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category. But who is to know when
some of these works will suddenly
achieve, in the opinion of the public
at large what can be described as
of popular appeal
Take. for instance. Brahms First
Symphony For long time it was
definitely decried as unmelodious.
An earl" American performance of
this symphony brought forth the
following critical comment: Our
interest in it (the symphony will
increase but We foreSee the limit;
and certainly it cannot be popular.
1t will not be loved like the dear
masterpieces of genius" So spoke
the Boston Transcript of the early
'90s. Today Brahms First SYM
phony" has been voted one of the
most popular compositions in this
form by the audience of a Nation
wide radio concert series.
Made Popular Favorite.
The work has established itself as
popular favorite along with
Beethovens Fifth" Schubert's
unfinished" and TSchaikowsky'
"Pathetique." Personally, I think
the Double Concerto" for violin, cello
and orchestra one of Brahms finest
works and one which should be
heard by a city like Washington
more than twice in nearly 20 years.
Hence the inclusion of this fine work
in our series on Monday night with
the eminent soloists, Brosa (violin)
and Garbousova (cello).
The same, in my opinion, holds
good of both the superb Violin Con-
certo" by Sibelius and the highly
imaginative tone poem, "Pohjola's
Daughter" which we will play this
afternoon.
Tomorrow the program will consist
of Beethoven's Overture to the
Night of Creatures of Prometheus,"
his Three Equali," the Double
Concerto" by Brahms and the Sec
ond Symphony" by Sibelius.
For the concert on Wednesday,
the last one of this winters series,
we have the assistance of the
splendid young choral group of
George Washington University under
the direction of DR.. Robert Howe
Harmon, which will participate in
the performance of the three songs
for chorus and orchestra by Sibelius
the first one, Onward Ye
Peoples" the second one The Bells
of Berghall," which I mentioned
before, and the third one the ar
rangement known as Dear Land
of Home" on the music of Fin
landia. This will be followed by the
First Concerto of Beethoven,
which the pianist, Ania Dorfmann,
will use as her solo vehicle. Miss
Dorfmann has the unique distinc-
tion of being the only woman in
strumentalist ever to have appeared
as soloist with Arturo Toscanini.
The second half of the program will
consist of the Brahms &C Minor
Symphony"
Comment at Concerts.
All of these works will, of course,
be commented upon in detail by
Edward Waters in the program notes
of the different concerts. There is
just one more observation which I
would like to make about the final
work of the festival-the First
Symphony" by Brahms. At this
point, So years after the first per-
formance of this great work, 1t
really speaks for itself with ever
increasing eloquencs each time It
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P0buiar Music

BY virtue of consistently outstand-
Ing performances John Kirby and
his band have long deserved the Spe-
,ial recognition afforded by an album
of collected recordings. Leaping into
the breach, Columbia supplies four
discs full to the brim with that kind
of jazz petite which is all Johns and
nobody else's. This set, sub-titled
"Astride a String BasS"-Kirby's IA
vorite musical pastime-comprises
Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy"
from TschaikoWsky; "Serenade,"
from Schubert; Double Talk" a
clever piece of jazz in fugue-time;
"Coquette." Then I'll Be Happy"
"Rose Room" and climactically,
@Sweet Georgia Brown" There is no
actual best" in this group, al
though Georgia Brown by its SEN
sational display of break-neck speed
and high-pressure virtuosity, stands
apart from the rest. Kirby and his
potent little outfit lavish equal por-
tions of smooth muSicianship on each
selection. AS evidenced here as be-
fore, ensemble playing is the Kirby
bands strong point; but don't over
look the sterling solo breaks contrib
uted by Buster Bailey on clarinet,
Russell Procope, sax, and Charlie
Shavers, trumpet.
The second volume of Decca's "An-
thology of Jazz" is fresh off the
press for those jazz enthusiasts who
have an eye and an ear for the past.
This installment, six discs repre-
senting many of the best colored
tazzmen, deserves as much acclaim
as the first issue which embraced
white bands, and for identical rea-
sons. The selection of bands covers
a wide, representative area; the Jazz
pieces show off these outfits to their
best advantage, and for entertain
ment fare the musical punch is ter
rife. A listing of the bands and in
dividual performers would run into
the next page. So take Decca's and
our word for it. the total combina-
ton is unbeatable
Single-disc performers seem to
me primarily occupied with the
classics and semi-classics at this
time. Jan Savitt's band swings,
but considerably, Saint-Saens' MY
Heart at Thy Sweet Voice" and
Rimsky- -Korsakows Young Prince
and Young Princess" Jimmy
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Piano Recital

Everett Stevens, young concert
pianist, will give his annual WASH
ington recital on Tuesday evening
at the home of Mrs. Jesse Edwin
Saugstad, 2021 Massachusetts ave-
nue. NV. He is well known here as
a composer and through his many
appearances in solo and chamber
music recitals. He is a pupil of
Ernest Hutcheson, having been
awarded fellowship at the Julliard
Graduate School in New York last
fall. Previously he studied with
Nine. Marie Won Unschuld of this
city and Austin Conradi of the Pea
body Conservatory in Baltimore. Be
sides works by Beethoven, Debussy
and Paderewski, Mr.. Stevens will
play several of his own compositions,
including a first performance of his
piano "Sonatina."
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Stokowski
Makes Last
Name Has Become
Synonymous With
Orchestra

When Leopold Stokowski steps be-
fore the Philadelphia Orchestra in
the extra concert to be given at
Constitution Hall Tuesday. April
8, at 8:45 pm, it will be his last
appearance in Washington as con-
ductor of this orchestra. Due to his
many duties as director of all the
United States Army bands, leader
of the N. Y. A. Orchestra (Which
is to tour the United States and
Canada this summeD and activities
in Hollywood, Mr.. Stokowski re-
signed his post as co-conductor
with Eugene Ormandy of the Phil
adelphia Orchestra recently, to take
effect the end of this season.
Through the many years when he
was the only conductor Of the Or
chestra, Stokowski's name and that
of the Philadelphia Orchestra be-
came practically synonymous. as he
did much TO build the splendid Or
ganization that has won world
wide recognition as the No. / Amer
ican orchestra.
AAS NAlC SOlLNClI n HCCh llOlll uto-
day the famous Westminster Choir.
originated in Dayton, Ohio. and
more recently settled with head
quarters in Princeton, N. j., will
appear with the orchestra in a per-
formance of Johann Sebastian
Bach's great "St. Matthew Passion"
music. DR.. Harl Mcdonald, man
nf tho
this concert for more than a year,
and it had its first two perform
ances in Philadelphia Friday and
yesterday, also under Mr.. Stokow-
skis baton.
The sololStS are the regular solo,
lists of the Westminster Choir, OF
which John Finley Williamson is
director. LoRean Hodapp, soprano,
was the original soprano soloist
from the earliest days of the choirs
organization. The other Soloists will
be Elizabeth Kruger, contralto;
Harold Hedgpeth, tenor; John
Baumgartner, basso. and George
Kruger, another basso.
Two choirs of 40 voices each have
been selected from the Westmin-
/ ster Choir personnel for this per
formance, and Mr.. Stokowski has
revised and shortened the passion
score (Which ordinarily would re-
quire about four hours so as to
conform to the normal concert time
of slightly more than one hour and
a half. The essential parts of the
evangelist's story are retained, as
well as many of the arias and cho-
ruses. Such an abbreviated version
was given in some cities about 10
years ago under the direction OF the
late Ossip Gabrilowitsch. This ver-
sion, however, has not been given
previously in Washington.
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IlldG DlllS 1dll w lllOoU III III
the future. The Pan-AmeriCan
Union recently announced the estab-
lShment of music division, the
purpose of which will be to act as
a clearing house for information.
The eminent musicologist, Charles
Seegar, has been appointed as chief
of the division.
In the years when the concerts at
the Pan American Union were the
only means of hearing full programs
of Latin American music, not much
thought was given to the value of
Office dedicated to this purpose, set
aside at the Union, although the
library of music which was as
sembled as a result of these concerts
has been available to any one who
might desire to borrow the scores.
Now, with the cultivation of closer
understanding between our neigh
bors and ourselves, the Union has
realized the necessity of better Or
ganization of its activities and of its
material.
Reports on Music.
The main objective of the new
department. will be to keep both the
United States and the Latin Ameri-
can countries informed as to the
music and the musical activities of
the various republics. Any one,
from amateur performer to profess
sors of universities, may call upon
the division for help or informa-
ton. The first project on which the
department will set to work is the
issuing of a series of reports on the
music of the Americas.
The Music Division of the Library
Of Congress and the American
Council of Learned Societies were
among the first to indorse the idea
of a separate music division at the
Pan-American Union. The project
was originally proposed by the
Inter American Music Committee,
one of those organized at the con-
ference and the realization of it was
made possible by the cooperation
of the Office of Co-ordinator of
Commercial and Cultural Relations
between the American Republics
and the Carnegie Corp. of New
York.
Solve Problems.
Mr.. Seegar, a graduate of Harvard
and for several years chairman of
the department of music at the
University of California and lecturer
at the Juilliard School in New York,
has been assistant director of the
Federal Music Project for the past
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"llLNll " NllN NIIC NOiiNOA ~ Va NilN
10th season of the National SYM
phony Orchestra.
But there is more to it than that:
1t has been our policy to perform in
our programs not only the so-called
regular" or standard works of the
orchestral repertoire, but also 70
delve into the lesser known works
of the acknowledged masters. as
well as to try to find works of i'm
portance among those composers
who, sometimes wrongly, have been
neglected. Quite often even great
works by great masters, for one rea-
son or another, have fallen into the
discard. A case instanter, to my
mind, is the Double Concerto by
Brahms. This, then, also is one of
the principal reasons for the Bee
thoven-BrahmS-S festival:
To perform some of the lesser known
works Of these composers and to-
gether with the better known ones
have them compared by the audience
with those master works which are
now universally beloved
For instance. we will play Sibelius'
rarely heard "Pohjola's Daughter"
and the splendid violin concerto. but
also his now everywhere requested"
Second SYMPHONY" Among the
three short works for chorus and or
chestra by the same master will be
Onward Ye Peoples and the choral
version of "Finlandia," nowadays
in the repertoire of every choral So
ciety: But also the rarely heard and
certainly equally beautiful The
Bells of Berghall."
Brahms and Beethoven.
Of Brahms we will play the Con
certo for Violin and Cello and Or
chestra." last performed in Washing
ton in 1924 and 1928; as we'll as the
Academic Festival Overture" some
of the waltzes. and the great First
Symphony in c Minor"
And by Beethoven there will be
among other works the "NamenS-
feier" overture. of which my records
show no performance during the
last 25 years (and this probably
means no performance in Washing
ton at alb as we'll as the Three
Equali for -Four Trombones." and the
First Piano Concerto" Of the lat
ter I can find only one performance;
and the Three Equali," although
according to the records often played
by the musicians of the Philadelphia
Orchestra, they again have never
been performed in Washington.
Incidentally, these performances
will add to the repertoire the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra has per-
formed during the 10 years of it's
existence. 1t may be of interest
to know that this repertoire has
included, among approximately 700
different works, all the symphonies
by Beethoven and by Brahms, five of
the six symphonies by Tschaikow-
sky, five of the symphonies by Schu-
bert, seven by Mozart, seven by
Haydn, three by Sibelius, besides, of
course, many others by Cesar
Franck, Dvorak, Schumann, Men
delssohn, Mailer, Chausson, List
(the great choral symphony "Faust')
and number of American SYM
phonies by men like Randall,
Thompson, Shure, Hanson and
others.
There is still another reason for
this festival, however. Not all of
those works by great composers
which are rarely played belong in
what ne might call the drst
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In Local Music
Circles

Nadia Boulanger will lecture on
Saturday afternoon at the Wash
ington College of Music on the
Bach "St. Mathew Passion" which
is to be sung by the Westminster
Choir with the Philadelphia Orches-
ira, Stokowski conducting, on April 8.
The Washington Missionary Col
lege A Cappela Choir, under the
direction of George w. Greer, will
be heard in a service of song to-
night at 7:30 o'clock in the Silver
Spring Baptist Church. on Wayne
avenue, Silver Spring, Md
Haydn's Creation" will be pre-
sented Saturday at 8 pm. by the
chorus under the direction of Mr..
Greer. at Columbia Hall, corner Of
Carroll and Flower avenues, in Ia
koma Park. Solos will be sung by
Myrtle Mead. sprano: Robert Paul
son, tenor. and Robert Adams. bass.
Dorothy johnson will accompany at
the piano.
This afternoon at pm. the
Junior League Glee Club, under the
direction of Theodore c. Schaeffer,
who will act also as accompanlst,
and assisted by Emaline Boyer Kin
hebrew, soprano, will give recital
/ at the Y. w. c. A, Seventeenth
and K streets. The program will
include songs by Morley, Purcell,
1 Mozart. Billings, GretchaninoU,
| Strickland, Schumann. Sibelius,
Pierne, Warlock, Taylor and Fletch-
er, The public is invited to attend.
On Thursday evening at $50 the
Arts Club of Washington will present
Dorothy Hutcheson, pianist. in re-
cital. Mrs. Hutcheson is we'll known
4 for her work in Washington and has
PLAYED several recitals here during
the past season. Her program on
/ Thursday evening will include works
of both classic and modern COM
posers.
On Friday the program OF the
Friday Morning Music Club will be
presented by Anne Yago McGuffey,
contralto, and Louis Potter, jr.,
cellist, with Louis Potter, sr., at
the piano. The meeting will be held
in Barker Hall, the Y. w. c. A.,
Seventeenth and K streets NV, at
1l:30 am.
Elsa Koppel is presenting group
of her voice pupils in recital at
] To- III
son place NV, on Thursday, 8
pm. Those participating are Ham
ma Carpenter, Thelma johnson,
Patricia Mccarthy. Julia Shonk.
Eleanor Morrison, Beatrice Silver
man, Phyllis Schwartz, Marion
Weinstein. Harol Lee and Louis
Dreeben. Friends are invited.
Calderon Howe will be guest or
ganist in the third recital of this
series to be given tomorrow, Wed.
nesday and Friday at the WASH
ington Chapel of the Latter-Day
Saints, Sixteenth street at Colum-
bia road. Commencing at 8 pm,
the programs will be open to the
public without charge, with D.
Sterling Wheelwright, chapel di-
rector and organist, at the console
tomorrow and Wednesday nights.
Phebe Stine has been engaged by
the Lewis Memorial Methodist
Church to serve as soprano soloist
and choir director for the balancs
of this conference year.
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Great Symphonists Give
Reason for Festival Here
BY Hans Kinder.

The question has been asked Why Beethoven Brahmssbeu
festival?
obvious. Among great symphonsts
18th centuries,
temporaries theirs the works with
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OrganiSfS and
Choir Directors

Notices for musical pro-
grams on Easter Sunday
must be received By the
Music Editor not later than
Friday, April 4, in type
tDritten form. to appear on
the special church music
pages OF Saturday, April IL.
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Music Division Created
For Pan>American Dutv
Charles Seegar Has Charge
Of Efforts to Develop
Valuable Service
BY Alice Epersman.

AT the conference held at the Library Congress
discussion cemenng the friendship
through cultural relationship
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Palm Sunday Music

John B. Wilson. A. A. G. O., organ
ist and choirmaster of Christ Luth-
eran Church, Sixteenth and Gallatin
streets NV, announces that Edwin
Steffe, baritone soloist of the WASH
ington Cathedral Choir, has been
engaged to sing the baritone solos in
the cantata, "Olivet to Calvary"
which will be presented by Christ
Lutheran Choir on Palm Sunday
evening at o'clock in the church.
George Anderson, tenor soloist of
st. Margaret's Episcopal Church
Choir, will sing the tenor role in this
production of the well-known lenten
meditation, Bertha KryZ, soprano,
member of Christ Lutheran Choir,
will sing the soprano solos. Mr.. Will
son will play the score and will di-
rect the choir of 20 voices in the
production.
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Thelma Callahan presented a
group of her pupils in a studio re-
cital yesterday. Piano solos, duets
and two-piano numbers were played
by Joan Carol Birkett. Carol Joan
Tribe. Bernard Bord, Shirley NAL
lorey, Phyllis Kettner, Shirley Ward,
Helen Louden, Truman Ward, Lar
ry Stilwell, Gloria Slovensky, Bill
Clampitt, Donald Mallorey, Bea-
trice Keating, Wilmer Schantz,
Dorothy Fielder, Jean Woodward,
Dickie Hill, Janet Mallorey, Mary
Jean Wexford, Virginia Bradford,
Doris Frazier, Virginia Perrin, Vir-
ginia Baker and Genevieve Hill
himer.
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On Friday the program OF the
Friday Morning Music Club will be
presented by Anne Yago McGuffey,
contralto, and Louis Potter, jr.,
'cellist, with Louis Potter. sr., at
the piano. The meeting will be held
in Barker Hall, the Y. w. c. A.,
Seventeenth and K streets NV, at
l1:30 am.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
ByH. GEORGE FRANKS,
Rowing British Author and Journalist
KotfIhPUR. india

A MILLION people are stil fasting for
~ ten hours a day and still dressing
themselves in rags they pay tribute
to Lieutenant Colonel His Hghness Shr Sir
Raiaram Chhatrapau. Maharajah of Kol-
hapur. Lord of the Sacred Umbrella who died
recently from over-eating at the age Of 43
after a reign of IS years.
The Maharajah' funeral was as spectae-
ular ar his life had been The body covered
with gold leaf adorned with jewels and
guarded by his fierce hunting cheetshs. passed
through fifteen miles of weeping crowds as
IL slowly travelled from his palace TO the
burning CHAT There, laid enormous
pile Of sandal-wood soaked in altar OF roses,
the corpse was set afire by his two wives.
Monarch of a territory covering about
3 $50 square miles the Maharalah Of Kolhapur
was probably the heaviest Of midas princes.
He weighed close to 400 pounds and was
proud of H. too.
II was quite usual for him to 81 down
and eat three meals one after another start
ing each time with the first course and go
inr right through the menu Returning from
an arduous hunting trip, he has been known
10 eat five full dinners. Yet he was anything
but law or somnolent even after such gorge.
A hard game Of polo a wild ride through the
Jungle or a twenty-round wrestling match
vas his usual means of digesting his food.
He was, indeed. a splendid wrestler. and
would meet all corners at any time. II esPe-
cially delighted him the challenger was
one of his own subjects. fortune awaited
the man who could defeat the Mshsra5ah.
Every time such a wrestling contest was neld.
he would award huge silver cup TO the
winner with the result that In the palace
there is a large room almost overflowing with
cups the Maharajah has won all presented
by himself to himself with great ceremony
But wrestling was not by any means the
only active sport in which this huge and amaz-
ing man participated. He inherited from his
father a love for hunting. But TO him the
only hunting worth troubling about was that
which had a thrill to it. So he would 70 out
into the Jungle on horseback with six specially
trained but very vicious, cheetahs looking for
tigers psnthers milder game.
Many times these trips almost ended IA
tally for him, as he was adventurous almost
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

to recklessness. A wounded tiger once leaped
right epeE his head a. The Mahsfatai47- despite
his bulk slipped TO the ground with not a
split second to spare. An Infatuated blue bull
charged him from around a tree, only to find
Itself suddenly caught by the horns and
twisted onto its back with its neck broken.
Once when he was out pig-sticling, boar,
with the Maharajsh's spear through its body,
charged straight at the pony the Maharajah
was riding. The protruding end Of the spear
went through the pony's neck. AS the pony
reared. 1t threw the Msharajah into such
position underneath the struggling pair of
animals that he could not get up. But the
pony, in spite OF its wound, struggled to its
feet stood over its royal master and kicked
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Ceremony

It eventually recovered from its wounds,
and was placed in honorable retirement on
special pension and whenever the Maharajah
was in Kolhapur he paid it a personal visit
every day When the pony died, the Malaria
iah attended its funeral and himself designed
a fine tombstone for the animal.
Being a polo lover, the Maharajah found
it difficult to find pony strong enough to
support his enormous weight so he imported
after search lasting more than a year. one
Of the huge white shire horses used in a IA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

nous circus. Six beautiful ami
mails were rejected because His
Highness found one or two black
hairs on their bodies. His spe-
cial mount had to be all white,
without a blemish.
He was so impressed by the
picture of himself on this mount
that he sent a special courtier
around the world 10 find team
Of six such horses to draw his
gold coach. The search took
four years; and in the end the
tired but triumphant courtier ar
rived with six magnificent ami
mails that had spent their lives
in London's streets drawing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

at the boar IN
til one OF the
Maharajah's ser
wants ran up and
rescued him
Two days later
the Maharajah
was told that the
pony was fret
ting and would
not cat its food
So he went per
sonally TO see
what could be
d on Q. Tnniedi-
stely the pony
saw its master,
It began to take
food gave no
trouble when
m e icin e was
poured down its
thro at a n d
showed obvious
signs that the
FIRE ttin < was
caused by worry
lest its master
had baen killed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

would play tug-of-vvar for hours using special
feeding and drugs to insure that they did not
grow to the normal stature.
But perhaps his best loved sport was horse
racing He had a small but exceedingly well
Organized race course at which meanings Here
held twice annually These attracted large
crowds of visitors. partly because all impor-
tant guests were accommodated at the ex-
pense of the State. Private inquiries would
be made about the brand of cigarette the guest
usually smoked, his favorite drink and food.
so that on his arrival an abundant supply was
on hand.
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regularly until they lost any
trace of color
The Maharajah, indeed. had
a passion for white animals.
In his palace there were four
rooms devoted to hundreds Of
white mice, two corridors of
white cats. three rooms full
of cages of white rabbits, and
five large courtyards housing
white dogs. Here, too all man.
ner of lodges were adopted
by the vendors to insure that