NEWS RELEASE

National Gallery of Art FOR RELEASE: April 20, 1948 Washington, D. C.

For further details call Richard Bales, Republic 4215

WASHINGTON: April 20: David E. Finley, Director of the National

Gallery of Art, announced that the Gallery's Fifth American

Music Festival v.'ill be presented during Hay. Five concerts

devoted to the works of American composers will be played.

Four compositions will receive their

world premieres, and there will be ei^ht first Washington per­

formances. Forty-two works in ell will be heard.

The series is under the general direction

of Richard Bales, v/ho will conduct the two orchestral concerts.

Other concerts include chamber music, songs, and piano works.

Compositions to be performed and artists

participating follow:

Sunday, May 2 - John Kirkpatrick:, Pi an 1st

Vincent Perslchetti Sonata No.3 Charles T. Griffes Three Tone-Pictures Roy Harris Sonata Robert Palmer *SonataEdward MacDowell Excerpts from Sea Pieces, Fireside

Tales, and New England Idyls

Sunday, May 9 - National. Gallery Orchestra__ _ _ __ _ _ __ __ ____Richard Bales, Conductor

Eric DeLamarter *Huckleberry Finn Overture Gardner Read **^uiet Music for Strings Mabel Daniels **Digressions for Strings Virgil Thomson The Plow that Broke the Plains

Paul Chandler Hume, SpeakerRichard Bales Three Songs of Early America Godfrey Turner *Chorale Ulysses Kay -**Brief Elegy for Oboe and Strings

Leonard Shifrin, Soloist George Frederick McKay Suite on Fiddler's Tunes

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Sunday, May iG - Abrashu Robofsky, BaritoneFederick ?all- At the Piano

Francis Hopkinson Francis Hopkinson Benjamin Carr Raynor Taylor Stephen Collins Foster Dudley Buck Arthur Foote Arthur Footc A. Walter Kroner Richard Hageman -John Aid en Carpenter Wintter Watts Louis Che slock Ellen V/ood Richard Bales Richard Bales Howard Hanson

Give Me Thy HeartWith Pleasure Have I Passed My Days Willow Willow Cupid and the Shepherd Ah May the Rose Live Alway Falstaff's Song AutumnA Good ExcuseThe King of China's Daughter Do Not Go Ily Love To One Unknown JoyBallad Blind Peter 0 Mistress Mine Ozymanaias

*'Tis An Earth Defiled ("Merry Ilount")

Sunday, May 23 - The Tonasow String Quartetwith

_____ Marie Simrticlinlc-Kraf t , Mezzo-Soprano

Dai-keong Lee Mary Howe Herbert Elwell

*Q,uartct No.l Quatour

*Blue Symphony, for Voice and String Quartet. Poem by John Gould Fletcher

Sunday, May 30 - National Gallery Orchestra _____________ Richjard Bales, Conductor

Bainbridge Grist Festive OvertureHomer Keller Serenade for Clarinet and Strings

Rex Hinshaw, SoloistCecil Ef finger *Little Symphony, Opus 31 Ray Green **I!ew Sot-Concertante for Viola

and OrchestraGeorge Y/argo, Soloist

Douglas Moore *Fc.rra Journal Mary Howe Poema

Katherine Hansel, Soprano Shlrley Winston, Mezzo-Soprano

V/illiam Bcrgsma Paul Bunyan Suite

-These programs are subject to cliange-

*Indicates first w'ashington performance **Indicates first performance anyv;here