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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-27

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Clever Draping of
Windows an Art

Ever stop think how important the windows he eyes
of the home from the artistic well the utaan angeR
Judging from many of the older housesand of
the onehe builders just in openings for windows
without much. if any forethought.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
GERMAN DANCER
TO APPEAR HERE

SUNDAY evening, March 81, Senda
Cordel, the renowned German
dancer, will appear at the Washing
ton Saengerbund Hail. Arcadia Build
ing, in a series OF artistic dances.
The exhibition will be sponsored by
the Saengerbund, and the male
chorus OF this organization will take
part in the entertainment.
The Saengerbund is perhaps Wash
!ngtons oldest musical organization.
1t is matter of record that it was
organized in 1851 and that a group Of
its members sang at Lincoln's funeral
in 1865.
The club has recently elected Jacob
SchWalb as its president. 1t has un-
dergone complete reorganization in
the process of which it has absorbed
the younger male chorus knoWnS as
the Washington Maenner GeSang-
verein, and with the accession of
these younger singers the organiza-
ton, under the leadership Of Kurt
Hetzel, is expected again to take its
place in the front rank of Washing
tons musical societies.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
JUNIOR CONTEST
OF FEDERATION

THE annual junior contest of the
Federation of Music Clubs, will be
held here in Washington on SATURDAY.,
May /, at Barker Hall, under the di-
rection Of the National Federation of
Music Clubs. This contest is held for
the encouragement and inspiration of
young, talented musicians from to
ID years of age, whose teachers, with
their classes, are member bodies of
the federation. A music teacher or
musician in good standing, and upon
recommendation of two teacher
members, may become a member of
the federation as all individual, or by
complying with conditions, may fed
crate his or her group of pupils,
thereby becoming the counselor of the
group. In the junior contest, how
ever, no pupil is privileged to enter,
except those who are pupils of these
junior counselors of the local fed
Grafton.
Awards of national certificates, from
the National Federation of Music
Clubs, are the coveted honor sought
by the contestants.
According to national rules, the
Junior Contest Committee is always
composed of the federation president,
the State junior chairman and the
Junior contest chairman. These are,
respectively, Eva Whitford-Lovette,
Gertrude Lyons and Grace McPhail
Espy. Information and bulletins will
be supplied by the contest chairman,
Mrs. Espy, 1871 Lanier place. Entries
this year must be in by April IS.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Recital Here
To Be Given
By Tibbe tt

7 AWRENcE TIBBETT, brilliant
American baritone of the Metro
poltan Opera Association, concert,
radio and the screen, will make his
only recital appearance of the season
at Constitution Hall next Sunday
afternoon, March 81, at O'Clock, under
the management Of Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorsey. Tibbett's performance will
be the ninth and next to the last
attraction Of Mrs. Dorsey's Sunday
afternoon concert series at Constitu-
tion Hall this season.
AS usual, Tibbett will be accom-
panied by Stewart Willie at the piano.
His program follows;
"Alleluia" seventeenth century
Easter hymn &C. OConnor- Norris :;
"Where're You Walk" (HandeD, THE
Bailitf's Daughter" (Old English),
The Wanderer" (Schubert). Love
Song" tBrahms), Tom orrow"
(Strauss), If Love Hath Entered MY
Heart" MARX, "Credo" (from "Otel-
lo'D (VerdD, "Chumleigh Fair" (Hol-
liday), Kingdom by the Sea" (Somer-
velD, Edward" IoeWe). "Mamselle
Marie" David Guion), Lord, 1 Want
to Be- (SteWart Wille), and Hal
lelujah Rhythm" (Jacques Wolfe).
Mr.. Willie will play prelude" from
"Cantata No. 35" (Bach-SilotD and
"1mpromptu in F Sharp Major" (Cho-
PIN.
Seats for MIR. Tibbett's recital are
available at Mrs. Dorsey's Concert
Bureau, in Droop's, 1900 G street
northwest.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Beauties of Symphony
Program Are Revealed
Comment on Tomorrows Concert Given,
With Details of Work by Washington
Orchestra and Assisting Artists.

Of the double piano concerto" by
Poulenc.
This work, written by one of the
younger Frenchmen only a few years
ago, when it received its premier at
the International Music Festival of
venice with the Scala Orchestra. is
written IN the neo-classic style, which
was at that time the natural outlet
1or nearly every young composer. The
terVld romanticism of yore had given
away to the So-called new matter-of-
factness' during the '2ns and this
sterile. but for cleansing purposes.
rather healthy asceticiSm had in turn
gwen away towards its natural conse-
quenceS, namely, a regard for the early
classics.
In the Poulenc piano concerto, the
influence of Mozart can definitely he
felt, even though the harmonies are
rather strong and pungent in -pots. It
mas great freshness, and has. like all
compositions of the younger French
school (Poulenc is one of the "six "
and with Milhaud probably its serious
representative a particularly bright
and brilliant orchestration.
lie Repos de la st. Famille" Berljoz
E REPOSE DE LA ST. FAMILI,E"
Is little gem of ineffable ten
uerness and dehcacy from Berlioz' ora
Iorlo OF the Childhood of Christ" de-
plctlng what the title implies, namely.
the Holy Family while resting.
'MeIfisto VaIse" ,;s,.
Of this work Liszt made several
different versions. In his ereatest
symphonic work, the Faust SYM
phony," the last movement is entitled
"Mefisto" and the Faust legend een-
orally seems to have occupied the
composers interest to large extent
The fantastic, mystical and dia-
nohcal happenings in the work, in
contrast to the eternal feminine figure
OF Gretchen, the love motive in ALI
It's warmth, are apt subjects for
musical inspiration. The "Mefisto
Waltz (the subtitle of which is "Tba
Dance in the Village Inn"D has a wild
and fantastic mood throughout,
real diabolical flavor, with moments
OF a nearly desperate intensity. Iiszt
himself. If We judge from descriptions
must have had strongly mefsto-
talian side, magical something
which in his virtuoso career gave him
nearly Superhuman influence over
MS audiences. And this quality of
"dlablerie" is strongly evident in the
present composition as we'll; in fact
whereas IN more quiet episodes Liszt
occasionally tends to become senti-
mental, none can deny his supremacy
over nearly every composer with the
possible exception of Berlioz) when il
comes to the very intense realization
IN sound Of all that which is fan
tastlc and even diabolical. The music
Is dlabolically clever in every wav.
especially when we think of how limit.
ed were the resources of orchestral
color at the time when this was
written. But it is more than that.
1t carries within itself the dramatic
quality of the antagonism of all that
was grand in the Faust nature. This
antagonLsm is personified in the figure
OF Mephistopheles. This Mephisto-
phelian quality in turn is sounded in
all its intensity in this magnificent
tone painting and gives it character
and value which has been too often
overlooked in the brilliant virtuoso
aspect it embodies as well.
Evening star., 1937-03-13

Konrad KaploWitz, Mildred Kogod
Margorie Ann Low, Gorden Milestone
Alvin Ostrow, Bobby Singer and Mel
vim Singer.
In the intermediate group will b
featured Edna Benson, Bernice Biron
Adele Brodie, Nick Cifillili Viviar
Cohen, Blaine Fig, Morton Erich, Evs
and Robert Higgins, Stanley Glassman
Mary Hartman, Bruno Lazzari, Murie
Maier, Louis Meneghini. Daniel Mike
Edith Miller, Pearl Murray, Adele Osti
Frances Reich, Ruth Rosendorf
George Scott. Stanley Stein, John
Strachm and Donald Wolpe.
The senior group will show the di-
versified talents Of Hammond Bennett
| Richard Bralov, Elizabeth Burnett
| Antonette CharuhaS, Marvin Cohen
Frederick Farris, Alason F'ranking
Irene Green, Bernice Herson, Frances
Hidnert, Miriam Madden, Leona Ma
rams, Harriet Okun and Adelaide
Reid.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
Evangeline Tully has returned from
! short trip to New York City, where
she filled professional engagements.
Miss Tully was soloist for the Pearl
Hauer organ recital last week and was
also soloist at the Longly Memorial
Church for the evening service Sun
day, where the music is under the
6j-actioy, pf oo,orI
At the recital given March by
the Slattery School of Music prizes
were awarded for perfect attendance
to the following students: One year.
William Suit; two years, Margie Bran
son, Amelia Xander, Dorothy Ann
Ritter and Ruth Meyer; three years,
Joan Slattery; five years, Geraldine
Cusick.
Tomorrow evening, beginning at 8
o'clock, in the Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church, Gounods "Messe
Solennelle" est. Cecilia') will be
rendered by the Mount Pleasant
Chorus $50 voices under the direction
of Norton M. Little, with Claude Robe
son at the organ and George H. Moore
at the piano. The solos will be sus-
tanned by Evelina Evans Clinchy, So
prano: Raymond T. Pigott, tenor. and
Carol E. Robb. bass. The public is
cordially invited.
In observance of Passion Sunday
the sacred cantata, The Crucifixion,"
by Sir John Stainer, will be rendered
by the Washington Cathedral Choir of
men and boys under the direction of
Robert G. Barrow at the evensong
service beginning at o'clock tomor-
row.
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock the
Dawson Glee Club will give its an
nual service Of Lenten and passion
music at Concordia Lutheran Church.
The Potomac Electric Power Co.
Glee Club entertained the Mems Club
OF the Georgetown Presbyterian
church, P street between Thirty-fir
and Thirty-second streets northwest
on Monday, March /. On Thursday
March 4, the Glee Club participated in
a musicale at the Bradburn Memorial
Independent Methodist Church of
Southeast Washington. Harry E.
Yeide is director of the glee club and
Cornelia Long Kinsella, accompanist
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Two Notable
SYM phony
Dates Here
Famed Duo Pianists
and Whiteman to
Aid Orchestra.

THE National Symphony Orchestra
back from tour that brought il
enthusiastic acclaim in principal cities
of the South, will give the Capital two
extraordinary concerts the coming
week.
The distinguished English duo-pian-
| lists, Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson
| appear with Hans Kinder and the
| Orchestra at the Sunday concert at
pm. tomorrow in Constitution Hall.
At $50 pm. Wednesday, at the invi-
tation of DR.. Kinder, Paul Whiteman.
dean OF modern American music, and
| his world-famous orchestra, combined
with the entire National Symphony
Orchestra, bring Washingtonians a
repetition of the sensational concerts
Whiteman gave with the Philadelphia
Orchestra last Fall in Philadelphia and
New York.
Deems Taylor, the eminent Ameri-
can composer and music commentator,
will give the oral program annotations
from the stage at the Whiteman con-
cert, and such famous artists as Cas-
per Reardon, harpist; Roy Bargy,
pianist, and Ray Middleton, baritone,
will be featured in the program.
The combined orchestras will play
this program:
Thank You Mister Bach" Van Phillips
William Tell" 0937 model. W
Orchestral ARRANGEMENT by RusseI case
| An Essay on WaltzeS' DeutSch
| Orchestral ARRANGEMENT by A Deutsch; }
st. Louis Blues Handy
| Harp Solo by Casper Reardon.
! ttorchestral arrangement by F Van Fps, jr.l
| All Points West Rodgers-Hart
| Ray Middleton soloist
| 1Orchestral arrangement by A, Deutsch,}
suite foT or..hs;stE,sa, ana ,bsgp5pgssm,, S.,
| 2. 'Ba-La a-100' Grade song.
3. The Ladies From Hell" lReeN
! Orchestral ARRANGEMENT by compoSer,1
| Tabloid Grofe
Picture Of modern newspaper
l. Run Of the News
| .. Comic Strip
! "NoIa Arndt
/ (saxophone solo by Al GalIadoroJ
! Rhapsody in Blue GeTrhTin
(Roy Bargy at the piano.
Paul Wniteman is an imposing fig
ure in the world Of music today for
several reasons. A principal one is
the encouragement he has given con-
temporary American composers by
playing their works. In fact the title
Of dean of modern American music
| has come to him out of recognition
for his conspicuous service in this en-
deavor.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Concert Schedule
Tomorrow.

National Symphony Orchestra,
Or, Hans Kinder, conductor,
Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson,
duo-pianists, soloists, Constitu-
ton Hall, pm.
A Cappella Choir, Ruby Smith
Stahl, director, special program,
First Congregational Church, 8
pm.
Scott Watson, piano recital,
Roosevelt Hotel, $50 pm.
Special Vesper service, National
Capital Choir, DR.. A. Harmed,
director, Jessie Masters, contralto,
Paul Bliss, song cycle, Mary"
4:30 pm.
Music Hour, Y. w. C. A., Boys
quartet and double quartet, El-
lott Junior High School, Barker
Hall, 5 pm.
Monday.
Ted Shawn and group, dance
recital, Constitution Hall, pm.
Conrad Bernier, organ recital,
st. Johns Church, Sixteenth and
H streets, $50 pm. Navy Band,
pm.
Tuesday.
Sigismond StojoWski, piano
recital, Willard Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Louise Burge, contralto. song
recital, Rankin Chapel, Howard
University, $50 pm.
Navy Band Symphony Orches-
ira, Sail Loft, Navy Yard, 8 pm.
Marine Band, 3 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
Wednesday.
National Symphony Orchestra,
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor,
Paul Whiteman and his orchestra
with soloists, assisting, Constitu-
ton Hall, $50 pm.
Marine Band Orchestra, Marine
Barracks, 8 pm.
Thursday.
Patterns in Folk Music" Mary
liant Couch, Beatrice Pinkney
Jones, pianist, assisting, Women's
City Club, $50 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
Friday.
Friday Morning Music Club,
Ruby Potter, soprano, Sam Cot
ton, baritone, Louis Potter, pian-
ist, Louis Potter, jr, cellist, Bar
ker Hall, 1870 am.
Saturday.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Special Music at Church.

THERE will be a vesper service at
the Universalist National Memo
rial Church at 430 tomorrow after
noon. Jessie Masters, contralto, will
sing the cycle Mary" by Paul Bliss,
The National Capital Choir. under the
direction OF Dr. Albert w. Harmed,
will sing THE Magniflcat," by Glare,
and three chorals from "Jesu, Price
less Treasure by Bach. Nation Boyce
will be the guest organist.
Evening star., 1937-03-13

art, are sacred, or even important, to
us, apart from what they truly express.
What makes a composer or author
or artist real master is that his
work so wonderfully expressed what
he felt that nobody but a clumsy
fool would want to change it. AS
likely as not, he didn't follow after
anybody else's way of doing, but went
on his own way, as he himself felt
and thought, and that is the way new
and younger people should do too. be-
cause that is the way music and art
grow and the only way they can keep
growing
Now I think that there are two
kinds OF men chiefly who can break
loose like that. One is the kind who
learns everything about his art and
what has been done before him so he
can go on beyond it, and the other is the
KIND who doesn't know anything about
it-Who Is just plain ignorant but has
a great deal Of feeling he's got to ex-
press in some way and has to find that
way out himself. Swing came mostly
III,
That is why, during those early
years, people noticed TWO things about
1t, that 1t was very strong and vital
and also that it was crude and not
| finished And it is very true that
| the swing music We have today is far
more refined and subtle and more
highly developed as an art because
swing men who learned to read and
| understand classical music have
| brought classical influences into it.
And in taking in the classical in
fuence real jazz has gained a very
| great deal and not lost it is growing
into finer, broader and richer music,
a music that is truly American that
Will surely take its place in time along
side the great and permanent music of
other countries,
F YOU will look at the European
music journals you will see what
their critics think OF our own swing
music. You will see that they already
think OF 1t as new and permanent
music. Some OF them even write that
the principle Of free improvisation by
the player will affect all of music
and at last make the player, the in
strumentallst, as important as the
composer-a player composer. So I
| would say that the future for real
swing musicians is very bright.
IF should be asked to advise one
Of these men would tell him never
to forget for one moment of his life
that the true spirit of swing music
lies in free playing and that he must
keep his own musical feeling free,
He must try always to originate and
! not just initiate. And if he is a we'll
trained musician in the first place he
will be able 10 express his own mu-
slcal ideas as they come to him with
more versatility, more richness and
more body than if he Is poorly
trained. l am sure that the idea of
swing music and the spirit of it are
right and that it is an art in the true
! sense"
Evening star., 1937-03-13
In Local Music Circles

THE program for the hour of music
tomorrow at O'Clock at the Y. w.
c. A, Seventeenth and K streets
northwest. will be given by the Boys
Quartet and Double Quartet of FL
lott Junior High School, Hannah
Bonnelle, director. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
The District of Columbia Federation
of Music Clubs, Eva Whitford Lovette,
president; Gertrude Lyons, junior
State counselor, will present members
Of the junior department in recital
this evening in the Sale de Recital,
1925 G street northwest, at O'Clock.
This will be program of classic and
romantic music, when the following 10
Junior counselors will present their
advanced students: Lillian Burke,
Thelma Callahan, Erlena Crivella,
Daisy Fickenscher, Mrs. Charles I'M
lay, Mrs. Albert N. Jones, Esther Lin
kins, Gertrude Lyons, Mabel Potter
Payne and Carrie L. Sanders.
The following students will be pre-
sented: Eulalee Ball, Margaret Curtis,
Elizabeth and Paul Cramer, Jane Gass,
Lisa Inazawa, Eleanor Morrison, Mary
Clinta Minis Norris, Margaret Omeara,
Fred Powell Elaine Putnam, Marjorie
Reed, Olive Rickard. Gwendolyn Sut-
ton, Ruby Lee Williams and Jean
Elizabeth Wood.
The Sunday hour Of music at
Friendship House, 324 Virginia avenue
southeast, tomorrow at 5 o'clock, will
be given by a woodWind ensemble:
John Hreachmack, flute; B. Contreras.
oboe; Harper Froman, clarinet; Mr..
Dawson, basoon; James Thurmand.
French Horn. The public is cordially
invited.
Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at
All Souls Church, Unitarian Six
teenth and Harvard streets, excerpts
from the cantata Of the Passover"
arranged by Lewis Atwater from
biblical opera music of Anton Rubin
stein, will be sung by the quartet of
the Eighth Street Temple: Florence
Sindell, soprano; Mabel Flehr, con-
tralto; George Myers, tenor, and John
H. Marville, bass, with Mr.. Atwater
organist and director. The public is
cordially invited.
Eta Schmid Wells and her as
sistant, Marjory Morrison Smith, are
giving a series of Saturday afternoon
muSicales. The pupils who played in
the first musicale. which took place
last Saturday, were: Dorothy Lee
Counselman, Patricia and Bettigene
Jerman, Ruth Ann Harris, Eugenia
Schwartz, Jimmy and Jane Elsie
Miller, Mary Elizabeth Rasmussen,
James and Ryan Duffy, Flora Blumen-
thai, Alice Neuman. Sandra Baum,
Dorothy Goodman, Priscilla and
Emelie WiSch, Ann Distler, Cornelia
Claiborne and Sylvia Wells. The next
musicale will be today.
Sylvia Kaplowitz of the Homer I,
Kilt Studios Of Music, will present
in recital on Tuesday evening at
O'Clock at Barker Hall, Y. w. c. A..
seventeenth and K streets northwest
three groups Of students representing
three individual classes.
In the Junior group will be featured
Stanford Berman, Billy Cafritz, Betty
Louise Heider, Billy Isaacs, Karl and
Evening star., 1937-03-13
COMBINED CHOIRS
TO SING CANTATA

NIX JOHN STAINER'S sacred can
tata, The Crucifxion,' will be
presented by the combined choirs of
All Saints and st. Pauls Episcopal
churches at All Saints Church, at
Chevy Chase Circle, tomorrow evening.
ana at Rock Creek on Palm Sunday
evening, March 81.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Organ Recital.
THE following program will be Civ

HE following program will be given
by Conrad Bernier, organist of
Catholic University, on Monday eve
ming at st. Johns Church, Sixteenth
and H streets at $50 pm. under the
auspices of the District of Columbia
Chapter of the American Guild of
Organists: Bach, Sonata in D Minor,
No. 1ll"; Mendelssohn, Sonata in
D Minor, No. g.; Handel, Concerto
in D Minor, No. TO-"
Evening star., 1937-03-13
A CAPPELLA CHOIR
SINGS AT CHURCH

i HE A Cappella Choir of the First
Congregational Church, in omit
ting this season its annual Lenten
concert which has been given for the
past six years in the ball room of the
Mayhower Hotel, is giving a program
OF a cappella singing, under the direc-
ton OF Ruby Smith Stahl, tomorrow
at the First Congregational Church,
beginning promptly at 8 o'clock, to
which the public Is invited.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
YOUNG COMPOSER
AT HOTEL MUSICALE
THE Roosevelt Hotel will present at

HE Roosevelt Hotel will present at
the musicale tomorrow evening at
$3.50 o'clock, Scott Watson, pianist
composer. Mr.. Watson, young Amer
ican pianist, started his musical studies
in Miami, Fla, where he held a scholar
ship at the Miami Conservatory. For
the last three years he has been study
ing under Austin Conradi at the Pea
body Conservatory, as holder of the
Tiffany Plane Scholarship. This is his
first concert in Washington.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Club to Hear Folk Music.

Patterns in Folk Music" is the
title of an adventure in music
which Mary liant Couch will give
at the Women's City Club Thursday
at $50 pm. Beatrice Pinkney Jones,
pianist, will assist Mrs. Couch in her
program of musical contrasts.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Program at FRIDAY Club,

HE Friday Morning Music Club
will present Ruby Potter soprano;
Louis Potter, pianist; Louis Potter, jr.,
cellist, and Sam Cotton, baritone, on
Friday at 1l:30 am, Barker Hall.
Y. w. c. A. There will be no meeting
on Good Friday, March 26.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Concerto in E Fiat for two pianos
and orchestra,
Karl Philip Emanuel Rach

Karl Philip Emanuel Bach was, dur
/ ing his lifetime, rightly and highly
esteemed as the man who more than
any other was responsible for dis
covering, or rather perfecting and
settling the classic sonata form-the
form which in turn became that of
the symphony, and in which subse-
quently every great composer, includ-
ing Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven
and Brahms, poured the contents of
their greatest inspiration. This alone
should suffice for one mans achieve
ment, but incidentally he wrote some
OF the loveliest, simplest, and there
fore all the more affecting adagios
that the music of his time can
boast Of.
Particularly lovely and dramatically
expressive is the one in the concerto
for cello. But also today's work,
which can best be compared with the
early works of Mozart (as far as both
the style and melodic invention are
concerned, more than deserves a hear.
ing, and I am happy to give it here
with its first performance in Wash
lngtOn.
Concerto in d Minor" for two pianos
and orchestra POulenc
IT SHOULD be one Of the conduc-
tors greatest joys to take his lis
teners (1guratively speaking) by the
hand, and to introduce them to all
kinds of new works whether of the old
or of the newest schools. T have said
before that I consider this one of
the duties as well as one of the privi-
leges of the conductor who considers
his profession not only in the light of
the executant" of the "baton-vir-
tuoso," but also feels that he has a
special obligation towards the litera-
ture of music at large as we'll as to-
wards his audience.
1t is for that reason also that am
delighted that Bartlett and Robertson
consented to give us here in Washing
ton the first performance in America
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Navy Harpist to Play.

WILLIAM TRUESDALE GAMER
ON. concert artist and harp So
loLst for the United States Navy Band,
will present a program of harp music
at the meeting OF Central High School
Parent Teacher Association Monday
evening at 8 o'clock In the music
room OF the school.