Evening star., 1943-01-17
Music
Notes
First Beethoven
Festival in Five
Years Opens Here

FESTIVAL IN f1ve years Will be held
tomorrow evening in Constitution
Hall when the National Symphony
Orchestra, under the direction of
Hans Kinder, presents the first of
three concerts devoted to his works.
The festival will be continued on
Wednesday evening and will be con-
cluded the following night. Bee
thoven's masterpiece, the Ninth
Symphony" Is scheduled for Wednes-
day, which Is the regular fourth mid
week all-subscription concert. It will
be repeated the following evening. In
addition, the Romance In F" for
violin and orchestra will be heard
at Thursdays concert, played by
Marguerite Kuehne, violinist, solo,
ist with the National Symphony.
In all, six soloists and four choral
groups of $50 massed voices will par
ticipate. Twenty-two-year -old Car
roll Glenn, American violinist, will
be soloist in the ID Major Violin
Concerto" tomorrow evening. Vocal
parts in the Beethoven Ninth
Symphony" on Wednesday and
Thursday nights will be sung by
Juanita Carter, soprano; Jean
Handzlik, alto; John Hamill, tenor.
and Howard Vanderburg, bass bari
tone; the choral portions will be
executed by the combined voices of
the Washington Choral Society,
Louis Potter, director; the George
Washington University Glee Club
alumnae, DR.. Robert H. Harmon,
director; the choir from the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Charles D. Beaschler, director, and
the choir from the Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Church In Balti-
more, j. Edward Meyer, director.
Miss Kuehne, the sixth soloist, will
be heard, as mentioned above, on
Thursday.
Carroll Glenn, tomorrow nights
soloist, has a schedule this season
that even a Heifetz or a Menuhin
might envy, including 20 appear
ances with symphony orchestras
and total Of so engagements. Miss
Glenn has achieved her renown
here in America by means open to
any other equally gifted youngster.
Beginning on a mail order house
instrument under her mothers in
struction at the age of 4, Miss
Glenn continued her music studies
at the University of South Caro-
lima, travelling 65 miles every Satur-
day for her lessons. At II she was ac-
| quiring her technique from Edouard
Dethier at the Juilliard School, prac-
ticing from five to seven hours a
day. AS result she is said to
possess a tone OF richness and
breadth that few masculine violinists
attain.
The second violinists appearing on
the Beethoven Festival Is Marguerite
Kuehne, assistant concert master of
the National Symphony. Like Car
roll Glenn, Miss Kuehne was a
child prodigy In her native State,
California. At II she played the
Bruch &c Minor Concerto" with the
Los Angeles Symphony under ROD
zirlski; two years later she was heard
In Saint-Saens' "B Minor Concerto"
under DR.. Otto KIemperer. For the
next six years, which brings her up
to her graduation last May, Miss
Kuehne studied under Zimbalist at
the Curtis Institute of Music.
The four young singers who will
have the solo roles In the Ninth
Symphony" are members of the
Philadelphia Opera Co. heard here
two weeks ago. Juanita Car
ter's soprano voice is familiar to
Washington music lovers through
her many appearances In her ma
tive city; Jean Handzlik, alto, a
daughter Of the cornet soloist with
Sousa's and Arthur Pryor's bands,
has sung with symphony orchestras,
but has been identified principally
with Gilbert and Sullivan roles;
John Hamill, tenor, has covered such
divergent assignments as soloing
with Fred Warnings radio orchestra
and the leading tenor role in the
New Opera Co. production of Mac
BETH" and Howard Vanderburg,
bass baritone, has the various
distinctions of being a protege of
Lawrence Tibbett, an original mem
ber of the Philadelphia Opera Co.
and of having been soloist with the
Philadelphia Orchestra under Or
mandy.
The complete programs for the
three concerts follow: Tomorrow,
'Fidelio Overture" Symphony No. 7
In A Major" Concerto in D Major"
for violin miss Glenn, soloist);
Wednesday, Leonore Overture No.
g." Symphony No. 8 in D Minor;
Thursday, 'Leonore Overture No. g."
Romance in r." for violin and or
chestra miss Kuehne, soloist) ,
Symphony No. 8 In D Minor"