Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1929, Page 50

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHI'NGTON, D. C, MAY 26, 1929—PART 4.’ MU SIC BY HELEN FETTER. ILLI LEHMANN, one of the greatest singers that the world has ever known, died at her home in Berlin, Ger- many, May 17. She was 81 years old, yet she never dropped her active part in a mugical career. When she retired from the oper- atic stage as a leading star she continued in the role of teacher, and many of the present-day leading concert and opera stages are proud to have gotten their traditions in singing the “lieder” and in coaching opera roles with | this distinguished woman, who not only was an artistic perform- er, but a thorough authority on | her art. Perhaps her most famous | pupil is Geraldine Farrar. ¥ 1t is somewhat tragic that just | at this time many famous mus! | cians in the United States and Eu- ropean countries had completed a i remarkable testimonial to have | been presented to Mme. Lehmann within the new few weeks by a prominent student—Edith Nichols, | founder and president of the Lilli | Lehmann League. It was to have been presented to the great artist at her studio in Salzburg, Austria, where she had long made it her custom to teach during the Sum- mer months. The portfolio of let- ters included epistles written by Walter Damrosch, Mary Gn.rden, Albert Coates, Serge Koussevitsky, Artur Bodansky, Alfred Hertz, Nikolai Sokoloff, Alberto Bimboni, Karl Krueger, Alexander Gretch- aninoff, Serge Rachmaninoff, Ru- dolph Ganz, Olga Samaroff, An- tonio Scotti, Edward Johnson, Margaret Matzenauer, Ernest Hutcheson and numerous others. Edith Nichols explains how the league was formed: “The league is a spontaneous demonstra- tion of love and affection for one of the most amazing personalities in the history of Music. - The object is to perpetuate the ideals of beautiful singing as refiected in he age of which Mme. Lehmann is e of the most glorious expons | “In a world of noise and dissonance in music Mme. Lehmann remains steadfast to her i{deals of melody, form and beauty as represented by Scarlatti, Palestrina, Bach, B n. Schubert, Brahms, Schumann. Wagner, Verdi and the other masters whose works she has exemplified during all these years. In her shrine at Salzburg. visited every year by the foremost musicians who wish to pay homage to her, Mme. hmann heeds only the small. sti uty. She is an object lesson for all of us in her sh pursuit of beauty. in her afimation d simplicity in music and life. {7e that Mme. Lehmann is and enthusiastic as of old, ossesses vocal freshness end agil- leads an ideal, quiet life amid a few Lillt speaks and writes she is al- of beauty 1 should emph: hearty. Vigor and still . She What a shame that this beauti- ful testimonial, weighted with the treasurable words of the musical mighty, should be an epitaph rather than fulfill its original pur- pose! IN Washington there is a former Lilli Lehmann pupil, who has given highly interesting reminis- cences of the great mistress of song as a teacher. Miss Mary Alsop Cry- der, a distinguished leader in many ‘Washington musical activities and a teacher of voice, went to take a six-week course of training in the singing of the German “lieder,” for which Mme. Lehmann was particularly noted, about 10 years after that great singer had turned pedagog, but while she still was making appearances at Covent Garden and touring the United States and, during the Summers, appearing in Mozart Toles in fes- tivals at Salzburg, where she also directed the performances and chose the other singers for roles in the operas. Miss Cryder does not designate herself as a “pupil” of Lehmann, although she took an hour-and-a- half lesson every day, including Sundays, for those six weeks with Mme. Lehmann. Surely, consider- ing present-day “master class” standards with three to five week courses; Miss Cryder would be fully entitled to consider herself a Lehmann pupil. She found Mme. Lehmann a remarkably in- spiring and energetic teacher. At the time Mme. Lehmann was liv- ing in Gruenwald, a suburb of Berlin, where she had restful, sub- urban atmosphere. During the period of Miss Cry- der’s study with Mme. Lehmann another Washington singer, Miss Vilma Willenbrucher, was a_stu- dent for even a longer period un- der Mme. Lehmann. Since her studies there, however, Miss Wil- lenbrucher apparently never re- turned to the United States ex- cept on short visits to her rela- tives in Washington, but contin- ued her career abroad. A famous painter, Herr Stock- meyer, was painting Mme. Leh- mann’s portrait that Summer and Miss Cryder tells an amusing anecdote of how she had the temerity to offer a suggestion, when asked for one, regarding the painting. It was nearly the final sitting and Mme. Lehmann still wore her beautiful costume in which she was being painted, when Miss Cryder came one day for a lesson. She dsked Miss Cry- der to go in the room where the | painter was working on the por- | trait and look at the color in the picture. By this Miss Cryder knew that somathing particular was ex- pected of her in regard to this “color.” 8o, after looking at the portrait carefully, as the painter asked her opinion che said she liked it all but the flesh color of the hands, which she thought; seemed rather yellow, whereas Mme. Lehmann’s hands were un- usually white. The painter was * k% k jonce impressed with two faces, new to him, but conspicuous in | every show window. One picture | represented an imposing, middle- |aged man, which you were told |was “unser Kronprinz,” and the other, a handsome, fine-figured | woman, was “unsere Lilli Leh- mann.” And you were looked at {in surprise for not knowing “our |Lilli Lehmann.” The Berliners |have always spoken in a_ possess- ive sense of this lady—their star of the opera—especially in that year when she broke her contract with the Kaiser to accept an en- gagement in America. It made great talk there at the time, but the Berliners thought none the less of her, and the morning after words that greeted you in the Vaterland were: “Have you heard the news? has had a great success in Amer- ica.” Twelve years later this same Lilli Lehmann was still having “a great success in America.” Her art is enduring as it is great. “I was to call upon Mme. Leh- a great and long performance the evening before. I had visions of the prima donna still in bed, re- ceiving her caller in neglige, and sipping her coffee, served by a French maid, while a parrot and pet dog and flowers and the morning mail and newspapers combined to form an effect of artstic confusion. This makes a pleasing picture, but it is not Lilli Lehmann. There was no sense of ‘artistic confusion’ about her, from her gray-tinged hair to her grand, true voice. “In answer to the visitor’s knock at her room in the Hotel Nether- | lands she opened the door her- | self and shook hands with true German cordiality. The bed in | the adjoining room was nlready‘ made and there was no sign of a | late breakfast; all this at an hour | when it is safe to say half her | hearers of the evening before were | “And Lilli Lehmann, who in the | eyes of the public is majestically | arrayed in flowing robes and breastplates and silver shields, wore on this occasion, over her plain serge dress, the typical little fancy apron—so dear to the Ger- man ‘hausfrau’ The Berliners | may well call her ‘Our Lilli Leh- mann,’ for she is as unassuming to this day as the least of them. “But, although she impresses one as unpretentious, one also energy. It shows in her every word and movement, and also in her businesslike method of being interviewed. “‘Yes, I am quite tired,” was her first remark as she seated herself at a little writing desk and her visitor near by. ‘The opera lasted so late; I did not get to bed until 2 o’clock. But I was waiting for you this morning and had just prepared to write down some items you might wish to know.’ ‘Then she took a pencil and paper —and what do you suppose she wrote first? These are the exact words and she read them aloud as she wrote: “ ‘Born — Wuerzburg, November , 1848 “I could not conceal some sur- prise and was obliged to explain: ‘The American ladies so seldom give their age that your frankness is a revelation.” “The Lilli Lehmann smiled and said: ‘Why not? One is thereby no younger. * * * I was brought up in Prague, where I made by debut when 18 years of age. My mother was my first teacher and constant companion. S8he was herself a dramatic soprano, well known as Marie Loew, and my father, too, was a singer.’ “‘In what opera did you first appear’ ““It was the “Magic Flute,” and I appeared in one of the lighter roles, but two weeks later, during her debut in New York the first | The Lilli Lehmann | mann at 9:30 a.m,, and this after | A STAR THAT HAS PASSED TO OTHER WORLDS—MME. LILLI LEHMANN *lsoLDE" e ;/41‘ +he he:qh*}- of *her-career= At her home ‘GrunwaL D“‘ A Convention Program To Be Given Wednesday the performance, the dramatic soprano was taken ill, and I then and there went on with her role, trusting to my memory after hearing it so often. My mother, who was in the audience and knew I had never studied the part, nearly fainted when she saw me come on the stage as Pamina.’ “Mme. Lehmann’s feats of memory have more than once cre- ated a sensation. * * * Recurring to her life in Prague, Mme. Leh- mann further said: ‘I appeared not only in many operas, but also as an actress in many plays. In those days opera singers were ex- pected to be as proficient in the musical, and we were ‘called upon to perform in all the great trage- tioned Bellini, Mme. Lehmann as- sented: ‘Yes, we are to give “Norma” next month.’ Incident- quisite interpretation of this role that remained the standard, with no competition until Rosa Ponselle made her sensational success in the revival of that opera a ye: ago this season. To continue with Miss Wagnalls’ interview: ‘Among Wagner’s works, “Isolde” is one character to which Mme. Leh- mann’s temperament and phy- sique are strikingly fitted. * * * For 15 years Lilli Lehmann sang in Berlin, with an occasional flight to Baireuth, under the Kaiser's permission, where she sang fo Wagner himself. She was the first ‘Forest Bird’ in the premiere not apparently overpleased at the answer and Miss Cryder returned | to the music room and her lesson. Toward the end of the sitting the painter requested Mme. Lehmann to bring Miss Cryder in again to see the picture. “I'm so glad you've changed the tint of the hands,” exclaimed the Washingtonian. Herr Stockmeyer war ein concession.” coneession. J The picture in the group print- here on this pare, show e. Tehmonn as she was at vald, was taken by Mi replied. “Es (“It was a e e unusually interesting inter- view had with Mme. Leh- ma. is reported in the book “Opera and Its Stars,” written by Mabel Wagnalls. The author writes as follows: “In Berlin a score or more of years ago the foreigner was at v A¥ of the opera ‘Siegfried.’ “When Mme. Lehmann was asked: ‘How do you keep your { splendid health and the strength to work so much?’ she had as | ready answer: i “‘I have been a vegetarian for | the past five years.” In reply to |one more parting question, Lilli Lehmann spoke words of wisdom that are worthy of reflection: “‘Yes, I still practice and study At the end one { more than eve: | 's just beginni The final monthly concert will be given by the Mount Vernon Place Church choir Wedncsday at 8 pm. They will lay aside the dignity of the vestments for this concert, which will be in the manner of “An Old Tyme Photograph Album Concert.” The leaves of the album will reveal va- rigus pictures in costumes gathered from all over the Southland fine wedding gowns of mc members of the choir will be on play. The music will be of the period _preceding 1860, dies’ * * * As the visitor men- | ly, it was Mme. Lehmann’s ex- | dramatic side of their art as the | not yet up. I feels at once her great force and | [t CHARLOTTE KLEIN. Mlss KLEIN will present a program under_the auspices of the D. C. Chapter of the American Guild of Organists on the organ of the Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G street north- west, Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. This will be the last in the series of the season's recitals. Special interest centers in this pro- gram for it is identically the one to be presented by Miss Klein next week at the general convention of the guild at Memphis, Tenn. She plays the entire program entirely from memory and, with the exception of a manuscript number, “Fantasie in F Sharp B“E" by Sealy, dedicated to Miss Klein, the selections comprising this program are being given for the first time by Miss Klein in recital. ‘The compositions to be given also include: “Chorale in E Major,” Franck; “Sarabande,” from “Sixth_Violoncello Suite,” and “Prelude and Fugue in D Major,” by Bach; “Chant de May,” Jongen; “Symphonie i Mystique”— Lamb of God. Fount o Goodness and Happiness,” de Malein- greau; “Canzona,” froj Partita,” opus 100, Karg-Elert, and “Toccata sur un Theme Gregorien,” from the “First Symphony,” by Barnes. The recital is open to the general public and free of charge. - Prize Winners in Program. THE final concert of the Jewish Com- munity Center musical season is scheduled for Wednesday evening, June 5, in the Cafritz auditorium. The three winners of the Washing- ton contest held recently under the auspices of the National Federation of Music Clubs will be ‘featured. Levine, 16-year-old violinist, who cap- tured first prize both in District of Columbia and the four-State contest held in Baltimore, will play. Mary Templin, contralto, and Betty Baum, pianist, also will appear. The Center Symphony Orchestra will render several selections. The committee sponsoring the affair consists of Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, Morris Cafritz, Maurice Bisgyer and C. 8. Jaspan. | "['HE annusl music faculty recital of | rection of Marie Howe Spurr, was o | Gunston Hall will be given tomor- | row at 8 p.m. by Minna Niemann, pian- ist; Marjorie Lowe, soprano, and Malton | Boyce, accompanist. Miss Niemann will | open the program with works by Gluck- Brahms, Rameau-Godowsky and Paga- | nini-Liszt. In two other groups she will play compositions by Rachmaninoff, De- | bussy, Poldini, Chopin, Mendelssohn- Liszt, Brahms and Strauss-Godowsky. Miss Lowe will sing three groups of | songs, including selections written by ! Brahms, Ruckauf, Tschaikowsky, Stange, ‘Wekerlin, Massenet, Grieg, Rybner, ; Hamblen, Watts and Ronald. | Jane McCabe Disney, graduate in ex- pression, and Josephine Hull, graduate !in piano, were presented in joint re- | cital at Gunston Hall May 18. The | piano numbers included works by Bee- | thoven, Scriabine, Palmgren, Debussy, MacDowell, Schumann and Ulric Cole. A students’ recital will be presented in the auditorium of the Washington | Conservatory of Music, 1408 New Hampshire avenue northwest, Wednes- day night at 8:15 o'clock. The student orchestra will play under the direction of Vladimir Vasa. Soloists on the pro- gram include Virginia Webb, Angelo Bagaitin, Elizabeth Drew, Rose Pincus, Marietta Eckam, Maria Rojas, Elsa Jorss, Mrs, E. H. Burt and Christine Vermillion. ‘The Whitecroft Piano School will present a group in recital at the Wom- en’s City Club Saturday night at 8 o'clock. Students participating are Harriett Mitchell, Ruth Gilbert, Walton May, Norma Elason, Rachel Duffield, Dolly Renaud, Alvin Powdermaker, Marian Bond, Isabelle Slye, Ruth Pow- dermaker, Betty Albrecht, Maxine Wil- quin, Mary Catherine Tidball, Virginia Junkin, Emmy Lou Danielson, Alice Alpert, Dorothy Green, Ralph Williams, Marian Drescher, Rosa Lee Reed, Reba ‘Will, Eli Berg and Anne Woodbury. Teachers presenting this recital are Helen Miller, piano and harmony class; Caroline Bender Hodge, Clara Lundell and Edith Campbell Bond, pianists, and Daisy Fickenscher, violinist. Another recital program, presented last Friday, included, in addition to eight of the above-mentioned students, the following: Edith and Richard Bond, Edmund and Betty Buchanan, Ern Thompson, Harriet Albrecht, Marcella Hodge, Geraldine Silverberg, Ella Waters, Grace Parks, Janet Cal- lender, Evelyn Triplett and Constance Larkin, A song recital will be given Tuesday night by the students of the Lewis studios of voice culture in Barker Hall of the Y. W. C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K streets northwest, at 8:30 o'clock. nelia Harkness, Elizabeth Kerr, George Cornwell, Thelma Rice, James Madison, Minnie Volkmann, Louise Hoover, Ida Lessner, Gatherine Cannon, Marie Powell, Mary Pearson, Sue Kennedy, Ruby Grimsley, Elizabeth Jordan, Aimee Steinmetz, Starr Preston and S. Wilfred Smith, singers; Clara Bernheimer and Starr Preston, planists; Elizabeth Bern- heimer, violinist, and Louise Bern- heimer, violoncellist. The two-piano recital recently given by the Spurr-On Club, under the di- Those participating will include Cor- [J unusual that it is to be broadcast at the noon hour June 13. The program opens with the Von Weber “Concerto in F Minor,” played by Everett Ward and Leonard Dordan; the “Sonata in F” (Mozart), b Jeanette Leipziger, the second part of which was written by Mrs. Spurr, who has written similar arrangements f other compositions; “The Petite Suite” (Debussy) and the “Sonata in G” (Mo- zart), by Virginla Lee Barker; the “Peer Gynt Suite” (Greig), by Lella Belle Foster, and featured Ellen Eliza- beth Cannon in the “Suite for Two Pianos” (Gurlitt). Mrs. Spurr plays the second piano for all numbers e: cept the Von Weber concerto. Eliza beth Seidenspinner, reader assists. Four evenings of music, with 102 stu- dents represented in the programs, were given last week in the twenty-sixth an- nual piano recital by the pupils of Prof. William A. Beall at Pythian Temple. Certificates in harmony and medais were awarded to Regina Marie Deeni- han, Audrey Elizabeth Groves, Evelyn Blanche Hillerson, Bessie Lazer, Ana Esther Rappaport, Mary Elsie Steuart, Vernah Virginia Scott, Edna Browning White and Edward Mallan Middleton. A pin for excellent work in the post- graduate course was awarded to Jean- ette Virginia Emmert. Rev. Dr. Alfred E. Barrows, pastor of the Eastern Presbyterian Church, gave a talk on “Music.” Pupils taking part in the program were as follows: Shirley Sachs, Selma Rassin, Marie- Radice, Natalle Vigder- house, Doris Raebach, Evelyn Brown, Bertha Katz, Frances Park, Jean Nar- cisenfeld, Jean Evans, Constance Deeni- han, Sophie Zalkind, Rose Shoub, Gussie Shulman, Lillian Katz, Dorothy Mushinsky, Miriam Abelman, Norma Issertell, Katherine McCarthy, Naomi Vigderhouse, Anna Mushinsky, Helen Louise Davis, Freda Levin, Rose Kess- ler, Helen Coxen, Sylvia Walker, Irma Hayes, Beatrice Schwartz, Kathleen Tumulty, Edna Wood, Ethel Schwartz, Audrey Yaden, Eleanor Embrey, Anna Gelfand, Helen Feldman, Ida Milloff, Dorothy Schutz, Ada Lubin, Dorothy Loveless, Janet Payne, Anita Weitzen, Rose_Wertleb, Cecelia Friedman, Mir- iam Berstein, Anna Wolfe, Anna White Sanderson, Eutha Morris, Onys Everett, Ev!lim Hewitt Selph, Elizabeth Michael, Bessie Lazer, Edna Witte, Mary Elsie Steuart, Audrey Groves, Evelyn Hiller- son, Clara Feldman, Regina Deenihan, Vernah Scott, Anna Rappaport, Jean- ette Emmert, Elizabeth Beuchert, Lil- lian Mindlin, Bertha Loveless Quick, Bertha Schwartz, Sonia Berman, Kath- erine McCalmont, Margaret Kane, Viola Weaver, Hazel Miller, Chester Craw- ford, Michael Agriesti, Willlam Beall, Victor Cohen, Joseph Fabrizio, Claude Clagett, Joseph Goldman, Sid- ney Davidson, Milton Goldman, Harold Sachs, Maurice Riddlemoser, Bernard Vigderhouse, Aaron Raebach, Ward Beall, Willlam Smith, Carlos Profeta, Frank Smith, George Simmons, Edward Middleton, Jacob Friedman, Francis Henley, Jessle Dickenson and Loulse Duckett. . Felicia Rybier, Polish concert planist, lCuntest Winner Will Sing ‘! Role in \Coatume Recital TH.E winner of the District of Colum- bia Federation of Music Clubs’ con- test in the soprano class, Edith Wal- lack, will sing the role of Santuzza in a scene from Mascagni's “Cavalleria Rusticana” at Plerce Hall, 15th and Harvard, Wednesday night when she will appear in one of a series of operatic scenes presented in costume under the auspices of Mme. Marie Zalipsky. The program will begin at 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Wallack will be supported in her scene by Agnes Brady as Mama Lucia and Giuseppe Bruno as Alfio. ‘The assisting guest artist will be the famous Russian basso, Michael Shvetz of the former Russian Imperial Opera. Mr. Shvetz made a brilliant appearance in a Russian benefit program given here earlier in the current season. He will sing in two Russian opera scenes: he sings “Farlaff” in the second act of “Ruslan and Ludmilla” by Glinka, with Princess Olga Bariatensky as Naina: and he sings Ivan in “Zaporoje from “Donay,” by Shvedow, with Kat] erine Hertzberg as Odarka. The duet between Nedda and Silvio from Leoncavallo'’s “I Pagliacci” will be sung by Mrs. Hertzberg and Mr. Bruno as the opening number. Mme. Zalipsky will be accompanist for all scenes. Princess Bariatinsky will present “Spring Song Dance” and little Lily Zalipsky will dance the Russian hopak. “Goethe in Music” was the subject of a talk given by Anita Schade at the meeting of the German Literary Soci- ety May 19. She mentioned that three French composers—Massenet, Gounod and Thomas—took texts of Goethe's for the operas “Werther,” “Faust” and “Mignon,” respectively. She illustrated her talk with recitations of Goethe po- ems which have been set to music by Schubert, Mozart and Thomas, and also played some phonograph records as ad- ditional {llustrations. The program was opened with the playing of a trio by Alice B. Harvey, arrived in Washington Thursday to visit friends here. CHURCH SINGERS OF WASHINGTON—HAMLINE M. E. ’I‘HE new Hamline Methodist Episco- pal Church at the corner of Six- teenth and Allison streets northwest is one of the most beautiful churches in the Nation's Capital. ‘The chorus choir was organized by John H. Marville at the time of dedi- cation of the church three years ago. It is, therefore the youngest of the lar chorus choirs in Washington. In that relatively short space of time it has gained the distinction of being one of the outstanding musical organi- zations of the cit The choir at present is composed of 50 men 2nd women, including solo quartet, he splendid spirit of co- operation shown by the members and tandard set by the director > possible not only the per- formance of & consistently high type of music at the regular church services, but also the rendition of several pro- grams of music of unusual character, among them being the performance of Rossiny’s “Stabat Mater” in its entirety, and a program of Russlan music, mostly a capella. Mr. Marville has developed the choir to a high state of perfection in the difficult art of a capella singing, but believes that accompanied singing is equally important. In the cecond row of the above pic- ture, beginning fifth from the left, the church_soloists are: Horatio Rench, tenor; Ethel D. Stickles, soprano; John H. Marville, bass and director; Edith B. Atley, organist, and Mabel Flehr, contralto. John H. Marville, bass-baritone, is one of Washington's youngest genera- tion of singers, and already has earned a fine reputation as a church, oratorio and concert singer as well as chorus director. He graduated from the music department of West Virginia University, and began his musical career as concert pianist and professional accompanist. Later upon the advice of Madame Schumann-Heink, Mr. Marville began the development of his voice, and has since devoted his time principally to singing. He studied with prominent teachers in Washington, New York and Paris. Mr. Marville heads the Hamline School of Music, an organization that is part of the educational work of the church. Before becoming director at Hamline he was bass soloist at the First Congregational Church, and is still the bass soloist at Eighth Street Temple. Edith B. Atley, one of Washington foremost organists, has been identified with the church for a number of vears. She has studied under prominent teachers in Baltimore, Chicago and New York, and holds the certificates from the Lymen's School of Music, New York, and the Miessner Institute of Milwaukee. She also has a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Washington College of Music, Miss Atley is an active member of the D. C. Chapter, A. G. O, and of the new Phi Epsilon, National Music Sorority. She was civic organist for three years, glving bi- monthly recitals in Central High School auditorium, and is a_member of the Music Corps of Public Schools in Wash- ington, and supervisor of community plano classes. She is also organ in- structor in Hamline School of Music. | Ethel Stickles has been identified with the church for some time, having been pianist; Bernadette Berard, violinist, and Anna Ulke, violoncellist. CHURCH CHOIR soprano in the Iowa Avenue Chu which congregation merged with th old Hamline congregation and formed the present church. She has a fine soprano voice, and is rapidly making a name for herself as an outstanding church singer. Miss Stickles has studied under several prominent teachers in ‘Washington. Mabel Flehr, another of the younger singers in Washington, is one of the ty's finest contraltos, being the pos- | sessor of a volce of unusual range end | richress, Her musical training has been | obtained entirely in this city, and she is preparing herself for an operatic career. She was formerly soloist at First Baptist Church. Horatio Rench was formerly tenor- director of the famous Criterion Male Quartet of New York City, having sun; in the above quartet with Reinal ‘Werrenrath, celebrated baritone, Mr. Rench was also tenor soloist in the Thirty-fourth Street Collegiate Church, New York, for 14 consecutive vears. | | School of Mandolin, Guitar and MUSIG ERCY ATHERTON, the American composer who has made his Winter home in Washington for several sea- sons past, has been appointed to the position of assistant to Carl Engel, chief +of the music division of the Library of Congress, beginning October 1 of this vear. Mr. Atherton is a great friend of | Mr. Engel’s and is generally recognized as @ musical authority. Mr. Engel recently accepted the position of presi- | dent of Schirmer’s, the large musicc house in New York city, which necessi- tates his spending considerable time in the metropolis, although he still retains his office at the Library of Congress Mr. Atherton has his principal resi- dence in Boston, Mass., but spends his Winter at the Benedick in the Capital. Several of his songs have been featured on programs given at the Arts Club of Washington during the past season or so. Katharine Seelye Wallace, who was prominent in music circles in Washing= ton until her recent departure accom- panying her husband, who has gone to China “as tariff expert among the | financlal advisers to the National Gov- | ernment, “writes from Shanghai that ! she still 'is keeping up her musical ac- { tivitles in that much disturbed land. She appeared in a joint concert pro- gram with Elizabeth Pollard Fetter, young American singer, at the foreign Y. M. C. A. in Shanghai April 16. The singer, who was assisted at the piano by Elizabeth Roberts, sang a group of old songs by Arne, Dowland, and from Earle’s Song Book of 1615, as well as | numbers by Bizet, Besley and Fraser- i Simson. Mrs. Wallace played a groun of works by Chopin and a second group vil}g]li\djng works of Bowen, Grieg and 2 Friends of Mrs. Wallace may be inter- ested to know that her address is, Care of Kemmerer Financial Commission, Shanghai, China. She says in her let- ter: “We have come to spend a year in China. Naturally I am enjoying the experience tremendously, since, a long in this fascinating country, and now I am constantly meeting old friends and | former students. If any one should tell | you China has not made great progress |in recent years, please contradict the remark for me. In the old days there were only upright pianos, and mostly bad ones at that, but now at the Y. M. C. A. they nave a glorious great concert grand, and it was a delight to give a program on it.” Mrs. Wallace also mentions that the Chinese have followed the lead of the Russians who, during the World War, | gave the name of Petrograd and even Leningrad to what was formerly St.| Petersburg. In China, the city which is known to the world as Peking has been newly named Peiping by the | Chinese. George Bernard Shaw, one of the great lions of the literary and drama world who has lived to enjoy the fru! | of real fame, was & music critic in his earlier years—from 1888-1894. M. i Shaw signed his music articles on the { Star_(of London) as Corno di Bassetto | for two years and later he wrote for | | the World. It is amusing that one . who began in his early twenties as a socialistic agitator should spend six years of his next decade as a music critic. Perhaps the earlier interests fitted him doubly well for the music |office. He also has among his literary | productions two books that deal prima- | | rily with musical subjects—“The Perfect | | Wagnerite” (1898), and “The Music | Cure” (1914). | ‘The British author, Cecil Roberts, re- | marked recently, in an article about | Shaw and other famous writers whom he knew personally, that. “I am quite sure the sage has more than one gift up his homespun slecve. Since he be- gan as a music critic, he might well end ' as the composer of an opera. With Shaw all things are possible and none is certain.” Anton Kaspar, violinist; his daughter, Priska, pianist, and his niece, Franceska Kaspar Lawson, soprano, gave a concert under the auspices of the Oakton, Va. High School last Wednesday. The program was enthusiastically re- lcewed by a large audience of music | | Iovers, | Eleanor Blum, a 14-year-old pianist, | recently came to Washington from Mi- ami, Fla., to make her home here. She was & member of the Mana-Zucca and Felicia Rybier Music Clubs of Miami. She received a scholarship from the { latter of the two clubs to further her musical education. ‘The Parthenon Male Quartet will sing at a recital to be presented by Mrs. M. M. Marks in the auditorium of the | Y. W. C. A. Tuesday, June 11. The members of the quartet are Harold Mar- tin, first tenor; H. G. Leef, second tenor; Howard Moore, baritone, ‘And Thomas N. Leef, basso. R. E. Rapp is the accompanist and director. ‘The Chaminade Glee Club, Esther Linkins, director, will furnish musical selections at the meeting of the Citizens’ Service Association in Foundry M. E. Church this afternoon at 3 o’clock. ‘The club will be assisted by Warren Johnson, organist, and Carl W. Robin- son. baritone. ‘The choir and adult orchestra of | the Ninth Street Christian Church will give their seventh annual evening of music tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. The orchestra will play the “Oberon” over- ture, by Weber, and a part of Schu- bert’s “Unfinished Symphony,” also several lighter numbers. Among the choruses are the “Bridal Chorus,” from Cowen’s “Rose Malden,” and the pop- ular “Barcarolle,” by Offenbach, with orchestra accompaniment. Mrs. Mary . Clarkp, soprano, will sing Denza's | “May Morning,” and J. S. Zebley, cel- | list, " will play the “Tarantelle,” by | David Popper. The choir of 30 members and the orchestra of 25 are volunteer musical organizations of the church, Joseph Harrison is musical director. Hazel Bachschmid, singer, assisted by Bernice Jones, pianist, with Elizabeth Gardner Coombs as accompanist. pre- sented a program which essayed a time ago. I spent ‘three vears teaching | RAPHS musical presentation of “The Seasons,” titled, using songs by Meade, Curran, Higgin, Reichardt, del 'Acqua, Scott, Ealter, Farley, Tipton, Kountz, and ending with an operatic finale in the brilliant “Polonaise” from Thomas' “Mignon.” Miss Jones played works by Grieg, Ireland and Godowsky. Karl W. Ochs, one of Washington's younger pianists, is en route to Europe, where he will spend two months visit- ing places in England, France, Ger- many and Italy. Ray Palkin. soprano, sang for the 1. 0. 0. F. and O. E. S. recently and will be heard again at St. Elizabeth's Hospital Wednesday. She also will sing for a Takoma Park chapter June 14. Her accompanist is Florence Hynson. Rovilla Fry Atkinson was elected to the office of choir director and contralto soloist at the Lincoln Road Methodist Episcopal Church last Thursday. Mrs. Atkinson has been affiliated with musi- cal endeavors for a number of years. The choir of All Saints’ Church, Chevy Chase, will give a special musical service of choruses by Russian compos- ers tonight at 8 o'clock. This will be the last evening service of the season. Works by Lwoff, Kalinnikof, Dvoretsky, Tschaikowsky and Paine will be given. At the close of the service William H. Taylor, organist and director, will give a short organ recital, playing works by Hollins, Tschatkowsky, Tschirch, Kinder and Vodorinski. ‘The members of the Music Study Club of the Virgil Plano School were guests of honor at the home of Maj. and Mrs. A. L. Webb last Monday. A program of piano and violin numbers was presented. ‘The next meeting will be the last of the season. It will be held June 10 and will include a prize contest. Jeanette McCaflrey, dramatic soprano | soloist, will sing “The Rosary” (Nevin) | accompanied by the Navy Band Orches. tra, at the memorial exercises on board the U. S. 8. Porpoise at 10 o’clock this { morning in honor of the soldiers, sailors and Marines who lost their lives at sea. In the afternoon at 2:30 o'clock she is on the program of the memorial | services_in Hitchcock Hall, St. Eliza- | beth's_Hospital, when she will sinz “The Prayer Perfect,” accompanied by the Marine Band orchestra. Miss McCaffrey also is on the pro- gram for the Memorial Day exercises ! at the Amphitheater, Arlington Ceme- tery, Thursday, when President Hoo will deliver the principal address. (Continued on Twelfth Page.) Young P}liuppine Pianist Gives Recital Wednesda 2 ROSARIO PICAZO MISS PICAZO, who is in Washing- +¥4 ton as a member of the Philip- pine Mission, is noted as a planist. She has not been heard in public in | solo recital previously. She will :pp;; in a program at Miss Gutelius’ stu ‘Wednesday night at 8:15. Assisting Miss Picazo will be Ernesto Vallejo, an extremely talented young Philippine violinist who made his debut in a recital in New York last Winter and won much appreciation. He will be accompanied on the piano by Frances_Gutelius. Both Philippine artists appeared with two other representatives of their coun- try—Manuel del Rosario and Clara de la’ Rama, in a program Friday after- noon for the members of the Con- gressional Club. “The Deluge” Featured In Benefit Program ‘HE . remarkable choral work of Camille Saint-Saens, “The Deluge,” will be presented as the feature of the concert given next Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. for the benefit of the church fund at Hamline M. E. Church, Sixteenth and Allison streets northwest. This work will be presented by the choir of the church, 50 voices, with soloists, the regular church quartet, an orchestra of professional musicians, with Miss Edith B. Athey, organist, and under the direction of John H. Marville. The writing of this ora- torio was inspired by the passage in Genesis, “And God repented having created the world.” The first half of the program will be devoted to excerpts from Wagnerian works, including: larch and chorus from “Tannhauser”; choral, “Awake, Awake,” from “Die Meistersinger’ choral, “When to Thee Our Savior Went,” from the same opera, and “Prayer,” from “Lohengrin.” The violin solo in the prelude to “The Deluge” will be played by Wil- liam F. Sante!mann, STUDIOS OF BESSIE N. WILD Volce Culture. Plano and Harmony studio 6824 Sth Takoma . D. O 0 Zophocles T. Papas Bnr;{:f,clga d:l‘in. Guitar, Ulul’clc WALTER T. HOLT || Banjo. Hawaiian Guitar and Ukulele Established 1894 Ensemble practice with the Nerdiea Clubs 1801 Columbia d N.W., Col. 946 JTZZ PIANO PLAYING ' Positively Taguht Any Person IN 20 LESSONS suwfi'fi{'m'_':fi:’i{é"sif'§SION INSTITUTE of MUSICAL ART He has fust recen come back to his native city. and has been at Hamline since his return. 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