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Boy yGenius
To Appear
In Concert
Violin Prodigy Will
Be Soloist With Ma
tional Symphony.

In announcing Ruggiero Ricci, the
phenomenally talented boy violinist,
and Ruth Posselt, brilliant young
American violinist, as soloists with
the National Symphony Orchestra
next season, c. c. Cappel, manager,
pointed out last week that the or
ganization is continuing its policy to
bring to Washington talented mu-
sicians whose names are just begin
ming to appear over the horizon OF
musical fame.
The orchestra's management has
announced that the Ricci boy will be
soloist with the orchestra on Decem-
ber II.
Ruth Posselt. not so we'll known
to the concert-going public, is new
ertheless recognized as a real artist
wherever she has played. She was
soloist last season with the Boston
Symphony and her playing was a
sensation. She comes to Washington
for her first professional appearance
next January %.
In addition to these concert new
comers the National Symphony sea-
son will also include the engage
ment of the Wagnerian Festival Sing
ers for the opening concert of the
season october 81, including Hilda
KonetZni. soprano, Marta Krasova,
contralto; Henk MORT. tenor; Joel
Berglund, baritone, and Alexander
Kipnis, basso.
While the Viennese Choir Boys have
been here before and are known and
admired by thousands in Washington.
their appearance here next season will
be more than re-engagement. be-
cause for the first time they are to
sing with the support of COMPLIES
symphony orchestra. The boys are to
be presented by the National SYM
phony on June 49,
Outstanding as we'll as unusual Will
be the performance of the Beethoven
Ninth Symphony" with noted solo,
lists and chorus of 200 on De-
cember 10. An washington pro-
gram, presenting the works of local
musicians on November 81, will he
still another manifestation of the
National Symphony's interest in ex-
ploring new fields of musical express
sion.
With the lesser known artists will
appear a galaxy of world-famous mu-
sicians. with such artists engaged as
Lucrezla Bori, Josef Hofmann. Mischa
Elman. Richard Crooks. Moriz Rosen-
thai, Rudolph CAM and Percy Grain
ger.
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Bv Leila Mechlin.

TT is matter of real and very
great pride to us here that in the
notable Renoir exhibition which
L is the outstanding event Of the
Summer season at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, the paint
ing universally given pre-eminence,
because of supreme merit in this dis
tinguished assemblage comes from
Washington. It is Luncheon of the
Boating Party" t"Ie Dejeuner des
Canotiers'D, owned and lent by the
Phillips Memorial Gallery.
The way this world famous paint
ing was acquired by Mr.. Phillips is
Interestingly told by Henry Mcbride
in an article on 'RenoirS in America"
published recently in special num-
ber of the Art News. The Canotiers"
had, he says, been for years the par
tiCular bright star in the private col
lection of the well-knoWn art dealer,
NJ Durand-Ruel of the Rue de Rome,
Paris, where for a generation pilgrims
from other lands had had been al
lowed to see it as special privilege
before it was brought to this coun-
try to be shown, as an act OF friend
ship, to certain old clients in the
Durand-Ruel Galleries in New York"
1t was supposed to be not for sale,
and, as Mr. Mcbride remarks, probably
was not, fol the possession of such a
famous canvas was, in itself, finan-
cial asset. To merely ask its price
must have required some courage as
we'll as assurance of resources. The
painting was actually on its way back
to France when Mr.. Phillips cabled an
offer, which was accepted.
AT the moment Mr.. Phillips be-
came the owner of the picture" Mr..
Mcbride states, the whole world of
buyers realized suddenly its desira-
bility. I do not know the precise sum
that was agreed upon for it. Both
parties to the transaction remain
vague and haZy when interrogated
about it, but within year after the
sale buyers materialized who would
have paid Mr.. Phillips 100000 for it,
which I imagine-I am only imag-
ining-would have tripled the invest
ment.
What astonishes me in this affair.""
this writer continues. is not the rapid
increase in value. but the ease with
which Mr. Phillips was allowed to
acquire masterpiece. I do not wish
to brag, for 1t is much easier to form
imaginary collections than actual
ones, but thought years before when
I first saw the work in the Rue de
Rome that lie Dejeuner des Cano-
tiers cried aloud for the central posi-
ton in some great modern collection.
and in turn it has fulfilled all expecta-
tions in regard to 1t"
Mr. Phillips purchase of this paint
ing under these circumstances placed
the painter, Mr.. Mcbride declares, in
the ranks of the very great. A con-
ventional collector. he holds, would
have been disinclined to make 50 mo-
mentous decision, to have taken on
his own initiative 50 great a risk. But
Mr.. Phillips has. he ventures, the
student attitude" toward painting
and q wife who is successful painter;
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so saw his opportunity and profited
by it-a plunge presumably never to
be regretted.
D EV1EWING the exhibition now in
progress in New York's great
Metropolitan Museum, Alfred M.
Frankfurter turns to lie Dejeuner
des Canotiers" not only as one of the
greatest of the collection on view but
as one of "a handful OF great group
compositions of the nineteenth century
and the first great painting in the
style of lyric poetry since Titan and
Tintoretto" For the presence of this
painting here" he says, "as we'll, for
that matter. in this country. Amer
leans owe a debt of gratitude to Mr..
Duncan Phillips"
In regard to the charm and merit
Of this work there seems to be COM
plete unanimity of opinion. OF it
Harry B. Wehle, curator of painting
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
in his foreword to the catalogue of
this exhibition has this to say: LIE
Dejeuner des Canotiers,' painted in
1881 and generally considered his
(Renoir's) masterpiece. is one of the
worlds most joyous pictures. None OF
the girls or young men present is smil-
ing, none is definitely flirting. A
striped awning shields them from the
sun, and they sit there over the re-
mains of their luncheon, some OF
them chatting. one playing with a
lap dog, others doing nothing what
ever. Gentle breezes from the river
seem to caress them-and they are
completely happy. The picture Is q
hymn Of youth and Summertime
The Introductory sentence to Mr.
Wehle's foreword was originally spoken
by Renoir himself and Is not only
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Lunch of the Boating Party" Given Preeinent Position
Notable Exhibition by New York Museum of Great
French 1mpressionists Works.

especially applica bic TO the great can
vas lent by the Phillips Memorial Gal
lery, but peculiarly significant and
memorable. He said: According to my
idea. a picture ought to be lovable
thing. joyous and pretty-yes pretty.
There are enough boring things in
life without fabricating still more
How very true, but how little con-
sidered! 1t is the fear OF painting
pretty pictures that has driven the
present generation of painters to
slums, dumps and pig stys for sub
jects, but here was painter who
dared to do it, and. daring. attained
the highest fame. Obviously it was
not because of his choice Of theme that
Renoir was exalted, but by his genius
yet Notwithstanding We may well
surmise that his happy choice OF sub
jects. as we'll as the joyous quality
Of his work, account in some consld-
cradle measure for their lasting charm
NO WONDER Renoir was called
the flower in the buttonhole of
the impressionists" The fact is that
he had rare and happy disposition.
He was in love with life, and he de-
lighted in his art. To the end Of his
days he is said to have found pleasure
in living, and looked out upon the
world with contentment and unafraid
Even in his late years, when Grip
pied with arthritis-so crippled that
he had to have his brush strapped to
his arm-he made no complaint and
cheerfully insisted that he was a lucky
fellow Ellie Faure, in one of his crit
ical essays, remarked. Il have seen
two miracles: The Battle of the Marine
and the aged Renoir painting"
The current exhibition at the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art, which will
continue through September II and
should not be missed, includes g.
paintings and 4 works in sculpture.
the last produced during Renoirs last
years, by other hands, under his di-
rection. These, lent by the leading
art museums and private collectors,
have been arranged chronologically
and, dating from about 1872 to 1916,
practically span his career.
Born in 1841 in Limoges, the son Of
a local tailor, and with no art antece-
dents, Piere-Auguste Renoir was, at
the age of 13, apprenticed as a porce-
lain painter. Later he obtained SIM
liar employment in Paris factory.
When mechanical invention reduced
this craft to a matter of quantitative
production, Renoir turned to art Of
q higher sort and entered the studio
of Gleyre, where he met, as fellow stu
dents, Ssley and Monet. It was in
this way that he made first contact
with impressionisms, which he himself,
we now see, was destined to bring to
consummate expression.
The fates seem to have dealt kindly
with Renoir, for he was apparently
put in the way Of good influences,
but none can say that he did not real
ize his good fortune and make the
most Of it. From his commercial
china painting he acquired q knowl-
edge Of color and it, beauty In purity:
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flected the world around him, paint
ing the people he knew, the things
he saw He loved the outdoor world
and pictured it charmingly in all its
glamor of warm. caressing sunshine.
But more still he loved the inhabitants
of the world with which he saw it
peopled Young people and children
appealed to him most strongly, but
whosoever he painted was approached
with good will which took on posi-
tive air Of tenderness and regard.
And is not his picture of the life of
his time quite as true, If far less
tragic as, shall We say, Van Gogh's.
Though of the middle class, there was
no vulgarity in Renoir. The young
people he painted, and their elders
"disported themselves with decorum."
His Paris and its environs. haunted
by holiday makers, became, we are
told, under his brush, "a paradise for
the gods"
According to Roger Fry, Renoir en-
joyed instinctively ell the common
good things in life and yet always
kept just enough detachment to feel
his delight esthetically. He was a
born painter and he left behind him
goodly heritage.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in
1907 purchased Renoir's portrait of
Nine. Charpentier ct ses Files"
painted in 1878, and epoch-marking
in his career. Within the last few
months the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, has acquired lie Bal a
Bougival," painted in 1888 and ranked
with lie Dejeuner des Canotiers' as
of supreme importance. Both are in
cluded in the catalogue OF the current
exhibition, as are 1.-TWO Little Circus
Girls" lent by the Art Institute of
Chicago: "At the Milliner's." lent by
the Fogg Museum, and "Battledore
and Snuttlecock." lent by the Min
neapolis Institute. The majority Of
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before the public, either as student
or artist, he as good rs announces
that he is ready for an opinion on
his work.
1t is not critics place to remem-
Der that student had the measles
last month or that an artists violin
sprang a crack just before the con-
cert. He is there to Judge how an
individual performs in public, handi-
caps and nervousness notwithstand-
ing. In the making of an artist the
principal thing to learn Is how to
do well under every circumstance, for
SO times out of a hundred, in a
public career, the circumstances will
be adverse and an artist must be
trained from the beginning to be able
to overcome all interference to a
comfortable performance. The habit
of making excuses for ones self can
grow until there can never be an
appearance without plea that some
thing is hindering the artist from
being up to his proper mark.
a CRITIC worthy of his profession
has, nevertheless, sympathy with
the difficulties that beset a public per-
former. He knows that a student can
not be expected to give the same kind
OF performance that an experienced
and greatly talented artist should
give. but at the same time he will al
ways look for the possibilities that
make for artistry, which is as clearly
TO be seen as daylight, in spite OF
all lnterterences. When any one gives
public performance it is to be ex-
pected that great deal of work is
entalled, and this does not appeal to
the sympathy of a critic. To be a
musician of any value requires un-
ceasing work which calls on all the
bodily and mental forces of the in
dlVldual. There is no excuse for ary
one appearing in public without wcrk-
ing hard beforehand.
The question of encouragement also
is misleading point and one to which
teachers and parents are particularly
o>AAsioiNc. MdIly promoters OF DlOnllS-
ing young musicians ask for praise so
that their careers may be assured and
their spirits exhilarated by cncour-
agement. But no musician is worthy
OF aspiring to be an artist If he does
not possess sufficient stamina to bear
criticism and profit by it. 1t is
rather popular idea that critics en-
Joy condemning and take a ghoulisn
delight in picking flaws. A. matter
OF fact, critic who does not welcome
the opportunity to praise or who has
not the courage to tell :he truth is
not an honor to his calling. But he
must base his reasons for either on
a sound knowledge Of music and its
different phases. II more Spartan
attitude could be adopted Ly the pub
lie IN general and by those engaged
in forming the future musicians of
the country. there would result the
survival of the fttest which would
elevate the standards Of music to the
high plane where music should exist.
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Carl Jaspan will present a group OF
violinists on July at Barker Hall at
8 pm Each student will play great
concerto Of the instrument. Mat
thew Mezzanotte. artist student, will
play "Rondo Capriccioso," by Saint
Saens. Seven-year-old Roy Berkman
will play De Beriot's Concerto No.
g." The Stein trio, composed OF
Henry, Helen and jeanette Stein, is
to play the double concerto by Bach.
Henry Stein will also play Mozart
Concerto" and Helen Stein will play
the Beethoven Concerto. Edith Bot
kin will be heard in the "Mendelssohn
Concerto" and Robert Littman in the
"Bruch Concerto" The public is in
Vited.
Madeleine Aughinbaugh presented
a group Of pupils in recital at Pierce
Hall June 16 and II, assisted by Ber-
nadette Crouch. soprano. The fol-
lowing students performed:
Madeline Amato. Dorothy May Bor-
den, Helen and Demetra Bacas. Shir-
ley Brookshire, Catherine Bartram,
Ann Baldwin, Dorothy Burgan. Doris
Crouch, James John Cerda, Nancy
Chelberg, Doris d'Avanzo, Gene Els
enbeiss, Audrey Friedlander, Elizabet
Fitzpatrick, Doris Fortney, Patrica
Ann Flood. Jean Fisher, Norman
Genaro. Helen Glasco, Marguerit
Gardiner, Carl Gellogg, John Gunnar-
son, Susan Gibbons, Cordelia Goode,
Marie Huxley, Berness Hunt, Florence
Hales. Hilda Hirsh, Elizabeth I-aney,
Phyllis Heider, Robert Haines. Mary
Teresa Kane, Blaine and Marjorie
Kahn, Mary Catherine Lohr. Lois
laWrenson. Hilda Levin. Charlotte and
Mary Mataja, La Rue Manners, Eve
lyn Murrell, Barbara McCarty, Eileen
McNamar, Ruth Marion McDougald,
Eugene Meyers, Mildred Mincoskv. Mary
Clara Maloy, Annetta Mae McPher-
son, Paulette Norris, Edith and Ruth
OBrien, Henrietta OstroWer, Betty
Pomeroy, Frances Piver, Lorraine
Peters. Shirley Pearson, Audrey
Ridgell, Saul Rosenthall. jeanette
Stein, Irene Jeane Scher Nellie May
Swami. Lucille Strickler, Betty
Schultz, Jean Schrump, Betty and
Telma Stathopoulous, Doris Talbert,
Tessie Wallis, Constance Ward, Sidney
Walker, Elizabeth and Doris West,
Ruth Witzel and Lenora Wolf.
John Henry Marville will present
group Of his pupils in recital at
Pierce Hall. Fifteenth and Harvard
streets northwest, Monday at 8:15
pm. sharp. The public is invited.
Those participating are Wendell
Anderson. Mildred Archer, Margaret
Berry. Marta Brokaw. George Irving
Chandler, Richard Cornell. Van Ken
nedy, Clenayre Key, Virginia Langs-
ton, George Madg geburger, James Ma
gill, Oliver McDorman, Frank Mer-
vine, John Murphy. Margaret Myers,
Francis Parsons, Fanchion RaUlett.
Halle Mae Reed, William Charles
Strauss. Marie st. Clair, Louise Voeel,
Jane Wilkelhaus, Irene Finch WOLF,
William Zeller.
Mrs. D. Sellmer Lord presented two
groups Of her pupils on the evenings
of June II and l8. at the Mt. Pleas
ant Congregational Church. Those
participating on the 18th were Joann
Walsh. Peter Lumpkms, Peggy
Faunce, Joan Hagan, Zelda Abrams.
Thomas and Richard Caldwell, Bar
bara Wetzler. Jacquellne Bullock, Vir-
einia Martin. Mary and Catherine
Brockmeyer, Joy Lson, Betty Ann
Amiss, Lova Lynn Plgg, Helen Ballin-
ger, Dorothy Lamb. Jean Biggs, Celeste
and Mary Lou Pigg. Alan Hagan. VIII
liam Whelan. Nome Dodd. David Lord,
Dorothy Jean Schram, Patricia Mo-
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Army Band
Will Begin
New Series
First Festival Concert
Tops Sylvan Theater
Program Tuesday.

The United States Army Band. con-
Quoted by Capt. Thomas F. Darcy,
will play its first festival concert of
the season in the National Sylvan
Theater at the Washington Monument
on Tuesday night, when at O'Clock
the second Summer festival program
of the 1887 season is offered under
the joint auspices Of the Community
Center Department and the Office of
National Capital Parks. Numbers
chosen by Capt. Darcy for this gala
concert comprise a Sousa march,
King Cotton: ''Favorite Arias From
Your Favorite Operas: "Milneberg
Joys" by Rappoli; Victor Herbert's Sc
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A CAPELLA CHOIR
BID TO CHAUTAUQUA

The A Capella Choir of the First
Congregational Church concluded its
seasons work at the church on June s
with festival performance of the
"Hallelujah Chorus" from the Mes
siah,' and The Heavens Are Telling"
from the Creation" by an aug
mented choir of 81 voices made up
OF the acting choir and alumni of the
13 years Mrs. Stahl has been directing
music at the First Congregational
Church
The present choir has been honored
by an invitation to sing at Chau-
tauQua N. Y, on July II, in the
amphitheater seating 1000 persons.
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VIOLIN CLUB FIXES
JULY REHEARSAL

The Violin Ensemble Club, formed
by Elena de Sayn to give professional
training to those interested in cham
Der music and ensemble, will hold its
first session during the first week of
July. Rehearsing will take place in
small groups, graded in accordance
with individual proficiency, to be
merged later into large ensemble
Miss De Sayn graduate of the Royal
Conservatory in Leipzig, made a spe-
cial study of chamber music and was
organization in Washington which
bore her name.
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1000 Voices
In Mountain
Lake Choir

A REVIVAL of traditions that have
long been dormant will be rep
resented by Maryland's fourth annual
Mountain Choir Festival, to be held
at Mountain Lake Park, Nd, in the
heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
on Sunday, July 49, AS in last years
festival, attended by 5000 persons,
visitors will be seated in an open-air
rainproof auditorium, having a seat
Ing capacity of 5000,
This season, for the first time, Dr.
John Finley Williamson, distinguished
director and founder of the West
minister Choir, will conduct the Noun
tain Choir Festivals chorus of 1000
voices. To attend the festival, Dr.
Williamson will leave San Francisco,
cross the continent, and come directly
to the first rehearsal of the Mountain
Choir Festivals choristers.
Last Summer in the choral contest,
which is an annual feature attracting
choirs from Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia, SITS in
cash prizes went to three of the COM
pCGAll6 SllCAos NoSl ~ ALSo AldSC
increased to a total of 1925 this year,
Of which 500 represents first prize.
&75 for second place, while $50 will
20 to the group finishing third. Such
internationally known personages as
DR.. T. Tertius Noble, Henry Holden
Huss. Mrs. Otto Kahn, Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, sr; F. Melius Christensen,
Clarence Dickinson, DR.. William Pow
ell Twaddell and Harvey Gaul are in
cluded in the festivals list of sponsors
or judges.
This year, constituting the first
community venture of its kind to di-
rectly bring about revival of medi-
eval church ritual, DR.. Felix G. Rob-
inson, founder and director of the
festival, will act as celebrant in a
choral eucharist, which will follow a
solemn procession to be held at sun
set. The Rev. Ralph c. Robinson, a
brother of the founder, has been Sc
lected to assist in intoning the Sol
esmes version of plain-song which
edited by Canon Winfred Douglas and
set to English words. will be the mu-
sical setting of the eucharist
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CORRECTION.

Through typographical error,
Flenish-French tapestries OF the
Gothic era referred to in these
columns last 1Ueek as ranked by
all connoisseurs as most fine were
designated as Flemish-Finnish,
yhich Uas regrettobly misleading.
no 1Dorks OF such category euer
hdWnq eristed.
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lections and Fillmore's Man OF the
Hour" march.
Mildred Colvin. Washington So
prano, accompanied by Mrs Kirby
Smith at the piano. will be heard in
a group of songs prior to the dance
program Of the Marian Chace Group,
which forms the second part OF the
program. Mrs. Colvin will sing One
Fine Day" from Nine Butterfly" by
Puccini; Down in the Forest by
Ronald. and Italian Street Song"
from the Hauerbach-Frim opera
"Firef1y"
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Service Band Concerts.

THE United States Navy Band, Lieut..
Charles Benter, conducting, will
play the following concerts during
the week beginning Monday:
Monday. 100 pm, Sail Loft. Navy
Yard; 7:30 pm, at the Capitol.
Tuesday, 7:3O pm, World War
Memorial. West Potomac Park.
Wednesday, 1880 am. Sail Loft,
Navy Yard; 7:3o pm. band stand,
Leutz Park, Navy Yard.
Thursday, 3 pm, Naval Hospital.
Friday, II 80 am, Sail Loft. Navy
Yard; ? pm, st. Elizabeths Hospital.
The United States Marine Band,
under the direction of Capt. Taylor
Branson, will give the following con-
certs during the coming week:
Monday. pm, sunset dress parade
at the Marine Barracks; pm, con-
cert at the Marine Barracks.
Tuesday, $50 pm, concert in the
Formal Garden. Army Medical Center,
Walter Reed General Hospital.
Wednesday, 7:30 pm, concert
United States Capitol
Saturday. 1890 pm, music appreA
citation concert at the Marine Barracks,
sponsored by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture
The schedule of the United States
Army Band. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy.
leader, includes the following concerts
to be given during the coming week:
Monday, family hour of music,
Army Band Auditorium, pm; Dis
trict of Columbia World War Memo-
rial, Potomac Park, 7:30 pm.
Tuesday, National Sylvan Theater.
Washington Monument grounds,
pm.
Thursday Army Band Auditorium,
$50 pm; Mount Alto Hospital, pm.
Friday, United States Capitol, 7:30
pm.
Saturday, Army Band Auditorium,
1890 am.
Concerts this week by the United
States Soldiers Home Band will take
place Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day evenings at o'clock in the band
stand. John S. M. Zimmerman is
bandmaster and Anton Pointner
assistant.
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The Musically Aspiring
Must Bear Criticism
Would-Be Artists Have to Learn to "Take
It," Regardless of Hard Work
or Accident.
By Alice Eversman.

the season OF appraisal OF the talent and development
musicians perhaps future artists
element is in operation in
audiences
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Norman Herman gave a piano re-
cital last Wednesday at the studio
residence Of his teacher, Lillian Conn
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r is a matter of real and very
| great pride to us here that in the
/ notable Renoir exhibition which