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News of Music:

It may surprise many in this
city and elsewhere to learn that
Q great deal of interest is ex-
pressed i'll Europe over the pros
pect of Washington having, one
day. a great art center where
opera. symphony and other con-
certs. ballet and theater per-
formances may be held. Respon-
sible for awakening this kindly
concern were Mr.. and Mrs.
Curt Schiffeler, whose recent
European visit was planned
around the hopes of the Ma
tional Opera Guild of Wash
ington. Mr.. Schiffeler is presi-
dent of the Guild which be-
lieves that striving for an opera
house will set in motion the
broader scope of the art center.
He says the trip was dedicated"
to a study of the opera houses
abroad with the view Of as
sembling concrete ideas when
the creation of focal point for
all art becomes a possibility.
He found instantaneous re-
sponse to Washington's aspira-
tions in this line in talking with
Victor Bonderville, director of
the Paris Opera. and Wolfgang
Wagner, business manager of
Bayreuth. Both managers
placed their experience at his
disposal and even offered to
come to this country to advise
and assist the project in any
way possible. A like interest
was expressed by DR.. Preussner
Of the Mozarteum, where train
ing in opera and the other arts
Is followed.
Richard Wagner's grandson,
Wolfgang. particularly impressed
Mr., Schiffeler with his modern
and forward-looking viewpoint.
Together with his brother, VIE
land, artistic director. he has
dared to apply innovations to
the staging of their grand
fathers operas in the sacred
precincts of Bayreuth. Striking
effects. limited mostly to the in
genious and artistic use of light
ing and curtains. capture the
mysticism of the Wagnerian
operas more fully. Actual stage
properties are few. No one sits
down on the Bayreuth stage for
there is no place for any one
to sit.
Offers TO Help in b. c.
M. Bonderville explained at
length the intricate machinery
by which the Paris Opera is run,
In its equipment for the produc-
ton Of opera, it can hardly be
surpassed even in more modern
edifceS. The Paris director,
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Symphony Series Programs Are Chosen

Howard Mitchell, conductor
of the National Symphony, has
released his programs for both
the odd and even series Of con-
certs this winter. The concerts
to be conducted by Bruno Wall
ter as guest. feature the works
of Brahms and Mozart exclu-
sively.
Besides well-chosen selections
from the pens Of Shostakovich,
Prokof1eff. Sibelius, Roussel,
Respighi, Beethoven, Strauss,
Tschaikowsky and others of the
standard repertoire, there will
be many first !. hearings or re-
vivals Of important compost
tiOnS.
The first of these appears on
the November 10 program when
David Diamonds Symphony
No. 4" will be played and
Tschaikowsky's "The Tempest"
The latter work was presented
once before by the Philadelphia
Orchestra in 1914. Yehudi Me-
nuhin, soloist on this event,
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brings the recently acquired
youthful violin concerto by Men
delssohn, together with the
Brueh Concerto in @ Minor"
Sylvia Meyer; harpist. and Lloyd
Geisler. trumpet, both members
of the orchestra, will be solo,
lists December 3. Miss Meyer
presenting Norman Dello Joio's
Concerto for Harp and Orches-
ira" Mr.. Geisler will play
Concerto Crosse" by William
Latham whose "Sonatina" for
piano was heard at the National
Gallery Of Art this winter.
Pergolesi's "Concertino for
Strings In G Major" opens the
program on December 10, and
the following week the same
office will be performed by
William Schuman'S "Side Show"
This work was premiered locally
by the orchestra at Woodrow
Wilson High School in le45.
Also on DecembeE II will be
heard Cesar Franck's symphonic
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The Arlington County Depart
ment Of Recreation will serve as
q center for group instruction
in piano for adults and children
and for orchestral instrument
classes for school age boys and
girls. Christine Merrick Church,
director of the Cherrydale Meth
odist Church Choir. will teach
piano. Herbert Sokolove, for the
past IL years member of the
National Symphony Orchestra,
has been engaged to teach Or
chestra players.
DR.. Frederick Fall, director of
the opera class in the Pre-
College Music Section of the
Music Department of the
Catholic University. will audi
ton singers Saturday. at 1880
pm. for the purpose of study
ing scenes from selected operas.
Esther Williamson Ballou.
group instructor in Children's
Creative Music, will start a
special class this month. The
classes are limited to four stu
dents each. and only those with
at least two years Of piano and
who show promise will be en-
rolled.
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TurntobIe Talk:
'PeIIeos' Re-recorded:
Decco's S '4OOO' Series
By jones 6. Deone

est price ($2.50) offers briefer
classics in logical and con-
venient formal.
Three at hand are rather typi-
cal. Schumann'S splendid MAN
fred" overture is paired with the
"Kaetchen Won Heilbronn" over
ture of the later German roman
tic, Pfitzner. Both are played by
the Bamberg Symphony Orches-
ira under Fritz lehman. The
same orchestra. under Ferdinand
Leitner, essays Verdi's "Forza del
Destino" overture and the two
'Traviata" preludes. On the
third disc are Enesco's first
"Roumanian Rhapsody" and
Smetana's "Moldau." performed
bl Alfred Wallenstein and the
Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Both the German records are
efforts of Deutsche Gramma-
phon, and they are convincing
evidence of that company's sub
stantial engineering abilities.
Musically. they are quite listen
able, although the Verdi is
given a decidedly un-Italian in
terpretation. The Wallenstein
performances are energetic, but
the generally rich recording is
marred by occasional shrillness.
Oddly, each Of these discs
competes on at least one side
with ToScanini. ! can't con-
cede Toscanini's defeat, but
there's nothing wrong with
competition.
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So much music has been.
pouring forth from subordinate
Viennese organizations that
one sometimes forgets what the
premier. esteemed Vienna Phil
harmonic can sound like. An
HMV disc is a convincing re-
minder. Wilhelm Furtwaengler
conducts Haydn's Surprise"
symphony and Mozart's "Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik."
The Surprise" is as polished
a performance as LIPS afford.
The Mozart is properly polished,
too. but playing it with an
'Eroica" size string section
hardly conveys the intimacy
Mozart surely intended.
The disc Is afflicted with some
background rumble which may
or may not be disturbingly
audible on most monographs.
On mine 1t is.
In Nordic Style
I haven't yet vouchsafed full
study to Nelson's Fourth Sym
phony," which occupies another
HMV disc, because RCA Victor
hasn't vouchsafed a review copy.
But a local record seller has
managed to turn over something
like 20 copies by-as he reports
1.-THE sheer weight of his own
conviction.
From a preliminary hearing.
one concludes that the work Is
a fluent piece in the romantic
tradition. Nordic style. It's sur
prisingly easy listening, and
would say merits investigating.
The fine Danish State Radio
Orchestra does the playing.
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Europe's Opera Managers
Offer to Aid D. c. Center
Curt SchiffeIer Finds Greet Interest Abroad
In Establishing Opero in Washington
By Alice Eversmon

who. like wolfgand Wagner,
speaks excellent English, was
willing to be called into con-
sultation If desired, when the
time arrives. Both men spoke
of their wish to visit the United
States from which many of
their finest artists hail. The en-
gagement of Eleanor Stieber for
performance of Elsa in "Lohen-
grin" at Bayreuth next season
is one Of the latest instances of
approval of American singers.
The National Opera Guild of
Washington will begin an active
campaign this winter for the
opera house which will be the
keystone of the art center. Al
ready its treasury is enriched by
$4,000 from local donations and
from outsiders such as Lily Pons,
Thornton Wilder, and indiyid-
uals from cities such as Cincin-
natl. which has made generous
contributions. All of the local
subscribers to the New York
Guild have been transferred to
the National Opera Guild. Com
mlttees on membership, edHca-
ton, entertainment. and plan
ming will be set up. Luncheon
meetings will be held to which
Rudolf Bing has promised to
send Metropolitan Opera artists
to sing.
Mr.. Schiffeler broadcast the
Washington plan in press inter-
view IN all the large cities he
visited and in two 15-minute in
terviews on the powerful radio
station in Salzburg. On the ia
nous network that penetrates
even beyond the Iron Curtain he
spoke on "Art and Artists" tell
ing OF the American orchestras,
the concert series, and the
prominent artists appearing
each year, with anecdotes con-
cerning the latter from his per-
sonal acquaintance.
Gives Two RecitaIs
While in Salzburg. Mr.. Schif-
feler. a baritone, gave two re-
citals by radio. Among the songs
and arias he gave was Brahms
"Ruhe, Suessliebchen," one of
the Magelone lleder the COM
poser wrote in the home of Mr..
Schlffeler's father. Another,
Prayer During the Battle"
words by the 18th century poet,
Theodore Koerner, was set to
music by Mr.. Schiffeler himself.
American songs opened his pro-
grams followed by an unusual
choice Of German lieder.
Germany might almost be
considered the 49th State. the
Schiffelers found. from the great
number of military and business
men living there. not to speak of
visitors. The Germans make ex-
cellent audiences. being happy
IN hearing music other than
what they, for years. were Or
dered to listen to. The Schiffel-
ers felt that, in Salzburg, the
toWnspeople deserved almost as
much credit for the success of
the festival as the directors.
For not only do they work all
year making scenery, but train
for participation in the perform
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ances. They are content with
little monetary remuneration.
being amply repaid by appearing
in the opera productions or in
Verdi's Requiem" which is
given each season.
+. But the six opera houses built
or renovated under the. Mar
shall Plan made him envious
that nothing comparable was
being done in Washington. It
may be that the enthusiasm
and encouragement for a ma
tlonal art center aroused in Eu-
rope by the Schiffelers may
carry some weight in the final
accomplishment of the ideal.
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Mccall Lanham. baritone,
New York and Washington sing
ing teacher, will reopen his
studio tomorrow at the Musical
Art Center. 1925 G street NV.
This will be his 33d season in
this city.
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Britain and Europe

It may not be possible to have
ones cake and eat it, too, but
Britain's diplomats did the next
best thing last week at the
meeting Of the Council Of
Europe.
Britain has a vital stake in
the moves toward European
unity taken recently by six con-
tinental nations France, Italy.
West Germany, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg.
But although Britain has
wanted a voice in the operation
of the integrated programs, she
has not wanted to abridge her
sovereignty as would be neces-
sary if she joined the pools.
She put her problem up to the
Consultative Assembly of the
Council of Europe last Tues
day. In the council are officials
from IA nations, including
Britain and the six nations
which have joined the supra
national bodies. The council
voted 1920 to get Britain off
the hook by letting her-along
with other non-member nations
in the council-sit in on the
integrated programs without &C
tually joining.
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Two Tidal Waves

Two tidal waves hit Japan
last week. One struck Hok-
kaido and the other annihilated
the Communists. The former
claimed seven lives; the latter,
occurring in the first Japanese
elections since the occupation
ended. reduced the Reds lower
house representation from IS
seats to zero.
Prime Minister Shigeru Yo-
shida. pro-American Premier,
led his split Liberal Party to a
240-man majority in the 466-
seat House of Representatives.
The Liberals, actually strong
conservatives, had 265 seats in
the old Diet. Some of their
strength was believed to have
shifted to another conservative
party, the Progressives, led by
Mamoru Shigemitsu, one OF
Japan's class-A war criminals.
Inc frogreSSlVeS won % seats,
q gain of Is.
AS usual, there was a large
turnout at the polls; IS million
people, about rs per cent of the
electorate, voted.
There is still a question about
how stable the new government
will be. Yoshida'S rival for
Liberal leadership. Ichiro Hato-
yama, has promised to make a
determined bid for the premier
ship. Since personal loyaltieS
usually mean more than party
principles in Japanese politics.
the next cabinet may turn out
to be an uneasy coalition.
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Korea and the u. N.

United Nations and Commu-
mist truce teams. since July of
last year. have met 121 times
to work out terms to end the
Korean war. There has been q
complete deadlock for six
months over repatriation Of
prisoners.
Seeking a way out of the
deadlock. the United States has
decided to ask the United Ma
tons General Assembly to give
a boost to the peace discussions.
It was reported last week that
the United States proposal
would be this: The General
Assembly should reaffirm the
U. N. move to intervene in
Korea, it should indorse the
latest truce terms offered by
Gen. Mark Clark and it should
call on the North Koreans and
Chinese Communists to accept
the terms.
There was little hope that the
Communists would accept from
the General Assembly the same
terms it has rejected from the
American truce team, but there
was hope that the new move
might provide a break that
would loosen up the deadlock.
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Reds and Riots

For more than a year, Com
munist prisoners of war in South
Korea have carried on an Or
ganized campaign to harass
their United Nations captors.
American troops cracked down
last spring after the kidnapping
of Koje Islands commandant,
Brig. Gen. Francis P. Dodd. The
captors took control of the POW
compounds away from the cap
tives and made it difficult for
the Reds to maintain their de-
fiance.
In August informers among
the prisoners told U. N. guards
that the leaders of the $685.
fanatic Chinese Reds held on
another island. Cheju, were
planning a mass outbreak Oc-
tober /. the third anniversary
of the founding Of the Chinese
Communist regime.
The riots started on schedule,
but they ended about two hours
later.
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Bevun and AttIee

The British labor Party
spent last week in an annual
conference which aired the
party's schism as thoroughly as
the Democrats and Republicans
aired theirs last July.
The Labor Party was not out
to pick a national candidate.
But it was in search of a plat
form. While working out the
planks, the two factions banged
away at each other in an at
tempt to lay the groundwork
for a later intra-party wrestle
over leadership.
On one side were the rad
icals. led by Aneurin Bevan,
militant Socialist. On the other
side was the not-quite-so-left
faction led by Clement Attlee.
former Prime Minister. The
Attlee wing at present has q
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viding weapons for today and
developing new ones for the flu
ture, assisting our allies and
avoiding too heavy a drain on
the civilian economy. All this
Is happening at the same time.
Each one of these detectives
could be considered of more i'm
mediate concern than unifica-
ton. The Defense Department
has consistently taken the posi-
ton that the transition to uni
flcation should not be allowed
to cripple the country's defenses,
implying that the speed some
suggest would do more harm
than good. In the procurement
field, Secretary Lovett estimates
that IS per cent of the services
buying is now done under a uni
fed system. He adds that he
doubts whether complete unfit
cation would result in more eff
lclency or effectiveness.
Chonee Of Heort
Gen. Eisenhower's emphasis
on civilian advice amuses some
Pentagon old-timers who re-
member his opposite sympathies
at the time he retired as Army
Chief of Staff. Actually, extern
sive use already is being made
OF civilian advice. For instance,
there are II industry advisory
committees and "a subcommit-
tees-all civilian-in the NUM-
tons Board. The IA commit
tees which advise the Research
and Development Board are pre-
dominantly civilian. And the
secretary Of Defense is now APP
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majority in the party National
Executive Committee. Bevan
wants to gain control. He urged
the party to adopt a program
of more socialism. less arms pro-
duction and fewer economic ties
to the capitalistic United States.
Bevan gained in the first
round last week when the con-
ference voted two more Bevan-
bloc men onto the National
Executive Committee, displacing
two veteran "moderates Hugh
Morrison, former Foreign Sec
rotary. and Hugh Dalton.
former Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. The Attlee faction still
held control. however, with 81
OF. the q committeeman either
neutral or leaning toward mod
Grafton.
The moderates. led by trade
union officials, launched a coun-
terattack the next day. They
criticized the Bevanites for
creating dissention in the party
and reminded them that Rus
sian communism, not American
capitalism, was menacing the
world.
Bevan lost by a margin of
3 to 2 on a resolution to reduce
the arms program. The group
did approve a motion to ask
REORGANIZATION" of the arms
buildup.
The conference showed that
Bevan would have a tough time
gaining control of the Labor
Party.
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said separating these duties
would help to make a clean
break between advisory and COM
mand functions and strength
en- the civilian authority.
Eisenhower's BIost
While Gen. Eisenhower was
less specific. he also scored the
failure to establish clean-cut
lines of authority" He charged
that the three services are still
going their separate ways" and
deplored the inability of the
overall defense staff" pre-
sumably the civilian secretaries,
to enforce corrective action"
On the matter of the National
Security Council it was Gen.
Eisenhower who was the more
specific. DR.. Bush merely COM
mented that while it was a
wise move" to establish the
council, it docs not as yet work
with full effectiveness" Ike
was more severe. He said the
councils high-level planning
''has failed time and again
these last years" Eisenhower
believes that the members of
the council (the President, the
Secretaries of State and De-
Tense. and the chairman of the
National Security Resources
Board) are too burdened with
other duties to plan effectively.
He recommends the board be
expanded to include full-time
civilian planners.
Further Criticisms
Gen. Eisenhower made many
more singing criticisms of the
defense establishment in his
Baltimore speech. The Penta-
gon has noted all of them, but
plays a pretty cagey game in
rebuttal, Most Defense Depart
ment people seem to be irritated
by Ike the politician as differen-
tiated from Ike the general.
They obviously feel that some
of the generals criticisms come
with little grace considering the
prominent part Eisenhower
himself played in military plan
ming until 1949.
Here are some of the things
Ike had to say about his old
cronieS' records:
!. Our defense program has
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suffered from lack of farsighted
direction.
2. Real uniflcation of our
armed forces is yet to be
achieved.
3. Our defense program need
not and must not push us
steadily toward ecopomic col
lapse. (This seems to imply
that it is pushing us in that
direction now0
4. The largest savings in the
budget can and must be made
in our $50 billion defense budget
without reduction of defensive
power.
S. He wants to get help from
civilian leaders-business. labor
and professional-"who really
know their jobs"
6. Service disagreements have
been allowed to become public
braWls."
7. This country needs ire
alistic weapons program with
special emphasis on Simplicity
in design"
Many anonymous Pentagon
officials wonder how Gen. Eisen-
hover can avoid sharing some
of the responsibility for what
ever lack of farsightedness there
has been. He was Army Chief
of Staff until 1948, and then
served as presiding officer of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff we'll into
1949, after he became president
OF Columbia University. In 1949,
the then Defense Secretary Louis
johnson sent him a letter of
thanks for the difficult and
diligent work which you and the
chiefs have been doing on the
1851 budget"
Others had thought that Gen.
Eisenhower approved the Lovett
approach to unification, that is,
the solid" way of seeking VOL
untary cooperation by the serv-
ices even though this is slower
than knocking heads together.
Secretary Lovett likes to re-
mind people of the special cir
cumstances under which unfit
cation is being achieved.
AS Mr.. Lovett points out, we
are fighting war in Korea, mo-
bilizing and training manpower,
demobilizing trained troops
through rotation, expanding the
industrial mobilization base, pro-
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elected representatives, who
control the public purse, who
insure that the organization is
well manned and works we'll,
but who do not superimpose
their Judgment on that of pro-
fesSional men"
Agreement With Bush
These are points on which
many Defense Department of
ficials can agree. The pressure
to revise the organization Setup
in the Pentagon is building up
rapidly, both on the inside and
the outside. The department is
known TO be studying legislative
revisions in the National Secur-
ity Act now.
Before Secretary Lovett leaves
the department in January he is
sure to go on record with recon-
mendations for improving the
gigantic operation he has head
ed now for more than year.
The "old pros around the
Pentagon who claim that Lovett
has been the "best" Secretary
of Defense so far are certain
that he will have some conStruc-
tive suggestions for Tightening
up the organizational structure.
No doubt Secretary Lovett. in
his final report. also will have
words of caution for super
critical Congressman. as DR..
Bush did. Trying to keep the
peoples representatives" from
second-guessing the experts,
however, is striking at a ma
tlonal pastime at lcoet as well
established as baseball.
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Bus Eisenhower Ctques Draw Opposite Reactions in Petoqon

pointing two more civilian COM
mltteeS to study means Of econ
omlzing on manpower and to
recommend a new schedule of
hazardous-duty pay.
In contrast to the Pentagon
reception of Ike's criticisms,
there is a noticeably friendlier
attitude toward DR.. Bushs re-
marks. In his Rochester talk,
DR.. Bush set down six general
ly accepted principles of or
ganization, many and possibly
all of which he said are being
violated in the top levels of our
defense establishment:
81. The military organization
in our democracy must be sub
ordinate to the civilian author
ity.
%. Authority and responsible
ity must go together.
"3. There is need of staff for
advice and there is need for a
line of command. These ele-
ments must be kept separate.
Parallel lines of command must
be avoided.
Il. Any person carrying enor-
nous responsibility must have
available prompt advice from a
competent. loyal staff and must
be able to issue his orders
through subordinates of his own
choosing.
IS. The entire organization
should focus in the Commander
in-Chief, execute his decisions
and carry out his delegations.
IS. The effectiveness of func-
tioning should be reviewed by
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Korea

THE KOREAN WAR, which
l. has ebbed. flowed and
stalled for q months, seemed
no closer to a final decision.
The United Nations command
was concerned during the week
with the lack of action in the
truce shack and the violent &C
ton in the POW compounds.