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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-09
NEW YORK BUTTER

NEW YORK, May S.-R-Butter
750,404, steady. Creamery: Higher
than extra % 3-4-29 1-S; extra (92
score) % IL; firsts (sS-91) 27 3D.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-09
NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, May s. G)-
T1nfayorable government weekly
weather reports supported distant
nositions in cotton futures today
while near months were depressed
bv long liquidation. Closing prices
were steady net unchanged to 3
points higher.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-09
CHICAGO LARD

CHICAGO, May 8.-N9-Lard tier
ces els; losses 5.32; bellies 600.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Series of Lectures
At Music Colleae

A series Of lectures on "Contem-
porary Men in Music" with musical
illustrations. will be given by DR..
Heinrich Simon on four successive
Mondays at 8 pm. at the Washing
ton College of Music. The first, to
take place tomorrow, will be de.
voted to New World Composers:
John A. Carpenter, David G. Mason,
Percy Granger" with piano Illus
trations by Mr.. Granger.
On May 13, the subject will be
Richard Strauss, the Modernistic
Classicist"; on May 20, "Frederick
Delius, the True European" and on
May ~, Some Experimentalists:
Schoenberg, Bartok, Hindemith."
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Recital This Evening

A joint recital will be given at
$50 O'Clock this evening at the Arta
Club by Eleanor Hulburt, pianist;
Hazel Priest, soprano, and Helen
Belt, violinist. Miss Hubert viii play
the Bach -Tausig "Toccata and
Fugue In D Minor" Chopin's waltz
in E Minor" and "Nocturne, B Flat
Major" and "Six Waltzes" by
Brahms.
Miss Priests program will consist
Of Weckerlin's "Bergerettes," Mas
senet's "Ouvres tes Yeux Bleu,"
Haydn's MY Mother. Bids Me Bind
My HAIR" MacDowell's ''The Robin
Sings In the Apple Tree" and "Con-
fdence." Germans Who'll Buy Ny
lavender" and an old melody,
When Love Is Kind"
The adagio from Bruch's "Con-
certo In g Minor" the Dvorak-
Kreisler "Slavic Dance No. /" and
Fiocco's "Allesro" viii be played by
Miss Belt.
Alexander Clayton win be the &C.
companist for Miss Belt, and Miss
Hulhurt viii play for Miss Priest,
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Conference Covers
Church Music Needs

Reservations for the conference on
church music which is being jointly
conducted by the District Chapter
Guild of Organists and the WASH
ington Federation of Churches on
May 13 are already accumulating
rapidly. AL persons interested in
attending the conference are urged
to register for it as soon as possible
through Arthur Howes, at st. Johns
Church, Lafayette Square. The
conference has been planned to in
terest both clergy and church mu-
sicians, and is to be held at the
Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and K
streets NV.
DR.. Archibald T. Dawson of Har-
ward University, the principal speak
er, will deliver his address on Church
Music and Reality" at pm. There
will be a dinner at $50, followed by
q panel discussion in which repre-
sentative ministers and organists of
various denominations will relate
the subject matter Of DR.. Davison's
address to the types Of church serv-
ices used In their churches.
Evening star., 1940-05-05

Church, where Miss Miller presides
at the orgsn, on Friday at 8:15 pm,
as q benefit for the organ fund.
This program Is being sponsored by
the senior and junior choirs, under
the direction Of Meta Craig Tur-
kenton.
The Choral Group Of the Takoma
Park Women's Club will give q
concert to celebrate Music Week on
Saturday evening at $3.50 in the
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church
Hall. A special feature will be the
singing, for the first time, of q song
written for them by r. Deane Shure.
The group will be augmented by the
Mount Vernon Male Quartet and
the Euphonic Quartet. Louis A.
Potter, jr., will play q group Of cello
solos. Arthur Tabbutt, bass soloist
at Mount Vernon Methodist Church,
will sing two numbers.
The department of the District Of
Columbia American Legion Auxiliary
will sponsor it's first annual music
contest at Harding Hall, Govern
ment Printing Once, on Friday at
8 pm. The contest Is dedicated to
the study of American music and
American composers in connection
with the celebration Of National Mu-
sic Week, and Is open to all unit
members In good standing in the
American Legion Auxiliary and to
members Of all American Legion
Posts and Sons of the American
Legion.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
SOlOists Chosen
For Music Festival

The management Of the Kensing-
ton Music Festival to be held at
Kensington Junior High School on
Thursday and Saturday announces
its soloists as follows: Thursday, as
sisting the Village Singers" Paul
Inc Holcomb. Saturday, assisting
the Kensington Choral Union In the
presentation of Handels Messiah:
Elizabeth Myers Lovejoy, soprano;
Emily r. Tooley, contralto; Paul G.
Ledig tenor, and Edgar r. Kidweil,
bass.
The "Village Singers" will be as
sisted at the piano by Robert E.
Lees, and the Choral Union by Mr..
Lees at the piano and Mary Camm
Adams at the orgatron. All musical
direction is in the charge Of Arnold
Lovejoy.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Federation
1naugurates
Music Week
National Greeting
To Be Extended
TOClubs Here

Music Week win be inaug,rated
omcially tomorrow night, when the
D. G. Federation Of Music Clubs
holds its annual banquet and con-
cert st the Army Navy Country
Club. Reservations have been made
for $50 members and their. friends.
The concert viii be held in the
lounge after the dinner, and q num-
Der Of vocal and instrumental fea-
lures will be presented. Senior clubs
Of the federation to be heard are
the Sligo Music Club, LaVergne
Fairchild, director: Takoma Park
Women's Club, Carolyn O. Green,
director: Washington Opera Guild,
Qurle Luise Correa, director. and
the Lovette Choral Club, Francis
Bass Wilson, assistant director,
Dancers from the Marian Chace
Studios will present an original
sketch and Nellie Barber Brooks,
soprano, will sing. A group Of IN
strumentalists will present works Of
the members Of the Washinston
Composers Club, one Of the fed.
Grated organizations.
Mrs. Guy p. Gannett Of Portland,
first vice president Of the National
Federation Of Music Clubs, will greet
the local federation In the name
OF the national president. Another
guest at the banquet will be Mrs.
Frank Stuart Rowe of Cumber.
land, president Of the Capital Dis.
trict Of which Washington IL one
OF the State organizations. A spe-
cial bus will leave the home Of the
president, Eva Whitford Lovette,
1875 Connecticut avenue NV, at
$50 pm. Last-minute arrange.
ments may be made with Mrs, r.
e. Espy, 3621 8 street NV.
On Tuesday night six q cappella
choirs Of Washington churches win
be presented by the federation in a
sacred choir festival at Mount YER
non Place Methodist Church. They
are the Augustana Lutheran, Lila
r. Knudsen, director; Washington
City Brethren, lola Bucher, direc-
tor; First Baptist, Harwood Hall,
director; Calvary Baptist, Herbert
V. Pate, director; Covenant-First
Presbyterian, Theodore Schaefer,
director, and New York Avenue Pres.
byterian, Charles Dana Beaschler.
director. The combined choirs of
$50 voices Will be conducted by Eva
Whitford Lovette in the singing of
God Of Grace and God Of GLORY"
to the tune Of an old Welsh mel
ody, and BE Still, My Soul" to the
tune Of ''Finlandia." by SibeUus.
On Wednesday night, in the Fed
eral Auditorium, Labor Building. at
$3.50, under the sponsorship of the
federation, the Agriculture Orches-
ira and Symphonic Choir, conduct
ed by DR.. Walter Bauer, will pre-
sent a program which will include
the Washington premiere Of Deane
Shure's "Choric Symphony" based
on the legend of Simon Girty, a
notorious character of the Pennsyl-
vania Dutch country. This unusual
composition employs the human
voice as an orchestral instrument,
The director of the singers is Ruth
L. Morgan. Other features Of tho
program include a secular cantata,
May Day." In which Hazel Helsper
sings the part Of the May queen
and the Grieg Concerto in A
Minor" for pianoforte and orches-
ira In which Charlotte Gusse will
be the featured soloist.
Evening star., 1940-05-05

conceivable that the movies, under
present conditions. offer an ideal
medium. In the first place, every
bit Of music written to accompany
the action on the screen must con-
form In space limit and idea to that
action. Mr.. COPELAND, when writing
the score for "Of Mice and Men"
was fortunate in being allowed to
do as he wished, the director even
adding four seconds to one scene 30
that the music could be played to
It's conclusion. Ernest Toch, on the
contrary, saw some of his best mu-
sic for Little Friend sacrificed
when the State Censor Board de-
cided just where the scene should
end.
The composer must adjust himself
to film requirements and this is
bound to hamper the full flow of
inspiration. Then, too, the directors
OF a production are principally in
terested in the action, which is but
natural, and are not concerned with
any particular feeling for the mu-
sical value while working out the
dramatic end of 1t. The great dif-
ficulty at present is to find the ideal
combination Of creative skill which
will see that each side Is given
equal prominence.
The question Of . purely musical
flm Is different matter. Here
greater latitude can be put into the
hands Of the composer and the un-
limited resources Of the screen
should considerably broaden the
character of the writing. Mr.. Toch
has hopes that when q complete
collaboration of composer, director
and writer is achieved then will
develop a film opera that will be
something quite new in music
drama. And yet the studios have
not taken kindly to the idea of
presenting the grand opera we have
today in Aim form. although the
scenic and histrionic opportunities
which these offer would lend them
selves excellently to q moving pic
ture. It would seem that even the
long arias and ensemble bits could
be made sufficiently interesting with
the extra amount of action that
could be brought into the film YER
sion without spelling the music.
There is no doubt about it that
the question Of moving pictures as a
new outlet for composers and artists
should be seriously studied. It is
also possible that a new art may
develop that will be quite as much
worthwhile as any other musical
form. 1t certainly would reach q
greater number Of people and, as
a cultural force, would be much
more effective than what is offered
today. However, music written spe-
cially to order Is seldom Of the
most valuable kind, and the chief
problem. seems to be to figure out
how the inspiration could be started
and preserved while taking into
account the many mechanical de-
tails that would have to be con-
sidered. The federation will un-
doubtedly arrive at some solution
and the result may give q new
impetus to musical creation.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Twilight Musicales
To Be Presented

Twilight musicales" will be pre-
sented at 8 pm. tomorrow. Wednes-
day and Friday, at the L. D. s.
Washington Chapel, Sixteenth street
and Columbia road NV, by D.
Sterling Wheelwright, organist, with
assisting artists on Friday.
Members Of the Washinkton
Chapel Choir are hosts Friday at q
special program to be given in honor
Of one Of their members, Olive Lloyd
Harris, soprano, who Is moving soon
to New York City. Mrs. Harris viii
sing two ,arias, pace, Pace" by
Verdi, and "One Fine Day." Puccini,
and Hageman,s do Not Go, My
Love-" The general public IS invited
to attend without charge or ticket.
Evening star., 1940-05-05

ting formed by other instruments,
the harp Is the instrument that reg
listers uppermost on a first hear
ing; "it sighs and rustles like reeds
in the winters wind" This rhap-
sody seems to correspond closely
to passage from an essay by Will
liam Hazlitt in regard to the poetry
of an alleged Gaelic bard, Ossian,
whose thoughts and emotions were
concerned with spiritual things.
Totally different in character is
a suite, "Pelleas ct Melisande," from
which three short pieces, called
"Entr' Acte," "A Spring in the
Park" and THE Death OF Melisan-
de" form a part of this album. This
work was intended to accompany
Maeterlinck's play and is listed with
three others on the same subject by
Debussy, Faure and Schoenberg
Strange as it may seem. Sibelius'
"Pelleas ct Melisande" is more
typically Finnish than anything else
he has written, not excepting those
works which dealt with purely ma
tional subjects.
Titles Rearranged.
Sibelius transcribed much of this
music for the piano and included
it into volume entitled "Sibeli-
ana" which contains scenes from
"the thousand lakes" "Melisande"
is renamed Evening by the Wood
land Lake" while Death of Me-
lisande'' becomes "The Sun Sinks" !"
This rearranging of titles may serve
as a good illustration of how the
same music can be made to fit any
occasion or any title.
Sibelus' famous "Valse Triste" is
the only number published of the
incidental music written for a play,
'Kuolema." The contents of this
phantasy portraying a struggle be-
tween life and death are well known
and do not need reiteration. This
and "Finlandia" are among the
most popular ones in the repertoire
OF the orchestra.
The last and seventh disc has
single recording, on both sides,
If the prelude to Shakespeare's 1.-The
Tempest" bearing the same title.
It was composed for a special per-
formance at the Royal Theater at
Copenhagen in 1926, and belongs to
the latest periods of Sibelius' writ
Ing. A striking representation of a
storm In sound, the large battery Of
percussion instruments and other
devices create a complete illusion.
It is full of realistic effect, and is
notable for its complete absence
of thematic material.
ELENA DE SAYN.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Symphony
Aims toGive
Full Season
Fund Drive Has
Goal of $1O7,6OO
AS Minimum

There will be no curtailment in
the number of Washington concerts
by the National Symphony Orches-
ira next season If the minimum goal
OF $107,600 is raised in the 10th
annual sustaining fund campaign,
which opens tomorrow and con-
tinues through May 16, c. G. Cappel,
manager of the orchestra, an
nounced yesterday.
The sliding scale agreement be-
tween the Musicians Protective
Union and the Orchestra Associa-
ton provides for a minimum season
of 20 weeks, which the above goal
1nsures. However, in spite of the
fact that this season Is three weeks
shorter than the one just completed,
IL Sunday concerts and 8 midweek
concerts will still be given in WASH
ington. 1t is strongly hoped that
enough money will be raised to pro-
vide the orchestra with q 23-week
season, but if that is not accom-
plished the shorter season will be
absorbed by fewer out-of-town ap-
pearances rather than in q cur
tailment of the Washington con-
certs.
In any event, If there is q Ma
tional Symphony next year, 1t will
enter its 10th season with an or
ganization of not less than its pres
ent strength of 80 men and with
its musical excellence undiminished.
Few changes in personnel are ex-
pected. for, while the future of the
orchestra has been in jeopardy for
the last six months, the men have
delayed accepting offers of other
positions until the status of the
National Symphony was clarified.
Mr.. Cappel believes that the or
chestra will be able to retain almost
all of its present first chair men.
Because Of the uncertainty of the
orchestra's future it has been inn
possible to engage soloists for next
season, Mr.. Cappel stated. Very
shortly, however, DR.. Kinder and
he will go to New York to arrange
for list of assisting artists as dis
tinguished as that which the Or
chestra has presented in the past.
Before the soloists can be en-
gagged, before the length of season
can be announced, it is first neces-
sary to raise at least the minimum
amount which will insure the con-
tinued existence of the National
Symphony Orchestra. Toward that
end the sustaining fund campaign
will be vigorously waged for the
next 10 days under the leadership
Of A. F. E. Horn, general chairman,
and Walter Bruce Howe, vice presi-
dent of the National Symphony Or
chestra Association and vice chair
man of the drive.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
POPULAR Music

TOpNt0f MUSIC
The so-called Chicago style"
jazz derives from three principal
sources: New Orleans Negro. the old
Friar's Society Orchestra anc Bel
derbecke's Wolverines. It's most
striking feature is its powerful
drive "arousing in musicians q re-.
action like Pepper Martin diving for
home plate" So comments George
| M. Avakian, contributor of some
worth while critical notes to the
new Decca Chicago jazz album.
To most listeners, the Chicago
manner, as disked out in this set,
possesses hardly more power of de-
livery than any good tmprovisatozy
| style. AS to its effect on musicians,
Mr.. Avakian's word will have to be
taken, pending further research.
That is not by way Of criticizing
Decca's latest musical study: on the
contrary, these six records are sure
to remain important additions to the
field. For one thing, the partici-
pants in the three separate sessions
available here are largely musicians
who pioneered jazz In its earlier,
cruder day. Eddie Condon's Chica-
goans, Jimmy McPartland's Orches-
ira and George Wettling's Chicago
Rhythm Kings act only as their cur
rent captions.
OF the three, McPartland's group
impresses most favorably, primarily
because his men can inject punch
into their ensemble playing with few
Of the ragged edges Of careless or
overweight individual work. Out
standing solo parts abound here, too:
Jimmy's fancy trumpet, Boyce
Browns intricate alto sax passages,
Floyd Beans piano. Jazz Me
Blues" and China Boy" are the
surfaces to talkabout. The Wettling
aggregation has the best selections,
with "Darktown Strutters' Ball, !"
"Bugle Call Rag" and 'I've Found
q New Baby" but, other than the
embroideries Of Jess Stacy on piano
and Floyd O'Brien, trombone, the
interpretations prove less than ex-
citing. ''Nobodys Sweetheart" Is the
Condor high point, although the
clarinet backgrounds and solos by
Pee Wee Russell give much distinc-
ton to all Eddie's offerings.
| Sweet and Miscellany.
Rodgers and Hart are treading
to another musical show triumph
and Horace Heidt's Musical Knights
have grabbed onto the bandwagon
Is 1t passes, playing from Another
World" and Nothing But You
Evening star., 1940-05-05

The first delicious tune Is set of
very well by the Heidi reeds, elec-
trio organ and Vocalist Larry Cot
ton; the second, a typically de-
lightful R.-H. waltz, by ensemble
singing. In Let There Be Love" !"
Kay Kyser brings out a forceful
rhythm, a pleasantly dominating
tenor sax and good Harry Babbitt
vocal turn. Harry James Band,
trumpet de-emphasized, gives q
solid Fools Rush In" varsity. It
would be sound policy to hear the
Johnny Green recording of "How
High the Moon" Green is supreme
at the Commercial" keyboard and
shows 1t here. Lang Thompson's
Orchestra provides q substantial
my Wonderful One, Let's Dance" :"
J. w. STEPP.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Pianist in Recital

Gloria Aasgoret, 15-year-old
pianist, Will be presented by Tamara
Dmirien in her third annual re-
cital this evening at $50 O'Clock at
the Dmitrie6 0nooche6 Studio. The
assisting artist will be Ruth Rea,
soprano, presented by Eva Whitford
Lovette In two groups Of songs by
Schumann. Becker, 0uion, Del Riego
and Hammond.
Kiss Masgoret viii play works By
Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Neiuaann
and Rachmanino6, and win con.
ehlds with Noeart's Concerto Ia D
0inoes 1ns1tS entirety.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
In Local Music Circles

This afternoon the program for
the Sunday music hour at the Young
Women's Christian Association, Sew
enteenth and K streets, will be
presented by Etheldreda Kaspar,
pianist, and Alden H. Emery, jr.,
f1utist, who will be accompanied by
Dorothy Radde Emery. Miss Kas-
par's program will include numbers
by Chopin, Mozart, Schubert, Rach-
maninod and Wagner. Among Mr..
Emery's numbers will be a Sonata
for Flute and Piano." written for
him and dedicated to him by Doro-
thy Radde Emery. The program
will begin at S O'Clock and the public
Is invited to attend.
Robert Frederick Freund will pre-
sent the Freund Singers in "The
Freund Frolic Of 1910" at Pierce
Hall on Thursday and Saturday at
$50 pm. Tickets may be obtained
at the Willard Hotel.
The All-States Mixed Chorus will
continue rehearsals during the sum-
mer months at 8 to $50 pm. on
Tuesdays at the Central High School
Building, Thirteenth and Clifton
streets NV. Lynn L. Gillcrest is
director of the group. There are
a few vacancies in the chorus for
both girls and men.
Emerson Meyers, pianist, assisted
by Paul Garrett, clarinetist, pre-
sented program consisting of works
of Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn,
Mary Howe, Alkan-MacDowell and
his own "Gavotte and Musette" last
evening at his residence studio.
Alma Grayce Miller's fairy op-
eretta, THE Days Of the Week, !"
composed for Esther Linkins' young
singers and successfully presented
before the recent convention Of the
League of American Pen Women
and the District Of Columbia Junior
Federation of Music Clubs will be re-
peated in Dumbarton Methodist
Evening star., 1940-05-05

Eastern division of the federation's
National Motion Picture Committee
has recently been formed, with Mrs
Edgar Stillman-Kelly as chairman
to operate In the East In the same
way that the long established West
ern division has functioned on the
West Coast.
The decision Of the federation to
study carefully the question of music
in flm productions is due to two
reasons. Looking always for pos-
sible opportunities for the American
composer, the federation believes q
new outlet can be found for good
music in the films. At the same
time the studio heads have been
considerably discouraged at the lack
Of interest on the part Of the public
toward their efforts to present high
class music either In strictly musical
films or as accompaniment to other
type Of screen productions. It is
hoped with the aid of the fedora
ton to build up audiences which
will patronize the Aims that have
been passed upon by the federation's s
committees.
Quite apropos is the release sent
out recently by the Motion Picture
Producers and Distributors of Amer
lea calling attention to the cele-
brated composers and artists who
have turned their talents to the
screen. The names Of such artists
as Kristen Flagstad, Lily Pons, Jas
cha Heifetz, Paderewski, Lawrence
Tibbett, Grace Moore, Nino Mar
tint and Leopold Stokowski have been
made more widely known than ever
before through their film appear
ances and their art has been enjoyed
by their concert patrons as well as by
those who would never enter q
concert hall. However, less well
known is the association of promi-
nent composers with the film in
dustry, and the list Is an imposing
one, including Aaron COPELAND, Wer-
ner Jannssen, Ernest Toch, Rich
ard Hagemen, Arthur Honegger,
George Antheil, Deems Taylor, Rus
sell Bennett, Kurt WE'LL, Hans Lange
and Louis Gutenberg, to mention a
few.
Virgil Thomson is quoted as say
ing, "The score Of motion picture
supplies q sort of human warmth
to the figures on the screen. The
quickest way to persons brain is
through his eyes, but even in the
movies the quickest way to his
heart and feelings is through the
ear" This is quite possible, but as
things stand today the music ac-
companying a motion picture regis
ters hardly at all, and certainly
very little for its purely musical
value. The percentage Of people
who could tell what type of music
was played during a picture full of
exciting developments is small, in
deed
From this angle it would seem
waste Of good material in having
special music written by promi-
nent composers. While every op-
portunty for the American COM
poser to be heard and to expand
his talent is welcome, it is hardly
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Young Pianist Plays

William Drewry, 16-year-old
pianist, will be presented by Lucia
Mackenzie Hendley in . pianoforte
recital, at 1858 Kalorama road NV,
at 8 pm. Friday. His program will
be "Jesu, Joy Of Mans Desiring,
Bach-Hess; Sonata, Opus 13,"
Beethoven; "Clair de Lune," De-
busy; '''Iiebestraume," Liszt; 'Trois
Ecossaises" and "Maxurka, Opus 33,
No. ." Chopin; "Malaguena, :" Lecu-
ona; "valse Triste," Sibelius; "Rhap-
sody- in Blue" Gershwin.