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DISTINGUISHED vounr suest

A DISTINGUISHED young guest
conductor. two world-famous SOLO
lists and performance by chorus of
800 Washington singers Of one Of the
greatest choral works ever written
will figure prominently in the three
Beethoven Festival concerts being
planned by DR.. Hans Kinder, con-
ductor. for the National Symphony
Orchestra following its return to
Washington from 12-day Northern
tour that begins tomorrow. These con-
certs will be held on December II, Is
and 19 in Constitution Hall
Antal Dorati, young Hungarian con-
ductor, who since 1888 has been asso-
ciated with the Ballet Russo de Monte
Carlo, will be guest conductor Of the
orchestra at the first festival concert
on Sunday afternoon, December IL.
Ruggiero Ricci, phenomenal young
violinist. will be soloist in the Beetho-
ven Concerto for Violin and Or
chestra"
Dorati will conduct the Sixth pas
toraD and Eighth Symphonies"
Josef Hofmsnn, world-famous pi-
anist now celebrating his golden
jubilee of concertizing in the United
States. will appear with the orchestra
in Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto
in @ Major" on Wednesday evening,
December is. On Sunday afternoon,
December 10, the festival will come to
q climax with the performance of
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" with
choral finale based on Schiller's lode
to JOY" to be sung by a quartet Of
noted soloists and a chorus of 800.
The chorus, one of the largest ever
heard In Washington concert, was
formed especially for this occasion by
the Combined Glee Clubs of George
Washington University, DR.. Robert
Harmon, conductor, and the Washing
ton Choral Society, Louis Potter, con-
ductor. DR.. Kinder will conduct these
two concerts.
The National Symphony opens its
12-day tour today with the first Of 4
series Of three concerts to be played
during the season at Sweet Briar COL
lege, Sweet Briar, Va. The tour sched-
ule calls for Is concerts in IL cities
between November % and December 8.
The orchestra will travel in its own
special cars over . route carefully
worked out in advance, two weeks ago,
by G. c. Cappel, manager of the Ma
tional Symphony, who will accom-
pany the orchestra and personally su-
pervise the tour. Besides concerts at
four well-known colleges and univer-
sites, the tour includes q concert in
Massey Hall in Toronto and two pro-
grams in the Bushnell Memorial Audi
torium, Hartford, Conn, for the third
year. Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor
General Of Canada, and Lady Tweeds-
muir, and Norman Armour, United
States Minister to Canada, and Mrs.
Armour will attend the concert In Ot-
tawa.
On Monday there will be q student
concert and evening program at Rut-
gers University, New Brunswick, N. J..
In the latter Ethel Bartlett and Rae
Robertson, English duo-pianists, will
appear as soloists. Other dates on the
tour include Wednesday, Utica, N. r.;
Thursday, Hamilton, Ontario; Friday,
Toronto, Ontario; Saturday, Ottawa,
Ontario and Sunday, Springfield,
Mass. On December 6 the National
Symphony will play at Wellesley Col
lege, Wellesley, Mass; December 7,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.;
December 8, Hartford, Conn, and De-
cember ., New Bedford, Mass.