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National Event.
THE centennial Of music teac

THE centennial Of music teaching
in the schools of America was
celebrated as part of the 25th
meeting of the Music Educators
National Conference, ST. Louis, Mo-,
last week by several thousand people
representing every State in the Union.
In addition to the educators, musi-
clans and citizens who attended, over
10000 elementary. high school, col
lege and university students from all
parts of the country added their share
to the program in concerts, demon
strations and music clinics.
The five general sessions and some
40 section meetings and clinics were
devoted to the various phases of music
education in elementary, junior and
senior high schools. colleges and uni
versities. as well as post-school musical
activities
A series of four festival events were
provided by national high school
band and national high school or
chestra Of $50 players each, a national
junior orchestra of 200 players and a
festival chorus comprised of some
1000 singers. These groups. which are
sponsored by the National School
Band, Orchestra and Vocal Associa-
tions, are made up of outstanding
players, choirs and choruses from
schools representing most Of the
States.
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MUSIC WEEK HERE
TO HAVE FESTIVAL

NATIONAL MUSIC WEEK, May |
to 7, will be featured by two lead
ing events to be sponsored by the local
Federation of Music Clubs The first,
on May 3. is the sacred choir festi-
val, in which 325 singers will par
tlclpate as individual choirs and as a
massed group. the latter to be a rem
dition of Mozart's Gloria in Excelsis, -
from his Twelfth Mass" which will
be directed by Eva Whitford Lovette.
The festival, to be held in the Mount
Vernon Place M. E. Church. will have
as its special guest organist and con-
ductor Harvey Gaul, famous musician
and composer of Pittsburgh. The
chairman of the festival is R. Deane
Shure, director of music at the Mount
Vernon Church.
The second outstanding event of
the week will be the annual banquet
and concert at the National Press
Club auditorium on the evening of
May 4. There will be special guests
headed by Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober
of Norfolk. national federation pres
ident: District Commissioner Hazen,
and c. NJ Tremaine. executive direc-
tor of national music week. Follow
ing the dinner there will be musical
program in which the participating
artists will be members of the senior
organizations of the local federation.
Reservations may be placed with the
chairman of arrangements. Mrs. j..
Lester Brooks, 4218 Thirty-eighth
street NV.
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Grand Opera
To Be Given
In Capital
Rose hampton, Star, g,
Has Leading Role
In 2.Day Event.

NEXT to the Metropolitan Opera
Co, performances by the New
York Grand Opera Co. are best, ac-
cording to T. Arthur Smith local i'm
presarlo, who is sponsoring two
operate performances in Constitution
Hall April q and %. In explanation
Mr.. Smith assures opera lovers of
Washington that all the principals. the
chorus, the orchestra and the con-
ductor are to be drawn entirely from
the Metropolitan Opera.
With Pietro Cimara conducting and
such stars as Rose hampton. Rosa
Tentoni, Armand Tokatyan, Joseph
Royer. Sidney Ravner and Carlo
Morelli appearing in the two operas,
Madame Butterfly" and II Trova-
tore" Mr.. Smiths statement is amply
borne out.
Rose hampton. distinguished Metro
polltan Opera mezzo-soprano, who
will be heard in III Trovatore," has
been the cause of some discussion re-
Gently when the announcement was
made that her voice had changed
from contralto to a mezzo-soprano
Rose started out as coloratura
soprano but as her voice developed
the higher tones came with more diff
Guilty.
A climax in her vocal career came
when she was student at Curtis In
stitute of Music. She had been en-
gagged for concert in Buffalo. the
city where she had spent most of her
early days. Despite the symptoms of
laryngitis which had cropped up. she
set off in the face of a cold. Wintry
Gay. A snow storm came on and the
train pulled into Buffalo two hours
late.
When Rose hampton finally arrived
at her destination she had completely
lost her voice. A doctor was sent for.
The girl could hardly whisper her
plight, she must sing the concert on
the next day"
You're a contralto" exclaimed the
doctor, Back in Philadelphia. Rose
hampton told her teacher, Horatio
Connell, of the incident and together
they went to renowned throat spe-
cialist. The doctor examined her
vocal chords and insisted that the
size and shape of them indicated she
should sing contralto.
The fact remains however, that
Rose Bamptons voice has such re-
markable range that, acting upon the
further advice of experts, she is justi-
fed in classifying her voice as mezzo-
soprano instead of the lower con-
tralto. Her appearance in Washing
ton will give Washington audiences
their first opportunity to hear Rose
hampton as full-f1edged dramatic
soprano in the role of Leonore in I'll
Trovatore."
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MUSIC CONTESTS
in JUNIOR GROUP

THE District of Columbia Fedora
tion of Music Clubs announces the
completion of plans for it's junior COM
petitive festival for musicians up to
the age of 18 years, to be held on
April 80, and also has ready for dis
tribution the lists of selections to be
performed by those who will enter the
young artists and student musician
contests, to be held in April of next
year.
The competitive festival is not a
contest between individuals but is
similar to school examination in
which ratings for degrees of proflc-
iency and accomplishment, commen-
surate with the age of the musicians,
are awarded by a board of adjudi-
Gators. Those who will take part in
clude individuals as we'll as junior fed
Grated groups. Markings will be given
for voice, piano, brass and woodwind
and dancing. The festival will be
held both afternoon and evening in
the DmitrieffA AGnoocheff Studios at
5612 Connecticut avenue. Virginia
Lewis Ring. Rosemary street, Chevy
Chase, Md, is chairman for the
event.
Literature for the contests next year
may be had by communicating with
the president of the federation, Eva
Whitford Lovette, 1910 N street NV.
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NELSON EDDY SINGS
IN PROGRAM TODAY
NELSON EDDY.

NELSON EDDY, baritone
comes to Washington this
efternoon for a concert at Con-
stitution Hall al 4 O'Clock. under
the local management OF Dorothy
Hodgkin Dorsey. This concert
marks the close of Mrs. Dorsey's
1882 concert season.
Mr. Eddy will be assisted at the
piano by Theodore Paxton. The
program follows:
Air: Good Fellow. Be Merry"
Johann Seha stan Bach
tFrom The Peasant Cantata'0
'Staendchen' Franz Schubert
'Fr ist's'' HUGO Wolf
Air: AN ienem Tae." '''
Heinrich Marschner
From Hans Heiline =
Piano SOLO: HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY
"
Che fero costume,''
., Giovanni Leerenzi
'Rlcordatti di me- F PaolI Tosti
Air: PromeSse de mon ,avenlr"
prom LIE Ro de Lahore.'D
The Blind Plouehman."
Her Voice John Alo~n Carpenter
My Sword for the Kire ;"
Michael Had
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MOZART'S FREQUENT
BY CHORAL UNION

OPENING Holy Week with a work
appropriate to the season, the
National Choral Union will present
Mozarts Requiem" tonight at the
Church of the Epiphany at o'clock.
The chorus is composed of selected
singers from prominent church choirs
and is unders the direction of Hugh
Ross, choral conductor from New
York.
E. William Bracket, musical bach
elor. organist and choir director
OF st. Johns Church, Georgetown.
has arranged the orchestral score for
this performance. and will furnish
the accompaniment for the chorus.
Soloists from local churches will be
heard in the solo quartet. They in
clude Cathreen Carrico, soprano:
Grace Berry, contralto; George An
derson, tenor, and Edwin Steffe, bass.
The performance will mark the
ofhclal close of the work of the Ma
tlonal Choral Union for this season.
although the organization is sched-
uled for additional concerts under
local direction. The public is invited.
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Concert Schedule
TODAY.

TODAY.
Nelson Eddy, song recital, Con-
stitution Hall. pm.
Mozart's Requiem. National
Choral Union. Hugh Ross. di-
rector, Church of the Epiphany
8 pm.
Handel's The Messiah" George
w. Greer, director, Washing
ton Missionary College. 8 pm.
Burial Glass of Calvary Baptist
Church. Florence Howard, di-
rector. assisted by Helen Camp
bell Williams, pianist: Ann
Strickland, reader; Barker Hall,
Y. w. c. A.. S pm.
TOMORROW.
Henry Gregor, lecture recital.
Phillips Memorial Gallery.
$50 pm.
Navy Band, Sail Loft, Navy Yard,
2 pm.
Army Band. Army Band Audi
OIluIIl, o pm.
TUESDAY.
Felian Garzia. piano recital, Arts
Club, evening.
Henry Gregor, lecture-recital
Phillips Memorial Gallery,
$50 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
$3.50 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Marine Band Symphony Orches-
ira, Marine Barracks, 8 pm.
THURSDAY.
Army Band. Army Band Audi
torium, $50 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
FRIDAY.
Orpheus Quartet, Otto T. ST.
mon. director. American AS
sociation of University Wom-
ems Club, 8 pm.
The Seven Last Words" Agri-
culture Chorus, Robert Fred
erick Freund. director; William
Raymond, Prudence Jackson,
John w. Wilson and Robert
Frederick Freund, soloists; Az
riculture Auditorium, S pm.
SATURDAY.
Army Band, Army Band Audi
torium, 11:30 am.
Soldiers Heme Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
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ORATORIO CHORUS
OFFERS MESSIAH

THE second performance this sea-
son of Handel's Messiah" will be
given by the Washington Missionary
College Oratorio Chorus this evening
at 8 o'clock in Columbia Hall, on the
corner of Carroll and Flower avenues.
The chorus of $50 voices, under the
direction of Prof. George w. Greer,
will be accompanied by an orchestra,
with Dorothy Goodrich Reed as con-
cert master, Harriet Richardson at
the piano and Mrs. j. E. Weaver at
the organ.
The soloists are nellie Munger. So
prano: Evelin Dunham. alto; Robert
Eldridge, tenor. and Charles Eldridge,
bass. The w. M. C. A Cappella Choir
and the Park S. D. A. Church Choir
are a part of the Oratorio Chorus.
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ing from a prominent club asking that
the names of the artists appearing at
a club event be printed and a spe-
cial plea for this publicity was made
because the young artists are giving
their services and we would like to
see them recompensed by having their
names in the paper"
This club could afford to pay gen.
erously for what it wants and the
members would not be content with an
artist of mediocre ability. Yet it
does not pay and is not in the least
ashamed of the fact. 1t, pays, how
ever, for clubrooms, for wefl and amply
appointed luncheons, for formal deco
ratlons and many other accessories
without qualm For the musician
who has spent years. which might
have been devoted to the study of
stencgraphy, to preparing himself to be
an artist and thousands of dollars
Tor that education, it points out that
the services are donated.
We cannot be content with a Ma
ton of musically interested people.
We must have our own artists if we
are to progress and have the study
OF music bear fruit We must be
creative nation musically. having
dlgnifled teaching standard and
help1ul attitude toward the young
aspiring artist. AS it is. even today,
when there is much talk about native
talent, money is poured lavishly into
the pockets OF second-rate artists and
teachers from foreign lands while our
own suffer from want and discourage
ment.
HERE are national music organiza-
tions to which We owe a deep debt
OF gratitude for what they have ac-
comphshed in fostering appreciation
OF music in general and native talent
IN particular. But none of them have
gone to the possible sources of income
such as the large clubs over the coun-
try and asked them to make it a rule
to pay something for every musical en-
teTJalnment they enjoy. knowing that
a certain standard must be attained
before a musician could hope to be
engaged by these clubs would be the
greatest incentive to real artistic de-
velopment that the country has ever
mac. 1t would do away for all time
With the half-educated musician or
the one who trades on personality to
get him by where his brains and talent
fail.
We need opportunities for Americans
to make their living as musicians. This
TACT Will be more and more apparent
as the country grows in appreciation
OF music. Something must be done
about it and the Nations Capital
would be good place to start. WHY
could not Music Week in this city be
made distinctive by the offer of clubs
and other societies to pledge themselves
to pay, even if small amount. for
every singer or instrumentalist who
performs for them. Fostering local
talent" is nonsense if there is no con-
slderatlon given to what that means
financially, What will we do with that
talent when it is "fostered" and whv
should money be spent by parents or
individuals to the sacrifice of a bread
winning profession if musician can
not earn back some of the outlay by
paid public appearances when he is
ready for them? 1t is time that we
stopped talking in idealistic terms and
got down to the practical facts, to face
them and remedy them.
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Music in Churches T0day

Of Olivet" cOlivet to Calvary"D
Maunder; contralto solo. Sheep and
Lambs Homer; organ, "Arioso,"
Bach; organ, Moderate" Schneider.
At Peck Memorial Chapel, Twenty
eighth and M streets NV, the music
today at the ii o'clock service will
be as follows: Organ prelude, Spring
Song CHollinO; professional hymn,
"All Glory, Laud and Honor"
fTeschneD; anthem. Jerusalem"
tParker); hymn, Awake My Tongue.
Thy Tribute Bring" tHatton): an
them. Ride On, Ride On. in Majesty"
'Scott: soprano and tenor duet,
The Palms" Faure), Jean Tucker
and Joseph Price; recessional hymn,
"Fairest Lord Jesus" Willis; organ
postlude, "Hosannah" Dubois.
The chorus choir of Lewis Memorial
Methodist Church will give the follow
ing program today:
Mornlng-"Ride On, Ride On"
(John Prindle Scott: "Hosanna"
lGranier; solo, Were You There?"
tBurleigh), Betty Duncan.
Evening-"The Palms" (Faure)
Jerusalem" Parker.
The organ numbers will include the
chorale, Christ Lay in Deaths En-
brace" 'Bach): Palm Sunday Mail
ly). "Hosanna' (Wachs), and Pro
cessional March Frysinger).
The junior and senior choirs of
Christ Lutheran Church, Bethesda
Chevy Chase. Md. under the direc-
ton of Dorothy Iffert Lakin, organist,
will sing Parker's Jerusalem at the
IL o'clock service this morning. In
cidental soloists are Mrs. Grover
Brake, alto, and Guy Campbell, tenor.
Organ selections will be: The
Palms. Faure; Fanfare Triumphal.'
Armstrong; "Festal Procession Nevln.
'Penitence. Pardon and Peace"
Lenten cantata by J. H. Maunder. will
be presented by the pupils of Earl Car
bauh at the Central Presbyterian
>AAuA NAi pOuhS ot Q pill. VIII SolOS DN
Eleanor Bourdene. soprano; Katherine
Macmillan. contralto. and Livingston
Vann, lr.. baritone, and with Marie H.
Little as guest organist.
The choir of Trinity NJ E. Church,
Fifth and Seward Square Sc. will
present Dubois Seven Last Words
from the Cross" today at the evening
service beginning at 8 pm. The solo
parts will be sustained by Margery
League. soprano; John Hall, tenor,
and Robert Ewing, bass Lenna Gauss
alto, will sing "Gethsemane. by Sal
ter. The cantata will be given under
the direction of George Harold Miller.
guest conductor. with Emma Louise
Thompson at the organ.
At the Church of Our Redeemer
Dutheran), Eighth street near Barry
place NV. the music at the IL o'clock
service today will be: Professional,
All Glory, Laud and Honor: hymn,
Hear Us, Holy Jesus; The Palms" "
Faure: violin solo. Souvenir" tDrdla)
Edward Marshall: occasional, Ride
On, Ride On, in Majesty"
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mans "Triptyque," and Respighis
"Trittico Botticelliano" The works OF
Maurice Ravel and Ottorino Respighi
are included in memory of the two dis
tinguished composers, both of whom
died within the past year. The Tans-
man and Respighi compositions were
both dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge.
The Bach concerto Is the fourth in
the series of six orchestral works the
great German composer dedicated to
the Markgraf of Brandenburg. Cou-
perrin published his Concerts Royaux"
in 1772, one year after Bach had COM
pleted the "Brandenburg Concertos. :"
The French composers works we're
originally trios, written for the Sun
King who, it may be assumed, joined
in the courtly dances written by his
chapel organist. In 1888, Mabel Wood
Hill arranged the suite, consisting of
six pieces, for chamber orchestra, in
cluding flute, oboe, bassoon. harp and
the quintet Of strings. The movements
are prelude, allemande. sarabande,
gavotte, gigue and menuet.
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Lie puUllC Is lIlVlItQ 10 dCUeIlO. 1HeTe
will be no admission charge and no
tickets will be necessary. The program
will be held in the auditorium of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
Building. 1918 H street NV, at 4 pm.
Chamber orchestra works OF the 18th
and 2t0h centuries will be presented
under DR.. Kindler's baton at this con-
cert. The program will open with
Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
in g." Feri Roth, first violinist of the
Roth String Quartet. will play the
principle violin part in the concerto,
which also calls for two solo flutes, In
addition to the quintet of the orches-
tra's string choir. Following the Bach,
the Louis XIV Suite" from Cou-
perins Premier Concerts Royaux,"
will be played. The suite consists of six
numbers, arranged by Mabel Wood
Hill.
The goth century works to be heard
are Ravel's Introduction and Allegro
for Harp and Chamber Orchestra"
with Sylvia Meyer, harpist of the Ma
tional Symphony, as soloist; Tans-
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In Local Music Circles

THE program for the Palm Sum
day music hour in Barker Hall
at the Y. w. C. A. at Seven
Il teenth and K streets at S
O'Clock today has been planned by the
choral ensemble of the Burial Glass
OF the Calvary Baptist Church, of
which Florence Howard is the direc-
tor. The hour will be in the nature of
a Vesper service, and the ensemble
will be assisted by Helen Campbell
Williams pianist; Ann Strickland,
reader, and Evelyn Wells, accom-
panist. The public is cordially in
vited to attend
The Agriculture Chorus will be
heard next in its fourth annual pres
entation of Dubois Seven Last
Words of Christ" Good Friday after
noon at 5 o'clock in the Agriculture
Auditorium. Soloists will include Will
liam Raymond, guest artist, tenor;
Prudence Jackson, soprano, and John
M. Wilson and Robert Frederick
Freund, barltones. Mr. Freund will
direct, and the chorus will be accom-
panied by Victor Neal, pianist; Ger
aldlne Thompson and George Per-
klns, violinists, and Anne Farquhar,
cellist. Admission is free.
Henry Gregor will give two talks,
illustrated with piano music, this
week at the Phillips Memorial Gal
lery, 1900 Twenty-first street NV. To-
morrow at $50 pm. his topic for the
second in the afternoon series being
sponsored by the Junior League of
Washington will be Music and Lit
erature." Tuesday he will resume
his evening series at $50 o'clock and
talk on The Piano and Piano Music" +"
Members of the Arts Club will hear
a piano recital by Felian Garzia on
Tuesday evening.
Announcement is made of the res
ignation of Howard E. Severe from the
otfice Of manager of the Columbia
Light Opera Co. His resignation took
place on March 16. He leaves his post
for personal reasons.
Mrs. George o. Vass was hostess at
here home in Spring Valley on Satur-
day, April 2, for the second of a series
OF monthly piano recitals presented
by group of students of Agnes Nor
gan Hoppe. Those playing were Rich
ard Vass, Mary Davis, Francis and
Lydia Ballinger Constance Kremer,
Suzzane Erwin, Buddy McLendon,
Mary Ann Macpherson, Claudia and
Juanita Hutchinson.
Helen Limon presented her junior
pupils in piano recital April 3 at
6420 Thirty-first place NV. Stu
dents playing are Irene Broumas,
Mary Broumas, Thelma Broumas,
Catherine Emery. Janet Howe. Vera
Petit, Catherine Walther, Robert
Wright and Talbot Wright.
A program of Schubert's music was
given by students of Mrs Duff Lewis
Ensemble Club at her studio last Sun
day afternoon. Those taking part were
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Howard Recital.

MARIAN ANDERSON, the cele-
brated American Negro con-
tralto, will give recital at the Rialto
Theater on Monday evening, May g.,
under the auspices of the Howard
University School of Music. Miss An
derson has given over so recitals this
season to capacity houses, and has
been hailed as one of the greatest
singers of the age. Tickets are now
on sale at the Howard University
School OF Music.
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Seven Local
Concerts in
New Series
Coolidge Foundation
Announces Group
To Be Offered.
THE Library of Congress. Elizab beth

THE Library of Congress. Elizabeth
Spraeue Coolidge Foundation, will
present the following concerts by the
Coolidge Quartet. William Kroll and
Nicolai Berezowskv, yiolins; Nicholas
MoldaVan. viola: Victor Gottlieb,
violoncello. and Frank Sheridan, piano;
Rocco Contlni, tenor.
Monday, April l8. 9 pm.-Bohuslav
Martinu. quartet No q. Anton
Dvorak, "Terzetto in C. Op IA; Fried
rich Smetana, Quartet in E Minor"
(Aus meinem LebenD.
Wednesday. April 20. 8:45 pm
Maurice Ravel. Quartet in F.:
Edouard Lalo. Sd Piano Trio, in A
Minor, OPP. 26": Gabriel Faure. I'd
Piano Quartet. in G Minor. Op. a."
Friday April %, 8:45 pm-Hein-
rich Won Herzogenberg- Quartet in G,
Op. ~, No. 81; Paul Hindemith, Trio
No. l, op. 34'; Max Roger, Quartet in
E Flat Op. l09"
Sunday. April "a. 3 pm.-Leo
Weiner. Quartet No. 2, in F. Sharp
Minor, Op 49,; Bella Bartok. Quartet
No. 2, in A Minor, Op. IT.: Ernst Won
Dohnanyi, Piano Quintet No 2, in E
Flat Minor, Op 26"
Tuesday, April 26, s:45 pm.-Alex-
ander Borodin. Quartet No. /. in A.;
Serge Prokofieff, Quartet, Op. So;
Alexander Glazounov, Quartet No. 4,
in A Minor"
Thursday. April 8. 9 pm.-Edward
Elgar, Quartet in E Minor, Op. So:
Frank Bridge. Sonata for Violin and
Piano: Ralph Vaughan Williams. "On
Wenlock Edge (piano, string quartet
and tenor.
Saturday, April 80. 3 pm-Charles
Martin Loeffler Music for Four
Stringed Instrument" Charles Tom
linson Critics, Two Sketches for
String Quartet. based on Indian
Themes; George Whitefeld Chad
wick, Quartet No. 4, in E Minor"