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Music
National Symphony
Victory Concert
Plans Announced

Orchestra at Constitution Hall on
Wednesday, November 4, at $3.50
pm, the entire proceeds of which
will 60 to the Community War
Fund of Washington. The pro-
gram has not yet been decided
upon, but will contain major
symphonic work, either the Bee
thoven Fifth Symphony" or
Dvorak's New World Symphony"
A soloist Of renown will be featured.
The orchestra association will fur
nish the orchestra without charge
and DR.. Kinder, as its conductor,
will donate his services. The
Daughters of the American Revo-
luton will give the use of Consti-
tuition Hall free as their contribu-
ton. Full details will be announced
as soon as the Soloist has been
chosen.
The regular evening series by the
orchestra will open Wednesday, No
vember IL, with Jascha Heifetz as
soloist in Prokofieff'S Second Con-
certo for Violin" The Wednesday
concerts continue to be an all
subscription series, with all tickets
sold on a season basis only.
Last year the all-subscription plan
was an experiment and the expert
mert was success. BY having the
Wednesday evening concerts an all
subscription series, the National
Symphony Orchestra had almost
5000 season subscribers. This year
plans are ready to better last years
mark. The Women's Committe has
opened headquarters at 1727 K
street NV. preparatory to an
intensive two-week campaign for
subscriptions which begins this
Wednesday with luncheon at the
Mayflower Hotel.
Subscribers may obtain season
seats up to $3.50 pm. on November
II, the night of the first concert.
If unsold seats remain after No
vember II, season ticket holders
will be given the privilege of pur-
chasing during the season a quota
Of not more than six guest tickets in
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capacity. Subscribers requests for
guest tickets" will be taken care
OF at the symphony box Office only.
! Always providing that such seats are
available, a subscriber may request
the entire guest quota of six seats
for one concert, or for various con-
certs in any number designated
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for the Wednesday concerts will be
for sale at the box Office other than
to season subscribers And. except on
opening night, November II, the box
office in Constitution Hall will not
be open on Wednesday evenings.
Cathedral Choral
Society Concert
Friday, December 10, has been an
nounced as the date of the first
concert of the year by the Cathedral
Choral Society of Washington. The
group will present Mendelssohn' S
Elijah" in Washington Cathedral.
and will be assisted by a quartet Of
well-known soloists and accompanied
by members of the National SYM
phony Orchestra and the great organ
of the Cathedral
Although the chorus has passed
the 200 mark in membership, Guest
Conductor William Strickland, who
was loaned to the society by the
Army Music School at Fort Myer,
has announced that there are several
openings for trained tenor and So
prano voices. Singers in either of
these voice groups are urged to at
tend tomorrow nights rehearsal,
after which. they will be given audi
tions.
Rehearsals are held every Monday
evening at o'clock in the Whitby
Auditorium of the National Cathe-
dral School for Girls, located across
Woodley road from Washington
Cathedral at Thirty sixth street.
The rehearsal hall may be reached
either on trolley No. 80 or bus No
MIG, while bus No. NJ stops one block
away.