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Evening star., 1962-12-16
RECORD REVIEWS
BY HERMAN SCHADEN
Star Record Critic

Why does music sound so
much more radiant at
Christmas time? Perhaps be-
cause our ears are attuned,
as are our hearts and minds,
to the loftier side of life.
This season, as always, we
are fortunate to have in our
record shops an excellent
selection, both new and old,
to enchant those in search
Of the perfect album gift.
There are lavish albums,
there are simple ones, some
intended for the Yule sea-
son alone, others for hearing
the year around.
Herewith is a description
Of a few of the new records
available in the areas many
shops, the abundance of
which speaks well for the
high degree of musicality of
our community. First, some
of those we usually associ-
ate with the Christmas pc
riod:
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Symphonies Two

There has not been a bet
ter Beethoven's Pastoral
Symphony since Toscanini's.
That to which we are re-
ferring is George Sells
with his Cleveland SYM
phony on an Epic Record. 1t
is all there, the birds, the
brook, the murmuring forest,
the country dance, the storm
that is a rip-snorter-the
rustic yodel of the final
movement. Once again, the
Cleveland makes us realize,
with the easiest of effort,
its high rank among all
orcheStraS.
If some people collect
stamps and others coins,
there must be others who
collect Brahms FourthS. If
so, Vox Records has one
worth including. by the
North German Radio Sym
phony and the redoubtable
Hans Schmidt -IsSerstedt. It
will never win any prizes,
but it has such taut strings
in the right places, such
fluid grace in others, that it
adds up to a fine performance.
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More Carols

Capitol Records has a re-
turn engagement from the
Roger Wagner Chorale, called
1T Came Upon a Midnight
Clear" Together with the
Sinfonia of London they run
through everything from
Jingle Bells to Silent Night,
in that rather low key style
that makes one want to hear
them again.
Interestingly different is a
release from Audio Fidelity.
From the Gay 90s Village of
Sikeston, Mo-, there comes a
program of mostly Christ
mas favorites on the music
boxes. The sound is delight
full in its tingling counter
point. and will add merri-
ment to any Noel scene.
From DeutSche Grammo-
phon comes a record called
European Christmas Songs,
done by Soprano Maria Sta
der, with the Munich Boys
Choir, organ and orchestra.
Except for the closing Silent
Night, these have the merit of
being less frequently heard,
and Miss Stader sings with
simple beauty, with the boys
choir affording a gentle back
ground.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Bach Moqnificot

There is a temptation to call
this (Columbia) record a
quick trip through the best
of Bach. In command of the
Bach Magnificat in D major
is Leonard Bernstein, con-
ducting his New York Phil
harmonic, sopranos Lee Ven
ora and Jennie Tourel,
countertenor Russell Ober-
lin, tenor Charles BreSSler,
bass Norman Farrow and the
Schola Cantorum. The re-
suit: Exquisite. From the
variety and brevity of move
mentS, from the impact of
the choruSes, there emergeS
something inspirational for
the Christmas season, stun
ningly recorded.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Papa Monteux

Most of those wonderful
old podium names are rapidly
disappearing. OF those still
with us, none is more ap-
preciated than Pierre Mon
teux, the benign little French
man we wish could always be
with us. London Records gives
us some of the music through
which he grew to fame
Debussv's Prelude to an
Afternoon Of a Faun, his
Clouds and Festival from the
Nocturnes; Ravel's Pavanne
for a Dead Princess and his
Rapsodie Espagnole. All this
with the London Symphony,
of which the near-nocto-
genarian is the conductor.
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The Messiah

A perennial favorite is
HandelS oratorio. Hardly
another Christmas occurs
without a new recording of
it. This year Vanguard,
through its Bach Guild
series, has an excellent entry
under the auspices of that
old campaigner, Hermann
Scherchen. This is a 3-record
set offered at a special an
niversary price. And worth
a great deal more.
1t adds up as one of the
finest on records. 1t has
superb personnel in the So
loists, soprano Margaret Rit-
chic, tenor William Herbert,
contralto Constance Shack
lock, bass Richard Standen,
the London Philharmonic
Choir and the London Sym
phony, with Mr.. Scherchen
welding them in a beauti-
fully, sensitive entity of
quiet ariaS and stirring
choruSeS.
For those who did not buy
last years London Records
Messiah with Joan Suther-
land and others, that, too
is available. In addition, this
year London has broken the
album down into sections for
connoisseurs of % High
lights, which include ariaS
and choruses from the en-
tire work, (2) Joan Suther-
lands soprano arias, irclud-
ing contralto Grace Bumbry
and 49,, The Messiah h
ChoruSes-each of the three
records a prize in itself.
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lie Roi David

Special consideration
should be given to Arthur
Honegger's King David, in its
latest appearance (two rec
ordS, Vanguard. If not a
Christmas theme, it will be
welcomed by discriminating
collectors as an exciting,
beautifully constructed Bib
lical story of immense power
and imagination.
This is basically the prod
uct of Maurice Abravanel
and the Utah Symphony and
Chorus. Martial Singher,
often heard in Washington,
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Marian Anderson

Warm-hearted and tender
are these traditional Christ
mas carols sung by the great
contralto. Most of the songs
are known to everyone,
opening with We Wish You
a Merry Christmas and clos
ing with The Twelve Days of
Christmas. The highlight is
Schubert's Ave Maria, which
Miss Anderson has recorded
for the third time since 1896.
There also is an orchestra
and chorus, conducted by
Robert Russell Bennett, and
Pianist Franz Rupp RCA
Victor).
Evening star., 1962-12-16
THE SUNDAY STAR
Washington, D. C., December Is, 1862
Six Mozart Quortets !
As Played by Jui||iord

Epic Records has a 3-disk
album which would deserve,
in ordinary times, a column
in itself. But it also should
be publicized for Christmas
shoppers. for every lover of
Mozart and the Juilliard
Quartet tnow nominally the
resident group of the Library
of Congress) should own it.
That person who said mu-
sic begins where words end,
must have had in mind this
set of the six quartets Mo-
zart dedicated to Haydn. OF
course, they are the quartets
in G major, K. 387; D minor,
K. 42l; E flat major, K. 428;
B flat major, K. 458 (The
Hunt; a major, K. 464, and
Evening star., 1962-12-16

C major, K. 465 (The Dis
sonant).
Beyond that, this reviewer
can only say: When greater
string playing is recorded of
greater music under more i'm
peccable engineering stand
ards, he hopes to be around
to marvel. 1t would be i'm
possible to detail each of the
impressions of the six, but
it is not an exaggeration to
call each a breathless Won
der of unexcelled ensemble.
The Juilliard, ergo, has been
the perfect heir of these
marvels, Of which Mozart ad-
dressed Papa Haydn: please,
then, receive them kindly
and be to them a father,
guide and friend!"-H. S.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Flutes and Strinos

OF the really great string
ensembles, Antonio Janigro's
I Solisti di Zagreb ranks
with the tops. Vanguard
has two beauties by this
group. One, called Notturno,
is made up of Respighi's
Suite No. 3, Ancient Airs and
Dances for the Lutte; Mo-
zart's Fine Gleine Nachtmu-
six; Vaughan William s.
Greensleeves, Pergolesi's Con-
certo in G. major, Sibelius'
Valse Triste and Barber's
Adagio for Strings. Every one
superlative
The other disk, called The
Virtuoso Flute, is with julius
Baker, flutist, and Hubert
Jelinek, harp. On one side
is Telemann's Suite in A
minor for Flute and Strings:
the other, Mozart's Concerto
for Flute, Harp and Orches-
ira. They are dazzlers.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Cream Puffs

Here's a welcome encore
record by Will Boskovsky.
the concertmaster OF the
Vienna Philharmonic. and his
small ensemble. Vanguard
Records calls II Cream Puffs
Aus Wien, and II includes in
innate, dinner-suited music
from Schubert, Beethoven
(six contra dances, the Jo-
ham Strausses, sr. and jr..
and Josef Lanner. Much fun.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Christmas Concertos

Turn back a few hundred
years and there is something
special from such gentle
men as Corelli, Manfred, To-
relli and Locatelli. To the
uninitiated this may sound
grim. Actually, these are the
baroque string concertos of
the lightest texture as done
by the famed l Musici of
Rome, on the Philips label.
The Corelli concerto has been
accepted as a classic for
years. The others are equally
liStenable.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
The Nutcrucker

If there is anything more
Christmasy than Tchaikov-
sky's Nutcracker Ballet, we
haven't heard it. So it is
with much pleasure we pass
along a tip on something
special - Mercury Records
complete ballet q records)
with Antal Dorati and the
Evening star., 1962-12-16

much different dress. After a
mystical and dramatic build
up to the Birth, the COM
poser weaves the familiar
melodies in a brilliant climax.
Those who know Honegger's
Symphony No. 2 for Strings
will find it done on the other
side with equal skill. Reason:
Both sides Dondon) are by
Ernest AnSermet and his
Suisse Romande Orchestra.
Evening star., 1962-12-16

London Symphony. Mercury
and Dorati made a first"
on the complete score a few
years ago with the Mime
apolis Symphony. 1t was
bright and gay-the new Lon
don recording is absolutely
scintillating. Its tempos are
racy and crisp, the music
fairly leaps from the speak
erS. The sound crackles like
a snowy Christmas morn.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Christmas Contntu

For one of the more in
geniouS tributes to the sea-
son, one should turn to Ar
thur Honegger's Christmas
Cantata. Oh, you will get ST.
lent Night and some of the
other favorites, but in a
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Sacred Music

many IaceCS. one OF Jne
brightest shines at Mount
Vernon Place Methodist
Church where, in 1921, DR..
r. Deane Shure founded the
Department of Music. In Gel
ebration of more than 40
years of musical progress,
Mount Vernon Church has
recorded a two-record album.
1t is revealing Of many
things - the magnificent
voices one dedicated church
can muster - voices ranging
from sub-teeners (The Carol
Choir to high school (The
VeSper Choir and on
through women's voices (The
Cloister Choir to the men
of the Galilean Singers, the
mixed quartet, the Angelus
Choir and the Sanctuary
Choir. Not to speak of the
Holland Bell Choir, and the
string ensemble Of instru-
mental bent. The program of
songs, some written by DR..
Shure, is far above the aver
age, and worth while own
ing.
Then there is The Lords
Prayer (Vol. III by the Nor
mon Tabernacle Choir, with
the Philadelphia Orchestra
and Eugene Ormandy Co
lumbia). These are exquisite
songs Of Schubert, Handel,
Mozart, Goundod, Verdi and
others. Included is the
Heavenly Father to the Ave
Maria music of Schubert, and
A Mighty Fortress is Our
God, of Bach.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
RECORD REVIEWS
Sparkling NewA|bums, From Messiah
To Nutcracker, Greet YuIe Shoppers

is the classic narrator. Israeli
Soprano Netania Davrath is
at her very best-a perfect
performance-in her warmly
intoned part. Side four of the
two records is devoted to a
lively performance Of Mil
haud's Creation of the World.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
River Report

FURNISHED by the United States Coa'
and Geodetic Survey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
Boby Boy Found
Dead in Creek

The body Of q 2-year-old
boy, apparently a drowning
victim, was recovered in
Holmes Run yesterday less
than three hours after the boy
was discovered missing in
Alexandria.
The boy, Kenneth w. Smith,
was first discovered missing by
his mother. Mrs. Haskell w.
Smith, jr.. from their apart
ment at 5643 Sanger avenue at
1890 pm, police reported.
Mrs. Smith gave one Of her
sons sweaters to police Pvt.
Cecil Hensley, whose dog, Rex,
picked up the boys scent in
the playground behind the
William Ramsay Elementary
School.
The boys body was found
floating in the creek behind
the playground by police Corpl
James o. Bazzle. The child
was pronounced dead at Alex
andria Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT
District and vicinity-Cloudy

District and vicinity-Cloudy
tonight with low temperature
about 48. Mild with occasional
rain tomorrow, continued
cloudy.
Notwithstanding cloudi-
ness, low in the 40s tonight. To-
morrow, occasional rain, cloudy,
high Of So to 81.
Observation-Disclosures increas-
ing tonight, rain in extreme
southwest. Low tonight in 40s.
Tomorrow, mild and cloudy
with occasional rain. High to-
morrow Of So to 81.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Scuth to southwest
winds Of 10 to IS knots tonight.
Tomorrow, southeast winds will
become IS to Is knots. Cloudi-
ness increasing tonight; occa-
sional rain tomorrow. Visibility
over 6 miles tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
HensonCreek
Zoning Pleas
Are Rejected

Amid gloomy predictions from
its staff that "the whole county
could be zoned commercial
under present policies, the
Prince Georges County Plan
ming Board yesterday denied
four rezoning applications in
the Henson Greek watershed.
Largest property involved
was a 65-acre tract, requested
by developer Isadore Gudelsky
to be changed from residential
to commercial for q regional
shopping center.
Planning Director Arthur
Stellhorn described the four
applications as quite crucial"
and said that. If approved, they
would be in direct opposition to
the master plan for the Henson
Greek area.
This valley quite obviously
can't support two regional
shopping centers, and will be
hard-presSed to support the one
already in the plan," Mr.. Stell-
horn said.
I'VE have been working on
this plan for 21z years, and it
represents our best Judgment
on how the valley should be
developed. Although it has not
been adopted yet, it represents
a great deal Of work, thought
and study"
The land is located between
the proposed Capital Beltway
and Oxon Hill road, near Liv-
ingston road. 1t is occupied now
only by woodland, with COM
mercial coming on the south
east. t-s
IF coming continues on the
basis Of granting commercial
property because it is next to
other commercial, we could
zone the whole county CONNER.
cial." Planning Engineer C..
Warren Giaque told the board.
The planners, after hearing
objections by their staff,
turned down all four applica-
tons, but modified two of
them to permit a less intensive
commercial use than the appli-
cantS had requested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
LibroryDeIoy
Is Defended
ByCondidute

A Prince Georges County
commissioner fired back last
night at charges that the COM
missioners held back" on con-
struction of a new regional
library.
Planning for such q major
facility" and selecting a proper
site takes many months, Frank
j. Lastner told members of the
21st District Democratic Club
in Berwyn Heights Elementary
School.
Through painstaking nego-
tiations, the county was able
to save $1,000 when it bought
the land for the library at Adel-
phi and Toledo roads, said
Mr.. Lastner. an organization
Democrat. who is running for
reelection.
Opposition independent Dem
ocrats have accused the COM
missioners Of wasting money
by delaying purchase Of a site
while the price Of land was
rising. The commissioners were
authorized to build the library
in 1859.
"This demonstrates once
again how little some Of the
aspirants to public office know
about county affairs and how
they release their distorted
charges without even attempt
ing to check the record" Mr..
Lastner said.
1.-THE library system Is a good
example Of what we mean when
we say our record is our plat
FORM" he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05

scribed experiments with "in-
slant snow removal" This
utilities a snow melting ma
chine that turns snow into
water, then dumps it down the
sewer. Basically it Is q large
tank with water heated by oil
into which snow Is dumped.
In an interview, Mr.. Lucia
said the city is ordering 80 of
the machines and hopes even
tually to cut its Snow-removal
costs by two-thirds. One melter
can get rid of as much snow
as q loader and five or six
trucks, he said.
Washington has been look
ing at the device with a "Jaun-
diced eye." Just as it has other
new methods. Mr.. Xanten told
a reporter. The chief question
is cost, he said. One Of the
machines New York is plan
ming to use sells for $50, 900,
and 1--WE are watching to see
If it's as good as it is cracked
up to be-" he added.
or pellets. The idea is to COM
press plowed snow so that it
can be tossed down sewers OF
more readily loaded onto trucks.
One innovation which the
District is going to try, Mr..
Xanten said, is a wire mesh
electric grid to heat the pave
ment. 1t will be placed in a
top layer Of asphalt about /
inch below the surface on the
Thirteenth street hill between
Florida avenue and Euclid
street. Installation is to be
completed by next winter, he
said.
Another snow-removal aid
which Mr.. Xanten feels attacks
the basic problem, but does not
solve it. is the use of a ma
chine to make snow briquets
The APWA hopes to get its
project under way July l, Mr..
Bugher said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05

RICHMOND, Va, April 5
(AP).-Gov. Harrison says Vir-
ginia would have little trouble
in. complying with the new Sys-
TEN If a ban-the-poll tax move
is successful in Congress.
Gov. Harrison told a press
conference yesterday that such
3 change would "offer no par
ticular administrative diff
Guilty" in the Old Dominion.
The Governor explained that
voter registration and poll tax
lists maintained at the precinct
level are both checked when a
voter casts a ballot under the
present system. If the poll tax
is0utlawed in Federal elections.
he said, election officials will
merely ignore the poll tax list
and refer solely to the registra-
ton list to determine a voters
qualification.
A move to amend the United
States Constitution to prohibit
poll taxes as a prerequisite to
voting in Federal elections has
passed the Senate and is now
before a House committee.
Gov. Harrison also announced
appointment of Mr.. P. C..
Shields Of Richmond, A, to the
State Parole Board.
The Governor said the Vir-
ginia Teachers Association, a
Statewide organization of Ne
gro educators, had urged him to
consider Negroes of ability and
talent when selecting appointees
for boards and commissions. He
said he told them he consid-
cred appointees on the basis OF
merit and ability. He said the
Negroes were pleased with his
proposed salary schedule for
school teachers, which emissions
a substantial raise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
HUME TOURS MONTGOMERY
Harrison Undisturbed
By Poll Tax Ban Plan

Gov. Harrison said he is
making progress" toward sign
ing the legislative reapportion-
ment bills passed by the recent
General Assembly. 81 think I
am making progress so that I
might be able to act on 1t about
Saturday" he said with a smile.
On Federal aid to schools, he
said perhaps children Of Gov
eminent employees whose par
entS live and work on a Fed
eral post could go to schools on
the installations If the Federal
impacted area aid is cut off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05

more research is needed on how
to get rid Of it. They were
public works, sanitation and
police authorities attending the
1862 Northeast Conference on
Urban Snow Removal at the
Sheraton-Park Hotel co-spon-
sored by Washington and New
York City.
A research project designed
to answer some Of their hopes
CWashington's superintendent
of sanitation, William A. Kan
ten for one, said he has spent
years" searching for q device
that would pillow snow without
inundating driveways and fire
plugO was described to the
conferees by Robert D. Bugher,
executive director Of the Amer
lean Public Works Association.
It would be financed by cities
(fifty have already agreed to
participate, he said, depending
on funds available and the de-
sires Of the cities.
Gen. Clarke noted that Wash
ington has requested $4,000 Of
Congress to help finance the
100000 project and said that
If the city can save 200 tons of
salt q year as a result Of the
research. the city would make
up the cost Of our contribution"
At last years conference,
seven cities estimated they spent
$50 million in one year on snow
removal, Gen. Clarke said.
Any way that can be found to
spend less or get more done
with the same amount is worth
while, he added.
The study might evaluate
such improved methods as
sonic waves for breaking
the bond between ice and pave
ment and snow meters. accord
ing to an outline passed out to
the conferees.
New York'S commissioner of
sanitation, Frank j. Lucia, de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
Cities Plot Attacks
On Next Winters Snow

In the midst of cherry blossom festivities week.
group Of has just completed two Of intense discussion
what everyone hopes is unseasonal problem-snow
About 40 officials from IL cities up their
here yesterday concluding the sounded by Brig Gen.
Frederick Clarke the Districts Engineer Commissioned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05

Rain expected tonight from the Ohio Valley and the Lower Lakes
the extreme North Pacific Coast Scattered
forecast for the Northern Rockies will
Map.
Evening star., 1962-05-27

hOnOring private collections, the paintings
and drawings were lent by Andre Meyer, a
New York investment banker, and his wife.
Other artists included in the exhibition are
Rembrandt, Daumier, Manet, Degas, Monet,
van GOgh and Cezanne.
Evening star., 1962-05-27
Bankers Choices

THE Pablo Picasso gouache on the cover
Il and the four works shown here are rep
resentative Of the fine privately-owned paint
ingS and drawings the National Gallery of Art
will nave on exhibition from June 10 through
July 8. The second in a series of exhibitions
The Detroit tribune., 1962-10-13
Set w Meeting
Of Mrs. Swanson
And Mrs. Romney

The date for the first tclevised
meeting of the wives of Michigan
gubernatorial candidates has been
set for Monday, Oct. %.
Both Mrs. Romney and Mrs
Swanson are highly priced as
campaigners by their parties.
They have stumped quietly
throughout the state at public
gatherings as we'll as in many
private homes and small parties.
The women accepted the offer
of 10 minutes each to advance
their reasons for asking voters
to support their husbands. AT a
meeting this week, party leaders
agreed on the ground rules for
the program.
The program will consist of
questions and answers posed TO
the wives separately by WXYZ-
TVS Dick Osgood.
The questions will deal with
campaign issues and Osgood will
be free to follow them up. The
wives will not know in advance
which questions will be asked.
The Detroit tribune., 1962-10-13
2sth Wedding Anniversary:

An elaborate 25th Wedding An.
niversary for MIR. and Mrs. Ellis
Burns was in the Social Room OF
ST. Paul 4. NJ K. Zion Church
Saturday evening with all the
grandeur of High Society.
Their wedding VOWS were re-
ncwed by the Rev. William I.
Ardrcy with all the solemnlty
that could be expressed, as the
Ellis Burks stood under a white
arcn with a background OF live
cedars, beauty baskets OF huge
NUNS and gladiolas.
Mrs. Burks was wearing an aqua
all.over lace sheath dress and
wnite slippers. Her diamond tear
drop earrings added charm and
grace to tins lovely gown. Bishop
Alexander and Mrs. billiard stood
with the lovely couple.
The guests tables were gor'
geously covered in lace cloths
lhe TALL color Of flowers were
seen IN profusion, with five sill
yer services Wherever needed
Inc prize table was a golden bird
cage with two love-blrds tlltllng
mere ana there tinted with the
colors of the flowers.
\ grand reception and bcauti-
ful giiis.