Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-15
Local Artists
'Join to Honor
Noted Composer
Tw0 Programs Mark
Beach Anniversary
Observance Here
ObSefU0WCe Here

The group of Washington artists
collaborating in the presentation Of
compositions by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach
on the evenings of Friday and Sat-
urday after Thanksgiving. November
u and %, are Nine. Julia Elbogen,
pianist; Elena de Sayn, violinist:
Bernice Hickman Gordon, soprano:
William Leach, baritone; the Sayn
String Quartet and Kenton Terry,
f1utist. These two programs given
in honor OF Mrs. Beach's 18th birth
day anniversary will be held at the
Phillips Gallery, 1900 Twenty-Five
street. Due to the limited seating
capacity of the auditorium, tickets
may be purchased only by mail
from Miss de Sayn, addressed to
1925 Fifteenth street NV.
Mrs. Beach has taken a great deal
Of personal interest in the WASH
ington celebration of her anniver.
sary and helped Miss de Sayn to
arrange the programs which will
consist Of her chamber music, piano
and violin solos and groups of songs
for baritone and soprano. Many
OF these works are already unavail.
able pending second edition.
Being a junior of Mcdowell, who,
had he lived, would have celebrated
his 81st birthday, Mrs. Beach rep
reSents the American musical ideals
Of that epoch and Is its only sur
viving pioneer. She received her
musical training in this country
exclusively, supplemented by an ex-
haustive study of the masters, which
she pursued alone through her teen
age. Unlike the majority of chill
dren, the young pianist loved to
spend hours at the piano, a prac-
tice which had to be reduced to
four hours for reasons of health.
From her young womanhood on,
Mrs. Beach was recipient of many
honors as piano soloist and COM
poser, her celebrated Mass In e
Flat" which she began when she
was barely 20, being produced under
1talo Campanini and the Boston
Symphony Orchestra in 1892.
There are not many women who
have attempted to write a SYM
phony and fewer still whose major
work received acclaim on both sides
OF the Atlantic. Since its first per-
formance by the Boston Symphony
Mrs. Beach's Gaelic Symphony,
OPP. 80" has been played by major
orchestras In this country including
the Philadelphia Orchestra, which
performed it in 1915 and again in
1920. Her Sonata for Violin and
Piano, OPP. 3d." to be heard on the
first program of the WASHINGTON
series, played by Miss de Sayn and
Nine. Elbogen, was first presented
by Teresa Carreno and Carl Hair
in Berlin and later by Eugene Ysaye
and Raoul Pugno in Paris, London
and other European centers. Mrs.
Beach chose it for her own debut
abroad in 1910 together with her
Piano Quintet" which will be tho
concluding number of the program
on Saturday, November %, played
by Nine. Elbogen and the Sayn
String Quartet.
OF the novelties not heard In
Washington heretofore are her ia
nous Variations for Flute and
Strings" dedicated to the Chamber
Music Society Of San Francisco
played by them en- tour from coast
to coast; Trio for Piano, Violin
and Cello, OPP. $50" and her String
Quartet" in one movement, still in
manuscript. According to Mrs.
Beach, this will be the first per-
formance of the quartet anywhere
in this country.