Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1929, Page 52

MU BY HELEN FETTER. T is not often possible to catch an opera composer almost lit- erally in the act of composing anew and anticipated work for the lyric stage. Composers do not turn their works out by the yard with the precision of musical comedy score writers. Not a few composers are noted for seeking absolute seclusion, so far as hu- manly obtainable, while writing new works. Prebably they all would like to work in uninterrupt- ed solitude if circumstances per- mitted. However this may be, it was the good luck of the writer to catch America’s most promising operatic | composer in the matter-of-fact | surroundings of his office several blocks east of Fifth avenue, New York City, about two weeks ago. The composer was Deems Taylor. The object of the interview was | news concerning Mr. Taylor's im- pending opus which was commis- sioned by the Metropolitan Grand Opera Co. some time ago. In fact, the time limit for the evolving of this opera was generously ex- tended. When finally ushered into the presence of this twentieth century composer in his office on the top floor of a tall office building, Mr. Taylor was found to be as pro- saically engrossed as any news- paper man in checking up on “cuts” and “layouts” for the next issue of the magazine of which he is editor-in-chief — Musical America. Probably no other com- poser of equal renown has had a less picturesque setting for inspi- ration than this typical office of coop-like dimensions, bounded on three sides by plateglass and wood partitions, with the fourth side devoted to a huge window with a typical metropolitan view. Mr.| Taylor's desk was_ strictly utili- tarian_and littered in authentic journalistic style. The man seated before it was slight and wiry in build. His alert grayish eyes twinkled shrewdly behind spec-| tacles. His reddish hair was trim and well behaved. He wore the style of clothes prescribed for American business men, and he screwed the stubby point of a chewed pencil into the visible gonions of the green blotter on is desk as he talked just as most of us do when waiting for “central” to get the right number on the telephone. Poised . yet nervous, sensitively imaginative while practical, gra- cious but thoroughly business-like, is Deems Taylor. He clips his phrases as he talks and joins them neatly and swiftly together in the fashion of a man used to assem- bling words for immediate concise expression of ideas that shape themselves in his brain ' with lightning rapidity. He is obvious- ly a writing man. His music has proved that he is equally gifted as a musician. The composer of “The King’s Henchman” is no dreamer, but a hustler among business men, as well as the weaver of a tapestry of beautiful sound. After the usual comments on beautiful weather, mutual friends and good health had been dis- posed of, Mr. Taylor said: “You know, everybody is want- ing to write my opera for me. I can't meet 'a friend in a concert hall or elsewhere that he or she doesn’t have some suggestion to offer about it. They tell me what I must do. They tell me what I mustn’t do. They suggest how samethin% can be done, and they vehemently mention what simply must not be done in this opera.” The interviewer sympathized as | gracefully and conservatively as possible, then suggested that, of course, the most interesting ques- tion was—just what was Mr. Tay- lor himself planning to do in working out this opera? The libretto, it was understood gener- ally, was to be that of the play “Street Scene,” written by Eimer Rice, which was one of the out- . standing plays of the past Winter in New York. Mr. Taylor agreed that this was, indeed, correct. It might be interesting at this point to digress long enough to give the outline of the plot of “Street Scene” for those who are unfamiliar with the play. It is American in the melting - pot sense. It is realistic, sordid as the . suppressed tragedy of the poverty- stricken dwellers in narrow side streets, with only the faint ro- mantic fragrance that comes from a delicate love flower crushed to death in the crannied wall just as it is faintly tinged by the reflected sunlight that never quite reaches these side streets. The action takes place on what is known, in present-day Ameri- can parlance, as a “sizzling” hot day and night in June, when the people in the squalid build- ings of the poor quarter lean from their windows panting for breath. There is the wife of a sullen man who, in sheer despair of any betterment, tries to con- sole herself with a cheap affair with a milk collector. The hus- band discovers the pair and Kkills them both. The daughter of this .Awrderer has_realized that she yes a young Jewish poet, but her wisdom, born of sorrow, makes her negative any hope.of her love’s fruition. The girl, crushed and totally disillusioned, but courageous in her determination to hold to her belief as to what is right to be done, departs from the scene and the boy finds the mystic essence of his dream dis- solved inevitably. ~There are casual, stupid neighbors, and, at the end, room hunters, pressed by the compactness of a big city to seek these rooms so lately the scene of varied tragedy, to try to establish another foothold of a home in them. The curtain falls. 1t is a concise, human story. O. Henry would have called it a “slice of life.” It is scheduled for pro- duction in every country in Eu- rope within the coming year. When the interviewer inquired if Mr. Taylor had plans to give “leit~ motives” for his characters which mieht suggest the varied nation- alities of their backgrounds, he agreed that such a thought had occurred to him and possibly might be utilized in the finished score. “Of course,” said Mr. Taylor, “I SIC should not use Finiculi, Finicula as the theme for an Italian, or Kathleen Mavourneen for an Irish character, but I have considered using an original theme for each | character that will suggest by its color and rhythms perhaps par- ticular national and personal | characteristics. But, then, they, will say that it is not American.” It was quite evident that the | score of “Street Scene” is still so | involved in the weaving that its constructor is reluctant to describe to any marked extent the pattern| that is being traced upon his mu- | sical loom. He finally gathered | his varied scraps of comment con- cerning his new opera together and summed up his ideas in the following little statement: “You know when Franchetti was first offered the libretto of “La Tosca’ to use for an opera—for he really was given first opportunity at this libretto, instead of Puccini —he couldn’t seem to see any opera in this story. He took it to Verdi, who was quite old by then, and asked his advice before turn- ing it down. Verdi told him that he thought the book offered ex- cellent material for an opera. He said that if he were younger and still felt like writing another opera he would be interested in setting it to music himself. Franchetti, however, demurred. He couldn't see how the last act with the hero awaiting death to come with the cold gray dawn, upon a castle’s roof, could offer much for musical description. He wanted to know if Verdi would have a lot of reci- tativo or a long aria, or just what. “The old maestro looked at Franchetti and smilingly said ‘Why I would just write a little music for it.’ “So that,” concluded Deems Taylor with 'his own particular smile, “is whata I am going to try to do for ‘Street Scene’—just write a little music for it.” AR ¥ THE suggestion came up in the course of conversation with Mr. Taylor that there were those who might feel that “Street Scene” dealt with too “common people.,” The writer had heard some one who is considered in cer- tain circles to be authoritative in the field of dramatic comment mention that this play of Elmer Rice’s, along with several other of the most popular plays on metro- politan stages this season, was un- interesting from many points of | view, emphasizing: principally this point of the class of people con- cerned in it. Said this individual: “Why can’t modern dramatists emulate Shakespeare? He wrote of kings and a Danish prince, and many folk of high and cultured rank.” Apparently the speaker had forgotten “The Taming of the Shrew,” “Merry Wives of Wind- sor” and not a few other plays, in some of which the expressions used are frank and far from cul- tured, according to the characters using them. Said Mr. Taylor in response to even the suggestion of this criti- cism: “How ridiculous,” and he cited several Shakespearean works that dealt with the “lower classes.” He added that in the field of opera one found the virile, human quality of such works as Mascag- ni's “Cavalleria Rusticana” (the story of a prosperous carter and his love and of a poor little girl betrayed by a lover just return ing from military service); Leon cavallo’s classic of provincial folk, “I Pagliacci,” and Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” in which—to quote Mr. Taylor—“the one gen- tleman character gets a bad deal all around,” had ageless appeal for audiences of low or high de- gree. Although Mr. Taylor was too modest to say so, it was not difficult for his hearer to recall that in “The King’s Henchman,” Mr. Taylor’s first opera, the regal monarch was but the wooden peg upon which the action of the story of two human beings of more humble station pivoted to its tragic ending. Later, in touching upon the possible influence of the “talkies” on opera, Mr. Taylor compared the “talkies” to the opera in the same light that one would com- pare a photograph with the original subject. “It is the real thing, or the genuine article, as Americans put it,” said Mr. Taylor, “that always will possess the ultimate appeal. I find these talkies very interest- ing and believe they have a great field in spreading the stories of classical operas in England, and thus familiarize many peovle with them who otherwise would not be liable to look them up, but as for curtailing the field of opera pro- duction, emphatically no! On the contrary, I believe that they wiil create a bigger and better market for such productions even in pro- vincial opera style. Real opera, like real painting and other art that has a human, gifted artist as medium, and does not depend on mechanical devices, always will live.” * ok Xk Xk HEN attending the perform- ance of the Monteverdi opera at the Metropolitan on this same visit to New York, it was inter- esting to find in a few moments’ chat between the acts with Vladi- | mir Rosing, director of the Amer- ican Opera Co., that the organi- zation is as firmly knit as ever, in spite of contrary rumor, and that it is planning a busy season for next year, including some per- rormances to be given in the Na- tional Capital. Also, the very next night, Mr. Hurok, manager for the German Grand Opera Co., which gave Washington its first presentation of the complete “Ring des Nibe- lungen” of Wagner last Winter, {assured the writer that this com- pany, too, was thriving and plan- ning to include Washington in its itinerary next year, when the overas to be given here are to be Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Hol- lander.” Grace Biddle Brown, soprano, was the soloist at the wedding of Miss Helen Armstrong Wednesday evening at the All Saints’ Episcopal Church at Chevy Chase, when she sang “I Love You Truly” (Bond) and “Untll” (Sander- son), 'THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, MAY 12, 1929—PART 4. "OTERO ¢ Service Band Dates THE U. S. NAVY BAND. THE United States Navy Band, Lieut. Charles Benter, leader, will open the Summer $eason of band concerts at the Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, Tuesday evening at 7:15. These con- certs will be held every Tuesday night throughout the Summer. Musician Ralph Ostrom, cornet solo- ist of the band, will be heard in a solo at each of these opening concerts. Mr. Ostrom was formerly cornet soloist with Sousa’s Band. The opening of the concerts at tl Capitol Plaza will be announced later. At present the band plays a concert each Wednesday night, to which the public is invited. Programs are printed in The Star the day of each concert. An Entire Song Recital Of Cuban Compositions ENOR GONGALO DE ARANGO, a young. tenor from Cuba, who has been continuing his studies in Washing- ton for the past two years, announces that he will present a song recital later this month or early in June (the exact date and place to be given later), which will be composed entirely of songs Wwrit- ten by one of Cuba’s most distinguished living composers—Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes. The program, it is promised, will be new to Washington. All the songs will have the distinctive rhythms and dra- matic color typical of music by com- posers native to this tropical country. It may be recalled that Beniamino Gigli, famous Italian tenor, has sung Senor de Fuentes’' best-known song, “Mirame Asi,” on programs when it was listed as a Spanish, instead of Cuban se- lection. This song was sung here last Fall very effectively by Senorita Elodia Martin-Rivero, a young Cuban soprano who ' has been spending the Winter visiting relatives in Washington. She is the daughter of a former minister from Cuba to the United States. *The Deluge™ to Be Given By Hamline Church Choir ¢¢T'HE DELUGE,” a Biblical cantata, by Camille Saint-Saens, will be presented by the chorus choir of 50 voices of the Hamline Methodist Epis- copal Church, under the direction of John H. Marville, Tuesday, May 28. ‘The accompaniment will be provided by an orchestra of professional musi- cians, with Edith B. Athey at the organ. The soloists will be the regular church quartet—Ethel D. Stickles, so- prano; Mabel Flehr, controlto; Horatio Rench, tenor, and John Marville, bass. The Cantabile Chorus, conducted by Dr. Alexander Henneman, will present a. group of appropriate numbers at the memorial services to be held at the Abbey Mausoleum Sunday, May 26. Dr. Henneman’s “Thanksgiving,” which is particularly appropriate for the memo- rial services, will be presented. The words are by the late Joyce Kilmer. RS. WILSON-GREENE announced yesterday 16 concert attractions to be given under her management during the season 1929-30 at Poli's Theater and Constitution Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The 16 con- certs are grouped into two afternoon courses of five concerts each at Poli's Theater and one evening course of six concerts at Constitutional Hall. ‘Two new artists, never before heard or seen in Washington, will be presented | by Mrs. Wilson-Greene as attractions of the two afternoon courses at Poli's { Theater. The first of these is La Argentina, ~the sensational _Spanish dancer, whose American debut last season’ started the greatest furore & dancer has caused since Anna Paviowa made her first American appearance. |La Argentina is announced to appear iTuESdBY afternoon, November 19, at 4:30 o'clock. She is the second attrac- | tion in the Artists’ Course, which will be opened Monday afternoon, Novem- ber 4, with the return Washington en- gagement of Vladimir Horowitz, the astounding _ young Russian pianist, whose amazing technique has earned for him the sobriquet of “the greatest pianist of the rising generation.” ‘The Artists’ Course also schedules ;Lucrezln Bori, celebrated Metropolitan Opera soprano, January 13; the only ‘Washington concert next season of the | Boston ~ Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conductor, February 4, and Beniamino Gigli, the great tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Co., February 28. | _The second afternoon course at Poli's | Theater, the Philharmonic, will include Roland Hayes, colored tenor, November 26; Fritz Kreisler, world-famous violin- ist, December 6: Emma Otero, another pew artist to Washington music lovers, February 11; Rosa Ponselle, brilliant ORGANIST GUILD 'HE D. C. Chapter of the American Guild of Organists met in St. Alban’s Parish Hall last Monday to hold the annual election of officers. The guild also announces the postponement of Charlotte Klein's recital to Wednes- day, May 29, and a recital by Louls Potter at Calvary Baptist Church, Tues- day, May 21, Further detalls regarding both recitals will be published in this page next week. As no candidate for the deanship of the local chapter received a majority of the votes cast, this and several of the minor offices will have to be voted upon at the June meeting. The entire list of officers elected will then be pub- lished in these columns. An unusually fine attendance was in evidence, more than 40 answering to the roll call. The reading of a paper on the subject of suitable organ num- bers by Mrs. Frank Akers Prost, chapter secretary, was well received, At the conclusion of the meeting members assembled in the church proper, where Allan H. Watson, parish organist, and Charlotte Klein, A. A. G. O., presented selections upon the new organ. The final meeting of the season will take place Monday, June 3, in the choir room, Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G street nortawest, at 8 p.m. During the latter part of this month the guild chapter will issue a list of “ETHEL LEGINSKA soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Co., February 18, and Serge Rachmaninoff, great Russian pianist, March 19. Senorita Otero is said to possess a fine coloratura voice; She is described as a beautiful 19-year-old Cuban color- atura. She is the protege of the Presi- dent of Cuba, and owes her artistic| “discovery” to Beniamino Gigli, who first heard her in Cuba two years ago, 1and at once persuaded her to under- take a course of study under Rosati, Gigll’s own teacher. All artists' and philharmonic course concerts will be given at Poli's Theater at 4:30 p.m. ‘The third course, the Wilson-Greene, will consist of six concerts, to be given at Constitution Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution, at Eight- eenth and C streets northwest, Satur- day evenings at 8:30 o'clock. The sta- dium-like construction and the unusual capacity—nearly 4,000 seats—of this beautiful new auditorium has made it possible for Mrs. Wilson-Greene to offer this course of evening concerts at un- usually low prices for the class of artists presented. The course is planned to open late in October with a concert by John Mc- Cormack, famous Irish tenor; the Bos. ton Woman's Symphony Orchestra, with | walter Reed General Ho Ethel Leginska, the world’s foremost woman orchestra leader and a noted planist, conductor and soloist, Decem- ber 14; Sigrid Onegin, contralto, Janu- ary 11; Jascha Heifetz, violinist, Janu- ary 25; Rosa Raisa, soprano, and Gia- como Rimini, baritone, both of the Chi- | cago Civic Opera Co, in a brilliant operatic program, February 8, and the course will be closed March 8 with the | appearance of Mme. Louise Homer, con- | meetings ha tralto, and her daughters, Louise Homer Stires, soprano, and Katherine Homer, pianist. ANNOUNCEMENTS organists and vocalists who desire either substitute or permanent positions in the churches of the city. This list will be mailed to the chapter’s 120 members, to other organists and to about 125 pas- tors of this clty and nearby territory. It is thought advisable to make a small charge to those desiring listing in the latter class, who would not be guild members. Persons interested should communicate without delay with the | dean, Rolla G. G. Onyun, 1209 Kenyon ;:raelet northwest, telephone Columbia e s Ve U. S. Soldiers' Home Band Resumes Concert Schedule THE Military Band of the United States Soldiers’ Home, John S. M. Zimmermann, director; Anton Pointer, assistant leader, has resumed its series of band concerts following the conclu- sion of its Winter season of orchestral programs. ‘T'he programs for the com- ing week will be given in the bandstand on the grounds beginning at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The compositions to be played will in- clude works by Mendelssohn, Gruen- wald, Brahms, Victor Herbert, and Zamecnik, as well as lighter selections by such popular writers as Irving Berlin, | Friml, Jolson, Lake and others. | = - Scrvice Band Notes THE U. S. MARINE BAND. 'HE United States Marine Band, under the leadership of Capt. Taylor Branson, will begin its Summer season of outdoor band concerts at the Sylvan ‘Theater, on the Monument Grounds, Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. — These band concerts will be held every Thursday throughout the Summer, and will be broadcast to radio listeners over a network of 21 stations of the Columbia Broad The program this Overture, “Tannhauser, Liszt' nocturne, “Di “Chant from the Great Plains,” a sym- phonic overture by Busch; scenes from “Le Cid” by Massanet, and “Carnival in Paris” by Svendsen. Robert E. Clark will be heard in a ‘ombone solo, playing the “Aero Polk: by Zimmer- mann. The Marine Band w concert on Wednesd il give a special night at the pital, New EComic O})cra tlub. 'HE Washington Comic Opera Club, an organization devoted to the study and advancement of comic opera, was organized in 1927 by Miriam Hilton, Robert Ferguson, Paul D. Gable and Dorothy Wilson Halb: Since then e been held regularly Monday evening, and several comic operas have been thoroughly learned. The club is now presenting a three- act comic opera called “The Crimson Star,” by Estelle and Palmer Clark, pes formed by a company of 30 singers at the First Congregational Church, at Tenth and G street northwest, at 8:15 o'clock tomorrow night. Leading roles will be taken by Eugene Swygert, Howard Moore, Gladys Marks, Marian Mitchell and Elmer Gorn. The music is under the direction of Paul G. Gable. The stage manager is Robert Ferguson. The art and scenic director is Marie E. Walcott. - Catherine Benson is the accompanist of the club. Tech Symphony Orchestra. ‘HE Tech Symphony Orchestra, com- posed of 70 members, assisted by prominent soloists of the Tech alumni, will render a special program at the dedication exercises of the new build- ing. of the McKinley High School at Second and T streets on Wednesday evening. Solo numbers will be sung by Leonard Davis, baritone; La Salle Spier will play several piano selections, including he “Nocturne in C Minor” and the ‘'Waltz in E Minor” of Chopin, and Mrs. Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee will play a group of organ solos. ‘The orchestra, under the direction of Dore Walten, will render the following program: Overture, “Pique Dame. . Grand fantasie, “Pagliacc Leoncavallo Menuet, “Symphonie Militaire,” Hayden March, “Scenes Pittoresques, ‘ M: .Suppe assanet WASHINGTON CHURCH SINGERS—THE NATIONAL CAPITAL CHOIR 'I‘HE National Capital Choir was or- ganized in 1925, when singing at the Church of the Ascension. The reason d'etre was the study and promul- gation of the best in church music, that a deeper spiritual importance might be given to the rendition of text and com- position and that the function of choirs be more fully recognized in the services of the church. After severing connec- tion with the Church of the Ascension the choir continued rehearsals, making guest visits to a number of other churches in Washington and vicinity. In March, 1928, they added to their number and formed the National Capi- tal Oratorio Association, which has so successfully given two oratorios, “The Redemption” and “The Messiah. Last Fall Dr. Albert W. Harned, the organist and director, assumed charge of the “musical ministry” of the Uni- versalist National Memorial which is holding services in the Ambas- sador Theater pending the erection of the new church edifice at Sixteenth and | S streets northwest. The National Cap- ital Cholr is leading the music of that church under Dr. Harned, continuing as well their visits to other churches. ‘The director, Albert W. Harned, be- gan his professional career at the age of 15 years, when he was given the position of organist at the Fortieth Street Methodist Church, Philadelphia. The following_year he took a similar place at the Weyland Hoyt Memorial Baptist Church in the same city. Until 1908, when he devoted his entire time to music, Dr. Harned engaged in the pro- fession of mechanical engineering, con- tinuing the study of music in vocal, organ and orchestral fields under sev- eral of the most celebrated teachers Church, America and Europe, receiving his de- grees through Dr. Hugh A. Clarke of the University of Pennsylvania. His outstanding connections include the Cathedral Chorus, Philadelphia, 350 voices and orchestra; assistant con- ductor, Germania Orchestra, Philadel- phia; Altoona Choral Society; May Fes- tival Chorus, Roanoke, Va.; the Na- tional Capital Oratorio Assoctation. Included in the personnel of the choir are: Jessle Masters, Mus. Bac., contralto and assistant director, nation- ally known to concert audiences; Irene Koehl, soprano, who was one of the trio in “The Redemption” which attracted the favorable comment of the audience; Alicegene Graves, soprano, who has studied with Mirjam Hilton and Edouard Alblon; Elodia Martin-Rivero, soprano, who began her studies with Nestor de la Tosze, Canary Islands, Spaln; Marjorle \ Soper, contralto, at the Cornell School of Music; Eugene Dahl, tenor, whose ‘Washington debut was made in the pro- duction of “The Redemption” in 1928, studied with Franklin White of Boston before coming to this city; Lynn Gill- chrest, tenor, has been soloist at Epiph- any, Lutheran and St. Paul's (Rock Creek) Episcopal Churches and is well known in Masonic Choir circles, being the director of the Shrine Chanters and the Tall Cedars Double Quartet. All of the foregoing are now pupils of Dr. Harned. Rebecca Hathaway, contralto, studied with Carl Noka of Philadelphia and has occupied several important solo positions in that city. Roland Mat- thews, bass, is well known to radio au- diences; Mary Carter Posnjak, con- tralto, 15 a product of the Conservatory at Leipzig. Germany, and as with Faye Thomas, soprano, is well known in musical circles, : | contralto; Students’ Sp JBESSIE N. WILD will present a group in her twenty-sixth annual recital at the Women's City Club, 22 Jackson place, Saturday night at 8:15 o'clock. Those to be presented will include: Mildred Brown, Helen Fischer, Goldstein, Margaret Warthen, Ruth Giffen, Thelma Mills Rector, Jeanne ler, Dorothy Paine, Mildred Sherwood, Margaret Warthen, Margaret Sniffen, Margaret Schreiber and Dorothy Mc- Crory. Mrs. Wild also will present her junior class in a recital. This will be held | Wednesday, May 22, at the Takoma | Park Baptist Church, Piney road and Aspen street, at 8 pm. Those listed to take part are: Betty Bain, Margaret Sniffin, Gertrude Payne, Louise Payne, | Gloria' Bailey, Elizabeth Fiery, Mary | Schreiber, Helen _ Sherwood, Orra Thomas, John and Mason Payne, Mar- | jorie Ennis, Stuar: and Joanna | Womeldorph, Edward Sniffin, Lillian | Cohen, Betty Jeflers, Zaida Bonney, | Margaret Warthen, Olive McKnight, {Ernest Schneider, Katheryn Lemuel Fraser, Richard Schreiber, | Harold Carter and a girls’ chorus. John George Klein presented Mildred Averill, soprano, and Pauline Bruner, contraito, in_joint recital at his studio recently. Mrs. Klein was the accom- panist Robert Davidson, assisted. Both singers won much ap- cluded well known principally, and Mr. Da with the readings of h sitions, given by request. This was the first of three recitals planned by Mr. Klein, A piano recital was given at St. Gabriel's School recently, when pupils of Sister Benoit of the school staff ap- peared in the school auditorium on | Webster street. MUSIG DWARD C. POTTER will be host to the members of the Washing- ton Composers’ Club Tuesday evening, May 21. The music will include a performance of a new quintet, by R. Deane Shure, by La Salle Spier and the members of the National String Quartet. Sylvia Lent eand Mr. Spier will play a new violin sonata written by the latter. ‘The Washington Missionary College presented a series of programs in honor of Music week in Columbia Hall of the college, at Takoma Park, Md., last week. Outstanding as the conclusion, follow- ing a series of sacred, ensemble, vocal and orchestral events, was the perform- of Gaul's oratorio, “The Holy i scheduled for last night, when the college chorus, with orchestra ac- companiment, was directed by Victor lJohnsun. with Harold B. Hannum ac- | companis The soloists were Mrs. A, W. Truman, soprano; Mrs. R. L. Walin, Leslie Smith, tenor, and Charles Eldridge, baritone. Others par- ticipating in solo parts during the week of concerts were Mrs. R. L. Walin, mezzo-soprano; Mr. Lupo, violinist; Mr. Holmes, flutist; Beulah Rowlinson, An- drew Robbins, Rolland Truman, Mark Shanko, William Goransson, Herman Paul, Bertha Krehbiel, Eunice Graham, Victor Johnson, Edwin Harkins, Lois | Miller, Jimmie Iverson, Helen Harter, Lois Christman, June Shoup, Raymond 2nd Donald Christman, Charles Witmer, Eunice Shoup, Erlene Miller, Margaret | Lawry, Marvin Rice, Wilma Steinman, Merzella Julus, Martha Callicott, Carl Guenther, Dorothy Hoopes, Mrs. E. G. Jones, and Miss Numbers, organist. Hazel Bachschmid was soloist at the ower Monday night for the jew- elers' convention, singing “Charmant Oiseau,” from “Perle du Bresil”; “Cupid |and 1” from the “Serenade,” and the “Valley of Laughter,” by Wilfrid San- derson. Mrs. Bachschmid was accom- panied by Elizabeth Gardner Coombs at the plano and Mr. Lindsay, flute soloist. There will be special numbers by the -choir at the Church of the Ascension this morning at the time of the con- firmation servicce. The choir will be assisted by W. Edwin Wood of Utah, who will play violin solos and an obbli- gato to the anthem “My Faith Looks Up to Thee,” by Schnecker. ‘The music section of the Chevy Chase Woman's Club, under general direction of the well known musician, Herndon Morsell, and under leadership of Mrs. Lyles Offutt, will present an interesting program at the Congressional Country Club this afternoon in the Pompeiian room. This music organization has re- ceived much commendation from the public and critics for the fine work which it has been doing for several years past. Piano solos will be given by Mrs. S. J. McCathran, jr., and Mrs. C. V. Quinia Vocal solos will be pre- sented by Mrs. M. C. Guthrie, soprano, and Mrs, F. M. Shore, contralto. Ruth Bronson Logan will play violin obbli- gatos to some of the songs. Mrs. Daw- son Olmstead is the accompanist, Mrs, Marshall Guthrie will be the soloist, accompanied by Mrs. James Shera Montgomery, at the luncheon meeting of the Young Women’s Chris- tian Association, Seventeenth and K | streets, Tuesday, in honor of Dr. Ida Scudder, well known medical missionary from India. Felian Garzia will present two stu- dents in a double piano recital at the Arts Club of Washington Friday night at 8:15 pm. and 9 p.m., respectively. The students are | and Helen Croll. | ""Miss Morrison will play: “Prelude [and Fugue in F.” Bach; “Sonata in E i { lighter idson pleased own compo- Minor (first part),” Grieg; “Whims,” “Why,” and “Soaring,” by Schumann, and Beethoven's “Concerto in C Minor,” with second piano accompaniment. Miss Croll will play: “Papillons,” Schumann; “Capriccio, Opus 76, No. | 2" Brahm: tudes, Opus 25, Nos. 7 and Chopin; “Un Sospiro,” Lisat: “Jardins sous la Pluie,” Debussy, and “Hungarian Fantasie” Liszt, with sec- | ond piano accompaniment. Georgla E. Miller, director of the Virgil Piano School, presented a num- bor of pupils in a recital in the class- room of the school, 1406 H strect north- | ch the parents and friends | of the pupils were invited recently. Those taking part were Kent Bebb, Elizabeth Hartung. Christine Mullen- berg. Florence Storm, Elvia Allpress Meyer, Elinor Webb, Norma Bell Garf Margaret Loane and George Cornwell. | | The composers represented were Tor- | jusson-Mokrejs, Nevin, Nollet, Lack, | Heller, Beethoven, Leschetsky, Mosz= Olive McKnight, Mary Lois Rice, Pearl | La Rue, Ruth McCrory, Pauline Homil- | Cuny, | reader, | plause for their selections, which in- | classics | Katherine Morrison | ring Recitals Those participating included the junior_choral class, Frances Neubeck, Mary Malloy, Olive Squeo, Robert Goli- bert, Mildred Lane, Betty Gubisch, Joan | Murphy, Margaret Kloetzli, Betty | Murphy, Ca.herine Milier, Doris May- hew, Ruth Preller, Rita Gallagher, Rita | Mary Horan, Margaret Vichmann, Rose- mary Mawhinney, Patricia Hartman, Mary Alice Lehey, Helen Barrett, Ger- trude Nolan, Mary MacWilliams, Mar- | saret Batchelder and Catherine Judge. Helen Miller presented her piano class in their Spring program of music at the Women’s City Club last night when those taking part included: Ruth Knight, Nancy Stark, Patty Morris, Teddy Morris, Elizabeth Robertson, Joy Authier, Margaret Worthington, Ed- werta Beyer, Betsy Jacobson, Betty Mc- Gowan, Martin Stark, Helena Shax- roth, Jean Thomas, Sue Thomas, Anna Miller, Margaret Burns, Helen Bird, Cecelia Thomas, Evelyn Ault, Marion Mansfield, Kay Morris, Frances Sta- | bler, Dorothy Niess, Eleanor Henderson {and Ellen Cook. | Alexandra Endsley, contralto, won much applause from an appreciative audience when she was presented in a | song recital at the King-Smith Studio | School the evening of May 2. She sang an unusual and well-arranged program of songs and operatic_airs, including compositions by Franz, Lassen, Gounod Liddle, Mendeissohn, Haendel, McCoy. Grieg, Kreisler, Meyer-Helmund, Hum- phreys and Mr. King-Smith. Caroline Eggleston Bacon presented a few students from adult and children'’s classes in a_program interpreting selec- tions of Beethoven's, Mozart’s and Schumann’s piano music at her studio recently. Those taking part were: Gladys Har- rison, Imilla Reed, Edith Collins, Helen Briggs, Anna Belle Collins, Anna Yates, {Leon Briggs, Mr. Miller and Mr. Reilley. RAPHS Levin, Philipp and kowski, Liszt. Leah Effenback, child planist of this city, who recently made her debut as a member of the Washington Pianists® Club in its festival, was invited to play before the Congressional Club last Fri- day. Her interpretation of compositions by Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schumann was characterized by exquisite delicacy and refinement of musical expression. | Glenn Carow, a talented lad of 13, who recently gave an artist program under the auspices of the “Washington Pianists’ Club,” of which he is one of the youngest members, contributed a piano solo to the evening services of the Columbia Heights Christian Church. His selection was “Hark, Hark! the Lark.” Helen Jeanette Bury, mezz0-Soprano, will be guest soloist at the First Re- formed Church on_ Mothers' day. She will sing_“Songs My Mother Taught Me,” by Dvorak. Prof. Karl Holer will accompany. The Washington Quartet, Mrs. Fred Rice, scprano; Edna Jones, contralto; Mason Willis, tenor; Roland Comley, basso, gave a short program at the luncheon of the Cosmopolitan Club in the Carleton Hotel Thursday. Mrs. George T. Thomaides assisted at the pizno. Miss_Esther Hull, 2 member of the local chapter of the Organists’ Guild, has been temporarily filling the role of organist at the Church of the Advent, during the illness of Miss Helen C. Crouch, organist and director. Lucille Forrest Hastings, contralto, substituted in April for Mrs. Moncure, at the First Church Sclentist, at Falls Church, Va., singing the last Sunday of the month “Come Ye Blessed,” by John Prindle_Scott. Mrs. Hastings has been the soloist on several occasions this season, for the Lansburgh Musical Association, and has also done broadcasting work. ‘The Master School of the Piano, Grace G. Gilchrist, director, held its { monthly class for the junior students last Saturday afternoon. Those present were: Betty Jane Cassidy, Shirley Greenberg, Lucy Higgins, Fay Green- berg, Arlene Schoenberg, Fannye Kres- I'sin, Josephine Bertolini, Hilda Siegel, Margaret Hals, Naomi Hais. Betty Ray, Antoinette Klesner, Doris Klesner, Marguerite Cave, Rosalie Michaelson, Frances Pittiglio, Berenice Stein, Han- nah Stein, Americo Pittiglio and John Brennan. Gustav Weckel conducted. Florence Howard will entertain her stidents_informally at her home next Chopin, (Continued on Eighteenth Page.) Membership Requirements In the Pianists’ Club RS. MARTIN A. MORRISON, di- rector of the Washington Pianists Club, whose festival of piano music in recognition of national music week ‘;c!csed lest evening, has received so many Tequests from ambitious talent for information in regard to this unique club, especially as to entrance require- ments, that she is pleased to submit the following: _The club was founded for the mutual | improvement and inspiration of ad- | vanced pupils of exceptional talent and excellent training. It meets on_alter- | nate Saturday af*ernoons from Novem- ber until May, when informal programs | are given by active members. The latter | play one or more numbers each time, | chosen from an artist program which | has been selected by their respective | teachers, completing it for public per- formance by May 1. The membership of 10 is chosen each | Fall from the number recommended by leading teachers as outstanding pupils in their respective classes who can meet the requirements. These requirements are to play the following compositions artistically from memory: elude and fugue' from the *Well- "5y Bach ntions) *"by “Beethaven (preceded by s by Haydn and Mozart). I Two _ compositions in contrastin tempo by Chopin or Schumann. N As the Washington Pianists’ Club is now adjourned for the season, pupils interested in securing a membership for the next season, 1929-1930, should write the dircctor not later than October 15 for an appointment to “try out.” Mrs. Morrison. 3017 Thirteenth street north- west, will be pleased to hear them, and desires to assure ambitious students that there is “always room at the top.” STUDIOS OF L. Z. PHILLIPS Teacher of Cornet and Trombone 1618 H_St. N.W. Phone M. 6082 BESSIE N. WILD ce Culture. Plano and Harmony 6824 5th st Takoms Park. D. C. T 23 Sophocles T. Papas Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar, Ukulele ___1221 CONN. AVE. _DECATUR 181 _ WALTER T. HOLT School of Mandolin, Guitar and Banjo. Hawaiian Guitar and Ukulele Established Ensem! practice with the Nordica Clubs 1801 Columbia Road Vol Studio sMUTSTCAL= WASHINGTON BASS and_musi office. CHOIR—Opportunity for student lover. 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