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Virtuosic VioIininq

What may be the best vio-
lin concerto of this year
land some others, tool is
Angels record of Leonid
Hogan doing Lalo's Sym
phonic Espangole with his
Russian compatriot Kyril
Kondrashin conducting the
Philharmonic Orchestra in
London.
This is the third S. E. this
year, and by far the most i'm
preSSive. Who plays so
warmly, so fierily, so sweetlyP
Who attacks so cleanly,
sounds so exciting and re-
laxed at once? You will want
to hear this one over and
over, for Hogan as one vio-
lin-playing friend suggested,
sounds more like Heifetz than
any young fiddler today. Also
on disk: Tchaikovsky's Sere-
made Melancolique, to show
off Kogan's velvety playing.
Evening star., 1961-09-03

Einem, Ginastera, Egk, and
Berg Monterey, Calf:
The composer-critic Gunther
Schuller, who made such a
strong impression on Wash
ington audiences last season
with new works performed at
the Library of Congress and
in Constitution Hall, will
conduct at the Monterey Jazz
Festival later this month. Mr..
Schuller was for many years
before he decided to re
tire" a few years ago to de-
vote himself entirely to COM
position-first hornist in the
Metropolitan Opera Orches-
ira. He is now a leader in
the Third Stream" move
ment in jazz, and one of the
country's brightest creative
talents at the age of 35 I.
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BITS AND PIECES
II you own a set of the new
edition of Groves Dictionary
of Music and Musicians, you
will want to get a copy of
the Supplementary Volume"
now just off the press, in
order to complete it. The
new volume isn't much of a
help in itself, but its cor
rections, additions, and new
entries make it essential to
Grove owners The New
York Public Library has Just
published a facsimile edition
of the rare 17th-century
"Parthenia In-Violata; or
Mayden Musicke for the Vir-
ginals and Bass Viol," of
which it has the only known
copy -. And speaking of
publications, the magazine
Show (subtitled THE Maga-
zine of the Performing Arts")
is scheduled to hit the news
stands any day now. 1t will
be a lavish job. priced at a
dollar a copy, and its aim is
to take its readers behind
the curtain for an inside view
Of the people, places, and
events in the theater, film,
television, dance, and music
OF the world =. The Amer
lean Symphony Orchestra
League, soon to locate in the
area, has received a grant
of $4,000 from the Avalon
Foundation for the purpose
of developing an in-service
training program in orches-
ira management.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
Buroque Beauties

Add to the list of outstand-
ing chamber groups the name
Of The Wiener SoliSten. Van
guard gives us the pleasure
Of hearing this new 14-man
string ensemble in a charm
ing set of three harpischord
concertos, two by Johann
Christian Bach and the other
by his equally gifted brother,
Carl Phillip Emanuel. Harp
sichordist Fritz Neumeyer
gets into the spirit of these
tuneful, ight-hearted airs
that you won't want to miss.
Equally listenable is Van
guards THE VirtuoSo Harp
Sichord," with Anton HELLER
playing IA Of Jean-Philippe
Rameau's bright concoctions.
Anyone who hasn't heard
these pieces called The Call
Of the Birds, The Wild Men,
The Hen, The Three Hands,
The Egyptian, The Savages,
Tambourine, Gavotte with
Six Doubles, and others, has
a real treat in store in this
delectable roundup.
Evening star., 1961-09-03

Group, attended a service at
the English Reformed Church
in Amsterdam and was much
impressed by the organist he
heard. He spoke to the young
lady, Miss Marie Bremen,
and discovered that she
wanted to come to the United
States.
For two years, Mr.. Deere
and his parents, aided by
Senator Gore and Represen-
.ative Loser, Democrats Of
Tennessee, Lawrence Ingram
members of the Netherlands
, Embassy and the State De-
partment, and many others
worked to- sponsor her COM
ing to this country.
Miss Bremen arrived in the
United States, thanks to their
efforts, on August 9. A week
later, she auditioned (along
With six other aspirantS) for
the position Of organist at the
Capitol Hill Presbyterian
Church-and won the job.
The church has a fine new
Schlicker organ and the
Music Committee felt, that
she was best qualified to.
utilize its baroque character
istics.
AS an added compliment,
the chairman of the church'S
Music Committee stepped for
ward to become her first
American pupil.
We welcome Marie Bremen
to the community of mu-
sicians in the Nations Capital
and hope that she will con-
tribute to the wealth of musi-
cal activities taking place
here.
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NEWS FROM HERE &.
The Arlington Department of
Recreation and Parks an
nounces the formation Of the
Arlington Choral Society,
with membership drawn from
residents Of Arlington and its
vicinity. under the direction
of Richard WeiIenmann.
Three programs are to be pre-
sented this season, featuring
the Brahms German Re-
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PhiIIy Fireworks

Someday there has to be
a point beyond which even
the Philadelphia Orchestra
will not dare to venture. If
that point Is its new (Colum-
bia) stereo-mono version of
Elm Heldenleben it would not
be surprising. For this is the
most sumptuous and gram
dose of all Philly records.
Simply grand in its concep-
ton, execution and realiza-
ton. Strauss and we never
had it so good.
Eugene Ormandy's forces
also are on tap with a late
model Berlioz Symphonic
Fantastique. It, too, goes for
broke in the only way the
Philadelphia Orchestra can
to outdo any other for lush
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performance with the Luz
cerne Festival Orchestra con-
Quoted by Herbert Won Kara
jan. It's recording seemed
impossible for although 1t was
broadcast, Swiss union rules
caused tapes to be destroyed.
. Walter Legge, Angels artistic
director, tells on jacket notes
what followed:
For eight years, Madame
Lipatti and I searched Europe
in the hope Of finding a re-
cording taken from the air
by an amateur. In 1859, two
materialized in one week, both
recorded by amateurs, one in
Zurich and the other in
Copenhagen. Angels engi-
neers in London worked for
a year to produce from the
better of these primitive
originals the most acceptable
sound"
Something TO Prize
This had to be more than
a stunt. 1t had to be devo-
ton to the great Roumanian
pianist for this performance
is one that every devotee of
Lpatti and Mozart should
have. The sound is incredibly
good considering the source,
as good as many studio prod
ucts of recent years.
Lipatti is his usual dazzling
self, ripping through the
rondo with amazing facility,
exalted in the andante, and
getting unexcelled direction
and playing from Won Kara
jan and the orchestra.
A juicy, racy bit Of lag
niappe is Enesco's Piano
Sonata No. 3 in D major
which Lipatti recorded in
1913.
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7th by KIemperer

Otto Klemperer has a
name as one of the greatest
Beethoven interpreters. Angel
now has released the Seventh,
completing Klemperer's cycle
with the Philharmonic. The
sound is stunning, the play
ing crisp as Beethoven should
be. But for this listeners
ears, the choice remains Won
Karajan'S great record (also
Angel, also Philharmonia)
Klemperer's way is perhaps
grand, but also dawdling. It
takes Az minutes more than
Won Karajan's unbeatable
version. Wish he would do a
new one, same way, better
sound.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
SibeIius Revisited

When there is nothing else
to do these days, the idea
seems to be to redo in stereo
and mono all the oldies.
Thus we have again Herbert
von Karajan and the Phil
harmonic in Sibelius' Fifth
Symphony and the ap-
parently immortal Finlandia.
If the Sixth is Sibelius'
supreme masterpiece, the
Fifth must be his most
romantic. And how the Phil
harmonic breathes fresh
tonal color into it in this
beautiful Angel creation!
Evening star., 1961-09-03

Eighth Congress of the In
ternational Musicological So
ciety.
The musicologists convene
in New York this week and
after five days of meetings
at Columbia University, Yale
University and Princeton
University, they arrive in
Washington. The exhibit is
in the Smithsonian's Mu-
scum of Natural History at
Tenth and Constitution ave-
nue. NV.
Drawn largely from that
part of the Smithsonian's
collections seldom on public
view, the exhibit features
musical instruments associ-
ated with the traditional
music of Europe and Amer
lea, as well as instruments
from Asia, Africa and
Oceania.
LuteS and Guitars
Europe and America are
represented by instruments
dating from the Renaissance
through the 18th century.
Included are lutes, guitars.
wind instruments and a harp
and clarion of the 18th CEN
tury.
Among the keyboard in
struments from the Hugo
Worch collection, a small
part of which has long been
seen on the second floor ro-
tunda of the museum. are
pianos by Erard, Hawkins
and Babcock, as well as two
harpsichords and a virginia.
recently restored to playing
condition.
Some of the most unusual
instruments on display are
those from Polynesia COL
collected more than a CEN
tury ago by members of the
Wilkes Expedition during
the first exploration. of the
South Pacific under the
sponsorship of the United
States Government in 1888.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
ART AND ARTISTS
Venezuelan Painter
At Pon-Americon
By FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

You never know in the looking at art where
something good going to turn You keep watch
ing all the time.
Take the present exhibition at the Pan American Union
Not that Pan American shows unlikely places to look for
something worth looking at Far from pictures with
texture emphasized highly unlikely the Venezuelan
painter exhibition Maruja Roando highly texta
Texture has been good thing since Vincent Van
Gogh achieved recognon with style consisting LARGELY Of
Evening star., 1961-09-03

QUEEN" and the Bach B minor
Mass. Additions Tuesday
through Thursday-for in
formation, call Mr.. Weilen-
mann at ia. 4-7000, extension
80 The City-Wide Divi-
sion of the D. c. Recreation
Department has just brought
out an interesting Survey Of
the Arts" the work of Rich
ard Terrell and Barbara
Flock. The survey lists
(among others) C urc h
choirs, choral groups, opera
groups. bands, orchestras. and
general musical organizations
active in Washington, with
addresses of officers, phone
numbers, capsule descriptions,
and other information. A
handy reference Tuesday
night on BM East (WTTG-
TV), the Modern Jazz Quar-
tet comes in for discussion.
On hand will be members of
the group and jazz critic Nat
HentOff And you can
celebrate Labor Day by lis
tening to a rebroadcast of the
first part of the Spring, 1861,
Prague Festival, which pre-
sented the Czech Philhar-
monte conducted by Stokow-
ski, on WGMS at / pm. i.
Saturday afternoon, the D. C.
Chapter of the American
Guild Of Organists holds its
annual chapter picnic. The
guild will cavort on the
grounds of a Silver Spring
enthusiast who has installed
a three-manual theater organ
in a barn" on his spacious
grounds.
NEWS FROM THERE .
Evanston, ILL.,: Northwestern
University has announced a
series of lectures in its fall
quarter by Rabbi Herman E.
Schaalman Of the Emanuel
Congregation of Chicago,
dealing with the connections
between the Jewish and
Christian iturgies. This is
part of the University's ex-
panded program in the field
of sacred music Seattle,
Wash: The Seattle SYM
phony, directed by Milton
Katims, will present IL pairs
this coming season. Among
the novelties are large works
by the American composers
Harold Shapero and James
Beale, as well as others by
Evening star., 1961-09-03

OAAASA PaA1b O1lAOh1y OlllCdI Gu
around the canvas. In the
last 10 years or so, texture
has become much too much
Of a good thing. The word
has become one of the great
Open Sesames of our time.
The thing itself has become
the greatest substitute for
artistic thinking since paint
ing by the numbers. An
artist has had to do nothing,
really, but get hold of a large
canvas, or some substitute,
smear it up with gooey thick
paint and decorate the paint
with sand and gravel, iron
filings, fragments of last
weeks laundry and a used
razor blade or two. The view
er in museum or gallery could
urmur, appreciatively,
Texture" and all was well.
The viewer. usually hopeless
ly bourgeois, had demon
Strated that he was not
shocked and therefore was
not bourgeois. The artist had
achieved a "breakthrough,"
for all the world as if he was
an atomic scientist or "a
sonic boom.
The artist in the high days
of texturalism was also given
the nod for his Sincerity"
which. presumably, meant
that he didn't know how to
paint but at least he didn't
pretend that he did.
Full of Surprises
Anyone who has been ex-
posed to a certain amount
of this stuff gets his fill
rather quickly and soon
reaches the state where he's
willing to admit he is himself
bourgeois. For, if he is not
shocked exactly, he is GER
tainly bored stiff with break
through artists mucking up
their paints with foreign sub
stances. Such a one, there
fore. would approach Miss
Rolando's 18 paintings with
a certain caution, prepared
to have seen 1t all before and
prepared to get out fast.
That's where the surprise
begins.
The work is unqueStion-
ably textural. Without a STU
dio program it is impossible
to enumerate all the foreign
substances with which this
artist has mucked up her
paints. But on surface ex-
animation there appear to be,
in addition to paint itself,
quite a few selected pieces
of medium-coa gravel, a
good bit of sand here and
there, an occasional under
pinning of shredded waste,
such as used to be found in
burlap bags hung up in gar
ages, assorted other fabrics
and one undeniable use of
parts of an old bath towel.
In other words, exactly the
kind of thing that makes the
veteran gallery visitor head
for the open air.
Mood Titles
Not so. Not at all. For
once this usual claptrap has
been used for ineligible
purposes. If you give them a
chance, Miss Rolando's pic
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RECORD REVIEWS ssessA ..sss i.
Magic Brings Back
Lipotti and Mozort
By HERMAN SCHADEN
Star Record Critic

One Of the most remarkable records lately restora-
ton by Angel of Dinu Lpas final with orchestra
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 81 in major, K. 467.
Indeed is among the remarkable Of time for
it accomplished almost by magic First of all Lpatt
within months of death at the of 49, wracked by
arthrts playing only through great and
injections of cortisone.
He rehearsed skipping the cadenzas before the
Evening star., 1961-09-03

lures all make sense. They
honestly do convey a strong
impression of a human mood.
It is compounded of melan-
choly, disillusionment, de-
spair and touches of wry
fantasy. Not more than one
or two family identifiable
figures come through in the
whole show. There's a giant
grasshopper glimmering in
the cleaning in one, and
what looks like a seated
woman in another. But Miss
Rolando emphasizes her
communicative intentions in
her titles, which, for the
most part. the Pan American
hasn't bothered to translate.
The titles don't tie up with
their specific pictures very
closely and perhaps that's
why the Union has not come
through with it's usual help
full tranSlations for North
Americans. But the names,
even through a clumsy grasp
of Spanish, do relate to the
overall mood. Thus, II Will
Inhabit My Name" " I'VE Are
a Generation Without a
Goodbye" Illusion of a
Metamorphosis," "Sentimen-
tai Discord" and THE Grass
hopper Feared to Misplace
His Forces" create a kind of
batty poetry not at all in
appropriate to the gnarled
and tortured paint topogra-
ply on the walls.
PhantasmagOria
Program in hand, it Is as
If you were walking through
a landscape of desolation
listening to a lunatic reading
his poems. You know the
words. The sentences parse
well enough, but just miss
making everyday sense in
order to make a moonlight
sense of their own, which
decidedly, does not parse.
These fragments of poetry
that are the titles would very
likely not stand up without
the overall world of the
paintings. The paintings, on
the other hand, come through
nicely with no help from
the printed word.
AS if to prove the point,
Miss Rolando has three works
titled with Indian names. In
all of them the full effect
of her sad visions is made.
"Klededina" is a large dark
painting. On a ground of
flat gray, darkened here and
there as if in mist or cloud,
are laid ten or so black hori-
zontal bars. They've been put
on with very thin paint and
it has run in streams all
down the canYas, which,
however, in the final picture,
has been turned upside down,
so the paint runs are running
upward. They thereby cease,
pretty quickly, to be paint
runs at all.
Over this rough but regu-
lar pattern of dark on dark
is scattered what looks like
a throw of gravel; the blocky
pieces stand up from the
surface. There are also three
splasheS of fabric - terry
cloth, perhaps, strained and
Evening star., 1961-09-03

mans Judgment in this par
ticular case can be seriously
questioned.
But it is undoubtedly true
that in the good old days,
when George the Second sat
on his throne and life was
simpler, musical thievery was
the vogue, copyright laws
were nonexistent, and Han
del was king of the musical
crooks.
Another, more careful
Handel scholar was DR.. Will
liam Crotch, a fascinating
18th century original who
gave, daily organ recitals in
London when he was 4 years
old and managed to become
an assistant professor of mu-
sic at Cambridge University
at the ripe age Of IL.
20 Sources of Cribbing
DR.. Crotch carefully COM
piled a list of 29 composers
who had furnished Handel
with materials now found in
the Handel Collected Works"
and the Crotch list was far
from complete.
Weli-authenticated exam
pies Of Handers cribbing are
all over the place.
One work alone. the ora
torio. Israel in Egypt" con-
tains at least the following
borrowings:
o Two choruses written
by Alessandro Stradella.
Q One chorus written by
Johann Caspar Kerll.
. Long passages from Don
Dionigi Erba.
. One long section from
Francesca Antonio Uric.
You never heard Of Uric?
He was one of HandePs par
ticular favorites. From Fran
cesco Antonio, Handel also
appropriated music for
q SAUL" for the Dettingen Te
Deum, and for "L'Allegro, II
PensieroSo, ed II Moderate"
Other Pieces He Took
An unpublished work by
Karl Heinrich Graun was
used in THE Triumph Of
Time and Truth"
Giacomo CariSsimi's "Jeph-
te" was drawn upon for one
chorus in Samson"
And so it went.
Handel got away with 1t,
being a genius and the times
being quite different. but his
most serious rival for the
favor of the English music
lover, Giovanni Battista
Bononcini, was rather un-
lucky.
He was driven from the
country in disgrace because
somebody discovered that he
had been presumptuouS
enough to lift a madrigal by
Antonio Lotti.
One caution, in case this
cautionary tale gives you any
ideas.
If you ever feel tempted to
follow in the footsteps Of the
dead Saxon" make sure
that you are at least as good
9 composer as was Handel.
Remember-crime doesn't
pay-for Bononcinis.
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taut, hard with paint. Aston.
ishingly, 1t all comes through.
1t works. The eye moves over
the gloomy scene, reacts to
the varying coarse textures.
The work ceases to be either
breakthrough or textural
exercise and becomes the
vision of a mood. You don't
think Of either gravel or
cloth. You see only the sad
vision of world in darkness
composed of hard Jumps,
crude bars. torn surfaces and
eternal rain streaming up
from the earth. r
Old CIinkers
Another of the Indian
named pictures is "Waka-
lina"-which on the face Of
it could be an old Astaire-
Rogers dance number. Here
again texture is incorporated
into the vision of disorder
and early sorrow. Again, the
dominant color is black. The
picture is almost square, a
shade higher than wide. The
top half is deep, flat black,
relieved by a lighter streak
down the left and broken by
a couple Of thick globs of
what seems 10 be waste as q
support for paint. The effect
Of these globs is to suggest,
depending on your back
ground, old clinkers from a
coal furnace or some form Of
industrial garbage. At any
rate, one is above the other
and the two are connected by
streaks of their unsightly :
material. The great black
upper half taperS down into,
one black run into the light
er bottom part. The entire
lower part is very grating in
texture, as If mixed with
sand or scratched in plaster.
Anyhow all this globby mate
rial seems to be running
down some kind Of cosmic
drain. The overall impression
is made of the end of things
that perhaps were hardly
worth making an end of.
And so it goes through the
show. "Ambix" looks like two
enormous blue icebergs
afloat in a sea of white
ice and probably heading
straight for the ship from
which you watch. That tan
talizingly named small pic
ture, II Will Inhabit My
Name" looks like an opened
grave, seen from above, in
which the freshly turned
earth proved to be poisoned.
Always Black
AS you will have gathered,
black, black, black is the
color of Miss Rolando's
paintings and it remains a
mystery why this color au-
tomatically conveys sorrow
so forcefully. Why not blue
or yellow? It's always black
and the painter here uses it
to full advantage. Out of
the most unlikely materials,
out of an even more unlikely
convention. she has made an
authentic art experience.
We hear a good deal,
these days, about modern
artists picking up the idiom
of the child painter, the
idiom Of the mad painter,
the idiom of the unframed,
primitive painter and doing
good things with them. Max
Ernst for a while even picked
up the idiom of the mail
order catalogue and made
both good fun and good art
out of it. Miss Rolando has
done something even more
difficult. She has made art
out Of the idiom Of the ac-
ton painters.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
MUSIC
PROGRAMS

TODAY
DALE w. KRIDER, organ. Washing
ton Cathedral pm. Passacaglia
in D minor, Buxtehude; Prelude and
Fugue in minor Bach; Two
Chorale Preludes from the Orgel-
buchlein, Bach: Fantasia in F minor
K sos. Mozart.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
STRINGS ON THE GREEN. Featured
artists: steiner string Quartet
(George Steiner. Donald Radding.
violins: Richard PaTnas. viols; Nor
Eis Kirshbaum. cello), 5000 Watson
in B flat, Rossini; Quartet No.
in F. Dvorak; Quartet in A minor,
Walton.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew,
enteenth street and New York ave-
nue. NV. Daily 10 am. to 4:30
p.m.. Saturday. o am. to 4:30 pm;
Sunday and holidays, 2 to 5 pm:
closed Monday
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH IL
BRARY AND COLLECTION, 1903
Thirty-second street NV. Closed
indefinitely.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and jefferson drive S.W.,
Daily. Q am. to 4:30 pm.
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE
ARTS, Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily 8 am. to 4:30
pm.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-.
stitution avenue at Sixth street NV.
Daily, 10 am. to p.m.: sunday
to 10 pm.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1921 Twenty
second street NV Daily, IL am.
TO 8 PM; Monday. IL am. to 70
pm: Sunday 2 to z pm.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
NEWS OF MUSIC
Handel Was the Kiinq
OfMusicoI Cribbers
BY IRVING LOWENS
Star Music Critic

Next time you happen to hear George Frederick Handels
Harmonious Blacksmith" variations stop for moment and
mediate the sad condition of exasperaed Handel
specialist.
This harassed scholar exasperated by constant attempts
to determine what Handel and what not Handel
made for accusing the great of fchng the
work from Arcangelo CoreI.
The charge didn't stick and the accuracy of the poor
Evening star., 1961-09-03
Smithsonian Exhibit

A talking drum from the
Congo, virginals from Eu-
rope, hula sticks from Poly
nesia musical instruments
from many lands and many
centuries - are being dis
played at the Smithsonian
Institution this month in a
special exhibit honoring the
Evening star., 1961-09-03
The Bremen Story

While he was in Europe in
1859, James Deere, manager
of the Washington Cantata
Evening star., 1961-09-03

sound. Columbia has never
let the Phillies down and vice
versa.