Evening star., 1953-01-18
Many Music Events
To Mark Inaugural
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jeanette Macdonald, Menuhin, Horowitz
Among Artists Appearing This Week
News of Music
By Alice Eversmon

The inaugural week will
have a number of outstanding
musical events to add glamour
to the occasion. Many visitors
will have the opportunity to
acquaint themselves with the
type of music forming the
musical season in Washington
besides hearing greater num-
ber of world famous artists in
a short period than would be
possible at any other time.
While some changes may still
be made in the programs de-
signed particularly for the in
auguration, it is safe to believe
that the artists already an
nounced will appear.
The special Inaugural pro-
grams begin tonight with a
concert by the National Sym
phony Orchestra. Howard
Mitchell conducting. in Con-
stitution Hall. Soloists will
be jeanette Macdonald, So
prano; James Melton, tenor,
and Yehudi Menuhin, violin
list Walter Pidgeon will be
master of ceremonies.
At 4 pm. Jan Peerce, tenor
of the Metropolitan Opera,
will give a song recital in the
same hall and earlier in the
afternoon, Bach's Mass in B
Minor" will be sung at the
Washington Cathedral by the
Washington and Cathedral
Choral Societies.
The piano recital on 1nau-
guration night by Vladimir
Horowitz will not prevent his
audience from also visiting
one of the Inaugural balls
later. Horowitz' recital is in
Constitution Hall, presented
by the American University
Concerts, Of which Patrick
Hayes is manager. During the
two balls. one at the National
Guard Armory and the
other at McDonough Hall in
Georgetown. the artists will be
shuff1ed between the two places
so as to avoid any implica-
ton that one ball is better
than the other.
Stors for Festival
The singers to appear are
Lily Pons, Gladys Swarthout,
Eleanor Stieber, Eugene Con-
ley, Laurie Melchior, Jeanette
Macdonald, and perhaps
Brian Sullivan. The Marine
Band Symphony Orchestra
will accompany the singers at
the Armory and the Air Force
Symphony at the Georgetown
hall. Melchior will open the
program with the singing OF
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner"
and some American songs.
Miss Pons will be heard in the
BELL Song" from "Lakme,"
and Miss Stieber in the "Vlssl
d'arte" aria from "Tosca.
Miss Swarthout has selected
American songs. Also to be
heard is the West Point Choir.
The festival at Uline Arena
and the Capitol Theater to-
morrow night will have a ga
laxy of stars from the enter
tainment world. 1t is ex-
pected that Mr.. Peerce will
appear on that program, to-
gether with the glamorous
Jarmila Novotna of the Metro
politan Opera. At the swear
ing-ln ceremonies of Vice
President-elect Nixon, Doro-
thy Maynor will sing the Ma
tional Anthem after the invo-
cation and Mr.. Conley will be
heard later in a solo.
Ever since its founding, the
National Symphony has been
part of the inaugural celebra-
ton. In 1888, its gala pro-
gram had Rosa Ponselle, Law
renee Tibbett and Efrem Zim-
balist, violinist, as soloist. The
symphony played at that time
the first performance of "On
the Prairie" a movement
from the symphonic poem,
1.-THE Covered Wagon" writ
ten by the Secretary of the
Treasury, William H. Wooden.
Four years later, the soloists
on the special event were
Susanne Fisher, soprano;
Kathryn Meisle, contralto;
Richard Crooks, tenor, and
Richard Bonelli, baritone. The
surprise of the 1941 program,
when Nelson Eddy and Rise
Stevens were the featured So
loists, was the appearance OF
Mickey Rooney in a piano
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