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Invite One to Relax and Rest By Rtth.da L. Pretzel Those who are starved for svm- phonv music find at Raviia ot Sunday afternoons some excellent programs given 13y the Chicaâgo Sym- phony, orchestra under the directiots of Eric DeLaarater.: Followinig cu- tom , national. concerts give a fairlv considerate attention to foneign com- posers each Sunday, devoting a wio.'e prognani of composens of one country at a time. One is aware- fafelingo it in the crowds that attend the Sundav concerts. The veny fact that neanlv evervone at the Frëfich concert wvas French, or at least of that descent. creates an atntiosphene of' intimacV. An observer of people is intrigued hv the mannenisms, and characteristi("s of tbe foreigners w-ho corne to do honor with their presence1 to native *composers.- Because the music ishi their countrymen. they. listen w~ita keen pleasuire and pride. Owving tn the fact that the orchestra seýil<lon cati relieause the prograini the per- formances may flot alwavs be of- the best, but -stili. Mr, . DeLanarten in- jects thein witb spirit, and the audl- ience is al.ways veyenappreci ,ative- For the Sunday concerts, seats in the opena -bouse are free, the price. of the gate. admission to the parlz covering evervthi*ng. Most oi thosP who cone stay oven for thce e-eingi- operz.. choosing seats out under thtr trees as soon as the concert is over and gettling thenîselves with news.- papers, books and inevitable luinci, basket. The hours pass leisunelv- and ç omfotably until the park suddenlv wakes up around eight o'clock. witIt the incomning guests of the evenii:g.. YAltogether, t Te-day o cfrs enoôug i V rietv musically and otherise to iii- vite one to relax anud rest afterthel weeks tunnioil.c Italians will bean mu sic of nativef composers at, Ravinia. on * Sunday af-t ternoon, july26, at'3-o'clock. Daniel Saidenberg, first 'cellist, will be the soloisf,-playinig works by Pengolesi. Vivaldi and Boccherini. The orc'les-r tra will play the overture to Cherui-t bini's Anacreon"-."Concerto trsol alering- 5unday~ "Loihengrin" is being repealed or' Thursday inght of this week (July 23) wýith Elisabeth Rethberg, Ediard john.son, Julia Claussen, Aifredo Gar- dolfi, Louis D'Angelo, George Cehan- ovsky, andý with. Louis Hasselmansl conducting. On Friday nigb 1t. "Samson* andi Dalila" will be repeated with; Julia Claussen, Giovanni. Martinelli, Marit. Basiola, Mr. D'Angelo, Paolo Anaàn- ian, Marck Windheimà and Lodovico Oliviero. Ruth Page' and the ballet will dance, and Mr. Hasselmans wi!Il conduct. On Saturday night, I,'Amore Ac- Tre Re", will le repeated,_with Lu- crezia BoÎ,* Edward Johinson, 'Gui- seppe Danise, Virgilio Lazzari, Mr. Oliviero and Plmne Falco. GeniarG. Papi will conduct. On Sunday evening, "Il Trovatore" ivili be sung for'the. firbt it.nie-tliis season withi ElisabethRethbberg, Gio- 'vanni Martinelli, Julia Claussen,- Mr. Basiola, Mr. D'Angelo, Miss F-aleo and Mr. Oliviero.. Gennaro Papi wil' conduct., The enire schedule for next week will be found in, another . section of this >issue.. Carneton Smith to Lecture on, "Peter Ibbetson"e Carleton Smiiith ,,.iill lecture on "Manou, Lescaut," an opera by Puic- cmni, aind Nlassenet's opera, "Ianion," Moiîday morning, July 27, at .Il o'clock, at the home of -Mrs. Williamn Sherman Hay, 645 Sheridan road, Mr. Smith will comipare tht two librettos and analyze the two scores, comparing--and contrasting each com- persthemnatic -and, orchestral set- ting and use of Abbe Prevost's stonry, -~Marion Lescaut." "Peter Ibbetson'. will be-the sub)- ject of Mr. Smith 's lecture 'on Friday morning, July 31, at Il o'clock, at tfi l1rit1 a-f .Mrs. 1.T-TLawrence iMr. Smith will be assisted ini the Tour in Japan "Peter Ibbetson" lecture by Edith Tt ciabsjie te rit Rose, concert pianist. Miss Rose is ioShp ~ oie te rit a pupil of Isador Phillip, well known of the Chicago Civic Opera company Frnc pianist -and pedagogue, and at the Colon opera bouse in Buenos of Ernest Hutchinson ýand Percy Aires. Fnida Leier, Maria Rajdl and. G;rainger. She 'is an -coilse Alexander' Kipnis aràe also in the musician, and'Will play the waltz, the South American company. for the polk.a, Colonel Ibbetson's. aria, andsesn Schipa Was enthusiastically otiien: outstanding passages f rom, the acclaimed in bis finst appearance opera. thene ini the "Barber of Serille." Af- ________________ter completing twelve performance% he will sa-il for a concert to ur in' Famo sC ndutor Japn Pollak, who bas been dinector Seen at .RaVirna of the Hambung opera, bas res igned, inorder to devote more time to bhi-, Among, the antists Of international -dies --wjth the Chicago company, reputation one. sets at, Ravinia d ur-' Mn. PoIlak was givenl an ovation at ing the season is Rudolph Thomas, his last appeanance recently in Ham- Who has just be en engaged as con- -ugaHodco-lîetn 1 v' devote as much time. as possible te ductor of the New York Opera gu, pennesa abr n Comique,. succeeding William Red- elsewbere, but f elt that the responsi- dick. bilities, of. directorship there would: hé Mr. Thomas, who is a native of too heavy if he desiré'd to continue Brunswick, Germany, began hisý his work ini America. training as a conductor in Munich flanburg bas 1,ad its annual fes- under 1Felix Motti. 1He bas studied tival and now the interest shifts to in Leipzig with Arthur Nikisch an.i Bayreuth and Munich, the tivo Ba- Mfax Reger, and later -he studied com- vna etn bc u etvl position with Hans Putznen in Stras- concurrenl3y. Herbert Wifhbenspoon, burg. Weingartner' Dame Ko- who arrivedý in Paris on tbe bold" at Darmstadt wasth frt eleventh and, bheld. auditionstee performance he conducted and tiîis last week, is holding. furthen was in 1916. After several years as auditions in Brussels and Berlin, conduclor with the Hamburg Volk- aften whicb le will go té. Bayreuth soper and the Hanover opera, lie and Munich, tIen to Salxburg, and cameto Aneria in1926for ourfinal ly to the festival at Verona. H1e years with the Cincinnati conserva- will conclude bis tour with. a senies tnr- her h wa; ireto offle f auditions, in Milan. -1 orchestra and head of the opera de- partment. H1e was also gueat conduc- tor of the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra and guest conductor of its Young People 's concerts. Mr. Thomas las been in charge of a conducton's course at Teaclers' college, and last summen, cooperating with Albert Stoessel,. he. conducte-'J symphony concerts at Chau'taùqua institution. "The Bartered Bride" Is Full of Czech Optimism "The Bartered Bride" which isto IN JOINT, RECITAL * Manie Sidenlus Zeiidt, sopranoj, who is spending the summen in WiI- mette, and Emil Eck, flutist, gave.a joint recital Wdiedav-ft-.n.-7--- in the Arnerican Conservatory cf Music 'senies. RAVEL WRITES CONCERTO Maurice Ravel has just wittena concerto for the pano whicb employs only the left band, and wbi ch is dedi- 'cated to Paul Wittgenstein. It will be played for the finst tîme next December by Mn. Wittgenstein., The National Orchestra of' Wales, which bas been controlled by the British Broadcasting corporation for tliiee years, is to disband, owirrg 10 lack of funds. It was one of the Jcading institutions of ,Wales, and was founded in 11928 to meet the *new. demand -for instrumental, music, in Wales. VI %-_ Iule. L ne exn i Il be on irom Mr. Taylor had made a four ycars' served a share of the unconquerable July 23 utlOtbr8 search for a libretto for an opera 'le optimism wvhich was lis birthnight as __until _________8. was commissioned by the Metropoliý a Czecl. ThougI1f e in Bc>emian (OUT-O)F-TOWN GUEST FETED tan Opera company to write, after towns was overshadowed by German Mrs. Charles R. Bixby, 1104 Ash- the success of bis 'King's Hench- oppression, rural Bohemia was, tG land avenue, enterained nine guests m an." Miss,,Collier, Who lad always ýSmetana.bright with, mirth, a Place at luncheon, Tuesëday, July 21. 'The* believedin th itÙmsical potentialities of. sunsline and, bearygo *ul-getoflfrwsM y.Fe y of tbe story, dscussed. it with Mr. ter..o ptiar .J