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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
Izzio PIMA Recital
| Here Next Sunday

EGio PIMA. the brilliant Italian
basso OF the Metropolitan Opera
Association considered to be one
his generation, comes to ConStjtu-
ton Hall Sunday afternoon, March
7, at q o'clock tor his only recital
appearance of the current season
in Washington.
Presented by Dorothy Hodgkin
brought PIMA to the Capital-once
with Elizabeth Rethberg and again
with Bidu Savao-the noted basSO
will fill date previously assigned
to John Charles Thomas, Metropoli-
tan Opera baritone, wi0m radio
commitments on the coast pre-
vented from appearing here at this
time.
Although Pima has been singing
MetrOpolltan roles for the last Is
seasons, 1t was not until the current
one that he seemed to rise into his
truly great vocal estate. Born in
1892 in Rome, Pima S voice was dis
itNfit t Nll'ii TIC Shl'S ~ tftII lFatp
IN a shower bath after bicycle
race. He had barely finished
course in singing at the Rossini
Conservatory in Bologna when he
was drafted into the Italian Army.
Eventually mustered out, Pima
worked for time as railroad brake
man until the chance came along
to sing the role of King Mark in
Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro
Reale dell Opera in Rome. His
reputation was quickly made. Ar
turo Toscanini gave him a con-
tract to appear at Mlans famous
La Scala opera house, where the
late Giullo Gatti-CaSaZza saw. heard
and signed him for the Metropolitan
Opera in New York, where he is
having his greatest season.
Tickets for the Thomas recital
at Constitution Hall next Sunday
afternoon will be honored for the
Pima performance without the
necessity of an exchange.
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Music
National Symphony
Give Concert at
Pan-American

Carlos Chavez. director Of the
Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and
that country's outstanding composer
and conductor. will lead the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra in a
program at the n-American
Union, featuring music of the Amer
icas, on Saturday evening at
$50 pm.
Chavez was born in the environs
of Mexico City in 1899 and began his
study OF the piano under his brother
at an early age. Later he came
under the tutelage of Manuel M
Ponce, one of Mexico's leading COM
posers. and Pedro Luis Ogazon. an
outstanding pianist In 1918. Cha
vez composed one of his best known
works, "Sinfonia," ending his ap-
premiership three years later when
he wrote the "Cuarteto.' This was
followed the next year by eel Fuego
NueVo."
In 1923 Chavez visited the United
States. to further his keen interest
in recording. broadcasting and the
development of electric musical in
struments. He is an ardent adj
mirer of the youthful vigor Of this
country. Returning to Mexico he
became conductor of the orchestra
of the musicians union of Mexico
City, the group he has developed
into the renowned Symphony Or
nf ~ y
been director of the National Con-
servatory of Music and chief of the
department of fine arts in the sec
retariat of public education.
Within recent years he has been
guest conductor Of leading SYM
phony orchestras. including the Ma
tionai Orchestra of Peru, the Boston
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Dowries Emhroidered
Br greet Giris.

The Gree; Islands differ in types
Of art as Wei as di9lects. Plar Of
houses IN various Fees determined
tNe tyne Of embroidered ccc3r2tl"n.
The cm&, C.d2rlcs were made by
g1iS for th"ir GcvrioS and by Young
women to decorate their homes. No
girl in the Cyclodes could marry.
for instance. until she had a dOWrv
comprising as minimum a pair Of
valanceS pair of pilloWcases, a
bed curtain and an embroidered
dress.
Two of these bed tents will be
shown. one of them installed on a
typical builtup bed Judging from
its elevation. one concludes the
Greek Island people liked to sleep
in a high altitude. Both bed tents
are from the observation-disclosures
ana Kos There are examples of
other types Of work from all the
island groups
Talks on these embroideries will
be given next Sunday at $50 by
Prof. Leslie Shear Of Princeton, who
was in charge Of the Agora ExCaVa-
tons in Athens for the American
School Of Classical Studies, and BY
Mrs Harry Hill, who was the heaI
of q school of the Near Eastern
Relief in Greece for some years.
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ing her first public apnaarano. -.
''ie age OF 3 with group of piano
SOLOS before the Illinois State Music
leacherS' Association. Miss Swarth.
ouI continued her studies under her
IaVher, later doing advanced work
unoer Guy Maier and ending nm IN
London as a pupil of Tobias Mat
tnoy AT one time q member ~
the musical staff of the British
broadcasting Co., she followed this
WIN several recitals in England and
on the Continent and a concert tow
WIN the English singer. Flora Col
ms before returning to this coun-
try for New York debut at Town
Hall. Miss SWarthout, for whom to-
days will be her third appearance
with the National Symphony. is
now a resident of Washington.
A guest conductor, to appear in
the American music centers with
the Ballet Russo de Monte Carlo,
coming to Constitution Hall under
the auspices of the National SYM
phony Orchestra on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, is Gregor Fit
telberg, an artist Of Importance
visiting here for the first time. This
distinguished musician began his
career by conducting the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra during the
season Of 1867 presenting a cycle
of works by Richard Strauss with
the composer operating the wind
machine" in the orchestra during the
performance of his Don Quixote"
in Berlin.
For 10 years Mr.. Fittelberg was
chief conductor of the Warsaw
Philharmonic with yearly visits to
Moscow and Buenos Aires. The
outbreak OF World War I cut short
his tenure of conductorship at the
Vienna Opera. During the seasons
OF 1920 to 1923 the ballots new
guest conductor was en- tour with
Diaghileff in Europe. Upon his re-
turn to Warsaw he was appointed
by the Polish government to the
post of director of the Polish Radio
Orchestra which represented Poland
at the International Exposition in
Paris In 1897.
Surviving the bombardment and
the invasion of Warsaw, Mr.. Fittel.
berg was active as conductor at The
Hague, London, Paris and Lisbon.
He was re-engaged in Buenos Aires
two years ago whence he came to
the United States.
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In Local Music Circles

The March meeting Of the Dis
trlct of Columbia Chapter of the
American Guild of Organists, to be
held tomorrow evening in the parish
hall of All Souls Unitarian Church,
will be open to the public. At $3.50
pm. Howard R. Thatcher organist
and teacher of composition at Pea
body Institute, Baltimore, Md. as
sisted by Marion Seidel and Joseph
Pepper, violinists; Margaret Wilson,
obOeist, and Doris Wright. soprano,
will give the following program:
Concerto in a Minor 1.-TWO violins
and organ. Bach-Vivaldi: Con
certo in C Minor violin. oboe and
organ, B9ch; Petite Suite" 1.-TWO
violins and organ, Thatcher; group
of songs thigh voice with violin or
oboe obbligatol, Bach.
Friendship House. GIG D street
Sc, will be the meeting place at
4 o'clock this afternoon for the
Washington alumnae group Of Sigma
Alpha Iota, national professional
musical fraternity for women. Jean
Appel will be in charge of the pro-
gram, which will be devoted to the
works of Mozart. Vocal duets and
trios will be presented by Frances
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American composer, Uric Cole.
Completing today's program will be
the Berlioz Carnival Roman Over
ture."
Mr.. Crisis work reflects his many
years by the sea in the Cape Cod
region, and it Is concerned equally
with the Pilgrims and that great
body of water that brought them
to this country. Symphony on a
French Mountain Air" like many
of DIndy's best works, reveals his
poetic qualities and his absorption
in the pantheistic universe. 1t
employs the piano hardly as a solo
instrument, but rather as an i'm
portant and perhaps the dominant
member of the orchestra.
Miss Coles work, in three move
ments. was originally written as a
fantasia for string orchestra and
two pianos and was first performed
by the string orchestra of the JUL
lard Graduate School with the
composer at one of the pianos. Its
success inspired Miss Cole to eX-
pand it to three movements, re-
lated dramatically, and in this form
it was performed by Frank Blacks
String Symphony over the NBC net
work. with Miss Cole again at one
OF the pianos. Later she reduced
the two piano parts to one. and in
this, it's final form. she introduced
it with the Cincinnati Symphony
under Eugene Goossens in April,
1899. Since then it has been per-
formed nine times.
Miss Swarthout, soloist in the
D'Indy and Cole compositions, is
the youngest of the SWarthout cous-
ms. who are contributing so dis
tinctivelv to American music. Born
in Illinois and brought up in Kan
sas, she studied first under her
father, Donald M Swarthout, max
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Orchestra Plans
To Bring Famous
Artists Here
viii Appear Soon
With Philadelphia
Symphony Group

During March and April the Phil
adelphia Orchestra brings to WASH
ington three of the most colorful
personalities of the concert world,
Arturo Toscanini, famed conductor;
Gregor Piatigorsky brilliant cellist,
and Marjorie Lawrence, dramatic
soprano of the Metropolitan Opera.
Toscanini, who conducts the Phila-
delphia Orchestra Tuesday at Con-
stitution Hall, is so admired in
Washington that practically all
tickets were sold month ago.
Piatigorsky, finest cellist in the
world today, plays with the orches-
ira March 30. Critics have named
him the Russians CaSals' and his
life reads like an adventure story
From flddling in motion picture
house at 9 years of age to help
support his family, and later, after
escaping the Russian revolution with
the aid of pirates who robbed and
left him destitute, he rose to the
first cellist's desk of the Berlin
Philharmonic under FurtWangler,
became a world-renoWned soloist,
married the daughter of Baron
Edouard de Rothschild of Paris and
has now become an American cit
iZen.
Miss Lawrence appears with the
orchestra in an all-Wagner program
April 20, singing the favorite arias
from Tristan and Isolde" Her
life is a story, too, of different tone
and tempo. Eorn in an Australian
sheep-raising village of 40 souls,
she learned religious music from
the pa:sOn. At 13 she ran away
to Melbourne to win q newspaper
contest for singers. She studied
there, got to Paris and studied fur
ther and became an opera star
via the Monte Carlo and Paris
operas. Edward johnson brought
her to the Metropolitan in 1885.
Then, in June of 1941, she was
stricken with infantile paralysis and
the long fight back was difficult.
After year and a half, Marjorie
Lawrence is singing magnificently
again. She can stand for just a
moment and take a few tottering
steps. She still dreams of a ranch
in Australia, where she can ride
and swim.
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Library of Congress
Supplies Recordings

AS a result of a grant from the
Carnegie Corp. which has enabled
it to establish complete recording
library. the Library of Congress
can supply duplicates of its folk-song
records to other libraries, to schools,
colleges and the public generally
The building of the librarys archive
Of American folk song has taken
almost a decade.
The library has prepared for dis
tribution seven albums containing
1l9 titles selected as the best and
most representative of the approx
matelv 10000 records in the archive
recordings but from those made
in the field and represent many
forms of folk music. Cowboys. lum-
berjacks, farmhands. mountalneers,
sailors. convicts, share choppers,
housewives, etc, are the singers and
musicians and a natural background
is formed by such realistic sounds
as the thud of the lumberman's ak,
swung to the rhythm of the work
song or the cracking OF a Southern
Negro muleskinner's whip driving
his team of mules.
Printed leaflets containing the
text of each song and commentary
descriptive of the type accompany
each recording The set of albums
contains 80 double faced records but
single records or single albums are
also obtainable. Alan LomaX, who
has made many of these recordings.
wrote several of the leaflets. A
catalogue listing and describing the
contents of the albums, and the
price of each record may be OBJ
tanned free by writing to the Archive
Of American Folk Song, Music Divi-
sion, Library of Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
Record Reviews
BY ALICE EVERSMAN

Topping Columbias release for tho
month Of February in point of in
terest. performance and recording. is
Shostakovich's Quartet op. 49,"
played by the Stuyvesant String
quartet. This work, which has been
considerably overlooked by chamber
music groups in forming their pro-
grams. is the Soviet composer in his
most aliuring mood. The recording
far outranks that OF Debussy's Ia
Mer," the Cleveland Orchestra, Ar
thur Rodzinski, conducting, and the
Bach Concerto in E. Adolf Busch.
Vlollnlst. and the Busch Chamber
Players. which make UP the meager
output OF the company this month.
There is no message Of political
import in the quartet or any thun-
oerlng discordant sounds. On the
contrary, Shostakovich seems to
have wished to emulate other of his
country's composers by writing in
gay tone with great charm and
simplicity. The quartet, in each of
Its movements, is short but delight
1ully written with a quaint humor
and great spontaneity that shows
the composer of the First" and
second symphonies in an entirely
dlfterent light. 1t was composed in
1888 in the period that saw also the
creation of the Fifth Symphony
The excellent playing of the
Quartet" by the Stuyvesant Plav-
ers IS not duplicated by Mr.. Busch
and his chamber group. The per-
1ormance of the Bach Concerto"
with Mr.. Busch as soloist is solid
and musicianly, but without any at
tempt at coloration or pronounced
effects. The violinlst's tone is ro-
tund and his players form a prom
erly balanced background and the
recording is valuable as an addition
to the limited Bach violin concerto
literature.
Mr.. Rodzinski has wealth Of
colorful material to draw on in the
beautiful and descriptive La Mer."
which calls into play Debussy's
particular gift of tone painting. The
conductor gives it, however, a staid
reading. not to be criticized from
a musical standpoint, but without
vision and interpretive skill. The
orchestra reveals itself, as always.
an expert and we'll trained body.
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Concert Schedule

TODAY.
National Symphony Orchestra. Dr.
Hans Kinder, conductor, Evelyn
SWarthout, pianist, soloist, Constitu-
ton Hall, pm.
Music Hour Elizabeth Taylor. So
nr3nn Frances FARES pianist;
Sigma Alpha Iota Alumnae, Mozart
program; Friendship House. pm.
TOMORROW.
D c Chapter American Guild Of
violinists: Margaret Wilson, oboeist:
Doris Wright, piano; All Souls Uni
tartan Church, $50 o m.
Victrola Concert. Jewish Commun-
ity Center, $50 pm.
TUESDAY.
Philsdelpha Orchestra. Arturo
T,oSS,caninid conducting Constitution
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra.
Stanley Hall, $40 pm;
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
Army Band, Fort Myer Auditorium.
Record concert, National Archives
Auditorium, 745 pm
WEDNESDAY.
Ballet Russo de Monte Carlo, Ma
tlonal symphony Orchestra, Greeor
Fittlehere, conductor Constitution
Hall, $40 pm
Marine Band Symphony Orchestra.
Robert K8darsuch, violin. soloist;
Marine Barracks SIS pm Marine
Band, Marine Barracks. LAB pm
VictroIa Symphonic Hour. YWCA.
q pm.
THURSDAY.
Ballet Russo de Monte Carlo, Ma
tional symphony Orchestra. Oregon
Fittelherg, conducting; Constitution
Hall, $40 pm
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra.
Stanley Hall $50 pm.
Army Band, formal guardmount for
White House guards, Ellipse, 430
pm.
Navy Band Symphony Orchestra,
Departmental Auditorium. 8 80 pm
Friday Morning Music Club, Helen
Turley. contralto; Irene Lerch. piano;
Susan P Oliver SOPRANO; Barker
Hall YWCA. IL 80 am.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
lis pm.
Victrola concert, Public Library.
Maryland avenue and Seventh street
N E. 7.30 pm
SATURDAY
National Symphony Orchestra Car
los Chave. conducting Pan~Amerlcan
Union, $50 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
Stanley Hall. 5 80 pm
Army Band, Fort Myer, 1l:3O am:
Pop Ensemble concert. Fort Myer
Auditorium. 6:4b pm.
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Guide to Art

NATIONAL GALLERY. Constitu-
ton avenue at Sixth street NV
Paintings and sculptures by great
the kTess and the widen flf H coIlec
tons, the Chester Dale collection of
10th century French paintings, COL
lection OF paintings by 10th century
feus a fbe wd se by cp Peneh my
decorative arts, Chinese porcelairs,
ceramics and Italian Renaissance and
French 18th century furniture.
F5emlsh paintings lent BY Belgian
pm; Sundays, Q to 10 pm.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, Constitution
tonal collection of fine arts, compris-
ing various collections; miniatures.
Division OF GRAPHIC Arts-Etchings
Natural History Building, Foyer, pho
toeraphs by the Potomac Appalachian
Trail Club. Division of Photographs,
Arts and Industries Building, Associ-
ated Telephone Camera Clubs. Sun
d days, aad week d ~ 1eXe9pt Non Mon
days, 100 to ADO pm.
avenue and Twelfth street S.W-
Chinese bronzes, SCULPTURE. paintings.
Near East potteries, Whistlers Pea
otints BY American artists. Daily
Except Mondays. 8 am. to 4:30 pm.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Depart
ment of Fine Arts. First and East
Capitol SPECIFICATIONS print COL
lection: cabinet of American illustra-
lions: ;. Special exhibition. 20 Pr
by Hirst Milhollen.
street and New York avenue NV
Paintings by American artists, also
by 10Th century foreign artists, casts
from antique Barye bronzes, works
paintings, rugs, laces. ceramics etc.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
1901 Twenty-flrst street N.W.-Pairt-
ines by contemporary artists, chiefly
OF. French and American schools; also
prints. Decorations by Augustus
vincent Tack, paintings by LIZ Clarke,
to March Z. weekdays. II am. to
6 pm: Sundays, Q to & pm.
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DIS
IRICT OF COLUMBIA, 1880 S street
other textiles Of the Near and Far
East. Open Monday, Wednesday ard
F.idaY Hour, 2 to 5, pm, Admits
SION hy card; obtainable at the office
o. George Z Hewi.t Myers. 73o Fiji
ARTS CLUB. 2017 I street NV
Oils by Arthur B. Davies, brush draw
ings by William H. Calfee.
PUBLIC LIBRARY. Eighth and K
streets N W,-Posters and original
paintings from Owl through March.
D. A. r. MUSEUM, Seventeenth
and D streets W-"Chidhood in
WHYTE GALLERY, 17c7 H street
NV. -Palntings and drawings by
Sarah Baker
UNITED WAR RELIEF CENTER.
1918 Connecticut avenue W
Greek Island embroiderieS and other
arts, to March -
Gree Admission to All the Above)
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Powell, Martha Osborne and Bur
nette Staebler and piano duets will
be played by Catherine Murray and
Jean Appel.
The program for the Sunday
music hour at the YWCA. Seven
tenth and K streets NV, this
afternoon will be given by Elizabeth
Taylor, soprano, and Frances FAIRIES,
pianist. Miss Taylor will sing a
group of Italian songs and a group
of modern songs. Miss FAIRIES will
play works by Bach, Scarlatti. Men
delssohn and a group of pieces by
Debussy. The program begins at
5 O'Clock and the public is cordially
invited.
FRANCESCA Kaspar Lawson. So
prano, assisted by Myrtle Alcorn,
pianist, will give her annual recital
for the students, faculty and guests
at ST. Cecilias Academy Thursday
afternoon.
On Friday morning at 100
O'Clock. Barker Hall, the Friday
Morning Music Club will present
Helen Turley, contralto, Irene
Lerch, piano, and Susan P. Oliver,
soprano,
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Myers from the Textile Museum.
They date from the 18th and 16th
centuries. They were shown as
group in New York City in 1928;
the catalogue of that exhibition was
prepared by DR., A. j. B. WAGE,
keeper of textiles in the Victoria
and Albert Museum. London.
These Greek Island embroideries,
according to this authority, are far
above the usual standard and in
unity Of conception, simplicity of
design, high decorative quality and
exquisite Craftsmanship. nc III &c
to most academic embroidery. Yet
they were made by uneducated Wom-
en- from fax and silk largely grown
and spun by themselves.
These embroiderles have a long
tradition, and their patterns have
been influenced by the art Of neigh
boring lands, such as the rugs and
pottery Of Asia Minor. reflected in
the embroiderieS of SkyrOs, Italian
motifs in those Of the Cyclodes,
while in Crete and the Ionian
Islands several Influences are dis
re,r,il7lc
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BY Leila MechHn.

Among the notable loans received
by the National Gallery of Art dur
ing the past year is a portrait of
Amos Lawrence, industriahst and
philanthropist, by Chester Harding.
Not only is this painting outstand-
ing as a work of art. taking an hon.
ored place among those of the great
painters of all time, but as an ex-
position of the spirit of America
through the lives of both the painter
and his sitter.
In Blackwood's Magazine, printed
in Edinburgh, August, 1924, ap-
peared the following notice of Ches-
ter Harding:
This extraordinary man Is fair
specimen of American character.
About six years ago he was living
in the wilds of Kentucky, had never
seen decent picture in his life, and
spent most of his leisure time. such
as could be spared from the laborious
occupations of life, sign painting.
Nj. Harding, who Is now in London,
has painted some remarkably fine
portraits of extraordinary plainness,
power and sobriety.'
All of which was very true.
Harding was born in 1892 in Con-
way, Mass. to which State his
ancestors had emigrated from Eng
land in 1923. His father had an
inventive mind, but was utterly i'm
practical; the family was poor but
Injured to hardships. hard working,
accomplishing honest and sincere
The mother was a woman of fine
character and sound sense, and from
her Chester inherited in large
measure.
Life of Pioneer.
In 1906 the Hardings moved to
Western New York, which was then
still wilderness, and Chester
learned to swing an ak in the
process Of clearing the land and
building a home. In the War Of
1912 he served as a drummer in a
militia company. His life was that
Of the pioneer. At the age of 10 he
abandoned farming for chairmaking,
in which business he Joined a
younger brother in Caledonia, N. Y.
There be met and married Caroline
Woodruff. who had been a school
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Symphony, the Philadelphia Or
chestra, the New York Philhar-
monte, the NBC and CHS SYM
phonies, and the symphony Or
chestras of Cleveland, Chicago
Minneapolis, st. Louis and San
Francisco.
Invitations for the concert have
been issued by the director general
and the assistant director of the Pan
American Union, DR.. l.. S. Rowe
and Dr. Pedro de Alba, respectively.
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Art Of the Valiant GrFpkS.

The Washington Committee Of
the Greek War Relief Assoc,a ION,
Inc, Is to inaugurate a four week
program next Friday. entitled The
Greek Month of March" which will
include displays Of the art of Greece
as well as other features. Mrs.
TruXtun Beale is d. G. honorary
chairman
The major exhibition, to be shown
the opening week March to 12p
Is group Of nearly 81 Greek Island
embrolderics lent by George Hewitt