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heartily received. He was assisted by Mr.
Biodgett pianist, and Mrs. Clarke was
his accompanist
Mr. e B. Staunton Embry the tenor
OF Christ Church choir, Is attracting at
tention by the excellence OF his voice and
his clear enunciation.
The lecture recitals. OF the Misses Nc
Reynolds and Koeble have proved very in
teresting. They are now rehearsing for an
evening with Scandinavian composers. the
program to consist OF violin and piano
solos. and duos with vocal numbers by Miss
Pauline Whitaker. contralto. and the Peer
Gynt suite. arranged for piano and string
quartet, and i'm this Mrs. Dun Lewis, Miss
Dohrity and Herbert Fit Kala &c will
assist
Last year Mr.. David Bispham's song Re
cital for the Choral Society was enc - the
most enpoyable entertainments of the sea
son, and his coming recital is exciting great
Interest in musical circles. His program
will be totally different. but equally as at
trsctive as that OF last season.
The Euterpe Club dncorporated) held an
interesting musicale at the Washington
Club Thursday evening. The attendance
was large. and the program. under the
direction of Angelo c. Fronani. was ct
tractive and well performed.
Miss Florence Lee Hoffman. who has
les In Italy, contemplates a recital here
with the assistance OF Miss Janet Spencer
contralto. of Boston; Anton Kaspar vio-
linist' and DIR. Anton Gloetzner. pianist
The list OF names that will appear on
the program of the Washington compos-
ers concert next Friday evening in the
banquet hall of the Raleigh Hotel IS as
follows: Composers for piano. Mr.. Henry
Xander. Mr.. Anton Gloetzner, Mr.. Harry
Patterson Hopkins. for strings. Mr.. Earr-
est Lent. Miss Minnie Bailey and Mr.
Robert Stearns have each written a quar-
tet for ladies' voices. The song writer's
are DIR. ]. w. Bischoff DIR. f. s. Kimball.
Mr. Leo Wheat, Mrs. X. Wells Reddington,
Harry Wheaton Howard. Douglas G. MIL
Ter. Mrs. Sussanne Oldberg. Mrs. Bere-
nice Thompson, Mrs. Mary Chapman Hans
brough, Miss Sara Todd. Mrs. Rita Ryan.
Mrs. Clifford Howard, Herndon Morsell,
Deginald De koven, Edward Droop. chas.
q. Heitinger, John Porter Lawrence A.
Tragina, d. C. Pfeiffer. Harvey Murray
and Mr.. Armand Gumprecht.
Those who Will take part in the concert
are; The Ladies' String Quartet. the Nc
Fall Ladies' Quartet. Miss Virginie Bes-
tor and Mr.. Harry Patterson Hopkins will
have piano numbers. The soloists are:
Mrs Chas. b. Bailey. Mrs. Joseph Chunn
Miss Elizabeth Wahly, Miss Bessie L. Glib
son, Miss Anna Goddard. Miss Edith Pick
ering, Miss Mae Adele Levers Miss Lillian
Chenoweth, Mrs II. S. Comstock Chas F.
Nesbit. Harrington Barker. Walter Cleav-
McFall. The accompanies will be MIR.
Harvey Murray, Mrs. A. Leftwich Sinclair,
Miss Hope Edna Hopkins and Miss Marion
McFall.
Mrs. Alice Benson and Mr. Archibald
olmstead concluded their series OF recitals
for the present season at the Washington
Club Thursday afternoon. considerable
audience-chairs were required not only in
the main hall but I'm the second parlor as
well-testifed to the good impression made
by the two musicians by applauding enthu-
siastically. Mrs. Benson was in especially
good voice Her program included seven
numbers, ending with the DonizettI recita-
tive and aria. 20 luce di quest anima," but
was changed at the last moment to include
in lieu OF the aria three songs by Chad
wick, MacDowell and Foote. In Dellbes
Les files de Cadiz" and Schumann's "Er.
DER Herrlichste." she appeared to particular
advantage. Mr.. Omstead's offerings in
oluded the Hayden andante in + minor, the
Chopin-Liszt Chant Polonais." Schumann's
"Nachtstucke" in +, Won Webers "perpet-
ual motion" movement from the Sonata I'm
c, and the LisZt hungarian Rhapsodie No
1. His performance excited the most gen
eral commendation.
The studios of Mr.. George Lawrence on
10th street northwest were crowded with a
large and appreciative audience last FRIDAY
evening. 1t was the first of a series of
monthly musicales with his pupils. The
program included piano solo by Miss Ber-
tha Bermester; Tit for Tat" by Pontette.
by Lottie Bentley: duet, See the Pale
Moon" Campana. by Mrs. Annie Williams
and Mr.. III. Harding; song. Happy Days
(violn obligato). Miss Catherine Faulkner;
duet. Il Would That My Love" Mendels-
sohn, the Misses Mary and Lille Cunning
ham; piano solo, 'Au Matin." by Miss Flor
ence Knode; song, Happy Birds" Edward
Hoist. by Miss Mary Faulkner: song. select
ed' Mr; WIN A Hopkins; song, Merrily L
Roam" Mrs. Alice Burgess; duet, Home
to Our Mountain" Trovatore, Mrs. Z. J..
Williams and Mr.. Lawrence; song, Garden
of Sleep" Miss Virginia Steele. and con-
Mrs. E. L. Williams. The accompanist
was Miss Bessie Van de Bogert, and the
violinist. Mrs. George Lawrence.
Mr.. Victor III. johnson, musical director
of the Lafayette Square Theater, has just
completed the score OF the ''wyngate
Waltzes," which is said to be rhythmic and
quite catchy.
Miss Wilson. daughter OF the Secretary Of
Agriculture; Mrs. Thomas c. Noyes, Miss
Byrne and Mr.. Jasper Dean McFau will be
the soloists at a Burns celebration this
evening at the First Presbyterian Church.
George Grossmoth. the English humorist
and musician, is on his way to this country
and will give series of his unique enter
tainments, visiting several of the principal
cities Of which Washington will be one. He
will appear at the Columbia Theater.
No comic opera launched upon the Ameri-.
can stage within recent years has awakened
the preliminary interest that centers about
1.-The Sultan of Sulu," George Ade's new
Filipino satire. which will be produced by
the Castle Square Opera Company at the
close of the Chicago season OF grand opera
in March. The author of Fables I'm
Slang has a large following throughout
the country and managers everywhere are
bidding for the Sultan OF Sulu.''
The Elks' Midwinter Carnival.
The great feature that will prove i'm
mensely popular without a doubt VIII be