Evening star., 1937-02-20
Sy ymphony
Orchestra
In Big Week
Concerts,
All-French Pro-
gram Offered.

THREE students concerts in the
high schools and an all-French
program in Constitution Hall give the
National Symphony Orchestra a busy
calendar in the week that lies ahead.
Beginning Tuesday, DR.. Kinder and
his men make their third and last
visit of the season to the three high
school auditoriums. The concert at
$3.50 pm. Tuesday is in Western High
School. Wednesday the same pro-
gram will be played in Central High
School and Friday it will be given
in Eastern. The all-French program,
in which Jacqueline Salomons, young
Partisan violinist, will be soloist,
will be presented in the Sunday after
noon series In Constitution Hall on
February %.
Presenting great music from all ages
and all countries, DR.. Kinder, in his
students series, entitled The Origins
and Growth of Music" has found
ready listeners at the concerts given
so far. The orchestra has now played
twice in each of the high schools used
this season as symphony centers, and
each concert has drawn . capacity
house. Not only has nearly every
public, private and parochial school
in Washington been represented at
these events, but also have several
schools in the nearby communities of
Maryland and Virginia. In many in
stances special busses have been char
tered to transport classes of students
to DR.. Kindler's concerts, and in
some schools members Of the Parent
Teacher Association have furnished
cars to take the boys and girls.
The student concerts next week will
be devoted to the music Of Northern
European countries. DR.. Kinder will
open the programs with his own or
chestral arrangements Of excerpts
from Moussorgsky's opera, Boris
Godounov." Other numbers to be
played include "Danse Arabe'' and
"Danse Russe," from Tchaikovsky'
'Nutcracker" suite; the story OF The
Prince and the Princess" from
Rimsky- -Korsakov's "Scheherazade" |;
I'm the Hall of the Mountain King"
from the Peer Gynt" suite of Grieg;
"Elegy," by Grieg; "Valse Triste" and
"Finlandia,'' by Sibelius.
The concerts next week will bring
this years students series to the cll-
matte festival event, when all the or
chestra's young listeners will assemble
in Constitution Hall, the Symphony's
regular concert place. That final con-
cert is scheduled for the morning OF
March 20, when the music Of the
Anglo-Saxon countries will be played.
Jacqueline Salomons, who makes
her National Symphony debut, in Dr..
Kindler's French program at pm.
February 20. in Constitution Hall, Is
one Of the most brilliant Of young
concert violinists. She will appear
twice in the program here to play
with the orchestra works of two noted
French composers.
Miss Salomons, Partisan by birth,
is only 20, and has already made q
reputation for herself both in Europe
and America. She Is a graduate OF
the Paris Conservatoire. where she
won first prize for violin playing at
the age of Is. She then came to America
and made her concert debut in New
York, returning to this country the
following season for q tour with the
noted italian tenor, Beniamino Gigli.
Critics everywhere have recognized
her extraordinary talent for its ma
turity and capacity for great inter-
pretive power.
She started her musical studies at
the keyboard. But when her mother,
q concert violinist, suffered an injury
to her wrist Jacqueline gave up piano
for her mothers instrument "to keep
q violinist IN the family"
Her first violin teacher. Yvonne
Astruc, soon realized the girls talent
and coached her strenuously, with the
result that Miss Salomons captured
the Conservatives prize. Later she
studied with George Enesco, the noted
Rumanian violinist and composer,
and with the violinist, Jules Boucherit.