Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12

tedious process by which good
music becomes classic in 100
years, etc.
DR.. Mitchell is a rangy type
conversationally. Music is his
professional cup of tea, all right,
but the side dishes are as nu-
merous as in an imaginative
cafeteria.
Dry-wall terraces came into
the luncheon chit-chat when
DR.. Mitchell was asked about the
condition of his golf. This can
be of high quality when Maestro
Mitchell is disposed to polish it.
Otherwise it becomes furnished
as even the best of golf will do.
you know, I didn't play much
golf this summer in Vermont"
he explained. ST built a ter
race at our place there. Did you
ever build a terrace with your
hands, a shovel and a wheel
barrow? In some ways, 1 can
recommend it as a reasonable
way to iSpend a summer. In
others, no. 1t takes a lot of
stone to build a terrace retain
ing wall in Vermont. 1t also
takes lot of time and proves
that regular laborers are in bet
ter shape than you are"
The terrace-maker did shoot
q few rounds of golf, over week
ends mostly and just well enough |
to keep from losing money to
his interiors at the game.
X X X x
DR.. Mitchell, whom one calls
mitch" except in newspapers,
is happy that the National Sym
phony's drive is up $4,000 this
year. That testifies to it's grow |
ing place in the community's
life. He finds that pretty sat-
isfying.
There are other things that |
are not satisfying. One of them,
to be candid which he can be
without effort, he would like to
take up with writer's the likes
Of his luncheon companion.
''You keep saying" he says ac-
cuSingly, that we ought to have
a better concert hall. o. K. But
I can buildra terrace, not a con-
cert hall. We are in the business
of making music, not construct
ing ideal buildings for us to play
in. Sometimes I think that would
be a fine business to be in, but
the fact is that I am in another
line. So are the dance entire
preneurs and the others who use
the same facilities we do. Re-
SponSibility for better facilities
lies beyond us and if you'll think
1t over, I'm sure you will agree.
Another thing DR.. Mitchell is
too busy to catch up with is the
new movie development, stere-
ophonic sound. This is the one
that sprays words and music at
patrons from all Sides-aS well
as front and back-ef theaterS.
DR.. Mitchell has not run across
stereophonic sound. He has some
familiarity, however, the hunger
of humans for sheer volume in
too many things, most notably
in music.
There's type I run across"
he says, who has what seems to
be good taste in good music. He
buys the best of recordings, takes
them(home and plays them at the
top of the players volume. That's
all right if he wants it that way
and the neighbors will tolerate
it, But when he hears the same
composition played in a concert
hall with as much as an orcheS-
ira can get into the pieces tonal
variations, don't want him to
think: Boy, they muffed that
one"
That happens. he says.
When. and if, he finds time
to check stereophonic sound
against this tendency, he'll give
it a whirl.
He is busy now with a lot of
other things, most intensely the
Symptoms new season. The
next few months, he won't even
have time to wonder if that ter
race has washed away in Ver-
mont's rains, or cracked to pieces
under the winters deep frost.
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MONDAY MEMOS: Opening
tonight at the Sam S. Shubert:
"Time Out for Ginger" the do
nestle comedy starring Melvyn
Douglas. Incidentally, it was
booked into the same theater
about a wear 400 conoolod tho