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6 TREND SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1941 SECTION OF THE BROOKLYN EAGLE OVERTONES AT THE ART GALLERIES Tschaikowsky Duveen Galleries Show a Renoir Collection For the Benefit of Free French Relief By A. Z. KRl'SE Renoir, the brilliant centrist (he flourished in the era between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism was a profound student of such masters as Titian and Rubens. An oracle of originality, he exploited with glistening animation his understanding of both the old and modern meters. i The Duveen Galleries are offer- Bacchanal," on the other hand.

Is l.ig New Yorkers an opportunity to 1 quite cay. His stenographic become better acquainted with this color recording of the Bullfight rare genius. Renoir's interpretive Arena" is a bit of smart spontan-pamting shows individuality in eity. Benavides is obviously a every brush stroke of his selective i well-trained painter. i i feu .5..

t.K Norte Gallery The same group which transmits our cultural activities through the Norte Magazine (In Spanish) to our Southern neighbors has opened an art gallery which will specialize In exhibitions of Latin-American art exclusively. The first presentation consists of 12 paintings by Amelia Pelaez, a Cuban, who studied and traveled extensively in Europe. Wc find her feverishly Pauvist in her in November Recordings; Lily Pons at Her Best By MILES KASTENDIECK When the man in the street whistles a Tschaikowsky melody these days it is difficult to know whether he got It from listening to the composer's music or to Tin Pan Alley's desecration of It. In either case It is not unlikely that the source of those tune might be traced to phonograph records. As the story on the first page of Trend today indicates, we appear to be in the throe of another Tschaikowsky boom.

In step with the times, the recording companies have not overlooked the opportunity to capitalize on the current debauch. Concerning Victor's release of the Piano Concerto In B-Flat Minor, comment has already been made in this column. But because of the outstanding achievement it represents In the matter of recording, it deserves to be mentioned again in citing the Important album sets for November, For one listener, however, the performance still remains one in which dazzling virtuosity quite overshadow! the musical content of the work. Since Interpretation will always be greater than performance, this demonstration of Incandescent Intensity on the part of Toscanlni and Horowit falls short of the Ideal? No doubt the album will be a best-seller because the popular tra Testy on this work will be Its best advertiser. As if over-dupllcatlon were a mere bagatelle, Victor hat gone blithely on and given us still another recording of Tschaikowsky 's Fifth Symphony.

This time the performance Is that of the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Ormandy. With due respect to a fine performance (which does not sound quite so good as that at the Academy of Music last Wednesday), this can hardly be preferred to that of Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic released by Columbia a month ago. There is no doubt that from the point of view of actual recording, the Victor Company generally turns out excellent Jobs. This fact In Itself should not dictate the desire for an album. It happens that Eugene Ormandy is not as great a conductor as Sir Thomas Beecham and when a great conductor gives a superb interpretation of this hackneyed work, hia, performance would naturally be preferred.

Of special interest this month Is Columbia's release of a Lily Pons album which finds the soprano at her very best. The muslo of Donizetti's "Daughter of the Regiment'' Is as piquant as the diminutive prima donna herself, and when voice and personality are nicely adjusted, the result could hardly be otherwise than outstanding. The four arias are effective In Just the way that the Donizetti comedy Is effective. There Is little question from a critical point of view that this album ranks first among Lily Pons recordings. Another important Columbia release Is that of Schumann'! Fourth Symphony, which, for romantic appeal, represents the composer and the period completely In the vein.

Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony make the most of this music In their own Ingratiating way, but an expression of preference for this album above others available rests largely with Individual taste. Also worth mentioning is the spirited Interpretation of Richard Strauss' symphonic poem, "Don Juan," played by Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburgh Symphony. This performance at once places them in the forefront of recording orchestras from which no doubt will come still more notable work. Two less weighty Victor albums merit Inclusion In this survey, that of the first and second of Enesco's Rumanian Rhapsodies which are played by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra and Hans Kindler and the National Symphony, respectively, and that of Kodaly's "Dances From Galanta," played by the BostorTVPops' under Arthur Fiedler. The latter work has the irresistible appeal to be found In Hungarian gypsy music.

The performance of Prokofieff's famous opus, "Peter and the Wolf," by Leopold Stokowskl and the All-American Youth Orchestra, is a disappointment in the Columbia recording, though Basil Rath-bone makes an excellent commentator. The orchestra sounds a bit raucous, while Stokowskl has given too much attention to effects. For the most part the offerings of the month present routine rather than distinctive performances of standard fare. In almost every case but one there was a previous high fidelity recording which could serve the purpose as well as the new release, If not better. Victor Is stimulating interest in its two-for-one offer In single records.

Here again the emphasis is on reviewing the field of recorded muslo rather than presenting the "ultimate" performances of the work chosen. But for many Just starting out on their record collection, these are worth consideration. JOHN BARNETT He will conduct the opening concert of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra this Wednesday evening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. STELL ANDERSON Miss Andersen, well-known Scandinavian-American pianist, will be the soloist at the opening concert of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra. BROOKLYN SYMPHONY WILL MAKE DEBUT WEDNESDAY Walter Conducts; Schnabel Plays The Mozart Requiem will be re peated by the Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter this afternoon at Carnegie Hall, with the assistance of soloists Eleanor Steber, Enid Szantho, William Hain and Nicola Moscona, and the Westminster Choir.

The chorus will also assist in the tw3 Brahms works which form the second half of the program: the Rhapsody for Alto Solo (Enid Szantho), Male Chorus, and Orchestra, and "The Song of Destiny." Thursday night and Friday afternoon bring a Beethoven-Bruckner program with Artur Schnabel as piano solist: "Egmont" Overture, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in major, and the Bruckner Seventh Symphony in major. The program for Saturday evening. Nov. 15, is made up of two works: the Haydn Symphony in B-flat major.

No. 12, and Bruckner Seventh Symphony. 59th Manhattan, E. P. and W.

H. O'Reilly will conduct the sale of English antique furniture on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 2 p.m. Included is a Mason Ironstone dinner service of 59 pieces circa 1810) and porcelains. The exhibition starts tomorrow and will continue until time of sale. Other items of interest include a pair of Adam style tables, a set of six side and two-arm carved and gilt dining chairs and several sets of Georgian Chippendale regency chairs, Sheraton and early Victorian occasional tables.

Institute Sponsors Youth Concerts Ills second consecutive season of concerts for young people will be inaugurated by the Brooklyn Institute on Saturday afternoon, November 15, at 3 o'clock In the Academy of Music. These will be given by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Chamber Orchestra, a group of thirty-odd musicians drawn from the parent organization. Gerald Warburg will again act as conductor and platform commentator. The program for Saturday afternoon is entitled "Prom Bach to Beethoven," and will Illustrate the development of orchestral music during the eighteenth century. The guest soloist will be Eleanor Pine, 15-year-old pianist, who will perform the Concerto in A major (K.

488), by Mozart. A graduate student at the Manhattan School of Music, Miss Fine has already appeared in public concert and over the radio. Veronica Mlmoso, pianist, and Kate Keith Field, lyric soprano, will give the first recital in the Young Artists Series at the Academy of Music this afternoon. Instead of having all of the concerts predominated by the orchestra, two of them will be of special nature. The first of these special events, on Saturday afternoon, December 13, will be a Spanish folk fiesta with singers, dancers, guitarists and pianist.

The second special event will be a complete performance of Humperdinck'i opera "Hanzel and Gretel," on Saturday afternoon, February 21. The remaining concerts will be performed by the orchestra. The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, a newly formed all-professional organization, will give Its debut concert on Wednesday evening, 8:30 o'clock in the Academy of Music. John Bamett will conduct a program drawn from the works of Beethoven, Grieg, Rossini and Aaron Copland. "The guest soloist will be Stell Andersen, outstanding Scandinavian American pianist.

Miss Andersen will perform Grieg's Piano Concerto In A minor, Opus 16. Formation of the orchestra was first announced about a month ago by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciencg, its sponsor. It is the Institute's purpose to provide the borough of Brooklyn, with a symphonic organization of the first rank. The artistic direction is under three conductors, each of whom has been active in the musical life of the Greater City: Mr. Barnett, Gerald Warburg and Carl Bamberger.

The orchestra will present the following program: Overture to "LiSrala di Set" Piano Concerto in A minor. Opus 16 The Quiet City 8yhphony No. 3 in E-flat major, "Eroic" Rossini Grieg -Copland This is indyative of the musical policy to be followed by the Brooklyn Symphony which plans for each of the regular concerts a major symphony and concerto as well as an important orchestral work by an American composer. Other compositions of Interest will be Included whenever time permits. It Is significant that, for its opening con style.

His keen sense of relative tone value contributes much toward fusing his unmixed broken color treatment with his super-sen-sitive three-dimensional form variations. Each one of the 89 canvases in this varied array of subject matter is enveloped in shimmering light. The visions of this modest titan were no fleeting impressions. And now. 22 years after his death, ft Centennial Loan Exhibition of Renoir wo.

ks is sponsored by the Free French Relief Committee. The total proceeds obtained from the ur to purchase medical supplies for the Free French in Equatorial Africa, Syria and England. Metropolitan Museum of Art On hundred and twenty-one painter have one watercolor each in a contemporary American water-color exhibition. The purpose Is to (how a crass-section of the works of Jiving American artists. Not one of the exhibitors is an unknown, and the work is thoroughly representative.

The prints of the 18th century Venetian etching master, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, are exhibited at the Museum. They are overpowering In their architectural and archeological erudition. This scholarly classicist was by no means devoid of imagination. He injacted romance into antiquity by means of dramatic lighting effects and monumental Inventiveness. The-: Chinese ironcraft pictures at he Metropolitan are something to get excited about.

This is a most rewarding exhibition of a striking 17th century innovation, Downtown Gallery In 1940, a Julius Rowenwald fellowship supplied the required working time and research opportunities for Jacob Lawrence, a talented young Negro artist. Lawrence embarked upon the ambitious task of illustrating by means of 60 small tempera panels the Northern "Migration of the Negro." In simple three and four color technique resembling a flat tone woodblock Lawrence produces provocative work with genuine primitive naivete. He Is a sane and sound contemporary folk artist. Possedoit Gallery The presentation ot the stone wood and lead carvings of Jose de Creeft has been an annual treat to 57th St. for years.

In his current exhibition, there are heads and torsos and particularly fine figurines In terra cotta. A Dante-like head (lead) over-life size, betrays de Creeft's passion for character analysis. The "Goodby Embrace" reveals the body bulk which one expects from healthy people. Newhouse Galleries Alfonso Benavides is showing 25 of his spirited paintings, the most! striking of which is "The Menaced City," an underground snetter. a weird canvas, it conveys the impression of having been impulsively conceived and painted.

"The CENTENNIAL LOAN EXIII1TI0N 9: 1-1141 For tbt Btnifit if tbt FIEE FIEVCI BELIEF COMMITTEE Tbrtagh Ditmhtr 6tb DIVED! BROTHERS IC. 720 FIFTH AVENUE PASSEDOIT GALLERY RECENT SCULPTURE '0SE'de Creeft 121 EAST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK Paintings by POLLY THAYER November 1 0 thru 28 CONTEMPORARY ARTS 38 West 57th St. GEORGE PIATT LYNES 200 PORTRAITS PIERRE MATISSE "41 EAST 57th STREET Recital by Niles John Jacob NUes will give an hour of American folk song sung to the dulcimers at the Brooklyn Height Music Studios on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 19, at 5:30, for the benefit of the scholarship fund of the school. Mr.

Niles has made an album of records of these songs but this will be one of the rare opportunities to hear him in person. 'La Traviata' at Academy Virginia La Rae, coloratura so prano, will make her first New York opratic appearance in several seasons when she appears as Vloletta In "La Traviata" at the Academy of Music next Saturday evening. Eugene Conley will sing opposite to Miss La Rae. "Rigo-letto" Is scheduled for Saturday evening, Nov. 22.

MUSIC "debut tendencies. In her abstract ar- rangement of "Flowers," she comes (hrough wUh a more style in the modern idiom, Midtown Galleries Gladys Rockmore Davis is showing 19 pastels. She has developed a painter-like quality in the handling of this colored chalk medium and has produced some striking results, notably "Study" and the portrait of "Ruthle." Two young ladies having 'Tea," "Fruit" and an especially good Interpretation of the nuances i of form in "Torso" show Miss Davis is as articulate in pastels as she is in the oil medium. i Kleemann Galleries Mountfort Coolidge, exhibiting 21 oils, is an even painter; not one painting stands put above the rest. It is the beautiful Maine country in the Autumn season which he renders, with the confidence of one who paints freely and unfalteringly, if literally, what he sees.

Bobcock Galleries Carmine D'alesio, the gallery director, has another important find in young Albert Pels of Cincinnati. AUhough ne studied ta New York with several of the most renowned producers of student mimics. Pels has emerged his individual self, and a fine painter, at that. His wide range of subject matter covers a lively park picnic, a sheriff on horseback with his "Posse," "Sand-lot Baseball" and tenement dwellers seeking comfort on the "Rqpf in Summer." To the Highest Bidder The Parke-Bernet Galleries, 30 E. 57th Manhattan, will begin the public auction of the important art collection of the late Arthur Curtiss James this Thursday.

At this session, paintings featuring five magnificent portraits by Rom-ney, Reynolds. Raeburn and Hopp- ner' be offered- the after- "us: rrluay aiuru.v, 'e galleries will continue the sale with Gothic and Renaissance tapestries sculptures, furniture, Oriental rugs, silver, French fans, old textiles and Oriental art. The entire collection was placed on exhibition at the galleries yesterday and will remain on view until time of the sale. In a sale of this scope, it is possible to enumerate only a few of the many remarkable items. There js an exquisite sculptured stone head of S.

Valeria H4th Century French); an important Brussels Gothic tapestry; renowned English portraits; a painting by Giorgione, a notable "River Landscape" by Salomon van Ruysdael; paintings by Corot and Sorolla and many other treasures. At the Plaza Art Galleries, 9 E. PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES Lc 30 EAST 57th STREET Qlou, On SM itlon QCteCclayt lo 5.JO CPiilAlc ffucl'ion cfale Vernier 13, 14, 15 IMPORTANT PAINTINGS AND OTHER ART PROPERTY Of the Estate of the Late Arthur Curtiss JAMES BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS ePuUie ffiuclion cfale PAINTINGS Qlovvmber al (). AND OTHER ART PROPERTY Qlovtmhr 2 fj.m. Sales Conducted by H.

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JR. L. J. MARION I 1 fA BROOKLYN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Artbtk Dfctctimt: Mm tAltNtTT. GmW WAftSURC, Crf AStRGEK cert, the orchestra has chosen an American work by a Brooklyn-born composer, Aaron Copland.

Mr. Barnett, who will conduct this concert, is a native of New York and has been a conductor of the New York City Symphony Orchestra since 1939. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Mr, Barnett'a career as conductor began in 1931, when he entered the National Orchestral Organization, where he worked under Leon Bar-zin. A Philharmonic Scholarship enabled him to continue his studies in Salzburg with Bruno Walter, Felix Weingartner and Nicolal Malko. Subsequently, Mr.

Barnett went to Russia, studying opera and the stage in" Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev. In 1937 he became a pupil of Georges Enesco, the only conducting pupil that Enesco has ever accepted. Upon his return to America, Mr. Barnett became assistant to Leon Barzin at the National Orchestral Society, Stell Andersen is also a native American. Born in Iowa of Norwegian parentage, she received her first musical education at the American Conservatory in Chicago.

Beginning in 1937, she made three extensive tours of Europe and was heard both in recital and as soloist with major orchestras of eight nations. She was the only American soloist to appear at the Paris Exposition in 1937. Since her return to this country last year, she has played with our leading orchestras, most recently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra public auction this portrait of master, from the estate of the FIRST CONCERT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, at 8:30 P. M. JOHN BARNETT.

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John Unley Wllliamion, Director MOZART: REQUIEM IN MINOR BRAHMS: RhaDiodr for Alto Solo. Mala Chorus and Oreheairn BRAHMS: "Sonf of Drutlny" (with obornal TICKETS AT POPULAR PRICES, S3 to tt.t, at Bo Olflea THURSDAY EVENING at FRIDAY AFTERNOON at s.ioi.t.: ARTUR SCHNABEL, fi-ii BEETHOVEN: "Ermont" Overture and Piano Coneert Na. 1 BRI TKNKR: Symphony No. 7 in major SATL'RDAY EVENING at 8:46 HAYDN, Symphony In B-flat major, No. BRUCKNER: Symphonr No.

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AT THRE1 BROOKLYN Ballet Theater Opens At 44th St. Theater Enriched by stars from the Russian ballet companies and presented under the new management of S. Hurok, the Ballet Theater will begin a limited engagement at the 44th St. Theater next Wednesday evening with a new major produc tion, "Bluebeard" which Michel Pokine has staged upon the music of Offenbach, with costumes and scenery designed by Mfcrcel Vertes. The principal dancers of the organized company include Irina Baronova, Alicia Markova, Anton Oolin and among the soloists are Karen Conrad, Lucia Chase, Anna- belle Lyon, Sono Osato, Nora Kaye, George Skibine, Ian Gibson and Yura Lazovsky.

MUSIC MANHATTAN TONIGHT AT N. CITY SYMPHONY ORCH. JEAN PAUL MOREL (Conductor) i ALEXANDER BRAILOWSKY I Pianitt CARNfJGIR HALL. SOc to SI. It All Saati RaMrvad.

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Y. Philharmonic-Symphony Chamber Orchestra Of raid Warburg, Conductor. Guest Pianist: Kltanor Pnc Saturday Afternoon. Nnvrmber IS. at .1:00 o'elork All ieatt reserved: Uc, tl.10, including tns BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Lafayette Ave, and Aihlani PI.

Box office: ITerlin l-STrXt FIFTEEN ANNUAL OIL EXHIBITION NOVEMBER 10 THROUGH 29 ROMNEY PORTRAIT Parke-Bernet Galleries offers at 1 "Lady Prescott and Her Three Children," by the English late Arthur Curtiss James. UK. NBO Concert Sv'loe (Baldwin Piano) I I.