Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
IN MUSICAL CIRCLES
The Choral Society Has Secured Week Day
Nights for Its 0ratorios
Members Are Now Diligently Rehears-
ing Items About Local Musicians.

The Choral Society will not give its rep
resentation of the Messiah" on Sunday
night, arrangements having been finally ef-
fected with the Convention Hall people for q
week day date, although much earlier than
was desired by the society. This was ao-
cepted, however, in Difference to the wishes
of those who SO seriously object to Sunday
night performance. This will require much
| more active work among the members in
the disposition of tickets and a more prompt
response on the part of the honorary MEM
hers. The date fixed is December Il, and it
is intended to place the tickets on sale
soon as possible. There is no uncertainty as
to the excellence of the chorus work, for the
society has sung this oratorio nearly every
year during its career, and the rehearsals
are being conducted with vigor by the mu-
steal director, DR.. H. C. Sherman. The
quartet of soloists will be Miss Charlotte
MacoEda, soprano: Miss Ruth Thompson,
who is great favorite here and who has
developed her voice finely since her removal
to New York, contralto; Mr.. Z. C. Towne,
tenor, and DR.. Carl Daft, basso.
The Friday Morning Music Club will pre-
sent Mr. H. e. Krehbiel in four lectures,
which will be given December g. January IA
February IL and March 10 in the music room
of the Washington club, No. ITO ! street
northwest, a. $3.50 o'clock pm. Mr. Krehbiel
Will treat first on Dramatic Dances and
Children's Games" then upon Wandering
Ballads following this by "Classicism and
Romanticism in Music" and closing with
Wagner's Music Drama-Parsifal." Each
of these lectures will be illustrated by appro-
pirate piano music, interpreting the subject
treated of, and the design is to aid concert
goers and students who wish to know more
of the structure, history and meaning of
WORKS which they hear and study. SINH
lar course was given here last year under
the auspices of the same club, and was of
great interest 1t is unnecessary to speak of
Mr.. krehbiel's standing as a musical critic
ana an authority upon the subjects he has
selected.
Rivarde the great violin virtuoso, made
his debut In New York in Carnegie Hall
with Anton Seidls Metropolitan Orchestra
last Sunday. He made an instantaneous hit
and has heen engaged by the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra, Theodore Thomas Or
chestra and other leading organizations for
repeated appearances in all the larger cities
OF this country. 1t will be Interesting to
know that he will also be heard in this CITY
IN conjunction with the Washington String
orchestra. This society will number sixty
performers and is composed of the best local
talent, under the direction of Mr. Ernest
Lent Iheir hrSt concert, assisted by Miss
Mary Helen Howe, the well-known soprano
ana by several young, rising violin solosts
Will occur on December Z at Metzerott Music
Han, and an interesting and carefully pre-
pared program will be rendered that no
doubt will heighten the very Favorable inn
preston caused by the first appea rance OF
the orchestra last spring. This organization
deserves the most generous support of the
community, and its educational aims and
cultivation of recognized standards should
De literally encouraged. Already the adj
vance sale, aided by the popular prices. has
oeen large. As soloists for the second con-
cert are announced Riyarde Aime Ia.
chaume and Mr.. Ernest Lent
Mr. arthur u. Mayo, whose piano recitals
Iasl season attracted such favorable COM
nleht among musicians, announces his first
cor fta
church next Wednesday evening. He has
selected program that will not only show
the varied extent of his reading but Will
be pleasing to all lovers of classical niano
work 1t will also test his technical ahiI-
lily as performer and his music.anly spirit
as an interpreter. He will play Beethoyen's
sonata in F minor entire. RATS prelude and
fugue in MINOR, the Bach-Saint Saens'
gavotte In b minor, Schubert's inn
promptu. Chopin's polona.se in G sharp
minor, Mendelssohn's capriocio in A minor.
boiero by Hitler, LISTS study in d FIAT
ana the same composers transcription of
Eerdis "Rigoletto." Mr.. Mayo will be as
sisted by Mr.. Frank Reside the popular
baritone, who will sing Pagner's address
Henry the Fowler" Handlers ..Where'er
You Walk and Carissimfs "Vittoria Mic
Core"
Much interest is being taken in the series
q popular concerts by Prof. T. Williams
Pearman, to take place at the Church of
Our Father. The first is announced for next
tuesday evening, and will include as par
Elephants in the program besides Prof Pear
man, DIR. j. w. Bischoff, organist: Mrs. John
c. Edwards, pianist; Mr.. Eugene Coffin sax
ophone soloist; Miss Anita Cluss harpist:
Mrs Hattie Meads Smith, Mrs Morgan d.
Lewes, Miss Florence McNelly and Mr.. j. J.
Fishof. Prof. Pear man has won a reputa-
tion not only as a conscientious and artistic
singer, with a tenor voice capable of sympa-
thetic work from ballads to oratorios but
as the successful precentor at the Church Of
he G oil n
public will undoubtedly appreciate this eff
fort to furnish good music at popular prices.
The other concerts will be at intervals OF
about month, and will introduce the best
local musicians, both vocal and instru-
mental
Prof. Henry Xander and Prof Anton
Gloetzler have been notified of their election
as members of the New York Manuscript
Society. There are four musicians in this
city that are now attached to that organi-
cation. the other two icing Mr.. d. G. Pfeif-
fer and Mr.. Ernest Lent, who is the local
corresponding secretary.
Prof. Emil Mort, whose music for ''Vir-
girius'' was the subject of much commenda-
ton during Mr. Hanford's performance Of
the play, hopes soon to produce his opera
'"Telemach'' on the professional stage with
a competent company, a good orchestra and
adequate scenery. This work, it will be re-
n.embered, was presented at MetZerott Hall
last season by amateurs.
Prof. Thorald Jerichan will hereafter give
his weekly musicals at his studio in Droo9's
Friday afternoons at 4:30 O'Clock. These
SnCsicales are very enjoyable, and are at
tended by many lovers of good piano inter-
Pre- tations.
Messrs. Cullen and Collins, the banjoists,
have greatly enlarged their repertoire, and
are now doing better and higher grade of
work than ever before. They have arranged
many operate overtures and classical COM
positions, and by their artistic Interpretation
show the development of banjo playing, and
that this instrument is capable of much
higher work than is generally believed
The Count i'm Winter.
From the Detroit Free Press.
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