Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-23

| list; Miss Ethel Tozier, pianist. and Miss
Lillian May Lewis. soprano The program
was as follows: Bird and the Rose" Hor-
| rocks; Song of a Heart" Tunison; Roses
: Everywhere" Denza: Mon Occur s'ouvre
a ia voix', Samson ct Dalilal, saint-saens;
| nono. Thomas. and a group of familiar
| songs sung by Miss Bernheimer; Miss Ulke
and Miss Bernheimer sang Stella Conf
was played by Miss Ethel Tozier. and the
weil-known and always popular trio of Cam
! pana, Il Live and Love Thee" was very
well sung by Miss Lewis. Miss like and
Miss Bernheimer. The accompaniSt was Mrs.
Henry Hunt Mckee. who was. as usual,
| in sympathy and of good support to the
other artists.
! Mr.. Oscar Franklin Comstock made quite
| an impression at his organ recital at the
jamestown exposition yesterday afternoon.
| Mr.. ComstoCk was honored by being the
| first Washington organist to be engaged
| for recital at the exposition. He was
asked to give a series of recitals there also,
but owing to previous engagements was
| compelled to put this proposition off until
! fall. His series of recitals there will prob
ably be given early In October.
| Mr.. Chares D. Church sang the ofrertory
solo at Westminster Church Memorial last
Sunday. Miss Sherier will sing this even
! ing Henshaw Dana's Saliva Regina
choral service of much merit was given
i last Sunday evening by the choir of ST.
Aueustine's Church under the very eff
ficient direction of Anton Kaspar with Miss
terpretation of the following well-selected
and well-baianced program was given: Or
gan prelude, Bach: kyrie, Hydn, by the
and Gounod's "Sanctus:" Dcna's Ave
Maria" beautiful soprano solo, two violin
numbers by Mr.. Anton kaspar, one from
Dessau and another by Dvorak; Rossinf s
soul inspiring 'Infammatus:" Goulod' S
20. 5alutaris' and Verdusen's "Tantum
Ergo. Rendered with a good deal of ex-
preston and sympathy by the >hoir.
Miss Edna Jones, contralto one of the
NEST promising young musicians of the
city. sang with much taste and feeling
Bohm's 20 Salutaris" at the reception
given by the Order of the Visitation in the
convent on Connecticut avenue last Friday
afternoon. when new member was ac-
cepted IN the order ASS Jones is a grad
uate of the class of 1907. She had the eff
ticient support of Miss Mamie Mullaly.
Miss Georgia E. Miller. director of the
Virgil Clavier Plano School, will give her
closing recital of the season tomorrow
class. Some Of those who Will be heard to-
morrow night will be Miss Ruth Ebaugh,
Miss Ethel Hunt. Miss Lucille Compton,
Miss Elizabeth Defendorf. Miss Jessie
Sans. Miss Katherine May Brooks and Mr..
Horace Dugdale. in program Of works of
Grieg, Chopin. Schumann. Chaminade.
Heller, Mendelssohn, Paderewski and
Schutt.
Miss Florence Herman gave a musical
last evening In her studio. 1870 Kenyon
street. Some Of those who took part were
Erna Eiseman, who played Gurlitt's THE
Fair" and Adams Singing and Swinging
Anita Herman. Schubert's "Scherzo'' and
Schytte's Forest Elves Rosa Goldsmith.
Killers "L'Avalanche:" Eleanor Carpenter.
Thorns Under the Leaves" Nellie Harris,
In ,Yy1n1 q Ualf loft hon and
waltz In A fiat by Guritt; Hortense's "Ro-
sentha." Heller's "Etude'' and Lacks
'Idilio" Helen Goldsmith. Durand's waltz
in fiat. and Lester Eiseman, in Chami-
nade's Scarf Dance
The usual summer outing of the choir
boys of st. Johns Episcopal Church, La
fayette square, will be an outing Of two
CHARTERED at the Mapleton Hotel, which has
an Ideal location for a crowd If boys, be-
ing little south from Annapolis, Md,
some thirty miles. and at the junction of
entire party will be in charge of Henry H.
Freeman, the organist and choirmaster Of
the parish.
Mr.. 8. Frederick Smith has rendered his
resignation as member Of the faculty Of
the Washington College Of Music, to take
effect at the close Of the present term. Mr..
Smith will leave on the 29th Of the month
with his family for Leesburg, Va. where he
will take charge Of the choir at st. James
Episcopal Church. He will assume charge
of the choir for the summer season, making
trips to Washington once each week. Mr.
Smith will give organ recital on the Goth
of this month and will be assisted by Mrs
Helen Donohue DeYo. soprano. assisted by
the choir of the church.
Mr.. John Porter Lawrence, organist of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
left last Sunday evening for Morgantown,
w. Va. where he assumes charge of the
piano department of the School Of Music
of the University of West Virginia, where
he has spent the summers for a number of
years. Mr.. Anton Kaspar. violinist and
director of the choir of st. Augustine's
Catholic Church, left on Monday, accom-
panied by his family, for the same place. to
spend the summer and take charge of the
violin department of the same school. Mr.
Kaspar and Mr.. Lawrence are scheduled
for number of joint recitals. They will
return to Washington in August and both
will go to some more northern resort for a
month more.
Miss Anne LOWE Coffin of Ell Paso. Tex.
gave an interesting and credtable piano
recital in the studio of Mrs. George Routt-
Johnson, on Iowa circle, Tuesday evening
cess with the following program: First
Movement of Beethovens Senate opus 81
Chopn's Prelude opus %, No. 30: Chopin's
Nalse opus "a. No. 2; Sinding's "Fruhlings-
. fauSCnen, seeing ScnllHleuer opus IL,
No. .. and Rachmaninoff's Prelude The
program was a pretentious one for ma
ture artist and was all the more creditabe
done by so young one.
Mrs. Routt-Johnson will present Misses
Mary Easby-Smith, Lillian Love and
Gladys Strong in piano recitals in the
early fall instead of this spring.
Miss Jessie NJ. Young is the organist in
Wesley Chapel M. f. Church to succeed
the late Theo. ingalls, King, who met his
death in the terrible wreck at Terra Gotta
last winter. Mr.. Harrington Barker is the
tenor soloist and director of the choir.
Their music today will include Kotzsch-
mars TIE Deum in F, PRO Peccatis," bass
solo from Rossini's Stabat Mater in the
morning and Shelley's Savior, When the
Night Involves the Skies" and 20 Let
Him Whose Sorrow" Rubinstein duet for
soprano and alto.
Vladimir de Pachmann, probably the
greatest living player of Chopins music.
will tour this country again next season,
coming over in October.
Miss Elizabeth Antoinette Stuart, daugh-
ter Of the former superintendent of public
schools. is singing contrato in the choir
of st. Margaret's Episcopal Church until
the close of the season of that choir. Miss
Stuart resigned some time ago from the
choir of st. Thomas Church. where she