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in 1798; the year in which choice of the bombastic Tchai-Napoleon, in his first major kovsky overture to close the campaign, trounced the Aus- concert had been the commit-trian Armies in Italy. It is some- tee's, not the President's. He times called the "Kettledrum" said thrfiork—was on the pro-mass because of the urgent gram in 1970 when Mr. Nixon drumrolls that underscore the journeyed to Philadelphia to final plea, "Dona nobis pacem" present Mr. Ormandy with the

"Giye us peace." Medal of Freedom, and "we just Bah concerts at 9 P.M. Oth- had the feeling the President

er works on the Kennedy Cen- would enjoy it.' He said no one ter program were Aaron. Cop- on the committee ;was aware land's "Fanfare for the Com- of the historical background of mon Mari;''which Mr. Or the overture. inandy said had been chosen Mr. Ormandy said it had because Mr. Copland was an been decided not to use real American composer; Beetho-, capon, sometimes used with ven's Fifth Symphony, whicli"Illanks, in tonight's perform-was Mr. Ormandy's choice; once. after the intermission, the The .16 members of the or-Grieg piano concerto, chosen chestra who had asked not to by its soloist, Van Cliburn; perform tonight because they and what Mr. Ormandy de- felt the concert was "a de fac-scribed as a "collection of to political situation" were told Americana"—songs traditional they could not do so. One mem-and patriotic sung by the ber of the orchestra said that Roger Wagner Chorale, and most of the musicians felt that "Heritage of Freedom," a rec- they could separate their pro -nation by Charlton Heston, the fessional commitments from the movie actor, of unspecified "dictates of our consciences." portions of the 'Declaration of The soloists at the Washing.. Independence, with a choral ton Cathedral cOncert — Pa- background. tricia Wells, Gwendolyn Kille-

brew, Alan Titus and Michael Devlin — donated their serv-ices. The members of the or-chestra, who a spokesman for the cathedral said were recruit-ed locally, were paid scale.

Dean Sayre, a grandson of President Wilson, has been out-spoken in his opposition to United States policy in Viet-nam. He recently led arpeaceful march of protest against re-newed United States bombing in North Vietnam, from the ca-thedraloxhich is in the north-west section of the city, to the White House.

The major antiwar dem-onstrations are scheduled for tomorrow, to coincide with the inauguration itself, hut one group of protesters presented petitions, which they said had been signed by 50,000 persons, to a security guard at the White House this afternoon.

The petitions called for the immediate signing of the ac-cord reportedly reached with North. Vietnam in October. A , black community group held another rally and protest in the late afternoon.

A Gentle Mass In contrast, the work played

in the 2,450-seat cathedral by an orchestra of locally recruited musicians conductedovby Leon-ard Bernstein is for the most part a gentle, contemplative mass written by Joseph Haydn

By LINDA CHARLTON Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—The differing moods of this inaug-ural eve could be heard in the sound of music tonight, with an official concert featuring the triumphant cannon of Tchaikov-sky's "1812 Overture" at the John F. Kennedy Center, and the drumrolls of Haydn's Mass in Time, of War at the Washing-ton Cathedral.

The cancert at the Kennedy center, one of three presented tonigittiAtt the center by the Inaugural Committee, was open to formally dressed ticket-holders only, with a bonus of a candlelight dinner—Long Island duckling with wild rice and California wine—for those who spend $250 or more for their seats.

The "concert at the Washing-ton Cathedral, unofficial and free -on a first-come, first-served basis, was called "a plea for peace" rather than a protest, but the choice of music alone made clear the counterpoint.

The Kennedy Center concert, played by the Philadelphia Or-chestra under Eugene Ormandy, 16 of whose members had asked to be excused from per-formingjncluded the Tchaikov-sky overture celebrating the rout of Napoleon's army from Moscow in the winter of 1812, surely the best-known orches-tral work scored for cannon.

Committee Chose Overture A work by Vincent Persi-

chetti, employing narrator and chorus,- specially commissioned for the concert, with Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural ad-dress as its theme, was with-drawn last week by the com-mittee. Mr. Persiehetti said he had been toloL was done becuas the tM •t embar- rass Mr. Nixon.

Edward Cowling, the enter-tainment director for the In-augural Committee, said the

See Washington Post 13 Jaa 72 (Judith Mart -,m) 444sAtola, SFChronicle 16 Jan 72 (A Sour In augural Note) SPChronicle 20 Jan 72 (axons' Night for husic)

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