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as singer, composer and conductor.
1t is frequently heard in choral
arrangements.
The Tschaikowsky symphony, his
sixth and final work in this form,
has won for itself deservedly the
niche Of the most famous of all his
orchestral works. The composer
himself expressed his pleasure at
the work, writing to his publisher
after he had completed the Or
chestration, "On my word of honor,
never in my life have I been so
satisfied, so proud, so happy in
the consciousness of having written
truly good piece"
The first performance, on October
%, 1898, was failure and before
it was conducted by Napravnik for
a second time, on November 18 Of
the same year, TschaikoWsky was
dead of cholera. The naming Of
the symphony is related by Tschai-
kowsky's brother, Modesto. The
composer had originally called the
work Program Symphony" Seeking
another name, Tschaikowsky re-
jected Modeste's suggestion Of
Tragic Symphony for the title
that was finally used.
The "Perepetuum Mobile" Of
Schoenherr is based on the fa-
nous &C Major Etude" of Rodolph
Kreutzer. The brilliancy of the
>etude has been Transcribed most
effectively for modern orchestra by
the Austrian composer conductor.
The Handel work, repeated by pop
ular demand. from an earlier pro-
gram this season, was transcribed by
DR.. Kinder during the last summer.
Visiting Canada for the third con-
secutive year, the National SYM
phony will play concerts in HAM
ilton, Ontario, on December and
Ottawa, the Canadian capital on
December 2. The first concert on
the northern tour will be on No.
vember % at Pennsylvania State
College, State College, Pa. Other
dates include Syracuse, N. Y, No.
vember %; Utica, N. Y, November
30; Springfield, Mass, December 4;
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.,
December S; Providence, R. l., De-
cember 6; New Bedford, Mass,
December 7; Bushnell Memorial
Auditorium, where two concerts will
be given. Hartford, Conn, December
8; Fall River. Mass. December 8,
and Wilmington, Del, December 10.
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Attractions
Engaged for
aSOn
Gigli, Famed Tenor, ,
Leads Group in
Local Events

Three outstanding concert and
recital attractions will be presented
at Constitution Hall during the
early part of December, all under
the auspices of Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorsey, according to a current an
nouncepent of that management.
The first of these notable attrac-
tions will be the recital at Con-
stitution Hall next Sunday after
noon, December 4, at o'clock. of
Beniamino Gigli, former leading
tenor of the Metropolitan Opera and
successor to the musical greatness
of the late Enrico Caruso, who re-
turns to the United States after
an absence of six seasons.
Announcement is currently made
also that Gigli will sing again at
the Metropolitan during late Janu-
ary and early February, in addition
to operate appearances on the
Pacific Coast and in Chicago and
in recital and broadcast in various
other parts of the country.
Some idea of the type of program
that Gigli will sing here next Sun
day afternoon may be gathered
from the announcement that three
great arias will be included: the
20 Paradise" aria from Meyerbeer's S
"L'Africana," the 20 amore, bella
luce aria from Mascagnl's IL 'Amlco
Fritz and the beautiful "M'appari'
aria from Flotow's Marta" as well
as songs by Cesti, Pergolesi. Cacclnl,
Mendelssohn, Grieg, Hahn, Lalo,
Schubert, Rachmaninof, Daniel
Wolf, Denza, Leoncavallo, Buzzi-
Peccia, De Curtis, De Crescendo, Di
Capua and others.
The second of Mrs. Dorsey's De-
cember attractions to be presented
at Constitution Hall will be the
ninth consecutive annual concert of
the Don Cossack Russian Male
Choxus, under the inspiring leader
ship OF Serge Jaroff. to be given on
Sunday afternoon, December IL, at
4 o'clock.
The third of Mrs. Dorsey's De-
cember attractions will be the re-
cital on Tuesday evening, Decem-
ber 10, at $50 o'clock, of Sergei
Rachmaninoff, eminent Russian
composer and pianist, who will make
his only 1889 recital appearance
at that time. Rachmaninoff will
play Beethovens Sonata, Op. 81;
twelve Chopin preludes. his own &C
Major Prelude" and other compost
tions by Rameau, Bach, Schubert
and LiSZt.
Seats for these three attractions,
as we'll as the concerts and recitals
to be given later on this season by
Swarthout, Richard Crooks and
Kathryn Meisle, Menuhin, Lily
Pons, Heifetz, John Charles Thom-
as, Bidu Sayao. Nelson Eddy,
and Josef Holman may now be
obtained at Mrs. Dorsey's concert
bureau, in Droop's, 1900 G street
NV.
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length, and are followed by a tour
of the building for visitors who wish
to remain. There is never an Offer
ing or collection taken.
The Friday Morning Music Club
will present the song cycle, Die
Schone Mullerin.' by Franz Schu-
bert, on Friday at 1l:30 am, Barker
Hall. Wilhelmina Spanhoofd Wal
tiers. soprano, will sing the 20 songs
of the cycle, with Helen Grimes at
the piano. Anita Schade will give
the program notes.
The Orpheus Quartet-Hazel Gem
Hughes. soprano; Elaine Sebring
Ford. contralto; Jesse Nussear, ten
or; William Morrison Hanft, bass
accompanied by Otto T. Simon, will
give short recital for the men,
bers of the Twentieth Century Club
at Barker Hall on Thursday morn
ing.
Miss Harriet johnson will lecture
on Beethovens Eighth Symphony"
at the next meeting in the layman's
music course series at the Y. w. C. A.
on Thursday This work will be
played by the National Symphony
Orchestra at its concert December
%.
Mrs J. Frank Rice has arranged a
program on The Music of Virginia
and Maryland" for the music Sec
ton Of the Takoma Park Womens
Club, to be given Thursday at the
home of Mrs. James Councillor, l70l
Kalmia road.
The Nordica Mandolin and Guitar
Orchestra. under the direction of
Walter T. Holt, will be heard in a
| concert on Friday night at the
Christ Lutheran Church. Sixteenth
and Gallatin streets NV. A varied
program of orchestral and solo num-
bers for the mandolin, banjo, guitar
and Hawaiian guitar has been ar
ranged. Mildred Sherman, soprano,
and J. Edmund Veitch, tenor of the
Estelle Wentworth School of Sing
ing, will be assisting artists, with
Miss Wentworth at the piano.
Maxwell Galloway, soprano, will be
presented in recital by Helen Turley
at the studio, 1926 Massachusetts
avenue NV. at 4 o'clock Saturday.
Dorothy Lotus will accompany Miss
Galloway. Assisting Miss Galloway
will be Norma Druke Coombs, vio-
linist, student of Elena de Sayn
Mrs. Coombs will be accompanied by
Ellen Barnes at the piano.
Kalman's gypsy operetta. Count
ess Martha" will be presented by
the Columbia Light Opera Company
as the first of its 1889 series of
light opera revivals on December 8
and at Mckinley Auditorium. un-
der the direction of Ethel Manning.
Assisting Mrs. Manning in the pro-
duction is Cha1oner Barnes, who is
executive assistant. and who is in
charge of staging the production.
Also assisting are Gladys Hunt. Oba
Jan Gibson. Frances Jackson, Doris
Long and Charles Moran.
Reserved seat tickets are available
at the opera headquarters, 706 Thir-
teenth street. Popular prices prevail
for this opera.
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Committee. Plans
For Convention

A meeting of the local committee,
arranging for the Goth annual con-
vention of the Music Teachers Ma
tional Association in Washington on
December %, 20 and 80, will be held
in the Italian Garden at the May
flower Hotel tomorrow at o'clock.
This meeting is to be held jointly
with the Washington Music Teach
er's Association, Inc. Edwin Hughes
of New York City, national presi-
dent, will be present, and DR.. Harold
Spivacke, chief of the Division of
Music of the Library of Congress
and local chairman for the conven-
ton, will preside.
In conjunction with this conven-
ton of the M. T. N. A., there will be
held the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Schools OF
Music and the American Musicolo-
gical Society, and the biennial con-
vention of Phi Mu Alpha (Sinfonia) I,
the largest music fraternity.
In cooperation with DR.. Harold
Spivacke, local chairman, vitally in
teresting sessions on wide variety
of musical subjects have been ar
ranged. In addition, special events
which have already been scheduled
include a reception at the White
House, and a program by the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra under
DR.. Hans Kinder at Constitution
Hall.
There will be, furthermore, two
chamber music concerts offered by
the Library of Congress, one by the
Coolidge Quartet under the auspices
of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Foundation, and the other by the
Budapest Quartet under the auspices
of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall
Foundation. Full members Of the
M. T. N. A. will be entitled to ad-
mission to all Of these events.
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BY ALICE EVERSMAN.


The Columbia Phonograph Co.
has been particularly fortunate in
its choice of recordings to release
this month. Not only is there
enough variety to make one serious
ly consider ordering all of them,
but they are of the character to be
a real addition to the > collectors
library OF special interest among
these new recordings is Albert
Roussels Quartet in D Major, op.
As an album of Debussys Moe
| turnes" and another of the Brahms
"Waltzes. op. 39.'
The eminent French composer,
Roussel. who died last year, wrote
but one quartet and this for the
Roth String Quartet, which plays
it on this recording. Roussel was
a great admirer of the Roth group,
and they took advantage of this
friendship to urge the composer to
write a quartet. a line of compost
ton he had not yet attempted. He
finally agreed and the artists of
the Roth ensemble played it for
the first time in Paris in 1882 and
introduced it in America two years
later.
OF all the modern writings in
quartet form, this work of RousSels
latest years might be considered the
most outstanding. The composer,
who belonged to the period when
Debussys influence was most keenly
felt, has hewed his composing line to
the type set by the great impression
ist. But that is all. The rest bears
the stamp of Roussels originality
of thought and the expertness OF
his workmanship. There is sense
of solidity in this quartet and the
gleam of real inspiration is con-
stantly present.
The first and second movements
are the most arresting for the lovely
melodic treatment with its passion
ate tinge in the first and for the
beautiful ethereal mood of the Sec
ond. The final allegros are bright
and sparkling but the zest Of this
writing is less distinctive than the
character of the other two move
ments. But on the whole it is a
lovely work, one that should be
heard more often.
The Debussy "Nocturnes" are
played by the Orchestre des Festi-
walls Debussy and conducted by D.
E. Inghelbrecht. who was friend
of the composer. These exquisite
tonal paintings are played with a
special regard for the evanescent
quality that only Debussy could Sue
cessfully reproduce in music. The
first is the delicate "Nuages,"
where, as Debussy explains. he de-
picts "the unchanging blue sky
across which great white clouds,
sometimes fading away into gray
f1ecked with white, drift with solemn
motion" In "Fetes" he represented,
as he said, "the restless dancing
rhythm of the atmosphere inter-
spersed with sudden flashes of
light"
The final section is the 1ess-well-
known "Sirenes," with its women's
chorus which sings without words.
Again quoting Debussy, the idea of
the work Is "the sea and its in
Vulnerable rhythm; then amid the
pillows silvered by the moon the
mysterious song of the sirens is
heard-it laughs and passes" On
the reverse side of the last disk is
recorded two Fanfare" that frLm
Debussys lie Martyre de Saint
Sebastien" and the other from
Dukas' La Peri"
Anatole Kitain, Russian pianist.
who made his American debut at
Town Hall, New York, in 1894, plays
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Chanters at Hotel

The Chevy Chase Chanters, under
the direction of j. Horace Smithey
will fill return engagement in the
musical series at the Roosevelt Hotel
this evening at $50. Assisting the
Chanters will be Raoul Berger, vio-
linist, accompanied by Helen Ber-
ger, pianist and composer, Mr.. Ber-
ger was for several years soloist in
the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra,
later becoming concertmeister of the
Cincinnati Symphony and director
of the Cincinnati String Quartet.
On tonight's program he will play
one Of Mrs. Berger's own compost
tions, "Poeme."
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Appearance
OF hampton
Announced
Prirna Donna Added
To List of Artists
In Musicales

Rose hampton, the amazing con-
tralto who has successfully turned
into a brilliant leading soprano and
Is prima donna of both the Metro
politan and Chicago Grand Opera
Co.'S, has just been added to the list
of artists that Mrs. Lawrence Town
send is bringing in her series of
morning musicales, which will start
two weeks from tomorrow at the
Mayflower Hotel at IL am.
Miss hampton will appear on the
program December 19-the second
in the series-with the gifted pianists,
Pierre Luboschutz and his charming
wife, Genia Nemenoff. Miss Bamp-
ton replaces Emanuel List, basso
who. being scheduled to sing in a
performance of "Rosencavalier" that
evening in. New York, will appear in
Washington on January %, instead
of the earlier date.
Miss hampton, who is one of the
outstanding of native artists, also
has been chosen to replace Rosa
Ponselle in the Town Hall endow-
ment series of concerts in New York
this year. Miss Ponselle, through
recent illness, had to cancel that
among other engagements.
The first of Mrs. Townsend's new
series, December IL, will present
Robert Virovai, the young Czecho-
slovak violinist, who has been hailed
by all the New York critics since his
debut with the Philharmonic Or
chestra early this month as great
Artist-even a genius. Virovai does
not give his first full recital in New
York, however. until after his debut
In Washington under Mrs. Town
sends auspices. His recital in Car
negie Hall will be given December II
Also on the opening program De-
cember II will be the great American
tenor, Richard Crooks, and the new
Australian baritone, Robert Nichol-
son, who is the second to make a
debut on this opening program.
Subscribers to this series will
please note that the hour has been
advanced to II o'clock instead of
1l:15 am. Reservations can be made
with Mrs. Townsend at 1909 Twenty
first street NV, or by telephone.
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This afternoon the music hour
at S o'clock at the Young Women's
Christian Association at Seventeenth
and X streets will be program pre-
sented by Mary Teresa Folta, pianist
Miss Folta will be assisted by Regina
Cole, soprano. who will be accom-
panied by Mary Mathews Taylor
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
The First Baptist Church Choir
Sixteenth and o streets NV. will
sing Maunder's Song of Thanks
giving" today at 8 pm. The
soloists are: Prudence Jackson,
soprano: Charlotte LaFond, con-
tralto: Eugene Swygert, tenor; How
ard Moore. bass The choir is under
the direction of Raymond E. Rapp,
organist and director.
Gene Stewart, organist and direc-
tor of choirs at Waugh M. E. Church.
Third and A streets, will present the
Junior, young peoples and senior
choirs in the second of a series of
monthly musical services this eve
ming at o'clock. Mr.. Stewart will
offer two organ solos, with vocal
solos by Louise Finagin and Walter
w. NARROW.
The Florence Howard Studios will
present the first of series of studio
recitals tomorrow at $3.50 pm, at
the studios. 1408 New Hampshire
avenue NV. The singers include
Elizabeth Everett, Alice Hatch, Ina
Holtzscheiter, Frances Tucker and
Eleanor Berge Catron. Accompanies
are Lois Abernethy, Marjorie Davis
and Wilma Kaplan.
The next rehearsal Of the Rubin
stein Club will be held on Tuesday
evening only at AS pm. at the Will
lard Hotel
Plans are being completed for
holding card party Tuesday eve
ming, December 6. at the Highlands.
Connecticut avenue and California
street NV. The public is cordially
invited.
Gene Stewart will be guest Or
ganist tomorrow, pm. at the
tri-weekly series of recitals offered
to the public at the Washington
Chapel, Sixteenth street and Colum-
bia road. The recitals on Wednes-
day and Friday, 8 pm, will be played
by D. Sterling Wheelwright, chapel
director and organist, and Mrs.
Wheelwright will sing. The pro-
grams are about 40 minutes in
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Concert Schedule

National Symphony Orches-
ira, DR.. Hans Kinder, conduc-
tor; Lucille Manners. soprano,
soloist, Constitution Hall, 4 pm.
The Chevy Chase Chanters,
j. Horace Smithey, director;
Raoul Berger, violinist: Helen
Berger, composer pianist. solo,
lists. Roosevelt Hotel $50 pm.
Y. w. c. A.. Mary Teresa
Folta, pianist; Regina Cole, So
prano, Music Hour, S pm.
Monday.
Music Teachers Association
meeting, Italian garden, May
flower Hotel, 8 pm.
An evening with the Victrola,
Public Library, Eighth and K
streets NV, 7:30 pm.
Gene Stewart. organ recital.
Washington Chapel l.. D. S., 8
pm.
Tuesday.
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eu-
gene Ormandy, conductor,
Wagnerian program, Constitu-
ton Hall, 8:45 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
Wednesday.
Playhouse Mixed Chorus,
Howard r. Green, director.
Department of Agriculture
auditorium.
D. Sterling Wheelwright, Or
gan recital, Washington Chapel
l.. D. S., 8 pm.
Thursday.
Layman's Music Course, Har-
riett johnson, director. Barker
Hall, evening.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
Friday.
The Friday Morning Music
Club, Wilhelmina Spanhoofd
Walters, soprano: Helen Grimes
pianist; Anita Schade, reader,
Barker Hall, 1880 am.
The Nordica Mandolin and
Guitar Orchestra, Walter T.
Holt, director; Mildred Sher-
man, soprano, and j. Edmund
Veitch, tenor, soloists, Christ
Lutheran Church, Sixteenth
and Gallatin streets, evening.
D. Sterling Wheelwright. Or
gan recital, Washington Chap
el L. D. S., 8 pm.
Saturday.
Gertrude Troutman, pianist;
Justin Lawrie, tenor, Y. M. C..
A. e\ening music series, 1876
G street NV, $3.50 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
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Program at Library

Mozart's Symphony in. G Minor, +"
Schumann's Concerto in A Minor
for Piano." and Bach's Concerto
in D Minor for Two Violins" will
constitute the evening with the VIC
trola program tomorrow night at
the central building of. the Public
Library, Eighth and K streets, NV.
The concert, in the music division,
will begin at 7:30 o'clock.
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Miss Manners has chosen for her
portion of this afternoons pro-
gram the aria, "Convient partir,"
from Donizetti's comic opera, "The
Daughter of the Regiment; Sir
George Henschers Morning Hymn"
and the aria, louvre ton coeur," by
Georges Bizet.
The entire second half of the
concert will be devoted to the play
ing of Tschaikowsky's Symphony
No. g." known familiarly as the
"Pathetique." DR.. Kinder will open
the concert with the prelude and
Fugue," from Handel's Concerto
Crosse, Opus 3, No. S." arranged
for large orchestra by the Washing
ton conductor. and will include the
performance for the first time in
Washington of a new "Perpetuum
Mobile" by Max Schoenherr.
The success story of Miss Man.
ners is virtually an Horatio Alger
narrative set to music. Two years
ago Miss Manners walked into star
dom, succeeding Jessica Dragonette
on a famous national radio pro-
gram, which has been one of the
major programs of the National
Broadcasting Co. for nine years.
Today Miss Manners has established
her position securely at the top of
her field.
The Donizetti aria, from the first
act of one of the composers comic
operas. portrays the grief of Marie,
"vivandiere" of the 21st Regiment
of Savoyards. under Napoleon, as
she is forced to leave the Swiss
Alpine village in order to break up
the romance of young peasant.
Since it is comic opera, every
thing comes out happily in the end.
The opera was written in 1840, and
was the SD work of Donizetti. So
prolific was this composer that dur
ing the same year he turned out
four other operas, too. The role of
Marie in The Daughter of the
Regiment" has been taken by such
famous sopranos as Zelie de Lussan,
Marcella Sembrich and Luisa Tet-
razzini.
The Bizet song, not an excerpt
from an opera, has as its subtitle
"A Spanish Serenade" Using many
of the same instrumental and rhyth-
mic devices Bizet employed in Car
men, the song is one of extraord-
mary loveliness. Morning Hymn"
is one of the more familiar songs
of Sir George Henschel, distinguished
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Chorus Introduced

A section of the Playhouse Mixed
Chorus will make its first public
appearance at the ninth perform
ance of the Playhouse, sponsored
by the Agricultural branch of the
N. F. F. E., and to be held on We'd
nesday in the Agriculture Audito-
rum. Howard r. Green, its director,
will play several of his original
piano compositions entitled, Wien
nese Melody" Moorish March" and
"Minuet" (old English.
The Works Progress Administra-
tion Orchestra will play several
dance numbers and the film part
of the program will include Work
Pays America and Hands,"
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Opera at Willard

The Estelle Wentworth Opera Co.
is plonning its 1889 season of
opera here, the events to be given
at the Hotel Willard, opening with
THE Pirates of Penzance" early in
the new year. The first production
will be followed by a double bill a
month later, featuring a Mozart
opera.
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American Singer Chosen
Soloist With Symphony
Orchestra to Start Tour
Tomorrow on Its Third
Visit to Canada

National Symphony Orchestra will present this afternoon the
third its Sunday afternoon
Kinder Constitution Hail. with Lucille
American artist and
the first major of its eighth weeks
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Wagner Program Here
Represents Growth
Welcome Development Seen
In Taste for Music of
Great Composer
By Alice EversMau.

was not long tune ago. as time reckoned that an evening Of
The minority that liked completely overshadowed by the
majority who sought disapproval it, The
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Gertrude Troutman, child pianist
and accompanist, and Justin Lawrie
tenor, will give the first of the eve.
ming music series at the Y. M. c. A.
1876 G street NV, in the assembly
hall on Saturday at $3.50 pm.
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In Local Music Circles

length, and are followed by a tour
of the building for visitors who wish
to remain There is never an Offer
ing or collection taken.
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Mrs. ]. Frank Rice has arranged a
program on The Music of Virginia
and Maryland" for the music Sec
ton Of the Takoma Park Women's
Club, to be given Thursday at the
home of Mrs. James Councillor, l70l
Kalmia road.