Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-09
MUSICAL MENTION.

The inaugural chorus concert leads IA a
number Of reflections. The first is the ex-
traordlnary attraction OF the chorus to the
PUBIC A larger number attended than
ever gathered in the pension building
"heh IL is reflected that very large num-
Der OF the visitors got away before The
concert 1t is doubly surprising that the
number present Wednesday SO far exceeara
that on Tuesday Then II IS comforting
to realize that 500 good singers can be gath
cred together for national festivals here,
so interested that they will crowd TO eight
successive rehearsals. The program. too.
was almost exclusively American in SUBJ
Ject or composition. Here was proof that
Americanisn in music is a real, living
thlng OF the present. Then. too, there is
cause for congratulation that We have one
OF the best leaders in the country in d.
rector Foster for such festival occasions
Altogether, Ii creates a feeling that musical
interest and capacity in Washington are
not quite so dead as those who know noih-
ing OF the citys capability are fond OF
saying.
Mr.. Frederick r. Burton's Freedom, Our
Queen, written for the inaugural and first
sung Wednesday night, has a combination
of scholarly and popular characteristics
which will doubtless give IL a permanent
place In national festivals. Why cannot the
Choral Society give this next year in Its
regular course. where Its more delicate ef-
fects can be better heard than in the large
pension building?
Miss Lieberman, who has given many in
teresting musicales with her pupils. mas
planned one on an extensive and unique
scale for her final effort some time in the
future. The music will be out of the ort,-
nary, as there Will be heard In this instance
for the first time In this country Mozart's
Titus" which was composed in 1871, and
the first selection ever heard here was given
by Nine. Schumann-Heink in the Pittsburg
Ia nd rl1r-
selections Will be played by the principal
soloists Of the Marine Band and Philhar-
monte Orchestra with six pianos, two per-
sons at each plano, and each at the piano
playing a different part. Other numbers
viii have equally unique arrangements.
The pupils OF Mrs George Routt- johnson
recently gave piano recital in the parl1rs
Of her residence, 1905 Rhode Island avenue
northwest. The solos We're well selected
and were much enjoyed by the friends as
sembled. The composers studied were Hoff-
mann. GODDARD, Leschetizky Raff, Ruoin-
stein, Litsen, Mason. Mendeissehn, wag-
ner. Beethoven, Chopin, Lszt. Some of the
students taking part were Misses RiNey,
Strong. Ethel Sunny. Lily Love. Hazel
Brown, Mr.. Norman, Percy Foster and Miss
Marian Spear.
Miss Nellie E. MacNulty, well known in
musical circles In Washington. and recently
engaged at the Casino Theater in New
York. has closed her engagement there and
is now with the Alice Nielsen Opera Com
pany.
Mr.. Walter q. Wflmarth, the comDoser
OF number OF popular two-steps. has dedi-
Gated his latest composition, My Lady
Dainty waitZes, to Miss Effie Shannon the
actress.
JOSEF Holman has a wonderful opinion
or American Inventions. and our superiority
in mechanical arts He Is himself some
thing OF an inventor. and never tires OF see
Ing new things. Naturally pianos interest
him more than anything else, and he mas
been making the rounds. He wandered,
quite unannounced. into a piano store the
other day, where he was not known, and
after looking about. asked an indifferent
clerk IL he might try one of the pianos
Permission being given, he sat down ran
his fingers up and down the scale, and then
played one of the finished little bits which
he seems TO have always ready.
Before half a dozen bars every en-
ploye In the place was standing near by
They were accustomed to hearing their
pianos played every hour OF every day
The old bookkeeper said: II never hear IL
any more than l hear the noise in the
street. but this was different"
Miss McReynoids and Fraulein Koehls
gave piano and violin recital Wednes-
day afternoon In the Reading Room for
the Blind" at the Congressional Library
Three of the selections of their Interest,"
ing program were taken from their lecture
recital on Scandinavian music. given re-
Gently at Columbia University on March
10 they are to assist Aiss Mary Cryder