THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 22. 1930—PART FOUR.

MUSICBY HELEN FETTER.

Agood woman may be “God’srarest blessing,” but his-tory has shown that thewomen who by their beauty

or brains, or both, caused themost trouble in the world havewon the most lasting personalpublicity. George Meredith's ideaof a blessing evidently had to dowith a peaceful state of mind formankind. He did not consider thelove of diversion and entertain-ment that is a quality of the hu-man race which makes any com-pletely peaceful state practicallyimpossible.

Os all the women famous in theworld to date for causing trouble,first place in the list undoubtedlyis unanimously awarded the “MissSparta” whose beauty is said tohave launched great fleets of shipsand started a conflagration of ro-mantic interest that has neverbeen completely burned out. His-torians vary as to the date of the10-year Trojan War, even to theextent of 200 years. Commonly,however, Eratosthenes’ estimateof 1183 B. C. is taken as the datethat this conflict began.

Helen, wife of Menelaus, Kingof Sparta, who was carried off by iParis; a son of Priam, King ofTroy, has inspired many bards,both lyric and literary. Noneperhaps has written more enter-tainingly of this heroine thanJohn Erskine, a professor of Co-lumbia University, in his “PrivateLife of Helen of Troy.” a facetious,sparkling volume which appearedin 1925 and won Mr. Erskine fame.

Since the advent of Mr. Er-skine’s story about Helen the pro-fessor has blossomed forth musi-cally as a pianist of ability andthorough musical background, andis now head of the Juilliard Schoolof Music in New York City. Latestreport has it that he has com-pleted a grand opera libretto hav-ing as its subject the same ad-venturous beauty that wreckedTroy those many centuries ago.The opera is said to carry her ad-ventures and triumphs into theunderworld, where she has achance to vamp many of the he-roes who were unfortunately killedbefore she had opportunity tomake their acquaintance, duringthe Trojan wars. Achilles, in par- jticular, is her aim and successful jachievement while in the islandof the dead.

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'J'HE music for this opera hasbeen written by a young man

who hails from the city that hasthe slogan, “What Trenton Makes,the World Takes.” George An-theil is a native New Jerseyite, yethe has spent most of his recentyears in Paris, and it is there,rather than in New York, that hisworks have received the most en-couragement. As far back as 1926his “Ballet Mechanique,” writtenfor six pianos, one mechanicalpiano, bass drums, xylophones,whistles, rattles, electric bells,auto horns, police whistles, anvils,sewing-machine motors, two largepieces of tin and an airplane pro-peller, was the talk of all Europe.The next year it won boos andhisses from a Carnegie Hall au-dience.

Mr. Antheil is said to have re-formed, however, and modified hiserratic rhapsodies. The end ofMay his latest opera precedingthe work with the Erskine libretto

“Transatlantique” was givenits world premiere in Frankfort,Germany. Reports have it thatthe work was received “with |stormy applause” and that it isto be given a number of addi-tional performances during theseason. The story has a purelyAmerican subject, concerning thelove affair of a candidate for thepresidency of the United States.The villain is an unscrupulous oil Imagnate. The hero has a nervousbreakdown. The heroine—anotherHelen, by the way—tries to com-mit suicide by jumping off Brook-lyn Bridge, but she is saved bythe hero. The last scene of thisopera, which is described as a“presentation of a jazz - madAmerica in the midst of a presi-dential election campaign,” is laidon Brooklyn Bridge, where a pa-rade struts before a backgroundof skyscrapers; the oil magnate isled off to jail, and there is theAmerican “happy ending.” Theleading roles were sung by JeanStem, German baritone, and ElsaGentner-Fischer, soprano. Thecomposer was honored with 20curtain calls at the conclusion ofthe first performance, even al-though there also was said to beconsiderable hissing.

No information has been re- :ceived as yet indicating the styleor contents of the musical scorefor the opera concerning Helen'spost-private life escapades. It is ;said that the work will first begiven in Germany, although thelibretto is in English. There alsois a rumor that the Metropoli-tan Opera Co. is keen to seethe score of this work by twoAmericans. There are said'to befilm preludes to each act.

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JN the meantime, the Metropoli-tan Grand Opera Co. has just

announced its list of novelties andrevivals for the season 1930-31.The first of these is Deems Tay-lor's "Peter Ibbetson,” which isreported as being completely com-posed, only needing finishing ofthe orchestration of the score. Thereason that this point is statedis due to the varied rumors, thatnever became realized, suggesting Ithat Mr. Taylor was to follow hissuccessful first grand opera, “TheKing's Henchman,” with an opera ibased on one of three differentsubjects, the most interesting ofwhich was Elmer Rices prize-winning play. “Street Scene.” jThe writer of this column spent a!good hour in Mr. Taylor's office» year ago this April, listening toall his plans as to themes andtheir development in making theopera from “Street Scene.” Then,several months later, that, too,was laid on the shelf. So it is in-teresting to learn that “Peter Ib-betson” actually has been com-pleted. Not that one would blameMr. Taylor in the least for beingapparently so fickle as to libretto;it is no joke to write really finemusic “to order.” An opera wascommissioned by the Metropoli-tan from Mr. Taylor. So operaproducing he went with vim andvigor. The libretto Jof the DuMaurler novel was miade by Con-

stance Collier, responsible for theoriginal dramatization, and Mr.Taylor himself. There is no men-tion of what star will be given therole of the operatic Peter, but onemight venture the suggestion thatEdward Johnson, the Canadiantenor, would seem the logical se-lection for the role.

Other novelties announced are“Le Preziose Ridicole,” a lyriccomedy in one act by Arturo Ros-sata, after Moliere, with music byFelice Lattnada; “The Fair atSorochinsk,” comic opera in threeacts with music by Moussorgsky.as completed by the elder Tcherep-nine, to be sung in Italian: “Boc-caccio,” comic opera in three acts,with music by von Suppe. More-over, Maria Jeritza, it is an-nounced. will sing the leadingrole in this work, wearing maleattire.

These novelties, with the excep-tion of the tragedy by Du Maurier,with music by Taylor, form a con-certed departure from the usualtype of works scheduled by theNew York company. They em-

i phasize the appeal of the gayer of; the two muses of lyric drama to

I audiences. It is not completelysetting a precedent, but it is, in-deed. novel to find so many come-dies listed for performance.

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rpHE revivals will include Wag-ner's "Flying Dutchman,” seen

here last year with the GermanGrand Opera Co., not, however,produced by the Metropolitan formore than a score of years. Theopera, with its splendid scope oflegendary background, will havesettings especially designed by theRussian Soudekine, whose set-tings for many Russian works,and especially “Le Rossignol,” byRimsky-Korsakoff, will be vividlyrecalled by all who have ever seenany of his works.

Other revivals will be “Iris,” byMascagni; “William Tell,” by Ros-sini, and “Forza del Destino,” byVerdi. The last of these has beenrevived various times, especiallyfor Rosa Ponselle ever since hermost successful debut in that op-era. singing opposite Caruso, in

j 1918.Two American sopranos are an-

nounced as added to the Met’s! rolls. They are Beatrice Belkinand Myra Sharlow. Miss Belkinwill be remembered by many as agifted coloratura soprano who ap-peared in Washington the firstseason the Fox Theater here wasopened, singing both in Roxy pro-grams and, later, as soloist withthe symphony orchestra of thattheater in special Sunday after-noon concerts.

A new French tenor is GeorgesThill of the Paris opera, now sing-ing in Buenos Aires for their“Winter season.” Lilly Pons, colo-ratura, first popular as an actressin the Varieties in Paris, is re-puted to be a beauty who willcome here, also from France.Faina Petrova, a Russian mezzo-soprano, comes from the MoscowArt Theater as well as experi-ence in the Moscow Grand OperaHouse. There also are ClaudioFrigerio, an Italian -Americanbaritone, and Ivar Andersen, ayoung Norwegian bass.

Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazzais reported to have announcedthat Michael Bohnen, Germanbass, will return to the companynext season. However, it is statedequally emphatically that hiswife, Mary Lewis, will not.

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QVER in London Rosa Ponselleis reported to have scored an-

other triumph in her first appear-ance anywhere as Violetta inVerdi's “La Traviata.” John Mc-Cormack and many other distin-guished persons in the audience,including the Italian Ambassadorto London, greeted her backstageand congratulated her. Miss Pon-selle is reported to have statedthat she felt that this role wouldtake its place alongside of Normaas a favorite in her repertoire,from the point of view of her en-joying the creation of these roles.

Local music lovers will recallremarkable success of LucreziaBori here this season in the role

! of Violetta.** * *

opera article is completewithout reference to at least

one of the grand old guard whobrought out all the splendor thatwas grand and the music that wasopera in productions precedingthe present-day performances.This time it is Mme. ErnestineSchumann-Heink, who has just

! celebrated her sixty-ninth birth-day anniversary in a most up-to-date way. The great contraltosang, for the first time in her life,in a motion picture theater, hav-ing 30 appearances at the Roxywith that theater’s orchestra lastweek. Moreover, she broadcastwith the orchestra.

There certainly is no othersinger who so completely wouldseem to deserve to have the lastcurtain of them all drop just aftershe had finished a song “outfront.” With untiring energy anda persistence that has subduedmountians of obstacles, ErnestineSchumann-Heink has worked andlived and sung herself into aworld-wide tradition. If everthere was a real trouper of grandopera, this prima donna contraltois it. Hers is a vitality that knowsno age.

New Music School WillOpen

Summer Te rm Tomorrow!YVASHINGTON is to have a new

school of music. The WashingtonMusical Institute is to open its doorsat 1201 Clifton street northwest tomor-

| row. The director Is Weldon Carter,j who has been head of the piano de-partment of the Washington College ofMusic for 11 years. The school opensits doors for a Summer term of 10weeks, when students will be admittedfor part or the entire term.

Other members of the faculty willinclude Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes, mu-sical education and voice: Lewis At-water. organ: Katherine Riggs, harp;Mrs. Carter, violin and pedagogy; HelenLyon, harmony and history of music;Dorothy Todd, ear-training; Dore Wal-ten, violoncello.

Assistants to these heads of depart-ments will include Roslyn Carter, Ger-

! trude Dyre, Artne Smith, Mary Gast-rock, Harriet Hine, Evelyn Scott, andothers not yet announced.

Mr. Carter will hold “open class.”without charge, during the Summerfor those who are studying privately

with him.

LIGHT OPERA KING AND HIS WIFE HAVE MUSIC LIBRARY IN THEIR PENT HOUSE

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Sigmund Romberg, a leading composer of Ught operas today, and his wife (Inset), formerly Lillian Harris of Washington, D. C.ROSA,” the newest light opera

written by Sigmund Romberg,was given as the opening attraction ofthe municipal opera season in St. Louis,Mo., recently, where it was a markedsuccess. This Is the latest in a longlist of similarly successful works, somedistinctly of operetta type, others sodignifying musical comedy plots thatthey, too, really belong under the title oflight operas.

It is interesting to get a glimpse intothe w'ork shop of a successful man inany line. With so romantic a callingas the writingof lighter musical operas,it- is not astounding perhaps to learnthat Mr. Romberg has one of the larg-est music libraries privately owmed. Itis located in his pent-house apartmentnear Fifth avenue in New York, wherehe and Mrs. Romberg, a former Wash-ington girl—Lillian Harris, daughter ofMrs. Harriet Harris of this city—maketheir artistic home. The Rombergs re-cently celebrated thetr wooden anniver-sary.

Jean Vernon of New York describesMr. Romberg’s library as follows:

“For six years the task of collecting

with the selectivity of a connoisseurthese volumes, numbering almost 5,000,from a market cluttered with trash, hasbeen at once hard work, relaxation andbis hobby.

“A bird’s-eye sightseeing view of thiscollection proved interesting.

“Up, up in the elevator to nis pent-house, and one steps into a spaciousstudio where Romberg composes themusic for the operettas that havebrought him fame and fortune. It isfurnished with antique Italian fur-niture. Sunshine filtering in through thestained glass windows touches thesheen of ancient woods with subduedluster. At one side of the studio on aplatform is a huge pipe organ, whereRomberg composes much of his music.Across from it is a grand piano. Theyare connected by an electric device soingenious that, seated at the organ, thecomposer can transfer his melody to thepianoforte at will.

“The volumes are bound in threecolors—red, green and brown. The redones contain rare scores of operettasand musical comedies. All the operettasare bound In brown. The green are anodd mixture of operas and operettas.

Still a fourth category is kept in whatMr. Romberg calls the “rumple closet.’This assortment he has not yet hadtime to examine thoroughly to de-termine its worthiness for a place inthis august collection If they pass themuster of his critical eye, they will besent to the bindery.

“Romberg shrugs his shoulders andexplains, ‘I may throw these away.Perhaps not.*

“However, such is their potentialvalue that these 700 volumes are keptunder lock and key!

“ ‘lt gives me great joy—this library,’he says. ‘Iwanted a musical library notmerely for the sake of acquiring an im-pressive array of first editions, but be-cause I love them, I study them. Ipore them over. I compare passages inthe various books. For me, it is won-derful pleasure.

“He has all of Verdi's 64 operas. Heis particularly fond of those rarelyheard such as ‘Le Bravo’ and ‘Rondo’and ‘Jerusaleum.’

“ ‘Jerusaleum.’ an opera in four acts,almost unknown as far as present davproducers are concerned, has one of

I the most exquisite melodies he has ever; heard, Mr. Romberg said—an ’Ave

! Marla’ seldom played.|

“ ‘lt is one of the most exquisite| things I have ever had the fortune toplay,’ said Mr. Romberg, who, if hewere so minded, might easily become a

i ranking concert pianist."Original scores of Romberg's own

I operettas are bound in moroccan leatherlin brown and gold. They are in hisown handwriting, and for originalscores, are remarkably clear. He hasrefused exorbitant sums from would-bepossessors.

"Among the rare and valuable itemsin his collection are the seventeenthcentury original edition of ‘Armide,*written by Lully, the French composer,in the year 1686; also the first editionof his ‘Alceste.’ performed in 1716. Twoother works of Lully’s are the first edi-tion of ’Phaeton,” 1683, and the firstedition of ‘Atys,’ written in 1689.Rameau is represented by ‘Hippolyte et

jAriele’ and ’Castor et Pollux.’ Any dis-] criminating collector would rhapodizei over the ballad ’L’Europe Callante,’ com-! posed by Campra in 1724.”

Service Band DatesTHE U. S. NAVY BAND.

'THE United States Navy Band. Lieut.Charles Benter, leader, will play

at the Capitol tomorrow night. The jprogram to be presented opens with theoverture to Wagner’s “The Flying jDutchman’’ and includes the “AndanteCantabile’’ from Tschaikow-sky’s “Fifth !Symphony” and txcerpts from the mu-sical comedy, "Sweet Adeline.” Musi-cians B. Gardner, cornetist, and L.Goucher, xylophonist, will be heard insolos at this concert.

Following is a schedule of concertsto be played by the Navy Band thisweek:

Tuesday, 3 p.m., bandstand, NavyYard.

Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., bandstand,Navy Yard.

Thursday, 3 p.m.. Naval Hospital.Friday, 6:30 p.m.. Tuberculosis Hos-

pital, Fourteenth and Upshur streets.Detailed programs will be printed in

daily issues of The Star.

THE SOLDIERS’ HOME BAND.The band of the United States Sol- !

diers’ Home, John S. M. Zimmermann,leader, and Anton Pointner. assistant,will give three concerts as usual— jTuesday, Thursday and Saturday aft- |emoons at 5:30 o'clock, in the band-stand. |

The full programs, which combinelight and classical selections, will bepublished in daily issues of The Star.

THE U. S. MARINE BAND.The following band concerts arc

scheduled for the United States Marine jBand during the coming week:

Monday at 8 p.m., Marine Barracks.Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., Walter Reed

General Hospital.Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., United States

Capitol.,

jThe concert on Thursday, June 26, at j

the Sylvan Theater is canceled, the jband being detailed for other officialduties.

Friday at 2 p.m., St. Elizabeth’s Hos-pital.

The feature of the Wednesday nightconcert at the United States Capitol jwill be Richard Strauss’ tone poem,“Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks”;

Opus 28 the “Fugue a la Gigue,” and jthe celebrated "Air” from the thirdsuite by Johann Sebastian Bach.

The soloists will be Robert E. Clark,trombonist, and Wilbur D. Kieffer,xylophonist.

THE V. S. ARMY BAND.Activities of the Army Band week of

June 22-28 will include:A park concert at Thirty-seventh and

U streets northwest tomorrow at 7:30p.m.

The concert scheduled for the SylvanTheater Wednesday has been canceled.

Thursday the band W'ill play at theTubercular Hospital, Fourteenth and jUpshur streets northwest, beginning at2:45 p.m.

Friday the usual concert on the east |steps of the Capitol will commence at 17:30 p m.

W. J. Stannard, leader, and ThomasF. Darcy, second leader, will alternate |in conducting these concerts.

Soloists to be featured this week are jMr. Darcy, trumpet; Musician Eugene ;Hostettcr, saxophone, and MusicianJoseph L. Young, marimba and xylo-phone.

Song and Piano RecitalAt University Club

Mallette Roach Spengler presentedstudents in vocal and piano recital lastnight at the American Association ofUniversity Women’s Club Building. Theprogram included compositions byBeethoven, Bach, Shumann. Gregg,Puccini. Mozart, Chaminade, Schubert,Cadman and Victor Herbert.

Those participating were Emily Bog-ley, Catherine Stevens, Marion Brinker-hoff. Eleanor Rockwell, Virginia Bur-dette, Ruthe Dale Smith, Nancy Gilliam, jEleanor Baughen, Sue Ann Dietz, Anna jWyman. Margaret Wyman, Charles Lus-by, Melvin Weaver Carrico, IrvingHoughton, Mrs. Ross Johnson and Cath-erine Spengler.

Mrs. Spengler wfe assisted by IsabelleTaylor, accom^afalst.

New Belgian ColoraturaComes Here Next Season

T’HE musical season of 1930-31 will.j A offer Washington a number of out-

! standing novelties. No musical event i; that lies ahead is likely to eclipse in ;importance the debut here of Mme.Clare Clairbert, coloratura soprano of jthe Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels.She will sing at Constitution Hall latein November as one of the attractionsof Mrs. Wilson-Greene’s Saturday eve-ning concert aeries there.

Mme. Clairbert is the much-discussed“mystery soprano,” whose name hasbeen concealed for the past year underthe sobriquet of “Mme. Coloratura" byCharles L. Wagner, the American im-presario, who promises American audi-ences a new vocal sensation in thiscaptivating star of the Belgian concertand operatic stage.

Mme. Clairbert is scheduled to beginan American tour in California earlyin September. This will bring her to

i Washington two days after Thanksgiv-! ing. She has been signed by Mr. Wag-! ner under a 10-year contract. Mrs.Wilson-Greene has obtained the privi-

j lege of presenting this singer exclu-\ sively in the Capital. Mme. Clairbert; is an immense favorite in Brussels andthroughout Europe.

For five years she has been the lead-ing soprano of the Theater de la Mon-naie in Brussels, that theater of won-derful memories of Melba, Nordica,

l Eames and Calve, and she has sungonce in a joint recital abroad with John

I Charles Thomas, the American bari-| tone, who is enthusiastic over her Amer-i lean tour.I Mme. Clairbert Is said to resembleIna Claire. She is 28 years old, is anaccomplished musician and does notsmoke. She plays both harp and piano.She is said to speak English beautifully.She is a natural blonde. Her perform-ances in opera are described as aris-tocratic in a high degree.

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CLARE CLAIRBERT.

on the American concert stage seemstimely, when rumors are rife of the jcontemplated retirement of Mme. Galli- |Curci, who was considered the leading !coloratura on this side of the Atlantic.

Other attractions announced by Mrs.Wilson-Greene in this same Saturdayevening concert series are the Don Cos-sack Male Chorus of former Russiancavalry officers; Josef Hofmann, thepianist; Roland Hayes, colored tenor;John Charles Thomas, baritone, and agala opening performance that willpresent Edward Johnson. Metropolitanopera tenor, Maler and Pattison, pianoensemblLsts; Salvl, the harpist, andother artists to be announced.

WORLD’S GREAT OPERA HOUSES

liw Imperial Opera House, Vienna, Austria.

EDITOR S NOTE—The following is theseventh of a senes of articles written bythe distinguished Washington architect,George Oakley Totten, jr., who pointsout the unusual features of opera housesall over the world .

In Washington, a National Capitalwithout an opera house, these articlesshould be of special interest, as there areseveral plans in state of being /ormu-lated tor an opera house here.

BY GEORGE OAKLEY TOTTEN, Jr.

j J-TAVING shown In The Star the most! A important opera houses of South

America, it seems logical to give illus-trations of famous opera houses of theOld World

The magnificent Imperial Opera Housej of Vienna has been the scene of manyof the most gorgeous operatic perform-ances ever given. Not only has themusic been the finest that has beenproduced but the audiences have in-cluded the Emperor and his imperialcourt, rated as the most brilliant ofall Europe. The late Francis Josephwas a devotee of the opera and was

in constant attendance.The building is one of the most beau-

ful opera houses in the world, many

place it above the Paris opera. It wasbuilt between the years 1861-1869 andwas designed by Edward Van der Nulland A. von Siccardsburg. It is in theearly renaissance style and is verydelicate and refined in detail. It hasa splendid setting, facing the open ringclose to the Imperial palace.

The important feature of the facade Iis the beautiful loggia, the ceiling ofwhich is richly decorted in color bySchwince (scenes from "The Magic

| Flute"), and bronze figures of heroism,; tragedy, fantasy, comedy and love, byHaknel. The winged horses above theloggia also are by him. The buildingcontains many beautiful masterpiecesof sculpture and painting.

The grand staircase contains medal-lion portraits of the architects byJoseph Cesar. V

A speciaLfperformance of the operawas given for members of the Eighth

Musigraphs

Harry wheaton Howard,who has just completed histhirtieth year as organist andchoir director of ImmaculateConception Church, sailed from

Montreal Thursday for Antwerp. Mr.Howard will make a three months’automobile tour cf continental Europewith a party of friends.

Helen Turley, contralto, will close herstudio for the Summer the last of'June.She plans to motor through the NewEngland States, sending some time atthe MacDowell Colony at Peterboro.N. H.

While in Newpcrt, Vt„ she will givea concert, and will stop in New Yorkon her return trip to coach withCharles Baker, her former coach.

Mrs. Turley presented the chapelchoir of the Vermont Avenue ChristianChurch last Sunday in a final ap-pearance this season. It appeared inconjunction with the Children’s dayprogram, when the pageant, "TheChurch,” written by Mrs. Turley, wasgiven.

Warren F. Johnson will give an organrecital at the Church of the Pilgrims at7:30 o'clock this evening. He will play"Allegretto con moto,” "Andantino,”and "Final-Marche” from "Second

{ Suite, Opus 27,” by Boellmann; "Com-j munion,” by C. H. Kitson.

| The choir of the National Baptistj Church will close its activities of the

; season with a musical service this eve-; ning.

The program, which is largely madej up of request numbers, is as follows:Anthem, ' Awake. Put on Btreneth”. RogersDuet, "Watchman. What of the Night,”

SarjeantAnthem. “Savior When Night Involves the

Skies” ShelleyAnthem, "The Day Is Ended" BartlettQuartetr "Nearer. My God. to Thee". BrigasAnthem, "The Day Is Past and Over,”

MarksThe numbers of this morning's serv-

ice are:“The King of Love My Shepherd Is." Shelley"Souls of the Righteous” Foster

The incidental solos will be sung byInez Miller, soprano; Herbert Aldridge,tenor; Betty Low'enburg, contralto, andHenry Magnuson, bass. Mrs. Emily G.Dickinson Is organist and director.

Anna Sloan teacher of violoncelloand the history of music, gave a mus-ical tea at her residence studio, 1507Lamont street, for her students, closingthe Winter season.

Miss Sloan announces that her Sum-mer classes and private instruction willbegin July 1.

Gertrude Smith, chairman of musicat Temple Heights during the Summer,announces there will be a duet today by

| Ethel Martin, president of the 1930 as-; sociation. and Gertrude Smith, worthymatron of Columbia Chapter.

The Brahms Trio, composed of Lor-raine Esputa Bentley, sopranoAdessa

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International Congress of Architectswhich was held in Vienna in theSpring of 1908.

The foyer is richly decorated withmural paintings representing operaticscenes.

The auditorium is richly gilded andpainted. The ceiling was painted byRahl as was also the curtain with thelegend of Orpheus. Another curtainrepresenting comedy was painted byFred Lanberger.

The building has a seating capacityof 2,270.

It is truly a wonderful pleasure tohear an opera in one of these greatroyal buildings and what adds so muchto the scenic effect is the enormoussize of the stage, particularly thedepth. The parcimony of our Ameri-can theater builders produces thesmallest stages in the world. Americaleads the world in many things and isbeginning to have some good music,but its people have not yet come to therealization that a beautiful opera re-quires a beautiful setting. We spendmillions of dollars on other varieties ofbuildings, but not yet on opera houses.

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Student Recital Program^

THESpurron Pianists’ Club. Marie

Howe Spurr. director, will givethe final recital program of Itscurrent season Monday, June 30,at 8 o’clock at the Women's City

Club. The music-loving public is cor-dially invited to attend.

Mrs. Spurr recently presented DorothyOraham Talbott in a piano recital, as-sisted by Clarence Ruebsam, reader.Both were enthusiastically received.Miss Talbott, was presented with a goldmedal for this, her first recital.

Le Salle Spier will present JessieBlalsdell and Eleanor Callan Craun Inindividual recitals at the UniversityWomen'a Club, 1634 I street northwest,Friday evening at 8 o'clock. All thoseInterested In musical education are cor-dially invited to attend.

The program follows:ELEANOR CALLAN CRAUN.

Program.Prelude and Fugue. C minor ifrom tha

Well-tempered Clavichord. Book 11.. BachBallade. B major BrahmaIntermes-o, E flat minor BrahmaSymphonic Etudes SchumannConcerto. C minor Beethoven

Allegro con brio (first movementi.Mr. Spier at the second piano.

JESSIE BLAISDELL.Program. *

Prelude and Pugue. C minor (from theWell-tempered Clavichord. Book lit. Bach

Sonata Appassionato BeethovenAllegro assal.Andante con moto.Allegro ma non troppo.

Walt*. A minor ChopinPrelude. B flat minor ChoptnFantasle. F minor ChopinConcerto. B flat minor Tjehatkowsky

Andantlno semplice.Allegro con fuoco.iSecond and third movementa >

Mr. Spier at the second piano.

The closing recital for the season ofthe Virgil Plano School. Georgia E. Mil-ler, director, will be held Wednesdayevening at Barker Hall, Y. W. C. ABuilding. K at Seventeenth street, at8:30 o'clock.

Wilma Benton McDevltt presentedstudents at a recital in the auditoriumof the Arts Club of Washington Fridaynight.

Those participating Included Graceand Mary Wilma McDevltt. HelenImogene Golden. Eleanor Miller, NedSchmitt, Norlaine Lewis. Conway Mc-Devltt, Martha Frances Thomas, GeorgeLewis, Tracy Thomas, Robert Horner,Jane Page Menefee, Rac Alice Abner,Helen Levitov, Grace McDevltt, Kath-leen Johrden, Frederick Fryer, NancyBrehm and Louise Menefee.

R. B. Chopln-Kelth presented pianostudents in the twentieth anniversaryrecital of piano music at the Women'sCity Club June 12. The members of theclass, known as the Peter Pan Trouba-dours, who participated, included EleanorFrances Mitchell, Margaret Eva Lewis,Marie Abigail Brandstedt, Jane LorimerBoswell, Morgan Jerome Quinn, JanetMatilda Brandstedt, Harry Arthur Bos-well, Tony Forrest, Barbara Katherine,Louise Lowe and Mary Rose Manning,Jackson Raymond Lynn, Ruth MaryQuinn, Frank Taylor Mitchell, JosephineMargaret Wohlihan, Enid VictoriaJulihn and Yvonne Forrest.

An interesting recital was given re-cently at the Institute of Musical Artby students of Dr. C. E. Christian! andEmtlie Bishop. They were assisted byMargaret B. Keyhoe. who gave a humor-ous reading. One of the other featuresof the evening was a duet for two pianosplayed by Edward Frazier and ChirchillDowning.

Other young pianists who took partwere Marian Love King. Dorothy Jack-son. Helen Harper, Marjorie Cassey,Victoria Kuhn, Elizabeth Hughes, Au-drey Beekman and Ella Fraser.

Those contributing violin numberswere Richard Russell, Louis Ot ten bergand William McCain.

Eunice Kellogg Graves presented agroup of students in a piano recital Sat-urday at 3 p.m. in the fourth floor as-sembly room of the Y. W. C. A. head-quarters.

Those taking part were: Edward Faw-sett, Margaret Fletcher, Herbert Fuchs,Gwendolyn Jones, Mary Kengla, AnnaQuinn, Irene Sacks and Elaine Young.

Celia G. Luce will present piano atu- !dents in a recital Friday at 8 p.m. inthe Sunday school auditorium of thePresbyterian Church at Twenty-secondstreet and Rhode Island avenue north-east.

Herman Fakler, baritone, will assist,accompanied at the piano by Claude i

Robeson. A free will offering wll betaken.

Students who will plav are-Banka. Elizabeth Blumer, Marion Cecil,Nellie Clark. Betty Clarke. Bettr-AnnFass, James Merrick Hall. Thomai Hall,Mae Higdon. Ruth Hvde Louise Marsh,Alice Morgan, Beulah Murnan. DollyMuman, Helen Myers, William Spanjon,Ruth Stowell. BillySutton. Robert But-ton. Gwendolyn Sutton. Wilma fifrtft.Eileen Thornton and Elizabeth Veim.l-lion.

The June recital by pupils of llAw.Albert N. Jones was given In the teach-er s studio Friday evening. Compoaltionaby Bach. Chopin. Liszt. Beethoven. Mac-Dowell and Mozart were played by Mar-vin Fewell, Mary Moore, Evelyn Sha-han, Alice Manning. Sylvia Combs. MaryDunn, Catherine Cronenburg, MartinBraver, Catherine Church Helen EapeyFrank Eapey, Wtlhelmlna Cronenberg.Helen Osllagher, Richard Peck. RobertFarr, Marion Gallagher, Dorothjr Nte-domanski. Robert Hurley, Beth King,June Mehlfelt, Margaret Rice. Gwen-dolyn Magtll. Jane Wlnklehaus. Oer-trude Grant, Lula Lippard and MurrellLank.

Wtlhelmlna Cronenberg and JaneWlnklehaus received the gold harp

- honor medal, presented by the jtev.Robert Wood. Gwendolyn Maglll, Mil-dred Callan and Margaret Rice receivedthe sunburst gold medal for generalImprovement, presented by Mrs. MabelWlnklehaus and J. L. Carr.

Mary Gastrock, a teacher of pianoat the Washington College of Music,presented a group of students in a re.cltal Friday evening, June 13, at Doug-las M. E. Church.

Flora Clayton, violinist, assisted inthe recital.

The students playing were: LoulsiWhitney, LoLs Martin. Oraee Martin,Grace Louise Elliott. Maurice Rawlings,Wilbur Rawlings. Kenneth Klnsell*and Charles Gastrock.

Effle A. Collamore presented her pu-pils in annual recital Friday evening,at the Wallace Memorial United Presby-terian Church.

The following took part: ElalnsO Flaherty, Frances Rives, MildredFriedman. Marie Fowle. Mary Hamilton,Frances Davis. Dorothy Snyder. Orac*

.Waidecker. Helen Kirks, June Pigman,Dorothy Karmel. Vivian Smith, MaryLois Rice, Bessie Buchanan, JanetFisher, Annella Robinson, Eugene Alien,Kathryn Magdeburger, Joe Comer. Dor-othy Schaeffer, Mildred Shackelford,Ruth Edith Buchanan, Bernlc* Hick-man. Elizabeth Holcer and JessieBecker.

The class is organized under the nam«"B Sharp Club,’’ with the following of-ficers: President, Annella Robinson;vice president. Elizabeth Holcer; aecre-tary, Mary Lois Rice; treasurer, MaryHamilton, and sergeant -at - arms,Frances Rives. ,

Frances Gutelius has issued cards sotindividual pairs of piano recitals byMargaret Marie O'Meara and Walt*!Drummond Swank. Wednesday at •p.m.; Barbara Bolling and JanetO'Leary, Friday at 4 p.m.. and KarhaaMeyer and Margaret Yanagita, Monday,June 30, at 8 p.m.

These programs will be given in thaDupont Circle Studios, and Miss Oute-lius will mail cards upon request to in-terested friends of music.

Edwin Moore presented a group oipiano pupils and the Epworth MaliQuartet In a Joint recital Tuesday eve-ning at the studio, 1325 G street north-west.

Pupils taking part included SamuelOoodson. Jeanne Baade. Patricia Beat-tie, Barbara Sweet, Margery Leafcuiand Dorothy Dodge.

The Epw-orth Male Quartet, composedof George W. Goodwin, first tenor: BenD. Thomason, second tenor; Paul FFox, first bass, and W. Cameron Bur-ton. second bass, sang the "One Hun-dred and Twenty-first Psalm," by L|Forge; ’’Souls of the Righteous,’’ bjNoble; "Heav’n, Heav’n.” a Negro spir-itual, arranged by Burleigh; "DearestFarewell.” a German folk song, ar-ranged by Jungst; "Volga Boatmen'iSong.” a Russian folk song, arrangedby Page, and “Gently. Johnny,” a*English folk sofig, arranged by Bing-ham.

Laurette Marks Hulllngs presentedstudents in a piano recital at BarkeiHall June 14. assisted by Sara Bergllni

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STUDIOS OF WASHINGTON

Closing Recital of the WALTER T. HOLTVirgil Clavier Piano School School of Mandolin, Guitar and

Georrta 1. Miller, Director Banjo, Hawaiian Guitar

Barker Hall, K at 17th N.W. e°,ul. JSS'mm... , . , __.. _

__ Ensemble practice with the Ncrilci debtWednesday, June 25th; 8:30 1801 Columbia Rd. N.W., Col. 0948The public I* invited *, —¦

nvicTm ttc BESSIE N. WILDIIIU I fe. Voice Culture. Plano and Harmony

Mk Li Studio (834 sth at., Takoma Park. D. O.

MUSICAL ART tA7fprANO PUYINGOpen AllSummer 9J TmEjEA Positively Taucbt Any Pertoa

C. E. CHRISTIANI. Mus. Dr VIOLIN ! IN 20 LESSONSotto tornev simon voice SAXOPHONE, BANJO, GUITAR

r.HARMdV : Clarinet. Trumpet. I’kulele. Ete.REBECCA DIAL . EXPRESSION Orchestra Trainlna—Send ler BeekletOrchestral Instruments Practice P.ano. I Christensen School of Popular Musi«

831 18th St. N.W. Met. 2511 n* nth St. N.W. District !*:*

Opening of the New

WASHINGTON MUSICAL INSTITUTE1201 Clifton St. N.W. Phone: Adams 7891

WELDON CARTER. Director(Elcr>cn years head of piano dept , Washington College of Music)

Ten Weeks’ Summer Term, Beginning June 23rd, 1930(Students may enroll any time)

FACULTYPIANO VOICE VIOLIN

Weldon Carter *Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes Marguerite CarterRoslyn Carter Harriet D. Hine Evelyn Bcott

j| Oertrude Dyre CELLOI Anne Smtth ORGAN *Dore Waltan

Dorothy R Todd AtWater HARMONY ANDMary OastrockHISTORY OF MUSIC

EAR TRAINING « HARP 'Helen LePevre LyonDorothy R. Todd Katherine Rises and assistant.

SECRETARY, VIRGINIA CRAIGOpen class for advanced students and teachera who are studying privately with

Mr. Carter will be held weekly during the Summer.•These teachers will join the faculty in September

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Washington College of Music2107-9 S St. Potomac 1846

SUMMER SESSIONBeginning, June 23rd

Teacher* hi AU Departments Available

PIANO VIOLINVOICE

Mlksa MersonFanny Amstuti RobertaSara Becker Ho*h *• Ethel Hlcka ,Tamara Dmltrleff Dorothy Neff Tyler Frits MaltaMary Gross

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ALL THEORETICAL SUBJECTSDormitories Practice Rooms

teachers available fob octlying districtsTAMARA DMITRIEFF of the piano faculty will eonduet a Summer class he

Rockville, betimes Jane 24. Phone RoohTlUe Sl-W.

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