The Washington herald., 1907-10-06
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

The choir at the Metropolitan Memorial
NJ E. Church will give a Mendelssohn
recital this evening. The programme will
be as follows
/ Organ prelude The Homeland"
? Anthem How Lovely Are the Messengers"
Hymn l5l Apostles Creed.
4. Prayer.
S Anthem. Rest Ye in Peace"
| G. Scripture lesson. Gloria %
! :. Hear Ye Israel" & Elijah. ,.
Mrs Welch.
] s Trio Lift Thine Eyes
Mr.. SCantling Mr. r. r. Rodrick. and Mr.. Holland
/ 9 Remarks by DR. Frank NJ. Bristol.
/ 10 20 Rest in the Lord
/ Miss Gulick
Offertory.
/ H. Anthem, Il Waited lor the Lord.
/ y Hymn ll6 "Doxology."
4 T. BenCdction.
A. Organ postlude War March Of the Priests.
Athaha
The choir Is composed of, Mrs Dayelle
Taylor-welch. Miss NJ. Estelle Gulick, Mr..
Philip l. ScantlIng, Mr.. Dana c, Hol-
/ land, and MT. a. P. Tasker. organist. On
/ November 20 an evening with Mozart will
be given.
/ The board of managers Of the Choral
/ Society held a meeting Thursday even
/ ing. at which all the members now in
the city were present Mr.. Joseph B.
Wilson. chairman Of the chorus COM
mittee reported full conference with
the director, Mr.. Percy S. Foster. in
relation TO the Messiah" concert and
| the issuance of the Choral Society Bull
/ letin. giving notice to old members and
/ to other singers relative 10 the first re-
! hearsaL This is to be held at the George
Washington University at o'clock on
/ Monday, October Z Singers who have
not received invitations to join may ap-
ply at that time. The responses already
received by return mail were gratifying
In number and indicate an enrolment
! far in excess Of previous seasons.
/ Arrangements for one OF the leading
/ orchestras to assist in the performance
of the Messiah" were reported as in
/ progress. the details not yet having
/ reached a point at which a positive an
/ nouncement can be 'made 1t was de-
/ tcrmined that the society should wait
/ until everything was definitely settled
/ before public announcement is made
A report was made by Miss Cryder,
! the soqAty's business representative. in
/ regard % her hearing of soloists during
/ the summer, and a list was tentatively
/ agreed upon for the Messiah" recital
/ the engagements 10 be made when the
/ dates could be positively fixed The
/ question OF having a mid-seasoH concert.
/ so as to make three concerts for the
/ year. was discussed. The members OF
/ the board were strongly in favor Of
/ giving three concerts, If any auditorium
/ could be found in which they could be
! given Further inquiries are therefore
/ to be made by the concert committee
upon this subject,
Mr.. Oscar Franklin Comstock has open
ed his seventh season. The studio has
been attractively renovated during the
summer, and will be opened October 15.
when his hftieth studio recital takes
place.
/ Mr. Comstock's choir at Trinity Church
is busy rehearsing GauTs Holy City"
which viii be sung on November l. All
/ Saints Day For this service the choir
/ viii be augmented TO about forty voices.
! and some remarkable chorus singing is
! expected.
/ Miss Kathryn DuHkhOrst, a popular and
talented young singer of this city. who
has for several years been under the
tutelage Of Herbert Wilbur Greene. OF
New York. has entered the Conservatory
of Music Of Oberlin College, OberIin, Ohio.
/ Miss DunkhOrst has a rich mezzo soprano
voice Of fine quality
! Miss Elizabeth Leckie. soIoist AT Wash
ington Heights Presbyterian Church, has
/ recently won by competitive examination
/ a three-years scholarship at Peabody
| Conservatory of Music. Baltimore and
! leaves for Baltimore next week. 10 take
/ Up her studies. Miss Lcckie is the niece
| OF Mr.. A. Z. L. Leckie, Of this city. and
! possesses u voice of unusual range and
power.
The first public rehearsal Of the Rebew
Orchestra .for this season will be given
tomorrow evening at Keller Memorial
Lutheran Church. These public rehearsals
will continue throughout the season, and
the public is cordially invited to attend.
The soloists viii be Mrs. A. W. Cum
mings. contraIto. and w. j. Weber,
pianist
in Mrs. Oldberg's studio in the Belasco
Theater Friday afternoon, Miss Ella
knight Ellis was the artist. The pro-
gramme was:
Cayatina Simonetu
Adaglo- IaTtina
During the coming season Miss Clara
Drew will give four song recitais of IN
usual interest. She has made an exhaus-
tive study of the ancient music of
Italy, Germany. France, and England,
and will present many of these old
songs in contrast 10 the modern music
Of these same schools. Miss Drew Will
devote one recital 10 each of these
countries, thus keeping the types of each
clear, and explanatory notes Will be given
so that the recitals may be instructive
as well as interesting.
/ Several Of the old songs which she
I will employ date back to the eleventh
and twelfth centuries, while the modern
songs which she will use are the best
of the twentieth century composers.
Nine NJ. Won Unschuld has Just finished
a new work, written on a pedagogical
subject The manuscript received the
highest commendation from critics in
/ Europe, as well as in this country. A
weH-known New York publisher has Sc
cured the right TO publish it this fall in
the English and German languages.
Mr.. Oscar Franklin Comstock has writ
ten two short anthems during the sum-
meer, which will be sung by his choir in
Trinity Church very shortly.
Nine. Olga Samaroff. the pianist. has
advised her manager. Mr.. c. A. Ellis, Of
I Loos+oo that Sba bas loft the IIftIA vii l.