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Evening star., 1939-04-30
Finlandia
Chorus to
Be Heard
Song Festival
On Tuesday
Evening

The famous Finlandia Male
Chorus, which has been making a
tour of the United States prior to its
appearance at the opening OF the
Finnish Pavilion at the New York
Worlds Fair Thursday, will give a
concert here Tuesday evening at
Constitution Hall under the local
sponsorship of the Washington Self
Help Exchange.
Finland is noted for its superb
choruses. Frequent concerts, great
song festivals and student lubilees
make choral practice constant
factor in the country's cultural life.
Prof. Heikki Klemetti. 1.-The grand
old man of Finland's choral leaders, y
conductor of the choir, selected the
IS men comprising the chorus from
three of his country's choral organ
izations-the Suomen Laulu Chorus,
the Laulu Miehet and the Muntra
Musikanter.
Klemetti has made meritorious ar
rangements of folk songs, some OF
which are included in the program
Other composers represented in the
repertoire of the chorus are Emil
Genetz, Robert Kajanus, Armas
Jarnefelt. Toivo Kuula, Leevi Ma
detoja, Aksel Tornudd and Jean
Sibelius, most noted of Finnish COM
posers.
In world troubled with talk of
miitarism, the Finlandia Male
Chorus is introducing new note in
international conquest. Prof. Kle-
metti states that his chorus, made
up of the leading choral singers OF
Finland, was formed to 60 forth and
conquer the world by song" in the
manner Of the legendary Vainamoi-
men, bard of Kalevala. Its conqueSts
to date, since it's formation in 1886
have been favorably heralded by out
standing critics on two continents.
Jean Sibelius, Hjalmar j. Procope
Minister of Finland to the United
States; Walter Damrosch and Serge
Koussevitzky are the honorary spon-
sors of the American tour Robert
Woods Bliss and Mrs. Emil Hurja are
chairman and co-chairman of the
local committee arranging for the
concert.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
In Local Music Circles

This afternoon the Music Hour at
5 o'clock at the Young Women S
Christian Association, Seventeenth
and K streets, will be presented by
the Papas Mandolin, Guitar and
Banjo Orchestra, under the direc-
ton of Sophocles Papas. Soloists
will include Stephen Kramer and
Jane Simon, both mandolinists. and
Waldo Rail, guitarist. who will play
prelude written for this instrument
by Johann Sebastian Bach.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
Gene Stewart will present two
choirs and soloists in an Evening
of Music" at Waugh NJ. E. Church.
Third and A streets NE, at O'Clock
tonight.
The Potomac Electric Power Co.
Glee Club entertained the members
of the Methodist Home for the Aged
recently. On April IL the glee club
appeared on the stage of the Capitol
Theater with the Fred Waring Or
chestra; on April II the club enter
tanned the Parent Teacher Associa-
ton of the Raymond School, and on
April 20, the Parent Teacher Asso-
citation of the John Burroughs
School. j. Humbird Duffey is the
director and Mrs. Cornelia Kinsella,
accompanist.
The next rehearsal Of the Rubin
stein Club will be held at the Will
lard Hotel Tuesday evening at 7:45
pm. 1t is very important that all
members attend. The second con-
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Choral Group
ToHave Joint
To Be Heard Today
With Herzfeld
Conducting

This afternoon the Washington
Saengerbund will make its appear
ance, together with the Arion Sing
ing Society from Baltimore and the
Boys Choir from st. AIMS Church
The concert will take place at the
Willard Hotel at $3.50 o'clock The
Washington Saengerbund is the
Oldest organization of its kind in
Washington, being 80 years in exist
ence
Teday's concert will be directed by
Herbert Karl Herzfeld. who will
make his first appearance as a con-
ductor in this city. Mr.. Herzfeld
although only Is years old has come
to the United States for the second
time now with the intention of max
ing his home here permanently
Born in Vienna. he studied conduct
ing with Felix Weingartner. pupil OF
Franz List, and theory with josef
Marx. He was then coach and as
sistant at the Vienna State Academy
One of the features of the pro-
gram will be a group of organ solos
by the well-known organist, Conrao
Bernier, including Bach's "Toccata
and Fugue in D Minor" and g
composition by Herbert Herzfeld
Prayers.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Local Pianists' Club
To Entertain

AS a prelude to National Music
Week the Washington Pianists' Club,
DR.. Katharine MacReynolds Morri-
son, director, will give program OF
piano concerto music on Saturday
evening at 8 o'clock at the Washing
ton College of Music, 1910 Connec-
ticut avenue NV. This unique or
ganization, consisting of representa-
tive pupils of leading piano teachers
of Washington, Baltimore and New
York, became we'll known through
its festivals of piano recitals which
have been an outstanding feature of
National Music Week for many years.
On account of space, the invita-
tions include only those personally
interested in the club. Admittance
is by card
The following young artists will
appear: Frieda Bass, Charlton Meyer,
Florence Jackson O'Brien and Myrna
Macklin. presented by La Sale Spier;
Ruth Ferguson, presented by Felian
Garzia: Rae Alice Elmer, presented
by Alice Burbage Hesselbach; Sally
West, presented by Louis Potter;
HARLAN Meyer, presented by Alexan-
der Sklarevski: Clarice Leiner-Levy
presented by Benjamin Rather. and
Christine Charnstrom, presented by
Nine. Louise Coutinho.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Hold Piano Tourney

The Washington unit of the sixth
annual National Piano Playing
Tournament, sponsored by the
Washington Chapter of the National
Guild of Piano Teachers, will be
held, June to 4, at the Washing
ton College of Music, it was an
nounced by LaSalle Spier, general
chairman.
Piano pupils of all ages and stages
of advancement in and near WASH
ington will appear and play for local.
district, State or national honors.
The highest goal will be to play
credltably from memory before an
examiner of note program of 10
compositions of early and late classic,
romantic and modern literature for
the piano. from which achievement
each pupil so doing will win a place
upon the 1888 national honor roll
of piano students and will be award
ed the gold seal national honor roll
certificate of the guild. The State
honor roll will be attained by each
entrant who ably plays seven pieces
from memory, while those who enter
a r-piece group will place upon
the district honor roll. Pupils with
only two memorized selections will
be awarded a certificate of rating:
Commendable for 10 per cent, good
for 80 per cent, excellent for 80 per
cent and superior for 95 per cent
averages.
The purpose of the movement is
to stimulate interest in artistic
piano playing in the United States.
Originating in Texas in 1929 Ma
tional Piano Playing Tournament
headquarters are now in New York,
745 Riverside drive.
Musicians of prominence consti-
tuting the national board include
Edwin Hughes, Charles Wakefield
Cadman, Homer Grunn, Carl Wiese-
mann, Abby De Avirett, Olga Steeb,
Elizabeth Simpson, Adelaide Trow-
bridge Perry, Elizabeth Gest, Helene
Diedrichs, Leroy B. Campell, How
ard Wells, Edwin Gemmer, DR..
Franklin Stead and John Thomp-
son.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

While the output of recordings
Of Beethoven and Mozart continues
unabated, there are two novelties
added to the list of the Columbia
Photograph Co.'S release this month
that of a Mass in G Major" by
Francois Poulenc and Gretry
'Danses Villageoises,' the former
sung by Les Chanteurs de Lyon
directed by E. Bourmauck and
recorded in the Cathedral St. Jean
in Lyon, and the latter by the
Orchestre Symphonic conducted by
F. Ruhlmann.
There have been few recordings
of works by Poulenc, one of the
most promising of the younger
school of French composers and a
member of the group known as the
Partisan Six" This mass has many
points that may we'll make one stop
and consider the talent here rep
resented. In the purity of its line
and in its austerity it resembles
none of the favorite melody-filled
works that are generally popular
Yet it is full of real devotional
spirit, at times expressed in barren
harmony and again resolving into a
bit of rare melodic beauty that Is
doubly impressive by contrast.
The singing is quite exceptional,
all being done cappella, with not
the slightest deviation from pitch
in the extremely difficult intervals.
The Benedictus has tender
warmth and beautiful matching of
voices, while the Agnus Del opens
with a solo by a soprano voice, high
in register and difficult for the
intonation, followed by softly in
toned choral bit that has a touch
of Oriental character to it. On the
whole it is an extremely interesting
work, full of originality and new
beauty.
Gretg's dances are breath of
Old World music, delightful in their
charm and simplicity. Here record
ed are the dances taken from five
of his stage works and arranged in
a suite for orchestra. They are the
"Danse Rustique," from Richard
Occur de Lion; "Gavotte" and
"Danse en- rond," from "Colinette
a la Cour";; the "Gigue," from
"L'Epreuve Villageoise"; the En-
tracte," from LA Rosiere de Salem
cy," and "Contra-Danse," from e.
Embarras de Richesse." The bright
color and contrasting rhythms are
effectively brought out in this re-
cording. On the reverse side of the
last disc is Vieuxtemps' "Saltarelle. u
But infinitely welcome also is the
magnificent recording of the Bee
thoven "Waldstein" sonata by Egon
Petri, which is the major work re-
leased this month. The entire per-
formance sparkles with fire and
virtuosity and most intelligently-
conceived plan for interpretive ef-
fects. Mr.. Petri's splendid technique
is put to brilliant use in the first
movement, to be balanced by one
of the most beautiful presentations
of the opening measures of the Sec
ond movement that one can imagine.
This sonata, which has been at
tempted by every pianist who de-
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Civic Orchestra in
Final Concert

The Civic Orchestra will give it's
final concert this season on Tues
day evening, May 9, at 815 o'clock
at the Central High School Audi
torium. An interesting program has
been selected, containing familiar
compositions by Mendelssohn, Tchai-
kowsky, Coates and Wagner. Eliza
beth Gates, who appeared previously
with great success on one of last
winters programs, will be soloist,
playing the piano Concerto in E
Flat" by List.
The orchestra is now a full-sized
symphonic unit of 80 players, all
non professional. including 26
women. 1t has proven on former
occasions its capability of present.
ing good music and deserves the
wholehearted support of Washing
ton music lovers, being truly civic
organization.
Rehearsals are held every Tues
day evening at o'clock at Central
High School. There are no exam
nations, no fees. The Civic Orches-
ira is sponsored by the Community
Center Department and conducted
by Kurt Hetzel.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Musical Benefit
To Be Heard

Through the courtesy Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Duncan Phillips and for the
benefit of the Radcliffe College
regional scholarship fund, a concert
will be presented this afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock at the Phillips Memorial
Gallery.
The program, which includes violin
and piano sonatas by Brahms and
Franck and songs by Mozart,
Schubert, Schumann, Marx and
Brahms, will be presented by Mil
lard Taylor, concert master of the
National Symphony Orchestra
Charlotte Ridley Watkins, soprano,
graduate of the Curtis Institute Of
Music, who makes her Washington
debut at this concert, and Ethel
Blackwell, pianist, director of music
at the Landon School.
Mrs. Harold Morrison, 1725 La
mont street NV, is in charge OF
reservations.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Sonata Recital

Louise Behrend, violinist, and
Dorothy Smith, pianist, will appear
jointly in a sonata recital Saturday
evening at $3.50 O'Clock at the
Dmitrieff -Gnoocheff Studio, 5612
Connecticut avenue NV.
Louise Behrend, native Wash
ingtonian, began her early training
here under Herman Rakeman. She
is now, and has been for a number
of years, pupil of Louis Persinger
of New York. Not entirely a new
conner to Washington audiences, she
has played before both the Friday
Morning Music Club and the Arts
Club.
Dorothy Smith, well-known young
pianist of Fort Worth, Tex, is a
graduate Of the Institute of Musical
Arts of the Juillard Foundation
New York, and is a scholarship
student of James Friskin.
The program will include Sonata
No. 4 in G Minor" Bach; Sonata
Opus a, in F Major" Beethoven
and the Ernest Bloch sonata.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Anniversary Program

Nine. Marie ZallpSky, who now
has studio in New York as we'll as
her Washington studio at 1922 YER
mont avenue NV, announces that
she will celebrate 40 years of artistic
work, first as a singer who sang
principal roles with the Imperial
Opera Co. in what is now Leningrad
and later as teacher in the United
States, with a special program to
be given Wednesday evening, May
II, in Pierce Hall.
At that time Nine. Zalipsky will
present only two or three pupils now
engaged in professional work and
her daughter, Lila zaiipsky, who has
won her own right to recognition
with her marked gift for ballet.
The. singers who will appear in
clude Margery King, now regular
solpist at Epiphany Church and
who also sings weekly in Baltimore;
Agatha Borzi, who has made con-
cert tour in Europe since studying
here and who is now In Philadelphia,
and Airline Lelle, Q New York pupil
with . remarkable eoutraito voice.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Music Teachers
TOMeet

The semi-annual business meet
ing of the w. M. T. A. will be held
tomorrow at pm. promptly in the
Italian garden room of the May
flower Hotel. The names of candi-
dates as prepared by the Nominating
Committee consists of Mary Park
Clements, William Treat Upton.
Alice Keith. Mildred Coe Gavin and
William Holden.
Following the business session a
program, arranged by La Sale Spier,
will be presented by the Washington
Composers Club. Original works
by Mary Howe, Conrad Bernier, La
Sale Spier, Edward C. Potter,
Dorothy Radde Emery. Henri
Gregor. Robert Barrow and r. Deane
Shure will be heard. The Washing
ton Composers Club has been in
existence since 1926 and has con-
tributed notably to creative music
in Washington.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Junior Recital

The District OF Columbia Fedora
ton of Music Clubs, Eva Whitford
Lovette, president, and Gertrude
Lyons, State junior counselor, will
present members Of the junior de-
partment in the last junior recital of
this season. Music will be by Amer
ican composers, four of whom are
residents of our own city.
A Junior chorus of approximately
100 voices will sing an operetta, "The
Nightingale, by Dorothy Radde
Emery, and lyric by Alden H. En-
cry, on Friday at 8 o'clock in the
Sunday school auditorium of the
First Baptist Church, Sixteenth and
Q streets NV. This junior chorus
will sing this same operetta at the
national biennial to be held this
year in Baltimore, Md. The oper-
eta will be sung on junior day, May
20.
The second part of the program
will feaure three other well-known
composers of this city. Sacred
Sepulchre" (R. Deane Shure) and
THE Lotus Eaters" Edward c. Pot
teri, to be played by Loretta Bonn
bara. R. Deane Shure is member
of the Board of Directors of the D.
c. F. M. C. and chairman of the
choral festival to be given May 8.
Edward c. Potter is president of the
Composers Club, federated organ
iZation.
"Serenade, B Major" and "Etude, c
Major" LA Sale Spier), to be played
by Frieda Bass of the Repertoire
Student Club; La Sale Spier, coun-
selor and also auditor of the D. c.
F.. M. c., and members of the Board
of Directors of the District of Colum-
bia Federation of Music Clubs.
The public is cordially invited to
attend. Tickets are on sale at Ger
trude Lyons Studios, 1925 G street
NV, and can also be obtained from
junior members of the D. c. F. M. c..
The proceeds will assist in sending
the chorus of children to Baltimore.
The junior selling the most tickets
will have a free trip to Baltimore,
all expenses paid. and will hear
Deanna Durbin, who will sing for
the juniors on junior day, May 20.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Choir Will Sing

The Washington Chapel Choir of
the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints will sing pro-
gram tonight in the First Congrega-
tional Church, Tenth and G streets
NV, at 7:45 o'clock. The Chapel
Choir, D. Sterling Wheelwright, Or
ganist and director, now numbers 40
members and was organized in 1888
by Edward P. Kimball They have
been under Mr.. WheelWright's di-
rection for two years. This program
is by way of exchange with the A
Cappella Choir of First Congrega-
tional Church. Ruby Smith Stahl,
director, who will sing in the Wash
ington Chapel sometime in May.
The Washington Chapel Choir has
been heard at dedicatory and special
exercises of the church in Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Arlington and
Greenbelt and has sung in various
prominent churches in Washington
including a performance of Bach's
"St. Matthew Passion" with the
Washington Choral Society at the
National Cathedral. Mr.. Wheel
wright, director, is an associate of
the American Guild of Organists
and a graduate of Northwestern
University, Evanston, Ill. He was
formerly assistant leader Of the
famed Tabernacle Choir of Salt
Lake City and is member of the
General Music Committee of the l..
D. S. Church.
The choir will sing two groups at
the First Congregational Church as
follows:
(a) LET the Mountains Shout
for JOY" --- STEPHENS
(b) Gently Raise the Sacred
tc) Come. Come Ye Saints" Clayton
Offertory solo. Hear Ye,
Israel --- Mendelssohn
Alton P. Margetts, soprano.
(a) praise to the Lord Christensen
(b) Were You There?" ---Burleigh
(c) Send Forth Thy Spirit" Schuettky
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Spring Concert

The choral group OF the Arts
Club, Otto Torney Simon, director;
Katherine Morrison at the piano,
and Stanley Olmsted, solo pianist,
will give its spring concert in the
club auditorium, 2017 street NV,
on Thursday evening at $3.50.
The program of the Russian and
English schools includes: Sunrise" !"
Taneyef; Sun and Noon" Gret-
chaninoff; choruses, "Spring-En-
chantment," Bantock; "Nymphs and
Shepherds" Purcell; I'm These De-
lightful Groves" Purcell; Il Arise
From Dreams of Thee" D. G. Will
liams (Mus. Doc, Dublin.
Imagery pieces for the piano:
Pow WOW Dance" with forest
song), Eastwood Lane: "Sea Burial,
Eastwood Lane; Ocean" etude,
Chopin; Reflects dams l'eau''
Debussey; "Sold Down the River
(Uncle Toms Cabin, Eastwood
Lane; Little Eva" 'Dirge for Little
Eva" Little Eva Goes to Heaven,
"Hallelujahl Praise Ye the Lord"
(150th Psalm), Cesar Ffanck.
Evening star., 1939-04-30

renowned pianist, or for the first
appearance with the orchestra Of
Guila Bustabo, sensational young
violinist.
One OF the most interesting novel,
ties of the season will be the un-
usual instrumental trio consisting
Of Carlos Salzedo, harpist; Horace
Britt, cellist, and George Barrere,
flautist, playing special works writ
ten for this combination and or
chestra. One of these works is by
Bernard Wagenaar and won enor-
nous success when it was given
its prelude last season by the trio
and the New York Philharmonic
Symphony. All three players are
indisputably fine artists in their own
right and their collaboration in the
trio has been hailed by discriminate
ing musicians as one of the most
attractive musical ventures in recent
seasons.
Tickets on Sale.
Season ticket holders are taking
advantage of the option they have
OF renewing their present seat To-
cations before June Is. Renewal
orders have been pouring into the
business Office of the National SYM
phony Orchestra, I'LL Woodward
Building, ever since the season
closed two weeks ago. If tickets are
not renewed before June Is they
will be released to fill demands from
new subscribers Where desired To-
cations are not Immediately avail
able, requests are filed in the order
received and filled after June Is
wherever possible. No payment for
season tickets need be made until
the ticket strips are ready for de-
livery early next fall.
Evening star., 1939-04-30

At left, Herbert Karl Herr
field, conducting the Saenger-
bund In its concert this AFTER
noon at the Willard Hotel
and, center, Rose hampton,
of the Metropolitan Opera,
1Dho 1uiU be soloist at the
annual breakfast of the Con-
gressional Club on Thursday
at the Raleigh. Above, right,
Heikki Klemetti, the leader
OF the famed Finlandia
Chorus appearing Tuesday at
Constitution Hall, and belo1D,
left, Charlotte Ridley Watkins,
soprano, on the benefit pro-
gram for Radcliffe College
Scholarship Fund this AFTER
noon at the Phillips Gallery
and, right, Vera Neely Ross,
one of The Recital Gra1ters,
1Dhose third concert UiH be
gipen this evening at 1870
Sixteenth street.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Annual Club Concert

On Wednesday at $3.50 o'clock the
music section of the Women's Club
of Chevy Chase will give its an
nual concert in the clubhouse on
Connecticut avenue. Louis Potter
will conduct the group and Mrs.
Warren w. Grimes will be at the
piano. Mrs. William Collins, chair
man of the section, has announced
that Edwin Steffe, baritone, will be
the soloist with the chorus in the
cantata by Deems Taylor, "The
Highwayman," and that members Of
the National Symphony Orchestra
will play the orchestral accompani-
ment.
The program will include Bach's
"Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring" and
Nov Let Every Tongue Adore
Thee; angels Chorus" from
Goethe's Faust; Memory Day"
by Strauss; "Thy Mouth Is Rose
bud Red" German folk song,
"Clementine," by Edwards; Nov
Rest Beneath Nights Shadows" by
Dett: Take Joy Home" by Bas-
sett, and "Old King Cole." by
ForEyth.
Evening star., 1939-04-30

direct unique series of afternoon
and evening concerts where four
Novachords, the new instrument put
out by the Hammond Co., will be
used. The program will include all
kinds of music which Mr.. Grofe has
been busy arranging for these in
struments for several months. Mr..
Grofe is especially enthusiastic over
the possibilities of the Novachord,
which is capable of reproducing a
wide range of instrumental effects,
including that of the piano, harpsi-
chord, banjo, steel guitar, horns,
reeds, strings and others.
Complementing these concerts be-
ing given indoors and out will be a
series of nine Wagnerian operate
performances presented under the
auspices of the fair by the Metro
politan Opera at the opera house.
Besides the complete Ring cycle,
"Lohengrin, die Meistersinger,"
"Parsifal" and Tristan and Isolde
will be given, the first on Tuesday of
this week and the second on Thurs
day. On next Saturday "Das Rhein-
gold" will be performed, the other
operas being spread over the follow
ing two weeks. Although Flagstad
will appear six times, she will not
take part in the first weeks presen-
tation, the principal roles being sung
by Elizabeth Rethberg, Melchoir
Schorr, Thorberg, List and Doris
Doe.
Novelties.
Among the novelties to be heard
| during the summer is the famous
Hungarian folk opera, Harry Janos, -
by Zoltan Kodaly. 1t will be given
10 performances from July to 13,
and the composer himself will make
his first trip to America to con-
duct some of the performances. The
manager of the National Theater
in Budapest, Antal Nemeth. who is
an authority on modern stage set
tin, will also come to prepare the
opera for presentation. The musi-
cal director will be Lazlo Halasz,
conductor of the st. Louis Opera
Co., who is Hungarian by birth.
A feature of the performance
will be the ballet of folk dances,
in which Juana de Laban will ap-
pear as soloist as we'll as director
and costumes will be brought from
the Royal Opera of Budapest
Harry Janos" was given its pre-
miere in Budapest in 1926 and is
popular number of the repertoire
of Central European opera houses.
Although it has never been per-
formed in this country. an orches-
tral suite from it was played by
the New York Philharmonic So
ciety.
X X X X
Word has been received of the
appointment of Karl Mcdonald as
manager of the Philadelphia Or
chestra to succeed Alfred Reginald
Allen, who recently resigned and
whose resignation will go into effect
in June. Mr.. Mcdonald, at present
director of music at the University
of Pennsylvania, is well known as
composer, his works having been
performed here several times by the
Philadelphia Orchestra. He has had
a colorful career before devoting
himself exclusively to the cultivation
of music and has been active as a
concertizing pianist. composer. edi-
tor in music publishing firm and
director of several choral groups.