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CHAMBER MUSIC
FESTIVAL DAYS

1NDER the provisions OF the Eliza
~ beth sprague Coolidge Founda-
ton, the eighth festival Of chamber
music wiz take place at the Library
OF Congress Friday, April 9, at 8:45
pm; Saturday, April 10. at ll:l5
am, and at 8:45 pm, and Sunday,
April II, at 3:15 and s:45 pm.
At the opening concert on Friday
the program will consist OF early
chamber music by Purcell, Bach, VAL
entini. Couperin, Scarlatti and Dies
sener, played by Alice Ehlers, harpsl-
chordist, and the Coolidge Quartet.
On Saturday morning the program
will be devoted to works OF Paul
Hindemith, with the composer as
violinist; Georges Barrere, fiutist; J.
N. Sanrpma, pianist, and the Dessof1
Choir, Paul Boepple. conductor. Sat-
urday evening the South Mountain
Quartet, composed Of Kathleen ParloW
and Edwin Ideler, Wolinists; Conrad
Held, violinist, and Willem Willeke,
cellist, together with Gunnar Johan-
sen, pianist, will play Beethoven
Quartet in E Flat op. 127," Brahms
Trio in B, opus g." and the Kodaly
"Quartet In c Minor, opus 2.'
Sunday at 3:l5 pm. the Coolidge
Quartet will give program consist
Ing Of the first performance OF Ses-
sions' Quartet, No. l, in E Minor,
Brahms Quartet In B Flat, opus 81, y
and Fitelberg's Quartet. No. A.
which won the 1885 Coolidge prize
and will be played for the first time
at the Library. On Sunday evening
. chamber orchestra, under the dl-
rection OF Carlos Chavez, with Pau
Hindemith, violinist. will give the first
American performance OF Hindemith's
new concerto for viola and chamber
orchestra, Der SchWanendreher,'
and compositions by Scarlatti, Haydn
Berezowsky and Chavez.
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Thelma La Dow was Soloist for the
Five Point Club banquet Monday eve
ming. singing later on the program
given in the Department Of Commerce
Auditorium.
The Sweetone Quartet OF the South
ern Baptist Church will render q spe-
cial program featuring jubilee and
spiritual songs assisted by the Willow
Green Female Quartet and other tai
ent at the Vermont Avenue Baptist
Church, Wednesday at $50 pm. All
are welcome. This program Is under
the auspices of the young people Of the
church. Deacon George Z. Onley
sponsor.
Jewel Downs will present Erna
Embrey, soprano, and Charlotte La
fon, contralto, in song recital ut the
Women's City Club Tuesday evening
at $50 o'clock.
The Wonkottnawi Club, q newly
organized group OF 18 boys and girls
from the ranks Of the piano pupils Of
Frances Gutelius Smith, met last
Monday in the studios at 1908 New
Hampshire avenue to celebrate the
252d birthday OF Johann Sebastian
Bach. His biography WAS given and
Bach minuets, preludes, inventions
and other pieces were played. A short
business meeting concluded the Bach
birthday party.
The Nordica Mandolin and Guitar
Orchestra, Walter T. Holt, director,
will give a concert on Friday evening
at 8:15 o'clock in Takoma Park Bap-
tist Church under the auspices Of the
B. Y. p. U. The orchestra will be as
sisted by Edna Roche, soprano, and
Bob Sutton. Other soloists will be
Mildred Louise Sykes, Annabel Bird
and Louise Teller.
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DARTMOUTH MUSIC
CLUBS CONCERT

THE Dartmouth College Musical
Clubs will visit Washington on
their Spring tour of the Eastern
States. In concert and formal dance
sponsored by the Washington Dart
mouth Alumni, to be held at the Wash
ington Hotel on Thursday, the Dart
mouth College Glee Club will feature
an evening Of varied entertainment.
The Glee Club, under the direction
OF Donald Cobleigh, has achieved
widespread reputation in intercollegi-
ate circles as one of the more finished
organizations Of its kind. High spots
of its program will be the rendition
of the well-known Hanover Winter
Song "the Twilight Song" and q
more recent song entitled Dartmouth
Undying." The text Of this song was
written by Franklin McDufne, the re-
cipient of the oxford prize for poetry.
In addition to the lighter songs of
collegiate vein, music lovers OF WASH
ington will hear Clemens Sandresky
at the piano. This young artist has
been acclaimed for his concert work
in New York and Boston as the most
promising pianist of his generation,
difficult compositions Of modern COM
posers being a noteworthy phase OF
his repertoire.
l. Glee Club
The Hanover Winter Song"
Hovey- -Bulla I'd
Gently, Johnny" Old English Song
spanish Ladies"
English Capstan Chantey
Keep in the Middle Of the Road"
Tramp! Tramp' Trampw
Victor Herbert
McDufhe -Whitford
| II. Piano solo. Clemens Sandresky
Rhapsody in G Major Dohnanyi
III. The Don Khorblyz." musical skit
| ~ Musical novelties, Robert Mulliken
| V. Old and new college favorites, the col
leee quartet.
chestra.
| VII Glee Club
"Eleazer Wheelock" Hovey-Wurm
Cute Nacht" German Folk Sons
Bold Turpin' Bridge
The Twilight Song" Gillette
| "A Son OF Gun College Ditts
| The Years at the Spring"
| Browning Beach
| Men OF Dartmouth" HoveyWellmar
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OrcheStra'S
Successful
Year to End
Easter Concert and
Solo Feature for
MidWeek Music.

HANS KINDLER brings the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestral S
| l936-37 season to q climactic close this
week with two concerts in Constitu-
ton Hail. An Easter pop" concert at
pm. tomorrow afternoon concludes
the orchestra's Sunday afternoon
series, and a brilliant program at 4:45
pm Wednesday presenting Percy
Granger, celebrated pianist and COM
poser. ends the midweek series and the
season as we'll
Granger, the orchestra management
announced last week, will appear in
the place Of Moritz ROsenthal, orig1-
nally scheduled as soloists. The famous
Australian artist will play two classical
works for piano and orchestra-Cesar
Franck's symphonic Variations" and
Franz LISTS Hungarian Fantasy"
The concert will also include several
works which received large numbers
Of votes in the recent request" bal
loting.
Sunday afternoons concert will be
given over entirely to the great SYM
phonic favorites. In accordance with
hundreds Of requests received during
the season, DR.. Kinder Is placing on
the Easter program numbers that will
provide Washington music lovers with
real pop" concert.
Percy Granger Is no stranger to
Washington audiences, although he
has not appeared here with orchestra
y,io v13c CT
and composer has appeared with the
National Symphony twice. He was
one Of the orchestra's soloists in its
first season, in 1928. His popularity
resulted in another engagement for
the following year. Since then his time
has been occupied in concertiIng
throughout the world and in COM
posing the songs and symphonic works
for which he Is as famous as he is for
| his virtuoSic talents.
Granger was born in 1882 in Mel
bourne, Australia. His first music
lessons were from his mother and =
! Melbourne music teacher. On the
proceeds from several recitals he
| Travelled to Germany and studied with
Kwast and Busoni. In 1900 he went
to London, beginning a series Of re-
markable concerts that made him
known to and admired by all British
| music lovers.
At the Leeds, England, music festi-
val in 1907 he played the solo part in
Greig's piano concerto. The CON-
poser had been engaged to conduct
| the performance. but died only a
month before the recital. Grieg had
chosen Granger, whom he held in
great esteem, to be soloist on the
occasion.
Granger made his American debut
in February, 1915, at New York
recital. He enlisted as an Army
bandsman in 1917, playing oboe and
saxophone. A year later he became
instructor at the Army Music School,
and became a naturalized citizen. He
has made his home in America since.
Although he is now widely known
as composer, Granger will appear
with the National Symphony Wednes-
day in the masterpieces of great COM
posers of another day. The Liszt and
Franck works will be features of the
following program DR.. Kinder has
announced for Wednesday afternoon:
"Passacaglia and Fugue" Bach
| "Sinfonia"- ---J. Chr. Bach
| Intermission.
| Symphonic Variations for Plano and
| Orchestra Franck
HUNGARIAN Fantasy. for Piano and Or
Percy Granger.
| Coronation Scene and Love Music from
| Boris Godounov' - -MousSorgSky
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Concerts by Marine Band.
THE United States Marine Band and
Symphony Orchestra, Capt. Taylor

THE United States Marine Band and
Symphony Orchestra, Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader, will give the following
concerts during the coming week:
Tomorrow at am, the band Will
play for the Easter sunrise service
under the auspices Of the Grand Com
mandery, Knights Templar. Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, in the Amphitheater,
Arlington National Cemetery.
Monday at 3 pm, the band will give
q concert in the White House grounds
during the annual Easter egg rolling.
Tuesday at pm, the band will give
the weekly Shut-Ins Dream Hour con-
cert at the Marine Barracks.
Thursday at 1890 am, the band
will participate in the tree planting
ceremonies OF the Osteopathic Wom-
ems Association at Haines Point.
Saturday at 1890 pm, Music Ap-
probation Hour for All Clubs, spon-
sored by the United States Department
of Agriculture. This will take place
at the Marine Barracks.
Due to other of1icial duties, the con-
cert scheduled to be played by the
United States Marine Band Orchestra
on Wednesday night Is postponed until
Thursday night, at o'clock, when
the following program will be given in
the auditorium at the Marine Bar
racks:
Grand march. Homage" Wagner
Overture, 'Oberon" Weber
"Arietta" and "Passacaglia' Handel
Excerpts from blossom Time" Romberg
Solo for yioloncello. 'Kol Nidref' Bruch
Dance Of the Nymphs and Satyrs." from
Amor and Psyche" Opus 3.
George Schumann
vslse de, concert. "Roses from the
South" Strauss
Overture. Russian Easter" Opus 36.
RimSky-KorSakow
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.StOkOW ski
Comes With
Orch ira
Philadelphians With
Soloist to Appear
Here April 6.

r EOPOLD sTOKOWsKI makes his
- one appearance in Washington
on Tuesday evening, April 6, at 8:45
pm, at Constitution Hall, leading
the final local program this season to
be presented by the Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra.
For this program MI Stokowski has
chosen Brahms First Symphony"
and the Good Friday Spell Music" F"
from Wagner's religious opera, "Parsi-
fall" both of which are great favorites
with Washington music lovers. For
the unusual number on his program
Mr.. Stokowski has announced con-
certo for two pianos and orchestra
written by Dr. Harl Macdonald, who
Is director of the Choral Society Of the
University of Pennsylvania. DR.. Mac
Donald and his chorus of $50 appeared
on the ll-Rachmaninof program
which the Philadelphia Symphony
presented earlier this year.
The two young pianists who will
play in DR.. MacDonald's concerto
are Jeanne Behrend and Alexander
Kelberine. Miss Behrend, who is q
native of Philadelphia, appeared with
the Philharmonic Orchestra of her
native city when she was only II, as
soloist in . Mozart concerto. Since
then, in other appearances with
orchestras under Mr.. Stokowsk1's, S,
Fritz Reiners and Artur Rodzinsky's s
batons, she has developed from child
prodigy to mature artist. She was
the first pianist to be graduated from
the Curtis Institute of Music. Josef
Holman not only taught her, but
also was first to sponsor her talents
as a composer. He played her works
in England and this country. The
League OF Composers in New York
has presented some of them; also the
Society for Contemporary Music in
Philadelphia. Miss Behrend has
studied composition under Rosario
Scalero.
With Alexander Kelberine, who Is
co-artist with her on the coming pro-
gram under Stokowski's baton, Miss
Behrend appeared in Poulenc's Con
certo for Two Pianos" in the American
premiere by the Philadelphia Orch
estra during 1856. These two young
artists have played together in Boston
with the Peoples Symphony, in re-
cital at the Institute for Arts and
Sciences Of Columbia University in
New York, and with the National
Symphony Orchestra in a Summer
program in Washington.
Mr.. Kelberine was born in Kiefi,
Russia, studied under Rachmaninoff' 8
famous uncle, Alexander Siloti, ana
also Ferrucio Busoni. He came to
America in 1923 and is now citizen
of this country. He was the first
artist presented by the Juilliard
Musical Foundation in his debut in
New York, January 80, 1926. Ber-
nardino Molinari invited him to tour
Italy in 1880 and 1881 and Alfred
Cortot sponsored his appearances in
Paris. He won special acclaim in
1882 for recitals Of Bach and Bee
thoven works and in 1856 was
soloist twice with the Philadelphia
Orchestra. He also is composer and
his Bach transcriptions are widely
praised.
This program, like the others by
the Philadelphia Orchestra in Wash
ington, is presented by the T. Arthur
Smith Bureau, 910 G street northwest.
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supreme faith in the goodness OF
mankind and the rightness OF destiny
that was so strong In adolescent years?
And who cannot recall that, through
the strains of music, this faith was
! intensified and made true.
A S THE years pass, we look back on
that Springtime Of youth, indul-
gently and little shamefacedly, so
sure are we that our ripper UNDER
standing of life and the concentrated
vision of maturity are better. But
are we correct in adjuring those reve-
lations of earlier years and those DOM
mating emotions in favor of the clear
sighted outlook Of sophistication? Per-
haps life demands that intellect and
sobermindedness should direct what
We do, but in the domain of music 1t
can but close the door on the lowell
ness which exists there. We have
erected barrier that divides us from
a complete understanding of the gifted
natures who have created music for
our enjoyment and benefit.
For the secret Of the great masters
power is youth. Hidden In the heart
Of each of them was the same faith,
the same exultation and the same
reaction to beauty which all of us
know as part of youth. The differ
ence between us lovers or interpreters
of music and the geniuses who con-
ceived 1t lies in the fact that we
have sealed those youthful visions In
an inaccessible chamber of our being,
so that the business of life could
proceed undisturbed. They, on the
contrary, retreated to that inner haven
from the cares of the world and there
took up again their youthful dreams
and wove them into the imperishable
fabric Of their music.
Beethoven, Of Mozart, of Schu-
bert, and even of Bach, and compare
it with the exterior character Of the
men as the world knew them. How
reconcile the gruff Brahms or the
surly Beethoven with the exquisite
imaginativeness of their musical
speech, unless one recognize a sane
tuary in their inmost being where
reposed all the unattainable beauty
Of which youth dreams and from
which they drew out the pearls OF
their inspiration. And this very
youthfulness of feeling Of the great
masters is often the reason why mu-
sicians cannot penetrate to the depths
OF the meaning Of their music and take
refuge in proclaiming it difficult to
understand. All we need, in order
to establish relationship with these
gifted ones, is to open the closed por-
tails OF youthful faith, love. hope and
charity. and allow their shining light
to guide us straight to the unsullied
beauty which the church and nature
commentaries today.
"Let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloisters pale,
And love the high endowed roof,
With antique pillars massy proof,
And stored windows richly digit,
Casting q dim religious light.
There let the pealing organ blow,
To the full-voiced choir below,
In service high, and anthems clear.
AS may with sweetness, through mine
ear,
Dissolve me into ecstasies,
And bring all Heaven before mine
eyes"
"u penseroso Million
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Final Hotel Concert.

THE Roosevelt Hotel will bring to a
close tomorrow evening, its series
of Sunday evening concerts. Tomorrow
evening at $50 O'Clock, the hotel will
present the combined chojrs of the
National Baptist Memorial Church hnd
the Keller Memorial Lutheran Church
in a program Of Easter music under
the direction Of George F. Ross, with
Margaret Allen Ross, accompanist.
The solokts will be Dorothy Scates,
Juanita Clsxon, sopranos; Mabel Bar
rows and Helen Benham, contraltoS;
Adolph Turner and James Magill,
bassos, and Rogert Ferguson, tenor,
The chorus IS made up Of approx
mately so voices.
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Symphony to Present
Works Locally Popular
Selections Which Have Appealed to
Audiences Comments Are Made.
until IS years after the composers

until IS years after the composers
death!
The question has often been asked:
"Why was it unfinished?' To my
mind it Is not. The two movements
are perfectly balanced as they are now.
and I could not think Of having any
thing added to 1t.
The Strauss waltz "Voices OF
Spring" probably the most vivacious
and sparkling Of them all. viii JOY
ously end the first half. and, with that,
the Vienna" part Of the program.
In the second half We viii begin
with the "Nutcracker Suite" the
work which Tschaikowsky wrote ION
, commission" for the then Petersburg
Opera House As Is often the case
with Tschaikowsky, he becomes In
his lighter works much more Of .
pure musician and . less morbid,
self-pitying neurasthenic, and there
by succeeds in making us acknowledge
those compositions without the reser-
vations We otherwise and often have.
And it is remarkable to see also with
| what simple means he achieved the
manifold and colorful effects in this
| little suite of master creations.
All in all, the usual orchestra Is
used, but, for instance, the effect OF
colorfulness of the overture. in which
only the lightest of instruments are
employed (no heavy brass, no
trumpets. no percussion except the
triangle, not even cellos and basses)
is nothing short OF mastery.
THE same holds good OF the sense
Of contrast which he has en-
ployed throughout; OF the charming
effect Of the celesta in the Dance
OF the Sugar Plum Fairy; of the
sense OF desolation evoked in the
Arabian Dance; or the humor OF
the low bassoons in the Chinese
Dance; of the charming employ
ment Of three flutes and 4 solo
trumpet in the Dance Of the Mirli-
tons; and of the startling effect Of
the harp, which he has skillfully
reserved for the ANAL "Valse des
F1eurs"
Within the limitations Of this
orchestral palette only Wagner has
achieved more, and it is partly for
that reason that we will now end the
concert with the "Tannhauser" over
ture. At this late date 1t Is not nec-
essary to explain" the solemnity OF
the initial Pilgrims Chorus" the ex.
citing quality of the Venusberg music,
and superb splendor Of the finale. But
it is well to remember that also here
a great composer achieved these ef-
fects with exactly the same orchestral
material that was used by al other
composers of the same period. and
with how much more surge Of effect, Of
steadily mounting intensity and with
what overwhelming sense OF climAxi
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A CAPPELLA CHOIR
FROM GUILFORD

THE Guilford College A Cappella
Choir will appear ct the Columbia
Heights Christian Church, l435 Park
road, on Monday evening next, at 8:l5
pm.
The personnel Of the choir, led by
DR.. Ezra Weis, includes some so people
Among their repertoire are Blessed
Savior, Our Lord Jesus" 1564D, Hans
Leo Hassler; From Heaven Above"
(Schuman), "Hodie Christus Natus
Est" (Palestrina), 20 Praise Ye God"
(Tschaikowsky), The Day of Judg-
ment" (Arkhangelsky). and others.
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Of vivid colors. In the churches over
the world, singers lift up their voices.
Organs peal forth their JOY and con-
fidence in the ultimate realization OF
all mans desiring in a sublime trust
that has no equal except in child
hoods years. On every side the spirit
OF youth prevails, with its dreams, Its
beauty and its strength.
Nothing on earth can match the
atmosphere of this holy season, except
music, and in its inexhaustible treas
ure house rests all Of the elements
which Christianity would have domi-
nant in the daily life OF humanity
The magic key to open this treasure
house is fashioned of the very attitude
Of mind to which all peoples are re-
sponsive at Eastertide, and to which
nature has contributed its powerful
influence. Try as one will, it is i'm
possible to make of music a human
invention, and all who would so try
must reap a barren reward far from
the noble end which the Redeemer
intended music to serve. For after
all analysis it will be found that this
glorious art, coming from no one
knows where and going hence into
the infinite, is the one means by
which mans affinity with the Divine,
with the compassion and love which
found climax on the Gross, and in the
Resurrection, can burst through
earthly bonds and stretch forth its
angels wings.
TT WOULD seem, sometimes, that
in making a cult of music. we have
strayed far from the simple virtues
which form its foundation. We would
make of it an intellectual pastime
and pride ourselves on our cleverness
and superiority. We would make it
a basis for scientific investigation and
cultivate its exterior form to the
highest perfection, thrusting aside, as
too elemental, the rich loam OF feeling
and experience in which it should
nnd root. We would bring it to the
sophisticated level Of thought of the
present day and look upon what we
have done and find it good. We
would have lost forever that mar
velous contact with the noblest quail
ties of humanity which is the guaran-
tee of our divine origin.
In order to MAKE music flower in
resplendent blooms we must cultivate
youth. We must cherish the hope, the
trust, the enthusiasm and the love OF
beauty which we have known in
younger years. m the Springtime Of
life comes the only full knowledge OF
beauty, a beauty unspoiled and thrill
Ing, capable of bringing exquisite pain
in its contemplation. During that
short space Of life, comparable to the
few weeks Of glamorous Spring. an
aura of vividness and of clarity sur
rounds everything which older eyes
have lost the power to see.
Who does not remember the ecstasy
that seemed to invade the very soul
ut the first hearing OF some great
musical materpiece? Then, not only
Was the heart stirred, but uplifted to
4 plane fa. above this earth, where
nobility and heroism held sway. I'm
der the influence of such moment,
all the yeaning for truth and great
ness seemed within realization. Or IN
the contemplation Of glorious sunset.
how the mind and heart leaped beyond
the ordinary to realm where beauty
reigned, where love in Its most per-
feet form could be found, where SYM
pathy and generosity were close at
hand Who does not remember the
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NATIONAL PIANO
PLAYING TOURNEY

THE National Piano Playing Tour
nament, Washington, D. c., Unit,
sponsored by the National Guild OF
Piano Teachers, OF which Irl Allison is
founder and president, will be held
during Music week at the Washington
College Of Music. it was announced to-
day by the local chairman, La Sale
6pier, 2235 Bancroft place northwest.
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Quartet at Library.

4 CONCERT of chamber music by
\ the Pro-Musica Quartet will be
given at the Georgetown Branch Of
the Public Library on Monday ut
$50 pm, through the courtesy Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, DR..
George F. Bowerman, librarian, an
nounces.
Owing to the limited seating ca
pacity, admission will be only BY card.
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Sunrise Concert.
THE Easter sunrise concert by

THE Easter sunrise concert by the
National Capital Parks Schola
Cantorum, Maestro Arturo Papalardo.
director, will take place tomorrow
morning in the Sylvan Theater, Monu-
ment Grounds. The chorus consists
of 200 singers and there will be
soloists. In the event of rain the
concert will be given in the Depart
mental Auditorium, Constitution ave-
nue. between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets. The concert is being presented
under the auspices Of the Depart
ment of the Interior. National Park
Service.
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Program at Club.

THE Friday Morning Music Club will
present Grace Powell, yiolinist,
who will play the Bach sonata; Mrs.
Charles Inlay, pianist; Rosa Polio
Jarman, soprano, and Emily Coville,
soprano, who will sing songs Mary
Ware Goldman on Friday at 1870
am, In Barker Hall, Y. w. G. A.
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SINGERS TO GIVE
JOINT RECITAL

CHARLOTTE WALLACE MURRAY,
mezzo-soprano. and Todd Dun
can. baritone, will appear in recital
at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church,
M between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
streets northwest. Thursday at Sis
pm.