Evening star., 1937-04-10
Symphony
Considers
Series Plans
Changes in Hour and
Student Schedules
Are Proposed.

WHILE several changes affecting
its concerts for next year are
under consideration, the National
symphony Orchestra will conduct its
annual meeting on Thursday. Terms
OF five directors expire on April Is
and the members of the Orchestra AS
sociation will elect directors to fill
these vacancies. They will also re-
ceive a report OF the recent campaign
to raise $4,000 sustaining fund for
the orchestra.
AT the same time there will be
presented for consideration some sug-
gestions for altering the present plan
OF concerts. The students concerts
as well as the regular concerts in Con-
stitution Hall may be affected. Ac-
cordlng to the management there
have been nnumerable requests dur
ing the season just completed for a
change in the hour for giving the mid
week programs.
Four Of eight midweek concerts
this past season were scheduled at
4:45 pm: the others at $50 o'clock
in the evening. The management
has been urged 10 schedule all for the
night hour.
During the early years of its his
tory the afternoon programs given in
midWeek by Hans Kinder and his
orchestra were exceedingly popular.
They still are. But gradually there
has arisen wider demand for the
Symptoms music. 1t was formerly
possible for a majority of those in
terested in its activities to be present
at late afternoon concerts. That is
not so now; the orchestra has many
friends and ardent supporters who
find it inconvenient, il not entirely
impossible, to attend afternoon con-
certs during the midweek
The National Symphony Orchestra
Association will give serious considera-
ton to suggestions for this change.
At the same time plans will 20 for
ward to continue the Sunday after
noon concerts that have been so popu-
lar with Washingtonians ever since
the inception of the orchestra These
concerts have always been given at
pm.
Another consideration will affect
the course of students concerts for
next year. The attention of many as
soclation members became focused
on the tremendous enthusiasm and
the great success of the final concert
in this years student series on March
20 in Constitution Hall Subsequent
ly many persons urged that the whole
series OF students concerts another
year be given in the orchestra's regular
concert place on Saturdays. Until
the present time, part, or most, of the
concerts each year have been played
in school auditoriums. During the
past season Dr. Kinder and the
orchestra gave three concerts in each
Of three high schools-Central, West
ern and Eastern-in addition to the
final concert in Constitution Hall
The proposed change would climate
all concerts in the schools. "On the
other hand" the management recently
pointed out, sit would prove a con-
siderable boon to certain large private
schools that find it impossible to send
the students on week days to the high
school auditoriums." Because of the
parking problem, Saturday concerts in
Constitution Hall might be scheduled
in the afternoons when parking space
would be available, it has been sug-
gested.
During its business meeting the
association will also consider enlarg-
ing its board Of directors. On the
board during the last year have been:
Corcoran Thom, president; DR.. Will
liam Mcclellan, vice president; Wal
ter Bruce Howe, secretary; Clarence
A. Aspinwan, Mrs. Robert Woods
Bliss, Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, Mrs. Tracy
Dows, Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, Mark
Lansburgh, Mrs. Reeve Lewis, George
Hewitt Myers, Mrs. Edwin B. Parker,
L. Corrin Strong and Paul Wilstach.
Alice J. Clapp and William Jay Tur-
ner are honorary vice presidents.