Evening star., 1938-05-22
Symphony
Tours Are
Planned
ORGANIZATION to Aid
Choral Event in
Columbia, S. C..

ingtOn season of midWeek eve
ming and Sunday afternoon con-
certs approaching completion, the
National Symphony Orchestra. under
the direction of DR.. Hans Kinder, is
at the same time actively engaged in
preliminary arrangements for an
elaborate series of tours during its
eighth season.
Three major tours Of the orchestra
are planned for the 1889 season,
according to c. c. Cappel. manager OF
the National Symphony Orchestra,
who is personally supervising details
Of the musical trips.
The first tour. to be made early in
December of this year, will again take
the National Symphony to the North
and will include concerts in Canada
for the third time in the orcheStra'S
history, as well as number of en-.
gagements in the New England States.
The second tour, scheduled for March.
1899, will be a Midwestern trip and
will include dates in Ohio and In
diana. The third extensive tour will
take the orchestra back to the South
and is to be made in April.
In addition to its three tours, the
National Symphony will again give a
series of seven concerts at the Lyric
Theater in Baltimore. These con-
certs. which have been included as .
regular part of the National SYM
phony's program ever since its Sec
ond season, drew the largest crowds in
their history during the past year.
'l>HE Northern tour will have as its
highlight the temperance Of the
orchestra in Canada. Hamilton and
Ottawa, in both of which cities the
National Symphony played last season.
have again been booked for the 1888
tour. Ottawa, the capital city Of
Canada, paid special honor to DR..
Kinder and the orchestra from the
United States Capital on its appear
ance there last season, newspaper edi-
/ toriaS hailing the event as a gesture
of good will' on the part of the two
great North American countries. bind
ing them closer together by cultural
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this tour will be the fourth consecu-
tive re-engagement of the National
Symphony Orchestra under the direc-
ton OF DR.. Kinder for a concert in
Bushnell Memorial Hall at Hartford,
Conn.
New engagements include concerts
in Syracuse. N. Y: Providence, r. l.,
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Del. is another city that will hear its
first National Symphony Orchestra
concert next season. At the same
time, return engagements. the surest
test of an orchestras success. are
plentiful. Among those on the North
ern tour are ones at State College,
Pa: Springfield. Mass: Dartmouth
College. Hanover, N. H.: New Bed
ford. Mass, and Olean, N. Y.
THE climax of the Southern tour
will again be the participation Of
the National symphony in the Colum-
bia. s. c., Choral Festival. The cele-
bratiOn. which was organized four
years ago. with the guidance of DR..
Kinder. has developed into the out
standing event of its kind in the
South Prominent vocalists and in
strumentalists are engaged for ap-
pearances with the orchestra at this
annual festival. The National Sym.
phony will present two concerts. Other
concerts, all of them re-engagements.
booked so far on the Southern tour
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versity Of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, NJ c.: Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute, Blacksburg, Va. In addition.
the orchestra will again give programs
at Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar.
Va, where two concerts will be played.
and at Western Maryland College,
Westminster, Md.
At the concerts to be presented in
Baltimore, five outstanding soloists
will appear with the orchestra while
two concerts will be devoted entirely
to the presentation Of unusual COM
positions. The soloists include Myra
Hess, pianist; Lauritz MelchiOr, tenor:
Mischa Elman, violinist; Rosa Pom
selle. soprano, and Walter Gieseking,
pianist.
The tours not only add materially to
the revenues of the National Sym
phony Orchestra, but have also been
instrupental in increasing the pres
t!ee and fame of the National Sym
pnony until today it Is nationally
recognized as one of the outstanding
symphonic ensembles in the United
States. The National Symphony's
eighth season in Washington, opening
next October 80, will include mid
week evening concerts and II Sunday
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