The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-14
MUSICAL NOTES.
Mr.. Lent played some fine cello music
at a musicale recently given by Miss
Molly Elliott Seawell

Mr.. Lent played some fine cello mus
at musicale recently given by Mis-
Molly Elliott Seawell.
Saturday evening. April 20, Miss Am,
Leavitt will talk to the Columbian Wo
men, at Columbian University, about Or
chestral Instruments: Characteristics anC
| Eses''
At the next concert given by the George
town Orchestra there will be for the first
time among the second vioIins a young
Sioux Indian lad. He is one of Frauleir
koehles violin pupils. and has sad
and very romantic history. His father
and step-mother We're killed before his
| eyes on the battlefield of Wounded Knee
when he was only three years old. ne was
| rescued. ana adopted by Mrs. Lucy 3. Ar
| mold, of this city, then an Indian teach
| er, with whom he has lived ever since.
His American name is Herbert, but he
| has two Sioux names, which are much
more musical, Acite, meaning scout, and
| Llt kala lie, which is Sioux for Yellow
plrd' Herbert is devoted to music ana is
| d good performer on the violin, which he
| plays with expression quite beyond his
! years. He studies COncertoS and all sorts
| OF classical music, but is fondest of some
! little Indian tunes, which Fraulein koehle
| has taught him, and it is these that he
| always plays. If left to himself. Her
| bert has found much happiness in
| music that he brought a young Indian
| friend of the Cheyenne Nation to the
| acknowledgements studio. and now
| Miss MacReynoids is beginning to teach
him the mysteries of the piano-forte.
Some pupils of Mr. and Mrs Ernest
Lent played before large meeting of the
Unity Club held last Thursday evening at
the Colonial Hotel. One of the most in
teresting numbers was a quartette by
Haydn for strings rendered by Misses
Florence Stevens, Mabel Montgomery and
Marie Bastianelli violins. and Miss Flor
ence WieSer, cello. Miss wv Martin NAV
ed an impromptu by Chopin on the piano
ana Miss Stevens, Miss Wieser, and Miss
martin gave one of Memberships tries.
All the young ladies are excellent must
clans and the music was highly enjoyed
by the members of the club.
The programme of the Doubleday Sun
day Night Club last week consisted of
Mozart's quartette No. 10 and the first
two movements of Schumann's quartette
No. ], opus Il. The club meets tonight at
the home of Mr.. like.
Owing to a death in the immediate
family of Mr.. Harry Stratton. organist
of ST Andrews Church, just before
Easter, the musical programme which had
been arranged for last Sunday will be
given today.
Hans Winderstein and the members of
his Leipsic Philharmonic Orchestra have
returned to their native land, but Slivin-
ski, the pianist who was touring with
them, has remained in America and will
give ten or more recitals in this country
AT a musicale recently given by Mrs
Hansbrough some unusually fine music
was rendered by Mrs. Ernest Lent and
Mr.. Heinrich c. Meyn. Mrs. Lent played
some piano selections by List, Grieg.
and Mcdowell with the briIiiancv and
artistic finish for which her playing is
famous. and Mr. Meyn's beautiful bari
tone voice was heard in several songs II
Is always pleasure to listen to Mr.
Meyn; his method of singing is so delight |
ful and II is with regret that his return !
10 New YORK City is announced.
Among the famous bands engaged to |
play at the Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo are the following: Seventy-fourth |
Regiment Band (S5 mem, three months, |
May ] to July %; Sixty-fifth Regiment |
Band (35 mem, three months. May ] to !
July %; Seventy first Regiment Band as |
mem, four weeks, May to June /; Thir-
teenth Band of Hamilton go mem. one !
week. June 3 to June s; Sousa's Band go |
mem, four weeks June 10 to July 6; Elgin /
Band $50 mem, four weeks. July to Au-
gust S; Scinta's Band (36 mem. four
weeks, July . to August "a, Carlisle In
clan Band (4O mem, four weeks, July %
10 August "A; Ithaca Band (35 mem. one
week. August to August 10; Forty
eighth Highlanders Gao mem, one week,
august 70 to August 81; Robertson's Band
Of Albany go mem, one week, August 20
to August 81 Salem Cadet Band as mem, !
two weeks, September . TO September IA |
Brookes Band (i6 mem, four weeks, Sep |
tember to October 5; Boston Ladies
Band $50 ladies', two weeks, September 16 !
to September q; Nineteenth Regiment
September q; Phinueys Band 80 men, |
three weeks, August 26 to September Is; |
Victor Herbert's Orchestra GO men, two |
weeks. October Z TO October q: News
boys Band Of Grand Rapids, four days.
Mr.. McFan will sing at the mems meet
ng at the Church of the Covenant on
next Tuesday evening.
At the reception given last Monday
svening by the Mems Club of the Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church Mrs.
Melvin, the soprano solost of the church
.hoir, and DR. Bliss, baritone, entertained
he company with some songs. Mrs. Mel
in also sang on Easter Day at the meet
ng held at Columbia Theatre under the
iuspices of the Y. NJ. c. A
Those who were so fortunate as to meet
)ssip Gabrilowitsch during his stay in
his city were almost as much fascinated
With his charming personality and digni-
led, unaffected manners as with his de-