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will be followed by Mozarts s Sonata
No. 10" CKochel No. 378), and the
Strauss Sonata" After the inter-
mission, Mr. Heifetz will play Spohr's
Concerto No 8" (GeSangScene) in
one movement, two preludes by the
late George Gershwin, both tram
scribed by Mr.. Heifetz, and Robert
Russell Bennett's amusing diver
tissement, "Hexapoda.
The two Gershwin preludes have
been arranged by Mr.. Heifetz for the
violin from the original GershWin
piano version. Gershwin wrote three
of these preludes, but Heifetz, who
was an intimate friend of the late
composer of Rhapsody in Blue" has
contented himself with arranging
two of them. Heifetz has expressed
his belief that these preludes are a
particularly intimate and character
istic expression of the deceased
American composer, GerShwin.
The Bennett advertisement, called
"Hexapoda," consists of five studies
in what the composer calls Utter
optera," and which he describes as
the geological name for the whole
realm of insects as well as the more
specific hybrid, the ''jitterbug" The
five studies are entitled. respectively
"Gut Bucket Gus" Jane Shakes
Her Hair" Betty and Harold Close
Their Eyes" Jim Jives" and
Till Dawn Sunday"
The composer, Bennett. whose
eight etudes loomed so prominently
on the mid-January program oi
the Philadelphia Orchestra at Con-
stitution Hall, has given this some
what esoteric title to a set Of pieces
which, though written in serious
musical style, are aimed to entertain
and amuse. The five studies wer
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Give Two Recitals

Florence Howard Studios of Sing
ing will present two midyear re-
citals today at 4:30 pm. and on
Friday at $3.50 pm. The program
of music given at the tea today will
include songs by five members of the
young singers group: Helen Claire
Lyons, Myra Lillian Mitchell, Mar
garet Becker, Marie MoWrer and
Ruth Marjorie Prentice. Marjorie
Davis is the accompanist. On the
Friday program, the singers include
Mary Elizabeth Buckardt, Frances
Tucker, Elma Dotter. Gladys Wilco.:.
Selma Last, Grace Holmes, Eleanor
Brazil, Orma Ewing and Bette Ryder.
Dorothy Radde Emery and Louis
Abernethy are the accompanies.
Listening to each others full
length piano programs on record
ing discs will be a special feature
of the next group of Saturday morn
ing meetings of the Esmu Club. The
meetings of the Eta Schmid Wells
Music Club will be held at the
Cleveland Park studio of the Wells
Music School, 1882 Ashley terrace
NV.
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Violinist and Pianist
In Howard Course

Elena de Sayn. VlollnlSt. will be the
fifth artist on the Howard Univers-
ity concert series, Tuesday evening
at the Andrew Rankin Auditorium,
$50 pm. She Will be heard in
full program of violin and piano
music assisted by Nine. Julia Ell
bogen. pianist.
Miss de Sayn will play Bach's
Suite in f Minor, the original
piano part which was amplified by
Alexander Siloti; Leclair's Sara
bande ct Tambourin.' Paganlni
Kreislers Concerto in D Major"
Tscherepnine'S "Poeme Lyrlque"
and Susan Dyer's "OutlandiSh
Suite" consisting of five short num-
berS. The material for these was
gathered by the late Miss Dyer
while accompanying her father. an
admiral in the United States Navy,
on trips through the country. A
talented violinist. Miss Dyer was
also a serious student Of compost
ton and devoted a great deal of
time to it in the last years of her
life.
Amt It Sin to Steal on a Sum-
day" Florida Nightsong." SUBJ
titled "Chuch-Will's Widow; !;
Chicken Dance" a Seminole In
dian tune; Panhandle Tune"
Texas cowboy song. and Hula
Hula" Hawaiian dance, are writ
ten in a modern idiom Miss de
Sayn introduced these pieces in
Washington several years ago when
she gave violin recitals of American
music in collaboration with Mrs
Beach, John Powell. Walter Kramer
and other distinguished American
/ composers.
Nine Elbogen, who will assist
Miss De Sayn in the presentation
of the program. brings to the en-
/ semble her experience as soloist,
Since taking up her residence in
the United States, Nine Elbogen
acted as accompanist to Rose Bamp-
ton of the Metropolitan Opera, Rob-
ert Virovai. violinist, and other
famous artists. She appeared also
as soloist with the Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra.
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first played by Louis kaufman, with
the composer AT the piano. in New
York on March 20, 1910. Mr.. Heifetz
first played them at Carnegie Hall
in New York on October 30 last.
Bennett was born in 1894 in
Kansas City, where he studied with
Carl Busch. Later, he studied with
Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He is
best known as orchestrator of Cole
Porter and Jerome Kern music,
having recently orchestrated the
musical shows, Panama Hattie"
and Louisiana Purchase" as well as
the Ballet Russo ballet. Vienna
1914" from the music Of Weber Mr..
Bennett is presently at work on an
American opera, based on o. Henrys
story, The Enchanted Kiss, with
Robert A. Simon as librettist. He
and Mr.. Simon also collaborated on
an opera, Maria Malibran". Ben
nett's most important work to date
is his abraham Lincoln Symphony"
OF his "HeXapoda," Bennett him.
self writes:
These five studies in jitteroptera'
were intended to be studies. They
can be condemned by the fine musi-
clans of my time as being merely the
expression of an orchestrator having
fun. and by real jitterbugs or as
being too subtle and contemplative
to be hot but they are presented
with sincerity and in the hope that
/ they are both good music and good
sport" OF himself, Bennett says he
can write double counterpoint in
veritable in the octave, tenth and
twelfth, and Fred Astaire likes my
saxophone parts" Mr.. HeifetZ will
be assisted at the piano by Emanuel
Raw
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Bv Elena de Sayn.

It was only by narrow margin
that Brahms Symphony in E
Minor. No. 4. Op 90" escaped de-
struction by fire 55 years ago, and,
if it were not for a certain Frau
Fellinger, who carried the precious
manuscript to safety, the world
would have been short of master
piece.
Recorded under Serge Kousse-
vitzky by Victor Co., this work does
not seem either obscure" of in
comprehensive" as it was believed
to be by Brahms contemporaries,
nor could it be called shallow or
lacking in imagination. Some are
convinced that one Of the reasons
for Brahms greatness lies in his
wisdom in selecting his surroundings
when composing. AS regards this
symphony, his inspiration is ascribed
TO the majesty OF the Syrian Alps,
where he worked at his desk in the
summer of 1885. The symphony
reflects strength and beauty.
Massive and ponderous is the
Boston Symphony Orchestra's in
depreciation of it. as compared with
an earlier recording by Weingartner
at the head of the London Sym
phony, issued by Columbia Co. in
1898. KoussevitZky' Brahms is
perhaps more heroic than Vein
gartner's, the latter emphasizing
the human side of the composer S
nature.
StOkowski Directs.
Leopold Stokowski makes his re-
appearance on two 12-inch discs
this month. conducting the Phlla-
delphia Orchestra, with which he
has been identified for so many
years. He presents Wagners Die
Meistersinger" overture and "Prel-
ude to Act 5" from 'Johengrin.'
1t is a Joy to hear the ease and
purity with which the violins at
tack the treacherous passages in
high registers, of either selection
playing like one man.
E. Powers Biggs. organiSt, who Is
known locally through his concert
appearances here. recorded Haendel
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Composer Lectures

Bernice Forst, well-known COM
poser, teacher and lecturer, will give
a series of two lectures at the
Musical Art Center. 1925 G street
NV, on suitable material for both
private and class piano instruction
through a musical approach. The
lectures will be tomorrow and Tues
day at $50 am, lasting two hours
There will be no charge for attend
ance. Admission cards can be pro-
Cured at the music department OF
the Homer l.. Kilt Co.
Evening star., 1941-02-23

music tonight at the Capitol Me-
mortal Seventh-day Adventist
Church. corner Of Fifth and F. at
8 o'clock. Chaplain Donald w.
Hunter of the Washington Sani-
tarium will be the lecturer. The
public is invited. There will be no
admission charge.
The choir of All Saints Church.
Chevy Chase, will sing Gounods
"Gallia' on Ash Wednesday at
pm.
Junior piano students OF Helen
Miller presented a program on
Thursday evening. The hour CEN
tered about incidents in the life of
Mr.. Paderewski.
Those taking part were Barbara
Beiji, Rena and Bobby Sabatini,
Dick and Meigs Newkirk. Gloria and
Phyllis MarChitelli, Coils Campbell,
Dolly Baylies, Carol Willet, Mar
garet Sabine, Theo Suman. Eliza
beth Ford, Nancy Sullivan. Vir-
ginia Wilson, Carol EddingfeId,
Virginia Kessler, Carol Kosswig.
The joint recital which was to
haves been given by Gordon Page,
tenor and Francis Harrell pianist,
at the King Smith Playhouse this
evening at 8 o'clock has been post
poned.
The Madrigal Singers, directed by
Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, will
present program of old English
/ Madrigals and folk songs, used dur
ing ShakeSpeare'S day, at the Ellen
Terry lecture-recital being given by
Florence Locke tomorrow night at
the Hotel 24O0 Sixteenth street,
under the auspices of the Authors of
Books for Children Club. The lee
ture-recital is entitled The Chill
dren' and presents the eight chill
dren, in the six of the Shakespeare
plays.
The choir of Gunton-Temple Me
mortal Presbyterian Church will
sponsor series of vesper services
during the Lenten season, the first
of which will be given today at 5
o'clock. There will be special music
by the quartet and the young peo-
pies choir. The public is cordially
invited.
DR.. and Mrs. Bernard Braskamp
recently we're hosts to the piano
class of Elizabeth Collision Hill. Dis
cussions on various composers, an
cient and modern, with demonstra-
tions at the piano, also recordings,
were given A talk on Henry Carey,
early English composer to whom
the tune of MY Country, 'Tis of
Thee" is attributed. was included.
Members participating were:
Priscilla Alden, Anne Bernice Bras
kamp, Jean Burlin, June Cameron,
Clair Del Vecchio, Mildred Griffin,
Elaine Henry, Elsie and. Elizabeth
Nanny, Marjorie Newcomb. Leslie
Ontrish, Katharyn Terhune, Joan
Zirkin, John Black, Kenneth Can
non, Joseph Dibble, Philip Kapneck,
Windsor Koch, Benjamin Nanny,
Charles Schoeneman, John Scott
and Bernard Braskamp.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Concert Schedule
Today.
Today.


JaSCha HeifetZ, violin recital,
Constitution Hall. 4 pm.
Maxwell Galloway, soprano;
Mary liant Couch, pianist,
Women's City Club. pm.
Sunday Music Hour. Emily
Marsh Withers, soprano; Caro-
lima Randall, violinist, ~. w.
c. A. 5 pm.
Norman Lloyd, lecture reclt-
al, Music for the Dance" l742
Church street NV, $50 pm.
Tomorrow.
Felicia Rybier, pianist; FL
wood Gary. tenor, assisting.
Washington Club. $50 pm.
Washington Music Teachers
Meeting. Arthur Hlce, guest ar
tist, Mayhower Hotel. $50.
pm.
Evening With the Victrola, -
Public Library, Eighth and K
streets NV, 7:30 pm.
National Symphony Orches-
ira. Ballet Russo. DR.. Hans
Kinder, conductor, Constitu-
ton Hall, 8;45 pm.
Tuesday.
Elena de Sayn. violin recital,
Howard University, $50 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira. Stanley Hall, $50 pm.
Army Band, Army War Col
lege, 2::3O pm.
Navy Band Symphony Or
chestra, Genevieve Logan, So
prano, soloist, Marine Corps
Auditorium. 8:15 pm.
National Symphony Orches-
ira. Ballet Russo, Dr.. Hans
Kinder. conductor, Constitu-
ton Hall, 8:45 pm.
Wednesday.
National Symphony Orches-
| ira. Dr.. Hans Kinder, conduc-
tor: Howard Mitchell, celliSt;
| Emerson Meyers. pianist, solo,
lists, Constitution Hall, 8:45
| pm.
| Marine Band Symphony Or
chestra, Marine Barracks, 8:l5
pm.
TnurSday
Edward Henneberry, piano
| recital, Wardman Park The
| ater. $3.50 pm.
Mrs. Henry Parrett. soprano;
Villa Semple, Quinta J. Fry,
| pianiSts. Arts Club. $3.50 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
| racks, 2:30 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra, Stanley Hall, $50
pm.
| Friday.
Friday Morning Music Club,
Susannah A. Coleman. pian-
list: Wilhelmina S. Walter, So
| prano: Anita Schade. reader,
Barker Hall, 11:30 am.
Saturday.
Budapest String Quartet, Ii
brary of Congress. 2:15 pm.
Army Band, Army War Col
lege, 1870 am.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, Stanley Hall, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1941-02-23

importance of what is being done in
music today cannot be estimated,
because of the closeness of our asSo-
citation, but that it, too, is adding to
the development of the art is GER
tain
The unfortunate part about it,
however, is that few of those who
are earnestly striving to improve 1t
will obtain recognition Immediately
for what they have accomplished.
It is not much consolation to realize
that other generations, closely
studying what was done in the be-
ginning of the Goth century, will
single cut certain individuals as rep
resentative of the progress of that
time. 1t might surprise many to
find that composer hardly noticed
during his lifetime will prove to
have contributed more to the for
warding Of musical art than one
who was the lion of his era. 1t prob
ably would surprise many OF the
dead and gone great ones, could they
know of it. to find how revered they
are by the whole world today.
Often Tragic.
The tragedy of unreCOgnlzed gen.
ius is to be found throughout the
history of music. So much suffering
could have been avoided. so much
happiness could have been the lot
of these immortalS. if they could
have enjoyed during their lifetime
some of the eminenCe they have to-
day. But perhaps the world is the
richer for its miStreatment of its
geniuses, for they conSOled them
selves by ever turning TO their great
gift and producing the music that
is loved by all. 1t may be that in
spiration and the operation Of Su-
perior talent does not thrive in
amiable circumstances. but needs
the rebuffs of the world in order
to garner its best material.
1t would seem that knowing this,
extra care could be exercised in
judging musical worth. Particularly
is this necessary toward the Ameri-
can composer, who is contributing
his bit toward a record of the era
in music. The older composers did
the same thing and part of the
charm of their works is the vision
conjured up of different customs
and different modes of thought
representative of their day. Nation
alism is also present in their COM
positions the peculiar emotionalism
of Tschaikowsky being thoroughly
Russian. as eXemplifled in the litera-
ture of that country, the grace and
light heartedness of Mozart and
Haydn mirroring the attitude Of
their period, the religious character
Of Bach's music being typical of the
time, the individual slant of the
early Italian and of the Scandi-
navian composers rejecting their
environment.
Turn From Present.
The American composer is doing
the same thing today. We may not
like it or appreciate it but he is
writing into his music the atmos-
phere of living at the present time.
Most serious musicians turn away
from the present back into a hal
lowed past for their musical enjoy
ment and are so accustomed to SO
doing that it seems unthinkable to
abandon it for the music of today.
But the time may come when the
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Mrs. Watson Plays
With Philadelphians

DR.. Harl Mcdonald, manager of
the Philadelphia Orchestra, an
nounces that Frances Nash Watson,
brilliant American pianist, who is
popular in Washinton also as wife
of Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson of
the Presidents secretariat. will be
soloist with the orchestra in the
fifth and final concert of the regu-
lar series to be given in the Capital
at Constitution Hall Tuesday night,
March 18.
Mrs. Watson was to have been
soloist on the April program last
season and, due to an illness, had
to go to the hospital just three days
before the date of her concert. AS
result DR.. Mcdonald Immediately
asked Mrs. Watson to consider play
ing on one Of the 1904 programs
which she consented to do.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
In Local Music Circles

Arthur Hice of Philadelphia
president of the American Matthay
Association. will be the guest artist
at the meeting of the Washington
Music Teachers Association. Inc,
to be held tomorrow evening at
$50 in the east room Of the May
flower Hotel He will eXpound on
the teaching methods of Tobias
Matthay and give piano illustra-
tions of the same.
Today. the program for the Sun
day music hour at the Young
Womens Christian Association,
Seventeenth and K streets, will
feature early American music. in
recognition of George Washington S
Birthday. Those taking part are
Emily Marsh Withers, soprano;
Carolina Randell, violinist, and Mrs.
Paul Klein, accompanist. The pro-
gram will begin at ) o'clock and
the public is invited to attend.
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church will hold music festival
this evening at 8 o'clock. The COM
mittee, headed by w. J. Vaught,
chairman, will present the Mount
Vernon Chorus of so voices, the
Young Peoples Choir, 40 members;
Children's Chapel Choir. numbering
25; a solo quartet. ladies Septet
the 6130 Male Quartet. Young
Peoples Mixed Quartet, the Mad
rigal Chorus and WINK Chorus
Deane Shure will be the conductor
assisted by Edith F. Gottwals at the
organ.
On Friday the Friday Morning
Music Club will present SusannaE
Armstrong Coleman, pianist; Will
helmina Spanhoofd Walter, soprano
with Helen Grimes at the piano
and Anita Schade. reader. Mrs
Walter will sing the Schumanr
cycle, 'Frauenheben und Leben.'
The program will be given in Barker
Hall. the Y. w. C. A, Seventeenth
and K streets NV, at 11:30 am.
On Thursday evening, at $50
the Arts Club of Washington vii
present Mrs. Henry Parrett, So
prano; Quinta Jensen Frey, pianist
and Villa Semple, pianist, in recit'
al. Mrs. Parrett was formerly solo,
ist with the Chicago Grand Opera
Co., and has sung throughout thi'
country and Europe as Ruby Evans
She is at present the soprano solo
ist at All Souls Unitarian Church
Maxwell Galloway, lyric soprano
and Mary liant Couch, pianist, viii
give a half hour of music for mem
bers of the Women's City Club to-
day at 5 o'clock.
Beethoven's Concerto for Violir
and Orchestra, Brahms "Varla
tions on a Theme by Haydn" Enes-
cos "Rumanian Rhapsody No. il
A Major" and Corelli's "Adagio
From the Sonata for Violin anc
Basso Continue, Op. 5, No. s." viii
be played on the Evening Witt
the Victrola" program in the music
division of the Public Library
Eighth and K streets NV, to-
morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock.
The Washington Missionary Col
iege A Cappella Choir OF so voices
Evening star., 1941-02-23

Franceska Kaspar Lawson, So
prano, assisted by Harry Wheaton
Howard, pianist, gave a song re-
cital Friday afternoon for the fac
ulty, students and guests of ST.
Cecilia's Academy.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Heifetz, in Violin Recital,
Appears This Afternoon
Presents Preludes From
Gershwin as Intimate
Voice of Composer

Jascha Heez worldfamous viohn comes to Constitution Hal
Washington recital Of the
Hodgkin
presented Menuhn violin recia here
Mr. Heiez will open his Brahms "Sonatensatz This
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Music Of Today Merits
Public Consideration
Output Preserves Record
Of Present for Future
Understanding of People
BY lAHce EVersmnn.

Just difficult to evauate the trend of the times in various
walks life almost impossible the changes that
reading
others
the
development
Evening star., 1941-02-23

under the direction of George w
Greer. will present an hour Of sacred
music tonight at the Capitol Me-
mortal SeVenth-day Adventist
Church. corner of Fifth and F. at
8 o'clock. Chaplain Donald w.
Hunter of the Washington Sani-
tarium will be the lecturer. The
public is invited There will be no
admission charge.
Evening star., 1941-02-23

The Washington Missionary Col
kge A Cappella Choir Of so voices,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-09
| EFT ers 10
th e Editor

TO THE EDITOR:
IN HIS message to the> Aineri-
L can people on Independence
Day, President Roosevelt stated
in effect that the United States
could not remain a free and
democratic nation while all
around us the world was lacking
in liberty and was controlled by
relationships.
/ wonder if the President can
point out 10 the American peo-
pie just where liberty and free
dom prevailed in 1776, outside of
these United States of America.
The rest of the world at that
time was controlled by other
types of relationships, namely.
monarchies and cZardoms. Yet
despite the lack of liberty in the
rest of the world in 1776, we in
America achieved our own and
have maintained il until 1871,
and have been the beacon light
for the rest of the world in OBJ
tanning its liberty.
Today we must keep our lib
erty intact, regardless of what
shape the rest OF the world
takes, and we can accomplish
this by building a strong defense
for OURSELVES, and stop this
childish name-calling.
America was born, and existed
for some time, in a freedomleSs
world, and if we did it once we
can do it again--so long as there
is the will to be free, which
there is-and remain the beacon
light in a darkened world, trans
hitting rays of hope and en-
enlargement to the oppressed
peoples or The world 10 THROW
off the shackles Of their tyranny
and once again proclaim their
just freedom.
America need not participate
in all the wars of the world; in
fact. she must not if she is 10
remain a democracy, because
militarism is the antitheSls OF
democracy.
EDWIN +. PRONG,
1880 Harding avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-09
Park system Improves

DETROIT parks have been frightened up this Summer
- and their new management can be given the credit
The electorate approved the creation of new COM
mission last November govern the merger OF the recre
alton and the parks and bouevards department
Mayor Edward J. Jeffres has been particularly for
tunate in his selection of four commissioners to handle this
Job They Fred c. Maggie chairman; Bernard Is Lasky
Henry NJ Martens and Mrs. Walter r. o Hair.
The new commission has been active and youthful IN
its viewpoint It's deliberations have sparkled with new
suggestions and plans for the park and recreation pro-
gram
Unlike many older commissions in the city govern
ment the parks and recreation commission does not wait
for problems be laid before It. The members learn Tor
themselves what has to be done
The old bureaucrats of the parks and bouevards and
recreation departments have had rude awakening under
the new management
Laxy in the maintenance of buildings and equipment
and careless handling of food and money the city retec
tories have already been uncovered by the new commits
sion and are being corrected.
Each commissioner has made IT practice TO visit
one or of the parks days between meetings OF
the commission and find out for himself what KIND or
service the public is receiving.
Hardly meeting passes but what some underng is
put the carpet and made to explain some act OF care
essness or oversight 1t has been painful transition but
every one is rapidly learning that he must improve the
service to the public
Detrots long neglected park system is at last on the
way up.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-09
Connolly Answers

la Emma Goldman; (b)
Pelham Wod rouse; (c)
Efrem Zimbalist.
William II. Harrison, Zachary
Taylor. Abraham Lincoln,
James Garfield, William Nc
Kinely, Warren HardingD
3-Ca) Holiday; (b) gun; (c)
nut.
IA Civil War; OBJ American
Revolution; (c) Civil War.
5-(a) 700; Oh 50,510; (c)
1877.
6-(a) 20 miles from Knoxville,
Tenn; (b) road from Rome
10 Capua; (c) London.
la 1889, people who il
legally entered lands in In
dian territory; tbl 1S11-13,
members 10 Congress who
brought on war of 1872; (c)
Republicans who supported
Grover Cleveland in 1884.