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SONDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, T>. C., OCTOBER 18, 1951.

NFWQFTHPMII/F.VIORI DBY E.de S. MELCHER.

ITis something of a shock upon meeting

Mr. Stokowski to find that this dynamicmaestro of the platform -is such a smil-ing, easygoing person with childlike blueeyes, who can talk as delightfully aboutthe world at large as he can about music.

Mr. Stokowski, caught as he was about to leavefor Baltimore after his concert last Tuesdayevening, did not seem in the least concernedthat his audience hadn't applauded after thefirst portions of the program. “Applause doesn'tinterest me,’’ he said. “It’s one thing afteryou have played very loud music to want tofeel that your listeners have been so stirredthat they must show their emotions by ap-plause. But in softer music, like the Lulli andthe Vibaldi and the Rameau, there is no rea-son in the world why the audience shouldapplaud or why the conductor should wantit to.”

Mr. Stokowski was standing outside the sta-tion gate, hatless, a scarf bound tightly aroundhis throat. He was there to say a few wordsabout the new National Symphony Orchestra,which probably •he feels he has a particularlink with, since its leader, Hans Kindler, wasonce a member of his own orchestra. “Wash-ington should have the best orchestra in theworld, and I hope it will,” said Mr. Stokowskiwith .complete sincerity. “Being the Capitalof the United States, that's just what it shouldhave. J hope that it will come to Philadelphiaand pay us visits, just as we pay you visits,and that it will be very, very successful.”

Stressing the importance of “decentraliza-tion” in music, the genial conductor of thePhiladelphians then went on to show' that ifmore cities and towns would follow in the stepsof Washington some sort of perfection in thisart would be reached. Music should not becentralized exclusively in such cities as NewYork. Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. Itshould be spread generally throughout thecountry. Just as the movies have meant moreinterest in the theater in the smaller commun-ities and have suggested to them the idea offorming small theatric groups, so music shouldbe taken in hand in the smaller sections ofthe country and enjoyed just as we enjoy itin the larger cities.

“Music is becoming more and more impor-tant daily. As life grows faster and more com-plicated, in order to keep our balance—andanything away from complete balance meanscertan death—we need relaxation. Musictakes us completely out of this world. For in-stance, as I conduct or as I play I'm not inthis world at all. I don't know exactly whereI am. but it's far away—and it is a wonderfulrelief to get there. That's what I need occa-sionally and that's what you need; that's whatwe all need sometimes. We can't lean too hardon one thing during our lives or we go topieces. We need a change and relaxation.And that's why it seems to me music is get-ting to be something more and more vital tous every day.

“I'm glad Washington is at last going to haver its own orchestra. It will be a wonderful thing

.lor you to have this means of educational re-laxation at your elbow'. Mr. Kindler is a veryfine musician: he played in my orchestra. Hisorchestra should be very good. Yes. I wish Itall the best wishes In the world. Will it be asgood as the Philadelphia Orchestra? Oh, yes;better, I hope.”

A MONG the more interesting news items ofthe week which strike close at home is

the tenth anniversary concert which will begiven by the Mount Vernon Place M. E. ChurchSouth tonight at 8 o'clock, under the direction ofR. Deane Shure, whose cantata “Washington,"incidentally, will have several interesting per-formances this year in and about the Capital;the announcement by Elena de Sayn that thefirst concert of the famous Beach-Powell-Kramer combination, with Miss de Sayn' as-sisting with the violin, will be given at theMayflower Hotel Friday evening, December 4;that the “Incomparable Mary” (Garden, ofcourse i will be with us next Friday to openthe new Hurley concert course at ConstitutionHall; that Otto Torney Simon reminds us “anear relation of one of Beethevon's early teach-ers, D. C. Pfeiffer, is living in our midst”; thatthe Carlo Rosa Opera Co. of London will comehere this Winter—and don't forget that JohnMcCormack is being sponsored by the Wilson-Grcene office November 28. And did you hearOtto Beck play Mrs. Doran's new song, “GeorgeWashington,” last Tuesday night over the air?

Stokowski Salutes Nezv National SymphonyOrchestra—Community Institute Offers

Opening Concert Tuesday.

Upper left: Louise Homer Stires, who, uith her sister, Katharine Homer,willbe featured on season s first concert sponsored by the Community Center;upper right, Dr. John Finley ff il/iamson, director of the K'estminster Choir,which will come to U ashington November 4; lower left, W inifred McGregorMichaelson, formerly of this city, who has recently assumed the directorship ofWilmington Music School; loner right, Edwin Hughes, pianist, who willvisit the W ashington College of Music this season as guest teacher.

OPENINGthe 1931-32 season of the

Community Institute of Washingtonat Central High Auditorium on Tues-day evening at 8:15 o’clock, Louise

Homer St ires and Katharine Homer, sopranoand pianist, daughters of Louise Homer andSidney Homer, will offer one of the most in-teresting recital programs of the year.

Their Washington program will include num-bers by Bach, Gluck, Schumann, Brahms.Chopin, Ibert and Sidney Homer, to be playedby Katharine Homer, and numbers by Bee-thoven, Brahms, Boewe, Wolf. Hagemann andSidney Homer, to be sung by Louise HomerStine. Mrs. Stires will likewise be heard Intwo arias, Puccinis “One Pine Day,” from“Madame Butterfly,” and Donizetti's “O Leecedi Quest Anima," from “Luida di Chamonix."

[IANS KXNDLER, conductor of the NationalSymphony Orchestra, today announced

the programs selected for the first symphonyconcert, November 2, and the first Sunday aft-ernoon concert, November 15, both at Consti-tution Hall.

The high light of the opening symphony con-cert will be the playing for the first time byany orchestra, of a three-part suite especiallycomposed for the inaugural of the NationalSymphony Orchestra by three composers ofInternational reputation, Alfredo Casella, Ga-briel Pleme and Ottorini Respighi.

Casella is the composer of the first numberof the suite, an "entrada" or entrance. He isone of the leaders of the advance guard of theyounger European composing generation and iswell known as composer, pianist and conductor.The second movement, “Sarabande," was com-posed by Pieme, one of the veteran continentalcomposers, whose “Children’s Crusade” isknown all over the world, and who conducts theoldest orchestra in Paris, the Colonne. Re-spighi has contributed the final phase of thesuite, a finale. Respighi also is well known inthis country as conductor and composer. His“Pines of Rome” and his opera. “The SunkenBell.” which has been performed at the Metro-politan Opera House, are especially well known.

The first symphony program will open withWeber’s “Der Frelschutz" overture and willoffer Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony,” Mussorg-sky s “Chant Russe” and Tschalkowsky’a“March Slav,” in addition to the Casella-Pierne-Respighi suite.

For the first of his Sunday afternoon con-certs, to be given on Simday, November 15, at4 o’clock at Constitution Hall, Mr. Kindler haschosen a program that opens with Beethoven'soverture to “Lenore," No. 3, opus 72, and whichwill include Handel's “Concerto Grosso,” Bizet’s“Suite Arlesienne.” Tschaikowsky’s “AndanteCantabile,” and, for its first orchestral pres-entation in Washington, Tschaikowsky's“Polonaise.”

Musigraphs

WALTERNASH, P. A. G. 0., has

been engaged as director andorganist of St. Alban's choir.He will take charge of themusic there the middle ofNovember.

Ann Sloan, cellist, will be guest artist at theWoman’s City Club tea this afternoon.

Warren F. Johnson will resume his organrecitals at the Church of the Pilgrims at 7:30o'clock this evening. He will play "Pralu-dium,” Albert Becker; ‘Fugue on Bach,”Schu rann, and "Echo Bells,” John HyattBrewer.

Hildegarde Johnson, contralto, pupil ofBeatrice Goodwin, was soloist last Sunday atEmery Methodist Episcopal Church.

Two Washington composers, Mrs. ChesterAdair and Karl Holer, will be featured in to-day’s music hour at 5 o'clock at the YoungWomen’s Christian Association. Helen Turley,contralto, will sing some of Mrs. Adair's songs,with the composer at the piano, and HelenBelt, violinist, will play some of Mr. Holer’sselections, accompanied by the composer.

Two soprano solos by Mrs. Alexander G.Bentley will be featured in this Sunday eve-ning's concert in the Shoreham lobby by theLowe-Nevins Concert Orchestra between 8:10and 9 p.m. Classical and popular numbers willmake up the program, which Raoul Da Costawill direct.

Gideon A. Lyon, former president of theArts Club, and Hans Kindler, director ofWashington’s new symphony orchestra, willbe the speakers at the tenth anniversary ban-quet of the Chaminade Glee Club, to be heldTuesday evening, November 10, in the Shore-ham Hotel.

The next meeting of the Washington Alum-nae Club of the Mu Phi Epsilon National Hon-orary Sorority will be held tomorrow eveningat the home of Helen Le Fevre Lyon, 1740Poplar Lane. Officers for the coming yearhave been announced as Edith B. Athey, presi-dent; Hazel G. Wood, vice president; OlivePratt, secretary; Olive Witters, treasurer; VeraN. Ross, historian, and Carol B. Wagner,publicity.

An interesting musical season has beenplanned at Friendship House. 324-326 Virginiaavenue southeast, by Miss Lydia Burklin, headresident. Under the leadership of Jessie M.Olin, resident director of music, who has re-cently come to Washington from Chicago,where she directed choruses for the Civic Mu-sic Association for the past seven years, anumber of musical activities have been addedto those already offered. On Sunday after-noons, beginning November 1, from 5 to 6,programs will be given by Washington musi-cians. Mary Apple, contralto soloist at MountPleasant Congregational Church, will give thefirst program.

Frances Gutelius will direct the WashingtonNational Children's Hour from WMAL Fridaymorning from 10:45 to 11 o'clock. She willpresent Charlton and Karlina Meyer and Wal-ter Drummond Swank in a miniature aym-phnoic program of piano numbers. .

At their general meeting last Thursday eve-ning. in the Frances Gutelius studios, the Dis-trict of Columbia Federation of Music Clubsunanimously indorsed the National SymphonyOrchestra junior concert series and promiseda large attendance at these concerts out ofits 28 junior clubs and choirs. A shortmemorial tribute to the late Mr. and Mrs.Edwin Moore was given by the president, Mrs.Gertrude Lyons.

The Rubinstein Club, under the direction ofClaude Robeson, will hold its regular rehearsalsTuesday morning and evening. Those desiringto sing with this organization should com-municate with Mrs. Milton C. White, 5516Thirteenth street northwest.

D. C. Dounis. internationally known violinteacher, who arrived only recently in this coun-try, is now in Washington and has opened astudio on Connecticut avenue.

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