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Dance Recital.
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THE joint recital by the Lisa Gar
diner Dancers and the Washing
ton Composers Club will take place
Wednesday, December II, at $3.50 in
Roosevelt Auditorium under the aus
pices Of the Community Center De-
partment. Miss Gardiner and her
dance group will be seen in their own
conceptions in dance form of new
musical compositions by such well
known Washington musicians as Mary
Howe, Dorothy Radde Emery, R.
Deane Shure. Edward A. Potter. Henry
Gregor and La Sale Spier with the
composers at the piano.
Mary Howe's contribution to the
program will be a "Valse Plaintive"
to be danced by Mary Day, Dorothy
Emery's THE Desert Call" built on
Balinese themes will be danced by the
Gardiner group; while a straight bal
let number will be from Potter's
Babylonian opera entitled "Ishtar. VI
Three episodes from Dean Shure's
suite Lyric Washington" will be
Mirror Fool danced by trio, Boat
ing on the Potomac" group number.
and "Topsy on Tenth Street." duo
dance.
Henry Gregor will have two compo-
sitions on the program, the first of
which ''Nocturne Fantastique," an
Apache dance, will be danced by Miss
Gardiner and the guest dancer of the
occasion Michael Nicholoff, who will
come here from Baltimore to appear or
this program. "The Kings Highway, u
by Gregor, will be interpreted in dance
pantomime by Greta Ruth Atkin,
Polly Prickett, Fills Speich, Con-
stance Carey and Marian Wolberg.
La Sale Spier will have two dance
pantomines in this recital, one OF
which is "Bowery" with Alice Louise
Hunter and the entire dance group
the other is called THE Last Knock
Reserved seats for this concert are
available at the Community Center
Department in Franklin Administra-
ton Building, at the Lisa Gardiner
Studio and at downtown ticket bu-
reaus, including the Willard and the
A. A. A.
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Music Feast
on
Anniversary
Mrs. Townsend Lists
Notable Series for
MayfoWer.

MRS. LAWRENCE TOWNSEND,
" whose Wednesday morning mu-
sicales at the Mayflower Hotel have
been a prominent series in the concert
activities of the city for many years,
will offer one of the most notable
lists of artists heard in any single
series. In celebration of her own
golden wedding anniversary she has
chosen the golden voices of the
operatic world. assisted by instrument
talists of wide renown, for the eight
concerts scheduled, one of which will
be in the nature of a gift to her
audience for their support during the
many seasons of her enterprise.
The first concert will take place
on Wednesday. December l8. when
she will introduce the great Wag-
merriam singer, Kristen Flagstad. for
the first time to Washington music
lovers. In many years there has not
been heard a voice to equal that oi
the Norwegian singer, who reused the
Metropolitan audiences to a frenzy
of appreciation at her debut in the
opera house last season. With Flag
stad on this first program will be
Roman Totenberg, young Polish vio-
linist, whose American debut was
made recently with the National Sym.
phony Orchestra. The artists anc
the date for the remaining concerts
which will be resumed three week;
after the opening date, are as follows
January 8-Helen Jepson. soprano
and Richard Crooks, tenor, both oi
the Metropolitan Opera.
January 15.-Ernest Smelling, pi-
anist, conductor and composer, anc
the Musical Art Quartet.
January 22-Kathryn Meisle, con-
tralto, and Emanuel Feuermann, cell
ist.
January 29-Robert Casadesus, noted
French pianist, and his wife, Gaby
Casadesus, in solos and two-pianc
numbers.
February 5-Charles Kuhlman, ten
or. in a Washington debut with Greta
Stueckgold, soprano, both Of the Met
ropolitan Opera.
February 12-Lotte Lehman. So
prano, and Emanuel List, bassc
(debut).
February 19-Rosa Ponselle and ar
assisting artist, still to be announced
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National Theater the afternoon of the
concert.
THE Don Cossack Chorus, which
will be heard here at Constitution
Hall next Sunday afternoon at
o'clock, celebrated its 3,000th concert
last Friday night at Carnegie Hall in
New York under gala auspices with
an introduction from the stage by
Grand Duchess Marie of Russia.
Among the Russian church music,
Cossack songs and folk songs which
the Don Cossack Chorus will sing in
Washington next Sunday afternoon. is
a new choral novelty called The
History in Song of S. Jarof and His
Don Cossack Chorus" by SchVedoff,
which recounts the career Of the
choristers, first as CoSsack officers Of
the Cars army, their participation
in the World War and the class
struggle in Russia, their incarceration
in prison camp, their first Begin
nings as a chorus and finally their
international fame as a singing unit.
THE Rachmaninof recital, which
will mark the only Washington
appearance of the great Russian this
season, is set for Tuesday evening,
December 10, at $50 O'Clock. The
program has not been given out but
preliminary announcements by Mrs.
Dorsey indicate that RachmaninoR
will n1av at least tW0 of his own cOn1~
positions as well as the music OF
Chopin, List, Brahms, Beethoven and
Bach.
Plans are already being formulated
whereby the city of Sheffield, England,
will signally honor Rachmaninoff next
season with a special Rachmaninof
festival, which will include the per-
formance of his most ambitious work.
THE Bells" with an enlarged chorus,
symphony orchestra and weIl-known
SoloiStS.
At other sessions of the festival he
himself will appear as guest soloist one
afternoon for the performance Of q
concerto with the London Philhar-
monic Orchestra and as guest con-
ductor of the orchestra on another
day.
Seats for both these Russian attrac-
tions-the concert of the Don Cossack
Chorus and the Rachmannof recital
cert bureau, in Droops, 1900 G street
northwest, and at Constitution Hall
before each concert.
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Conductor Asks Advice.
BY JOHN SELBY.
aGE KOUSSEvITZKY,

SEt\1E hOO0SEN441 1h I, VIII
~ conducts the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, has bone to pick with
great musicians.
DR.. Koussevitzky usually can be re-
lied upon to speak right out, if he
speaks at all. He was asked what
type of compositions modern COM
posers could produce which would
brighten up the repertoire and get
away from the steady procession OF
new overtures and symphonies which
seem to be the only new things heard
But it's not the composers fault, u
said Koussevitzky, in his softly pre-
else voice. There are concertos, for
example.
Every year somebody writes a new
violin concerto. All musical people
know how limited is the violin litera-
ture that we hear. engage a yio-
linist and I say, please, let's play
Mr.. Blanks new concerto What
does he do? He plays the Beethoven
Concerto, the Brahms Concerto or
Mendelssohn's. And why? Because
what he wants is this"
At which point DR.. Koussevitzky
began clapping his hands.
They want easy applause. There
are fine new pieces waiting to be
heard, and only once in while can
7 force somebody to play them"
This condition obtains through
much of the profession, DR.. Kousse-
vitzky believes. A lack of adventure
some spirit throttles not only COM
posers, but conductors, except Kousse-
vitZky.
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tile gift for writing. The last two
compositions gained him his gradua-
ton diploma in composition and were
played by him at the graduation exer-
cises. His proficiency on the instru-
ment which brought fame to his father
can be estimated by the fact that he
chose the Paganini Concerto" as
graduation test in violin playing.
The Kubeliks form an unique duo
in musical circles. The affection be-
tween father and son is profound, and
enriched by mutual respect for the
talents and attainments of each other.
They are companions in the -truest
sense of the word. sharing the ordi-
nary adventures of everyday life Or
the greater adventures of their musical
discoveries with the same pleasure.
The mature mind of the great artist
and the gifted, searching mind of
the younger man meet in complete
harmony. The veneration Of the boy
for the glorious career of his father
is matched by the admiration and re-
spect of Kubelik for the genius of his
son. AS the name of Jan Kubelik has
been indelibly imprinted in the an
mails of musical history, so also may
one day be inscribed the name of
Rafael, the son.
A S INTERESTING as are the lives
of most artists, they seldom have
contained the variety of experiences
which are Jan Kubelik's. A poor boy, son
of village fiddler, he gained, through
his talents and industry the highest
place in the worlds esteem. Kings
and emperors decorated him, and the
Pope put aside his great responsible
tiles to ask the village f1ddler's boy
to give him an hour of music. From
his humble home he passed to a
stately palace, to riches and the asso-
citation of the aristocracy. Every
corner Of the world had heard the
noble music he drew from his in
strument, yet he put it all aside to
devote himself to the education of his
children, and to the analysis of ORR
entail philosophy, Of which he became
a student during his tours of the
Far East.
Then back again he comes to that
public which had idolized him and
which cherished the memories of music
that had rarely been heard before.
He finds himself in another genera
ton where younger violinists have
founded their fame on the principles
he made evident and which in his
early career were not yet dreamed
of. As a professional artist, he stood
alone as the exponent of type Of
playing heretofore only associated
with the name Of Paganini He has
been the only link with that great
master in the many years since his
passing, for he brought out again
the resources of his instrument and
served as a pioneer in the great vio-
lnist movement which has resulted
in the great artists Of today.
He returns with his marvellous
technique intact and the unforgettable
beauty of his playing still capable
of stirring his public. A glorious life
has been his, and a rich experience
for those who have profited from
what he has to give from the earlier
days of his meteoric flashing to the
ripper giving of the present time, when
he brings his son to share success
with him.
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Hotel, as he did last year at Con-
stitution Hall.
Rafael Is the fifth child in the
Kubelik family, and If an old super
stition is to be credited, this alone
ability. His father considers him to be
q genius, for he believes that all the
talents of the family have eliminated
to marked degree in this gifted son.
His quick intelligence and his extraor-
binary facility for acquiring and re-
tanning knowledge have always been
source of JOY and wonderment to the
family.
Other members of the little group
ere splendid musicians, notably the
twin daughters, who have often ap-
peared en- concert programs with their
famous father in violin numbers, but
1t is Rafael who from infancy has
shown a mature grasp of music, of
whom the family is most proud.
EQUALLING the affections which his
brothers and sisters lavish on him,
is Rafaels pride in and affection for
his father. At his appearance here
last Winter his beaming face, when his
father was repeatedly called out to
respond to the ovation accorded him,
and his evident pleasure in his sue
cess won the hearts of his audience,
as much as did his expert accompani-
ments.
Rafael began playing for his father
when he was years old. and by his
18th year his technical equipment was
SO solidly formed that he was able
to play the most difficult numbers in
the violinist's repertoire. Last year,
however, was the first time that he
officially associated himself with his
father as accompanist. His fond
ness for the latter, and his desire to
be with him, together with longing
to see the world for year or two
before taking up the serious business
OF making his own career, made him
willing to take second place On this
concert tour.
It was not as pianist, however,
that he began his musical education.
In fact, he claims never to have
studied the piano. but always played.
His musical studies began with the
violin, as was natural, and for teacher
he had his fathers inseparable COM
panion for over 80 years, the first
violinist of the Sevcik Quartet. This
friend, who was an intimate member
of the Kubelik household whenever he
wished, played an important part in
the musical education of all the
Kubelik children, as well as acting
as an inspiration to the father during
these years when. he had apparently
given up his public appearances for
all time.
A classmate of Kubelik's at the
Prague Conservatory of Music and a
Siolinist of distinction himself, he
gathered the Kubelik family together
for delightful evenings of chamber
music. sometimes in the picturesque
Abazzia, where Kubelik had beauti-
full chalet, and later in Silesia, where
he owned princely home.
A THOUGH just come Of age,
Rafael has been composing for
many years. A magnificent symphony
of his was performed by the Prague
Philharmonic, and met with instan-
taneous success. A Symphonic Poem. "
a sonata for violin and piano, and a
Fantasy" for the same instruments,
are noteworthy examples Of his versa
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messiah" Soloists.
THE Washington oratorio S

THE washington Oratorio Society
announces the soloists for the
forthcoming presentation Of Handel's
Messiah" to be given on Sunday aft
ernoon, December %. Soloists will
be Georgia Campbell, soprano; Kath-
ryn Sale English, contralto; Wilfrid
Smith, tenor, and Howard Severe, bass
baritone. The soloists will be support
ed by the largest chorus in the So
ciety's history. Accomplishments will
be supplied by Edith B. Athey, Or
ganist, and Marjorie Davis, pianist,
in addition to a 25-piece orchestra.
The concert will be under the direction
of the society's conductor, George r.
Kortzenborn.
Tickets for this performance Of the
Messiah" have been placed on sale
at the sheet music counter in Droop's,
Thirteenth and G streets northwest.
The concert will be given in Central
High School Auditorium, Thirteenth
and Clifton streets northwest.
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Hodgkin Dorsey, the other attrac-
tion being the Kurt JooSs European
Ballet, which comes to Washington
late in February.
The first of the four new dance
creations on La Argentina's program
Friday will be suite of three short
dances from the Argentine, entitled
"Bailecito," "Zamba" and la Fir
meza."
Based on folk and popular material,
they have been transformed into works
Of art with the exquisite sense Of
values which marks Argentina as a
mistress Of composition. according to
John Martin, dance critic of the New
York Times.
La Argentina's program will also in
clude another new suite, consisting of
three little dances from Andalusia,
the "Sevillanas," the "Peteneras" and
the "Bulerias." The richness of the
materials entering into the compost
ton of this Andalusian suite, as well
as its technical brilliance, forms a
marked contrast with the suite Of
three dances from the Argentine.
A RGENTINA has added another
= number to the gypsy dances in her
repertoire, Polo Gitana," which is
the third of the four new numbers
she will display to Washington. This
dance is said to be highly colored,
intense with Spanish arrogance and
beautifully choreographed. But per-
haps the most notable of all her new
numbers Is La Fregona," in which
the gracious La Argentina becomes the
crudest and most stupid Of servant
girls. even to the extent of thumbing
her aristocratic nose at mistress in
the wings.
In addition to the four new num-
bers, La Argentina offers an assort-
ment of older dances. Among such
numbers will be found the Cordoba, :"
danced to Albeniz' music; Dance of
the Miller'S Wife" from De Falla'S
ballet, THE Three Cornered Hat; the
fire dance from De FaIla's ballet, Eel
Amor Brujo"; Eel Albaicin," from
Albeniz' Iberia" suite; "Goyescas," to
music of Granados; the outstanding
hit of last season, Madrid, 1890" to
Granados' music, and the familiar
la Corrida" impressions Of a bull
hght), to music by Valverde.
AS usual, La Argentina will be ac-
companied by Luis Galve. Tickets
for the performance are available at
Mrs. Dorsey's concert bureau. in
Droop's, 1900 G street, and at the
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In Local Music Circles

N EVENING service of music at
3. " Calvary M. E. Church, Colum-
IA bia road near Fifteenth street
IL 4 northwest, tonight at o'clock
will celebrate the completion of the
purchase of the Steinway grand piano
Tor the church auditorium by the
choir and its formal presentation to
the church. An unusual feature of
this service will be an instrumental
interlude, THE Sonata in F Minor" &"
by Brahms, played by Louis Potter,
pianist.
The combined senior and young
peoples choirs will give the remainder
of the program which will be devoted
largely to short cantata, 1.-THE Sea-
sons" by Johann Sebastian Bach,
with accompaniment of organ and
piano. The solos for soprano and alto
will be taken by Ruby Potter and Ber-
tina Morgan, respectively. Mrs. Potter
will also sing Ave Maria by Bach
Gounod.
1. Two a capella choruses by American
composers will complete the program.
prelude and Fugue in c Major" by
Bach will be played on the organ as a
prelude to the service by Evangeline
Pendleton. George Dixon Thompson
Is the accompanist.
On Sunday evening, December Is,
Ethel Hoffman Kane is presenting
Gertrude Price Wollner of New York
In an invitation recital at the Kane
studio Of motor mental rhythmics.
Her subject will be Creative Music" "
The child, the composer or teacher,
also the dancer in his need of more
musical "awareness" for his art, are
brings new material for their work.
"A program entitled Songs From the
Cradle to the Grave" will be presented
by the Mount Vernon Place choir, un-
der the direction of r. Deane Shure,
assisted by Purcell Storey. The en-
terta1nment viii be giver in the church
school auditorium at pm. Tuesday.
Affree-will offering will be taken.
The Felicia Rybier Music Club will
have as its artist Majorie King, So
prano, at the musicale Wednesday at
2 Dupont circle. Nine. zalipsky will
be the accompanist. Adele Rosenberg,
pianist, graduate scholarship pupil of
the Peabody Institute, will also give
O group Of numbers.
The Rubenstein Club will hold a
Joint rehearsal Tuesday evening at
7:45 at the Willard Hotel. All mem
bers are expected to be present. There
will not be morning rehearsal. Those
desiring information as to member
ship requirements should call the
president, Mrs. Iowerth ]. Roberts.
Olive Mcknight, student at the Ger
trude Lyons Studio, was guest soloist
last Sunday evening at the Takoma
nS Presbyterian ChuKch. when she
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chestra, was never more dazzling in
his tone creations than in the Second
Concerto, which Miss Travis plays
today. The concerto has been de-
scribed as a piece Of music as magical
and gorgeous as anything in the
Arabian Nights"
Jarnefelt's "Praeludium" is a mus
ical miniature. 1t stands out gemlike
among the more ambitious compost
tions of q man who, with Sibelius, is
considered a distinguished member Of
the modern Finnish school.
MISS TRAVIS. today's featured
A'A artist, has established herself as
a great favorite with audiences in
Germany and America. She early
displayed talent for music, and when
6 she attracted the attention of
Charles Dennee, widely known Boston
teacher and composer. He enrolled her
as one of his regular pupils at the
New England Conservatory Of Music
and had her under his guidance until
the Summer of 1921, when she went to
Berlin to study with Arthur Schnabel,
the great virtuoso and Beethoven in
terpreter. She remained under his
tutelage for two years.
In 1925, when she graduated from
the conservatory in Boston. she re-
ceived not only the highest honors
but was also the sensational winner
of grand piano prize, the most
distinctive honor that graduates there
can attain.
Since completing her studies in Ber-
lin, she has concertized with great
success in Boston and other cities
in America and also in Europe She
spent last Summer playing concerts
abroad. Last August she played the
Mozart "a Major Concerto" in the
Mozart festival at Salzburg, Austria.
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Barrymore Busy.

r IONEL BARRYMORE left for the
- West Coast after a short Eastern
stay. and at the same time Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer announced that the
title role of "Silas Mariner" will be one
of MIR. Barrymore's forthcoming as
signments. Preceding this, however,
will be the lead in MacKinlay Kantor's
1.-THE Voice Of Bugle Ann" and very
probably the role Of Doremus Jessup
in Sinclair Lewis 1T Can't Happen
Here"
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sang "The Day Is Ended" (Bartlett)
with violin obbligato by Raymond
Casey. The accompaniment was played
by Mrs. D. c. Jackson, the organist
of the church.
Martha Blake, pianist. and Louise
Foote, violinist, will give a concert
at the Phillips Memorial Gallery this
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Pupils Of Otto Torney Simon gave
a recital Of songs and arias at Mr..
Simons studio, 1924 H street north
west, on Monday evening. Those TAX
ing part were Ethel Kroger, Lavinia
Holland, Hazel Gem Hughes, Elwood
Berkeley. Frank Moncure and Jesse
NusSear.
The Friday Morning Music Club will
present Maude Sewell in talk on
THE Fugue," with piano illustrations
by Margaret Tolson on Friday at
1880 am, in Barker Hall. Trios
from Bach's "Magnif1cate" will be
sung by Ruby Potter, Mildred Colvin
anu Lilly IaIrStL.
Ann Sugar, who celebrated her 18th
birthday last year by giving three
piano recitals at the Arts Club in
three consecutive weeks, will play a
program including Bach's Prelude
and Fugue," Brahms Variations on
a Theme by Handel" Debussy's Ara
besque," La Cathedrale Engloutie"
and "Minstrels,' % Chopin's "Ballade in
G. Minor" and Schumann's Concerto
in A Minor" on friday evening at the
Arts Club.
Selections from "Rigoletto" by Verdi,
sung in the order in which they come
In the opera, will be heard at the reg
ular music hour today. at O'Clock, at
the Y. w. G. A., Seventeenth and K
streets. The program will be pre-
sented by a quartet Of students of
Frank Bibb of Peabody Conservatory,
Berenice Follis, soprano; Lilly Gar
rett, contralto: Raymond Hamilton Of
Baltimore, tenor, and Edwin Steffe,
baritone. Dorothy Radde Emery will
be at the piano, and Edwin Steffe
will act as narrator. Men and women
are cordially invited.
Anne Yago McGuffy has returned
to Washington from a six weeks tour
with the Civic Light Opera Company.
Mrs. McGuffy sang the leading con-
tralto roles in THE Yeomen of the
Guard" "Mikado." Pirates of PEN
zance," "Pinafore" and other Gilbert
and Sullivan operas. This company
met with great success in Indianapo-
lis, st. Louis, Cincinnati and Column
bus and other mid-Western cities.
The tour will be resumed from New
York in April.
Sylvia Kaplowitz win present o
group of advanced students in an ac-
Gordon and piano recital at the
Homer L. Kilt Music Studios on Fri