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make sacrifices so that our children
can study music and greater sacri-
flceS when a marked talent is dis
covered. We have expensive conserv-
atories we'll stated with the worlds
best teachers, where the young STU
dents can gain thorough education.
We have various foundations pro-
Vlding money to launch them, and
others where. by competition, they
may be given free instruction.
Everything, in fact, to foster our
native talent.
The weak point in our system is
taking care of them when they are
ready to win their spurs as artists or
even in generously supporting those
who have arrived. What will hap
pen now, when the field will be
crowded with those from other
lands? 1t must be admitted that,
due to long ancestry, which cul-
tivated music and its appreciation,
foreign artists are probably more
polished in their manner of presen-
tation and more serious in their
oub lllCS dlC llol
more gifted or more willing to learn
than our own.
If Americans were the kind OF
people who considered music of such
Importance in daily life, who would
feel obliged to put aside a certain
amount of their income to support
musical events. who would believe
that the beauty that music brings
to everyone was more than worth
any sacrifice, then all would be well.
But we are only beginning to learn
to appreciate music in it's fullest ex-
tent, We are only beginning to want
our children to have the advantages
of a real contact with it's beauty, and
we are just beginning. as such things
are counted, to realize that we have
great talent of our own nationality.
Mlscha Elman's much advertised
and most laudabl plan to turn
over the receipts of his concert tour
to help Protestant. Catholic and
Jewish artists alike, who are refu-
gees, will win whole hearted CO.
operation no doubt. Other plans to
bring foreign artists here or to Gre
ate musical opportunities for those
recently arrived, to have the where
withall to live, will also appeal to
the generous minds of Americans.
But they will not hesitate, it might
be ventured. to set aside their own
artists in the enthusiasm of the
moment, to help the stranger whose
tale of trouble is truly heart rend-
ing.
How are We going to meet this sit
uatlon? How are We going to be
helpful to those needy ones. and at
the same time, help and protect our
own. This is not a question that
concerns only short period of time,
for those who are fortunate enough
to be allowed to enter this country
will like to remain here. Will have
to remain here, in fact. With the
best intentions. it will take some
time before they are conversant
With our ideas and our ideals. Will
they return the generosity accorded
them by helping the American art
lst to honor in the eyes of his COM
patriots and to a financial security.
No one can give the answer at the
present moment. but here is some
thing to think about, at least.
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Reviews of RECORDINGS

Quite pronounced in the way of
musical contrast is the beautiful
Schumann Concerto in A Minor,
Op. 81 performed by Myra Hess,
accompanied by an orchestra di-
rected by Walter Goehr. Nothing
more lovely could be imagined than
Miss Hess poetic performance of
this poetic work. Finished in 1845.
it is concerto that was assembled
from different writings. the first
movement being the allegro for
piano and orchestra composed in
l84l. Following so closely on the
year of his marriage and it's sub
seQuent outpouring of emotion in
song. it has the same lyrical quality
associated with that period.
Miss Hess achieves remarkable
contrasts in pianissimo and fortis-
simo and she has the ability to take
over a lovely passage from the.
orchestra without disturbing the
general effect. An exquisite duet
between piano and Woodwinds is
the high moment of the first move
ment. Throughout the entire con-
certo Miss Hess mastery of her
instrument and her rare sensitivity
OF feeling, together with the power
and brilliancy of her playing, are
truly phenomenal
On top of this lovely music, Hinde-
mlths Quartet No. 3. Op. % reg
listers quite shock at first. Played
by the Coolidge String Quartet, it
is the first purely atonal quartet
and is in five movements.
Whatever may be ones feeling
about the absence of KEY signatures
and the writing in that style, Hinde-
mith has composed powerful work
which has many moments of
melodlc beauty as the ordinary mu-
sician understands it. There is so
much genuineness in what Hinde-
mith has to say and sincerity in
saying it, that. in spite of the un-
accustomed idiom. it is impressive.
His counterpuntal and polyphonic
invention is not only astonishing,
but reaches melodic heights of great
beauty.
In the first and third movement
this can best be recognized, for they
are given a slower tempo in which
Hlndemith expands his musical
ideas. In q portion of the Scherzo,
brilliant and hard in character in
the beginning, a strange Oriental
color creeps in, while the final move
ment. which is combination of the
fourth and fifth, is truly magnifi-
cent. The entire work, given in
most polished manner by the Cool
idge players, has substance and
leaves something with the listener
in the same way that the celebrated
compositions of the great mas
tiers do
Among the shorter recordings is
the single-disc one of Sarasate's
"zlgeunerweisen" played by Jascha
Heifetz with the London Philhar-
monic Orchestra conducted by John
Barbirolle. The performance by
Heifetz of this work is we'll known.
but on this recording he seems to
attain an added brilliancy in execu-
ton and great warmth of tone, so
that the whole is breath taking in
its swift and scintillating effects.
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In Local Music Circles

This afternoon at o'clock cos
tune program will be presented by
Irene Kandze, soprano, and Ida
Wood, contralto, at the Sunday mu-
sic hour at the Young Women's S
Christian Association at Seventeenth
and K streets. Mrs. Kandze and
Mrs Wood will sing some gypsy
numbers, as we'll as some of the late
18th century period. The public Is
invited to attend.
On Friday the Friday Morning
Music Club will present Lucy Mac
Moreland, soprano, and Katherine
English, contralto. Lila Burt, vio-
linist, and Alcie Brooks. pianist,
will play the Mozart "F Major
Sonata This meeting will take
place in Barker Hall, the Y. w. c. A.,
Seventeeth and K streets N. w.,
at 11:30 am.
The next rehearsal of the Rubin
stein Club will be held Tuesday
evening at 745 at the Mount Pleas
ant Church. There will be vocal
selections given by Mrs. G. G.
Lacey and Lydalu Palmer Appli-
cations for new members to take
part in the next concert will be
taken, and additions will be ar
ranged by Edith M. White.
The music section of the
Women's Club of Chevy Chase will
present a musicale in the new club
house on Connecticut avenue near
the East-West highway, tomorrow
afternoon at 2 o'clock The pro-
gram, which is under the direction
of Mrs. Myron Writers, will be
followed by tea. The three artists
giving this program are Wilhelmina
Spanhoofd Walter, soprano, ac-
companied at the piano by Terra
BARLEY Sells. Ann Smith, pianist
and Mrs. Culver, reader.
The third meeting of the music
appreciation hour, Jewish Com
munity Center, will take place in the
Cafritz Auditorium, Jewish Com
munity Center. Sixteenth and @
streets NV. on Thursday evening
at 9 o'clock. Mrs. Sol Wolloch,
chairman of this group, will present
Irving Lean, violinist, and Elena
Crivella, pianist.
The music section of the Takoma
Park Womens Club will meet
Thursday at 10 am. at the home of
Mrs. Clarence Ross, 125 Maple ave-
nue., Takoma Park, Md. The Rev.
Joseph A. Hauber will lecture on and
give compositions Of Wagner, in
cluding Wagnerian opera. Rev. Mr..
Hauber received his musical educa-
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Concert at Howard
By Russian Trio

The fourth concert in the How
arc University concert series will be>
given Tuesday by the Russian Trio
in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel.
Although the Russian Trio is new
to Washington audiences. it has
played with much success In the
Middle Western cities and New
York.
Members of the trio are Nina
Mesirow-Minchin, pianist; Herman
Felber, violinist, and Ennio Bolog.
mini. cellist. The program will in
clude Beethoven's Trio No. 4
Op H.; Rachmaninoffs "Trid>
Elegiaque. Op. g." dedicated to the
memory of Tschaikowsky. and Trio
No. 2, Op. 76," by Turina.
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.ChoralClub
ToSponsor
Music Recital

The Lovette Choral Club will pre-
sent the first of the seasons mu-
sical evenings Wednesday at $50
o'clock in the studio of the League
of American Pen Women in the
Grafton Hotel. Edward C. Potter,
composer, Of this city and president
of the Washington Composers Club,
will be introduced in the first of
group of three lecture-recitals. He
will give a history of opera and a
lecture on Wagner's 'Lohengrin."
The Choral Club, directed by Eva
Whitford Lovette, will aid in the
operate interpretations by singing
the Waltz Song from Faust"
Francise Bass Wilson will sing the
aria Minis Farewell" from La
Boheme,' and ''Elsa's Dream" from
"Lohengrin," will be sung by Hazel
B. Cake
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John Powell
SOl0ist for


Continuing the practice Of pre-
senting distinguished American
artists to the audiences of the Ma
tion's Capital, the National Sym
phony Orchestra will have as its
next guest artist John Powell, emf
nent American pianist and COM
poser. who will be soloist next Sum-
day, January 20, in the sixth con-
cert in the orchestras Sunday after
noon series. DR.. Hans Kinder will
conduct the program, which begins
at pm.
Prior to this event, however. Dr.
Kinder will fill an engagement in
Toronto. Canada, as guest conduc-
tor of the Toronto Symphony Or
chestra. Playing in famed Massey
Hall. the Carnegie Hall of Canada,
DR.. Kinder has chosen an orchestral
program that includes Mozarts
"Symphony in A *. 20D." Strauss
Don Juan" the Corelli Suite" and
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony"
Strengthening the cultural bonds
that already exist between Canada
and the United States through the
activities of the National Symphony
Orchestra. the appearance of DR..
Kinder on the podium of the To-
ronto Symphony will be his first
with that orchestra. 1t will be re-
called that Sir Ernest Macmillan,
regular conductor of the Toronto
Symphony, appeared as guest con-
ductor OF the Washington orchestra
last season. During the summer
Sunset Symphonies" at the Poto-
mac Water Gate Reginald Stewart,
conductor of the Toronto Prone
made Concerts. was one of the guest
conductors. The National SYM
phony has included Canadian con-
certs on its winter tour during the
last three seasons.
The program for the next Sunday
concert in Washington will include
the performance by Mr.. Powell of
the Second Concerto in B Flat
Major by Brahms DR.. Kinder
will open the program with Moz-
arts "Disertimento No. T." The
last half of the concert will be de-
voted to Kalinnikov's First SYM
phony."
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Flagstad Has
Relaxation
InCard me
Wagnerian Singer
To Appear With
Orchestra

Kristen Flagstad, the Metropoli-
tan's famous Wagnerian prima
donna, who will appear as soloist
with the Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra at Constitution Hall the
night of January 81, has a roper
toire of II games of solitaire in ad-
dition to her singing repertoire of
38 operas.
Following concert or opera,
Nine. Flagstad says, The music
keeps singing in my head" and it is
necessary for her to relax until the
music stops singing" She finds that
she may quiet her nerves by playing
solitaire and also by listening to
swing music. Nine. Flagstad had
only to remark to a reporter once
that she liked to play solitaire, when
from all parts of the United States
poured letters suggesting numerous
varieties of solitaire games.
Some of them were so intricate
that she confesses they made her
dizzy to read, even though she is
no novice at complicated card games.
Indeed, one of her favorite forms of
solitaire requires several packs of
cards to play. 1T is called the Lost
Children of Israeli" explains the
Norwegian soprano. And it takes
ever so long to play-sometimes a
whole evening for single game"
At the other end of the scale is
idiots Delight" which, as is COM
monty known, we'll deserves its name.
But Flagstad likes to play it when
her mind is concentrating on some
thing else "If I played all the
games that people send me, could
have a different one every night
for MONTHS she remarks, "but IL is
as many as I can remember" After
performance she plays solitaire
often until the small hours of the
morning-until the music stops 60
ing through her head and she can
60 to sleep.
Tickets for the concert of the
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.
under the baton Of Eugene Or
mandy, may be obtained from the
T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau,
e1o g street NV.
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tion in this country at Duquesne
University and the University of
Pittsburgh. He is also a graduate
of the Royal Conservatory Of Music,
Munich, Germany.
The vocal sol6ist for the mornings
program will be Mrs. D. Sterling
Wheelright. soprano of the Church
of the Latter Day Saints. who will
sing several Wagnerian arias.
Frances Newman will present
Irving Lean, violinist, and Elena
Crivella, pianist, in recital at her
Lyon Village home on Friday eve
ming at $50.
Iva Loughlen Guy will present
group of pupils in piano re-
cital at her residence studio, 55l9
Connecticut avenue, this evening at
6. Those on the program are Mary
Able, Nancy Abbot. Margaret Aiken,
Betsie Bassett, Harris Ball, Barbara
Harter. Eleanor Graves Kitterman,
Ann Myers. Iris Rawls, Nancy
Wakefield, Robert and Richard
Wiebe and Rene wilkins.
At meeting of the German Lit
erary Society last night at the home
OF the president, Anita Schade, Prof.
A. w. Spanhoofd gave a lecture on
the "Folksong and the Artsong of
Germany" with Wilhelmina Span
hoofd Walter soprano, as his assist
ing artist. Terra Barkley Sells was
the accompanist.
The music department of the
Young Womens Christian Associa-
ton at Seventeenth and K streets
is again offering classes in Dalcroze
eurythmics under Iris Bland Smith.
A class for children is being organ
lied and there is also one for adults,
which Is scheduled to meet on Fri
days at $50. For further informa-
ton call the Y. w. CA.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Serene
Ender and their daughter Elizabeth
have returned from Florida, where
they spent the holidays Mr.. Ender
has resumed his teaching at his
new studio at 920 Seventeenth street
and Miss Ender has returned to the
University of Michigan, where she
is doing graduate work in music.
Fannie Shreve Heartsill, dramatic
soprano. recently returned from
New York City, where she has been
continuing her studies with Frank
La Forge. While in New York Mrs.
Heartsill was presented In recital at
the Sailing Studio In the Metropoli-
tan Opera House by Charles La
Pierre, accompanist and coach.
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Yehudi Menuhin Plavs
In Recital Here TODAY
One of Most Interesting of
Seasons Programs Offered
At Constitution Hall

One of the seasons most inter-
esting programs OF violin music has
been prepared by Yehudi Menuhin,
the world-famous violinist. for his
only Washington recital of the cur
rent season. which will take place
at Constitution Hall this afternoon
at 4 O'Clock under the local man
agement of Dorothy Dorsey.
Mr.. Menuhin, who will be accom-
panied at the piano by Hendrix
Endt, will play Handels Sonata
No. 6 in E Major" instead of
Brahms &c Major Sonata No. l." as
originally announced, though he will
retain the Bach &c Minor Sonata
No. L. for violin alone, as we'll as
the Mendelssohn e Minor Con-
certo, Opus a. Mr.. Menunin had
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Candlelight Concert

Tomorrow afternoon the Brahms
B Flat Quartet and the Cesar
Frank Fl Minor Quintet will be
presented at the third candlelight
concert of the Washington Chamber
Music Society at the Phillips Me-
mortal Gallery at o'clock. The
regular quartet Of the society, which
includes Milton Schwartz, Jeno Seve-
ly, Ralph Hersh and William Bren-
nand, will be assisted by Alice
Finckel, pianist. Mrs. Finckel is
well known as concert pianist. She
is student Of Oliver Denton of the
Damrosch School of Music,
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Chamber Music Talk
In LaVnan Course

Harriet Johnson will take up the
study of chamber music at her
next lecture on Thursday evening at
Barker Hall before members of the
Washington Layman's Music Course.
The group will meet at 8:3O AS H.
lustrations of her talk, Miss john
son will play selections from the
Quintet K, No. AL" of Mozart and
the Quintet tor Piano and Strings
in F Minor" OF. Brahms.
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denied them in their own country
and here are the opportunities
closed to them in their homeland.
The sympathy of every one has been
awakened by their distress, yet what
about our own musicians future if
we must provide for strangers?
This is a very serious question
facing all of us today. The attitude
toward our own artists has just be-
gun to change within the last few
years and their worth to receive a
better valuation than ever before.
Now the competition for them, al
ways present in spite of the advance
Of appreciation. will be greater and
the longed-for prospect of achieving
an unassailable artistic front as
Americans be delayed.
The snobbish idea that whatever
comes from Europe in the musical
line must be better than what we
have here has not entirely been
eliminated in the minds of many.
Nor has the courage to fight for
their own been increased to any
overwhelming degree. You will still
find more listeners willing to accept
with enthusiasm any publicity about
a foreign artist than are even inter-
ested in the progress our singers
and instrumentalists have accom-
plished here,
The history of nearly every Ameri-
can artist has all the elements in
1t that used to be dear to the Ameri-
can heart-resourcefulne courage,
hard work and sacrifice, to say
nothing of talent. Yet they lack
glamour for many and for that are
put aside in favor of more roman
tic-sounding musician from over
seas.
Bringing this up at the present
time may sound selfish and unkind-
", but world events have brought
It to the fore and it must be given
sensible consideration. Other coun-
tries have not hesitated to place the
needs of their countrymen above
those of the greatest artists from
other nations and by this course
have at least been able to provide
bread and butter and the squirting
OF ambition to those who formerly
were in the same fix as our musicians
today.
The great necessity which hounds
the musicians turned out of their
homeland will oblige them to accept
any remuneration, no matter how
small, in order to live. If they are
any good at all. they will be snapped
mp by managers and exploited and
will be glad of the exploitation. In
the meantime, what about the
American artist? There are only
so many opportunities for an artist
to earn living through concert or
opera engagements and he has not
had many chances at these. There
are not enough, with the present
state Of musical support in this
country, to supply incomes for our
own and for refugee artists.
We are, however, continuing to
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Concert Schedule
Today.

Yehudi Menuhin, violin re-
cital, Constitution Hall, 4 pm.
Y, w. C. A., Irene Kandze,
soprano; Ida Wood, contralto,
Barker Hall, 5 pm.
Frederick Freund, song reci-
tai, Roosevelt Hotel, $50 pm.
Monday.
Gertrude Pitzinger, soprano;
Emanuel List, basso; Roman
Totenberg, violinist; Mrs.
Townsend's musicale, Mayflow-
er Hotel, II am.
Washington Chamber Music
Society. candle light concert,
Alice Finckel, pianist, assisting,
Phillips Memorial Gallery, 5
pm.
Felian Garzia, benefit piano
recital, Women's City Club,
BIS pm.
"A Night at the Opera During
the Golden Age" Victrola con-
cert, Public Library, Eighth and
K streets, 7::30 pm.
Wilhelmina Spanhoofd Wal
ter, soprano; Ann Smith, pia-
mist, Mrs. Culver, reader;
Chevy Chase Women's Club,
3 pm.
D. Sterling Wheelright, organ
recital, Washington Chapel, l..
D. S., 7:45 pm.
Tuesday.
The Russian Trio, Rankin
Memorial Chapel, Howard Uni
versity. $50 pm.
Army Band. Army Band Au-
ditorium. 3:15 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra, $50 pm.
Wednesday.
Lovette Choral Club, Eva w.
Lovette, director; Edward c..
Potter, composer lecturer;
Francis Bass Wilson, Hazel
Cake, soloists; Grafton Hotel,
$50 pm.
Navy Band Symphony Or
chestra, Navy Yard. $50 pm.
Marine Band. Marine Bar
racks, 230 pm, and Marine
Band Symphony Orchestra, 8
pm.
D. Sterling Wheelright, organ
recital. Washington Chapel, l..
D. S., 7:45 pm.
Thursday.
Layman's Music Course. Har-
riet johnson, director, Barker
Hall. $50 pm. =
Irving Lean, violinist; Elena
Grivella, pianist: Jewish Com
munity Center. 9 pm.
Takoma Park Women's Club,
Rev. Joseph Hauber, lecturer;
Mrs. D. Sterling Wheelr1ght, so
prano, 10 m.
Army Band, Army Band Audi
I torium, 3 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra. $50 pm.
Friday.
Friday Morning Music Club,
| Lucy MacMoreland, Katherine
English, singers: Lila Burt, vio-
linist; Alcie Brooks. pianist,
Barker Hall, 1870 am.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 3 pm.
D. Sterling Wheelright, organ
recital, Mrs. Wheelright, soloist,
Washington Chapel, L. D. S.,
7:45 pm.
Saturday.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, ll:30 am.
Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra, $50 pm.
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originally programmed Paganini's S
Il Palpiti" 'Heartbeats) from the
violinists personally owned urtext
edition as the fourth group of his
recital, but this has been expanded
to include not only the Il Palpiti"
selection, but also Yom Kippur
melody by Ernest Bloch. dedicated
to young Menuhin. called "Abodah"
GODS Worship, the "Malaguena"
of Sarasate and Persinger arrange
ment Of Dvorak's Songs My Mother
Taught Me-
Yehudi Menuhin, accompanied by
his father secretary. who accom-
panies the youthful 2l-year- -old
genius on all his tours. will reach
Washington today from New York.
Yehudi is meeting a heavy schedule
of concerts this season and will leave
Washington Immediately after this
afternoons concert.
The box Office at Constitution
Hall. where tickets may be obtained
for the Menuhin recital, will open
this morning at 10 o'clock for the
convenience Of patrons. The pro-
gram will be as follows:
Sonata No. In Major" Handel
Adaeio.
Allegro.
Largo.
Allegro,
Sonata No. l In Minor Cfor
Adagio.
Fura talleero.
Siciliano.
Presto.
INTERMIsSION.
Concerto in 4 Minor, Opus a.
Mendelssohn
AlleEro motto Appassionato.
Allegretto-Alleero motto vivace.
".
Ia "Abodah' GODS Worship,
Yom Kippur melody Bloch
Dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin
70, Malasuena Sarasate
I'd! Il Palpiti' HeartbeatsJ. urtext
Hendrix Endt at the piano. "'''''
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Concert at Hotel

HODert FTederlck Freund BARI
tone, will give program at the reg
ular Sunday evening concert at the
Hotel Roosevelt tonight. He will be
accompanied by Myrtle Alcorn. Mr..
Freund was born and reared in
Washington and has been director
here of various choruses, including
the Gypsy Chorus, the United States
Department of Agriculture Chorus,
the Farm Credit Administrator
Chorus. and was director OF music
for the Metropolitan Memorial
Methodist Church.
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Benefit to Be Given

Felian Garzia, prominent WASH
ington pianist and teacher, will give
benefit concert at the Women's
City Club, 1856 Jackson place, to-
morrow evening at 8:15. This con-
cert is sponsored by the French Sec
ton of the club The public Is
invited to attend, tickets being avail
able at the clubhouse,