Evening star., 1944-06-25
Music
Notes
Three Soloists Listed
For Weeks S Concerts
At Water Gate
By Alice Epersman.

Dy AHCR EpeTSWUU.
The concerts at the Water Gate
this week will present three distin-
guished soloist with the Wednesday
program dedicated to and chosen by
the Federal employees. On that
night, Antal Dorati, musical director
of the Ballet Theater, will begin his
conducting engagement which will
include seven concerts, Stanley
Chapple finishing his series tonight.
Mr.. Chapple has chosen an all
Wagner program for his farewell
performance and will introduce to
the local audience the new heroic
tenor of the Metropolitan Opera.
Emery Darcy.
Mr.. Darcy, who won national fame
when he substituted for Lauritz
Melchior in "Parsifal" on a mo-
ment's notice, will sing "Schmie-
delied," from "Siegfried"; Elm
Schwert verhiess mir der Water"
and "Wintersturme wichen dem
wonnemond," from die Walkure," "
and Am stillen Herd" from die
Meistersinger." Mr.. Chapple has
programmed the prelude to "Lohen-
grim" "siegfried Idyll," "Siegfried's
Journey to the Rhine" Ride of the
Valkyries, prelude and Liebestod,"
from Tristan and Isolde; Intro
duction to Act III" apprentices
Dance" and Homage to Hans
Sachs from die Meistersinger."
With certain of their number as
honor guests of the evening, the
Federal employees will listen on We'd
nesday to the program selected
through ballots published in the
newspapers earlier last week. They
will hear also the brilliant young
pianist, Earl Wild, now musician
first class in the Navy, who was a
member of the NBC Symphony for
six years and the first American
pianist to appear as soloist with
Toscanini.
Although Nathan Milstein, one of
the great violinists of the day, has
appeared with the National Sym
phony several times, Friday night
will see his debut at the Water Gate.
Under Dorati's direction he will play
the Mendelssohn Concerto in E
Minor" while for the orchestra has
been programmed Beethoven's Leo
more Overture No. g." two DebuSsy
nocturnes, Strauss Don Juan"
and Tschaikowsky's Francesca da
Rimini."
Revietc of Recordings.
In spite of the difficulties hamper
ing the making of new records and
which has resulted in repressings of
the old, the Victor Company has
maintained interest in its latest re-
leases by issuing Morton Gould's
Latin American Symphonette," an
album of concert favorites sung by
John Charles Thomas and Esajes
Reusner's Suite. No. l."
The latter, played by the Arthur
Fielder Sinfonietta, Mr.. Fielder con-
Quoting, is a novelty and one of the
rare works from the 18th century
in Germany It, is, a collection of
dance tunes, written by the famous
Silesian court lutist, Reusner, and
arranged by contemporary, Johann
Georg Stanley. The. work has a
simple charm and the historical
value of being the first in this later
popular form.o,~4 -,,n..
No better Interpreter could be
chosen for Gould's "Symphonette"
than Jose Iturbi who conducts the |
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
in this recording. Taking the pop
ular dances of South America,
rumba, tango. guaracha and conga,
Gould has combined them with skill
in work that does homage to Latin
American culture. All the exciting
appeal of this music together with
Gould's special idiom is brought out
in Iturbis reading.
Those listeners at Thomas
broadcast or recital who have been
thrilled with the famous baritone s
singing of Drink to Me Only With |
Thine Eyes" the beloved old song,
I'm the Cleaning; the Wiseman-
Schumann Your Presence" the
Tietjens-Russell "Fulfullment," the
Arnold Bridge Come to Me in My
Dreams" and Tostis "Mattinata"
will find them in the new collection
sung with Mr. Thomas' cpns,IrnataI |