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Evening star., 1940-05-19
Crooks Takes
Recital Place
In New Series
American Tenor to
Be Heard Here
Next Season

Richard Crooks, distinguished
American tenor of the Metropolitan
Opera Association, who was heard
here in recital at Constitution Hall
little more than a month ago,
has been added to the list of at
fractions that Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorsey will present at Constitution
Hall next season. Crooks will be
included in Mrs. Dorsey's second
series of Sunday afternoon attrac-
tions, which also offers appearances
in concert and recital by Lily Pons,
soprano; Josef Hofmann, pianist;
HeifetZ, violinist, and the Don Co.'S
sack Russian Male Chorus.
Allan Jones, outstanding screen
tenor, who was originally announced
as second Sunday series attrac-
tion, will be presented as a special,
non-series attraction. The addition
Of Richard Crooks gives Mrs. Dorsey
II concerts and recitals for 1904,
grouped into two Sunday afternoon
and one evening series. The Metro
politan Opera Quartet Champion,
Kullman, Olheim and Huehn)
Menuhin, Nelson Eddy, Grace Moore
and Horowitz will be heard in the
first Sunday series, while a per-
formance of the Barber of Seville"
with Metropolitan Opera cast and
orchestra, Rachmaninoff, Kreisler,
Flagstad, Tbbett and Kiepura will
be included in the evening series.
A circular of 1904 concerts will
be mailed on request by Mrs. Dor
sey's Concert Bureau in Droop's, at
1900 G street NV.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Music Unit Features

Headed by the choral presentation
of America Sings" an original song
by Harriet Nash, supervisor of mu-
sic education for the District Work
Projects Administration, the activ-
tiles of the administrations music
unit for This Work Pays Your Com
munity" week are announced by
Paul Edwards, administrator. Teach
ers from the music unit will conduct
classes in the presence of visitors
throughout the week.
symphony of Life" an opera by
Les Williams, a member of the unit,
will be given its premiere at 8 pm.
Friday in the auditorium of Dunbar
High School, at First and N streets
NV. Mr.. Williams opera will be
sung by members of the music
units teaching faculty and volun-
teers from their classes.
A joint gala concert will be held
in the Dunbar auditorium at 8 pm.
on Tuesday, featuring a vocal quar-
tet and vocal and instrumental So
loists. Swing enthusiasts will be
treated to a program of swing
classics in the same auditorium at
8 pm. on Wednesday by the ad-
ministration's newly formed Swing
Concert Orchestra. At 8 pm. on
Thursday there will be a duo-piano
recital at Dunbar with Sylvia Olden
and Naomi Martin performing.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Guild Music Offered

All types of music-serious, hui
morous, instrumental and vocal
are included in the program which
the ladies of st. Gertrude's Guild
have completed for presentation at
the Mayflower at 8:45 pm. Friday for
the benefit of st. Gertrude's School
of Arts and Crafts. The evening
will mark the first public appear
ance of Marianita Valdes, daughter
Of Ramon de Valdes, former presi-
dent of the Puerto Rican Senate,
and Mrs. Valdes. She will sing
several soprano solos and will play
her own guitar accompaniment to
some Puerto Rican pastorales.
In addition to Miss Valdes, there
will be q male chorus by the Pepco
Glee Club of the Potomac Electric
Power Co, mezzo-soprano solos by
Mrs. Albert H. Lawson, q humor-
Gus number, "The Mad Musician" !"
by Prof. Christie Of the Federal
Symphony Orchestra, and popular
hit tunes by Sidney's Orchestra.
Mrs. Augustus Z. Giegeusack u IA
chArSo q the taekatA
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Patriotic Program

Music Of Greece, Palestine, Ger
many, Scotland, Ireland, Russia, Po-
land, Czecho- -Slovakia. Italy, Sweden,
Mexico and Central and South
American countries will be a feature
of the Citizenship day" program to
be given at the Labor Department
auditorium this evening at o'clock
under the direction of Helen Kier-
nan Vasa.
The program includes ''Eili, Eli,
Anna Rosen; Annie Laurie" Ann
Yago McGuffey;; Irish folk song,
Thomas McGrath; Largo" Frieda
Kaufman Lorig; Polish folk song,
Wladislawa Gronkowska; "Tancuj,
Tancuj," Ann silica; Santa Lucia"
Carmela Gentilcore; Swedish folk
song, members of the choir Of Gus
tava Lutheran Church, CELTIC
Lindo, Latin American group, and
Brahms Lullaby" chorus.
The program will conclude with
the singing of God Bless America"
and "The Star Spangled Banner"
by the entire assembly.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Glenn CarOw Recital
In Epiphany Hall

Glenn Carow, prominent Wash
ington concert pianist, teacher and
radio artist. will be heard in full
length recital in Epiphany Parish
Hall, 1917 G street NV, Wednes-
day evening at 8:15 o'clock. His
program will consist of the follow
ing numbers: Concerto No. /, in
B Flat Minor" Tschaikowsky, with
orchestral part played by Jean
Phillips, local organist; "Valse Gai''
and "A Buggy Ride" by Carow;
"Valse in E Flat" "Nocturne in F
Sharp Major" and Polonaise in A
Flat" by Chopin; 'Liebestraume"
and the Second Hungarian Rhap-
sody," by Liszt.
Some of the numbers are those
which Mr.. Carow played in Con-
stitution Hall three years ago when
Fritz Kreisler, the violin virtuoso,
was delayed on his trip to WASH
ington by a train wreck. Tickets
for the recital on Wednesday eve
ming may be obtained at the Dor
sey Concert Bureau in Droop's.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Nine. Evanti
Plans Latin
Singing Tour
Washington Artist
Gives Concerts in
South America

Lillian Evanti, international oper-
attic prima donna and concert artist
of Washington, will sail for South
America as a goodwill ambassador
the end of this month on the S. S.
Brazil. The tour will take her down
the east coast and up the west coast
OF South America, flying over the
Andes Mountains. She will visit
Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile,
Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama
and Cuba.
Last season Nine. Evanti sang in
Havana with the "Orquesta Sinfo-
MICA" under the direction Of Con-
zalo Roig in the Amphitheater, where
she was applauded by an audience
of 5000 people. She was decorated
and knighted Chevalier de l'Hon-
neur at Merite in Haiti and during
her visit to the Dominican Republic
was given the keys to the capital by
Generalisimo Trujillo While in
Venezuela she appeared in concert
at the Club Ateneo.
BY popular demand Nine. Evanti
will be heard in a farewell concert
before sailing for South America at
the Asbury M. E. Church. Eleventh
and K streets NV, on the evening
of May ~ at 8:45. She will feature
group of Spanish songs by Joachim
Min, De Falla and Carlos Comes,
famous Brazilian operate composer;
also songs in other languages, in
cluding English.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Chevy Chase
Chanters in
Annual Event
Male Choral GROUP
Presents Solo
Features

Concluding their 18th season. the
Chevy Chase Chanters, popular male
choral group under the direction of
]. Horace Smithey, will give their
annual spring concert in Woodrow
Wilson High School auditorium on
Wednesday evening at $3.50 o'clock.
Earle Ferguson will be at the piano
and will be joined by Hester Smithey
In a portion Of the program. This
will include q four -hand accom-
paniment for Franck's Psalm 150,"
especially arranged by Mr.. Ferguson
for this concert.
Assisting the Chanters will be
John Alden Finckel, cellist, accom-
panied by Alice Finckei Mr.. Finckel
will play one of his own compost
tions, "Satyr Dance"
The program follows: BY the
Chanters-"Now Let Every Tongue
tBach); 10, How Rose Fer Bloom
ing (Praetorius): "As Rays of Setting
Sun" (Caldara-Spross); Hail! Smil-
ing Morn (Spofforth). BY John
Alden Finckel, cellist-"Arioso g. S
Bach): "Gavotte' David Popper) :
Lullaby" cyril Scott; "Satyr
Dance" (John Alden FinckeD. BY
the Chanters-The God of Music
(MacFarlane); Finnish Lullaby"
(Palmgren-Schindler); Song of the
Hiisi's Slaves" CPalmgren-Baldwin)
'The Broken Melody" (Sibelius) ;
"Alouette" (French Canadian folk
song, Arr. Homier); "The Pilot
(Protheroe). BY Alice Finckel and
John Alden Finckel-F'rom the $50
pata in A Major" for piano and
cello, recitative-fantasia, allegro
Cesar Franck). BY the Chanters-
20. Peaceful Night" (German)
Choral Fantasy on Nursery Rhymes
(Matthews); May Day Carol" eng
lish folksong, Arr. Taylor; psalm
$50" (Franck).
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Arts Club Recital
For Two Pianos

A recital Of music for two pianos
will be given by Martha Norton
and Walter Schoeneweis on We'd
nesday evening at $3.50 o'clock at
the Arts Club. The program will
consist Of Bach's "Siciliano," Pi-
ramos "Gavotte, Op. 34";; Rachman-
inoff's Second Suite, Op. IT.; the
Debussy-Ravel nocturnes, "Fetes''
and "Nuages," and Rogers Intro
duction and Fugue."
The two artists, who for the last
two years have given q number Of
duo-piano recitals in New York,
are both graduates of the Institute
Of Musical Art of the Juillard School
of Music, where they studied with
Carl Friedberg. Mrs. Norton has
appeared as soloist In New York,
New England and the West, and Mr..
Schoeneweis has given several re-
citals In Pittsburgh and New York
City.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
ChOrale Featured

A new chorale prelude setting of
famed Mormon pioneer hymn
will be featured in the Twilight
Musicales to be given this Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday, 8
pm, at the Latter-Day Saints
Washington Chapel, Sixteenth street
and Columbia road. D. Sterling
Wheelwright, chapel director and
organist, has arranged the folk
hymn, Come, Come, Ye Saints. No
Toll Nor Labor Fear" especially
for these recitals. Other numbers
are also programmed. The mu-
sicales are open to the public with
out charge.
The music section of the Takoma
Park Woman's Club will be. guests
Thursday morning at II at a pro-
gram In which Mrs. Wheelwright,
soprano. will assist. This program
will be repeated as q public event
on Friday evening.
Evening star., 1940-05-19

accompanied the singers in a varied
program of French, German, Italian
and English songs. Three Of Mrs.
Tyler's pupils sang at the concert
Of the Washington Music Center,
Inc, at the Arts Club. last Wednes-
day evening.
Beth King presented q program
Of piano music on Wednesday eve
ming at the Petworth Methodist
Church. Miss King played works
by Brahms, Ravel, Chopin and De-
busy, featuring Paderewski's
Theme With Variation"
Elsa Koppel presented Louis
Dreeben, baritone, in an all-Schu-
bert program on Wednesday at her
studio, 5000 Connecticut avenue.
Milton Schwartz, violinist, accom-
panied by his sister Phyllis, played
selections by the same composer.
The Kingan Choral Society, an
organization of young women, and
the Apollo Male Chorus. an organi-
zation of young men, will be heard
in joint concert on June 7 at $50
pm. in Woodrow Wilson High School
auditorium. These two choral
groups were organized under the d.
rectorship of Harlan Page for the
purpose of stimulating an interest
among young people of Washington
in choral singing.
A mass, composed by the Rev.
Richard Ginder and recently pub
lished, will have its premiere at st.
Matthews Cathedral Sunday. May
26, at 11:l5, under the direction of
Nation Boyce. dean of the Catholic
University Music School and choir
master at st. Matthews.
A few days ago the Rev. Richard
Ginder's setting of the Ninety
fourth Psalm for chorus and organ
was awarded 500 by the Art Society
of his native Pittsburgh. The COM
poser, a fellow of the local chapter
of the American Guild of Organists,
is student at the Catholic Uni
verSity.
Evening star., 1940-05-19

years ago there were numerous
young artists attracting attention by
their ability whose names are not
even known now They were either
literally sacrifice in the World
War or martyrs to its aftermath.
Older artists have been able to carry
on, but who can measure the damage
to their art that the experiences of
those years brought.
The best that could be done was
to commercialize any talent that one
had. The world was too heartsick to
wish to have its emotions stirred,
and emotion is the life of music. So
there was a reversior to the ele-
mentals of music, rhythm and catchy
melody, things of the surface that
in no way reached the depths where
the essence of music lies. The effect
of that kind of music has been physi-
cal and moral and much of the way
wardness of today can be traced back
to the feverish seeking for appease-
ment through externais of music.
We are faced today with the same
situation that existed 20 years ago,
but in that time the realization of
what music means to nation has
taken deep root. Are we to cast
aside the cultivation of music be-
cause the world has gone mad or
will we be courageous enough to try
to salvage it from imminent wreck
age? That is the problem that faces
us all and which must be solved.
Hard as it is to hold on to the in
tangible things that feed the soul
when the power of materialism is
in evidence on every side, there must
be way found to avert the sacrifice
of musical creation.
For Spiritual Strength.
In the days when we had nothing
worse than financial ruin to face,
there was general turning to music
and art for spiritual strength. The
potency which it exerted helped
many to weather the storm and has
remained consolation ever since.
We must think of the students and
young artists whose ambitions are
vast and whose eyes are fixed on
the future. Whether there will be q
future for them depends on the
manner in which music is accepted
in the daily life. Whatever the next
months may bring. it is essential
that music activities 60 on with the
utmost encouragement, for we need
it for our physical strength, which
is measured by the character Of our
spiritual strength.
We must avoid, If possible, any
blackout of music for the darkness
will be too profound for any light to
penetrate for generations. We must
arm our souls with the force that
music gives and feel strong with the
consciousness that union with the
spiritual conveys. A nation that
thinks only in material terms must
ever be vulnerable and sooner or
later suffer from its lack of susta-
nence which the cultivation of the
finer things of life provides.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
POPULAR Music

The jitterbugs Of today and the
music that makes them so are tenn
porarily forsaken in difference to
the memories Of mother and father
as, with equally justifiable pride,
Columbia presents The Naughty
Nineties" and Victor the initial vol
ume Q90O of its projected series,
Song Hits of the Goth Century"
Although the period covered by
both album sets Is essentially the
same, there the resemblance ends.
For while Victor uses a serious,
somewhat reverent approach to the
exhumed melodies, Columbia takes
the opportunity to employ parody
and good fun-and both are emf
nently successful in their own right.
The Victor Mixed Chorus, with
string accompaniment, directed by
Emil Cote on its three discs,
will coax many q reminiscent tear
with mellow, sentimental arrange
ments of such delightful old meas
ures as Absence Makes the Heart
Grow Fonder," "Tell Me, Pretty
Maiden" Just Because She Made
Them Goo-Goo Eyes," In the
Shade of the Sheltering Palm"
Totaling IA selections, this release
is highly satisfactory on every
count.
Beatrice Kay, soubrette extraoY-
dinaire, supplies the spark for CO.
lumbia's four-record item, which
also offers the Elm City Four and q
gigantic orchestra of union musi-
cians," led by Ray Block. Miss Kay
displays striking versatility here,
Her voice may be thin, but who
will complain after hearing her
cockney mining in waiting at the
Church." the childlike prattling in
"Smarty" or her intensely dramatic
presentation Of my Mother Was q
Lady" and Don't Go in the Lions
Cage Tonight, Mama Darling
Miss Kay owns q most flexible set
Of vocal chords which, through as
sorted MARBLES, squeals and quavers,
she utilizes to surprising effect. Nor
is the spirit Of the occasion lost on
the barber shop quartet, nor on
the orchestra, which inserts at
strategic points . sobbing trombone
glide or an artful clippity -clop on
the drummer's blocks.
Decca may be heard reminiscing
as well, although over an era not 20
far removed. Carmen Cavallaro
does credit to an assignment of
nudging from the keyboard 10 song
classics Of the past decade, promi-
nently Cocktails for Two" IF
Had You," Dancing in the Dark
(the title Of the album. Formerly
pianist with Al Kavelins Band, Mr..
Cavallaro plays with utmost suavity,
albeit his style tends toward the
repetitious In this large order.
Louisiana Purchase"
If this stage musicale fails to as
sumo comet proportions on the
Great White Way, 1t won't be the
.fauit of Irving Berlin. Ths tunaa
Evening star., 1940-05-19

his students, Barbara de Ployer, who
was honored by a subsequent dedi-
cation to her Of another concerto,
this work, according to Mozart's
own report to his father, won
extraordinary praise" The con-
certo was one of six Mozart COM
posed in 1874, and one of % works
he performed within six weeks in
q series of concerts. While playing
every other night and teaching every
morning, he had time to learn only
one new work which was the con-
certo in question. 1t Is distinctive,
being the only one which appears
with string accompaniment, while
the others have the background of
full symphony orchestra. Its sec
ond movement has not quite the
vitality of the first and the last.
the inspiration of these two being
enhanced by the buoyant delivery
OF Serkin and the Busch players.
A set of Is mazourkas, the only
truly national expression of Chopin's
creative genius, finds an able in
terpreter in Artur Rubinstein, who
is rounding out the impressive num-
Der of Chopin's recordings already
available in the Musical Master
piece SERIES"
A typically Polish dance form. the
mazourka served as an outlet to
Chopin's patriotism when his coun-
try lost its independence under the
former Russian regime. Yet his
mazourkas are imbued rather with
Poland's spirit than with its tradi.
tional folksong and, because of that,
these pieces offer a vast field Of
psychological research into Chopin's
personal emotions which inspired
them. The interpreter of these
charming bits of music should not
only be a poet, but something of a
philosopher. Mr.. Rubinstein is es-
sentially a poet. Each Of his in.
terpretations resembles the other in
style and character, his playing,
however, retaining many admirable
qualities as to tone and facility
Of execution for which he is famous.
Fffty-six mazourkas in all were
left by Chopin to posteriV, his very
last composition being a mazourka
also, registered as opus "6s, No. A.
This selection, almost relic, is in
cluded in the album which is of
value, especially to those who con-
slider Chopin and his works the per-
sonification of the undying spirit Of
q conquered nation.
ELENA de SAYN,
Evening star., 1940-05-19

Fools Fall in Love" You're Lonely
and I'm Lonely" "Ttl Come to
You," comprise hit trio that should
drive other best seller hopefuls to
the storm cellars. Charlie Barnet's
Band plays the first two to perfec-
tion: swing in the finest sense OF
the word. Leo Reisman does the
aforementioned and 'Latins Know
How" in acceptable swing terms;
Hal Kemp tries You Can't Brush
Me on" and the title song. Royale
announces an albumful of all six
l.. P. tunes by the Johnny Green
and Eddie LIE Baron Orchestras.
Make Believe Island" is the latest
independent sweet one destined for
popularity. Sam Kaye and Mitchell
Ayres do the best honors to date.
For some choice session" music,
the Coleman Hawkins Octet disc a
gentlemanly slow jazz when Day Is
Done" then remove their coats and
blow up a stormy Bouncing With
Beam" Coleman exerting greatest
force with his sax. Ambrose and
orchestra color war Dance Of the
Wooden Indian" for the dancing
world. Larry Clinton's super
arranged Study in Modernism"
is only tepid. Tony Martins warm
tone and clear enunciation "a
rarity among pop vocalists) grace
Fools Rush In" and "Perfidia" for
Decca.
In class completely by itself, the
Flight of the Flagship" recorded
coast-to-coast junket of the airliner
Mercury, is at once q gem for COL
lectors, an education Cf sketchy) for
the air-minded, and good publicity
for air travel. On this General
Records disc are available not only
the noises related to air voyage,
such as roaring motors, stentori-
an microphone announcements and
sundry clicks and clankings, but an
absorbing demonstration Of the all
important radio beam by which
planes are guided. ]. w. sTEPp.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Chamber Concert
At Branch Library

Through the courtesy Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss q concert
of chamber music will be given In
the children's room of the George
town branch of the Public Ii
brary, Wisconsin avenue and r
street NV, tomorrow at $3.50 pm
This concert will be performed
by a trio consisting OF Louis Pot
ter, piano; Millard Taylor, violin
and Howard Mitchell, violoncello
The program will include Mozart's
Trio in B Flat, K-502"; Beethoven's
Trio in D Major, OPP. 10, No. L.
and Joaquin Turinas Trio In 3
Minor, Op. 76."
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Review of Recordings

Four great pianists, Walter Giese-
king, Egon Petri, Rudolf Serkin and
Artur Rubinstein, hailing from diff
ferent countries, give a superb ex-
hibition of their skill in several
recordings Of piano works, recently
released by the Victor and the
Columbia companies.
An European recording of Debussy's
Lille Joyeuse" and of "Pagoda"
from the composers "Estampes," on
one 12-inch disc, in the Columbia
series, brings forth the glamorous
art Of Gieseking, who is famous for
his command of subtleties and
dynamics. While Lille Joyeuse"
gives survey of the artists passage
work. the mystic "Pagoda," reminis-
cent of Puccini's Mime. Butterfly"
reveals infinitely more. Built on a
five-note scale, exotic in its oriental
coloring, said to be Javanese, this
vlgnette needs a pianist of Mr..
Gieseking's caliber to do it Justice,
and finds in him an ideal interpreter.
Ponderous and brilliant to an
extreme, is Liszt s Spanish Fantasy"
released by the same company and
presented by Petri, supported by
the Minneapolis Orchestra, under
Dimitri Mitropoulos. The accom-
paniment to the piano solo has been
composed by Ferruccio Busoni,
Petris late friend and mentor.
Built on a Spanish melody, made
familiar to concert goers through
the not infrequent listing of Corelli's
La Folia" on violin recital programs.
this theme receives q far more
elaborate treatment in the hands
of List, who draws on the un-
limited resources Of the piano for his
set Of variations. 1t Is another
rhapsody, Lisztian in character.
After having introduced the theme,
the composer loses himself in COM
plicated passage work which Mr..
Petri expounds in a most brilliant
and artistic manner. The orchestral
accompaniment, so adroitly added
by Busoni, makes the work the more
desirable for concert use. and repre-
sents welcome new addition to q
pianist's repertoire.
The Musical Masterpiece series
OF the Victor people, has been
augmented by recording of Mozart S
Concerto No. IA, in E Flat Major
K.449" with Serkin at the piano,
assisted by the Busch Chamber
players, under the direction of Adolf
Busch.
Composed by Mozart for one OF