Evening star., 1941-07-13
Starlight
Music Slated
This Week
SalzedO Ensemble
To Play in Park
Tuesday and Friday

Two of the most varied and color
full programs to be presented by c. G.
Cappel in the Starlight Chamber
Music series will be heard Tuesday
and Friday nights, when the Sal
zedo Concert Ensemble appears at
Meridian Hill Park.
Four virtuosos make up the Salzedo
Ensemble. It's leader and organizer
is, in the words of Walter Dam
rosch, the man who has certainly
done more than any other person in
this country to keep the harp before
the public as an instrument of first
rank"-Carlos Salzedo himself. SAL
zedo has undoubtedly appeared more
times as soloist with more major
symphonies than any other harpist.
But he has not been content to be a
virtuoSo. He is a superlative teacher
and as a composer he holds high
rank. His compositions have been
played by leading symphony or
chestras and chamber music organ
izations. From childhood he has been
superb pianist, and will appear at
that instrument at least once during
each Meridian Hill Park concert.
Finally, he is responsible for the
modernization of the harp, and uses
in his group the streamlined Sal
zedo" model which is devoid of all
gilt and excessive ornamentation
and has largely been adopted by
other solo performers.
Salzedo's most gifted and attrac-
tive pupil was Marjorie Call. an In
diana girl, whom he not surprisingly
married. She is the other harpist in
the ensemble and its most decorative
feature.
The third virtuoso is the renowned
fautist, Rene LIE Roy, the young
Frenchman who succeeded PHILIPPE
Gaubert as head of the Paris Society
of WoodWind instruments. Later he
founded the Paris Instrumental
Quintet, which gave more than 300
concerts in Europe and America. lie
Roy has appeared as soloist with
leading European symphony orches-
traS. but most Americans know his
work through his phonograph re-
cordings.
LIE Roy still plays the silver flute
which his father gave him when
he was 9 years old. His attach
ment to this instrument is more
than sentimental He believes sill
yer flutes have a more beautiful
tone than wood or gold or even eX-
pensive platinum instruments, ar
his particular silver flute he CO..
siders a masterpiece of the gre;
French craftsman, Louis Lot.
The fourth member Of the er
semble, Janos Scholz, plays a ce
with even greater family associ7-
tions. It is a fine Guarnerius vniC
has been in his family since 1897
But members of the Scholz famil.
have been playing cello much long
er than that. Janos is the fifth OF
his line to be devoted to that mel
low instrument, the first on record
being a great-great- grandfather who
took up the cello in 1873. Scholz
is no newcomer to Washington,
where he has appeared with the
Roth String Quartet. He retired
from that organization two years
ago to join the SalZedo Ensemble.
Many of the items on the two
programs were, of course, tran
scribed for his groups unusual ar
ray of instruments by Salzedo him
self. Particularly satisfying are his
transcriptions of Debussy's "Chil-
dren's Corner" which will be played
Tuesday, and of Ravels Piano So
natino." which will be heard Fri
! day. The great master of the harp
| has also enormously enlarged the
music available for his instrument,
not only by transcription. but also
by his original compositions. So
in one group to be played Tues
day is the beloved Londonderry al
J which he transcribed for harp an
the extraordinary descriptly
"Whirlwind." which he composed.