Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-20
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

the leading dramatic sopranos OF local
circles. viii go 70 Europe IN August for
years study. Mrs. Payne has beau
tiful voice, which Is already well eulti-
waited. She has much Temperament and
artistic finish. and with q years study
abroad will unquestionably have career
before her should she choose to adopt the
professional stage. Mrs. Payne has been
one of the most successful soioists In the
Friday Morning Music Club, and has given
many programs Of artistic merit and per-
sonaI success.
Mrs. Ralston, mother of Mr.. j. III. Raj
ston of this city. has accomplished great
deal in the translation from the Spanish
into English of The Death of Eve" which
will be used as book for oratorio- Mrs.
Ralston has been most successful In this
work and transcribed the prose into verse,
which is full of dramatic and poetic fer
yor.
Mr.. viilalpando, the 'cellist, who had SO
much success in Washington for a few
years past and who has spent the past year
In San Francisco. met with a severe loss
In the recent earthquake and fire His
family survived the great disaster, but they
lost all their household and personal eff
fects. Mr.. Villalpando is very pleasantly
'cellst of the late Washington Symphony
Orchestra Mr.. Edward Bergenholtz for
merly of the Marine Band and local COM
poser of merit, had also established himself
in San Francisco just in time to suffer Sc
we're losses through the recent tragedy.
Miss FRANCESCA Kaspar. soprano. has re-
turned from Tarrytown, N Y. where she
went to sing the solos in the concert given
last week by the Tarrytown Choral Society.
This chorus numbers one hundred voices
and is under the direction OF the we'll
known English conductor. Mr.. Alfred Hal
lam They gave .Mendelssohn's Hymn OF
Praise" and RoSsni's "Stabat Mater" Miss
haspar was in excellent voice and made a
very pronounced success. The solos In the
Hymn Of Praise and the "Stabat Mater
are peculiarly suited to her charming voice
and style. Miss Kaspar will sing with
verdure Clad" from the Creation, at the
commencement of Mount Vernon Seminary
this week with an orchestra conducted by
her father, Mr.. josef Kaspar. Mr. and
Mrs. kaspar will leave here on the 2Sth for
Boston, from where they will sail on June
z for Naples They will not return to
Washington until next October. Miss Kas-
par will spend the month OF June in Wash
ington and then go north for the remainder
of the summer.
Miss Laura Carpenter, an excellent ANA
teur contralto. who has spent the season
in Washington, will leave here about June
10 for a months visit with her sister, Mrs
+. u. Young, In Grand Rapids Mich She
will afterward go to Minneapolis for visit
and will spend the summer and fall in the
west
Mrs. Kitty Thompson Berry Lawson of
Tacoma, n. Y, formerly one of the leading
soprano choir and concert singers of this
city, has been engaged as the soprano So
loist in the choir of the First PRESBYTERIAN
Church Of WATERFOWL. n. Y, during the
aF
of the choir.
Miss Alice Burbage. pianist, gave a
charming plano recita- on Thursday after
noon In the reading room for the blind
In the Congressional Library in place of
her pupil, Miss Clara Jones, who was taken
Ill last week. Miss 7Burbage. whose pro-
grams are always delightful, played excep-
tlonally well on this occasion. She was
assisted by Miss Ethel Holtzclaw, soprano.
and Mr.. Oscar Gariessen, baritone and ac-
companist. Miss Holtzclaw is young
singer with voice of large range and
splendid quality. with both lyric and dra-
matte talent. Miss Holtzclaw's numbers
were "Auf dem wasser zu Singer" and
Wohin. by Schubert; Monsigny's "Ariet-
ia, Waltz Song from Gounod's Romeo
and Juliet" sindings II Heard Gull,
PurceiPs "Nymphs and Shepherds and
Edwin Hughes Song of Pierrot," the lat
ter with the young composer at the piano
Miss Burbage played Beethoven's moon
light sonata, Schumann's 'Nachtstuck."
Chopln's Ballade No. 3, Sjogrens SIAM
Wagner Brassin Fire Music" Miss Bur
bage played with brilliant technique and
artistic finish. She played the Chopin Noe
turne In F sharp for encore which was
exquisitely done At the end of the pro-
gram Mr.. Gariessen was especially re-
quested to sing the old English ballad
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
DR.. ]. w. Bischof will give three evenings
10 his annual pupils concert this year-June
program on June 4; Mrs DayelIe TAYLOR
WEIGH will give song recital assisted by
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernst Lent and Col John
Tweedale. on the 9Th. and on Wednesday
evening. June 8, DIR. Bischoff's chorus. COM
prising the choir of the First Congrega-
tional Church. sixty In number. will give
some OF the choruses from THE Ancient
Mariner. this whole work having been
given Dy them with such artistic success
last month. These are complimentary con-
certs. for which a large number of invita-
lions Will be issued
musical will be given by the choir of
st. Johns Church next Thursday evantnp,
in st. Johns Parish Hall, for the benefit OF
the annual summer outing of the choir
Those who will be heard are Miss Lucy r.
Thomas. soprano; Miss Anna E. Brett, con-
tralto: Miss Flora A. Jackson. soprano:
MI Charles e. Meyers. tenor; Mr. T. H
Payne, basso: Mr.. Anton Kaspar. violnist
Mr.. Donald H. Fruze, pianist, and Mr.. A. g.
Eldridge, organist of ST. Margaret's Epis-
eopal Church, and Mr.. Fl. II. Freeman or
ganlst OF st. Johns Church in piano duet
There will be several male quartets In addf-
ton to the choruses and solos.
Mr.. s. Coleridge-Taylor. the famous
Arglo-African composer and conductor will
visit America again this fall and come to
series several NJ
certs in November. 1t is expected that he
Will conduct performances of his "Hia-
watha," which has met with such over
wheiming success. and number of his