Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23
proved herself to be very competent choir
director

| toinette the younger. Miss Cummings was
| abroad last summer and made so Favorable
\ an impression by her singing that she de-
cided to enter seriously into preparation for
| a career. Her voice is dramatic soprano
ranging from low D u E fiat in alto end
| her tone coloring Is exquisite.
| On the 10th of December Fraulen Won I'm
| schuld gave a successful recital at the
! residence of Mr.. Samuel Thorne before
| select audience. Such enthusiasm was
| shown over her artistic rendition of the va
rious numbers that Mrs. Phorne engaged
! the young artist for every Monday evening
| for her residence recitals, which are given
| in her magnificent music room. In addi-
/ ton Miss Unschuld was engaged by
! Mrs. Charles Hoffman for an evening recital
| the latter part of January.
Miss Bertha Hansen the soloist at the
December recital at Mrs. Belts studio. IIer
program MAS AS Dreams; by s St,
| ball; Serenade. by Strauss. and for encore.
| Baby Moon by Willeby; Der Linden
baum and Das Wandern,' Schubert; BEL
Raggo,' Rossini; "Apple-boughs. Ffnke;
"A Rose Denza; THE Chrysanthemum,'
! Salter: - more" Pinsuti; duet, sung by
! Miss Hansen and Mr.. Schaefer. and by spe-
! cial request of the audience Miss Hansen
! sang Denies Sleep Little Baby of Nine.
/ This lullaby Miss Hansen renders with rare
| artistic ability and it is requested at almost
! every concert where she sings At Mrs. Ar
/ disson's musical in Germantown. Pa, the
| obliged to sing it twice.
Last Sunday evening the music at the
| Westminster Presbyterian Church was fur
nished by a male quartet, consisting of
Messrs. Jaspar. Church, Donaldson and
! Byran. Their selections were the hymn
| voices by Peter Bithoon, evangelist. and
! Take the Step, My Brother" by j. r.
| Burke.
1 ART no of the
! Church of the Covenant. who has reen SO
| seriously i'll for the last ten weeks with
| typhoid fever, has at last begun to improve,
/ and ii is expected that she will soon be at
| least out of danger.
| Midnight mass will be chanted at II
! o clock Christmas eve at st. AIMS Catholic
| Church, Tenleytown, by the pastor. Rev;
Father Mallon, and there will be special
| music by an augmented choir.
! Mr. Oscar Gareisson. Miss Margaret Fol-
| lin and Mrs. Mckenzie gave a joint recital
| Monday evening last at the studio of Mr.
Gareissen, on L street, when the following
| program was given: y group of Schumaun
| songs, by Mr.. Gareissen; "A Ballad OF
| Trees and the Master" Chadwick; .Vir-
| gins Lullaby Buck; Amour Niens
| Smith; Spring Song" Mackenzie; "Au-
tumn Gale" Grieg. sung by Mrs Nc
| Kenzie: Invocation" Guy d Hardelot;
| ''Ouvre ties yeux bleus," Massenet; Mat
| tinata.' Test; "Plaisir damour,' Martini;
Since First ! Met Thee Rubehsten;
sing. Smile, slumber," Gounod; Twas
| April Nevn. sung by Miss Follin. Mrs.
Mckenzie is the possessor of most I'M
usual voice both 10 quality and range.
She is a serious student and a great future
is predicted for her. Miss Follin is young
singer of charming personality and with
rich mezzo-soprano voice. Her numbers
were well rendered and we'll received,
though she was laboring under the disad
vantage of a severe cold. Mrs Mckenzie
lin fnrfI TO in hnI-jn
the support and assistance 81 Mr. Carols
sens sympathetic accompaniment.
The next lecture at the University of
Music and Dramatic Art will be given on
Sebastian Bach and his well-tempered cla-
v.er given by Fraulein Won Unschuld.
\ vested adult choir of thirty voices,
der the direction of Mr.. Oscar Franklin
Comstock, oTganist and choirmaster, will
render the following musical selections at
Trinity Episcopal Church at IL am: Pro-
cessional. "Hark. the Herald Angels Sing
Mendelssohn, in D, Field; hymn. 20 Come,
Gloria Tibi in Behold, 1 Bring You Good
Iidings," Barnby; presentation, IAN Kings
Come u Thee Alleluia," Whitney. Sanctus
in D, FNld; communion hymn, And Now;
CHANT; ''Nune Dihittis," Anglican chant,
Vincent: retrocessional, Joy Fills Our In
most Heart Today Smith
The Kindersymphonic Orchestra goes to
ST. Elizabeth's January to give an enter
tainment for the inmates The program
they will give is a mirth provoking and
exceptionally interesting melange. There
Is an orchestra Of boys, blackface song
artist. fancy dancer comic opera Sketch,
a dialect monologist a girls glee club and
two ballad singers. 1t is the best thing of
its kind ever arranged, having been very
successfully given four times last winter in
this city. Mrs. Belts its director, is eX
perienced in arranging such enterprises,
having had similar organizations in Boston
and New York. This is its third season
here
Mr.. George Melis has resigned his posi-
ton as tenor of the quartet of the East
ern Presbyterian Church and has been sue
ceeded in the position by Mr.. William S.
Douglass.
A mistake was made in the announcement
last Sunday that the entertainment for the
Rupert Home was to take place January
-. 1t is to be given instead on the 9th
of December at $3.50 in the afternoon.
Mrs Nellie Wiison-shircliff was heard
last Sunday at the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church in Handers %, Had I
Juoals Tyre" This song is not very well
known here and is most difficult in execu-
ton; it was. however. beautifully inter-
preted by Mrs Shirclif, who was in UNI
usually fine voice.
Mr. Philip Lee Scantling. tenor, has re-
signed from the quartet of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, his resigna-
ton to take effect January !. He will be
succeeded by Mr.. w. C. Mills, who has
been singing for some time past at st.
Johns Episcopal Church, Georgetown,
where he was very popular.
At the Gunton Temple Memorial Church.
14th and r streets, a program of music
appropriate to the Christmas season will
be sung today. At the morning service the
| selections will be follows Organ pre-
Jude. Scotson Clark: anthem. Behold, 1
Bring You Good Tidings," Giebel; anthem,
From the Eastern Mountains Schneider;
| offertory, alto solo, Christmas, Shelly,
sung by Miss Hughes. Evening service:
| at Came Upon the Midnight Clear" Scott;
| anthem. while Shepherds Watched"
| Shackley; offertory, tenor solo, Might of
| Nights" Vander-Water, sung by Mr.. Scharf
| The personnel of the quartet is as follows:
| Mrs. f. D.. Anderson. soprano; Miss Lydia
| Hughes. alto; Mr.. George Scharf, tenor:
| Mr.. George A. Provost. bass; Mrs. Grace
! d. Jackson, organist.
Mr.. Gareissen's opera study class had its
| last rehearsal of "Orpheus" Tuesday of
| last week. After the holidays the class will
| take up the study of Der Freyschuetz,' Dy
| Weber.