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Evening star., 1939-02-12
Uses
French
Violin Type
Appears as Soloist
And Conductor
In Symphony

Georges Enesco, world-famed vio-
lin virtuoso and conductor, who will
appear in the dual role of soloist
and conductor with the Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra at Constitution
Hall February %, uses an especially
designed violin that is always the
subject of intense curiosity.
Enesco's violin is not the handi-
work of an old Italian master but
OF a modern French one, fashioned
by Coll. a modern violin crafts
man. Although of medium height
Enesco is heavily built, and his fin
gertips are broad enough to reach
e11ortlessly a span of three tones.
The violin is oversize. and the
neck and flngerboard are larger and
broader than usual, in order to ac-
commodate Enescos broad fingers
Another item in Enesco's possess
sion which arouses UNIVERSAL inter-
est is his practice fingerboard
Whenever he is travelling or wait
ing or even speaking with friends
Enesco may be seen lingering a
small piece of wood with his left
hand.
With a shape similar to that of
his violin flngerboard, the practice
board has ridges carved along its
length corresponding with the shape
and position of the four strings. II
is his own invention to keep the tips
of his fingers sharp and their mus
cles agile, providing physical and
mental practice when circumstances
make 1t difficult to play the violin
itself. It was made for Enesco by q
worker on his own farm In Ru-
mania, and it may always be found
in the violinists pocket.
Since 1922 Enesco has taken the
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
on frequent tours in this country
in addition to appearing with ane
conducting other outstanding or
chestras. The Philadelphia Sym
phony Orchestra appears under the
local management of the T. Arthur
Smith Concert Bureau, 910 G street
NV.
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Special Symphony Music
Opens Fund Campaign
Work of Young American to
Be Presented by Members
Of National Orchestra

that same year and again In 1885
and 1896 he was awarded the Gug-
genheim fellowship. Making q spe-
cialty of contemporary music for
the piano, he has lectured in most
of the large cities in the United
States. In 1896 and 1887 he did
research In Honolulu for the prepa-
ration of an opera with q Polyne-
sian setting. He is now head OF the
composition department Of the
Philadelphia Conservatory Of Music.
In regard to the concerto, his SEC
ond for piano and orchestra, Mr..
Nordo1 writes:
"The concerto will play in WASH
ington Is neither conservative nor
radical. It has no program, Is not
meant to describe anything. I have
not used the classic concerto form
as far as the treatment Of the solo
instrument and the orchestra is
concerned. There are no cadenzas,
and while the third movement Is
brilliant, did not intend the work
to be q show-oh piece for the piano.
AS a matter of fact, the orchestra
dominates the second movement,
but this was determined by the
thematic material, which seemed to
me to demand just that kind OF
treatment"
Five Movements.
The suite of airs. arranged from
the music of Henry Purcell by Con-
ductor Barbirolli. consists OF five
movements. The orchestration is
for strings. four horns, two flutes
and English horn. The music has
been chosen from various dramatic
works of the great 18th century
English composer, including the
"Gordian Knot United" THE Vir-
tuous Wife" and the incidental
music for Dryden's king Arthur"
Tchaikovskys Francesca da Ri
mini" is one Of the most dramati-
cally effective tone poems by the
famous Russian composer. It's most
recent hearing in Washington was
in connection with a performance
last season by the Ballet Russo de
Monte Carlo and the National
Symphony in a choreographic ver-
sion by Leonide Massine.
The next concert by the National
Symphony Orchestra will be on
Sunday afternoon. February 26, at
O'Clock, with Nadia Boulanger,
world famous French musician. as
guest conductor Of the second half
Of the program. The opening half,
to be conducted by Dr. Kinder, will
include Beethoven's Symphony No.
3" (Eroica"O.
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Concert to Be Given
By Gas EMPLOYEES

The annual concert of the Wash
ington Gas Light Co.'S Employees
Band and Glee Club will be held
at BIS pm. on Tuesday at the
Woodrow Wilson High School audi
torium on Nebraska avenue NV.
between Albermarle and Chesapeake
streets-near Wisconsin avenue.
This is the company's show of the
year" including vocal solos, glee
club selections and music by the
non-professional band-performed
by employees of the company.
The band has been a well-known
Washington musical organization
since its origin in December, 1890.
The first public appearance of the
band took place in the fall of 1881.
The organization is under the di-
rection of Otto Siebeneichen, former
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Cantata and Motet

st. Johns Church, Sixteenth
and H streets N. w., announces the
sacred cantata, No. 180, Deck Thy
self, My Soul, With Gladness," by
j. s. Bach, and the motet for
double chorus, Blessing, Glory,
Wisdom and Thanks" formerly
thought to be the work Of j. s.
Bach, now attributed to Gottfried
Wagner, tomorrow at $50 pm, by
st. Johns Choir, under the direction
Of Arthur HoWes. +, A. q. O.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Music Should Be Exempt
In Midst of Economy
Spiritual Quality Is Needed
In World WHICH Fails
To Keep Ideals.

cation. These are not civilization,
but its expression"
She then goes on to enumerate
the many crimes that have been
committed both by individuals and
by governments and sums up by
saying: Our society is dominated
by intellectual giants who are moral
and emotional morons. Everything
in man has developed except his
religious instinct. He suffers from
deranged emotions and the inability
to love. The weak point Is In the
emotional sphere"
All this is true, and more than
ever before are the finer minds Of
the country realizing the dangerous
tendencies. But we have at hand
the means of helping ourselves If
we would but take it. There is al
ways music and In good music there
can never be any evil. but only
spiritual sustenance. II our civili-
zation in the sense of the mental
development that we have expert
enced is not threatened. our spiritual
realm is in danger of being warped
If we do not hold on to the things
that will act as food for it. All the
world knows that little more kind
liness and consideration, a little
more brotherly love, a little more
directing ourselves through our bet
ter impulses will help to stabilize
the unstable conditions existing
around us today.
Flames of Idealism.
We have music at hand to keep
our emotions active in the best way.
No one can listen to music that is
the result of the travail of genius
unmoved or come away from it
without feeling a renewal of moral
courage. Could money possibly pay
for that gain? Money is but the
fuel that keeps burning the flames
of high idealism so woefully needed
by every one today. No carefully
planned security or boarding of
money could ever bring the satisfac-
tion Of uplifting emotion, squirting
one on to better things, In the same
was that music does. Far wiser to
do without the material comforts of
daily living than Danish through
misguided economy the beauty
which music gives to us.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
By ALICE EVERSMAN.

Something for every real music
lovers taste is offered this month
in the releases of the Victor Co.
For those who love the classics
there is first of all one Of the finest
Haydn symphonies-that in B fiat
major. No. 102, played by the Boston
Symphony Orchestra with Serge
Koussevitzky conducting.
Naming this symphony as one Of
the finest that Haydn has written
rests on the deeper general plan on
which it is based and on the richer
quality Of music which Haydn has
created. It is the second from the
last of that enormous output to the
composers credit and dates from
his successful stay in London. While
the fresh vitality that permeates
all of Hadyn's writings is there
in fullest measure, one can sense a
growth in style and power possibly
due to his association with Bee
thoven which preceded its compo-
sition. In this work the composer
had abandoned that graceful char
acter so popular in his day and
called upon his mature powers to
give out a work OF substance and
beauty.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra
gives 1t a splendid reading wherein
the rich tone of the ensemble Is
especially fitting. The second move
ment is one of rare loveliness which
the Bostonians further embellish in
their manner of playing, but the
whole symphony is one that has
much to give that can be heard time
and again with constant enjoyment.
Still in the classic vein is the
album of Bach Clavier Toccatas
played by Arthur Schnabel. Here
registered are the "Toccata in c
minor" and that in D major. This
recording is of special interest as
the opportunity to hear the clavier
toccatas is rare one overshadowed
as they are by the popularity of the
organ toccatas. But Bach has made
more of the toccata form than is
ordinarily associated with it and
the clavier toccatas rank with his
finest endeavors. AS played by Mr..
Schnable, whose fine artistry infuses
them with every possible interest,
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Roth Quartet Gives
Two Performances

The Roth Quartet will give two
performances, Thursday evening at
$3.50 and Saturday afternoon at 3:45,
at the Library Of Congress, under
the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke
Whittall Foundation, at which the
following programs will be pre-
sented: Thursday, Ballot, Quartet
No. 2, B-Flat Major; Mozart, due
for violin and viola, g Major,
K-423"; Beethoven, Quartet, E-Flat
Major, Opus a." Saturday, Haydn,
Quartet. Opus 80, No. 3, G Major;
Viotti, duo for two violi1s, "A Minor.
Opus 30," and Brahms Quartet, A
Minor, Opus 81, No. 2"
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Cellist at Roosevelt

Emilio Simon, cellist, who played
throughout South America with
Anna Pavlowa, will be the artist Of
the regular Hotel Roosevelt concert
this evening. Reino Luoma, pianist,
will accompany him. DR.. Simon Is .
graduate of the Brussels Conserva-
tory of Music and q graduate of
Sorbonne University. Among honors
he has had is the post of first cellist
with the Rochester Symphony under
Eugene Goossens.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
MUSIC.

With the ninth annual sustaining
fund campaign for money to run
the National Symphony for the
l939-4O season opening today, the
concert by the National Symphony
Orchestra, to be given this after
noon at o'clock in Constitution
Hall, takes on special significance.
For this important event DR.. Hans
Kinder, conductor Of the orchestra.
has arranged a program Of unusual
interest, including the world pre-
miere of a piano concerto by the
prominent young American COM
poser, Paul Nordoff. The composer
will play the solo piano part in this
afternoons presentation. Other
works to be heard on the same
program are Berlioz's Carnival
Roman" overture, a suite OF airs
by Purcell, arranged by John Bar
birolli, conductor of the New York
Philharmonic Symphony: Tschaik-
ovsky's Francesca da Rimini" and
the "Berceuse" and "Finale" from
Stravinsky's THE Fire Bird"
Although brief, Mr.. Nordof1's Ca
reer thus far has been an un-
usually active and distinguished one.
Unlike many Of his American COM
patriots, whose works lie on their
library shelves for years without
ever receiving a hearing, this young
Philadelphian can look back on
a number of important perform
ances Of his compositions. The most
recent and one Of the most success
full was the premiere last season
of the Secular Mass" compost
ton for mixed chorus and orchestra,
given It's first performance by the
Philadelphia Orchestra.
Other works of his have received
performances by the Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra. the New York
Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.
the st. Louis Little Symphony under
Hans Lange, conductor, and other
important groups.
Began at Age Of 8.
Born in Philadelphia In 1909, Mr.
,Nordon began his musical education
at the age Of 8. Later he entered
the Philadelphia Conservatory OF
Music, where he studied piano with
German and then with Olga Sam
aron. In 1929 he entered tht
Juilliard Graduate School In New
York on a fellowship. There he
continued his studies with Nine
Samaroff and studied composition
under Rubin Goldmark.
He won the Bearns prize from
Columbia University in 1888, and II
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Boys Band to Play
On Anniversary

The seventh anniversary concert
of the Holy Comforter Boys Band
will be held Sunday, February 10,
at 3 and pm, and Monday, Feb
ruSry 20. at 8 pm, at Holy Com
fofter School Auditorium, Fifteenth
and East Capitol streets.
The high spots of this program
will be as follows: A 10-year old
boy playing xylophone solos, very
popular young girl singer who Is
blind, Holy Comforter Boys Glee
Club singing Let Me Call You
Sweetheart" and "All Ashore" with
trumpet trio; little Samuel Maw-
hood, favorite on the radio (Old
Skipper program.
The band will play several selec-
tions, some of which are: Meachams
American Patrol" cornet trio,
"Triplets of the Finest; Flotow'S
Overture to Stradella," "The Ros-
ary," played as trumpet solo. and
clarinet trio, "Merriment Polka
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Two Piano Recitals

Fay Ferguson, brilliant young
American pianist, will be heard IN
Washington recitals on February
20 at the Woman's Club Of Chevy
Chase and on February ~ at the
Phillips Memorial Gallery in the Art
of Young America series. Miss Fer
guson Is now making very success
full community concert tour. She
is a master pupil of Tobias Matthay
noted London pedagogue.
Tickets for these recitals may be
secured at Kits and the Woman's
Club Of Chevy Chase.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

Rehearsals for Dorothy Radde
Emery's operetta, "The Nightingale"
which will be presented in Balti-
more before the biennial conven-
ton of the National Federation OF
Music Clubs, Junior day, Saturday,
May 20, will begin this week, under
the direction of Esther Linkins, to
whom the operetta was dedicated
three years ago. Boys and girls
from through 18 years of age are
eligible to sing, and may join any
of the following groups: Tuesdays,
$3.50 to 4:3O, in First Baptist Church,
Sixteenth and o streets NV; We'd
nesdays, 3 to 4, in Phoebe Hurst
School, Thirty seventh street north
of Quebec street NV. Saturdays,
10 to II, at 3615 Newark street NV.
There will be two local presenta-
tions before going to Baltimore, one
of them under the auspices OF the
District of Columbia Federation OF
Music Clubs, Eva Whitford Lovette,
president, to be given in the First
Baptist Church, Friday evening,
May S.
Deanna Durbin will be in Balti-
more Junior day to sing for the
juniors.
Today at o'clock program In
observance of Race Relations Sum
day will be given at the Young
Women's Christian Association, at
Seventeenth and K streets NV.
The Religious Life and Music Com
mittees of the Y. w. c. A. are spon-
soring this program, which is being
planned by Evelyn Pierce OF the
Indian Bureau of the Interior De-
partment, and will be presented by
American Indians, including both
songs and legends.
Robert Thomas Murray, Sd, dis
tinguished colored baritone, who
sang the leading role in the colored
grand opera, MY Old Kentucky
Home" and who also appeared in
Green Pastures" will be heard in
special program of spirituals at
the Abraham Lincoln service at
Foundry Methodist Church this
evening at 8. Program:
Mr.. Murray will be accompanied
at the organ by William Sherman
Smith
Mrs. Wallace Hales has charge Of
the Sunday hour of music at Friend
ship House, 619 D street Sc, to-
day. Violin, piano and cello solos
will be played by Phyllis Alley, Bar
bara Alley and Enid Brossard. A
group of solos will be sung by Mer-
rill Gee. Melodies will be played on
the marimba by Francelle Dunkley.
Mrs. Harold Clark will read.
Edith Athey, organist of Francis
Asbury M. E. Church South. Six
teenth and Lamont streets NV, an
nounces the continuance of the Sun
day evening pre-service recitals-
7:45 to 8.
The monthly meeting Of the Piano
Teachers Forum will be held on
| Thursday evening 1T 3 o'clock in
the music room Of Central High
Evening star., 1939-02-12

Dorothy Radde Emery, CON-
poser, ,Dhose songs ,pill be pre-
ssnted Tuesday by Norma ST.
nlonso1 at the meeting OF the
D. A. r., Dolly Madison Chap
ter, Flora McGill Keejer, Mu-
SIC Chairman, at the residence
OF Mrs. A. A. BiYnev.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Contralto to Sing

Charlotte Wallace-Murray, con-
tralto, will appear Tuesday evening
at $50 O'Clock at the Andrew Ran
kin Memorial Chapel. Howard Uni
versity, In . song recital. Olive L.
Jeter win be the accompanist.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

Helen Shenton has resigned her
position as soprano soloist at the
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

The monthly meeting of the Piano
Teachers Forum will be held on
Thursday evening 1T 3 o'clock In
the music room Of Central High
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-17

and overnight critics and fans were convinced that here was top-notch outfit.
 Playing 8 brand of swing all their own and featuring Woody,s brilliant clarinet playing backed by Neil Reads jazz trombone, Joe Bishops fugel-horn, harmonious sax sec- ton and pulsing rhythm, the Her. man outfit became the talk of the city within few days.
 Columnists rayed over Woody's in- comparable blues style, his polish and bounce. Fans rhapsodised over his rhythm and clarinet soloing. Then and there another name was added to the list of those who are cur- rently making band history.
 A quick booking into the Meadow brook followed and the band was from there ten times weekly. A re- cording contract with Decca came next and bookings began to flock in for one night stands and college dates.
 The general consensus, as col- lected and published in Swing" magazine, is that Woody Herman is due to crack the big money, top- ranking class within few months. Variety" agrees Herman will go places" 'Downbeat" says "the Her. man herd will hit the top"
 Doors open Sunday night at 7:30. There vii lbe dancing from 9 till 1 a. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-17
Farm Families Paid
 Visit By Earle Prout
E. S.A. Rural Rehabilitation Supervisor in ThOmastOu
 Finds Majority WeIl-StOcked for Winter

with our loans. Although this has been a difficult year for many farmers, it Is obvious that the great majority of our borrowers who are producing their food and feed on their farms have come through in far better condition than those who are buying their supplies"
 "These Rehabilitation loans are made" MT. Prout added, ito farm operators who are unable to obtain financial assistance from other pulp lie or private sources. The Farm Security Administration, not pri- marily a credit agency, is able to make such loans only when we can draw up workable farm and home management plans with the farmer and his wife. In other words, both the farm family and the farm itself must show reasonable likelihood of being able to support the family and repay the loan over 8 reasonable period of time, through our financed supervision. The high rate of repay ments," MT. Trout concluded, "bear out our faith in these character loanS"
 Farmers interested in learning more about this program should write or visit the office of MT. Prout in Thomaston. MT. Prout's office hours are on Saturday, between the hours of 8:30 and 12:30,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-17

Thomaston, Nov. 17--More and more New Haven County farm fam- lilies who are borrowers of the Farm Security Administration are learning how to provide for most of their subsistence needs right on their farms, it was announced by Earle w. Prout, Jr., FSA Rural Rehabili- tation Supervisor here, following a round of visits to these families.
 The Supervisor found that prac- tically all of the families taking part in the Farm Security program of supervise credit have assured them selves of a good table throughout the winter by extensively canning and storing vegetables and fruits raised in their own gardens, by keeping COWS, chickens and pigs. They will have an abundance of pork for the winter, and the large majority of the families have at least one brood SOW to furnish the family with pigs for fattening and for sale. Many are also churning their own butter, and making cheese for their own use--and in some cas- es for sale as well.
 Miss Mills, Home Management Supervisor here, is in charge of the home management and family sub- sistence program.
 Special attention has been devoted byb these families to the growing of feed for their livestock. The few failures to do 50 were ascribed by Mir Front to adverSn wea thnr cntdi. tions.
 "The well-being of a farm family cannot be measured by cash income alone, MT. Prout declared. "The money family saves by producing its own food and feed for the live stock becomes available for operat- ing needs, for clothing and other things, as well as for paying their debts. That is why a live-at-home program is such an important fea- ture of the management plans which are worked out in connection
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-17
Parker Street Girl,
 Future Bride, Feted
Lois Chauvel Rendered Currency Shower; Boy Scouts
 to Collect Toys for Needy at Christmas
WATERVILLE Mrs Henion Correspondent-s3 Dr,ggs st-Te s.s4s2

Waterville, Nov. r - Miss Lois
 Chauvell, daughter of MT. and Mrs
 John Chauvell of Parker street, was
 honored at currency and miscel-
 laneous shower Wednesday evening
 at Foresters' Hall.
 Miss Chauvell will become the
 bride of Rudolph Plourde, son of
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Plourde
 Thanksgiving ay at St. Michaels
 church. The hostesses were Mrs. James McAree and Mrs. Joseph Dwyer. Miss Chauvell was presented with a shower bouquet of chrysan- themums from which hung ribbons, tied to the greenbacks. She received other gifts. The hall was decorated in autumn colors, likewise the table, around which luncheon was served.
 The guests attending were: Mrs. Joseph Dwyer, Mrs. James McAree, Mrs. Meadow, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. AL fred Ellis, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. William Dunlavey, Mrs. Yoziatis, Mrs. Jo- seph Cartledge, Mrs. Carl Harrison, Mrs. James Maxwell, Mrs. Lynch, Mrs. William Rooney, Mrs. John Mrs. Eugene Latimer, Mrs. Clifford Latimer, Mrs. LeRoy Kittle, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Cummings, Mrs. Bartlett, Mrs. Bradley, Mrs. Seidel, Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Mccarthy, Mrs. Dun, Mrs. Bishop, Mrs. James Dun- can, Mrs. Edward Barlow, Mrs. Mary Mrs. John Chauvell, Jr., Mrs. Beaupre, Mrs. Joseph Seery, Mrs. George Goggin, Mrs. Michael Kyros, Mrs. Michael Guarino, Mrs. Patrick Breheny, Mrs. William Heaney, Mrs. Peter Quito, Mrs. Sar- ah Callan, Mrs. Edmond Smart, Mrs. Thomas Buckley, Mrs. Francis J. Whalen, Mrs. Edward Alves, Mrs. Truelove, Mrs. William Moore, Mrs. Charles Plourde, Mrs. Moriarty, Mrs. Wels, Mrs. Adolph Nadeau, Mrs. Ernest Harrington.
 Mrs. Daniel Sullivan, Mrs. Can- field, Mrs. Emma Arsenault, Mrs. John Burger, Mrs. L. Mason. Mrs. Ames. Mrs. A. Reher, Mrs. R. Mo- Laughlin, Mrs. P. Fenn, Mrs. R. Brooks, Mrs. J. Bel, Mrs. R. Joyce, Mrs. T. Moore. Mrs. R Fenn, Mrs. M. Brown, Mrs. J. Lackey, Mrs. E. Randolf, Mrs. J. Dayton, Mrs. R. Mrs. W. Grilley, Mrs. F. Jackson, also the Misses Grace Kit tie, Dolores iKttle, Kathleen Cooley, Marie Duigon. Enid Chauvel, Paul. inc Desault, Mary Guarino, Rita Sullivan, Joseph LaChance, Rowe, Josephine Croce, Albino Guarino, D.