Evening star., 1937-01-10
Many Plans
FOrCOncert
On Tuesday
Pelenyis Will Enter
tain Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Ormandy.


Nine. Pelenyi will entertain
Tuesday evening at dinner for
L Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Ormandy.
Eugene Ormandy Is the famous con-
ductor who will appear here with the
Philadelphia Orchestra at Constitu-
ton Hall that evening. Mrs. Ormondy
will be in the Pelenyis box for the
performance Tuesday night.
Others who will occupy boxes for
the unusual program, which is to fea-
ture works by that living Russian
composer whose name already Is firmly
placed among the immortals-Sergei
Rachmaninoff-inc Mrs. Adolph
Caspar Miller, chairman of the WASH
ington committee for the orchestra;
the Ambassador Of Japan and Mime.
Saito; the Ambassador of U. S. S. r.
and Nine. Troyanovsky: Miss Alice
Clapp, Mrs. William A. Becker, Miss
Mabel Boardman, Mrs. F. A. Keep,
Mrs. Edwin B. Parker, Mrs. Lewis
Emery, jr.; Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss,
Mrs. Edwin M. Watson, Mrs. James
Clement Dunn, Mrs. Theodore Achilles,
Mrs. George A. Garrett, Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss, Mrs. William r. Castle,
Mrs. Matthew John Whittall, Mrs.
Lawrence Townsend, Mrs. Charles B.
Henderson, Mrs. Charles Warren, Mrs.
William Crozier and Mrs. Oscar ia
fecki.
Unusually widespread interest has
been shown in this particular concert
for Tuesday night, January II, when,
at S:45 o'clock, the famous Philadel-
phia Symphony Orchestra presents
this Rachmaninoff program. The SYM
phony of the evening, Rachmaninoff'
third, was written in Rome principally
and finished on his estate in Russia.
1t Is called The Bells" and was in
spired by the poem of the same title
written by Americas great poet, Edgar
Allen Poe.
The rest of the program Tuesday
evening will be devoted to Rachman-
inoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 for
Orchestra and Piano" The composer
himself. who is one of the worlds
greatest pianists, will play the solo
piano part.
Tuesday evening the Newspaper
Womens Club will entertain in Mr..
and Mrs Ormandy's honor at the Ad-
miral where prominent musicians and
music lovers will greet the popular
conductor and his charming wife.
Mrs. Ormandy is an accomplished
harpist who before her marriage was
known professionally. Alice Eversman,
music editor of The Evening Star, will
be the hostess for this occasion and
Katherine Brooks in charge Of ar
rangementS.
Mr.. Ormandy was conductor for
several years of the Minneapolis Or
chestra, appearing as guest conductor
several times with the Philadelphia
Orchestra in Philadelphia and Wash
ington. Upon the resignation of Leo
pold StokowSki as permanent orcheS-
ira director Mr.. Ormandy was invited
to take his place. His concerts this
season in Philadelphia, Washington
and New York have been attended
with unusual success. The concert on
Tuesday will be the third he has con-
Quoted this Winter.
A child prodigy, born in Budapest.
Eugene Ormandy baffled the adults by
his keen sense Of hearing and his un-
usual musical memory. At 9 years of
age, a pupil of Hubay on the violin.
he was presented at the Viennese
court and performed for the Emperor
Franz Josef.
At the age of IA he received his
masters diploma at the conservatory,
becoming a professor of music, an
other degree at Is and was conductor
at 49, An opportunity to conduct
Europe's great orchestras was his
from the outset and added new lau-
rels to his violinistic achievements.
Later on, waving aside an appoint
ment to professorship of the master
classes at the National Conservatory
Of Music in Budapest. an honor con-
ferred on him upon his receiving the
degree Of doctor of music from the
university, Ormandy followed an in
Vitation for a concert tour in America
In 1921 to find himself a dupe of an
unscrupulous manager.
Undaunted in spirit, Ormandy mod
estly took up his duties as violinist
In the Capitol Theater Orchestra, New
York, the first position he could find.
Promoted to the rank of concert mas
ter In q short while, he was soon
given an opportunity to conduct and
was made assistant conductor.
Broadcasts and engagements with
the major orchestras followed until
he was chosen from many others to
become the conductor Of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra.
Typical Of Ormandy's enormous en-
ergy. musicianship and musical men,
ory is the fact that he has conducted
within seven months some $50 con-
eerts presenting 90 different programs,
all Of Yhich he conducts by heart,
without a score.
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