Evening star., 1961-07-23
NEWS OF MUSIC
EIectronics Offers
New World of Music

presents the first of four OUT
door string quartet concerts,
Strings on the Green at
5000 Watson pl. (Thirty-
ninth and Garfield sts. N.W0.
The American University
String Quartet is featured
:. Tonight's Marine Band
concert at the Watergate pre-
SentS a program in honor of
Abraham Lincoln including
music of the Lincoln period.
There will be addresses by
the Secretary of the Interior,
Stewart L. UdalI, and Con-
gresham Fred Schwenge Of
Iowa Wednesday: No
fewer than seven instrument
talists and one vocalist are
featured in a Concerto Night
at the Watergate b. Thurs
day: A monster joint armed
forces concert at the Water
gate features six conductors,
two singing groups, and three
soloistS. All the services are
represented Saturday:
The summer series of organ
recitalS continues at st.
Johns Church Lafayette
Square. with a program by
Lawrence p. Schneider. The
church is historic, beautiful
and air conditioned.
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FESTIVAL NOTES: The
summer music festivals are
going strong both here and
abroad. Two of the most pop
ular are relatively accessible
from this area. At Bear Noun
tain State Park on the Hud-
son River, the Empire State
Music Festival will be in busi-
ness until August 6. The ap-
pearances of the New York
City Ballet Company all took
place earlier this month, but
there are a number of SYM
phony concerts and opera
performances still coming up.
:. And Of course, up in the
Berkshire Mountains in Mas
SachuSettS, the Boston Sym
phOny Orchestra is holding
forth at Tanglewood. The last
performance there will be on
August 20 A number of
foreign festivals are in the
news. Israel's first music fes-
tival will run from August 26
to September is. Pablo Casals
is musical head of the ven
ture, and among the partici-
pants will be our old friends,
the Budapest String Quartet,
and many other well-known
AmericanS-men like Rudolf
Serkin, Isaac Stern, Eugene
IStOmin and Leonard Rose.
The first concert will feature
the world premiere of a new
work by Darius Milhaud, Bar
Mitzvah Israel" The 1861
Beethoven Festival in Bonn,
the capital of the Federal Re-
public Of Germany, will run
from September 16 to October
2. Visitors-or should we say
pilgrims?-will hear Eide
lio," the MisSa Solemnis, and
all nine symphonies No
one who knows Berlin and
Berliners will be surprised to
hear that, crisis or no, plans
for the Berlin Festival Weeks
are going forward. The festi-
val is a 10-ring cultural circus
which seems to offer every
one from everywhere doing
everything. In the musical de-
partment, the Santa Fe New
MexicO) Opera Company will
be on hand, and the American
Gloria Davy will sing the title
role in Aida" at the Munich
pal Opera House. There will
be musical organizations from
Helsinki, Rome, the Meth
erlands, Portugal and-you
name it. The festival begins
on September "a and closes
on October 10. =. The Lu.
cerne Festival begins a little
earlier, on August 16 to be
exact, and runs through to
September 9. This event is on
a smaller scale than many Of
the others and offers a sub
Stantial amount of chamber
music along with orchestra
concerts and a summer school.
There are two programs of
new music by European COM
posers relatively little known
here scheduled for August 81
and September Z The