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Evening star., 1939-03-05
Concert Schedule
TODAY.

TODAY.
Bidu Sayao, song recital, Con-
stitution Hall, 4 pm.
Y. w. C. A., Alcie Brooks,
pianist; Louis Rose, tenor; Boris
Rosenfield, pianist; Barker Hall,
S pm.
Catherine Carrico, soprano;
Howard Samuel, bass; joint re-
cital, Roosevelt Hotel, $50 pm.
MONDAY. :
Adolf Bush. violinist; Rudolf
Serkin, pianist; Library of Con-
gress, $50 pm.
TUESDAY.
Muriel Kerr, piano recital,
Howard University, $50 pm.
Navy Band Symphony Or
chestra, Bernard Rosenthal,
violin soloist; Sail Loft, Navy
Yard, $3.50 pm.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 3:15 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
National Symphony Orchestra,
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor;
Walter Gieseking, piano soloist;
Constitution Hall, $50 pm.
Marjorie Wilson, soprano;
Katherine Fowler, organist;
Ronald Eicher, pianist; joint
recital. Columbia Heights Chris
tian Church, $3.50 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 2::3O pm, and Marine
Band Symphony Orchestra,
8 pm.
THURSDAY.
Adolf Bush, violinist; Rudolf
Serkin, pianist; Library of Con-
gress, $50 pm.
Layman's Music Course, Har-
riett johnson, director; Barker
Hall, $3.50 pm.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 3 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
FRIDAY.
Washington String Quartet,
Georgetown Branch, Central Lii
brary, Mount Vernon Square,
$3.50 pm.
Adult Department Chorus,
Calvary Baptist Church; A. c.
wilkins, director; Sylvia Meyer,
harpist, soloist; Woodward Hall,
Eighth and H streets NV,
8:15 pm.
"The Frantics," Woman's
Club, Chevy Chase, Md.
Friday Morning Music Club,
RENO Luoma, pianist; Elsa
Radle, contralto; Elizabeth Ev-
erett, soprano, Barker Hall,
1880 am.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 3 pm.
SATURDAY.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 1880 am.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
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the music of Brahms from that of
Bach, or Schumann' style from
that of Beethoven. For this reason
the splendid recordings to be had
now are the most valuable asset
toward spreading appreciation of
the mastery writings of the great
composers
About so years ago, Thomas Edi-
son took out his first patent for
his new invention, the phonograph.
Thirty years ago it still was a little
known and its popularity had to
be built up by rather spectacular
means. Mr.. Edison sought out a
we'll known singer and sent her
on concert tours where she sang
number in the midst of which
the lights were turned off but the
singing continued coming from a
machine as revealed when the lights
went on again. In this way the
phonograph was brought to the
knowledge of concert audiences with
demonstration of its possibilities.
Those early machines were noisy
affairs and one had to be indulgent
toward the sound produced. The
process of recording was primitive
too with many waving tone of
shrill quality. With the advent of
the radio the phonograph suffered
an eclipse in popularity for the as
founding new invention held so
many advantages in matters of IA
cile access to music. The old phono-
graphs in homes were put away
and forgotten for some years. Only
recently has there been a new in
terest evidenced in it because the
people, more music conscious than
ever. want to have it in their midst
constantly.
Skill Developed.
Today, the phonograph has been
so improved and the recording is so
much a matter of supreme Scien-
tiflc skill that the art of musicians
or ensembles comes to one in exact
reproduction. The finest artists in
the world can be heard as often as
desired and in whatever work that
appeals to the individual most. True,
the buying of records means a con-
siderable outlay of money, but this
financial expenditure goes into a
library that becomes more valuable
as time passes.
But best of all is the knowledge
that the music one prefers is right
at hand to be listened to with ever
increasing pleasure. The new dis
coveries that must follow familiar
ity with the masterpieces bring fresh
appreciation of what might be dis
missed with a pleasant word at a
first hearing. The general outline
begins to dissolve into parts each
OF which has its own particular
beauty and its contribution to the
forcefulness of the whole. 1t is
only in this manner that the music
lover, who has not several instru-
ments at his command, can form
his personal opinion of what he
hears or has heard in concert halls
and educate himself to lasting un-
derstanding of the masterpieces of
musical literature.
Evening star., 1939-03-05
In Local Music Circles

There will be two artists at the
regular Sunday evening concert at
the Hotel Roosevelt this week, Cath
reen Carrico. soprano. and Howard
Samuel, bass. Christopher Tenley
will accompany at the piano.
The National Capitol Choir, sing
ing at the Universalist National
Memorial Church, Sixteenth and
S streets NV, under the direction
OF Jessie Masters will offer Gounods S
"Gallia" this morning at the IL
O'Clock service. The solos will be
sung by Irene Koehl, soprano. H.
Jerome Graham will be at the organ
Today the program for the Sum-
day music hour at the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association, at Sew
enteenth and K streets, will be pre-
sented by Alcie Thrall Brooks,
pianist. Mrs. Brooks will be assisted
by Louis Rose, tenor, and by Boris
Rosenfield at second piano. The
program will begin at o'clock and
the public is cordially invited to
attend.
Mary liant Couch, pianist, and
Muriel Abbott Marshall, violinist,
will present the program at the S
o'clock hour of music at Friendship
House, GIG D street Sc, today. Solos
will be played by Mrs. Couch, who
will also accompany Mrs. Marshall.
The public is cordially invited.
DR.. Edwin N. C. Barnes. head of
the music department in the public
schools and president of the South
ern Conference for Music Educa-
ton, is in Louisville, KY, presiding
at the biennial session of the organi-
zation which is held from March
to 8. The conference includes 13
States between the Atlantic sea-
board and the Missouri line.
The annual spring concert of the
Elizabeth Somers Glee Club of the
Y. w. C. A., under the direction of
Mary NJ Burnett, will be given in
Barker Hall Saturday evening,
March IL, at S:3O.
The regular monthly business
meeting of the Rubinstein Club will
be held at their next rehearsal on
Tuesday at 7:45 pm. at the Willard
Hotel. All officers and members are
requested to be present. Applica-
tions for new members to sing with
the club at their next concert in
May will be taken care of by Edith
M. White, chairman of additions.
Marjorie Wilson, mezzo- soprano;
Katharine Fowler, organist, and
Ronald Eicher, pianist, will be pre-
sented in joint recital by the choir
of the Columbia Heights Christian
Church, in the church auditorium,
1435 Park road, on Wednesday eve
ming at $50. The program will
consist of compositions by Schu-
mann, Strauss, Bach and Shostako-
witch. The recital is open to the
public.
On Friday the Friday Morning
Music Club will present Reino
Luoma, pianist, who appeared as
guest soloist with the National Sym
phony Orchestra during the 1888
season of Sunset Symphonies. "
Elsa Radle, contralto, of Richmond,
formerly of Washington, will also
be heard, and Elizabeth Everett, So
prano, and Mrs. Radle will sing q
! group Of Brahms duets. Marjorie
Davis will be the aecompanist. The
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meeting will take place at Barker
Hall, the Y. w. C. A., at 11:3O am.
A section of the Nordica Mandolin
and Guitar Orchestra, directed by
Walter T. Holt, was heard in a con-
cert on Tuesday night at Masonic
Hall for the Masonic Federal Lodge,
No. l.
The Potomac Electric Power Co.
Glee Club entertained the members
of the Methodist Home for the
Aged, at Gaithersburg. Md, on
Thursday evening, February 9, and
on February 20, the Fillmore
Parent-Teacher Association at the
Fillmore School, Thirty-fifth and S
streets NV, on the occasion of the
42d anniversary of the founding of
the Parent-Teach Association.
On Monday the Glee Club enter
tanned the Bureau of Internal Rev.
enue Post of the American Legion
at the Hayloft Club, 1926 Massachu-
setts avenue NV.
j. Humbird Duffey is director and
Cornelia Long Kinsella accompanist.
Thomas Leef, baritone, and Ruby
Arnold, soprano, entertained the
members of Esther Chapter, Eastern
Star, and their guests last Thurs
day evening at the Masonic Temple.
They were assisted at the piano
and organ by Edith Athey, who also
played number of solos.
Lillian Evanti, soprano, who is on
concert tour in South America, was
recently soloist with the Havana
Symphony Orchestra. Among her
selections were aria from Verdi's
La Traviata," David Felicien's La
Perle du Bresil," Bizet's Spanish
serenade, louvre ton occur: two
spiritual songs by Burleigh and
Nickerson, and Roig's "Quiereme
mucho."
Harriet johnson, director of the
Laymans Music Course, will lecture
on "Impressionism" on Thursday
evening at $50 o'clock at Barker
Hall. She will use recordings to
illustrate her lecture on this latter
10th century movement in music
which led the way to certain inno-
vations characteristic of the music
of today.
The final lecture in the series
sponsored by the Laymans Music
Course will be held on Thursday,
March %, when Miss johnson will
, discuss Modern Music"
Evening star., 1939-03-05
Concert Tuesday
By Civic Orchestra

The Washington Civic Orchestra
sponsored by the Community Center
Department, will give a concert
Tuesday at pm. at the Contra
High School Auditorium. Composed
of 80 musicians of all walks of life
the civic orchestra is under the di-
rection of DR.. Kurt Hetzel.
The concert will include the fol-
lowing selections: overture te
Egmont," by Beethoven; symphony
in G Minor" by Mozart; unfinished
Symphony" by Schubert; suite
woodland Sketches" by Mcdowell
and a waltz, Roses From the South,
by Johann Strauss.
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SyIIIp1IOIIy OIC1IeSCId, VIII pay C1Ie
Concerto in E-flat Major" for piano
and orchestra r"The Emperor by
Beethoven. DR.. Kinder has chosen
the Tragic Overture" of Johannes
Brahms to complete his program.
The presence of Walter Gieseking
on the midweek program alone
promises to make the concert one
Of the great musical events of the
present Washington season. At a
recent performance with the Phila-
delphia Orchestra in Philadelphia
Mr.. Gieseking's playing was de-
scribed as one of the greatest exhi-
billions of pianistic virtuosity of
many seasons. Acknowledged as one
of the supreme pianists of the pre-
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Engaged for Opera

Bernice Alarie, soprano, who is to
give a song recital at the Phillips
Memorial Gallery on Wednesday,
March %, and who scored a bril-
liant success as Musetta in La
Boheme" and Esmeralda In the
"Bartered Bride" at Constitution
Hall recently, has been engaged by
Maestro salmaggi for opera to be
presented at the Hippodrome. New
York City.
Evening star., 1939-03-05

voice to each individual. But
to draw on this unlimited source
of pleasure and spiritual re-
freshment it is necessary to hear
great music as much and as often
as possible in order fully to COM
prehend it. The more one knows
about it the keener becomes the re-
action of ones sensibilities and the
more instructive ones response.
Music, the ephemeral, heard and
enjoyed for moment and gone for
all time, can remain enShrined in
the heart and mind only when IA
miliarity with it has engraven it
deeply in the nature of its follow
erS.
Realization of this fact has been
the reason for the invention of
every mechanical means to provide
those who cannot take care of it
themselves with way of hearing
music constantly. The piano play
er at one period gave continual &C
cess to the best piano music, but
there remained other types of mu-
sic that could not be reproduced
in this way. The phonograph and
the radio, because of its many pro-
grams, make it possible to become
acquainted through familiarity with
the masterpieces of music and so
gradually to learn its constant
source of new discoveries.
Contrasts in Music.
The immortal works of literature
and the great paintings are un-
cflangeably there for us to study
and grow in appreciation. But mu-
sic is played or sung and passes
quickly into nothingness, leaving
only a memory behind. With the
photographic recordings now at our
disposal we have music in more
stable form, needing only slight
physical effort in order to have it
repeated as often as desired.
Sometimes audiences are against
hearing the same compositions
more than once but how can they
feel that with one performance they
are fully acquainted with the music
and more important still, its mes
sage The greatest writings in the
field of literature can be read again
and again with profit. The study
of Shakespeare, for instance, has
never ceased nor has the reading
of his plays been stabilized into
one form that all may follow. Every
gifted actor can find some new
infection or accent that will re-
veal another meaning in the lines.
The mere harmony of the word
combinations is a delight in itself
but what the interpreter can do
with them is never ending.
The same may be said of the
paintings of Raphael, da Vinci,
Rubens and such famous artists.
1t is not possible with one view to
grasp the immensity of their gift
or the great skill of their figure
grouping. their color scale or the
more intricate details of line and
perspective. The first glance con-
veys an impressive general idea out
minute study will disclose the points
that make for their greatness. This
study can never finish nor can
then art be dismissed with general
summary of its essentials.
Most Valuable Asset.
So it is with music. yet music
heard in concert han cannot be
retained completely in the mind
for futher analysis. Gradually,
through more repetition, the recog-
milton of certain points is possible
but this still does not clarity the
peculiar attributes that distinguish
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Of Austria, Beethoven's imperial
pupil and patron.
The first performance of the con-
certo, now considered one of the
greatest in literature, was fall
ure. 1t is given as part of a
charity concert, the feature of which
was series of tableaux. In spite
Of the fact that Carl Czerny, the
composers 19-year-old pupil, was
the soloist, the work made little i'm
preston, sandwiched in as it was
between a couple of living pic
lures" The American premiere of
'The Emperor was performed in
Boston on March 4, 1854, with a
one time Washingtonian- Robert
Evening star., 1939-03-05
Bidu Sayao to Present
Recital This Afternoon
Brazilian Soprano Has Been
Impressive in Recent
ADDearanceS
Appearances

Bidu Sayao, glamorous Brazilian
Association. who was heard week
of the Metropolitan Operas produ
role of that famous opera, is annol
recital of the current season this aft
agement of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorse
Miss Sayao-she pronounces i
famous for her captivating, youthful
beauty as we'll as for her glorious
lyric soprano voice which has earned
for her the title of successor to
Lucrezia Bori" The sudden illness
of Lily Pons, which caused that
noted coloratura to cancel her en-
gagement here a month ago. to
withdraw from the Metropolitan
cast and go to Florida to convalesce,
has forced Miss Sayao into color
atura as we'll as lyric roles and
opera enthusiasts recently had the
opportunity of hearing Sayao sing
the role of Rosina in the weekly
Saturday afternoon broadcast of the
Metropolitan's production of The
Barber of Seville" in place of Miss
Pons.
Met Emergency.
Washington concertgoers will re-
call Bidu Sayao not only as one of
the highlights of Mrs. Lawrence
Townsends series of morning musi-
Gales at the Mayflower Hotel this
season but also as the soprano who
stepped in on overnight notice to fill
the place of Gina Cigna. Metropoli-
tan Opera soprano, whose recital
engagement here at Constitution
Hall last season was threatened with
cancellation when Cigna was taken
suddenly i'll and could not meet her
recital dates. Sayao's performance
on that occasion was so pleasing
to the Constitution Hall audience
which heard her that Mrs. Dorsey
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"Bee-doo Sah-yow'-is nationally
promptly re-engaged her for a con-
cert in her own right
Miss Sayao, who will be assisted
at the piano by Milne Charnley
will open her recital with two Han
del selections: Alma mia" and
Come and Trip it, the latter song
arranged by Carmichael This open
ing group will also include the aria
"Donne Vaghe" from Paisiello's La
Serva Padrona' and the Allelujah
from Mozart's motet, "Exultate,
Jubilate."
Sings Waltz Music.
Her second group opens with Hig-
gins arrangement of the old Eng
lish song. MY Lovely Celia" and
includes Chopin's 'Mazurka," Saint
Saens' "Pourquoi Rester Seulette'
and Alabieff's Russian Nightin-
gale The first half of the pro-
gram will close with Sayao's singing
of the waltz from Gounods Romeo
ct Juliette."
Two groups will be given after
intermission, the first including De-
Fallas Mana" and three songs by
j. Obradors: La mi sola laureola,
Eel Amor and "Coplas de curro
dulce.' The second group will offer
Delibes' lovely Les Files de Cadiz,
Buzzi-Peccias "Colombetta" and
two songs by Winter Watts: THE
Little Shepherds Song and Wings
of the Night
The box Office at Constitution Hall
will open this morning at 10 o'clock
for the convenience of concertgoers
Evening star., 1939-03-05
Fontainebleau Dav

Sixty former students of the
American Conservatory and School
of Fine Arts of Fontainebleau,
France, will gather for reunion
at the Washington College of Music
on Saturday afternoon, March 18,
at 4 o'clock.
Following the formation at this
time of a Washington chapter of
the Fontainebleau Alumni Asso-
citation, officers will be elected and
a program planned for the rest of
the year.
Evening star., 1939-03-05

Ruth L. Morgan was given a sur
prise musical tea by the members
of the Symphonic Choir of the De-
partment of Agriculture. of which
she is the musical director, at the
Palisades Playground fleldhouse on
Saturday, February IS.
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Splendid Recordings
Become Music Asset
May Continue to Charm
Like Literature and
Art Production
By Alice Eversman.

Although the fundamental why art is art lies in the
its gifted
depths completely touched by
persons authority
Evening star., 1939-03-05
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON
WOrld>FamOus Pianist
To Star With Symphony
National Orchestra Gives
Sibelius' Work for First
Time in Washington

The appearance OF the pianist Walter Gesekn
sbeus under the baton of DR. Hans Kinder will share the spot
light midweek
to be played Wednesday night in
Gesekng making appearance in washington
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meeting will take place at Barker
Hall, the Y. w. c. A., at 1870 am.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
Negro COP. Leaders Not Wise

From sources which yet must remain anonymous De 49,
nar LOYALTY this paper receiving numerous
within the Republican party about the failure Oh go
administration in of giving Negroes a sh" "
jobs. oHact then
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there will be general cleaning when there Is -
administrations While spoils system is very unoeaOe
Of notifies its hngs frings far reaching as one "
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of the best machines ana eVen1uany
out of otfetherby making possible for new crop OIL '0O
to a living e:u :. +ho+ +
What makes Republican house cleaning so unfair "'
masked itself as variety things ranging from
on suacement Communists In addition was Done az
time when an alleged service system was beng put 'o
Had there been strategy the beginning the KepuDh
Negro leaders would sought agreements "hcn won"
have assured them of jobs after the eecuon DuI
would have also certain unusual jobs winch negroes e
be left untouched. . -, . .o dono
We never get would not nave uOe
anv harm to leave FamerLaborles at tnr p
Not all whites who supported oused but certain Negro
politicians saw to all coored who favored MIN were
fired Now that service law has gone into eecI WIN
some time before chance number OF
positions. .. . ,, ,. ,o.oa
The long and short that Negro Republicans have neped
To ferret out anything family resembed member Oh tne
rival marty With this they find that there practically no
among them fill vacancies so created
vacancies have been white and the coed u "
has left holding the bag.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03

ever color" he writes, "this war is
not. our war. We will not support
it. We, the workers, the poor farm
ers in every country, white, black,
and brown, are not going to kill
one another at the command of
Chamberlain, or Hitler-at the or
ders of Roosevelt or the Japanese
Mikado. We shall fight for the fra
ternal unity between all the poor
in every country against all the
rich. That is the war we shall fight.
Down with the imperialist war!"
Whether or not one agrees with
all the authors ideas, the pamphlet
is certainly provocative of deep
thought upon the part of any read
er.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
POrgy at the University

Controversy incidentally makes good promonon puphV
ono Of the University of question of whether
University should present Porgy play Oh oep
South Negro low sum called Catfish ROW.
If the nothing will some the brothers
and sisters little than ordinarily Inc demand
libraries in both Minneapolis and ST.
Now object the play the University is rotg
out phrases like: artistic success
of what involved" number of other humbuggeres
Some presenting the play defend their posi-
ton telling Negro reported In answer "
the call however, that number OF those re-
the play and did not know what 1t was
about.
We dispute the existence of Catfish Row no more nan
Of Tobacco Road which portrays
~ conditions among whites in the Unfortunately however,
the play will not remember that 1t onrs
picture They will tend to regard as typical Oh
Negro life everywhere
The Students participate should not be denounced because
formative stage and naturally tend follow te
thought faculty opinion University The University on the
other hand especially the faculty members the social science
and must be blamed for unfavO
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Listen to
This
By Hobart T. Mitchell

White HOuse-Black People
The rain fell, the wind blew, the
mud was ankle deep in Pennsyl-
vania Avenue; but the people came
just the same to the Inauguration
of President Lincoln, March 4,
1866.
At the reception that night thirty
thousand people passed through the
doors of the White House. Crowds
were pressing the door of the room
where the President was to receive
his guests.
"Hold on! You can't go in now.
It is not convenient" said the
guard. "How is that? I see others
passing in" smiled Frederick
Douglass. Someone spoke to the
guard =" THIS is FREDERICK
DOUGLASS" "Never mind. / do
not want to go in as Frederick
Douglass; but as citizen Of the
United States"
Here comes the President, with
his arm extended over the heads of
the crowd. "Why, how do you do,
Frederick? Come right I'M"
About an hour after the recep-
ton had started and the President
was receiving his guests, Negro
woman approached the marshal
and said, II wish to see President
Lincoln" "Well, the President is
busy, I think, and you can't see him
now" stated the marshal.
eyes, must see him. If he knew
1 was here he'd come down and
see me-"
Finally, the marshal went to the
Presidents room and whispered to
him. 81 guarantee that she is So
journer Truth. Bring her up here"
When Sojourner AIRED the
President he smiled and said, $50
JOURNER TRUTH! HOW GLAD
4 AM TO SEE YOU"
She gave the President one of
her books. Then handing him her
photograph, she said: "It's got a
black face but a white back; an
I'd like one of yours with green
back"
The President laughed loudly.
"Here is a ten-dollar bill. There is
my face with a green back"