Evening star., 1940-06-23
Sunset Symphonies
Will Start July 7,
Kinder Conductinu
Other Distinguished
Musicians to Weld
Bottom at Water Cote

The first Of three concerts in this
summers Sunset Symphonies" by
the National Symphony Orchestra,
to be directed by Or. Hans Kinder,
conductor Of the orchestra, will be
held at the Potomac Water Gate on
July 7.
Following DR.. Kinder, q number
OF distinguished guest conductors
will WELD the baton for the summer
concerts. Other notable features of
tho series will be the appearance of
Kristen Flagstad of the Metropoli-
tan Opera Co. and four opera per-
3ormances.
Season tickets for the IL SYM
phony concerts and the operas went
on sale yesterday with Miss Ruth
Elder, recently elected Miss Treas
ury," buying the first ticket from
Harold A. Brooks, chairman of the
Summer Concerts Committee, at the
symphony box of1ice in the Homer
l.. Kilt music store.
The concerts are divided into two
series OF eight concerts each, the
wednesday evening series including
four symphony concerts, three
operas and Nine. Flagstad's appear
ance, and the Sunday evening series
including seven symphony concerts
and one opera.
Others to Conduct.
In addition to the opening con-
cert, DR.. Kinder will conduct the
orchestra on July 10 and IA. DR..
Frank Black, musical director of
the National Broadcasting Co., will
be the conductor for the July 81
and "A concerts; Rudolph Cans will
direct the orchestra July 28 and
Edwin Macarthur, who made his
first Washington appearance with
the National Symphony Orchestra
last winter, will be the conductor
when Nine. Flagstad is the soloist,
July 81.
Scheduled to appear with the Or
chestra for the August concerts are
Charles O'Connell, August IL; An
tonia Brico, August II; Kurt Hetzel.
August 18, and Alexander Bloch,
August IS.
The opera performances will in
clude two grand opera presentations
by Fortune Gallo of the San Carlo
Opera Co. and two Gilbert and Sui
Ivan operas performed by the New
England Opera Co., which will ap-
pear here after an engagement with
the Philadelphia Orchestra in the
Robin Hood Dell series.
DR.. Kinder, commenting on the
schedule of concerts, asserted yes
terday that music at this time
serves far more important pur-
pose than momentary diversion"
Provides Faith and Consolation.
what we need in these times"
DR.. Kinder said, lis music of faith,
music which consoles, and-more
than anything-music which takes
us out of the frame of mind which
the depressing news of the world
brings us each morning And no
more convincing sign of the posi-
bility of the eventual survival of
true democracy can be found than
when ten or fifteen thousand peo-
pie gather to listen to and to react
. to the message of the great mas
ters Of all times and places.
LAS 1t is now, plans for an ac-
eeptable future for mankind must
of necessity come from America.
If we are to believe in an upward
course for mankind, we will need
more than ever to counteract the
Grass haterialism, the brute force,
the misuse of our technical inven-
tions as practised in Europe today.
Nothing is of greater inspira-
tional possibilities than to listen to
the best that mankind has pro-
duced in the shadow of the monu-
ment erected to the memory of the
Great Emancipator on the banks of
the Potomac with all its historical
memories"