Evening star., 1952-03-16
News OF Music
Choir Boy
Has High Range Voice
Two Foned Symphonies Included
In Musical Fare of the Week

program. His piano sonata has
been played elsewhere. Soloist
Tuesday night will be Nathan
Milstein,, who will be heard in
the Brahms violin concerto.
Since his debut with the Phila-
delphians under Stokowski in
1923. Milstein has been soloist
with the orchestra over 80
times.
Bruckner's Sixth Chosen.
OF Anton Bruckner's nine
symphonies, the sixth. which
Howard Mitchell has chosen for
presentation by the National
Symphony Wednesday night, is
considered the most eloquent
and the most beautiful. It is
also the least known, only his
fourth. played by the National
Symphony in 1912, and the sew
enth. programmed by the Phil
adelphia Orchestra in 1949, hav-
ing been heard here. According
to available data, Bruckner,s
sixth was heard only in l946
when a Bruckner- -Mahler fes-
tival of recorded music was
broadcast from the University
of Minnesota.
Prejudiced opinion against
him as an imitator Of Wagner
delayed appreciation of his
works. Much of this was due
to pressure brought by his we'll
wiSbers to permit his publishers
to tamper with the original or
cnestration ito make it sound
Wagnerian." After his death, a
complete revision of his works
with the real Bruckner orches-
tration took place. and this was
corrected. To Bruckner, Wag-
ner was the master of masters"
whom he worshiped but did
not initiate. Recognition came
to him in his old age when his
famous pupils at the Vienna
Conservatory, Artur Nikish.
Gustav Mailer and Karl Muck,
performed his music.
In accordance with his i'm
pliclt wish, Bruckner is buried
beneath the organ on which he
played in the Monastery Church
OF st. Florian in Upper Aus
tria. The organ was rebuilt and
consecrated last year after six
years of expert restoration. AL
most 200 years old, it was con-
sidered the largest in existence
in Bruckner's lifetime.
On Friday afternoon at 2, the
National Symphony will give its
final free children's concert in
cardozo High School under the
sponsorship Of the Jordan Piano
Co. Tomorrow afternoon it pre-
sents a children's program in
Wilmington. Del. and appears at
night at the Pennsylvania State
Teachers College in West Ches-
ter, Pa. The soloist will be Lloyd
Mitchell, pianist. and head of
the colleges music department,
who is a brother OF the con-
ductor, Howard Mitchell. On
Tuesday, the orchestra plays
at the Lamberton High School
in Carlisle. Pa.
Tickets for all three Metro
politan Opera performances at
the Capitol Theater April %
and 20 will go on sale tomorrow
at Shows Concert Bureau.
Aida" on the opening night,
will be sung by Zinka Milanov
in the title role, Mario del
Monaco as Radames, Blanche
Thebom as Amneris and Leon
ard Warren as Amonasro.
"Madama Butterfly" will be
given Tuesday afternoon, April
20, with Dorothy Kristen as
Cio-Cio-San; Rise Stevens will
sing the title role Of Carmen
at the evening performance of
the company. Aida" . and
Carmen" have been reset and
recostumed, the latter restudied
as to staging and interpreta-
ton.
The entire Metropolitan Op-
era chorus. ballet and orchestra
will start a spring tour April
IA and visit II American and
two Canadian cities before May
81. This will be the companys
first appearance here In "a
years.,