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Evening star., 1937-11-06
.StringQuartet
TOGive Two
Concerts
Under Auspices
OF Whittall
Foundation.

DURING the coming week two con-
certs will be given by the Gordon
String Quartet in the auditorium OF
the Library Of Congress. under the
auspices Of the Gertrude Clarke Whit
tall Foundation.
On Wednesday afternoon Mt 3:45
o'clock the members OF the quartet,
jacques Gordon and David Sackson,
violins; William Lincer, viola, and
Naum Benditzky, cello, will play
Beethoven program comprising the
Quartet in B Flat Major" op. 10,
No. g.; the Quartet in e Minor" op.
SO. No. 2, and the Quartet in B Flat
Major" op. 100.
On Friday evening at 8:45 o'clock
the quartet will play Schubert's
Quartet in @ Major" op. 161;
Brahms Sonata in A Major" op.
100. will be played by Jacques Gordon,
violinist, with Frank Sheridan at the
piano, and in conclusion the quartet
will be assisted by Mr.. Sheridan In
Ernest Bloch's Quintet for Strings
and Piano"
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Music for Tree.

AT THE meeting of the Executive
Committee OF the National Com
munity Christmas Tree last Thurs
day, Gertrude Lyons, chairman of the
Music Committee, announced that the
National Capital Parks Schoia Can
forum has been given the distinction
OF performing the Christmas music at
the lighting of the tree.
Maestro Arturo Papalardo, director
OF the cantorum, wishes to let all sing
ers and music lovers in Washington
know that they are welcome to par
ticipate with the Schola group in the
program of carols on Christmas eve
in Lafayette Park. Rehearsals are be-
ing held every Wednesday evening
from now until Christmas at $50
o'clock at the Schola headquarters,
suite 905, 1917 F street NV.
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PRIEST MEMORIAL
FUNDS ARE RAISED
THE Edgar Priest Memorial. orig

THE Edgar Priest Memorial, orig
inally conceived by the late Canon
Devries as scholarship for one choir
boy in st. Adams School, has been
changed to a more tangible and ap-
propirate form. At committee meet
ing on September IA vote was made
to install a Skinner organ in the
Chapel Of st. Joseph of Arimathea,
Washington Cathedral Funds for the
memorial are being raised by friends
OF the late Mr.. Priest and by prom
inent organists through the length
and breadth of the country.
DR.. Noble c. Powell, dean OF the
Cathedral, is chairman of the COM
mittee. and Warren w. Grimes, suite
1910 Shoreham Building, Washington,
D. c., is treasurer.
Ernest M. Skinner, to whom the
contract for building the organ was
awarded, estimated that the instru-
ment could be completed by the first
Of January, 1888. 1t is planned, tenta-
lively, to dedicate the organ on the
next anniversary Of Mr.. Priests birth
day-February 26, 1898.
The next meeting Of the committee
will be held November IS in the
north lounge Of the Kennedy Warren
Apartments.
A group Of friends Of Mr.. Priest,
meeting in the Cathedral library on
May ~, agreed that they would en-
deavor to obtain funds for a suitable
memorial to him. They decided that
this memorial should take the form
Of scholarship endowment to be
known as The Edgar Priest Memorial
Scholarship" for one choir boy in st.
Adams School. 1t will be necessary
to raise $4,000 for this purpose.
They also agreed to provide a tablet
In the Great Choir in Mr.. Priests
memory and a picture of him to be
hung in the Cathedral choir room.
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TIPICA ORCHESTRA
TO APPEAR HERE

MERCADO's TIPICA MEXICAN
ORCHESTRA makes its second
appearance in Washington when it
plays at Constitution Hall on Monday
evening, November 20, under the
sponsorship OF the Cont -Berenguer
Concert management.
This colorful group last season
played 80 engagements in 16 weeks,
its tour taking it from coast 10 coast.
Its sensational success has resulted
in the company being booked to ap-
pear on "all-star" courses in various
parts of the country with such celeb
rites as Nino Martini, Kirstin Flag
stad and the Don Cossacks."
Tickets may be secured at Kitt,s.
1880 G street. BENEFIT tickets, which
are being sponsored by the Lions Club
as a benefit for the blind, may be
obtained at the Keystone Auto Club,
Morris Plan Bank and B. d o. Rail
road ONCE.
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to the worth Of some composers OF
today. But it Is only through Times
Sitting that the good can be separated
from the bad and = correct value
set upon achievement. Even the
saints had to wait nearly a century
after they had left this life to be
acclaimed to the rank Of sainthood.
no matter how extraordinary their
deeds and lives were. That is the
way human nature works, and 1t is
well known that it is not noted for
its changing or improvement.
However, the American composers
have it within their own hands to
gain the support of the public. 1t
cannot be one-sided affair, one in
which the composer says: II have
the right to be heard whether you
like my music or not" The chief
interest OF all humanity is in its own
emotions, and 1t wants its art to rep
resent that If composer is prin-
cipally interested in devising new
harmonic combinations or in evolv-
ing some new theory about writing,
he cannot expect that the public will
be Immediately fired with enthusiasm
at the results.
Nor is it necessary for composer
to think in the terms of the lavender
and old lace age in order to find emo
tional content for his works. In the
life OF today there are many new ex-
periences that could be given musical
speech. But in order to rank with the
great musical speech of past eras
there must be more of genuineness,
more OF compelling strength, more
real spontaneity in its inception.
Whether one likes or approves Of
the new form toward which music
is tending will not count If the truth
is present. The trouble is that few
composers realize this necessity for
truth, now even more to be desired
than formerly. When composers
write because they cannot help them
selves, because they are harassed by
the music that sings within them and
demands utterance, because day and
night they are tuned in to that pre-
.,
they will find that the public will
welcome a composition that is new on
every program.
IT Is true. however, that Americans
are proverbially lax in their support
OF their own countrymen in matters
OF art. They could help financially
by asking that compositions that have
already been passed upon as worth
while be heard more often, for in that
way, by relieving writer Of financial
worries, they may be helping to foster
genius. But there still remains for
modern composers. if they will discard
the old forms, to find out how to
better or at least approximate the old
ideals which make great music what
1t Is. No country needs that more
than America, and it needs besides a
music OF its own. But this emo
tional, generous. kindly Nation needs
composers who write OF its soul.
Evening star., 1937-11-06

with the appearance last Tuesday of
Rachmaninoff, the eminent Russian
pianist
The first American appearance of
the Salzburg Opera Guild, which is
now making its first tour of the
United States, occurred at Baltimore
approximately two weeks ago. "Cosi
Fan Tutte" was the attraction pre-
sented there, as it will be at the
New York premiere Of the company at
the Alvin Theater this evening.
The Salzburg company, with or
chestra, numbers rs persons. Paul
Csonka, founder and general director
of the group. describes the guild as
having sprung from a reaction against
the operatic star system and conven-
tionalized production methods that
divorced music from theatrical art
in all the standard opera companies.
Csonka secured Europe for the men
and women of unimpeachable vocal
and artistic equipment who form his
organization. He drew to him, also,
men like Schulz-Breiden, one of the
most sought-after stage directors on
the continent; Alberto Erede, bril-
liant young musical director. and
Ernest Krenek, famous in two hemi-
spheres for his "Jonny Spielt Auf,"
the first jazz-opera ever written.
Retiring to a castle in the Tyrol
near Salzburg. the land of Mozartian
tradition. they plunged into the prep
aration of the great masters "Cosi
Fan Tutte," from which they did not
emerge for six months, during which
time they had fused singing, acting
and stagecraft into an organic unity.
Permission came from the authorities
of the eminent Salzburg Music Fes-
tival to give there performance in
August Of last year. Keenly aware
Of the honor thus rendered them, the
Salzburg Opera Guild rescued from
oblivion another Mozart opus, "The
Goose OF Cairo" and a modern work
by Darius Milhaud called THE Poor
Sailor"
The reaction to these performances
was immediate. The Salzburg CORE
spondent of the New York Times, in
a dispatch Of August %, 1886. re-
ferred to the guild as "one of the
many pleasurable and engaging mu-
sical experiences Of the month and
actually more of an honor to Salz-
burg than several representations
framed in the pomp and circum-
stances Of the Festspielhaus."
Seats for the Washington per-
formance of the guild may be obtained
at Mrs. Dorsey's Concert Bureau in
Droop's, at 1900 G street NV.
Evening star., 1937-11-06
StokOwski
To Lead in
Concert
Philadelphians'
Schedule
OfPrograms.

T EoPoLD sToKowsKI, the popu-
lar and dynamic conductor. will
make his only appearance in WASH
tngton on Tuesday evening, November
80. at 8:45 at Constitution Hall, lead
ing the second local program this
season to be presented by the Phila-
delphia Orchestra.
Stokowski, who has been in Holly
wood for several months, is coming
East to conduct the orchestra in sew
eral concerts In New York, Phila-
delphia. Baltimore and Washington,
after having completed his picture,
100 Men and Girl" with Deanna
Durbin, which swept the country with
tremendous success.
The three remaining concerts this
season will be under the baton OF
Eugene Ormandy, the dates are Janu-
ary II, February and April 5. On
February l Joseph Szigeti, the great
Hungarian violinist. will appear. On
April S John Charles Thomas, noted
baritone. will be guest artist.
As in previous years the Philadelphia
Orchestra has been under the local
management of the T. Arthur Smith
Concert Bureau, 91o G street NV.
Evening star., 1937-11-06
DEDICATION MUSIC
is AIM OF CONTEST

AN ORIGINAL composition to be
sung by massed chorus of 5000
voices, when President Roosevelt goes
to Philadelphia TO dedicate the Frank
lin Memorial, is being sought by the
Dedication Committee of the Franklin
Institute.
According to DR.. Harl Mcdonald,
chairman OF the Dedication Music
Committee and musical director Of
the Choral Society of the University
Of Pennsylvania, musicians every
where are invited to submit manu-
scripts, which will be judged by jury
of eminent musicians headed by DR..
Eugene Ormandy. conductor of the
Philadelphia Orchestra; Jose Ituroi
conductor and pianist, and Paul
Whiteman.
The committee announces: "The
composition should be suitable for
choral work and should not exceed
four minutes in performance time.
It should be written to q text prefer
ably original that will be appropriate
to the occasion, which is the dedicA-
ton of the Franklin Memorial as the
national shrine and living memorial
to Benjamin Franklin, printer, scien-
tist, patriot and statesman.
THE work will be published and
all royalties for the music, broadcast
and recording will accrue to the COM
poser Of the winning composition. All
manuscripts are to be sent to Henry
Butler Allen, secretary and director
of the Franklin Institute, Benjamin
Franklin Parkway at Twentieth
street, Philadelphia, on or before
january /, 1888"
The composition selected by the jury
will be sung by the massed chorus
from the steps of the art museum ct
the head of the Benjamin Franklin
Parkway, in greeting to President
Roosevelt on his arrival for the official
dedication ceremonies in Franklin
Hall Of the Franklin Institute, at
which he will unveil q heroic marble
statute Of Benjamin Franklin now
being sculptured by James Earle
Fraser.
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oSCuSiOl6lly Ou OICIlcSuTAk pTOBTAulS, d
native work be incorporated in every
program by the prominent orchestras
Later, Mr.. Haubiel, professor Of COM
position at the New York University,
pleaded for public interest In the
remuneration offered the struggling
composer and pointed out that If it
were not for the efforts of the Amer
ican Society Of Composers, many
works could never be heard.
This question of the attitude Of the
public toward the new ventures in
musical composition has often been
complained about by the authors and
many artists and conductors have
agreed with them. In fact, Leopold
Stokowski went SO far, some years
ago, as practically to force his au-
diences to listen to modern works,
although granting them the embar-
RAISING privilege of leaving the concert
hall during the playing Of this por-
ton OF the program. Others have
manifested the kindliest intention
toward new aspirants to creative
fame, and have been willing to include
their works whenever possible in con-
cert programs. OF course, all Of this
has not had to do specifically with
the American composers, but he has
not been forgotten in this helpful
movement.
WHICHEVER way one looks at 1t.
there stands The Public in the
way. After all, it is the public which
pays for concerts and it has some
rights in the matter. Chief among
them is the right. more or less, to hear
what 1t wants to hear. And not all of
its members want to hear the new
music, especially when they are still
busy learning to appreciate the old.
Nowhere in America has the public
become surfeited with the output of
the great masters to the extent that
1t is looking for something new and
more advanced 1t is still in the
process of trying to understand the
compositions left by those giants Of
creative power who cannot be touched
by the passing Of time.
Through the study Of the old mas
ters, the public has learned to love
the rich emotionalism Of music, the
form in which it is incorporated and
the gain in spiritual growth which it
experiences when listening to 1t. As
yet few OF the modern composers,
whether of this country or some other,
have been able to achieve the same
results. They tell us that they are
seeking out new paths and that the
urge to do so indicates that the time
is ripe for new departures They have
at their fingertips, the several in
stances in the past when a COM
poser did not receive proper recogni-
ton until 1T was too late for him to
know Of it. to entice the public into
believing that for any of the modern
composers like destiny may be fore
seen.
7 UNDOUBTEDLY, future generations
will regretfully think of how
blind and hardhearted the public was
Evening star., 1937-11-06
String Classes

nORIS C. STURGEON, who has
been in England for the last two
years, has returned to 1921 Madison
street NV, where she is coaching
string ensemble classes, grouped ac-
cording to the advancement Of play
ers. While abroad She played in the
Manchester Women's Symphony and
the Isolde Menges Chamber Music
Festival classes. Formerly In Japan
she played in chamber music gather
ings Of the Toxic diplomatic corps.
She will teach violin at the Martha
Warrington seminary and 1T her res
6enoe.
Evening star., 1937-11-06
Foster Songs.
THE Farm Credit Chorus, i

THE Farm Credit Chorus, under the
direction Of Robert Frederick
Freund, will present q program Of
Stephen Foster songs this evening ct
$50 O'Clock in conference room b Of
the Departmental Building, 1900 Con-
stitution avenue.
Tickets are free and may be obtained
by calling at the information desk in
the Farm Credit Administration Build.
ing, 1900 = street N.W.
Evening star., 1937-11-06
Memorial Service.

The rector and vestry Of st. Thomas
Episcopal Church. Eighteenth and
Church streets NV, announce q
memorial service tomorrow At II
an, in memory OF those men,
bers OF the parish who have
passed away. The choir will sing 10
numbers from .verdi's Requiem" !"
Dvesy one = invited 70 attend. No
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Concert Schedule
Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.
Nino Martini. song recital,
Constitution Hall, 4 pm.
Monday.
Marine Band, Community
Chest Pageant, Constitution Hall,
8 pm.
Army Band, Army Auditorium,
6 pm.
Tuesday.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
3 pm.
Army Band, Army Auditorium,
1890 pm.
Soldiers" Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm,
Wednesday.
National Symphony Orchestra,
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor;
Lucrezia Bori, soloist; Constitu-
ton Hall, $3.50 pm.
Gordon String Quartet, Library
Of Congress, 3:45 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
celebration 1920 anniversary OF
founding of Marine Corps, 1880
pm.
Thursday.
Marine Band, Armistice Day
ceremonies, Arlington National
Cemetery, 1880 am, Washington
Cathedral, 3 pm.
Army Band, Army Auditorium,
Armistice Day program. 4:3o pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
Friday.
Gordon String Quartet, Library
Of Congress, 8:45 pm.
Saturday.
Army Band, Army Auditorium,
1880 am.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1937-11-06

Two performances by the Estelle
Wentworth Opera Group OF the
famous Reginald De Koven and Harry
B. Smith opera, robin Hood" will be
given at Roosevelt Auditorium Decem-
Der I and Z. under the auspices Of the
Community Center Department.
Evening star., 1937-11-06

tickets are issued. The solo quartet
consists Of Emeline Boyer Kinnebrew,
soprano; Alice Hatch, contralto: Paul
Edward CARRIER, tenor, and Marvin
Gardner, baritone.
Evening star., 1937-11-06

Nearly a decade has elasped since
Nlno Martini was induced to leave his
native Italy and try his vocal fortune
in the United States. Jesse l.. Lasky,
famous producer of motion pictures,
planned to present Martini in pictures
at that time, but Martini quickly found
his meter in the radio, where he
achieved a popularity so widespread
that his engagement by the Metro
politan Opera and for concert appear
ances everywhere followed
Not until 1885 did Martini make
his cinema debut and appropriately
enough. he made it under the direc-
ton of Lasky, the man who first
brought him to this country, but by
1885 Martini was already interna-
tionally famous as star of song
Last year Martini made his second
picture, The Gay Desperate" and
this was followed by a third, made
during the musical off-season Of the
past summer.
Seats for the Martini recital may
be obtained at Mrs. Dorsey's Concert
Bureau, in Droop's, at 1900 G street
NV, or at the Constitution Hall
box office after 10 O'Clock tomorrow
morning.
A N UNUSUAL operatic treat Is in
store for Washington one week
from next Tuesday evening, when
the Salzburg Opera Guild, that bril-
liant and distinguished operate COM
pany which made musical history at
the Salzburg (Austria) music festival
in 1895 and again last summer, will
present Mozart's two-act opera, "Cosi
Fan Tutte," at Constitution Hall on
Tuesday evening, November 16, at
$3.50 o'clock, under the management
of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey.
The Salzburg Opera Guild in "Cosi
Fan Tutte" is being presented as the
second attraction of Mrs. Dorseys
evening concert series, which opened
Evening star., 1937-11-06
Native Composers Need
Program Places
American Public, Inspired by
Old Masters, Should
Recognize New.
By Alice Epersman.

Asst week at meeting Of the New York Federation Of Music Clubs
Of the proceedings
Of the American Harris
took spoke
national writer's Of music
b He asked that instead
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Martini to Give Recital
Here Tomorrow
Metropolitan Star to Sing
At Constitution Hall
In Afternoon.

mo MARTINI the brilliant star Of the Metropolitan
Opera numbers
local person
Martini will in fulengh recital Constitution Hall
Evening star., 1937-11-06
Studio Reopened.

NINE. MAZDA FAM, the we'll
known Italian lyric soprano from
La Scala of Milan, Reale of Rome and
Opera Of Monte Carlo, has reopened
her studio at 1925 G street NV. Be-
fore coming here she was singing
teacher in the Conservatory of Music
in Mexico City, having been especially
appointed to that position by the
government of Mexico.
Evening star., 1937-11-06
Saga"


A FTER the intermission we will play
Sibelius' EN- Saga" Where other
composers of equal importance as Si-
belius mostly have = strongly defined
first, second and third period Of Gre
alton, Sibelius is one Of the excep-
tions, in that his early works seem
to be Of an unusual "rishtuess." En-
Evening star., 1937-11-06

row afternoon at O'Clock as the
opening attraction Of Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorsey's second series of Sunday aft
ernoon concerts there Accompanied
by Miguel Sandoval at the piano, Mr.
Martini will offer the following pro-
gram:
Q del mio amato ben n-------Donaudy
o bocca dolorosa ---------G. Sibeila
Vittoria. Vittoria Carissimi
Celle Que je prefere Fourdrain
La chanson du Tambourineur
Eighteenth Century
drummer Boys Song. tArr. by Deems
Taylor.
Je crois entendre encore Grom Les Pech-
eurS des Perlesb -- Bizet
Una turtiva laerima ----- -Donizetti
From .'LElisir dAmore.'D
Come to You Sandoval
Good Night. My Love -----B -BuZzi-Peccia
Love Went Riding --- Prank Bridge
Granadinas --------Barrera Calleja
la Piayerh -Granados-S -Schipa
Sin tn amor Sandovai
Evening star., 1937-11-06

MUSIC STUDIO-LARGE, ATTRACTIVE
studio In best downtown section. Phone
Atlantic 110S. mornings.
Warren F. johnson. Organist
Church Of the Pilgrims
Sunday Evening
Three Tone Poems, after BockIin
paintings Fritz Lubrich, fun.
Evening star., 1937-11-06

The program tomorrow is as follows
Choral prelude. 20 Mensch. Bewein
Dein Sunde Gross" Bach-Reger
"Pooei Amor" Dove Sono." from
The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart
Miss Bori
Symphony in c Major mo. go Haydn
1ntermission.
En- Saga S Sibelius
"Depuis le Jour, from
Louise - Charpentier
Miss Bori. soloist.
Excerpts from "Petruska" Stravinsky
"Toccata" F Frescobaldi
Evening star., 1937-11-06

T UNDOUBTEDLY, future generations
will regretfully think of how
blind and hardhearted the public was
Evening star., 1937-11-06

The French group of the Women's
City Club will present Felian Garzia
In a piano recital on November Is at
the clubhouse, 1856 Jackson place. >The
concert will be open to the public and
tickets may be had at the club.
Evening star., 1937-06-13
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