Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1926, Page 66

By Heclen Fetter. HAT price musi This is a question of warmly pronounced contentions, both pro and comn, at present by thosc who repre- sent the interests of American composers and those who repre- sent the radio broadcasting corporations. Art and commerce are constantly at war—have been throughout the centaries. In the ear- Jiest days of the traveling bard of the middlc ages, the cobbler, the mer- chant of fabrics, the fruit and flower vender could set a definite price upon his wares. The bard. musical telfer of historical epics, however, was intangibly recompensed by being invited into the midst of the most dis- tinguished company, to be with them, but not of them. He was given food and shelter by the great lord or baron for whose pleasure he played. Frequently he was both court musician and court fool. Today, in the Congress of the United States, he is holding a not unsimilar position. In the casual mind of that great mass that populates the world and is dubbed by entertainment authorities, for want of a better name, “the general public,” musi granted the paradoxical position of being at one and the same time an everyday necessity and a luxury. Nobody expects to eat in a restaurant of any pretensions whatsoever without a musical accompaniment, aside from the prosaic clatter of dishes and silver. Few go to motion pictures any more that do not have special music settings. Jiven the few séconds between the exit of a motion picture orchestra and the substitution of the organist to “carry " musically creates a definite | the attitude of an average audicnce, which becomes restless again gives the ear, as well as the eye, occupation—though | it is received and absorbed with complete unconsciousness. At | one or more children studying dancing, i \ reaction in until mus irequent the average home there is usually piano or some other form of music. Within the past couple of years the radio has become the most wide- spread of all instruments, carrying music to people in rural districts and to shut-ins, as well as many city dwellers. And now the big problem is, how can the modern music-makers receive the compensation that is justly | due them for supplying the broadcasters with the material that has given | $0 many people so much pleasure? * k% ART is always possessed of a certain clusive, intangible quality that adds greatly to its fascination and appeal, but creates difficulties in placing a definite and fair money value on its works. Art galleries can charge but a very small feé for the public to view the works of the modern artists along with those of the great masters. Libraries also have negligible ices for cards that make the newest novels and non-fiction works available to the general public. Yet in neither the case of prints or originals of the paintings on view the art galleries nor in the case of the same books for salc at book stores that are available at the libraries for a small fee, is the sale of the article weakened, but frequently, on the contrary, advanced by its limited availability to the public through these sources. It would seem that some such sensible arrangements could be achieved by the co-operation of the radio forces and the American Society of Com- posers, Authors and Publishers. No storm similar to that now existing | between these groups was occasioned when the phonograph and player- piano manufacturers made their terms through Congress to pay com- osers for the use of their works in recordings. Yet, at the present time, it looks very much as though the tadio-composers’ squabble, as handled in two congressional bills, was going to remain suspended without final action during the present congressional term. The Senate independent radio commission is sponsored by Senator Dill of Washington. Representative White is author of the House bill, which would augment the administrative powers of the Secretary of Com- merce. i * * CLEAR statement of the outstanding features of the radio broad- casters’ side of the problem is included in a comprehensive article written by W. E. Harkness, official spokesman for that group, who is also vice president of the American Telegraph and Telephone Co., and published in the magazine Singing. He says, in part: “While radio programs include a wide range of material in which the public has shown an interest, there is no question but that music, both vocal and instrumental, has the strongest appeal. It has been estimated that 90 per cent of the programs consist of music. “There are 336 broadcasting stations licensed by the United States Government. These range in power from the small 5 or 10 watt stations to .the large 5,000 and 50,000 watt stations. Of the total number it has been estimated that there are some 200 that are regularly furnishing pro- grams to the public. These stations present musical programs approxi- mately 250,000 hours per year, or in the neighborhood of nearly 4,000,000 musical numbers. “Recent court decisions would indicate that broadcasting is a public performance and usually for profit. Such being the legal status, it is now generally agreed by the broadcasters that arrangements should be made with owners of copyrighted music to compensate them for its use when :mploi;ed in radio programs.” The real drawback in the problem seems to be the settlement on a price. John Philip Sousa, who writes an answer to Mr. Harkness in a counter article in the most recent issue of Singing, says: “When a man with an ingenious mind invents a new cream separator or automobile accessory and has the child of his brain patented, those | who wish to use it pay him a royalty for its use as a matter of course. | “Yet if he is a musician, the great radio interests say, in effect, for actions speak louder than words: ‘He's only a musician! He knows noth- ing about business! 1i we cut him out on our overhead our dividends will | be just so much greater!” I cannot argue the respective values of a new type of cream separator and Cadman's ‘Land of the Sky-blue Water, or of a new carbureter and Nevin's ‘The Rosary’ The value lies on a different plane.” y Later in the article, Mr. Sousa says . “The broadcasters have proposed that the law shall fix a price at which the works of the author and composer may be utilized. They base their arguments on the provisions of the 1909 act governing the mechani- cal reproduction of songs on phonograph records and word rolls. I have always felt that Congress has no right to say how much should be paid to me by the manufacturer of phonograph records for the use of my com- positions. But—the author and composer had no association to fight its battles, so what was there to do but accept the two-cent rate under which we American composers have been penalized all these years. “Think of the absurdity of putting the works of the late Victor Herbert and an unknown composition by an unknown song writer on a level! “The proposition of the broadcasters is the same. No matter how great the work might be, the price paid for the use of it would be identi- cal. Nothing could be more unsound. I maintain that we, like other Americans, should have the right to bargain with those who want to use our product, to fix our own prices, and to determine the manner in which our works shou!d be performed.” 5 Here in Washington, at one of the sessions of the joint congressional committee on patents and copyrights, Sylvio Hein, New York writer and publisher, announced that “you can’t fix any set rate on music that will be fair to the copyright holders. The right of making a fair bargain would be denied and the rate for ‘The Rosary’ would become the same as that for ‘Yes, We Have No Bananas.’” : Gene Buck, president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, stated that the average rate ch‘rged for the use of a s % THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, SUCCESSFUL IN INA PIOZET, well known local singer and former member of the Washington Opera Co., has just com- pleted her thirty-fourth week as a member of the cast of James W Elliott’s operetta, “Castles in the Afr 9 performances), the last 29 weeks of which have been ut the Olymple Theater, Chi 4 ‘Castles in the Air” is a new operetta in three uc and Chicago critics have been unan mous that it the best operetta staged in vears. Tt is billed as “the most beautiful musical play the world has ever seen.” The music is by Percy Wenrich. It will remain f Chicago until August and will return to New York, opening at the Selwyn. During the past se son Miss Piozet has been the under. study to Vivienne Segal, prima donna, and has been engaged as prima donna of the second company for the coming season. NINA PIOZET. n Labor day | MUSICAL COMEDY | her stay in Chicago Miss appeared as guest artis ms of the following organiza- | being enthusiastically recelv nis Club of Chicago, Sherman | Hotel, La Salle Hotel, Great Northern Hotel, Samovar Club, Am gion, Arm; | tion,” Lake Shore Athletic cago Women's Club, Friday . Chicago Co.operative Club, Athletic Club, Young Men's Assoclation, Chicago As: | elation of Commn . Junlor "Assoc tion of Commerce and Chicago Pano | | Cer the above programs were 1‘ ¢ from stations WLS and Miss Piozet also appeared on | programs of different organi- ting artist with Leon | | Errol anville and other | | from shows playing in Chi- ! bago during the past season. During n Plozet ha rum of BAND CONCERTS U. 8. ARMY BAND. CONCERT by the United States Army Band, Capt. Willlam J. Stannard, band leader; Mr. Thomas . Darcy, second leader, will be given at Walter Reed General Hospital Tues- day at 6:30 p.m. The program will be: March, “National Emblem Overture. ““Rosamunde’" p Suite, “Atlantis” (The Continent ), Safranek (a) Nocturne and morning hymn of praise. (b) A court function. () “I Love Thee" (the Prinee and Aana). (d) The destruction of Atiantis Atlantiu 18 & continent ‘meniioned fo Plato’s history, and extended =8 the Atlantic Ocean approximately from E fope to Yucatan. = It is the subject of an exhaustive volume by Ignatius Don nelly and has also served as inepiration for ‘several novelists. This continent. it i believed, was the Home 0f & great race whiéh conquered and civilized the world. The Azores lslands are consid- ered to be the tops of its lofty moun- tains. and are all that now 'remains above water of the great country.) Trum rand Russian Fanta- ... Bagley Schubert Selection, Popular hite— () “Alwaye” (by request) (b) “Horses”, (by requ Characteristic. “Dance of the Waltz, “Mighty Lak’ a Rose”........Nevin March, "'On the Mall". ... Goldman ‘The Star Spangled Banner.” UNITED STATES BAND. HERZX will be no concert tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Cap- itol by the United States Navy Band, on account of the band playing for the business meeting of the Budget at Continental Memorial Hall. The following programs, however, will be presented by this band, Charles Benter, leader, and Charles Wise, sec- ond leader: Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., Grant Circle, Fifth and Varnum streets northwest: March, Overture. “Milltary™...... " acteristic dances. . .. “Valee Graceuse. ntroduction and, Habaner: (c) “Dance Grotesaue.” Excerpts from the musical comedy “Jack ‘Lani . ... Caryu . Berlin Whiting from the Boheme™ ... ... Waltz, “On the Beattiful Lot ~The Mill in d.-‘ abilend arch. “My giment” . . ankenbury ‘Star Spangled ‘Banner. % Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the band- stand, Navy Yard March, “Gixenchy"..... ... Overture. “The Roman Carniv i Solo for cornet, “'Oh, Dry Those Tea: Del Riego (Bandmaster G. De Giorglo.) Ballet music from the opera, ' Prince Igor'™ . . . Borodin (a) An () Allegro. (c) Presto. Grand ecenes from the opera *Lohengrin Wakner Rhapsody. “Hungarian .Karins rlioz . ailegro Vivo. No. 13".. udent Prince. composition is only $1.64 a day. % k¥ IS controversy is of interest to millions of Americans. Facts would ndicate that radio receiving sets have been installed in nearly 4,000,000 homes, and the number of people who “listen in” to programs is estimated to be about 10,000,000. The American public invested an amount exceed- ing half a,billion dollars in radio receiving apparatus in 1925 according 10 official statistics. As has been stated beifore, music is the chief supply of material for broadcasting—without melody in one form or another there could be no broadcasting stations. Also the very best in the grade of artist to interpret ‘radio numbers has come to be demanded by the American public. Many of these artists sing or play works by the old masters, the three Bs— Brahms, Bach and Beethoven; Wagner, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Verdi, Thomas Moore and many, many others who have been dead long since and are completely beyond worrying about financial compensation for the truly great works that they have leit behind to give joy to those who have the ability to understand their beauties when artistically inter- preted. With the exception of a few more recent master music makers, such as Puccini—to take an outstanding example—these proven composers, whose works are worth many “Yes, Ye Have No Bananas” or even “Roraries” and “Land of the Sky-blue Waters,” never can receive any compensation or recognition in financial terms. : There is much to be said in favor of the living, struggling composer of both the light, catchy music of the moment and of the more vital, serious music and his undeniable right to practical compensation for the use of those works in a profit-making enterprise, such as radio broadcasting has proved to be. It is in general the writer of*the modern dance music or song hit who is more keenly affected by this situation. He, too, is the \writer not infreqnently of more pretentious works which the broadcasters refuse to put on their programs because these works have not already been proved popular by requests ior their presentation coming from the Pl silesing all these smany angles of the tangied problein, oue. can only wonder by whom and how the question could be justly and com- . pletely answered— t price music?” e i e e i M -Liszt Excerpts from ‘‘The Suite. aguena and Marc! rom the overa, Fox trot. Romberg al TInauzuration hP “Bobadil." Moszkowski “solected.” Star Spangled Bauner. Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Walter Reed Hospital, Georgla avenue extended: March. “The Noble Commander”. .. Williams Overture, “Italien ~Rossini “Sextetts” from Donizettl rpts {rom fomance, metime'" i .. Friml alwe Caprice’ 111 Rubinsten Povular. “selected. : Selactions from the opera, “The Grand Duchess” ... ... .Offenbach Sounds froni the .. .Iseman n “Lucia™. .. . the musical iy South Star Spangled Banner.” UNITED STATES MARINE BAND. The following are the programs to be presented this week by the United States Marine Band, Willlam H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader. Marine Barracks morrow: March, “Entr “Rhapsody Nor L8 Norwegian Military Marches. coilected and arranged by the celebrated com- poser and major in the Norwegian e Olsen : (Motiver fra_ at 4:40 pm. to- Svendsen rmo Mareh™ Gudbransdalen) X Klnlvrmkrwh" ol NEEn). oo ... Olsen (c) “Revelemarsch” (Tronderske Mo- Tive Gl o Olsen ‘Rustle of Sprng’. inding Trombone Tove's Enchantment”.. Py Piincival Musician Robert Symphonic e A Chant Great Plans . eonie P ‘Coronation March. Opus 1 Svendsen Griee alle a5 Death = Datice of the Imps,” allegro molto ‘marcatc Marines’ hymn. “The Halls of Mo ‘The Star Spangled Banner Sousa Halvorsen | Mount Alto, avenue, | Tuesday T pm March, “Pride of the T". § Qvertiire, “Poet and Peasant Characteristics * Reireat of the Tartars sellenick | Excerpts Stuart Roman. ¢ Deppen | Idy). T Tincke Threo dance | Wisconsin O'Neil Suppe | T ym “Floradora Eleanor Glow worm™ rom “Henry the Eights | German | (8) ““Morris Dancc (b) “Shepherd Dance Torfchlight Dance ™ The Star Spangied Banner United States Caplitol, Wednesday at e Deertiire, ¥ “Komance in uicentennial Exposition”..Sousa ra Diavolo ... Auber ¥ Minor. Opus 5, Tachaikowsky valse caprice, Bea Euphonfum_eolo. i de Luca ful_Colorado, Princ b and cana : Intermezzo. ‘Fine and Chic” Firat Suite for Military Band, E (a) ) ‘i Peter ‘Al H sce 1 “Cavalleria Ri - Blon lat"”. . Holst *Chaconne Tntermezzo.” Marehe “The Star Spangled Banner n Theater, Monument Grounds, ay at 7:30 p.m Sesquicentennial Exposition. Sousa “Carneval Romain .. Berlioz . “Midsummer Night's Dream ' March Qverture, Grand scenss from “I Pagliacci.’ Leoncavallo Cornet solo. acherzo, “Showors of Gold_, Musician John P. White, “Canzonetta from Quartet, Opus 12 Mendelssohn ~Bucalosei - Lisat arke Valse de_concert. “La Gitano “Second Hungarian Khapsods. “ “The Star Spangled Banner.” Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, th Shot and Shell” The Mill on_the CIift Habanera, “Charme 1¥Espasn Grand wesnes from Waltz, “Village Suite de ballet. “Coppelia” < Fantasia, “A Spanish Festival . Defuaree e Star Spangled Banner.” Rearigor ezzacapo Bizet -Sirauss National String Quartet's HE National String Quartet of Washington, which gave a fine initfal program before a packed house in the chamber music auditorium of the Library of Congress Tuesday night, will present the second in a series of four concerts of chamber music next Tuesday evenin ‘The assisting soloist at t will be Edgar Priest, a leading organ- ist of this city, who was one of the six musicians heard in the series of Len- ten recitals given at the Library this Spring. The program, which will begin promptly at 8:15 o'clock, will include: String Quartet, opus 18. No. 5...Beethoven “Sonata da Chiesa.’ for strings and org .. Caldara String @ . No Borodine 5 o'clock and the public is welcome. The capacity of the audito- rium is 511 seats. All those who are especially interested in chamber music are. requested to come as early as possible. The members of the National String | Quartet are: Henri Sokolov, first vio- lin; Max Pugatsky, second violin; | Samuel Feldman, viola, and Richard Lorleberg, cello. open at g “His New York Wife,” a comedy drama by Frederick and Fanny Hat- ton, will be put in production by Preferred Pictures about July 1. Rebecea Easterbrook, pian have left Washington to Albentz | Second Program Tuesday. | Doors of the auditorium will be | D. C, JUNE 20, 1926—PART 3. DIRECTS CHORAL CLUB MRS. FRANK HOWARD. IAX ambitious younger choral group | that has been doing some unusual- Iy good work the past season is the Tuesday Evening Music Club, Mrs. ank Howard, director. This group just completed its second season. One of the most interesting programs that the club gave this vear was the one featuring early American songs presented on George Washington's birthday in conjunction with the tional String Quartet, and Carmela Ponselle for the benefit of the George Washington University. The Tuesday Evening Club has now completed its second season. There re 24 young women in it organized for the purpose of the study of the elements of vocal music, biographies of great composers with reference to the periods and schools of music to which they contributed and ensemble singing. The group has presented Highly successful concerts at the City, Arts ‘and Unlversity Women's Clubs. Their costume recitals were particu- larly effective, especially on the George Washington and Thomas Jef terson April 6. | The club's activitles have included {several concerts for shut-ing at the Tuberculosis Hospital, the Salvation | Army, the Florence Crittenton Home and the Lutheran Home for the Aged. | At a final business meeting of the | year, the following officers were | elected for next season: Harrietto Ris- sler, president; Catherine Gross, vice { president; Marie Reichman, secretary; | Emily Cooper, treasurer; Anne Simon, |librarian. ~ The mpanist s Mrs. | Alma Partridge. | Membership of the Tuesday Eve- | ning Music Club, Mrs. Howard, direc- | tor,” includes: Sopranos, Margaret Al- [lison, Emily Cooper, Laura Hayes, | June Door’ Bugbee, Marie Reichman n, Frances imon, Marle Reichman, Harriette | Rissler, Florence Tournler, Virginia | Woodward: second sopranos, Louise Clara Forbes, Helene Lure, s Noack, Grace Stevens: altos, | Kathryn Brown, Virginia Dye, Cath- |erine Gross, Azalea Lunsford, Helen | Neumeyer, Blanche Smith, Helen Wid- programs—the later given a Local Music College Has 20th Commencement. | HE Washington College of Music has issued invitations for its twen- tieth annual mencement, to be held in the auditorfum of Central High School Friday evening, at 8:15 o'clock. The college extends i cor- dial invitation to any who may not have recefved cards and would care | to attend. Rev. Bernard Braskamp of the Gun. ton-Temple Presbyterian Church will offer the invocation and, following the conferment of degrees and presenta- tion of diplomas by Dr. (. E. Chris | tianl, president of the college, an in | teresting program will be given by | members of the graduating class, and two orchestral numbers, one of which is & composition by Siegfried Schar bau of the Marine Band, who is tak ing his degree of bachelor of musi and will conduct his number. The following will receive degrees and diplomas: Hugh Rowland Roberts, honorary degree of doctor of music; Siegfried Scharbau, degree of bache. lor of music in theory; degree of bach- elor of fine arts (in music), from the department of public school music, Dr. Edwin XN. Barnes, dean, Catherine Benson, Elizabeth Hyde, Oba Gibson, Emma Louise Thompson teacher's diploma in piano, Emilie Rose Mann, Edna Keith Steinbrucker, | Ruth~ Eloise Rodie velyn Wells teacher’s diploma in organ, Jane Vir ginfa MacPherson: diploma in music | supervision (public _school music), Catherine Benson, Elizabeth Hyde; | araduate diploma in piano, Sylvia Alt man, Catherine Benson, Iola Bowden, Victorine Boufllon, Eilla Marguerite Carlisle, Sara Arnette Cooper, Kath- rvn Hereford, Lillian Walters Peter- con; graduate diploma in voice, Oba Gibson, Pauline Augusta Milchsack, Elizabeth Stewart: graduate diploma in violin, Flora Marguerite Clayton, Victorfa. Vivian Everton Sobolewski. The program will be: Invocation....... Rev. Bernard Braskam, “The Magic Flute” Nozare 3 Orchestra. Mr. L. E. Mangly of the facu Conferment of dex Presentation of diplon A By Dr. Christiani ‘Sonata Pathetique,” first moves co onducting. Beethoven Bach .. .Chopin S Handel 4 Mise Fiora Claston “Chant Polonaise™ . .. .. Chopin-Liszt . Miss Catherine’ Benson. Iy s rsne b .La_Forge 61 d'Arte Viesl d Amore - Puccini e Mies eth Stewart. Waltz, A-flat major” “Fantasia in G min Miss Jane “Etude” SR Waltzing Dol Miss Vi ‘Japanese Patrol’ Mies Sylvia Altman. B-flat major" " (hlack Key).. ... Miss Kathryn' Hereford ‘Sonata, A" major Chopin Cooper. 2 .Bach Chopin & Lol Polding otorine Bouilion i eu... . Scharbau Orch Mr. Siegfried Scharbi Accompanist, Mr. Bu conducting. as Williams, Ford Sterling interrupted his work In “The Show-Off” long enough re- cently to make a personal appearance in Pittsburgh, where Pola Negri's pic- ture “Good and Naughty” was shown. (right), and Lois Stuntz, accompa attend the national convention in Ithaca, N, Y., RECITALS | MARJ()RH‘, JOAN RINGLING was presented vesterday morning in a plano recital, by Miss Pearl Waugh. Her program included works by Heller, Czerny, Chopin, Debussy, Brahms and Rameau-Godowsky. i | A group in piano recital was pre- sented by Mrs. Alwilda Matlock at the Mayflower Hotel last night, when the assisting soloists were Mary Shear Bowle, soprano, and George H. Wil ccompanist. Those appearing on the program in luded: Harriett Lloyd, Helen Jacobs, Dorothy Sutton, Lucile Blick, Eleanor McRae, Dorothy Seaton, George Un- {macht, Jane Evelyn Bishop, Clara Dalzel Louise Ward, Margaret Brower, Ruth Howell, Mildred Coates, Altona Chartron, Eleanor Hulburt and Everett McLain. Another plano recital held recently was that presented under the direction of Mrs. J. C. Ristine of Clarendon, Va.. at her residence Friday evening. Those taking part were Vivian Fletcher, Vivian Burroughs, Merle Simcox, ' Janet McCallum, Dorothy Alford, Yelen Staple, Ruth Myrtle Porter, Margaret Huffman and Cath- erine rger ic soprano, sisted, glving two olos, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Edna Woodyard. ) | An interesting program was pre- ented by Mrs. D. S. Lord at the an- nual recital in her studio June 12. The senior class gold medal was awarded to Virginia Tastet, and Helen Rogers won the junior class prize. Those taking part wers: Grace Downey, Edith McCartee, Virginia Tastet, Elsie Monroe, Estelle Kean, Helen Rogers, Fugenia Sanderson, Helen Sachs, Marie Westermeyer, Elizabeth Iseman, Mrs. Bessie Lord, Morton Sigelman and Carter Lord. An interesting recital was given at i'~h' Trinit rish Hall. Takoma Park, Saturday afternoon, June 12, by the recently organized Takoma Park Music Studios, at which were repre. sented the pupils of Beatrice Cunradi 4!)[&"0\, Agnes Chase (violin) and Cora- linn B Tuttle (voice). Although this work was started lit- tle more than six months ago, the program presented was both long and | varied, puplls of all ages being repre- sented. The recital concluded with instrumental and vocal selections by Mrs. Chase, Miss Cunradi and Mrs. Tuttle. The work of the studios will be con- tinued throughout the season, both at Takoma Park and at the down-town | studio located at 2 Dupont circle. Catholic Music program Strikingly Successful. LAST Sunday morning a notable service marked the close of the scholastic year of the Catholic Uni versity. The music was a particu- larly striking feature, the unusual program having appeared on this page in a previous issue. Imposing was the procession of ec- clesiastics and faculty in their color- ful robes, during which the ‘“Regina Coeli,” by Praetorius, was sung. The combined choirs included the Schola Cantorum, recently organized by Rev | William Des Longchamps. In this ywork he was assisted by Jennic Glen- | nan, organist. who years ago, in St. | Matthew's Church, introduced the | singing of the correct Gregorian chant and of polyphonic music, Miss Glennan having had special training under the recognized masters of the famous choirs of Europe in all the | branches of church music. Much in- | terest is being manifested in the move. ment and plans are being made for resuming the work in the Fall, o Elizabeth Gardner Coombs was pianist at the Foster-Shields wedding Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Paul {Tracy n Chevy Chase. The selections included the usual Cadman, DeKoven and Bond numbers, as well as the cus- tomary wedding marches. The bride, formerly Helen Shields, iis well known as a violinist from | Bloomington, Ind. The groom, Ben- {jamin Yoster, was a member of the Indiana State University Orchestra |and active in music circles. Mrs. Foster will resume her studio teaching of the violin at her new United, States Veterans' Hospital No. Mu Phi Epsilon Musical Sererity as the representatives of the local chapter, | home, 3718 Livingston street, Mrs. Bessie Alford, | MUSIG ONIGHT at the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church Mrs. D. . Jackson, organist, will give an organ | recital. The program will be | choral (from Gothie Suite) Boelimann cherzo’” s : Judaseohn Funeral March W Saint-Saens Guilmant Traditional C Dawes Allegro mant The choir will ng “The Lord Great,” from Haydn's “Creation.” Is At a recent meeting of the Amphi | ons the annual election of officers and .memhem of the board of directors w { held, and resulted in the re-election of { the ‘incumbents, with tie | tary, who recently re signed membership. 1. L. Atkinson was elected to fill that vacancy A resolution was adopted making provislon for_the annual smoker and instalmtion July 1, and all | vited to attend t It was further agr timonal to Prof. J. Henry Lewls, or ganizer and director, a program which will be participated in by artists from out-of-town as well s local tale given next October on a date hercafter determined Mabel Linto.: Williams, orga dfrector at the First Baptist Chu is recovering a serfous major operation. S o0 to b ather's bungalow at Stone Harbor, N. J.. as event recuperate, befor to visit her b taking up her v the carly Fa going to »and’s old homestead ork at the church in The members of the Young Compos- ers’ Club. Karl Holer, director, will meet for the complete organization of their group and to adopt a_constitu- tion Friday night. This will be last meeting of the present season, as several of the members will be out of town most of the § The club will adjourn at this meeting until Sep tember. Next Sunday Patrick's Ch o'clock (low) m |in the evening, will be st octette of mixed v . und rection of Jennle Glennan, ars include the following unusual tions “This Glad Sabbath Das Traait speclal music st rch Le 10 and 11 asses, and also ional No an F. X Engelhart isbon Choir ) 17141788 “The Angelus" ““The Day o P ach And Other | mezzo soprane, ritua O Love Josephit sang last Sunday Church. Her selection w That Wilt Not Let Me Go,” by Flax ington Harker. Miss Dully a was the soloist with the Navy Band Mor day evening for the I ay ex cises at the east front of the Cap held under the auspices of the A. R. and the Loval Legion. The Macdowell Music ¢ 1 last meeting of the season Mond | the clubrooms, 1406 I street. M hers of the club who took part in the program were George Cornwell, nore Colborn, Margaret Austermuhl, Kathryn Beck, and Ellzabéth Waters, soprano. sisting guests on this Katherine Birch and Virginia Crock er, violinists. Miss Birch played “Can to” Amorpso n), “Ti Danza (Pabst), “Moto Perpeto” (Bobm). Miss Crocker's numbers we serenade (Gounod), “Mazurka” (Kreisler) and “Deep River” (Elman) Mme. Marguerite d'Alvarez, opera singer who recentl z in a debate with D; aton of New York. has taken he | sparkling wit and fine voice to | for the Summer, plannning to include jazz numbers in several of her E pean concer If her experimen with jazz on the concert stage are successful, she will appear in Amer- ica next Fall in a serles of joint re- citals with George Gershwin, com- poser of the “Rhapsody in Blu The D’Alvarez dates in Europe, which were arranged nearly a year ago, are sald to have prevented her accepting offers of nearly $50.000 for Summer engagements in the Western States and Canada during July and | August. 1 As! i the American musical artists in Lon- i don this Summer are reported to he about the only people who declined to take the British general strike seriously, according to Esther Dale, the concert soprano, who is com- pleting a four months’ series of er gagements in Europe. In a letter just received here, she describes how the strike affected musical London. “The sudden advent of the general strike came just at the beginning of the British musical season, and there was a universal scramble by both British and foreign artists to cancel all their recital arrangements, writes. “But the Americans, of whom three or four were scheduled for prominent places on the musical program, declined to take the strike seriously. As a result we had the field to ourselves und were re- warded by the largest und most ap- preciative gudiences on record.” The Glee Club of the Women's City Club gave a concert recently, when soloists were Hazel Llsom, violin- Marialyse Ross Manly, H. Eme son Meyers, pianists, and Frederick Schaefer ritone. The accompanists were Mrs. Leonard Schloss and Mrs. Charles Brooks Smith. Mrs. Gertrude Lyons s chairman of music and direc- tor of the Glee Club. The Immanuel Baptist Chu Choir. under Emily (i. Dickinson, direc- tor, gave a concert last Wednesday for the benefit of the choir. Perry, pianist, and Dr. A. P. Sturte {vant, violinist, were assisting solo ists. ' The quartet. composed of Helen Walker, soprano; Edith Grainger, con- tralto; Edward Lippitt Ridg- MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. BESSIE N. WILD Voice Culture. Plano and Harmony. Studio. 6834 Bth st.. Tak o st Takoma Park. D €. i one_A: MISS AMY CLEMENT LEAV FIANG, VOICE AND MARMONY Coachlng and Accompanving enth Street N.W. Apartment 53. Walter T. Holt Studios Established 1804 > NJO, MANDOLIN, GUITAR, ATIAN _GU) AND UKL Studios Open All Summer Ensemble practice with Nordica Ciubs. Sole agency for the famous Bacon and” Stal mandoting and_ guitare” Dio® PHONE COL. 948. 1801 _COLU | i 714 17th St. ‘ Washington = i Ty College All branches of Music BANJO, | i .SAXOPHONE “in 10 to 20 Lessons Special Summer course, 10 lessons for $10 Come in, write or phons for booklet. Fru SCHOOL 0} €380 U hay lustrument {rom s CHRIS’ 13236 | | ) i? 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