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Review of Recordings

her tones than in former years; In
fact, her voice is not particularly
suited to that type of a Russian
song. Rachmaninoff is not a Ma
tionalist and his music has very lit
tie or no Russian flavor. Nine.
Koshetz makes a mistake by trying
to put it in where it does not be-
long
Loeff1er's String Quintet" Is
another recording by Schirmer e.
Co. made by the Jacques Gordon
String Quartet, assisted by Kay
Rickert, violinist from the ranks of
the National Symphony Orchestra.
Miss Rickert. who has been on
tour through South America
with Leopold Stokowski, falls heir
to a violin part in the quin-
tet, so to speak There was a time
when Frank Kneisel, who was the
first to perform the work in 1895,
assigned the third violin part to his
favorite pupil. Jacques Gordon. Mr..
Gordon extended the same privilege
to Miss Rickert recently, a task
she has accomplished with credit
to herself and the organiZa ton.
Slavic in character, this work in
one movement, is melodiouS and
charming. Engaging rhythm and
melodies are not unlike those by
TSchaikowSky or Dvorak There are
strains also, which are decidedly
Brahms-like in texture and treat
ment, the Instrumentation never los
ing, however, its moderniStic color.
1t is said that this composition
bears marks Of influence, which is
childhood sojourn in Kiev, Rus
sia, exercised upon the composer.
1t Is distinguished by a Convival
mood, a gay lit and can stand re-
peated hearings.
Marc Blitzstein is perhaps the
only American composer who mixes
| politics with music and does a little
''Blitz' in behalf of the proletarian
vis-a-vis capital and authority
His opera, bearing the militant
banner mo, for an Answer" is re-
| corded by keynote Recording Co.
Mr.. Blitzstein believes that, because
| there is a relation between music
and stage action" as in master
pieces by Verdi, Charpentier and
Mozart. whom he mentions, that he
has written an opera. He forgets,
however. that there Is relation of
sound and action in any worthless
lyric or parody and that there is
more to an opera than "arias. con-
certed pieces, dance and musicated
speech" The composer is at the
piano in a series of vocal excerpts
from his score
Victor Co. comes forward with
recording of prelude and Liebe-
stod" from Wagners Tristan and
Isolde" made by the Berlin Phil
harmonic Orchestra, under Wilhelm
Furtwangler. One of many, this
particular issue has value at the
moment because it is. possibly. one
of the last to have been made in
Europe. Mr.. Furtwangler's reading
lacks some of the emotional stress
placed on certain passages by con-
ductors in this country. The or
chestra, while 1t has the mellow
ness of years of experience, is
wanting in fire displayed by some
OF the major organizations on this
side of the Atlantic.
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have found it difficult TO reallze tney
were in the heart of the city, in view
of the casual and carefree atmos-
phere of the fair.
The large representation OF we'll
known artists from Washington and
vicinity assured the fair gratify-
ing proportion of competent work,
and changed the character of the
showing from the outdoor fairs
original significance as an oppor-
tunity for "daubers" who had no
chance to exhibit elsewhere. The
best group show was that OF the
Washington Printmakers, compris-
ing Autographs, etchings, linoleum
prints, woodcuts and monotypes by
Minnie L. Briggs, Prentiss Taylor,
Sheffield Kagy, Inez Demonet and
other members. They were we'll
selected for the event, comprising
cheerful, attractive subjects certain
to please the average person.
The Arts Club was individually
represented by Edith Hoyt, who had
lust completed solo exhibition at
the club gallery, but had new oils
and water colors on view at the fair;
by Susan B. Chase, with series of
water colors and by Clara r. Saun-
ders, who showed oils the first two
days and water colors the remainder
Of the time. Gladys Milligan, teach
er OF painting at the National Ca
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ByJ. ". Sfebb.

The music of George Gershwin,
currently riding a sizable wave of
popularity, at least insofar as the
record manufacturers are concerned,
is given added impetus by Andre
KostelanetZ's Orchestra and Pianist
Alec Templeton. This combination
of highly rated talent undertakes
Gershwin's hardest and most in
spired concert piece, THE Rhapsody
in Blue" which occupies three sur
faces Of Columbia 12-inch green
labels in an album. 1t is a thor
oughly capable Interpretation that
Mr. Kostelanetz gives, overcoming
his usual tendency to append a
myriad of musical spangles and
frills to original designs. Temple
tons is sincere reading, too, al
though a bit on the delicate side
for the spirited passages which pre-
dominate the Rhapsody" The final
surface of the set finds the flood
gates of the Kostelanetz fancy
wide open for Love Walked In,"
Gershwin's last great hit tune be-
fore his untimely death.
Matty Malneck and his novel out
fit, featuring violin, accordion and
harp, and recently shifted to Co.
lumbia discs, f1ddles around with
another much lesser Gershwin work,
"An American in Paris" condensed
version). The reverse of this one
Is Verdi's Anvil Chorus" a con-
densed and altered version, too,
you may be sure. Jimmy Dorsey's
Bar Babble," with several rounds
of whistling, mysterious kissing
and a few well-placed, realistic
hiccups, has all earmarks of being
sure-flre for the jitterbug market.
Jimmie Lunceford's "24 Robbers"
which smites the groove with
vengeance, should meet with SINH
lar success. Artie Shaw presents
his idea (two surfaces requireO of
Blues" and while 1t isn't the type
of blues you'd hear through the
swinging doors of Storeyville it has
a tang about 1t that's suggestive at
least. The New Friends of Rhythm,
N. B. C. Symphony long hairs with
an unpermanent wave, give another
good natured satire in Heifetz's
Hora Staccato," titling same Goo,
Dinny, Coo" Languorous is the
reverse, Sweet Sue, Just You"
And mellow Is the word for Woody
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Bolivian Artist Exhibits
Sculpture of Indians

Twenty-three works in wood and
terra Gotta by young Bolivian
sculptor, Marina Nunez del Prado,
which are on exhibition at the Pam
American Union, are very worth see
ing The young artist, who can only
be in her late twenties, graduated
from the Academy of Fine Arts,
La PaZ, Bolivia, in 1880 and since
| the following year has been teaching
therein both sculpture and anatomy.
In 1856 she also taught Indo-
American art at the American In
stitute, La PaZ, and for the past
eight months she has been in this
country, travelling and studying with
some of our leading sculptors under
Latin American fellowship given
by the American Association of Uni
versity Women.
In her own land, she is by no
means without honor, for she has
held, by invitation, numerous exhi-
bitions not only in Bolivia, but in
Peru, Chile, Argentine and Uruguay,
| besides which she has received for
her work many covetable prizes.
Already, she is represented in the
National Museums OF Uruguay and
Argentine
Up to the present. Senorita del
Prado has specialized in sculpture
OF Bolivian Indians of the high
Andes, for which reason her work
has taken on a certain primitive
simplicity. The wood and clay she
uses are, she feels, elemental and
close to the people and the life she
strives to interpret to an outside
world. Back of many of the GUS
toms is, indeed, the elemental with
which is mingled things of common
usuage and collective Familiarity.
The very texture of her carvings in
wood and stone is purposely signifi-
cant, and in everyday occupations.
as well as religious rituals, she has
found not merely detached subject
matter, but universal rhythm and
meaning.
In the dance, for instance, "Kusil-
los" represents what the Indian
thinks life may do to him; in The
Condors," how he thinks the valiant
should answer. abandoned" we
are told, is "the lament which keeps
his art alive by giving it sorrow
in other words, as Otto Kahn once
put it, 1.-The drip of tears"
The reaction of the Indian of the
high Andes is, after all, not very
different from that Of the Indian
of our Western pueblos with regard
| to natural Manifestations
rainbow, the recurrence OF seasons,
the fertility of the soil-but it Is
diversely expressed. Senorita del
Prado seeks at all times the univer-
sal, and through the individual
strives to give composite interpreta-
tion-as, for instance, in Indian
Mother" Lullaby" Tenderness.
Her work is essentially plastic. In
the smallest piece, one feels relation
to the lump mass. Her portrait
heads are excellent; so also, is her
group consisting of heads OF two
llama. At present, her work is very
strong and simple, but bit crude.
AS she advances, this crudity will,
in all probability, give way to ma
ture craftsmanship, which, far from
weakening her achievement, will
give it permanent superiority, OBJ
hterating the visible sense of strug-
gle between conception and realiza-
ton. Senorita del Prado undoubtedly
has great gift.
Her exhibition here-which, by the
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Bv Elena de Savn.

A set of recordings entitled "A
Festival of Brazilian Music" COM
posed by Heitor Villa-Lobos, pre-
sented by the Brazilian Festival
Orchestra, and conducted by Burle
Marx, has been issued by Victor
1t forms a colorful exhibition OF
that composers versatility. Mr..
Marx, whose visit to the Water Gate
is expected this summer, is assisted
by the Schola Cantorum, under
Hugh Ross, and the Brazilian Fes-
tival Quartet.
Villa-Lobos has to his credit over
/ 400 musical works in every con-
ceivable form. He stands at the
head of a national movement in
music in his country which is based
on the treasures of folklore brought
into Brazil by settlers from differ
ent parts of the world. In his
"Bachinas Brasilieras, No. l." dedi-
Gated to Mr.. Marx, one of five writ
ten in homage to Bach, the COM
poser uses an interesting combina-
tion of eight violoncellos, which is
very effective in disc form.
"Nonetto," for chamber orchestra
and chorus, is considered to be
Villa-LoboS' major contribution to
chamber music. This work sup
posedly gives aural impressions of
Brazil and of its panorama, un-
folded in variety of musical sound
in treatment approaching SYM
phonic dimensions. The SaXophone
plays an important part through
out the composition, in which the
brilliancy of percussion instruments
vies with native wailing utterances
Of the chorus.
"Cancao Do Carreira" is another
instance when wailing sounds are
prevalent. A mans song, performed
on the disc by Elsie Houston, So
prano (who is to be soloist with
the National Symphony Orchestra
here in july, the selection por-
trays a rider in a wagon driven by
an oxen. A thankless task for a
woman singer, the song is never
thelesS well presented by Miss
Houston, who measures up to the
exigencies of the music.
The set closes with a "Quatuor'
for harp, celesta, flute, saxophone
and women's voices and "Cancao
da Saudade" for a capella chorus
the latter arranged by Mr.. Ross.
The more one hears of Mr.. Villa
Lobos, the more one appreciates his
music and his style. The recording
is good.
Schirmer Recording Co. has is
sued "Rachmaninoff Album OF
II songs presented by Nina Koshetz
soprano, at one time Rachmanin-
offs partner entour when he ac-
companied her singing of his songs
The album contains "All Things
Pass Away" fragment from Mutt
de Mai; Sing Not to Me, o Beau
tiful Woman; The Island" How
Sweet the Place" 1T Was Yester-
day." "Lilacs," Daisies" AT Night, >
ITO the Children" and Christ Is
Risen"
To hear Nine. Koshetz do one
song is to have heard them all; she
does not attempt to make them in
dividual or to modulate her voice in
accordance with the meaning of the
poems There is less roundness to
Evening star., 1941-06-01
Former Woshingtonion Is
Honored in Pittsburgh

The Carnegie Institute, Pitts
burgh, during the month of May,
honored Everett L. Warner, for
merly of this city, but now for
many years a resident of Western
Pennsylvania. by one-man eXhi-
bition of his paintings produced
between 1912 and 1910. Mr.. Warner
painter, etcher, photographer and
teacher, was born in Iowa in 1877,
but came to Washington with his
parents, his father, a scientist, find
ing employment under the Gov
ernment. He was a lively, wide
awake lad, and while studying at
the Art Students League, 8O8
Seventeenth street NV, presided
over by E. C. Messer, R. N. Brooke
and other well known Washington
artists, got job in a downtown
department store and wrote art
notes for The Star. Meeting with
success In his work, he went to
New York, and later to Paris to
continue his studies. In 1913, he
was made an associate member OF
the National Academy of Design.
and in 1887, an academician. Since
1924, he has been associate pro-
fessor in the department of paint
ing at the Carnegie Institute of
Technology, during which time he
Is said to have taught virtually
all the present generation of West
ern Pennsylvania artists the funda-
mentals of their craft"
His earliest paintings were land
scapes, rather poetic and very
charmingly rendered. Then he be-
came interested in paintings of
New York, its streets, skyscrapers
and bridges. On going to Pitts
burgh, he found absorbing interest
in interpreting on canvas the spirit
OF that great industrial city; lately,
he has been doing still life subjects
with engaging realism and bold
truth. In other words, he has not
been one to stand still. In his
etchings, he still retains his delicacy
OF touch and feeling. The current
number of the Carnegie Magazine
pays high tribute to both his work
and his character. He has many
friends in Washington.
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Concert Schedule
TODAY.

TODAY.
Betty Ann Fast, soprano, song
recital, Woman's City Club,
| 4:3O pm.
Minna Niemann, pianist;
Henriette Bagger Plum, So
prano; joint recital, Gunston
Hall School, evening.
TOMORROW.
Evening With the Victrola,"
Y. w. C. A. roof, 8 pm.
Guild of Organists' meeting,
Epiphany Church, 8 pm.
D. Sterling Wheelwright, or
gan recital, LID. S. Chapel,
8 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 8 pm.
Helen Marguerite Myers, So
prano, song recital, Barker
Hall, $3.50 pm.
TUESDAY.
Calvary Baptist Church Choir,
| Herbert v. Pate, director, Y. w.
| C. A., $3.50 pm.
Papas Studios, Novelty Or
chestra, Y. M. C. A., evening.
Marine Band, Home for In
curables, 3 pm.
Army Band, Army Audi
torium, / pm; Walter Reed
Hospital, $50 pm.
Soldiers Home Band, band
stand, $50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Doda Conrad, bass; Roman
Totenberg, violinist; Miecyslaw
| NUM-, pianist; Polish benefit,
Polish Embassy, evening.
D. Sterling Wheelwright, Or
gan recital, LID. S. Chapel,
8 pm.
Marine Band, Capitol, 7:3O
pm.
THURSDAY.
THE Sorcerer," Calvary Meth
odist Church Choir, Guild Hall,
8:15 pm.
Irene Lerch, piano recital,
Arts Club, $3.50 pm.
Navy Band, Naval Hospital,
2:30 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, pm, Mount Alto Hos
pital, 7 pm.
Soldiers Home Band, band
stand, $50 pm.
FRIDAY.
D. Sterling Wheelwright, Or
gan recital; Edna c. Wheel
wright, soprano, assisting; LID.
S. Chapel, 8 pm.
Navy Band, Walter Reed Hos
pital, formal garden, $50 pm.
Marine Band, Naval Hospital,
3 pm.
Army Band, Capitol, 7:30 pm.
SATURDAY.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 1880 am.
Army Band, Army Band au-
ditorium, 1890 am.
Soldiers Home Band, band
stand, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1941-06-01
Music Clubs
Report Lists
Il Programs
Mrs. Eugene Byrnes
Heads Friday
Morning Group

The annual report Of the Friday
Morning Music Club, submitted by
Florence Howard, assistant musical
director, lists series of 2l programs.
OF these, 19 were given in Barker
Hall, one at the Church of Latter
Day Saints, through the courtesy
of Mr.. and Mrs. WheelWright, and
one at Mintwood House. the studios
of Henry Kaspar. In all, SO men,
bers and guests appeared before
the Friday Morning audiences.
The programs featured the tuba,
viola, flute, organ, violin, cello,
piano and several chamber music
groups Vocal music played an i'm
portant part in the series, which
also listed several speakers. includ-
ing Maude Sewall, cambridge Crist
and Anita Schade. A novel program
was given by recorders and players
on the psalterieS by a group from
the Friends School.
Officers of the club elected for tbs
coming season are: President. Mrs.
Eugene Byrnes; first vice president,
Miriam Hilton; second vice presi-
dent, Ruby Potter; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. William Humphrey;
recording secretary, Dorothy Tyler;
treasurer, Katherine Riggs Bur-
chard; assistant treasurer, Edith
LIE Fevre; musical director, Lucy
Brickenstein; assistant musical di-
rector, Florence Howard, and Sec
ond assistant musical director.
Helen Grimes.
Board of Governors: Vera Neely
Ross, Anne Yago McGuffey, Lois
Abernethy, Olive Writer'S, Frances
Gutelius Smith and Mary Apple.
Chairmen of committees: Mem
bership, Emily Coville; hospitality,
Edith LIE Fevre; reception, Ethel
Gawler; orchestra. Miriam Hilton
and Katherine Riggs Burchard;
printing, Mrs. Hugh Brown, and
publicity, Ida Holtzscheiter.
Evening star., 1941-06-01
Concerts Planned

The music division of the Public
Library announces a series of Eve
nings with the Victrola" to be pre-
sented in cooperation with the Y
w. C. A. as continuation of the
winter series at the library. The
concerts, to be given on the root
of the Y. w. c. A. Seventeenth and
K streets NV, will begin tomorrow
at 8 pm. and will continue on alter
nate weeks through the summer.
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To Give Recital

At $50 pm Thursday the Arts
Club of Washington will present
Irene Lerch, pianist, in solo recital.
Miss Lerch was trained by Henry
Kaspar.
Miss Lerch's program at the Arts
Club will include a Russian group
by LlapOunOW and GlaS0unOV, the
Bach-Busoni "Chaconne" and works
of Grieg, Schubert-Liszt and List.
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Chorus to Sing

On Tuesday evening, June 10, the
Washington Choral Society Chorus
of over 100 voices will give for the
first time in Washington the
"Peacable Kingdom" sequence Of
short choruses by Randall Thomp-
son, American composer. This work
will be given in the auditorium of
the Calvary Methodist Church, 1853
Columbia road NV. AS this work
is written to be sung a cappella, the
choir will sing from the back gallery
of the church. Cards of invitation
are being sent this week to donors
and sponsors for the society.
Evening star., 1941-06-01
Methodist Choir
Plans Operetta

The operetta, The Sorcerer." by
Gilbert and Sullivan, will be given
by Calvary Methodist Church Choir
at SIS pm. Tuesday in the guild
hall of the church. This is the
second Gilbert and Sullivan operetta
in the repertoire of this choir,
Trial by Jury" having been given
several times in recent years.
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A pan-American program is to be
presented at the Y. M. c. A. on
Tuesday by the Papas Studios Nov
city Orchestra. Participating will be
Doris and Conrad Bruderer, mando-
Inns; Helen Bruderer, guitar; Mar
jorie Brown, tenor mandola; Paul
Inc Blundon, mando bass; Mrs. A.
J. Ruhlig, flute. and Sophocies
PapaS, mando-cello.
Evening star., 1941-06-01
Outdoor Art Courses

Nlcolai Cikovsky and Eugen
Weisz, both instructors in the Cor
coran School of Art and well-known
local painters, will conduct a six
weeks course in outdoor painting
and drawing, beginning tomorrow
and continuing through July IL. For
information concerning registration
application should be made to Miss
Agnes May, secretary, the Corcoran
School.
Evening star., 1941-06-01
In Local
Music Circles

The 38th annual recital and four
piano concert presented by the
pupils of Prof william A Beall was
held at the Knights of Columbus
Hall on Monday and Tuesday eve
ningS of last week. Certificates in
| harmony and medals were awarded
| to Jean Ford and Howard Madigan.
Presentations of the certificates was
made by Prof. Beall.
| The following pupils took part in
the program: Ethel Homes, Mar
garet Cheek, Barbara Jean Simmons,
! Teddy Gochenour. Betty Lou Ed
monds, Dorothy Wills. Helene john
son. Nancy Harris, Beverly Fuller,
/ Gertrude McGrew, Marian Goche-
nour, Joan Dougherty, Betty Jean
Newell, Madelyn Dougherty, Peter
Roushakes, Charline Tenny, Allan
Diener, Loren Boydstun. Clara May
Gray. Ruth Lorraine Harris, Regina
| Deenihan. Adelaide Herman. Shirley
| Sherman. Miriam PaskoW, Crandall
Graves, Belle Homes, Perry Var
outsos, Jean Ford, Howard Madigan,
! Constance Deenihan, John Haerer,
Frank Smith and Ward Beall.
Betty Ann Fast. soprano, will be
! heard in recital this afternoon at
430 O'Clock at the Woman's City
Club, 736 Jackson place NV. Miss
Fast's program will include arias
/ by Puccini. Massenet and Bach as
we'll as representative literature from
/ the more modern composers. Mar
! jorie Keim will accompany Miss
Fast.
! William Collins will present his
Friendship House piano pupils in re-
cital today at o'clock. The recital
will be held in the Friendship House
/ Little Theater, 619 D street Sc. The
public is cordially invited.
The last regular meeting for the
season of the District of Columbia
Chapter, American Guild Of Organ
lists, will occur tomorrow night at 8
o'clock at Epiphany Church, 1917 G
| street NV. This will be an impor-
tant convention" meeting. Chair
man Tenley of the Convention Com
mittee will present a special Con-
vention" program and every one will
be assigned a definite part in the
| convention. Members of the Exec
utive Committee kindly report at
7:30 for the meeting of that COM
mittee.
On Tuesday the last of the "ed-
ucational concert" series will be
given at the Young Women's Chris
| tian Association, Seventeenth and
K streets NV The choir of Calvary
Baptist Church will give the pro-
gram under the direction of Herbert
V. Pate. Mr.. Pate will speak briefly
on the history and development of a
cappella music.
The Helen Turley Studio will pre-
sent the following pupils in recital
on Thursday, at the Womens City
Club, 736 jackson place NV, at
BIS pm: Dorothy Bixby, Joan and
jeanette Poole, Antoinette Call. La
Rue Emmanuel and Betty Fast.
Marjorie Keim will accompany all
the singers. The public is cordially
invited.
Franceska Kaspar Lawson, So
prano, assisted by Harry Wheaton
Howard, pianist gave a song recital
last Wednesday afternoon at St.
Roses Technical School for the
faculty, students and guests.
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DR.. Charlotte Klein has resigned
as organist and choir director at
ST. Margaret's Episcopal Church.
DR.. Klein has been at St. Margar-
cts 10 years, having accepted the
position in June, 1881.
Evening star., 1941-06-01
More Than 1870 Artists
Exhibit Works in Park
By Florence s. Berryman.

treated to of sylvan enchantmen the
when the fourth annual outdoor art fair
beneath
blow
awv picture visitors
Evening star., 1941-06-01

way. is admirably shown in impro-
vised setting provided by the Pam
American Unions division of cul-
tural relationship continue to
June %.
Evening star., 1941-06-01

Bass.
These tlUo noted Polish
artists tDiU join their country
man, Roman Totenberq, Uio-
HniSt, in q benefit recital
Wednesday eUening at the
Polish Embassy.
Evening star., 1941-06-01

Franceska Kaspar Lawson, So
prano, assisted by Harry Wheaton
Howard, pianist, gave song recital
last Wednesday afternoon at St.
Roses Technical School for the
faculty, students and guests.
Evening star., 1941-06-01

William Collins will present his
Friendship House piano pupils in re-
cital today at o'clock. The recital
will be held in the Friendship House
Little Theater, GIG D street S E. The
public is cordially invited.