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MU BY HELE RS, ' says in her editorial letter in the al nuary issue of the federation’s| They (Wotan and Logi) wrest the magazine: “What might not be the effect on the minds of our less musically trained citizens if there were in- augurated a national conserva- tory of music whose standards were recognized by our Govern- ment? Failing this, is there not room in our Capital at Washington for a minister of fine arts?” Mrs. Kelley is not the first to voice such ideas, indeed, but they gain potency through her men- tion, for Mrs. Kelley is head of an organization that includes 300,000 GAR ~STILLMAN |and force his brother Mimi to KELLEY, wife of a dis-[shape it into ring and helmet. tinguished American com- poser, and national presi-|a substitute for Freya—given as ent of the Federation of Music hostage to the giants Fainer and lubs of America, sounds a note | Fasolt, who built the beautiful that is becoming quite familiar by | Walhalla, its frequent reiteration when she | through SIC N FETTER. Wotan, king of the gods, seeking home of the gods—finds | Logi (god of fire) the | treasures that Alberich possesses. | golden treasures from Alberich by | trickery and pay the giants off | with them. This gives Fafner| (who immediately Kkills his brother | because of greed, aroused by the ! | new possessions) a power over all | | the rest of the world. As Wotan, | | Fricka, his wife, and the other! gods and goddesses enter Walhalla | an ominous mist, symbolic of the | | troubles that have come to the | world in this fashion, settles above | the river, where the lament of the | Rhine maidens still is audible, al- | though a beautiful rainbow has - THE SUND AY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., - JANUARY 20, 1929—-PART 4. | ordinary. | Feldman and Rich: MUSIG NNE HULL and Mary Howe will be heard in one of their ex- tremely popular two-piano re- citals Friday at 11 am, presented before the members of the Friday Morning Music Club, in The program will be quite out of the The pianists will be assisted by the National String Quartet. A group of “Three Minor Pieces.” writ- ten by Mrs. Howe, will open the pro- gram. The first of the three is writ- | the_auditorium of the Cosmos Club. ten for violoncello, violin and piano; | the second for string quartet, the third, a fugue, also for string quartet. Mrs. Howe will play the piano part of the first “piece.” ; Ethel Glenn Hier. another American woman composer, will be represented by her string quartet, “A Carolina Christ~ mas Week.” Mrs. Howe and Miss Hull then will | play two dances by Debussy, “Danse Sacree” and “Danse Profane,” and the finale will be Johann Sebastian Bach's “Concerto for Two Pianos in C Minor,” | | to be presented by the two pianists and the quartet, the Ilatter 'composed of Henri Sckolov, Max Rosenstein, Samuel rd Lorleberg. A recital was given Thursday under { the auspices of Mrs. Savona Griest her residence studio. All numbers were RAPHS | Feeser, Esther Styles, singers: Ella Fraser and Mary Letha Moore, pianists. Rollin Bond. director of the'Wash- | ingtonians, civic opera organization, will hold voice auditions at 1628 K _street northwest tomorrow, Tuesday and Wed- | nesday, from 4 to 6 o'clock. for all | voices, male and female. for the double | choruses of “Cavalleria Rusticana.” now in rehearsal for February production. Mary Apple, contralto, and Chris- | topher Tenley. pianist, gave a program . of music, featuring Russian composers.. | at the Arts Club recentl; " | The Women's City Club Chorus, Ger- | trude Lyons, organizer and director, will | celebrate its third birthday anniversary | tomorrow evening with a dinner av | the clubhouse, 22 Jackson place, to | which the members of the club and « their friends are invited. Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard, president of the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, will give an account of her attendance at the music festivals in | Munich, Salzburg and Bayreuth: Miss | Jessie MacBride will tell of her ex- | periences in Europe, and members of | the club attending the dinner who have .. | been in Europe will give three and five | minute sketches of some interesting incident that occurred during their. | travels. musical artists as individual mem- | bers and 4,000 institutions which | are interested in the musical prog- ress of the United States of America. In this same letter, Mrs. Kelley brings to light yet another thought that might well be pondered by | those in Washington who hold | high the zealous torch of musical | ideals and their eventual realiza- tion in this country. She say: - “In addition to our regular ac-| tivities we are now being asked | to lead in a crusade for the music- | al development of the American | Indian, as well as to become a vital | part of an organized group whose | purpose will be to protect more systematically than heretofore the Mrs. Merritt O. Chance, president of the Women's City Club, will be the guest of the chorus, and Mrs. J. C. Byron, Maryland State president of the Federation of Music Clubs, will be the guest of Mrs. C. A. Gardner, member of the chorus. creditably presented and received with | enthusiasm by a large audience of friends. The piano numbers showedi good technique and phrasing and the | vocal students had good tone quality | and clear diction. Ballet dances were | presented by Edith and Shirley Strauss. | A piano duet was played by Mary Alice | and Marion Michael. Mrs. Griest sang | a greup of songs and also played the final piano number. Those participating included, in ad- | dition to those mentioned, Lillian Pruitt, Hilda Ball, Sarah Kirkman, | Elizabeth Ahern, Ruth Creagger and | Sophie Crouch. | made a bridge for the gods Loi tread upon as they cross to Wal- halla. * ok ok ok COMPLETE contrast to the ‘Wagnerian classics being pro- | duced in New York during the past week was offered last night, | when the Metropolitan Opera Co. gave the first performance in America of Ernest Krenek's jazz opera, “Johnny Spielt Auf.” As this column goes to press it is too early to acquire any review of the performance. It may be of inter- est, perhaps, to music lovers here to know that by official admission the production of this opera has The Madrigal Singers. under the di-"" rection of Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, repeated their Christmas program, in < response to request, Wednesday eve- ning, under the patronage of Mme. De Lagnel, at her apartments Members of artistic, literary and mu- sical circles of the city were among those present, and the program Wwas cordially received. As before, Mrs. Sylvester's paper on “Christmas Carols” was the center around which the carols, as sung by the Madrigal Singers, were grouped. The ensemble consists of Lois Lill Anita Schade, president of the Ger- man Literary Society, will read the | libretto, in German, of Wagner's opera | “Das Rheingold” before members and | friends of the society, at her home, really great. accomplishment. of the red man in all lines of cre- ative art, including music. “It is not astonishing that our new Viee President, Senator Curtis, who is proud of his Indian blood, is asking our co-operation, as is also, the Indian Rights As- sqeiation, a national organization devoted to the welfare of the Indians.” In the national biennial meet- ing of representatives from all over the country, at Boston in June, these will be I)rlme subjects brought forward for discussion. The indications are that it would behoove earnest, sincere musical pioneers in Washington to plan to attend that meeting, too. * K K % ANOTHER essentially pro-Amer- ican musical endeavor that is more imminent and local in in- terests is being promoted by the MacDowell Society of Washington. A special invitation has been is- sued to the pianists in Washing- . ton to meet at the Arts Club to- ! morrow night to discuss plans for an ensemble piano -concert that will be built on titanic proportions. There will be works for . small groups and for those numbering a score or more participants. The event will be .given as a benefit for the famous MacDowell colony at Peterboro, N. H, ‘Quite of members of a.rqtlnh .m -here-who already is d have enJo‘yem experience of opportunity o study and per- fect some particular work or works in the atmosphere and peaceful setting of a studio at the colony. At Peterboro, on an estate of about 600 acres, having as the nucleus the dignified colonial home and the rustic cabin studio of America’s great composer, Ed- ward MacDowell, Mrs. MacDowell is carrying out her husband’s deepest desire, making a living memorial to him of the colony, founded with more than 60 studios now existing, where gifted American poets, painters, play- wrights, novelists, composers, sculptors and members of allied arts may spend several weeks dur- ing the period from Midspring to early Fall, in turn, working under ideal, yet simple, conditions of liv- ing at 2 minimum expense. Names that lead the lists of Americans in all lines of artistic achievement today include invariably people who have been awarded this rfv- ilege of the MacDowell cu?ony. This fact alone should inspire all Americans, whether artistic them- selves or not, and certainly all who know and love the musical art that was MacDowell’s, to do their bit toward making this project a success. H. K. Bush-Brown, who is chair- man oy this executive committee of the Washington Society, is a sculptor of international repute and more than one Summer has he enjoyed the aloof quiet and in- vitation to concentration and achievement that is afforded at the MacDowell colony. Mrs. Bush- Brown, an established portrait painter, has been there, too, as has Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe (Mary Howe), pianist and composey. Others on the executive committee include Carl Engel, chief of the music division of the Library of Congress; Edward H. Droop, long a leader in musical affairs in Washington, and Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, president of the Friday Morning Music Club. Dorothy De Muth Watson, chairman of the ‘Washington Composers’ Club, is treasurer and Mrs. Duff Lewis, violinist, is secretary. 'This endeavor to provide a sum as the National Capital's contribu- tion toward the MacDowell Colony Endowment Fund certainly de- serves the most enthusiastic and practical support. * k¥ % OPERA, grand and imposing and also built upon ultra-modern grotesque lines, is the dominant note of the chord of music inter- est at this time. The German Grand Opera Co. brings the opera “Das Rheingold” —first of that famous music- dramatic serial story, “Der Ring,” given in four installments—to ‘Washington Wednesday of this week. The three other operas in the series and Wagner’'s master- work, “Tristan und Isolde,” are scheduled to follow shortly. The story of “Das Rheingold” is the fundamental basis upon which all the other “ring” stories are built. It tells of the three beauti- ful Rhine maidens guarding too carelessly the treasure that pro- vides the magic metal for the ring and tarnhelm (which carries the gift of invisibility to its wearer). Alberich, prince of the underworld, forsakes all thought of love and thus_becomes equipped to wrest the Khine gold from the maidens been the most intricate in staging and the most costly in rehearsals of any operatic production pre- sented during the 21 seasons of Gatti-Casazza's regime at the Metropolitan. Among other things that were unusual requirements in the equipment for this opera were a “property” automobile, a rail- road train, radio equipment. and other modern mechanisms, in ad- dition to such scenic requirements as an Alpine glacier and a modern artistic conception of Broadway with the electric advertisements a-glitter. In Munich a riot was caused oy “Johnny” and it has been said that there were many hisses at its premiere in Paris. It will be inter- esting to see if anything dramatic was shown in the reaction of the initial American audience last night. ook W RTURO TOSCANINTI, the Italian ¢ king of conductors, who has had to delay his coming to Amer- ica so as to rest a bit before taking up the strenuous season here, is said to have declared that Gior- dano’s new opera, “The King,” which had its premiere in Milan January 12, would be the last new opera that he would set up and direct. A report of the first per- formance says that: “The public was attracted by the sweet music and captivated by the beautiful scemeryand pleasant action. The success of the pro- dupction was great. Giordano, the composer; Giroachino Forzano, who wrote the libretto, and all the artists who participated in the performance were enthusiastically cheered. Toscanini, who conduct- ed the orchestra, greatly con- tributed to the success of the pre- miere, seeming to have exercised all his talent to underline the beauties of the music.” Signor Toscanini was to have conducted the second Philhar- monic Svmphony concert in Wash- ington the end of this month, but, due to his delay in sailing for this country, Toscanini will not be in America on that date and Fritz Reiner, conductor of the Cincin- nati Symphony Orchestra. will ap- vear instead. Toscanini, however. is scheduled to-conduct the third and final of these concerts in Washington. A Ticket Ho]der; to Meet Regarding Canceléd Concerts A MEETING - will be held at the ‘Washington Auditorium Tuesday at 8 p.m. of the holders of season tickets for the Wasl Coroperative Cori- cert Course, which was canceled just previous to the concert scheduled for January 7, when ‘the Philadelphia Simfonietta was to have appeared here. Dr. Harold M. Dudley, director of these events, has called the meeting in order to acquaint the patrons of the course with the causes of the cancella- tion, and to consider ways and means looking toward a number of substitute Gukstion of possible Fefunds also will be question of fun wi discussed. Dr. Dudley announces that the va- rious local o izations which bene- fited financially from the Midsummer benefits and advance sale of season tickets did not act in any way as spon- sors for the Co-operative Concert Course, but simply received a welfare | percentage - from ‘their own sales of tickets. ‘Those persons who may not be able to attend the meeting Tuesday, which will be held in one of the rooms of the auditorium, are asked to write to Dr. H. M. Dudley, 1010 Connecticut avenue, for further information, instead of call- ing the various organizations on the telephone. Dr. Dudley stated definitely yesterday that he assumed the full responsibility, entirely absolving any and all local or- | ganizations. tDamrosch Junior Club For Washington Children 'HE Washington Conservatory of Music’s children’s music club called the Damrosch Junior Club extends op- portunity to the children of Washing- | ton to study piano, violin, voice, 'cello, | etc., for a term without cost. | Many enrollments have been made (the past week in this club of children { from the age of 4 to 14. Individual instruction is given to each child by the conservatory’s best in- structors, the object being to give every parent in Washington who has a little one whom they desire to test in a mu- sical way an opportunity to do so with- out an expensive outlay. Some of these {little ones may be the musicians and | singers of the future. The Damrosch system of sight reading as taught in the Damrosch Institute of New York City is used in teaching the youngsters. Keefeala BorgeRecital. JLORA McGILL KEEFER, mezzo- | contralto, and Frank La Forge, | pianist and accompanist, of New York, with Harrington Van Hoesen, baritone, of New York, will be heard in recital in the ballroom of the Mayflower EVENTS OF Opera Co. at 2:15 p.m. PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA— Tuesday. The Philadelphia Orchestra will offer a special attraction at the concert at the Washington Auditorium Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., when Ossip Gabrilowitsch will appear in the dual capacity of con- ductor and piano soloist. Mr. Gabrilo- witsch will play the Brahms “B Flat Concerto,” with orchestral accompani- ment directed by Dr. Arthur Rodzinski, assistant to Mr. Stokowski and head of the orchestral department of the Curtis Institute of Music. ‘The purely orchestral numbers will precede the concerto. They will be “Russian Easter,” overture, by Rimsky- Korsakow; “The Haunted Castle,” by Josef Hofmann, and “The Roumanian Rhapsody” of Enesco. Tickets are on sale at T. Arthur Smith’s Bureau, 1330 G street north- west, in Homer L. Kitt's Music Store. HESS-D'ARANYI RECITAL ‘Wednesday. Myra Hess, pianist, and Yelly d'Ar- anyi, violinist, will appear in joint re- cital in the thirty-fourth of Mrs. Law- rence Townsend’s morning programs Wednesday at the Mayflower at 11:15 am. This will be Mme. d'Aranyi’s debut in Washington. Assisting her at the piano for solo numbers will be Emilia Hawtrey. ‘The artists will open the program with Brahms’ “Sonata in A Major” and close it with Cesar Franck's sonata written in the same key. Miss_Hess will play works by Scar- latti, Bach, Albeniz and De Falla. Mme. d’Aranyi will play works by Hu- bay and De Falla-Kreisler. Tickets are on sale at 1709 21st street northwest and the morning of the con- cert at the hotel. “DAS RHEINGOLD"—Wednesday. The German Grand Opera Co. will open & series of five Washington per- formances at Poll's Theater Wednesday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock, under the local management of Mrs. Wilson- Greene. The entire series of “ring” operas will be given, also a performance of “Tristan und Isolde.” All performances will be given.at Poli's Theater under the direction of Walter Rabl, general music director of the Magdeburg Opera, and Ernest Knoch, a conductor well known in this country and abroad. Walter Elschner of the Hamburg Op- era, who has been identified with the Bayreuth festival for many years, will be the stage director, while the artistic personnel, the technical direction and even the mechanics in charge of scenic and lighting effects are said to have been chosen from among the few who tdk‘n'nt:’uughly know the Wagnerian tra- n. Hotel Friday afternoon, February 15, at 4:30, under the management of Mrs. Wilson-Greene, " the “ring” cycle, ‘The performapce Wednesday will present “Das Rheingold,” inaugurating This opera, inciden- tally, is offersd to subscribers of the THE WEEK TUESDAY. The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, guest_conductor and soloist, will give a program beginning at_4:30 p.m. at the Washington Auditorium. WEDNESDAY. Myra Hess, pianist, and Yelly d’Aranyi, violinist, will appear in joint recital at the Mayflower at 11:15 a.m. “Das Rheingold,” first of the “Ring des Nibelungen” cycle of Wagnerian operas, will be presented at Poli’s by the German FRIDAY. Giovanni Martinelli, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Co., will appear in song recital at Poli’s at 4:35 pm. Wilson-Greene concert series in lieu of a canceled performance. ‘The second opera, “Die Walkure,” will not be given until Monday eve- ning, February 4, at 7:45 o'clock. The “ring” cycle will be suspended to permit the presentation Tuesday, February 5, at 7:45 p.m., of “Tristan und Isolde.” The “ring” will be re- sumed Thursday evening, February 7, with a performance of “Siegfried,” and concluded Saturday, February 9, at 7 p.m., with a performance of “Gotter- dammerung ” Seats for the entire series of five operas, as well as seats for single per- formances, are on sale at the concert bureau in Droop's, 1300 G street north- west. MARTINELLI—Friday. Giovanni Martinelli, tenor of the Metropolitan’ Opera Co., is sched- uled to make his only Washington concert appearance this season at Poli's Theater Friday at 4:30 p.m. as the third attraciion in the Philharmonic Course presented by Mrs. Wilson-Greene. Mr. Martinelli will be assisted by Sal- vatore Fucito at the piano. Martinelli's program will be opened with the aria “M'appari” from “Martha” (Flotow), followed by a group of three songs. The third group will consist of three Italian songs. The fourth group includes songs by Berlioz, Osmal and Leoncavallo. Mr. Martinelli also will sing Doni- zetti’s aria from “Elisir d’Amore,” “Una furtiva lacrima”; followed by a group of four songs. The program will be closed with the aria “Vesti la giubba” from “Pagliacci” (Leoncavallo). Seats are on sale at the concert burgnu in Droop's, 1300 G street north- west, The Davidson Glee Club Gives Midwinter Concert ARY MULLER FINK, harpist, a member of the faculty of Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Md., will be assisting soloist at the Midwinter con- cert of the Davison Glee Club, Fepruary n."'rne program will be given in Pierce Hall, northwest. ‘The date originally announced for this concert was February 5. The event, however, will be presented February 19. Boston Symphony Dates, Jan“ary 30 and March 6 'HE BOSTON SYMPHONY OR- CHESTRA, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor, will make its second Wash- ington appearance of the current sea- son, Wednesday afternoon, March 6, at 4:30 o'clock, instead of March 5, as an- nounced last Sunday. Mr. Koussevitsky will conduct’ both ‘Washington performances, including the January 30 eppearancg of the orchestrs, Sixteenth and Harvard streets, M ARTINELLI OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH, Washngton Auditorian, Tuesday- New Organ Dedicated Today in Chevy Chase 'HE new pipe organ recently installed in the Chevy Chase Baptist Church will be dedicated today at 4 p.m. with appropriate exercises. ‘The service will be opened by an or- gan recital by Grace D. Jackson, organ- ist, who will play: “Offertorium,” Opus 36, No. 1—Clarence Lucas: Prelude and Introduction to “Laus Deo"—C. P. Mor- rison; “A Winter Sunset"—F. Addison Porter; Largo from Sonata in E flat— F. Lachner. The quartet” under the direction of T. W. Norcross will sing the anthem, “The Lord is My Rock,” by Wooler. Mrs. Hugh Loftus Murrell will sing a so- prano solo, “O Divine Redeemer,” by Gounod. As a prelude, Mrs. Jackson will play the “Grand Choeur in A Flat,” by Wil- liam Faulkes. Brilliant Hungarian Pianist Rubinstein Club Guest THE Rubinstein Club announces that Mme. Marta Paschu, brilliant Hun- garian pianist, will be the guest artist at the first concert to be held at the Willard Hotel, Tuesday, February 26, at 8:30 p.m. At the ‘second concert, May 6, the club will present Julia Peters, dramatic soprano, distinguished for her charac- teristic interpretations of German opera, lieder and folk song. Those interested in attending these two concerts may obtain complete in- formation {rom Mrs. Ethel Reed, 300 Carroll street, Takoma Park, Georgia 1338-W, concerning sustaining mem- bership in the Rubinstein Club, which entitles the holders to tickets for both concerts. U.S. Wom;r: Composers In Program Here April 13 THE National League of American Pen Women, whose activities are carried on in three departments—Ilitera- ture, art and music—has this year or- ganized its music department, with rep- resentation from each branch through the music chairmen of the various branches: - A national executive music committee also has been named. Mem- bers are Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Marianne Genet, Clara Clemens Gabrilowitch, Gena Branscombe, Mabel Daniels, Phyl- lis Fergus Hoyt, Edith Rockefeller Mc- Cormick. Mary Howe and Dorothy De Muth Watson. The last two are of this city, where they are prominently known in musical circles. Gena Branscombe is chairman of concerts. Mrs, Watson is a member of her committee, now actively engaged in arranging a notable presentation of mu- slc composers,in a program April 13 in Memorial Continental Hall, ~ Phyllis Fergus Hoyt is chairman’ of the music contest now being conducted throughout the many branches of the league, the winning compositioh in which will be heard at the April congerty . 5 Band Orchestra Dates U. S. MARINE BAND ORCHESTRA. 'HE three programs planned for the current week by the United States Marine Band Orchestra, Capt. Taylor Brangon, ‘leader, and Arthur S. Wit- comb, second leader, will be given in the Marine Barracks auditorium to- morrow at 4 p.m., Wednesday at 8 p.m. and Friday at 4 pm. The usual stand- ard of classics, combined with a few more simple popular numbers, will be maintained. The soloist tomorrow will be Second Leader Arthur S.'Witcomb, ,who will play a cornet solo, “Dreams.” Wed- nesday night Mr. Witcomb will give as cornet solo Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”; Musician Wilbur D. Kieffer | will - play - a vibraphone solo Lack’s “Song ‘of the Brook,” and a sextet, composed of Musicians A. Witcomb, N. Ciechese,'R. Clark, H.. Clark, P. Hazes and W. F. Santelmann, will play the | Donizetti sextet from “Lucia di Lam- mermoor."” Friday afternoon two groups of works by Eric Coats will be | features of the program. . Gecrgetown U—_Gi;e—club In Concert Next Week GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY GLEE Club will make its first appearance this season in a mid-Winter concert next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in Gaston Hall, on the university campus. Under the direction of Edward P. Donovan, professor of music at George- town, the Glee Club has made a credit- able record in recent years. The forth- coming concert will be followed by the annual Mi-Careme event during the Lenten season. X Henry Deane Benson is president of the Glee Club, which will be assisted by the Georgetown Collegians, a student orchestra, under the direction of Ed- ward Fish. The repertoire for both clubs will be large and varied. As usual, the program will contain one or more of the beautiful religious anthems which have characterized Georgetown | '-concerfs in the past. Schubert Chotél Club Rehearses Tomorrow Night THE Schubert Choral Club has secured the use of the gold room of the Hotel La Fayette, Sixteenth and I streets, for rehearsals, and beginning tomorrow evening at 7:45 will meet there for the remainder of the season. ‘The Schuberts have rehearsed weekly since the last of October in the Green Studio, 1811 H street. i ganization, will be in Washington soon for a series of rehearsals with the club, Mrs. Blair, guest conductor of the or- 1529 Rhode Island avenue northwest, Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. _Friday, February 8, Miss Schade will give a similar reading in German of the original Bayreuth text for “Goetter- daemmerung.” Margaret M. Slattery directed the music at a special vesper service in St. Stephen’s Church for the Holy Name Societies of several downtown parishes. The choir was composed of Rose Green, Angelina Cliffo, Nora O'Connor, Eu- genia Slattery, D. Power Stanton, Dan- icl Stanton, Biil Cross, Joseph Repetti, William Curtin, Felix Murphy, Earl Grimes and Albert Henkel. Katherine Cannon, was presented in a recital by Le Roy Lewis at his studio Wednesday night, when she sang songs by Schubert, Grieg, Hageman, Sinding, Hahn, Cham- inade, Rogers, Branscombe, Weatherly, Del Riego, Cadman and Lieurance. R. Deane Shure, Washington com- poser, will play for the first time in public, tonight, his new suite for organ, entitled “From Yonder Chapel.” The suite has five numbers, depicting the experiences which come to an organist in the regular day's routine of duties. The sub-titles are: “Dawn's Ecstacy” (wedding march), “Fount of Faith” (baptism music), “Altar Tears” (com- munion), “Divine Adoration” (prayer), “Lament of Twilight” (funeral march). “The Enchanted Isle,” Mr. Shure's Bermuda suite for organ, is being issued by a leading New York publisher and will be played in England and British Ppossessions as well as in this country. The Chaminade Glee Club, Esther Linkins, director, and Gertrude Walter, accompanist, will present a program Jjointly with Katherine Riggs, harpist, at the American Association of Uni- \'ersl}ty ‘Women's headquarters tomorrow night. The club will sing a group of works by Spross, also songs by Brahe-Lucas, Vincert, Del Riego and Schubert-Saar. Miss Riggs will play works by Perilhou, Beaujoyeuse, Scarlatti, Loukine, Proko- fieff and Borodine. Ruby Smith Stahl, soprano and di- rector of the FPirst Congregational Choir, has two vacancies for second sopranos and one for first tenor, for which she will be glad to hear appli- cants in anticipation of an a cappella program soon to be announced. Recently the choir has received the offer of a well known manager to put it on tour, though because of the business connections of the majority of its members, such an expedition would be fraught with difficulties. However, for this and other reasons, applications for membership in all voices will be welcomed from those in- terested in doing this exacting type of singing. As new members are accepted and become familiar with the music, older members will be given an opportunity to sit in the audience to listen, or an occasional service off. Mary O'Donoghue, mezzo0-soprano, who was second in the local Atwater Kent contest, is in demand as soloist since gaining this distinction. Last week she was on the air in the Homer L. Kitt hour. She also took part in a program with Edna Jones and Rita Mower, with Alexander Henne- man at the piano, in a concert in charge of Mrs. Margaret Smith in the Holy_Comforter Hali Wednesday night. In' conjunction with the Cantabile Chorus, which Alexander Henneman directs, she will be heard next Satur- day night over the radio. s George Beuchler, baritone, is substi- tuting at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart for Talbert Haslett, who was stricken with appendicitis the past week. -Mr. Beuchler probably will be a member of the solo quartet when the Sacred Heart Choir gives its concert February 4 at the Willard Hotel. Plans for this concert are progressing favorably and the choir is putting forth its best efforts to make the event both a musical and social success. The other soloists are Mabel C. Lati- mer, soprano; Hazel C. Arth, contralto; Robert M. O'Lone, tenor. An interesting program of songs was presented under the auspices of Otto Torney Simon . Friday at the regular audition hour at the Institute of Mu- sical Art. Those participating were: L. M. Jones, Sylvia Notelewitz, Mar- garet Gilligan, Gertrude Masur, Dewitt mez20-50prano, | Elizabeth Waters, Pearl Shindel Heff- . ner, Elizabeth Taylor Copping, Norma Hughes, Cordelia Heffner Brown and . Mary Lerch, with Mrs. Sylvester di- rector-accompanist. Felian Garzia will entertain the Arts Club members and guests Tuesday night with a program which will include “So- nata,” by Scarlatti; “Prelude and Fugue , In A Minor,” by Bach- Liszt; “Im- } promptu in F Sharp and “Ballade in G Minor,” by Chopin; “Poissons d'Or” and _ “L'Isle Joyeuse,” by Debussy: “Forest Murmurs,” by Liszt, and “Tarantelle,” | by Moskowski. . At the 5 o'clock quiet period at All % Souls' Church (Unitarian), Sixteenth = | and Harvard streets, the organist, Lewis Atwater, will present a program of " Debussy music. He will be assisted by Helen Howison, soprano, who will sing * Debussy's “Romance” and the “Air de Lia” from L'Enfant Prodigue.” Midwinter Recital Program - At Local Studio Thursday - EDNA BISHOP DANIEL and -Walter T. Holt, both well known teachers in local music circles, will present a joint “Midwinter” recital in the Daniel Studio, 1340 New York avenue north- west, Tuesday night at 8:30 o'clock. Assisting will be Florence E. Squire, pianist. Miss Jennie Glennan will ac- company the singers, who will be Catherine Schofield, Caroline Kreuttner, Edith Carr, Clarice Summers and Mil- dred Spahr. The songs will include works by Arne, Fisher, Becil Burleigh,* Somervell, Grieg, MacDowell, Haydn and Haendel, with a special group of songs with guitar accompaniment, by Richard Kountz and Katherine Allan Lively, and one number, the finale, a } “Winter Lullaby” by Reginald De Koven, in which the singer will be accompanied by the entire mandolin and guitar orchestra. Mr. Holt's orchestra will open the program: with the overture to Flotow's “Stradella.” Institute of Musical Art Presents Formal Concert~ 'HE first formal concert of the sea« son presented by the Institute cf Musical Art, Dr. Christiani, president, and B. Frank Gebest dean, will be given Monday, January 28, at 8:15 p.m., ia the auditorium of the Vermont Avenus Christian Church. The Student Orchestra of the Insti~* tute, directed by Dr. Christiani. will bs a feature. The remainder of the pro< gram will be furnished by advanced pupils. . A ‘The public is cordially invited. s Other recitals in the concert hall of the conservatory are frequently given * during the season, and an interestin feature of routine introduced by Mr. Gebest from the Hochschule of Berlin is the weekly audition hour, in which pupils play and sing before their friends and the conservatory staff in order tg show their progress and to give con< fidence for public performance. The Curtis String Quartet Concert Today Canceled ’I'HE concert announced for this** afternoon to have been given by | the Curtis String Quartet of Philadel- | phia at the Library of Congress has been canceled. Official announcement from the music division of the Library | states only that “the concert was can- J celed, as arrangenients could not be | completed to make the program pos- sible.” Any notice of another date will be duly announced. | Curls .f;r. bolnr;s. THE straight, simple coiff wre which has made Dolores Del Rio's face im- <& mediately recognizable the world qver 1=, & to be changed for her portrayal of ; § “Evangeline,” which Edwin Careiwe 1is, now producing and directing for United ! Artists. Miss Del Rio's Evangeline will have short curls of the early French ‘American period, neath her white winged “Pilgrim” cap. This will be the second time only that Miss Del Rio has changed the arrangement of her hair. STUDIOS OF PIANO PLAYING JAL Positively Tausht Any Person IN 20 LESSONS SAXOPHONE, BANJO UKE, Ete. P fcsts Teainine, ‘Send ‘tor. Boo r n School of Popular Music 1322 G_St. N.W. Maln 1238, Studio of DANIEL %G Edga Bishop Daniel, Director Teacher of Voice Special New Year Course Call in_ Afternoon at Studio, erson / I: 1310 N, Y. Ave. N.W. 4 Quarterly Reelf TEACHER OF o, Mandolin, Guitar Hawaiian Guitar and Ukulele | which, under the direction of Mrs. Emily Dickinson, is working up a number of ' unusyally attractive choruses, _ Personal Instruction ENSEMBLE PRACTICE WITH THE 1221 COLUMBIA CLUBS. CONN. AVE. DECATUR % 3, et WASHINGTON WALTER T.HOLT"! School of Mandolin, Guitar: and ; Banjo. Hawaiian Guitar and Ukulele Established 1894 Ensemble practice with the Nordiea Clubs 1801 Columbia Road N.W., Col. 946 LT ATV Ok MY 4 ol A Wl Jeannette Lewis Doty - Accompanist 3200 17th Street N.W, Phone Adams 3655 - BESSIE N. WILD Voice Culture. Plano and Har Studio 6824 Sth st. Takoma Park. D. O. 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