Evening star., 1943-05-16
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Six Piano Recitals
By Maxim Schapiro
On Library List

Under the auspices OF the Eliza
beth Sprague Coolidge Foundation
in the Library of Congress, Maxim
Schapiro, eminent Russian pianist,
will give series of six piano re-
citals in the Coolidge Auditorium of
the Library. These recitals will take
place on Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings in May and June. The
dates are May Is and 26, June l
and 2, 8 and 8. The six programs
will cover a wide range of key
board literature and be representa-
tive of many schools of musical
composition since keyboard writing
began to flourish. They will be pre-
sented in chronological order SO that
the listener will gain not only an
unusual amount Of musical pleas
ure but also clear perception of
the historical development of piano
literature. The pieces to be played
will be drawn from the 18th, 18th
and goth centuries and will include
some OF the greatest works ever writ
ten for the piano.
The first two concerts will be de-
voted to the masters who wrote for
the harpsichord and to the Viennese
classicists, that is. from Rameau
through Bach and Handel to Haydn,
Mozart and Beethoven. The third
and fourth programs will illustrate
the upsurge and triumph of roman
ticism including such composers as
Schubert, Weber, Schumann, Men
delssohn, Chopin, Liszt and Brahms.
The fifth concert will be post-ro-
mantle and nationalistic and invade
the field of impressionism. Here
the composers will be Franck,
Tschaikowsky, Scriabin, Liadoff,
Balakireff, Rachmaninoff, Debussy
and Ravel. In the sixth program
composers Of the present day will
be featured, among them, Milhaud,
Villa-Lobos, Prokofeff, Bartok,
Stravinsky, Medtner, Rieti and two
Americans, Virgil Thomson and
Charles Jones.
The program Of May Is will be:
"Gavotte and Variations in A
Minor" Rameau; two sonatas by
Scarlatti; prelude and Fugue in F
Minor and English Suite in C
Minor" Bach: Suite in F Sharp
Minor" Handel; "Chromatic Fan
tasy and Fugue," Bach, and by the
same composer two organ choral
preludes arranged by Busoni and
the famous organ "Toccata and
Fugue in D Minor" arranged by
Tausig
The program OF May 26 will pre-
sent Sonata in E Minor" Haydn;
Beethoven's "32 Variations in C
Minor" Sonata in E Major, Opus
109;" Mozart's Fantasia in D
Minor and his variations on Come
un'agnello" The concluding piece
will be Beethoven's famous "Wald-
stein Sonata, Opus So"
Tickets for the entire series will
be available on and after Thursday
morning at $3.50 am. at the box
Office of c. c. Cappell in Ballard's
Music Shop, 1340 G street NV.
YeHa Pessl to Play at
The National Gallery.
Yella Pessl will repeat the pro-
gram given yesterday at the Ma
tional Gallery of Art this afternoon
in two performances at and pm.
She will be heard in Handel's Suite
No. 3 in D Minor" Arne's Sonata
No. in E Minor" and six Sonatas"
by Scarlatti.
This concert will be presented as
part of the second muSic-lecture in
the series at the National Gallery of
Art during the month of May. At
each of her three performances. the
soloist's program will be preceded by
short lecture illustrated with
slides and given by Mary Catherine
Udall of the gallery staff. English
and Italian paintings in the gal
lery's collection will be discussedsin
relation to the music Of the time
as presented in Miss Pessl's pro-
gram. The title of this music-lec-
ture is Georgian England and the
Italian Style" and is open to the
public free Of charge and no tickets
are required for admission.
Miss Pessl, long a resident in the
United States, was educated abroad,
especially in Vienna, her birthplace,
where she attended the Vienna
Academy Of Music. She is noted in
this country for her numerous harp
sichord recitals and appearances
with such organizations as the New
York Philharmonic Symphony So
ciety and the Beethoven Association.
In the field Of music education, she
has founded the Bach Circle. At
present she is member Of the fac
ulty of Columbia University in the
music department, where she con-
ducts courses on the music and
literature of the 17th and 18th CEN
turies.