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+ much milder degree. M U BY HELEN NEW YORK, April 26. NE of the most remarkable O season in New York was the combination program presented Thursday night by the League of Ccmposers for the benefit of the National Music League at the Metropolitan Opera House, when two truly unique works had their premieres in the metropolis. Both were the works of pioneers who have given defi- nitely to the cause of musical progress. One was the New York “first time” of Monteverdi's 300- year-old opera, “Il Combattimento | di Tancredi e Clorinda.” | The other was the American | premiere in stage version of “Les| Noces,” by Igor Stravinski.| Whereas the Monteverdi work | showed the foundation for what is still accepted as operatic style, | real recitativo and bel canto sing- | ing, with the motives of the dif- ferent characters clearly an- nounced orchestrally and the story told coincidentally by or- chestra, singers and actors, the Stravinski work showed the effects | of modern day industrial ideas of | mass production and reducing of | even the human voice to a me- chanical plane so that the choir cf voices located in the orchestra pit assumed the quality of an added choir of human violins in | the effect as a whole. There was a distinctly Chauve-Souris qual-i ity to the settings' and costumes as designed by Serge Soudeikine. The auditor received aurally and | visually the effect that the com- | poser was rather laughing up his sleeve at the intricacies of this| Russian peasant wedding even when he pretended to be most in earnest. Certainly it -is a lively thing and was fascinatingly done on this occasion. It well merits a permanent place in American ballet repertoire. The four com- posers placed at the different| pianos—Marc Blitzstein, Aaron | Copland, Louis Gruenberg and Frederick Jacobi—had their work patterned most skillfully into the | whole. The singers of solo parts —Nina Koshetz, soprano; Sophie Braslau, contralto; Gabriel Leon- eff, tenor, and Moshe Rudinov, baritone, also deserved the ova- tions they received for singing this difficult music so intelligently. 1t is filled with Russian folk melo- dies, it is true, but given almost diabolical Stravinskian treatment. Yet the ballet on the stage, and the orchestra and chorus in the pit under Stokowski’s direction, Rroved completely fascinating and eld the audience spellbound. The Monteverdi work was amus- ing and entertaining, but to a As Aaron Copland remarked at its conclu- sion: “You see how a ‘radical’ sounds 300 years later.” It was interesting to have the three solo- ists in costume on the “side-lines,” as it were, in a triple-storied pulpit-like structure, while the two principals in the action o the opera contended in mimic battle silently in center stage with the sedate, rather indifferent walls of Jerusalem as their back- ground. The costumes for this work were designed by the clever young Washingtonian, Natalie Hays Hammond. Among those interested in the music world who were noted in the audience were Mrs. Otto Kahn, who gave a party for all the participants at her home fol- lowing the perfromance; Nikolai Sokolov, conductor of the Cleve- land Symphony Orchestra, who conducted performances of Richard Strauss’ “Ein Helden- leben,” Charles Griffes’ “White Peacock” and Georges Enesco’s “Rumanian Rhapsody, No. 1,” with interpretive dances, Friday and last night {to be reviewed here next week)? Irene Lewisohn, di- rector of the Neighborhood Play- house group that presented the dances in these programs; Eva Gauthier, Norman-Bel Geddes, Marion Bauer, Vladimir Rosing, Lucine Lawrence, Carlos Salzedo and Maxim Karolik—the last- mentioned well known as a Rus- sian tenor in Washington. * ¥ % x THE story of the very old opera by the “Father of opera com- osers’—Monteverdi—tells of the ove of Tancred, a Christian war- | rior, for the beautiful Paynim, Clorinda, and how unwittingly he slays her in battle, believing her to be a male adversary, her face being concealed by her visor and her figure incased in the heavy armor of the day. The episode is described in the twelfth canto of Torquato Tasso’s, “Jerusalem De- livered” (strophes 52 to 68, omit- ting 63). It seems that toward the end of the First Crusade, Tancred, lead- ing a troop of horse, had come upon Clorinda, the pagan warrior maid of mysterious birth, who was drinking at a spring. The knight loved her at first sight and, after she had disappeared, her vision obsessed him though he continued in his campaign. At the first atlack on the walls | of Jerusalem, Tancred found her, unhelmed her, offecred her him- self or his life. As she listened, | astonished, and moved against| herself by his words, Clorinda was struck from behind. The assailant fled, pursued by Tancred; but Clo-| rinda, fearing treachery, eluded him and fought her way back to the city. In a later attack, seeing her upon the walls. Tancred was distracted and could not continue in the battle. Clorinda was for- midable in war as she was glam- orous to behold. She led a sal- ly, delivered a night attack and killed many of the Christian war- riors. At last she disguised her- self in black armor, against the entreaties of her Moslem slave, who told her that she had been taken from a Christian court, un- baptized, and that she ran the risk of death without that im- portant ceremony. Shaken in her fidelity to pagan ideals, Clorinda stole from Jerusalem, fired the tower of the Christians, and, un- recognized, mingled with them. Only Tancred had suspicions of the disguised warrior, whom he pursued, without dreaming of her identity, as she made back for her city. From this point Monteverdi's setting begins. The solo parts in the score are three—those of the Narrator, with brief phrases given to Tancred e, events of the 1928-9 music | SIC FETTER. jand Clorinda. We hear the gal- | | loping of Tancred’s horse, and the | Narrator, employing, with a few modifications, Tasso’s verse, de- | scribed the events that follow | Tancred challenges the armored | knight, whom he intends to pro- | voke to battle. The Invocation to | the Night is intoned by the Nar- | rator as the combatants kneel and |pray, each to his own God. The growing tension of the momen¢ as the adversaries approach each other “and the sounds of the struggle” are achoed by the in-! struments. By means of rhythm the emotion as well as the event is portrayed. Fatigue forces a pause in the fight, but pride is strong and the struggle is quickly | resumed. Tancred demands the | name of his foe, which is scorn- fully refused. At last Clorinda falls. The heroic warrlor gives place to the yielding woman. “Love, thou hast conquered. I pardon thee. Pardon me, and give me the baptism that effaces all sin.” Tancred, unstrapping her visor, is undone by the sight that | meets his eyes, and nothing is| simpler, nobler or more touching than the last phrase of Clorindz, | as, gazing into the eyes of her lover, she commends her soul lo| God and gives up the ghost. A most piteous tale, conveyed in music as moving and as aristo- cratic as Tasso's verse. *iin LAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567- 1643), probably was the most remarkable musician of his day He is described physically and shown in pictures as being very dark, of Italian coloring with a face shaped not unlike Shake- speare’s, the similarity being heightened by the style dress, which was of the same period. Like the Bard of Avon, Monte- | verdi wore a short beard and mustache. His forehead was broad and high and his nose straight. His eyes were large and | dark. In his youth, Monteverdi stud- ied the strict style and wrote mad- rigals. The later madrigals, how- ever, showed his new-style ten-| dencies. A native of Cremona, he was chorus master in 1613 at St. Mark’s famous Cathedral in Venice. Before this he had been employed by the Duke of Mantua when, in 1607 (the year that the Colonists first landed in what is now the State of Virginia), Mon- teverdi produced his first opera, “Orfeo,” which was notable for containing both declamatory and melodic lines. In 1608 his “Arian- na” and “Il Ballo Dell’ Inrate” were presented with formal mel- odies appearing in the former. It it generally conceded, however, that the greatest work by this first opera composer, was “The Combat of Tancred -and Clo- rinda,” first produced in 1624. Here he showed an entirly new concept of the province of the orchestra, introducing descriptive effects which included the first appearance of the tremulo and pizzicato in the strings. Combina- tions of instruments characterized the personages of the drama and instrumental passages, ritornellos, romanescas, ‘maurescas and the like, were frequent. Indeed, Monteverdi had tasted deeply of life before he wrote his greatest opera. He wrote the first of all grand operas while sitting beside the bedside of his dying wife and the poignant plaints of his Orpheus were echoes of his own feelings. He wrote his sec- ond opera soon after his wife's death, being obliged to complete it by order for the festivities which marked the wedding of the prince who was heir to the throne of Mantua. ¥ Stravinski, born in 1881 in Russia, | has been a subject of multitudi- * k¥ HE personality of the other and constantly as his music. One of the foremost figures flaming in the picture of cotemporary com- posers, he gives a very different impression from the Italian of 300 THE SUNDAY Interstate Male Chorus Gives Program Tuesday. 'HE Interstate Male Chorus will pre- | sent its Spring concert under di- rection of the conductor, Clyde B.| Aitchison, Tuesdey at 8:30 pm. at| Memorial Continental Hall. The guest soloist will be Dorothy Sinnott, con- tralto, who will be accompanied by Mis. Paul Bleyden at the piano. The chorus, with its usual group of 40| | voices, will be accompanied by Robert | L. Feuerstein. Mrs. Einnott will open the program | with a group of songs by Elgar and| Foote and the air “Ernani Involami,” | from Verdi’s opera, “Ernani” Later | she will sing songs by Debussy, Carew | and Watts in her second group, She| Jalso will sing the solo part in three | | choral numbers—Brahms® “Rhapsodie” | | (from Goethe's “Harzreise im Winter”), {Brahms' “Lullaby” and Luther’s “In| | Night's Still Calm.” Other choral numbers will include “Media Vita” (battle hymn of the monks), by Max Bruch, and selections | by Dichmont, Warner, Brewer, Leon-| cavallo, Bornschein ~and Wasden- | schwiler. | Festival of Piano Music | Opens Saturday Evening | T HE seventh annual festival of piano- | forte music given by the Washing- | ton Pianists' Club will open Saturday | evening at 8 o'clock in the auditorfum | of the Columbia Heights Christian | Church, 1435 Park road. This occasion will introduce one of | the most novel features of the entire | festival, viz., its two youngest members in short individual programs of piano- | forte music which evidence a degree of advancement unusual in children of | 'hlellr age, both technically and . musi~ cally. In the first,-Arthur D. Mayo presents Leah Effenbath, a gifted young girl of 13, whose recent appearances at the Pen Women's League and elsewhere hlave aroused enthusiasm. She will vlay: 1 “Prelude and Pugue. D Major" ue. ’ (From the "“Well Terapered Clavichor: “Sonata. Obus 31, Nor oo e Beet First movement. Allegro vivace. b Scherzo. E Minor” .. ‘Prophet’ Bira Variations Brilliante L. “Coneerto, D Minor"......... 2 Pirst movement, ‘Allegro. Becond piano, Mr. Mayo. In the second, B. Frank Gebest pre- sents Glenn Carow, a talented bo; 13. The latter, it will be recalled, attracted attention here three years ago in connection with ths junior pianists’ contest held under the auspices of the Sesquicentennial, when &s a boy of 10 Bach d.”) hoven Mendelssohn Schumann Chopin ..Mozart | 83 in | this T Chenfer.” four operas presented in Metropolitan Opera Co. season earlier | productions here as well as church solo STAR, WASHINGTO RUTH 'HE above is a picture in the cos- this picture indicates it is no wonder |the young Washington soprano made a S | dectded success of that appearance. She | Conservatory of Music in Milano, | must have been a lovely Madeleine. | Peter is siudying voice work in the o | She writes thet her newest role being |operatic roles with Giuseppi Borgatti. | added to her repertoire is that of Nedda | “I Pagliaccl,” which was one of the the recent s month in Washington. N, . D. €, APRIL 2§ PETER. | tume which Miss Peter wore when | part of her roles with Riccardo Picozzi, | Amores, making her debut in Ferrara, Italy, in|W P the leading feminine role of “Andrea |Sharnova, an American singer wWho ap- % n 1f che looked as charming [peared in Washington in the Winter | Mrs. Fanny Barr, James R. Barr, Maj. | Selve” from Haendel's Signor | and Mrs. J. F. Corby, Capt. and Mrs. | the Verdi| L. H. Charles. Miss | 0 was also with the German Opera Co. Picozzi 15 a professor at | Ruth Peter has many friends in Washington who will remember her singing of leading roles in light opera work and radio engagements he was winner of the city and later of the interstate contests. He will play: ;4 neerto’ ......Bach irst movement, Aliegro. 2 Hilter Mozart “Italian Co: (3 E Sarabande “Bonate, P Major' First movement, Allegt | SchivbersChoral Gliib Gives First Concert. 'HE Schubert Choral Club has issued cards for an evening of music in composer of the evening, Igor |« nous comments almost as widely | pid P, Minor;. ln: Malor he Lark nr. Valse. C-shai ‘Nocturne, E- den’s’ Wis! k, Hark, U +......Chopin ... .Chopin Chopin-Liszt chubert-Liszt “Concerto. C Major”.............. Bes Pirst movement, Aliegro con bri Becond plano, Mr. Gebest. ethoven 0. 7, 9, 11, two short individuel programs tive pupils of leading planoforte teacl ers of Washington and Peabody Con servatory, Baltimore. ent on all evenings. addressed envelope sent to the dire Mrs. Martin A. Morrison, 3017 Thir- teenth street northwest, will bring the sender an mvitation-program contain- ang all 10 programs of the festival. Julia Pcters:s‘;loisn With Rubinstein Club J ULIA PETERS, soprano of the New York Grand Opera Co., will make her debut in Washington Tuesday night, May 7, at the second concert of the Rubinstein Club at the Willard Hotel. This young artist is as well known on the concert stage as in opera. Last Fall she sang at the Wagner Festival, held in the New York Yankee Stadium, and has appeared in concerts in New York, Boston, Atlantic City and other Northern musical centers. Miss Peters sails for Europe in July, where she will be the guest artist of the Berlin and Milan opera companies, appearing in the leading feminine roles in “Aida,” “Lohengrin,” “Faust” and other famous operas. A New Yorker by birth, Miss Peters has studied entirely in that city, and critics have received Miss Peters en- thusiastically. years ago. There probably is no more alert and brilliant discussion | of his character and his attitude | toward his music than'that given | in the book *“Modern Russian Composers,” written by Leonid Sabaneyefl, a critic of Russia. Mr. | Sabaneyeff has sald in part: i “We see the strongholds of | idealism tumble, one after an-| other, and life's prose peeps out from behind the artistic draperies. And those who are now marked with the stamp of genius in their narrow musical sphere, are now, alas, no longer prophets nor ‘priests of the sacred art'’ but plain manufacturers of values, and their genius does not reach the sphere of genius of the spirit. This is the’sign and stamp of the age, and if our discussion of Stravin- ski touches upon this sphere, one must admit that Stravinski is in the highest degree a cotempor- ary phenomenon. He is the live- liest reaction to the keen, refined sated taste of our time. This master of cotemporary musical thought, successor to the throne ! of Debussy and Strauss, who has succeeded in combining the high- | est tension of technical boldness with the highest and broadest democratism and power greater then Debussy’s, has reflected in | his creative art all that is lofty and base, banal and proud, which is characteristic of our age, and it is inconceivable to. apply to him the same standards of apprecia- tion that would be proper for any former phenomenon in music “Stravinski’s fame is based not only on his musical gifts (who measured it? and hard it is to measure it; perhaps it is not so great after all), but chiefly on his virtuosity in making full use of musical conditions and taking full account of fashions and fads, these two wavering and changing elements on which, nevertheles fame in one’s lifetime almost ex- clusively depends. It dependy least of all on the magnitude of endowments, but more on the |composer’s technical and even | ‘commercial experience.’ Stravin- ski is immeasurably more a genius of musical business, rather than purely of smusic. He is truly! sprung from the depths of the Russian national school.” fl'l*mms is no choir in Washington | er which holds a more distinguished place in music plans of the National Capital than the choir of the Church of the Epiphany, long one of the lead- ing churches of the Episcopal fajth in this city. The choir is noted for dig- nified and excellently prepared pro- grams of beautiful music. Tonight they expect to sustain that reputation fur- ther by singing the cantata, “The Life Everlasting,” by H. Alexander Mat- thews, at 8 o'clock. The choir has a membership of 40, including 18 sopranos, 8 altos, 7 tenors and 7 bassos. The repertoire includes more than 200 anthems and services and 8 cantatas. The aim of the choir is to sing the highest possible type of church music in the best possible way. ‘The leader of this choir is Adolf To- rovsky, who not only is accepted as an authority in Washington on the music of the Episcopal Church, but who also is popular as a concert plonist and as an organist. Mr, Torovsky was born at Annapolls, Md., and at an early age started a musical education under the instructions of his father apd other teachers of the city, Later on he en- tered the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md., stidying the piano with Harold Randolph, ‘organ with Harold Phillips, harmony, counterpoint and composition with Howard Thatch- ‘The festival will be continued May 6, | under one teacher, Celia Biaems. The | | Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. to mark th | close of the first season of the organi. | zatfon. | This club of women, under the direc- tion of Mrs. Emily Dickinson and Mrs. A. Blair of Boston, Mass., guest con- | ductor, has work: up an attractive and varied progra: Edythe Marion Brosius, harpist, and Herace Smithey, baritone, will be the soloists. Mrs Broslus will play in two num- bers with the club, one, Dies’ “Noc- Rosa Ponselle in Europe. A NOTHER chapter is to be added to “™ a carcer, alrcady so cutstanding as to b2 phenomcnal. May 4 Rosa Pon- | the gold room of the Hotel La Fayette, | sclle will sail on the S. S. Leviathan for | ngland, where she will make her Eu- ropean debut at Covent Garden, Lon- don, 28, in Bellini's opera “Norma.” At Covent Garden, as at the Meiro- | politan, this opera is being revived | especially for Miss Ponselle. There, as | here, it has not been given since the | Gays of Lilli Lehmann. | In addition to “Norma,” Miss Pon- | selle ealso will sing “La Gloconda” in | Londcen. | Although Miss Ponselle’s name and 1929—PART 4. Young Cuban Soprane Featured in Program | ALBERT W. HARNED, assisted by |77 Jessie Masters, held his annual | reception and informal music program | | at the studio on New York avenue last | Monday night when the unusual fea- ture of the evening was the singing of a young Cuban soprano, new to Was ington this Winter—Senorita Elodia | Martin-Rivero. ‘This young singer is a daughter of a former Cuban Minister | | to the United States, Mme. Ferrara, | wife of the present Ambassador from Cuba, was in the audience on this | occasion and showed marked pleasure over the singing of Senorita Martin- Rivero, who seemed at her best in the difficult “Alleluia” of Mozart. She also sang “The Call of Rhada” by Harriet | | Ware and “The Wind's in the South"| |by John Prindle Scott. The singer | was heard once_publicly last Fall in | | concert songs. She has shown marked | progress in _her work since then. Shri | won a real ovation for the accuracy of her tone-placement and her smmth" phrasing with no forced tones in the | Mozart work Monday night. Eugene Dahl, a young Washington | tenor, showad fine siyle in his singing of the familiar “Ah, Moon of My De- light” by Liza Lehmann. He had the spirit of the Rubaiyat and at no time was there any feeling of effort to pro- duce the necessary tone quality to bring a rich interpretation. Miss Masiers, who has long been a familiar figure on the concert stage elsewhere as well as in Washington, | | won special applause for her singing of | | Schumann's “Er der Herrlichste von | Allen.” She also sang songs by Sidney | Hemer and Reddick most acceptably. Alicegene Graves made her initial | | appearence before any audience, in the | { | MUSIG RAH‘H KINDER of Holy Tuinity Church, Philadelphia, Pa., will pre- sent the first recital on the new organ at St. Alban's Church Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. ‘Washington friends of Sigurd Nilssen, young American basso, will be inter- ested to know that he received excel lent notices in the New York press f lowing his appearance in a recital in Pythian Temple April 8. Mr. Nilssen was assisted at the plano by Margaret Notz. He presented a pagticularly in- teresting group of Norweglen folk tunes and songs by Sjoberg nmel Grieg. He also gave a group of Theophile Wendt's South African melodies with the com- poser at the piano. He sang the i performance America of Pludder- man’s song, af Eberhar vV dorn” and sang McClure ma which was dedicated to singer. Mr. Nilssen plans to spend most of the Summer in New England, where he Diplo- the already hes seven concert engagements | listed for July and August. He also is preparing some new operatic roles. meeting of the German Literary 1 ight Anita Schade recited the melodrama, “The Rogue of Bergen, by Heine, with musical accompaniment played by Grete von Bayer, who also gave a group of piano solos later in the evening. L. Davenport sang & group of Heine songs. among them being “Du bist wie einc Blume” and “Die Lotos- ume.” iargaret Moore, violinist, was pre- | sented in a graduation recital, under RAPHS in the Wesley M. E. Church, Connecti- cut avenue and Jocelyn street. Mrs William Lyles Offutt is leader of this organization and Herndon Morsell mu- | sical director. Mrs. Dawson Olmstead | will be at the piano. The section will be assisted by the Chevy Chase Chanters, whom Mr. Mor- sell also directs, and Leon Davis, ac- companist. The guest of the evening will be Lorleberg, cellist. whose ac- s. Willlam H. von Gertrude Lyons, first vice president of the District of Columbia Pederation oi Music Clubs, gave the address of welcome at the biennial music contest, held recently in the First Congrega- tional Church as Mrs. Joseph M. Stod- dard, president of the District of Columbia Federation. could not be pre- sent. Mrs. Lyons, will also attend the Capital district contest to be held in Baitimore on Saturday. Ethel Johnson Bennett, a charming and talented coloratura soprano, formerly well known here, has re- cently return~d from Tampa, Fla., where she has been making her home for the past eight years. Mrs. Ben- nett was the guest soloist last Monday night at the meeting of the Soclety of 1812 at the Willard Hotel. Her selections, mostly of light compositions. met with a warm reception. She sang Arditi's “Parla,” Harriet Ware's “Boat Song.” Penn's “Carissima,” and David Emmell’s “Philosophy.” The singer was admirably accom- | opening group of songs on the program. | the auspices of Miss Helen van Ende, |panied at the piano by Mable Getman | She was well received. Others of the | her teacher, at National Park Seminary | Ostrander, well known here as teacher younger students’ group who also re-| | ceived their share of applause | the evening were Lynn Gillchrest, Mar- | | jorle Soper end Irene Koehl. Miss | | Kcehl has a particularly lovely tone| quality. Among those present were Mme. Fer- rara, Mrs. Oliver Owen Kuhn, Herr| | Walther Mueller of Leipsig, Dr. Preder | 1ck W. Perkins, Miss Katherine Hill of | | Mrs. Ransdell, Mrs. Maud and Miss Moss, Mrs. William J. Drew Haend;l's “L;‘rgo': F;aturc As Played by 40 Violins AN outstanding feature of the eve- ning of music for the violin to be presented at the Masonic Auditorium Priday night et 8:15 o'clock, under the auspices of Josef Kaspar, will be the | playing of Haendel's famous “Largo” by 40 young violinists in unison. | The entire program as planned by | whisiling cantillations and the Dagmoir | | augmented band will furnish the music Mr. Kaspar is unusually interesting and worth while. Mendelssohn’s “Trio in D | Minor” (first movement), will be played | | by Emerson Myers, Paul Brightenburg | | and Frank Westbrook as the opening | number. Jean Westbrook will play De | Beriot’s “Concerto in G, No. 7”; Isaach | Minovich and Mion Sehwarls. will give | of Representative Ruth Bryan Owen | Bruch’s “Song of Spring” and De | Beriot's “Rondo de Concert”; Paul | Brightenburg will play three dances in | Bach's “Somata in B Minor”; David | Legum will play Vieuxtemps' “Concerto |in D Minor. No. 4"; Milton Schwartz | will give Wieniawski’s “Souvenir de Moscow” end_ Krelsler's “La_Gitana; turne,” in which Elizabeth Hucbscher, fame have already penetrated to the |Isaach Minovich will play Vitali-Auer soprano; Edna Casparian, mezzo, and Jane Bradford, contralto, club mem- bers, will sing incidental solos; and in ‘Sancta Maria,” Faure-Shelley arrange- | ment. | Mr. Smithey will sing the obbligato | with the club in the Schubert number, | “To Music.” In the Burleigh spiritua), “I Want to Be Ready,” Elizabeth of the club will sing the leads. Two interesting and varfed choruses for women written by Mabel Daniels of Boston will be sung also. Mrs. Dickinson will accompeny the club in all_the numbers at the piano, and Mrs. Blair will conduct, opening Hope and Love,” and closing with Chadwick's “Land of Our Hearts.,” Organ Recital Thursday. WILP'R!.!D SMITH will be the guest toloist at the May organ recital Thursdey night at 8 o'clock, given in the monthly series arranged by T. Guy Lucas, organist and choirmaster of St. John'’s Church, Lafayette Square. Mr. Smith will sing “In Native Worth,” from Haydn’s “Creation,” and “O Divine Redee] by Gounod. Mr. Lucas will present on the organ works by Bach, Brahms, Parry, Austin (Part 1 of “The Pilgrim's Progress”), Hollins, Moszkowski and Guilmant. graduating from that institution in | 1914, and completing a post-graduate | course n 1916, | He came to Washington in 1919 as | organist and choirmaster of the Church | of the Epiphany, G strcet northwest, | and has taken an active part in musi- cal events in this city and elsewhere He is an associate of the American Guild of Organists, a member of the District of Columbia Chapter of the guild and was twice dean of the local organization. Mr. Torovsky will be seen in the center of the bottom row in the accom- panying picture. To his left are the contralto soloist, Mrs. Roland Willlam- son, and the bass soloist, Mr. Durkin. To Mr. Torovsky's right are the so- prano, Mrs. Beulah Brown, and the | tenor, Gurden Whitaker, Beulah L. Brown of this city received her vocal training from Ernest Win- ) chester, Alleen Bell and John R. Mon- jroe, She has been soprano soloist at |the Church of the Epiphany for the |past 18 years, and was formerly a solo- ist at St. Mark’s, St. Paul's and Christ (Georgetown) churches. She is an ac- tive member of the PFriday Morning j Musie Club, of which she is a member of the board of governors and recording secretary. Mrs, Roland Williamson, formerly ‘Waters, Mabel Barrows and Mary Apple | the program with the club song, “Fai(h. i |far corners of the earth, she has, 8o far, | never sung outside of the United States, |Cenada and Cuba, and has never sang with 2ny other opera company than | the ..A,{(npoman Opera Company of | New York. | Wellington Adams' Program. VWELLINGTON ADAMS of Wash | "7 ington will appear in a program of compositions by colored composers, In- | ciuding some of his own, in the Park Gray High School, Alexandria, Vi | Wednesday evening, May 1, at 8: o'clock. The teachers of this school invited | him to give the program, which 18 to include: “At the Dawn of Day” (Loko Ku Ti Ga), South East Africa, Skmuel | Coleridge-Taylor; “In_ My Midnight | Dreams,” “Hymn of Frecdom” (prize | ehoral), “Lullaby,” Weliington_Adams; | “Honey—Humoresque,” R. Nathaniel Dett; “The Ninety and Nine,” “Brown Eyes” “Three Miniature Dances—In- |dian, Negro, Filipino,” Wellington Adams; “My Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey” (words by James Weldon John- son), Will Marion Cook; “South Al | can Dance Fingue” (Tribal), “Ta-ru” | (plano " transcription), Wellington Adams; “Were You There?” Harry T. | Burleigh; “Roll Jordan, Roll” “De [ Gospel Train,” Wellington Adams. a 15 ist since the age of 14. She studied volce with Katherine Opdyke, Somer- ville, N. J.; public school music at the | New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass,; ‘supervised music in the public schools of Riverside, N. J., for | two years; is now working with Anton Kaspar, Since coming to Washington | Mrs. Williamson has been the contralto soloist at the Mount Pleasant Methodist | Church South (now Francis Asbury), | 1918-20; Trinity Episcopal Church, 1928-21, and at the Church of the Epiphany since that time. Mrs. Wil- liamson was for several years in charge of the music of the Business Women's Council, and she continues to engage in concert work. Gurden Whitaker, tenor, received his musical education at the College of Music of the University of Southern California and the New England Con- servatory of Music. He studied oratorio with Daniel Beddoe in Cincinnati, and has spocialized with well known teach- ers in New York and Chicago. He has ihad many years’ experience as concert | artist and teacher of singing. He has sung in churchés from coast to coast, including the famous Temple Baptist Church at Los Apgeles. Has been in Washington two years, teaching and singing with Epiphany chofr. Ambrose Durkin, bass-| | | ' & DA~ ‘Chaconne”; and the finale will be the Haendel selecticn by the 40 violinists. ‘The accompanists will be Dora Mino- vich and Emerson Myers. Th= 40 violinists participating will in- c'ude John Andrews, Priscilla Barrows, Bernadette Berard. Herbert Bird, Harrv Pralove, Paul Brightenberg. Miriam \ i Buchalter, Barbara Caton, Arthur Clax- | |ton, Mery Park Clements, Margaret npton,. David Cooperstein, Gladys ill, Gertrude Cowsill, Bernice , Henry Davis, John Eaton, Helen r. George Hardesty, Betty Hop- kins, Donald Langdon, David Legum, William _ Leishear, Samuel Leishear, | Cow D: T | Barney Lenkin, Abraham Lynn, Bern- | ard Milovski, Ralph Meten, Isaac Mino- vich, Albert Pergament, Julia Robert- [.’!‘fl. William Rodier, Milton Schwartz, Maric Siegrist, Katharine Sloat, Lillian Suvrasky, Elizabeth Tcole, Constance | Eilen Tyler, Julla Warner and Jean Westbrook. Eo ol Marine Band Concerts. The Monday and Friday night con- | certs of the United States Marine Band will be discontinued for this season, it has been announced by Capt. Taylor Branson, director, but the Wednesday evening orchestral concerts will con- | tinue to be held up to the beginning of | the open-air season, in the latter part lof May. NGERS OF WASHINGTON—THE CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY. orchestration with Gustav Strube, | Nancy Stillwell, has been a church solo- , tive of Washington, has been identified with the musical life of this city since boyhood. He received his early train- ing in church music while a member of |the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Georgetown. His teachers were George | Herbert Welis of this city, authority |on liturgical music; Joseph Pache, director of the Baltimore Ora- torio Society, and Herndon Morsell, a prominent teacher here. Mr. Durkin has been continually before the public of Washington as a church, oratorio and concert singer. On leaving the choir of Holy Trinity Church he be- came soloist of St. Stephen's Catholic Church, this city, and since July, 1917, has been soloist in the choir of the Church of the Epiphany. He has been identified actively with many musical organizations throughout his career as a professional singer, among them the ‘Washington Saengerbund, the Motet Choral Society and the |Opera Co. He was a member of the male choir selected to sing on the occa- slon of the burial of the Unknown Sol- dier in Arlington. During the World War he took a prominent part in the work of the war camp community serv= ice, singing at the various camps, and Washington | ] April 19. Miss Moore played the Vi- uring | valdi-Nachez “Concerto in A Minor” | and other familiar violin_selections of shorter length, including Wilhelmj's ar- rangements of works by Schumann, an Wagner,. Gounod's arrangement o Bach's “Ave Maria,” and Kreisler ar- rangements of compositions by Dvorak, Chaminade and Beethoven. Helene Bowe, dramatic _soprano, by Miss Maryon Burleigh Martin. Miss teacher of Sonia | Howell Smith, Mrs. Henry Dixon Moss | Bowe sang the air “Dich Teure Halle” | Schulze, accompanist. “Tannhauser,” “Atlanta,’ . Lully, Wagner, rom Wagner's horter works by Spro: | Manning, Saint-Saens, Huerter, Brown | 2ccompani: and Beach. Jeanette McCaffrey, Washington's young soprano_soloist, will give several selections at the Manila day ball and cntertainment to be given by the Gen. | Nelson A. Miles Camp of Spanish War | Veterans at the City Club Tuesday night, when dancing interspersed with numbers by talented entertainers will begin at 9 o'clock and end at 1 o'clock am. Lily Charles McFadden will give for the occasion. Kathryn E. Bowers, contralto, was guest soloist of the Nebraska State So- ciety at Meridian Mansions, Priday evening, at the reception given in honor She was accompanied by Roland ;Elcher, concert pianist. Mrs. C. C. McRoberts, well known vocal teacher, has gone to visit friends in their villa on the French Riviera and will leave them May 1 for several months of travel in Europe. She ex- | pacts to return to Washingion about the | middle of September. Anna Sloan, violoncellist, presented several solo numbers on the program given recently at a tea at which Lillian Chenoweth was hcstess in honor of the wife of Senator Harrison and the Mis- sissippi delegation in Congress. The music and dramatic art depart- iments of St. Cecilia’s Academy pre- | sented two programs April 19 in which | the ‘following _students _participated: Ruth MecCullogh, Genevieve ' Handley, | Miriam McKee, Clare Burke, Audrey |Neff, Mary Frances Staley, Hermia | Healy, Ann Fague, Mary Josephine | Healy, Marie Louise Neale, Rose Colli- flower, Ursula Anselmo, Cecelia Walshe, Mildred Darby, Louise Anselmo, Regina Swan, Rose Marie Langdon, Elaine Heiskill, Raymond Walls, Jeanne Perry, Gertrude Betts, Leontine Gallahorn, Evelyn Hurrell, Patricia Wayland, Ger- trude Geibel, Mary Adele Baden, Helen Dorsey, Grace Mary Colliflower, Helen McKee, Leah Moriarity, Lynore Higgs, Catherine Walshe, Margaret Payne, Wylma Keller, Marie McCray, Mary | Smith, Margaret Walshe, Lorraine Hal- | lida, Mary Rush, Hannah McCarthy, Sue Orem, Nora Tappan, Agnes Fealy, Mary Agnes Payne and the members of the Glee Club. ‘The Cantabile Chorus has changed its rehearsals to the new studio of Dorothy Henneman, 918 Seventeenth street. ‘The club will sing at the meeting of | the Literary Guild of the International | Federation of Catholic Alumnae April 30 at the Pen Women's League head- quarters. Dr. Henneman is directing his new ‘Ave Maria,” written especially for this | occasion. |~ New members recently admitted are | Mary Gebhart, Peggy and Letitia Walker. | The Congressional Country Club | again will be the scene of a delightful | program today, when Katherine Havill, | mezzo-soprano, a newcomer to Wash- ington, and Mathiléa C. McKinney, planist, of New York, will present the program. Mrs. Havill is the wife of Lieut. | Comdr. C. H. Havill, who recently won a famous aeronautical thesis prize. Mrs. Havill is quite an accomplished musician. Mrs. McKinney is coming from New York especially for this program. She is one of the fellowship puplls at the Institute of Musical Art in New York City. Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, one of Washington’s well known accompa- l::sl.s, will assist Mrs. Havill at the >iano. ‘The program will be presented in the Pompeian room of the clubhouse at 5 pm. The Spring concert of the music sec- tion of the Woman's Club of Chevy will be given Wednesday evening |and as accompanist. | While in Florida, Mrs. Bennett took | part in several light operatic produc- ions, singing the leading roles in such avorites as Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘Mikado” and “H. M. S. Pinafore.” E Flora McGill Keefer, mapzo-contralto, { will give a program at the Arts Club | of Washington at 8:30 o'clock Thursday Miss Peter is studying the dramatic | Boston, Senora de Amores, Senorita de | shared the program, being presented | evening. She will be assisted. by Minna | Niemann, pianist, and Mildred Kolb ‘The sam~ program will be presented the Washington c!ub Tuesday night | cy Brickenstein will be the . By special request, Mrs. | Keefer will sing Mozart's llelulia.” " (Continued on Nineteenth Page.) | ’I‘}{E services for the laying of the corner stone of the new National Memorial Universalist Church, being erected at the corner of Sixteenth and | 8 streets northwest, will be held at 11 o'clock this morning in the Ambassador Theater and this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the site of the new building. At the morning service the National | Capital Choir, Albert W. Harned, Mus. | Doc., conductor, will lead the music, | the program including Cesar Franck's | setting of the one-hundred and fiftieth | psalm and “All Men, All Things Sing to | the Lord,” from Mendelssohn’s “Hymn of Praise. For the afterncon service the Na- tional Capital Oratorio Association | has_volunteered its help as a tribute | to Dr. Harned, who is the organist and director of the music of the church. The music for ths afternoon includes “A Mighty - Fortress Is Our God” Luther; “A” Prayer of Thanksgiving.’ Old Dutch melody, arranged by Dr. Harned, “One Holy Church.” Jones: “For All Thy Saints,” Barnby. and “America,” from Ernest Bloch's “Amer- | ica” symphony. The chorus will be ac- | companied by a sextet of brass. ational Capital Choir Sings at Ceremonies. | Winners A;e Announced in Junior Federation ‘Contest. ;THE junior contest of the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs | was held Saturday morning, April 20, at | Wilson Normal School. The contestants | were graded in four different classes ac- | cording to age, and in order to be de- | clared winner in any one class it was | necessary that the contestant not only | excell all other entrants but be able to | make an average of 90 per cent in all | qualities pertaining to his~instrument. In piano class A (up to 10 years). Walter Swank, pupil of Miss Frances Gutelius, was winner; class B (11 and | 12 years), Jean Rassier, pupil of Miss Celia G. Luce; class C (13 to 15 years). Dorothy M. Hobley, pupil of Mrs. Amélia Olmstead; class D (16 to 18 ), Vir- ginia Shankland, pupil of-Miss Frances Gutelius. In violin, Jean Westbrook, -pupil of | Joseph Kaspar, was winner in class D. | The judges for plano were Mrs. | Eugene Byrnes, Mrs. Martin A. Morri- |son and Mrs. Grete von Bayer. The | violin judges were Daniel. Breeskin, Hermann Rakeman and Orsinio Ralon. The Davison Glee Club Announces May 7 Features |"T'HE Spring concert of the Davison Glee Club, John R. Monroe, con- | ductor, will be held in Plerce Hall, Fif- teenth and Harvard streets, Tuesday, May 7, at 8:15 p.m. The club will present as soloists | william F. Santelmann, violinist, znd | Cathreen™ Carrico, lyric’ soprano. Mr. Santelmann will play an obbligato for Miss Carrico in the aria from “Il Re Pastore,” of Mozart; obbligatos to six love songs of Brahms, which: will be sung by ihe glee club, and a group of solo numbers. Miss Carrico will sing an obbligato to “O Triupph All Ye Ransom'd,” one of two choruses to Le given from Beethoven's “Mount of | Olives,” and a solo group in German and English. The a cappella numbers will include “Ave Verum Corpus Christi,” of Joaquin des Pres of the early Flemish | contrapuntal school, and a quite mod- |ern_Italian composition in eight parts | by Enrico Bossi as two feature numbers. ‘This is the twelfth public concert, and concludes the fifth season of this club, which is under its own manage- {ment and affiliated with no other or- | ganization, religious or secular. WALTER T. HOLT School of Mandolin, Guitar and Banjo. 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