The Washington times., 1901-10-13
MUSICAL MENTION.

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| The choir OF St Patrick's Church will
sing new mass today by Armand Gum
precht oFganist and director of the choir
Last Sunday Bessie Cobaugh sang Shep-
herds Lead, Kindly Light" and Liddle's
| Abide With Me- at the First BAPTIST
| Church with pleasing effect. The choir of
| this church will not be organized until
after the first of the year. it having been
| decided to use precentor and soloist un-
| til that time.
The convention of Protestant Sunday
schools of the District will be held at Cal
| vary Baptist Church October 3. %, and
80 Percy Foster will have charge of the
| musical services Mr.. Foster Will also
| conduct the music incident to the union
| services for all denominations which will
occur at the New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church October 26 q, and %, and
which will be in charge of Rev G. Camp
| bell Morgan, the successor to d. L. Moody
| in connection with the Mortified schools.
Walter Paschal will sing at St Johns
| Church, Georgetown, again today and 1t
| is probable that he will be permanently
| engaged as tenor of that choir.
Sybil Sanderson and Marcella Sembrich
J nave arrived in New York from Europe.
\ Miss Sanderson has been the rage at the
| Opera in Paris during the past season.
Washington has certainly done its duty
| In contributing its sons aid daughters to
| the stage, and it has become customary to
| look for familiar faces In travelling COM
| panies, especially those of musical COM
edy; few weeks ago The Liberty
| Iotilto several local girls TO their
| home city and last week the smiling face
| of Isabelle Dubois was singled out from
| among the chorus of Miss Simplicity"
| Miss Dubois is well Known here, having
| been associated with musical events for a
| long time before adopting a stage career.
| Dorothy Lair. as she was prior to her
| marriage to DR.. Franklin, of Baltimore,
mas lust won the scholarship in music at
| the Peabody Institute, of that city.
The choir of the Church of the Holy
Name, which has been so successful in
| its work during the past few years, has
resumed its work and promises even bet
| been augmented by a number of efficient
singers. The seloists are Mrs. Morgan d.
Lewis, soprano; Marie Legarre, contralto;
| James L. Duncan, tenor, and James A
Duffy, bass. all Of whom are experienced
| in church work
| The music at st. Stephens Church,
Twenty-fifth and Pennsylvania Avenue,
will be especially fine today Shubert's
| Mass in G will be sung by the choir, and
at the offertory a new Ave Maria" by
Armand Gumprecht. organist of St Pat
| rick's Church, will be rendered by A. Mae
Rogers, assisted by Ernest Lent, 'cellist.
Haydn's Third Mass is in preparation
| for next Sunday. The quartette of the
choir includes A. Mae Rogers, soprano;
Elizabeth Tyler, contralto; Thomas FitZ-
gerald, tenor, and T w. Gross, bass. st. |
Stephens Church has the youngest or
ganist in the city in Eleanor Gillen, who |
is not yet twenty-one, but who has oc-
cupied the position of organist and di- |
rector of the choir for the past two years |
and whose success is all the more re-
mdrkable in view of the difficult pro- |
grammes which are feature of the serv
ices at that church. Miss Gillen is the |
successor of her mother, who was organ |
ist at st. Stephens for more than twenty |
years.
Dudley Buck, probably the foremost |
composer of sacred music in this country. |
has been forced to take an indefinite va |
ca ton from his duties as organist of Holy |
Trinity Church New York through the |
failure of his eyesight, the result of |
nervous attack. The music committee of |
the church has made arrangements to |
continue the salary of the noted musician |
under the provision that he will not re- |
turn to his duties until he is thoroughly |
rested and his sight fully restored.
Mrs. Fannie Atlee-Gage has been Sc |
cured as soprano with the quartette of ST |
Andrews Church during the coming year. |
Mrs. Gage is too well known in local musi- |
cal circles to need an introduction. She |
has dramatic soprano of rare sweetness |
and flexibility, and her enga cement at st. |
Andrews should be matter of congrat- |
ulation to the congregation of that church |
Another important addition to the choir |
is j. l.. Apple, who comes to Washington |
from an active musical career in Pitts |
burg. He has an excellent tenor voice. |
and viii be heard frequently in solo and |
quartette work during the coming winter. |
He VIII also occupy the position of di- |
rector of the choir at St Andrews. Mr.. |
Apple is a composer of note and one of his |
compositions, "Gloria in Excelsis" will |
be sung this morning by the quartette, |
assisted by the regular chorus. The quar- |
soprano: Mrs. Robert contralto; Mr.. APP |
pie, tenor, and Mr.. Yates. bass.
Those who were so fortunate as to at
tend the concerts given last year by the |
PittSburg Orchestra will have several op- |
portunities to hear the noted organization |
under Victor Herberts direction during |
the coming winter Percy Foster, under |
whose management the orche stra came to |
Washinl has Grpd for
certs at the Columbia Theatre on January !
% and March 8. Negotiations are now |
pending with several prominent .soloists |
and the events promise to excite tie same |
interest as last years concerts.
The quiet weeks of the fall are being |
made the most of by the band of the !
United States Marine Corps, and a num- |
Der of the most difficult selections of |
classical and standard music are in re- |
hearsal 1t is this ability to command |
thorough and complete rehearSals of each |
piece that gives Director Santelmann the |
power to bring out many things that are |
not attempted by other organizations. |
Orchestra rchearsals are now beginning |
also, and this branch OF the band has |
been materially strengthened by certain |
recent additions to its membership The |
band expects to eclipse all previous rec
ords in this line during the coming sea-
son. 1t has long been custom of certain |
musicians in the city to have rendered |
musical works that are not within the |
range of any except permanent organi- |
work of the orchestra will have been |
greatly improved during the past year.
The bright days of the past week have
brought unusually large crowds to the
Marine Barracks to witness the dress pa
rade and guard mount each morning and
n late feature of the drill has been at
tempted with marked success. 1t consists
of the gymnastic drilling of the marines |
to the music of the band.
Next Thursday evening at the Church
of the Sacred Heart Felix Mahony, the
well-known local cartConist, will give
what is known Chalk Talk" Such
an entertainment is novel one here, for
it has not been known since the days of
Thomas Mast, probably the greatest car
tooniSt the country ever had. The enter
tainment consists OF illustrating by chalk
the methods through which pictures and
photographs find their way into newspa-
pers and magazines, and should prove
highly interesting. for although thousands
of people read the daily papers and in
spect the Illustrations there are only a |
few who are capable of telling how the
picture is transferred from the original
card to the newspaper Mr.. Mahony will
also demonstrate what is known as carl
cature. and will be assisted during the
evening by the Birenomore Quartette in
novel selections and George II. O'Connor
in group of his inimitable songs.
A varied and interesting choral service
has been prepared for tonight by he
quartette and chorus of the First C5n-
gregational Church under the direction Of
Prof j. w Bischoff. Two recent cOnIpo-
sitions by DR. BischoE which have not
programme They are Not Half Has
Ever Been Told" contralto solo which
will be sung by Edna Scott Smith, and
IF God So Clothed the Grass" a bass
solo which was dedicated by the composer
to j. Walter Humphrey, and which the
latter will sing tonight. The full pro-
gramme is as follows:
Invocation ............