Evening star., 1937-08-21

with the assistance OF famous artists
and . large chorus, will give Wash
ingtonians an opportunity to hear
many of the most representative works
Of Beethoven
December devoted to Beethovens
works, Dr. Kinder announced. The
first will be on December II, when
Ruggiere Ricci, the phenomenally
talented boy violinist, will be soloist
The second will follow three days later,
on December Is, when Josef Hofmann,
celebrated pianist, will appear with
the orchestra. Finally, on December
10, there will be climactic concert in
which chorus of 200 singers from
George Washington University will
join the orchestra in performance
of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Special significance is to be at
tached to each Of these programs, as
we'll as to the whole group. Playing
the beloved Beethoven violin con-
certo, young Ricci, who has impressed
the whole music world with his in
depreciation of this masterpiece, will
make his first appearance as soloist
with the National Symphony Orches-
ira
Josef Hofmann, who has been long
recognized as one of the greatest in
terpreters Of Beethoven,s piano music,
is making his engagement with the
orchestra the occasion for his only
appearance in Washington during the
season that marks the 50th anniver-
sary of his debut as a concert pianist.
Moreover, his visit here for Dr. Kind
ler's Beethoven festival will be among
the first concert stops he makes in a
jubilee concert tour that will take him
from coast to coast. Hofmann will
come here shortly after launching that
tour with special benefit and ami
versary concert in New York City.
With the National Symphony he will
play one of the great Beethoven con-
certos. the Fifth, or Emperor"
Then. with the able assistance of An
augmented chorus of George Washing
ton University singers. DR.. Kinder on
the last Of the Beethoven programs
will give followers of the National
Symphony their first opportunity to
hear the Ninth Symphony. For several
seasons DR.. Kinder has invited the
George Washington Glee Clubs to
participate in special concerts. Last
year program in which the university
singers and Harold Bauer. pianist,
Joined the orchestra in performance
of Beethovens Choral Fantasy, proved
to be highlight of the season.
The Beethoven festival concerts will
be in the regular series of concerts in
Constitution Hall. The events of De-
cember IL and l9 are in the Sunday
afternoon series. while the concert of
December is is in the midweek series
A festival concert by the United
States Army Band conducted by Capt.
Thomas r. Darcy, preceding the per-
formance Of Anatole Frances me-
dlaeval farce. The Man Who Married
Dumb Wife" will be feature of the
eleventh Summer festival program
Tuesday night at 7:3o o'clock at the
Sylvan Theater in the Washington
Monument Grounds, sponsored by the
Community Center Department and
the Office of National Capital Parks.
For his Tuesday night program,
Capt. Darcy has chosen a number of
compositions that are in keeping with
the spirit and the theme of the old
French comedy. the final number on
his program leading directly into the
opening scenes of the plav
A member of the cast of THE Man
Who Married a Dumb Wife" in the
character of blind beggar, will be
heard In songs of the period, with a
violin accompaniment. The singer will
be Sam Cotton, who is well known in
the Capital City's musical circles. and
his accompanist will be Lester Consol.
Pearl Hauer, popular organist of
the Rialto Theater and conductor of
the Myriad Voices" programs over
radio Station WMAL, played directly
from that theater. will inaugurate a
new "subseries' on her Saturday morn
ing programs. Starting next Satur-
day, August %, Miss Hauer will de-
vote about 10 of the allotted 80
minutes to presenting the great operas
in tabloid.
The following members Of the Or
pheus Quartet, Hazel Gem Hughes.
soprano; Elaine Sebring Ford, con-
tralto Jesse Nussear, lyric tenor;
Otto Torney Simon at the piano, will
give ensemble selections at the Amer
ican Association of University Wom-
en-. 1884 I street, Monday afternoon at
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