Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-20
MUSICAL MENTION.

male chorus music to the Washington
public.
Union Methods; Episcopal Church ha
recently reinforced its choir by the ad
dition of several young ladies' and gentle
men Mrs. W. II. Cheeseman has beel
engag as organist and Miss Luna Fes
Ter OF Rush Hall as leading soprano
The music committee of Hamline NJ Z
Church has engaged Mr.. Charles R Bart
lett as tenor in the quartet, TO succeed
Mr. lie Roy \. Glider. who resigned to &c
to st. Johns in Georgetown. Mr.. Bart
iett is not only singer OF merit. but is
also composer of ability as well. His
song The Master" IS far above the aver
age of sacred songs. and ne has composed
several marches and considerable music
for professional singers.
Mrs Frances Wainwright a popular
Contralto soloist OF Chicago. has taken an
apartment at the Savoy. She intends
10 make Washington her future home.
At a musical given recently by Miss Old
berg at her studio in the Belasco, Miss
Neosha Gary, formerly of Texas, now a
resident OF this city. was the soloist in
a most generous program OF songs. Sew
eral good violin selections were well rem
dered by Mr.. Robert c. Stearns.
The public sale of subscription seats
FOR the Washington concerts of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra will open on Wednes-
day. october 80. at o'clock IN. at T.
Arthur Smiths :, 1411 + street. There will
be i've concerts. as usual the dates being
November 10. December II. January II.
February I and February - There
will be soloists for each concert, Mark
Hamburg. the Prussian pianist; Josef
Hofmann, another fine pianist who is d
great favorite in this city; Fritz Kreisler.
the ViOliniSt who after Nsaye undoubt-
eddy ranks higher than any other living
artist on that instrument; Nine. Gadski,
the celebrated soprano. The fifth soloist
Will be announced later. Carl PohI.g.
late royal court conductor of Stuttgart
and the new conductor of the Philadelphia
Orchestra, will undoubtedly repeat the
successes made by him in Europe Carl
Pohlg IS also well known as a composer.
His symphonies poem, in four movements.
entitled "A Hero's Death and Apotheo-
sis, was performed with great success in
Stuttgart, Dresuen and Wursburg.
The Washington Saengerbund will give
Its first musicale of the present season
at the hall of the bund this evening when
the following program will be given.
Choruses. taJ ''Wanderlied" Lorenz, tbD
prano solos, tal Still vie die Nacht'
tBohm), (b) The nightingale Has a
Tyre Of Gold" CWhalpley). Miss Emily S
R Glover; violin solo. ''Zigeunerweisen''
(SarasateJ. Master Elias Breeskin, Rus
sian boy violinist; contralto solos. (a)
Art (GranD, Mrs. +. b: Gilmore: flute
solo phantasy on La SCmnambufa"
lTerschak). Mr.. Ernest f. Leigh; Mr.
Henry Xander musical director.
Both the musical and fashionable world
uRI1 10
tea given by Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Gareis-
sen in his beautiful new studio on Con-
necucut avenue. An informal program
of music was given by Mr.. Gareissen in
his usual artistic style. among the num-
bers being Allah" Chadwick The Lit
tie Red Lark The Two Grenadiers'
loy requesU, Lullaby" Miss Grace
Adele Freely played the accompan,ments
and gave LISTS transcription of the
quartet from Rigolette, piano solo. in good
style.
Miss Franceska Kaspar scored nota-
bic success at the concert last week in
Baltimore and has been engaged to sing
with the Trio Club at Scranton. Pa. on
November Il.
Mr.. Charles Clark Dunn substituted at
the organ of St Patrick's Roman Cath
oHc Church last Sunday in the absence of
Mr.. Gumprecht. who was in charge of a
specia! musical service at GEORGETOWN
L University.
At the services Of the Ninth Street
christian Church last Sunday morning.
he anthem rendered by the choir was
The King of Love My Shepherd Is" by
shelley, and Miss Stella Raymond gave
rs an offertory solo My Redaemer and
Ny Lord, by Dudley Buck. In the even
ng the choir sang 80 Be joyful in the
Lord. and Miss Josephine T. Gould rem
Tered as d solo Far From My Heavenly
Home"
Miss Minna Heinrichs. the vioIinist. has
planned to give several pupils recitals
Turing the coming season. She will also
BE heard on one or two occasions at the
Friday Morning Club. at one of which
she VIII play a Strauss sonata for violin
and piano, Prof. Anton GlOetzrer taking
the piano part, and on another occasion
she will play "Serenade" by Sinding,
with Miss Lillian Koechling.
Miss Ethel Lipscomb has been substt-
-Uting for Miss Flora B=rnheimer recently
at ST. PauFs English Lutheran Church
An old folks concert was given in the
Alexandria Opera House last week for
The benefit of Grace Episcopal Church by
4 number of Washington musicians under
the direction of Mr. William Starnell The
soloists included Mrs. B. II. Smart, Miss
Florence Sullivan. Miss Jennie ArtZ. Miss
BeUlah Luxen. Miss Eleanor Spencer.
Nessrs. William c. Mills. Joseph Matthew.
Dana Holland. Roland Rodrick James
Hicks, Roland Carter and William Star
nell
At Trinity Episcopal Church last Sun
day morning the offertory solOist was Mrs
E G. Atkins and her selection was Hear
Ye Israel from Mendelssohn's Elijah"
The marriage is announced of Miss Helen
Hackman. pianist to Warren Wright
Shearer, in Philadelphia October 8 Mr.
and Mrs. Shear"r have returned from an
extensive tour. which included Boston and
several other New England cities They
will he at home after December ! at their
apartment in the Kenesaw
Mrs. Bradley McDuftie will be the
hostess al a series of receptions and aft
ernoOn teas this season in her delightful
studio. She will also cooperate with
Mrs. Georgia Miller in some pupils re-
c!tals.
Mr. John H. Powell. a talented young
musician OF Richmond. gave piano re-
Cital recently at the jefferson Hotel pre-
v!ous to his departure for Europe. A num-
Der Of prominent society women acted
as patronesses. and the affair was an ar
tistic triumph for Mr.. Powell.
1t is expected that the Able Lorenzo
Perosi. musician and composer. who il
said to have inspired the famous procla-
music in the churches will come to Amer
Inrinv the n 1Otl7- zoos ~,