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next Sunday. His first
Washington solo was at the
Obelisk Gallery, Georgetown.
Last year he had one at the
Baltimore Museum, and has
had four others in Maryland.
Mr.. Nesbitt Is now art di.
rector Of the color television
division Of the Walter Reed
Army Medical Center. which
position he held during his
military service. Previously
he spent q year in London
working in the stained glass
department Of the Royal COL
lege Of Art. Further bio.
graphical data are available
at the gallery (open today
2 to 8, Tuesday through
Saturday II to 81.
Several large stained-glaSs
panels, lighted within. are
abstract in design. with very
dark colors predominant.
These might be effective If
used as architectural decora.
ton, permanently illumi-
mated. But If used a.
windows, they would admit
very little daylight. Several
detailed. full-color stained
glass designs shown, promise
to be superior as windows,
with warm light blue .
dominant color.
Mr.. Nesbitt's color wood
cuts seem to me his best work.
They have all-over patterns
Of straight, curved and swirl
ing white lines creating an
eject OF movement on back.
grounds Of two or more har.
monious colors. Ovefsized
abstract expressionist oils are
generally dark In color. One
Of these, Midsummer" in
reds and russets, conveys Q
hot and humid atmosphere,
all too painfully familiar to
those who have spent the
summer here.
Mr.. Nesbitt's abstract ex-
pressionist water colors are
smaller, with better color
combinations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20
BY JAMES G. DEANE
star Record Critic

There was O time when the
record collector had to do his
collecting In bits and pieces
because bits and pieces we're
all that could be encompassed
conveniently on records. So
1t doubtless Is not surprising
that the planners Of modern
long-playing records some
times resort to similar pro-
cedures.
Thus we have at hand such
recent vocal items as q disc
Of love duets" from various
French and italian operas
sung by Rosanna Carteri and
Giuseppe Di Stefano (Angel
35601), and q verdi-Wagner
aria collection by Bright Nils
son (Angel 35540) and an
other by Nine. Nilsson and
Hans Hotter Of excerpts
from Die Walkuere and The
Flying Dutchman (Angel
$685., and an all-Italian
array by Leonie Rysanek
ranging from Verdi through
Puccini, Giordano and Mas
cagni back to Verdi Victor
LIN 2262), and another by
Boris Christoff concentrating
on Verdi and Bellini (EMI-
Capitol G 7125), as well as
various instrumental assort-
ments.
Opera has become a full
fledged and very saleable
commodity in the long-play-
ing record market, as. of
course, 1t was beginning to
be even prior to the Lips ad-
vent and as symphonies and
concertos and sonatas long
have been. The rationale Of
the recital-type assortment
thus becomes the intrinsic
merit Of the selected items
and Tor the performance.
What the average" collec-
tor may prefer. as between
q piecemeal assortment and
an entire opera, may be as
certainable from sales statis-
tics. My own preference,
irrespective Of statistics, is
solidly In the corner Of operas
as entities.
Piecemeal recorded opera
is undoubtedly partly to
blame for the traditional ex-
aggerated ascendancy Of per-
formers over what is per-
formed and of technical form
over musical and dramatic
substance. Full-length oper-
attic recordings, within the
short space of the last dec
cade, have brought operas
as artistic entities to radi-
cally broader accessibility and
must have been. In conse-
quence, a revelation to many
new-found hearers. Absorbing
even a familiar opera with
libretto in hand is an en-
tightening experience. Any
number Of isolated duets and
arias cannot convey even its
shadow.
This does not automatic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20
TURNTABLE TALK
Discs Still Offer
Opera in Capsule

cally rule out recorded reci-
tails. A Christoff. for example,
who is worth hearing In his
own right. may cover material
in this form which he will
never have opportunity to re-
cord In any other. Notable re-
corded documents Of the past
attest this possibility. There Is
also an economic considera-
ton. Full-length operas on
discs even now are costly. The
seeker Of the Flying Dutch
man may have to settle. for
reasons Of the purse, for q
half-hour Of Nilsson Hotter.
or at least such a compromise
as the Decca-D eutsche Gram
mophon collection Of high
lights (DL 9988). This will
soften Illustration. But It 10
not The Flying Dutchman.
Sometimes such samples
serve the useful function Of
trial balloons. Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf's success with q
portion of Richard Strauss
Capriccio led EMI-Angel to
produce q full-length issue,
and Flagstad's piecemeal
early recording stints have
been succeeded, thanks to
London enterprise, by an ir-
replaceable sequence Of Wag-
merriam productions.
The miscellany is q more
primitive stage Of the record
ing art. however. The enthu-
siast owes himself the fuller
pleasure of the present one.
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DISCAPSULES
Noteworthy:
TARTINI sonatas in G ma.
jor and g minor and sonatas
by Marcello. Albinoni and
Vivaldi Jan Tomasow, violin,
and Anton HELLER, harpsi-
chord: Vanguard BIG $500.
Assured and lively playing.
KREISLER Liebesfreud.
PAGANINI lie Streghe and
other pieces by both COM
posers arthur Grumiaux.
violin, and Arthur Castag-
none. piano; Epic LC $500.
Encore pieces by a master
fodder.
VIVALDI Sonata in A and
pieces by Falla. Bach. De-
busy ct al Jaime Laredo.
violin, and Vladimir Sokoloff.
piano; Victor LIN 1919. A
first recording by the accom-
plished young Bolivian heard
last January at the Pan
American Union.
SCHUMANN the Happy
Farmer and pieces by Mozart,
Bach, Chopin. Paderewski.
Granados ct al Oorin Hol-
lander. piano; Camden CAL
400. The album title is Dis
covering the Piano. A Guide
to Piano Playing. % Favor
ties for Students of All Ages"
The pianist Is a l4-year-old
New Yorker. The disc is sur
prisingly pleasant.
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18th Annual

The Loudoun Sketch Club
will open this afternoon its
18th annual exhibition Of
paintings, drawings and
prints by 10 Of its members.
The show will be held in the
County once Building. Lees
burg, Va, through next SUM-
day (Open weekdays 10 to
6; next Sunday, / to o..
Several Of the clubs best
painters have large groups.
Vinton L. Pickens, the clubs
founder and one of its out
standing artists, shows oils.
water colors and pen draw
ings. Tiger Cage" seemed
to me the best Of the paint
ings. But pen drawing is her
forte; there is intuitive right
ness in the gestures, poses.
ETC., caught in her few SIM
pie lines. Col. and Mrs.
PickenS have Just sailed for
six weeks In Europe. She
will have . solo exhibition
in Paris q month hence.
Ella ODonovan'S detailed
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Vever's Provincetown

Anthony Vevers has
brought Provincetown'S
moors, marshes and sea to
the Franz Bader Gallery,
17o5 @ street NV, through
next Sunday. This is the
English born artists FIRST
Washington one-man show;
he will later have another
FIRST" In New York City. al
though his work Is familiar
there from group exhibitions.
Son Of the director Of the
London Zoo. Anthony Viewers
came to the United States
at the age Of IA. He served
in the United States Army
In Germany until 1916: grad
uated from Yale University
in 1850. with postgraduate
studies in Italy and elsewhere
for the next two years. He
has been living in Province
town, Cape Cod. for the past
four years.
His understated paintings
evoke the essence Of Prov
incetown's lonely seaside
landscape in paintings which
have an abstract effect in
the horizontal stripes Of blue
sky, rejecting ocean. golden
sand and luminous pools Of
water caught In the rocks.
He has painted this subject
repeatedly, yet each canvas
is distinctive and subtly diff
ferent. There are a few dark
scenes and q winter Self
Portrait" in which the artist
is silhouetted against the
faint daylight beyond snow
covered windowpanes. In
some paintings the pigment
Is a thin stain, very fluid.
Drawings Of the same sub
jects in ink and brush on
paper the color of sandy
shores are equally evocative.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20

symphony has tried to solve
the problem by appealing to
a fringe audience-to people
who are neither wildly en-
thusiastic about symphonic
music nor who yet are not
entirely impervious to its
Establishments. 1t is statis-
tically evident that there are
enough people in a city the
size of Washington who
would not be repealed by
Brahms or Tchaikovsky II
they heard them to flll every
hall in which the National
Symphony plays.
To appeal to those individ-
uals, to defeat their lethargy
or indecision, the symphony
offers them whatever can
possibly be familiar to them,
either in the way Of music or
visiting artists. and hopes
that by offending nobody 1t
can attain its proper incre-
ment of customers.
In addition 1t makes a
strenuous, successful and
laudable effort to play for
children, for whom the edu-
cational advantages Of long
hair music are universally
acknowledged, who will
sometime be an adult mar
ket for the orchestra, and
who, Heaven be praised.
never lack for grownups to
pay for their tickets, either
individually or in packages.
More Harm Than Good?
No fault can be found
ethically with such a plan
for increasing the audience
of the orchestra, but 1t Is
possible that, carried to ex-
tremes, it does more harm
than good.
The danger Is that in try
ing to appeal to potential
customers a symphony will
bore its more appreciative
present ones.
How exciting do the artic-
ulate and experienced music
lovers Of Washington find
the respectable but quite Or
binary season announced last
week? Most of the soloists
are people who have been
heard here many times;
most Of the music Is either
extremely well-worn or else
paid for by q cultural
foundation.
It would be excellent II
the symphony could devote
its energies solely to satisfy
ing the greatest number Of
Washingtonians with the
fewest standard works. but
there is a danger that 1t
will lose what it can never
do without core OF fol-
lowers for whom every an
nouncement Of the symphony
is q matter Of jubilation.
curiosity, or controversy.
It is possible that 400
people vitality interested in
what, the symphony brings
to them, 400 people who will
sell the symphony as a Joy
they must share with some
body else, will Ill more seats
in Constitution Hall and
Lisner than all the effort
the symphony can direct
toward that hard-to-impress
customer - the man who
should like symphonic music
but, for one reason or an
other, so far hasn't.
y 4 4
HUNGARIAN RELIEF
There are times when one
goes to q concert for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20
with interest the market

with interest the market
that Mr.. Kohn uncovers.
For the finding Of new
markets for the symphony,
the mastering Of new re-
recruits to the ever-growing
body Of music lovers was the
one formulated ideal Of Mr..
Kohn when ! talked to him
last week. No one expects
him to know all the an
swers. or even the questions
today. for he is entirely new
at the job, not having been
broken In during the last
months Of Mr.. Blacks tenure.
Don't expect me to an
swer any questions" he said
last Monday. I'm not ON
cially in the office until Fri
day, and / haven't even seen
Howard Mitchell or the board
since I got the job. But /
can tell you that I accepted
the position because ! am
convinced, knowing Washing
ton from my experience with
a good-music radio station,
that the National Symphony
should play a much more i'm
portant part in the lives Of
musically inclined people
than it does today. I see my
job as the selling Of the ideal
Of the symphony. and 1t is
q job that excites me as q
man as much as it challenges
me as a professional. It took
something more than just an
offer to induce me to leave
the radio business"
Presumably Ralph Black
had not too dissimilar aims,
but new magicians, new
magic. Nor has the orchestra
experienced any noticeable
slump in customers during
the last three years. AS a
matter Of fact, with the
double and sometimes triple
concerts Of its main series.
its tremendously increased
number Of children's con-
certs. its services for visiting
national organizations, the
Pan American Union and the
Opera Society, to say Moth
ing Of its extended tours not
only abroad but In the United
States. it Is playing to many
more listeners for every hour
Of rehearsal than 1t ever has
before.
Speculation in Order
Since the orchestra has
made no statement of any
kind concerning the change
in management. speculation
and review Of critical opin-
ions that have been voiced
about the orchestra may be
in order. In the first place,
the National Symphony as a
musical instrument is highly
admired by most Of musical
Washington and by number
less impartial critics who
hear 1t and comment on 1t.
The concerts that 1t has put
on the last few years are
not so universally lauded.
What the symphony lacks
Is a highly developed sense
Of showmanship. Faced with
the necessity Of meeting
ever-increasing budgets, the
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pen drawings, too, are ex-
cellent, as are also her
landscape "Old Monastery"
and "Delphiniums." Kath-
crime Slappey's woody land
scape ''Locusts" is outstand-
ing. and her large flower
paintings colorful and deco
rative. Lois Landreth's land.
scapes Of the Maine woods
are her most convincing
work, painted fiuidly on wet
paper.
Other paintings I thought
best by the respective art
lists are Florence Batson's
"Chrysanthemums";; Eliza
beth Beers Washington
scenes; Evelyn Marshall's
Waterford Street Scene;
q fine panorama Road to
Town" and an individual
portrait Of q boy by Jane
Pohl; Marie Schmidt's LOG
House, Waterford" and .
characterize head of q mid
dle-aged woman by Betty
Strawbridge.
Esther Thomas forte is
demonstrated in her wood
block prints. simplified but
dgurative with strong pat.
terms and contrasts. She
also shows paintings and
water colors. Dolores Phillips,
well known to Star readers
for her Sunday columns, is
represented with serigraphs.
the best to me being one Of
o sailing theme,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20

S@NS SeAeN@ N-SS(e ~ SeSeSS eNAA@,
scenes and landscape.
Many Of these are evening,
night or early morning
scenes illuminated by a series
of lights, the industrial stluc-
lures sharply delineated in
black geometrical patterns.
Some Of them gave me a
sensation like that of waking
in the middle Of the night on
a train. and looking out sud-
denly on some such city as
Pittsburgh, with its yellow
lights and red glares con-
trasted against a dark sky.
Mr.. Saltzman's Down Upon
q Port" (lights against blue)
surpasses the others for ro-
mantle beauty. But Might
Fantasy" and Industrial
Port" and several others are
strikingly dramatic. The har-
Dor paintings have their own
individual beauty Of ship and
wharf forms against mist.
light reflected in water. and
other charms.
Minneapolis born. Mr..
Saltzman currently lives in
Rochester. Mimi, Of whose
art center he is director and
resident artist.
Through October 3. Open
week days $50 to S:3O)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20
NEWS OF MUSIC
Symphony Change
Raises Speculation
BY DAY THORPE
Star Music Critic

The most important change in the National Symphony
when its in Constitution Hall october 10 will
not be visible the stage not be easily dscernble
for year for much Of the work Of the manager Of
phony orchestra like that Of automobile styist
fruon far in the future But when Howard Mitchell steps
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20
Nesbitt's Seventh

A one-man show Of oils,
water colors. woodcuts and
stained glass by Lowell B.
Nesbitt opened the season at
the Origo Gallery, 200S r
street NV, Of which he is
q member, to remain through
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20
ART NEWS OF D. c. AREA
SoItzmon Show
Att. Galleries
BY FLORENCE 8. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

Recent paintings by William Saltzman at the I. r. A..
Galleries, 1928 Connecticut NV, introduce this
Minnesota artist to Washington in his first show
here. More than 20 oil paintings and many ink and
brush drawings semabstrac but convey unmstakaby
the character of cities and industry along with harbor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20
Art Lecture

The National Gallery Of
Art, which has been showing
art films each Sunday for
some weeks will inaugurate,
this afternoon, its new sea-
son Of art lectures. FRA
Angelica" the subject Of the
Aim to be shown ut 4 o'clock,
will be the topic on which
Grose Evans, The Gallery's
associate curator Of educa-
ton, will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20
Shows in Brief

One year ago yesterday
The Academy Of the Arts
was incorporated at Easton,
Nd. to foster the ap-
probation and encourage
the production Of all the
arts, and to provide q cul-
tural center for the Eastern
Shore.
Today is the final oppor-
tunity to see the first an
nual members show which
opened last Sunday, at IS
South Washington street,
Easton, Md. (Open today,
noon to 9 PM. The show
includes paintings. graphic
arts, sculpture, photography
and crafts by noted sculptor
Lee Lawrie, Ruth Starr Rose.
Nance Hall Asher and others
familiar here from their
participation in Washington
exhibitions. Honorable men,
tions were awarded In the
five classifications last SUM-
day by q panel Of three
judges.
Montgomery County Art
Associations annual outdoor
art exhibition will be held
next Sunday. September ~.
on the grounds Of the
Bethesda Methodist Church.
Old Georgetown road and
Huntington parkway. Resi-
dents Of the county are eli.
gible to submit work there
between 10 and 5 o'clock
next Saturday. Helen Rem
ME and Samuel Bookatz will
serve as the jury Of selec-
ton. Entries accepted will be
displayed at the Wheaton
and Four Corners Libraries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20

benefit Of the organization
to which the ticket sales &C
crue, without much expecta-
ton Of a good evening Of
music. When the Philhar-
monica Hungarica plays in
Constitution Hall on october
7 for the benefit Of Hunga-
rian refugees, however. you
can enjoy your charity to the
fullest. I cannot speak from
first-hand knowledge. but
many reliable sources have
told me- that the orchestra,
assembled in Austria from
the ranks Of the best Hun
garian musicians. Is phe-
nomenally good.
Certainly the program 1t is
playing under the direction Of
Antel Dorati is highly origi-
nal: the Dance Suite and the
Divertimento Of Bertok, and
the Peacock" variations and
excerpts from HAIRY Janos"
of Kodaly. Tickets are on
sale at the Talbert Agency in
the Willard.
CIVIC SYMPHONY
DR.. Frederick Fall. music
director Of the Washington
Civic Opera Association and
conductor Of the Agriculture
Symphony Orchestra has
been appointed conductor Of
the Washington Civic Sym
phony Orchestra. He will
take the place Of Nicholas
Pappas. who has accepted
the post of conductor Of the
Raleigh, N. c., Symphony
Orchestra.
The first rehearsal of the
Civic Symphony under its
new conductor will be this
Tuesday at 8 pm. in the
Roosevelt Auditorium, 18th
and Allison streets. Qualified
musicians are invited to at
tend. For further informa-
ton, call AID. 4-2050 or CO.
5-5544.
MARY WASHINGTON
The Mary Washington COL
lege in Fredericksburg, Va,
announces an ambitious
series this year. It will be
opened September ~ by Flea
nor Steber, who will be fol-
lowed throughout the season
by Franz Reynders, mime:
Hal Holbrook, who reads
Mark Twain; the Jose Limon
Dance Group, and, in April,
the Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra.
80 Is
HUME LECTURES
Paul Hume, my colleague
on the Post and professor Of
music at Georgetown Uni
versity. has not only been
writing about music but talk
ing about it, too. for a numS
Der Of years. His lectures at
the university having made
a reputation somewhat be-
yond the bounds of the class
room, Mr.. Hume is often
asked to repeat them for the
benefit of the uncloistered.
This he Is doing in q series
Of 16 lectures entitled THE
ms and Outs Of Music, an
Introductory survey Of the
world of muSic-its forms, its
history. its enjoyment" The
series on Tuesday evenings
from october through De-
cember and from January
through March will be at the
Powell Auditorium (the Co.'S
mos Club. Tickets may be
purchased by writing Box
1901. Friendship Station,
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NEW OPENINGS

APPROACHES TO CONTEMPORARY
NV. Tuesday tSfoSsS October is.
fAbS S11s. +,. sx GEEE 2 paws a.,
1852 Connecticut avenus NV.
Current through October.
LILHOGRAPHs By CURRIER .
NEs. Library Of congress. Main
through December 81.
yURIED GROUP SHOW. wsdnes-
Sots n E%Afsr 2ffsSSssr Mi s SST:
day and Sunday. CoIlectorT Cor.
nef, 1925 wisconsin avenue NV.
and second show In conjunction
With Edwin WEIGH Interiors, 1929
wisconsin avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20
Stencil Prints

the Hiratsuka Nippon Gal
lery's current show. through
next Saturday. presents .
large collection Of prints by
Okamura, Mort and Wata.
nabe, three outstanding ex-
ponents Of this medium in
Japan. (3l44 N street,
Georgetown, open Monday
through Friday, IL to 8; Sat-
urday, 2 to 81.
These prints have general
characteristics (due no doubt
to the mediurn) Of simple nat
forms. bright colors and
strong contrasts, and the
paper is crinkled. But the
artists have given their re-
spective prints individual
qualities, easily recognized,
even though no attempt has
been made to keep the three
groups separate.
Kichiemon Okam ura's
-Four Seasons" is an out
standing series, with its fresh
colors. emphatic symbols and
floral details. His fetching
Mountain and Owl" has
been particularly popular In
sales.
Sadao Watanabe favors
Biblical themes, with white
outlined figures on dark
grounds. Yoshitoshi Mort
turns o variety Of themes
into complex compoSitions.
The Sidney herald., 1959-02-04
MIYF HOLDS MEETING

The Methodist intermediate Youth
Fellowship met in the parsonage
basement with 7 members and z
leaders present on February |
Sonya Witt gave the program "All
That l Have, Wayne Surgart
gave devotions. Wanda Criger con-
Quoted the business meeting and
Tommy Lane read the minutes OF
the last meeting and had treasure
report. Next time we will have a
Valentines party. Beverly st. Cyl
and Tommy Lane r the new
telephone committee for next time.
George Mielke is going to give
the program, Wanda Criger is
going to give devotions, Brenda
Quilting is going to have games,
Beverly St. Cyr and Mrs. Sugart
are going to serve lunch.