Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27
MUSICAL MENTION

The Choral Society regularly begins ito
rehearsals for the season on the first Mon
day in October, but as this Is Grand Army
week there has been. a postponement untN
Monday evening, October 49, when the re-
hearsals will begin at Carroll Institute Hall
on 10th street, at 7:30 o'clock. The officerl
are getting out the regular monthly bulletin
for distribution to the active and sustain
ing members Of last year. This little pape:
has become quite feature OF the Choral
Society's events. 1t keeps the members adj
vised Of everything of interest to the SO.
ciety and is in a large part responsible fer
the increased interest manifested by the
people of Washington, generally in the
Choral Society's work The subscription
list last year reached 500. there having been
a steady increase since five years ago, when
the number Of sustaining members was re-
duced to as low as 100.
The concerts of the KneiseI quartet are
now announced for the eleventh season.
They will be given on Tuesday afternoons,
November 4, December 8, January II. Feb
ruary II and March II. The conditions viii
be somewhat different from those prevail
ing last year. At the request of numerous
subscribers the ball room Of the Hotel Raj
eigh. which was used in the two seasons
before the last, will again be occupied Inc
music. The conditions surrounding it are
very satisfactory for the needs of a string
quartet, which is best heard by a limited
audience. Three hundred and fifty chairs
will be placed in the hall and these will be
sold to season subscribers, the preference
being given to subscribers of last year. AS
last years subscription was in excess OF
this number, there Is no doubt that the
seasons sale will exhaust the capacity OF
the hall and that no single tickets Will be
sold.
A considerable number Of the sixty sub
scribers of the first year are still SUBJ
scribers. The growth Of the subscription
list has been steady and the concerts are
now on gratifyingly safe footing.
The Norma Mandolin Club local organ
iZation which won much favor before the
Washington public last season, has reor-
ganized under the title Of the Norma String
Quartet, and is actively rehearsing a new
repertoire for the coming season. The fol-
lowing is the personnel Of the quartet: Miss
Ida NJ. UlIman, violin; Messrs. Denis +.
Council and William NJ. Ullman, first and
second mandolinS. respectively, and Mr.
Richard T. O'Donoghue, guitar.
Miss Liela Lieberman last Sunday morn
ing gave the first rehearsal Of a series OF
five for her annual concert with the Marine
Band at her studio, 1417 9TH street north
west. There were sixty pieces of the band
present. and several selections on the con-
cert program were rehearsed by Miss Iieb-
arranged to give the concert some time dur
ing the coming winter and the rehearsals
will take place monthly, Considerable in
terest is being taken in the contest for TIE
Droop scholarship, the winner Of which
will receive diamond medal.
1t is expected that number of musicians
from New York and Baltimore will be pres
ent at the concert. Mr.. Walter Damroscn
has accepted the invitation to act one Of
the three judges of the contest. The other
two have not been named.
The pupils who Will play at the concert
are the Misses Bier Thompson. Amelia
Weber, TwinIng, Garland, Webb, Bryant,
Adler, Thomas. Robbins, Maude Bates.
Marie Moore, Dodsoh, Bessie Davis. Sauter.
Meachim. Elsie Worth. Bigley. Eva and
Florence Hillard. Ella Brand and Marie
Howe, Master Magee. Mrs. Douglas of New
York and Mrs. Mlddough of this city.
Nine Eugenia Manteli, who Is to be lead
ing contralto of the Mascagni Grand Opera,
coming on the approaching first visit of
Mascagni to America, has just been made
recipient Of a great honor from the King of :
diploma of honor from the Royal Academy
Of Music in Lisbon. of which the king is
president. 1t was conferred upon her
through the monarch himself as a mark of
his appreciation of her performances as
Carmen and Mignon. and in .CavaIijera
Rusticana" when recently she was head of
the grand opera company in Lisbon. Nine.
Mantelli boasts the kings personal friend
was directed by his own hand. 8. y
Mr.. Edward c. Towne, the tenor, who has
sang here for the Choral Society several
times with great success, has become one
of the faculty Of the American Conserva-
tory of Music in Chicago.
Joseph Smith, European representative
of Mittenthal Bros. & Kronberg, managers
for Mascagni, is to accompany the Italian
composer to America. Mr.. Smith is well
known in Washington and Baltimore, hav-
ing spent most of his life in these cities
before going to Italy seven years ago.
When Mr.. Smith comes with Mascagni it
will be his first visit to his native land since
he took up residence in Florence.
Miss Mary Kimball has returned from
Europe. where she spent several months,
studying chiefly under Nine. Teresa Car
reno, or. as she Is now known, Nine Tag
hapietra. she having recently married the
brother of her former. husband OF thae
name. Miss Kimbal says that Carreno in
jured her right arm In a fall from her BIZ
cycle 80 that she has not been able to do
the work she anticipated. {
Miss Alice Bufbage. who went abroad
with Miss Kimball, is now in Paris, but
expects to return on the next steamer.
Professor c. Dorsey Waters. who Is well
known here for his having frequently Wis
fted this city with the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra. has developed into a band leader
of considerable prominence In the monu-
mental city. His band has played in the
parks there during the summer, winning
the contract by successful competition with