The Washington times., 1938-10-08
FULL SEASON
OF B BRILLIANT. 7.
N U sic AHEAD
RecitaIs, Symphonies,
BaIIets Coming
BY WILLIAM NEWMAN

NV WILLIAM NE w MAN
Washington musicians improve
the late beginning Of the season
by listing recitals before the en-
inent aliens appear upon the
scene.
Two gifted pianists will be
heard tomorrow. At the Women'S
City Club, where a brilliant series
Of events is scheduled under direc-
ton of Mary liant Couch, Con-
stance Russell will play at S
o'clock. At the Roosevelt Hotel.
where resident musicians find
warm welcome and cordial hear
ing, Margaret Tolson will present
works of Handel, Mozart, Brahms,
schumann, Liszt and Ravel, at
e:30.
D. Sterling Wheelwright, bril-
liant organist Of the Washington
Chapel, L. D. S., continues his re-
citals on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday evenings, playing represent
ative works Of the literature.
Elena de Sayn opens the Y. W.
c. A. Sunday evening music hour
October is with a violin program.
AGRI EXTRAVAGANZA
The q. S. Department Of Agri-
culture Chorus announces per-
formances Of an extravaganza en-
titled Nightmare After the
Opera" Wednesday and Friday
evenings in the Agriculture Audi
torium. Robert Frederick Freund
Is director. The public is invited.
Edwin Hughes, president Of the
Music Teachers National ASSocia-
ton, will meet with DR.. Harold
Spevacke, Of the Library Of Con-
gress, and other members Of the
local committee tomorrow to dis
cuss arrangements for the conven-
ton which is to meet at the
Library next December. The COM
mittee meets at the Washington
College of Music.
Joseph and RoSina Lhevinne
begin the alien invasion. The
Interesting Russian pair come to
Constitution Hall, Sunday, october
23, at 4 .. m. for a two-piano pro
gram, flying from Denver to keep
the engagement.
BALLET Russo COMING
The management of the Ma
tional Symphony stresses the
extra-subscription engagement OF
the Ballet Russo de Monte Carlo
announced for November 16 and
IT in Constitution Hall, the Ma
tional Symphony participating.
DR.. Kinder will conduct for Mas
sine's choreographic interpretar
tion Of Beethoven'S seventh SYM
phony. MaSSine announces an
other novelty, Hindemith's "SG.
Francis" and many popular repetl-
tions.
The National Symphony opens
its season Sunday afternoon, Oc-
tober 80. Moriz RoSenthal Is to
be the soloist. He celebrates his
fjftieth anniversary on the con-
cert stage Of America this season
and is to play the LSzt E flat
concerto. Myra Hess, noted Eng.
lish pianist, is to play the Bee
thoven C minor this season, and
Ernest Schelling, his Suite
Variee" and his "A Victory Ball"
the latter being celebrated SYM
phonic poem and no piano solo.
Mischa Elman, another SoloiSt in
the Sunday series, will be heard
In the Beethoven violin concerto.
sToKowsKI OCTOBER rs
Leopold Stokowski will conduct
one concert in the series by the
Philadelphia Orchestra, which
opens in Constitution Hall, Oc.
tober Is, under Eugene Ormandy.
StokowSh comes March 81.
The Belasco Theater will be
made available for opera October
81, when the National Opera Com
pany, an entirely American or
ganization, will give q weeks sea-
son. Jan Peerce heads the list Of
tenors. Ruth Altman and Luisa
Corinina, the sopranos; Alfred
Chigi. the baritones, in this able
ensemble, which is managed by
j. Franklin Viola, the local agent
being Renoux Smith, Of the T.
Arthur Smith concert bureau.
Bruno Walter, exiled from Salz-
burg by Hitler. has become a
French citizen and an officer Of
the Legion of Honor. He is to be
one of the National Symptoms
guest conductors. He plans a
French Salzburg. Arturo Tosca-
mini, who has received his Italian
passport back again, is interested
in the idea. Why not an American
operate festival on the east coast
as well as the one planned at
Hollywood Bowl?