Evening star., 1943-04-25
Music
Notes

Fine Music Season
Is Announced for
Forthcoming Year
Fifteen OF Americas greatest con-
cert and recital attractions will be
presented at Constitution Hall next
season under the management of
Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey, grouped
into three series Of five attractions
each, all but one event to be given
on Sunday afternoons at 4 o'clock.
The only exception will be an opera
TIC performance Of Faust" to be
seen and heard on Tuesday eve
ming, November 8, at $3.50 o'clock.
Mrs. Dorsey'S first series will open
on Sunday afternoon, October "a, at
4 o'clock, with the only Washington
appearance next season Of Vladimir
HoroWitz, noted Russian pianist.
This series will include four other
Sunday afternoon events, Nemenoff
and Luboshutz, duo-pianists; Ezio
Pinza,' basso, Metropolitan Opera;
Heifez, violinist, and the Don Co.'S
sack Russian Male Chorus, Serge
Jaroff conducting, making their 14th
consecutive annual appearance in
this city.
Mrs. Dorsey's second series, to be
given on five Sunday afternoons at
4 o'clock, will open on October 81
with the only local appearance next
season of Richard Crooks, tenor,
Metropolitan Opera, and will in
clude appearances Of Kreisler. the
worlds most beloved violinist; Bart
lett & Robertson, duo-pianists; Jose
1turbi, Spanish pianist, and Gladys
SWarthout, mezzo-soprano, Metro
politan Opera.
The third series begins on Tues
day evening, November 9, at $3.50
o'clock, with the Charles L. Wagner
production OF Gounod's Faust"
with Jan Kiepura and Susanne
Fisher, tenor and soprano, respec-
lively, of the Metropolitan Opera, in
the principal roles, and with a noted
cast of Metropolitan Opera favor
ties, scenery, costumes and orches-
ira of 35. Other attractions included
in this series will be Szigeti, cele-
brated violinist; Robert Casadesus,
noted French pianist; Artur Rubin
stein. the famous Polish pianist, and
a joint recital by Jan Peerce, tenor,
Metropolitan Opera, and Vivian
Della Chiesa, lyric soprano OF radio
opera and concert renown. The last
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all appear on Sunday afternoon at
4 o'clock.
An illustrated circular of Mrs.
Dorsey's 1884 attractions is in
course of preparation and will be
mailed to any music lover on re-
quest by Mrs. Dorsey's Concert Bu-
reau, in Droop's, 1900 G street NV.
All applications for this circular
should be mailed as Mrs. Dorseys
Concert Bureau will be open during
the summer for the receipt of mail
orders and inquiries only.
National Symphony Revievs
Recent Fine Season.
The National Symphony Orches-
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during its 1923 season 80 concerts
in Washington; "a out of town, or
a total of 73 concerts.
Its Washington concerts were
made up of eight Wednesday all
subscription concerts; 10 Sunday
afternoon concerts; Beethoven
Festival of two concerts; nine stu
dents concerts; three $3.50" con-
certs; one Victory" concert featur-
ing Gladys Swarthout; one PAN
American concert, under the guest
direction of Carlos Chavez: two Joint
appearances with the Ballet Theater
and three joint appearances with the
Philadelphia Opera Co.
Its out-of-toWn concerts were
comprised of a Baltimore season Of
13 concerts; Richmond, Va, sea-
son OF four concerts, and II concerts
on tour. Two guest conductors ap-
peared with the orchestra: Mr..
Chavez, who conducted his own
"Sinfonia de Bale, H. p" as we'll
as other American works; and Alex
ander Tansman, who directed the
premiere of his Symphony No. 5
in D Minor and the first Washing
ton performance OF his Polish
Rhapsody"
Eight of the orchestras soloists
were vocalists: James Melton,
Gladys Swarthout, Margaret
Speaks, Edwina Eustis Gin the NAH
ler symphony No. ~, and in the
Beethoven Ninth" Emma Belden,
Jean Handzlik, Howard Vandenburg
and John Hamill.
Eight pianists appeared: Arnaldo
Estrella. Percy Granger, Oscar Le-
want, Eugene List, Jose Iturbi.
Frances Nash, Egon Petri, Evelyn
Swarthout.
Six of the soloists were violinists:
Carroll Glenn, Jascha Heifetz. Mar
guerite Kuehne, Nathan Milstein,
Millard Taylor, Efrem Zimbalist
There was one cello soloist, Ray
Garbousova
In addition, four choral groups
appeared with the National SYM
phony in its presentation of the
Beethoven Ninth: Washington
Choral Society, George Washington
University Glee Club alumnae, New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Choir and the Mout Vernon Place
Methodist Church Choir of Balti-
more.
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