Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18
IN MUSICAL CIRCLES

The musical season Is drawing to a close,
and soon will come the time for the annual
concerts Of instructors to show what prog
ress their pupils have made during the
year. These are events of great interes: to
the pupil and their friends, and to the
teachers they mean much. Washington
has been favored in having a corps of
teachers who have done their work con-
scientiously and intelligently, and the re-
suits are shown in the rumber of Wash
ington m m and women who have become
prominent in every branch of musical art.
There are sim few prominent musical
events. however, and the chief of these is
the closing oratorio of the Choral Society,
when Mendelssohn's grand composition,
Elijah" will be given. This will be at
Aliens Grand Opera House next Friday
evening, and it is expected that the society
will appear to unusually good advantage.
The rehearsals have been frequent and we'll
attended, and the majestic choruses will be
splenddly sung. The soloists will be Ell
eanor Meredith of New York, soprano:
Ella Cleveland Henderson of Boston, con-
tralto: d. G. Henderson Of Boston, tenor,
and Ericsson Bushnell of New York, basso.
These are people Of good reputation. al
though only one Of them has ever sung in
this city.
That is Mr.. Bushnell who has sung
with the chorals and who is considered to
jah" in this country. Besides these, the
society will be assisted by the Philhar-
monio Quartet, composed of Mrs. Nellie
Wilson Shir-Ciif, Misses Grace McCul-
Tough, Eleanor SimondS and Florence Sted-
ham, and the Apollo Quartet, consisting of
Messrs. w. d. Mcfarland. Perry Turpin,
Frank Reside and Bernard A. Ryan. Both
these organizations are we'll and favorably
known here, and the double quartet work in
the opera will undoubtedly be admirably
sung. The friends of the Choral Society
are coming forward in good shape and have
determined to make this closing perform
ance one of unusual brilliancy. 1t is ex-
pected that every seat in the large audi
torium will be occupied.
Next Tuesday night the Rub.nstein Club,
composed entirely of ladies, will give a
complimentary musicale at Metzerott's
Music Hall. The membership now numbers
about forty voices. all Of which are good
and the ladies have been diligently prac-
ticing for this concert under the direction
Of the leader of the club Mr.. N. DuShane
Coward
The club will be assisted at the musicale
by Miss McEuen, Miss Blanche Jewell, Mr.
Coward and Mr.. Melville d. Hensey as So
posed of Messrs. Hensey, Cough Cronin
and Asmussen. The program will be well
arranged, one Of the numbers being the
well-known sextet from Lucia di LAM
mermoOr."
The national anthem to be sung at the
concert of the new Washington Military
Concert Band at Aliens Grand Opera
House tomorrow night has been highly
commended, not only to the lofty and pa
triotic sentiment Of the words, but also by
musicians for the character of the music,
which is in perfect harmony with the
poem. Both words and music are by
Washingtonians, the former by Mr.. John
Treanor and the latter by Mr.. A. Tregina.
Those who have examined the anthem say
that it will undoubtedly achieve wide
popularity.
dali Nv Z
will give violin and piano recital at the
Brazilian legation next Wednesday even
ing. Both these gentlemen are fine per-
formers and play with musicianly feeling
The former, in addition to his musical
ability, is also an artist Of good reputation
and has quite a large number Of pictures
on exhibition. Both gentlemen are well
known in social and diplomatic circles and
there will undoubtedly be a large attend
ance of the best people at the coming con-
cert.
Mrs. Thos. c. Moves sang in Richmond
Monday night under the auspices of the
Mozart Association Of that city and evil
IDENTIFY scored a success. The Dispatch in
it's issue Tuesday. said: Mrs. Dorothy
Noyes. a well-known soprano of Washing
ton, was the recipient Of the larger share
PEELED to respond to encores after each of
her solos, which were admirably rendered
Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinsons fine baritone
voice has been heard here before at the
that he received a repetition of his former
warm welcomes last evening""
The birthday Of the composer Donizetti
being April 8, the Sunday Night Music Club
played a program Of his operate compost
lions at the residence of Miss Elsa Ulke, on
S street. 1t included the overtures to 1.-THE
Daughter of the Regiment and Don Pas
quale," together with excerpts from those
operas, La Favorita," THE Elixir Of
Love-" "Lucretia Borgia' and Lucia di
Lammermoor." Miss BERTHE Rechenbach
sang seven Of the prominent arias and cav
atinas, with piano and string accompani-
ment, after which they played Schubert's
Hungarian Gypsy Divertissement, composed
by him while he was living at Count Ester
Hays (whose daughters he taught, and for
whom he composed that music. Interest in
this number was enhanced by the fact it
was orchestrated by List after Schubert's
death as a token of his appreciation of the
fidelity with which Schubert had embodied
in it the peculiar rhythmic and melodic char
acter Of the gypsy airs. The members pres
ent were Misses Elsa and Annie Ulke, Re-
becca Behrend. Florence Henri King, and
Messrs. Ulke, Lovy, Sol Cohen and the
Phillips brothers