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Dy Rime"m L. Pt.tual Jascha H*efetz, suave an~d distin- guished magician of the violin, is the Soloist for the Friday afternoon and Saturday eveniing. concerts of the ~Chicago Sympbony. orchestra at Or- chestralhail this week. He i1s playing the Beethoven D majorco ncerto. ,On Tuesday afternîoon, March 24,, be Played the ' Castienuovo-Tedesco con- cet-to with the orchestra. Like his only equqljoseph Szegeti, Heifetz bas elegance and supreme purity of tone. His technical ýequip.- ment eniables him, to gi ve every 'tonie, no matter bow short or long, metic- ultous attention as' to quaiity and color.- His interpretations are fresh, and> whatever- he plays is infinitely heautifuI,. Music becornes abstract, sound is loved' for its own sake, and one is aware of a GCreek simplicity of Unie in even intricate, passage work. Like Szegeti again, Heifetz is aloof. absorbed in bis music. iFor this reason he is said to be cold, disdain- fui of bis'listeners, and audiences are inciined to express dissatisf action. But bis music bas notbing cold in it, and anyone wbo concentrateson it is immediately assured that Heifetz is giving himself entirely to his hearers. Wben be appeared in the Artist- Recital sertes at New Trier *Htgil school this season he was given a warm welcome, but not so warm a welcome as he should bave been given. Wben Szegeti was presented fin the Artist-Recital series several years ago north shore patrons utterly faiied to recognize h-is. genius, and the audience's coldness to bim is one thingý whicb this. crittc wili neyer fer get. Spaldi*ng and Kreisler, who are. almnost as good violinists as S2;egçti and Heifetz, *fare better and are neyer fàiling successes in the concert field because of their friend- liness and their wilingness to pro- gramt a f ew compositions wbich are * popular only because tbey are easily understood. NE~W MOZART FILM i Vienna a bistorical film about çgt Jo being made. The worlc is ctod by Dr. EIs* Bi"enineld and ým vos Matthafas, Murc will be' m partly f rom Mozait's works >styf r9pa ulerÇpwpstifs Charles Baron Fleischrnaun,,the you>tg concert qnd radio baritopte, will sisig a program of songs at the Aeighbors club of Kettilu'orth, Titesday after,îIooII, Marçlî 31, at 2:30 o'clock. Mr. Fleischniann, who is ini the third A nnounces Concerts generation of a faniily of distinguished foe singers, is now a resident of the north. for Jofth of Aprdi" shore, but bas done al bis vocal study- Bertha Qtt, impresari, is sponsor- ing with joseph Regneas, the mninent ing a recital by Margaret Matzenauer, Florenxce Austral, Wagnerian so- Miss Ott is bringing Josef -Hof- prano, is to be the soloist at the mann, -piantst, to, the Studebaker Prida>y afternoon, Apil t17, and Sat-' theater on Sunday afternoon, April urday evening, April 18, concerts. 26. This takes the place- of the recital -The'final .'orchestral coi*ert of the which he posfponed earlier in thé season iwill be given April 24 and season because of illness in bis fa - 25» . ily. Airs on Sunday Tito Schipa will sing four operatic arias. and a number of songs at the Civic Opera-House on Sundayafter- noon, March 29, when lie makes hb.a onfly concert appearance in Chicago this season. The four arias progranimed are, "M'Appari"., from "Martha"; the "Ossian"' song from "Werther"; "Una Purtiva Lagrima" lfromn "The. Elixir of Love"; and, "The :Song of India>', f rom "Sadko." -Alil four are fav- o rites with lis audiences. Two of his most popular> concert numberî wili be. included inh the program alsù, "Princesita", 'and, "Sogno d'Amore." Schipa bas just concluded bis an- nual engagement with the Chicago Civic Opera company .ini Chicago and on tour. After singing several concerts in thù s ,coutry--he will sait for' Europe, to fulifil a niumber of operatic and concert 'engagement.. and will return to~ Chicago in, fali. Civie Opera Contralto *to Give Sunday Recital Cyrena Van Gordon, contralIto of the Chicago Civic. Opera cornpany, wtt! be heard in recital on1 Sunday. afternoon, March 29, at the Civi1C Theatre, under the direction of Ber- tha Ott. The prograrn will be conposed of an aria from 'IRienzi", by Wagner; "~Venus Mater", by Pfitzner; "Das Standchen", Korngold; "Sie Wissens Nicht", Strauss; "Kling", Strauss; "Among Shadows", a first perforni- ance of a work dedicated to Miýss Van iGordon by Golde; "Ranturn TanttnV', Warlock; "Transforma- tion",.Watts; "Oh, Dear, What Can The Matter Be?" by Wariock; "Floods, of Spring"ý, Rachmnaninoff; "La Maja*. Dolorosa", Granados;- "Polo", Nin; "Vieill e Chanson- Es-. pagnole", Louis Aubert>;. ",Seguidille", de Falla; "Cryv of the Valkyrié", Wagner. Walter Golde wiil be at the pianio for the accompaniments.. "The flartered, Bride"» is being Presented in>New York at the Hfeck- scher the ater by the Little Theatre Opera coinpany and is being sung in English for the first timer anywhere. A BRAHMS> BOOK TheBrahms 'society of Berlin bas just pu0blished "Johannes Brabms- Personaiity, Life, and WVorks", by, Gustav . Iïrnt. i 1'