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peramental about, Ftederick J agel the tenor of the M4eropoitan Opera cornpany, who will be heard at tlhe New Trier High school auditorium Monday evening, October .30, in -the fiirst of the Artist-;Recital series which are- sponsored. by the W%.innet- ka. Music club. On the contrary. Mr. jagel is a normal, likabl e youn'g American whose condid blue eyes and engagi ng smile bave flot changed.un- der the destructive spotligh t ofsuc- cess., Straightforward, dependable, he bas.fot found an operatic 'and ,concert career incompatible with the duties of, a hiisband and father, or with pleasures of a' sports man and, the delights oôf the mind. Concert,' according to Frederick -Jagel, is harder than opera. He be- lieves thgt it is more difficuit to be a successful concert, singer than a suc- cessfui opera star. Program-building for a recital is. difficult.. I opera your work is prepared for you .hI concert you m~ust assemble t. Con- cert work affords greater scope, greater contrast of mood for the artist. On the other hand, it, nust be put over witliout help of orches- tra. lights, make-up, or su pport. of st.ory stnd fellow artists. It conse- quently requires greater poise and greater musicianship than the -opera. But, adds the tCflQr, it is a great joy 1 .Frederick jagel sings in almost every langiuage. His opera and con- cert repertoire- is in English, German, walkiing but he usually covers, five mi'les or more a day. During t he summer, however, he is cotnpletely happy. Each year he spends at least two and a t--ionths ini Sctland. whe-re bis wife was, born. He is devoted to Scotland, witl î ts, heather and hawthonn, its tro ut and salmon, its lochs and moors, and its bracipg, _hale_.weather. SwiMming. abetore nmembers ofthte LEvanston eCatholic Woman's club, Mr. Silber's next appearance Nvill be ini Kenosha where he will give an entire prograni econsisting of inasterworks. of the Classic, 'Romantic, .1and- Modern scbools of composition. . The ýprograni on Wednesday of last week is as fol-. Sarabande........Rarneau-NlacDowell »Larghetto troni the Coronation Concerto ...... Mozrt-Fiedlman Rhapsody, G minor .. .. .Brahmns MXr. Silber The Nightingale and the Rose, (Musical setting hy Paul Blss),..-. Oscar. Wilde Mrs. Canterbury Mr. Sfiber at the, Piano.. Nocturne. V sharp, '0: 15, No. 1. . Chopin Etude. Op. 25, No., i........... Chopin Etude, Op. 25, No. 2 ........ Chopin, Waltz, Op. 42...---1. ...... Chopin Scherzo, B flat m1nori Op. 31'. Chopin, Mr. Sulber Music Sorority Holding National Day Oct. 20 Mu Phi EpsilonHonorary Music sorority wilI have its national day at the Fair on Friday, October 20. This is the culmination of the series of concerts which the sorority bas been giving at the Hall of Science through- out the duration of the Fair. There will be a choral prograni broadcast over N.B.C. on the barge at 2:45 in the afternoon. The chorus is under - the direction of Helen Leefeit, witb Florence Henline as the acçompanist..1 sicale in the Ilinois H-ost House in which each chapter and the Alumnae club will take part; Kathryn Ander- son and Alvena Reckzeh will play two-piano numbens; Margaret Les- ter will sing a group of songs;tbe Iota Alpha ensemble will sing a song cycle; the Dangremond trio will. give a group of instrumental numbers, and Betty Biesemeier and Avanelle Jack- son will play a Mozart sonata for violin and piano. rar1 A~wJiInaprira iljlI1J11 i ~ trie ev eV popular "Pirates of Penzance," wbich to many followers of Gilbert and Sul-. livan the world over is the gay.est gem of all perattas.. .The company,.which is under the. peïrsonal direction of'Ralpb . iH.el- penîn,' conisists of over sixty, soloists and chorus, and fifteen musicians un- dér Alvin -Heitner. Martha 'Blacker as ".Mabel" heads the cast of prin- cipals and lends charm, and colon. Shewill be'assisted by Clifford Sul- livan, Harry Boyel, Jessie K.eswick. Boris Aplon, and Morton Barnard.' Besides the Friday 'night pe rfonn- ance in Highland 1Park'there, will be one. Saturday afternioon. at ý3 o'clock and Saturday night aàt 8:30. Before openiing in Chicago in November'the company wkillý go, on tour, Highland Park being the first stop. Tenitative plans.are being made to offer the revivals of-Gilbert and Sul- livan, works' consisting of "Mikado," 1Pinafor- " "lolanthe," etc., and "a few of the other popular comic operattas played in the past years. Mr. Helperin, a young Chicago at- torney, bas during the past four years assembled a group of young artists, and aside froni bis law work, bas de- voted his time to gathering an un- excelled ensemble of soloists, and chorus, offering a cycle of the %vorld renouned Gilbert and Sullivan oper- ettas. In the past four years, MNr. *Helperin bas left no stone and effort unturned in gathering froni Chicago's. music land the best voices an i artists Seats are now-on sale at the box office and reservations inav be hiad by .phoning Highland Park 4300. l'he box office is open daily at 10 a. ni., tO 9 p. mi. For those living along the north shore, box offices have heen establisbed at the Commtinity Drug, store, Winnetka, Hilîman Drug Comn- pany, .Glencoe;-. Renneckar Drug company, Wilmeétte. and Hubhard Woods Pharmiacy, Huhbard Woods., where seats are now available. CHICAGO SYMPHONY ten days. First are the three con- icerts by the Pro Arte Quartet, donated by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. to the Friends of Music-; and second the appearance in Or-. chestra hall of the famed, Boston SymnphonyV orchestra, under the di- rection'of Serge Koussevitzky. The Pro Arte concerts wiIlltake place:in the,-Goodman, theliter, this. Friday, evening and Sunday, after- noon. T 'he- concerts are free. to sub-. Scri 'bers tio the Friends of 2Music fund collected last spring. AIli embers bave been notified- and may procure tickets at the Orchestra'ý hall boxk office by presenting a letter sent out by the society. The' qu'artet, consisting of. four Belgians; Messrs. Onnou, Halleux, Prevost and'Maas, first came to t.his country in1 1926. hrought, to the Li- brary di Congress *by ýMrs. Coolidge., after she had presen.ted theni at the Americ an Academy in Rome. Sinre that timhe hey have successfully toured thé country and are now rated as the greatest chamber mtisicorgan-, ization extant. 1Friday the orchestra will play, Franck's Quartet in D major, Car- penter's A mnor and I)ehusýsv's' C minor. Sunday afternoon's programi consists of Schoenb)erg*s Second Quartet, Rov Harris' Second_ and Hindemith's Third. The Boston Symphony orchestra plays on Monday evening, Octoher 23. The orchestra was organized ini 1881, ten years prior t<o our own. At that time it consisted Of sixty players; next week Dr. Koussevitzky will, play here witb 110 musicians. The prograni as announced., fromi Boston, will include M.ýozart's, seren- ade for string orchestra, '*E.ine Kleine Nacht Musik"; Strawinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps," and Sibelijus Symphony No. 2 -in 1) major. Compositions, by Ne- S. Pianist Will Re Played A haîf hour prograni of original compositions by Susannah Armstrong The date 'te, stra t give a prograni of bier own char,4cteniïithe Shore" a'nd " heperd's H bno sktces mog other W6rks.I and Sibelius' Tone Poemù, "Finlan u brdà(