Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-28
THE CHORAL SOCIETY.
Its Opcratic Concert Last Night n
Splendid Success.


Congregational Church has rarely held
larger or more appreciative audience than
that which gathered there last night to
listen To the operate concert of the Choral
Society. 1t was quite a departure from it's
usual line of work for the Choral Society
TO turn from the stately and lofty theme of
oratorin and religious cantata TO the lighter
field Of opera. but the wisdom of its choice
was demonstrated in the manifest satisfac-
ton Of the audience. The educational aim
of the society was shown in the selection
OF the numbers upon the program, and the
whole concert was a presentation of the de-
NelOpmeHt Of as well as a contrast between
the Italian and German schools of compost
ton Each school was in a group BY itself
the Italian forming the first part of the pro-
gram. or the composers Of this national
1ty, Bt!Hnl. Don.zetti. ftJssini. VerHi and
MlScagHI We're selected. The Germans
We're Haendel. Gluck, Mozart. Beethoven,
Weber and Wagner. The work of the
society was fully up to the high standard 1t
has st Tor Itself as To precision. delicacy
% phraSfnS and volume of tone and in all
the numbers in which it was heard il was
credit u itself and to the directive force
or irri- Josef hasDar, its musical con-
GUrtor-
The TWO numbers in which it was with
Ou- solo aid-tLe lawmakers chorus from
William Tell and III" GipSy chorus from,
We5er'~ .-Tresc-osa sung in splendid
fcrm, and is work with the soloists was
in all respects satisfactory. particularly so
in the Sc.Ea and prayer from the 'CavaI-
leria RuS,c2na' and the finale to Die
Neistcr-inger" The fun Strength Of ~
Neale chorus was shown to excellent ad-
vantage in The prisoners chorus from Bee
thOvenS "FideIio."
Their. were nine so1ois-s n 1aroe- INV,
Der than the society has ever before en-
gagged Tor concert, and the selections were
generally very happy.
Mary Helen nGTrT sr,r>,1s: III di i3
I,0IIi-a Enri co,,-,Ii. 1I@ $50 -'i.iIeILe
Noifuus-n. Chas. A kafs1r and W. n
MFR -..rlra ~ 49, ~ " N. y
ir .1I r..'..1srj - - N ". " niO'eS'
SrcFStr1,rJ - p - a., o's7os. SAeSsfs;
reputa::nf. and are. LI,nJ,., 70 q $50 }' lGcdi
~. - Nov 20 De conSclen-
Or ~, ~ -, AIthoush neither
wi - t1.I, - - ~; ooli performed
tyirb m. c,-t.I - 'I ~ otlAeF 9o'oistS'
80 y1--t-i-. - u ~,lt7S no" = were new
- ,T7 -, 80 az P-tdSeu the audi
r., - 1 ~ was more IN evidence
rI,,-i,is- -. -.1'''ltS; ana tie Oppor-
soi1 f,TZ,S.-b' -. =, III improves: Her
90. - 'etI : song IN lannhauser.' was
- WIN llshlty and effect, although
-. -. t1i 'I2'tc work she DID during the
sEth!.S was the solo Of Paris from GIuck's
'E-~ ANA tieteA- Miss Bond has a good
cohtTa-;p voice. which she uses with dis
ITtNl9h anu taste, and in her aria from
i.th4-ls Semele' she was pleasing and
eHeCtlNe-
MI "olHungen's tenor is Of good quality
ana MS La donna Mobile" from "R golet-
70 t!clted marked applause. Mr. Kaiser
''' 4-'@1i-J every concerted number,
which was a pretty good strain for a tenor
- th"t "hen the greatest demand upon his
49, 49, was maze In DE Meistersinger'' his
rendition Of Wather's prize song hardly
GU MIN Justice. Mr.. Myron Whitney. ir,
I!adt = favorable impression upon the au-
denGr by the melodious quality of his voice
Lne a.HtnctneSs Of his enunciatfon and his
@rt.s'.1 phrasins: Mr.. Julian Walker was
q very agreeable surprise to every ono
opilII4 mere absolutely unknown, he dis
PtdSS's a EIch 1ull. resonant baritone that
- S-.Si, tlu!- ms singing of Wolfram
solo rom Iannhauser was full OF meIo-
~ P|NSE ana authority, and richly de-
T. - s'9 ,r1l IN TeeepL'n II received.
- vs. eFeat pleasure TO the audience to
xCas1-s,,-. - n ~ Mss Mary Helen Howe
a $50 III ii'',I Sl.ei 10 the musical world
a,5sI "LIo must IN the future be con-
So ~ ~ s5edt Importance She has been
-. - curing the past two years. but
~. - - al tC,isict 50 representative Of
a. .,,,,l,;ri'tii culJure OF the city or IN
ber trron+i;sb ,e "rI ed-culated TO exhibit
Jar1i,- - -it her aria from
neIb" l. 'I,I..'aI w opera of Mac
day I1cEfnS IN m tf,5; rev SINGERS of the