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Christmas
Drama Has
NewAppeal
"Other Wise Man" Is
to Be Repeated With
Added Features.

CEASoN by season, in the renowned
- Christmas drama, THE Other Wise
Man." certain changes and innovations
take place within the scenes them
selves that make its appeal and its
beauty greater than ever before. Ut
terly simple In its presentation, acted
as 1t Is. all over the church auditorium,
with groups making their entrances
and their exits In the aisles, In the
chancel. In the choir, with music
played by Katherine Riggs on the
harp. both interspersing and accom-
panying the voices, the scenes move
swiftly and without intermission.
The interlude of THE Temple Of
the Seven Spheres" is one of the more
recent additions to the rendition Of
this drama which has been widely ac-
claimed, and this year the Three
Wise Men, enacted by ]. Edmond
Veitch. Elliott Button and Eugene
Kressin,. will be accompanied by six
sttendants-all singers-utilizing the
I'VE Three Kings of Orient Are" to
splendid effect. The attendants in this
episode will be John johnson, as the
messenger; Frank Stewart. J. E..
Strswser. Robert S. Allen, ]. Zaff
Rogers and Ernest johnson.
Christine Irish, appearing in the
final episode as one of the two beggars
at the temple gates. and Nina Norman,
also appearing in this scene, form the
central figures in the changing scene.
as the people of Jerusalem come and
60 through the Damascus gate toward
Golgotha. They sing an old Polish
choral, and Miss Irish sings the "Kol
Nidre" and another traditional Hebrew
melody. THE Old. Old Question" The
two cantors in the temple, unseen, sing
THE Call to Worship" and "Addir
Hu." and, later in the climax of the
drama. "On the Way" the singers be-
ing j. Edmond Veitch and Eugene
Kressin.
Oriental and Persian music is played
by Miss Riggs in the early episodes,
later going into the more subdued He
brew music, and in the final scenes
the harp takes up traditional Hebrew
Passover music, Chopin's Prelude in
c Minor" The Benedictus," from
Gounod's "St. Cecilia's Mass" and q
final glorious Amen" to be sung. as
is the opening, Draw Nigh. I'm
manuel" by Mary Apple.
Choirs and choral groups well known
in the city will sing the preliminary
program Of Christmas music, begin
ming at 1880. and Is minutes of organ
music. beginning at pm, will pre-
cede the ceremony of the offertory at
Sis. The drama opens at $50.
The doors of Luther Place Me-
mortal Church will be open to the pub
lie at 7:15. and will remain open until
the church is filled. Thereafter no
more persons may enter the church.
and the doors will be closed. Entrance
to the church is at Fourteenth and N
streets northwest and at Vermont ave-
nue. and N street. The drama will be
given tomorrow afternoon and eve
ming at S o'clock and $50 o'clock and
on Monday and Tuesday at $50. The
public Is invited.
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Two Artists
OfHlghRank
To Be Heard.
Lily Pons, Rosenthal
to Appear Here on
January Dates.

TWO notable recitals, both to be
given at Constitution Hall, are
announced for. January by Dorothy
Hodgkin Dorsey The first will be that
OF Lily Pons. coloratura soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera Association, who
will be heard on Sunday afternoon,
January II at 4 o'clock The other
will be the recital of Moriz Rosenthal.
sensation 73-year-old piano virtuoso
and last outstanding pupil of Liszt,
who will be heard on Sunday after
noon, January "a at 4 o'clock
Rosenthal is appearing in place Of
Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist,
whose American tour has been sharply
curtailed because of illness, and who
will not be heard in Washington at
all this season.
Lily Pons, undoubtedly the most
phenomenal coloratura this country
has heard since the heydey of CALI
Curci. has Just returned to the East
after months In Hollywood making
.Nsr second photoplay. She finished
in time to report for ~. opening of
the Metropolitan Opera 5eason in New
York. and between operatic and radio
appearances, she will appear in con-
cert during an extensive tour that
brings her to Washington the third
Sunday in January.
No intimation has yet been given
by Miss Pons' management as to what
program she will sing here on Janu-
ary "a. ,
Moriz Rosenthal, who will play at
Constitution Hall on Sunday after
noon, January "a, has returned to
America after an absence of seven
years to achieve a sensational sue
cess at his first New York recital of
the season, and to fascinate millions
Of radio listeners with the Rosenthal
style in a coaSt-to-coast radio pro-
gram that marked this famous pianist s
first introduction to broadcasting
Rosenthal is one Of the last con-
Meeting links between the great days
OF nineteenth-century Vienna, when
men like Won Bulow, Tausig and LisZt
were In their prime. and the present.
day America. He is not only pupil
of the great Franz List himself. but
also of Rafael Joseffy. Carl Mikuli and
the great Galoth. For six years court
pianist to the King of Rumania,
Rosenthal was known and admired by
Brahms. Wagner, Paderewski and
other great musical figures of his day.
Rosenthal's management Is stating
that he will not return next season.
Accordingly, it is possible that Wash
ington Is hearing Rosenthal under ex-
ceptionally timely circumstances.
Seats for the Pons and Rosenthal
recitals are on sale at Mrs. Dorsey's
Concert Bureau, in Droop's. 1900 G
street northwest.
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SALZBURG OFFER
FAVORS STUDENTS

THE Salsburs Society of America
which exists for the purpose of
promoting interests in the cultural
institutions Of Salzburg will offer to
its student members 10 per cent re-
duction on the sale of festival tickets
for the performances of the coming
season. The society will endeavor to
care for the needs Of its student mem
bers while they are in Salzburg.
The society student membership
cards are obtainable through the So
ciety upon the payment of a fee of
81. The funds thus derived will be
used to furnish a scholarship for the
study of music at Salzburg by an
American student suitably selected by
duly authorized committee.
The society solicites suggestions as
to the method Of selecting the stu
dent In question. and would welcome
opinions on the specific branch Of
musical study which would prove most
valuable to an American music stu
dent.
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and was his last. It was composed
under the most pressing circumstances.
His wife i'll, and with debts hanging
heavy on his shoulder, the indomitable
Mozart, summoning all his physical
ard creative strength. composed this
symphony in a six weeks period, the
Summer of 1888.
The Jupiter" is, of course. stand
ard symphonic classic, and appears
in the repertoire Of every major SYM
phony orchestra. This, however, is
not true of two works DR.. Kinder has
announced for the program. The
overture Der Schauspieldirektor," and
the "Maurerische Trauermusik" are
seldom heard, and DR.. Kinder pre-
sents them because he believes q SYM
phony orchestra should bring to its
audiences performances of great
works. infrequently played in today q
concert halls.
The orchestra. now in recess for
the holidays. will reconvene Friday
for rehearsals, preparing for next Sum
days concert, the first Of 1887.
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REHEARSAL TIME
FOR BACH CHOIR
THE Bach Choir resumed rehearsals

THE Bach Choir resumed rehearsals
October for its thirtieth festival.
to be held Friday and Saturday. May
% and 29, 1887. with over 95 per cent
of last years choir enrolling for this
year. to which have been added select
ed voices, bringing the total ENROLL
ment to about $50.
OF the six cantatas selected for the
Friday program, four are new to Beth
lehem. Two of them, "Out of Dark
ness" and God Is My King" belong,
with that other remarkable work given
in 1918. Gods Time Is Best" to
Bach's earliest years--he was but %.
A third new work will be one Of two
with which he introduced himself as
cantor to the Thomaskirche In Leip-
zig-"The Heavens Declare" OF works
already presented, Now Hath Saliva
ton. IN 1918. and "Slseperx. Wake"
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HOWARD CONCERT
BY ALTON JONES

THE third concert in the Howard
University series will be given by
Alton Jones, pianist. on Tuesday eve.
ming, January S. 1887, in Rankin Me-
mortal Chapel, university campus.
Alton Jones, distinguished Amer.
lean pianist. was graduated with hon.
ors from the artists course at the In.
stitute Of Musical Art. being passed
by jury composed of Ernest Hutche-
son. Harold Bauer and Wilhelm
Bachaus. The following year he ap.
peared as soloist with the American
Orchestral Society, playing the List
e nat Concerto" Chalmer Clifton
conducting. In 1925 he made his de-
but at Aeolian Hall, winning in1me-
diate recognition from the press.
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To Preside at Forum

EDWIN HUGHES. guest teacher OF
piano at the Washington Col
lege of Music, has again been chosen
TO preside at the piano forum to be
held during the annual convention Of
the Music Teachers National Asso-
citation. The convention will be held
in Chicago this year, and the piano
forum will take place on the after
noon Of December 20.
The speakers and their subjects will
be as follows: Nine. Olga Samaroff-
Stokowski, Combining General Musi-
cal Culture With Piano Teaching;
Lilias Mackinnon. The Secret Of
Memory; Otto Ortmann. "Investiga-
tions on Piano Touch and Tone" and
John Thompson, Music Study as
an Avocation."
Mr.. Hughes will give the third Of
his series of lectures on THE Tech
nique of Interpretation at the Piano"
at the Washington College Of Music
on Monday evening.
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EmIek ---Eudsene zador
,.ReSye..r,"- ,"------- r,..n. rwe,o' ,irs.y ,LisnSg
Mime. szantho5 ''"'
Aria. "5rindisi." from Hamlet"
Ambrose Thomas
CMr. Thomssl
"Allerseelen." ''Morsen." 'Zueignung."
Richard Strauss
Mme. szantho;l
Dialogue Between Tom F1luter and His
,MsH ;-----------------bo Bernerb
,,UsInnk daylor
(Mr. Thomas1
Paul Ulanowsky at the piano for
Nine Szantho. and Carroll Hollister at
the piano for Mr.. Thomas.
On Monday. January 4. the artists
to be heard are Georges Enesco. vio-
linist, composer and conductor. and
Felix Salmond. noted British cellist.
The program will consist Of solos by
each artist and the first performance
In America of Mr.. Enesco's Sonata
for Cello and Piano." written for Mr..
Salmond with Mr.. Enesco at the piano.
The concerts are held on successive
Mondays at 1l:15 o'clock, the change
from Wednesday mornings being made
this year.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
CHRISTMAS MUSIC
AT THE ROOSEVELT

A SPECIAL Christmas program of
choral music will be presented
at the Roosevelt Hotel tomorrow eve
ming at $50 o'clock by groups from
the National Baptist Memorial and
the Keller Memorial Lutheran Church
choirs. The soloists on the program
are Dorothy Scates. soprano. and
Adolph Turner, baritone, of the Ma
tional Baptist Church. and Robert
Ferguson, tenor, Of the Keller Memo
rial Church.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
CAPITAL SINGER
IN OHIO ORATORIO

A T LIMA, OHIO, this afternoon and
evening, in Memorial Hall. the
Bach Choir of Lima. under the direc-
ton of Rhea Watson Gable. is giving
THE Christmas Oratorio" by John Sc
bastian Bach. This will be its third
presentation in Lima. Flora McGill
Keefer Of Washington, d. c., Is the
contralto soloist.
This festival Of Bach's music at
Christmas time is creating unusual
interest In the Middle West. and Is
being sponsored by the citizens Of
Lima.
Mrs. Gable Is well known In WASH
ington as a pianist and composer and
her new field of conducting is being
watched with interest.
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last year for . limited engagement
her success was so great that her stay
was prolonged. and her return this
Winter assured. Nine. Szantho is
from the Vienna Opera, but has sung
at three of the Bayreuth Festivals
and was engaged for the entire Was-
ner Ring" cycle at Covent Garden
last May.
John Charles Thomas, who began
his operate career at the Royal Opera
House In Brussels. has for the last
several seasons been heard in this
country in opera, concerts and over
the radio.
The following program will be given
by the two artists:
'-Tu 10 sar' rorelii
Aria. Err Tu." from ii Bsllo in Mas
(Mr. Thomasl
Arioso. "Dank Sci Dir Herri'' Handel
'Immer Lesser Wird Mein Schlummer."
Brahms
''Traume" wagner
Mime, szantho5
.SSoen,empiaticn Widor
Aria. Vision furitiv.," from "Heredisde.
fMr. Thomssl
"Urlicht." from the Second SYMPHONY.
Mailer
Evening star., 1936-12-26
In Local Music Circles

EELICIARYBTER, well-known Wash
ington pianist. has left for Flor
ida In order to fulfill several concerts
there. One Of her appearances will
be under the auspices of the Mana
yucca Music Club in Miami Janu-
ary 5. She will return shortly after
TO Washington. Due to her absence.
the Felicia Rybier Music Club will
meet Wednesday. January 13. No
tices will be sent out.
The annual Yule presentation OF
Handels The Messiah will be given
by the Tempo Chorale Society of the
Dunbar Community Center at the
Dunbar High School Auditorium.
First and N streets, tomorrow at 5
pm. The following soloists will take
part: Ethel Gibbs Gray, soprano,
and J. Obelton Holmes, jr., tenor
The guest soloists will be Evelyn
Carter Russ, contralto, and Ernest
Allen Of New York City, basso.
The oratorio is being sponsored by
Mrs. Carrie Knox. community secre-
tary, and DR.. w. Scott Mayo, Girec-
tor.
Betty Baum, pianist, presented her
10-year-old pupil, Phyllis Schwartz,
at q recital tea in her studio on De-
cenber 20. Miss Schwartz played
two Bach Inventions" Gounod
"Serenade." "Gavotte," by Martini;
SONATA g Major" Beethoven and
''Mazurka," Prelude" and Waltz"
By Chopin.
Thelma Rice will be the guest solo,
4st at Marvin M. z. Church South
tomorrow when she will sing The In
fant Jesus" by Yon, and Macon
McArtor, organLst and choir director,
will play the following numbers:
Christmas Pastorale," by Harker;
"Prelude on Adeste Fideles," by
Kreckel; Shepherds Song" by Gull
tnant.
Mary Harter, lyric soprano. will be
presented by Gretchen Hood at the
meeting of the International Art
Forum on January when the CO.
artist will be Margaret Tolson, pianist.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Torney Simon
and the members of the Orpheus
Quartet, Hazel Gem Hughes, Elaine
Sebring Ford. Jesse Nussear. George
Randolph Balthis, will be entertained
at the University Club for Women to-
morrow afternoon. The tree will be
lighted and Christmas program of
Handel, Mendelssohn, Colyn. Prae-
torius viii be given.
The cantata, THE Christ Child" by
C. 3. Hawley will be sung by the choir
Of the Church of the Epiphany tomor-
row at pm, with the following solo,
lists: Msrtorie King. Nancy William
sen. Raymond Baine, Ambrose Durkin
and Adolf Torovsky at the organ.
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Philadelphia
Concert Has
Fine Setting
Orchestra to Bring
Rachmaninoff and
Large Chorus.

EUGENE oRMANDY will bring not
only the great Russian pianist
and composer-Serge Rachmaninoff
AS guest artist when the Phila-
delphia Symphony Orchestra gives
the third in the series of five pro-
grams in Washington this season.
Tuesday evening, January IL. at GAS
o'clock. but also brings singing soloists
and q chorus of $50 mixed voices.
These singers come expressly to put
on In Washington for the first time
here Rachmaninoff' famous sym.
phony. which Is known as The Bells"
symphony, inspired by the famous
poem Of Americas Edgar Allen Poe.
1t was written in Rome in 1918. and
finished in Russia that year. The
symphony Is the third by Rachman-
inoff and Opus IS. 1t was given
its first American performances in
1919.
The soloists who will sing the prin-
cipal parts in this work are: Agnes
Davis, soprano; Fritz Kruger. tenor,
and Ellwood Hawkins, baritone.
The chorus of $50 voices Is from
the University of Pennsylvania, of
which DR.. Harl Mcdonald Is director.
DR.. Mcdonald Is head of the depart.
ment of music at the university. He
also a member of the Board of
Directors Of the Philadelphia orches-
ira. and his own compositions fire.
quently have been programmed.
The other Of Rachmaninoffs two
compositions which make up this un-
usual program is that composers
Concerto No. 2 in c Minor" for piano
and orchestra in which Mr.. Rach-
maninoff himself will play the piano
part.
Reservations can be made at this
time at the T. Arthur Smith Con-
cert Bureau, 910 G st. NV.
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GUITARIST TO GIVE
FEBRUARY RECITAL

A NDRES SEGOVIA, famous guitar
ist, will give a recital at the VIII
lard Hotel, Wednesday evening. Febru-
airy 3, presented by Concerts Intimes,
Elena de Sayn. director
An advance sale of special section
of seats at low admission price will
begin tomorrow at the Talbert Ticket
Agency In the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1936-12-26

Evangeline Tully, prominent mem
Der of the Washington Opera Guild.
will be special soloist Sunday at the
Spiritualist Church, where the music
is under the direction Of Marion
Leonard.
Margaret Shaw was soloist on Christ
mas eve. and also led the large audi
ence in the annual carol singing of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
Miss Shaw is a member of the Wash
ington Opera Guild, under the direc-
ton Of Nine. Gurle Luise Correa.
The Potomac Electric Power Co.
Glee Club entertained the Mems Club
of Pinkney Memorial P E. Church at
the parish hall. Hyattsville, Nd. on
Monday evening, December 81. Harry
E. Yeide. director; Cornelia Long Kin
sela, accompanist.
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commerce, music journals and other
agencies Of information.
The headquarters of the National
Guild of Piano Teachers is at Isl West
Fortieth street. New York City.
Sponsors of the tournament and
directory in Washington, D. c., in
clude La Sale Spier, 2235 Bancroft
place. general chairman; Fanny A.
Roberts and Pearl Waugh.
Evening star., 1936-12-26

great institution. All classes of society
gratifying demonstration of the growth
of appreciation of opera in this coun-
try. He has brought new blood and
new ideas into the old system, new
singers, many as yet unknown to the
American public. and new directors
who, If given the chance, will un-
doubtedly aid in that forward prog
ress which the modern trend Of
thought demands in music, as in
everything else.
One of the hopes Of Mr.. Johnson
Is to extend the season to 10 months.
During the depression the season had
been shortened and various cam
paigns were attempted to tide it over
as well as could be. The taking over
of part of the financial responsibility
by the Juilliard Foundation apd the
addition of a popular-priced season,
when young American artists would
be tried out at the close OF the regular
one, was the first intimation that the
old order of things had passed and
that in the future new policies would
direct the management. The plan of
q longer period of opera than has been
the rule seems feasible under the re-
organized system.
Mr.. johnson has searched in Europe
and America for new singers. and
being a singer himself. he has known
how to select his talent. He has also
had the courage to drop many of the
older artists from the roster, to make
room for the newcomers. According
to announcements, these will be given
an opportunity to prove themselves as
quickly as possible, after which will
come a process Of wedding out of the
inefficient.
Mr.. Johnson's sympathies are with
American artists, and he has said,
and whenever possible proven, that
they will be given first consideration
in the casting of the roles. There
are many American singers not en-
gagged at the Metropolitan this sea-
son who are fully able to fulfill all
requirements, sand If those given their
chance this year are of the metal of
great operatic singers, the future Of
American artists and in consequence
Of American art is assured.
THE following article recently re-
ceived by this department re-
sarding a new collection of American
folk songs may prove Of interest to
those who specialize In this perticu-
lar line Of vocal music.
Melodies that grew from the color
full life Of early America on the PLAN
tations of the South, in Yankee vii
lagos and towns. and from wartime
days in the colonies, have been
brought back from the past In
series Of so old American songs as
sembled and reproduced from the
originals in the Harris collection of
American poetry and plays at Brown
University.
THE collection OF songs contains
some Of the best native American
folk ballads. many of them long since
forgotten. Prepared to rescue a part
Of our rich musical heritage from the
oblivion to which 1t has SUNK the
series has been republished in fac
simile with explanatory notes by Prof
8 Foster Damon, curator of the Harris
collection. assisted by Susanna Mat
teson.
The reproduced collection. covering
the period from 1859 to 1888, omits
the work of Stephen Foster and COM
positions written at the time of the
Civil War and afterward, all of which
Is already easily obtained, but covers
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Lecture on Weber.

A NITA SCHADE will give a lecture
= on the life and compositions Of
Carl Maria Won Weber at q meeting
of the Business Women's Council at
the Covenant First Church on Tues
day evening. Dorothy Sherman Pier
son, soprano, and Edith Athey, pianist,
will be the assisting artists.
Evening star., 1936-12-26

wide range of sentimental and hu-
morous songs, folk music and leg
endary ballads.
THE earliest songs published in
facsimile are Brave Wolfe and The
Death of Gen. Wolfe written in 1859
concerning the British general who
captured QuebeE from the French
Brave Wolfe was long popular and
was a boyhood favorite Of James Rus
sell Lowell. Both songs are among
the first of their kind.
"A MERICA'S oldest patriotic air
has been republished-'The Lib
erty ng,'-by John Dickinson. first
heard in 1853. John Adams enjoyed
it and sang it at dinner of the Sons
of Liberty. The air was popular
throughout the Revolution, together
with The American Hero a stark
and inspirational war hymn.
Described in the series as one OF
the oldest buynt cork melodies Prof.
Damon has included The Bonja
Song written about 1920. The
light-hearted ditty was adaptable to
the ancestor of the modern banjo
a gourd followed out and strung.
"The song introduced a vogue for
Negro music, accelerated by Coal
Black Rose in 1927, the first great
Negro comic love song. describing the
adventures of Sambo and his treach-
erous amour. It was followed by Jim
Crow the first song to introduce
Negro dancing to the stage and the
first American song to make . hit
abroad. Jim Crow presented the
Negro sympathetically.
"Chronologically through the 1840s
other representative Negro songs ap-
pear In the Harris collections repro
ductions, such as Glare de Kitchen,
Zip Coon parent of Turkey in the
Straw: ole Tare River. Tell Me
Josey. Whar You Bin,' De Boatman's
Dance 'Lubly Fam source of Buff
falo gals and De Floating Scow.'
Most of the music is decorated with
colorful caricature illustrations"
From the group of songs that were
popular at social gatherings and on
the stage. the music and words of
1.-The SPesky Sarpent" are especially
picturesque, according to Prof. Da-
mon. It is q melodramatic song Of
the death Of two lovers by snake bite
in the hills Of Springfield, Mass,
written In 1040 from actual happen
ings.
ONE of the earliest death theme
~ songs is "Old Grimes" written
about 1917 by Albert Gorton Greene,
founder Of the Harris collection,
probably when he was sophomore
at Brown. Mourning for loved ones
found more sentimental expression in
"On the Lake Where Dropped the
Willow" describing how with Au-
tumn's leaf she perished." and in
Lilly Dale" song about maiden
whose life ended with wild rose bios
SONS o'er her little green grave"
The rollicking ballads among the
Harris collection reproductions tn
cludes Corn Cobs." or Yankee No
tions." published about 1884. 1t is
folk development Of the earliest ver-
sion of Yankee Doodle" Another Is
"A Yankee Ship and Yankee Crew.
which appeared In 1887 after spring
ing from a sea chanty phrase. Whinsy
in boarding house is found in Hen
rietta," or The Stolen Kiss" . song
of 1845.
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Special Carol Service.

A SPECIAL musical service of
- Christmas carols will be given
at Foundry Methodist Church tomor-
row evening at 8 O'Clock. The choir
will be assisted by Evelyn Baird Long.
soprano from New York; Charlotte
LaFond. contralto. and Robert M.
Sheehan. baritone; Henry Smith
Gregor, organist: Justin Lawrie. tenor
soloist and chotrmAster.