.44

10, 1942

THE JEWISH NEWS

The War As It Affects the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra

By HERMAN WISE

music

editorial

Jewish Composers
Will Be Featured

United States, have stood by and
nonchalantly permitted such a dis-
graceful happening? Deep down

Page Nfris

A Serious Challenge

We commend to our readers' attention the courageous

article by Mr. Herman Wise who contributes the music
Make no mistake about it, the
column to this issue of The Jewish News.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra is 99 in your hearts you know the an-
per cent folded up right now!
swer.
It is a challenge to Detroit, and it represents by far the
The writer, rest assured, has en-
Plans for the maintenance fund
most serious attempt ever made by anycne to interpret
gaged in no exaggeration. He is in campaign are under way and pre-
realistically the soul of our community.
position to make his initial state- liminary plans for a 1942-1943 sea-
ment without qualification. He is son have been made. Does one or ' •
Is it possible that Detroit will permit one of its most im-
interested in telling the truth.
the other, or better, do both con-
portant cultural institutions—the Detroit Symphony Or-
What do I mean, 99 per cent cern you? If you are the average I~ .
chestra—to cease functioning?
folded up? Just this, that the only citizen of Detroit the answer is
Is it conceivable that a great community like ours will
"No."
possible way,
fall to prevent the snuffing out of the last breath of life
t e m porarily at
How does the war affect the De-
from this splendid agency which has been a source of
least, to preserve
troit Symphony Orchestra? In just
the existence of
this way: when you are asked to
pride to Detroit and a credit to America?
the Detroit Sym-
contribute to the cause of the or-
Christians and Jews, men in every walk of life, are chal-
phony Orchestra
chestra please do not be naive
lenged in Mr. W'ise's article.
enough to remind those who may
for another win-
approach you that there is a war
ter's season of 21
It is a challenge that is applicabl to all cultural mat-
weeks depends
and that we are in it up to our
ters, to a good press, to libraries, to educational institu-
upon the outcome
necks. Because we are in the war .
tions, as veil as to good music.
of the annual
up to our necks is just one more
maintenance fund
good reason why the Detroit Sym-
And it is a challenge that should be met squarely and
drive scheduled
phony Orchestra must go on. Folks
realistically if the best American ideals and our hifrhest
for late this Herman Wise
cf every other city in the United
institutions are to survive.
month. More, it
States already. have decided that
LARE WARDROP
depends almost as much upon the for themselves.
fact that season ticket renewals be
It behooves all of us to keep 1
, With a program devoted entirely
to the works of living Jewish corn-
as numerous for next year as they
h tr
symphony
posers, the Michigan WPA symph-
have been in recent seasons.
became of its musical values, its
ony orchestra will present the
This is not written by way of significance as a cultural center, fourth concert
of the Jewish Corn-
shouting "Wolf." All those who are its contribution to the economic
mnnity Center spring series, Tues-
artistic
and
educational
life
of
our
of the attitude that the symphony
day. April 14, at 8:30 p.m., at the I
GENEVA ! JPS , —Applying pres-
has once more reached the "Wolf, community.
Center, Woodward at Holbrook.
The
Jewish
people,
particularly,
Samuel W. Leib has been named sure against all enemies of intoler-
Wolf" stage in the calendar year
Under the baton of Valter Pcole,
are deliberately shutting their should appreciate the universal im- the orchestra will feature two solo- as chairman of the Pisgah lodge ance. the Nazi-controlled Vichy
defense committee of Pisgah Brai c-rnment has deprived Bernard La-
eyes and ears to the situation as portance of this musical organiza- ists, Rose Cooper, soprano. and
Lare
the writer definitely knows it to tion, and even those not especially Wardrop. oboist. The composers re- Brith lodge. No. 34. As a part of
cache. president of the Internal
exist. Believe it to be so. the wolf interested in instrumental music presented will include: A. W. Bind- . the defense program of the Dis-
to Combat Anti-Semitism,
is not only here, he actually has as such, must realize an obligation er. S. Braslaysky, Herbert Fromm, trict Grand Lodge, the Pisgah Lodge League
-
to support the highest artistic
has undertaken exiensive activities of his French citizenship M Le-
more than a foot inside the door.
Hugo Kauder. Julius Chajes, Mana
Does this matter to you? You standards, the most universal values Zucca, Lazar Weiner, and Jacob According to Mr. Leib. defense ache is nc t in France. ha ving
stamps are sold at all the Bnai Brith escaped from the clutches of the
will have to decide that for your- and the deepest emotional interests Weinberg.
which are tied up with the Detroit
meetings, enrollments are taken for Nazis. Another French Jew.
M.
elf •
A. W. Binder, director c4 music
Symphony Orchestra.
, civilian defense, the donating of Nathan. former film magnate. v,as
at the 92nd street YMTIA, New York
If you still doubt the truth of
Let us subscribe to the drive or
blood to the Red Cross. home de- also deprived of his citizenship.
City, is also professor of music at
what has been told you, remain
bnv season tickets—or do bo th.
' tense and home guard militia. A stir-
the Jewish Institute of Religion.
unconcerned and calmly witness
I vey now is being made of the — BUY DEFENSE BONDS —
His work was introduced to Detroit
the end of one of America's great-
audiences, by the Detroit Symphony 'synagogues and temple for avail-
est symphony orchestras. Be proud
•able Sefri Torah to be loaned
I orchestra. under Ossip Gabrilo-
of the fact, if you can—and ap-
through the Pisgah lodge for use
, witch.
parently Detroiters in general take
in camps and cantonments. The
The living Jewish composers' pro-
pride in their lack of civic-con-
lodge also
cooperates with the
, gram was conceived and planned I -
scicusness, as is evidenced every
! United States and offers helpful
by Julius Chajes, pianist and corn-
day by the majority of our cite-
advise to families of men in service
poser, who serves as the Center's
zees from the City Hall Fathers
director of music. Two of Chajes' Other members of the defense
on down — that your city, the
A new sound film dramatically compositions will be included in the committee are Herbert Eskin, Max
fourth largest in the United States,
portraying the world front for Jew- concert.
Goldhoff, Ben Hamburg, Ira G .
FOR ALL
will be the only community of its
The final concert, in the Michi- Kaufman. Herbert Lyness, Robert
kind in the entire country without ish survival in war, and the relief
WINTER ITEMS
and rescue programs in European gan WPA Symphony's spring series Wallack, Milton Weinstein and Leo-
a symphony orchestra.
Pat Next Fall for Cleaning
countries, in the Jewish Homeland at the Center. will be held April nard Belove. Phil Rothschild is in
Were they not municipally main- in Palestine, and the United States 21.
charge of publicity. Harry Yudkoff
tained, it is entirely conceivable and South America—"The Promise"
Not Just Storage But
is in charge of the Bnai Brith de-
that this great industrial city, a
COLD Storage
- —was completed this week for the
fense program for the eastern area
HALEVY
TO
FEATURE
tremendously overgrown to w n United Jewish Appeal for Refu-
of Michigan.
VIOLINIST
SIEGL
without a soul, would have no uni- gees, Overseas Needs and Pales-
FUR COATS
The next executive meeting of the
• CLEANED
5
:
versity, no library and no art insti- tine, and will be made available
lodge will be held Monday evening,
• GLAZED
In
continuance
of
its
practice
of
tute. Fortunately, these institutions in Detroit through the .office of
•
STORED
presenting outstanding local musi- April 13, in the conference room of
2
Insurance Charge
were begun in times when leader- the Allied Jewish Campaign.
Minimum Valuation $50
cal talent at its annual concerts, the Jewish Center. Sam Maza, pres-
shi p and community thinking were The story of "The Promise" opens
ident, will preside.
sharply different than they have somewhere in Europe with a Jew- the Detroit Halevy Singing Society
Special Week of April 13
has selected the prominent Detroit
been more recently. ish woman preparing for deports-
violinist, Henry Siegl, to appear as SORORITY LUNCHEON
True, the Detroit Symphony Or-
tion to a Nazi ghetto in Poland.
the featured solo artist at its 17th
chestra was begun 28 years ago.
As she gathers up her meager be- annual concert on Sunday evening.
Kappa Sigma Tau Sorority will
Comparatively, that is among the
longings a stranger appears. He is May 10.
have a luncheon at 1 p.m. this
shorter periods as pertains to mat- a young American Jew flying for
The Halevy concert will take place Saturday in the Tower Room of
ters of this sort. The important the RAF, who has been shot down
thing to remember is that many from the sky by a squadron of Nazi. in the Scottish Rite Auditorium of the Women's Guild in the Metro-
private fortunes now are but a planes. The woman personifies op- Masonic Temple, with Dan Froh- politan Bldg. There will be enter-
faint shadow of what they were pressed Jews throughout the world; man directing the Halevy chorus tainment and prizes. The sorority
28 years 'ago, yes, even 10 years the flyer, the free Jewish commun- in a varied program of ensemble will also have a hike on Sunday.
ago. It has been these private for- ities determined to bring about their numbers. Reserved seat tickets are
tunes that have maintained your liberation. This dramatic meeting now obtainable from Halevy mem-
symphony orchestra; and it is sig- becomes the focal point of a world- bers.
nificant that for each possessor of wide canvas of Jewish suffering,
a private fortune who enjoyed courage and of the part played by
Giant Size
having the Detroit Symphony Or- American Jews in supporting the
P IGSKIN
chestra perform for him, there Jewish people's fight for life and
S HAMAY
have been thousands who partici- freedom.
pated in the orchestra's concerts

I

Leib Will Head
Defense Effort

Jews' Friend Loses
Vichy Citizenship

■

s

to Show New Film,

"The Promise"

STORAGE

1

39

There Is A KINSEL'S Corner Near You

Kaunas Jew Shot
In Ghetto Break

whose average payment for tickets
amounted to far less than half of
the cost of these same tickets to

the symphony society.

May Drop French
"War-Guilt"Case

LONDON (JPS)—A fleeing in-
ternee of the Saunas ghetto in
Lithuania was shot dead by a Ger-
man policeman, a Nazi paper pub-
lished in Lithuania's capital, Riga,
reported. The Jewish victim was

True, also, is the fact that there
are now new private fortunes. The
undeniable truth, however, is that
LONDON (JPS) — The French
those in control of these new for- "war-guilt" trial at Riom has been not identified.
tunes have practically no interest suspended until April 15 and may
in whether Detroit has a sym- be abandoned completely because LEAGUE OF N.H.J.C.
phony orchestra.
of dissatisfaction with the trial's TO HEAR DR. GLAZER

Culture has never been self-sup-
porting. Symphony orchestras, in
particular the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, could be self-supporting
if ticket holders paid four times as
much as is now charged for tickets.

Simply, this means that season
tickets would have to be priced at
820 to $100 each for the 14 Thurs-
day night concerts. Would you pay
these prices?
Remember Orchestra Hall? Re-
member that three years ago a
foreclosure action forced the De-
troit Symphony Society to abandon
the hall that was built especially
for the orchestra? Would the citi-
zens of any other large city, nay,
any city of importance in the

progress among the Nazi leaders, it
was reported here from Vichy.
The Detroit League of the Na-
Convened for the purpose of prov- tional Home for Jewish Children
ing that France was guilty of at Denver will meet at the home
launching the war against Ger- of Mrs. George Levey, 19670 Shrews-
many, the trial has served as - a bury Ave.,on Wednesday, April 15,

sounding board to prove the incom-
petence of many French officers and
the unwillingness of the French
upper classes to win against the
Nazis. Although it was intended
that Leon Blum, JeNvish head of
the Popular Front government,
should be the scapegoat of the pro-
ceedings, he emerged once again as
a brilliant spokesman for the cause
of liberalism and proved the effi-
ciency of the government which he
eaded.

at 1:30 p. m. Members are invited
to bring their friends.
Mrs. Sidney Wallace and Mrs.

Charles Lapides, program chair-
men, will
present Rabbi Louis

Glasier, the guest speaker, who will
give a book review. A film entitled
"Fighting Fire Bombs," approved
by the Office of Civilian Defense,
will also be shown.
The simultaneous card and Mali

Jong parties will be held on Wed-
nesday, May 20.

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