The Washington times., 1938-01-29

Mighty Fortress, his "Abl
cerpts from his latest opera
The National Symphony and
the same fine chorus of 200
voices that served DR.. Kinder
in the recent performance OF
the ninth Beethoven symphony
will answer to his baton, as Will
Glenn Darwin, baritone soloist.
The venerable DR.. Damrosch
Is indefatigable. Years mean
nothing to him. A new musical
project attracts his interest the
moment the one in which he is
then engaged has been COM
pleted. His beat is as vigorous,
his mind as keen, his ear as
tnfallible as when he took the
baton his fathers hand re-
liuouished in death in 1885 to
carry on the Wagnerian season
OF the German Opera Company.
DR.. Damrosch has introduced
more young American artists to
their fellow countrymen than
ary other conductor of a major
symphony orchestra, Theodore
Thomas and Frederick Stock
excepted. His work in the
schools, not only through his
broadcasts but by actual con-
tract with the various State and
national high school orchestras.
is a monument to his unselfllsh
interest in the art. Long may
he prosper and find new things
to do!
Yehudi Menuhin comes to
Constitution Hall tomorrow
The amazing popularity OF TINS
young man seems to have been
predestined and foreordalned.
He sold out some of the largest
concert auditoriums in the
country for his Midwestern and
Eastern debuts. though he had
no European prestige; in fact,
never had Travelled outside his
native California. No one can
explain this instinct of the pub
lie TO. genius. Of course, after
he had played, there was no
mystery in his popularity. He
has the divine spark.
Interest centers this season
in the first performance Of the
Schumann violin concerto. This
is the work willed by Schumann
to Joachim. That eminent mas
ter refused to play it. Evidently
he did not regard it as repre-
sentative of the composer. for
he inserted in his last teSta-
ment a clause forbidding the
performance of the work until a
century after Schumann's death.
Menuhin was able to per-
Suade Joachim's heirs, the di-
rectors of the Staatsbibliotek in
Berlin, where the manuscript re-
posed under glass. and finally
the authorities of the Reich
smusikkammera, awessome ram
1fication of interlocking bu-
reaus, that the world should
hear it; and that he, among
al the great violinists, was the
artist to reveal it.
His program also will contain
the Chaconne of Bach, a move
ment from that masters fifth
Partita, the forgotten Paganini
fantasy on themes from Ros-
sini's Moses in Egypt"-this
for the G string. and smaller
pieces by Sarasaet and Brahms.
The Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra, under Eugene Or
mandy, comes to Constitution
Hall Tuesday evening. The con-
ductor shares the interest of a
serious program with Joseph
Szigetti, eminent Hungarian vio-
linist. Szigetti is to play the
Beethoven concerto so Ormandy
prefaces his place on the first
half of the program with the
"Fidelio" overture. In the sec
ond half he yields again to the
plants of the critics and an
nounces a symphony - the
Brahms first. It is a great pro-
gram for lovers of noble music
and should sell out.
The Blackfriars Institute of
Dramatic Art presents James
Mannix, youthful and gifted
American pianist. in recital in
the music hall of the Catholic
University tomorrow at 3 p. m.
Beveridge Webster. a sensa.
ton among the younger Ameri-
can pianists. and Benno Rab-
inof. last of the Leopold Auer
pupils to be presented by that
great virtuoso and pedogague.
will offer the program in Mrs.
TownSend's Monday morning
musicale at the Mayflower Hotel.
lone Hoffman, meZzo-soprano,
and Herman Hoffman, violinist.
play Sunday afternoon, at 5, in
Barker Ha'1, Y. M. c. A.
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The Washington Music Teach
ers' Association presents Angela
Diller in a lecture on Modern
Music Educational Trends" in
Wesley Hail. Monday evening.
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Doris Hunphries and Charles
Weidman, modern American
dancers bring their Interesting