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Evening star., 1961-11-26
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

C0RcORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven
teenth street and New York avenue
NV. Daily, 10 an. 70 4:30 pm;
Saturday am. 70 1880 pm; Sun
day and holidays, 2 to 5 pm; closed
Monday. Now: The Civil War"
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH L.
BRARY AND COLLECTION, 1903
Thirty-second street NV. Daily,
to pm; closed Monday. Closed
Indefinitely.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive S.W. Daily.
2 an. to 4:3O pm
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE
ARTS, Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily, an. 70 4:3O
pm.
NATIONAL GALLERY or ART, Con-
2 stitution avenue at Sixth street NV.
Daily, 10 an TO p.m.i sunday,
10 an. to 10 pm.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1921 Twenty
second street NV. Daily, IL am. to
pm; Monday, IL am. TO 10 pm;
Sunday, to pm.
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Art Notes

For the second Sunday in
a row, the National Gallery
Of Art opens at 10 am. today
in the probably vain hope Of
accommodating the crowds
anxious to see the Egyptian
treasures show and, now, the
newly acquired Fragonard,
Young Girl Reading" The
new Sunday hours will also
apply a week from today, the
last day for the Egyptian
material. There is staff talk
of making the early opening
permanent. If this is done, it
will probably be at the ex-
pense Of the present Sunday
evening hours. For today and
next Sunday. though, the
Gallery will be open a full
IL hours, 10 am. to 10 pm.
The Library Of Congress
print department, in its sec
ond floor gallery, has just
opened an exhibition Of re-
cent print purchases made by
the Library for the Joseph
and Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Collection. The SO prints are
selected from 396 prints pur-
chased by the Pennell Fund
in the last two years. All
media and many countries
are represented in the show.
Pietro Lazzari, whose paint
ings are on view at Associated
Artists, is now showing draw
ings at the Capitol Hill Gal
lery.
The Division of Graphic
Arts Of the u. S. National
- Museum is exhibiting prints
by James L. Wells, director
of graphic arts at Howard
University. The show, in the
Divisions gallery in the
Smithsonian Building, is on
through January 7.
Contemporary Religious
Prints" from the Sloniker
Collection, Cincinnati, are
now on view at the George
Washington University Lii
brary, through December IT.
Recent paintings by Franco
Assetto and water colors by
Yayoi Kusama are on exhi-
bition at the Gres Gallery.
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TODAY'S GOOD
MUSIC DIAL

1880, WASH-FM 1911 Mc.)-
Music Of Distinction. Sme-
tana's Ma Vlast, Symphonic
Cycle.
1900, WMAL-FM (IO7.3 Mc.)
Recital Stage. Joseph
Fuchs, violin. Schubert's
Sonata in A Major, Opus
1862; Copland's Sonata.
2:O5, WGMS AM-FM 1910 Kc.
and 1875 Me- Boston
Symphony Orchestra. Clau-
dio Arrau, pianist; works
by Mendelssohn, DebusSy
and Beethoven.
300, WMAL-FM (IO7.3 Mel
-CasalS Concert. A per-
formance of the recent
White House recital by
famed cellist Pablo Casals.
Works by Mendelssohn,
Schumann and Couperin
and Song of the Birds" a
Catalan folk song.
3:O6, WASH-FM 1911 Mc.)-
Opera House. Verdi's Aida"
sos, WGMS AM-FM $50 Kc.
and 1875 Me- = Stereo
Showcase. Copland's Fam
fare for the Common Man;
Bernstein's "West Side
Story" symphonic dances).
6:15, WMAL-FM (1O7.3 Me-
Music of the Dance. Stra-
vinsky's Petrouchka.
$500, WGMS AMIN $50 Kc.
and 103.5 Me- = National
Gallery of Art Concert.
Church of the Reformation
Cantata Choir and Soloists.
Beethoven's Mass in C, Opus
86; Haydn's Symphony No.
103 in E Flat, "Drumroll."
sos, WTOP-New York Phil
harmonic. Josef Krips is
guest conductor. Russian
born pianist Shura Cherkas-
sky makes his deput. Works
by Mozart, Prockofieff and
Brahms.
10:30, WRC-Casals Concert,
Another complete broadcast
of the recent White recital
by Cellist Pablo Casals.
1901, WWDC - Music Til
Dawn. Grofe's Grand Can
yon Suite.
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The Art League

Probably the most univer-
sally popular function now
performed by the National
Collection Of Fine Arts in its
home in the Natural History
Building Of the Smithsonian,
is the staging of a series of
exhibitions by assorted So
cieties Of Washington artists.
In retrospect and prospect
the whole year at the COL
lection seems to be filled with
these shows and they are un-
doubtedly a very good thing
for the Washingtonian who
paints as an avocation. They
provide him, in the first
place, with a chance to ex-
h1bit in a public institution.
Thus he can see his own work
in an objective setting and
compare it with work by
others similarly engaged.
The collection staff does
not pretend to have ideal ex-
hibition space. The problem
seems to be that since even
tually the collection will
move to new quarters in the
Old Patent Office Building.
no one wants to spend a dime
on installation material in
the present setting. The hall
could certainly use, as a
minimum, a new lighting
system and a system could be
assembled Of parts which
might be moved to the new
quarters in the future. In the
meantime, despite the made
quate lighting, the hall is a
great improvement over most
private galleries or church or
school halls otherwise open
10 Cne palnter Tor pleasure.
Gath Annual
The present show is the
oath annual Metropolitan
Exhibition Of the American
Art League and 1t represents
a distinct change from the
recent show of the Society
OF Washington Artists. The
latter was firmly fixed in the
middle of contemporary alb
straction. The present ex-
hibition Is rather more wide
ranging, taking in that range
Of abstraction plus a large
number Of representational
pieces, including several por-
traits.
On balan ee, the show
probably demonstrates the
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3
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Q'or Full details, see next Sundays
Hstings.)
CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
CHOIR with instrumental ensem-
Bile. Christ Congregational Church.
Silver Spring, 9:16 am, 11:15 am,
500 pm.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Howard Mitchell, conductor. Solo
lists: Miss Addison, Messrs. Oberlln,
McCOllum and Gramm. Combined
Choirs Of New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church. First COngrega tiOnaI
Church and NOrthminster Presby-
terian Church. Constitution Hall,
RosRRT G1RAGRfk kHahaes pissp cossoran nsssah
Gallery of Art, 3 pm.
FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB
Georgetown Presbyterian Church, 4
pm. Student Recital.
MILFORD MYHRE. organ. Washing
ton Cathedral. 8 pm.
GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA, soprano.
Constitution Hall. 1880 pm.
M QUARTET. on Nationai Al wS6xuGPi cub Audi1
torium, s:15 pm.
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Corcorun School

The Perlmutter exhibition
is the second in this years
Corcoran series Of Washing
ton artists. Elsewhere in
the building, in the Corcoran
School, through the New
York Avenue entrance, there
is another one man show by
another Corcoran instructor,
Alexander Russo. Like Mr..
Perlmutter, Mr.. Russo is a
recent addition to the Cor
coran School staff. His ex-
hibition reveals tremendous
facility. There are five ma
jor paintings and a number
of drawings. All exhibit COM
plete ability to do exactly
what the artist wants within
the surface look of contem-
porary American painting.
There is a degree of alb
straction in the work, but it
is always well short of total.
The combination, in fact,
seems to be a clear strong
image derived out of tech
niqueS which, in the work of
most contemporaries, is dedi-
Gated to accidental effects
and to no image at ALL.
Thus Ascending Figure"
is, on close examination, a
great spray of purple streaks
and splashes over lilac Streaks
and Splashes, the whole color
arrangement fading toward
white the farther away it
gets from the central figure
of the title. The figure itself,
however, Is unmistakable and
no accident. This makes an
interesting combination of
the accidental and the pre-
meditated. The range Of the
artist is revealed as wider
than that in Mother and
Child" Sermon in Stones"
and Peacock" a painted
collage. In all of the work,
though, there remains the
combination Of freedom and
control, the combination of
image and the appearance
Of chance.
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Constitution Hall. Better get
your tickets early.
= \ =
NEWS FROM THERE.
BeltSville, Nd: The Balti-
more symphony under Her
bert GrOsSman- gives two
concerts at High Point High
School tomorrow. The SYM
phony has invited % stu
dent-musicians from Prince
Georges County to play with
the orchestra. New York:
The New York Pro Musica
MOtet Choir and Wind En-
semble directed by Noah
Greenberg will give the
only public performance next
Saturday Of an unusual pro-
gram especially prepared for
the Eighth Congress of the
international Musicological
Society last September. &.
Oklahoma City: Guy Fraser
Harrison and the Oklahoma
City Symphony Orchestra
will broadcast Robert Hall
Lewis's prelude and Finale"
for small orchestra Nation
wide tonight. The work re-
ceived its world premiere
here last spring in a program
of the Washington Camerata
conducted by George Steiner.
BITS AND PIECES.
Max POlIikOff's Music in Our
Time" series, reported mori-
bund in these columns two
weeks ago, has obtained a
temporary lease on life,
thanks to a large donation
from an anonymous source
and small gifts from ASCAP,
Leonard Bernstein, Aaron
COPELAND, Richard Rodgers,
and others. Seven concerts
will be presented between
January and May. Wash
ington's Ann Schein has been
touring the Soviet Union
under the Soviet-American
cultural exchange program
with great success. In Baku,
where the brilliant young
pianist celebrated her 22d
birthday. she was forced to
play eight encores before the
management stopped the
show, and the same thing
happened in Tbilisi. E.
Joseph L. Whyte, vice-pres-
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ident and trust officer in
charge of the trust depart
ment of the American Secu-
rity and Trust Company, will
head up the National Sym
phony Orchestra's 1862 Sus-
tanning Fund campaign.
Two recent graduates of
Catholic University's Music
Department have been
awarded Fullbright Awards
for study abroad. Cecile Geo
will study harp in Italy; Carl
w. Kaiser will study opera in
Germany. Just to keep
the record straight, Casals
was not the only cellist to
to appear in recital in the
White House in recent years.
GregOr PiatigOrsky played
for President Eisenhower
and his guests in october,
1859.
WORDS ON MUSIC
The Presidents Music Com
mittee of the People-to-People
Program has just released its
latest Calendar of Music Ac-
tivities in the United States.
The 329-page calendar lists
more than 1880 musical
events in 1922 cities between
now and June. 1862. 1t is
available from the committee
(734 Jackson place NV,
Washington 6, D. c. for So
and is a bargain at that price.
E. And obtainable free from
the Music Division of the Lii
brary of Congress is Musical
Creation, a lecture delivered
by the distinguished French
musicologist, Marc PincherIe,
in the Whittall Pavilion in
october, 1860. According
to informed sources in the
advertising industry, both
Show Business Illustrated and
Show are having their trou-
bleS, with the former in seri-
Gus difficulties.
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SATURDAY

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Howard Mitchell, conductor. Solo,
lists: Adele Addison, soprano; Rus
sell Oberlin, countertenor; John
McCOllum. tenor; Donald Gramm,
baritone. Assisting choirs: New York
stephen PrussinF. directoT: First
Congregational Church Choir, Whit
ford Hall. director; NOrthminster
Presbyterian Church Choir. Donald
Miller, director. Constitution Hall.
$50 pm. The Messiah, Handel.
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NEWS OF MUSIC
New Operas Designed
ForChurch Sanctuary
BY IRVING LOWENS
Star Music Critic

Opera and the church usually thought of as mixing
ABOUT as well as do oil and water but wouldn't seem so in
Washington from what in the offng next month
Two new operas designed for the church sanctuary will
be presented locally
The first is 30-mnute work called "An Opera for
CHRISTMAS written by Alfred Neumann organist and choir
director OF Christ Congregational Church Silver Spring
Although Mr.. Neumanns opera is scored for soloists
Evening star., 1961-11-26
ART AND ARTISTS
e PerImutter In IMAM
2 Show at Corcoron
By FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

Washington artist Jack Permutter has long established
national reputation prinmaker His exhibition
OF paintings opened this week at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art and proves that Mr. Permutter unlike majority of
his fellow printmakers operates in paint just effective
as and even more impressvely than he does in print.
The transition from medium to the other is not
as might think In Europe is The artist of
repute there normally into printmakng by way of
making coored drawings for professional printing firm
Evening star., 1961-11-26
TOMORROW

REGINA SARFATY, soprano Richard
e. Montgomery ave., Rockville, $50
pm. Program not available.
JOHN PERRAS. flute: Gilbert KaIish,
piano. Phillips Collection, $40
pm. Sonata in Z minor, Handel;
Beethoven (Mr. KaIish); Partita in
minor for flute alone, Bach: So
nata for Flute and Piano 1857
Dt Domenica: Sonata in D, for
Flute and Plano. Op. "a, Prokofieff,
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itone): Let Gcd Abide, Martin-Brad.
ford (Soloist: Mary Holland, So
prano): Eliza Rock, Hairston: Set
Down Servant. Shaw (Solosists: De.
lores HutcheS0n, alto: Thomas Reid;
barttone): You'll Never Walk Alone
Rodgers and Hammerstein; Battle
Hymn Of the Republic, arr. Wilhou-
sky
SCAR L. WALDEN. organ. First
Conversational Church. 10th and G
streets NV. 8 pm. Program not
available.
TATIONAL GALLERY ORCHESTRA,
Church Of the Reformation Cantata
Choir, Richard Bales, conductor
Soloists: Peg6y Zabawa soprano,
killa Mervine, alto: George Barritt,
tenor; julie ZabaWa, baritone. Ma
tlonal Gallery Of Art, s pm. Sym
relIO, Haydn: Mass in C. op. Sc,
Beethoven.
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e 1epuCe Lnere normally moves
making colored drawings for
which accurately translates
the drawings into prints,
usually Autographs. The sit
uation is different in this
country.
The American tradition
, at least of the last several de-
cades-rather looks down on
that kind Of thing. American
printmakerS regard the typi-
cal European process as simp-
ly q means Of reaching a
relatively mass market for
famous artists. Dating back
to the w. P. A. art projects,
the American way Is a much
closer involvement for the
: printmaker with the actual
processes of his medium. The
American wouldn't dream Of
handing over a drawing to a
printing firm and henceforth
regarding himself as a print
d maker. Normally he does his
own drawing on the litho-
. graphic stone, the etching
copper. the block Of wood or
the silk screen.
New Range Of Expression
He follows his drawing
with complete control Of the
fixing process, whether this
involves cutting out wood or
burning copper with acid.
He has discovered that not
only does this personal con-
troll insure results to his de-
sire, but it also opens a whole
new range Of the means of
expression.
The same is true of the ac-
tual printing of prints. The
American exercises total con-
troll all the way through. The
European-with notable ex-
ceptions-is hardly aware of
the problem. He looks upon
the whole printing process
as essentially a recording
operation. The sole criterion
is fidelity to his original
drawing. The difference
is analogous to that between
a composer who orchestrates
his work and one who hands
over the meolodic line to a
professional arranger.
Revival Of Art
From the point Of view
OF contemporary American
printmaking, this is all to
the good and has led to a
widespread revival Of the art
after its decline following the
perfection Of photo-mechani-
cal engraving. But the new
way has had bad effects upon
the traditional interchange
between painting and print
making as artistic expression.
For the painter, today more
than ever. creates directly.
The stroke of his brush is
the stroke in the finished
work. Printmaking is an
indirect process, the artist
working backwards and with
mirror images.
The painter makes a line
with a simple brush-stroke,
controlling it only by the
prior decisions Of what size
brush and how thickly loaded
with paint it is. For
say, the etcher. the line is
vastly more complicated. He
prepares a plate, coating it
with an acid resistant sub
stance. draws his line through
that substance with his nee
die; determines the quality of
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FRIDAY

FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB
Cosmos Club. 2i2i Massschusetts
ave. NV, II am. Concerto in A
minor for two violins, Vivaldi pa
tricia Cochran and Elizabeth Breed,
violins; Jeanine Roby, piano.; Sieben
fruehe Lisder, Berg Vera Tilson
soprano, GeOrge Manos, piano.: Pre-
lude and Fugue in c sharp from the
Well Tempered Clavier, Book l,
Bach; Variations for Piano 1945l, !,
s.11S,; kohs; S,ndn, 0ndine' RaVel Esther :"
EUPHoNIC CHoRALE, Henry Brooks
shepard, conductor. Metropolitan
Baptist Church, 1928 R st. NV,
Sis pm. Music by Schuetz, Purcell,
Tchaikowsky, william, Thompson, RaS-
bach, Dawson, Burleigh. Lawrence
and Hairston.
IDA PRESTI AND ALEXANDRA La
torium. $3.50 pm. Sonata in A
Originally for 2 lutes), Lauffen-
steiner: Sonata in D minor, D. Scar
latti: Sonata in D, D: Scarlatti;
Sarsbande; Bouree I and II. Gigue.
mandolin and harpsichord). Beetho-
ven; Menuette pompose, Redrige;
Tarantelle, Petit; Tango espagnol,
Albeniz; Villanescas, Grandes: Dance
No. from La Vida Breve, Falla.
LOEwENGUTH QUARTET (AIfred
Loewenguth and Jacques GOtkoysky,
violins; Roger Roche, viola; Roger
Loewenguth, cello). Library Of Con-
greSs, $3.50 pm. Quartet in G minor,
Op. "a, No. 4, Haydn; Quartet
U940l, Barraud; Quartet in A mi
nor, Op. 1872, Beethoven.
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Howard Mitchell, conductor. NJ c.
Donough Gymnasium, Georgetown
University, $50 pm. Symphony No.
40 in O minor, Mozart: Symphony
No. /, Barber: 6cheherazade. Rim
sky-Korsakov.
Evening star., 1961-11-26

the command of the average
church choir director in
mind.
"An Opera for Christmas"
will be performed in the
sanctuary of Christ Congre-
gational Church three times
next Sunday.
A World Premiere
Meanwhile, a musical high
light Of the Christmas season
at the Washington Cathedral
will be the world premiere ton
Christmas Eve at 10 pmO of
the pageant-opera "Novellis,
Novellis" by the American
composer and winner of the
1853 Pulitzer Prize in music,
John LaMontaine.
The libretto for the opera,
which tells the Christmas
story from the Annunciation
through the birth of Jesus,
was arranged by the compos-
er from three sources: the
English miracle plays of the
Middle Ages, the King James
version of the Bible, and the
Latin liturgy.
Mr.. La Montaine states
that he has preserved the
original language of each of
his sources throughout the
work so as Ito reflect the
form and meaning of the
Christmas story in three
widely different civilizations" !"
Paul Galloway will conduct
"Novellis, Novellis," and an
impressive list of soloists has
been announced. Among 9TH
er singers in the cast are
Maria di Gerlando, Chester
Ludgin, Mac Morgan, STAN
ley Kolk, David Lloyd, Nadia
Witkowska, and Elaine Bon
azzi. all of whom have been
heard here previously In OPP
era Society of Washington
productions.
Oppenheimer NarrateS
The narrator will be Alan
Oppenheimer. well known to
local theater-goers from his
many performances with
Arena Stage.
Mr.. Galloway will have a
38-piece orchestra and the
Cathedral Choir of Men and
Boys as well as the soloists
under his baton, and the di-
rection Of the opera has been
entrusted to James Waring of
Catholic University. Con-
stance Mellen has designed
the costumes.
The Cathedrals traditional
Christmas Eve midnight
service of Holy Communion
will follow the presentation
Of the pageant-opera.
Wide attention will doubt
less be focused on Mr.. La
Montaine's work because of
his growing stature in the
world Of composers.
1t is probable that this sort
Of dramatico-musical activity
has been Sparked by the
enormous success of Noah
Greenberg's reconstruction of
"The Play of Daniel" which
has become as traditional
during the holiday season in
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Snow" and Birds on Wire"
evoking everywhere his indi-
vidual vision of the signifi-
canoe Of litter in life in town.
There is never any feeling of
repetition. Each picture deep
ems the vision created by the
others. Finally the painter
successfully tackles the ulti-
mate litter in two pictures
called ''Megatons" and Fall
out" The designs through
out are totally controlled;
the paint quality is very dry.
These notes also character
ize the meditating mind be-
hind the vision.
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New York as "Amahl and the
Night Visitors" is elsewhere.
But regardless of the
source of the original inspir-
alton, it strikes me that this
sort of experimentation is an
extremely healthy devel-
opment in the field of church
music, which has not been
in flourishing state in recent
years.
And despite the brighter
spotlight that will play upon
Washington Cathedral, Mr..
Neumann's effort should not
be neglected. Indeed, in some
ways it is of greater potential
interest to the church musi-
clan, because it is written for
performance in the average
American church by average
musicians found in the con-
gregation.
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RAvEL FOR SCHOENBERG
The Opera Society Of Wash
ington has announced that
Arnold Schoenberg'S "Von
Heute auf Morgen," sched-
uled to have its American
premiere here next January
19, has been indefinitely
postponed.
The Schoenberg work will
be replaced by Maurice Raw
els lovely one-acter, "L'Heure
Espagnole." The other half of
the special non-subscription
double-bill in honor of Igor
Stravinsky's S0th birthday
continues to be "Oedipus
Rex" and the composer him
self will conduct the three
performances.
The Ravel will be under
the direction of Robert Craft.
NEWS FROM HERE.
The Washington Recorder
Society meets tomorrow at
8 pm. at Western High
School, and recorder en-
thusiasts are invited to partic-
ipate in group playing.
Under the auspices of the
Institute Of Contemporary
Arts, producer director Rob-
ert Snyder will discuss his
approach to films on art, ma
ture, and society with par
ticular reference to his "A
Visit with Pablo Casals,"
which will be shown fol-
lowing the Thursday night
lecture in the auditorium of
the National Education AS
sociation. The New York
Philharmonic Young Peoples
Concerts return to TV Friday
night at the choice hour of
7::30 pm. Leonard Bernstein
will explain "What Is I'm
presSiOniSm" on WTOP-TV
in the first of the series.
Three special Christmas pro-
grams are scheduled by the
National Symphony Orches-
ira, the annual Messiah"
(next Saturday and Sun
day., Menotti's "Amahl and
the Night Visitors" with the
original TV cast December
10, and a full-length Tchai-
kovsky "Nutcracker" with the
Washington Ballet Company
December 81 and 28), all in