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Founders Day at Library.

T TNDER the provisions of the Eliza
- beth Sprague Coolidge Foundation,
the recently established Coolidge
Quartet" will make its first public ap-
pearance in the auditorium of the
Library of Congress on Friday after
noon, at $3.50 O'Clock, presenting the
annual Founders day program.
Forming the new quartet are four
players who need no introduction to
the Washington chamber-music audi
ence-William Kroll and Nicolai Be
rezowsky, violins; Nicholas Moldavan,
viola, and Victor Gottlieb, violoncello.
Mr.. Kroll, formerly with the Elshuco
Trio and South Mountain Quartet, has
been associated from the first with
Mrs. Coolidge's Pittsfield concerts and
with the Washington concerts that
succeeded them. Mr.. Berezowsky,
whose sextet for clarinet, strings and
piano received its first public perform
ance at the Washington Festival of
1926, took part, last season, in a num-
Der of the foundations programs. Mr..
Moldavan brings to the ensemble ex-
perience gained with the Flonzaley and
Stradivarius quartets. Mr.. Gottlieb,
young American pupil of Felix SAL
mond, joins the group through the
courtesy of the Philadelphia Orchestra,
with which organization he was until
quite recently connected.
Fridays program follows:
Quartet in C. op: "A. No. HAYDN
Quartet, Op. ----BereZovSky
'Quartet in B Flat, Op. 130" Beethoven
Admission is free, but by ticket only.
Tickets may be obtained-until the
supply is exhausted-at the T. Arthur
Smith Concert Bureau, at 9l0 G street.
beginning Monday at 9 am. Telephone
and mail orders cannot be accepted.
Because of the limited capacity of the
hall, tickets should be called for early.
Seats can be reserved only until the
hour set for the beginning of the con-
cert, after which time an effort will be
made to seat those who have been un-
able to obtain tickets. Persons unable to
use their tickets are requested to re-
turn them before the day Of the
concert.
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mental alterations of the composer,
and Joseph Joachim, the violinist, to
whom it was dedicated, deplored, in
conversation with Brahms, the neglect
Of the work by other violinists and
predicted that after his death it would
not be played. Brahms thought the
more beautiful portions of the work
might be saved for poSterity by judi
cious elimination and revision and an
elaboration Of the too-short middle
passage.
Kreisler, who was young member
of the Vienna Tonkunstleverein at the
time, was filled with a great desire,
from that day on, to carry out Brahms
suggestion, and while he has made q
number of earlier attempts to revise
the Fantasy" none were deemed
worthy by the violinist until he made
the present one.
Five other compositions on tomor-
row evenings program will be Kreisler
compositions. Carl Lanson will ac-
company him. Seats at Mrs. Dorsey's
Bureau. in Droops, 1900 G street
northwest.
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Philadelphia Orchestra
Coming Tuesday Night
Josef Holman, as Piano Soloist, Is to
Share Program, and Ormandy Will
Make Bow Here as Concert Leader.

most famous compositions, but one
for which he personally had great
preference and liked to play fire.
Quently.
Josef Hofmann. recognized as one
of the greatest of living pianists, is
acting head Of the Curtis Institute of
Music in Philadelphia. He, like Cho-
pin, is Polish, having been born in
CracoW. His father was a pianist,
composer and conductor. His mother
was an operatic soprano. Josef be-
gan playing the piano at the age of
31a, when an aunt gave him his first
music lessons.
LIS first public appearance was in
- a kindergarten in a town near
Warsaw, when he was years old
Professional engagements followed
when he was and 9, and these have
become musical history.
His later training was principally
under Moszkowski and Anton Rubin
stein. He was the latter's only pri-
vate pupil. Josef Hofmann is one Of
the few pianistic prodigies who con-
tinued in later years to make good"
as great artist.
The orchestra is presented under
the auspices of the T. Arthur Smith
Concert Bureau, 910 G street north
west.
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Fe Alf to Give Recital.
EE ALF, modern dancer, will appe

EE ALF, modern dancer. will appear
= in recital at Wardman Park The
ater Sunday, November /, at 8:45 pm.
Between the ages Of IL and IA Miss
ALI danced under the direction Of Kurt
Jooss at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus
in Hamburg. At 16 she entered the
Hageman School in Hamburg and re-
ceived training in the Mensendieck
method. Later Miss ALI studied for
three years at the Wigman School in
Dresden and performed for six months
in Munich as member Of Mary Wig
mans group.
She came to New York in Novem-
ber, 1881, to be assistant teacher to
Hanya Holm in the New York Wig
man School, but opened own studio
the following season and continues to
teach the modern dance and compose
numbers for her appearances.
Reservations may be made with
Mary E.. Gresham, 1918 Eighteenth
street northwest, or the American
Automobile Association, Seventeenth
and G streets northwest.
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By Hans Kinder,
Conductor.
The program is as follows:

TINE opening program OF our
sixth season will start with
the so-called Entrance of the
L Gods into Walhalla," by
Wagner. In fact. this is the finale
of "Das Rheingold." the short opera
which Wagner wrote as an introduc-
ton to his trilogy, The Ring of the
Nibelungen."
In this finale Wotan summons
Donner, the God of Thunder and
Lightning. We hear the command
ing voice in the brass, we witness in
sound the sudden appearance of the
Thunder God. Then the lovely rain
bow motive in G fiat is heard. The
rainbow bridge stretches from the
earth into Walhalla. Still later we
hear the lovely and plaintive song OF
the Rhine daughters bemoaning the
loss of the Rhinegold, and the last
bars of the opera show us all the
gods in stately array crossing the
rainbow bridge on their way into
Walhalla.
WHEREAS Beethoven's. Brahms
w Tchaikovsky's, Schumann's,
Schubert's and even Mozart'S greater
symphonies by constant repetition
have become every music lovers COM
mon-yes, nearly too common-prop-
erty, most of Haydn's compositions
for symphony orchestra are compara-
lively unfamiliar.
And vet Haydn in his greater works
need stand back of no one. The
London and Surprise" symphonies,
the Emperor" and Gypsy" quar-
tets. "The Creation" and "The Sea-
sons" oratorios belong among the
great masterworks of all times. But
even among the less reputed of the
masters many compositions there are
Jewels of the purest water. Among
these belong the symphony OF today.
It offers no problems, unless it be
that, for no reason one can see, it Is
rarely played. The history OF musical
performances is so complex, so Curl
ously modish and snobbish and ur-
practicable that it might be of in
terest to some musical ethnologist to
follow it through its amazing courses
of the last hundred years and give
the result to the world, if only so as
to save some of the many unknown
masterpieces Of the past from un-
deserved neglect and obscurity.
THE arias of Mozart and Donizett1,
= to be sung by Schipa before the
intermission, continue the program
chronologically and are a part OF the
treasured repertoire Of every great
tenor. The first one is from the
typical Italian opera "The Elixir Of
Love-" and the second one an excerpt
from Mozart's masterwork Don Clio
vanni."
THE second half of the program
= begins with two modern works.
The first. is Mary Howe's Spring
Pastorsf," q delicate and sensitive
yet intensely felt composition, full Of
the mood It's title evokes.
The "Rhumba," by Harl Mcdonald
= an excerpt from that compossrs
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Concert Schedule

TODAY.
Elena de Sayn. violin recital,
Grafton Hotel, $50 pm.
TOMORROW.
National Symphony Orchestra,
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor, Tito
Schipa, tenor, soloist, Constitution
Hall, pm.
MONDAY.
Fritz Kreisler, violin recital,
Constitution Hall. $50 pm.
TUESDAY.
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene
Ormandy, conductor, Josef Hof-
mann, pianist, soloist, Constitu-
ton Hall, 8:45 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Nine. Nadia FAM. lecture, "The
Art of Singing" 1925 G st. NV,
8 pm.
Marine Band, auditorium, Ma
rine Barracks, 8 pm.
THURSDAY.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
FRIDAY.
Coolidge Quartet, Founders
day concert, Library of Congress,
$3.50 pm.
SATURDAY.
Paco Cansino, Senorita Juanita,
recital Spanish dances, willard
Hotel.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$3.50 pm.
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Recitalist to Lecture.

ELENA DE SAYN, violinist, will re-
IL peat her talk on Franz Liszt and
the Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein by
request, following her violin recital
this evening at $50 o'clock at the
Grafton.
The talk was delivered last Sum
mer and especially prepared for the
last meeting of the Washington Music
Teachers Association on the occasion
Of Liszt's 60th death anniversary.
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Society Holds Additions.
NFYRON WHITNEY, president {

MYRON WHITNEY. president OF
A'A the Washington Choral Society,
has returned to the city and will call
q meeting of the Advisory Committee
in the near future. Plans are under
way for the performance Of the
Brahms Requiem" at the Washing
ton Cathedral on January 28.
The chorus, under the direction of
Louis Potter, has the largest enroll
ment of any season since its organiza-
ton. More tenor voices are needed,
however, to produce the proper bal
ance of parts. AS large chorus is
desirable for the Brahms work, new
members are still being admitted.
Additions are held each Tuesday
night at 7:30 Immediately preceding
rehearsals at in the Central Com
munity Center, Thirteenth and Cliff
ton streets northwest. Persons de-
string information may call Mr.. Whit
ney or Mr.. Potter.
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Sk1arevski Program.

4 LEXANDER SKLAREVSKI, Rus
= sian pianist who appears in re-
cital at Barker Hall, Y. w. C. A., Mon
day evening, comes to Washington
fresh from q successful New York re-
cital the preceding week. The critics
agreed unanimously on his exceptional
ability for the revelation of fine points
Of dynamic shading and on his de-
gree OF interpretive artistry.
Mr.. Sklarevski will play the follow
ing program:
Variations from Sonata In A Major"
Mozart
.capriccio in E Major-------D. scarlssti adssd
Sonata. Op. Ill. in c Minor"
Beethoven
-Four etudes Chopin
"A Flat Major, Op. TO-"
"a Minor. ,op. 25."
''E Minor on. 25."
Prelude in D Major" Rachmaninov
Arebesdues on waltz Blue Danube"
strauss-schultz-Evler
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Fourth Talk by DR.. Barnes.

COUSA, friend OF presidents and po-
tentates, the versatile and very
American George Whitfield Chad
wick and Charles Martin Loeffler,
Americas greatest orchestral mas
ter, will be among those discussed at
the fourth in the series of 10 lecture
recitals on "Milestones in American
Music" to be given by DR.. E. N. c.
Barnes at the Women's City Club
Auditorium on Friday at S o'clock.
The announced subject is Artistic
SUBMITS" and the time is the decade
1880 to 1890. probably the greatest
of all decades in American music.
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season under her management.
Contrary to previous reports. Wash
ington will be one of the first cities in
America to hear the noted violinist
play his new arrangement Of Robert
Schumann's &C Major Fantasy, Op.
49," as well as Kreisler's new arrange
ment of the first movement of Paga-
minis Second Concerto" Both these
arrangements were originally sched-
uled to be heard for the first time in
America at Chicago next Thursday
evening, when Kreisler appears there
with the Chicago Symphony Orches-
ira. as soloist.
Mr.. Kreisler's program follows:
Fantasy. C Major. op. 131" Schumann
Dedicated to Joseph Joachim
Newly revised by Fritz Kreisler
(Orieinal cad6nZa by Schumann)
"Adagio and Fugue. G Minor '------ Bach
(For violin alone)
(First movement Of Concerto No: in
Fri.Z KreiSler.)
"Cavatina"
"Malaguena"
"Rondo on q Theme by Beethoven"
la Gitana" ,-,
CCHUMANN'S Fantasy" as origi-
- nally composed, reflected the
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ton as concertizing artist and as
composer, yet his duties were never
too pressing to encroach upon the
time he devoted to his friends. A
most touching instance Of his doctrine
that real friendship means sharing
is the correspondence recently pub
lished in the Musical Quarterly, which
he kept up with Marie, the young
daughter of Princess Sayn-Wittgen-
stein. There Is nothing of the dis
tant, patronizing adult in these let
tiers. In them he shows himself as a
true companion of the child. and later,
the young girl. writing intimately,
with humor and with infinite COM
prehension.
THE whole life story of Liszt re-
= solves itself into the continuance
of certain basic qualities that became
evident in his earliest years. He was
deeply religious, longing as a child TO
dedicate himself to religious observ-
ances and ended his life by accom-
plishing this first ambition. When 6
years of age he received his first i'm
preston of the beauty of music in
listening to his father at the piano
and fed into the garden to enjoy In
the solitude of his secret soul the
ecstasieS that had been revealed to him.
Later, when asked by his father what
he would like to be, he pointed to a
picture of Beethoven on the wall and
said, Like him" From that moment
his wish started toward realization
and he was to know the adultation
and the fame appropriate to disciple
of the great master.
He desired a more useful life than
that of a popular artist before the
public, and he had the opportunity
to expand in this direction in Weimar.
From his adolescent years he longed
for the inspiration of woman's de-
votion, and found it in his lifelong
friendship with TIE Princess Carolyn
Sayn- -Wittgenstein. His musical ideals,
formed in his childhood. were per-
petuated by his sponsorship OF
Wagner, Won Buelow and Chopin, and
his conviction that he must share his
plenty made him generous of his time,
his ideas and his knowledge with his
pupils.
CTILL greater than List the
~ pianist or List the composer is
List the humanitarian. In this
respect he has never been equaled
even by Beethoven. He lived out his
nature fully, yet through the glamour
the honor and the adulation that
seemed the glittering substance of it,
stands as the granite foundation of
it, this great artists Interpretation of
Jeremy Taylor's definition of friend
ship: BY friendship you mean the
greatest love, the greatest usefulness,
the most open communication. the
noblest suffering. the severest truth,
the heartiest counsel and the great
est union of minds Of which brave
men and women are capable"
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TINE Philadelphia Orche.

.THE Philadelphia Orchestra,
launching its Washington
season with the first of a Sc
L ries of five concerts on Tues
day evening at 8:45 in Constitution
Hall, will offer a notable program,
with Josef Hofmann, the great pian-
ist, as soloist, and Eugene Ormandy
appearing at the Capital for the first
time in his role as permanent con-
ductor Of the orchestra.
The program will open with a
transcription made by Lucien Call
liet of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Pre-
lude and Fugue in F Minor" and Offer
as the chief work Schubert's Sym
phony No. in c Major" Josef
Hofmann, who has been described
as "the Toscanini of the piano." will
play Chopin's Concerto in F Minor
for piano and orchestra.
THIS piano concerto was the first
written by the famous Pole. al
though it was second to be published.
Frederic Chopin himself played it at
q concert in Warsaw March II, 1880.
It was not in print, however, until
April, 1886. It was dedicated to
Nine. the Countess Delphine Potocka,
one Of three beautiful and accom-
plished daughters of Count Komar
The work not only is one of Chopin's
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National Symphony
Program Tomorrow
Opening Concert to Be Given at Constitution
Hall at 4 O'Clock, With Tito Schipa,
Tenor as SOlOist.

Second Symphony" It recently had
the distinction of being performed q
number Of times by the Philadelphia
Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski.
first in its symphonic entirety and
later as a separate composition.
Both of these works will be first
performances in Washington" and the
Howe first time anywhere"
A group of songs by Mr.. Schipa
follows. And the finale Of this first
orchestra concert Of the season will
be Lkzt's greatest and most popular
tone poem, LES Preludes." We will
play it. in memory of LISTS 125th
birthday anniversary October %,
l81D. It was one Of the earliest
symphonic poems. the art form which
Liszt created and brought to perfec-
ton. The symphonic poem has .
basic poetical idea in contrast to the
pure music" written until then.
IN LIES PRELUDES" List has
taken as his subject poetic fancy
We give herewith:
What else is our life but series
Of preludes to that unknown hymn,
the first and solemn note of which is
intoned by death? Love is the glow
ing dawn Of all existence; but what
is the fate where the first delights
Of happiness are not interrupted by
some storm, the mortal blast Of which
dissipates its fine illusions? And
where is the cruelty wounded soul
which, on issuing from one Of these
tempests, does not endeavor to rest
his recollection in the calm serenity
of life in the fields? Nevertheless.
man hardly gives himself up for long
to the enjoyment of the beneficent
stiffness which at first he has shared
in Natures bosom, and when the
trumpet sounds the alarm he hastens
to the dangerous post, whatever the
war may be-. which calls him to its
ranks, in order at last to recover in
the combat full consciousness Of him.
self and entire possession Of his
energy"
Around this text Liszt has built a
tone poem of great effectiveness,
which even now, close unto . hum
dred years after its creation, has lost
none of its vital qualities, of its poetic
inspiration and stirring grandeur.
Evening star., 1936-10-24
OROTHY RADDE EMERY
has been appointed by Phyl-
lis Fergus Hoyt, national
president of the League of

lis terguS HOyt, national
~ president of the League of
American Pen Women, to be chair
man Of music for the first celebrity
breakfast, which the league is hold
ing this year at noon Saturday, No.
yember Z.
The POSTMASTER for the breakfast
will be Geoffrey O'Hara, whose songs
are world famous. Among the artists
who will appear in the music pro-
gram will be the Chicago soprano,
Evelyn Ewert.
A lecture on the art of singing will
be given Wednesday at pm. by
Nine. Nadia FAM, well-known opera
and concert star, at her studio, 1925
@ street northwest. The lecture will
be free to voice students.
Felicia Rybier entertained members
Of the club Friday, october Is, at a
studio concert The first of the Fe-
licia Rybier Music Club meetings will
be held Tuesday, November 10. There
after the meetings will be held on the
first Tuesday of the month.
The Lyric Music Club, Dorothy
o. Sherman Pierson director, will hold
its October meeting at the home of
Violet Warren Pierson Tuesday eve
ming, at which time there will be
an election of officers for the season
1867. Mary Ellen Folmer will read
paper on Charles Wakefield Cadman,
while Edna Cecilia Moreland and
Thelma Elizabeth Steele will illustrate
with some Of his songs Edith B.
Athey will be at the piano, and the
hostess, Violet Warren Pierson, will
give appropriate readings.
The Pepco Glee Club, under the
direction OF Harry E. Yeide, with
Cornelia Long Kinsella accompanist,
rendered a concert at the HyattSville
Armory, Hyattsville, Md, Saturday
evening, October 10. The concert
in which the Washington Gas Light
Co.'S band, under the direction OF
Otto Siebeneichen, collaborated, cli-
NAKED the celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the incorporation OF
the town of Hyattsville, Md.
The second of the series Of stu.
dents recitals given by the pupils
Of Sophocles Papas will take place to-
morrow at 4:30 at his studios. Those
taking part are Phyllis Nichols, gui.
tarist; Carol Mitchell, guitarist; Car
wismer, tenor banjoist; Vincent
Strand. guitarist; Merle Hite, tenol
guitarist: Harry Broderick, jr., Ha'
waiian guitarist, and Solon Bacas
mandolinist.
The Concordia Cantata Choir o
IS voices will sing a cantata, "Th'
Lord Is q Sun and Shield" by Bach
tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at thu
church Twentieth and G streets. Th'
soloists are Cathreen Carrico, so
prano; Henrietta Flynn, contralto
and Howard Samsel, bass.
The program of the music hou
tomorrow at the Y. w. c. A. will b
given by the Gypsy Chorus, directet
by Robert Frederick Freund and Edn'
I Lee Freund at the piano.
Anna Benson KocheFperger. swed
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July, 1886. Although it is customary
to call attention to the genius of great
artists when an appropriate occasion
offers, it is seldom that their personal
virtues are so worthy of being extolled
Is in the case of List.
In reading a biography of Liszt or Of
any of the artists of his era who had
contact with him, the magnanimous
character of the celebrated composer
and pianist stands out with even
greater effulgence than does the super
lative nature of his musical gifts. In
comparison with those of equal talent
who have either preceded or succeeded
him, he ranks far above them by rea-
son of the altruism which motivated
his conduct in every association ana
throughout his long life.
He sensed with keen sympathy, the
human side of each individual, yet
never allowed the smallness or petit
ness. which he may have found there,
to influence him. For him, II
strength of character and purity Of
Ideals were not outstanding in those
around him, they were goals to be
sought for, and the absence of a desire
toward such an end was unthinkable
to him. Thus, with unwavering faith,
he helped struggling musicians toward
recognition, creating opportunities for
them to prove themselves and never
reproaching or abandoning them u
they could not stand the test.
GREATER than any monument or
~ tablet erected in his honor stands
The artistic achievement of others made
possible by his championship and his
sympathy. Some of the names are not
surrounded with the halo of genius as
is Wagners or Chopin's but in their
lesser way, they were able to bring to
fruition the full extent of their capa-
bilities. His inspiration was so alive
that it touched all within the orbit of
his presence to attempt to equal him
in either the performance or the Gre
alton of music.
It was always List who could find
way to draw attention to the works
of others and who had the courage
to sponsor them in practical direc-
ton. Believing in the genius of Wag-
ner and realizing also that he was ahead
of his time he took the trouble to
write explanatory articles about 'Lo-
hengrin" and "Tannhauser" so that
the public would be able to under
stand the new trend which they rep
resented at that time. He did not
hesitate to tell Napoleon of the
trouble surrounding the production Of
"Tannhauser" in Paris, although he
spoke in favor of a little-known and
not especially well-thought-of COM
poser. He encouraged him with ad-
vice and with material aid, more
helpful to him even than the staging
OF his operas, and finally closed his
eyes in death murmuring the name of
the hero of Wagner's great love
drama, Tristan"
LISTS life was busy one, one in
which he had to sustain his reputa-
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To Lecture ON Tosca.

THE second opera lecture recital by
Maestro Arturo Papalardo will be
on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at the
Washington College of Music on
"Tosca." This lecture will serve as
the medium for the operatic debut of
Emanuel Genearos. Wash.ngton's
Bobby Breen," as the shepherd boy
in "Tosca." Emanuel is the boy win
ner Of the Bobby Breen" contest.
which entitled him to scholarship
under Maestro Papalardo.
Tickets for this lecture-recital may
b had ct the Warrington College Of
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Concert of O'Hara's Works.

COMPOSITIONSb BY Godfrey OHara
will make up the program to be
given in the Agriculture Auditorium
of the University of Maryland, at Col.
lege Park, on Wednesday evening Mr..
O'Hara, at the piano, will give talk.
Every One Composer" and his most
popular songs will be sung by Evelyn
Randall, soprano; Harlan Randall.
baritone; the Women's Chorus and the
Mems Glee Club of the university.
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Robert Ewing, baritone, sang at the
Rotary Club concert in Martinsburg,
w. Va, on Thursday night. He will
be heard IN November in recital with
Charmion Bolibaugh. contralto. ct
the Catholic Sisters College Of the
Catholic University Of America.