Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1929, Page 76

HE Christmas month which dawns today brings more music, in spite of its holi- day rush, than the previous| two months together. This, of/ course, is meant in connection | with the formal concert calendar| and does not include the custo- mary program of Christinas ean- tatas and oratorios and the Yule- tide carolling that local churches | and choral groups are industrious- | 1y preparing for the latter part of | the month. Between now and the | middle of December 10 profes-| sional concerts are announced. From then on until the New Year| music that is specifically suited | to the Christmas season will be performed. There is one excep- | tion, the postponed Pan-American | program. «-® =% 'HE first event in December is the opening program of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's morning series Wednesday at the May- flower Hotel. The artists will be the baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Co., Giuseppe de Luca, sharing the program with Anna Case, American soprano. There will be two other December morn- ing concerts in the series, Decem- | ber 11 and December 18. The art- | ists, according to custom, will be | announced from week to week on | the Sunday preceding each event. | Fritz Kreisler will give his an- nual violin recital here Friday afternoon. Kreutzberg snd Georgi, two exponents of the Mary Wig- man School, in Dresden, will give an “expressionistic dance recital” Monday afternoon, December $ Clay Coss, a young pianist new to ‘Washington, is to give his initial | recital here that evening in Barker { Hall of the Y. W. C. A. head- quarters. | ** % 1 A MOST unusual organization | that has won unequivocal ad- | miration and aroused much en- thusiasm in first performances in | New York recently, the Aguilar| Lute Quartet, it is announced, will | give an evening concert in the| Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge audi- torium of the Library of Congress Friday of this week. During the afternoon of the same day Mr.|largest has an additional single|The program is varied with Stokowski is scheduled to lead the | Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra | in its second local program this: season. Emma Redell, a dramatic_so- ?rano. , came to Washington her family to make her home at | a very early age and claims Wash- | ing as her “home town,” is to her first formal recital here De- | cember 12, Miss Redell was| graduated from the Business High | School here and sang in local | church choirs during her early vocal training in washlnnnn,‘ ‘Then advanced study in New York | the four instruments are used in & gers or plectrum, the large pear- shaped instrument may be consid- ered a forebearer of the lute. The bow, as used in playing some such instruments, was obtained in Per- sia, forming a different group of instruments, also used in Arabia, and known as rebab or rebec, an- cestors of the viol family. Of the lute family proper there are she following members: the , tanbur or mandolin as treble; the lute as alto or teno:; the barbiton or theorbo as bass, and the chitarrone as double bass. The Arab instrument, with convex sound-body, pointing to the reso- nance board or membrane, orig- inally having been upon a gourd, was strung with silk and played with a plectrum or shell or quiil. Lutes differ from guitars, which also are Oriental in origin, by the formation of the sound-body, which is, in all lutes, pear-shaped and joined directly to the sound- board without the sides or ribs necessary to the structure of the flat-backed guitar and zither. The lute is generally known as a six-stringed instrument and notes of music for it are written usually on six lines and not the five that form the present-day staff. There have been lutes, however, with as many as 24 strings. The instru- ment has four parts—the table; the body, constructed of nine con- vex ribs; the neck, which has the frets or divisions, and the head or cross, in which the screws for tuning it are inserted. In phyin:| the instrument the musician strikes the strings with the fingers of the right hand and regulates the sounds with those of the left. The lute was in general use dur- ing the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With the Aguilar Lute Quartet. | s THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 1, 1929—PART FOUR. FAMOUS VIOLINIST AND SINGERS WHO OP MOR SERIES THIS WEEK Aolis (Frdsy) FRITz KREISLER! ANNA CASE- Moy Alovwer() 7t (GIUSEPPE wea) DEeLUCA- Federation of Churches Will Register Musicians THE Washington Federation of Churches, through its music com- mittee, is arranging to list such singers and organists as may register with it. ‘This list is for the convenience of musicians who desire positions with the churches and also for the churches which are looking for musicians to fill vacancies. Musiclans are invited to register with the federation, giving quite fully their experience and qualifications. ‘The federation will, of course, do no pecific recommending of individuals, but will furnish the churches interested fashion similar to the instruments of the more familiar string quar- tet. Two play small lutes, which correspond to the two violins: Senorita Aguilar plays a larger lute, the viola of this quartet, and the fourth member plays a still larger lute, which corresponds to the cello. These lutes are said to have six pairs of strings and the string for the lowest bass range. The finger-board has frets and the tone is secured with a small plectrum. They also use mutes | groups of solos will be played by Osear | Although Bach, Monteverdi, Peri times, modern Spanish composérs —De_Falla, Turina, Nin Albeniz give and Ernest Halffter—have written | readings. She is booked on or arra this Aguilar Lute Quartet. It is understood that many of these Bpanish works will be given herc Friday. and, later, Vienna, followed with iA New Light Opera her first concert appearances on European stages.. After her early | concert tours Miss Redell receivec | a contract to sing in the Provincia) | Opera House of Augsberg, Ger- | many. ‘There she received valu-| able routine training and experi- ence in singing many reles, build- | = her repertoire constantly, first | in the German operas and then, | later, for the past eouple of sea-| sons the trend of public taste was | toward Verdi and other Italian | operas, studying them, in German. Her contract was renewed at the| A house and later she sang | in other German opera houses. | About a year ago Miss Redell was in Washington: on a trip of a few | days before leaving for the Winter | and Spring in South Africa, where she several concert appear- | ances. During the Summer and | Fall she was fif Italy and returned | here in time to give her first re- | cital in her.own country at Car- | negie Hall, New York City. Octo- ber 16. which was highly success- | ful. She is to have her debut in | ‘Washington, the city in which she | “grew up.” | ‘The Misses Sutro, who plan to| present works by American com- | posers of past and present and to | give practical encouragement to| the plan of establishing a center in Washington for music enmn-! siasts, such as European capitals| possess, will give the first of three | “salon” events December 13 at the Cariton. - They will present =2 program of colonial music. | The pianist who became noted for her “disappearances,” Ethe! Leginska, will appear here in thr-bpr role of conductor of the Boston | Woman's Orchestra October 14 Miss Leginska brought this organ- } ization to Washington last year | in two programs, given at the First | Congregational Church. They ! both were received with much en- | thusiasm. In fact, the evening concert was 50 enjoyed that two| encores were demanded, a thing| almost unheard of with orchestral | programs. | The Pan-American Union will| Frasent a program of Latin-Amer- | can music December 30, when the | guest soloist will be the Peruvian singer, Marguerite d'Alvarez. Or-! chestral numbers will be played by the United Service Orchestra This program will close the con- cert season of the year 1929 The| concert, originally listed for De-| cember 16, was postponed on ac- | count of official mourning. The next event, scheduled as the first of 1930, will be the open- ing performance of the second American tour of the German Grand Opera Co. January 8. The opera will be “The Flying Dutch- man” of Richard Wagner. *x % x 'HERE seems to be considerable interest among local fretted instrument players as to whether or not the members of the Aguilar Lute Quartet from Spain use an- cient examples of these very old instruments. It is reported, how- ever, on good authority that the lutes which they play are modern lutes made by a Madrid concern. The lute is said to be derived in form as well as name from the Arabs. It was known as “el'ud.” It first was brought to Westerii lands at the time of the Crusades. The antecedent of the lute, how- ever, seems ‘to have originated iz Persia. Similar pear-shaped in- struments have been traced to India and Persia of ancient times and all countries influenced by their civiligation. As long as the strings were plucked w the fin- To Be Given This Week LORENCE YOCUM, one of the win- ners of the local Atwater Kent con- test, will sing the 0 principal role in Harry Wheaton Howard's latest | posed opera, “The Diamonds of Abdullah,” o be presented Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings this week by the Opera Players’ Club of the Immaculate Con- ception Church. This romantic musical composition opens the eighth season of this organi- zation of young people and will be given in the boys’ school auditorium at Eighth and N streets northwest. Additional members of the cast are: Eleanor Hopkins, Catharine Ryan, Ag- nes Dowd, Gertrude Becker, Grace Wil- ley. Willlam Stoddard, Phillip Hannon, Willism Hannan, John Sherman, Fred- erick Nolan, George Neuman, Richard , Thomas Gallagher and Thom s Ryan. | The members of the eos de ces Crory, Helen Mayer, Dorothy Sulli- van, Helen Sulli e van and Joseph De egarding Dancers Who Are Of the Wigman School Y VONNE GEORGT. the feminine hait of the famous dance pair, Kreutz- eev:m-nu — ‘whot are listed for a ut al 5 i wnymnu“ g Poli's Theater rs. Wilson-Greene's managem * French woman, although .le!nc::l:iu: 85 & leading exponent of the modern German expressionistic school of danc ing. . Georgi was born in France of a Franco-Arabian mother and & Ger- man father. As 8 child she was trained for a career as comcert pianist. She ppeared in Lelpzig at the age of 10, 3 =osation as & musical R odigy. The war came along, however, and spolled her plans as a pianist. She 0ok up dancing. Parental objections to a dance career caused the youthful Yvonne to run away from home undertake a course of study in lerau, where she remained only a short time before coming under the influence of Mary Wigman, whose German school zf rdlncln‘ ‘A's.lnternltlon:lly famous. In lew mont appeared - lic with the dancers .n? 31‘::- in three years made her debut as a solo dancer and became a member of the Wigman School faculty. It was here :h‘lxl, she fi‘lfl Harald Kreutsberg, who & pupll, a il th:n‘un t that time they Kreutzherg went Opera as & member under Max ballet master subsidized by The followis the Hanover Kreutzhe: first u-:' recital during the k}\}:rfit production of ight's Dream.” Kreu and combined their hhnm n::u'un America last season for a seven-week at Polis one week from tomorrow after- noon will be made in the course of a Seata for on sale at the Droop’s, 1300 G street northwest. Mahler Songt to Be Sun¢ On Orchestral Pro(um THERE will be no performance by the Priends of Music in New York today. The next concert will be Sun- day afternoan, 8, at ¢ o'clock. in Mecca Auditorium. Artur Bodanzky will _conduct & program, consisting chiefly of orchestral “\:!. (:Iu’ Mme. opera orchestra. ‘The other works are Overture” Grosso” certo Grosso” of the “Tragic he “Concervo the “Con- ber 9, under | the with the experience and qualifications given by the musicians themselves. ‘There i3 no charge for this service, e Clty Club to Give Popular Concert Thursday THE City Club will give a popular music in the ball room of their club Thursday at 8:15 p.m. music the semi-classic t{lr. The concert will be opened by the ‘Tuesday Evening Club, under the direc- tion of Mrs. Frank Howard. Two Levine, violinist, a winner of the music who, although born in Bal- | and Caccini composed particularly | contest conducted by the National Fed- with | worthy music for the lute in old | eration of Music Clubs. Julia Culberth Gray, noted for her singing of folk songs, will give a cos- tume recital combined with musical essior.ed nged works especially for|circuits and staying over to take part | in this program. Selma Klein, con- tralto, also is to take a prominent part n the program. She is especially popu- lar at the City Club, where she had a leading part in Muth's operetta “Chrys- anthemum.” Newton Hammer. is well known In Wi , is sched- uled to sing a group, and, with Selma Klein, will sing a duet. Leah Effen- back, a nist, will be presented for the first time to City Club music lovers. A special group will be rendered by the Nordica String Quartet, com of T. Walter Holt, Miss A. E. Hill, Phillip Floria and Raymond Hart. concert will be brought to a close with a series of old-time favorites by the Nordica Banjo Club under the per- sonal direction of Walter T. Holt. Attendance at this event is limited to members and their guests. The Soldiers' fi;me Orchenn. TH! orchestra of the United States Soldiers' Home Band, John 8. M. immermann, leader, and Anton Point- ner, assistant, will give three concerts, as usual, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat- urday afternoons at 5:30 o'clock in Goossens' New Opera To Have First Performance MARY LOUISE CURTIS BOK, chairman of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. announces that Eu- gene Goossens' new opera, “Judith” will have its American premiere with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. st Academy of Music on Thursdsy evening, December 26, with Mr. Goos- sens conducting the performance. x‘wrlt: in previous morning events, but whose tenor volcel ‘ashington, TUSICAL flower Hotel at 11:15 am. at 8:30 p.m. DE LUCA-CASE RECITAL— WEDNESDAY. The outstanding baritone of the Met- | Topolitan Grand Opera Co. of New | York, Giuseppe de Luca, who was one of the stars in the revival of Mozai “Don_Glovanni” at the Metropoli last Friday, will make his first appe ance in Washington in a profession recital program, for many years at least, | Wednesday, when he is presented | jointly with Anna Case, the vivacious American soprano, under the manage- {ment of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend, at | the Mayflower at 11:15 a.m. Miss Case | will be remembsred not only as a fa- also as one of the five artists who con- | tributed last month to the opening of | the Constitution Hall as a music audi- um. ‘This is the first of a series of eight morning programs. The other two for | December_will be given December 11 |and 18. The artists will be announced | the Sunday preceding each event. | 'The program will be opened by Mr. | de Luca with the recitatives and air| “Avant de Quitter” frem Gounod's “Faust.” Miss Case will follow with | the “Jewel Song"” from the same opera. iThey close this operatic group with lhg' |duet from the first act of Thomas’ | opera “Hamlet.” Miss Case will sing a | | group of Kurt Schindler’'s Asturian and Catalan folk songs. Mr. de Luea will sing the air “Deh Vieni a la Finestra” irom “Don Giovanni” and the cavatina | from “The Barber of Seville” (the opera | |in which he won first recognition at the Metropolitan). The program closes with the famous duet “La ci Darem la Mano' |from “Don Giovanni.” Carroll Hollis- ter will be at the piano. ‘1 Pan-American Music Heads | Marine Band Events. 'HE recently returned United States Marine Band, Taylor Branson, leader, and Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader, will get back into the usual schedule of concerts in Washington this week. Wednesday night at the barracks | auditorium the band orchestra will play | a concert which will feature the Pan- American “La Voz de las Calles,” by Allende, which is to be given its first | performance in America at this time. ‘The tone poem Wwas “t:eu(? Abfie‘:: Chilean composer, Humber! 'nde, and already has been played with| marked success in Santiago, Buenos, Aires, Rio de Janeiro and other South American_capitals. Works by Gabano, Berlioz, mcgmnmofl. Romberg, Val- verde and Coates also will be played. A band concert will be given tomor- row afternoon at 4 o'clock, and another orchestral program will be given Fri- day at 3 p.m., both at the Marine Bar- rocks. The public is invited. ‘The Apollo Male Quartet presented a group of selections at the semi-annual banquet of the Bullders’ Club at the bl'll];l’(h Hotel Saturday night, Novem- T 23, EVENTS THIS WEEK ‘WEDNESDAY. Giuseppe de Luca, Metropolitan Opera baritone, and Anna Case, American soprano, will open the Townsend morning series at the May- FRIDAY. Fritz Kreisler, famous violinist, will give a recital at Poli’s Theater 4:30 pm. The Aguilar Lute Quartet will play at the Library of Congress FRITZ KREISLER—FRIDAY. Fritz Kreisler, the great Austrian violinist, whose hold on the American musical public bas never been attained by any other violinist of the period, 's | is scheduled to make his only Wash- ington concert appearance this season at_Poll's Theater Friday afternoon, at 4:30 o'clock, under the local manage- ment of Mrs. Wilson-Greene. His con- cert will be the second attraction of the philharmonic course. Kreisler's grave and courteous man- ner, his appealing personality and his superb musicianship have combined o make him one of the truly great figures of the modern American concert stage. He has penetrated and mastered every technical secret of his instrument, while his choice of programs ranges from beautiful and exacting classics through warm and rich romantic num- bers to light, fanciful pleces, inviting his remarkable dexterity. Mr. Kreisler will open his program with ene Ysaye's edition of the “A minor ata,” by Nicolo Pasquali. The second number with be Bach's “Chaconne,” for violin alone, followed by Tchalkowsky's “D-major Concerto.” Kreisler's own arrangements of the “Londonderry Air” and the “Gypsy Caprice” will lead to the final number, the violinist's arrangement of Rimsky- Korsakoff's “Fantasy on Russian ‘Themes.” Mr. Kreisler will be accom- panied, as usual, by Carl Lamson at the plano. Seats are on sale at Mrs. Wilson- Greene's conceit bureau in Droop's, 1300 G street northwest. KenualiRestial Toi AT TH! annual recital by students of the Danlels School of Music, R. J. Danfels, principal, was held at the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church last Monday night. Special features were provided by Grace Daniels Ma- honey, soprano; the rhythmic orches- tra, the women's chorus, Peter Phillips, violinist; Mrs. Gabriel Pelham, and the Rev. W. L. Washington, who gave the address and presented a copy of the Standard_History of Music to Irone C ‘Watson, Roberta Chavers, Ellen Kelly, Lucille Miles and Martha Wallace. Students participating included L. P. Bond, Maurice Johnson, Bernard Turn- er, Malcolm Jones, Norman Robinson, Gladys Simms, Avis Jones, Gladys Waters, L. V. Johnson, Helen Black, Virginia Heartwell, Frances Powell, Mary Heartwell, Mamie Coles, Jose- phine Farrar, Julia Clayborne, Geral- dine Westray, Frances Portis, Joseph Stewart, Ruth Churchill, Helen Y. Black, Lucille Miles, Naomi Bolden, Ursula Jackson, Helen Miles, Helen Ferguson, Roberta Chavers, Ellen Kelly, Emma Whitlow, Irone Watson, Cather- ine Trice, Claudine Peacem, Martha Wallace, Josephine Johuson, Rhoda Edna M. Johnson, Bernice Gray, Sophie Young, Madeline Young, Stella Cra- ven, Claudine Ennis, Catherine Hunter, Marion Brown and Mary White. Native American Instruments to Be Playe'd 'EW people perhaps know that the banjo, although it originated thou- sands of yvears ago as a very crude instrument, was developed in this coun- try and is the only truly native Ameri- can instrument. Joe Sweeney was the first to intro- duce the banjo as a solo instrument to the public in his vaudeville act about the middle of the nineteenth century |and his instrument was so loud that | the people called him Band-Joe, hence | the name banjo. Sweeney made his | own instrument, which was very crude |in comparison’ with the - expensive | models that are manufactured today ;whlch retail from $100 to $1,000. Twenty-five of these will be played by members of the Sophocles T. Papas | Banjo Band this afternoon at the'Earle Theater at 2:30. | 'This is one of the several groups which Mr. Papas organized three years | ago and which have become established | units of Washington musical organiza- | tions. They are to be heard this Win- | ter in concerts and over the radio. In one selection, an arrangement of | popular songs made by Mr. Papas, | variety will be given to the tone-color | by use of a saxophone to be played | by John Howard Paine. Rollin Bond Announces Washingtonians Productions ,ROLLIN BOND, director of the opera | school of the Washingtonians, 1731 Connecticut avenue northwest, and musical director and producer of up- ward of 100 light and grand opera presentations during the past 10 years in Washington, announces an outline of entertainment in civic performances by “The Washingtonians.” For the past two seasons Mr. Bond has concentrated more specifically on school work: He has had marked suc- cess in training young people of Wash- ington for Broadway productions. Ten youngsters have gone from his ballet | corps into the shows of Dillingham, | Weyburd and others. Some are on tour now in professional productions. Mr. Bond's producing season will open twith “Cavalleria Rusticana,” followed {by “Old Potpourri"—an original ar- rangement of scenes from the old stand- ard operas “Bouffe,” prime melody | favorites; “A Virginian Romance,” by H. Loren Clements, and others planned | to reveal delightful surprises. ! nally the aim of the opera school of | the * Washingtonians was to develop | talent only in the standard light opera classics, but a number of the voices and personalities under training proved suitable to grand opera interpretation. _— Barnes Teaches Voice. THE ‘Washington College of Music announces the addition of Dr. | Edwin N. C. Barnes to the vocal faculty | of the college. Dr. Barnes has filled with distinction the post of director of music of the | public schools of the Distriet of Co- lumbia for the past seven years. The | wide experience which he has had in the field of public school music in- cludes a 15-year period of privaie voice | teaching in Boston. Courses in ail phases of public school method at the college are under his supervision and personal tutelage. | TO PLAY MUSIC ON REVIVED TYPE OF INSTRUMENTS AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS | a2 Which came {o this country recently A THE AGUILAR QUARTET, 1o play old music originally wriiten for the lute, and also some have fis debut program in Washinglon Fridsy night at new music :lsn the Library of | Beutsics Seymour Goodwin ocpecially arranged for this Instrument, will g, Yoiog Sule, work for the current season, featuring | pe, ! MUSIG “THI TOYMAKER,” an operetta written by Bryceson Treharne, will be presented at the Gordon Junior High School Priday night by students, under the direction of Mary Minge Wilkins, supervisor of music at the school. This will be the first important musical event of this the newest junior | high school in Washington. ‘The music section of the Woman's | Club of Chevy Chase held its first tea and musical program under the chair- manship of Mrs. J. J. Underwood, as- sisted by Mrs. Prancis Shore and Mrs. Henry Brawner, last Monday at the home of Mrs. C. V. Imlay. ‘Those presenting the music Included Mrs. S. J. McCathron, Ruby Potter, Clara Wolff, Jean Westbrook, Frank Westbrook, Mrs. R. C. Wilson and Mrs. Roger Wells. Mrs. Charles Speaker gave several readings. ‘The music section meets every second | and fourth Wednesday at the Chevy | Chase Community Center, under the | direction of Herndon Morsell. ‘The choir of 20 voices, under the di- rection of Minge Wilkins, at Christ Church, Georgetown, will sing for the offertory, at 11 am. today, “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord,” b; Garrett, chosen especially for the first Sunday in Advent. Members of the giee club of the Hu- guenot Soclety of Washington presented 2 gramm recently at the American University. Carleton Ayers, baritone, sang several solos; the woman's tet, consisting of Helen Tucker, Doris Wiills, Mary Cline and Delsie 'Appel, sang two numbers; Miss Tucker and Miss Wills sang a duet and Barrett Puchs, baritone-bass, sang two songs. Miss Chamberlin was the accompanist. Carson P. Frailey of 3704 Livingston street, Chevy Chase, D. C., was soloist at the 180th annual dinner of the St. Andrew’s Soclety of Philadelphin, held at the Bellevue Stratford, Philadelphia, last night, St. Andrew's day. ‘The First Congregational Church choir of 60 voices gave a of numbers sung, a capella, under the di- rection of Ruby Smith Stahl, in Ta- koma Park November 23, assisted by Richard Lorleberg, cellist. Any persons interested in singing in this type of ensembie are invited to get in touch with Mrs. Stahl. Walter F. Johmson will give an ory recital at the Church of the P at_7:30 o'clock this evening. He will play “Prelude,” “Toccata,” “Meditation-Elegie” and ‘“Marche-Sol- enmelle,” from “First Suite,” by Borow- skl, and scherzo, “Fete des Fees,” by €. H. Marsh. Mr. Johnson will play “Provenca- lsch,” from “The Nineteenth Sonata,” by Rheinberger, preceding the services at 11 o'clock this morning. ‘The America ton Sehool Associa- | tion Orehestra, Ludwig E. Manoly, ¢oi duetor, with Mrs. K. Y. Cowling, ac- companist, opened the program given in l':e ?’ce'p(ion for new ecitizens spon- sor committe, D. A. R., and the local as- soctation st the United States Chamber of Commerce Building last Tuesday night. 1 Others giving musical numbers were: Louis Rosen, Max Rifkin, Caflera Ci- cala, Alfred Dunm, Ferrado Bartoli, Jo- seph Di Meglio, Eugenia Cherniafskaya and Mme. Clara Schinskaya. ‘The Joseph H. Daniels Glee Club of McKinley High School was the guest of Independent Council, No. 2, Daugh- ters of America, at their visitation held at D-‘uxhteu of America Hall Novem- T 18, Eleanor Hurfbut and L. E. Manoly were guest soloists at the meeting of the Mayflower Society of the Distriet of | Columbia at the P. A. R, Building re- cently, when they provided the program of musie. Mildred Faas, soprano, will be the guest soloist of the Priday -Morning Music Club this week. She will give a | song recital. Miss Faas is well known as an inter- preter of Bach and has many ‘times participated in the Baeh festivals in Bethlehem, Pa. Lucy Brickenstein will be at the piano. Oba Jan Gibson, lyric soprano, as- sisted by Jeanette Lewis DO'?!?PMI&!, rendered a program for the Theodare chosemmv:lt“l‘ndn, No. 44, ’ngnfldly 3 e program was followed 2 banquet and dancing. i Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, bass., Will be the assisting soloist on the pro- gram of Bach music presented by Lewis " Unitaria; 5 ‘The public is cordially mmea." s Howard Moore, baritone, was assist- ing soloist at the Eastern Presbyteria; hurck iday night when Stain- :‘rvs! - I;rh:h Dlu.me; u«:l Jairus” was | y the choir of | the direction of éhlflelevcl?‘gf:s‘t{nd" At the German service at Concordia Lutheran Church today William G. Naehl tenor, will sing “Comfort Ye My People” and the “Messiah” of Haendel. The chorus choir at the English service will sing the “How Shall I Fitly Meet , and the anthem, “Then Shall Ye See the Son of Man,” from the cantata, “The Life Everlast- ing,” by H. Alexander Matthews, with E. Thomas. Mabel edy. mezzo soprano, will sing “O Divine Redeemer.” by Cesar Franck, with violin obligato by Lucienne Strocker. In the evening there will be a special corporate communion service. The i ‘When I Survey the Wondrous by Mozart. The District of Columbia Chapter of | the American Guild of Organists will meet in the choir room of Epiphany Episcopal Church tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. The M 1 Singers, Mrs. John Milton Sylvester director and accom- panist, will render a half-hour program of early English, French and German carols. This will be followed by a short organ recital to be played by Mrs. Horace Smithey, organist at Wesley Met:.:mflclgrcl’l. “:t S. Edwin Moore, jr. A. A. G. O., organist-director at worth Methodist Chureh. e The Little Symphony.of the Univer- sity of Maryland will assist the at Petworth M. sical service at ‘The orches! horus:” W orus,” Wagner; Rubenstein; “Festival the State Americanization | Op. RAPHS bert. B. Louis Goodyear, choir di- Tector, is also director of the orchestra, Mrs. Martin A. Morrison, organizer of the Pianists’ Club of Washington and well known for many other activities 1. music circles here, and former Repre- sentative Morrison are spending a week in Atlantic City, where they celebrated their crystal wedding anniversary. ‘The Rubinstein Club is in full swing of preparation for the first concert, to be held at the Willard Hotel, Januai 21. Those desiring to appear on thi program are urged to attend all re- hearsals and those who wish to become members are advised to get in touch im- mediately witht the chairman of audi- tion, Mrs. Albext Volkmer, 234 Willow avenue, Takoma Park, telephone Shep- herd 2154. Kurt Hetzel. coriductor of the new Washington Choir, announces that he has pcstponed his New York engage- ment, and called a special rehearsal for Tuesday at the Thomson School Build- ing, Twelfth and L stmeets northwest, at 8 pm. At the last meeting the quota of 100 was reached. However, the committee remains undaunted and has set a new goal of 200 for Junuary 1. A massed chorus of 200 or 300 voices should be obtainable. With this in mind, a cordial invitation is extended to the singers of Washington to meet with the chorus ‘Tuesday, as outlined above. Facu]ty Recital Fridly. "THE Washington College of Music will present Mabel Duncan, cellist, and Nelson Oertel, pianist, n a joint faculty recital at the college Friday at 8:30 pm. This is the second of a series the college is giving this season. Miss Duncan, who is well known in Washington as one of the outstanding cellists and musicians, has been as- tsociated with the college for the past two years, where she is in charge .of the ‘cello department. Her studies in- \clude work with Hausman of the cele- ‘brated Joachim Quartet; chamber under Joachim, Halir, Wirth and ‘eitrowitz; also with the famous vir- tu\lo, Becker. Miss Duncan toured the\British Isles and the United States. Mr\ Oertel is comparatively new to Washiugton and is a member of the piano foculty of the college. His studies include work with Alex- ander Bexne and Rafael Josefly. He has appeangd In recital at Aeolian Hall, New York,\in Newark and the Pacific coast. The program to be given will include: Beethoven, “Sonata Op. 69" Miss Duncan. Chopin, “Prelude Op. 2 . 20 in € minor, No. 1 in C major, No. 22 in G minor; “Etude Op. 10 No. 3 A flat major,” Mr. Oertel. Schumann, “Pleces in Folkstyle Ov. 102—Nos. 1, 2, 4, Miss Duncan. Pergolesi-Josefly, “Nina”; Guion, “Turkey in the Straw"; Popper, “Serenade”; Barns, ridoff, m Springbrunnt 3 . Miss Duncan. Lisst, “La Campanella”; Mr. Oertel. Panny Amstutz Roberts will be ac- companist. . Emma Redell—December 12 EMMA REDELL, dramatic soprano, with fame from some eight years on the opera stage in Europe, comes to Washington for a debut recital Thurs- day afternoon, December 12, at the Na- tional Theater. It is a “home-coming” for Mme. Redell, who lived here for most of her life before the lure of a career sent her to Europe and success. of a big dramatic voice, she has an opera repertory of over 20 operas, besides which her song recitals in Europe have brought her praise from Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Salzburg and Warsaw, as a rare interpreter of Brahms. Strauss and Reger. Mme. Redell's return to Ameriea was heralded with a recital at Carnegie Hall, New York. in October, when one read of her mellow, sympathetic voice with appealing charm, and of her per- fect diction. She won a real ovation for her singing of the Tosca “Vissi d’Arte” as a final encore. 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