TWO MIDDLKTOWN TIMES IlKKAUJ, N. Y. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1936. Interest In School Music Revives Throughout The County Three Choral I Groups Join For Concert The Wandering Muse Apollo-Schubert-Orpheus Program Will Unite Ninety Male Voices Inaugurating the twentieth concert season of the Apollo Club, the Orpheus Glee Club of Poughkeeosie and the Schubert Club of Port Jervis will join the choral group in iU annual Spring concert here in May. it was announced today by Fred E.
Ha'stead. president. It will be the first joint concert the clubs have held in MMdlcto.vn in a number of years. The occasion wiU be notable in. that more than ninety of the finest male voices in the ihrcc communities will be heard on the same stage.
They will be under direction of Professor Andrew Baird of Poughkceo- sie. conductor of all three clubs. The choral groups will rehearse individually in their own communities and "probably once, jointly, before the concert. Acceptance of invitations to participate was indicated this week by Orpheus and Schubert. Virtually the entire membership of both units is expected to Orpheus has a membership of approximately thirty-three.
Schubert of thirty- six. and Apollo of thirty-eight. PrcR-cm for the concert will be completed next and rehearsals will immediately. Mr. Halstcad stated.
In the meantime Apollo is rehearsing for its appearance in the concert of the Associated Glee CJubs of America at Madi- DRAMA WORKSHOP CENSORSHIP If we have one iet peeve against Drama Workshop, It is because the organization cannot become sufficiently secularized to toss its blue pencil away. Repeatedly Drama Workshop' has selected good plays for production and then subjected them to its own censorship. A notable instance was the comedy. Three-Cornered Moon, a year or so ago, in which many of the best lines were deleted because either directly or by implication, they were risque. The amended script of the play resembled a crazy-quilt; it is still a subject of discussion when amateurs gather to review the past.
And even members of Workshop (and of the cast of Moon) confess the play suffered by mutilation. This week Channing Pollock's war-drama, The Enemy, also showed the effect of censorship, although to a lesser degree. In the third act, for example, kindly old Professor Arndt (Eber Sherman) is supiwsed to utter blasphemy against the English. It was nicely moderated. In the same act a soldier, returning from battle, describes the horror of war, and strong lines (but hardly stronger than some found in Mr.
Furnas' popular article. And Sudden Death) are delected, no doubt in deference to those in the audience who may have been unable to endure grisly truths. f. FOURTH ACT SUFFERS But it was in the fourth act that censorship was applied in an attempt to alter the playwright's coneeption of the Viennese mode of "living. In this act a post-war reunion of old friends is held at the Arndt home.
Karlov" It is drunk sp to handle wines! But Drama Workshop fit to delete all mention of wine and substitute a modem American coffee pot. And the celebrating Viennese were made to hold their reunion over demi-tasses. If Drama Workshop plays were restricted to church audiences, we wine, a favorite in Vienna, is served for the occasion. ik sparingly, not offensively. After all, the Viennese know how so.i Square April first.
Garden. New York, for the New York concert comprises: Salutation by W. P. Bentz: Invocation of Orpheus by Peri: Love Me or Not. by SecchiMoore: The Year's at the Spring, by Beach: Morning Hymn by Henschci: Lochinvar by Hammond; The Lost Chord by Sullivan-Brewer: Summer Evening, by Palmgren; The Musical Trust by Clokcy; Calm and Storm by Gibb: Reapers Song by Harbour; Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal by Andrews, and the Pilgrims Chorus from Tannliauser by Wagner-Andrews.
MHS Drama Selects Comedv Casts His Father's Gone South and The Boob to be Presented March 20 and 21 believe the unit would be entitled to apply any degree of censorship it chose. But when its plays are intended "for general presentation and are advertised to the public at large, we believe the script 1 should be followed. Drama Workshop should rorget its blue pencil, even if it has to confine its play selection to vehicles which by their inherent moral impeccability require no deletion. If carried too far, the local censorship theory would warp plays so that no amateur production would ever interpret faithfully the author's message or objective. Moreover, a play might be so altered in different communities that no two productions would be the same.
If a play is meritorious enough to warrant revival by amateur groups, we feel each production should adhere to the full pattern intended by the playwright. Frankly, we have never seen a play improved by local revision. The theory is as absurd as to have a community orchestra attempt to improve a Beethoven symphony by deleting or rewriting the passages it found objectionable. CRITICISM OR FLATTERY? One of the drama critic's most difficult problems in a small community is the attitude of amateur dramatists which insists that only favorable criticism be given their efforts. T.he amateur excuses all "his mistakes with the alibi he is not professional and should not be appraised by professional standards.
If lie bobbles his lines, muddles his role, he believes he should have the benefit of all consideration. Yet this same amateur asks his fellow townspeople to pay almost as much to see his amateur, if earnest, efforts as a spectator would pay for a balcony seat at a top-flight Broadway matinee. He asks more than a motion picture exhibitor who offers his audience the best dramatists, the choicest vehicles, on the horizon. We have abundant praise for the sincerity and effort of the amateur who devotes night after night of his leisure time to rehearsal and who probably works harder over his part than the average professional. Nevertheless we feel the amateur should learn to accept constructive criticism by an impartial appraiser.
Too often the amateur is spoiled by friends and relatives who pat him on the back and tell him his work is superb. The amateur play itself, no matter what its limitations, is always described by flattering friends as excellent, exquisite, etc. The other side of the i story is never given the amateur by I(is friends--and if they won't tell him, is it to be expected his enemies will? Accustomed to this well-intentioned but destructive flattery, the amateur too often feels superior to any criticism of a less favorable tenor. Moreover, he adopts the attitude that-- because he is an amateur he is entitled to nothing less than fair words and the printed promise of a bright future. The critic in a small community does not seek to embarrass the amateur.
He desires only to give his work some degree of sincerity. The third and last of a series of School Operetta Signifies Music Revival in Warwick Grade Pupils Prepare Goldilocks for Presentation After Easter Holiday A I There's music In the air in th; public school system. Supervised music, restored last year after a number of virtually mute years, has made rapid progress under direction of Miss Helen Bucll during her first season here, and an attractive Spring program signifies the revival of interest among pupils in grades and High school. Among fifth and sixth grade pupils of Hamilton Avenue school the outstanding musical event of ths season will be production of the operetta, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, in two acts, after Easter. Tile cast, approximating recitals sponsored by the Coopera- twenty, will be headed by Mary live Concert Association will be glv- Ellen Houston as Goldilocks, Boben at three p.
m. tomorrow at the ert Hayes as Father Bear, Isabelie Directs Operetta State Theatre by Miss Rosa Ten- toni, young American 'soprano. Miss Tentoni is remembered as the soprano in a quartet chosen Arturu Toscanini in 1934 to appear with the New York Philharmonic in its performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. End Series Of Recitals Miss Tentoni Guest of Co-operative Society Sunday But frequently the amateur can't take appraisal. it; he doesn't want honest His Father's Gone South, and The Boot, three-net and oii--act comedies, will be presented by the Dramatic Club of Middletown School March twentieth nnd- twenty-first at- Memorial School auditorium.
It will be the annual presentation of the club serving as a climax to Winter activities prior to the making of motion pictures in the Spring. Proceeds Jrom the performance will be used partly for the motion picture production and partly for financing the commercial department's trip to Syracuse for iiiter- scholastic competition. Father's Gone South, a three-act business comedy by Marion Ron! row, will be directed by Milton P. SUIT, club advisor. The cast was chosen only from active members oi the Dramatic Club.
Leslie Ross will- play the part, of Rr.lx-rt Lane, a young college graduate. Miss Lorraine Shenise is case as his sttnoKrapher. Others in the cost inculcie Miss Janet Byrne as Lane's older sister and a successful business woman, Daniel Hurley as a friend, Robert Schuyler as Alexander, the office boy, Miss Martha. Sayer as a stenographer and Rotert Banker as a customer. Another role, that of a stenographer, is unfilled at present.
The Boob An- hilarious larce by J. C. Mullen, Is' r.o-,y in rehearsal under direction of Miss Rosamonde Bartlett. Clarence Sarr will piny boob, Nathan- Michaels an effi- ciencv expert, Richard O'Connor tlie boss. Henry welsh the boss assistant and Bttlv vcrnon the boss- daughter.
The play is a fuv- orilu lor short-play competition for collets schools. Assisting in the productions will Helen Ackcrly and Virgina Beairsio, prompters; Sanford Ment'-T. Sanford Schwartz. Franklin Morlc-y and Robert Van Fleet, hands; and Diana Blmneii- tlif.l and Cor.i Trciapcr. cliicf usli- SOME CALL IT ART Art lovers of more or less conventional taste are chuckling over a canvas entitled White Man's Dust, by Damon Rcbajes, now on display in the fourth Municipal Art Exhibition at sixty-two West Fifty- third street, New York.
Cause of the chuckles and chortles is the fact that Scnpr Rebajes has outgrown the traditional oils and conveys his artistic message by glueing tacks, needles, bits of metal, a toothbrush, an old razor blade and abundant fivc-and-ten baubles to the canvas. Fortunately for spectators whose artistic appreciation pursues more subdued channels. Ssnor Rebajes' exhibit is the exception rather than the rule ct the gallery which offers a number of workmanlike canvasses unencumbered by hardware and notions. REFLECTIONS ON THE SCREEN Several weeks ago we observed the screen planned a heavy run of biographical lilm.s that promised a new high in the quality of motion picture fare. This week Middletown audiences saw one of "the first of the biographical scries, Tiie Story of Louis Pasteur, which had a strong appeal if a well filled house is any criterion.
The picture proved, tco, that KCX. burlesque and gang guns arc not necessary to boost a film into a boxoffice blessing. It was a show, we thought, that have been advertised especially to appeal to students of chemistry, biology and kindred sciences--to nothing of medicine. Another historical film with a biographical tinge is The Prisoner of Shark Island, which, for all its dime-novel title, is the story of the farcical trial and imprisonment of the physician who treated the injured John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Lincoln. Metropolitan critics have it one of the best melodramatic offerings of the year.
And Warner Baxter seems in his best role in four'or five years. IN PRAISE OF THE DOG Lionel Barrymorc's speech in praise of dogs, embracing a famous court oration on the quality of canine friendship, in The Voice of Bugle Ann, is said to bring the greatest audience reaction since Charles Liuighton's memorable Gettysburg address in Ruggles of Red Gap. The LauglHon reading was so good, incidentally, that it was broadcast to this country frum England recently as a tribute to the memory of Lincoln. When the meticulous Toscanini chose a quartette for his memorable performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony two years ago, he selected as soprano Rosa Tentoni the young American soprano who will conclude the series of recitals sponsored by the Middletown Cooperative Concert Association at the State theatre at three p. m.
tomorrow. Engagement of the State for the recital was made possible by delay in effect of the Sunday motion picture ordinance. It was announced a week ago that Miss Tentoni's appearance would be at the Show Shop, but a municipal ruling that Sunday motion pictures cannot be held until March eighth, made possible the shift back to the State. It was in 1934 that Miss Ten- toni, then an unknown young singer, was chosen by the celebrated maestro for the quartette to sing with the New York Philharmonic in its performances of the Ninth Symphony. New York critics promptly singled her out for attention and praise, with Pitts Sanborn, then of the World-Telegram, asserting that "not in a month of Sundays had the perilous high in the four-part cadenza been uttered with such firmness, amplitude and purity of tone." After her appearance with the Philharmonic, Miss Tentoni participated in a series of significant engagements.
During tile Summer of 1934 she was engaged for the opera seasons at the New York Stadium and the Philadelphia Robin Hood Dell, singing such leading roles as Nedda in Pagliacci, Santuzza in Cavaleria Rusticana, and the title role of Aida. At Cleveland she sang Desdemona in. Otcllo. Last Summer Miss Tentoni again appeared in the -New York Stadium concerts, and was soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a Richer as Mother Bear, Charles Mondello as Little Bear, and Jeanne Isaaks as the- fairy godmother. Choral groups will comprise dancing -dolls, playmates find candlesticks--which, after all, will only be the stage designations for the fifth and sixth grade pupils.
Preparation of the operetta already has been begun by Miss Buell who has conducted rehearsals of the leading characters. Group rehearsals will be held later. A feature of the musical renaissance at High school has'been the activity of the Glee Club which comprises about 100 boys and girls. The group rendered special Christmas programs, singing to many village shut-ins during the holiday season. It will appear on special school programs, including commencement.
A picked delegation of the, club is expected to represent Warwick at the annual Spring Music Festival at Middletown in May. The High school orchestra is continued this year under direction of Thomas Shost who has had charge of the group for the last three years. The unit now comprises twenty musicians. The orchestra, also, is preparing for participating in the Middletown Festival. In the first eight grades Miss Buell conducts classes in vocal work.
There are no music classes in the High school, activity being confined to the orchestra, glee club and assembly singing. With development of interest in music, however, it is expected it will be included in the school's curriculum before long. Miss Buell's task this year has been to start from rock bottom with those interested in music. Because no music courses have been held in the schools in recent years, most pupils had limited knowledge of the subject. Their response to Miss Bucll's supervision has been encouraging, however, and musical activities are once more becoming a major factor in school schedules.
MISS HELEN BUELL. Supervisor of the Warwick schools has devised a Spring schedule which promises to restore music in the forefront of general school aclivi- Miss iiueil is directing an operetta to 'be presented by pupils of Hamilton avenue school and is Ciub for participation in special school programs and in the Middletown Spring Music Festival. Furtwaengler New Head of Philharmonic Toscanini's Successor Resigned All German Posts Protest For Freedom NEW YORK Wilhelm Furt- waengler, distinguished German conductor has been appointed general director of the New York Philharmonic Srmpliony Society for the year 1936-37 season, it was announced today. He startled musical and political circles in 1934 by revolting against Nazi racial discrimination and resigning from three important German musical posts. He will succeed Arturo Toscanini as head of the philharmonic.
Purtwaengler's dramatic and concert version of Hollywood Bowl. Aida at the i i was ai nounccd by Frederick Singer. The production is beir ME.MOUI.U, SCHOOL OI'KRETTA flic operetta, The Kins; Sneezes. by Thomas, will be sung by pupils of Meiiiorinl School in the school auditorium on the of JWarch twenty-seventh, it was an- P. being ircctPd by Mrs.
Jcannette Jamison, mstruclor of music, un- supervision of Kcn- miix-rvisor of music UK- school system. Cast has k-en selected nnd the operetta is imv in rehc-irsal. There will be liiiKe cliuriLsrs with elaborate sets and ccstumcs. SCHOOL OPERETTA SPRING VALLEY-Harry Alshin direct production of an operetta Mutiny With Muric, to be nivai the ncra Organization oi Spring Valley High school in the tthool auditoriun April third and fourth. Cast has ber-n selected and is now in rehearsal.
MRS. WEYANT RECOVERS GOSHEN--Lulu Quinn Weyant radio pianist, singer and songwriter wno is convalescing from a compound fracture of the left ankle suffered in a fall several weeks ago will soon resume her radio broadcasts. Mrs. Weyant is featured in a -eekly series over Station WGNY She is also associated iviiii t'u' Manhattan Trio of New York, radio and stage entertainers, which is continuing with substitute Mrs. returns.
MOUNT CARMEL CHILDREN'S MINSTRELS Most organizations retreat from the idea of having juvenile minstrel shows, but not members of Our Lady of Mount Carmcl Sunday School here. During the last few years the Kiddy Minstrels of this group has established itself firmly as a entertainment. The most recent show, last Monday and Tuesday nights, drew capacity audiences to Mount Carmel hall. More than fifty boys and girls participated in the musical revue, arranged by Vincent Oddo, church organist, assisted by Joseph Beairsto of the Carmelite choir. Commendable end-men were John Ralston who is a veteran minstrel despite his youth Billy Clark Leslie Oldficld and John Boyce.
Youthful soloists included Theresa and Sally Jones, Edward Ralston, Francis Klingman. Florence Kelin and Dons Dempsey. Instrumental soloists were Joseph Van Scivcr nnd Richard Gorman. Midwestern radio critics arc hailing Adrian O'Brien, t.wenty-scven- ycar-old Irish tenor as- the year's best, find in the field of vocal music OBnen isn't widely known to Eastern audiences because most of his singing has been conlincd to WLW at Cincinnati. But Inst Wednesday night he was heard widely in WLW miniature presentation of the opera Samson and Delilah.
May we call your attention, incidentally, to this, miniature opera scric.s on Wednesday nights. Programs are limited to one-half hour a.nd feature a condensed version of the opera Good and orchestral ensembles are employed. Four conductors alternate They are Virgmo Muiucci, William Stocss, Joseph Lugar and Bert Neeley. LITTLE THEATRE TOURNAMENTS Recent mention thut Drama Workshop had been asked to consider of an another dramatic tournament for competition throughout the County, reminds one of the sucessful Little Threatre Tournaments conducted annually at New York by the New York Drama League The cream of amateur troupes from the entire country, and occasionally from England, competes for the Belasco Cup, emblematic of amateur Championship. A hasty glance at the records fails to disclose that any Orange County group lias ever participated.
The most neighborly unit to enter the tourney, apparently, was the Nyack Club Players which competed 1023 with the production. Three Pills in a Bottle by -Rachel Lyrnan Field. The cast comprised Hilda J. Crouch, Edith Vickcrs, Robbms, F. W.
Ranrierbrock, Malcolm F. Smith, James H. Blauvelt Anne One of the youngest of concert sopranos, she made her debut as soloist with the Range Symphony Orchestra of Duluth on April twenty-second, 1928, her seventeenth birthday. The Monlclair Repertoire Players also has competed. BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY Elsewhere on this page it will be noted that Rosa Tentoni.
tomorrow's rccitaiist for the Cooperative Concert Association, was selected bv Tos- canini as soprano in the quartette that sang with the New York Piiilhar- nonic in its performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1934 The winui was the last and greatest in scale of the Beethoven symphonies It was completed when he was fifty-three. In the Ninth, Beethoven used for the first time in his symphonies the human voice. It is in the re- ounding finale that the solo quartette and a mixed chorus are employed. The Ninth is a massive symphony. In the first movement a tragic cimractcr is established by alternately descending fifths and fourths against a whispered tremolo of an empty fifth on the dominant in the ower strings.
This movement lias frequently been described as the great' Berkshire Musical Festival Dates Set An American music festival, designed to rival the famed European festivals, will be conducted fet the Dan Hanna farm between Lenox and Stockbridge, August thirteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth, by the Berkshire Symphonic Festival Association. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Dr. Serge Kotissevitsky, will participate. The Berkshire Festival has been held on a smaller scale for several seasons, but with appearance of Dr Kousscvitzky nationwide interest is expected to be stimulated. The eminent conductor is active In promulgation of plans for the occasion and has predicted that success of the Berkshire Festivals will rival if not replace European events for American music lovers.
Bush Has Role In Guild Play Soon to Begin Son of Former Sheriff One of Players in Lunt-Fontanne Support NEW YORK--Gilmore Bush of Tuxedo, a son of the late sheriff of Orange County, is one of three players connected with the County Theatre at Suffern last summer xvho have been designated by the Theatre Guild for parts in its forthcoming production of Idiot's Delight in which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne have leading roles. The ot lers are Bretaigno Windust, director of the Suffern County Theatre last Summer and Francis Compton. Mr. Bush already has appeared in three Broadway'plays. He had parts in Romeo and Juliet and the Barretts of Wimpole Street, in which Katherine Cornell had the lead, and in the Taming of the Shrew, with Lunt and Miss Fontanne.
Idiot's Delight will open In Washington March ninth and after a week's run move to Pittsburgh for another week. It will open at the shubcrt Theatre in New York on M.irch twenty-third. Mr. Bush has bsen interested in the dramatics of the County Theatre for several yenrs. He has appeared in many plays given there, asquiring much of his stage experience on the SufTcrn boards.
His work attracted metropolitan notice and let to his engagements on the professional stage. He is a graduate of Tuxedo Hipih School and of Brown university. Rare Sonatas of Mozart For St. James in Goshen WPA Music Tour Begins Festival Orchestra May Be Booked for One Day The New York Festival Orchestra, a WPA symphonic concert unit comprising eighty musicians, may be booked for a Middletown auditorium between March ninth and eleventh, or immediately after March fifteenth, it was learned today. Advance representatives of the orchestra, and of WPA-spon- sored variety stage shows, have been here during the last week attempting to obtain a hall, theatre or auditorium suitable for the units.
It was reported the Festival Orchestra would negotiate for the State or Stratton theatres, or the State Armory. The Showshop- is considered inadequate to accommodate the eighty musicians. If it is impossible to obtain a concert hall here, however, the orchestra will be booked for Port Jervis or Newburgh instead, according to advance agents. The Festival Orchestra is under direction of Eugene Plotnikoff, formerly with the Moscow Imperial Opera. He left Russia in 1921 to conduct a scries of operatic performances in Paris.
In 1926 and 1927 he toured this country as conductor for the Chaliapin opera company. His Festival Orchestra is booked for Binghamton March twelfth; Onconta, March thirteenth; Albany. March fourteenth, and Poughkecp- sic. March fifteenth. It was originally intended to bccin the upstate swing with the midulelown concert prior to the Binghamton engagement, but if arrangements fail, a date will be sought immediately after the Poughkeepsie 'appearance.
Although salaries and expenses of musicians are paid by WPA. an admission charge averaging twenty- five or fifty cents is assessed to cover cost of transportation, building rental and incidental expenses. Booking agent is Harold D. Smith who was acting organist at Vassar College in 1923. The Poughkeepsie concert will be given in a Vassar hall, use of which was extended by Dr.
Henry Noble MacCracken, president of the nnd Professor George Dickinson of the music department. Other WPA unite scheduled for this area are said to comprise variety shows offering dramatic, vaudeville and musical entertainment. No courageous resignation from his official musical positions was precipitated by Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels' rejection of his demands for freedom of art. Previously, in 1933, he had made a daring protest of the Nazi ban against Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer and other noted non-Aryan musicians.
Shortly after the seizure of power by the Nazi regime and suppression of Paul Hindemith's works, Furlwaengler defended his contemporary in a letter published by the Deutsche AUgemeine Zeitung. His pleas for freedom for leading German-Jewish artists were rejected, and he was subjected to official criticism and rebuke. On December fourth, 1935, he resigned all his offices, Including the vice presidency of the Reich Chamber of Music, leadership of the renowned Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and conductorship of the Prussian State Opera House. "What should we come to if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?" he asked. Furtwaengler's revolt was particularly daring as the Nazi regime had only recently risen to power.
At the same time music lovers considered his resignation an Irreparable loss to German music, and especially to the Berlin Philharmonic. Under his direction the orchestra had enjoyed a high position on the continent and had toured abroad. Furtwaengler is not unknown to American audiences. After his debut in the United States in 1925 he conducted ten other concerts that year. The following season conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra thirty-one times.
His last American concert was in 1927. Furtwaengler's partial raproch- ment with the Nazi regime was brought about in May. 1935, following an interview with Reichs- fuehrer Adolf Hitler. Although he has appeared as guest conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic since, he never again lias held any official German musical position. Second Bach Festival On Sunday List County Tour For Entertainers Will Present 20 Acts of Variety dates their groups also are in rehearsal in Westchester County for bookings in this have been announced for tours.
Traveling dramatic ORPHEUS CONCERT POUGHKEEPSIE--diaries bcrt Spross, pianist and conductor, will be accompanist at a concert of the Orpheus Glee Club under sponsorship of the Parent-Teacher association of Arlington high school, March ninth. It will be the first concert of the. Orpheus this year. tv, st lnovcmcnt ol Erocia. The composer places PC customary slow movement but the Scherzo, the longest and ot all his Scherzos.
In the andante Beethoven explores mclodv nW 1 th Ulc final0 rcsorts to llle a vo i instruments. The vocal passages comprise cxouite seltincs from Schiller's Ode to Joy. The finale ends in a resounding 1 victorTM? Tentoni 0 1 and drama. Toscanini employed Miss icntpnl as the soprano in his quartette nnd used the Schola Cantorum for chorus in a number of notable performances. Cantorum GOSHEN A rare musical event the presentation for the first time outside New York and the second time in America, of two of Mozart's Sonatas for strings and organ, will feature the last of a special series of Sunday night musical services at St.
James Episcopal at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow. The program, ns all others in the series, has been planned and directed by the Rev. E.
R. Smythc, rector and choir master. Tomorrow's program is dedicated entirely to the works of Wolfgang Adameus Mozart. distinguished eighteenth century German composer. The choir will be assisted by a string quartet comprising Miss Stella Young.
Mrs. Robert W. Anderson. Dr. Gertrude Welton and Miss Helen Bucli.
Joseph W. Grant is organist. Considerable interest attaches to the two sonatas which arc virtually unknown in America. The first is the Sonata in Major for strings and organ, the second, the Sonata in Major, also for strings and organ. Acknowledged gems ot musical beauty, they were written by Mozart in his early twenties and arc typical of his tremendous musicianship.
The so'natas were brought to this country from Germany for the first time last Summer by Dr. William C. Carl of New York City. They were given their first and only performance in this country by him in New York last December. It was throajh co-oporation by Dr.
Carl, and with considerable difficulty and expense, that the sonata scores were sent from Germany especially for the Sunday night program hero- Besides its performances of th; Sonatas, the quartet will be heard in two movements from one ot Mozart's string quartets, the andante and tho minuette. -The choir will render the powerful Gloria in Excelsis Doo from the Twelfth Mass nnd the lovely motel, Jesu, Word ot God Incarnate. Music of the world's most eminent composers has been interpreted under direction of the Rev. Smythc during the special Sunday evening series which has mtt notable success. The Rev.
Smyth': has announced renewal of the series next Fall and Winter. HUSTON BACK IN FILMS Walter Huston, star of the stage play. Dodsworth, for the last two years, will play the title role in the forthcoming film version. Ruth Chatterton. absent from the screen for some time, will be cast as Mrs.
Dodsworth. Casting for other roles is now in progress. DUSE'S DRESSING ROOM Mary Pickford uses a collapsible canvas dressing room presented to her years ago by the great Eleanora Duse. It had been used by la Duse throughout her notable career. And Duse's farmer director.
Agostino Borgato. is now doing small bits in the movies. Entertainers from virtually every community in the county will appear in the second annual variety show to be presented by the Orange County YMCA in Tuxedo, Middletown, Monroe, Washingtonville and Goshen during the we-cl of March ninth. The show, com prising twenty acts, will lie directed by Paul Simmons, formerly of the National Broadcasting Company and a brother of Bob Simmons of Cornwall, radio tenor. Middletown's contribution to the program will include the Captiva- trs orchestra, Fannie Rose WGNY blues singer, the Marowitz team in their own version of the Carioca and William Trcmper and Joseph Gorman, soloists.
Newburgh wil be represented by The Rhythm Girls, described as the Pickens Sisters of Orange County. Goshen will offer Miss Adelle Lain," tap dancer, and Tuxedo Chris Cremo, monologist. Two soloists, Ralph Van Etten of Highland Mills and Al Mannheim of Central Valley, will represent those r.rmmunities. Floyd Freud also of Central Valley, who formerly played with Erno Rapee, NBC symphony conductor, will render-a violin solo. A quartet from Warwick will comprise J.
Lawrence, Earl Clark. Frank Clark and Frank Wilson. Mr. Clark also will offer a solo. The Keyes dancing class will Gil- present a juvenile tap dance specialty.
From Monroe there will be Maude and Anna Van Vliet, vocalists, who recently were awarded first prize in a WGNY competition. A duet will be sung bv Miss Emms Roosa of Goshen and John Knapp of Chester. Jack cf Greycourt will be master of ceremonies. The chorus for the show will comprise fifty voices. Franklin Relics In Yale Library NEW HAVEN The finest collection of Benjamin I-ranklin memorabilia in the world is in possession of Yale University Library, making the library preeminent in this field, according to Andrew Keogh, librarian.
The collection, begun by William '88. Chicago Kurtz and Maaierehor Clmr ta Participate at Pint Chirch Tomorrow Peter Kurtz, concert violinist, and a choir selected from Mannerchor Germania under dircctiou of Eugene Kapp of Newburgh, will participate with the choral organizations of First Church in celebration ot second annual Bach Festival at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night at the church. The program has been arranged by the Ministry of Music, and has been directed by Elsie Welch Wagner, organist. The senior choir under Kenneth Marquis and the First Church quartette un-' der Mis. Wagner will take promin- ent part in the festival.
Music will feature the entire program with the exception of a brief nformal talk by the Rev. Fred lolloway on the subject, Why a 3ach Festival? All selections will be from compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach. The first festival at First Church'a'year ago was acclaimed by a capacity audience, and became the first of a series of annual recitals of the same nature. "World-wide enthusiasm for Bach has its source not in the vogues and fashions of the present day." Mr. Holloway explained, "nor in the inventive and creative trends of Twentieth Century thought, but rather in the deep rooted and intrinsic human and spiritual values which the world has learned to recognize and appreciate in the music of the man.
Bach was a man to whom, as Robert Schumann once said, "music owes almost as great a debt as a religion owes to its founder." Even Beethoven remarked that the name of the great master should not be Bach, the German word for brooklet, but rather meer or ocean." Mr. Kurtz's violin solos will be the renowned Air on the String, and Spring's Awakening. The Man- nerchor unit will offer two numbers, in the original German. They are, Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr. and Vom Himmel Hoch.
From fifteen to twenty men will compromise the Mannerchor representation. The festival will be begun by the Prelude in Major by Mrs. Wagner, followed by a Bach processional hymn. Two chorales will be rend- f' ered by the senior choir, Praise God. the Lord.
Ye Sons of Men, and Jesus, I will Ponder Now, followed if; by the chorale. Out of the Depths I to Thee by the quartet. After appearance of Mr. Kurtz and the Mannerchor choir, the se- junior choir will offer a prayer chor- ale. Lord Jesus Christ, "with Us Abide.
Mr. Holloway's informal remarks will precede an organ solo. Melody in Major by Mrs. Wagner. A festive chorale.
Wake, Awake, for the Night Is Flying, and one of meditation, Sacred Head. Now Wounded, will be given by the senior choir. The. quartet's final number will be the chorale, How Bright Appears the Morning Star. In the original German, the choir will present the aria.
Gott lob, nun geht das Jahr zu Ende. The organ postlude will be the Fugue in Major. GREENWOOD ItSINSTCXLS LAKE-- Th? Greenwood Lake. Minstrels, spon- r.ored by the Church of the Good Shepherd, will be held at the Fire- hc-use March sixth and seventh. A special children's performance will be given Siturday afternoon, March seventh.
The cast is now in rehearsal. GLEE CLUB PREPARATION The Euterpe. Gle: Club of Potujh- krepsin nnd tho Mendelssohn Gies Club of Kingoton arc holding joint' rehearsals under direction of Dr. Elmer IL A a In preparation annual Spring concert of the Associated clubs of America at Square Garden, New York city, April first. Smith Mason, Yale 3 and Pasadena, in 1904.
numbers more than 10.000 volumes, a large number of manuscripts and numerous portraits, prints, busts, and statues. The manuscripts include many never published, or publicized only In part, and it is planned to have these edited nnd made available for scholars. The only known copy of the American Almanac for 1731 also is in the collection, as well ns every publication of Franklin, and in most cnsss every edition of his publications. PASTOR WRITES DRAMA MO.NTICKLLO--Members of the Methodist church sir? rnJinarslniT for nn drntna. Jo-ruh-of Arlim- written by the R.PV.
James M. Uriiwlnw, which will be presented at the East evening service. Ostrom Society Giving Concert Choral Singers Prepare For Only Appearance, of Season WARWICK-- An lid fishioced concert will be given in costume by the Robert Ostrom Choral Society under direction of Miss Helen Buell, supervisor of music in the school system shortly after Easter. Approximately fifty men and women, most of them from this village, are expected to participate. It will be the only concert by the society this season and the first after a year's lapse.
Rehearsals are being held In Village Hall every Monday night. The program, not yet completed, -will feature favorite old fashioned American songs. There will be a capella selections. Added features will be a stringed quartette, and probably a -male vocal quartette and a female trio. The society was organized early in 1933 by the late Robert Ostrom of Middletown and was known as the Angelus Choral Society.
After Mr. Ostrom's death in an automobile accident in March, 1933, the society adopted its name. It gave its first concert May twenty-fourth 1933, with Miss Alma Milstead, soprano, as soloist. Miss Milstead is now with the National Music League Opera Company touring Southern States The group remained active lor some time, but during the last year scheduled no public activities. With acquisition of Miss Buell as director, plans were immediately projected for a Spring concert this 3'ear.
The'occasion will be of special interest because of the old- fashioned costumes. that will be worn by participants. CHURCH PLAYERS PUT ON GOOD MELODRAMA 1 PORT JERVIS--- The good old days of melodrama with the audience participating were recalled in a presentation of the Black Derby by the Epworth League of Spar- rowbush Methodist pi church in the YMCA gymnasium before a small' audience night. Orien L. Linkey coached the.pro- duction, vcrnon Yale was stage manager.
i David Goodenough who played Micky, a' product of the rural district, and Henry Hazen as Wimple, a hick policeman who always his man, carrying the comedy took the honors. Miss Emma Middletown in the role of a plain practical maid, able to take care of herself, led the women. Other players who also were applauded, were Walter Bloomer Jr, Miss Lillian. Robert Fclter. Miss Gertrude Middletown, Anna Felters, and IlURh Mortimer.
Between acts the audience was entertained by Francis Phillips of West End who put on a couple of jip dances, one with A jumping Mr. and Albert Rau Treasure Jsland. ular numbers were played by Gilbert Weed ns pianist nnd Mr. Bloomer on the.
