Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
M U SlCAL N o T E S

With the concert Of the Washington
| local musical season may be said to COM
mence. There will be other concerts by
| this organization. which will be fully as
| good as the program offered for tomorrow
| night. The Choral Society will open its
| series with 1.-The Messiah" during the
| Christmas holidays. and the Washington
String Orchestra concerts and those by
Mr. Herman c. Rakemann will furnish
| good music.
Profs. H. E. Salesman and William de
Ford, assisted by their pupils and musical
| friends, will produce next Monday evening
| In National Rifles armory the comic opera
''1olanthe," which is one of the brightest
gems Of Gilbert and Sullivan and is COM
paratlvely new, as it has not been given
here in a number of years. The story
| neals in fairy subjects and affords fine op-
portunities for costuming and beautiful eff
fccts, which promise to be on a more elab-
crate Scale than is usually attempted by
| amateurs. Rehearsals have been in pre-
| gress for some time. and the cast and
the large chorus have accomplished good
results ana expect tocRgitase their efforts
OF hast season, when Mah fence" was pro-
dnced with such pronebnSsd success. Mr..
stage asd also assumee1 lie roIe Of the Lord
Chance1lpr a part which lis particularly
| adapted n his styfe Of COMEDY. accidental
t. the opera q sNballes Will pc danced by
IS conpassd Of the feIlewinE weil-known
ladies' and gentlemen: Meskrs. VIII Con-
ley, Charles H. Wright, IT.. VIM, Ernst
/ w A. Butler and Art bur y: Earnest, Mrs
Ailfe cassidy, MtssesS DyW Whit Ford EN-
MAJ Greere, BlaEche' Muir and saidee
| Drown. g,
Mrs: Susanna Oldberg will ave a student
| recltai assisted by Mr.. Pierres9sStevens
| ava Mr.. Harry Wheaton Howard, at the
" ashington Club 17l9cI' street, Thursday.
December Q, at AIS o'clock. Among the
| pupils to take part will sbe Mrs Ralph p.
barnard. Mrs Sprigg. Miss Ernestine Row
| iand' MI. II. F.. Hoover and MIR. Philip
| Gerry Cards OF admission will be limited
| on account of the seating capacity of the
club room, and no one, will be admitted
without card.
! Mrs Oldberg. Mr.. Hoover. Mr. Philip
Gerry and Mr.. Harry Wheaton Howard
| have been engaged to fill the program for
| three large clubs in Baltimore during the
| present month. 80
| A large and appreciative audience at
| tended the regular monthly recital of the
Lawrence School of Music last evening,
| Each number was warmly received and
| many encores were demanded. Miss May
| Clemens, the elocutionist of the school,
| assisted with several of her pupils. The
program included piano solos by Misses
| May Higgs, Elsie Jordan, Esther Spencer.
| Gertrude Peach. Agnes Jordan and Master
| VIM Scala, songs by Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Mil
ton Odell. Mrs. Mabel Griffin, Mr.. Law
renee and Rotations by Misses Gertrude
| Ray, May NJ. Clemens and F. A Prescott
Last Sunday was the one hundredth an
| niversary of Don:zettis birthday. which
| was celebrated quite extensively through
| out the world, particularly of course, in
| Italy. and the Sunday Night Music Club,
| at Miss Elsa Ulkes. played his overtures
to Belisario.. THE Daughter of the Regi-
| ment'' and Don Pasquale. together with
selections from his operas. La Favorita.
| Lucretia Rorgia, Lucia and The Elixir of
Love, arranged for piano and strings. after
which they took up one of the Beethoven
| quartets, and Miss like played the slow
| movement of the Rnbenstine d miner
piano concerto, with string quartet accom-
i pa niment.