Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1928, Page 79

T E SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, MU SIC BY HELEN FETTER. AROLS already are ringing in the air, which, during the past week, had its frosty moments, although much of the time there was a de- ceptive Springlike balminess that should forewarn singers with sen- sitive throats and others, of grippe, laryngitis and even influ- enza. The end of the week will find' all Christmas music in full swing to carry over the actual holiday. Dominant in the sea- sonal music stands the perform- ance of that most popular of all Christmas oratorios—Handel's “Messiah,” which will be sun after months of earnest prepara: tion, tomorrow night at Central High School, under Dr. Harned’s skillful direction. The chorus of 250 voices, the soloists and the orchestra of 50 pieces include oniy ‘Washingtonians in personnel. 'HE National Capital Oratorio Association also has accepted the invitation of the executive committee to sing at the Chris mas eve celebration, national community Christmas tree, on Sherman square, will be | lit by the President of the United States. | “Glory to God in the Highest. from “The Messiah”; “Adest? Fideles” and “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,” will be included in their program, which will be ac- companied by the Marine Band. * ko % 'HE indications are that the National Capital will be filled with gay bands of earoling young people, some of them, at least, in quaint costumes, carrying musical cheer to the shut-ins this week and next. Probably never previ- ously in Washington have these groups been so well organized and thoroughly trained by several leading members of local music circles. The District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, the Y. W. C. A. and other organiza- tions are sponsoring a program of continuous carol singing until the advent of 1929. The spirit behind such an undertaking, showing careful preparation and co-opera- tion, is thoroughly admirable and to be encouraged. PR REPR!'BMATIVEB from all countries, gathered together under American flags, will have the harmonious seal of music for- mally set upon the activitie§ of the delegates to the International Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration Tues- day night. Dr. Rowe, director of the Pan-American Union, and Franklin Adams, counselor, will present as features of the event three distinguished Latin Ameri- can soloists. The United States will be represented by the United Service Orchestra, led by the '"United States Army and Navy band leaders. Music by compos- ers of.11 different American na- tionalities will be played and sung. A distinguished audience has been invited for the event, which will be held in the Hall of the Amer- icas. Acceptances have been so immediate, in such large propor- tion to the invitation list, that al- ready the capacity of the hall has been reached. Those not attend- ing can hear most of this program over the radio. Local Station NAA will carry the two-hour pro- am from 9 till 11, and the first our will also be broadcast by sta- tions on the network of the Co- lumbia Broadeasting System. More and more other Americans than those born in the United States are receiving punctilious recognition for their nationality. Previously. just as many singers native to the United States felt it necessary (or at least advisable) to assume Italian or other for- eign-sounding names to achieve recognition in operatic or concert careers in Europe. Until quite re- cently, 50 many musical artists of Latin America let themselves be sdvertised as Spanish or French. The day of the Americas, however, now is definitely dawning, and the true nationality is being credited to each artist. It might be of interest to men- tion here that an addition to the conductors’ staff of the Metropoli- | tan Overa Co., in New York. this vear is Peitro Cimara, a South American. SEVERAL projects are being started in the simple, well- worked-out fashion that argues well for ultimate success, along the lines of thought leading to the establishment of Washington as| the national music center of the eountry. One of these is that the * % K when thz | District of Columbia Federation ¢ f Music Clubs has realized that the backbone of a good music festival is an excelient chorus of several seasons’ training. Another is that the same organization is starting more interest in establishing music interests in the home life of Washingtonians, encouraging the | home group movement. | The latest practical idea pro- | jected toward this end of macging Washington the leader it should | be in musical matters, as well as | other affairs, was announced and | scemed to receive favorable re- sponse from the group of repie- sentative folk, largely drawn trom local music circles, attending the | meeting last wesk. Mme. Olga | Samaroff, famous pianist and | writer on musical subjects, and | Miss Frances A. Wister, a noted | Philadelphia musicologist, were ! guest speakers of the afternoon. The actual event is chronicled the concise, matter-of-fact statement issued officially by the | Library of Congress: “A first meeting of the newly organized ‘Friends of Music in the Library of Congress’ was heid Tuesday afternoon at the resi- dence of Mrs. Richard S. Aldrich. “The organization is planned to | have a national scope. The presi- | dent is Nichalas Longworth. The | vice presidents are Harold Bauer, Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe and Leopold Stokowski. “The aims of the. society are | broadly threefold: To furnish a | bond between music lovers ail | over the country by linking them with our National Library, to fur- nish the means of acquiring rare editions and manuscripts for the music_collection of the Library, and also to further the perform- ance of unusual programs.” * ¥ ¥ X ANOTHER addition to the many ideas that are being worked out in musical endeavors in Wash- ington this season was begun by Rose and Ottilie Sutro, when they presented their first of a series of three morning programs done in the informal setting of European salon style, but aiming to stress the values of American composers and their works. The ultimate hope of the Misses Sutro is to cre- ate a center in Washington to which the living native composers will flock, just as politicians navi- gate toward the Capitol lobbies and seekers for the rarest volumes of information on many subjects come from all over the world to the Library of Congress. Also they aim to create an audience inter- ested in hearing American music and assisting the creative Ameri- can whether he be composer, sculptor, writer or painter. The idea is not unlike that of Mrs. Edward MacDowell, widow of one of the finest of American composers, who turned her large estate of about 600 acres into a constantly improved colony, with 60 studios for Americans gifted in the creative arts. This colony pro- vides a place at very modest rates where talented Americans of little means may have several weeks each of undisturbed, regular liv- SoFiA BEULAHBSWINDLER- Centtral Hishbchool(fi/org) Young American Tenor In Recital Tomorrow ing, giving plenty of time for working out their ideas—adding the 90 per cent perspiration to their 10 per cent inspiration that has been given as a recipe for genius. It was the friendship for Charles T. Griffes, a most gifted young composer, who died before he was 30, due to having to work in the daytime at a routine job and driven by his talent to burn- ing the candle throughout the night ‘with his music composition, that first planted the seed for this idea in the minds of the Misses Sutro. Formerly Baltimoreans, t! - selves, they have returned aft~r a lengthy stay abroad to Washing- ton, instead, to make their home here and build for their establish- ment of a recognized center here for American creative talent. Henry Hadley will be the com- poser featured at the second of the three morning programs they present this year. He will be as- sisted by his wife, the soprano, Inez Barbour, and other American artists, in a program January 7. Mrs. Beach, who was featured |in the initial program, sailed for | Italy last Monday, following a din- ner given in her honor by the ! members of the Woman Compos- ers’ Group, in New York Citv. The day before she had the orivilege of hearing two new works given vremieres in St. Bartholomew’s Church, in New York, when a “Benedictus” was plaved at one service and a choral work on the | subject of St. Francis of Assisi sung at another. | Angna Enters Coming to Washington January 11 JO dancer before the American pub- lic today and few artists in the dramatic field can match the romance of their sudden rise to fame against that of Angna Enters, who is to appear, un- der the joint auspices of the Bryn Mawr and Wellesley Alumnae Clubs of Wash- ington, at the National Theater Friday afternoon, January 11, at 4:30 o'clock. Miss Enters will give her new program of “Compositions in Dance Form.” The occasion is scheduled as Miss Enters’ ‘Washington debut. Five years ago Angna Enters was a struggling painter, living in obscurity in New York City. Today her rame is featured in Broadway every season. She Thas enjoyed, in addition to popular suc- cess, a success with crities and writers rarely equaled. Not_much is known of Miss Enters’ early life except that she was born in this country, that when she was still a lttle gir! her parezis decided to live sbroad and that this “living” was jargely a ma.ter of wandering from country to country all over the map of Europe. Her education was a matter ot of books, but of changing faces and | customs in the real world. She learned 1o absorb the true qualities of life when still very young. At her age of greatest magination the world was opening out to her in its true -olors and this has counted heavily in Y.-r later success. It early became her aspiration to be- come an artist in color, and she devoted several years to studying in France and in this country after her return. But After great perseverance and many trials finally occurred to her that as a she would always be limited. As Miss Enters expresses it, “she had too iittle to say on canvas.” Dancing had always appealed to her, and she de- cided to try a totally new form of ex- pression. Her method of beginning was unique. Instead of going to school once again she went to life. She attended no classes at dancing schools. She did not watch the famous ballets in the operas and theaters any longer than to review i their shortcomings carefully in her | mind. Nothing in the line of formal ! dancing appealed to her. It was a ques- y tion of individuality. What she chose 1to do must be her own. This is the | major portion of her charm. | Angna Enters did one of the most | unusual things ever attempted by an unknown artist in any field. She hired a hall. Unknown to the American pub- {lic, without management, without press | agents, without any other. help than a | telephone directory and the social reg- { ister, she got up a mailing list for a subscription performance. She hired one of the smaller theaters in town for a Sunday afternoon and the miracle happened. People came. Not many people, but enough to pay her expenses and leave something over. Her first venture was a success. The few critics who attended were captivated. Her day was dawning. From then on, her career really began. Mrs. Appoline Blair of Boston will be in the city Monday evening to con- duct the rehearsal of the Schubert Choral Club, the recently organized woman’s chorus, of which she is guest conductor. P R ROBERT ELWYN. OBERT ELWYN, lyric-dramatic tenor, will appear in a song re- cital, announced by Mrs. Wallace Rad- cliffe as the fourth in the Georgetown series of a Ten-event Course, to be given tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the chapel of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church. Since his arrival in New York last He is tenor soloist at the Col- legiate Church of St. Nicholas and a member of the teaching staff of the department of music education, Teach- ers’ College, Columbia University. A native of Colorado, he became famous as leading tenor of the Denver munici- pality. Mabel H. Duncan, cellist, will give a group of solos on the program with Mr. Elwyn. Miss Duncan is an estab- lished member of music circles here. She studied under the famous cellists, Robert Hausmann and Hugo Becker. Kathryn Hill Rawls will be at the piano. Mr. Elwyn will open the program with the air, “Il Mio Tesoro Intanto” from Mozart's “Don Giovanni,” and later give as a sccond aria, “Che Gelida Manina” from Puccini’s “La Boheme.” His two groups of songs include num- bers by Schubert, Brahms, Szulc, Head, Watts and Gena Branscombe. Miss Duncan will play a sonata by Valentinni and short works by Holl- man, Popper and Barnes. ¢ Christmas Music at Y. W.C. A. EHEARSALS of Christmas l‘tluslc1 are being held at the Young| Women's Christian Association. Carols will be sung at the noon hour at the various centers during the week preceding Christmas. The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club will sing Clokey’s cantata, “Childe Jesus,” at the cere. monial, “The Hanging of the Green: Friday, December 21. Next Sunday af- ternoon, at 4:30 o’clock, in Barker Hall the audience gathered for the play to be presented by the Girl Reserves will sing carols, and at 5 o'clock in the fourth floor assembly room there will be carol singing and a group of Christ- mas selections by Alice Edwards. On Christmas eve a group of carolers from the association will visit four of the hospitals and end the evening at the home of the music chairman, Mrs. Edwin B. Parker. ‘The members of this group are chosen from all departments in the association and rehearsals of the carols, which in- clude some of the folk carols of other countries are proceeding. e el Two Organ Recitals Today By Otto F. Beck TH‘E Washington organist who hds won_much popularity here, Otto F. Beck, will play {wo recitals at 3:30 and 8:15 p.m.,_respectively, today on the organ at the Washington Auditorium. Mr. Beck announces he will be glad to xewe requests for particular num- TS) His program today will include selec- tions from the opera “Mme. Butterfly” and short, popular yorks by Dirgo, Schubert, Lemare, Metcalf, Ketelbey, ‘Wood, Tours, Herbert, Deis, Carrie Ja- cobs Bond, Burleigh, and Noel John- son. Mu Phi Epsilon, Washington Alumnae Chapter, will entertain at dinner Wed- nesday, at the home of Charlotte Klein. del CampPo- Exnio BoLosNIN Band Orchestra Dates I U. S. MARINE BAND ORCHESTRA. 'I'HE three programs planned for the current week by the United States Marine Band Orchestra, Capt. Taylor | Branson, leader, and Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader, will be given in the Marine Barracks auditorium tomorrow at 4 pm. Wednesday at 8 pm, and Friday at 3:30 pm. The usual ;tandard of classics combined with a few more sh{nple, popular numbers will be main- ng tained. The soloist tomorrow will be Musician Hervey J. Clark, trombone soloist. Wed- nesday night the feature will be Bizet's “Suite No. 2, Arlesienne.” Friday the feature will be Delibes’ ballet suite, “Coppelia.” SOLDIERS’ HOME ORCHESTRA. The orchestra of the United States Soldiers’ Home Band will give the three customary programs, Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday, at 5:30 p.m., under the direction of John S. M. Zimmer- mann, leader; Anton Pointner, second leader. The programs will feature both classical works and lighter types of cxgn;lpositlon, and will be given in Stanley all. The Yale Glee Club Comes To National Capital TH [E Yale Glee Club, an organization that was among the first to cs- tablish in this country the highest standards of choral work under the in- spired guidance of Archibald T. Davi- son, will come to Washington in a pro- gram next” Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock at the Wardman Park Theater. Marshall Bartholomew is the present director, with Morris Watkins associ- ate and acting director. The club will sing Christmas songs by Bach, Praeto- rius and Pearsall. Folk numbers will be presented that are native to Sweden, Denmark, Wales, Germany and Czecho- slovakia. Other songs to be given were written by Mead, Protheroe, Fletcher, Seth Bingham, Arensky, Lefevre and Reddick. Damon deB. Wack will sing a bass solo. There will be a double quar- tet in selections and the final group will be popular Yale songs. Last year was the most outstanding in the history of the Yale Glee Club. Not only was the Christmas trip un- usually successful, but the Buropean trip was also the most ambitious itin- crary cver undertaken by a college glee club, or, in fact, any choral society. The citles visited were Gothenburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Ber- lin, Prague, Munich, Lucerne, Paris and London. The largest attendance was in Stockholm, where over 10,000 people heard the concert. Of the varied pro- gram the most popular songs were the negro spirituals and the sea chanteys. As fitting tribute to these Yale singers, the European music critics were not sparing of praise, and so the club is proud to have a significant collection of favorable criticisms. Christmas Music Service. 'HE CHOIR INVISIBLE, a soloists’ ensemble of 20 men’s and women’s voices, which has achieved quite a reputation throughout the Eastern sec- tion of the country for its interpreta- tion of classic music, will give its an- nual musical service from the studio of Station WRC Priday, December 21, from 9:30 to 10 p.m. The choir will be un- der the direction of T. Guy Lucas. During the past three years this or- ganization has become a seasonal insti- tution at WRC, and this year will pre- sent features of usual interest expres- sive of the spirit of Christmas. The program will include the stirring aria, “Sleepers, Wake,” from Men- delssohn’s “St. Paul”; by special re- ! quest, “Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming,” | by Praetorius; a group of Bohemian carols of unknown antiquity and rugged | cadence and fervor; Pergoleisi’s “Glory to God in the Highest”; Gruber's “Holy 1 i rangement of “Adeste Fidelis.” | g b Varied Program Planned IN the concert at the First Congrega- tional Church at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon the artists will be Francesco : Della-Lana, tenor; Evelyn Scott, violin- Iist, and Katherine Floeckher Cullen, | planist. They will present an attrac- | tive, varied program. Next Sunday the afternoon concert ! will be given by the Male Glee Club of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohlo, which is touring from coast to coast. Weldon Carter Wins Praise In Recent Boston Recital wELDON CARTER, president of the ‘Washington College of Music and head of the piano derm{lent, appeared in a recital in Steinert Hall, Boston, Mass., December 4, with marked success. | He had msn{nnttncuve press notices as the result. His program included “Theme and Variations in B flat major,” by Haydn; “Gigue,” by Scarlatti; Brahms’ “Intermezzo in C major,” Chopin's “Fantasie in ¥ minor, opus 49,” the Liszt “Rhapsody No. 12" and shorter works morqdlx\ Rachmaninoff, Debussy, and Night, Silent Night” a transcription | from the original text, and Reading ar- For This Afternoon | D. C, DECEMBER 16 /ANNA CAsE and Louls (GRAVEURE EVENTS OF School at 8:15 p.m. TUES! | | | of the Americas at 9 p.m. “THE MESSIAH"—Tomorrow. ‘The National Capital Oraterio Asso- clation will present Handel's “Messiah” tomorrow at 8:15 p.m., at Central High School. This great Christmas oratorio was written in 1741 and has become the most popular of all oratorios, being sung in many cities as an annual Christmas- tide festival. An orchestra of 50 picked musicians will accompany the chorus of 250 voices. City-wide enthusiasm has greeted the announcement. Trade and civic bodies have announced their indorsement of the production, and the hearty support of the public is expected to make the audience one which will create an en- thusiasm on which to base the move- ment to make this organization onc of the permanent features of Washington's future musical life. The many who have dropped in on the rehearsals, which have been held weekly for the past two months, are Joud in their praises of the work which is being done, and the scene is now set for a successful event. The soloists, chorus and orchestra are all local people. ‘The cast includes: Beulah B. Swin- dler, soprano; Jessie Masters, contralto; Eugene Dahl, tenor; Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, bass; Dana M. Garrett and Mabel R. Frost. 5 Albert W. Harned, the director, will | be assisted by Hermann Rakeman.‘ concert meister. PAN-AMERICAN PROGRAM—Tuesday. | A special program of Latin American | music has been diligently prepared for presentation in the Hall of the Amer- icas, Pan-American Union Building, Tuesday night, beginning promptly at 9 o'clock. The event is in honor of the | delegates to the International Confer- ence of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration. The invitations to this event have been so widely accepted that only holders of tickets can be assured MONDAY. “The Messiah,” Handel’'s Christmas oratorio, will be presented, under the direction of Albert Harned, at Central High Sofia del Campo, Chilean soprano; | pianist, and Ennio Bolognini, Argentine 'cellist, will be fea- | tured in the pan-American program to be given in the Hall 1928—PART 4 NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICANS PRESENT PROGRAMS IN WASHINGTON THIS WEEK THE WEEK DAY. Dyla Josetti, Brazilian WEDNESDAY. Anna Case, soprano, and Louis Graveure, tenor, will give a joint recital at the Mayflower Hotel at 11:15 a.m. own compositions, “American Fantasia” and “Remembrances of Argentina.” CASE-GRAVEURE RECITAL— WEDNESDAY. Anna Case, who is noted as being one of the most beautiful of American sopranos, and Louis Graveure, the unique musical personality who showed great artistic skill and vocal elasticity in turning from a baritone to a tenor practically over night, will be the ar- tists appearing in a joint recital in the third of Mrs. Townsend's morning pro- grams this season at the Mayflower Hotel Wednesday at 11:15 o'clock. Mr. Graveure will open the program with the air “Ombra Mai Fu,” from Handel's opera “Xerxes” (the largo). and the operatic air, “Che Gelida Manina,” from Puccini’s “La_Boheme."” His French group will include little known songs by Chausson and Paladilhe and the air “Le Reve,” from Mas- senet’s “Manon.” In his final solo group he will include the Irish folk song “The Leprehaun,” which was one of his most popular numbers as a baritone, and also sing “Pleading,” by Elgar, and the air ‘La Donna e Mobile,” from “Rigolctto.” Miss Case will sing unusual Scandi- navian songs in her opening group, songs by Grieg Soderman and an old Swedish folk song. Then, by request, che will sing “Mi Chiamano Mimi, from “La Boheme,” and later give an entirc group of Geni Sadero’s arrange- ments of Italian folk songs It is probable that the singers will give one duet, but what it will be is vet to be announced. The accom- panists will be Carroll Hollister and Harry R. Soier. Tickets for these morning programs can be purchased at 1709 Twenty-first sreel. The morning of the concert they also can be gotten at the hotel. . D. C. Federation Presents Yuletide Groups of Singers to admittance of seats in the compara- tively limited capacity of this dis- | tinguished hall. : The program will be broadcast via| radio station NNA from 9 until 11 pm,, | and by stations on the network of the; Columbia broadcasting system from 9 till 10. Enrique C. Canova will be the; announcer. . | Three famous South American artists, each of whom has appeared on previous | pan-American programs, have been as- | sembled and specially honored by invi- tation to appear as guest soloists before the delegates. The artists are Sofia del | Campo, Chilean sopran | prima donna of the Pl o, who is a hiladelphia Grand | this 3 list, who also has won warm recognition iin this country. 1 The orchestral selections will be pre- sented by the United Service Orchestra, Capt. Willlam J. Stannard, leader of the United States Army Band., and Lieut. Charles Benter, leader of the United States Navy Band, alternating tin their conducting. Warrant Officer ‘Theodore Bingert has arranged both an | | this time), and the final, “Salute to the Flags,” for orchestral presentation. Orc] 1 numbers also will include: Excerpts from suites “Kiskaya” and “Babylon,” by Justin Elle of Haiti; | “Yaqui Dance,” by Alberto Alvarado of Mexico; tone poem, ‘“Promethee,” by poldo Miguez of Brazil, and tropical suite, “A Central American Fiesta,” by M. de Adalid y Gamero of Honduras. Senora del Campo will sing, accom- panied by Charles Magnan, songs by noted Peruvian, Chilean, Uruguayan ana Brazilian composers. J Senora Josetti will play works by Lecuona of Cuba, Gottschalk of the United States and Arthur r‘:fioleuo and Alberto Nepomuceno of B L Senor Bolognini will play two of his CHRIS’I‘MAS carols, under the aus- pices of the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, for which Gertrude Lyons is the placement chair- man, will be given a unique and inter- esting presentation this year. vawo busses have been donated, one to hospitals, institutions and homes. The singers will leave a given central place at 5:30 Christmas eve. All those interested in this “singing gift” will please communicate at once with Mrs. hyogg'n?l" 18th street northwest, Frank- n 2 The Madrigal Singers, Mrs. John M. Sylvester, director, will present a pro- gram of Christmas carols in costume at the John Dickson Home this after- I'noon at 3 o'clock. At 4 p.m. they will appear at the Louise Home. The Chaminade Glee Club, Esther Linkins, directer, will give a program of Christmas carols at Gallinger Hos- pital Friday evening at 7:45 o'clock. The Rubinstein Club, Claude Robeson, director, has recently joined the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs. GRDCD g New York Manager To Hold Auditions Here NORBERT SALTER, international concert and theatrical manager, who recently has established a New York bureau, will be in Washington at the Hotel Mayflower tomorrow while making an extensive tour through the | States to personally acquaint himselt with musical managers, clubs, directoss, ete. At the same time, being greatly inter- ested in young American talent, for which, he claims, there is a market in America and Europe, he will give a great deal of ime to auditions, which can be T by appointment. the Rotary Club, to take the singers | MUSIG PAGEANT entitled “The First Christmas” will present a musi- cal story of the Nativity, with tableau» in the new clubhouse of the Woman’s Club of Bethes- da, Md., this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The leaders sponsoring this event are Maude Howell Smith, chairman; Mrs. Thomas W. Pyle, head of the dramatic group, and Mrs. Henry W. Glassie, chairman of the music group, depart- ment of fine arts. ‘The cast is composed of people in the Bethesda community and_carols will be sung by students of the Bethes- da-Chevy Chase High School, Miss Geneva Bordeaux, director. Elodia Martif-Rivero will be the Ma- donna and Elena de Sayn, Washington violinist, will accompany her student, Virginia Groomes, in the violin over- ture. | The performance is open to the pub- |lic and the offering taken up will be | used for Chrisimas “opportunities” for | the Social Service League of Mont- | gomery County. i ‘The Rubinstein Club announces the | appointment of Adele Robinson Bush, | accompanist, and Ianthe Smith, assist- | ant accompanist. Mrs. Bush assists Mr. | Robeson, the director, at the Tuesday | morging rehearsals, while Miss Smith plays for the evening group. The chorus is making excellent prog- ress and many new voices will be heard this season. Membership in the club is still open, but applicants are ad to make appointments as soon as possible with Mrs. Elmer Carleton Smith, chairman of the auditfon committee, 3945 Con- necticut avenue, Cleveland 2693, apart- ment 307. in order to sing at the first concert. The Madrigal Singers, Mrs. John M. Sylvester, director, appeared in another of iheir unusually successful concerts of Christmas carols, with a paper read by Mrs. Sylvester on the subject of carols, Tuesday, at the residence of Mrs. S. D. Grove, for the Sixteenth Street | Heights Club. ‘The Harriet Boulter Missionary Guild presented Mu Phi Epsilon’s local chap- ter, Rho Beta, in a concert program at Gunton-Temple Church Tuesday night. The soloists participating included Cath- erine Benson, Clara Young Brown, Ev- elyn Scot!, Frances van den Bogert, Tamara Dmicrieff, and, as accompa- nists, Burrus Williams, Clara Wolfe and Dorothy Todd. The club appeared in the finale, “Our Triangle.” The Tuesday Evening Music Club, | Flerence Howard, director; Ruth Thom- | as, accompanist, will give a program of Chrisimas' music at ths Arts Club Thursday night at 8:30 and at the an- 5 RAPHS Chapter, Mu Phi Epsilon, was held last Monday evening at the home of Clara Miller Wolfe instead of the chapter room at the Washington College of Music. After the brief business meeting the chapter members enjoyed a pro- gram of vocal and piano numbers by advanced pupils of the Washington Col- lege of Music. Those contributing to the program were Mary M. Gastrock, Victorine Bouil- lon, Virginia Cralg, Evelyn Weils, Anne L. Smith and Adele Delano. A well balanced and enjoyable pro- gram was presented in the first of a series of musical events at the Doty School of Music, Seventeenth and La- mont streets northwest. The director, Jeanette Lewis Doty, was accomyanist for the following students: Mary Scoit Morris, Alice Morris, Mabel Huguely and Helma Cheeseman Galbraith, who presented violin, cello and piano trios and songs. ‘The Lovette Choral Club, Evan Whit- ford Lovette director, Mary Scott ac- companist, presented a program for the Business Woman’s Council at the Church of the Covenant Tuesday night. The soloists were Ethel Lynn Fast, col- oratura soprano; Lorena Stockten Gawler, lyric soprano; Nellie Barber Brooks, mezzo-soprano; Hattie Noel, reader; Mary Scott, organist. A successful student recital was pre- sented under the auspices of the Wash- ington Conservatory of Music at Cen- tral High School Wednesday night. A vocal quartet, composed of Elizabeth Drew, Katherine McEneany, Paul King and Watson Alenfeldt, substituted in the sixth number on the program, re- placing Angelo Bagattin, a young vio- linist, who could not appear due to a sudden illness. The quartet sang “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” and a “Southern Lullaby.” The en- szmble work was admirable. The mem- bers of the quartet also appeared to advantage in solos. Rose Pincus, youthful pianist, played without error and with rounded sing- ing tone and often with phenomenal speed. Jack Jester had a good tone through- out his violin number, but should mem- crize his work. His interpretation was professional and interesting. Christine Vermillion played with assurance and easy grace, also showing intelligent re- straint in her piano interpretation. | Helen Andrusikiewicz and Bertha Car- | roll gave solo numbers, and the latter | also played acceptably most of the ac- | ccmpaniments. Mary Melio played | ral little waltzes well and also ac- | companicd Marietta Eckam in a ga- | votte for violin. Marictia showed nice | tone for a child, and the indications { nual Christmas tea given tomorrow at 5 o'cle:k at the American Association of University Women'’s Club. Tomorrow the assisting soloist will be Rose Maxwell Dickey, violinist, with Mrs. C. W. Frei ag, accompanist. Mi Dickey will play “Dream of the Virgin, ski. Thursday at the Arts Club the assist- ing soloists will be Katherine Riggs, harpist; Evelyn Scott, violinist, and Marjorie Davis, pianist. The choral numbers on both pro- grams will include three chorales from Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio,” old French noels and German, Dutch and Czech carols, ending with “Christmas Day in the Morning,” as arranged for a capella chorus by Percy Grainger. Miss_Riggs will play works by Tour- nier, Prokofieffl and Daquin, ending with the traditional “All Through the Night.” Miss Scott and Miss Davis will play the “Adeste Fidelis.” Both programs will be given in cos- tumes of old English carolers. ‘The Christmas program for the Fri- | day Morning Music Club will be given iin the auditorium of the Cosmos Club | Friday evening at 8:15 o'clock. “The | Child of Mary,” a pageant by Miriam Hilton, will be presented, Florence Howard, Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler, Mrs. Paul Bleyden and Berenice Randall An- { gelico are assisting with scenes and music. Ka'herine Riggs, Evelyn Scott and Charlotte Harriman also are as- sisting, and Miss Alice Edwards has charge of the costumes. Louis Potter will sing the leading masculine role, and Maude Sewall, as the prophet, will be the reader. Other members of the club and the Wilnor Choral Club make up a large cast. Mary Alexander, pianist, is a new- comer to local , music circles. Miss Alexander has established her studio at 2100 Nineteenth street northwest. She comss from Chicago and Boston, is a graduate of the Richard Platt Studios of Boston, and has spent several years cf study abroad. where she studied { with ths wall knawn Fean~h ned-asgue and con~ert pianist, Alfred Cortot. | _ A snecial musical program at Takoma | Park Beptist Church features Lawrence F. Murray, beritone-bass, who assisted the choir under the direction of Mrs. Frances Cureton Hubbard. Chevy Chase Chapter of the Eastern meeting at the home of Mrs. Adam Schneider. December 7. Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, guest soloist. gave a | short program of piano selections. Mrs. | Nathan Wallack, mezzo-soprano, sang a group of songs, accompanied by Mrs. ‘oombs. | The program of the Optomists’ Club | |luncheon last Wednesday at the Hotel | | Hamilton was presented by Mrs. M. Dell | Sale, soprano, accompanizd at the piano by Kathleen Perry, and on the violin, ‘by Frank Perry of Alexandria. The Institute of Musical Art an- nounces an informal “nrusical evening” | at the institute building, 831 Eighteenth | street northwest, Friday at 8:30 p.m. | The occasion will be partly social and |partly musical. All frisnds of the school are cordially invited. i The “audition hour,” recently in- | augurated at the Institute of Musical Art by Frank Gebest, dean of the piano | department, has been progressing satis- | factorily. Each Friday evening at 7 o'clock the faculty of the institute and a coterie of interested students gather in the assembly hall to hear a program rendered by the students. The object is primarily a review by the faculty of the work actually accomplished in the various departments, and sscondarily to afford the pupils an opportunity to overcome stage fright while performing efore the public. The regular meeting of Rho Beta Massenet, and “Adoration,” by Borow-| Star made a feature of music at the! are should progress steadily. Little | Betty Kassow opened the program with | two numbers for piano. Lea Siegel | sang two songs well. | puimrie | Maj. Charles J. Ferris, U. S. N., who has been appearing before educational institutions in the Eastern States in | pi s consisting of songs, readings ‘\\'Mslcal accompaniment and dia- lect characterizations, will return to ‘Washington for the holidays. Mrs. Herman Fakler was hostess at the monthly meeting of Mu Phi Epsilon, | Washingion Alumnae Chapter, Thurs- y. Paper on the characteristics of Irish and Welsh music, with particular em- phasis on folk music, was read by Lorena Mondereau. Inez Miller, so- prano, sang a group of Welsh and Irish songs, accompanied by Helen Bellman. | Prague Teachers' Ehorus Here January 8. A N itinerary which extends as far North as Canada, as far West o5 Nebraska and South to Havana, Cuba, has been arranged for the Prague ‘Teachers’ Chorus which will come direct from Prague, Czechoslovakia, for a two- month concert tour of the United States, to begin in Boston, Januarv 5 More than 30 coucerts will be given. After first concert in Carnc: Hall, New York City, the chorus v appear in the Library of Congress Washington at the invitation of United States Government, through chief of the division of music, € Eng:l. The reception which will given the next day for the Teach: Chorus will be the official welcome 1 this country to the visiting musiciar and will be an elaborate affair to whi: many of the most important people ¢ ‘Washington have been invited. In Ne York the Czech teachers will meet th foremost musical people of the cit; through events which are being plannea b}r Georgs G. Gartlan, superintendent of music in the public schools. After concerts at Yale and Harvard Universities and attendant social festiv- ities, the chorus will sing a second time in New York and will then start North for their appearance in Canada and in Buftalo, N. Y. Stops on their route through the West will include Chicago, I, January 20 and February 3; Milwaukee, Wis., January 21: Detroit, Mich., January 18, and Ann Arbor, Janiary 24: Cleveiand, Ohio, January 27; Dayton, Ohio, January 30; Pittsburgh, Pa., January 29: St. Louis. Mo., January 31; Daven- vort, Towa, February 1; Cedar Rapids, Iowa, February 4; Des Moines, Iowa, February 5; Omaha. Nebr., February 7: St. Josephi. Mo., February 8; Kansa City, Mo., February 10. Eastern stops are: Boston, Mass., JAn- uary 5; New York City. January 7 and January 13; Washington, D. C., January 8; New Haven, Conn., January 10; Cam- bridge, Mass.. January 11: Montreal January 14: Toronto, January 16, and Buffalo, N. Y., January 17. Other engagements will be at Dallas, Tex.. 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Col i pessisnal tnatevet instruments. ‘ol._6361_evenings. Jeannette Lewis Doty Accompanist 3200 17th Street N.W. e Ada; ki WALTER T. HOLT Ensemble practice with the Nordiea Clubs 1801 Columbia Road N.W., Col. 946 BESSIE N. WILD S o