Evening star., 1951-11-25
Music
Younger Generation Features in Two
OfNotionoI Symphony Programs
By Alice Eversmon

'hony Programs /
Eversmon
formation of principles Of living.
Music that is set aside for adult
consumption only is defeating it's
aim for complete understanding of |
it comes through constant famili-
arity with it from earliest years.
The far-seeing businessmen of
the city are making their dona-
tion to a future musically en-
lightened audience by sponsoring
a number Of the concerts given
in the city's schools. The three
designed for presentation in Con-
stitution Hall for young people are
open to the public. In addition,
the orchestra will go directly to
play in Georgetown University
and the Catholic University, hav-l
ing already given a program for
the students of Trinity College.
Special ballet performances with
the orchestra are scheduled for
December and March, with the
children'S favorite stories Of Han
sci and Gretel" and Cinderella
as themes.
Young Miss Loving and Miss
Prentzel will have the honor of |
presenting for the first time To-
cally Vladimir Padwa's Concerto
in the Form of Variations for Two
Pianos and String Orchestra" on
Tuesday. The concert will be
given in the Moon Memorial Au-
ditorium of the Holton- farms
School. Padwa made his debut
here as member of the First Piano
Quartet. After resigning from the
group. he became associated with
the New York College of Music
and has devoted a great deal of
time to composition, some of his
works being programmed on his
Town Hall recitals.
Portray Composer Mozart.
Sally Ann Stretton and Thomas
Mcintosh. who play Thursday aft
ernoon in Constitution Hall, are
IL years old. They will be dressed
as the boy Mozart and his sister
Nannerl, with whom the composer |
played the concerto lit years ago. /
This must be an exciting expert
ence. both for the performers and
their friends. It will be history
making for them as well as for
the city when the benefits of the
National Symphony will all be
summed up in some learned essay.
Every effort should be expended
by the Symphony Association to
make the children and young peo-
pie realize that the National Sym
phony belongs to them. A most
gratifying tale comes from the
st. Louis orchestra of the interest
of the children in the support OF
the organization. When the drive
for funds was on in 1949, the
school children spontaneously or
ganized talent shows. candy and
cookie sales and moving picture
presentation besides undertaking
a door-to-door solicitation cam
paign. With personal contribu-
tions, they gathered together $2,-
500, and surely their enthusiasm
was responsible for larger dona-
tions by adults.
This effort on the part Of the
school children of this area" said
the manager, without any at
tempt on the part of either the
association or their teachers to
coerce, has proved conclusively ,
that the $4,000 children who hear ,,
our children's concerts each sea-
son truly appreciate the music
and do not merely attend in or ,
der to get out of school, as a few
cynics have claimed"
The fantasy of young children
discerns much more in music than
does the adult mind. They are
more responsive also, to its poetry
and beauty. The cherished i'm ,
|pressions. perhaps never put into
words. remain nonetheless as po-
tent factors in the spiritual de-
Ivelopment of a child. In these ;
times when youth is exposed to .
the harsh and ugly facets of life.
it is all the more necessary to
instill an appreciation of life's
finer elements which are always
there for those who seek. them.
The charm of music is> insidious :
and carries a message that has
no overtones of a parental SER
mon. The young minds absorb it.
In years, it will be visible in bet
ter citizenship. certainly in finer
and perhaps. in great
artists. The reaping of the seeds
planted by the National SYM
phony's work for the children,
may yield a bountiful harvest.
The Navy Bands Friday night
concert in the Departmental
Auditorium has been Cancelled due