Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-08
IN MUSICAL CIRCLES
The Georgetown Orchestra at Work for Its
Coming Concert.
Testim oninls to BE Given to PrOfs
Waldecker Other Items.

The Georgetown Orchestra Is making
good progress under the competent dirsc-
ton of Mr.. Anton Glcetzrer, and 1t is safe
to assume that the high standard which
this organization has attained through its
many years of constant work under several
directors will be fully maintained when it
shall present itself to the public with Mr..
Gloetzner welding the baton. One attri-
butte which Mr. Gloetzner has is thorough
ness. and he will compel the most careful
rehearsals until he is satisfied that the
work in hand will be creditably interpret
ed. 1t is no easy task to lead a corps Of
amateur musicians, for they rarely feel the
same obligation to be prompt and regular
in their attendance at rehearsal as pro-
fessionals, whose continuance in employ
ment depei.dS upon their faithful work.
When they DO attend the amateurs prac-
tice with s much fidelity and more en-
thusiasm than the paid musicians, because
they are really in love with their work,
but they will not postpone an engagement
of pleasure or what might be considered
social duty to attend rehearsal, because
they don't feel that the obligation to their
musical duties is absolutely binding.
And yet rehearsals are more necessary
for amateI RS than for professionals, and
lnOSe VINO connect themselves with any
organization should avoid much as pos
sible the liking of other engagements on
the nights fixed for practice. 1t Is discour-
aging to a conductor to find only six or
eight out of some twelve or fourteen first
ViolinS present and perhaps the same ratio
in regard to other instruments, and the
absentees miss valuable suggestions from
the director well lose the opportunity
of perfecting themselves in the :nterpreta-
ton in their own score.
This -laXity of attendance at rehearSalS
of amateurs is not confined to Instrumental
Performers for singing organizations suffer
in the same way. Sometimes there are but
4 few tenCrS and BASES when there should
be thirty or forty in part, and there is
frequently a WIDE discrepancy between
those who should be present and those who
do attend of the sopranos and contraltos al
though it is the experience of those who
have controlled forces composed of both
ladies and gentlemen that the former are
more regular in attendance than the latter.
When the Georgetown Orchestra does ap-
pear this season it Will present a program
that will delight its friends. both as to It's
character and it's execution.
The DaTrcsch Club, which is conducted
by Mr.. Herndon Morsell, contemplates CIV
ing complimentary concert to it's friends
IN some hall in the near future. Heretofore
It's rnUS:cales have been in the nature of
social events. where the attendance was
necessarily limited, but now 1t Is thought
best to allow a larger number to hear what
excellent work this organization can do.
Miss Alice Judson appears to have given
satisfaction during her trial singing at St
Andrews Church, and it is expected that
she will be regularly engaged as the soprano
OF that choir.
The testimonial to Prof T. Williams
Pearn.an, to be given in the lecture room of
the Church of the Covenant next Tuesday
eveHiDS, promises to be a very successful
event. Among the patrons and patronesses
are Sir Julian and Lady Pauncefote, the
Misses Pauncefote, Madame Mendonca, the
wife of Secretary Olney Mrs Calvin
Brice, Mr.. John Hay, Mrs. Rudolph Kauff-
mann. Rev. and Mrs. Teunis S. Hamlin and
Mrs Madison NJ. Ballinger. Among those
who Will assist Prof. Pearman are Mr.. John
Porter Lawrence, Mr.. c. j. Toof. Mr.. Louis
Fahnestock, jr., Mr.. George Mellis, Miss
Anita Cluss Miss Roberta Allen, Mrs. J. L.
Shedd. Miss B. Salmon, Miss Margaret
koontZ and Miss Mary Helen Howe. Mr.
Mellis and Miss Koontz are pupils of Prof.
Pearman, and the latter will make her de-
but as concert singer.
A musical event Of interest just an
nounced is a testimonial concert rendered
Mr. VIM. Waldecker, the well-known mu-
sician and director of the Saengerbund
The affair takes place at the Academy OF
Music, Sunday evening. February %, and
the many friends of this gentleman will
doubtless test the capacity of the house.
The assisting talent is as follows: Wash
ington Saengerbund, Mr.. Herman Rake
Manu. Miss Alice Burhage, Miss Whitesel.
Miss Eichhorn, Mr.. Frank Rebstock Mr..
Mosher and Donch's Orchestra, Mr. Chas.
Donch, sr., director. Mr.. Waldecker is one
of the most finished and versati musi-
clans in this city. He is an excellent pian-
ist and organist, and his conduct of the
choir of st. Mary's Church has raised the
standard of choir singing to a high degree
As director of the Saengerbund he has
brought that body of singers up to an ex-
cellent point. and their work increases in
favor with each public appearance.
1t is expected that the new Washington
Symphony Orchestra formed by Mr.. Her
about the beginning Of March. The guar
antee fund has not yet quite reached the
point desired, but 1t is expected that it
soon viii, and then the public will have an
opportunity of seeing what Mr.. Rake
mann's organization can do. 1t demon
strated it's ability to play accompaniment
at the performance of the Messiah" by
the Choral Society, but that did not indi-
cate, except in measure, it's capabilities
under it's own director and as an Interpreter
of symphonic music.
A suggestion has been made that this con-
cert be given a Sunday night and at
believed that the friends of the new orches-
ira will be more than enough to fill any
available hall, and Sunday night is the only
time when the opera house can be obtain
ed. Mr.. b. II. Droop. who Is looking after
the business interests of the Symphony Or
chestra, has not yet decided upon Sunday
night concert but he recognizes the fact
that the concerts on that evening by John
SoUsa's Band and Will Haley's New Wash
irgton Military Concert Band have met
with decided favor, and he believes that the
Symphony Orchestra would be fully as
strong an attraction as either of those
1t is likely that there will be a change in
the character of music at the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church after the mid
die of March, which is the commencement
of the church year. Rev. DR.. Radcliffe pre-
fers quartet and chorus choir to the SIM
pie precentor and congregational singing
that is now employed. and in this prefer
ence he is said to be supported by a large
and influential portion of the congregation
Nothing will be done until the annual BUSH
ness meeting of the church.
SHE OBJECTED TO A SYNDICATE.
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