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tine Church, in Arlington, on We'd
nesday night. Schubert was the COM
poser under consideration and rep
resentative works were presented as
well as biographical material and
general critical items. Those who
participated were Nelly Anne Ben
Ger, Margaret Cassidy, Dolores
Marye, Joan Brinkman, Clarence
White, Claws Gadd. Grace Gaum-
nitz and Augusta Cassidy were the
accompanies.
The A Cappella Choir of Catawba
College, Salisbury, N. c., with Har-
old w. Dickensheets as director. will
present concert of sacred music
this morning in the Grace Reformed
Church, 1401 Fifteenth street NV.
Henrietta Bagger Plum, mezzo-
contralto, who this fall has accepted
positions as soloist in the Covenant
Presbyterian Church. and as voice
teacher at Gunston Hall School for
Girls, gave a British relief concert
together with Lea Luboschutz,
violinist, on Wednesday, at Good
hart Hall, Bryn Mawr College,
Pennsylvania
Thelma Callahan presented a
group of her pupils in a piano re-
cital at her studio, COS Taylor street
NV, Saturday, October 26. Those
playing solos and two piano num-
bers were: Joan Birkett, Bernard
Bord, Virginia Baker, Genevieye
Billhimer, Virginia Bradford, Bill
Clampitt, Doris Frazier, Dorothy
Fielder, Dickie Hill, Beatrice Keat-
ing, Phyllis Kettner, Marilyn Las
chalt, Donald Mallorey, Janet NAL
lory, Virginia Perrin, Gloria Sloven-
sky, Larry Stillwell, Carol Joan
Tribe, Mary Jean Wexford, Truman
Ward, Shirley Ward and Jean
Woodward.
DR.. Stephen Kramer was re-
elected president of the Segovia So
ciety for the second term at a re-
cent meeting of the group at the
Columbia School of Music, 1000 N
street NV. Elected with him were
William Daniel Smith, first vice
president; DR.. E. de S. Coutinho,
second vice president: Jack Berk-
man, third vice president; Achilles
Catsonis, secretary; Mercia Lorentz
Papas, recording secretary; Michael
La Padula, treasurer, and Mildred
Waugh, director of public relations.
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Opera Stars
TOBe Heard
Today
Program Offered
By Metropolitan
Quartet

Four famous singers of the Met
ropolitan Opera Association will
offer Washington an opera-lover's
holiday at Constitution Hall this
afternoon at O'Clock, when the
Metropolitan Quartet-Rose Bamp-
ton, soprano: Helen Olheim, con-
tralto; Charles kullman, tenor, and
Julius Huehn, baritone-opens Mrs.
Dorsey's 1904 series of Sunday
afternoon music events with con-
cert at the D. A R auditorium.
The program will consist entirely
of ariaS, duets. a trio and quartetS
from the worlds most popular op-
cratic music. The program follows:
Quartet from "Fidelio" (Act u.
Duet from The Pearl Fishers" Bzet
-. CMessTs. KulIman and HuehnJ
Air de Liza" from 'LEnfant
Miss olheimD
Duet from Madame Butterfly"
miss. Rampton and Miss olheimI
Trio from Faust GOunod
Miss hampton Mr. Kullman and
Mr.. Huehnl
Quartet from "Cosi Fan Tutti' Mozart
Duet from "Cavalleria RuSticana,"
Msscsgn
miss hampton and Mr. Huehn)
Aria. I'm di All-azzurro Spazio.'
from Andrea Chenier Giordano
CMr. Kullman.)
Judgment Scene" from Aida" Verdi
Miss Olheim and Mr.. Kullman)
Aria Pace Pace. Mic Do" from
La Fora del Destino" Verdi
miss BamptonD
Spinning Wheel Quartet" from
Martha" Won Flotow
The Metropolitan Quartet of l940-
Al is the fourth similar quartet Mrs.
Dorsey has presented to Washing
ton music lovers in the past eight
seasons and Miss hampton, formerly
a contralto, has sung in three of
these ensembles. Her first appear
ance was as the contralto with the
Metropolitan Quartet of 1934-35,
when Grace Moore, fresh from her
screen success in "One Night of
Love-" was the soprano.
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Popular Music

Plenty of attractive material is
to be found in the recent lists of
music for the sweet -swingers
if that honored class will but scru-
tinize closely. OF course these
same lists have their share of
mediocrity, but after all, good and
bad must be expected in every
branch of art. This week, boys
and girls. We shall commence with
those items we consider most meri-
torious and wind up by saying
nasty things about those which
CRATE against our delicate sensibili-
ties.
Probably the last record (until
such a time as Herr Hitler and as
or some other convenient spot) to
bear the name of the Quintet Of
the Hot Club of France has been
issued In Exactly Like You" the
quintet employs the same superb
artistry that always has marked
its recorded efforts. The day that
Messrs. Grappelly and Reinhardt
can take up where bntzkrieg left
off is eagerly anticipated. Bunny
Berigan and his band, another ex-
cellent bunch of instrumentalists,
make their first recorded appear
ance in a long time with cay, Ay,
Ay," and "Ain't She Sweet" This
polished, high-powered jazz combi-
nation deserves increasing atten-
ton, will probably get it. One Of
the four ranking swingSters, Charlie
Barnet's band, unleashes another
fanciful title played in like manner:
wild Nab of the Fish Pond"
Might and Day" is hepped up on
the reverse. Will Bradley triumphs
in the potent, however repetitious,
celery Stalks at Midnight" with
Ray Mckinley shrieking the very
brief compelling vocal. Jimmy
Dorsey again applies his magic
touch at rescoring music of the
refined categories, "On the Trail" by
Ferde Grofe, is current and choice.
Ray Noble gives better than aver
age Interpretation Of his latest
swing number, From Oakland to
Burbank" Glenn Miller's Falling
Leaves" is elegant, but what else
could you expect?
Artie Shaw's new New Orchestra
traces back to the band that was
new before Art ran away and came
back with a new one. In short,
it's again almost a genuine swing
outfit with a few strings tossed in
for good measure. Our consensus is
that he should get out of the middle
and play either hot or sweet, any
thing just so it's definite. Spud
Murphy's band is acceptable, but
nothing unusual in Sand Dune" a
lift from Strange Enchantment."
Henry Buses aggregation in Serves
Me Right" is good, but nothing
special. Russ Morgan uses his
typical hushed style in "The Night
Has a Thousand Eyes"-the vocals
of Russ himself still stand among
tne best. From the Savoy-Plaza
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Church Pays Honor
To Mr.. Tittrnann

At the church service Sunday
morning, October 27, and at a
church gathering Friday evening,
All Souls Church CUnitarian) hon.
ored Charles Trowbridge Tittman,
who has completed 25 years in the
musical ministry of the church this
fall. For a large portion of that
time in the old Unitarian Church
at Fourteenth and L street, at the
Inflated Knickerbocker and at
Keith's, where services were held
pending the completion of the new
church at Sixteenth and Harvard
streets, he was precentor-S Sololst,
carrying the entire burden of the
vocal music.
Mr.. Tittman, who is considered
an outstanding interpreter of Bach's
music, has been soloist at the Bach
Festival in Bethlehem for many sea-
sons besides appearing with the
New York Oratorio Society, the
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the
Chicago Apollo Club and the New
York, Philadelphia and Detroit
Symphony Orchestras.
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Miss Greene Takes
Harpist Position

Anne Lois Greene, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter L. Greene OF
Drummond avenue, Chevy Chase,
Md, has been engaged as harpist
with the Dallas Symphony Orches-
ira. She is also on the faculty of
Hockaday Institute of Music as harp
instructor
Miss Greene, who is also a pianist
and organist, gave a debut concert
before a Dallas audience on october
IA in a program Of harp numbers.
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Symphony
Opens Here
RachmaninOf to
Be SOloist With
Orchestra

The National Symphony Orches
| ira. Hans Kinder, conductor, will
open its tenth season in gala style
on Wednesday evening at 8:45
o'clock in Constitution Hall when
the distinguished pianist-composer,
! Sergei Rachmaninoff, will make his
[ first appearance as soloiSt with the
organization and the orchestra will
present a program which includes
the first Washington performance of
, two important works.
The distinction of the opening
concert and of the concerts to fol-
low is peculiarly fitting since this
year marks the tenth anniversary
of the founding of the National
Symphony. a milestone in the Or
chestra's history that signifies a
certain definite achievement. Tan
gible marks of the achievement are
the orchestras first New York con-
cert at Carnegie Hall this winter,
its first recording engagement for
R. C. A.-Victor and the caliber of
the SoloistS and of the symphonic
fare which it will offer its WASH
ington patrons this season.
For his appearance on Wednesday
evening Mr.. Rachmaninoff will play
with the orchestra his own Second
Piano Concerto in c Minor" prob
ably the most popular of all his
| compositions always excepting the
&C Sharp Minor Prelude'D, and
number skillfully designed to exhibit
the pianiSt's virtuoSo powers.
In accordance with the spirit of
the times the concert will open with
the Washington premiere of Amer
ican Festival Overture" by the
young native composer, William
Schuman. Mr.. Schuman's work
was introduced by the Chautauqua
Symphony Orchestra under Albert
Stoessel this past summer.
The other work to receive its first
| Washington hearing on the OPEN
| ing concert was written in 1875.
1t is Tschaikovsky's Third (PoliSh)
Symphony in D Major" One of the
Russian composers masterpieces.
the third has not suffered from the
overattention which has been the
| fate of his fifth and sixth sympho-
nies. To complete the program the
National Symphony will play DR..
Kindler's arrangement of Arcangelo
Corelli's gay and dainty suite, "Sar-
aband, Clique, Badinerie."
Rachmaninoff, who will be heard
| for the first time with the National
Symphony on Wednesday evening,
is one of the titans of the contempo-
rary musical world. He is considered
one of the greatest living composers,
| and, besides being pianist almost
without peer, is brilliant con-
ductor. Actually, it was in the triple
role of composer-conductor pianist
that he made his first appearance
outside his native Russia. That was
in 1899, when he was invited to Lon
don to conduct program of his
own works with the Philharmonic
Orchestra. In 1909, when he made
his first visit to the United States,
he was already musician of inter-
national reputation. At that time
he was offered the conductorship
of the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
but refused because he preferred his
career as pianist. Perhaps thanks
to that refusal, he is appearing in
Constitution Hall on Wednesday
night. At any rate, he did not con-
duct in this country again until last
year.
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Concert Schedule
TODAY.


Metropolitan Opera Quartet,
Constitution Hall, 4 pm.
Paul Galloway, organ recital,
Washington Cathedral, pm.
Combined choirs, Augustana
Lutheran Church, Western Pres
byterian Church, Lila Knudsen,
director; Mildred Snesrud, con-
tralto, soloist; benefit concert
Western Presbyterian Church,
4 pm.
A Cappella Choir, Catawba
College, Salisbury, N. c.; Grace
Reformed Church, morning
service.
TOMORROW.
Evening with the Victrola,"
Public Library, Eighth and K
streets NV, 1880 pm.
d. Sterling Wheelwright,
organ recital, L. D S. Chapel,
8 pm.
TUESDAY.
Army Band, Army Band Audi
torium, 2::30 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
National Symphony Orches-
ira, DR.. Hans Kinder, conduc-
tor; Sergei Rachmaninoff, pi-
anist, soloist, 8:45 pm.
Roland Hayes, tenor, song re-
cital, Howard University, $3.50
pm.
D. Sterling Wheelwright,
organ recital, L. D. S. Chapel,
8 pm.
THURSDAY.
Elizabeth Travis, piano re-
cital, Arts Club, $3.50 pm.
FRIDAY.
D. Sterling Wheelwright,
organ recital, Edna Wheel
wright, soprano. assisting; l.. D.
S. Chapel, 8 pm.
SATURDAY.
Army Band, Army Band Audi
torium, 1880 am.
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more than this and that from these
courses have come some of our best
musicians and many of the young
composers.
An announcement has recently
been made by the American Musical
Art Foundation, Inc, that the work
done in these types Of schools will
be encouraged and recognized by the
giving of an annual award. A special
committee has been selected for this
purpose, consisting of Raymond
Paige, chairman; Lawrence Tlbbett,
Deems Taylor and Charles Wake
field Cadman. Before decison was
arrived at as to the advisabilty of
an award and the appointment of
committee, a survey was made to
determine how valuable was the
music accomplishment in American
college and how they could be
assisted in further endeavor.
For many years the talent and
studiousness of individuals have been
recognized by the comforting of de-
grees by our higher educational in
stitution. How much the college
itself and the board which decides
upon the rating of the music course
In the general plan of study deserve
approval for their foresight has been
given little consideration. The Amer
lean Musical Art Foundation is try
ing to remedy that situation, bellev-
ing. as it states, that mo other art
contributes so much to the hap
piness and well-being of the Amer
lean people as does music"
Declared Timely.
Mr.. Paige further says: The
American Musical Art Foundation
feels that it is most timely that
movement, free from any CONNER
cial aspects, be launched to en-
courage greater and more extensive
efforts by the music departments
of colleges and universities. A form
of procedure is being drafted gov
erning the type of achievement
which will guide the committee In
making the annual award"
In many sections of the country
the State itself subsidies the music
u6pdI VI 1uo lIl4Af oACANo' OAA
the teaching staff are the best IN
structorS to be obtained and the
courses are complete and thorough
in the ground covered. The impor-
tance of encouraging young men
and women to add music to their
college studies has been recognized,
if only on its merits as a cultural
asset. The standards of the col
leges and universities which have
built up their music departments
have grown with their growth and
today are recognized for their SUI
periority.
Young people of college age are
ripe for serious study of music and,
given the opportunity to follow 1t
while rounding out their general
education and to receive credits for
what they accomplish, they can
achieve great things. Those spe-
cially endowed will make it major
subject and carry on after obtain
ing a degree, but those others who
love music but have no outstanding
talent for it are being prepared to
pass on their knowledge to their
children and so encourage the dis
covery of future musicians who may
bring renown to their country by
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Combined ChOirS
In Benefit Concert

This afternoon at 4 o'clock, the
combined choirs of Augustana
Lutheran Church and Western
Presbyterian Church will give a
benefit concert for the British War
Relief of the American Red Cross,
at Western Presbyterian Church.
The concert will be under the
auspices of Sigma Alpha Iota, ma
tional music sorority, and the choirs
will be directed by Lila Knudsen.
The contralto SoloiSt will be
Mildred Snesrud, who will sing
Handel,s "He Shall Feed His Flock" !"
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Miss Travis to Play
Arts Club Program

On Thursday evening at $50
o'clock the Arts Club of Washing
ton will present Elizabeth Travis,
pianist, in recital. This young Bos-
ton artist scored a brilliant success
when she played here with the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra in 1885
and sensational acclaim greeted her
concert tours throughout South
America. Miss Travis will make
her New York debut on December
27 in Town Hall. Her program at
the Arts Club will include compost
tions of Bach, Schumann, Chopin.
Glinka- -Ralakierev, Prokofieff and
Stravins1
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Gounod's 20 Divine Redeemer" and
Rotoli's "Jesus Only" as well as the
solo parts of Christiansen's "Beauti-
full Savior" Jean Slater Appel will
preside at the organ and will be
heard in Bach's TN Thee Is Glad
ness" "Hark a Voice Saith, All Is
Mortal" and prelude and Fugue in
E Minor" Edmundson's 'Fairest
Lord Jesus" Candlyn's "Divinum
Mysterium," Farnum's 20 Fill ct
Filiac," Bach's Jesus, Joy Of Mans
Desiring" and Karg-Elert's Now
Thank We AL Our God"
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By Alice EverSman.

The album that will, attract first
attention in Victor's list for this
month is the recording of Rach-
maninoffs Symphony No. 3 in A
Minor" by the Philadelphia Orches-
ira, with the composer conduct
ing. Those who are interested In
the two appearances of Rachman-
inoff in concerts here this winter
and on Wednesday in particular,
when he will play for the first time
with the National Symphony Or
chestra, will be desirous of having
this latest recording where his work
and his own Interpretation of it are
given permanency.
This is the beginning of a plan
by Victor to introduce all the works
of the great Russian composer
pianist to the phonograph public
bit by bit, some of them played
by Rachmaninoff himself and others
by well-known artists.
The combination of the Philadel-
phia Orchestra playing the Sym
phony No. 3" just as the composer
enviSions it is ideal and the result
is a brilliant and thrilling perform
ance of a superb work. For in this
symphony, composed after 80 years
of silence in this particular form,
is as vibrant and beautiful a work
both as to subject matter and con-
struction as has found its way into
symphonic literature. 1t is massive
and fiery, yet never heavy or super
fetal in its brilliancy. What is here
recorded is a maturity of outlook
that is still full of the vigor of
youth.
There is hardly a trace of the
melancholy of the Russian in its
pages. What is lyrical and melodic
is POLITICALLY expressed with living
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comes the true Savoy-Plaza music
type of Emile Petti's orchestra.
which is to say it's slick and about
as exciting as a potted geranium,
L Have a Song" and 'I Want Ro-
nance" are the titles. Tommy
fuckers disc of There I Co."
lovely tune. will have to do until
you can get down to try some ons
else's. Novelty song of the week,
although considerably gruesome. is
Shep Fields When the Mush Be-
gins to Rush Down Fathers Vest
tor When the Hash Begins to Dash
Toward Fathers Knees.O Your
friends are apt to walk out on this
one.
Refined-Rousing.
Mart kenney steals a march on
wayne King and discs two thor
oughly delightful pieces in the King
tradition, I'll See You Again" and
ia Love to Live in Loveland." To
those remaining loyal to Mr.. King
that gentleman has obliged with
Maria Elena Waltz" and You Are
My Sunshine" in his cit must be
confessed) inimitable manner. Two
Well-played waltzes by Waldteufel
also are available at this time
skaters" played by Barnabas Won
Geczy, and "Espana," by Anton
and the Paramount Theater Or
chestra of London.
speaking of that stout heart OF
Ine British Empire, the band of
n. M. Coldstream Guards swells the
ar with a recording of There n
Always Be an England Cvictor1
J. w. STEPP,
Evening star., 1940-11-03

selections from the music of Mo-
Zart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky
VIII make up an all-request program
ior an Evening With the VictrolaS
In the music division of the Public
Library, Eighth and K streets NV.
at 7:30 pm. tomorrow.
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Annual Music Awards
To Be Made in Colleges
Recognition of Merit to Be
Result of New Attitude as
To Service of Such Courses
By Alice Epersman.

Importance which the music in colleges and universities
knowledge appreciation the had
bestowed public school
teaching instances the of music study the
desirable but subsidiary
Evening star., 1940-11-03

Helen Olheim, contralto, of the Metropoh-
tan OPERA tDho ,oiH sing NTH the group OF
opera artists at Constitution Hall this after
noon.
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Cathedral Organist
ToGive Recital

This afternoon at o'clock Paul
Galloway, organist of the Washing
ton Cathedral, will give an organ
recital following evensong at the
Cathedral. This recital is part of a
series being given by Mr.. Galloway
the first Sunday of every month.
The program will be as follows:
prelude and Fugue in Minor Bach
Chorale prelude, Turn Thou to Us. Lord
Jesus Christi '--- Bach
Fantasy" - Mozart
prelude, Fueue and Variation" Franck
variations on Basso Continue by
j. s. Bach" " Liszt
"Requiescat in Pace" -Sowerby
sCarillon" Vierne
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She is a pupil of Salzedo at Curtis
Institute with whom she studied
three years after completing course
at Cleveland Institute of Music
where she was scholarship student.
Her musical studies were begun at
the Birmingham Conservatory. She
has taught in Cleveland, Philadel-
phia and Richmond and has con-
certified extensively throughout the
country. Her graduate concert at
Curtis will take place this spring.
Miss Greene gave program for
the Lyceum CLUB of Dallas on Oc-
tober "a 4
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Review of Recordings

interest and without a nostalgia
looking backward. From start to
finish it is glowing and vital, and
as here recorded, superb.
The symphony was completed
four years ago in Switzerland and
was played for the first time any
where by the Philadelphia Orches-
ira the same year. Twenty-Five
years earlier his Symphony No. 2"
was performed by the Philadel-
phians with the composer conduct
ing. Rachmaninoff is beloved as
a composer and as a pianist, but the
occasions to know him as a con-
ductor have been rare. In this
recording he stands equally as
great in this line as in the two
others.
Among Victor's Black Label output
this month is a splendid perform
ance of the List Hungarian Fam
tasia" by Benno Moiseivitch. pian-
ist with the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by Constant
Lambert, and, in the same album,
the same composers ''Mefsto Waltz,
No. l." played by the Lopdon Or
chestra under the direction of AL
bert Coates. Mr.. Coates also
records the overture and Venus
berg music of "Tannhauser" in
second album.
Mr.. Coates does a particularly fine
job with the "Mefisto Waltz" and
puts the same vitality and force
fulness into the Wagner excerpts.
But 1t is Mr.. Moiseivitch's perform
ance that is the most outstanding
and which will be a welcome one
for lovers of piano music who sell
dom have an opportunity to hear
Mr.. Moiseivitchs superb technique
and interpretive ideas. His dazzling
and powerful presentation ranks
among the best.
Evening star., 1940-11-03

Rose hampton, soprano, ,Oho ,oiU appear
NTH the Metropolitan Opera Quartet this
afternoon at Constitution Hall.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
HIGH COURT
HANDS DOWN
DECISIONS
Associate Justice Frank
Murphy Gives His
First Delivery

WASHINGTON, March 25.-The
Supreme Court, in the first de-
cision Associate Justice Frank Muir
ply has delivered, sustained the
1885 Oklahoma law imposing a tax
On income received by National
Banks in that state from the Unit
ed States Government bonds which
have been made tax exempt by
Congress.
The opinion affirmed the ruling
by the Oklahoma Supreme Court
which held that the six percent
state levy was not an income tax
but a franchise tax measured by
the net income.
The court also handed down a
decision that the Ethyl Gasoline
Corporation of New York violated
the Sherman antitrust act by re-
stricting sales over the country to
jobbers licensed by the corporation.