Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1924, Page 61

. both U Ccr SPATS : Wash‘i{b- HILDREN and older students of music in the city should feel in- spired this season as never before to give conscientious study and perseverance to their music. 1t may be said safely that never be- fore in the history of Washington has so much practical assistance been offered by clubs and ind susically. dudls interested in the Capital's progress Nearly evéry week for the past month and a half one or more offers of free scholarships for ambitious singers and students of instru- mental music have been published. announced prize competitions open to composers and musicians. Several national organizations have This week more proclamations of a similar nature are being made. The Rubin- stéin Club, a leading women's choral organization, in announcing its plans for the year, gives the regulations governing the club’s contest for American composers, coupled with its offer of a $100 award for the best work submitted and the promise of presentation of that work by the «lub at its last concert of the year. The music division of the public schools has instituted a class for beginners in the study of instrumental music that is to co-operate with the school orchestras and add to the personnel of those organizations. “This instruction will not interfere with lessons from private teachers, but Jather should prove advantageous to both school and teacher. * ¥ Hi appreciation of the ers in the music world problem of holding the public * % interest in music and developing gher types of musical work always faces lead- Several local church directors are trying to handle one phase of this problem by encouraging greater participation on the part of their congregations in the singing of.familiar anthems in church services on Sunday. World. offered Mr. Taylor “Mus ences attention strictly “Chykovsky's” night ians ought to go to the on its merits. Dcems Taylor, in a recent article solution for the same situation in another setting. Says For music in a moving picture house has to fight i the New York movies more, if only to study audi- s way to the o It was curious, for instance, to see how v (Tschaikowski's) piano concerto fared at the Rivoli last The program said merely. “played by the Knabe Ampico,” so that the Disteners could not even visualize a player, but must listen to the music for its own sake. i, And it did not listen. When the curtaips parted o show the piano. manfully playing itself. there was a stir of interest, for a minute or so. comparative silence. But that lasted only until onlookers had made surc that nobody was going to appear on the age » be the life arrcars.” That point cstablished. they went cheerfully back to what seems work of most picturc audiences—'making up conve tional “There are in the world, undoubtedly, a certain number of people who like to listen to music, but the vast majority of the human race is still interested, first of all, in little in abstract art.” * % personalitics and language practice and very * K LADIMIR DE PACHMANN, the “grand old man"” of the piano, who has drawn capacity audiences to admire his fine musicianship, as well as to enjoy the unique pleasure afforded by his personal mannerisms and his bland remarks, ance in this city Arthur Smith, Inc.. farcwell tour. old, this may he taken seriously tation of Chopin. and i featured on his program here is going to honor 'Washington with a second appear- He will give a recital under the auspices of the T. concert bureau, When one considers that this musical v De Pachman is it should be of interest that that composer will be October 23. This is said to be his eteran is 75 years noted for his interpre- HELEN FETTER. Musig’raphs ATHERINE RIGGS, harpist, and Helen Gerrer, violinist, are pre- Paring a number of unusual programs of harp and violin music, for use in their many concert and church en- gagements, both in and out of Wash- ington, during the coming Winter. For three years these two young artists played separate concert en- gagements. and only last they begin their work together, hav- ing played their first joint recital last Fall at the Friday Morning Club here, Wwhen they gave one entire morning's program. Both have had vears of thorough musical training. Miss Ger- rer studied with the master, Otakar Seveik. Miss Riggs studied with Dor- othy Johnston Baseler of Philadel- Phia, one of the best known American instructors in harp. This charming combination of harp and violin has not been in as fre- quent use here as in other parts of the country. This season Miss RiggS and Miss Gerrer expect to specialize in their duo-programs. A number of out-of-town concerts by these two Young musicians have already been arranged, as well as solo recitals, in the Southern States and in New England. McCall Lanbam, New tone, resumed his work of voice at the Chevy Chase School Jast Thursday. He also reopened Friday his Washington studio at 1310 Nine- teenth street northwest, where he will work every Wednesday during the season Mr. Lanham will sing the follow- $ng program tonight at 8:15 p.m., at the Chevy Chase School, assisted at the piano by Miss Edith Stetler; #0 Cessate di Piagarmi” (Scarlatti); “Down by the Sally Garden: old Irish; “Plaisir d’Armour” (Martini) recitative and aria. “Vision Fugitive" (Massenet): “Keine Sorg'um den Weg” (Raff): “Weigenlied” (Rei- mann): “Widmung” (Schumann); “Au Bord de la Riviere” (Fabre) “Chanson Paienne” (Paulin); “A Toi" (Bemberg): “Trees” (Rasbach): “A Fairy Story by the Fire” (Merikan- 10); “I'm So Glad Trouble Don't Last Always” (Dett); morning hymn (Henschel) York bari- s director Katharine McNeal has started one ©f her evening classes Friday eve- nings from 7 till 8 o'clock in the studio of H. LeRoy Lewis, 1406 H street northwest. Miss McNeal is emphasizing the “release” method of piano technique. which aims to de- velop the ability to hear and play the ultra-modern music intelligent- I Mrs. D Lord &tudio for the season 1924-25 in her residence on Decatur street north- west. Mrs. Lord has just returned 10 the city from an extended trip through Pennsylvania and Delaware. Mary Isabel Kelly has returned to the city. In the early Summer Miss XKelly had as her guest. Lucie Schar- wenka of Berlin. daughter of the famous Polish composer and pianist, XNaver Scharwenka. Miss Kelly ac- companied Miss Scharwenka to New York, where they were the guests ©f Mrs. Carl Fischer at her Sum- mer home in Manuet. After a brief visit in Boston, Miss XKelly spent the remainder of her wacations at Lake Sunapee, N. H. Edwin Hughes, Washingtonian, who has championed the cause of Ameri- can composers, has been engaged to appear @t the National American Music Festival in Buffalo. N. Y., Thursday evening. For many seasons Mr. Hughes has presented new Ameri- «an compositions for piano each year o©n his concert programs. Franceska Kaspar Lawson, soprano, writh Cecelia O'Dea, accompanist, pre- sented a short program of songs at Sidwell’s Friends' School last Thurs- day. Her selections included “Waltz Eong,” from “Romeo and Juliet.” and songs by Parker, Arthur Penn, Guion, Mary Turner Saiter and John Prindle Beott. Gertrude McRae Nash, popular for many years in Washington as a pian- ist and accompanist, has returned to the city for the season. Walter Nash, equally popular in local music cir- cles, 2 fine musician and talented 'cellist has ‘remained in Seattle, ‘Wash., to cammence his second year there in charge of classes in im- provisation at the Cornish School of Muslc. Mr. Nash is contemplating giv- dng ‘cello recitals, and a series of year did | has opened her | organ recitals in the large Roman Catholic Cathedral of Seattle, during the winter, Mrs. Nash says she will resume her musical work at the Cathedral School for Girls and Friends' School and will not take up the position offered her this Fall in the Cornish School in Se- attle until next year. She has ac- cepted the post htere with the grant of a leave of absence for the present scason. Mrs. Nash expects to appear in_recitals this winter. The Cornish School of Music is well represented in Washington by the Ram'’s Head Players, several of whom are graduates of the dramatic course at that school. 5 Daniel Breeskin, conductor of the orchestra at the Metropolitan Theater, and Ellas Breeskin, conductor at the Tivoli, both contribute musical novel- ties this week. Daniel Breeskin's con- cert overture at the F street house will be his own compilation desig- nated “Around the World With the United States Aviators” to embody representative airs from the nations visited by the American alr squadron that has just completed the first ae- rial circumnavigation of the globe. Elias Breeskin will incorporate in the musical program at the Tivoli an original, composition, “The Wash- ington Pennant March,” in honor of the Griffmen and the first American League pennant’ ever won by a Wash- ington base ball team. The junfor Breeskin's march is still in menu- script form. Last Tuesday evening at an enter- tainment given in the Western Pres- byterian Church, Nicholas J. Nico- lopoulos, bass, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. James H. Lowe, bang “Asleep in the Deep” (Petrie), “Friend o' Mine” (Sanderson), “O Isis and Osiris” (from “The Magic Flute,’ by Mozart), and “My Little Woman’ (Os- good). i Marceil Greenhalgh recently re- turned to Washington dfter three months spent as counselér of music at Camp Tegawitha, in the Pocono | Mountains, and a short visit en route to Washington with friends along the New Jersey coast. Miss Greenhalgh has reopened her studio. Alice Eversman will sing tomorrow at a soiree musical at the home of Countess Grasiani, in, Connecticut. She will sing a novelty, in costume— a group of Russian folk songs in a modern sgetting—accompanied by two strings and a piano. Owing to this engagement Miss Eversman will return to Washing- ton a week later than originally planned and will hear the applicants for her vocal scholarship next week. Charles M. Courboin, famous Bel- gian-American organist, formerly of Antwerp Cathedral, now guest soloist of the Wanamaker concert organs in New York and Philadelphia, is sched- uled to start his first transconti- nental recital tour this month. He is listed to play 80 recitals and travel nearly 20,000 miles. i1 In_addition to appearances with the Detroit and San Francisco Sym- phony Orchestras, M. Courboin will give recitals in New York City, Memphis, St. Louis, Scranton, Syra- cuse, Chicago, Palm Beach, Atlanta, Dayton, Oswego, Potsdam, Wilming- ton, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Vic- toria, Portland, Ore., and Portland, Me.; Niagara Falls, Pulaski; N. Y.; Huntington, Pa.; Boulder and Denver, Colo.: Princetoff, Norfolk, Eau Claire, Rock Hill, 8. C.; Fulton, ¥; Spring- Harrisbur; Grand Rapids, Tacoma, Helena, Montreal, Hamiltan, Regina, Halifax, St. John, Mount Carmel, Pa.; Cleveland, Toron. to, London, Ont. Milwaukee. St. Paul, Alh}nllc C Buffale and oth- er cities. W . Native American singers, trained only in this country, are now numer- ous in our concert halls and opera houses, but the distinction of being the first of this group to win recogni- tion is generally accorded to Anna Case, the soprano, who will appear in song. recital here this season in a star concert. Facing the stern tradition that for- elgn training was necessary, she tri- umphed over all obstacles. In her rapid rise to musical fame, she seems to embody the spirit of America. The essential factors in the development of her caresr have been determina: tion, intellect, ambition and perse- verence. Club and School Notes 'HE ' Rubinstein Club exécutive board announces plans for a big year. The first rehearsal and meet- ing of the club will be held Tuesday morning at 10:30 in the ballroom of the New Willard Hotel. A voice trial for new members will be held Tues- day night at 8 o'clock in the home of Mrs. E. M. White, 5516 Thirteenth street northwest (voice chairman). All women who sing are eligible and may communicate with Mrs. White by telephone, Columbia 5201. November 11 the annual luncheon will be given by the club, presenting fine. speakers and a famous vocal artist. December 9 the first concert will introduce to Washington the Eaesler Harp Ensefnble, an organization of nine harps, which will accompany the club in five numbers and also give separate selections. The annual dance will be held January 27. March 10 the second concert ‘will be given, with guest artist Reinald Werranrath, the popu- lar baritone. March 31 the club will |give its annual card party, and May 12 will close the season with the third and last concert. The prize composition will be sung by the club at_this time. The Rubinstein Club apnounces a prize competition for American com- posers for the best composition sub- mitted for women's choral presenta- tion. ~Musicians of national promi- nence will be selected to serve as judges. The prizes will be awarded according 1o the unimous vote of the judges. In case of a disagreement the chairman has the right to appoint an additional judge, whose decision will be final. Conditions of the competition are: Open to all American citizens; the work must be written for women's chorus, with three or four parts, with or without incidental solos, and full piano accompaniment (instrumental obligato if desired); all manuscripts shall be unsigned, with identification mark and sealed envelope containing private mark used, name and birth- placé of sender; date of citizenship, Gf not of American birth). present address in full and $1 to cover inci* dental expenses incurred in forward- ing manuscripts to judges and for the return of same to the contestant if rejected; all manuscripts must be clearly written in ink, and under no circumstances will a composition which has previously been published or publicly performed be con- sidered; only English titles and text will be considered: compositions must be received before January 2, 1925; care will be taken to safeguard man- uscripts entered. but the Rubinstein Club will assume no responsibility in case of loss; each contestant should retain a duplicate of manuscript for- warded. Prize winning compositions will be presented in Washington D. €. by the Rubinstein Club during the season' 1824.25. The prize winner should make every effort to be present at the premier presentation of the com- position at which time the prize of 3100 will be awarded. For further in- formation apply to Mrs. Harvey Rabbitt, chairman of music contest committee, 312 Cathedral Mansions, Center, Washington, D. C. This week marks the beginning of the sixth year for the Louise Lakin Sehool of Foundation Music. This system is unique in modern music teaching in the manner of presenting the elements of notation, theory and history of music along with the child’s actoal practice at the piano, thus correlating his music with his other school studies and avolding much of the drudgery of the earlier years of musical training. This year a new activity has been added fo the school's curriculum to meet an increasing demand for the same system of Instruction in art for children that Miss Lakin has used in the musical field. Clagses in the basic principles of art will be in charge ot Lucile Hitt Burnside. The Chaminade Glee Club held its Fall business meeting at the home of Esther Linkins, director, last Mon- day evening. Officers for the year are Katharine L. Eckloff, president; Ruth L. Jeffers, vice president: Miri- am B. Abell, sectetary; Lillian M. Anderson, treasuer: Elizabeth L. Black, librarfan; Ella Bradt, assist- ant librarian: Aldora Stone, publicity; Marybelle Boston and Florence R. Hinman, additional board members. Beatrice Ruth Koch will be ths club accompanist. The club plans include several con- certs similar to those which were So successful last year, and the sec- ond annual banquet to be held in January, 1925. Rehearsals will be held every Monday evening at 7:45 at the studio of the Homer L. Kitt Building, with first rehearsal tomor- row evening. All girls and women who are in- terested are invited to join the club. Edouard Albion, general director of the Washington Opera Company, has announced that all local singers who are interested in securing operatic ensemble training will be welcome for tryouts to be held at his studio, 1814 G street northwest, Tuesday aft- ernoon and evening from 4 to 7 and § to 10 o'clock. ‘The number necessary to handle small roles in ‘the first pro- duction planned has not been filled and there are vacancies in the chorus. “La Tosca” will probably be given early.in December. This is the sixth season of the Washington Opera Company and three operas will be produced during the year. Those who are associated with the organization secure training in sight ging under the direction” of Miss knowledge of proper “make-up” with Roy Hare, ensemble and choral work under Jacques Samassoud, conductor of the orches- tra and chorus; dramatic training un- der Enrica Clay Dillon, and ensemble ballet work with Paul Gardner Tcher- nikoff. Estelle Wentworth, active member of the Rho Beta Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon Musical Sorority, has offered a free scholarship for a contraito. All applications may be sent to Miss Wentworth's studio, 1360 Columbia road northwest, not later than Octo- ber 31, the date of the contest to be decided later. THE Caroline McKinley Studio of Rhythmic Expression, 1731 I street northwest, opened its fourth season last Wednesday with a full schedule of classes in all departments. Miss McKinley plans to give a number of informal studio dance programs, com- mencing In OctSber, when the ad- vanced classes - will repeat, by re- quest, their final program of last season, Of special interest also .is the an- nouncement that these dancers, so well known for their unusual num- bers given in connection with many local pageant productions in the past few years, will this season be pre- sented in a series of recitals, their first appearance to be in Washington before Christmas. The Orpheus Club will hold its first meeting of: the season Tues- day evening in the home of the chairman, Katharine Brooks, at 816 Fifteenth street. The program will be of American music given by Miss Brooks. soprano; Mildred Kolb Schulze, pianist, and George H. Wil- son, accompanist, members of the committee. It is the custom for the first program of each season to be given by the chairmsn —and the members of the committee. = The Carbaugh Concert Co., known as the C. C. C, filled the first en- gagement of the season Wednesday at Naval Lodge Hall. This trio met with a great deal of success on a tour during the Summer months in El Fouowmn a thorough reorgani- zation of the choir, the Church of the Ascension has resumed the spe- cial musical services Sunday eve- nings. Albert Larned, well known organist, who was formerly in charge of the choir. hus returned, -after an absence of some yeats. He hus or- ganized a choir of 30 voices. Mr. Larned believes in musio for all at- tending the services and selects hymns with a view of the participa- tion of the congregation, reserving the more difficult music for those parts of the service which properly bélong to the cholr alone. Under Mr. Larned's direction the worshiper at Ascension is assured of the opportu- nity to join in the singing, which is designed to give a musical interpre- tation of the religious lessons set forth by the sermon and the ritual. BT At the First Baptist Church the musical numbers today will b Morning—"Prelude in A Minor” (Mac farren): offertory selo, “Come, Ye Blessed” (Scott); postlude, “Proces- sional” (Frysinger). The evening organ recital includes “Berceuse” (Delbruck); “Shepherd's Song” (Mer- kel); “Ave Maria d'Arcadelt” (Liszt offertory solo, “One Sweetly Solemn Thought” (Ambrose): “Postlude"” (Hosmer). At Immanuel Baptist Church this morning the cholr will sing “Har! Hark My Soul™ (Shelly) and “Teach Me to Pray’ (Dressler). At the evening service the quartet, com- posed of Mrs. Nettie FE. Crocker, soprano: Fdith R. Grainger. con tralto; Denton L. Ledford, tenor; ( idgway Taylor, baritone, will sing TLord With Glowing Hearts” (Trott), and the male chorus will sing “Some Blessed Day” (Nevin). Mrs. Emily Dickinson is director of music. The 40 hours devotion will be celebrated today at St. Patrick's Church with solemn high mass at 11 o'clock and will mark the beginning of the schedule for Winter services. In the afternoon at 4:30 a special short service will be held with music bY the mixed choir. Music by the choir of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church today will include: Morning service—Chorus, “Sing, Alleluia Forth” (Buck): sa- prano solo, “The Penitent” (Van de Water), Mrs. Shreve, soprano soloist. Evening service—At this service the first musical evening of the season will be given by the mixed quartet, male quartet and mixed chorus choir. Program—Chorus, “Great and Marvel- lous” (Turner): tenor solo, “Thy Work to Do” (Briggs), Mr. Ledig mixed quartet, “Still, Still With Thee (Speaks); soprano and baritone duet, “In the Cross of Christ I Glory" (Howe). Mrs. Shreve and Mr. Haynie; male quartet with contralto obbligato, by Mrs. Shore, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” (Parks). A recital by Louis Potter, A. A. G. O., to inaugurate the new organ at the Epworth M. E. Church, South, at Thirteenth and East Capitol streets northeast, will be given Tuesday eve- ning at § o'clock. The public is in- vited. The program will be Vivace.,” “Fifth Symphony" ‘“Morning” (Grieg): “Andant from Symphonie Patetique (Tschalkow- sky); “Allegretto” (Godard-Potter); “Liebesfrend” (Kreisler); ‘Toccata” (Widor): choral prelude (Potter): “Souvenir” (Kinder); ‘“Meditation’ (Sturgess): march, from “Aida” (Verdi); Old Ravorites (improvisation). The music today at the church services will -be: Morning—Organ prelude, “Pastorale in G" (Faulkes) anthem. “Jesus, Lover of My Soul (Williams); soio, “Fountain of Life (Root): organ postiude, “Offertoire in B Flat” (Read). The evening serv ice will be devoted ‘largely to con- gregational singing of hymns and the choir will sing the anthem, “O How Amiable,Are Thy Dwellings” (West), and “Rock of Ages’ (Buck). The large chorus choir will sing at both services. Soloists for this Sunday are Helen Clark and Olive Ramsay, So- pranos; Anna Smith, contralto; Mr. Welch,” tenor, and Cameron Burton, bass, with Edwin Moore, organist, and Louls Potter, director. ‘Allegro (Widor) ; ‘The choir of All Saints’ Church, Chevy Chase, will give its first musi- cal service this evening at 8 o'clock. The numbers will include “Magnifi- cat” and “Nunc Demittis” (Wood- ward); anthem, “*Saviour, ‘When Night Involves the Skies” (Shelley), and offertory, “Love Divin (Marks). At the 11 o'clock service Gaul's “Com- munion Service” and ‘“Jerusalem, O Tarn Thee” (Gounod), with solo and obbligato by Phyllis Price, soprano, will be given. The soloists this sea- son will be Phyllis Price and Blanche Bollu, sopranos; Loulse Platt, con- tralto; F. W. S. Evans, tenor; Leslie Coyle, baritone, and H. B. Whitmore, bass. Willlam H. Taylor is organist and director. At the first vesper service of the season at the First Congregational Church this afternoon Charles Ferr: orgunist. wid play “Allegro Con Moto” (Whiting), “Fountain Reverie” (Fletcher), “Fantasy in_D Mino (Ferry), “Nightingale and the Rose (Saint-Saens) and “Andante” (Tschai- kowsky). Ruby Smith Stahl, wiil sing “Fountain of Life" and “The Living God" (O'Hara) These Sunday afternoon musical s will vary considerably character, several concert companies having been engaged to alternate programs given by members of the solo quartet and Mr. Ferry, assisted by outside talent. The public is in- vited. Announcement of the program each Sunday will be made in this column. The music for the regular services will be: 11 am.—"Prelude in F" (Dunham); quartet, “In Thee, O Lord” (Taylor): anthem, “The Is the Lord's” (Rogers), “Andant (Burgeman). 8 p.m.— “Meditation’ (Lucas); quartet, “Tarry With Me, My Savlour" " (Baldwin); anthem, “The “Lord Is My Rock” (Woodman), “Larghetto” (Brunswick). The music at the United Presby- terian Church in Petworth has re- cently been placed under the direc- tion of James K. Morton. A quartet has been organized, consisting of Ruth Chockley, soprano; Myrtle ockley, contralto; Edwin Callow, bass, and Mr. Morton, tenor. Miss Herminia Ellis is at the organ. Mr. Morton was tenor soloist at the Petworth Methodist Church for a number of years wnd has-served, in a similar capacity in other churches in the city. The others in the quartet also are well known. &t is planned to supplement the Yuartet by a chorus choir. Today the Winter schedule of serv- icks at the' Shrine of the Sacred Heart will be resumed. At the high mass at 11 o'clock the mixed choir will sing the following: “Asperges Me™ (O'Brien); “Proper of the Mass" (Tozer): “Mass in E Flat” (Bar- tholomeus); offertory, “Ave Maria” Crandall's Symphony Orchestra. T, Is rumored that Washington is to have a real symphony orchestra of 60 musiclans. The creation and maintenance of such an organization has been attempted frequently in the past under the auspices of patrons of the arts, but, in the present in- stance, the problem is approached from an entirely different and co- operative angle. Harry M. Crandall, owner of a group of motion picture theaters here, is said to have originated the plan for a local symphony orchestra, utilizing, as a nucleus, th: orchestras of his Metropolitan and Tivoll theaters under the joint direction of Daniél and Elias Breeskin. The latter was concert master with the Minneapolis Symphony -Orchestra last season. ‘Weekly concerts will be given at the Tivoli Theater on Sunday after- noons at 2 o'clock and at least four formal concerts of two-hour length are planned for each year, the pro- ceeds from these concerts to be dis- tributed among the members of the orchestra. Courtney Hayden, president of the local musicians' union, and W. M. Lynch, secretary, have done much to co-operate with Mr. Crandall in ar- ranging the practical detalls of the undertaking. Even so, the expense of maintaining so large an orchestra, re- hearsals and operation of the theater, will make it impossible to predict a profitable first season—from the finan- cial point of view. This fact, how- ever, it is said, has been discounted in advance, largely through the will- ingness of Washington's musicians to make sacrifices in order to create in the Capital a permanent s 3 worthy of being ranked in time with the famous organizations of Phila- delphia, Boston, Chicago, New York and Minneapolis. Helen Ware in Washington HBLEN WARE, well known Ameri- can violinist who made her home in Washington temporarily last year, has returned this season to adopt ithe city permanently as her place of residence. Miss Ware says she be- lieves that the Capital City is destined to become the artistic .and cultural center of the United States. “In foreign countries the capital is the center, usually, of all artistic life,” said Miss Ware. “It has not been so here—New York and Chicago with their abundance of wealth and peo- (Guilmant), chorus, with soprano s0lo_obbligato. The program for vesper service at 7:30 will Include “Psalms’ (Grego- rian), “Ave Maria Stella” (Rosewig) “Salve Regina” (Dana), "O Salutaris’ (Giorza), and “Tantum Ergo” (Bald- win). The solo quartet is composed of Mabel C. Latimer, ‘soprano; Hazel Arth, contralto: Robert W. O'Lone, tenor, and Willlam R. Cress, bari- tone.” The choir is under the dircc- tion of Mary Louise Sullivam, or- ganist. The music at St. John's Church, Sixteenth and H streets northwest, today, as announced by T. Guy Lu- cas, director. will include: At the 11 o'clock servict, Smart's “Holy Com- munion Service in E Flat” and the of- fertory solo, “Eve Hath Not Seen” (Gaul), by E. R. Kidwell, and at the evening service at & o'clock Somer- vell's “Magnificat in F will be given and the anthem, “Teach Me, O Lord.” ‘The vested choir of Gunton-Temple Presbyterian Church, numbering 32 voices, will sing for the first time this season at the 11 o'clock service, un- der the direction of John George Klein, tenor soloist and choir director. Mrs. Klein will be at the piano. The services will be held in the auditorium of the new church build ing. at Sixteenth and Newton strests It is ‘expected that the new three- manual organ now being installed under the personal supervision of Edgar Priest, organist and choir di- rector of the cathedral at St. Alban's, will_be compléted about the middle of October. A special musical program will be presegted at the evening service by Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler, soprano, and John George Klein, tenor. The music_for today's services at the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church South will be_as follows: - Morning — Organ prelude, “Andante Cantabile (Deschayes, Mrs. Frank A. Frost; anthem, “Blessed Ones, Come Unto Me” (Shure); quin- tet, “Lead, Kindly Light" (Parks), Mrs. J. Frank Rice, soprano; W. A thur McCoy, first temor; Everett . Hardell, second tenor; Howard P. Bailey, baritone, and James P. Sehibk, basso. Organ postlude, - “Marche Gothique” (Pollitt). Evening—Twen- ty-minute organ recital by R. Deane Shure, director of music_of the church: anthem, “Happy and Blessed,” from “St. Panl” (Mendetssohn); quar- tet, “Soft Sabbath Bve” (Root): or- gan postlude, “Postlude” (Hopkin- son). . San Ca.rlo Company to Sing ‘‘Butterfly’” Here IRECT from New York, where it scored unusual triumphs during its eighth annual season in that me- tropolis, the San Carlo Grand Opera Company is coming to Washington for a single performance on the aft- ernoon of Friday, October 17, when it offer Puccini's "Madame Butter- fly,” with the Japanese prima donna, Mme. Tamaki Miura. This perform- ance will be the first attraction in what is known as the “Wilson- Greene Concert Serie: The noted aggregation of singers usually plays a week or more in the Capitol City, and comes later in the vear. This season, however, Wash- ington will see and hear the company immediately after its New York season. It is announced that the com- pany will bring the, elaborate scenic equipment and large orchestra used in New York. Arrangements have been made to bring the complete company of more than 100 here. For the first time in Washington the noted French tenor, late of the Metropolitan Opera Company and the Opera Comique of Paris, Louis Ros- seau, will sing the role of Lieut. Pinkerton. Other newcomers to the American opera stage who will sing here are Ada Salori, European mezzo- soprano; Lillian Menken and Jorgen Bendix of the Royal Danish Opera House at Copenhagen, and Amund Sjovik, a Scandinavian basso. Maes- tro Aldo Franchetti will conduct the local presentation. —_—m Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, and have several return engagements booked for next season. The Washington radio fans will have an opportunity of hearing this organization a week from tomorrow night from station WEAF, New York. They will give a 30-minute program. In the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades last Thursday and Friday classes were opened to all pupils de- siring to enter schéol orchestras on instrumental music. Registration blanks are available from school principals. The school orchestras will meet once a week during school hours and in school centers as conveniently lo- cated as possible. The instrumental classes, including piano, will meet once a week after school and in school centers as conveniently located as possible. . Tl;e period of each class will be for 45 minutes, the first class begin- ning at 3:15 and the second at 4 o'clock, and. no pupils shall be ex- cused before 3 o'clock to attend these classes. There will be a fee of $2 for a term of 10 Jessons, and this fee must be paid at the first lesson of each term. All puplls entering classes on orchestral instruments must furnish their instruments, and those entering piano classes musl have a piano at home. Instruction books, etc., must be purchaseq by the pupils at the direction of the class teacher. § The classes on orchestral “instru- ments will be for puils from the 5th to Sth grades, inclusive, and only beginners and those who have had less than one and one-half years' work In school classes on orchestral instruments will be admitted. The classes on piano will be for pupils from the 4th to the Sth grades, In- clusive, and only beginners will be admitted. All application cards must be filled out and returned to the grade teacher tomorrow. ? Announcement of time and place of meeting of school orchestras and in- strumental classes will be made later through school principals. . Close Sale of Tickets. NNOUNCEMENT is made by T. Arthur Smith, Inc., concert bu- reau that the season sale for the ®enth season of the Star Concerts will close next week. The dates and the artists for the first *series are: October 16, Emilio DeGogorza, baritone; No- vember 20, Renee Chemet, violinist; December 4, Anna Case, soprano; De- cember 11, joint ‘recital with Hans Kindler, cellist, and Wanda Landow- ska, pianist-harpsichordist; January 29, Mabel Garrison, soprano; Febru- ary 19, Paul Kochanski, violinist, and March' 19, Alfred Cortot, pianist. The second series of star concerts will begin November 6 with Olga Samaroff, pianist, and will include: January 8, Pablo Casals, cellist; Jan- uary 15, John Charles Thomas, bari- tone; March 5, Mozart's comic opera, “The Impresarlo,” in _English, and March 10; -the New York Philhar- monic Orchestra with Willem Men- gelberg as conductor. All concerts will be given at the National Theater at 4:30 o'clock on Thursdays, with the exception of the the ple have claimed those titles. The aenter must inevitably shift to Wash- ington. In fact, steps in that direc- tion have already becn taken. A determined effort is being made to establish a national conservatory of music here. Some day it will be a reality. The reason is not far to seek. The atmosphere here is con- genial. The city is beautiful. It is quiet, poised. unhurried and under the guardianship of the Federal Gov- ernment which will foster, when the time comes, the Nation's artistic de- velopment. There is abundant op- portunity for research here and the inspiration of the old masters in various branches of art in our mu- seums and public buildings. The large foreign population here, with its in- herent sympathy to artistic things, is a boon. The tvpe of residents, un- sullied by industrialism. should fur- nish good material for leadership.” Helen Ware studied the violin with two great masters of that instru- ment, Sevcik of Prague and Vienna, and Hubay of Hungary. Her instru- ment is a Stradivarius, insured in England for $8,000. Miss Ware is a composer and author as well as solo- ist and teacher. Some of her com- positions for the violin are played by leading virtuosi and her books, espe- clally those on, Hungarian, Slavic and EYpsy music, dre said to be consider- ed authoritative. Concert of Music by R. Deane Shure. A concert will be given by the various musical organizations of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Ipis- copal Church South on Wednesday October 29, at 8 p.m., the program for which will be made up entirely of compositions of R. Deane Shure, di- rector of music of the church, who has attained a national fame as a composer. Among the features of the program will be a male quartet, “Trumpet to Me,” to be sung by the Mount Vernon Quartet, W. Arthur McCoy, first tenor; Everett S. Hardell, second tenor: Howard P. Bailey, baritone, and James P. Schick, basso. This number, highly modern in character and vivid in coloring, was written by Mr. Shure at the behest of Harvey Gaul, director of the Apollo Club of Pittsburgh, and has been dedicated to Mr. Gaul's club, which numbers 150. So pleased with it was Mr. Gaul, who is music critic of the Pittsburgh Post, that he sent the manuscript to a publishing house, which immedi- ately issued it. “Trumpet to Me” h: already been taken up by other male choruses, and it is expected it will be heard frequently this season. Other compositions of Mr. Shure's which will be Riven on the program will include: “Twenty-third Psalm” and “Anthem of Adoration,” choruses: “Dream Clouds.” a tenor solo; “I Need Thee, Saviour.” baritone solo; “Lyric Washington. a piano suite, descriptive of the Capital, which has been arranged for piano and organ, and another piano suite, “Meadow Madrigals,” organ numbers by Mrs. Frank O. Frost and a soprano solo by Mrs. J. Frank Ric New York Symphony Soloists. TBE five Tuesday afternoon con- certs by the New York Symphony Orchestra to be given at Poli's Thea- ter, under the direction of Mrs. Wil- son-Greene, will have interesting $o- loists in this, its fortieth, season un- der the direction of Walter Damrosch, November 11, Tito Schipa, tenor of the Chicago Opera Company, will be soloist; December 9, Paul Kochanski, violinist, and Felix Salmond, cellist, will play Brahms’' double concerto; January 13 will have Mme. Morena of operatic fame as a soloist for Beetho- ven's “Ninth Symphony,” which will be given February 17. The final con- cert will introduce the distinguished American 'violinist, Samuel Dushkin, who, with Lionel Tertis, English vio- linist, will play the Mozart double concerto. Mr. Damrosch will conduct the first four concerts and Bruno ‘Walter the final one. The personnel of the orchestra re- mains practically unchanged, with one important addition, Mischa Mischa- koff, young Russian violinist,, suc- ceeds Gustave Tinlot as concert.mas- ter, Reber Johnson thus becoming as- sistant concert master. The principals of the various instrumental groups are noted soloists. Especially prom- inent is George Barrere, flutist. . = Monument Honors Preachers. In memory of the itinerant preachers of the northwest, of whom his father was one, R. A. Booth. a prominent business man of the State of Oregon.| and once an aspirant for sepatorial honors has had erected in the capitol grounds at Salem, Ore., a statue rep- resenting the pioneer minister. The sculptor was A. Phimister Proctor. o Diplomacy. From London Punch. Mother (to maid who has been sent to negotiate with Nellie, dismissed from the dipner table for misbehav- ior)—Did you tell Miss Nellie she New ¥ork Philharmonic Orchestra, which will be heard on Tuesday aft- ernoon. Reservations may be made with T. Arthur Smith, Inc., 1306 G strect. could come down for the pudding if she promised to be a good girl? Maid—Yes'm. , Mother—Well, what did she say wmphony | | | (Thin column ix conducted by the Columbia Congress -Teacher Associations’ branch ational Congress of Parentw and Teachers. Mrs. L. H. Brown, newly elected delegate historian of the District of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teach- er Assoclations, records the success of this_organization for the past year. New offices and duties have been added to the official staff, ¥n- couraging reports from a number of the presidents of the 50 different D. T. A. in the District e appeared in this column during the Summer mont The congress is grateful to those few women who met at the home of Mrs. A. A. Birney in February 1905, to organize the first Congr of Mothers in the District of Co- lumbia The president of every school and church club should call at the na- tional office, 1201 ixteenth street and secure a copy of the new national by-laws. The National Capitol Dental Asso- ciation will be glad to send speak- ers to the meetings of the school P. T. A. to tell the parents the im- portance of dental work on the physical and mental development of children. Dr. Manley Michaels, 925 Fifteenth street northwest, will send speakers on request The first Fall meeting of the Maury Home and School Association, which was te have been held October 7, has | been postponed until October 13 The Peabody-Hilton P. T. A. will hold its regular meeting Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter will speak on parent-teacher work All parents are urged to be present, | | | as there will be very important busi- | ness. Cranes and Geraniums. From the Kansas City Times. In the giant cranes used for lifting heavy burdens we find a_close kinsman of the dainty geranium which decorates our greenhouses and window boxes. Th first uss of the word “crane’ was to denote the lonz-legged member of the bird family. with which all readers are familiar. The Greck name for the bird was “geranos” When a name sought for the gmeranium the old Greek word was adopied. because of the fact that the sead capsules of the flower have | a_long projecting beak. resembling that of the bird. In many localities the geranium is still known as ‘“crane's Dbill.” In machinery the “crane” took its name from the resemblance of its long | arm to the neck of the bird. In point of naming. therefore, the flower, the bird and the mechanical crane all belong to the same family. Dorothy D. Wilson contralte. and Frances O. Lloyd, pianist, start this season’s concert tour Tuesday at Dickerson, Md MUSICAL INSTRUCTION Helen Gerrer Concert Violinist and Teacher Pupil of Alfred Megerlin (New York) and Otakar Seveik. Studio: 1889 Columbia Road Col. 516 Telephon MRS, HAMILL.,TON WOLJ Pupil Xaver Scharwenka, Berlin Bruno Zwintscher. Leipsig, &c.: piano lessons rea e. Children o adulis. Lessons in pupils” homes, or studio. Address 3210 17th PIANO KATHARINE McNEAL has opened her Classes of Technique and Interpretation 10 Lessons for $15 12 17th St. N.W. Franklin 7764 * auce EVERSMAN Formerly Metropolitan Opera Voeal “Seudia, 1508 Conmectint Ave. OFFER SCHOLARSHIF. Tel. Main 9125 Eleom do Ssyn School for Violin and United . . W. GAULT. Pisno and Vol Studio. 407 B N. . BE Germa HELEN WARE Internationally Known A1OLINIST Starts her second ses n of Washington 1st. Studied with Sev- Maid—She ssif, “What sert of pud- ding 1s 1% " ok inj Vienna and Hubay in Bodapes Speeial _rates for children, taught by an gmunt und'r‘ollll are's supervision. Stodio—1708 S St. RUBY SMITH STAHL Pupil of Percy Rector Stephens and Wm. Shakespeare. TEACHER OF VOICE and CHARLES T. FERRY Pupil of Widor and Middleschulte. TEACHER OF ORGAN & PIANO Announce_the Opening of Their ¥ Joint Etodio at First Congregational Church w. Mr. Ferry NW. 10th and G Sts. -Mrs. Stahl Church _Studio. Tels- bone Main 7791, sidence Studio (The Porter), North 1421. .Von UNSCHU_LD University of Music, Inc. Mme. Marie von Unachuld, President 215t School Year legroes. By Artist Teachers Only Preparatory School Afliated 1320 F st., 26 1644 Col. rd. Phone Main 8194 Phone Col. 2742 1106 _Connecticut Ave. Violin. Voice. Dancing. Cello Alice Eversman Formerly Motropolitan Opers Mme. Vassilieff [omoy munss Violin Beginners and Advanoed Taught Mim Do Rayn herself . Main 9135, « GEORGE DIXON THOMPSON Pianist—Teacher Conoerts—Recitals Stadio: 1618 H St. N.W.—Franklin 8522-W New Hampskiro Ave. s Voice—August King-Smith. Piano—Emmanuel Wad, Edith Dawkins. Violin—Helen Ware. Dancing—Paul Tchernikoff, Elizabeth Gardiner. Dramatic Art— Caroline McKinley. Acting and Playwriting— Bertram Bloch. Drawing and Painting— Blanche Greer. English, French, Spanish, Italian. CHILDREN’S STUDIO Music (Fletcher Method)— Mrs. King-Smith. Dancing—Elizabeth Gardiner. calog . home Forth 10827, was | | | | 1l i | sereatory The first meeting for the Fall of of | the Blair-Hayes P. T. A. will be held October 9 in the Blair School. Plans for the year will be discussed and all members are urged 1o attend. The new president, Mrs. Magruder, will preside. All notices for this column must be in the hands of the publicity chair- man by noon on the Wednesday pre- ceeding the Sunday on which pub- licity is desired. Address all notices to Mrs. J. N. Saunders, 900 B street northeast. MUSICAL INSTRUCTION LOVETTE STUDIOS ‘Washington—New York T.'8. LOVETTE—Piano EVA WHITFORD LOVETTE—Voice Capable Assistant Teachers 1731 Connecticut Ave. Phone N. 7015 311 Tivoll Theater Blag. Phone Col. 7280-F 915 Carnegie Hall, New York New York Appearances Arranged. Associated Studios (An Afiliation for Musical Art) Otto T. Simon, Voice Culture Classes in Musical History and Sight-Read ing. _Studio: 149 Rhode Island ave. n.w. Tel. Franklin 75: La Salle Spier, Piano Stadio: 1709 Rhode Island are. n Franklin 2427, s Henri Sokolov, Violin Studio: 1107 nw. Tel, o 304 W Richard Lorleberg, Cello Stadio: 1017 K st Tel. Praskiin oW FREQUENT PUPILS' RECITALS AND CONCERTS - Tl leventh st Frank ~ TEACHER TEABODY (ON Address_Box 2 Katherine Floeckher Cullen Concert Pianist Teacher Artist Diploma Graduate Peabody Conservatory STUDIO 4110 14th S1. N.W, Adams 1870 KATHERINE RIGGS TEACHER OF HARP Col. 4385 1837 Kalorama Rd. Mme. Scudo-Ragland Concert Pianist thur Nickische. Dirpctor of music i colleges v England and America Leschetizsky Method Cleveland Park Studio, 3230 Highland Place Phone_Cleveland 611 Honor WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF MUSsIC, INC. Twenty-first Year PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC Edwin N. C.-Barnes, Mus. Ed. Dox., Director Courses leading to Certificate, Diploma and Degree. inciude:—Grade, Ju; Senior High School Methods. Sight ing. Conducting, Harmony Expression. Ete Ask_ for forts-page vearb all departments and courses. 17¢h St. at Pa, Ave. Veice Cuiture, Plano and Harmony Stodio, 6824 5th st., Takoms Phone Read T R e 106 Bleverts Srieet BT A e 5 WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF MUSIC, INC. ‘Twenty-first Year VOCAL DEPARTMENT Edgar T. Paul Hugh Rowland Roberts Clara Young. Savona Paters Brewn Griest Ask for forty-page year-book showing all departments and courses leading to DI PLOMAS apd DEGRE 17th St. at Pa. Ave, Fr. 4491 Plano, Tenor Banjo, Gultar, Drum: In 10 to 20 Lessons Rag, Jams and Popular Music s speciaity, Come 'tn. write or phoue for booklet. Fi lessons i you buy {pstrument from s. CHRISTENSEN SCHOOL OF MUSIQ 1322 G St. N.W. Main 1278 alter T. Holt Studios TENOR BANJO, MANDOLIN, GUITAR, BANJO, HAWALIAN GUITAR AND UKULELE. Ensemble Practice with the Nordica Established 158, OOL. 946. 1501 COLUMBIA ED. WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF MUSIC, INC. Twenty-frst Year PIANO DEPARTMENT Weldon Carter Dorothy Marr Sers. or Percy Keneipp Roslyn Carter Marjorie Davis Emilie Bishop Gertrude Marion Harding ~ Benjamin Ratner Special Artist Coach Alice Fowler of New York Year-book mailed ments and courses. 17th St. at Pa. Ave. Fr. 4491 MARION MAY LAWSON, Piano Teacher, Accompanist. For appointment call W. 2035-W 2106 N ST, N.W. - etc. showing all depart e, a)imited ., Number g Students f Fone FProduetion and %Petm re 1801 Sixteenth Street " North 603