Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
MUSICAL MENTION.

Today in all the Catholic churches the
feast of the Immaculate Conception will
be celebrated with due solemnity and
special programs of music have been pre-
pared by the various choirs for the oc-
casion. At Holy Trinity Church in
Georgetown Bartholomew Mass in E nat
will be sung for the first time by the
supplied choir of boys and men. under
the direction o. Mr.. George Herbert
Wells, organist and choirmaster. The
solos will be rendered by Masters Joseph
A. Campbell and N1ahlon Cunningham.
sopranos; Masters William F. X. O'Brien
and Walter Colburn contraltos; Mr. Zena
Leonard Wood, tenor, and Mr.. Ambrose
a. Durliin, basso. Mr.. J. Riley Stanton
will render a selection on the violin at
the offertory. The introit. gradual, Of
fertorum and communion will be sung to
Gregorian chant aud the .Veni Creator
spiritus," TO be sung before the sermon
by Mr.. Durkin, is a composition of the
organist, Mr.. Wells. The occasional will
be Webbes Alma Redemptorls Mater"
sung by Mr.. Wood and the choir.
The choir OF tie New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, under Mr.. John
Porter LawreI.ce, are rehearsing Can
tata by Geibe, which they will sing the
of the regular evening service.
Mr.. Otto Torney Simon gave a most
interesting lecture before the pupils of
the Western High School Thursday last
on 1.-The technique of Singing" He will
repeat the lecture before the young Ia dies
of the normal school some time during
the coming week
A reception will be given December
16. in the banquet hall of the Arlington,
by the Washington Camp, Sons of the
Confederacy, for which an elaborate pro-
gram of music is being arranged by Miss
Wilmuth Gary. John Sharp Williams
will also make an address on this oc-
caslon.
Miss Bessie Brown, contralto. will sail
from New York with her mother for
Italy December 10. She will spend a
prolonged period in Naples, studying voice
culture, joining her sister, Miss Daisy
Brown, who has been there for the past
four months.
At the home of Mrs. Carrot B. Van
Nest, 207 Sd street southeast, Friday, Le-
cember q, at pm. musicale was given
FESTIVAL Te 0 DeHm b P1Ssia soio. Is witt
Extol Thee" Costa, Miss THOMPSON:
Vanguard of the King Dana Holland.
Miss Bailey: recitation. selected, Miss
1oeckel; solo; "isognai,"'. schira, Mrs.
Embrey; duet. THE Pilot" Willard,
Messrs. Rodri,k and Embrey; quartet,
Gypsy Life schumann; solo. (a) 20
That I'm t., we Two We're Maying." Nevin;
Thompson: recitation. selected, Miss
Yoeckel solo. (a) II Love You Truly"
Bond; OBJ still Cnexprest," Bond. Mr..
Embrey: duet. selected. Miss Thompson
and Mrs. Mckenzie; ~o1o. "Slumber On"
Gounod, Dana Holland; solo. 1.-THE
Quest" Smith, Mrs. Mckenzie: quartet,
Hush Thee" My Baby Sullivan. The
accompanies were Dana Holland, Mrs.
Edmund Barry and Mr.. Lewis Corning
-Atwater.
Miss Marian MacFall. soprano; Miss
Minna Heinrichs, violinist and Mr. Paul
Fishbaugh. pianist, will give a joint re-
Cital for the blind at the Congressional
Library December %.
. Miss Lydia Hughes was the soloist at
the Second Presbyterian Church in Alex
andria last Sunday, her solo at the offer
tory being a new setting of the words
Not half has ever been tod" by DR..
Bischoff with Miss Edith Rotchford at
the organ.
\ recital was given last evening at the
Tome of Miss Alys Bentley, in which Mrs.
Frank Byram was heard in some excel
lent piano numbers. among them being
the ballet music from ''Alceste," Gluck-
SAINT SdenSs prelude, Rakmanin0m;
'Nocturne No. H." Chopin. Miss Bent
ley was heard in some old English songs
and some numbers by Beethoven, with
Miss Sailie Mason at the piano.
This evening at the Westminster Me-
mortal Presbyterian Church a choir OF
twenty voices will sing a 'Magnificat'
by Mr.. Robert Cary Staarns on which
it has been working for some time MIR.
Stearns himself was present at the re-
hearsal last week and expressed himself
as much pleased with the rendition of the
work. 1t has never before been given in
this country. but was performed in Lon
don under the direction Of Horatio Parker
TO whom it is dedicated Other numbers
to be sung during the service will be by
the, Waters of Babylon sung by Dr. G.
Harris White; The Lost Chord" sung
by male quartet, and a solo and chorus
for mems voices, The Old Wayside
Cross" in which Mr. Elmer Jasper viii
take the solo. Mrs. Frank Byram will
preside, as usual, at the organ.
The Rebew Orchestra gave another of
Us enjoyable pubic rehearsals last Mon
Gay night in the lecture room of the KEEL