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Evening star., 1940-09-15
University to Have
New Piano Glass

The Won Unschuld University OF
Music, Inc, has opened its 37th
school year and has on its staff in
structors for every branch of music
theory and dance. Prof. j. c.
Van Hulsteyn is at the head of the
violin department, Prof. Conrad
Bernier directs the harmony and
counterpoint classes DR.. Kurt Hetzel
is teaching orchestration, NJ Servais
from Brussels and Paris, is at the
head of the vocal department, and
the Won Unschuld University Chorus
and Madeleine Lazard of Paris and
New York is directing the school of
dance for children and adults.
Nine Marie Won Unschuld, preSi-
dent and head of the piano depart
ment and author of many educa-
tional works, has created this year
a new three month course of in
tense technical training for piano
teachers, pupils and amateurs. This
course is given twice week in lee
ture form in classes with the neces-
sary practical demonstration and
subsequent examination devised to
be of practical value to the partici-
pants.
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First Rehearsal Set
Bv Federal Group

The first rehearsal of the season
of the Federal Playhouse Chorus will
be held in Central High School at
pm. Wednesday and every Wednes-
day thereafter. The group will be-
gin study of the choral arrangements
of the songs composed by Federal
employees that were submitted to be
used in concert OF those numbers
to be held in conjunction with the
orchestra and dancers. The choral
arrangements are of songs submit
ted by employees in Labor, Veterans
Justice and other departments.
Additions for new members also
will be held Wednesday evening and
there are openings for singers. In
terested persons should be in the
school at 7:45 pm.
George E. Heisley, assistant direc-
tor Of the chorus, will hold weekly
classes in harmony and note-read-
ing following each weekly rehearsal,
and Annie Lee Pickett, voice teacher,
will continue to give instructions in
voice to the group. Lloyd Garrison
is the director of the chorus, with
Joseph L. Newland, president; -Ber-
nice Furniss, vice president; Harold
Corbett, treasurer, and Estelle Green
blatt, secretary. The Federal Play
house is sponsored by the agriculture
branch of the N. F. F E
Evening star., 1940-09-15

G street N. w.
In all, the National Symphony will
give 20 concerts in Washington dur
ing its 1940-41 season, in addition to
two joint performances with the
Ballet Russo de Monte Carlo on
Tuesday and Wednesday, November
10 and 20, and a series of students
concerts, the details of which are
yet to be announced.
The midWeek series is comprised
of eight concerts, which will be given
on Wednesday evenings at $50
o'clock Assisting artists who will
appear with the National Symphony
in this series include Rachmaninoff
November 6; Kristen Flagstad, So
prano, with Edwin Macarthur, guest
conductor, November 27; Joseph
Szigeti, violinist, December 18; the
composer, Igor Stravinsky, as guest
conductor. in program of his own
works, January 8; Robert Virovai,
violinist, January %, and Suzanne
Sten, mezzo-soprano, and Hardesty
Johnson, tenor, in Gustav Mahler's
Lied Won der Erde," March 1o.
Two concerts-on February u and
February 90 will be all-orchestral
programs.
The beloved masterpieces" series,
which DR.. Kinder successfully in
augurated last year, will consist of
Evening star., 1940-09-15
w. p. A. Unit
To Sing at
Barker Hall
100 Voices to Be
Heard in Debut
Tuesday Night

Under the sponsorship Of the
music division of the Young
Women's Christian Association. the
l00-voice Negro Community Chorus,
recently organized by the Music
Unit of the District Work Projects
Administration, Will make its public
debut at Barker Hall, Seventeenth
and K streets NV. Tuesday at 5 80
pm, Paul Edwards, work projects
administrator, announced yesterday
The chorus is an outgroWth of the
District Work Projects Administra-
ton teachers voice ensemble, which
was organized by Harriet Nash. unit
supervisor in charge of music educa-
ton of the local administration last
year. Public interest in the ensem-
BILE prompted its expansion into a
community chorus. Enrollees from
the administration summer classes
at the Phyllis Wheatley branch of
the Y. w. C. A. augmented the
chorus.
Tuesdays program will be under
the direction of Arnold Lovejoy
supervisor of the administration S
Music Unit. Two ensembles of solo,
lists will furnish variety to the
chorus selections. Naomi Martin
and Sylvia Olden, the duo pianists.
who have appeared at past per-
formanceS in which the Music Unit
has participated. will play two selec-
tiCns by Bach and two Infante COM
positions. A quartet of District
Work Projects Administration music
teachers-Hazel Carey, Ruth Clark,
James Holmes and Les Williams
will sing three spirituals arranged
by Mr.. Williams.
The program will be open to the
public and admission is free.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Recent Discoveries
Now Published

Five unusual works. unpublished
since the l7th and 18th centuries,
have just been issued by the new
firm of Music Press. IT. New York.
These discoveries, selected from mu-
sic hidden in library archives, rep
resent particularly vital and inter-
eSting additions to concert reper-
toire and teaching material. The
works just out are: Two entr-actes
for orchestra by Mozart. from "Tha-
mos, King of Egypt d: the Concerto
Crosse No. A. by Giuseppe Samm>r-
TIM; tie String Quartet in D
Minor" by A. Scarlatti; two pieces
for brass ensemble by Anthony Hol-
borne, The Fruit or Love and
"Heigh Ho Holiday" and Three
Fuguing Tunes for Mixed Voices" by
William Billings.
The Mozart pieces, the only entr'-
acte music known to have been writ
ten by him, have been edited by the
distinguished Mozart scholar, DR.. AL
fred EinStein. They represent the
composer in one of his happiest
moods, and have until now been
quite undeservedly buried by the
failure of the play which they &C
companied. The Sanmartini Con-
certo Crosse by the 18th century
oboe virtuoSo, one of a set first pub
hshed in 1873, is to be ranked with
the concerti of Coreli;, Geminiani
and Handel, and deserves a perma-
rNlopa ~ standard
Louis Persinger is the general editor
Perhaps the earliest string quartet
now preserved, written between IT'S
and 1725, the Scarlatti work is a
small but admirable piece unusually
well suited to amateur performance.
The brass quintet by Holborne,
Gentleman Usher to the Most Sa-
cred Elizabeth, Late Queen of Eng
land" first appeared in 1899 Hol-
borne, one of the leading Elizabethan
instrumentalists and an expert Lutte
maker, composed music for the plays
of Shakespeare.
A unique American composer is
brought to light in the Three Fugu-
ing Tunes" by the Boston tanner,
William Billings. From his several
song collections, best sellers of the
18th century. DR.. Clarence Dickin-
son has selected thee highly effec-
tive choruses that reflect the spirit
of the early American republic. The
last of these, BE Glad. Then, Amer
ica," is an anthem that is timely
today.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Philadelphia
Orchestra Is
Successful
Mcdonald Reports
On Last Season;
Concerts Listed

Washington subscribers Of the
Philadelphia Orchestra's local series
of concerts, given annually in Con-
stitution Hall, will be interested to
know that, in his report for the
1939-40 season, DR.. Harl Mcdonald.
manager, informed the board of
directors at its annual meeting at
the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in June
of an unusually successful season
from both financial and artistic
points of view. To quote DR.. Nc
Donald
"The Philadelphia Orchestra As
Sociation finds itself in a financial
position better than that reflected
by the revised estimated budget of
May, 1889, which predicted a deficit
of approximately $4,000. We are
happy to report that our financial
net deficit for the season is
S3,092 20"
Credit for this success is due, in
large measure, to the untiring efforts
Of DR.. Mcdonald and to the high
degree of cooperation shown by
Eugene Ormandy, musical director
and one of the orchestra's two con-
ductorS. The other conductor, Leo
pold Stokowski, directs a smaller
number of the orchestra's concerts
| much of his time being taken up
with work in Hollywood, and more
recently with the A. A. Y. Orchestra
In Washington The number OF
season subscribers increased ma
terlally last season under the new
| joint management of Constance
Albright Snow and Helen Fetter
| Cook, who established an Office in
| Jordan'S box Office to handle the
orchestra'S local concerts. More
than two-thirds of the seating
capacity of Constitution Hall (ca-
paclty, 3,844) was filled with season
subscribers, and indications from
renewals for the 1940-41 season are
that there will again be an increase
for the new season. Many new sub
scrlbers have been added to the lis.
The income from the Washington
season of 1939-40 exceeded that of
the previous year by several thou
sand dollars.
Plans for the 1904 series in
Washington include five programs,
four of which will be conducted by
Mr.. Ormany and one by Mr.. Sto-
kowski. The dates are October %,
December 10, January IA. February
lS and March l8. All are Tuesday
evening events in Constitution
Hall. The soloists include Rudolf
Serkin. pianist, on the opening pro-
gram; Helen Jepson, soprano of the
Metropolitan, January IA: Enid
Szantho, contralto, also of the
Metropolitan, and Frances Nash
Mrs. Edwin NJ. Watson), Washing
ton pianist, February 18.
Season seats can be procured until
October 8, when the single sale for
the first concert will open. Reser-
vations can be placed at Jordan's
box office, 1889 G street NV.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Opening Announced

DR.. Basil Toutorsky, concert pian-
ist and composer, announces the be-
ginning of the fall term at his
studio, 1925 Sixteenth street NV.
Piano, violin, voice and Theoretical
subjects will be taught. The first
week in October will mark the be-
ginning of a new series of group
classes in harmony and compost
ton, supplementing individual les
sons in piano and violin. The more
advanced students who took the spe-
cial summer course will give public
recital early next month.
Nine. Zalipsky, well known in
Washington music circles, will come
from New York once a week to con-
duct private and group classes in
voice.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Florence Howard
Studios to Open

The Florence Howard Studios of
Singing. 1408 New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV, will open September %.
The choral ensemble of the studio,
the Tuesday Evening Music Club,
will hold its first meeting October /.
Mrs. Howard has returned from a
vacation spent in the New England
States, where she attended the
Berkshire Music Festival at LenoX.
Mass, and the musical activities of
Lake George, New York, directed
by Oscar Seagle and Nine. Louise
Homer.
The Choral Ensemble. Burial
Glass, Calvary Baptist Church, of
which Mrs Howard is the director,
will hold its first rehearsal Satur-
day night, and it first service Sum
day, September %.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Prize of 500
Offered for
Arts Club Seeks
Work for String
Instrumentation

A prize of 500 is to be offered by
the Arts Club of Washington for a
work for string quartet or string
orchestra in one or more movements
lasting in all not less than 10 minutes
and not more than 80 minutes.
Rules of the contest are as follows
The works submitted must be
original compositions and must not
have been performed or published
before.
Contestants must submit scores
legibly written in ink.
Each manuscript should bear
plainly marked on its title page a
pseudonym or motto, but not the
name of the composer. A sealed
envelope containing the name and
address of the composer, and bearing
on the outside the same pseudonym
or motto as is placed on the score
should accompany each manuscript
The judges will be announced
later. The jury will judge the
compositions on their merits with
out knowing the names of the COM
poSerS. A majority decision will
rule.
The prize winning composition
will receive its first performance
under the auspices of the Arts Club
during the 1940-41 season. The
composer to whom the prize is
awarded must supply the necessary
parts for performance.
Contestants must be residents of
the District. Maryland or Virginia
All manuscripts must be sub
mitted not later than March l, 1e41
to the chairman. Music Committee
Arts Club of Washington, 20l7
street NV. Inquiries concerning
the contest may be sent to the same
address.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Rehearsals Begun by
A Cappella Choir

The Washington A Cappella
Choir, composed of 60 mixed voices
under the direction of Ruby Smith
Stahl, has begun rehearsals in prep
aration for its regular singing at
First Congregational Church, its 10th
annual Lenten concert at Constitu-
ton Hall and some limited out-of-
town singing.
The choir has appeared at the
White House during both the Cool
idge and the Roosevelt adminiStra-
tions, at both the Baltimore and
Philadelphia biennial conventions OF
the National Federation of Music
Clubs and at Town Hall, New York.
An interesting Item this year will be
the singing for the famous st. Olaf
Choir after its winter concert here,
at the request of its director, DR..
Melius Christensen.
Eight vacancies eXist-especially
for second alto, first and second bass
and one tenor. Appointments for
additions should be made with Mrs
Stahl by telephone.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Openings for Singers

The choir of Calvary Methodist
Church, 1863 Columbia road NV,
will begin rehearsals for the new
season on Friday. A few vacancies
are to be filled in each part, and new
members will be welcome. Singers
desiring to join should apply to
Louis Potter, director, or Gladys
Taylor, president, between tbs and
7:45 pm. Immediately preceding re-
hearSal.
Under a new plan instituted by
the music committee of the church,
scholarships in voice study under
Mr.. and Mrs. Potter have been made
possible for choir members. The
choir will sing at the regular services
of the church on and after Septem-
ber %,
Evening star., 1940-09-15
In Local Music Circles

Betty Baum, pianist and graduate
teacher of the Peabody Conserva-
tory, has reopened her studio at 1920
EdmundS street. Miss Baum is also
active in concert work and was solo,
ist on August 18 with the National
Symphony Orchestra.
A musical program was given for
the meeting of the Womans Club
of Clark County, Va, on Thursday
at the home of Mrs. w. E. Sparrow
of Bluemont, Va. Those who par
ticipated were Alexander Speer, Mrs.
E. D. Vaughn. pianists; DR.. Luther
Richman, baritone, chairman of the
music department of the Board of
Education, Richmond, Va, and
Franceska Lawson, soprano of
Washington and Bluemont. Louise
Hawthorne was the accompanist.
Evening star., 1940-09-15

The readers interest is skillfully
led to keener appreciation of these
chapters dealing with the perform
ance of music by their being sand
wiched in between the first part of
the book, which gives the History
| and Construction of the Piano" and
THE Development of Piano Music"
and the final chapters, which list
works for two pianos and piano
works in recordings and short biog-
raphies of famous pianists. There
is so much information of every
character to be found in this book,
which is published by Longmans,
Green g. Co., that it should be
read by every one to whom the
piano is the king of Instruments
and by others who, perhaps, have
a particular reason for doubling its
superiority.
Better Understanding.
In you Can Enjov Music" Miss
Kaufman has assumed another
approach to her subject. She writes
entertainingly, hiding grains OF wis
dom under conversational style
which gives the reader abundant in
formation in the easiest manner.
The book is divided into three parts
and an appendix which gives list
of books you will walt to read" and
meanings of words you will want to
know" as we'll as specially recon-
mended recordings for your record
library.
Part l deals with THE Materials
of Music" pitch. dynamics, rhythm.
melody, harmony and counterpoint
and form. Its Tools Of Expression"
is the title of part 2, which covers
The Human Voice Divine" The
Pianoforte," THE Symphony Or
chestra, Greater Than the Sum of All
Its Parts; What You Hear at a
Symphony Concert The Opera.
Three Arts in One: The Ballet"
and Home Music" Part is pc
cially interesting. as it has to do with
composers and their compositions.
American Composers.
In the first chapter of this section.
entitled How to Make Friends and
be Influenced by Composers" she
states that understanding a COM
poser as a man leaus to a better
understanding of him as a musician"
and that you can, if you wish,
build a circle of composers as you
would a circle of friends, peopling
the world of music with personali-
ties, instead of lay figures with
names attached" After devoting
some time to Stories in Compost
tion,' Miss Kaufman gives nearly
20 pages to Some American Com
poSerS."
She prefaces her outline of Ameri-
can composers with these remarks:
There is no good reason for seq
regating American composers as
though they w,re lepers, yet it has
become the custom to restrict Ameri-
can works to allAmerican programs,
conceding to the native composer
only occasionally the privilege of
being heard in the company of his
peers Of other nationalitieS
This attitude of the public is ex-
planned as being founded on two rea-
sons, American music is not taught
to the young either in the schools
or conservatories' and many Amer
ican composers follow the European
models so closely as to neutralize
their own character. On the other
hand they make the motions of
striking out into an Individual idiom
and are jumped on for their temerity
in departing from the accepted clas-
sical ideal. They are damned if
they do and damned if they don't
speak out" The book makes facile
reading while providing a firm foun-
dation in matters of general musical
knowledge.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Community Recitals

Some OF the favorite shorter pieces
by Bach are included in each of the
community organ recitals to be
given at pm. tomorrow. Wednes-
day and Friday, at the Washington
Chapel of the Latter-day Saints
Church, Sixteenth street and Colum-
bla road NV. A 45-minute pro-
gram will be played by D. Sterling
Wheelwright, chapel director and
organist, and Edna C. Wheelwright,
soprano, will be heard also on Fri
day.
The public is invited to attend
this new fall series of musicales
without charge.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Choral Society Plans
Weekly RehearSalS

The Washington Choral Society,
under the direction of Louis Potter,
with Lyman McCrary as accom-
panist. plans to present the Faure
Requiem" and Beethoven's "Missa
Solemnis" during It's coming season.
Rehearsals will be held at pm.
every Tuesday, beginning September
II, in the music room of Central
High School, Thirteenth and Clifton
streets NV, and regular members
are urged to be present. Additions
for those desiring to enroll will be
held from 7 to 8 pm at the school.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
PLAYERS Needed

The Washington Civic Orchestra,
now in its seventh year, has a linn
tied number of vacancies in its first
and second violin sections. Addi-
tional cello players also are needed.
This group was organized early in
1884 by the late Bailey F. Alart, and
rehearsals are held in the auditorium
at Central High School, Eleventh
and Clifton streets NV, every
Tuesday night at O'Clock. Prepara-
tions are now being made for con-
cert to be given early in the fall.
Musicians interested in joining the
group will be interviewed before re-
hearsal on Tuesday evening.
Evening star., 1940-09-15

Helen Miller, whose special work
in the correlating of rhythmic aural
and harmonic training has held a
somewhat unique place in the junior
musical annals of Washington is re-
turning to private teaching this sea-
son.
Since graduation from Peabody
Miss Miller has continued her stu
dies in piano with Antoinette Ward
and with Edwin Hughes of New
York. In addition to bachelor of
music degree in theory she has done
further work in strict counterpOint
with Conrad Bernier. Miss Miller
has had private sessions in strict
counterpoint and composition as
we'll as general pedagogical discus
sion with Mile. Boulanger during
her Washington appearances.
Miss Millers individual lessons
will be scheduled from tomorrow,
while class sessions will begin Octo-
Der !.
The D. c. Chapter Of the American
Guild of Organists will start the
season with a social evening in the
form of box supper and bazaar,
to be held in Epiphany Parish Hall
tomorrow at 6 pm. The program
for the year will be outlined and
preliminary plans for the national
convention to be held in Washing
ton, D. c., next June will be an
nounced.
With a tentative enrolment of 43
singers and vacancies for seven more
principally sopranos) the Washing
ton Chapel Choir commenced re-
hearsals last Thursday. The choir
sings only at the Sunday evening
services of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, Six
teenth street and Columbia road
NV, but emphasizes the a cappella
repertoire as we'll as oratorio. In
terviews can be arranged with the
director, D. Sterling Wheelwright,
by calling the chapel.
Clarke A. Paulsen, baritone, will
entertain members and guests of
Fort McHen,y Chapter tomorrow
evening at the D. A. R. Chapter
House. 1882 Massachusetts, avenue
Mr.. Paulsen studied at Peabody
Conservatory and is member of St
Johns Church Choir. He will fea-
ture on his program america for
Me" by Elizabeth Merz Butterfield
and will be accompanied by Mary
Carney at the piano.
Esther Linkins, teacher of singing
has returned from her vacation anc
resumed work in her residence stu
dio. She will confer, by appoint.
ment, with prospective new pupils
or those wanting to join one of hel
choruses.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Library Available

The Philharmonic Symphony So
ciety of New York announced that
the material used by the late Ernest
Schelling in connection with his
unique method of giving orchestral
concerts for children and young
people is now offered for loan to or
chestras throughout the country.
For information concerning this
service inquiries should be sent to
the Schelling Collection, care the
Philharmonic-Sym Society of
New York. steinway Hall, New
York. N, Y,
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Wilson College Reopens

CHAMBERSBURG. Pa, Sept. IA
(SpeciaD Wilson College will be-
gin its list year as a liberal arts
college for women next week. Regis
tration of 120 entering students, III
of whom have been admitted to the
freshman class and three to ad-
vanced standing, will take place
Monday.