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Evening star., 1938-12-25
Music. of Nations
In Other Wise Man

Traditional melodies of France
Poland, Germany and the Hebrew.
as well as Oriental and Persian
music, carols of many lands and
compositions by Chopin and Gounod,
Will form the musical background
Tor The Other Wise Man" at Iu-
ther Place Memorial Church this
week, beginning tomorrow and con-
tlnulng through Thursday at $50
O'Clock. The carol service each night
Will open at 7:45 o'clock and the
ceremony of offertory will be at 8:l5
o'clock.
The Schubert Singers, directed bv
Mrs. Chester Adair, organist. who
Will sing Tuesday night, will in
clude in their program Arise. Shine.
Tor Thy Light Is Come"
Paul Whitney Fishbaugh. orpanist
at New York Avenue PRESBYTERIAN
Church, will play the musical pro-
gram on Wednesday night, beginning
at 7:45 o'clock, assisted by Dorothy
w. F1shbaugh. soprano soloist at that
church. A fourth prominent mu-
slcal group will be heard in the
preliminary program on Monday
night.
Katherine Riggs, Washington
harpist, who is director of music
Tor the festival drama, will be heard
IN a succession of rare harp num-
bers preceding and during the rendi-
ton OF THE Other Wise Man" and
Mary Apple, contralto, coming down
from New York City for the
Christmas holidays. will sing the old
French carol, Draw Nigh. I'M
manuel as the prologue to the dra-
matte action of the world-loved
legend.
Nina Norman, as the Hebrew
mother, will sing the ancient He
brew number, "Oi, Shlof Mein Fei-
gele," and, with Christine Irish, an
ancient Polish chorale. j. Edmond
Veitch, Charles Whitten and Eugene
Kressim will sing the I'VE Three
Kings
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Delamarter's "A Gothic Prelude"
Doty's Haze" Sowerby's "Passa-
caglia," Vierne's Clair de Lune"
and the Karg- Ebert choral improvi-
sation on I'm Dsfc1 Jubilo." Ernest
M. Skinner, founder of the Skinner
Organ Co. and builder of the
Cathedral organ which was dedi-
Gated recently, will give a talk on
the new organ before the program
begins.
The Coolidge Quartet concert to
be given at the Library of Congress
Will include the world premiere of
a quartet by David Diamond. Amer
lean composer. Two Indian sketches
by Charles Tomlinson Critics and
Mozart's Quartet in C Ma ior
(k :4o5)" will complete the program.
Ihe Washington Choral Society
concert on Friday will open with a
group OF Christmas songs, Including
tne chorales Break Forth, o Beau.
leouS Heavenly Light" How Shall
Fifty Meet Thee" and Beside Thy
cradle Here I Stand" from Rach;s
Christmas Oratorio, Herzogenberp,
Gnristmas Song" Sir Hubert Parry's
Il sing the Birth" and Maxson's
All My Heart This Night Reioices,
rour unaccompanied part songs.
DoWland's Come Again, Sweet Love
Doth Now Invite" "Lasso's Bauer
Bauer Was Tragst du i'm Sacke".
GeVaerts "Chanson de Mai" and
Ianeyev's Sunrise" follow. The
program will be completed by
Beethoven's "Elegie" with accom-
panlment of strings, and Deems
Iaylor's The Chambered Neutilus"
with piano, Hammond organ and
chamber orchestra. Mr.. Potter will
conduct the entire program.
Ihe program of the Budapest
Quartet for Friday night includes
Mozarts ID Major Quartet *.
575)," Beethoven's &C Minor Quartet
'Op. 1S, No. A." and Dvorak's "F
Major Quartet (Opus 96)."
General sessions begin Wednesday
afternoon. following registration IN
the morning. A reception at the
White House is being given by Mrs
'>Ao tOi NSiS 5dICS dllu members
OF the association at pm. Wednes-
day. Thursday morning will be de-
voted to a general session on music
IN the public ald parochial schools;
1hursoay afternoon to piano, string
and chamber music, and vocal
forums.
The general session Friday morning
Will be on the relation between
music in secondary school and in
college. A symposium on the psy-
chology of music and a discussion
OF the music education activities of
the Works Progress Administration
Will take place on Friday afternoon.
A luncheon is being given at the
Mayfower Friday under the aus
plces Of the National Federation of
Music Clubs. Mrs. Vincent Hilles
Ober, national president of the Or
ganlzation. will preside, and DIN
Downes, music editor of the New
York Times, will be the speaker.
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Shepherds Heard Song
That Made New World
Human Race Made Stronger
By Strains Untouched
In Mans Realm
BY ALICE EvERsMAN.

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The 6Ith the
PROMISED the the Nativity
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simplest kind vouhsafed the only Of
profession the
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irrespective of rank, education or talen'
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EMOTION for for the the Goke qualities that the human
a so m a suns s % S no
fung the great gift of sound and the souls
No demanded by
ha @ xs ea to an the
tranquility the music which
temples the gods had to be proated
always For the
hand hand with His ustne
pah all understanding there no
Christ Child born
of with supernatural
Away from the temples music
xlraed the voupuous
Music had status of its but linked
dance.
peaceful night little Child born
a filled
a
simple Glory God Peace to Men
the fountains of
genius their Maker With the ad
consolation the world
looked the divine realm whence music springs
with
precious beauty
the angels whose melody the ow shepherds
heard
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Music Club to Have
Mozart Pageant

A pageant on the life of Wolfgang
Mozart, with music of the times
and his compositions, will be given
by the active members of the Friday
Morning Music Club in Barker Hall
Friday at 1880 am. There will be
five acts given in the costumes OF
the period.
Calderon Howe with Anne Hull,
the distinguished pianist, will play
the verginal and recorder, both old
instruments of that century. Louis
Potter will be the mature Mozart;
Villa Semple, Alcie Brooks, and
Steven Emery will be the young boy
Mozart. Edward Steffe and Helen
Howison will be the other guest
artists who are assisting Miriam Hill
ton, who is directing the play. Ethel
Gawler is assisting In the first act
Dorothy Emery the second, Helen
Turley the third, Mabel Frost the
fourth and Florence Howard the
fifth. Judy Conklin, the gifted little
singer, will be Mozart's sister Nam
nerl. Mr.. Rosenwald is assisting
Mrs. Brooks at the second piano
in the concerto. Emily Coville, Mary
Camm Adams, Ruby Potter, Edith
Lefevre, Tavern Fairchild, Mary
W"eelwright, Lily Garrett, Heller
Grimes, Marjory Davis. Mary Apple
Vera Ross, little Judy Coville ane
little Charlotte Ross are among those
who will take part; also Katharine
Riggs Birchard, Ina Holtzscheiter
Norma Simonson, Mary Goldman
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Symphony
Has Choral
Concert This Week
Has Successful
Piano Star

With the assistance of the Wash
ington Choral Society and Evelyn
Swarthout, American concert pianist,
the National Symphony Orchestra,
under DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor,
will give the first Washington per-
formance of one of the outstanding
modern English choral works, Con-
slant Lambert's "The Rio Grande,"
next Wednesday night in Constitu-
ton Hall. The concert begins at
$3.50 pm. The choral organization,
directed by Louis Potter, prominent
Washington musician, is making its
first appearance of the season with
the symphony at this concert.
The program will also include first
Washington performances of works
by two important American compos-
ers, Roy Harris and Burnet Tuthill.
Two excerpts of the formers Time
Suite" and the latter's Bethlehem"
are the works to be heard. The first
half of the program will consist Of
the introduction and polonaise from
Rimsky -Korsakovs christmas Eve,
and Mozart's Jupiter" Symphony
The program will close with the
prelude to Wagner's "Die Meister-
singer"
The choral work by Constant Lam
bert was written in 1929 and is con-
sidered as his most original and
brilliant achievement. The text for
the composition was written by
Osbert Sitwell, eminent English poet,
and is descriptive of a Spanish
American town, with music and
dance filling the soft summer night.
The composer uses the jazz idiom
for the composition, but it is jazz
that is "idealized, transmitted, en-
listed to service to which 1t had
hitherto seemed alien-but more
than that, it is POLITICALLY evocative.
Burnet Tuthill, whose work is be-
ing heard for the first time on q
National Symphony program, was
born IN New York City and is the
son OF the architect of Carnegie
Hall. After graduating from Co.
lumola University in 1909 he en-
tered upon business career, but his
musical interests predominated and
ne entered the professional music
field. From 1922 to 1880 he was
manager OF the Cincinnati Conserv-
atory OF Music. Last year he became
director OF the Memphis College OF
Music. bethlehem" has been per>
formed by a number of the leading
symphony orcnestras in the coun-
try. Subtitled "A Pastorale," it is
the composers Opus g."
The two excerpts from the Roy
Harris "Time Suite" that will be
heard at this concert are "Relig-
ion" and Communications" The
entire work. consisting Of six Sec
tions, was written in 1887 AZ one OF
the works commissioned bv the Co.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
By ALICE EYERSMAN.

One does not often have the op-
portunity to admire the cello in one
of the finer works written for that
instrument for cello recitals are a
rarity. The Columbia Phonograph
Co. has given first place this month
to the Schubert Sonata in A Minor, "
played by Emanuel Feuermann and
Gerald Moore, and thereby added to
the worthwhile literature of the
phonograph a charming work beau
tifully played.
It is the gayest work imaginable
for cello and draws on the most
fluent technique of the artist in
many passages. 1t is, as always
with Schubert, song, rendered es-
pecially lovely as sung by the rich
voice of this instrument. The first
movement is merry in mood ex-
pressed in plenty of brilliant meas
ures. The second movement is one
of Schubert's most priceless writ
ing, soulful and tender as Mr.. Feuer-
mann plays it to the simple piano
accompaniment. The spirit of the
first and second movements are COM
bined in the last, making one Of the
most delightful flnales that has
been devised in sonata composition.
A curious point about this work
is that it was originally written for
a newly invented instrument called
the "arpeggione. 1t was a COM
bination of guitar and cello and
had several names at the beginning,
being termed the "bogen-guitarre"
and the "guitarre d'amour," although
the inventor, the instrument maker,
G. Staufer, leaned more to that of
"guitar-violoncello." Because of the
ease with which arpeggios could be
played on it, it was more commonly
called the "arpeggione." 1t was
played in the same manner as is
the cello, but the body Of the in
strument resembled q guitar.
No doubt it was thought that the
guitar-violoncello would become a
popular instrument and perhaps en-
large the possibilities of cello play
ing. At least school for its in
struction was published, written by
Vincent Schuster, and it was for this
man that Schubert wrote the sonata.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Guest Choir to Give
music at Service

The choir of the Church of st.
Stephen and the Incarnation will
provide special music for the evening
service next Sunday, January /, at
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
day Saints, Sixteenth street and Co.
lumbia road NV. The choir num-
bers 81 men and boys, directed by
Sherman j. Kreuzberg, M. A., Or
ganist and choirmaster. The Rev
Paul D. Wilbur is rector of the Epis-
copal Church on Sixteenth street
near Newton.
The service is open to the public
commencing at 7 pm. and there will
be no collection taken. This ap-
pearance as guest choir completes
an exchange of chors, for several
weeks ago the Latter-day Saint choir
sang at service held at st
Stephens.
Evening star., 1938-12-25

The Christmas program at the
regular Sunday evening concert
this evening at the Hotel Roose-
welt will be given by a chorus OF
30 singers from the Anacostla
Methodist Church, with George T.
Ross conducting and Marguerite
Allen Ross at the piano.
Tomorrow evening 80 carolers
from the Curley Club will gather
around the tree at the Hotel Roose-
velt and give the following program:
"Adestes Fideles," "Jesu! Thou
Dear Babe Divine" "Hark! the Her
aid Angels Sing" 20, Little Town OF
Bethlehem" "It Came Upon a Mid
night Clear" 20, Holy Night"
Anne Yago McGuffey, well known
contralto and teacher of voice, Will
spend the holiday season in Cali
fornia.
The Allied Arts Group of the Louis
THOMPSON Studio held its annual
open-night session Monday, Decem-
Der S. Carl Jaspan, concert violinlst,
lectured on the violin and its evolu-
ton. A dramatic reading by JACK
Bennett and group singing rounded
out the evenings activity.
Jovita Fuentes sang at reception
being given in honor of the Vice
President Of the Philippines.
Mrs. Willard Beecher Walters en-
tertained the members Of the Sllgo
Music Club at her home, on Six
teenth street NV, Wednesday eve
ming. Stanley Dombrosky, the vice
president of the club, PRESIDED
Those taking part were Mrs. Lyman
w. Graham, who sang two Italian
songs: William Frank, Alma Samp-
son, Lola Sanders, who recently
sang the leading part in the light
opera, Countess Martha" and Mr.
Dombrosky, who also sang in the
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Reviews of RECORDINGS

1t was played by Herr Schuster very
soon after 1t was composed. The
instrument did not take the public
fancy as expected and nothing more
was heard of it and the sonata be-
came part of the real cello litera-
ture. With such splendid artists as
Feuermann and Moore playing it
it is recording worth having.
When that excellent artist, Egon
Petri, plays one is sure to hear
something of value. This month
comes a recording of the Brahms
variations and Fugue on a Theme
by Handel" by Mr.. Petri, in which
his brilliant musicianship enriches
this interesting number There has
been no greater writing in this style
than the Brahms Variations"
which, however, need a flrst-class
pianist to get the most out of them.
Clara Schumann was the first ar
tist, besides the composer, to play
them publicly, and she did so with
the greatest enthusiasm for this
new exhibition of Brahms inven-
tive genius. Petri's superb tech
nique, so completely under his COM
mand for every desired infection,
gives an infinite variety of color
to the changing ideas that the
fertile musical talent of Brahms
thought out. Most pianists aim to
make these variations a demonstra-
ton of their pianistic prowess, and
here they have a model to initiate
whose playing of them is nearly
perfect.
In the same release is the Mozart
Sonata in D Major" for two
pianos, played by the French duo
piano team, Werner and Doucet.
The literature for two pianos Is
not so very large and arrangements
of other works are the order of
the day since this combination of
artists have become so popular.
This work of Mozart's is one of
the few originally written for two
pianos and was composed for pdr-
formance by the composer himself
and the noted pianist of that time,
Mile. Aurnhammer. It's gay and
expressive content is brought out
with fine artistry by the recorders
of the work, which appears in an
album of two 12-inch records.
Completing the choice works re-
leased by the Columbia people this
month is that Of Berlioz's Child
hood of Christ" performed by the
Orchestra Symphonique de Paris,
with F. Ruhlmann as conductor,
and with Jean Planet, tenor, as
soloist. 1t is especially appropriate
at this season of the year, although
this recording deals with the second
part of the oratorio. which was pro-
duced in its entirety on December
10, 1854. This particular bit begins
with an orchestral description of
the tiresome journey toward Egypt
by the Holy Family, the reverse
side of the single disk being given
over to a narrative of the episode,
sung IN French by Mr.. Planet.
It is a devotional work and per-
formed in that manner by the
French artists. An interesting fea-
ture about this recording is that
it received the Grand Prix for the
perfection of both the performance
and the recording in the contest
which the French newspaper Can
dide organizes each year.
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Concert Schedule
TO-DAY.

Chorus, Anacostia Methodist
Church, George T. Ross, con-
ductor, Roosevelt Hotel, $50
pm.
MONDAY.
THE Other Wise Man" Lu-
ther Place Memorial Church,
$50 pm.
TUESDAY.
THE Other Wise Man." Schu-
bert Singers, Mrs. Chester Adair,
director, Luther Place Memorial
Church, 7:45 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
National Symphony Orches-
ira, DR.. Hans Kinder. con-
ductor; Washington Choral So
ciety, Louis Potter, conductor;
Evelyn Swarthout. pianist. as
sisting, Constitution Hall, $50
pm.
M. T. N. A. Convention, May
flower Hotel, morning and aft
ernoon sessions.
THE Other Wise Man" Paul
Fishbaugh, organist; Dorothy
Fishbaugh, soprano, Luther
Place Memorial Church, 7:45.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 2:30 pm, and Marine
Band Symphony Orchestra, 8
pm.
THURSDAY.
Coolidge Quartet, Library of
Congress, 4 pm.
M. T. N. A. Convention, May
flower Hotel.
M. T. N. A. banquet, musical
program: Rosa Tentoni, So
prano; Benjamin Jones, pianist;
Lawrence Tibbett, speaker; Ru-
dolph CAM, POSTMASTER; May
flower Hotel. 7:3O pm.
Palmer Christian, organ re-
cital, Washington Cathedral, 4
pm.
"The Other Wise Man." choir
Luther Place Memorial Church,
Cornelia Kinsella, director,
Luther Place Memorial Church,
7:45 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
FRIDAY.
Friday Morning Music Club,
pageant on life of Mozart, Mir
lam Hilton, director, Barker
Hall, 1880 am.
Budapest String Quartet, Lii
brary of Congress, $3.50 pm.
M. T. N. A. Convention, May
flower Hotel.
Washington Choral Society,
Louis Potter, conductor, May
flower Hotel, S pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 3 pm.
SATURDAY.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
In Local Music Circles

opera. Mrs. Raymond Hill, Mrs
Julian M. Howe and Marie Cirillc
sang trio. The accompanies were
LaVergne Fairchild and Mrs. Thorn
ton Woodall. Mrs. Graham also
gave two readings.
Karl Holer's anthem. Nearer to
Thee" was sung by the choir OF
the First Reformed Church last
Sunday morning. Mary Knox did
the solo. On Sunday evening one OF
Mr.. Holer's piano compositions
Song Without Words" was broad
cast by Glenn Carow The number
is dedicated to Mr.. Carow.
Betty Baum, pianist, presented q
group of pupils in holiday recital
on Tuesday evening. Those who
participated were Anne and Kath-
leen Kuldell, Sandy Schlemmer,
Marlene Jacobson, Donna Vert
heimer, Teddy Haas, Anita Dorm
blatt, Victor Wertheimer, Arlene
Gordon, Jean Buckley. Robert Blum,
Anabelle Tender, Miriam Jaffe,
Adele Sauber, Helene Aaronson,
Mary Duggan, June Kuldell, Mary
Margaret De Burr, Emily Haas and
Phyllis Schwartz, who also sang the
"Alleluja" of Mozart. The program
ended with a recitation entitled,
Musical Portraits Miss Baum ar
ranged and played the music for
this number.
A group of players of the Nor
dica Mandolin and Guitar Orches-
ira, including Louise and Leslie
Teller, Ruth Peterson, Alice E. Hill
S. Franklin Harvey, Theodore Kun
"a, Roderic Davis, Bob Rappleye
and Bernard Pascal, was presented
by Walter T. Holt in Spanish and
italian selections on the recent
International night program of the
George Washington University in
the Hall of Government.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Young Greek
Soprano to
AppearHere
Opera Star Chosen
For Appearance
In Musicale

A particularly gifted young Greek
soprano whom she journeyed espe-
cially to Chicago few weeks ago
to hear in the title role of La
Tosca" with the Chicago Opera Co.,
has just been engaged by Mrs.
Lawrence Townsend to appear on
her program of January 16 in the
current series of Monday Morning
Musicales at the Mayfower Hotel.
The singer is Ellen Dosia, whose
fresh and well-trained lyric soprano
voice Mrs. Townsend says is very
like the beautiful voice of Lucrezia
Bori, who was to have appeared in
this series this season but was forced
to cancel this, along with all other
engagements for the winter, on
account of illness.
Ellen Dosia was born in Athens
into family prominent socially.
She had her debut at the Opera
Comique in Paris in la Tosca."
Later she sang leading roles in
LA Boheme," "Tales of Hoffman,"
and "Manon." While gaining this
valuable experience in Paris, she
met Andre Burdino, a foremost
tenor in Europe. He gave her ad-
vice as to the care of her voice and
a few months later. they were mar
ried and singing together in opera.
Mr.. Burdino also has been singing
in Chicago.
Ellen Dosia looks very like the
motion picture actress, Myrna 10y,
in her pictures and is still full of
youthful vivacity. Her concert
repertoire includes, in addition to
operatic airs. songs of her native
Greece, Spain. Italy, and other
countries, all sung in their original
language. Miss Dosia will make
her debut under Mrs. Townsend's S
auspices January 16 on the program
with the French pianist, Emile
Baume (also a debut in Washing
tom, and Casper Cascade, one of
the worlds most famous cellists,
who halls from Spain.
For the next Morning Musicale,
when the series resumes on January
8, following the holidays, Mrs. Town.
send is presenting Guilia Bustabo,
the lovely young artist of Italian
parentage, whom she gave her
Washington public debut last sea-
son, and also Ernest Schelling, out
standing in the fields of pianists,
conductors, and composers-the
most renowned of the pupils of
Ignace PadereWski.