Evening star., 1939-08-20

ductor with the National Symphony
week, and Reino Luoma, brilliant
young Finnish pianist, appearing as
soloist in the Rachmaninoff piano
Concerto No. 2 in C minor" Mr.
Luoma's appearance on tonight's
program comes as the result of
many requests from those who heard
him In his Water Gate debut last
summer.
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor of
the National Symphony Orchestra
and musical director of the sum-
mer concerts, will direct the final
Sunset Symphony on Wednesday
night. AS soloist for that occasion,
DIR. Kinder has chosen a young and
gifted American soprano, Lura Sto-
yer. This will be Miss Stover's
flrst appearance in Washington.
Popular in Capital.
Reino Luoma, piano soloist on
tonight's concert, Is well and IA
vorably known to Washington mu-
sic lovers, not only for his Water
Gate debut last year but for various
concert appearances which he has
made here. Twenty years old now,
Mr.. Luoma began his study OF the
piano II years ago under his moth
er, Hilda Luoma, a well-known con-
cert pianist of that period. At nine,
he made his first public appearance
IN concert in Detroit, Mich. In ad-
dition to the National Symphony
Orchestra. he has appeared as solo,
ist with the Chicago Symphony Or
chestra under Frederick Stock, and
the Virginia National Symphony Or
chestra under Laird Waller. Two
years ago he made his New York
debut in a highly successful recital,
both critically and popularly, at
Town Hall.
The complete program for to-
nights concert by the National SYM
phony Orchestra, under Mr.. Harri-
sons direction, follows:
Overture, Der Freischutx" Weber
afternoon of 4 Faun - Debussy
"Th. The soIeer.T,s ADDIsntic." pukas
Poppy - Gliere
dntermission)
Concerto No. : in minor -Rachmaninofi
tMr. LuomaD
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - List
Dr. Kinder returns to the Water
Gate Wednesday night to conduct
the final Sunset Sypmhony Concert
of the season. The combination of
a Kinder appearance and the final
concert Is always an occasion, and
DR.. Kinder has arranged program
worthy of the event. Major item will
be the popular Dvorak Symphony
No. IN E Minor" but perhaps more
newsworthy are two smaller suites
by Johann Strauss, which were
chosen by DR.. Kinder from the re-
markable Paul Loewenberg collec-
ton Of Viennese dance music which
the Library OF Congress recently
acquired just In time to save it from
being appropriated by the Nazi gov
ernment. The waltz kings works
were bought just before the An
schluss from the family of Loewen-
berg, Viennese railway Official,
whose avocation was his collection
Of Straussiana.
Prolific Composer.
The first of the Strauss items to be
heard on Wednesdays concert is en-
titled "Paroxysmen, Opus 1897; the
second, 'Wo die Citronen Bluh'n,
Opus 364.' The younger Johann
Strauss was a prolific composer, al
ways ready to write new dance in
honor of a particular event or So
ciety, always prompt to react musi-
cally to trip abroad or to scientific
progress. "Paroxysmen," COR Pa
roxysms'D Is a set of five waltzes
with introduction and coda which
was called forth by the medical pro-
fession and was dedicated to the
medical students of the "Hoch-
schule" In Vienna.
The first performance Of the waltz
occurred in the Austrian capital on