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Bruckner’s Place Gained Rosenthal Is Featured After Life of Neglect With Symphony Today i -- -i Society Bearing His Name &'jf- Orchestra Program Offers Makes Plea for More ] a New Works on of r List Public Attention. / Local Selections. Alice Ever smart. For the of By opening the eighth season of the National Symphony Orchestra In the formation of symphonic programs by any of the orchestras which this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Constitution Hall Dr. Hans Ktndler, conductor, have performed in Washington, there has been a severe neglect of one com- has arranged a that gala program will include two works never before played Anton Bruckner. Yet the world in is more and more the orchestra and poser. general coming by will feature the appearance of Moriz Rosenthal, world- to an appreciation of his genius, which in this country is represented by the famous pianist, in the capacity of guest artist. some time of the Bruckner of America. Mr. Rosenthal, famed as a organization, ago, Society Although pupil of Liszt and supreme exponent of tha the performance of the Bruckner symphonies has been sponsored by such out- golden age of pianism, is celebrating^*____ standing conductors as Toscanini, s me opening oi nis goiaen jUDiiee most beloved works Koussevitsky and Ormandy with con-- tour of America at the concert today. of the great 19th given a small position In a small town. spicuous success, there is still a feeling On November 13 in Carnegie Hall, century composer as well as one of Fate stepped in at this moment, j that the musical public, on the whole, New York, he will celebrate the 50th the most difficult. and he was called again to 6t. Florian, His composition* is not yet rtsdy to assimilate his work. anniversary of his American debut in this time as instructor, and with the are distinctive for their brilliance, There has been considerable and a special concert at which he will play incentive thus aroused he determined imagination and fluency. The justifiable propaganda for the Ameri- on a golden piano built specifically for concert* to study for higher grade teaching. are can but at the same time this occasion. He has chosen for his orchestrated with consummate composer, Again he succeeded and for the first the work of such men as Bruckner Washington appearance to pay and time allowed himself more time for the homage artistry understanding of acousti- and Mahler can be given a hear- to his teacher, Fran* Liszt, immortal cal effects that the only study of the organ. When a vacancy projects plan* at risk. It seems composer of the 19th century, by pre- part with ing great strange hi the Linz Cathedral came, he was particular clarity through- that in this when the world senting Liszt's "Piano Concerto in out. The concerto is period, appointed to succeed to the post. Princess Lubov Volkonskaja, played as a is flooded with the mediocre of E Flat.” continuous piece, output The remarkable part of Bruckner’s soprano, one of the soloists although composed in the conventional form of writers of music who take refuge be- life is the amount of time he spent in at the benefit program for Two works on the first half of the several hind the classification of modernism, Russian children Dr. Kindler has for movements. study, always desiring more and more Ruth Altman, soprano, who being given program arranged there remains an unwillingness at knowledge before he would trust him- will be heard with the Na- Wednesday at 5612 Connecti- the opening concert are being per- The Ravel suite, based on one of ’:-ast to with the cut avenue. formed for the time the famous French acquaint oneself self in composition. It was not until tional Opera Co., which be- first by the Na- composer's most work of men have been <--- tional one of brilliant who already he was 40 years of age that he wrote gins a week of opera at the Symphony, them being a ballets, "Daphnis and Chloe,” first is a series cclaimed by the erudite. Their music, his first great work—"The Mass In D Belasco Theater tomorrow. performance in Washington. The of three excerpts, "Sunrise,’* latter is "Pantomime" i has been admitted, is not easily Minor.” In the 34 years of life that Glazounov's “Ouverture So- and "General Dance.” neither was that lennelle.” the "Daphnis and Chloe," •iderstandable, yet remained to him he wrote eight sym- Schools Have Concluding opening probably the the orchestra greatest of Beethoven or Brahms or Wagner, phonies and part of a ninth, and in- half, will play C. P. E. product Ravel's genius, Nino is ranked one of ; one time. numerable other works. His extreme Martini, popular tenor Bach’s "Sinfonia No. 3” and the second as the finest pieces Week opera, screen and radio, suite from Ravel's of ballet music ever written 7f Recently the Bruckner Society has thoroughness has left its mark in a too Opera of ballet, "Daphnis and was >- New Chloe.” The final number first in 1912. nit out an appeal for more perform- detailed exposition in his works, but Series on the pro- produced Carl iic0K of Bruckner's symphonies. this redundancy is overshadowed by gram is the tone poem "Finlandia,” I Philipp Emanuel Bach Sibelius. the most famous son of the When a visiting conductor was once the unmistakable evidence of genius. Opens Here by great Johann Sebastian Bach. The asked why he did not program a He was a contemporary of Brahms Nino Martini Of Concerts No artist on the concert stage today Sin- fonia No. 3" is one of six he Bruckner work for performance here, and Wagner and so intense an admirer can boast of such a long, distinguished wrote in 1773 upon a commission from a dis- he replied that it would not be pos- of the latter that he dedicated his and glamorous career as Moriz Rosen- Tomorrow tinguished music patron and is in sib'e. Yet in musical circles, the cult "Seventh Symphony” to him. The in- Is Under thal. Now 76, it is 66 years since he To Three Symphony three movements. of Bruckner is growing, while the local fluence of these two men on Ills type Sing faced his first audience. Since the The National Symphony Orchestra'* public remains ignorant whether or of writing is evident, and so pro- Guest Conductor night of his first concert as a mature National midweek series opens not his music would hold an appeal nounced that many times he is re- Company artist Rosenthal's name has been Wednesday, November 9, at 8:30 p.m. in Consti- for it. ferred to as a second Brahms. During Noted Arias Part of linked with that small company of the Gives Season. tution Hall with Lauritz Melchior, Side by side with the appreciation his lifetime his work was almost en- Repertoire greatest pianists the world has known leading tenor of the Metropolitan which familiarity is making possible tirely ignored, until Nikisch played his * Coincident with the opening of the —Liszt, Paderewski and Rubinstein, to At Belasco. Opera, as guest artist, and Dr. Kind- of Bruckner's music is the homage to Seventh Symphony” in Leipzig, when Mme. Has National name a few. L Flagstad Symphony Orchestra's eighth ler conducting. the man himself, who so studiously the tumultuous reception given it for Bom in 1862 at The National Co., which season Lemberg, Poland. the first time attracted the Opera Louis comes the announcement of The box office at Constitution Hall prepared himself for his destiny. He attention Potter, conductor of Date in Rosenthal the of the opens a week’s season Opening began study piano of He was, however, better of opera to- the Choral So- the annual series of students’ concerts will open at 11 a m. today for the was born in 1824 in a small tipper publishers. Washington at the age of 8. Two years later he known as an and as such had morrow at the its third sale of tickets for this afternoons Austrian village, the son of the vil- organist night Belasco Theater, ciety, giving per- to be given this season by the orchestra made his first with Tuesday Group. public appearance, concert. Season tickets was more toured France and England, where will a formance of Brahms’ ‘Re- may be ob- lage schoolmaster. There present cast of principals the in the city’s high schools and in Con- his teacher, Karl Mikuli. At 13 he was tained at the National toward he extremely popular. quiem’’ at the Washington Nino Martini, the brilliant tenor of was Symphony tendency ordinary learning majority of whom are and studying with Raffael Joseffy in young Cathedral on stitution Hail. box office, Julius Garfinckei <fc Co. than toward music in the background Excessively shy and retiring as re- Wednesday the Metropolitan Opera and an inter- Vienna and a few years later was ac- seasoned American trained singers. Several new store, Fourteenth and F streets N.W. of the but the soon his own talent, Bruckner had no evening. experiments will be as simple family, boy gards national favorite of cepted a pupil by Franz Liszt, with off at concert, radio and proved that he was differently en- knowledge of how to promote himself Stopping Buffalo, N. Y„ this tried out in connection with the stu- whom he studied in Weimar and Rome. in past week after in the the screen, will give his only recital dowed. Recognizing his son's talent public favor. The success of his playing Canada, dents’ series this to C.