Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1923, Page 55

IN ‘tOl? 11158 o e o NTHEMS, cantatas and oratorios of Eastertide are tilling the air today and echoing the rehearsals of many patient weeks in final perfection. It seems never more true than at Easter that re- ligious music is generally the most inspired of all the many va rieties of music, with the possible exception of the great operas and a comparatively small percentage of individual short efforts. The story of Easter has, besides its religious motive, such coloriul drama, combined with the simplicity of the subject, greatest and upper- most in the minds of all people—the possibility of life after death (for self-preservation is the ote to human existence)—that it offers in- tinite possibilities to the ingenious composer of music. ok % LL of the community music organizations, schools and social groups, are bending all their efforts toward the develop- ment of programs for Music week in May. The Washington Choral So- ciety is planning an oratorio, and all the other large organizations have special plans already outlined for this time. PEAKING of community efiorts brings tc including clubs, the the fore very sizable achievement which has been attempted by Rollin Bond, director of | the Washingtonians. The result of his labors will be shown this week at the three performances of “Faust” in English, the dedication produc- tions of this edition by a well known American music publishing house. Every detail of this production is presented by local effort and talent. and the whole should form an history hicvement noteworthy in th of music in Washington. It should ¢ ily receive the co-operation and |dest Ch (Lenormand), “Humne pat! age of Washing eople whe ve the developme of ashe-fou 5o {Georgen), he Divan of patronage of Washington people who have th evelopment of Wash- |71 SUl U (0 o Als T etan) (Hans ington as a music center at heart {ling), “Heart, Have You Heard the R j News?", “Oh," Love! The Beauty of - _ o . . jthe Moon IS Thine” “Wind of the NOTHER production by leading talent of Washington to be presented {East” and “Love, If for Nothing Else"” regational Mu Phi All of the artists to give selections on this program are well known in Washington music circles and are popu- far with the general pul this week the condert to be Church on Friday by the IZpsilon National Musical Society is the First Cong a Chapt en vening Rho Be the of ¢ as well through the numerous local programs on which they have appeared from time to time TILL another local effort that promises a most interesting evening's entertainment is t by Victor Kern The Advent of c ¢ dance pantomime, * a New Day, . which will be give munity House 3 g n at the Trinity Wednesd: d Thursday aiterncons. Mr. Kerney is assisted in this production by Lydia Bush-Brown, Mrs. Frederick Farrington of Chevy Chase, Walter Beck of the Ram’s Head Players, and Edward A. Hines, Iyric tenor, formerly with the With the excer is made up of children of the neig Trinity Church Ilini Opera Company of Naples the entire cast of the production hborhood and the Sunday scheol of n of these artists, ASHINGTON Jonas Chickering centennial celebration, be a banquet on April 21, followed by d because Calvin Cool iutereste. the pila for the the features of which will an elaborate recital the next da Vice President of the United States, and therefore a well known r nt of this city—temporarily accepted the chairmanship of this celebration. In music, as in all the other arts at least—has ct it seems to take a hundred years e 1is work, even though tl n iusrtument to increas )i another's compositions rather than a musical wo of an artist a 1 to wake up to the true v t work be the building of e beauty creation itselt HIS week a lege glee club d next Washington is threatened with a de 1 Both the Brown University and the Amherst <lubs will give peppy programs this week, and early next weck the Dart- mouth College musical clubs, which have become a spring institut ong Washington's v ng attractions, will give a concert here that is predicted to have special appeal for both music lovers of the classical and of the popular compositior Long live the harmonizing eficcts of college life as symbolized by these happy, enthusiastic boys’ clubs. ERE seems to be a veritable rage that has swept all over the country in the trail of Feodor Chaliapin, the famous Russian basso, for the golden notes that are his. Critics and reviewers alike wax almost de- lirious witk enthusiasm for this man, whom some have state is “the greatest of Russian singers.” He is also said to be of striking physical appearance, being six feeg ¢ix inches tall, and of vivid coloring. Washington is evidently in for an unusual musical treat to be en- joyed in the concert to be given by this “blond Porth here this week. 1sic. H gone so far as to ME. EMMA CALVE, generally recognized as one of the leading so- pranos of the world today, is half French and half Spanish by ances- try. She was born in Madrid, yet France is considered her home, and it is to a cozy home in that gay land that she goes every summer for a rest. Hers is a subtle and exquisite art that has stood the test of many vears, yet seems the richer rather than the poorer for the passage of time HE temporary Iull in concert and operatic music, due to the rise to the fore of religious music for the past few weeks, scems to have heen broken w Washington for t h a definiteness that promises busy musical activities for e remainder of the spring season. HELEN FETTER. CONCERTS mherst Club’s concert, tomorrow, at First Congregational Church. Feodor Chaliapin, at Poli's, Tuesday afternoon. Pringle-Olsha y concert, the Willard, Tuesday night. Brown ‘L'ni\'ersit_\' Clul's concert, Wardman Park Hotel, Tues night. Charles Stratton, tenor, Art Center, Thursda Mme. Calve, at Poli's, Friday afternoon. Rho Beta concert, First Congregational Church, Frida Dartmouth Club concert, Hotel Washington, April 10, Paul Althouse, National Theater, April 13. Shura Cherkassky, at Poli's, April 13. e Amherst Club's Concert Tomorrow. j time in Wash afternoon at 4 v night - night 1gton next Tuesday under the manage The Amherst Glee and Mandolin |ment of Mrs. Wilson-Greene. clubs from the “Singing College of [ Feodor Challapin is one of the out- New Bosland wiil gtve concert | Standing figures in the musical world today. Critlcs concede that he is one of the greatest concert artists before the public. His art, like that of all In the First Congregational Church tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Amherst was the first college in the Unit o greatest artlsi s e st artists, scems so si B States to have a musical or cause It {5 80 complex. His (eon tron of this kind and aslde from |nique is of the highest order. Harvard they are the u;“(tI:"Y;l".{MnK;N In accordance with w long-estab- musical club to ° toured England. | lished custom, Mr, ¢ p The leader of the Glee Club, R. B. | Systom, Mr. Challupin will an- nounce from the stage the numbers Cowan, is a Washingtonian and quite | ha will sing, and ington_Dartmouth Alumni Associa- -\ - Yo e B the audience will| r ¢ yrominent in college circles. One of |he immeasuratio : 4 tion. The performance will rominens an collees S f | be imme; bly assisted in follow- | Jowed by v it swhicl Hille” was 15 mow tha|iosks in which are prifited the Eng- | ithe lgcal commities on arfanse: Mable Slerce Congregational | Chaloctiss 0L a1l the songs In Mr.|ments, acting for the alumai, o Ghureh, % vl saberiole. Cisth Tof (Chitlos FL Warner, ehate: Lurch Boats ors ober - sists of Charles H. i - Following s the program: “Lord nr”f;;S“C“ggmfllij‘:‘;c;‘:m-l;‘}:ls""-1 man: E. Taylor Papson and David E. Jeffery Amherst” (Hamilton): “Re-|G streets. - and | McCoy. 4\und+ Yo clrcmlg ‘lulh (l}icrm-)’ . — 1 — oust to Amherst” (Jones 3 1 i Jiandolin Club, “Collegn Medley,” - Olshansky-Pringle Concert Tuesday| Paul Alt‘house April 13. S b iSen, - Fover: (Androws):| -AERes Pringle, violinist, and Ber- | concars seriee T arthor Smite piar “Hunter's |'~;“...“>,”“ (Bartholdy nardo Olshansk baritone, will e | has selected Paul Althouse, American ‘“Deep River” (Burleigh): Mandolin | & concert in the baliroom of the Wil- | tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Com- Club, Parade ~of ‘the Wooden | lard Hotel Tuesday night at $:30 1y, This recital will be glven at Soldiers,” “When Hearts aro Young.” [ o'clock under the auspicos of the | National Theater on Friday after- Tl Follow You to Zanzibar’;|Ladics of the G. A R oon, April 13, 30 o'clock, in liew quartet, composed of Messrs. Howe, [ The program will be announced|©f the de Gogorza concert scheduled Suuer, Rogers and Cowan; Lord Jet- | later. fery's syncopated ’serenaders; Glee Glub, fand-organ Man"” '(Othe- Brown Clubs’ Concert Tuesday. Cooky; ensemble, “To the Fairest | the Brown University ){'Jm*‘x"{"}ufii College” (Bartlett). Admission 1s; {/I! be held in the ballroom of ‘the free for all these concerts. The con“nf“whk";fl_;‘;;*;:g:.:;pg;gb;t‘; the public, will be given by th. om- bined glee and mandolin clubs. Tha clubs, “which have a personnel of 'f:;?“'uv;;:i ln:n, ha\é? been entertain- ngton audiences - ber of years. peseT e program Is designed to plea lovers of both classical and pepular Chaliapin at Poli’s Theater Tues- day. Chaliapin, will bé h Feodor Russian ba: the great rd_the fi MOUNT VERNON musie. Nick Brown's Orchestra will supply e music for th anc and ALEXANDRIA, round trip, 80c *r{:e program is as follows: “On the = Chapel Steps” (J. N. Enos, Brow Arlington, side trip, 10c additional |’ 357" q1 G0\ Nturcr» “(rotheros). Flectric _Caes_leave 12th Pennwylvusia | “Invictus” (Huhn), Glee Club; “Live Avenue Northwest, on the bhour and balf bour | Wire” (Johnstone), “Clytie” (Pabst), 00 A. M. to 2:30 P. M | Mandolin Club: Varaits” Quartet, Mv Running Time—85 Minut cott, Mr. Sweet. Mr. Tinker, Mr, | SIS S BEES fides; reading by My Lord:"vooed Washington-Virginia Railway Co0. | <olos,” Mr. Scot ‘Spanish Dance’ Phone Main 397 (Moszkowski), “Bersaglieri” (Eilen- THE Record Attendance at Museum Concerts. JITH the conclusion of this year's free orchestral concerts presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art £ part of its cultural program end Eiven by a symphony orchestra dn- de David Manne a new record for attendance at these Ltablished. ¥ the eight Saturday |evening programs, four in January and four fn March, an aggregate audi- concerts was es- ence of over 60,000 assembled. The final pros March 24, largely of spring and heard by %000 ers, was impressively ended ith the Good Friday music from Parsifal.” 1t included also Bee- lthoven's other nun; | — | ber, torale” symphony among “Ma £). Mandolin_ Club; Lindy Lou (Strickland), “Heay'n” (Bur- lelgh), - 1 Along” (Cook), GGlee Club; "t ity Dance Orchestra, violin, Mr. wsome; trumpet, Mr. Inflehouse: Drake; saxa- phones, Mr. and Mr. Beil; drums, "Mr, See: ¥ Quart. bance of the Skele- ). “irarade of the Wooden (Jessel), Mandolin ~ Club; | =01 King Cole™ {Lullaby” " (Palmgreny, “The _ Lost | Chord” (Sullivan). Gles Club; Brown {songs by the combined club: i !Charlcs Stratton at Art Center (Forsythe), “Finnish i Thursday. 1 Han o Martin, jr., will pre- 1t Char atton, tenor, in con- cert at the Art Center, 1107 Connec- ut avenue northwest, at 8:45 p.m. hursday evening. Charles Fonteyn Manney will be the acce | program will e Jesus, 1 Have Lost The SiL Revenait un Jour” (Respight), un ir Jour d'lte” Petit Gardieu Spiritualy” (aeranged by Man | Away to Jesus,” “Oh, 1 s to Heav “Wera There?”, “Goin' » Al Ove' | {God’s Heaven ue Her Eyes” ’4\\ tts), “Nightinga of Franc | (Schindler), =T Blind Ploughman" {(Clarke), “Love Went iding’ | dge). i :Mme. Calve at Poli's Theater Fri- { day. Mme, Emma Calve will be heard in cital at Foli's The next Friday | s maon 30 under the manage- iing to Washington 1e ttal of sonzs, which will not interest the music-loving pub- all students of voice, as her s still one of the great volees world. ve's Carmen is musical history. Habanera,” as Calve sings It, is tand: On the occaslon of her recital here her program 1 include ta i (Bellinl), “Aria_de Cleopatre’ (Handel), “In Questa Tc (Beethoven), My “Cradle Song” (G Captive” (B: (Martini), * Rose Has Charmed the Nghtingale’ (Rimsky-Korsakoff), “Aria des Cartes” and “Habanera,” from "Car- men (Bizet) and hansons Espagnoles’ s songs. S 4 sale Mrs. Wilson- rt bureau, 13th and G Rho Beta 6oncen. Friday. Rho Beta Chapter, Mu Phi Epsilon wtional Musical Sorority will present ra McGill Keefer, mezzo soprano; Netta Cralg, soprano: Elizabeth Win- ston, pianist, Charles Trowbridge ittinann, basso, and Richard Lorle- eliist, in recital at the First gational Church, 10th and G Friday, at 8 o'clock p.m. The artists participating in this concert are among Washington's best alent, Reta dience and it the desire Rho Chapter to prove to local au- that one need not go outside n for talent is scloist at the First ce Church and is a ger of note, and her lovely voice is always a delight to her aig s one of Washington's most beautiful sopranos and her re- cent recitals have won her much praise from Washington critics and elsewhere. Mr. Tittmann finest oratorio slugers in and his services in Jmand throughout the e Elizabeth Winston, o is considered ons of the coun- great de- zifted pianists east, ently won the prize as ng professional pianist amonz those contesting for the honors offered Federation of Mus Richard Lorl ¥s popular. conslsts of the follo “Der Wanderer” n Questa Tomba Os- ethoven), “Aprile” (Tostl), in; Spanish folk songs in by the American e Clubs rg's performances numbe (Schubert), a’ (F Mira la_ bien” (Pedrell). (Valerde), “Granadinos” Miss Craig; “Butterfly” enthal), “Marche hubert-Liszt), Miss Adieu Forets.” from {by request (Tschaikows fer; duet, Militaire" Winston Jeanne D'Arc,” Mrs. Kee- Passage Bird's Farwell” (Hildach), Mrs. Keefer and Mr. Titt- mann; “Canta Amoroso” (Elman- Tammantini), “Saltarella” (Lindner), Mr. Lorleberg; nineteenth century songs in costume, “‘Where Be Goin'?" (Cornish), “The Little Red Lark"” rish), “Leezie Lindsay" (Scotch), “0 No, John" (English), Miss Craig: “The Little Red k" (Old Irish), by students of the Lovette § SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . :APRI T, 1923—PART 3. ¥ MME Emma CATVE Polis Lovette Recital RECITAL by Eva Whitford A Lovette, mezzo soprano, and T. S. Lovette, planlst-composer, assisted hool of usic, will be presented at the First Baptist Church, Friday night. The program will | include: “Concerto” (Vivaldl), T. S. Lovette; “Se tu m'ami, se tu sospiri” (Pergolesl), “Was I Not + Blade on Dewy Meadow Ground” (Tschaikowsky) reebliches Stand- (“The Vain Sul Whitford Lovett de Valse" (Saint Saens), | Hillyer; ‘“Beauteous Morn" | (Ed. German), “Ashes of Roses” (R. | Huntington), “The Rivulet” (Silver), | Lovette School of Music chorus, with | Xelma Brown, accompanist; = “Les Amoureux” (“The Lovers”) (C. Min- ette), “Ah! My Beloved” (text from Omar ¥ am), (Willlam = Sticks), “De OF A-moverin' " (Negro spirftual) (David Gulon), Eva Whit ford Lovette; “Rhapsodie No, 16 (Liszt), Mary Ruth Matthews; Love My Love” “The Close of Day, “If I Could Love Thee,” “The Throne of Love" (Lovette), Eva Whitford Lovette. chen” Iva, orme Gladys ') _(Brahms), “Etude en musical programs | given tod all of the churches, as | published st night's paper, have | placed the climax in church music for the year, they have by no means put | period to church music for the sea- of ! Although be given this opening week in April. | interesting _announcement by | ington Choral Soclety states | oratorio “Elijah,” by Men- 1 be given on May 8, and | 1 re held every Monday | night at 8 o'clock in the Church of the Ascens! An the W . April ! pon 2 gold m awarded to several deserving boys and acolytes who have achieved the highest marks in thelr work for the past vear, and a special musical program will be rendered by the oir of St. Paul's Eplscopal Church, | Washington Circle. | = o lf concart for the relief of Russian | s wlill be given at the Church | r, corner 13th and L| streets northwest, on the 19th of April at 8 p.m The artists Bessie Brow e Misses Marguerite and | no and mezzo-so- prano, and 3 ce, planist. The | Misses Brown had a long European ex- rt and opera, and Mr. own here as both or- nd concert plani: ookland Baptist Church will The < dedicate its new organ next Wednes- day at 8:15 p.m., when an organ re-| eital will be given by Louis A. Potter, organist of Calvary Baptist Church, sisted b Mrs. Ruby Potter, so- prano, and Fred East, baritone. The program for the evening is as follows: Organ, “Tocata” (Bartlett); organ, “Allegretto,” from “Fifth S phony” (Widor); soprano, “O Div Redeemer” (Gounod organ. ‘Sun- rise” (Jacob); “Allegretto” “Meditation” (Sturgess), (Godard), Marche Re- | logleuse” (Guilman), tone, “Fear | Not Ye, O Israel (Buck); organ,| “Prelude n C Minor” (Chopin); “Ara- | in G" (Seely), “Irish Folk| “Allegro_ Maestoso,” from 1" (Borowskli); offertory duet, ‘“Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts" (Goetze); organ, Old Favo- rites, closing with “Doxology.” sung by congregation, standing. besque Song."” ‘Sonata No. Mrs. Lorena Stockton Gawler, m-‘ 1y Love's an Arbutus” (Old Irish), “My Lovely Celia” (de Arne), Mr. { Tittmann; “Hungarian Rhapsody N 2 (Liszt), Miss Winston; ‘*Homin, (del Riego), “The House Built” (Homer), “As We Part genfritz), Mrs. Keefer; and duet That Jack (31 zart), Miss Craig and Mr. Tittmann. The accompanists are Grete von Bayer, Mrs. Bertrand Trenis and Ma- ble Linton. The public is dnvited. Dartmouth Cluh-G;ncert April 10. The Dartmouth College combinead musical clubs, fresh from their vie- tory over Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Wisconsin( In the intercollegiate glee club contest in New York, in which seven other colleges competed, will give a concert in the salon de nations, Hotel Washington, on April 10, under the auspices of the Wash- for February 2. All tickets for that i date are good for April 13. Paul Althouse has galned a pre- eminent position among tenors. Tickets for this recital are on sale by T. Arthur Smith, Inc, 1306 G street. Shura Cherkassky at Poli's April 13th. Shura Cherkassky, eleven-year-old Russlan boy pianist, acclaimed by mu- sical critics in New York and Balti- more, as the greatest youthful musi- cal genius since Josef Hofmann, will give a recital at Poli's Theater on ¥riday, April 13, at 4:30, under the managemnt of Mrs. Wilson-Greene, He will play a program that New York and Baltimore ecritics agree could take front rank with those of zreat pianists of the age. yet he has most of his life before him. arc on sale at Mrs. Wilson- s concert.bureau, 13th and G streets. prano, who is assisting with the Easter music today at the Wallace Memorial Presbyterlan Church, will sing “Hosannah” at the evening service, an Easter song written by | RoruiN Boxp Certral High Sehool MUSIC IN THE CHURCHES T. §. Lovette and dedicated Gawler. Dr. Lovette will organ accompani 1o Mrs v the At St. Margaret' day the cantata and Peace” by Maunder, ered by the full church son. An increasing number capacity and appreclative audience. urche opt. » idea of |The instrumental and vocal parts churches have adopted the Idea ofj [0, 0 ™ runy executed. The giving concerts In the churches dur-|iepor, W. W. Gantz, sang “Oh, That {ng the week, and an especfally gen- | I Knew Wkhere I Might Find Him” in erous supply of relig music will |3 manner that called forth special erous supply of religious s The W/ashfngtom'ans. Community Opera Group HE Wilson Normal Community Center has been the studio of the Washingtonians, a community group interested in producing operas of high artistic value, under the di- rection of Rollin Bond and Mrs. Gene- vieve Bond. The culmination work will ba the new edition of of the =cason’s production of the " in English at the Central High Community Cen- ter next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Mr. Bond emphasizes the co-opera- tion of the varlous community groups, highly developed artistically through careful training. producing a magnifi- cent art development. No more interesting sight is found among the varied gToups of the com- munity centers of the public schools than the rehearsals that have been held twice each week in the Wilson Normal Community Center, the ast of over 200 often finding it necessary to use several of the rooms as well as_the auditorium. The cast has been sclected by Mr. Bond from the community at large. The experience of Mrs. Bond enables her to glve to the community chorus stage presence and artistry rot found in all operatic productions. Mr. Bond s a man of twenty-flve years’ ex- perlence with theatricals and the composer of half a dozen operas for New York producers, a graduate mu- sician and_a conductor of wide ex- perfence. Mrs. Bond has charm and professional experience. She has written and etaged New York produc- tions. Both of them have worked hard for several years to promote the_development of community opera in Washington, to enable people to hear the master productions, well rendered, at low prices made possible through the community center de= partment of the publlc schools. John Knowles Palne might well be called the composer for expositions. He wrote the music for Whittier's “Hymn" which was used to open the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia and he was also chosen to write the Columbus March and Hymn for the opening cere- monies of the World's Fair at Chicago in 1882. This latter was given by thousands of singers under the direction of Theodors Thomas. John Palne is one of the most classic of American composers and has been called the dean of Amerlcan music writers. e was born in Portland, Me., January 9, 1839, and died at Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 1906. After spending his childhood under the tutelage of a local music teacher, Paine made his debut as an organist When eighteen and A year later began study in Berlin, where he spent three vears studylng the organ, composition instrumentation and singing. . From 1862-73 Paine was instructor in music at Harvard University and in 1875 was appointed professor of music, @ chair which was created especlally for him. The next year marked two events in his life—the singing of his “Hymn” at the opening of the Centennial Exposi- tion and the production of his first symphony by Theodore Thomas. His only oratorio was first produced at Portland in 1873 and later in Boston: this oratorio was “St. Peter,” which showed considerable dramatic strength. One of Paine's most popular compo- eitions for the voice was the chorus, “Phoebus, Arise.” His opera, “Azara, and the two cantatas, “The Nativity" and “The Song of Promise,” are others of_his_outstanding vocal compositions. Mr. Paine also wrote some very inter- esting piano compositions, but by far the most fampus of all his works, and generally conceded to be his master- plece, is his music for “Oedipus Tyran- nus,” the great Greek work of Sopho- kles. There are music authorities who have even gone so far as to state that this is the best work written by an American composer to date, AMERICAN COMPOSERS JOHN KNOWLES PAINE. This work was written by Mr. Paine for presentation at Harvard University and is a Greek tragedy gem et to per- fectly harmonlous music by a Yankee musician. It was first performed at Cambridge in 1881 and has been sunj many times since, until now it 1s wel known both in this country and in Eu- rope. Beside all of these compositions, Mr. Patne has also written many things for the organ, string quartets, violins and ‘cellos as well as for plamo and vo His music has lived and is used every day—the greatest tribute that could be paid to prove the immortality of & com- poser's genium, Musigraphs. Charles Stratton, the young tenor, who will glve & program a‘ the Art Center Thursday night, was solofst with the Schola Cantorum of New York, at Carnegle Hall recently. Alfredo Casella, the young Italian composer - conductor - pianist, who gave the solo plano numbers with the Philadelphla Symphony Orchestra, when glving the last concert of the season here recently, is sald to be an ardent champlon of jazz music and Is also composing a ballet on an Ameri- can Indlan story, according to an in- teresting article published in a recent issue of “Muslcal America.” Ignace Jan Pacerewski, the wizard Polish planist, who has not favored Washington with one of his wonder- ful concerts this winter, but has been most generous clsewherd, {s quoted as having told Olin Downes, music critie of the Boston Post, that he con- sidered politics greater than muste. Deems Taylor of the New York World comments on this Interview, !u};llnx. “How true, we mused and how righ Mr. Padercwsict ist Who Wil ever forget the splitting up of Saxe-Wei- mer-Elsenach? And who now remem- bers that Elsenach was the birthplace in 1685 of a musician named Bach? News has just been received from Mme. Marle von Unschuld, who, with her daughter, Madeleine, s giving & series of plano recitals In this country, having played in New York, Philadeiphia, Chicago, = St Louls, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles; everyw they were en- thustastically “received. They have been fllling engagements in San Erancisco for the past two wecks, Wwhence they expect to return to Washington™ by the middle of April, A Washington man—R. B. Cow. of 3351 Mount Pleasant street north- weat—Is the leader of the Amherst College Glee and Mandolin Clubs, Which 1s o give a concert at the First Congregational Church, 10th ond G strests northwest, tomorrow night at 8 o'clocl owan is rresident of the senfor class 4t Ame erst and {s prominent in many of the activities of his Alma Mater, which s popularly known as : singing college of the east.” The Amherst Musical Clubs are on @ #pring trip. With the exception of Harvard, Amherst Colloge is the only American university to send a mu- sical club abroad The admission will be free at tomorrow's concert. Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler has re- turned from three-week trip through Florida and will resume her position as soloist at Washington Heights Presbyterfan Church Hazel Gibson Wood, soprano, was sololst at Christ Luthéran Church on Palm Sunday. Washington Clubs—The Rubin- stein. One of the most famous of all the musical organizations in Wask is the Rubinste! tablished Marecl ngton n Club, which was es- 28, 1908 by Blanche A. Yewell. The first meeting was held in the Immanuel Baptist Church, and many of the first officers women who are still leaders in musical life of Washington. They cluded AMrs. Hobart Brookes. president; secretary-treasurer; b Whitesall, librarian B, accompanist and Mrs tair, dir Tt tee that the idea of the club origina with the success of a choral s of St. Louls, Mrs MRS, R. H. DALGLEISH, Blair is generally conceded as being responsible for “the firm basis of training and development of this club, which has placed it in the front rank among similiar local organi- zations today The thirtesn charter membe cluded, in addition to the o above ‘mentioned, Mrs. Edward Mar- tin, Miss Ruth Simpson, Mrs. Elmer Curry, Mrs. Robert Mr. Percy’ Brown, Mrs. ¥ 'Soho: Mrs.” H. W. Smith and Miss Mattie Gibson. The Rubinstein Club concert: which have been under the manage- ment of T. Arthur Smith for a num- ber of years and only recently join- ed the National Federation of Music Clubs and thus secured the federa- tlon’s co-operation in managing their own concerts, has brought many new artists to this city and introduced them to Washington. who have later returned here as famous profession- als. Among these are Reglnald Wer- renrath, Olive Kline, Florence Hin- kle, Theo Karle, Herman Sandb Reed ~Miller, Mmie. Van der Veer, Louis_Graveure, Lucy Gates, Vladi~ mir Rosing, Royal Dadmun, Olive Nevin, Harold Milligan and manv others. The latest effort of this club is the glving of its annual card party and dance next Wednesday night at the Willard Hotel, where the club has recently located its permanent head- quarters. The musical numbers to be glven on this program by the mem- bers include “Maidens, Remember’ (Weckerlin), “The ‘'rue Heart (Vidal), and “Little Brown Bear. These selections will be sung by the club chorus in the intermission. There are eighty-five active mem- bers and eighty assoclate members in the club now, and the third of thelr professional concerts this sea- son will be presented May 1 with Kathryn Melsle, American contralto, as_tho assisting sololst. The present officiers of the Rubin- stein Club are: Mrs. Robert H. Dal- glelsh, president: Miss Mattie Gibson, first vico president; Mrs. Archer L. Haycock, second vice president; Mrs, William R. Benham, secretary; Miss Rachel Lang, assistant secretary; Miss Alice Broas, treasurer; Mrs. Frank C. B. Lord, librarfan; Mrs. Mil- ton White, chairman volce commit- tee; Mrs. M. L. Odell, chairman room committee; Mrs, Bimer E. Curry, chairman_press committee; Mrs. Fred Klinge, chalrman entertainment com- mittee; Mr. Claude Robeson, musfcal director; Mrs. Howard Blandy, ac- Companist; Miss Gertrude M. Locher, essistant accompanist; honorary presi- dents, Mrs, Hobart Brooks, Mrs, Apol- line Blair and Mrs. Thomas J. Rowe; honorary life members, Miss Blanche Yewell, Mrs. May Brooks Ramsdell, Mr. Herndell Morsell and Mr. T. Ar- thur Smith. . Following the recent excavations on the Nile, the Egyptian rooms of the mu- seum have been in high favor on concert nights, many people finding a double d light in leaning against the tomb « some ancient countryman of the popular Tutankhamen while listening to Bee- thoven, Schubert and Tschaliowsky symphonles. h ) =l i | . thie season. Music School and Club Notes. EORGE A. MYERS, tenor, will be heard in a number of ballads on Tuesday evening at the last meeting of the Short Story Club for Miss Isabelle Myers will play his accompaniments. Miss Mar- guerite Gateley, soprano, will also contribute some SOngs. The Rebew Orchestra, under the direction of H. W. Weber, will glv bublic rehearsal tomorrow mignt i the lecture room of Keller Memorial Church, Miss Lols Shively, planist, and Mr. Harvey T. Townsend, tenor, being the assisting solot / Students of the Lovette School of Music responded to an emergency call last Sunday afternoon from Mr. Harry Stafford, in charge of enter- tainment at Walter Reed Hospital, and without any preparation gave an unusually interesting program. Those who participated were M Gladys Hillyer, Miss Mary Ruth Mat- thews and Miss Zelma Brown, plan- ists, and Miss Edythe Crowder, so- prano. They were each heard in sev- eral groups and responded generous- 1y with encores. The clubrooms of the League of Amerfcan Pen Women were filled to capacity last Sunday afternoon to hear the program of song by Mary Helen Howe, coloratura soprano. us- sisted by Jerome Willlams, local plan- ist and composer. Miss Howe opened the program with “O, Divine Redeem- er” (Gounod), which was glven with feoling. Next was a group of dainty French songs, and her closing group included “Southern. Song” (Renald), “Where Blooms the Rose” (Clayton- | Bdwin P. Jones, Pauline Kernedy | William "Stanley Quine and M. Caro: Iyn Giles. The Young Men's Christian Asso catlon service department lobby con cert last Monday at 7 pan. was pres sented by Mrs. Macon Rice McArtor planist; "~ Miss Esther Linkins, so. prano; Miss Ada Loulse Townseud Mrg, Lelia Emig Endloott Mr. gar Kidwell bar Miss Gertrude Locheér, ac companis tea held at the Collegs Worni: b Monday afterncon Misy 1 Nelson of Baltimore urerecital entitled “The the Arts With Music. on divided the music of into three periods, classi- sm and cubis filustrating | desi amentatior, dividuality as de: and Nelson g freedom veloped Miss ctions to illust ayed the following te her talk: “Ma folk eong ' from the rris dancess M ore Glovar (Mozar s Tn Bergere”, Mendelssohn's & Without Words and a selection b hornberg. Special guests were Mr. and Mrs Bush- and Mrs. Robert Lawren. s Leila Mechlin Miss Is poured tea, assist v and Mre. R. S The rnext meating of the Friday Morntng Music Cly i1l Le 1d in the Eighth Street Temple this Friday at 11 ¢ which cc Johns), and “Swiss Echo Song” (Ech. | fists of 2 sopri ert), which displayed colorful tones contralto and’ vocal technique. Mrs. Irenc George Chalney proved a sympathetic accom- Atwater, panist for Miss Howe. b foidl Mr. Willlams played two groups of h his own compositions, which dis- Abeamm Si played merit and musical form. Miss Howe will have charge of the musical portion of the program this afternoon_at the League of Ameri- can Pen Women, when she will d rect a double quartet in thems and_songs appropriate to feast day. This body of singers p of a choral aster an- he The Capital Male Quartet, now in its second year, has been fori securing J. H. McCready, fo Butte, Mont., as ity first tenc the west Mr. McCready nor in three of the l¢ quartets, one of them belr tet of the University of W olo eection of Church, La- He Is a member of the the fa choir of St. John's ette square, Wilbur Wesley Gantz, 5 eral years a8 tenor soloist of regational church of Colum- Ohio, and now tenor soloist of Margaret's, Bancroft place and avenue, the second well known bus, St Connecticut tenor of the quartet. Earl Carbauh is first bass of the quarte and bharitone soloist and precentor of the Central Presbyterian Church B Edwin Callow, member of the choir Ca of St. John's, Lafayette square, is second bass of the quartet. His well known “Tony the Barber” stories and other humorous and dramatic re ings will be added features of the Capital Male Quartet gram Mrs. Carbauh and Mrs. Callow will alternate as accom ists for the solus rendered by the members The quar dered a Pprogr: L evenin the Trestlel 1b of Masons at the City Club a gave several' quartets later s Press Club. They appear tonigh ng service prog the community at Central High § 1 Assoctation nounces another The Internat Art and Letters a evening of music, with literary in- terpolations, for next Friday. Dr Alexander Henneman will give of own were compositions, some written_for 'the wor composed and then words writ- ten to express the tone idea. The composer anal both musical com- sition and words, e how the musician expresses ught in musical construction and how the music_sugges a thought One of the compositions will be while the poem to which it is set is projected on the en, affording listeners opportunity to = in- timate induced to pl some extracts of his orchestra c position of * 2, the photoplay which has ex asm in Chicago, the s what similar to “Ben Hur” and writ- ten for the screen by Cardinal Wise- man. Last Tues: five of her pupils Friendship Chapter, participating were dially invited alto, and Bdwin for the Ram's tam's Head v aftern the Hotel roduced Miss n_invitatio n the Ho Gute! no an en b progr. Faithful® (Bach) | cone. | April JonasChickering Centennial has been received from New NEWS York of the announcement Otto H. Kahn, chairman of Metropolitan Opera House board dfrectors, that Calvin Coolidge, Vice President of the United States, has accepted the chairmanship of the Jonas Chickering centennial cele- bration. The announcement wi made at the celebration committee offices, 437 5th avenue. Mr. Kahn, who is a member of the said: “It is fitting and gratifying that nation-wide tribute is being paid to as Chickering. A century ago Jonas Ct kering, then_a mers lad, a blacksmith’s son in New Hampshire, set to worl in his own name as a maker of pianos. There wero at his disposal very limited financial means and but i few simple tools, but there were also at his disposal pluck. resourcefuln persistency, love of his work and ventive genius. With th wrought a great and last jean achievement. His from which sprang the his the hand that laid the founda- tion of the American plano of t ay which has established w triump throughout the world “It would be difficult to exaggoeraio tho place which the plano has comc to hold in American Jife. Singer, in- strumentalist nd composer, school and home, concert room, ballroom dance hall and theater—the use of the plano is universal. Long famil- committee, Amer- brain tha coneeption, farity has blunted our sense of the boon which that instrument has brought to us. In the long list of the achievements of human ingenuity and inventiveness there is hardl) one which has contributed more to enrich our daily lives. There is none which has done so much to further and spread the appreciation and the understanding of art and to popular- ize and democratize music. “To Jonas Chickering, whose inven- tions in the early days of America’s de- velopment played So vital a part in be- stowing this rich gift upon this country owes a great debf. He he longs to the {llustrious list of the path- finders and master-buflders of America His name should be held in admiri and grateful remembrance.” Three ecorc of the biggest men business, musle, the stage and in public Iife have signified their willingness to align themselves with this nation-wide movement to pay tribute to the father of the American pianoforte. —Among Glulio” Gatti- Casazza, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, William' Cardinal O'Connell, nator Reed_Smoot, Arthur Bodan W. Chadwick, Gov. Channing Massachusetts, Mayor James M. Curley of Boston, Walter Damrosch, Dohnanyi, Arthur Foote, Fritz Kreisler, Courtenay Guild, James' L. Guy, Philip Hale, Richard W, Lawrence, John F. Lyons, William Mengelberg, conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orches- tra; Plerre Monteux, Barthold Neuer, Elly Ney, Robert Lawrence, Gail head of the music department of the Library of Congre: R. Paynter Walter H. Rothwell, Henry Souvalne igmund Spaeth, Frede . Leo- pold Stokowski, Dr. Samuel Westey Stratton, president of the Massachusetts Inslitut¢ of Technology: Frederick S Snyder, Dr, John J. Tigert, Unite its people, | C. ¥. Weed, Parhay, vs. Thomas (. Winte National Federatic and Mrs. Geor C of the Jor bration v tal on Apri , at Boston. ture whic from e ifred E. G | Beach's no was added to the | cast last w Wesley Ruggles and a_company of | Paramount ayers b gon o | 11 to film the « or scenes | for “The Heart Ralder,” a comedy drama adapted by Jack Cunningham from Harry Durant’s etory, “Arms and the Girl” In the cast are Agne | Ayres and Mahlon Hamilton. Scor Will be taken in the ity of Palm | Beach_and Mi . und Savan- {am, MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. WASHINGTON | CONSERVATORY 1 OF MUSIC 1408 X, H. Ave. M. 7858. Al Branches | Vocal—Myron W. Whitaey. Violin—Auer Method. Piano—Lesohitizky Saxophone Tenor-Banjo & Banjo-Mandolin | _Start Your Chiliren in Music! Catalog. * - SAXOPHONE | Piano, Tenor Banjo. Guitar, Uke.. eto. 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