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Evening star., 1940-02-04

folk songs and a talk. What Music
Means to Armenians. The public
is cordially invited to attend.
The Bucknell University Mems
Glee Club will give sacred concert
at Calvary Baptist Church tonight
at 8 o'clock. The soloists will be
James Meister, baritone; Philip Roy,
tenor; Richard Krabe, baritone;
Melvin LIE Mon, organist, and
Thomas Moss, organist.
An entertaining music festival
program will be presented by Justin
Lawrie in the dramatic hall at the
Foundry Methodist Church tomor-
row evening at o'clock. The fol-
lowing artists will appear: Felian
Garzia, Gertrude Troutman, Mesa
Scarry, pianists; Mabel Farrar-
Minis, violinist; Fleurette Joffrie,
Margaret Besler, Minnie Mae EN-
erich, June Bartlett, Ruth Linger
Fernsler, Lily Garrett, Joseph Flor
estano, Fague Springman, singers,
and a chorus ensemble of 40. The
Montgomery Blair High School
Male Quartet will also sing. There
will be no admission charge and the
public is invited.
The cantata "Gallia," by Gounod,
will be given on Ash Wednesday
evening at O'Clock by the choir Of
80 voices of Luther Place Memorial
Church, directed by Cornelia Long
Kinsella. The solo quartet consists
of Nell Chaillet, soprano; Marie
Marques, contralto; Paul Ledig,
tenor, and Harry Yeide, basso.
Guest soloists and requested num-
bers will be combined in the public
concert to be given tomorrow,
Wednesday and Friday, 8 pm, with
out charge, at the Washington
Chapel, L. DIS. Olive Lloyd Harris,
soprano, will be heard on the mid
week program and Edna c. Wheel
wright, soprano, will assist in the
Friday concert. On Wednesday night
members and friends of the Lyon
Park Women's Club, Arlington, Va,
will be special guests at the public
concert, when Mrs. Harris will sing.
D. Sterling Wheelwright is director
and organist.
Bernadette Crouch, soprano, be-
gins a weeks engagement on Fri
day at the Earle Theater. Marion
McGinkley, soprano, sang Saturday
at the annual Board Of Trade BAN
quet at the Willard Hotel.
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Sweden in 1887. His stupendous
powers as an organist, revealed in
the series of Abendmusiken services
he began at the Lubbock Marien-
kirche in 1878, made him famous
throughout Germany. He was a
composer of intermittent genius, all
but the best of whose works are
marred by curious jumpiness Of
style. The "E Minor Chaconne" is
one of the exceptions. 1t consists
of 80 terse and except for a mo-
ment of contrast) cumulatively in
tense variations on totally undis-
tinguished bass of four bars, which
is constantly transformed by the
alchemy of Buxtehude's CONTRA
puntal treatment into melodies of
great beauty. Chavez has made use
of the closest instrumental equiva-
lents to the organ stops indicated
by Buxtehude, and his orchestra
ton admirably escapes the Scylla of
sanctimoniousness and the Charyb-
dis of theatricality.
Great WORK.
LA Mer," composed between 1908
and 1905, is widely considered De-
bussy's major orchestral work. It
has no program, despite the fact
that each of its three movements
has a provocative title, From Dawn
to Noon on the Sea-" ."Play of
Waves" and Dialogue of the Wind
and the Sea-" It is a big, mascu-
line work, of rich melodic and har-
monic beauty, f1rmer as to archi-
lecture and stronger in emotional
impact than most of Debussy's more
popular pieces. Chavez regards De-
busy as one of the greatest of COM
posers, and those most familiar with
his conducting consider his reading
of LA Mer" one of his best achieve
ments.
Manuel De Falla composed his
ballet, "The Three-Cofnered Hat"
in 1917 and revised it in 1919. It
is written to a scenario by Gregorio
Martinez Sierra, based on novel
by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. The
suite played at this concert cons
sists of three extracts, "The Neigh
bors," Dance of the Miller" and
Final Dance" 1t is highly colored,
vigorously rhythmic music, full Of
traditional Spanish touches, but
stamped with Falla's modern and
unmNtakable individuality.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
In Local Music Circles

The Howard University Glee Club,
under the direction of Prof. Roy w.
Tibbs, will present a program in
Barker Hall, Young Womens Chris
tian Association, Seventeenth and
K streets, on Tuesday at o'clock.
The program is sponsored by the
Acwy Club of the business and
professional women's department
of the Y. w. c. A.
Beginning February 20, Laura
Pendleton MacCarteney, director of
music at the National Child Re-
search Center and authority on
music for young children, will pre-
sent fourth study group on Music
From Cradle to Classroom" for
parents and teachers. The group
will meet at the Young Women's
Christian Association, Seventeenth
and K streets, and is sponsored by
the music division, which will give
further information to those in
terested in the course.
Due to the fact that the service of
the United States Marine Band
Orchestra is required at the Navy
relief ball on Wednesday, the con-
cert scheduled for Wednesday night
at the Marine Barracks is Cancelled.
The second in series of musical
''at homes" presented by Jessie
Masters, director of the National
Capital Choir, will be held this after
noon from 4:30 to $50 o'clock in the
Romaine-Van Schaick room of the
Universalist National Memorial
Church, Sixteenth and S streets
NV. Four violinists, Marie Seigrist,
Nancy Rogers, Faith Sutton and
Adele Ballentine, accompanied by
Laura Gibbs Schroeder, pianist, will
appear on the program. Lola Hat
ton, soprano; Lois Wallace Porter,
contralto, and Howard Ludwig,
tenor, will sing. H. Jerome Graham
\ is the accompanist.,
The Armenian group of Nation
ality Department, which includes
Armine Manoukian, Shaki Rabash-
anian, Mrs. M. Khosrofian, Mrs. M.
K. Manoogian, Enoch Lackanian,
S. Hannessian and an Armenian
chorus, will be presented at the
Sunday music hour this afternoon
at o'clock at the Young Women's
Christian Association, Seventeenth
and K streets NV. Mrs. L. K. Cone
is in charge of the program, which
will consist Of sacred numbers Of
the Armenian Church, secular and
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Concert Schedule
TODAY.

National Symphony Orches-
ira, Carlos Chavez, guest con-
ductor, Constitution Hall, 4 pm.
Foundry Metropolitan Church
Choir, Justin Lawrie, choir
master, Roosevelt Hotel, $50
pm.
The Buck University
Mems Glee Club, Calvary Bap-
tist Church, 8 pm.
MONDAY.
Richard Crooks, tenor; Rise
Stevens, mezzo-soprano, May
flov4r Hotel, 11:15 am.
Katya Parker, soprano, song
recital, Reino Luoma, pianist,
assisting, Shoreham Hotel, $3.50
pm.
Pro-Musica Quartet, Gertrude
Nash, pianist, assisting, Phillips
Memorial Gallery, S pm.
"An Evening With the Vic
trola," Public Library, 9Th and
K streets NV, 7:30 pm.
Music Festival, Justin Lawrie,
director, Foundry Methodist
Church, 8 pm.
Navy Band, Sail Loft, Navy
Yard, 2::30 pm.
Navy Band Symphony Or
chestra, Marine Barracks Audi
torium, 8:15 pm.
TUESDAY.
Lily Pons, soprano, song re-
cital, Constitution Hall, 4 pm.
Ina Holtzscheiter, soprano;
Edwin Charles Steffe, baritone,
joint recital, Arts Club, $50
pm.
Howard University Glee Club,
Roy w. Tibbs, director, Barker
Hall, Y. w. C. A., pm.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 2::30 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
"Gallia," Luther Place Me-
mortal Church, Cornelia Long
Kinsella, director, 8 pm.
Mirage" Washington Musi-
cal Institute, $50 pm.
THURSDAY.
Navy Band, Sail Loft, Navy
Yard, 1890 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 2:30 pm.
FRIDAY.
Garfield Swift, baritone, Pro-
Musica Quartet, Evalyn Tyner,
pianist, benefit concert for the
Finnish Relief Fund, Mayflower
Hotel, 4::30 pm.
Caterina Jarboro, soprano;
Constantine Callinicos, pianist,
Bethune-Cookman College Glee
Club, benefit concert, Metro
politan A. M. E. Church, 8 pm.
SATURDAY.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 1880 am.
Evening star., 1940-02-04

one of his works. Some years later
MacDowell's first pupil in compost
tion, Henry Gilbert, represented
this country at an international
music festival in Frankfurt. Ar
thur Chadwick, born seven years
before Mcdowell, was considered
the greatest American composer OF
his time. AS early as 1867, John
Knowles Paine had a mass of his
performed in Berlin with conspic-
uous success. When Horatio Parker
was about 20 years old some of his
compositions had hearing in Mu-
Mich.
There were many others whose
works were performed by the lead
ing orchestras of this country.
Most Of these were American born,
but there are others, American by
adoption, who now rank as our own
composers. Among these are Vic
tor Herbert, who, although most
famous for his light operas, wrote
considerable for orchestra, and
Charles Martin Loeff1er, who be-
came the great American Debussy.
Forgotten on musical library shelves
for the most part are the creations
of Charles Ives, Henry Hadley,
Frederick Converse and Cecil Bur-
leigh.
Works Resurrected.
It is not said that all these men
have written immortal works. They
have. however, contributed to the
musical development of this country
by their compositions as well as in
other ways. Perhaps we have more
distinguished and more inspired
composers today than any of these
earlier celebreties, but perhaps, also,
the works of these older men might
shine with greater effulgence if
judged anew by present measure
ments. The unstableness of public
opinion is we'll known and its stand
ards are subject to change. Even
today works of Haydn and Handel
and lesser lights are being resur-
rected after having suffered the dis
approval of the people of their day.
The musical world regards these
works of value today.
If there is a complaint that, al
though it is well to champion the
American composer, what compos-
ers have we at the present time
whose creations are to be classed In
the superlative category, it may be
dismissed with little concern. The
point is not to discover only geniuses
and to be proud of what they have
done, but to consider if, in the his
tory of this land, there are, or have
been, musical writer's of sufficient
ability to establish a literature which
we are willing to take pride in. Un-
less some one is energetic enough to
delve into all that has been written
by American composers and give it
a hearing, so that the public may
take stock of it, as it were, we are
getting nowhere with our champion
ship. If we have something of value
we should know it, and if we do not
we should set about getting it.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Choir Sings at Hotel

The Foundry Methodist Church
Choir, Justin Lawrie choirmaster,
with Terra BARLEY Sells, accom-
panist, will give the program for
the Sunday night musicale at the
Roosevelt Hotel tonight at $50
o'clock. The choir will be assisted
by David Manly, tenor; Marjorie
Brett, Minnie Mae Emmerich, So
pranos, and Gertrude Troutman
pianist. The chorus numbers 80
singers.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Song. Recital
For Benefit
OfFinnR Relief
Garfield Swift to
Be Assisted by
String Quartet

Garfield Swift, young American
baritone, will be heard in recital at
the Mayfower Hotel on Friday at
4:30 pm. The proceeds OF the con-
cert will go to the Finnish Relief
Fund. Mr.. Swift will be assisted in
the program by the Pro-Musica
String Quartet, consisting of Milton
Schwartz and Jeno Sevely, violins;
Ralph Hersh, viola; William Bren-
nard, cello, and Evalyn Tyner, pia-
mist.
The opening group will be songs
by Scandinavian composers sung
in their respective languages. Mr..
Swift, through his grandfather, Rear
Admiral Christian Asserson, U. S. NJ,
is of Norwegian descent and speaks
Norwegian, Danish and Finnish be-
sides other European languages. He
has travelled extensively all over
the world and has amassed a large
library Of rare musical works. Be-
sides a successful recital in Town
Hall, New York City, which led to
concert tour through the East
and Middle West, Mr. Swift has
been a regular or guest artist on
such radio pragrams as General Mo-
tors, Pontiac hours, United States
Tobacco and Gulf hours and Music
Hall of the Air.
Mr.. Swift will sing three songs by
Mary Howe, Washington composer,
with string quartet accompaniment
by the Pro-Musica artists, and will
honor the great Finnish composer
Sibelius, by including in his pro-
gram an arrangement of his "Fin-
landia" for voice, string quartet and
piano.
Tickets may be had at the Dorsey
concert bureau in Droop's. Mrs.
Mead Moore, 2017 Connecticut ave-
nue., is in charge of the boxes. The
full program is as follows:
'Musikens mark til dig" (swedish).
Petersen-Bergen
"Titania" (Swedish) Petersen-Bergen
'Irmelin Rose Danish) Petersen-Bergen
'Svarta Rosor' tFinniSh) Jan Sibelius
Mr.. Swift.
II.
Quartet in G Minor - Edward Grieg
Pro-Musica String Quartet.
III.
'Di Proyenza il Mar" from ,,,sI la v.,d,
20 Vim pissipe ,ss la Tristesss; from r,,u,
Mr.. Swift.
w.
''The Londonderry Air" Quartet alone)
Frank Bridge
Three songs for string quartet and sole
voice Mary Howe
Avalon" Nancy Byrd Turner.
20 Mistress Mine" (Shakespeare).
Mr.. Swift and Pro-Musica Quartet.
v.
"Porgy and Bess' George GerShwin
Miss Tyner.
vi.
The Lords Prayer" Albert Haye Malotte
Consider Peter Warlock
THE Inn ------Fra Francis Toye
'Finlandia" ---------Jan Jan Sibelius
Mr.. Swift Tin "Finlandia" Mr.. Swift and
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Rubinstein Concert

The Rubinstein Club, Claude
Robson, director, will give its first
concert of the season Tuesday eve
ming, February 13, in the large ball
room of the Willard Hotel The club
will present Alfred Hopkins, tenor,
as the guest artist.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Mrs. Nash to Assist
PrO.Musica PLAYERS

Gertrude Nash, pianist, will be
the assisting artist at the last of
the candlelight concerts of the
Washington Chamber Music Society,
which will be given tomorrow after
noon at the Phillips Memorial Gal
lery when the Pro-Musica Quartet
will present two compositions of
Dohnanyi, the Quartet in D Flat
Major" and the Quintet in G Minor,
No. l." for piano and strings.
Mrs. Nash. composer, concert solo,
ist and well-known teacher, was one
of the founders of these concerts.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Pons Recital on Tuesday
Her Only One of Season
Great Singer to Be Assisted
By La Forge, Pianist, and by
Iascone, Local Flautist

Another great vocal recital announced for Constitution Hall
Metropolitan
Washington
Dorothy Hodgkn expected that
rivaing greeted
Evening star., 1940-02-04

Another outstanding February
musical attraction will be the only
Washington recital appearance this
season of Mischa Levitzki, the cele-
brated Russian pianist, at Constitu-
ton Hall next Sunday afternoon,
February II, at 4 o'clock, under the
local management of Mrs. Dorsey.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Public May Create Rank
For Native Composers
Springs of Inspiration Likely
To Depend on Real Interest
In Success of Americans
Bv Alice Eversman.

The realization that something definite must be done at this time
percepible
patriotic enthusiasm
which orchestra fields
not sudden rush to
Evening star., 1940-02-04

Kristen Flagstad less than two
weeks ago will pack Constitution
Hall to capacity for this latest ap-
pearsnce locally of Lily Pons.
In the decade or more than has
elapsed since Lily Pons electrified a
Metropolitan Opera audience with
her singing of the mad scene from
Lucia" on the occasion of her
formal bow to a Metropolitan audi
ence, this great French coloratura
has become one of the first singers
of America, achieving triumph after
triumph not only in opera and con-
cert but via radio and through the
medium of the screen.
Assisted by La Forge.
AS usual, Pons will be assisted
and accompanied by Frank La
Forge, distinguished American COM
poser and pianist. who contributes
also no less than five songs and ar
rangements of songs to Miss Pons'
program. She will also be assisted
by Domenico Isacone, first f1autist
of the National Symphony Orches-
ira, VINO Will accompany neT WIFI
flute obligato in at least two num-
bers. The program that Miss Pons
will sing follows:
Air from The Challenge of Phoebus ,,,,
and Pan -------J. S. Bach
"Quel Ruscelletta" ------- Paradies
'Lusinghe Piu Care"
Grom "Alessandro'D ----------Handel
Aria, Caro- Nome
(from "Rigoletto') Verdi
"Apres un Reve" Faure
Willamette des Petits Canards" Chabrer
"n Pleure Dams Mon Coeur" "----- Debussy
"Fantoches'' 80 ----------- Debussy
echo Song with flute obbligato),
Bishop-La Forge
".
Come Unto These Yellow Sands" La Forge
'"The nightingale" -Alabieff-La FORGE
'"Poupee Valsante" Poldini-La Forge
""Cupid Captive - -------La Forge
Dedicated to Miss Pons.
"
Mad scene from Hamlet" --- Thomas
with f1ue obbligato)
LevitZki Recital.
Another outstanding February
musical attraction will be the only
Washington recital appearance this
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Symphony Plays Today
With Chavez as Leader
Friend and Translator of
Guest Director Writes
About Works Presented
By Herbert Weinsfock.

Editors Note-The toLoUing notes the Which
Carlos Chduez, guest director the National Symphony
o'clock Constitution
ren friend translator Weinsock
Wenstock translated ChaUes book "ToWard NeD Music
and the coauthor fDih Wallace BrockWay OF the current best
seller, Men OF Music"
Evening star., 1940-02-04

The of the National Symphony Orchestra be conducted
consists Behovens "Coriolan
Chavez
Debusys Fallas
hearening it
Evening star., 1940-02-04

Mr.. Swift Tin "Finlandia" Mr.. Swift and
Miss Typer will be Joined by the Pro-
Musica Quartet.
Evening star., 1940-02-04

Bernadette Crouch, soprano, be-
gins a weeks engagement on Fri
day at the Earle Theater. Marion
McGinkley, soprano, sang Saturday
at the annual Board Of Trade BAN
quet at the Willard Hotel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-29

Think about your habits. Do they
contribute to the strength or the
weakness of America? Think about
your leisure time and the way you
spend your money - whether you
make the most constructive use Of
it. How much are you doing towards
helping solve our national problemi
Of unemployment, divorce, INDUS
trial unrest? How much energy are
you giving to build the kind Of
world you want your children tC
grow up in?
Mobilize for Peace
In England today the average
family has no time and very lit
tie money of its own. Everyone
Is mobilized-either for active SER
vice or for Air Raid Precautions
Remember those Scottish workers
who have had ~ hours sleep In
the last two weeks. We must mo-
Billie for peace with the same de-
termination and self-giving. AS
Generalssimo Chang Kai Shek
says IF we perspred more in time
Of peace, we would bleed less in
time of war;"
And remember this, in these
days when America and every
American must make momentous
decisions-either we sacrifice our
personal selfishness for our country
and the world, or we sacrifice our
country for our personal selfishness.
1.-THE future Of the world de-
pends," as DR.. Buchanan has said
mot on what a few men may de-
eide to do in Europe, but on what
a million men like yourself. decide
to be in America"
(F'or more information about
MIRA, ask your bookstore, write this
no yNnr
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-29
NANCY WHITNEY
WILL BE MARRIED
Daughter of Once Wealthy
Broker to Wed Into
Gerry Family

New York, March 29.-(UP)-
Nancy Whitney, whose father,
former president Of the New York
Stock Exchange, is in Sing Sing pris-
on for larceny, is engaged to marry
Henry. A. Gerry, wealth, polo-play-
ing, sixta-generation descendant OF
a signer OF the declaration of indie
pendence and vice president Of the
United states, 1t was learned today.
Miss Whitney Is the elder daugh-
ter Of Richard Whitney, former
broker to J. p. Morgan and Co.. who
was imprisoned two years ago for
five-to-l0 years. It was reported that
announcements of the betrothal
were in the mails and that Mrs.
Whitney would make a formal am
nouncement of it next week.
Since the collapse Of her fathers
brokerage Arm, and fortune, Miss
Whitney has worked as sales
woman in hat and gown shop. Her
fiance, a Harvard graduate of 1896,
is the grandson of Elbridge T. Gerry,
the late financier, who left a S.
100000 estate on his death in 1927,
including $1,000,00O home ON Fifth
Avenue that had a $4,000 staircase
and where the annual Gerry ball
was a highlight Of every social sea-
son.
An earlier Eldridge Gerry was a
members Of the Constitutional Con.
gress, Declaration Of Independence
signer, governor of Massachusetts,
and vice president. The family was
established In America in 1880.
Miss Whitney made her debut In
1885 when her father was still pres
ident Of the stock exchange. Young
Gerry and his twin brother. Eddie,
were on the Harvard polo team for
three years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-29


set everyone to work-not only to
keep us out Of war, but to build
pattern for peace that other nations
will wantp What is there you can
do?
Saying that we don't want to
get drawn into European hostil-
tiles is not enough. If we are not
strongly engaged in constructive
work, we will all too easily get
stirred UP, become prejudiced, give
way to propaganda-drift down the
inevitable road to war.
The only effective answer must
be one which brings into every area
Of our community and national
life a new spirit. 1t must reconcile
the husbands and wives who don't
get along so well, and who might
even prefer separation and the
boom Of cannons to constant
nagging at home. It must bring
understanding between workers
and employers and end the war
in industry-otherwise their bitter
ness can be easily transferred into
the international arena. 1t must
provide something to do for the
II 100000 unemployed, who would
finally find a job were we to go to
war. And 1t must change ineffective
dislike and criticism of other people
and other nations into a determine
ton to change the situation, be-
ginning with ourselves.
That Is Moral-Re-Armament-it
Is an immediate and urgent national
necessity. 1t is Americas mobiliza-
ton for peace. It is everybody's
chance to do something about it.
Can Start Now
You can start right row-who-
ever you are and whatever you do.
1t means definite decision. We won't
drift into an answer to war. Nor will
we create permanent peace by wait
ing for the other fellow to begin.
Your action may be a determining
factor for America. You can decide
to make America different, by being
different yourself. You can best
help to cure her internal conflicts
by starting to solve the conflicts
In your own life, In your home, in
your job, your city. You can keep
the country sane minded and
proraganda-proof by making sure