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Evening star., 1938-05-08
HAMLINE SINGERS
REPEAT 'REOUIEM'

HE choir of Hamline Methodist
Episcopal Church will give it's sec
ond performance Of Verdi's Requiem
on Wednesday evening May l8. This
organization gave the only complete
performance, eight years ago, that this
work had in Washington in nearly
40 years 1t will be sung by a solo
quartet chorus of SIS voices. and an
orchestra of players from the National
Symphony, also the organ, all under
the direction of John H. Marville.
Verdi wrote his Requiem as his
tribute to the memory of Allessandro
Manzoni, the famous author, who was
the idol of all Italy. Having been
commissioned by the government to
write the Requiem upon his offer to
do so. Verdi completed the manuscript
in time for the first performance in
st. Marks Church, Milan, on May
%. 1874. Verdi conducting In person.
Visitors came to hear it from all parts
OF Europe, and so deep was the i'm
preston made by it's undeniable beauty
that there was a clamor for other
presentations. Accordingly, three we're
given in the La Scala Opera House.
the first presentation conducted bv
Verdi, who during the performance.
was presented with silver crown on
handsome cushion. Later. Verdi
made triumphal tour of the principal
cities of Europe with the Requiem"
He was than 62 years old.
There has been considerable critic
ism that the Requiem" is not religious
music. Won Bulow characterized it as
an opera in ecclesiastical costome."
The music of the Requiem" is fire.
quently similar to the opera Aida
yet it is no longer considered inap-
propriate for solemn service.
The mass runs the whole gamut of
emotions from the opening ''Kyrie" to
the majestic fugue of the final "Libera
Me" Its Dies Irae" opens with
chorus OF startling effect thence to
the tuba mrum," a trumpet chorus.
and on through a series of solos, duets.
quartets and choruses, including a
1ugue for double choir.
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SPRING CONCERT
BY LOVETTE CLUB

THE Lovette Choral Club will pre-
sent its annual spring concert
Friday evening at $50 in the Italian
Garden of the Mayflower Hotel. This
will be the 11th season for this group
of women, numbering IS voices.
Eva Whitford Lovette is the director
OF the club and Elsie L. Cranmer ac-
companist. AS soloist the club will
present one Of its own artist members
Hazel M Cake, dramatic soprano. As
an incidental soloist. Phebe Stine, So
prano, will be heard and a trio COM
posed of Carolyn Schultz. Francise
Bass Wilson and Violet Hobbs will
assist in one of the numbers. The
guest artist will be Milton Schwartz.
violinist. The complete program
follows:
Choral prologue
sal ,SSslaHtation,, Samuel Richard Gaines
of Music Clubs,
The Moon Reappears'' from the
Cdntata ne Moon } henry Purcell
Q sco,I,sS Can Se Sc Sew ". Cushions t0d
WI a Hundred Pipers 'Scottish
The Lovette Choral Club
Hear Ye Israel taria from
Eljah'D Mendelssohn
The Lotus Flower" - Schumann-Claassen
Fanese h WI Wilson assisfant drsefor
the Choral Club
Air On G String pach
"Slavonic Dance E Minor Dvorak-Kreisler
Milton Schwartz. violinist; Sol Fax,
accompanies
"A swan" ,',, s-stebbns
Maiden') Sir Frederic H. Cowan
The Choral Club
INTERMIssIoN
..-l "Thronsh the Silent Night" Rachmaninon
The Wish Cadran
The Choral Club, Mrs. Wilson directing
Harp OF the Woodland tfrom
The Love Spell'l Easthope Martin
Hills s'-- La Forge
Hazel NJ. Cake
Christ Went Up Into
the Hills Haeeman-Saa
Bird Songs" Curran-Dies
Trio-Carolyn Schultz Francise Bass Viii
son and Violet Hobbs-the Choral Club
La Gltana" kreisler
"Hejre Kati' ~ Hubay y
Mr.. Schwartz
Pilgrims Chorus tfrom
'Tannhauser'D Wagner -Harker
Waltz From Faust " Gounod- Page
The Choral Club
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Somers Club
In American
Selections
Annual Program of
Y. w. c.. A. Group
On Saturday.

THE Elizabeth Somers Glee Club of
the Y w. C. A. will give its an
nual spring concert in Barker Hall, K
and Seventeenth streets, Saturday
evening at $50 o'clock.
The glee club was organized in
1926 and gave its first concert in
1928. Membership of the club is
drawn from the Strong residence, busi-
ness girls clubs, educational and
music classes. industrial clubs and
others who are interested in choral
work.
Mary M. Burnett, music secretary of
the Y. w. c. A., is the director of
this group and Edith L. Dawson is
the accompanist Assisting the club
on Saturday will be Raymond T.
Pigott. tenor. accompanied by Claude
Robson, and two dance groups direct
ed by Virginia B. Sholar of the Health
Education Department of the Y. w.
c. A.
The program to be given this year
consists of different types of Ameri-
can music. One number of particu-
lar interest is that written especially
for the club by Dorothy Radde Emery
Of Washington.
Following is the program:
EARLY AMERICAN SONGS
.Tbe SIM WorehipperS
Zuni Indian melody
English words by H W. Loomis.
w.1. ArrSnSed Yo BY Hazel Nes1a Knses
II Dream naas5e ot 5eani. ns cirl Saaethn Var days
Arranged by Gordon Balch Nevin.
The Elizabeth Somers G!ee Club.
"Minuet and Gavotte,'
, Dancers, Mary Frances BarGiek Pauline
Carmen Racca and Edna Walter.
SONGS CT THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS
Poor Wayfaring Stranger"
~ Early American spiritual
r. Arransed by George Pollen jackson and
by Raymond r .Pisott tenor.
Brother Green"
Folk song from Southwestern Virginia
Arranged by Annabelle Morris Buchanan
Il Wonder When l Shall Be Married
Kentucky folk song
Dramatized by Lucy Carton,
president of the club
"Sourwood Mountain Kentucky folk song
The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club.
"
American country dances.
Dancers. Edna Walter Helen Lukan Car
men Bacca. Mr.. and Mrs. R. j. Foote.
Robert Morrison, A. J. Fem and George
Stafford
Accompanist. Majorie Haisht.
"Ah Moon Of My Delight" (from In
Persian Garden'D - Liza Lehman
Three for Jack" W H Squire
Raymond T Pieott. tenor
Boat Song Harriet Ware
Arranged by Charles Gilbert Spross.
Color Dorothy Radde Emery
Writer for the Glee Club by Mrs Emery.
"Ah, Love But Day Mrs H. H. A. Beach
The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club.
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Piano Stars
Engaged by
Symphony
Guest Artists Have
Been Chosen for
Coming Season.

GREAT pianism will again play
prominent part in the program
next season of the National SYM
phony Orchestra under the baton of
DR.. Hans Kinder, the advance an
nouncement of guest artists engaged
to appear as soloists with the orchestra
reveals.
Walter Gieseking, world-famous pi-
anist. will make his Washington debut
with the orchestra during the 1883
season. These concerts will also wit
ness the return, after a seasons ah-
sence, of Myra Hess, English pianist.
who has been described as the worlds
greatest woman pianist.
The duo-piano team of Luboshutz
and Nemenof will appear for the
first time with the orchestra, and
Moriz Rosenthal, veteran giant of
the keyboard" and John Powell, dis
tinguished American composer-pianist,
have also been scheduled for ap-
pearances.
Mr.. Gieseking was born in Lyon.
France, on November. 5, 1895, the
son of a German physician After
spending his childhood and youth on
the French and Italian Rivleras, he
went to Hanover when his parents
moved there and entered the Con-
servatory, where he began his regular
studies under Karl Leimer Although
he continued as pupil of Leimer
until he was 81, he had become a
famous pianist in Germany by the
time he was 18.
On February %, 1926, he made his
debut in Aeolian Hail. New York,
practically unannounced Despite the
lack of fanfare and a difficult pro-
gram, he was an immediate success.
Mr. Gieseking has since then become
equally famed in the United States
as he is in Europe During the sum-
mers he has taught a master class
at the Institute of Music for Foreigners
at the royal residence in Wiesbaden.
He has also composed songs, piano
works and chamber music compost
tions. works for orchestra and has ar
ranged some of Richard Strauss most
famous songs for piano.
Miss Hess. who has appeared with
the National Symphony on several
previous occasions and has won a large
and devoted Washington following.
was born in London and studied with
Tobias Matthay at the Royal Academy
of Music in London. Her debut with
orchestra was made under the baton
OF Sir Thomas Beecham. Highly sue
cessful European tours followed and
in 1922 she made her American debut.
Since that time she has won equal
acclaim in the United States. Miss
Hess was the first instrumentalist to
be honored with the decoration of
Commander of the Order of the Brit
lsh Empire. This honor was conferred
on her by King George V.
Reservations for season tickets are
now being accepted at the Offices of
the National Symphony Orchestra As
sociation, iii Woodward Building.
Season ticket applications are filed
IN the order received, subject only to
the prior requests of season ticket sub
scribers Of last season and contribu-
tors to the orchestras sustaining fund
for the 1e38-39 season.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Teachers Elect.

At THE annual business meeting
Of the Washington Music Teach
ers' Association held on last Sunday
afternoon the following officers were
elected for the insuing wear: Presi-
dent, Fanny Amstutz Roberts; first
vice president, Felian Garzia; second
vice president. Mrs Hugo Hesselbach;
corresponding secretary. Mrs. Gene W.
Crist; treasurer, Mrs. Paul Tyler.
Mrs. Hugo Hesselbach, who has
been president for the four years Of
the associations existence, was pre-
sented with a handsome silver case as
token Of appreciation from the
membership. This meeting closes a
season marked by several notable
events and with a membership num-
bering close to $50. Plans are being
formulated for the meeting in WASH
ington in December of the National
Teachers Association, the Musicologi-
cal Society and the National Associa-
ton Of Schools of Music.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
POns Tours
Lead Up to
New Season
Noted SopranoGoes
Scheduled
To Sing Here.

7 lily PONS. brilliant coloratura So
prano of the Metropolitan Opera
Association, who is announced as one
of the attractions of Dorothy Hodg-
kins Dorsey'S concert series next sea-
son. has already completed a short
concert and opera tour of Europe
and sails for New York Wednesday,
arriving on the Normandie next SUM-
day afternoon.
A months rest at her Connecticut
home will follow before Miss Pons
leaves for South America, where she
will sing series OF operate perform
ances at the Teatro Colon in Buenos
Aires, at which time the winter opera
season will be at its height.
Miss Pons went to Europe immedi-
ately after the close of the Metro
politan Opera season in New York
In Paris, Pons was made an Off
Ger of the French Legion of Honor
before great audience in the Sale
Pleyel, in recognition of her services
in behalf of Artistes Dramatiques de
France, for whose benefit she had
sung. This organization, which takes
care of aged actors and musicians in
need, is charity in which the noted
singer has always taken an active in
terest Through an error, Pons was
made an officer of the legion, instead
OF chevalier. no French citizen ex-
cept the President of the republic
being eligible for this decoration with
out first having been a chevalier. But
having made the error, they let it
stand rather than publicly denote
Miss Pons, and Pons went off to the
Riviera for an Easter Sunday con-
cert at her old home, Cannes.
From there. the singer rushed off
by plane to Stockholm for concert
on April 2l and on the 26th, Pons
was IN London singing at Queens Hall.
She made brief 'cross-Channel trip
for two performances of Lucia" at
the Paris Opera and May concert
at Brussels, which ended her Euro
pean trip
Lily Pons is one of IL Sunday after
noon and five Tuesday evening con-
cert attractions Mrs. Dorsey will give
at Constitution Hall next season,
others being Josef and Rosina Lhe-
vinne, duo-pianists: Nino Martini,
tenor; Don Cossack Male Chorus,
Gladys Swarthout, soprano: Heifetz
Vlolinist; Nelson Eddy, baritone;
Kristen Flagstad. soprano; Kreisler
Vlollnlst; Rachmaninoff, pianist:
Richard Crooks and Kathryn Meisle.
contralto, in joint recital; John
Charles Thomas. baritone: Tibbett
baritone: Beniamino Gigli. tenor; Ye-
hudl Menuhin. violinist: Bdu Sayao,
soprano, and Josef Hofmann, pianist.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
SINGERS IN RECITAL
TOMORROW NIGHT

CATHREEN cARR1co, soprano, as
sisted by Howard Samsel, bass,
with Christopher Tenley at the piano,
will appear in recital tomorrow eve
ming at $3.50 o'clock in the Concordia
Church Hall, Twentieth and G streets
NV. The following program will be
given:
20 del mio dolce ardor Gluck
Non so piu cosa SON. lie Nozze di Figarol,
Mozart
'Spirate Pur, Spirate' Donaudy
"Alleluja'' cExsultate, Jubilate'D -. Mozart
"Bussied' and Adelaide
Duet "on Wings of Song van Mendelssohn SsisSoan
'Madamina'' Don Giovanni Mozart
"ZueignunR' - Richard Strauss
"Wiegenlied' Franz Schubert
Duet ''Traviata." Act Verdi
Breathe Soft Ye Winds Handel
The Lass With the Delicate Air"
Flow, Thou Regal Purple Str cam Arnold
Love Went aRiding' - Frank Bridge
BY the window Tschaikowsky
Ernest Charles
"Snowfiakes' " Madison
Morning" Obey Speaks
Duet. "oh. My God. Forsake Thy People
Nevermore" tThe Lord is Sun and
SulcluI odSh
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Concert Schedule
TODAY.


Y. W. c. A., program arranged
by Pearl Waugh and Katherine
Lee Jones, Barkc. Hall, S pm.
Cantata, The Glorified Christ"
by DR.. Rollo F. Maitland,
Church Of the Holy City, 4::30
pm.
TOMORROW.
Marian Anderson, song recital,
Rialto Theater, $50 pm.
Cathreen Carrico, soprano, How
ard Samsel. bass, joint recital,
Concordia Church Hall, $50
pm.
Henry Gregor, lecture recital,
Writer, Performer, Listener"
Phillips Memorial Gallery, $3.50
pm.
Navy Band, Sail Loft Navy Yard,
1:30pm.
Army Band, Army Band Audi
torium, 11:30 am.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
S and 8 pm.
TUESDAY.
"Rigoletto," students of Dorothy
Remington and William Web
ster, Wardman Park Theater,
evening.
Henry Gregor, lecture recital,
Modern Music and How to Lis
ten to It," Phillips Memorial
Gallery, $50 pm.
Henriette Bagger Plum, soprano,
song recital, Sulgrave Club, 8
pm.
Army Band, Army Auditorium,
2:30 pm, Walter Reed Hos
pital, $50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Rubinstein Club, Earl Weather.
ford, tenor; Sol Sax, pianist;
Howard Mitchell, cellist; Her.
bert Bangs, violinist, soloists:
Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
THURSDAY.
Clelia Fioravanti, contralto;
Minna Niemann. pianist; Joint
recital, Arts Club, evening.
Crossed Beaux," Verna Met
calfe, director; Montgomery
Blair Senior High School, 8 pm.
Army Band, Army Band Audi
torium, 2:30 pm.
FRIDAY
The Lovette Choral Club, Eva
Whitford Lovette, director; Ha-
Eel Cake, Phebe Stine. sopranos;
Milton Schwartz, violinist, solo,
lists, Italian Gardens, Mayfiower
Hotel. $50 pm.
In-Com-Co. Club, Girls Glee
Club, Florence Nicols, director;
conference room, Department.
al Auditorium, $50 pm.
Marine Band. Marine Barracks,
/ pm.
The Elena de Sayn Violin Ensem-
BILE, assisted by Lydia Brewer,
Henry Stephen, violas; Myra
Wallace, Louis Potter, jr.,
cellos; Louis Flagg, double bass;
Allison Sandeford, pianist; au-
spices Travellers Club, Music
Building, Catholic University.
8:15 pm.
SATURDAY.
Elizabe Somers Glee Club of
the Y. w. c. A., Mary Burnett,
director; Raymond Pigott, tenor
soloist; dance group, Virginia
Shola-. director, Barker Hall,
$50 pm.
Crossed Beaux," Verna Metcalfe,
director, Montgomery Blair
High School. 8 pm.
Evening star., 1938-05-08

OPERA is glorious art. and its ira
ditions have been kept high by the
Metropolitan and other permanent
companies in music centers and given
to the people throughout the country
for more than quarter century
by Fortune Gallo and the San Carlo
Opera Co. Students all over the United
States are studying, planning and
dreaming OF career in this difficult
branch Of music. There are not enough
companies of repute to give occupa-
ton to this constantly increasing num-
ber OF opera aspirants. and even the
opportunities which Europe formerly
offered are closed to foreigners now.
Naturally, when an impresario an
nounces the formation of a company
he will find many eager to take ad-
vantage Of the occasion to try their
talents.
Never has opera been given with
out great expense. 1t is expensive to
study for it, and it is expensive to
give, and this is no new thing or
something unknown to those who pro-
eUNt Az ACt SOLlHdl1N Is IHSd,
with the managers knowing that
there are not sufficient funds at hand
to meet the outlay, and not much
chance that the audiences will fur
nish it. The consequences are that
the artists remain without compensa-
tion. the public good will is alienated
and general Ill feeling prevails. An
other setback to the development of
opera in this country has been added
to the many disagreeable experiences.
A GREAT deal has been done within
= the last few years to place Wash
lngton in the; ranks of leading mu-
sical cities Through the type of con-
certs which it has been our privilege
to hear and the celebrated artists who
have brought their art to us the stand
ard Of musical appreciation has de-
veloped considerably We can no
more be classified as a community
which will accept whatever is given 1t
with thankfulness and without crit
icism. 1t is an insult to our musical
intelligence to believe that second
rate operate performances can be
foisted upon us and we will have
nothing to say about It, The leading
concert courses of the city would not
be patronized if they followed such a
course, so why should some operatic
company, assembled without any
thought to the consequences, believe
that the music public will be grateful
for the opportunity to hear opera, no
matter what disagreeable features it
may be called upon to endure
What We should have here is a per-
manent opera company. managed by
reputable people. who will produce
opera within their means and with the
best artists available This will put
an end for all time to these financial
chickering's of visiting companies who
have no scruples in using a city as
important as Washington to their
own advantage. We need opera and
We should have it, but only when it
is given in dignif1ed fashion and with
due regard for the artistic sensibili-
ties Of the public.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
'RICOLETTO' ROLES
AT WARDNAN PARK

tlNAL rehearsals are being held for
the performance of "Rigoletto" to
be presented by Dorothy Remington
and William Webster at Wardmau
Park Theater Tuesday evening. The
title role will be sung by Joe A. Jones,
George Washington University stu
cent. and Edward Drinkard. who was
formerly a boy soloist at st. Adams
Cathedral. Maria Coffey and Mary
Frances burst will sing Gilda: the
Duke, by John Seate; Maddelena, b,
Floreine Hurley; the Giovana, Kath.
leen Hllker, and Monterone, Alvin
Laidley.
Evening star., 1938-05-08

advertise to appear here 1t is not
fair to take advantage of Washington S
hunger for opera with such unworthy
means We want opera and we are
ready to patronize it. but only when
it is well presented and without the
troubles in the companies with which
we are all too familiar.
The history Of opera giving in this
city, with few exceptions, is always
the same. Fine announcements are
made Of presentations which promise
not only the best, but usually some
special feature, and because there are
SO few opportunities to hear opera of
any kind here, the public is ready to
believe what is advertised each time.
Then what happens? Uncertainty is
rife the days preceding the perform
ance as to whether it will really take
place. but still faith is high that this
time surely everything will be done
as promised The audience gathers
and waits and waits. while back stage
there are duplicated the unpleasant
scenes Of money settlement once more.
THE impresarios who organize the
companies that come here know
as every one else knows. that they
contract for certain expenditures. Pos
sibly they expect to meet the outlay
with the money which comes into the
box office. This is precarious planning,
for no one can foretell what the
public's response will be. especially in
this city, which has only a limited
music audience and many interesting
social events to claim Its time. The
impresarios also know from long ex-
perience that rules Of the union must
be observed. and that the union is
there to protect the interests of its
members and is determined to do SO.
Possibly the troubles regarding the
pay of the artists and musicians are all
part of the days routine to the COM
panies' managers. But it is not pleas
ant for those who are eager to patron
ize opera. and there has been so much
Of it that the operagoers of this city
are getting tired Of it. They are asked
high prices for performances which are
put on in makeshift fashion, because
none of the directors has taken the
trouble to study conditions here, which
are not like those of other cities, and
seem to feel that anything is good
enough so long as it bears the name of
opera
Many of those who love opera are
able to go to New York to hear the
best presenta ton possible, and do not
mind paying for it. At the same time
they are willing to support any venture
here, provided 1t approximates to a
certain extent the type of performance
to which they are accustomed But it
is farce to call many of the presenta-
tions which have been witnessed here
these last few years grand opera. "
There can be nothing grand" about
scenery which in no way conveys the
setting of the story or orchestras which
torture the ears with false notes and an
incomplete performance Of the music,
nor cast which has not rehearsed to-
gether. and finally the scandal of set
ting financial difficulties while the
audience waits.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Mothers Music.

THE public is invited to attend a
program dedicated to "Our Moth
ers" to be given at the club and hos
pice of the Volunteers Of America. 1928
Sixteenth street NV, today at 4 pm.
Voice students and chorus from
Esther Linkins' studio will render a
program of mother and spring songs.
Dorothy Radde Emery, accompanist;
Alden Emery, jr., flutist; Larry Guess,
violinist, and Lucy May Ohler. reader,
will assist. Solo singers will include
Barbara Armiger, Bob Brengle, Charles
Burton, Judy Conklin. Harry Gauzza,
Janet Guess. Edith Harper, Dorothy
Kay and Joseph Wells.
A chorus, "'Tis Mother" words by
Florence r. Hinman and music by
Flora M. Lnkins. and solo and quar-
tet, Sweet Mother Nine" by Iowa
Carruthers Lozier, will be used.
The last rehearsals OF the Rubin
stein Club before the concert will be
this afternoon at 2:45 and Tuesday
evening at 7:45 at the Willard Hotel
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@HE Madrigal Singers will be pre-
sentad by the Cleveland Park
Community Club at the club

L house, 3433 Reno road, on
Tuesday evening in a program Of
sixteenth and seventeenth century
madrigals, early American folk hymns,
spring carols and old English folk
songs AS usual, the Tudor tradition
Of singing while seated around a
candle-lighted table will be followed.
The personnel includes Elizabeth
Waters, Winifred Thomas Clark. Elsie
Rogers Graham, Gladys Roberts, LIE
We're Smith, Mary Lerch Brice, George
Roth, John L. Palmer, Charles T.
Hitler and George F. Magdeburger.
Mrs John Milton Sylvester is di-
rector.
Henry Gregor will give the last in
the series Of six afternoon music lee
ture-recitals on the general subject
OF Modern Music" at the Phillips
Memorial Gallery tomorrow afternoon
at $3.50 O'Clock. His topic will be
Writer, Performer and Listener"
This series is sponsored by the Junior
League Of Washington.
The other evening series which Mr.
Gregor is giving, under direct spon-
sorship of the Phillips Gallery, will
continue for another week. His topic
this coming Tuesday night will be
Modern Music and How to Listen to
IT. The concluding talk will be on
THE Music of Tomorrow These
talks will begin at $3.50 pm.
A program of folk music was given
by the students Of Mrs. Duff Lewis at
her studio last Sunday afternoon. Ten
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Spring Concert.

The annual spring concert and
dance of the George Washington Uni
versity glee clubs will be held on
Wednesday evening at s:45 in the
west ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel.
In view of requests from those who
missed the presentation of the choral
finale Of the Beethoven Ninth SYM
phony," which was given on December
10, 1887, by the National Symphony
Orchestra, with the glee clubs and
the Washington Choral Society FORM
ing the vocal unit, there is to be pre-
sented an excerpt from the symphony.