Evening star., 1939-12-17
Belgian Piano
SOlOist Aids
Other Noted Stars
To Come in Next
Few Months

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Symphony Orchestra returned from
their first Northern tour last Friday,
bearing laudatory press notices and
news Of sold-out houses for their IL
appearances in 10 cities. The or
chestra Is now taking its two week
Christmas holiday, and will begin
rehearsals the first week in January
for its next Washington concert,
Sunday afternoon, January 7, when
Marcel Mas, the distinguished
Belgian pianist, will appear as
soloiSt.
c. c. Cappel, manager of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra, leaves
today for Detroit to attend the an
nual two-day national convention Of
managers of symphony orchestras,
which begins tomorrow. Murray
Patterson, manager of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, will act as
host of the convention, which last
year was held in Washington.
Fourteen regular concerts remain
to be played on the ninth Washing
ton season of the National SYM
phony Orchestra: Four of the first
Sunday series, four of the second
Sunday series of Beloved SYM
phonic Masterpieces" and six of the
midWeek series. In addition, the
National Symphony will give six
students concerts in Washington
and will 60 on two more tours before
the close Of the present season.
AS noted above, Marcel Mas,
pianist, is the next soloist on the
first Sunday series, on January 7.
On February Rene LIE Roy, one Of
the worlds great flute virtuosos,
will appear as soloist, and on the
same concert Mexico's foremost
composer and conductor, Carlos
Chavez, will substitute for DR..
Kinder as guest conductor. Maurice
Marechal, the French cellist. who
was scheduled to be the soloist on
the March 3 concert, has been con.
scripted by his fatherland, and ne
gotiations are pending for an artist
to appear in his place On the final
concert OF this series, on March "a,
Ossy Renardy will appear as soloist.
Most gifted of the younger violinists,
Renardy electrified the Water Gate
audience when he played with the
National Symphony last summer.
On the Beloved Symphonic
Masterpieces" series, the concert of
Sunday, January 21, will feature
Rimsky- -Korsakov's "Scheherazade
Suite; of February l8, the Cesar
Franck symphony; of March H. the
Brahms First Symphony" and the
concert of April IA will be the an
nual request program, for which the
voting for the numbers to be in
cluded on it will soon start.
Two of the remaining concerts on
the midweek series will be all
symphonic programs-the next one
of January 10 and the final one of
April TO- For the concert of January
IL, Myra Hess, greatest woman
pianist, is scheduled to appear as
soloist. On February IA, Kristen
Flagstad will make her only Wash
ington appearance this season with
symphony orchestra. For the
occasion. her former accompanist,
Edwin Macarthur. will assume the
role of guest conductor. Second only
to Flagstad as Wagnerian soprano
is Marjorie Lawrence, who scored q
tremendous personal success when
she sang with the National SYM
phony last year. Miss Lawrence will
| appear as soloist on the concert Of
March 6. And on March q one of
the great favorites of Washington
audiences, Percy Granger, will re-
turn as soloist with the orchestra,
playing one of the seasons novelties,
John Alden Carpenters Con
certino."
The second students concert series
will be given at five Washington high
schools-Western, Roosevelt, Nc
Kinley, Woodrow Wilson and East
ern-during February, and the final
concert in the series will be given
at Constitution Hall on March 16.
The first concert, which was given
for the last time on December /,
was so successful, that means for
making increased student participa-
ton in the concerts possible next
year are now being discussed by
orchestra officials and the repre-
sentatives of Washington schools.
The next tour on the National
Symptoms schedule will begin
January % at Parkersburg, w. Va,
and will end January 30. at West
Chester, Pa, covering in the interim
a portion of the Midwest. The third
tour will take the orchestra south
into Florida, opening on February
81 at the University of North
Carolina, and closing February %.
In addition to its regular Wash
ington concerts, the National Sym
phony Orchestra will give two extra
performances with the Ballet Russo
de Monte Carlo, Leonide Massine,
artistic director, at Constitution Hall