Evening star., 1943-07-18
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The seventh season Of "Sunset
Symphonies" by the National SYM
phony Orchestra at the Potomac
Water Gate comes to q brilliant
close this week with three con-
certs featuring such varied fare as
Spain's greatest dancer. a great
Negro soprano and two nationally
known artists who are now in the
service Of the Army Air Corps.
Soloists on tonight's Water Gate
concert are Argentinita, Pillar Lopez
and company; on Wednesday Dor
othy Maynor and Hans Kinder will
share the spotlight, and on Friday
a special concert dedicated to the
Army Air Corps will be given to take
the place of the Cancelled Granger
concert. featuring the talents Of
Emo Valasek, violinist, and Glenn
Darwin, baritone, both privates in
the Army. This last concert will be
under the direction Of Charles
O'Connell, RCA-Victor's director Of
artists and classical recordings.
When Argentinita returns with
her highly gifted sister, Pillar Lopez,
and her two male partners, Jose
Greco and Manolo Vargas, tonight,
the National Symphony will again
be directed by Francis Garzia, its
assistant conductor who accom-
panied her so ably upon her first
Water Gate appearance here a year
ago. Argentina, with Pillar, Greco
and Vargas, will present nine dances.
In addition to her famous choreog-
raphy to Ravels "Bolero," they will
dance "Sevilla" (Albeniz), "Danza
Espanola" (Jimenez), the millers
dance from The Three-Cornered
Hat" Ode Falla, "Zorongo Gitano"
Garcia Lorca), "Bolero" from the
"Dona Francesquita" Wives, selec-
tions from Bizet's Carmen" Amor
Gitano" lGranados) and "Jota de
Alcaniz' (FonD. The purely orches-
trail program includes Beethovens
Fifth Symphony in c Minor" the
overture to "Euryanthe," by Weber,
De Falla's DANA Espanola, No. l."
and AlbeniZ Cordoba"
Dr. Kinder, permanent conductor
of the National Symphony. returns
to the podium on Wednesday
evening, for what was to have been
the gala final concert of the season.
No longer final, it is still very much
gala, if for no other reason than
that it marks the Water Gate debut
of the great Negro soprano, Dorothy
Mavnor. Miss Maynor's rise to fame
is one of the rare success stories
in recent musical history. A short
time ago she was virtually an
unknown singer. Today she is
considered to be one Of the outstand-
ing voices of the day..
The daughter of a Norfolk, Va,
minister, Miss Maynor few sum-
mers ago went to the Berkshire Fes-
tival to hear the music of the Bos-
ton Symphony Orchestra conducted
by Serge Koussevitzky. Persuaded to
listen to her during a merning re-
hearsal Koussevitzky became enthu-
siastic and invited her to sing the
following day at the picnic he gave
each year for the members of his
orchestra This gilt-edged profess
sional audience of musicians, critics
and music lovers marveled at Miss
Maynor's versatility, her tremendous
vocal range.
Her brilliant New York debut fol-
lowed few months later, followed
in turn by engagements with the
Boston, New York Philharmonic,
Philadelphia and Chicago Symphony
Orchestras. and her sensational ca
reer was launched At the Wafer
Gate Miss Maynor Will sing both
arias and a group of songs, all still
to be announced. DR.. Kinder has
programmed for his final appear
ance of the summer Mendelssohr'
symphony No. in A maior"; a
world premiere, Reflection on the
River" by the Philadelphia COM
poser, Lindsay Norden; Love Music
from Moussorgskys Boris Godou-
now Dvorak's Carnival Overture"
the Lee Rigg,' by Richard Frank
Goldman, and, by request, Tchai-
kovsky's Waltz of the Flowers"
Because rain cancelled the sched-
uled Percy Granger concert on Fri
day, July 10, the National Symphony
management has added an addi-
tional concert to its schedule on
Friday. Soloists are two young men,
bers of the U. 5. Army Air Corps,
both of whom were we'll launched on
a successful artistic career before
induction into The ARM, which has
stationed them at Boiling Field.
Pvt. Valasek. violinist, will be
heard on Friday evening IN the
Saint-Saens violin Concerto No. g."
Pvt Darwin, former baritone of the
Metropolitan Opera Association. will
sing with the orchestra George
Whiteheld Chadwick's "Lochinvar" :"
Mr.. O'Connell has programmed Ben
amin's "Overture to an Italian Com
edy," Victor Herbert's american
Fantasy" Two Hebraic POEMS" by
Harl Mcdonald, Cailliet's "Varia-
tons" on Pop Goes the Weasel"
and Peter Bodge's Salute to Our
Armed Forces" Tickets for the
Granger concert will be honored