Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1930, Page 65

MUSIG (Continued From Fourth Page.) ning of each week, at the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church. New sacred and secular music is being re- hearsed, with a view of giving an Invi- tation concert early in the Spring at one of the leading hotels. It is also planned to have a dinner during the month of March. Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee announces that, owing to the increased member- ship in the Capital City Choristers, of which she is director, the rehearsals will be held in_the choir room of the Church of the Ascension instead of the studio. This change is effective for the meeting tomorrow Nellie Barber Brooks, lyric soprano, | assisted by Elsie Cranmer, pianist, will be the soloist at thé annual meetin of the District of Columbia chapters of | the D. A, R. at Memorial Continental | Hall Wednesday afternoon. Lorena Stockton Gawler, coloratura | Atwater Kent Foundation RAPHS the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra is to play Tuesday under ‘Toscanini. Frances Guteli ] present a group of young people in an hour of piano music Saturday at 3 p.m. at her Dupont circle studios 0 Mozart sonatas, with second piano by Grieg, will be played by Anne Stowall and Walter Drummond Swank. Other ensemble and solo numbers will be given by Barbara Bolling, Letitia Bogan, Lucia Ellls, Ruth Haycraft. Jane Cooper, Betty Marshall, Janet O'Leary, Karlian ster, Margaret and Beatrice Announces Fourth Audition 'HE Fourth National Radio Audition, offering cash awards of $25,000 o young amateur singers of the United States, is announced by the Atwater Kent Foundation of Philadelphia. The audition in 1930 will follow the lines of soprano. will sing at the travelette tea of the. International University Socief in the cabinet room of the Willard Tues- | v afternoon. The theme of the travel | Ik’ is “France,” and music will be| French. Mrs. Gawler will be heard on the air this morning in the half hour of music furnished each Sunday by the Lov Studio. Elsie Cranmer will assist at the pieno at both programs. The Lovette Choral Club, under the temporary direction of Lorena Stockton Gawler, during the illness of Mrs. I e, has planned a series of intensive rearsals in preparation for a benefit ert at the Pirst Baptist Church, un- der the auspices of the: Emily York | Circle, in the near future. The club has been augmented for its Spring appearances. New members join- ing last week Lucy N. Alsop, Maud | Chapman, Maude J. Hall. Louise K Hartung and Alice E. Webster. The Washington Alumnae Club of Mu Phi Epsilon, National Musical So- ority, was entertained Thursday eve- ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. | Gordon on Lamont street. Jane Darb: a member of the club, was the hostes: assisted by Mrs. Gordon. | Edith Athey, Helen Bellman and Charlatte Klein each played several se- lections on the pipe organ installed in their home. Later Mr. Gordon played for the club. In addition, Frances Cole Vera Ross and Hazel Wood sang groups | of songs and Mabelle New Williams gave | violin selections. ‘ Schubert’s “Serenade” and “Danny | Boy” were sung by Mildred Maxwell | Smith, soprano, at_the meeting of Rho | Beta Chapter, Mu Phi Epsilon Honorary | Musical Sorority, Tuesday, at the home | of Dorothy Russell Todd. Catherine Benson accompanied Miss Smith at the piano. | Following Miss Smith's group, Ruth | ‘Thomas, pianist, rendered modern num- | bers—Debussy’s “Plus Que Lent” and | John Powell's “Clowns.” This afternoon at 4:30 Rho Beta, Chapter will entertain at a silver tea at the Washington College of Music. Alice Allen Merrill, cellist, will be guest artist. Interest is being shown in the tea, the object of which is to raise funds to send | two delegates to the biennial conven- f tion of Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority, which | will meet at Mackinac Island, Mich., in | T June. ‘This morning at 11 o'clock at the | Mount Pleasant Congregational Church the Mount Pleasant Chorus and Solo Quartet, composed of Elsie Schulze, so- prano: Mary Apple, contralto; William P. Shannahan, tenor, and Herman Fak- ler, bass, will sing under the direction of Norton M. Little, with Claude Robe- son at the piano. The program inclides: Anthems, “I ‘Waited for the Lord,” Mendelssohn, and “Forever Worthy Is Thy Lamb,” ‘Tschaikowsky; bass solo, “Love Never Faileth,” Root. ‘The entire morning service will be broadcast by station WRC. In the evening at 8 o'clock the chorus | and quartet, under Mr. Little’s direc- | tion, will sing the “Requiem Mass in ? Minor,” by Cherubini. This beautiful work is sung. rarely. The public is | invited. R } Richard Burmeister, distinguished | violinist, who has his Summer master | classes in a studio in Merano, in North- | ern Italy, sends a card from Tripoli, | Africa, mentioning that, preceding his | opening of his studio in June, he is on a concert tour of Northern Africa and Southern Italy. ‘The regular monthly meeting of the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs will be held Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the residence of the president, Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard, 1912 R street. Gene Stewart has been appointed organist and director of music at the Waugh M. E. Church, Third and A | streets northeast. Mr. Stewart will organize senior and | junior choirs. In addition he will give several concerts for the church, engag- ing various well known local artists to assist. He will conduct classes at the church studios. Gertrude Lyons, exponent in Wash- ington of the method used by Dr. John Finley Willlamson, conductor of the | internationally known Westminster Choir, will give a brief talk on the technique of conducting and how to preach the gospel through music be- fore the District of Columbia Chapter of American Guild of Organists in the choir room of Epiphany Church, 1317 G street, at 8:15 p.m, tOMOrTOW. John Russell Mason gave a program of organ music at the 109th Winter con- vocation of George Washington Uni- ersity, at Constitution Hall February 22, on the newly installed three-manual organ. | Mr. Mason is the organist of Central Presbyterian Church, Sixteenth and | Irving streets, end associate librarian | of George Washington University. The choir of Concordia Lutheran Church, Twentieth and G streets north- | west, consisting of 50 voices, will sing | the Bach cantata, “God’s Time 1s Best” | (Actus Tragicus), at 8 p.m. today. The | soloists will be Howard Bursley, tencr, Henrictta Flynn, contralto, and Mayne | R. Coe, baritone. John R. Monroe is | organist and choirmaster of the churct of the most fa- | nous by n Bach and | as written in his twentieth year. It is of the pure German spirit, before he vas influenced by the Italian school. It has “Death” for its subject. Probably n no other piece of art has the cor Aict between mortality and immortality been set forth so dramatically. It was ne of the first cantatas to be rescued from_oblivion, being first produced at Prankfort-am-Main in 1833. This is the second Bach cantata sung | y the Concordia choir this season, and | but the third given in Washington re- cently. l The soloists at Concordia Lutheran | “hurch this morning will be Margaret | 2andolph Muse, soprano, and Howard | 3ursley, tenor. They will sing the| iuet, “Love Divine,” 'by Stainer, using | the German and English texts, respec- ively at the two services. The chor hoir at the English service will he choral “Let My Prayer,”; by Purce and the anthem “Open Our Eyes,” | MacFarlane. The choir of Rock Creek Church V\Sll" resent a minstrel show Tuesday at| 3:15 pm. in the new parish hall, Rock | Creek Church road and Webster street. ‘There will be six blackened “end men” and a large mixed chorus in costume, vith James F. Madison, director of the how, acting as interlocutor. Two pianos will be used in specialty numbers and t0 accompany the songs, dances and | drills. There will be selections from “Show Boat,” “Sunny Side Up” and other musical shows, arranged by Ruth Farmer, musical director. Maud Sewall will give her eighth lec. ure at the Institute of Musical Art to norrow at 5 p.m. on the program that | and repeated in 1928-29. | participate this year. The awards (the | vinced that those’ who strive earnestly | radio auditions have awakened a sense | three honoring Abraham Lincoln and | upon the Reservists’ retired list with no | active service will have amounted to 30 the competition inau; ated in 1927 Tens of" thousands of boys and girls took part in the previous contests. Pre- liminary inquiries from both singers and patrons of music indicate that other thousands are already anxious o same as last year) will be: of first place (one boy and one 000 each and two years merican conservatory, or its equivalent. inners of second place, $3,000 each and vear's tuition, T “The more I consider the results of the three previous auditions,” said Mr. Kent in announcing that another co: test would b held, “the more I am co in the earlier stages gain very real ben- cfits, even as thase do whose efforis carry them into the national finals Perhaps the greatest achievement of the foundation—certainly the one in which I take the greatest pride—is that the of musical ability among thousands of young people in America.” The contest, open to amateurs be- tween 18 and 25, will begin with the holding of local auditions in cities and towns throughout the couatry. Con- ducted on the principle of elimination, it will progress through local, State and district stages to national finals. The istrict or semi-final _auditions, = of which there will be five, representing as many geographical divisions, into which the country as a whole will be divided, will each qualify one boy and one girl- ten in all—who will sing in grand finals in New York over a coast-to-coast net- work of stations. The national finals will be judged solely by a board of musical authori- ties. In the State and district audi- tions the merits of the singers will be determined jointly by a board of judges and the votes of radio listeners. All expenses of contestants to the district and final auditions will be borne by the Atwater Kent Foundation. Soldiers’ Home Orchestra. 'HE orchestra of the United States Soldiers’ Home Band (John S. M. Zimmermann, leader, and Anton Point- ner, assistant) will give three concerts, 8s usual, Tuesday, Thursday and Satu day afternoons at 5:30 o'clock in Stan- ley Hall. The programs will, as usual, combine classic and lighter numbers. American Gold Star Mothers The American Gold Star Mothers have been active during February, being represented at five patriotic observances, iwo in honor of George Washington. Two business meetings were held with the president, Mrs. Seibold, presiding. The recording secretary, Mrs. Eugene g Bruce, entertained the mothers and their friends February 22 at a George Washington tea held in her home on Rhode Island avenue. A program of music and readings was given by the following: Miss Hazel Wood, vocal solos, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. E.! Earl Wagner; Mrs. Mabel Anderson Edgerton, piano solos; Mr. E. Earl ‘Wag- ner, violin solos, accompanied by Mrs. ‘Wagner at the piano; Mrs. Violet Jor- dan, readings; Mrs. Edgerton and Mrs. ‘Wagner, Rauno duets, and master Rich- ard and Robert. Wagner, readings. Mrs. Bruce ‘was. assisted by her daughter, Mrs. Carrle’ Wagner, and Mrs. John Spengler. Invitations were accepted from the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy for the patriotic service in Beth- lehem Chapel today, also from the Washington unit of Women's Overseas League, March 8, at 2400 Sixteenth street. The president entertained the boar: of trustees in her home Saturday evee ning, with Mrs. R. E. Jacobs as the guest of honor, who was the recipient of a surprise shower @s an expression of :::grecianon of her gifts to the organi- on. Marine Corps Notes Reservists of the 16 and 20 year classes, respectively, are being advised by corps headquarters to report for physical examination to the nearest naval medical officer on active duty or to a Reserve medical officer (inactive status) and hgve such report anent their physical fitness forwarded, re- spectively, so as to reach the deps ment not later than June 30. In ac- cordance with approved act of Con- gress, which became effective in March, 1929, all Reservists found physically un- qualified will be automatically placed increase of pay or allowances until their combined active service, Reserve inactive service and Reserve retired in- years, when they will be entitled to re- ceive the extra money allowance of $15.75 per month in lieu of rations and clothing Maj old H. Utley, attached to the marine barracks, navy yard, New York, has been ordered to duty at Quantico. Second Lieut. Chester B. Graham, on duty in Nicaragua, has been ordered to Quantico. Second Lieut. Theodore B. Millard, attached to the Quantico base, has been ordered to the naval air station, Pensa- cola, Fla. Second Lieut. Homer L. Litzenberg, attached to marine barracks, navy yard, Puget Sound, Wash., has been ordered to duty at the looal navy yard, and is expected to report about March 5. First Lieut. Caleb T. Bailey, attached to the Quantico base, has been ordered to duty at the naval air station, Pensa- cola, Fla. Second Lieut, Donald G. Willis, tem- porarily attached to corps headquarters, this city, has been assigned to duty at the marine barracks, navy yard, th Eggs Carry Advertisements. ‘The novelty of placing advertise- ments on eggs, which is said to have originated in Germany, has been taken up by Canadian exporters. 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