Evening star., 1900-06-02
MUSICAL MENTION.

The annual musicale given by the pupils
of Miss Buxman last Saturday at Carroll
Institute Hall was attended by large and
enthusia site audience, which evidently ap-
preciated the good work done by the stu
dents Miss Beatrice Hotel and Miss
Hildur Bostrom. two sopranos, assisted
Miss Buxman and her pupils. Miss Hot
tells rendition of DenZas May Morning"
received hearty applause; she gave My
Rosary" by Nevin, as an encore. Miss
Bostroms Mirage" by Schumann. and
D'Hardelot's "Mignon' were warmly ap-
plauded. as was Mendelssohns "Fingal 5
Cave" played by the Misses Buxman and
Eustrom The stage was tastefully deco
rated with palms and field daisies. The
participants in the program. besides those
already named. We're Misses Bessie Nc
Donald Josephine Randolph, Pearl Cos
tinett Belle Manning. Helen X. Myers,
Bessie Caldwell. Messrs. Edward F. Ran
dolph Herbert c. Parker, Harry 5. Her
futh and Master Donald II. Fraze.
The music committee of the First Pres
by1erian Church has secured the services
of Mr.. Thomas S. Calls organist and di-
rector of music. Mr.. Calls is Il we'll
known musician of Baltimore, who studied
the piano under Carl Faelten and Richard
BurmeiSter, ana the organ uhuei liie id'e
j. Jarvis Butler.
Prof. George Lawrence held a delshtful
musical evening at his studio Friday even
ing Those who took part in the program
We're well received by the large audience
present and many encores We're demanded.
The program included Miss Maud w oou-
head. who sang Scenes That Are BrlSht-
est" from "Maritana;' Mrs. ida Lewis
sang Good Night FAREWELL Mrs. W ood-
head was heard in vocal solo; Miss fearl
Evans sang Summer and Jamie Dear;
Miss Mary Mckenzie Byrne sang faria
and 'Supposing;" Miss Evans aiso recitea'
and was followed by two songs by Prof;
I aurenca and a duet by Miss Byrne and
Prof. Lawrence.
Tha ..Y NJ c. A." Mandolin Club. which
has achieved brilliant reputation uhder moe,
the directorship of William Edward Todd,
ir will give a concert some time during
the present month. The club VIII be as
sisted by some of the best talent that
Washington affords The organ,zalion Ions -
mite large. numbering about twenty young
men who are alive with interest and say
that they intend to make this one OF the
most successful concerts given TINS season
in Washington.
Fritz Kreisler the Austrian violinist, who
is to visit this country during the coming
season, under the management OF MI
Henry Wolfsohn. is not a stranger mere.
Some wears ago he toured the country In
conjunction with MoriZ Rosenthal. AT that
time his success was unusually brilliant.
though he was but sixteen years old. Of
late years he has been concertiZing through
Europe and principally in Germany: where
he is ranked with the foremost masters of
the violin. His temperance in this coun-
try will be early in November next in New
York city, at one of the Symphony con-
certs-
Mr.. John Philip Sousa is winning all sorts
of glory in Europe with his band and is
evidently especially Pleased with his recep
ton in Paris. In an interview published in
the Paris edition of the New York Herald
Mr. Sousa says: THE Stars and Stripes
Forever march seems to me to have scored
the greatest success with the French peo-
pie They are intensely sympathetic, and
the patriotic strains in this composition
appeal to them as strongly they do to
Americans. On Saturday group of French
workingmen. who stood listening to this
selection waved their hats and cheered
most vociferouSly. A very delightful com
p'iment was paid to the band on Saturday
by a gentleman from Vienna, who came
up to me after the concert. was over and
said: You have not band, but living
organ under your direction This 1 con-
sidered the highest kind of praise, as it is
the unanimity. the perfect ensemble in
the band that 1 have always striven after.
The individual members of the band
one and all of them soloiSts of much abil-
ity, but in the concerted pieces they lose
their identity completely and become part
of a machine, so to speak.
One OF the novelties to be heard by the
Vienese orchestra under the leadership of
Eduard Strauss, which will tour this coun-
try next season, will be waltz composed
by Johann, Josef and Eduard Strauss. It
Is called 'Trifolien," and was written twen-
ty years ago for a musical society in Vien-
ma called the "Hesperus." A bitter quarrel
between the three brothers prevented the
performance in public. The Introduction and
first movement was composed by Johann,
and the third movement and coda by Ed