The Washington times., 1938-02-05

Under auspices of the Coolidge
Foundation, three concerts will
be presented in the Library of
Congress by the Roth String
Quartet. The principal item of
interest is the Harris arrange.
ment Of Bach's entire Art of the
Fugue" which will be divided
into three sections, each Of
which will be broadcast. The
quartet-Feri Roth, Jeno Antal,
Ferenc Molnar and Janos
Scholtz-will be assisted by Jo-
hanna Harris, pianist.
The concerts take place
Thursday and Friday evenings
at 9 o'clock and Saturday aft
ernoon at 4 o'clock.
Other works to be played are:
Quincy Porter's fourth quartet
and the Mozart quartet in G,
K. v. 387, Thursday evening;
Walter Piston's first quartet
and the Mozart quartet in B
flat, K. v. 458. Friday evening:
Roy Harris quintet for strings
and piano and the Mozart
quartet in A. K. v. 464.
The National Capital Parks
announce the second Sunrise
Concert to be given on Easter
Sunday, April IT, at the Sylvan
Theater, washington Monument
grounds. The Scola Cantorum,
directed by Maestro Arturo
Papalardo. will offer works by
Sibelius, Haydn, Mozart and
Mascagni.
The Chevy Chase Chanters,
under the direction of j, Horace
Smithey, will present the regu-
lar Sunday evening concert at
the Roosevelt Hotel.
Members of Sigma Alpha Iota.
honorary musical sorority, are
responsible for the Y. w. c. A.
music hour Sunday at 5 o'clock.
James Winship Lewis, remem-
bered for his fine Bach playing
of last season at the Washing.
ton College of Music, returns to-
morrow for an invitation recital
at the home Of Mrs. r. S.
Paulett.
John Charles Thomas, bari
tone, and Hilda Burke, soprano,
are the artists announced for
the Townsend musicale in the
Mayflower hotel, Monday morn
ing. Both are members of the
Metropolitan Opera End both
hail from Philadelphia.
Mr.. Thomas will be heard in
an aria from Massenet's lie
Roi de Lahore" in French and
Italian songs by Donaudy,
Holmes, Pierne and Ravel, some
Irish folk-SongS and two Amer
lcan songs by HolliSter and Ma
lotte. Miss Burke announces
arias from Mozart's Don Clio
vanni" and Bruch's "Cross of
Fire" and songs Of Respighi,
Fourdrain, Ravel, Marx, Handel,
Wolf and Rachmaninoff. They
will join forces in q duet from
Don Gipvanni."
The U. S. Army Band an
nounceS concerts in the Army
Band Auditorium on Monday at
6 p, m. and Saturday at ll:30
a. m.
The U. S. Navy Band plays at
Sail Loft Monday at 2 p. m. The
Navy Band Symphony Orches-
ira will be heard in works of
Rossini, Cassela. Mendelssohn,
Sauer. Chasins and Schumann
in Sail Loft, Tuesday, at 8 p. m.
under the baton of Lieut..
Charles Benter.
Hugh Porter. organist of the
Collegiate Church of st. Nicolas,
New York city, will play a re-
cital in the Rankin Memorial
Chapel, Howard University,
Tuesday evening at $50 O'Clock.
He lists a notable Bach group
and an interesting selection by
such composers as Jongen. De-
Lamarter, Bingham and Mulet.
The Lovette Choral Club, un-
der the direction of Eva Whit
ford Lovette, will present phan-
tasJ by Heath Olmstead, en-
titled An Adventure at Mount
Vernon" at the Women's City
Club, on Wednesday evening.
The schedule of the U. S.
Marine Band and Symphony
Orchestra for the week includes
band concerts Friday at 3 and
Saturday at noon in the Marine
Barracks, and a symphony pro-
gram on Wednesday night at 8.
when the orchestra will play
Beethoven's "Prometheus" over
ture, Hadley's rhapsody. THE
Culprit Fay" Shure's "Berkie'
symphony and Glazounow's
symphonic poem IS enka
Razine."
Musician Albert Schoepper
will add the Saint-Saens Intro
duction and Rando Capriccioso
for violin solo and orchestra.
The orchestra also will partici-
pate in the Lincoln Birthday
exercises sponsored by the G.
A. r. at the First Congrega-
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