The Washington times., 1937-03-31


DR.. Kinder has made up the
program, with the exception of
the piano solo numbers, of works
that have been requested by the
symphony audiences. The pro-
gram includes: "PasSacaglia and
Fugue," (Bach); "Sinfonia," O..
C. Bach); Symphonic Variations
for Piano and OrcheStr a, +"
(Franck); Hungarian Fantasy
for Piano and Orchestra" Giszt)
and the Coronation scene and
Love Music from Boris Godou-
nov" (MouSsorgskyO
The theme shown above played
by strings and woodWindS, is an
answering strain to the theme
shown yesterday. The Brahms
Symphony No. /" will be in
cluded on the program Of the
Philadelphia Symphony Orches-
ira under the leadership OF
Leopold Stokowski, Tuesday eve
ming at Constitution Hall.
StokoWSki, having progressed in
successive steps from the concert
platform to the radio microphone
and then to the cinema, is now
one of the most popular Of artists
to be heard in all three mediums.
This concert will be the final pro-
gram locally this season by the
great Philadelphia Orchestra.
Jeanne Behrend, a native OF
Philadelphia, and Alexander Kel-
berine, a Russian, will be heard as
duo-piano team in Harl McDon'
AIDS Concerto for Two Pianos
and Orchestra" The program will
close with the Good Friday Spell"
music from Wagner's religious
opera, "Parsifal." The concert is
under the local management OF
the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bu-
reau, 910 G st. N. W.
1t is interesting to note that al
though the National Symphony
Orchestra will be on tour next
week, there will still be three SYM
phony orchestra concerts in Wash
| ington next Tuesday night: The
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
at Constitution Hall; the U. S.
Navy Band Symphony Orchestra
at the Navy Yard Sail Loft, and a
symphony orchestra of IS pieces at
the Rialto with the presentation OF
the ''Robber Symphony" Freder.
lex Neher, Austrian composer and
conductor, who conceived the
"Robber Symphony" in it's entirety,
will conduct the orchestra at the
Rialto daily, starting Saturday.
The U. S. Navy Band Sym
phony Orchestra, Lieut.. Charles
Benter conducting, gave a pro-
gram that was off the beaten
track last night at the Navy
Yard Sail Loft. Bainbridge
Crisis Hymn to Neferti," and
Leopoldo Miguez' ave, Libertas," "
proved highly interesting works.
Following a spirited perform
ance of Liszt's Hungarian
Rhapsody No. 12," the mysterious
strains of the Caucasian
Sketches" Gppolitow-I v n o w
were played with a delicacy of
tone that was heightened by the
superb work of the woodwind
section.
The Hymn to Neferti" in a
tone poem style, is a subtle in.
terWeaving of tonal color of
| sheer heallty. "AVe. LibertaS," as
the title would indicate, Hail
Liberty, was written to cele.
brate the anniversary of the
Proclamation of the United
States of Brazil, and works up to
a climax of intense patriotic
fervor at the end.
The nobility and grandeur Of
Mozart'S greatest symphony, the
Jupiter Symphony in C Major, "
was delineated with broad and
somorous strokes of tone color.
The eerfuI melodies and
rhythm of the Menuetto were de,
livered with a gay abandon. But
the towering climax of the
Finale, complicated to play, yet
sounding to the auditor as a
work constructed along simple
lines, became a mighty hymn of
praise imbued with religious
significance.
The new Jeanette Macdonald
Nelson EDDY muSiC-l film May.