Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1929, Page 32

A COLONIAL PROGRAM PLUS. The first American composer and composers of Europe were featured in a program of Colonial music presented by the Misses Rose and Otillie Sutro in the third and final of their morning events of the current year at the Washington Club yesterday. The early American numbers were obtained through the courtesy of the Music Division of the Library of Congress, Mr. Carl Engel, chief. program was presented by two you-‘:l: American slnge,r’m KnthrynyNew- man, coloratura soprano, and Harrison Christian, baritone, and the National to mention immediately that the group showed its usual fine musicianship and gave a sincere and very colorful inter- pretation of Von Dittersdorf’s delightful “Quartet” which was played this quartet earlier in the season as a feature of a Friday Morning Club program and more fully reviewed at that time. Miss Newman, wno hails from the Middle West—Kansas, where coloraturas and corn alike seem to thrive, showed careful drilling and aim for artistic interpretation in Haendel’s “Oh, Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?” and Haydn’s “My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair"—the latter perhaps the best thing she did, unless it was one of her numer- ous encores, the air from “The Barber of Seville,” which likewise bore evidences of thorough "grepnntwn. She was not 0 happy in the songs more important in this Colonial music program, givin, what were obviously hastily prepareg readings of Arnold’s “The Way-Worn Traveler” and Francis Hopkinson's “My THE EVE enthusiastic applause from the mafority of the audience. Mr. Christian, who has a very robusto voice of baritone quality, sang at the beginning, the end and in the middle of the program, which, with the gener- ous supply of encores that the two young people gave so buoyantly, grew to be entirely too long. Mr. Christian showed that he could achieve nice artistry, although he was at all times inclined to overemphasize and to dramatize his songs; even the most lyrical. In trying to give variety to the oft-repeated phrases of Haendel's “Where'er You Walk” and also the “Si tra i ceppi” from the same composer’s “Bernice,” the singer gave prominence entirely beyond the meaning of the words he stressed. Both he and the audience seemed to acquire a decided satisfaction in the original of “The Star Spangled Ban- studled the typical Colonial numbers very hurriedly and incompletely. Lee Cronican was an industrious and alert accompanist. H F. SACRED HEART CHOIR. An one arriving more than 5 minutes late last night for the concert of the Secred Heart Choir in the ballroom of the Willard Hotel must have been among those hundreds or so 0 stood in the back through the whole 21 num- bers of the program. Approximately 1.200 arrived on time and were seated. It was a varied program, well delivered, and well received. Three choir numbers opened the evenis “Tota Pulchra Es,” “Gloria Patri” of Palestrina, and “A Legend” to Tschaikowsky's music. From the note the choir revealed itself, under the direction of Mary Louise Sullivan, as a singing body of splendid balance, the individual artists fused into an im- pressive choral group. There are 13 so- pranos, 9 altos, 7 tenors and 6 hasses. Pretty Creature,” a fluffy little song and well enunciated. Some comment might be entered upon Mr. Beuchler’s mei lous pronunciation’ of “cree-choo: that is scarcely to be considered as fecting the essence of the song. Mary Louise Sullivan, the group’s di- rector, played the “Traumerei” of Strauss. and “Humoresque” of Rach- maninoff, neither particularly distin- guished by her piano rendition, and, at gnl\les, almost inaudible in that large all. Two songs by Mabel C. Latimer, so- prano, followed. The selection from “Carmen” hardly served to reveal the singer as a mistress of opera, the high notes were too often cloudy. The sec- ond number, “Husheen,” was given deli- cately, more within the singer’s grasp. Dvorak’s “Goin’ Home” and the “Bel la Figlia” selection from “Rigolet were offered by the choir’s quartet, com- pesed of the evening's four soloists, the two already mentioned plus Robert M. O'Lone, tenor, and Hazel Arth, contr: NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D ‘C TUESDAY, 'FEBRUARY 5, 1929. mance,” a Londonderry air, “Would God I Were the Tender Apple Blos- som,” and--lapsing into the very semi- classical—“Allah’s Holiday,” from “Ka- tinka,” by Priml. An occasional ten- dency to flat in the first number was balanced by Miss Sullivan's rhapsodic use of the key note on the piano, which served its purpose as often as required. Mr. O'Lone next offered two solos, “Ah, Moon of My Delight,” from Lisa Lehmann’s “Rubaiyat” cycle—the sec- ond verse, beginning “And when thyself with shining foot shall pass,” bein; rendered with especially fine feeling— and an_amusing little number, “Ould Doctor Ma'Ginn.” ‘The tenors and basses took the next group to themselves, singing a Brahms “Lullaby” and “The Lost Chord.” Thirteen voices were not enough to carry either selection with absolute con- fidence, but no paucity of volume could injure hte tone itself, which, character- Delila,” calling for full rounded tones, ‘was excellently done; a little more pol- ished French pronunciation and it would have been irreproachable. The second number, “My Lover Is a Fish- erman,” was lighter in style. Miss Arth was not permitted to retire to the ranks before she had given an encore—the only one of the evening. She sang “Annie Laurie” exquisitely. A request number, “The Bells of St. Mary's” by the choir, closed the pro- gram. Its melodious, romantic quality, with the rhythmic verse-repeats, was done full justice and left a memory of 2 | thoroughly capable choral work,c Bilious, constipated? Take NR—5 TURE'S REMEDY— tonight ild, safe, all-vegetable of all descriptions See Ou—r_Second Floor Display istically of the whole choir, was always ™ Ekeel Arth. cont aze] , contralto soloist and win- ner of the Atwater Kent first prize lagt December, was given an ovaticn. One can compliment the taste of the judges. The selection “Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix,” from Saint-Saens’ “Samson et LANSBURGH & BRO 7TH, 8TH and E STS—FAMOUS FOR QUALITY SINCE Days Have Been So Wondrous Free.” Pr¢ m notes indicated that the first of these was “a favorite song of George ‘Washington sung by Nellie Custis” and that the latter was the “first song com- posed by an American, 1759.” All Miss Newman's encores were entirely out of the period, yet two of them won most You'll feel fine in the morning. 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