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Concert Schedule
TODAY,

Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
recital, Constitution Hall, 4 pm.
Mabel Farrar, violinist; Mary
liant Couch, pianist; Roosevelt
Hotel, $50 pm.
Y. w. G. A., International
Friendship Service, Elizabeth
Somers and Girl Reserve Glee
Clubs, 4:30 pm.
TOMORROW.
Washington Chamber Music
Society, Phillips Gallery, S pm.
Evening With the Victrola."
Public Library. Eighth and K
streets, 7:30 pm.
Army Band. Army Band Au-
ditorium, 1890 pm.
TUESDAY.
Louise Brabant, soprano; Nor
man Frauenheim. pianist: joint
recital. Raleigh Hotel. $3.50 pm.
Army Band. Army Band Au-
ditorium. 2:30 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
National Symphony Orches-
ira. DR.. Hans Kinder, conduc-
tor; Albert Spalding. violinist.
soloist, Constitution Hall, $3.50
pm.
Gene Stewart, organist: Da-
vid Manley, tenor. assisting:
Waugh Methodist Church, $3.50
pm.
THURSDAY.
Helen McGraw, pianist: KAY
Rickert, violinist; sonata recital,
Pierce Hall, evening.
FRIDAY.
Budapest String Quartet, Lii
brary of Congress. 8:15 pm.
Friday Morning Music Club,
Sylvia Meyer. harpist; Ralph
Hersh. violinist; Quinta Fry,
pianist; Barker Hall, Y. w. c.
A., 1880 am.
SATURDAY.
Budapest String Quartet, Lii
brary OF Congress. 3 pm.
Army Band. Army Band Au-
ditorium, 1870 am. and 1890
pm.
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musicians have received the honors
that have been his.

musicians have received the honors
that have been his.
Among these was the appearance
at the Scala Opera House in Milan,
where such famous violinists as Pa
ganini, Sarasate and Kreisler had
played and as soloist with the Paris
Conservatoire Orchestra, sharing
with Kreisler and Ysaye this rarely
bestowed invitation. Besides play
ing before royalty he has had con-
ferred upon him the decoration Of
the Crown Of Italy by the Italian
government and the rosette of the
French Legion of Honor.
Always Hard Worker.
Because of the prominence of his
family-his father was a brother in
the sports firm of A. G. Spalding
& Bros.-he had much antagon-
ism to overcome in his fellow -musi-
clans and even from certain critics,
who could not believe that any one
born with a silver spoon in his
mouth, would be anything but a di-
lettante. From the outset of his
career, he has been a prodigious
worker, developing his art steadily
year by year until today he ranks
as the outstanding viohnist of this
country. His appearance on We'd
nesday with the symphony is part of
a coast-to-coast tour scheduled to
surpass his concert tour of last sea-
son, when he played in some 81
cities of the United States and
Canada.
The soloist on the following con-
cert will be Nino Martini, who on
Sunday, November 10, will make his
first appearance in Washington with
a major symphonic organization.
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First Performance
OF Respi9hi Sonata

Kay Rickert and Helen McGraw,
who will be heard in a recital of
violin and piano sonatas at Pierce
Hall on Thursday evening at $3.50,
announce that they are giving what
is possibly a first performance in
of the Respighi Sonata"
This work was first performed before
publication in Rome, Milan and Bo-
logna by Jacques Gordon, eminent
violinist, with Respighi at the piano.
The following season they also gave
the American premiere of this COM
position in Chicago.
The program to be played by Miss
Rickert and Miss McGraw will also
include Brahms Sonata in D Minor"
and Beethoven's Sonata, Opus IL,
in A Major"
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at the Academy of Music in Phlla.
delphia in November of that year,
on which occasion his program in
cluded his own great Symphony No.
O., which, incidentally, will be per-
formed at the opening concert of
the 1889 New York cycle.
Rachmaninoff was only "a when
he was appointed conductor of the
Moscow Private Opera, q post filled
through the season of 1897-98. The
following year he was invited to
London, where he appeared in the
triple role of composer, pianist and
conductor with the London Phil
harmonic Orchestra. From 1905 to
1906 he conducted at the Imperial
Grand Theater of Moscow and from
1911 to 1913 he directed the Mos-
COW Philharmonic concerts.
Became Refugee.
The Russian revolution of 1917
deprived Rachmaninof of his estate
in that country and made him
refugee in the United States, where
he spends his winters. He has
summer home on Lake Lucerne in
Switzerland, where he has, of recent
seasons, done some important COM
posing.
For the convenience of patrons
who have not already made reserva-
tions for the Rachmaninof recital
this afternoon, the box Office at Con-
stitution Hall will open this morning
at 10 o'clock and will remain open
until after the start of the per-
formance. Music lovers are remind
ed that today's will be Rachmaui-
offs only Washington recital this
season.
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Budapest Quartet
In Concerts Here

The second pair of concerts to be
held under the auspices of the Ger
trude Clarke Whittall Foundation
in the Library of Congress will take
place on Friday at 8:15 pm. and
Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
The concerts will be played by the
Budapest String Quartet.
The program follows: Friday,
Dvorak, Quartet in E Flat Major,
Op. ST.; Smetana. Quartet in E
Minor" and Tschaikowsky, Quartet
In F Major, Op. o."
Saturday: Beethoven. Quartet in
A Major, Op. 49,, No. s.: Beethoven,
Quartet in E Flat Major. Op. "a"
and Beethoven. Quartet in B Flat
Major, Op. 130' with the Grand
Fugue, Op. 133," as the last move
ment).
The tickets will be made available
tomorrow at $3.50 am. at the SYM
phony box Office in the Homer L.
Kilt store, 1880 G street NV. No
more than two tickets to one of
these concerts will be distributed to
each person. A service charge of
Is cents is collected for each ticket.
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Concert
Season to Open

The first of this seasons CANDLE
light concerts by the Washington
Chamber Music Society will take
place tomorrow at the Phillips Me-
mortal Gallery at S o'clock. The
program will be given by the Pro-
Musica Quartet, Milton Schwartz
and Jeno Sevely, violinists; Ralph
Hersh, violist, and William Bren-
nand, cellist, assisted by Sylvia
Meyer, Albert Upton and Paul Gar
rett, and will consist of "Old Eng
lish Suite" for harp, violin and cello
by Giles Barnaby, the Leclair Trio
for harp, violin and cello, the
Schumann Quartet in A Major"
and the Ravel Introduction and
Allegro" for harp, flute, clarinet,
violins and cello.
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StOkowski Directs
PHILADELPHIA Event

Leopold Stokowski, third in the list
OF four conductors who have guided
the Philadelphia Orchestra to its
present state of excellence, will WELD
the baton Tuesday night, November
%, when that superb musical organi-
zation gives its second concert this
season at Constitution Hall, begin
ming at 8:45 o'clock.
Just released by DR.. Harl McDon-
aid, manager of this orchestra, Sto-
kowski's program is announced to
include:
Overture in D Minor ~ Haendel
,"Symphony in G Minor Mozart,
"Passacaglia" -Stokowski
clair de Lune" = Debussy- -stokowski
Pictures in an Exhibition"
MousSorgsky-Stokowski
The Moussorgsky is the latest COM
position that Mr.. Stokowski has
arranged especially for the Philadel-
phia Orchestra's performance and
this will be this arrangements first
hearing in Washington.
Reservations for this program can
be made at the box Office in Jordan S
music store, 1899 G street NV.
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Symphony'S m1dWeek series, Dr.
Kinder has programmed an infre-
quently played work, "Arlecchinata,"
by Mondonville, and the Symphony
No. 2 in D Major" by one of the
contemporary titans, Jean Sibelius.
The "Arlecchiaata" is an arrange
ment of the 18th century work by
the Baltimorean, Gustav Strube. One
of the dances in the opera-ballet
lie Carnaval du Parnasse," which
Jean Joseph Cassanea de Mondon-
vile wrote in 1749, it was first pre-
sented in the Strube arrangement
at Library Of Congress concert on
April 27, 1928.
Sibelius Work Offered.
The second symphony of Sibelius,
which forms the second half of the
program, was composed by the great
Finn in 1902 and 1903. Far more
than his first symphony, the Sec
ond is personal and characteristic
more closely afflliated to the people
of the composers race and more
uncompromiSing. Possibly indica-
tive of the reasons for the COM
poser's increasingly overwhelming
popularity during the last decade
are its burning sincerity and its
humanity, subjectively presented by
a great creative artist.
The soloist on Wednesday nights
program was one of the first artists
to prove that an American birth
place need not be an obstacle in a
musical career. In the IS years
Spalding has been playing before
the public he has established him.
self as the greatest of American
violinists and one of the half dozen
great violinists of the world. Few
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Chopin's Sonata. Opus 58,' has
been selected by Rachmaninoff as
the principal offering of today's re-
cital, which will open with one of
Bach's French suites. in E major,
and include in its re-intermission
interval LISTS arrangement of
Schuberts THE Trout as well as
Schuberts "A Flat Minor I'M
promptu.' Immediately after the
intermission Rachmaninoff will play
his own n Minor Etude- -Tableau,"
four Chopin etudes from Opus Is
and two LisZt etudes-the one in
D fiat major and the Dance of the
Gnomes.'
Attention to Cycle.
Unusual attention has been focused
on Rachmaninof this season, largely
because of the cycle of his own
works which the famous Russian
will present in New York this sea-
son, with Rachmaninof in the triple
role of conductor, pianist and COM
poser. The first of these three per-
formances, in which Racilmaninoff
will appear with the Philadelphia
Orchestra, will be gwen iii New York
two weeks from today. This will
be the first time New York au-
diences have ever seen Racllmani-
nof1 conduct, though his stature as
a conductor earned him two offers
Of the leadership of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, prior to Mr..
Koussevitzky's acceptance of that
post.
Rachmaninoff was 36 years old
when he made his American con-
Quoting debut in Chicago, back in
1909. This was closely followed BY
his appearance in the same capacity
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Awards
Composers Here
Get Opportunity
to Compete

Composers of Washington again
will have an opportunity to submit
compositions to the Federation of
Music Clubs for judging and to
compete for one of the national
awards. Besides cash prize in the
form OF a publishers bonus, there
is an arrangement for recognition
by the leading broadcasting COM
panies and promotion of the win
ming compositions as well as other
works OF the winning entrants by a
special national bureau of the Fed
GRAFTON of Music Clubs.
The adjudications, to be held in
the spring of 1910, will consider five
types of compositions. If more than
one work be submitted. locally, in
each class, a board of competent and
disinterested judges will select the
best OF each class for submission to
the national committee. The five
classes are:
!. Voice, with piano accompani-
ment, secular or sacred.
2. Piano, 10 to IS minutes.
3. Two pianos. 5 to 10 minutes.
4. Two violins and piano, 10 to
20 minutes.
5. Full orchestra, Is to 20 minutes.
The contest contemplates the sub
mission of unpublished numbers in
manuscript form, with complete
scores IN the case of orchestral
works. There will be a small en-
trance fee sufficient to defray the
cost OF administration and the ex-
penses OF judges. Washington COM
posers, who may plan to submit one
or more compositions, are requested
to file their intentions with the local
president, Eva Whitford Lovette.
1876 Connecticut avenue. Entrants
will be kept informed of all develop
ments and supplied with complete
information regarding the proper
submission of their entries.
Native musical composers of
Washington may have their COM
positions included in a publication
to be prepared by the National Fed
Grafton of Music Clubs. This is an
activity undertaken by the American
composers Research Committee of
the Department of American Music.
The local committee is headed by
La Sale Spier, well-known WASH
lngton composer, whose Seven
Visions" soon will be presented bv
the National Symphony Orchestra.
The survey, which had strong
impetus in nearby States where the
work has been completed and the
records published, contemplates a
list OF published works only. The
information desired includes the
actual and or the pen name of the
composer. whether native or adopt
ed date of birth, date OF decease. if
heirs will submit information: titles
OF compositions, with classification
instrumental or voice., and the
names and addresses of publishers.
The information will be compiled
and published as a local document
as we'll as being used as part of
the national publication.
1t is desired to complete the COL
lection by February /, 1910. and
communications should be sent to
Mr.. Spier, 2235 Bancroft place.
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Story About Lord Nelson

Particularly in these days of trial
Britain looks back to her greatest
sea fighter. Lord Nelson, such q puny
fellow as lad that when his uncle,
a sea captain, was asked to sponsor.
him for the navy, the old man said:
What has poor little. Horatio done
that he, being SO weak, should be
sent to rough it at sea7 But let him
come. and If q cannon bali takes of
his head he viii ct least bs provided
fox."
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Morning Musicale
By FRIDAY Club

The Friday Morning Music Club
will begin its 54th season of morning
on Friday in Barker Hall
the Y. w. G. A., at 1870 o'clock
Sylvia Meyer, harpist, and Ralph
Hersh, violist. members of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra, and
Quinta Jensen Frey, pianist, will
present the following program:
tFor Harp Aone.l
"Impromptu" Gabriel Faure
"On Donkey-Back" Carlos Salzedo
"Pirouetting Music Box Carlos SalzedO
"Divertissement' "a respagnole),
Andre Caplet
fFor harp and piano.)
Introduction" and Allegro" by
request Maurice Ravel
(For harp and viola)
Fantasy Sonata" a"-------- Arnold Bax
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Musicale at Hotel

Maei rarrar, violinist. with Mary
liant Couch, pianist, will give the
program for the Sunday night mu-
sicale at the Roosevelt Hotel to-
night at $50 o'clock.
Miss Farrar was pupil of Leopold
Auer. For four years she was first
violinist with the Cleveland SYM
phony Orchestra. under Sokoloff.
She also was concert meister with
Ethel Leginskas Women's National
Symphony and has appeared in con-
cert in the principal cities of the
United States and Canada. Miss
Farrar will play two groups of solos
and with Mrs. Couch at the piano
will play the sonata for violin and
piano by Cesar Franck.
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Club for Children

The Washington Conservatory of
Music has revived the old Damrosch
Club for Children, and besides
music 1t now includes drama and
the dance. Robert Million, journal
ist, will write the scripts for the lit
tie plays for this season and Ernst
Ladovitch composes the music. The
last operetta, THE Five Little Pigs,
will be revived also for the tiniest
club members.
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Members of the Elizabeth Somers
and the Girl Reserve Glee Clubs
will act as choir for the Interna-
tional Friendship Service of the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton. Seventeenth and K streets
NV, today at 4:3O pm. Mrs. Will
liam Lee Corbin will preside and
Mrs. William S. Culbertson will lead
the service.
The choir will be heard in "Panis
Angelicus," by Cesar Franck, and a
"Sanctus on Themes From Parsifal,' -
by Harold Vincent Milligan. Mary
M. Burnett, music secretary of the
Y. w. C. A.. is director of the glee
clubs. Edith l.. Dawson, accom-
panist for the Elizabeth Somers
G]ee Club, will be at the piano.
This evening at o'clock the
National Capital Choir will give a
musical program at the Grace Bap-
tist Church, Ninth street and South
Carolina avenue Sc. The annual
concert is given this year on the
occasion of the 33d anniversary Of
the pastorate of Rev. Mr.. Johnson.
The choir, directed by Jessie Mas
ters, with H. Jerome Graham at the
organ, will give program consist
ing of numbers by well-known COM
posers, including a group cappella.
The soloists are Irene Koehl, So
prano; Louella Stockett, contralto;
Howard Ludwig, tenor, and Harry
Swain, baritone.
Sibelius' Second Symphony" will
feature the evening with the Vic
trola" program in the music divi-
sion of the Public Library, Eighth
and K streets NV, tomorrow at
7::3O pm. Other recordings which
will be played are Brahms "Aca-
demic Festival Overture" and Sc
lections from La Boheme, 'Manon," ;"
Martha" "Pagliacci' and Tam
hauSer."
Gene Stewart. concert organist.
assisted by David Manley, tenor, will
give a recital at Waugh Methodist
Church, Third and A streets NE,
Wednesday evening at $50 sharp.
This recital will be the first of a
series of seven to be played. on the
third Wednesday evening Of each
month. There will be no admission
charge.
The first recital of the "Piano
Teachers Forum" will take place at
Central High School of Thursday
at 8 o'clock. Teachers of the forum
will present their pupils. Harold
Prizes is president. All music lovers
are invited.
Thelma Callahan presented a
group of her pupils in class recital
at her studio, COS Taylor street NV,
last Saturday Those playing were
Donald Mallorey, Bill Clampitt,
Myrtle McMichael, Beatrice Keat-
ing, David Gillis, Dickie Hill, Alva
Clark, Christine Rhodes, Mary Jean
Wexford, Dorothy Rhodes, Janet
Mallorey, Dorothy Fielder, Virginia
Bradford, Virginia Perrin, Gary
Bradford, Jean woodward, Virginia
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The Washington Alumnae Chap
ter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national
music sorority, will observe Founders
Day tomorrow with q formal dinner
at the Dodge Hotel. Helen Torrey
y IN charge q the arrangements.
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Minna Niemann, pianist, appeared
in recital at the Academy Of the
Holy Name, Albany, N. Y, on eatsir-
day, November 4. ~~~~.
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MUSIC.
Spalding Violin Soloist
With National Symphony
Sibelius Work Chosen for
Orchestra at Concert in
Midweek Series Here

The American vnis Albert spadne returns soloi with
National
with orchestra the direction
violin Concerto Major"
the
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Young Musicians Must
Struggle for Perfection
ClamOrous Results Gained
Only After Period Given
To Hard Preparation
By Alice Eversman.

today in all its branches surrounded with gamor
halls
dct works with complete the movies
talented children
teens and the air kind
most aring Everything glamorou
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Rachmanin0ff Recital
Is Today's Music Event
Russian to Make His First
Local Appearance in Sunday
Afternoon Piano Program

sege Rachmaninof the distinguished Russian pianist and
celebrating this
before American audiences 1909 win Sunday
afternoon recital of his long Washington this
Hail. at o'clock
odgkin sponsored
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SERGEI
RACHMAN-
INOFF,,
Famous Rus
sian pianist,
gtvtn ng his
only recital
here this sea-
son at Con-
StitutiOn Hall
this AFTER
noon.
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In Local Music Circles

Baker, Genevieve Billhimer and
Marian Bonavita.
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MISS BrHDAfI.
bant
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Colonial Antiques
Are Sought for
Gadsby's Tavern

Antiques of the Colonial period
for furnishing two rooms being re-
stored at Gadsbys Tavern in Alex
andria, are being sought by the Ma
tional Board of the Children of the
American Revolution, it was an
nounced at a meeting of the board
yesterday in Memorial Continental
Hall.
Mrs. c. A. Swami Sinclair of
Alexandria, honorary president of
the c. A. r. and now State regent
for Virginia of the D. A. r., asked
members to try to locate a pink
Staffordshire pitcher and bowl. Mrs.
Lee R. Pennington, chairman of
the Committee on the Restoration
reported that a field bed, meeting
the specifications of the one listed
in the original inventory, had been
offered for sale and also that the
New Jersey c. A. r. had made the
gift of a brass warming pan, for
merly the property of Capt. Henry
Knox of the Revolutionary Army.
The board voted to purchase pray
er books. hymn book and large
altar prayer book for the children's S
chapel in the National Cathedral
in memory of Eleanor Washington
Howard. the last of the Washington
daughters line at Mount Vernon
Mrs. William H. Pouch, national
president, came from New York to
preside at the meeting.
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Pennsylvanians
Will Dance at
Willard Tonight

Pennsylvania's two distinguished
Senators, the "a members of the
Pennsylvania delegation in the
House of Representatives and othe,
high Government officials who are
Pennsylvanians will be guests of
honor at the reception, dance and
entertainment by the PENNSYLVANIA
State Society at the Willard to-
night.
Senator Joseph F. Guffey will be
accompanied by his sisters, Mrs.
Carroll Miller, National Democratic
Committeewoman from Pennsyl-
vania, and the Misses Ida and
Pauletta Guffey. Senator James ].
Davis will attend with Mrs. Davis.
Other distinguished guests will in
clude Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief
OF the United States Army Air
Corps; Rear Admiral William R,
Furlong, chief of the Navy Bureau
of Ordnance; Assistant Postmaster
General RAMSEY Black.
Following the official reception,
there will be dancing and profess
sional entertainment brought to
Washington particularly for the oc-
casion. Headlining the entertain
ment will be Tom Barry, eminent
Irish-American tenor, late of the
cast OF The Student Prince"
The officers of the society who are
responsible for planning the recep-
ton nce-entertainment are Rep
resentative James P. McGranery,
president; Representative Robert F..
Rich, Gen. Arnold, Admiral Furlong
Representative J. Roland Kinzer
and Miss Mary Ann Skinner, vice
presidents; David H. Diebler, secre-
tary-treasurer