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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-10
COOKING IN ASHE COUNTY

Ashe county husbands are extremely fortu-
nate in having wives who have the reputation
of being exceptionally good cooks. In many
sections of the country today modern wives
seem to know how to do everything except
Cook They know how to dance, play bridge,
golf, tennis, ride horseback swim, row boat,
make speeches and whatnot, but when it comes
to the kitchen they say "oh, why should bot
her about learning to cook when I can hire
one?"
Perhaps that's right from one point of view,
but the happiest homes we ever saw were those
in which ''love, dishes and the cook stove, were
more frequently mixed! We've never seen this
statement, but we believe it's true, ito be
good wife or mother, it is necessary to be
good cook and home maker"
In order to learn the secret as to why Ashe
county ladies are such good cooks, The Post is
sponsoring two recipe contests and it is hoped
that large number will participate in them by
sending in their favorite recipes.
While it's winter now, it won't be long before.
things will be enraptured with the glory Of the
summer moon, or Something.
Religion, to be worth anything, must be
personal experience, but this doesn't mean that
you can't get any good out Of attending church
services.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-10
SERVICE AT ST. MARY,s SUN,

On Sunday, Feb. 18th, there will
be service and preaching at HOO
A. M, at st. Mary's church, Beaver
Creek, with Rev. J. B. Sill being in
charge. He will be at Glendale
Springs and Jefferson this week.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
Roth String
Quartet in
Three Programs
Announced d at
Library.

THE Roth String Quartet of Buda-
pest will give three concerts at
the Library of Congress under the
auspices of the Elizabeth Sprague
Coolidge Foundation at the Coolidge
auditorium on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. OF the three concerts those
on Thursday and Friday will be at 8
o'clock in the evening, while the one
on Saturday will begin at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon.
One of the featured numbers of the
concerts will be THE Art of the
Fugue," by Bach, arranged by Roy
Harris and M. D. Herter Norton for
string quartet At each of the con-
certs part of the art of the Fugue"
will be performed.
These concerts will be broadcast in
part. On Thursday and Friday over
Station WMAL from 9 to $50 o'clock,
on Saturday over Station WRC from
to 430 o'clock
The members of the quartet are
Feri Roth and Jeno Antal. violins:
Ferenc Molnar, viola, and Janos
Scholz, cello. The quartet will be
assisted by Johana Harris. piano.
The complete programs will be as
follows: Thursday evening, Bach,
THE Art of the Fugue': Quincy Por-
ter, Quartet No. A.; Mozart, Quartet
No. IA in G Major K. 387" Friday
evening: Walter Piston's Quartet
No. l." Bach's THE Art of the F,lgue,"
Mozart's quartet No. II in B Fiat
Major K. 458," and Saturday, Bach's
The Art of the Fugue," Roy Harris
Quintet for String Quartet and
Piano; Mozart, Quartet No. 18, in
A Major K. 464."
Evening star., 1938-02-06

1pnlRe1la IN AuuS JIuCk
symphony in A Major Mendelssohn
,Intermission)
IAN Abraham Lincoln Song Damrosch
Three Mldshipmen's songs" from "A
Man without n1snt Country,, so,o,:, Damrosch
Prelude and chorale, Elm Feste Burg"
Bach-Damrosch
Chorus and orchestra.
Second half of program conducted by
The Overture to Iphigenia" by
Gluck is the great prototype of all the
subsequent dramatic" overtures, the
more symphonic structures which fol-
lowed from Beethoven via Weber.
Wagner and Verdi, to Richard Strauss.
Wagner was the first one to recognize
this. He not only wrote with his usual
penetration and sympathetic insight
about this work of grandeur, but
thought it eminently worth while to
finish the overture with a concert
ending.
IT is in this version that the work
will be played today. The music
in its stateliness. in it's deep serious
ness, in its sombre magnificence give
one the exact sense of the tragedy
which is to follow. In fact, it is one
OF those rare works in music where
the musical counterpart is completely
worthy of the greatness of the literary
text. This is rare. One has but to
be reminded of the thin, inadequate
quality of such works as Faust" by
Gounod, or Hamlet" by Thomas, to
see the difference which separates
these musical counterparts from the
great literary works they were sup
Evening star., 1938-02-06
CHORAL OFFERING
BY LOVETTE CLUB

THE Lovette Choral Club, under the
direction of Eva Whitford Lovette,
will present "An Adventure at Mount
Vernon" phantasy written by Bess
Olmstead. at the Women's City Club,
on Wednesday evening. The phantasy.
which will be arranged and produced
by Mrs. j. Lester Brooks, is to be pre-
sented in commemoration of the
Sesquicentennial celebration. The
choral club, consisting of IS voices, will
sing group of numbers appropriate
to the program.
Bess Heath Olmstead will be mar
rator. Roscoe King, violinist. will as
sist and dancers from the Gnoocheff
studios will form the minuet group.
Florence Nelson will be the piano
accompanist. The character of
Martha Washington will be portrayed
by Hattie Moler, Carolyn Schultz will
be Nellie Gusts, Nell Durree Norris,
a visitor, and George Washington will
be portrayed by Inez Tyler. Vocalists
participating will be Hazel Cake,
Beulah E. Frantz, Francise Bass Will
son, Marietta Brumbaugh, Violet
Hobbs, Fay Bruce Swenson and Mrs.
Brooks.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
Two Stars
Of Opera
Sing
Last Musicale TO Be
Given Tomorrow
Morning.

THE last concert of the season of
Mrs. Lawrence Townsends series
at the Mayflower Hotel will take place
tomorrow at 11:15 am. The artists
to be presented are Hilda Burke, So
prano, and John Charles Thomas, bar
itone, both of the Metropolitan Opera
Association.
Hilda Burke, born in neighboring
Baltimore. sang here in 1926, when
she won the District Federation of
Music Clubs top honor and was sent
to the national convention to do like
wise. A Juilliard Foundation scholar
ship made it possible for her to study
IN Dresden, and, following her return
to this country, her first really big
chance came when she made her debut
IN Aida" in the performance which
opened the new S2O,OOO.0OO opera
house in Chicago. Her European de-
but was made in Liege, Belgium, and
just last season she won her place as
leading prima donna of the Metro
politan Opera Company.
John Charles Thomas is even better
known in Washington, where his many
admirers recall his first concert ap-
pearance after having made his light
opera success in such hits as Apple
Blossoms" and "Maytime" Then the
Washington Opera Company gave him
his first chance in serious opera. He
sang AmonaSro iii Aida" and left
the next night for Europe. It was in
Belgium-in Brussels-that he, like
Hilda Burke, had his continental oper-
attic debut. Upon his return to the
United States, his first operate ap-
pearance was made with the same
Washington Opera Company which
had given him that earlier chance.
He sang the title role in "Rigoletto"
He also has sung opera in Covent
Garden. Vienna, Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Chicago, and, for the past
two seasons, with the Metropolitan.
He has become one of the great
favorites on the radio, but he still loves
concertizing. and is, undoubtedly, one
Of the most gifted in that difficult
field of work.
The program is as follows:
Aria. "Promesse de mon avenir." from lie
Rol de Lahore MasSenet
Ar,, "vsdr., Mr.. isr,rn Thomas: tron, ,na on.r,
Don Giovanni ---- Mozart
Miss Burke.
20 del Mic Amato Ben Donaudy
"Au PAYS ---------- Augusta Holmes
En- Baroue -------- Gabriel Plerne
"ChanSon a Bore Maurice Ravel
Mr.. Thomas.
..'Nebbie.'', by special request - Respiehi
lie paplllon -- Fourdra in
LA flute enchantee' ----- Ravel
'Nocturne" Joseph Marx
Aria. Ave Mara,' from "Das Feuer-
kreutz' Max Bruch
Miss Burke.
Duet. La ci darem la mano," from Don
Giovanni Mozart
Miss Burke and Mr.. Thomas.
20 Sleep. Why DoSt Thou Leave Me"
Handel
"1'm Not as Other Lassies Are"
HUGO Wolf
TN the Harvest Field Gn Russianl,
Rachmaninof
"Troyka' Tin Russan),
Russian folk song
Miss Burke.
1.-THE Minstrel Boy"
Arranged by William Arms Fisher
lord Randall Arranged by Cyril Scott
.'Rhymes of Rover" Carroll Hollister
''David and Goliath Albert Hay Malotte
MIR. Thomas
At the piano: For Miss Burke. Howard
Kubik; for Mr.. Thomas, Carroll Hollister.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
BUCkNELL SINGERS
in TWO CONCERTS

THE Bucknell Glee Club will give
two concerts at the Calvary Bap-
tist Church, one today at the church,
at o'clock in the evening; the other
tomorrow evening at the same hour
in Woodward Hall of the Calvary
Baptist Church. The programs will
be as follows:
The Omnipotence" Schubert-,d.7,
Sara Louise Libensberser, soprano. D's~'
Flniandla' ----- Slbelius
"chorrh,W William crum, baritone us water
"YYondeS yonaer!" Arr. sst!n5anTsy sy o.inss
'Hospodi Pomoloi' Lvovsky
ore.r .o,os Glee Club.
..Adasio From Major Toccata" Bach
"Toccata and Fusue in D Minor" Bach
AHehS "Aiieiu,a Per --------- uays,. BIZ.
g, sara Louise Libensberser. .oprane' MSlaf'
..Ts. o,aw aw,,lism Rs|shnsr, M Bass. s' - Mon
Inc Ola Miners Refrain; :, ,
The Heavens Are Telling s"l. o, = H.sdn Wan
Glee Club.
Land sighting" Edward er,ez
The Heavens Are Telling"
r., from The Creation"l Haydn
"h0'h'nv"r" poem by ssSt'e; st 3. Hammond
c Russian. Compositions. n'""oho
ohssSDne sonndihs hsmn' Lo Voice to aesyen
"YSsSs5 %s{SdJ, Yonder" Eus,.a sa S?9siRlans., 9sR
"HGspods pomoloi li'A1s aS Our s. R oea @,'ne'
..Fin1s Hase Mercy y'----------s: v. Lvovsky
"A h''sannia spirip Flower" er"---5ean sioelius
Campbell Upton, arr. BY Ri.svsr
..Romany oman faqshty fifas Marietta).
-. from The Fortune Teler'D.
.",SSmoks Gets in Your Eyes" Kern -McHose
Tip Sans Ia Kentucky epic!:
'Old King Cole Cecil Fo1sr,ba ,te
Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Miners liners
Down in a Coal Mdlrsos' Mine.S
The Old Miners hstraln,. hs1i ~ Melvin lie Mon
When he; the the Breaker starts M6js'n lie Mon
The Broken pke Shovel Arr BY Harvey Gaui Saul
sucknell medley Arr. BY Melvin lie Mon
Orange and Blue"
'Rah! Bucknell'
TO, TO Thee. Bucknell. We Sing"
Old Bucknell."
Hail Bucknell"
Triumph Song"
Alma Mater"
Come Bucknell Warriors"
March On"
School spirit medley,
,, - Arr. by Melvin Le Mon
Go Bisons'- by Melvin lie Mon
Melvin lie Mon, director; D. Ralston
Shupe, student manager.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
In Local Music Circles

April II. 1898, at the Sylvan Theater
at the foot Of the Washington Monu-
ment by the Schola Cantorum, under
the direction of Maestro Arturo Papa
lardo.
Music lovers, soloists. singing groups
and church choirs are welcome to par
ticipate this year provided they atte:ld
the weekly rehearsal every Wednesday
evening at $3.50 sharp at suite COS,
1877 F street NV, beginning We'd
nesday. Every one wishing to par
ticipate Is required to attend the re-
hearsals regularly. For further in
formation telephone the Interior De-
partment.
The Christine Church studio was
the meeting place last night for the
Woodmont Music Study Club, whose
subject was Seventeenth and Eight
eenth Century italian Music" The
history of the period was presented
and illustrated with violin and voice
numbers. Those taking part were
Claws Gadd, Dolores Marye, Sophia
Minor. Beryl Pryor. Carolyn Tucker
and Clarence White.
Tamara Dmitrieff presented Carol
Frances Hollingsworth and Jeanne
Frances Parks In q piano recital last
Saturday evening at her studio, 56l2
Connecticut avenue.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
Orchestra
In Student
Concerts
Annual Series
Opens Tomorrow
At Central.

THE annual series Of students con-
certs by DR.. Hans Kinder and
the National Symphony Orchestra
will begin tomorrow when conductor
and orchestra move into the audito-
rum of Central High School, Thir-
teenth and Clifton streets NV, to
play a program specially prepared for
the youthful audience. The concert
is at $3.50 pm.
The program for the opening con.
cert will include the "Carneval Over-
ture" Of Dvorak, Bach's "Ar for
Strings" Glucks Procession of the
Blessed Spirits" from "Orpheus and
Eurydics." "Rondo" by Haydn. the
third movement, "Allegretto," from
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in
A Major" two of Paul Whites Five
Miniatures the Lake" and
Mosquito Dance"-and Glieres rus
sian Sailors Dance"
The entire series is entitled THE
Old and the New in Music" The
first program Is called From Shep-
herds Song to Symphony-Melody
and Harmony in Music" Following
its presentation at Central, the first
program will be repeated in three
other high schools-at Western, Thir-
ty-fifth and R streets. Friday, Febru-
ary II; Mckinley, Second and T
streets NE, Thursday, February II,
and Roosevelt. Thirteenth and Upshur
streets NV, Friday, February 18.
The second and third programs in
the series, entitled respectively. From
Rams Horn to Wind Choir" and
From Woodpeckers Tap to Machine
Made Rhythms" will be given at II
am. on Saturday, March and le.
in Constitution Hall. Tickets for
the series of three concerts are now
on sale at the National Symphony
Orchestra box Office in julius Gar
flnckels store.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
MADRICAL SINGERS
APPEAR TOMORROW

THE Madrigal Singers, directed by
Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, will
give the following program for the
American Association of University
Women at the clubrooms, 1884 I
street NV, tomorrow at S PM:
al! l,Ia.s Creatures Now Are Merry
"The Silver Swan" Orlando Gibbons
Carols
i fann:sr s!ns q Maiden" Gnstan H.1tin shsx AH,;t
I'm Dulci Jubilo' o'-Traditional German
Arr. by Westbrook
Lady. When Behold" John Wilbye
Awake, Sweet Love" John Dowland
THE Farmers Daushters"
Traditional English
...u- . o AT. by Gerard Williams
18th Century English
Arr. by Max Vogrich
The personnel Of the group includes
Elizabeth Waters, Winifred Thomas
Clark, Elsie Rogers Graham, Gladys
Roberts, LIE We're Smith. Mary Lerch
Brice. George Roth, Charles T. Hitler
and George F. Magdeburger.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
Reviews of RECORDINGS

ings and his mother had to take up
her singing as a means of livelihood.
But through it all the boy, Gioac-
chino, laughed and sang and studied
seriously only enough to spread his
wings a bit in composition.
As he grew older he worked harder,
gaining attention gradually for his
gift at writing. His desire was always
to write opera, which has grown into
his blood during the small positions
which he procured with travelling
companies.
He ended by not only being ac-
knowledged the greatest composer
OF opera of his own country, but
receiving like acclaim in France, Eng
land and Austria. His cheerfulness and
his kindly fun-making are interviewer
in all that he wrote of lighter char
acter and relieve his more serious
works from any weightiness. One
of his graver compositions, in which
he abandoned his insouciant manner
Of writing, is his opera "Semiramide, !"
which was produced in Venice lis
yNRAo 06S VA CbA uAA ~ ulu IlOt
please the public and Rossini, who
had met every turn of fate with a
smile and Jest, was much hurt and
vowed never to write again for the
theaters of his country, a vow which
he kept as far as Italy was con-
cerned.
The overture has all the vitality
for which Rossini was famous, bal
anced by moments Of quiet beauty
in pure lyric style. The orchestra
under Toscaninis direction gives q
superb reading of it, full Of color
and the definite contrasts in effects
which Rossini delighted in. It is
an enjoyable record in the musical
sense and one Of the finest examples
Of Maestro Toscanini's art Of inter.
pretiug music.
Evening star., 1938-02-06

past their prime or for programs Of
works they have heard many times
before. Both the American artist and
the American composer need help and
encouragement and If their brother
musicians will not at least give them
q fair trial, how can one expect that
those whose interest Is not specially
bound up In music will do so?
Times are hard for the ordinary
musician these days and many are
hard put to earn q living by the pro-
fession they have spent large amounts
Of money to learn. If they will stand
on their dignity, and demand some
recompense for every public appear
ance or just fee for lessons, the whole
status Of things will change. Right
in this city. there are many clubs
which always include music in enter
tainments on which they spend lavish
ly. But the artists who provide the
music, unless they belong to the union,
are not paid. II you ask musician
why he does not demand pay, he will
answer that the appearance is q good
one and may lead to something else
worth while. His desire to have his
name on printed program makes him
oblivious to the wrong he Is doing him.
self and others in the question Of not
forcing clubs to pay for their musical
entertainment. If musician is good
enough to appear before a first-rate
club, he is good enough to be paid
something for 1t. The musicians them
selves must fight for 1t, however.
THERE Is always . dearth Of good
accompanies in every community,
but plenty Of pianists not earning
much Of living as solo players. Why
do they not train themselves in the
very fine art Of accompanying instru-
mentaljsts or singers? Naturally this
requires q thorough knowledge of
music, ability to read music at sight
and ability 20 transpose. 1t requires
also a knowledge Of the traditions of
song Interpretation and of the scope
Of instrumental literature How many
pianists will school themselves in these
details. which have nothing to do with
their skill in playing Chopin or I.iszt,
in order to fit themselves to earn
money in studios and as accompanies
in q recital
For the students there are numer-
Gus opportunities offered every year
to gain scholarships or other prizes
in competition. Do the teachers, par
ents or the students themselves see to
it that they are absolutely perfect in
their knowledge when they enter a
competition. Are they not blinded by
the praise of friends or the pride of
their teacher and parents with their
small attainments. and contemptuous
OF the solid demands of good musician
ship? Then comes the day of heart
break when someone else. less brilliant
in display, perhaps, but giving evil
dence of thorough schooling, carries
on the prize. The teacher. parent or
student Is never blamed. it Is always
the jealousy or favoritism of judges
which disposes of the honor.
Musicians do not help themselves
sufficiently. All the troubles in the
musical world could be remedied if
they would only do so, and that in
harmony with their fellow musicians
1t would be fine thing if the musi-
clans of the District Of Columbia would
put aside all selfish interest and band
together at least to change the situa-
tion here. Other cities might be in
spired to follow suit.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
By ALICE EVERSMAN.

It was by special request of Arturo
Toscanini that the Victor Co. re-
corded the overture to Rossini's opera
"Semiramide" as played by the
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
directed by the great maestro. A
certain number of recordings by Tos-
canini had been contracted for and
finished when he asked that this
favorite overture of his be added 10
the list. The record was released this
month as No. M-408 of the Musical
Masterpiece Series.
The gay yet vigorous music has
found the sympathy of a great in
terpreter in this recording, one who
understands that under the brilliant
exterior is hidden poetic significance
Of real value. OF all the composers
Rossini carries the appeal of his con-
slant gayety and good humor to the
his lifetime. There is something
touching under the light-heartedness
Of Schubert which creeps into his
music. but Rossini was too busy en-
joying life to its fullest to allow more
than q touch of seriousness to shine
through In his writings.
Although having as parents such
humbly occupied people as butcher
and a bakers daughter and living
much of his childhood among those
Of like occupation. he was able to
rise above his milieu by the sheer
force of his talent and progress
through his life to the highest hon.
ors. So much of what he had to
endure parallels that which confronts
many musicians today that he should
be an example to them of how great
Is the power of talent If properly
cultivated. He knew abject poverty
in his earliest years, when his father
was imprisoned for his political lean
Evening star., 1938-02-06

posed to enhance and illustrate. Not
so in the case of Gluck where, as I
said. every note is portentous. The
Wagner ending. a perfect epilogue to
what goes on before, is accomplished
with the penetrating genius one would
expect.
The italian" Symphony, by Men,
delssohn. is. Of course, a complete con-
trast Written by the composer In his
still youthful and .virile period, before
he became slightly sentimental. it be-
longs among his very best, and, in the
full sense of the word, most brilliant
Works-wholly in a class with, for
instance, the Midsummer Nights
Dream music and the Violin Con-
certo"-in short, with the very best
products Of the pen OF this prolific
composer.
IT WAS written after his Italian jour-
ney, and is actually inspired by
two phases of melody: In the first
and third movement one has the i'm
preston of the joy of travel and ex-
perience the composer has felt in the
country Of beauty and sunshine and
Chianti. In the second and fourth
movements he has taken actual tunes
from the people Of Italy. The first
movement, therefore, is more sym
phonic" than the others; the third is
in typical melodic scherzo style with a
Waitz-llke beginning and witty and
elegant trio fully developed before the
return of the main theme. The second
movement is pilgrims chant, with an
underlying accompaniment in tripping
bases. suggestive Of the tap, tap of
little donkeys' hoofs. It is a lovelv
tune, which gradually rises in fervour
and intensity, to die away again in the
far distance in an almost inaudible
pianiSsimo.
The finale is in Tarantella form and
rhythm (the Italian national dance)
and is done with not only a COM
plete understanding of all the orches-
tral resources which are so eminently
Mendelssohn's prerogative, but with
an equally keen sense of the emo
tional possibilities of this most excit-
ing OF all dance forms. Legend has
it that the Tarantella was a disease
caused by the sting of the spider of
that name. The victim was driven
insane. and started dance which did
not end until death or exhaustion
folloWed-a kind of combination of
black widow" and big apple" effect.
Be this as it may, the sense of in
evitable and nearly ominous and mys-
terious continuance of the rhythmic
figure in 6/8 time (although in the
score it actually is in IL, thereby
avoiding too short a line) grips us
from the beginning, and never lets up
until the very end Of the finale.
ITO WRITE about DR.. Damrosch
would be to carry owls to Athens.
Suffice it for our readers to say that
three of the high lights of DR..
Damrosch's compositorial activity will
be given, with the added distinction
of having the eminent composer and
conductor emiritus Of America lead
them himself.
The first is the appropriate and
timely performance of his setting Of
the poem to Lincoln by Walt Whit
man. Second, are three excerpts from
his latest opera, "The Man Without
q Country" and the end will be the
choral-prelude to the superb hymn by
Bach: "A Mighty Fortress Is Our
C,od"