Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-01
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

Mrs. Clarence B. Rheem. formerly Miss
Eulalie Domer. who has been substituting
as contralto soloist in the choir of All
Souls Unitarian Church. for some months
past left on Friday morning for Atlantic
City, where she will spend the summer
Mr.. Rheem will make several trips down
there ON Sundays during July, md will
stay several weeks in August. Mrs. Rheem
and her son Edmund have spent the past
eight or ten summers there
The choir OF the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church has been re-engaged for
next season and have been SO notified. 1t
consists OF Mrs. w. II. Shir-Clir. formerly
Miss Nellie Wilson. soprano; Miss Pauline
Whitaker. contralto; Mr.. Philip ScantIing
tenor, and Mr.. John H. Nolan. basso. Mr..
John Porter Lawrence Is organist and d.
rector. This choir has remained the same
for many years. 1t will not be heard In the
evenings during July, and will have the
month of August for vacation.
Yesterday marked the last service In the
Hebrew Temple, at which the choir will
be heard until the first of September. 1t
also marked the last appearance of its alto
and basso, Mrs. Margin and Mr.. A W. Por-
ter. respectively. Mr.. Porter Is also the
bass soloist in the choir of st. Augustus
be filled until the reorganization Of the
quartet IN the fall. The music In the He
brew temples is far more difficult than any
one knows OF except the singers them
selves, and they only find 1t out when they
begin to sing 1t. Not alone Is the Hebrew
language difficult to sing in, but the music
Itself, much Of 1t sung from manuscript Is
very hard to sing after 1t is learned, and
each part is carried entirely Independent of
any other and with no cue whatever. The
Hebrew Temple 9Th street, In which
Rabbi Stern has been the moving spirit for
so many years has been noted for It's ex-
composed of Mrs Shir-Clif, soprano; Mrs
Margaret Nolan Martin, contralto; Mr.. VIM
d. Mcfarland, tenor, and Mr.. John H.
Nolan, basso, the last named having resign
ed early last season and followed by Mr..
Arthur W. Porter, who has now also re-
signed. DR.. George Walter. the eminent
organist and composer and all-round thor
ough musician, has had charge of the or
gan and the choir ever since the building
Of the ma gnifcent organ In this edf1ce. In
fact. it was he who drew up the specifica-
lions for its construction, and 1t was he who
superintended the building OF It, He is
aso. the organist in All Souls Unitarian
Church, and Is altogether unique in his
originality and gifts. In replacing the two
members OF the quartet OF the Hebrew
Temple 1t will be most difficult for those Sc
lected, at the start. as the fall season, when
they will be entirely new to the work, Is
marked by the celebration OF feasts and the
New Year, when the music is extremely Diff
dcult and elaborate.
Dr. and Mrs. ]. w. Bischoff. the former
the organist for the past nearly thirty
years. left Washington on Friday morning
for their summer home on Lake Michigan,
at PEBBLES P. O., Winnebago Park. Wis
consin, where they will remain for the
summer. Both DR.. and Mrs Bischoff were
much in need of complete rest, and will
omit their series of recitals on their way
20 hot which fhaV in a bst
of giving. They had many engagements for
such concerts. but were obliged to post
pone them. Mrs. McMichael. formerly Miss
Kimball. will play in the Congregational
Church during his absence.
The United Singers OF Washington. a
party of about 125. will leave the city this
morning at o'clock In a special train over
the Baltimore and Ohio road for Newark,
N, J.. where they will take important
part in the saengerfest for the next Ave
days. On the train will be a total of about
$50 people. including many passive mem
bers of the organizations which compose
the United Singers and a few friends In
terested In the forthcoming festival. Mr..
Henry Xander, musical director OF the or
ganization, will not return to Washington
with the party. He will go Sor trip to
Lake George. Lake Champaign. thence to
Montreal, up the Saguemay river, a tribu-
he will make a visit He will then go to
the white Mountains and Portland, Maine,
from where he Will sail for New York. and
return to Washington early IN August
Mr.. and Mrs. John Humphrey. the latter
formerly Miss Adelaide LYMAN. will re-
main in washington until the middle OF
August when they will go. as usual, 70
ocean Grove n. j.. for few weeks.
Lhevinne, the Russian pianist. has writ
ten his manager, Ernest Urchs Of Stein
way Il Sons, that he VIII play some unfa-
miiar plano music by Tschaikowsky DUR
ing his American tour next season Shortly
before his death Tschaikowsky wrote esgh-
teen morceaux for piano, which he asked
Lheyinne to play for him. Lhevinne did
so, and after hearing tho numbers per-
formed TschaikoWsky made many changes
and left the works III Lhevinne's hands
Tschafkowsky was on the point Of starting
for st. Petersburg. and he requested I.he-