of Alaska, Administrators of the Estate of Peter Blom- berg, deceased, and all per sons having claims against the said estate are required to present the same, with proper vouchers, within six months from the date of this notice, to the under signed administrators, at Nome, Territory of Alaska.
 Dated this 7th day of
 JOHN SWEDMAN,
 THORULF LEHMANN,
 Administrators of the Es- tate of Peter Blomberg, de- ceased.
 Publish-Dec. 2, IA, 21, 28,
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-21
AFTER THE FIRST 100.

There simply is nothing 10 it.a man must slow down after he passes the 100- year mark. He may delude himself into believing that he can frisk around as he did at 80 or 90, but the years take their toll and eventu- ally he has to admit that youth and even middle-age has passed.
 Take Solomon Kicker of St. Paul. Neb.. for instance. He is said to be III now and, while he was released from a hospital after a week, the physicians tell him his heart isn't what t once Was and that he can't do the things he once did. That's the trouble about age. so many things one must give up.
 Solomon has gone along in his accustomed manner all through his eighties and nineties and hadn't noticed any particular let-doWn, even up to 112. Then he slipped and fell while chop ping wood and suffered in- juries which irked him con siderably, because he had 10 stay around the house more or less. Finally the injuries necesSitated the brief hospital treatment.
 But Solomon knows that when he was 90 nobody would have got him into a hospital over a mere fall. And what a bore must be this easy-going existence noW,-Kansas City Times.