The Washington times., 1936-01-20

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Jascha Heifetz gave brilliant
recital yesterday evening at Constt-
tuition Hall to a capacity audience
which greeted him with great en-
thusiasm. Not until he had given
five encores were the people ready
to leave the hall.
Needless to say, Heifet4 did full
justice to the delicate and enchant-
ing phrases of Beethoven's 80
nata in E Flat" and Mozart's cal
legro" from "Divertmento in D
Major; the latter being the ar
lists own arrangement.
Having acquitted himself of the
older claSSiciSt music, he per-
formed Concerto in D Minor"
(WieniawskD which is more OF a
show piece. His nimble fingers and
graceful bow resulted in a lofty in
depreciation of subtle emotions
and carried one to the heights OF
the bravura passages.
The haunting melody Of his ar
rangement of "Alt-Wien" (Godo-
sky was so enhancing that the
audience demanded a repetition OF
this number. Heifetz responded at
the end of the recital with the fol
lowing encores: "Habanera" IRA
veD. "Hora Staccato". (Rouma-
miami; "DanSe ESpagnole" (de
Falla); Prophetic Bird" (Schu'
MANN and Hungarian Dance No.
7" (BrahmS).
The overture to Midsummer
Nights Dream" (Mendelssohn)
the theme of which is shown
above, will be heard in the young
peoples concert to be given by the
u. S. Navy Band Symphony Or
cheStra Wednesday afternoon at
4 o'clock at the Navy Yard Sail
Loft.
The overture gives a foretaste,
in a jumbled dream picture, Of
what is to appen in Shake
speare's comedy. The dreamer
sees in imagination. a woods near
Athens, where fairies appear with
Titania, their queen, and Oberon
the king.
AS the fairies dance, two young
couples, apparently lovers, appear
and in turn the tradeSmen who
are rehearsing for a play. One OF
the tradesmen, Bottom, is given
an ASS head instead of his own
by the fairy clown Puck.
The overture opens with four
soft chords played by the wood
winds as if issuing from the Sc
cret places of the woods; the
fairies appear, the theme is taken
by the violins and the fairies dance
softly; there is delicacy, a gaiety,
an elfin-like quality to the music
which emits the perfume of
flowers and the rhythm of tiny
dancing feet among the grass
blades.
Suddenly the whole orchestra
bursts forth with fuller develop
ment of the fairy music, which is
interrupted to introduce the Ber-
gomask dance. This dance is
brought to a close by the brasses
initiating the braying of Bottom.
A passage for the celloS sug-
gested to the composer by the
buzzing of flies in the garden
where he was working is next
heard: The overture continues to
the end in the development of
the material already introduced,
ever keeping the dainty witchery
with which Mendelssohn has en-
dowed this music. The theme
shown is short and fast, but
those two measures are played in
whole or in part over so times in
the overture.
Considerable interest is at.
tached to the first performance of
the reorganized Washington Ma
tional Opera Association Tuesday
night at Constitution Hall at 8:15,
when Delibes' opera "Lakme" will
be presented.
The U. S. Army Band under
the direction of Capt. Thomas F.
Darcy will give the following pro-
gram tonight at the War College
Auditorium at 6 o'clock: "The Ma
tional Geographic March," Oar
cy); "Slavonic Rhapsody No. g."
(Friedemann; Egyptian Dance"
(Hadley); polka from "Schwanda
the Bagpiper," CWeinberger); vio-
lin solo, "zigeunerweisen," (Sara-
sate), played by Thomas Herbert;
waltz, "The Skaters" (Waldteu-.
feb; march, '"The Wallabies,"
OithgoW).