Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1923, Page 62

it ORD comes from “Asheville, . C.. where the thifteenth biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs has been in session daring the past week, that this biennial is establish- ing an epoch in thé history of American music. More than 500 _ delegates are said to be_in attendance at the convention, and, witlr ?he exception of a couple of the far western statgs, every state in the Union is gencrously represented in Ashevilie. E b . ok Kk 7 American music department of the federation is in the limelight at this convention, more so than at any previous, conference. The «all-American program, held Wednesda ““¥Yures of the entire weck of hundreds of programs. was onc of the prominent fea- John Powell was the star of this program with his-lecture, “The Nation in Music,” itlustrated 24¢ith ‘the Dua-Art. * ok K K PICALLY Anierican was one of the really important decisions made during the pasi week, when. the federation went on record as favor- ~ang the thorough Americanization of opera. Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelley i Oxford, Ohio, chdirman. of the opera and orchestra section of the ~srganization’s department of American music, made the report, which * i%as formally. adopted. Mrs. Kejley stated that as a means of populariz- __ing all foreign operas they should be sung in English. e 2 * % x HIS matter of singing opera in English has been one of much discus- sion in’'the United § ates for many years. Professional singers and +impre<arios usually take'tHe stand that the foreign languuge, particularly ‘,l‘a\iaxx and French, is usually so much more liquid and decorative than Vihe English. On ‘the other hand, there is ghis question of the general ! Jpublic and its inability to uriderstand opera sung in the foreign tongue. in supporting her report and argument in favor of foreign opera sung 45 Freoch, and in n English, Mrs. Kelley is quoted as saying: © “In Germany you hear operas.in German; in France they are gland they are beginning now to give them all in ish, due largely to the ‘movement in this country for operas in English. 'e should give all of our‘ioreign operas in English. 'Ii they are given n English-thev will become more papular with eur peopld.” s * % ok % ST JNDOUBTEDLY what Mrs. Kelley says is truc to a large cxiént. Yet there are singers whose voices are delightful, yet whose enunciation, “-particularly in our own language, is so faulty that it is ‘doubtful if the ~ageneral audignce could understand the opera, even though given in E: ish. English is-not an easy language to sing in as compared with the ‘:Eatin languages. Moreover. most operatic roles require such a wide range in the voice that-a singer who has a voice of low quality must often sing every high notes and vice versa . All these difficplties can be handled more ismoothly in the French or Italian than in English, and many oi the *ifranslations employ English wor, % hat are unmusical As'for the story of the opera. in nearly every case it can be set down “%ig pue short paragraph, there are so few complications or originality in smplot in the maj rity of the foreign operas. Washingtonians showed considerable interest in the English version ~of Gounod's Faust,” presented during the spring hy the Washinglonian Opera Company, under the direction oi Rollin Bond. M lecture by Arthur Bliss, the young English’ composer * kK OTHER particularly interesging event during, the convention was the Mr. Bliss “itated that he would like to see established in cach community # chorus “fnd an orchestra, for no community can appreciate music which doés not have citizens in it attempting ‘personally to develop ability along musical ““fines. He also proposed increased interest among music students all over adhe world in the works of the modern composers. He is*quoted as sa “ing tliat more has been done in the last decade in musical production than in the last 200 vears. This advocating of the modern composer is a movement that seems to he sweeping all over the warkd. It does not necessarily mean that the great. standard composers will be heard less or stand any risk of being outgloried by these modern composers, bit it does mean progress in gen- eral intercst in music and a constant halancing and comparison of the old masters and thé new that “should be beneficial to mu profitable to the music student, - ic generally and The younger group of Washington musicians has recognized the need for more modern music on programs in our city, and a new club has been organized as a veritable musical-faboratory to' try out these modernists and make practical experiments of their works. This group has or ganized the Orpheus Club, and will meet &very two weeks next season for programs ‘of modern’ nrusic over, this club will not allow its as'dues and hiffigakelections. ™ LAG DAY last- Wednesday offcred a tiny ‘qasis of music in These will include modern masters of. all countries and contrast them with the great masters of the ages. More- | elf to be hapwtr:,'l. KAk a Calm desert aiter the flashing display of the Shrine caravans had pissed on from Wasliington. leaving ghost still ringing in our egry. 1 1 v echoes: of band music and chants | President Harding has expressed ‘himself‘as disappointed that more . Americans do not learn “The Star Spangled Banner.” many people learn the national anthem just as they p: rather harassed manner. However, too, the terrific ‘fange of this song for t takes a fine singer of excellent training to sing our national anthem a: do it real credit. Because of th It is true that too ay bills, in a ‘vague, dne must take into consideration; average untrained voice. It nd 4 more than- one school child, self-con- scious to the nth degree about thie squeaky limitations of his or her voice, has grumbled off ipto incoherent “humming or complete silence, accom- panied by an uncomfartable, worried expressioh ‘aiter ‘the first few harsl of the song. When one starts a habit like this in childhood it is hard to | break it when.grown to marn's estate. Here's hoping that the solution fo th day and applied. MUSIC IN THE HIS mprning the musiq at the First Baptist. Church swill jnclude: Or- Zari prelude, “Largo” (Dvorak); quar- tet, “Oh, Come, Every One that Thirst- e (Mendenssohn): contralto - solo by Mrs. W. T. Reed. “My Redeemer end” My Lord” ‘(Buck). and organ, Postlude in F" (Smart). This evening the organ recital will include “Shepherd's Evening Song” (Nevin) and “Fantasie” (Ferry). The tenor solo, sung by William Ather- holdt, will be “The Earth Is the Lord's” (Lynes). -“The quartet will ing “My God, Is Any Hour So Sweet?" (Briggs) and the organ post- lude will be ““March in G” (Clark)., Charles T. Ferry will play the or- £an and the quartet includes besides Mrs. Reed ‘and Mr. Atherholdt, Mr: Florence Howard. soprano and dis pector, ‘and Arthur Chester Gorbach, ass. : At the Church of the. Incarnation thik morning the musical numbers awill include introit anthem, Toved the Worl8" (Stainer anunion Service in F' (Tours the offertory Mildred Maxwell Smith, . soprano,. will sing “Come Unto Me - (Coenen). -Lynch Luquer, < will play at the: prelude (Handel) and for the postlude .“Le Deluge” (Saint-Saens). " Mrs. Henry White. director, and Emilie M. White, organist, will 'be in charge of the music for -the last time today, as both have realgned after fourteen, years of dervice At the Mount Pleasant Congrega- MOUNT, VERNON : and ALEXANDRIA, round trip, 80c Arlington, side trip, 10c addifional A 2th and ivanis ;,m’: NOrBwest, on_ (e hour ‘and oz M. to 2:30 PM. i % ke S £ “God So ‘Com- violinis| | ; | problem will be fdund some HELEN FETTER. CHURCHES tional Church this morning the mu- sic. will be given by Miss Frances Bchergér, soprano; William P. Shan- ahan, tenor, and Claude Robeson, or- ganist. Miss Scierger and Mr. Shan- ahan will sing the duet, “Love Divine, All Love Excelling” (Stainer) and Mr. Shanahan will sing “Eveni Morning”, (Sveaks) © PEETERAES Christ Church, Alexandria, V. have a8 music today: Morring ai am. organ danfine In'G Flate (B, Gt them, “Ye Shall Dwell in the Land (Stainer); “organ postlude, “Then Round About the Starry ' Throne” ; evening service, organ re- cltal at 7:40; service with sermon i ‘Stabat Mater Dolorosa,” “Cu- nimam,” “Stabat Mater” (Ros- : funerai anthem, “The Martyr of Antioch” - (Sullivan); “Tdyll and Bride's March,” “Rebekah” (Earnby. anthem, “Ye Shail Dwell in the Lan. (Btainer): organ postlude, “Quando Corpus” “Stabat Mater” (Rossin). Mourit Pleasant M. E. Church South @8 engaged Charles K. Myers as di- rector of the church music. Mr. My- ors has asgociated with him Mrs, Fan- i, Shreve Heartsill, soprano; Miss H. e Koontz, vontralto, P. Heartalll, bass: S7ARE e cls :The new. quartet will : services today, K Stibcth will A (B. Godard); a At the Vesper service at Presbyterian Church, John 4 hih. erg, St The iven; tini-Elfm; ra today at 4:15 p.m.. Miss Elsa vielinist, and Richard. Lorl celliat, . will be the sololsts, Mrs. €. F. Schutt at’the organ. following prograrh will. be anto. Amprono” (Sarmmar- Elfman). Mr. Lorleberg; “Prize ng” (Wagner). Miss Raner; trio, Claire de Lune” (Thome). Miss Raner, Mrs. Schutt and Mr. Lorleberg. The ‘vested chorus choir, under the direction of Walter E. Cossins, will sing “God So Loved the World” This evening at the Church of the Covenant, a special musical program will be given by Mise Ruth Peter, so- pono; Mrs. Chase, violinist Richinra rleberg, cellist, and Claude Robe- son, organist. . ‘The preliininary musical service be- dith. such hindrances | THE. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, JUNE 17, 1923_PART 3. !‘Musigrgphs N\ /[ 1SS NETTA CRAIG, popular Wash- V1 ington soprano, left Friday for Elberon, N. J., where she will bs the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gayler. During her stay she will sing at Bt. Andrews-by-the-Sea, Allenhurst, N. J., { where she has been engaged as solo- st during the summer months. Mis: Cralg will return early’in the week. X ok K K Walter G. Nash, ‘callist, and Mrs. Nash. pianist, have sailed for Europe on the Parisian. They are going directly to Parls and expect to spend their trip entirely for pleasure and rest. * % * % Albert Coates, the English conduc- tor who was so popular with Wash- ington audiences at his appearances here last’ winter with the New York Symphony Orchestra as guest con- ductor, has just accepted the position as director of the Rochester Phil- harmonfe Orchestra of the Eastman School of Music. * k% % Mrs. Henry White and Emilie Mar- garet White, director of the choir and organist, respectively, at the Church of the Incarnation, corner of 12th and N streets, have tendered thefr resignations after fourteen years of service and will be in their Dlaces for the last time this morning. Mrs. White and- Miss White had re- signed early in the fall but at the request of the rector and vestry re- mained until the end of the season. The latter part of the week they will leave for Estes Park, Colo. to ttend the blennial convention of the ' Beta Phi national college soror- of which Miss White is a mem- and will spend the remainder of summer in_southern California, returning to Washington the. first part of September. While | Angeles. they will visit Florence Steffens Scott, who was o popular in Washington musi- cal clreles as contralto soloist at severak of our prominent churches. Cramer of New York has just of concerts :lubs of the state Grace ed @ successful before the women' of New Jersey. The final concert was presented last Wednesday at Ridgefield Park. N. J. Theso con- certs have been presented in addi- ticn to & number of more formal con- certs In Newarik and Jersey City. Mies Cramer has announcde that she alrendy has a number of engage- ments scheduled for next fall. Navy Department enjoyed attractive music In the program presented last on the lawn before the The Marine Hand gave most of the numbers, including a [dulightful cornet soln by Mr. Wit- comb of the band. Their selections sluded “Our Country's Flag. tars and ipes Fora “The National and own United States. The vocal solos were given by Mrs accompanied hy the band included “The and comr The unusually Flax day Wednesday building | on the program Gertrude Lyons, Her num- Spangled s Flag.'" 8 Mabel Garrison, r who gave a Washington this winter that delightful memory has received new title recently. Word co ifrom the southern cf of Loulavi that Miss Garrison has been termed the Peter Pan of music. The Louis- ville Times says: “There is a kind of Peter Pan charm about her—the cha of sincerity, of a desire to please and a wish to do perfectly the thing she has to do. While It requires some stretch of the fmagin on to pieture Miss Gar- trison as Peter Pan. there are few. if any, who will not agree that she has all the other pualifications attributed o her | t \ Merle Alcock, the popular American jeontralto. long recognized as a lead- ing concert and oratorio singer. who wiil be one of four American singers {to_make her debut with the Metro. o SOMPany next season, Pwill sing in Germany this fsummer. Mrs. Alcock is scheduled to {appear as guest artist in several {leading German opera-houses in im- [portant roles Mrs. Edna Hillyard Miss Carolyn Mann soloists of St. Patrick’s choir. have been compli- mented on their singing in the radio congert last Monday evening. when hey assisted the Knights of Colum- bus band at Woodward and Lothrop’s station. During the concert they .complied with requests by telephone to mive several selections not on the {program. They were I piano by Miss | ist_and_directress of St Patri hoir. The. concert the iwas broadcasted over the entire east lern section of the country and man <nights of Columbus Councils “lis- itened in" on the program. All-Boys Chorus to Sing. The department of music of the publlc schools. Miss Josephine E. { Wormley, director. announces that {the first annual musical and com- |munity sing by the “All Boys' Chorus" of the graded schools will take place | Howard and accompanied uie Glennon, on i in the’ auditoriym of the Miner Nor- mal School. Tuesday at 2 p.m. The program is under the direction of. Miss Marie C. James, teacher in the department of music. and will consfiit of choruses, vocal and instru- mental numbers. THe public ix free. invited. Admission —ee gins at 7:45 o'clock and the regular sarvice at 8 o'clock. The following is the program: So- prano solos. “And God Shall Wipe iAway All Tears From Their Eyes" (Harker), “The _Prayer Perfect” (Stenson), Miss Peter: violin solo, “‘Rerceuse” (Bohn), Mrs. Chas trios {ror violin, cello and organ, inade” (Widor), ere- ndante” (Hartel). At the formal opening of Emory Methodist Church South. this morning under the direction of Mrs. Harry B. White, the quartet, - assisted by a chorus choir Wl sing “Te Deum’ | (Brambach). “Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates” (Huhn) and “My Defense Is of God” (Hopkins). Miss Edna C. White is organist and Miss Gertrude Dyre, pianist - This evening the cholr of the Ta- koma Park Baptist Church, under direction of Mrs. D. C. Jackson, and assisted by A. Owen Penney, will ren- der the sacred cantata, “The Holy City."” by Gaul, The musis will inculde: Organ pre- lude, “Contemplation”; solo, “Come Blessed,” Mrs. C. G. Royle; solo, “These Are They,” Mra, W. 8. Allison; duet, “They Shall- Hunger no More,"” Mrs. W. S. Allison and Mrs. Victor Gim Qquintet, “List, the Cherubim | Host,” A. O. Penney and ladies; quar- tet: ‘solo and response, Mr. Penne: and choir; solo, “Eye Hath Not Seen, Mrs. R. F. Bessey: quartet, “Great and Marvelous,” by choir; organ post- lude, “Adoration.” “Sweet Peace,. the .Gift of God's {Love,” by Bilhorn, and “Send Out Thy Light,” by Gounod, will be the an- thems sung at this morning's service of the Calvary Baptist Church by the male trio, composed of W. F. -Ray- mond, tenor; Fred East, baritone, and Charles Moorse, bass. At the evening service they will sing “Seek Ye the Lord,” by Roberts, and_Asher's “O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go." At the morning service of the junior church, Herbert F. Aldridge, pre- centor and director of Junior Church Chofr, will give his last program un- til_fall with the youngstera.. The. Junior Church Choir has become a real institution in the few weeks of its existence, and-.under Mr. Al- dridge’s direction has developed a number of really fine youthful voices. The junior choir will resume its ac- tivities September 15. At both services today the organist, Touis “A. Potter, -wili-play -as -usual. His numbers at the morning service will be "“The Swan,” by Saint Saens, and Rink's “Postlude in D." 'S [ thoven) band gave | 1 ,,. 1 ! | CAN LUCIUS AMERI CIUS HOSMER was born in the historic town of Acton, Massa- LU was the bandmaster of the local band and chorister of the church choir, in Wwhich his mother w at an-early age, taking plano lessons of a local teacher. At twelve his par- {part of Boston, where he attended the ew England Conservatory of Music, having for his first harmony teacher J. B. Claus, later taking up theory. counterpoint and composition with George W. Chadwick. who is unques- tionably ‘the premier musical au- thority of the country and a leading ploneer composer. Tt was during these yeara that he became acquainted with Henry Had- ley and Henry Gilbert, today two of America’s foremost composers, which has resulted in & lasting friendship. His first compositions wers for the clarinet.” on which instrument he w a proficient performer. Later he took up violin and organ, leading a theater orchestra in Boston and playing the organ in church. Mr. Hosmer first became gene known as a composer by “The Walk- ing Delegate,” an oriental comic opera In threa acts, produced at the Tremont Theater, Boston, where it ran for six weeks and later performed throughout New England. The fol- lowing vear it was produced the title of “The Koreans” at the Herald Square Theater, New York. A few years later he produced “The Rose of ‘the Alhambra.” a romantic comic opera also in three acts, with Lillian Blauvelt as the prima donna. Lyceum Theater, Rocheater. and later the Majestic’ Theater, New York It tou the .country for two sea- sons, playing a week at the Belasco r of this city. -This work has arousad much favorable comment among leading critics. 1t 18 by his shorte: such as “On Tiptoe,” cesalon” and that - Luclus Howmer better known by_the music-loving public of today. “These numbers are immensely popular among musicians and have beesn played all over the world b such organizations as Sousa's and Pryor's Bands, and most symphony and’large moving-picture theater orchest in the country The succes: latter work e compositions, [ the HE Washington College of Music has sued invitations its seventeenth commencement, to be held at Central High hool next Fri- day evening. The exercises will start promptly at 8 o'clock with an orches- tra number. Rev. Bernard Braskamp will deliver the invocation and Mr. Chr! ani will present the diplomas and certificates, twenty-eight in all. Students taking diplomas and cer- tificates are: Post-graduate diploma. Rena Gertrude Greenberg. violin Teachers' diploma, Kathryn Elizabeth Bradley, harmony; Cora Marbury De- ment. plano; Rebecca Pearse Easter- brook, piano; Mary Elizabeth Gar- rett. piano; Mary Savona Griest volee: Tamara Husselblatt. piano: Harry Albert King. violin; Tillie Kravitz. violin: Bertha Luber, piano; Melen Wirt Merriam. public school music; Bella Brooks Thompson, pub- Ilic_achool music; Doris Calton Thor- inett, piano. Graduate diplom iLee' Booth, piano; Henry Valdimar iChristiani, violin: Denton Ledford {volce: Dorothy Henrletta Russell. | plano. Certificate. Virginla Woolridgs Cureton, violin; Hazel Jennings Davis, piano: Arthur Clyde Du Vall, violin' Hermonia Ellis, organ; Alberta Vir- ginla Harris, plano: Clara Evelyn Scott, violin; Edna Kefth Stein- brucker, plano; Elsie Shannon, violin: Helen Marian Smith. voice, Sophie Snyder, plano; Laura May Young. voice. The program will from Fifth Symphony” (Tchaikows < orchestra: invocation, Rev. Bernard Braskamp: presentation of diplomas {and certificates. by Mr. Christiani, [ president of the college: “Sonata, Op. 26. Andante With Variations” (Be Miss Albery; Harris: “C: na” (Raff). Miss Elevelyn |“Fugue in G Minor" (Bach). “Alba" { (Dawn), Op. 25. No. 1 (Nevin), Miss {Herminia Ellis: “Ave Maria” (Schu- bert), “Mia piccirella deh” (Salvator for be: “Andante Rosa) (Gomesz). Denton Ledford “Ballade, A Major” (Chopin), Mi: Rebecca Easterbrook; “Adagio From Fourth Concerto” (Vieuxtemps) (with orchestra). Miss Rena Greenberg; “Open Thy Blue Eyes” (Massenet), Una voce poco fa” (Barber of Se- 1le") (Rossin). Mrs. Savona Griest; “Canzonetta” (d’Ambrosio). Henry Christiani; “Sonata Op. 31, No. 2, first movement” (Beethoven), Miss Tamara Hasselblatt; “Hejre Kati” (Hubay. Harry King: “Pleurez, mes yeux” (“Le Cld") (Massenet), Miss Mary Maxam “Ballede, G Minor" (Chopin), Mi Bertha Luber; “Hebrew Melody (Lesinsky), “Wedding Day at Trold- haugen” (Grieg), orchestra. Loulse M. Hoyberger presented an interesting program in the recital at Trinity Lutheran Church last night. Those taking part were Grace Muir- head, Thelma Divver, Beatrice Ken- dall.” Helen Divver, Evelyn Riley. Eveivn Richards, Mary Poore, Mar- guerite Collett, Ruth Williams, Z- abath Barker. Ruth Ostrow, Emily Collett, Catherine English, Lloyd Wi kinson and Miss Hoyberger. Miss Emma H. Eichstadt directed a program of piano music given by a number of small folk in an entertain- ing fashion at her studio recently. They were assisted by Spencer Pre tiss, ‘cellist, who played Schubert's “Ave Maria” and Rimsky-Korsakoff's “Sang.of India,” accompanied on the plano by Miss Helen Prentiss. The children, all of whom played their compositions from memory, in- cluded Anna Glascox, Cynthia Young, Marguerite Anderson, Eleanor Riley. Elizabeth Crabtree, Rhoda Friedman, Elwood Backenstoss, Ethel Mintz, Henry Backenstoss, Dorothy Niess and Helen Prentiss. Miss C. Matilda Minke presented an interesting plano recital at her stu- dlo last Friday evening. Those taking part were Lois Davls, Angela_Myers, Helene Dwyer, Mary Beck, Frank Leech, Flora Snellen- berg, Helen BStaples, Helen Myers. Ella Davis, Margaret Guertin, Sackett Duryee, Helen Perley, Madeiine Au- gusterfer, Helen Walter, Dorothy Wadleigh, Elizabeth Wine, Richard Huhn, Margaret Cook, Marjorie Arch- ibald, Henry Duryee, Cariton Stark. Margaret Brust, Edith Norris and Helen Huhn. The MacDowell Club held the last meeting of the season Monday eve- ning in the clubroom. the president, Georgia E. Miller, presiding. The program was impromptu and included only piano numbers. . Kathryn Beck played MacDowell's “From a Wan- dering - Iceberg” and Liszt's “Un Sospir: ~ Eleanore Colborn, Cyril cott's ‘Lotus Land” “Nocturne_in F Major" termuhl, Bach’s “Gavotte in nor”; Pauline Graff, MacDowell's “To the Sea” and “Ungarish’ Harriet Hine, MacDowell's “Witches' Dance”; Katharine Brooks, Rhineberger’ “Fugue in G Minor”; Karl Phillipp Emanuel, “Solfeggietto, Schumarin's “Vogels als Prophet” and Greig's “Nocturne” and “Voglein. The first meeting of next son will be.held in the clubroom Monday evening, October 8, when a program of music written by Edward A. Mac- Dowell, for whom the club is named, will be ‘given: - - A capacity au ce attended ¢h song recital presented last Wed- | chusetts, of musial parents, his father | 180 a member. | He commenced the study of music | ents moved to Charlestown, now a| 1y | under | The opera was first performed at the | outhern | . Ruby . COMPOSERS HOSMER couraged him to write “Northern Rhapsody,” the antithesis of the southern, and the “Ethioplan Rhap- sody, founded on the old slave, or Ethiopian songs of anti-bellum day The list of compositions to his credit besides the two operas and the three rhapsodies already men- tioned, include thres sults and two overtures for grand orchestra and many miscellaneous works for small orchestra, also planoforte pleces and ongs of which the most popular are 1 Doubt 1t and “Love Was Born That Starry Night.” Mr. Hosmer is better known, how- ever, by his instrumental numbers; A striking example of which was own lasl summer at the Stadium neerts Ly the Philharmonic Or- chestra and Goldman's Band concerts on Columbia Green, New York. Of the American composers represented on the latter's programs, his name appeared more frequently U any other native writer with the excep- tion of Victor Herbert's Last Fehruary the Edison Sym- phony Orchestra of Chicago gave an entire program of his compositions at Orohestra Hall that was broadcasted all over the count Club and School Notes. nesday evening at the College Wom- en’s Club bs Mrs. Henry White. This was Mrs. White's last recital of the scason. The assisting artist was Harry MeCalmont. the popular flut ist. milie Margaret Whire and Mr Helen Crouch were sympathetic ac companists. Tie program was com- nosed of many exacting numbers, all of which were well given and re- celved hearty applause from the au- | dience. L In addition to the above mentioned. those who took part were the Ce- celin Singers, L Dunwoody gins, B. Ralph Cody. Olga Krumke, August L. La Covey, Florence Daniels, Wilbur C. Tlelder, Lucille Forrest Hastings, Katharine Rich Fielder and G. A, Johnson. Miss Gertrude F. Smallwood pre- sented & piano recital last Monday vening at the ited Brethren Church. Mrs. Raymond Chapin, so- Drano, was the assisting artist. Med- als were presented by Mr. Harry Shaw to Mary et Gilligan. Helen Tucker, Ruth White and Jesse Stim- son Others on the program included Joe Wheeler, Dorothy Stimson. Ruth Lip- Kin, m Hayford, Helen Young, Stepl r Thonssen, lizabeth Fenton. Millard M1l Irwin_ Steele, Harriet Lawless and I'hilip Vanderschaaf The program of music presented by the choir of the Church of the Ascension and assisting artists in the church schoolroom last Thursday night, under the direction of George F. Bayliss. choirmaster, was much en- | Joved by an appreciative audience. | Kirsten Olrik was awarded a gold | medal at_the recital presented by | Louis A. Potter. jr.. at Calvary Bap- tist Church last “Tuesday. when the | second of two lengthy programs w { given. Mr. Potier's “Valse Caprice | plaved by Mre Macon McArtor, was another feature of the evening. The | assisting artiats on the two programs were Mrs. Mildred Raymond, reader. and the Columbia Male Quartet, com- posed of Paul Ledig and William Braithwaite, tenors: Willard Haynie, baritone, and B. A. Lineback, bass. The pianists included Mrs. McArtor. Kirsten Olrick, Virginia Graham, Margaret Becker. Dorothy Thomas, Mildred Spahr, Dorothy Potter, Louls Potter. Elizabeth Bagby, Marjorie Robnette. Qlivia Biller, Elsie Rup- preoht, C. C. Willlams, Iva Bethel, Bertha Comstock, Edwin »Moore, Helen Weich, Elizabeth Zimmerman. Tavlor Anderson, Louise Kirsch, Mar- ! garet Tuckey and Irene Finch. Mrs. Grace Dufour Brown, organist, presented a musical at the Temple Baptist Church last night, assisted by a_section of the Nordica Orchestra, Walter T. Holt, director. Those on the program included Hanna Whit- man. Ellzabeth Sharp, Janet Smith, Sylvia Schwartz, John Street, Mar- garet Hatcher, Betty Hartung, Ruth Lord. Thomas Miller. Eloise Houser, Laura Roche, Gilbert Haley, Buth Cockerille, Mary Eunice Chishoime, Elizabeth Miller and Maurine Lock- art Mrs. Ruby Smith Stahl, soprano, who gave a delightful tea for Dr: Spaeth during music week, will pre- sent a small group in a vocal recital at the Washington Club next Wedne: day evening at 8:15 o'clock. Mr: Aaron G. Johnson will be the ac- companiat. 'he program will be as follow: L'Oasls” (Fourdrain),"Juna" (Charles T. Ferry). “The Last Rose of Sum- mer” (Flotow), “The Last Song" (Rogers), Ruth’ M. Hansford; “Ber- gere Lege: (arranged by Wecker- lin), “Jean" (Burleigh), “Roses in " (German), Dorothy Tschiffely; Apple Blossoms” (Kellie), “My urly-Headed Babby” (Clutsam), Spring's a Lovable Lady” (Ellott), Mrs. Elbert M. Wood: “Lieti Signor, from “Les Huguenots” (Meyerbeer) “Pleading” (Elgar), “Ecstacy” (Rum mel), Helen Bur: Mon Coeur S'ouvre a ta Voix,’ “Samson et Delila” (Saint-Saens); Blind Ploughman” __ (Clark), ‘Were My Songs With Wings Provided” (Hahn), “The Answer” (Terry), Mrs. Clara Grandfield White. Fine Choral Works to Be Sung at Conventr'on IVE choral works will be offered at the tenth annual International New Thought Congress meeting next week. by the local New Thought chorus choir, organized here soms months ago by Miss Faye Thomas. The principal novelty will be the singing of Rachmaninoft's “Cherubim Song,” an eight-part chorus of exceptlonal beauty, not well known in Washington. Under the management of Miss Thom- as and the direction of Gordon Cameron the chorus has been enlarged to forty selected voices. Cameron has drilled these into an exceptional choir. He is recognized as a leader in choral train- ing, having studled under McKnoechie -of Toronton, ¥. W. Wedell of Boston, and Shakespeare of London. For two yoars Mr. Thomas worked under the baton of Dr. Carl Muck of the Boaton Symphony. * These experiences have re- sulted. in s locl ¢ _of_remarkable merit. They wiil rander selections every day the congress- is in seasion, begini today and last through next Sunday. from Hig- | Paris. Hears Amer:can! Mus;c. PARIO heard the first of two con- " certs devoted chiefly to American composers and composers residing in this country last night, when the Colonne Orchestra, under Lazare Saminsky, violinist, Helen Teschner ‘Tas, Raymonde Delaunols and M. Alexandrovitch, singers, gave works by Bloch, Elkus, Whithorns and Saminsky at the Salle Gavesu. Mme. Tas, who will be heard in a Washington recital at the National Theater, here, in the middle of De- cember, arrived in Paris from Hol- land, where she played with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra a few days before, and introduced a concertina after Ariosti for violin and orchestra by the San Francisco com- poser, Albert Elkus. Mme, Delaunols and M. Alexandro- vitch gave songs of a biblical char- acter. Emerson Whithorne's “New York Days and Nighta” and Ernest Bloch's “Hebrew Posms" were tha principal orchestral numbers. At the second American music con- to take place next Friday, Taylor's “Through the Looking Frederick Jacobi's “Eve of folin places by Jacobi and Saminsky and songs by Loeffler. Carpenter, Kramer and Engel are to be presented to the distinguished au- dfence which gathers in Paris prior rand Prix. ‘The same or- chestra and artists will give the sec- ond concert. More American music will be heard in Paris when Mr. Saminsky, aided by Mmes. Delaunois, Tas and D'Al- vares, gives a lecture racital on “The Celtic Element in Amerian Music. under the auspices of the Ecole Noi male de Musique. The lecture-recital will be repeated in London. Myrs. Fletcher-Copp's i | as a was the “The Practicality of Music Means of Self-Expression” subject of a lecture given by Mrs. Evelyn Flstcher-Copp last Wednes- day evening at the King-Smith stu- dios. Mrs, Copp is conducting a sum- mer normal course of lectures at the school. using the Fletcher music method, which was introduced in America in 1896, under the auspices of George W. Chadwick, director of the New England Conservatory of Music: During the past Swenty-six vearsithese methods have Betome in- creasingly adopted by the teaching profession and have won favorable comment from many psychologists. as well g those primarily interested in the progress of music in this.country. A number of years ago Dr. Lyman Abbot s quoted as saying of the method: “It {& more thaw a method. it is a revolution, and converts music study from a mere mechanical drill and drudgery into an inspiration and a life.” Mrs. | Copp played a number of charming compositions, written by children, the other night. and she pointed out that. as the greater must be capable of containing the 0 one in the audience must go ¥ with the idea that to learn to express himself took anything- from a child's ability to. appreciate compositions of the great masiers i | Breeskin to Direct Work! i By Local Musician i An Interesting musical program is announced for the current week av the AROUND THE CITY By Nannie Lancaste WASHINGTON woman made a littls trip to Virginia at & time that the country people silence of the Frear Gallery. the other afternoon. You could tell that the |#oul of her was thrilled by a around were getting up a | V8it to Washington's new shrine of Sunday excursion to “the Capital and back.” On the farm where she was atopping there was a boy—about four- teen — a hard-working, soft-volced, wistful-eyed youngster, who drudged along without taking more than a hungering sort of interest in the ex- citement, seeing he had no money for a ticket. And as he was a moun- tain boy who had never seen any- thing more imposing than the frame church at the cross-roads, with a bell in the steeple, she felt that it was up to her to take a hand in the pro- ceeding—s0: She gave the littie fellow spending change, arranged with a sympathetic man excursionist to show him the sights and see that he had a good| dinner—and that was all she had to do with the affair. True to his business promise, the guide towed his charge around. but after a review of public buildings, which the boy took in with a dazed ort of acceptance, the man naturally felt that too dense for apppreciation boy let him know better: “These are just houses and 1 live in a house. but I have never seen a river or laid eves on a boat.” So the man took him to the navy yard, and for the balance of that da until train time, the mountain boy fairly “drank in" the Potomac, and with an exhilaration of fear ventured on a tug at anchor and in a motor canoe that was rope-staked to the pier. It would have been a ride except that the good-natured owner couldn't persuade him to take it There must have been an open shop on the way to the cars, for when he got home he gave the woman a gilt cup and saucer of a size used at a doll's tea party. But in the woman's eves it was large enough to hold more gratitude than the be voice. “That Potomac river is a big fleld of water. I didn’'t know a stream could be that wide across—and deep— and wei—but 1'd go crazy-scared if 1 had to live near it_at night. I feel safer here at home. You know every- thing about a mountain, but you can't tell what's under the.top a river like that” “I know what vou mean, son. Tf I had to live on this mountain. where 1 couldn't see the river, my eves would die of thirst.” All of which would ba nothing worth mentioning, except that it ac- counts for the pull of childhood's en- vironment, whether it be peak, desert or the old swimming hole. And which, perhaps. may why a homesick traveler should write 4 song called "Home, Sweet Home." * x ok ¥ IF’ You have ever calied that fellow Bize. & chump, now is vour time to apolo- Because his real name Is Plato. This discovery comes by way of a Rentleman with an Absalomish stock of hair, who has just organized a cult to prove that people apparently slow of understanding are philosophers not yet revealed. He was assisted the other night by the hostess and an- other beaded lace lady, and by a lean and lonesome-looking man, who some- how conveved the impression that he did light housekeeping in his own room and read books out of print by a lamp that smoked. The audience fllled every uphol- stered chair in the parior and a couple of cane-bottoms from the dining room —not counting a pair of youngsters Wwho sat on the sill of an open win- dow and pald no_attention to what was going on. While the speaker dug into his subject to ressurrect geniuses whose homefolks had con- sidered them nitwits, the audience displayed its intimate touch with the subject by nods and interchanges of whispers; some of which were picked uw by a human radio on the side, like in: “I hope she'll give us something hot; it's entirely too chilly for iced tea. I wonder will she leave her fur- niture uncovered all summer? I've had mine cased for a month. No matter how vou darken a room the summer sun fades out delicate blues iike this. Yes, Lulle is a clever girl, But the picture you ever laid evés on—Sshh. For the creator of philosophers out introducing the this-wise: “Prof. Blank will now give us “A New Thought on Old Philosophy,"” trations on the saxophone. Making fun of worthy tloned people? Not by the classic jug tul. The entire lot of them were re- hearsing & community center com- lonesome-looking man the Metropolitan Theater by Daniel Breeskin, conductor of the Metropoli- tan Symphony. For the overture “Songs of the Past” will be played. This is. a symphonic arrangement, scored for full orchestra, of a ma- jority of the most popular melodles of the t three generations, ar- ranged by Ray Hart, a local musi- cian, who.spent many months in re- search work at the Congressional Li- brary before completing this compi- lation. Mr. Hart offered the number, for its first Washington perform- ance, to Mr. Breeskin. and so mu- edy that you are expected to attend later on. seeing that the proceeds will be for the benefit of—but wait for the “ad.” All the same. a truly discovery of urrevealed philosophers would be im- mensely useful, for the reason that it would explain s0 many people. * % % % T was a busy hour at the.Library of Congress, and one woman, hav- ing turned in her slip and waited long enough to wonder how the dome got itaelf dusted: what the tourist-public moving around the gallery above thought of the bronze sentinels of siclanly is the completed work that it was immediately accepted. Another musical feature of the pro- gram will be Mr. Breeskin's debut as a solo violinist. He will play Am- brosio’s “Canzonetta” and Drigo's “Serenade.” The first will have piano accompaniment. The first movement of the second number will be with harp accompaniment and the second movement with muted full orchestrs Miss Viola T. Abrams, solo harpis will accompany Mr. Breeskin in the first movemnef of “Serenade.” There will also be a minutely syn- chronized orchestral accompaniment of the major film features, arranged by Mr. Breeskin. Orpheus Culb Organized ASHINGTON has a new musio W club, the Orpheus Club, added to its list at the very end of the music season, that promises to give some exceedingly interesting pro- grams next season. The club is or- ganized primarily to study the mod- ern music of all countries with the intention of comtrasting the modern with the great masters. There is no {dea of presenting the club work be- fore the public and the membership 1s limited to twenty-five. The mem- bers are the younger active musicians The organi: nique in that trere are no officers and no dues. Club_affairs will be arranged and managed by & committee of thre at meeting: and the oth of the com: mittee to assist with the correspond- ence and arrangement of programs. The club will meet fortnightly on Tuesday evenings from - October to the middle of May each season. The committee tn cherge of the club for 1923-24 is composed of Katharine Brooks, chairman: Mildred Kolb Schulze and H. LeRoy Lewis. The - club enjoyed the first ~soclal meeting following its organization last Sunday afternoon, when a fea was glven for the members only. at the charming studio of H. LeRoy Lewis. > ” - The charter members include Lorena Stockton Gawler, soprano; Mrs. How- ara Hosmer, accompanist; Sue Ken- nedy, contralto; Arthur_Kettner, baritone; Mrs. C. Perry Miller, mo- rano: Gertrude MacRas Nash, pian- st; WI;lar l“t.lh‘ ge“(;:.; Kl.ldl'llrilnfl pist lanford, vio- R!n derson, ~ tenor:| .. Dixon. planist, George H. Wllson, accompanist. history picketed around, and whether it was her watch or the giant clock on the wall that was wrong by five minutes, finally concentrated on the man sitting next. He was an un- eventful-appearing gentleman In a neat suit, string tle and with a fairy ring of hair circling the bald spot on top of his head—who placed a “reserve” card between the pages of his book and silently tipped away. It is always interesting to get a snap shot at the tastes of people Who show no earmarks of personality to go by, =o the woman in waiting reached over and took possession of & volume of odd bits of information with the card inserted at a page that harked back to a paragraph from London Punch, December 30, 1848. Tt concerned a rollicking prophecy by dear Tom Taylor, who jestingly pre- dicted the things that acience would do for the service of man—including thi ur attention has been called to an article of gutta percha called the telakon: a contrivance, which could bring home the opera to every. lady’s drawing room in London. Our domi- ciles might be served with the liquid notes of Jenny Lind—then at parties we should oniy have to turn on de- lightful substitutes for & deal of ex- ecrable home singing”—'or ba sup- plied with music as readily as they can with gas"—and so on. And_as that was thirty vears be- fore Prof. Bell's discovery of the telephone in 1878, it-avould seem en- tirely permissible. for merry Tom to tell Mother Shipton to take a back seat and hand over the laurels. * ok % TALL young woman in black- it betokened an ignorance | ad- | v knew how to! explain | but as homely as any beauty-contest | of brain-junk had finished, and was ! with illus- | ~ | ; well-inten- | |@nd as she paused to explain and i praise, the youngsters, suppressi | Elggles and like dldoes, responde | with becoming awe. | In a room devoted to the work o | Abbott Henderson Thayer. a study- | halt was nade before u canvas pic !turing a winged figure with the spir ltual sweetness of & madonna in the eyes and angelic robe and halo match. but, after the fashion modern girl, seated hands clasped around o lifted knee. The teact clore-distance glasses and painter's drastic instructio the lower edge of the frame This pleture is never to° touched—not one pin point'—Tsn't 00 perfect, girix!" Being of 4 gigg the four girls had selves at some point to be the time. them in the act eldest girl for I ask you fect Dear's giggies changed to the des peration of rebellion & perfect . certalinly ma'm’selle would call a perfec | She gives us black marks eve she catchen one of the class cros her legs like that. Isn't' that girls?" Anud the girla chorused a “yes.” Naturally, there was nothing n to be said on the gubject, and teac led the way Whistler's pea room This means absojutel less you understand ti t longines that ‘may surge in a_drawing taa er's sweater-covered breast—or knnv what girls are—which makes unanimous for Everybody Lord 1o to on a rock with crnssed, up P n her the near roput arl is ha re & age to betra and this ppo teachor and sin torture dear. if tHiR is not par ixh angel, - isn't otiar ng hing. knows them! * ¥ what girls ar- * % WO men were at Ralelgh. The one who. was pin and fat told a that fiar to chuckling, and when the bubbleg ba subsided the other man. who wa pinker and fatter And when, they selves the red & young fellow at whose seat was party—an obvious deb of a daughter—that the oid hoy were confiding to cach other the firs ambitions of their lives “The one with the littla finger wante lighter <o that his have to let him carrs pocket—and the one with longed to be a king on a thr he wouldn't have to wear copper shoes. Wh is jist another_a ment as to what they 1alk when they face each other as i man! tunching varn ot told & s had of ¥ in tu laughed therem. turkev: watel the next tahie nearest. b mother and =uh to diamond to he matches Quite a Story. *CORDELIA THE MAGNIFICENT " Clara Kimball Young's new Mel: plcture, is considered & remarkab mystery story In more waya thar one In the entire victure thers is.not single United States secret agent, not a single detec are no murders. There are no finge prints. There isn't one ghost. e cret panels are entirely lLacking: are hidden papers and missing p pers. No dictaphones are in evidencr No one is assaulted or robbed. The:: are no disguises. There are no code messages. are no nickel-plated revolvers is no mysterious tapping o In spite of the fact items. without which 1 plays are seldom made, are lacking orge Archainbaud. the dire says he has never screened a gripping story. serviie Thér. There Ther MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. Lovette School of Music (2019 N St. N.W.—N-8497) Special Sammer Courne T. S. Lovette, Piano Eva Whitford Lovette, Voice An opportunits tenchers and pupiis ~ Opera Singe: r Vocal Instructor and Dramatic Coach Prima Donna will condnct Master Cla Washington during the summer. Pupils prepared for chureh, concert. debut. 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