Evening star., 1947-02-09
Detroit / Offers
Forums and
New Stars
By Alice Eversmon

will hold its Oath Biennial Conven-
tion in Detroit, April 20 to n, and
program with several special fea-
lures has been arranged. In adii-
ton to the social activities planned,
there will be forums at which such
prominent speakers as DIR. How
ard Hanson, director Of the East
man School of Music, Thomas New
ton, Canada's cultural attache, Mrs.
Herbert Witherspoon, executive Sec
retary of the Metropolitan Opera
Guild, Lyman Bryson. originator of
Columbia's famous Peoples Plat
form, Nine. Olga Samarof Stokow-
ski and Edgar Guest will be heard.
The musical programs will afford
occasions for the Federation to pre-
sent artists started on their way to
fame by the winning of the Fedora
ton award. Anne Kullmer, one Of
the few women conductors in the
world, will be featured on Youth
Day, April 26. Miss Kullmer,
Federation sponsored musician, has
returned from conducting orchestras
in Europe, among them the Vienna
Philharmonic, to continue her sue
cess in this country. With her on
the Youth Day program will ap-
pear 15-year-old Sylvia Zaremba,
pianist, and the 11-year-old violinist,
Robert Menga, winner of the 1916
Edgar Stillman Kelly Junior
Scholarship.
Large Groups To Appear.
Three singers of the Metropolitan
Opera whose careers began with
help from the Federation will be
heard on other programs. Margaret
Harshaw, and Martha Upton, con-
traltos and Robert Weede, baritone,
were winners Of the awards in ma
tionwide contests which placed
them before the attention of the
Metropolitan Opera. Several fed
Grated choirs will give programs and
the Wayne University Band, Or
chestra and Chorus together with
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
are the major ensemble groups to
participate.
United Nations Day will be OBJ
served on April Is when the CO.
stars will be Raya Garbousova, Rus
sian cellist, and Ramon Vinay,
Chilean tenor, who was recently
chosen by Toscanini for the title
role in Verdis "OteIlo" for the
opening of the new La Scala Opera
House in Milan. Two pianists will
be heard during the sessions, Gizi
Szanto of Detroit and Joanna Har-
ris, the latter presenting works Of
her husband, DR.. Roy Harris. A
concert of American compositions
is planned for the Detroit Sym
phony by its conductor, Karl Krue-
ger. ,...
Aid Given European Groups.
The Federation's activities this
past year have extended to Europe
where it has given help to various
groups striving to function again.
Notable among these are the several
orchestras provided with instru-
ments or with requirements impos-
sible to obtain in the war torn coun-
tries.
The most outstanding of these
charitable efforts is the assistance
being given In the rebuilding of
London's famous Queens Hall. The
Federation is working with Dame
Myra Hess for the restoration of
the great concert hall bombed dur
ing the London blitz. 80 PEG
Mrs. Guy Patterson Gannett, ma
tional president, said: eve feel that
no more significant gesture could
be made to indicate our confidence
in and sympathy with one of our
major allies in the great war just
passed than to help in the rebuild
ing of London's famous concert hall
where so many world famous mu-
sicians, many of them of American
extraction, have appeared"