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By JAMES G.. DEANE
star Record Critic

The 1912 overture seems to
reign as the demonstration
piece de resistance" among
record makers, but there are
some fresher resources avail
able for anyone with an urge
to test recent advances of the
recording art.
Some CT them afford a
chance for broadening ones
musical horizon appreciably.
An example is the music Of
Bartok. The eminent Hun
garian compos ser. whose
image is just beginning to
grow to its proper size Is
years after his death, made
significant contributions to
musical language. along with
his specific compositions. His
pieces often are interesting
for purely sonic reasons. in
addition to the underlying
musical thought.
The work called Music for
Strings, Percussion and Ce-
lesta is an outstanding eX-
ample. Scored for two string
quartetS, double baSses. and
a variety of instruments of
the percussion family includ-
ing piano. it could serve in
place Of one of those
manufactured demonstration
pieces" designed to display
various instrumental effects.
Original Creation
What makes it worth hear
ing, Of course. is the fact
that it also has musical
originality and substance. In
fact, it is widely considered
one of Bartok's finest crea-
tionS.
Two splendid recent re-
cordings are at hand, one by
the Orchestre de la Suisse
Romande under Ernest An
sermet on London and the
other by the Chicago SYM
phony under Bartok's COM
patriot and friend, Fritz
Reiner, on Victor. The An
sermet issue especially in
stereo) gives an excellent,
almost microscopic view Of
Bartok's imaginative tonal
palette, on a chamber music
scale: The Reiner edition
sounds som e W h a t more
orchestral and animated.
Beethoven'S Crosse Fuge,
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Rockville Quartet

Dorothy Leef, Mildred FL
liot, Robert Johnstone and
Carver Miller have a praise
worthy joint exhibition in the
beautiful Civic Center art
gallery in Rockville, Md,
through Wednesday. (Open
today, 3 to 7; Wednesday, 3
to 81
Each artist is showing about
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ming a painting. why, then,
should the public equate a
good painting with a pho
tograph?
1t is all a question of val
ues, of standards-at times
mistaken values, confused
standards. They deserve COM
ment.
Nine wormy pears and a
dubious melon lie in the
harsh light Of a Spanish
morning. A napkin spills
from a rush basket. Light
glints from the rim of a cast
iron pot cover. A glass stem
arises from the basketware
that holds the blow bottle.
A woodsy toadstool peeks
from the basket. All this
sings with light. No single
object is worthy of note. No
story is told. for this is not
literature. 1t is, however,
painting. The signature is
Melendez. The date, probably
1850.
The Artists Touch
The realism is all here but
something else dominates.
1t is the artists touch.
Better than that it is the
artists ability to make us see.
This is his sermon on the
obvious. He takes the wormy
pears, the wooden spoons of
a Spanish peasant, the poor
accessories of a peasant
kitchen. the rough-hewn ia
BILE top and he tells us of the
light Of heaven. He points to
the luscious wealth Of tex
lures and forms which,
blindly, we push around all
day. He weaves a musical
variation, with harmonies
and balance counterpoint
and contrast. And he calls us
blind men.
We never saw the pears in
our own kitchen. Nor ad-
mired the morning light
playing upon them. Melendez
did. and we place his sermon
in one of our grander mu-
seums, for it deserves our
pondering and our thought.
But is it as good" as a
photograph?
Regardless Of the praise
meant by the viewer in using
Evening star., 1960-08-28
BY RICHARD HIRSCH

Director. Allentown Art Museum
Many a museum-goer stops
before a painting to exclaim:
You'd think it was a photo
graph"
Photography is new. Thus.
the standard for judging a
painting which photography
offers is equally new.
Is this standard valid?
The question is important
because the exclamation
quoted above can be heard
daily in every museum in the
land, always infected with
the most genuine accents OF
praise.
Optical Truth
The implication is that the
camera lens, as the shutter
f1ickers, registers on a mega
tive an imperishable vision
of sheer truth. Think back
to some of your last sum-
mer's snapshots. Your pic
ture of little Annie will not
put Karsch out of business as
a portrait photographer; your
snapshot of Penobscott Is no
threat to Cartier-Bresson.
Is optical truth. then, not
quite enough? Is there some
thing else needed to make a
memorable picture?
These questions suggest
that the photographer is
more important than the
lens. They imply that his
sense of design, balance,
light, harmony and so on is
more important than the
grain structure of his film.
more weighty than the label
on his light meter.
The suggestions are valid.
Artist With Lens
The good photographers
ability to "see," his sense Of
light, his sense of design, his
intuitive sense of balance, his
eye for value or color, all
these help him create good
or memorable pictures.
Granted these gifts, a tai
ented photographer often sue
ceeds in approximating some
of the artists aims. The out
standing photographer and
the good artist meet in SIM
plifying the dismaying welter
of reality, in selecting from
confusion what is meaning
full.
If the photographer is
memorable only when he
functions as if he were plan
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cellent. sometimes daring
combinations gives Mr.. Law
less collection beauty. His
subjects are distractions of
landscapes, urban panoramas,
interiors and still life, in
balanced arrangements. Out
standing are Little Table"
the cool green and blue
Summer River" "Laminated
City" and another large
City" and Infinite Land"
His small casein "Icarus,"
modern figurative, is a de-
parture for him.
Gross, Kramer and Law
less exhibition open Sunday
2 to S, Tuesday through Fri
day 10 to 4::30, Saturday 9
to 4::30. Closed MondayO
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IFA GROUP II

New etchingS, wood en-
cravings, block prints and
other graphics by distin-
guished artists maintain the
high quality of these exhibit
tions by contemporary print
makers at the IFA GAL
leries, 1928 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV. The current group
will remain through Sep
tember 2.
Werner Drewes' latest COL
or woodcuts are strong. deco
rative landscapes and harbor
scenes. Three Of sunsets diff
ferentiate between the soft
colors and forms of palm
trees screening water and a
distant shore; the primary
colors Of a seaport; and the
winter pattern of bare trees
against snow and a red sky.
"Olive Trees" gnarled and
twisted, with red rooted
buildings in the background,
is equally arresting.
Gabor Peterdi's large etch-
ings, abstract yet conveying
their subjects, are superbly
designed and beautifully
executed, with myriad lines
suggesting the force of winds
bending trees and foliage.
Relief mosaics and other va
ried textures distinguish the
abstract prints with explo-
sive forms. by. Jeryl Parker.
Helen Siegl's prints are
m dern figuratives, some
near naturalism, of children
and other living creatures.
George Lockwood of Boston
Is represented with several
portrait wood engravings, in
cluding a convincing one of
Emily Dickinson. and two of
Odilon Redon. (Open Mon
day through Saturday, $50
-
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PROGRAMS
TODAY

CATHEDRAL CHOIR
OF MEN, Richard DirkSen, director.
Washington Cathedral, pm. Mag
nificat with verses in fauxbourdon, ="
Morley; Ave Maria, Mozart Alleluia,
Mozart: Seven Motets, LaSsuS est
lude Fantasia in minor, Mozart;
Dale Krider, organ.
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY
BAND, 1t. Comdr. Max Z. CorricS,
conductor. The Watergate, $3.50 pm.
Soloists: Richard r. Larson, piano;
William c. Edwards. baritone horn.
Euryanthe Overture, Weber; Tulsa,
ellis; Third Movement from Con-
certo No. > in c minor, Rachman-
inoff; Rozenkavalier Waltzes, Strauss;
Andrea Chenier Overture, Giordano;
An American in Paris. Gershwin:
AZ Those EndeSrins Yogns Charms
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TURNTABLE TALK
Horizons Widened
By Bortok Discs

in string orchestra form,
fills out the London disc,
while Victor's offers some
lively, dance-like Hungarian
Sketches. composed origi-
nally when Bartok was in
Austria and thinking perhaps
of a mposer named
Brahms.
The Concerto for Orches-
ira, another Of Bartok's most
esteemed works, also is at
tracing merited attention.
There are new versions by
Leonard Bernstein and the
New York Philharmonic on
Columbia and by Ansermet
on London, and somewhat
earlier ones by Reiner on
Victor and Heinrich Holl-
reiser and the Bamberg SYM
phony on Vox.
Competing Merits
The music, more serious
as we'll as more complex than
its title might suggest, is the
sort that offers room for
more than one viewpoint.
All these editions have their
merits. Hollreiser'S seems to
have the most bite, but the
Bernstein reading come
close, and Columbia has
achieved somewhat more lis
tenable sound. The Reiner
performance is an orchestral
tour de force, but some Of
the detail is lost in the sweep
of the reading and the vast
ness of Chicago's h all.
Ansermet as usual applies a
meticulous hand to produce a
modestly scaled but forceful
reading.
Stravinsky'S music. Of
course. still offers ample
stimulation, and the newest
recordings amplify its multi
fariouS instrumental details.
AnSermet is responsible for a
fine coupling of the exotic
symphonic poem Song of
the Nightingale" and the
charming "Pulcinella Suite"
The song is drawn from the
relatively neglected opera,
LIE Rossignol.' Pulcinella
is a reworking of music by
the 18th century Neapolitan
opera composer, Pergolesi.
Russian Spectacle
A striking Prokofieff work,
the cantata Alexander New
sky celebrating re-MarXist
Russian hero, makes a par
tlcularly effective recording.
This work utilizes chorus and
a mezzo-soprano soloist as
well as symphony orchestra,
and thus is a good stereo
demonstration. 1t comes off
spectacularly in a Victor re-
cording led by Reiner. Victor
labels the music a film sound
track, when actually it was
reworked by Prokofieff from
the score composed for
motion picture.
Prokofleff's fourth SYM
phony, relatively unfamiliar
in this country, makes an in
teresting and lush-sounding
Columbia disc from Ormandy
and the Philadelphia Orches-
ira. The music is songful and
agreeable, and its author will
be identified by anyone
familiar with Peter and the
Wolf. Another disc, from
Epic, offers the better known
fifth symphony in an ener-
getic reading by the Cleve-
land Orchestra under Sell.
Peter, ct al. can be en-
countered again on an Ever
est disc featuring Stokowsk1
at the head of the Stadium
Symphony of New York and
a gentleman called Captain
Kangaroo as narrator. The
sound on a stereo version is
exceptionally vivid. Captain
Kangaroo is heard on one side
and then the music is re-
peated on the other without
the narration, affording a
pleasant test of the hearers
musical and literary atten-
tiVeneSS,
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the exhibits by Reuben
Kramer, in his one-man
show at COrcOran.
10 watercolors, and most of
them are representational.
The best of Mrs. Leef's group
are her beautiful Rock
Creek, Winter" her broadly
handled "Dogwood" with
strong carrying quality,
White Boats on the Poto-
mac and her large Fancy
Fish" in wet paper technique.
Mildred Elliot's watercol-
ors speak of the picturesque
ness of Rockville - street
scenes such as st. Mary's
Carnival" with pennants
f1uttering over the nuns
heads; Rockville station in
the rain, with commuters
hurrying away under umbrel-
las: a view of the city from
a field, and her sunny Fish
er's Lumber Yard"
Carver Miller has developed
a broad technique, semiab-
tract, along with his rep
resentational approac h;
hence his group is varied in
handling as well as subjects.
I liked best his meticulously
painted gray green marina
After Storm" his dramatic
"Harper's Ferry" February"
snow on rocks with a con-
vincing feeling of weight and
bulk. and Green River,
Wyoming" the town dwarfed
by the mountains.
Robert Johnstone's group,
too, ranges widely. 1t in
cludes Vacant Row." the
beauty Of condemned houses
in the Southwest; his charm
ing Summer Sky Line" and
Dusk" and city panoramas.
In contrast to the majority
of his paintings, Mr.. john
stone shows a few (e.g. New
MeXico"D as garish as posters.
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ART NEWS OF D. G. AREA
Work of3 3AreoArtists
AtCorcoron Gallery
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

Artists of every far back been found
Palaeolthic Augnacian period) have celebrated
with individual general types in sculpture painting
graphcs In recent times the frequently depicted
has been identified with her ars-creator if not actually
called by his
The Corcoran Gallery Of Art
Evening star., 1960-08-28

The Robert Shaw Chorale
returns after its extraordi-
nary success last year with
the Bach B-minor Mass.
This years program has not
been announced, but I have
heard that Shaw is working
on the Bach st. Johns Pas
sion. In addition there are
the Vienna Choir Boys, the
Branko Krsmanovitch Chorus
and the Royal Welsh Choir.
These are not all the art
lists we will get from Hayes,
but they represent the basic
categories. Unquestionably a
lot of music.
y
A Break for New Music
Years ago when Dean
Smith was conductor of the
New Haven Symphony Or
cheStra, he performed the
Beethoven ninth symphony.
Three quarters of it, that is.
At the beginning of the con-
cert William Lyon Phelps.
beloved of all Yale and all
women's clubs, came to the
platform of Woolsey Hall and
said: Il have always felt
that the finale of Beethoven's
monumental symphony was
a detriment to the enjoyment
of this greatest Of all music.
AS Browning said :"
l forget what Browning
said, but do remember that
the New Haven Symphony
played only the first three
movements of the ninth
symphony that day. The
concert ended with the slow
movement.
Well, I am one Of those
who prefer the ninth SYM
phony with an ending. l
don't enjoy orchestral ar
rangementS of the Noon
light Sonata. I abhor almost
all arrangements Of Bach's
orchestral music and organ
music for a modern SYM
phony. But I feel no resent
ment toward the perpetrators
of these alterations. Bee
thoven and Bach have had
their innings and now they
have to fend for themselves,
or rather, the public has to
reject the spurious if it feels
like it. 1 see no valid argu-
ment for the precious pro-
lection of the classics.
But what about modern
works, protected by copy
right, often controversial, and
IN the active and important
process of establishing a rep
utation? l am told that Eric
Leinsdorf, in a performance
of THE Rake's Progress" in
Amsterdam, simply left out
a scene which presumably he
didn't like. I doubt that he
improved the performance
thereby, but for the sake Of
argument lei us say he did.
Should not IleW art be pro-
tected from mutilation. at
least until it comes of age?
Translation of works still
under copyright presents a
similar problem. Two gener-
ations of EngliSh-speaking
readers know Proust's "A la
Recherche du Temps Perdu"
in a translation, which, what
ever its merits, is inaccurate
to the point of perversity-
for example, at one point the
phrase "a trifle pompously"
is added quite gratuitouSly.
Other modern writer's OF
worldwide influence and re-
pute are often permanently
distorted for their foreign
contemporaries by the stric-
lures of copyright, and If
they are a Mann or a Kafka,
the more the pity. On the
other hand if the 18th CEN
tury La Fontaine fares badly
at the hands of Marianne
Moore or Tolstoy at those of
Constance Garnett, both can
hope for other champions.
l do not advocate a law to
enforce the performance Of
contemporary music in ex-
tense and without change. or
the abolition Of the protec-
ton of copyright. Both un-
happy situations are prob
ably ills without remedy.
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Church, has found the mixed
media Of crayon and india
ink exciting to work with"
He is having his first one
man show at Dyer Bros,
1921 North Fort Myer drive,
Arlington, through Wednes-
day. 1t is sponsored by the
newly formed Exchange Club
of Arlington.
Mr.. Halls % exhibits have
black backgrounds and mot
tied color due to the rough
surface on which they are ex-
ecuted. There is variety of
approach as well as themes.
His balanced "McGuire'S No.
g" naturalistic Seine
Boats" and patterned Fern"
and other floral designs i'm
pressed me as his best in
this group.
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS
What Is Real About
ReoIismin Art Todoy?

This is the second in a series Of
articles indicative Of q ropidlY
occeIerotine interest in ort sub
jects. Others will follow eoeh
week in the ort columns.
Evening star., 1960-08-28
Two at Henri's

Henri Gallery, lib South
Royal street, Alexandria, has
a joint exhibition by two
Western artists. Janet Lip
pincott and William H. Rane.
The former, a native New
Yorker. has been identified
with New Mexico for some
years. Paintings in oil, water
color and collage compose
her group. largely abstract
eXpresSionist. Her Empty
Life Boats" emphasizes the
pointed oval shapes of the
boats seen from above.
William H. Rane of Idaho
shows modern figurative
paintings with rough teXtured
surfaces, pitted or sprin-
killed. with gravel or covered
with tangled threads of paint
as in Woman with Flowers"
The figures are heavily dis
torted and the colors in some
instances horSb
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Hall Debut

Charles E. Hall. jr., native
Washingtonian still in his
twenties, educated here and
in Virginia. and now an
architect living in Falls
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SERIES PRICES

Orch: s15T5. 1880. "i.5O
Bale; S1l.00. 1880. 1915, 1850
For either series OF 8 concerts.
Mail and Phone Orders Accepted.
Enclose self-addressed. stamped
envelope with order. Checks pay
able to Hayes Concert Bureau"
PAY AS THEY PLAY PLAN
order your series tickets and pay
in three equal installments. You
receive concert tickets with each
payment.
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SERIES B

3 CONCERTS: New York Philhar-
monic conducted by Leonard
Bernstein, Artur Rubinstein, Rob-
ert Shaw Chorale, Victoria de los
Angeles, Nathan Milstein, Guio-
mar Novaes, Jan Peerce, Little
Orchestra Society conducted by
Thomas Scherman Company OF
SIS performing Handels Judas
MacCabaeus"l
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OPTIONAL 9th
CONCERT FOR EITHER
SERIES

Birgit Nilsson. Dramatic soprano
of the Metropolitan Opera. in
solo recital Tickets for this event
may be obtained by series sub
scribers at the pro rata price Of
their individual series tickets
tOne-eighth Of prices listed
Evening star., 1960-08-28

certgebouv conducted by Bernard
Haitnik. Van Cliburn, Cleveland
Orchestra conducted by George
Sell, Jussi Bjoerling, Eileen Far
rell. Solisti di Zagreb, duo-pian-
lists LuboShutz e. Nemenof,
Branko Krsmanovich international
Prize-winning Chorus from Yugo-
Slavia
Evening star., 1960-06-17

him here. was discounted by
many of the publishers.
One. who volunteered the in
formation that he had recently
signed a petition for the i'm
parchment of the entire Su-
preme Court, said: "Of course,
his civil rights stand bothers
me, but what can I do about it?
There's no candidate in either
party-not even Johnson-who
holds my viewpoint. I've got
to choose on some other basis
who I'm going to support"
Others TOO Liberal
The publishers suggested sew
eral reasons why they believed
the Democratic possibilities
other than Senator johnson
would lose to Mr.. Nixon. Sew
eral said Senator Kennedy's
and Senator Symington's vot-
ing records were too liberal"
for Texas. Some of them said
that high ratings of the two
Senators by Americans for
Democratic Action and the
AFL-CIO Committee on Polit-
ical Education could be used
against them effectively in this
State.
A number of the publishers
also expressed the view that
Senator Kennedy's religion
Evening star., 1960-06-17

would weaken his candidacy
One man. who said he voted for
AL Smith in 1928, said: Ken
nedy can't carry Texas. The
Baptists hold the balance of
power in this State and they're
flat against him."
Mr.. StevenSon's chances in
Texas were described as "hope-
less" or in similar phrases by
all the publishers interviewed.
His 1852 stand against State
rights to tidelands oil would
be raised again if he were the
nominee, several publishers
suggested. This issue helped
swing Texas to Mr.. Eisenhower
in the last two elections.
Others said Mr.. Stevenson S
chances would be CRIPPLED by his
'intellectualism" and his ad-
vocacy of what a number of
publishers called "softness" or
concessions" to the Commu-
nists.
Evening star., 1960-06-17

nlgnC, prOouceQ only TWO QlS-
sents from this judgment. One
man said Senator Kennedy
might carry Texas and another
said Senator Symington pos
sibly could win.
None said Adlai Stevenson
could defeat Mr.. Nixon here,
but all expressed the view that
Gcnator johnson would be an
easy winner. Those interviewed
were publishers of small-town
daily and weekly newspapers.
A majority classified them
selves as Democrats.
The majority viewpoint was
stated by a publisher in the
Panhandle, a man who doubles
Evening star., 1960-06-17
Hurpers Ferry Lond
Bill Coins in House

About 80 acres would be
added to the Harper's Ferry
National Monument in West
Virginia under a bill approved
by the House Public Lands
Subcommittee yesterday. The
Senate has approved a similar
measure.
The land, to be acquired
from trustees of Storer College,
include the Storer College
site, the original site of John
Browns arsenal and the old
Federal Armory. Estimated
cost Of the acquisition is
100000.
Evening star., 1960-06-17

$129.5 million legislative ap-
preparation bill. which provides
the money for congressional
salaries and other congressional
spending.
He said he expects to win this
time.
Earlier this year the Senate
by $50 vote added the same
proposal onto the mutual Sc
curity authorization bill. But
House refused to approve it.
The amendment finally was
stricken.
Senator Williams said the
appropriation bill really is an
appropriate vehicle for this
amendment. If the House re-
fuses to accept it this time, it
would mean a deadlock on Con-
gresS' own payroll"
He said the amendment
would require public disclosure
Evening star., 1960-06-17

as Democratic chairman Of his
county. mo Democrat but
Lyndon can possibly hold his
State" he said. Texas is
basically conservative in it's
politics, and Nixon will be the
conservative candidate in the
race"
Said another publisher, from
South Central Texas: My
paper is for johnson for the
Democratic nomination, but if
he doesn't make it, we'll be for
Nixon"
The Vice Presidents advo-
cacy Of strong civil rights leg
islation, which might be pre-
sumed to count heavily against
Evening star., 1960-06-17

Of all congressional expense
accounts. reimbursed by public
money, whether the payment
was in dollars or foreign cur
rency owned by the Govern
ment abroad.
1t would apply to the expense
accounts of members, legis-
lative committees and con-
gressional aides.
The Senate Appropriations
Committee yesterday COIN
pleted a revision of the House.
passed bill. Senator Williams
said he expects the Senate will
start debating it next week,
and he will offer his amend
ment then.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
Expense List
Bottle Begins
In Congress
BY the Associated Press

Senator Williams, Republic
can of Delaware. reopened to-
day his fight to require public
disclosure of Congress mem
bers' expense accounts.
These are kept secret now,
unless the members choose to
make them public. Few of them
do.
Senator Williams told a re-
porter he will move to hook his
disclosure proposal onto the
Evening star., 1960-06-17
Former Hits Oil

GILBERT, Ark. (AP).-Don-
aid Blair. a farmer, drilled two
wells looking for water. He
found it on the second try. The
first we'll struck oil.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
Johnson Only Democrat
Seen Able to Win Texas
BY DAVID S. BRODER
Star stan Writer

HOUSTON Tex June 1.-THE Texas newspapermen who
will play host tomorrow Vice President Nixon largely
the opinion that he carry the State against any
cratic nominee except Lyndon Johnson.
Interviews with dozen members of the
socation which will hear speech from Nixon