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Guild to Continue
Organ Festival;
IOther Events

organ FESTIVAL; !
Other Events
BY ALICE EvERSMAN.
Some five years ago the enter
|prising District Of Columbia Chap
ter Of the American Guild of Or
ganists instituted spring festival
Of organ music. 1t became so pop
ular that the festival was continued
leach year thereafter and by means
of these recitals, given by out
standing organists of the city at
the beautiful Washington Chapel
OF the Church Of Jesus Christ, Lat
ter Day Saints, the general public
was made acquainted with some OF
the finest organ literature. Also
the varied ability of the performing
artists in the handling of their in
|strument for interpretive effects
widen the understanding of the po-
tentialities of the organ.
The festival will be continued this
year. limited to three recitals in
which organists now in the armed
forces will participate. The first
concert will be given on Monday,
May /. by Sergt. Charles Henderson,
now stationed at Forest Glen, Md,
but formerly assistant organist at
the Church Of st. Mary the Virgin,
New York City. On Wednesday,
May 8, the former organist Of Over
brook Presbyterian Church in Phil
adelphia, Sergt. Henry Beard, will
come from his station at the Post
Chapel, Fort Meade, to give pro-
gram. The final artist presenting
the concert on Saturday, May 6, will
be 1t. Elwood Hill of the Army
Signal Corps, formerly organist at
Christ Church, Cranbrook, Mich.
The concerts will be held at 8 pm.
at the Washington Chapel.
| Macy School Concert.
The first concert Of the Navy
School Of Music at Constitution Hall
was great event for that institu-
ton. The 110-piece band of young
Navy musicians played with a zest
that reused the audience to q great
enthusiasm as did the singing of
the chorus of 100 voices. This first
concert was followed by others
equally successful so that the an
nouncement Of another program
to be given on Thursday, May 4, at
Constitution Hall will meet the ap-
proval Of the Navy Schools in
creasing admirers.
Many Of the young musicians who
will perform under the direction Of
1t. q. g. James M. Thurmond will
graduate from the school within a
few weeks to, be sent as 23-piece
unit bands to ships capable Of
carrying such group. Here, be-
sides playing for every occasion,
they will take their battle stations
with the others should the need
arise.
For this spring program the selec-
tions will range from the classics
to nnodernistic arrangements Of late
tunes. The soloist will be Richard
E. Larson, seaman, second class, q
pianist who was scholarship pupil
of the Cosmopolitan School of Music
in Chicago and who has concert
lied extensively. He will play the
Grieg Concerto in A Minor" to
the bands accompaniment.
Trap Family Returns
The famous Trapp Family Singers
return for another program of un-
usual old church and folk songs
next Sunday afternoon at 4 O'Clock
in Constitution Hall. This year the
group Is limited to the Baroness Won
Trapp and her seven daughters with
the Rev. DR.. Franz Washer direct
ing as before. Besides the songs, an
instrumental group played on block
flutes or recorders will be included
as well as authentic Alpine yodels.
Some new transcriptions by DR..
Washer of American folk songs will
be sung for the first time.
Dorsey Artists
Heading the list of artists being
presented next season by Dorothy
Hodgkin Dorsey is Lawrence Tib-
bett who has not given a recital
here in some years. He will ap-
pear on the first Sunday series to-
gether with Vladimir Horowitz and
Robert Casadesus. pianists, Bidu
Sayao, soprano, and Yehudi Meni-
hin, violinist.
The second Sunday series will be
opened by Artur Rubinstein, the
only other pianist on the list being
Claudio Arrau. Other artists will
be Fritz Kreisler, violinist; Ezio
Pima. bass, and James Melton, ten
or, and Eleanor -Steber, soprano the
last two in joint recital. Three eve
ming recitals are scheduled for
Jeanette Macdonald, Jose Iturbi
and the Don Cossack Russian Male
Chorus. A special announcement
regarding the new 20 per cent ad-
mission tax is to be found in the
illustrated circular sent on request