The Washington times., 1901-10-06
MUSICAL MENTION.

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Walter Paschali will participate in the
services today at St Johns Church
Georgetown. MR. Paschars voice Is a
tenor of unusual sweetness and is a fac
tor in local musical events
Arthur Franklin Comstock is preparing
for a vocal and Instrumental recital To he
given shortly in his attractive studio.
William Mooney substituted for Mr.
Pearce at the'New York Avenue Church
last Sunday. Mr.. Pearce was absent from
the services owing TO the death of a rela-
| tive.
Nine. Teresa Carreno, the noted pian-
iste. will be married some time this month
to Signor Tagliapietra, brother of Nine.
Carreno's second husband. The wedding
| will occur in Berlin previous to the art
| iste's appearance at the Philharmonic
concert. Signor Tagliapietra will be Nine
Carreno's fourth husband.
Mrs Chun has been re-engaged as So
prano of the Metropolitan Baptist Church
| of Ninth Street northeast.
| Katherine Bates, soprano; Irma Gala
han, contralto; Julius Hullng tenor, and
Dana Holland. bass, who constituted the
| quartette at the Universalist Church last
| year and Mr.. Clarence E. Beatty or
ganist and director. have been retained
for this year.
The vested choir of st. Pauls Church,
! Twenty-third Street. is preparing an elab-
orate programme for the Thanksgiving
| service which will consist of a complete
rendition of The Redemption"
George Lawrence is getting ready for
| public recital to be given by his pupils
| some time this month
Lillian i3lauvelt has been engaged to in
| terpret the soprano solo score in Verdi
| ''Requiem' when the composition is given
| this winter by the Choral Society
| William Graham who has been the
bass soloist of ST. Peters Church for the
| past two years, IS now associated with
| the choir of st. Marks Pro-Cathedral.
Rose Dillon has returned from Paris,
where she has been the guest OF her SIS
| ter Mrs Donald Rockwell, wife of one OF
| the attaches at the American Legation In
| Paris Miss Dillon is a pianist of much
skill and brilliant promise.
The choir of st. Patrick's Church will
| sinp Hav1n's Third Mass this morning.
| AT the Perpetual Alteration service next
| Thursday Mrs. Annie Grant-Fugitt Ma
| mie Grant Melville Hensey, and Charles
| Goodchild will sing Conterno's Pater
! Noster.
| Homer Lind. The washington baritone
who has been appearing in the vaudeville
houses in Willard Holcombs s musical play
| "Gringolre'' has been specially engaged
| to sing the role of Silvlo IN the tastie
Square opera company's production OF
| agliacci'' this week Mr. Lind received
| mis- early training here from Mrs. ii. H.
| Mills.
The music incidental to the services of
the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church.
| Capitol Hill, will hereafter be under the
direction Of DR.. Woodman- A auartette
| VIII be formed by tDt new OlTeClOT
| in the next few weeks
The choir of Foundry Church, Four
teenth and 6 Streets. lacks contralto
| Applicants are being examined by the
| music committee, but as yet no selection
| has been made. Six voices were tried
| last week. among them Mrs. Margaret
Koontz- Holland. who possesses a con-
tralto of remarkable purity and range
Advices from Sheoherdstowu, w. Va.
recount the very successful concert given
there last Friday by a quartet of Wash
ington talent. The AFFAIR was under the
direction of Miss Salome Wingate, who
sang a group OF pleasing songs. Florence
Stevens, violinist; Florence Weiner. eel
list and Mrs. Frank Byram pianist, as
sisted Miss Wingate. and the entertain
ment was financial and artistic success.
Jasper Dean McFall is organizing his
classes for the coming winter at his
studio, S21 Sixteenth Street northwest.
The quartet of st. Johns Church. Six
teenth Street, remains the same as last
soprano solos, and Miss Jessica Tabier,
contralto; Alfred Mosher, tenor and
Charles Roberts, bass, complete the choir
Henry H Freeman has been re-engaged
as organist and director Of the music.
Stella Newmark has reached New York
and will give an afternoon recital shortly
at the Waldorf-Astoria. Miss Newmark
met with unqualified success in re-
citals abroad for which she received sew
eral handsome medals and other tokens
of esteem from German institutions under
whose patronage she appeared.
Mrs. Harriet H. Mills has come to
Washington to live permanently and has
taken studio on Pennsylvania Avenue.
she has abandoned her classes in New
York since the marriage OF her daughter
and will devote her attention exclusively
TO her pupils here. Mrs. Mills is an en-
thuSiaStfc and indefatigable worker and
has been sorely missed from musical
circles during the past few years. She Is
organizing several Quartettes, and IL is
hoped that the old Philharmonic, or one
OF equal excellence, may be heard this
winter under Mrs. Mills direction. Mrs
HouSh, formerly Miss Lotta Mills, will
not be heard in concert for several sea-
sons, as she has taken up her residence
abroad
DR.. ]. W. BischoH has written new
sacred song which Is said to be among
the best efforts Of the famous blind organ
ist, and which has been dedicated to ].
Walter Humphreys. The title of the song
is as yet unknown, but It will be sung
tonight by Mr. Humphreys, whose rich
services of the First Congregational
Church At O'Clock this afternoon Mr
Humphreys will sing Dudley Bucks MY
Redeemer and My Lord al the Church OF
FarIand, Perry Turpin. and Frank Rec
side, he has been re-engaged to render |
the music at the afternoon services during |
the coming year.
after an absence of two years. She has
entirely recovered from the recent attack
of laryngitis. which prevented her from
fulfilling her contract 10 sing at the |
Worcester musical festival. During her |
engagement with Maurice Grau Mime. |
Eames viii sing the role of Leonora in !
III Trovatore,' in which she has never |
been heard in this country. The Grau !
company win inaugurate Its season to- |
morrow night at Albany in "Lohengrin."
with Nine. Eames as Elsa.
The Birenomore Quartette. of this city. |
Is attracting almost as much attention by |
its unusual name as by the excellence of |
its work. The quartette was formed some |
time ago to satisfy an emergency. and |
Its members were so agreeably surprised |
by the success which attended the initial |
appearance that it was decided to hold |
the new organization together and the |
the search for a name was begun. 1t |
proved a difficult matter not to be guided I
by precedent or refer to botany, so rather |
than be styled The Rosebuds." which |
might have proved confusing. the first |
letters in the name of each member were
selected and formed in the order Of voice
range and the problem of a name was
solved. The quartette is composed of |
Walter Birch. fiist tenor; Horatio Rench
second tenor; George o ConDor. first bass
and Charles Moore, second bass.
st. AlOysius choir has been reorganized
under the direction of S. ]. kubel, the or
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