Evening star., 1936-04-11
NelsOnEddv
Sings Here
Tomorrow
Famous Baritone to
Appear Before Great
Audience.

NELSON EDDY, famous young bari
tone celebrity of concert, radio
and the screen, will make his first
Washington appearance in recital at
Constitution Hall tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock. before one of the greatest
audiences ever gathered in that audi
torium. For weeks, all seats for the
Eddy concert have been sold. The
appearance Of Mr.. Eddy will be under
the local management Of Dorothy
Hodgkin Dorsey. who has already an
nounced Nelson Eddy's re-engagement
for Sunday afternoon concert next
season.
The program Mr. Eddy will sing at
Constitution Hall offers ample evi-
dence of this singers serious artistic
intent and profound musicianship, de-
spite the fact that his fame with the
masses is predicated upon his appear
ance in one of the stellar roles of the
screen production of Victor Herbert's
Naughty Marietta" and his more
recent appearance in the masculine
lead of Rose Marie" as well as on the
screen.
The recital will open with the FIVE
part "Ode from Ossian's Poems" by
Francis Hopkinson, early American
musician and composer. Mr.. Eddy
will also sing Erich VOLTS "Du bist so
jung" Brahms "Vergebliches Staend-
chem" two Richard Strauss songs,
"Morgen" and "Caecilie." the recita-
tive and aria from Verdi's opera
"Otello," "Vanne! La tu9 meta gia
vedo!", Tschaikowski's Pilgrims
Song" George Chadwick Stocks
Route Marchin'," Roger Quilter's
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" and
Frank Bridges Love Went a-Riding."
Mr.. Eddy will be accompanied at
the piano by Theodore Paxson, who
will also contribute Bach's "Toccata
and Fugue in D minor" to the program.
No seats will be on sale for this per-
formance.
NEXT season, at Constitution Hall,
Mrs. Dorsey will present 10 Sum-
day afternoon concerts, grouped into
two series Of five concerts each, all at
pm. and all at popular prices. She
will also present an evening series of
four concerts at $50 o'clock during the
coming season, at the same audito-
rum.
This evening series will open on
Monday evening, october 26, with the
only 1867 recital Of Fritz KreiSler,
and will be followed on December l
with the only Washington recital next
season of Sergei Rachmaninoff. On
Tuesday evening, February 16, will be
the first appearance at that auditorium
Of Kristen Flagstad, the distinguished
Norwegian soprano, while the series
will close on Tuesday evening, March
2, with an all-operatic program by
quartet OF Metropolitan Opera stars,
accompanied by symphony orchestra
of IS.
Arrangements for the 10 Sunday
afternoon concerts have not yet reach
ed the announcement stage, although
it is expected that Mrs. Dorsey will
present, in these two series, such IA
vorites as Lawrence Tibbett, the Don
Cossack Russian Male Chorus, Jascha
Heifetz, Nino Martini, Lily Pons, AL
bert Spalding, Nelson Eddy and, in
addition, such artists as Vladimir Hor-
owitz, the noted Russian pianist; Helen
Jepson. soprano, Metropolitan Opera:
Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist and con-
ductor; Gladys Swarthout, soprano,
Metropolitan Opera, whose March 20
concert had to be Cancelled on ac-
count of Miss Swarthout's Holly
wood plans for the Spring and Sum-
mer, and one or two other artists,
who will be announced later. Several
of these artists will be presented in
joint recital.
An illustrated circular of 1867 at
fractions is now in course of prepara-
ton and will be forwarded to any con-
certgoer requesting copy. Such re-
quests should be sent direct to Mrs.
Dorsey, at Droops, 1900 G street
northwest.