Evening star., 1938-02-27
Symphony's
Events Hit
Rapid Pace
Agnes Davis, Soloist,
And Ballet Russo
On Schedule.

A. CONCERT Of operate excerpts,
two joint appearances of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra and Col
w. de Basils Ballet Russo de Monte
Carlo, the final concert in the series
OF Children's Concerts for Adults and
the second program in the series of
students concerts crowd the schedule
of the National Symphony Orchestra,
under the baton of DR.. Hans Kinder,
as its campaign to raise a sustaining
fund of 100000 to assure the 1859
season enters its final stages this
week
To take the concerts chronologically
the final concert in the series of three
Children's Concerts for Adults will be
presented tomorrow night at Roosevelt
High School auditorium, Thirteenth
and Upshur streets NV On Satur-
day morning the second students con-
cert will be played in Constitution
Hall at IL o'clock. The program will
include Monteverdi's "Ritornelle" for
strings. Bach's chorale for brasses
GA Mighty Fortress'D, Mozart's THE
Sleigh Ride" Beethovens "Leonore
No. 3" overture, Schubert's entr'acte
music from "Rosamunde, Strauss
waltz. an excerpt from Rimsky-Kor-
sakovs Snow Maiden" and Bernards S
The Drummer's Escapade."
Next Sunday, March 6, Agnes Da-
Wis. distinguished young American so
prano. viii appear as soloist with
the National Symphony in a concert
of operate excerpts at Constitution
Hall. On Tuesday. March 8. and
Wednesday. March 9. the Ballet Russo
de Monte Carlo, returning to WASH
ington after its sensational success
with the orchestra last season, will
join forces with the National SYM
phony for two completely different
performances.
Next Sundays concert will be q
recognition by the National Symphony
OF the popularity of grand opera in
! Washington and has been planned to
enable Washington music lovers tc
hear sections of operas that are ordi-
narily not performed here and thai
require full symphony orchestra fol
their proper presentation. CHIEF
among the compositions to be heard
will be the closing music, including
the great scene of Brunnhilde's immo.
lation, from die Gotterdammerung,
final opera in Richard Wagner's Ring
of the Nibelung" tetralogy.
The second half of Sundays pro-
gram will be devoted to Wagner's mu.
sic and will include selections from
Tristan und Isolde" and 'Die Wal
kure" also. THE Song Of the Gibi-
chungs," from "Gotterdammerung,'
arranged for concert performance by
Eugene Goossens, conductor Of the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will
be given its first Washington hearing
at this concert.
Modern opera will not be neglected,
however. For the first portion Of the
program DR.. Kinder IS planning the
first local performance of the intro
duction to Act w of "Caponsacchi, y
Richard Hageman's opera, produced
last season at the Metropolitan Opera
House in New York, and the lively
and colorful Polka and Fugue," from
Weinbergers opera, "Schwanda."
To cope with the cruel range Of the
Brunnhilde music, Miss Davis has
been specially chosen. One-time
teacher in Denver public schools, who
gained national prominence in 1927
when she won the Atwater Kent radio
contest, this young American singer
has already become famous for her
distinguished performances OF lead
ing roles in such dificult operas as
Schoenberg's die Gluckliche Hand
and Alban Bergs Lulu" She Is a
favorite singer of Leopold Stokowski,
having appeared with the Philadelphia
Orchestra SO times in concert and
opera, singing, among other works, the
same music she will present with DR..
Kinder here. She was chosen to
make the recording with the Phila-
delphia Orchestra of Brunnhildes i'm
notation scene as part Of Stokowski's 8
symphonic synthesis Of "Gotterdam-
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