The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-22

it is opening a miniature chamber music hall with seating capacity | of 250.
 Carnegie and Town Halls are supplemented by the Carnegie Chamber Music Hall and the New York Times Hall, with a fair but limited capacity. Other events are being held in the museums, hotel auditoriums, Hunter College, Co., 1umbia University and similar places.
 What might be called the Elec- tion Day week-end-although 1t had nothing whatever to do with a typical example of the musical fare being currently offered, with four major symphony orchestras heard in as many days.
 On the Friday night before cleo tion, Angey Reyes, the young Cuban violinist sensation, displayed his brilliant technique and warm tone in Carnegie Hall; Fritz Jahoda, Austrian pianist, made his Amer ican debut in Town Hall, and the New York Little Symphony, com- posed of members of the Philhar- manic Symphony and the NEG Symphony under Joseph Barone, gave the first concert of the season at the Carnegie Chamber Music Hall.
 On Saturday, Pierre Monteux of the San Francisco Syphony con- duscted the New oYrk Philhar- monic-Symphony at Carnegie Hall, with the young West Coast pianist Leon Fleisher as soloist in the Brahms Concerto No. 1. There were recitals by Lawrence White, bari tone, at Town Hall; Emmanuel List, Metropolitan Opera basso, at Hunter College, and others, besides afternoon and evening performances by the International Ballet at it's own theater and by the Ballet The ater at the Metropolitan Opera House.
 Sunday was crowded day. The Philharmonic Symphony program was repeated; Arturo Toscanini led the NEG Symphony playing the "Eroica" in a continuation of his broadcast Beethoven series in the big main studio at Radio City (ad- mission by invitation only, how ever, with the demand, as usual, far exceeding the studios 1,40O capacity); Leon Kushner, Jesus Maria San Roma and Leonard MacSwayne gave afternoon piano recitals in the Prick Museum, Times Hall and Town Hall; the New Friends of Music played Mozart and Debussy in the first of their seasons sold-out series at Town Hall at 5:30 p. m., and David Kushner took over the hall immediately aft erwards for an evening piano re- cital. The International Ballet gave two more performances.
 On Monday, Leapold Stokowski conducted the New York City Sym phony at the City Center, with Roman Totenberg, violin soloist and Hide Somer gave a piano re- cital at Town Hall. On Tuesday, Stokowski repeated his performance at p. m., befire large audience composed mostly of war workers and young people, and the Philadel- phia Orchestra under Eugene Or mandy, with William Kapell. piano soloiSt, drew a capacity audience to Carnegie Hall for an all-R Russian program.
 The Metropolitan Opera has an nounced that Lily Pons will not be heard with the company in New York this season for the first time in many years, having decided to devote her time to war work for IS weeks beginning Dec. g. She will, however, appear with the company when it makes it's spring tour The announcement did not specify whether Miss Pons' war activities would include another tour over seas to continue the work she and her husband, Andre Kostelanetz, did in the Middle Eastern war theater and elsewhere this summer.
 The absence of Miss Pons from to give fresh opportunities this the Metropolitan roster is expected season to Patrice Munsel, the young American coloratura who made her debut last season and already has versed herself in sev-