The Washington times., 1938-07-30
STEWART LEADS
SUNDAY MUSIC
AT WATERGATE
Toronto Conductor |:
Guest Of Symphony
BY WILLIAM NEWMAN

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Reginald Stewart, conductor Of
the famous promenade concerts In
Toronto, will be guest Of the Ma
tional symphony tomorrow at the
Watergate and again on Wednes-
day.
He is q native Of Edinburgh,
has benin him a brilliant career
as concert pianist, and has been
elevated to q prominent position
in the musical life of Canada.
A generation ago, neither in his
native Scotland, his adopted Cana
de, nor in this haven Of the alien
artist would he have been con-
sidered for any Of the duties and
honors that have come to him.
HiS race would have barred him.
CHANGED ATTITUDE
In all English-speaking countries
only German musicians were sup
posed to be competent to conduct
a symphony 20 years ago. Italians
were restricted to Italian opera
until Toscanini became a Wag-
merriam. AS for the native British
or American musician, he was &C
cepted as q choral conductor or
as all organiSt.
That has been changed through
out the British world. BritonS
have begun to honor their own
composers and executive musi-
clans in every department. In
art a prophet must be honored
first in his own land. Thereafter,
the rest of the world will listen
to him.
Mr.. Stewart begins tactfully
with established items Of the re-
pertoire overture to Wag.
ner'S "Rienzi", the First Brahms
Symphony and "Finlandia," by ST.
belius are his principle items to-
morrow evening.
NEW CONCERTMASTER
On Wednesday he will do the
Fourth Tschaikowsky Symphony.
prefaced by Mr.. Stewards own
setting of the MendelSsohn e
Minor fugue and followed by
Tschaikowsky's Romeo and Ju-
liet" fantasy, the "Polovetzian
Dances, OF Borodin and Cha
brier's "Espana."
Sunday evening he will have as
soliSt the new concertmaSter OF
the National Symphony, Marshall
Moss, who will play the Men
delssohn violin concerto on the
"electrophonic VIOLIN" which is
his own invention, with the COLA
boration Of William BARLEY, en-
gineer of the Bell Laboratories. It
is an adaptation Of the amplft.
cation principle.
Mr.. Moss is q Julliard fellow,
has concertized abroad and at
home, and is one Of the bene-
ficiaries Of the Walter Naumberg
Foundation.
Next Friday and Saturday in
the Griffith Stadium Washington
will be offered a two-day open-air
operatic festival by the Columbia
Opera Company, of New York.
The cast of 100 will be headed
by Jan Peerce, famous radio tenor
and recent soloist with the Ma
tional Symphony at the Water.
gate:
The u. s. Army Band, under
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, will play
Monday at the D. c. World War
Memorial, at 7:30 p. m; Tuesday.
in the Army Band Auditorium, at
2::3O p. M: Thursday, in the Band
Auditorium, at 2 and at Mount
Alto Hospital, at Z p. m; Friday.
at the Capitol, at 1880 p. M:
Saturday, in the Army Band
Auditorium, at 1O:30 a. M, and
at the Capitol, at 1880 p. m....
The U. s. Marine Band, Capt.
Taylor Branson, leader, will play
Monday in the Marine Barracks.
at 8 D. m; Wednesday, at the
Capitol, at 1880 p. M; Thursday,
at the World War Memorial, at
7:3O p. m; Friday, in the Marine
Barracks, at 1 p. m; Saturday In
the Marine Barracks. at 11:30 q. m.
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