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Evening star., 1938-03-06
Tibbett Has
Recital Here
On Sunday:
Brilliant Baritone
To Be Followed by
Nine. Flagstad.

7 AWRENCE TIBBETT, brilliant
American baritone of the Metro
politan Opera Association and OUT
standing vocal star of concert. radio
and the screen. will make his only
concert appearance of the current
season at Constitution Hall next Sum-
day afternoon, March 13, at o'clock
under the management of Dorothy
Hodgkin Dorsey. Mr.. Tibbett will be
presented as the tenth attraction of
Mrs. Dorsey's series of Sunday after
noon concerts at the D. A. r. audi
torium.
AS usual, Mr. Tibbett will be ac-
companied at the piano by Stewart
Willie, who will also contribute sew
eral piano selections to the Tibbett
program. Mr.. Tibbett himself will
sing. among other numbers, the i'm
pressive Vision Fugitive" aria of Mas
senet's "Herodiade," the prayer aria
from Tschaikowsky's Moscow Cam
tata" and songs by Lully. Scarlatti,
Vuillermoz, Koechlin and Brahms.
Additionally, Tibbett will sing Frank
La Forge's The Band" Moussorg-
sky's After the Battle" Jacques
Wolfe's The Hand Organ Man."
Relationships Why" Michael Heads
THE Temper of a Maid" and Deems
Taylor's Capt. Stratton's Fancy"
Mr.. Tibhett, who is now rounding
out his second decade as one of Amer
ica's favorite singers. will leave the
United States at the close of his
current tour to make his debut in the
Hawaiian Islands and in Australia.
Last summer Mr.. Tibbett made his
concert and operate debut in England
and on the Continent.
Seats for the Tibbett recital are
available at Mrs. Dorseys concert bu-
reau in Droop's. 1900 G street NV.
On Tuesday evening, March %, at
$50 o'clock, Washington will hear for
the only time this season Nine. Kir-
stem Flagstad, noted Wagnerian So
prano of the Metropolitan Opera AS
sociation, in full-length recital at Con-
stitution Hall under the management
of Mrs. Dorsey. This will be the fifth
and final concert in Mrs. Dorsey S
1878 series Of evening concerts at
that auditorium On Sunday after
noon, March q, at 4 o'clock, Alexander
Brailowsky, pianist, who has given a
complete cycle of Chopin at Town
Hall this winter. will appear at Con-
stitution Hall in an all-Chopin re-
cital as the next to the last Sunday
afternoon recital of Mrs. Dorsey's cur
rent series there. Seats for both con-
certs are available at Mrs. Dorsey's
concert bureau, in Droop's, 1900 G
street NV.
Evening star., 1938-03-06
PIANO SCHOLARSHIP
PRIZE IN CONTEST

THE American Matthay Association.
Inc, announces 1000 scholar
ship toward the expense of a years
study in London with Tobias Matthay,
to be awarded to the pianist of great
est talent. the contest to take place in
New York City some time in May,
1898.
Instructions for applicants who de-
sire to enter the contest may be OBJ
tanned together with registration
blanks from the secretary. Gertrude
r. Litchfield. n Mineral street, Read
ing. Mass. The form must be filled
out and returned to the president AL
bion Metcalf. 33 Newberry street. Bos-
ton, Mass, by April l. A registrat ation
fee of IS must be sent when the form
Is returned.
conducted the morning of the contest
day. Examiners will be members of
the association. This examination will
consist Of: /. Ear training test Ca die
tation of rhythmic pattern (b) dicta-
tion of a melody: (c) recognition of
meditation. 2. Keyboard harmony;
(a) cadence; (b) simple chord pro-
gressions; (c) harmonization of a sim
pie melody. 3. knowledge of various
types of form. 4. General questions
such as: (a) What does the word
"dynamics" mean to you? CO. What
is your favorite Brahms Symphony
and why? An hour will be allowed
for written answers to /, 3 and 4. Each
student will be assigned an individual
appointment for examination on ques-
ton No. 2. Later in the day the con-
testant will return to play these re-
quired pianoforte pieces: l. First
movement Beethoven Sonata in D
Minor, op. 81, No. O." 2. Any prelude
and fugue from Bach's "Well-tempered
Clavichord." 3. One composition Of
the contestants choice not exceeding
six minutes in duration.
The piano playing will be judged
by three adjudicators, one at least
within Matthay circles, and If pos
sible one q conductor and one q COM
poser; judges will not be permitted to
speak with contestant before, during or
after the contest. Each contestant will
be notified at least two weeks in ad-
vance of the date and place of the
contest and the hour Of each ap-
pointmaht s
Evening star., 1938-03-06
Boulanger
on
Program
Paris Unit to Sing
At the Sulsrave
Club Tonight.
NADIA BoULANGER with six o,

NADIA BOCLANGER with six of
the soloists who form the nucleus
of her group of singers in Paris are
appearing in program this evening,
at 8:45 o'clock. at the Sulgrave Club.
These singers are: Sopranos, Nine.
Giselle Peyron. Nine la Comtesse
Jean de Polignac and Nine. Irene
kedroff; contralto. Nine. Nathalie
Kedroff: tenor, Hughes Cuenod; bass,
Doda Conrad.
The Nadia Boulanger group last year
gave over so concerts in Paris alone.
In each of the past two years they
have given five broadcasts in London
in the month of November. Like all
great figures, Nadia Boulanger is
unique. Remarkable professor and
school director, she has gathered
around her galaxy of musicians,
among whom can be named very
young and already famous composers,
caix.
Among her American pupils may
be counted Aaron Copeland. Ross Lee
Finney, Roy Harris, Douglas Moore,
Walter Piston and Virgil Thomson.
Others include Lennox Berkeley.
Theodore Chanler. Jean Francaix.
Marcelle de Manzlarly. Igor Marko-
witch and Leo Freeer. OF the music
faculty at Harvard and Radcliffe
Profs. Edward Ballantine. Arthur T.
Merritt and Walter Piston and AS
sistant Stephen D. Tuttle have worked
with Mile. Boulanger in Paris. A large
number of her pupils are teaching in
various American schools and colleges,
notably Columbia. Dartmouth, Mount
Holyoke, Ohio State. Smith. Vassar,
Wellesley and Western Reserve Uni
verSity.
The program this evening climaxes
the second teaching session this sea-
son at the Washington College of
Music. 1t differs from the usual. in
the way in which Mile. Boulanger
combines ancient and modern music,
choosing from all periods pieces which
are not usually heard. museum
pieces" from the history of music.
and placing them side by side with
recent compositions. Opening with
Bach. then Palestrina and then a
group of moderns going through Hin
desmith and Stravinsky and back to
Palestrina, the program thus COM
pletes cycle of songs which have a
fundamental relationship.
Evening star., 1938-03-06

he brings to bear on them his in.
dividuality. which results In the evo.
luton of different styles according
to the character of the talent. Ir
most cases style is so pronounced
that it becomes synonymous with the
composers or artists name.
PRACTICALLY the same, can b<
said Of color, which is the out
growth Of the personality. This life.
giving quality is as vivid in musical
tones as in everything in nature and
is capable of the same infinity OF
gradations. Taking the song of q
bird, the composer can color it tc
any degree he fancies. making II
varied in hues and consequently in
musical expressiveness Color comes
also into the tone of the voice or the
tone of an instrument through the
power OF the artist. The greater the
Imagination and poetic sensibilities OF
an artist, the greater is his skill to
infuse the particular quality into his
tone which gives color.
There are. Of course. terms of ex-
preston written for guidance in in
depreciation which are commonly
used when referring to the man.
ner in which composition is pre-
sented. Although Italian is mostly
used. the words have become SO
much part of ordinary speech that
their meaning is not obscure. Be-
sides, once the foreign phrases have
been learned-and they are so few
the application is simple. Anything
else that is thought Of to describe
the effect of music is so closely allied
to something easily understandable
that its aptness is at once evident.
THE conviction that music is high
brow and obscure persists with
some people still. They take refuge
behind a fancied inability to under
stand as a reason for not being more
interested in it. Yet were some ordi-
nary subject presented to them which
would need certain amount of effort
to become proficient in speaking its
idiom, they would not waste time in
educating themselves along this line
To one not in the know reading a
sports page is like reading something
in foreign language. and there are
no reference books to help one in
gaining its vocabulary.
Writings on music are. of course.
primarily for the musicians, but there
is no reason why a layman cannot
grasp the nomenclature used in de-
scribing it. Music is a cultural art.
but at the same time it is one which
makes itself understood because of
its inherent qualities. 1t is also sim
pier to grasp than any of the other
arts and rewarding in manifold ways
for the trouble taken to learn about
it. Making an issue of the question
Of musical terms Is weak excuse
for lack of interest in the greatest art
in the world.
Evening star., 1938-03-06
New Clee Club.

A. NEW singing group Of mixed
voices, to be known as the All
States Glee Club, has been organized
and will hold rehearsals on Wednes-
day evening of each week, at 8 O'Clock.
at Central High School. Thirteenth
and Clifton street NV. The purpose
OF this organization Is to furnish en-
tertainment for the various State So
cieties on request, and to further the
advancement OF secular music In
Washington.
Any person from the States inter-
ested in singing, and desiring to be-
come associated with this organiza-
ton, may register for membership at
Central High School any Wednesday
evening after 7:30 O'Clock.
The Officers are: President, Harvey
F. Helling (Wisconsin): vice presi-
dent, Victor Russell (Texas); treas
urer. Gladys H. Braden (Texas); Sec
retary, Eunice L. Kinnear Mary
land; director. Lynn L. Gillchrest
(Wasnington. D. o.; accompanist,
Marie Morris (Wyoming).
Evening star., 1938-03-06
CIVIC ORCHESTRA
TO GIVE CONCERT

THE Washington Civic Orchestra
will give a concert at the Roose-
welt High School auditorium Tuesday,
March IS. Betty Vandenberg, concert
pianist, will be soloist with the Or
chestra in the Beethoven Concerto
in C Minor Miss Vanderberg has
been playing with a number of SYM
phony groups for the last eight years.
Her last appearance was with Frank
Black in New York for one of his
radio concerts.
The orchestra will play the Over
ture to the Merry Wives of Windsor, -
the "Andante" of the Fifth SYM
phony" by Beethoven, Dvorak's Slavic
Dance" and Bizets "Arlesienne Suite. p"
The Civic Orchestra is sponsored
by the Community Center Department
and is under the direction of DR.. Kurt
Hetzel.
Evening star., 1938-03-06
BY ALICE EvERSMAN.

The Victor Co. has made q spe-
cialty Of albums of songs by renowned
concert singers for some time now.
This month Is released the second
volume recorded by totte Lehman,
the foremost German lieder singer of
the present day. Nine. Lehman has
Won fame In both the fields of opera
and song recitals and no one today has
done so much to make known the
lovely song literature which the great
German composers have left us. As
to style and particular type the songs
Of Brahms, Schumann, Schubert, Wolf
and others require a more complete
knowledge than do the works Of COM
posers OF other countries. There are
not many teachers outside of Ger
many who can be considered authori-
ties on the proper interpretations Of
these songs.
It Is, then. Of inestimable value to
have these albums of songs made by
singers who are highly trained. Not
only are they enjoyable from the point
Of entertainment. but they are ex-
ceedingly valuable to students who are
preparing for public work. One finds
here the purest diction, the correct
tempt and the emotional interpreta-
ton which a native singer can give
50 abundantly.
This second album of songs pre-
sented by Lotte Lehman comprises
six l0-inch double disks. Since some
of the songs are very short, two have
been made on one side with q short
pause between. The entire program
includes Schuberts Gretchen am
spinnrad' and "Wigenlied," Brahms'
"Das Maedchen spricht," "Mein Mae
del hat einen Rosenmund" and Bot
schat," Marks "Selige Nacht." Pfitz-
ner's "Gretel," Schumanns "Du bist
vie eine Blume," "Fruehlingsnacht"
and "Alte LAute," VOLTS der Gaert-
nef," "Du denkst nit eanan EAedchan
Evening star., 1938-03-06
FREDERICK BRISTOL
AT THE ROOSEVELT

FREDERICK BRISTOL, pianist,
= will be heard in recital in the
Roosevelt Hotel this evening at $50,
when he will offer a program Of new
music. Mr.. Bristol has specialized for
many years in modern piano literature
and has become internationally known
for his interpretations of late and CON-
temporary composers.
For the past IS years Frederick
Bristol has served as assisting artist
for LucreNa Bori, famous soprano OF
the Metropolitan Opera Co., in New
York and on concert tour. He has also
just completed a series OF radio broad
casts over one of the New York City
stations, where he. has been heard
every Saturday evening in half-hour
program entitled Music of the Last
Fifty Years"
Evening star., 1938-03-06
Choral Service.
THIS evening, beginning at 8 q

THIS evening, beginning at 9 o'clock,
= in the Mount Pleasant Congre-
gational Church, the second musical
service Of the season will be given.
The Mount Pleasant Chorus, under
the direction Of Norton M. Little,
with Claude Robson at the organ,
and Evelina e. Clinchy, soprano; Dor
othy Meek, contralto: Raymond T.
Pigott, tenor, and Carroll E. Robb,
bass. As soloists. will sing selections
from four German claSsicistS.
Evening star., 1938-03-06
60 Singers
In a Cappella
Selections
Capital Choir Gives
Lenten Concert as
Annual Event.
THE seventh annual Lenten come

IHE seventh annual Jenten concert
of the A Cappella Choir of First
congregational Church. under the di-
rection of Ruby Smith Stafl. will be
given in Constitution Hall MONDAY
night, March IA. at $50 O'Clock. the
program to comprise three groups of
numbers for unaccompanied choruses,
This experienced group of so singers.
which has been heard often at the
White House and has sung with sue
cess over the radio on a number of
coast-to-coast broadcasts. will open
its program with Bach's motet, "If By
His Spirit" followed by Mabel Daniels
Christmas in the Wood" Wetzels
Ave Maria" Christiansen's Lost in
the Night" and Noble Gains Music
OF Life'-all in the first group, only
one selection of which-the Daniels
Misunderstanding been sung previously
by this choir.
Numbers by Samuel Richard Gaines.
Palestrlna. Tschaikowsky. Schubert,
Gretchaninoff Aschenbrenner. Goef-
frey Shaw and Charles Wood COM
prise the second group The third
group will include Bring a Torch"
arranged by Clarence Dickinson:
open Our Eyes" by Macfarlane: IN
Dulci Jubilo,' arranged by Christian
sen: Grace Be Unto You" (for male
voices, by Trowbridre. and Noble
Gains Roll. Chariot"
BY special request two other num-
bers will be included in the program
on this occasion: William Byrd's Ave
Verum. an example of the Eliza bethan
school of music, and Thou Art NJ
God by Dorothy Radde Emery. we'll
known local pianist-composer. Tickets
for the Lenten concert are available
at the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bu-
reau.
Evening star., 1938-03-06

tllClT lOcIlCllyInS JIlciI OWu TcACtOIlS
with those of trained writer on the
subject. Because they have suddenly
awakened to desire to achieve greater
appreciation of this complex art it
seems only just to them that musicians
should step down from any elevated
point of knowledge which they might
have and speak OF music in the SIM
plest language. 1t never occurs to
these complainers that they might
learn something more about music by
acquiring familiarity with the man.
ner in which 1t is spoken of.
These same people, however, will
take the trouble to learn the idioms
used in describing sport events and
pride themselves on being able to en-
ploy them with versatility. Even a
short hospital experience will result
in a vocabulary OF medical terms,
brought out at every opportunity with
no dismay at the difficulty of correct
pronunciation. or that the listener may
not be able to follow through lack of
similar experience. Every new in
vention or bit Of progress in any field
brings new set of words into the
dictionary and they are quickly assimi-
lated by the general public.
Why, then, should music be differ
ent, requiring to be completely dena-
tured in its special phraseology to
please the ordinary individual. Music,
while the most human of all arts, is
still an art and as such has the right
to have its dignity kept intact. AL
though complex enough in its struc-
ture, its descriptive terms seldom ex-
ceed the simplest words in the ordi-
nary vocabulary, necessitating only
realization of their application to be
thoroughly understood. If. in general,
the tendency Is TO become too poetic
in relation to music this Is no more
than the subject deserves for it is in
tended to arouse or intnesify the poetic
feeling OF the listener.
Music is designed in every respect
to lift the recipient up to its
level both emotionally and intellectu-
ally. Therefore it should be the part
of one who participates from the
listening angle solely to grow ac-
customed to the manner of speech
relative to music rather than that
all to be said of the art should be
couched in language reserved for
ordinary things of life This is simple.
for it can be learned from books with
only bit of effort or can be evolved
personally from study of ones own
rea ctions to music.
Take but two words. for example
style and color--and their application
to a performance or composition
can readily be appreciated. There
are many things in nature which
form music. like the songs Of birds
or the sound of wind in the trees.
These harmonious sounds are set in
interchangeable form and, while melodi-
GUS in themselves, are tinged with
monotony. When man takes hold of
the musical sounds at his disposal
Evening star., 1938-03-06
Opera Music
In Series by
Symphony
Agnes Davis Soloist
For Today's
Concert.

TAKING cognizance of the popu-
ierity of operatic music with
Washington concert goers, DR.. Hans
Kinder and the National Symphony
Orchestra will devote their concert
this afternoon at 4 pm. in Constitu-
ton Hall to series of operatIn ex-
cerpts. Agnes Davis, distinguished
young American soprano, will be the
soloist.
Miss Davis will sing three numbers
with the orchestra, two of them by
Mozart. They are "voi che Sapete,' -
from the 18th century masters IA
nous comic opera, THE Marriage of
Figaro" and "Alleluia,' from the mo-
tet. "EXsultate. Jubilate." In the Sec
ond half of the program Miss Davis
will sing Brunnhildes great immola-
ton scene from the last act of Wag-
ner's Die Gotterdammerung."
Other compositions to be played are
the suite from "Cephale and Procris. "
by Gretry, arranged by Felix Mottl;
the polka and fugue from Wein-
bergers modern opera, "Schwanda. +"
The final section of the program, de-
voted wholly to the music of Richard
Wagner, will include the Ride of
the Valkyries," from Die Walkure; /"
the prelude to act three OF Tristan
und Isolde" and the Chorus of the
Gibichungs,' from act two of Got
terdammerung," arranged for concert
performance by Eugene Goossens, con-
ductor Of the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra,
The compositions programmed by
DR.. Kinder cover period of some
$50 years of operatic composition. The
earliest works belong to the latter part
of the 18th century. The Gretry-
Mottl suite, which consists of three
movements 'Tambourin." Men
uetto" and "Gigue"-is from a ballet
written by the French composer in
1918 and first performed in Versailles.
Mozarts Marriage of Figaro" was
first performed in 1886.
In contrast are the infectious color
and rhythm and the huge sonorities
OF the excerpts from Weinberger's
opera, "Schwanda," based on folk
tales of the composers native Czecho-
slovakia. The opera is unquestionably
one of the most successful of the
present generation and reveals the
composer as an artist of unusual crea-
ative talent and superlative technical
mastery.
Included in the second half of the
program is the rarely played prelude
to act three of Tristan" graphically
foreshadowing with its plaintive Eng
lish horn solo the tragic ending of the
great music-drama. The Chorus of
the Gibichungs" is another work sell
dom heard in concert performance
1t is from the second act of Die Got
terdammerung," in which the hero
Siegfried has forsaken Brunnhilde
and gone down into the land of the
Gibichungs, where his destruction is
plotted. Under the spell of a magic
potion he forgets about his goddess
wife and is wed to Gutrune.
This work leads logically to the final
scene from Die Gotterdammerung."
to be sung by Miss Davis, in which
the great Ring of the Nibelung" story
is brought to its elimination in the
death of Brunnhilde on Siegfried's
funeral pyre, the destruction of VAL
halla, the abode of the gods, by fire.
and the inundation of the land by the
River Rhine.
Evening star., 1938-03-06
Concert Schedule
TO-DAY.

TODAY.
National Symphony Orchestra,
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor:
operatic program, Agnes Davis,
soprano soloist. Constitution
Hall, 4 pm.
Carmen" Chicago Opera Co.,
Rialto Theater. matinee.
Frederick Bristol, piano recital,
Roosevelt Hotel. $50 pm.
The Newcomb- Bethesda Com
munity Singers, Ruth L. Nor
gan, director, Y. w. c. A., S
pm.
Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church, musical program;
Norton M. Little, director,
pm.
MONDAY.
LA Boheme," Chicago Opera
Co., Rialto Theater, evening.
Army Band, Army Auditorium, 6
pm.
TUESDAY.
National Symphony Orchestra
and Monte Carlo Ballet Russo,
Constitution Hall. $50 pm.
Samson and Delilah," Chicago
Opera Co., Rialto Theater,
evening.
Navy Band Symphony Orchestra.
sail loft, Navy Yard. $50 pm.
Marine Band. auditorium, Marine
Barracks. 3 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
National Symphony Orchestra
and Monte Carlo Ballet Russo,
Constitution Hall, $50 pm.
La Traviata," Chicago Opera Co.,
Rialto Theater, evening.
Marine Band Symphony Or
chestra, auditorium, Marine
Barracks, 8 pm.
THURSDAY.
Faust" Chicago Opera Co.,
Rialto Theaer, evening.
Chevy Chase Chanters, ]. Horace
Smithey, director; Mathilda
Heuser, soprano soloist; New
Interior Department audi
torium, $50 pm.
Army Band, Army auditorium,
$3.50 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
FRIDAY.
"Tosca," Chicago Opera Co.,
Rialto Theater, evening.
Pro- Musica String Quartet, bene-
At concert children of Spain.
Phillips Memorial Gallery, 4:45
pm.
Friday Morning Music Club. Ann
Farquhar. Frances Gooding,
Lydia Farquhar. Carolina
Randall, Grace Powell and
Mrs. D. c. Book, Barker Hall,
1880 am.
Marine Band, auditorium, Marine
Barracks, 3 pm.
SATURDAY.
"Rigoletto," Chicago Opera Co.,
Rialto Theater. matinee.
NINE. Butterfly" Chicago Opera
Co.. Rialto Theater. evening.
Army Band, Army Band audi
tofium, 1880 am. -.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1938-03-06
Y. W. C.. A. Hour.

THE Newcomb-Bethesda Commun
ity Singers will present the pro-
gram for the music hour at 5 o'clock
today at the Y. w. C. A., at Seven
teenth and K streets. Ruth l.. Morgan
is the director and Gertrude Small
wood Mockbee, who accompanies the
chorus, will also play group of
piano solos.