Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1924, Page 57

D the two performfances given American woman composer: ists and instrumentalists. Both ti Shoreham Hotel and Friday night a stic audiences. Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, “dean of URING the week Washington music lovers enjoyed a rare treat in by a group of charming and talented s, assisted by prominent local vocal- he concert Wednesday night at the t the Arts Club had large and enthu- woman composers,” has always found warm welcome in Washington both-for her own delightful person- ty and for her exccllent compositions, which appear on professional programs all over the world. She is also one of the most popular pianists that come here in concerts. Mrs. Beach is a very busy woman, yet she takes her many duties in calm, cheerful fashion and chuckles even as she tells of her system for handling the “I only do my composing in th winters arc always taken up with a different phases of her musical labors. e summer,” said Mrs. Beach, “for my continuous round of concert engage- ments, and I find that it is impossible to get any writing done at the same time that I am appearing in different cities keeping these engagements. Relaxation? Oh, ves, I find plenty of time for that; I take it on the trains between cities Mrs. Beach came to Washington the middle of last week from Cin- cinnati, where she played Easter M forty women’s voices in a women's “Peter Pan. “I call them my ‘white velvet ch and beautiful,” way in which her c Mrs. Beach believe position had firmly in A onday night, and heard the chorus of club there sing her new song cycle, horus,” because their tones are so soft said the composer, who was evidently very proud of the been interpreted by this chorus. merican talent, in both masculine and feminine composers. and artists, and she belicves in American cultivation of that talent. is also an ardent it aids in familiarizing the general composers, as well as the composit: modern music, Mrs. Beach says: There is, of course, good and bad m is very good, and [ have liked were ultra-modernists g “the coffee ground: . Beach was a child prod straining her efforts and supporter of the radio, for she thinks public with the works of American s of the European masters. “Who knows what will come of it? odern music. Some that I have heard In their times, Beethoven and Schubert Time will sift out that w ch will last, and, as in s must settle.” digy whose parents saw the wis- preserving her talent for successigl blossoming in the future, for which Mrs. Beach says she feels devoutly zrateful. definite music appre with music in her m mother was pl at what the b of this-idea grad »aby associated a music was the key yellow, E major; rec There were only two ke; both minor keys—I° sixteen made her formal debut with the Bostonr Symphony Orchest: Other famous wom, programs last week w t the piano, and hen st ¥ W ; pur blue. s that mad Te Harric Krumbhaar of Plainficld, N. J.), Mary Turner Salter, Gena Branscombe | and Ethel Gle Hier, : and National Mu cities and towns all over the eels that that is ike to plan for Music week cele told its Music week until May UST one w chool children of Washis ps charge of mus Saturday night the high school orche entral High Schopl. ol music training for the high schoo “Cherry Blo Rollin Bond, w presented by ¢ in_the public school as and oth: This marks the schools. pupils, are bein competed w solutely sharp minor and G sharp minor. nt-cantata under the direction of Mr. E. When she was just a_baby, two or three years old, she evinced tion, and an unusual system for associating: color he would call for the “white music” when her 1 this parent was oiten sorely puzzled was about four years old the secret cleared up, and her mother discovered that the olor with a definite key of music; thus, white ple, D fiat major; pink, £ flat major; A 'flat major, and green, B flat major. e the baby think of black: they were When she was and when seventeen played as soloist ra. \composers of this country participating in the t Ware (in private life Mrs. Hugh c week will be celebrated in many United States. Washington, however, too early to give the big programs such as local teachers | ations, so the National Capital will not | nd then through Memorial day. k¥ ston are going to participate in a ] . E. \. C. Barnes, who has Is of the District, next Thursday and A program of American composers will be presented by | r music organizations Friday night at | another step forward in the progress n more interesting plans, especially g arranged for next season. Time,” that tuneful musical satire by Mr. and Mrs. th professional attractions last week, was all-Washington” cast and chorus, and proved | that the voices of vouthful Washingtonians are fresh, clear and capable | of “putting over” fine, tuneful melodies in excellent fashion HELEN FETTER. Benefit Concert Tuesday Sponsored by War Mothers apter of Gold the late war an elaborate presented by ading singers @ benefit perform- t the Walter Reed Hospitals_Tues- the Willard The artists crvices are soprano Woodrum and ones; Mary Mul- John Cable, Dora Mino ard, pi- . linist. the Wash- is manager. this affair in- hington official heading the Iis AMarine Band Ot and it is hoped that 1 make a ‘cw intro- will be ir Coun- Sitz sides in 11 Columbia Ch Star Mothers of is sponsor for sical to be some of Washington's le and mu icians ink, harpist 1 Chindb]. anists, and_Jo. Airs, Henry Hun ington Mus The patr ciude leaders ¢ society, Mrs United tra will pla Pershin writ a war mother Selections by the Marine Band Orchestra, Tay- lor Branson, leader, from $:15 to 8:30 o'clock; “Our Country’s Flag,” words and music by Mary Sitz Parker of Washington, will be sung by James Caraway, accompanied by the Marine Band Orchestra; violin solo, “Ninth Concerto” (De Beriot), Isaac vich, Dora Minovich “acc : harp solo, “Legende” {Zabel), Mary | Muller Fink; soprano aria, “Una Voc poca fa from' “Barber of Seville’ (Rossini), Franceska Kaspar-Law- son; baritone solo, selected, C. A. Woodrum, Mrs. Carl Chindbiom ac- companying; soprano solos, “Down the Forest” (Ronald), “The Sea Shell” (Engel), “The Heart Call” Vanderpool), Mrs. Lawson, Harry Wheaton Howard accompanying; harp solos, “Romance” (Holy), “Pat- tuglia, Spagnuola” (Tadeschi), “Ma- zurka" (Schucker), Miss Fink; bari- tone solo, selected, C. A. Woodrum; soprano solos, “On Wings of Song” Qfendelssohn), “Belleve. Mo 1t A1l Those Endearing Young Charms” and Ave Maria” (Bach-Gounod), Mrs, Lawson, Josef Kaspar, violinist; ong of Love,” from “Blossom Time" (Schubert), Mrs. Lawson, Mr. Wood- rum, Mre. Fink and Mr. Howare Pa The music department of the pub- schools, Edwin N. C. Barnes, di- rector, will give a pageant-cantata, “King Sol in Flowerland,” at Central Jigh School, Thursday and Saturday, and an evening of Ligh schoo! music, chorus and orchestra, Friday. Mr. Barnes is the author of the lb- retto of “King Sol,” the music having been written by a class in theoreti- cal music in Chelsea High School, Chelsea, Mass., under the direction of Osbourne McSonathy. It was com- posed as part of the pupils' regularly assigned work. They were required to pass in an original composition very two months. The poems of this ntata were distributed among the Students and from the compositions returned the best were selected and brought together to form a complete work. There will grade children, be a chorus of 1,000 11 of whom are “mon. MusiciansRec TWO-FOOT book shelf of popular books on music, mad® up of titles chosen Ly famo cians, crities, orchestral condic and educators, is being recommended by the commit- tee in charge of National Music week, May 4-10. Prominent men and wom- en In the musical world were asked to send in lists of books they would recommend to the average man or woman who likes music and wants to be able to understand it—not tech- nical works, but books of .human in- terest that would help to create new imusic lovers and deeper the appre- ciation of those already interested. Leading the sixteen books on the jist is “How to Listen to Music,” by the late H. E. Krehbiel, music critic ind lecturer. A special honor served for . Daniel Grigory Mason, ive of his hooks appearing on the iist, geant-Cantata itors” In their music classes—a Sspe- cial honor for ability and earnest work. The solo parts will be taken by normal, high and grade school pupils. The story is simple and at- tractive. It depicts the visit of “King Sol” and his sister, “Princess Rain- drop,” to Flowerland. 1t is a gala day for the flowers. There are songs of ‘welcome and praise for the great king and princess by the mighty hosts of Flowerland and cach individual flower has a welcome for the honored guests as well as dances in their hon- ol".lhThe K‘!ll l!ll !El' come!} to a close with a chorus of “Farewell, O King, N ioey, the combined iy ay, the combined choruses, o chestras and bands of the nigh School assisted by the Teachers Choral Clu will’ give “Columbus by Hosmer: “Midsummer Night,” by 88, and “The Landing of the Pilgrims” by Coerne. ‘All seats are reserved. Tickets may be obtained &t the schools OF at the door on the evening of the perform. ane \ ommendBoo I(S ‘The books which received the high- est number of votes are: “How to Listen to Music,” H. E. Krehbiel; “What We Hear in Music,” Anne Shaw Faulkner; “Fundamentals of Music,” Karl W. Gehrkens: “Chopin— the Man and His Music,” James G. Huneker; “Life of Ludwig von Bee- thoven,” Alexander W. Thayer: “What 1s Good Music,” William J. Hender- “The Lure of Music,” Olin Downes; “Beethoven and His_Fore- runners,” Daniel Gregory Mason; “From Greig to Brahms," Daniel Gresory Mason: “Musle: . Ah Art ahd nguage,” Walter paulding; “Child's Guide to Music,” Daniel Gregory Mason; “The. Romantic Com- posers,” Daniel Gregory Mason; “Or- chestral Instruments and What They Do," Daniél Gregory Mason; “Evolu- tion of the Art of Music,” Hubert Parry; “Listener’'s Guide to Music,” Percy. A. Scholes; “The Education of a Music Lover,” Edward Dickinson. Among those who compiled lists for the National Music committee: were Amelita Galli-Curci, Leopold Stokowski, Pierre Monteux, Franik Dawrosch and Henry T. Finck, As for | Louis Potter Recital. LOUIS POTTER, well known organ- ist and planist of Washington, will give a piano recital Tuesday eveming in the small ballroom of the | Willard Hotel, at $:15 o'clock. Mr. | Potter will appear in the role of com- poser as well as instrumentalist on this occasion, when two of his own compositions will be presented for the first time in public in Washing- ton. They are “Polonaise in A" and “The Alarm Clock, or the Bachelor Arises.” The program will be opened with Scarlatti’s “Sonata in G Minor,” fol- lowed by Caesar Franck's “Prelude, Chorale and . Fugu The second group will include Liszt's “Ballude | in B Minor” and three Chopin numn- | bers, the “Waltz in A ¥lat,” “Etude | in Minor” and “Fantasie in F | Minor.” The third group will be Mr. | Potter's own works, and the final group will be Debussy's “La Plus Que Lent” and “Bouree Fantasque,” by Chabrie ClubandSchool Notes !Touonaow night Girls' Glee Club of ¥ | lege, Ohio, now on its first tour of the east, will give a concert in the auditorium of the Columbia Helghts { Christian Church, 1435 Park road. No | admission will be charged, but an offering will be taken to defray the traveling expenses of the club, The Hiram Girls' Glee Club is com- | posed of twenty-one girl students. This is the oldest college founded by the Disciples of Christ. It Is situated in Hiram, Ohio, ahout thirty miles southeast of Cleveland. Hiram Is noted as the home of President James A. Garfleld, who was a student in the college, later one of its teachers, and finally became fits president. He served as a trustee of the college un- til his death. The Glee Club, which will be in Washington three days, will arrive Saturday and go “on the air” at WRC at 11 pam. It will take part in the morning serveies today at the Ninth Street Christian Church and the evening services of the Vermont Ave- nue Christian Church, where Presi- dent Garfield attended services. Its only full concert in the city, however, i Be at the Columbis Helghts Church tomorrow night. { The MacDowell Music Club, Miss| Georgia E. Miller, president, held its | reguiar monthly meeting Monday | evening. The program was presented by the members, Margaret Loane, George Cornwell, Kathryn Beck, Eleanore Colborn, Anna Kennelly, | Edith Austermuhl, Sue Kennedy. Miss Margaret Loane and_ George Cornwell of Falls Church, Va, are two new members received into the at § o'diock, of Hiram Col- | . Lovette has announced | that the first New York .recital b the Lovette School of Music will be given the first week in May at Car- negie Hall. The summer session will begin June 15 and will be held in both Washington and New York. Among the recent activities of the school are: A Lenten musical with Secretary of La- bor and Mrs. Davis as guests of honor, the program given by Dr. and Mrs. Lovette and five young people: a re-| cital at National @ark Seminary: a program at the Masonic Temple Au- ditorium; a _recital at the Washing. ton Club and frequent appearances on community, radio and prominent club programs. i Epsilon National Musica Safinl;hwmpbe represented by Netta Cratg, soprano; Mrs. William T. Reed, contralto, and Charlotte' Klein, o ganist and pianist, at the Tuesday evening concert of the Washingion Community | ‘Association in Centrat igh School. HL‘fi!! Cralg .will sing scene 2, act 1 of Leoncavallo's “Pagliacci” in co tume; Mrs. Reed will sing- Seocht’ “Lungl Dal Caro Bene” nndncule- ridge-Taylor's “Life and Death,”-Miss Kleln will play “Toccato” and “Reverje,”. Bounet. Miss Klein will be Miss Craig’s accompanist and Charles T. Ferry will play for Mrs. Reed. The Orpheus Club will ‘meet Tues- day evening in the studio of Mildred Kolb Schulze, at 1406 H street, at 9:45, when a program of Italian music will be given by Katharine Brooks, soprano; Ruby Stanford, vipligist, an¢ Gertrude McRae Nash, pianist. The last meeting_was held in the studio of George ~Dixon - Thompson, who played, with George H. Wilson, a plano suite written for four hands by Rachmaninoff. Katharine Riggs, harp- ist, gave several numbers by modern Russian composers, and Louis Potter played a number of piano solos. Sherier Bowie, soprano, and G.M:\‘.r%ohhunn, bass, will be soloists at the cighteenth annual banquet of the College Women's Club_of Wash- ington, to be held at Rauscher's Wednesday evening. Mrs. Bowle will ging *“The Answer” (Terry), “‘The Wings of Night” (Winter Watts), “OQuvre Ton Coeur” (Bizet), with George Wilson as accompanist. Mr. Johnson will sing “Myself When Young.” from “In a Persian (Lehmann); “Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves' (Handel) “Captain Mac" nderson). . accompanied by Emilie Margaret Sonite who 18 in charge of the musi- cal program. The Rubinstein Club will hold the third and last concert of the season in the ballroom of the Willard Hotel May 6_at 3:30 o'clock in the evening. with Miss Kathryn Meisle: as the assisting artist. Miss Meisle made her Washington debut with the - club last .season. Her return to the Ru- binstein Club this season is,-as the rest of her present tour, a repetition of the tour she madelast season with an additional number-of large cities. Miss Meisle has a contralto voice of fine quality. She. also:'is- noted for “an admirable ‘persofality. Mi; |Lord, Is Risen Today FRANCESRA A £ Tt A PERFORMA> *“The Creation” of Haydn will be given at the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South during the lat- ter part of May by the Mount Vernon Chorus of eighty voices, under the direction of R. Deane Shure, director of music of the Mount Vernon Flace Church. The chorus will be assisted by Mrs J. Frank Rice, soprano; Miss Gretchen Lord, contralto; W. thur McCoy, ten; B. Louis Goodyear, tenor; J. Eenton Webb, baritone: i{oward P Bailey, bass, and Mrs. Frank A. Frost, organist. Mr. Shure will conduct. - There is room for soveral more tenors and basses’ Mr. Shure an- nounces, and he will be glad to he: from any who care to sing. He may be reached at the church any day. At the morning service of the Cleve- land Park Congregational Church Miss Ruth Mae Hansfcrd will sing as soprano olo “Forever With the Lord” (Gounod). Mrs. Page McK. Etchison, pianist and musical dire tor, will play as prelude “Nazareth” (Gounod): as offertory, “Andante in G" (Batiste), and as postlude, “Marche Pontificale” ' (Gounod). The following music will be pre- sented under the direction of Estelle Wentworth at Christ Church, ‘Alex- andria, Va.: Morning service, 11 o'clock—Organ _prelude, “Communion for Easter” (Handel): “Te Deum” (Millard); offertory anthem, “At the Sepulcher” (Nevin). and organ pos lude, "O Filii et Filiac” (arranged by Loret). Evening service, 8 o'clock— Organ prelude, “Euaster Morn” (Le- : “Even Me" (Warren), by quar- mposed of Janet Pickett, so- Esther _ Gilbert, contralto Ellsworth Condron, tenor, and Wil- fred Gilbert, bass; offertory anthem, “As It Began to Dawn” (Vincent): and organ_ postlude, “Hallelujah” (Handel). Katharine Scelve Wallace is organist. Grace Parish; Georgetown, music today will be: 11 au rvice—*"Jesus Christ_Is Risen Toda “hrist, the “All Hail the Power of Jesus' and “The Day of Resurrection’ so “Te Deum’ (Corbin) and “Jubilate” (Corbin). Proznaphora service—Full choru: |“If We Believe That Jesus Died” (Bur- nett) and “Doxolog: $ p.m.—The congregation, led by the choir, will sing several gospel hymns and Dr. Frailey will give a sermon in song: “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today.” “W: Walk by Faith and Not by Sight,” hen the Weary Seeking Rest” “Softly Now the Light of Day,” “The Day of Resurrection,” “Nunc_ Dimit- tis” (Martin); “Now the Day 1s Over” ~ (Martin), full chorus,” and “Doxology. Because of numerous requests the program of Easter music given last Sunday at the Church of the Covenant will be repeated this everfing at § o'clock by the evening choir, Claude Robeson, director. The program follows: Anthems, “As It Began to Dawn” (Martin), “Awake, Thou That Sleepest” (Stainer); quar- tet, “The Paschal Victim” (Stewart) bais solo, “Hosanna” (Granier), Mr. Fakler. The public is invited to this service, The doors of the church will be open at 7 o'clock. This morning at the Mount Pleas- ant Congregational Church the music for the 11 o'clock service will be given by the Mount Pleasant Chorus and the solo quartet, under the direc- tion of Norton M. Little, with Claude Robeson at the organ. The program follows: Organ pre- lude, “Elevation” (Guilmant); tenor solo, “Hear My Cry, O Lord” (Woo- ler), Mr. Shanahan; offertory (cho- rus), “Come Unto Me" (Coenen); or- gan postlude, “Sortie” (Bush) The usual 5 o'clock vesper service will A remarkable development in music has taken place at the Neighborhood House this year under the direction of Mrs. John L. Cable, wife of Repre- sentative Cable of Ohio, who has for several months devoted a day each week to glving piano lessons to tal- ented children. Most of these stu- dents are girls, as the boys preferred lessons in stringed instruments. Through the interest of Mr. 4nd Mrs. J. F. Richardson, Mr. Von Bernwitz undertook work with the boys. Now three boys are driving their house- holds mad with their violin prac- tice and. seven boys meet twice a week for mandolin epsemble work. The settlement is sending an appeal for idle stringed instruments, such as mandolins, ~guitars, ukuleles, etc., which eager boys of the Southwest can strike into sound again and some dl{ ake real music in an orchestra. (ntensive vocal work with the boys bas been limited to one boys’' group, with the help of Miss Betty Stronach, granddaughter of Representative Sproul of Iilinols. ‘As an outgrowth of the general de- mand for more and better music in the Southwest the settlement’s an- nual spring festival this vear is to be a festival of song. A cycle of music 1o to De evolved beginfilng with a dance of India in costume, and in- cluding lullabies of many lands, operetta and a cantata, “Voices of Meisle has just completed a succes ful geason as a’leading member of tthe Chicago Opera Company and has been re-engaged for next season. Spring,” by boys’ and girls’ clube. Tho operetta, “The Changeling,” with music from “I6lanthe” and various compositions. of merit, is being given by request for the third time in the MaRy MriER FINRo {organ prelude, | (Hoeck): jA Flat” | { ] | | | | 1 | IN THE CHURCHES of excerpte from | be given, with music by the solo quar- tet. Music at this morning’s service at Columbia Heights Christian Church will include an anthem by the chorus choir, “Jerusalem” (ParXer), and an offertory selection, “How Long Will Thou Forget Me?" (Pflueger), by the solo quartet composcd of Belva F. Hoch, sopranc; Mabel Flehr, con- tralto; Robert 'M. Olone, tenor, and Fred J. Eden, baritone. At the evening service the quartet. augmented by the chorus choir, will sing Schilling’s “Christ Our Pass- over” Belva F. Hoch, soprano, will be heard in an offertory solo, “Come Unto Me” (Decev. The music for today's services at| ‘ernon Place M. E. Church be as foliows: Morning. a Chapel Walls anthem, “God Be Merc'Zal wnale quartet, “Thy Not Mine” (Parks): organ postlude, Pomp and Circumstance” (Elgar); evening, twenty-minute organ re. cital by R. Deane Shure, directar of music of the church, anthem, “Eve- ning Hymn,” old Welsh song (Ash- ford); male quartet, “ Evening Hymn" (Langle rgan “Postlude in (Rinck). ic today at Foundry M. E. ill_include: Morning, pre- “Vision” (Bibl); anthem, ‘Te (Buck); contralto _solo. “Gloria” (PRuzai-Peccia): postlude, “Marche Russi” (Schminke). Eve- ning, prelude. “Andantino” (Lennox): anthem, “When the Sabbath Was Past” (Clough-Leighter): duet, “Ho- sanna” (Granier); postlude, “Let the Bright s “Samson” (Handel). At Washington Cathedral, the Bethlehem Chapel, a festival service, sermon and holy communion will be wiven at 11 a. m., including the fol- lowing: Processional hymn, 109 (Sul- livan), introit anthem (Priest), “Com- munion Service in €’ (Hall), hymn before sermon, 115 (Martin), offertory anthem by Sir George Martin, at pres- ntation Doxology” (Old Hun- dredth), communion hymn, 118 (Salz- burg), “Nunc Dimittis in E Flat” (Round), recessipnal hymn, 121 (Pal estrina). Festival evensong, Processional hymn, 11 (Jacobs), “Magniiicat and Nunc Dim- ittis in the Mount South will ¥ (Lorenz) The m Church lude, Deum (Gauntlett), offertory an- ir Joh: ner; at presen- he Doxology” "(Old Hun- dredth), benediction hymn, 23 (Par- ker), recessional hymn, 112 (Sullivan). Mrs. H. C. Corbett, pianist, and Roy | F. Carty, soloist and precentor, will furnish the musical features of the services at the Arlington Presbyte- rian Church today. The oratorio “The Holy City,” by A. R. Gaul, will be presented by the Dumbarton Avenue M. . Church choir of Georgetown tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The soloists will be: Sopranos, Mrs. Gantz and Bessic Birch Haycock; contralto, Olive Travers Houghton; tenor, Dallas Tucker, and baritone, Richard McCarteney. = The director of the choir is W. T. Glover and Mrs. Isaac Birch is organist. The | chorus numbers thirty voices. The choir of Immanuel Baptist Church will repeat its Easter music today. At the morning service it will sing “Lift Your Glad Voices” (Avery), “They Have Taken Away My Lord” (Harrington) and “Praise the Lord” (Randegger). At the eve- ning service the male chorus will sing several selections. Mrs. Emily G. Dickinson is director of music. Ruth Goodall, soprano, will be spe- cial soloist at the evening service of the Methodist Protestant Church, Georgetown, D. C,, this evening, Mrs. Ida Offutt Trenis at the organ. Mrs. Goodall will sing “Babylon,” by Wat- son. Neighborhood e Monic twenty-two years of the festival's his- tory. ~ “The Changeling” will alter- nate with “Voices of Spring” during the five performances in the Sylvan Theater in the back yard of Neigh- borhood House, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. Gretchen Hood on Benefit Program. Gretchen Hood, soprano, who has donated her services for the “Spring Carnival,” annual benefit given-for the free wards of Providence Hos- pital, which will be presented at the National Theater Tuesday afternoon, has selected the songs “Ouvres Tes Yeux Bleu” (Massenet), “Bridal Dawn” (Martin), “Danny Boy,” an old Londonderry air, and “Canzo- netta” (Jacobi). Miss Hood, who made her opera debut at the National Theater some years ago ‘with_ the Aborn Grand Opera Company, after intensive musi- cal study in Brussels, Italy and Paris, is the daughter of the late Edwin Hood, dean of correspondents and for more than fifty years - Washington representative _of the Associated Press at the White House and State Department. Miss Hood, who has se- sected Washington, her native city, a8 her future home, sings in several cnurches of the city, and has become ‘well known to the devotees of “free alr® by her concerts over stations WCAP and WRC here. NOTICE! All contributions for The Star music page must be in The Star Office not fater than Thursday at 9 am. Musigraphs Katherino Riggs, concert harpist, was a soloist yesterday at noon at the annual breakfast of the League of American Pen Women, held at the Hotel Washington in 'the salpn de nations. Miss Riggs played between the courses of the breakfast, her num- bere including “Prelude” ’ (Durand) and “Will-o-the-Wisp” (Hasselman) for her first group and “En Reve (Verdalle) and “Water NymphsV (Hasselman) for the second group. Twenty-four of the members of the Vipivoce Music Study Club and the Vipivoce Juveniles attended the Cher- kasskey concert Friday night under the chaperonage of Miss Irances Gutelius. Beatrice Seymour Goodwin was soloist at a reception given at the Willard Hotel Wednesday afternoon in _honor of the members of the American Legion Auxiliary attending the Daughters of the American Revo- lution congress. Music was fur- nished by the Marine Band and Mr. Santelmann played several violin solos. ~ Mise Goodwin was accom- patied by Mr. Errickson of the Ma- rine Band. Franceska Kaspar Lawson will re- turn to Washington today from Mar- ion, Va., where she gave a recital last Friday evening at the Marion Junior College. Olive Travers Houghton, contralto, formerly of Washington, has just re- turned to this city from New York, where she hus been a soloist at St. James’ P. K. Church. Since her re- turn she has sung at the reception given recently by the Virginia Soci- ety, where she was received enthusi- Way, | (West), hymn_before ser- | astically, and Tuesday she sang south- ern songs as guest soloist at a recep- tion given the Janet Montgomery Chapter, D. A. R, by Mrs. Lewis Jackson. Mrs, Houghton will sing the contralto Solo in Weber's “Mass in G” at Holy Trinity Catholic Church today, and tomorrow night she will ng ‘the contralto solos in “Gaul's ‘Holy City,” to be given by the cholr of Dumbarton Avenue M. E. Church. Raymond C. Moore, baritone, was one of the solois's Monday at the ladies' night giyen by _Potomac Lodge, No. 5, ¥. A. A. M, com- memorating the 135th anniversary of the lodge. Mr. Moore also was soloist with the United States Marine Band at the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday, when a memorial service by the Fine Arts Commission was given in honor of the late Henry Bacon, architect for building and member of the com- migsion. | Mr. ana Mrs. Bawara R. Witman, | 1ocal singers, will spend the month | of May in Florida as the guests of Miss Katherine Pugce and her | parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Pierce | at their home, Moon Hill Planta- fon. The trip will be made by motor. | Mrs. Witman will be remembered for her work as soprano soloist at Rock Creek * Church, and Mr. Witman temporarily leaving his position of tenor soloist at Grace Reformed Church. They have prepared to give several recitals. Mrs. Witman, well known as an aglist as well as a musician, i planning to paint a num- ber of Florida landscapes for next winter’s exhibitfon. Elena de Sayn, Russian violinist. has left the city to fill several con: cerL engas. . ents in New Jersey and New York. While in New Jersey Miss de Sayn will be a guest of Count- ess Gazzale in Rutherford, an ardent patron of music. She is a singer. Her musical teas have at- tracted many famous musicians and singers from New York. The Kimball Quartet—Fannie Shreve _Heartsill, soprano; Helen Marle Koontz, contralto: Charles E. Myers, temor, and Francis P. Heart- siil, bass—assisted by Mrs. M. Love, accompanist, will give a program of solo and ensemble compositions ar- ranged by George Schimmel during the Knights of Columbus banquet at Rauscher’s tonight. Concert by Washington Saengerbund. £ Washington Saengerbund; un- der the direction of Armand J. Gumprecht, till present @ concert for the relief of the hungry children in Germany this evening at § o'clock at St. Mary's Hall, 721 5th street northwest. Assisting artists will be Dorothy Smith, soprano; W. F. H. Santelmann, violinist; Malton Boyce, pianist, and the United States Marine Band, under the leadership of Taylor Branson. The program will inélude: Overture to “Egmont™ (Beethoven), | Marine Bln(!sf)rcheqlrl; flgr\n;, b » ergruss’ (Singers’ Greeting’ = | Renaufgang” (Sunrise). op. 80 (Her- mes), Washington Saengerbund and Marine Band Orchestra; soprano solo, dlen, Forets” (Adieu. Forests,) from “Jeanns de Arc” (Tsclmiko'!ky).lg::s Dorothy Smith; solo for violln, “Le- gende” (Wieniawski), W. F. H. Santel- mann, United States Ml'rint Band; accompanist, Herbert W. Erisman, Tnited States Marine band; chorus, So Welt” (Afar) (Haese), “The Ro- (Nevin), Washington Saenger- ; “Liebestraum” (Love's Dream) Bion), Marine Band Orchestra: pidno solo, "Hungarian Rhapsody No. T2+ (Lisst), Malton Boyce; chorus, “An der Schoenen Blauen Donau’ (On the Beautiful Blue Danube) (Strauss), Washington Saengerbund and Marine Band Orchestra; grand scenes from “Tannhauser” (Wagner), Marine Band Orchestra. Marine Band Concerts. At United States marine barracks at 3 p.m. tomorrow a concert by the United States Marine Band Orchestra, Wwilliam H. Santelmann, leader, and Taylor Branson, second leader, will be given: The program will be: Mareh, “Em- perors’ Parole” (Teike); overture, “ " (Mozart); religions medi l.ll)!?:ll..,u'a'r‘l Memoriam” (Potter); ex cerpts from “The Fortune Teller (Herbert); waitz, “Vienna Beauties' (Ziehrer); “Rustle of Spring” (Sind- ing): “Mazurka, Opus 62, No. 3,” from “Scenes de Ballet” (Glazounow); galop de concert, “Vinea” (Ziehrer)q marines’ hymn, *“The Halls of Monte- zuma,” and “The Star Spangled Bon- er. "Wedneeday at the barracks at 3:15 o'clock an evening concert by the United States Marine Band Orchestra will be presented, with the following progr-m: March, “To the Camp" (Blankenburg); ~_overture, “Eury- anthe” (Weber); “Old Folks at Home grand scenes from “Otello” (Verdi) ballet music from “Henry the Eighth' (German) otan’s Farewell and Fire Scene,” from “The Valkyrie" (Wagner); marinés’ hymn, “The Halls of Montesuma,” and “The Star Span- gled Banner.” 5 . e - Finds His “Friday. ST as Robihson. Crusoe. found his Friday, so has Jackie Coogan dis- covered his. ¥ Director Scott Dunlap ‘spent days of patient effort with nine different cats trying to make them ‘‘emote” and play _Friday to Jackie's Crusoe. Finally he. gave. up and ordered the cat episode stricken from the story, but little did he reckon with a nine- year-old boy's love for animals. Jackie was dismayed, but undaunt- ed. He went.home and waited in his backyard until the big black tomcat, a dally visitor on the Coogan (fence, appeared, and, coaxing the animal to him, carried him off to the studio next day. And, strangely,, the cat (von took diréction like an old trouper. Friday's salary will be a- fried fish, two pleces of liver and a ball of gatoip daily. is! | |lated harmonies—an | Christy, ta Notes of Art and: Artists T 1s Indeed a keen delight to come across contemporaneous works of art of such subtle charm and beauty as the pencil portraits by the Duchees of Rutland now on view in the Vandyck Galleries. Thirty-five of these In a single row encircle the walls of the middle gallery, into which one enters directly upon ar- rival. They are portraits of the great and of the humble. There is one of the Prince of Wales in khaki, done in 1920, and another tiny little drawing of the same royal personage aged two months. There s one of Lord French and one of Paderewski. But for the most part the collection Is made up of portrait studies of the actors and actresses included in the cast of “The Miracle,” that marvel- ously spectacular drama which has attracted so much attention and cre- ated so much discussion in New York this winter. Among-these people ie the fln;lint‘fi own daughter, Lady Di- ana Manners, whose beauty bas lonj begn proclaimed. g 1ne s not, however, the greatness of her sittérs, nor even thelr claim to beauty of feature, which gives these drawings distinction, but rather their power to interpret charm of personality, human loveliness—one might almost say lovablencss —for in some mysterious manner the Duchess of Rutland has manifested this qual. ity in all whom she has portrayed. And how hard it is to define this quality—the turn of a cheek, the line of a lip, the glint of an eye, a littla something that for an instant raizes the curtain of the soul and creates understanding. There is nothing more lovely than a line drawn with feeling and sympathy, and in_the handling of line the Duchess of Rut- land shows surpassing ability. It is possible that she idealizes those she draws, but in no one of her draw- ings is there a trace of Baughtiness to the contrary, it is gehtleness and refinement that she has emphasized even in her portrait of Mary Pick- ford, which was done lately fn New York and is given place im this notable collection. Augmenting the thirty-five draw- ings in the one mallery is a collec- tion of twenty-five small sketches made at “The Miracle” of Lady Diana Manners as the nun and the madonna sketches about three by five inches in dimensions, all interesting studies of expression very sensitiv Tt this day of much glamoring for attention, even in the field of art, it is refreshing to find works of so reticent a nature and so insistent with beauty. %%+ BEN F. COMINS, whose studio is in the same bullding as the Van- dyck Galleries, 1611 Connecticut ave- nue, is giving a private view this afternoon of several portraits recent- ly completed, and of a serics of paint- ings which are commentaries on American life. Among the portraits are two three-quarter lengths of well known Washington women, Mrs. John Stewart McLennan and Mrs. Joseph Adams Baer. Mrs. McLennan is pic- tured wearing a gown in the present | mode, made of petunia red satin or- namented with Chinese embroidery, and Mr. Comins has painted-her seat- ed in a red lacquered Chinese chair, creating in his color scheme that dis- sonance dear to modernists, both in painting and in music, which is thought to offset and emphasize re- interesting and rather daring feat. Mr. Comins is one who realizes, however, that a portrait to be of lasting value must be some- thing more than a mere likeness; that it must, as in this portrait of Mrs. McLennan, not only give likeness, but interpret personality and create ar- tistic impresston through design and composition. The portrait of Mrs. Baer shows her also in a red gown, standing in & more conventiona. attitude, but is likewise unusual In type. The other portraits are of bays and are done sketchily, showing the head directly and well modeled, on an unpainted background of white canvas, a pleas- ant and clever way of recording youth. * % ¥ ¥ T the Corcoran Gallery of Art i there was placed on view last weeK, and may still be seen, six re- cent portraits by Howard Chandler three of which have been painted in the White House, one of the President, tFo of Mrs. Coolidge, the one a full-length With outdoor setting, ordered by the sorority of which Mrs. Coolidge is a member, and presented for permanent inclu- {sfon in the national collection of por- traits of Presidents’ wives. The three other paintings composing tie group are of the Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes gnd of {he artist's wite, Mrs Christy, That all &re good likenesses none can deny, and as this is the chief measuré of merit which the public ands, it is not strange that they have calied forth general commenda- tion. Mr. Christy has won an envid- ble reputatign as an illustrator. Like Charles Dana Gibson, he has created a popular feminine type and has been idolized for almost a generation by feminine magazine readers. And to an extent in creating this type of feminine loveliness Mr. Christy has laid, this generation under a certain obligation. It is only lately that he has taken to painting portraits in oil, and it is not strange, therefore, that whereas his draftsmanship and sense of the plctorial stand him 1 “good stead, he has not vet acquired that command of his medium which en- ables a painier to produce great works of art. Talke, for instance, a painting by one of the old masters, a portrait: What first catches the eve and causes a thrill of delignt is beauty in de- sign, in adjustment of values, in color relations and in surface treatment. 1t is the way the thing is done, the art of the painter that ts summoned to the doing, which makes tho produc- tion & work of art. It must be co fesced, however, that comparatively few modern portraits come up to thie standard. Why, it i3 hard to unde: stand, but the art of portrait paint- ing ebbs low today, and, after all, we can only acknowledge it. ok k% THE Corcoran Gallery of Art opens today an exhibition comprising works by a group of cotemporar: Ameriean painters who have been strongly influenced by the moderniet movement and yet are far from ex- tremists in this field. They are Gif- ford Beal, George Bellows, Arthur B Davies, William J. Glackens, Rober: Henri, " Leon Kroll, Krnest Lawson Jerome Myers, the late Maurice B Prendergast, John Sloan, Maurico | Sterne, Augustus Vincent ‘Tack anc Allen Tucker, each showing two or more works, The Prendergasts have been Jent by the Phillips Memoriai Gallery, as have 50 tl 5 b Arthur 'B. Davies. iR This cxhibition was arranged by the director, Mr. Minnigerode, espc civa.lly with the idea of giving the Washington public an opportunity o° | becoming acquainted with the leaders of this movement and so forming their own judgment as to its meri and significance. The exhibition will continue until May 18 and will be feviewed at length in these column: A COLLECTIO! of thumb-bo> cketches, water colors, ete, by Hayley-Lever is now on view in the cases in the upper atrium of the Cor- coran Gallery of Art. Mr. Leve: studled In Paris, London and New York and worked for some time at St. Ives, Cornwall, Eygland. He is a member cof the New Society of Art- ists, New York: the National Arte Club, the Royal British Artists, Lon- don, and other professional associa tions, and he is the recipient of numerous medals and other award: His work is famillar to Washing tonians through frequent inclusio: in the Corcoran Gallery's notable bi ennial exhibitions. He is represented, furthermore, in the permanent col- lections of the Breoklyn Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Na- tonal Art Museums of outh Australia, Syndey, New Sout! Wales and other important instity tions. For a number of years he h spent his summers at Glouceste Quite a number of the- sketehe cluded in this collection wer. there. He, too, belongs to the school ‘of what Mr. characterized as the T slashing stroke; in other words, he paints broadly ‘and follows in the 8teps of the impressionists, purposing to create unified impression by direct methods. He is a strong painter. * ¥ ¥ ¥ TTHE Freer Gallery of Art an nounces a lecture free to the pub- lie, to be given in the auditorium of the gallery on Tuesday afternoon April 29, at 4:45 o'clock, by Prof. Paul Pelliot of the College of France, “Chinese Bronzes, Jades and Sculp- tures” The lecture will be illus- trated and will be given in Englisk Prof. Pelliot i{s the most eminent of French sinologists. It was he who followed Sir Aurel Stein in the e vation at Toun-huang, in weste; China, and his lecture will hav special interest dealing with a part of the Freer collections less wel! understood perhaps by laymen, This s the first opportunity ths public has been given for specialized information concerning these valuabl. collections, and it is one which un- doubtedly will be gladly seized. * % x % THB division of graphic arts of the United States National Muse: is exhibiting in the Smithsonian build- ing from April 26 to May 23 a collec- tion of etchings and drawings by Franklin T. Wood, a member of the Chicago Socicty of Etchers. Mrs Bertha E. Jacques, secretary of thi society, says: “For_sincerity of treatment, del:- cacy of perception and good taste, 1 think we bave no one in our list of 115 active members, practically from all over the world. who surpasses him. Nor is delicacy and refinement his chief charm. for he has done vig- orous drypoints. like the head of Jean Marle, which is as strong and forceful as anything I know “The fact that his output is small pot only shows Jis inatien on his part, but makes him a favorite of collectors, who are apt to e shy of the voluminous cteh “Every year our so: from our exhibition the finest prints and preseais them o *he Sermanen collection of the wrt Insii‘ute. Wood has had the honor of having had four so select-1, and a landscap. of his was used with one of wur nual publications. LEILA MECHLIN. | 1 oty purchases Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Next i L] Season s Announcements . Mrs. Wilson-Greene, well known concert manager of Washington, makes the following announcements for the next season. The artists' course of five concerts will include Toti Dal Monte, coloratura soprano and leading artist of the Paris opera, Wwho' also will sing three guest per- formances with the “Chicago Opera next season. She has sung in all the principal houses of Europe; Chaliapin, famous bass; Paviowa and her Ballet Russe, with full symphony orchestra; John McCormack, Sigrid Onegin, con- tralto. Both Hoti Dal Monte and Sig- rid Onegin will make their initial bow to the Washington public next sea- son. The philharmonic course will in- clude: Fritz Kreisler, Dusolina Gian- nini, mezzo soprano; Rachmaninoft, planist; Geraldine Farrar, soprano, in-“Scenes from_ the Operas in Cos- tume”; Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Sergei Koussevitzky, conductor. Owing to the success of the Wilson- Greene series of six concerts, it will be continued the coming season: and will include “The Puppet Opera,” di- rected by the originators; Messrs. Fidora and Podrecca; Elvira de Hi- dalgo; a reigning soprano in Burope; Ruth St. Denis, with Ted Shawn and the Denishawn dancers; ' the De Resrke Singers, an unusual ensemble of four voices, with Salvi, harpist; Guy Maier and Lee Pattison, popular two-piano ensemble, and Efram Zim- balist, violinist. In’addition to these three courses Mrs. Greene will present the New York Symphony Orchestra in flve concerts. Its programs as outlined for next season promise.to be one.of the most interesting presented in Washington. At one coricert Beetho- ven's “Ninth Symphony” will be given with. full orchestra- and- twelve solo- ists. Tita Schipa, tenor.from. the Chi- cago Opera, has also been engaged as |- soloist. Mme. Schumann-Heink will be pre- sented in @ single recital in January. The above concerts.constitute a par- tial list.” Mrs, Wilson-Greene prom- ises several additional announcements for the near future, Orders for season tickets for the artiste’, Philharmonic, Wilson-Greene and New York Symphony are now filing at Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Con- cert Bureau, 13th and G streets. MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. BESSIE N. WILD 2 Yoice ‘Cuiture, Piano snd Harmony Stodio, 6824 5th'st., Takoma Park, D. C. Phone Adams 5549. " MARGUERITE BROWN Soprano—8 Years' European Trainiog Summer Course in Vo ce Culture IS5 AMY CLEMENT LEAVITT PIANO. VOICE AND HARMONY 706 Elsventh m:-f E A ANt dut 63, Mrs, Ellen Sparrow TEACHER OF SINGING Studio, 2 G'rard St. N.E. Phone North 4474-W . ashington Studio House Washington Conservatory of Music 1408 'N. H. Ave., st Dupont Circle. Main 7858 xophone, etc. Y earbooi, Bbildren Now . ’hWOODRlDGE SCHOOL . Grace Haserd-Wormelle, Director Voice—Plano—E: ion G108 ‘Sath Dakets Ave: N.E, Phone North 0633 Walter T. 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