Evening star., 1937-12-12
|Stradivari
Tribute
Is Paid
Congress Library Is
Sponsoring
Concerts.
THE Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foun

THE Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foun-
dation at the Library of Congress
will sponsor five concerts, beginning
Tuesday, which constitute the second
half of the Bicentennial Festival in
commemoration of the 100th death
anniversary of the famous instrument
maker Antonio Stradivari, who died in
Cremona on December 18. 1887.
The first, second and fourth con-
certs will afford an unusual oportunity
to hear the whole cycle of Beethovens
violin and piano sonatas played by two
famous duo-artists-Adolf Busch, vio-
lin, and Rudolf Serkin, piano. On
Tuesday evening at O'Clock, these
artists will present Sonata in D Major,
op. IL, No. l." Sonata in G Major,
op. 96" and Sonata in E Flat Major,
op. IL, No. 81 This concert will be
broadcast from Station WMAL for
half an hour from 9 to $3.50 o'clock.
On Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock Adolf Busch and Rudolf Ser
kin will present Sonata in F Major,
op. a." Sonata in A Minor, op. g."
Sonata in A Major, op. 80. No. L."
and Sonata in G Major, op. 80, No.
g." This concert will be likewise broad
castSover Station WMAL, from to
4:30 O'Clock in the afternoon.
Thursday evening at s:45 o'clock
the Stradivarius Quartet Of New York
City, Wolfe Wolfinson and Bernard
Robbins. violins; Marcel Dick, viola,
and Ivan d'Archambeau, violoncello,
assisted by Louis Krasner, violin; John
r. Barrows, jr., horn, and Beryl Ru-
binstein. piano, will be heard in the
Mozart's Quartet in F Major, K. $50, a"
Brahms Trio in E Flat Major" for
violin, horn and piano, the violin part
being played by Louis Krasner, and
Mendelssohns Quartet in D Major,
op. A, No. l."
Friday evening, at 8:45 o'clock,
Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin re-
turn once more to perform the last
three sonatas of the Beethoven cycle
Sonata in c Minor, op. 80, No. o.
Sonata in A Major. op. IL, No. q"
and the composition, dedicated by
Beethoven to the Violinist Kreutzer,
and known as the "Kreutzer Sonata
in A Major, op. A."
Saturday evening, at $50 O'Clock, on
the day of Stradivari's death anniver-
sary, the following program will be
performed by the Stradivarius Quar-
tet with the assistance of Samuel
Gardner and Edwin Ideler violins;
Conrad Held, viola; Horace Britt, vio-
loncello: Louis Krasner, violin, and
Beryl Rubinstein, piano. On that occa-
sion the Whittall collection will be
supplemented by another quartet of
Stradivari instruments loaned for this
concert by the owner, Mrs. Herbert N.
Strauss Of New York. They will be
played by Mr.. Gardner, Mr.. Ideler, Mr..
Held and Mr.. Britt, who, together
with the Stradivarius Quartet, will be
heard in Mendelssohn's "Octet in E
Flat Major" An address on Strada-
vari and his contribution to art will
be given by Jay G. Freeman.
The other works, Schumann's
Quartet in F Major, op. II, No. q"
played by the Stradivarius Quartet,
and Ernest Chausson's Concerto in
D Major" will be presented by Louis
Krasner, Beryl Rubinstein and the
Stradivarius Quartet, thus bringing
this series Of five concerts to a con-
ciusion. This concert, as the first two
of the series, will also be broadcast
for the first half hour from $40 to
O'Clock in the evening over Station
WMAL.