Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-11
I'm MUSICAL CIRCLES
Where Music and Musicians Receive the
Greatest Encouragement
Second Students' Concert of Mrs. II. H
Mflls-Other Matters of Consid-
cradle Local Interest.

The second installment Of Mrs. H. H.
Mills pupils appeared at her closing musi-
Gale at Metzcrott Music Hall last night,
and the program was fully as attractive as
the one last Wednesday evening. The at
tendance was even larger than on the first
occasion, and the audience was fully as
enthusiastic. All the numbers were well
sung, but the hit of the evening was made
by the philharmonic Quartet in an arrange
ment Of Mendelssohn's ION Wings Of
Song which had teen made for female
voices by Miss Lolita Mills. Miss Mills was
also very much in evidence in her splendid
Accomplishments, and in the work of Miss
Fassett who played two selections by
Grieg in an intelligent and artistic manner
She was also represented on Wednesday
evening by Mrs. Gilbert, whose interpreta-
ton OF Mendelssohns Capriccioso Brtniante,
Inadvertently omitted in the notice of that
concert, was highly commendable and was
loudly applauded.
The quintet from Rob Roy" which was
received with such favor on Wednesday
night, was repeated by request last evening
and was thoroughly enjoyed, as was also
the quartet from Carmen" which was
again excellently done. Those who partic-
ipated in last nights program were gen.
orally more advanced in their musical edu-
cation than those In the first musicale and
all acquitted themselves in a manner alike
creditable to themselves and to the compe-
tent instruction they had received. Those
VINO took part last night, besides those al
ready mentioned. were Misses Armstrong
Conley, Turner, Whitaker, Reichenbach,
Simonds, Judson, AtLee and Doe, Mrs
Flint, Messrs. Roberts, Skerrett and Lueb-
kert. All received handsome floral tributes,
and the stage was a bower of beauty
banked with palms and potted plants.
Madame Marie Decca the singer will be
the guest Of honor at supper given by
Coyne Fletcher this evening.
No one was a greater friend to music
and musicians than the late Mrs. Clara
V. Pope. She was one of the earliest pa
tronesses of classical music in this city,
and for over thirty years the hospitable
home of DR.. and Mrs. Pope was rem
professional. There is hardly local mu-
stefan Of Tote within the past quarter Of a
century who has not at some time taken
active part in the delightful gatherings
at their home. Mrs. Pope's first musical
club. established nearly thirty years ago,
included such nstrumentalists as Doctors
Kimball and Perabean, Samuel Carusi Geo.
K. Finckel, VIM. Morehead, Fred Kroel
Samuel Kieckhoefer. Ferdinand Weller
VIM. H. Barr. Henry Eberbach, the like
brothers, Henry Donch. George Pateen and
Henry Fries. OF the vocalists there were
Adelina Fleischmann, Marie Philip, Miss
May Pauline Ever. Charles c. Ever, w.
H. Burnett, Samuel G. Young Nat. Fugitt
and others well known in those days. and
some Of whom are still in the public mind.
Many of those mentioned above have
ceased their labors here, but the memory
of the work they did In the cause of mu-
sic while living still remains, and the in
fiuence they eXerted upon the music pro-
gress in this city is still felt.
Mrs. Pope continued her muSicaleS even
up to the time that she was stricken with
the illness that resulted in her death, and
of these who in more recent times partici-
pated in these delightful gatherings may
he Harry Sherman John p
Lawrence, Henry Xander, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Lent, Herman Rakemann. Anton
Gloetzner, Paul Miersch, Walter Paris,
Josef Kaspar. E. w. Stone, Herr Beck
ell j. R. Gibson. Mrs. VIM. B. King,
Miss Amy Leavitt. Miss Lolita Mills, Miss
Alice Burbage, Mr. E. D. Mayo. Maud
Powell Bertha Lucas, Anita Cluss, Harry
Wheaton Howard. Herndon Morsell Mrs.
Morsen Warren Young. Bertha Lincoln
Heustis, Mrs. Mute, Nellie and Lillian
Hunt, Mrs. Philip Munro, VIM. Castle, w.
D. Macdonald, Tom Karl Geo. Conley and
members of nearly every English opera
troupe.
The loss of Mrs. Pope to the musical pub
lie Is great and is sincerely felt, for aside
from encouraging local talent she was
foremost in promoting entertainments for
charitable purposes. The first concert for
the benefit Of the Homeopathic Hospital,
which has since been SO materially bene
fitted by musical performances, was given
in Mrs. POpe's parlors. the performers be-
ing selected from the best members Of the
Georgetown Orchestra, the Marine Band
and leading amateurs, led by John Philip
Sousa. A neat little tribute to her worth
has been issued by friend. which. while
it does not do her entire justice, is a sin
cere recognition of Mrs. Popes value to the
musical cult in Washington.
The New York Manuscript Society held
a banquet last night, at which Mr.. d. G.
Pfeiffer. chairman of the finance committee
of the Choral Society, attended as guest
frcm this District. There is but one men,
Der of that society resident here, and that
is Mr. Ernest Lent, who mas had some
of his compositions performed by the So
ciety. But Mr.. Lent could not make 1t
convenient to attend this banquet. and so
delegated Mr.. Pfeiffer to go. In his speech
Mr.. Pfeiffer referred to the progress that
music had made in the District and of the
part that the Choral Society had played in
this development. and emphasized that two
works by American composers had been
produced by that society--Dudley Bucks
Light of Asia and Dvorak's "Spec ter
Bride" He alluded to the need here at
the national capital of a music hall OF suffi-
cient size to be of benefit to the production
of large choral works and properly equip
ped with first-class organ. The erection
of hall of this character, he said, was
the object of the Choral Society, and he
urged that all lovers of music in it's high
est and best sense and ell who are con-
nected with musical people should aid the
society in their endeavors to accomplish
such d desirable result.