Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-18
BY DAY THORPE


The Hayes Concert Bureau
will be 10 years old next
season and is celebrating its
decennial with two series Of
eight concerts each which 1t
describes by the adjective
gala" Reading over the list
of attractions ! am inclined to
admit that the designation is
not far-fetched. ! do not know
the National Swedish Chorus
or the Singing Boys of Norway,
and Arthur Fielder and the
Boston Pops does not seem to
be the most glamorous enter
tainment for a hall in which
it is not customary to serve
beer and pretzels, but the rest
of the scheduled matchmaking
has been chosen from the big
name prospects with consider
able discrimination.
There will be five orchestral
concerts by three bands, ex-
elusive of the Boston Pops. The
Berlin and Vienna Philhar-
monies each will give two, and
a local orchestra under Richard
Bales, head of music at the
National Gallery, will be heard
once. This concert will be made
up OF concertos for one, two
and three pianos, played by a
trio of the most capable and
popular of our local artists
Evelyn Swarthout, Margaret
Tolson, and Emerson Meyers.
These artists teach at Amer
lean University, the Madeira
School, and Catholic Univer-
sity, respectively; Evelyn
SWarthout, furthermore, is in
private life the wife of impre-
sario Patrick Hayes. All have
been soloists with the National
Symphony.
More Versatile Talent
Other pianists who will give
solo recitals on the series are
Gieseking, Serkin, Casadesus
and Rubinstein. Isaac Stern
is the only fiddler on the list,
but he is as good a single ex-
ample as could be chosen.
Roberta Peters will return
after a great success this year.
Leontyne Price. new to the
Hayes roster. has been heard
in Washington several times.
Her recital early this season
at the A. M. E. Church was
one of the outstanding musi-
cal events of the year.
That leaves the Vienna
Academy Choir, which, al
though it was on tour in Amer
lea this year, skipped Wash
ington. Those who have heard
it in Europe or on records
know it to be one of the finest
trained large group of sing
ers before the public.
A last-minute entry not on
Hayes next season list, but to
be heard here in the near flu
ture, is Andres Segovia, the
great Spanish guitarist.
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NATIONAL SYMPHONY PLANS
The National Symphony has
also announced its .soloists for
next year. The much-dis-
cussed new departure of the
Symphony in presenting Is
concerts in Identical pairs
rather than 20 individual con-
certs will see the orchestra
Joined in its subscription series
by the Philadelphia Orches-
ira 1.-TWO pairs. and the Bos-
ton Orchestra 1.-TWO single con-
certs-one on each series).
In addition. the Philadelphia
will give two extra single con-
certs not on the series. tickets
for which will be available to
subscribers at a discount. Also
on the series will be the Dan
ish National Ballet.
A feature of next years
concerts will be a Beethoven
FESTIVAL" during which all the
symphonies and several con-
certos will be heard. The Cho-
raj Symphony will be sung by
the Howard University Choir,
and the soloists will be Lois
Marshall, the sensational
Donna Anna of this years
Don Giovanni; John McCol-
lum, Margaret Snow Roy and
Herbert Beattie.
Gilels, Callas Uncertain
PianistS to be heard with
the Symphony are Rubinstein.
Iturbi. Hess and Istomin. Emil
Gilels, the Russian virtuoso,
has accepted an engagement
In principle. but it is not at
present entirely certain that
he will come to the United
States next year. Solomon
and Byron Janis will be SOLO
lists in the two extra Phila-
delphia concerts.
Violinists engaged are Fran
cescatti and Menuhin; cellists.
Piatigorsky and Rose. Guest
conductors will be Beecham
and Edward van Remoortel of
Belgium. David Oistrach, the
Russian fiddler, is signed up,
but his appearance is under
the cloud of the same uncer-
tainty as that of his country
man GilelS.
Maria Callas. the sensa-
tional or at least newsworthy
soprano. has agreed to sing
with the Symphony, but, says
the Symptoms press release
darby, "circumstaces beyond
our control have delayed COM
pletion of the contract"
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ST. JOHNS PASSION
A performance Of Bach's
st. Johns Passion. approx
mating more nearly the forces.
both choral and orchestral.
for which Bach wrote the
work than are ordinarily used
in present-day productions Of