Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-05

At Miss Madeira's school for girls last
evening before a large invited audience
| Frauiein Marie Won Unschuld, court pianist
to H NJ. the Queen of Roumania gave a
Characteristic recital. The rooms were
tastefully decorated with dogwood bios
SONS and other spring flowers. and the
young ladies Of the school acted as ushers.
| Fraolein Won Unschuld played with her GUS
| tomary distinction and was warmly APP
| plauded. The marked intellectually OF her
| style and the perfection of her technique
| were conspicuous. particularly in the Bee
| thoven andante from the G major con-
| certo. This number was introduced by the
pianist with an interesting exposition of its
| contrasting movements. Power of interpre-
tation was also shown in the mastery rem
tdering of the Schubert-Liszt .'Erlking' and
a series of preludes by Heller.
The program was begun with LisZt con-
| cert study. THE Thunder Storm and
other numbers were Weber's Invitation to
| the Dance" Original edition., Chopin's Flu
| neral March and LISTS Hungarian Fan
| tasie."
l While on this occasion Fraulein Won I'm
schuld gave the whole program. a recital
for a later date by the pupils of the school
is in preparation.
Miss Mabel Harnden, Mr. T. Miller. Mrs.
| l.. Prior and Mr.. Comstock will give The
| studio recital which will be given tomor-
| row.
Miss L. Leberman will give two recitals
this spring instead of one. Both will be
| given in Carroll Institute Hall. The en-
semble work will be the same for both
nights, but the soloists will be different
Miss Dortch, the representative of The
| Star in Miss Lieberman's class. will appear
on the first night and will play Dohlers
concert fantaSle on william Tell
Among the ensemble ni1rnbprS Se-
| lection from "Semiramide" for forty hands
at the piano; Wagners Ride of the
and two grand sss opera s to-
| the distribution of the medals viii take
place.
ing piano recital last Monday evening at
her home In Takoma Park Miss Lewton
came to Washington several seasons ago
from Boston. where she received her must
cal education. Her program included Bach's
Gavotte. Chopins Etude, Schumann's
"Warum.' Grieg's ITO Spring" Wagner
hauser; "Berceusse." By Mason: Rafrs
'Tambourin." Bendeis Cascade Gu Chau-
drOn." Moszkowskrs Valse In A fiat and
Paderewski's Polonaise. All of these were
audience showed its appreciation of the
good work.
Miss Lewton's program was varied by
two vocal solos, one Of which was Thy
Beamng Eyes" of MacDowelrs rendered
by Miss Edith Gardner. whose rich con-
tralto voice was much appreciated by all.
The other was given by Mr.. Donaldson, a
baritone. who sang most acceptably the
old English ballad "Drin.- to Me Only With
Thine Eyes"
The latest meeting of the Unschulu Club
was in many respects the best of the sea-
son. The following program was given:
Noeturno. by List, and Gayotte of Sam
and Scherzo by Scarlatti Miss Martha
Urness: Beethoven's Sonata Appassionata,
Mss Katherine McNeal; Chaminade's
warrior Song" Miss Bright. Several songs
were given by Mrs. William X. Miller in
an artistic manner, accompanied from
memory by Mrs: Franklin.
The last meeting of the Unschuld Club
for this season will be given Friday, May
10. During the last week Of May Miss
Martha Urness and Miss Alice Terrell will
render their graduating recitals In the par
lors of the university.
The quartet in the Shrine of the Sacred
posed of Miss Mabel c. Latimer, soprano;
Miss Mary E. King. alto; Mr.. ]. Cassin
Howard, tenor, and Mr.. Bernard A. Ryan,
basso and director; Miss Margaret O'Toole.
organist. Mr.. Ryan Is well known in mu-
steal circles as one of the best BASES in
Catholic Church choirs. He was for many
years bass soloist in st. Patrick's choir,
which position he gave up on account of his
been active in his music work for some
time. His choir today will sing Haydn's
Second Mass Miss Latimer Will sing the
Veni Creator and Mrs. w. L.. Weed will
given in the evening. when Miss King will
sing the 20 Salutaris.''
The Falls Church Choral Society gave a
complimentary rendition Of "The Rose
Maiden" Cowen, at the Congregational
Church Friday evening under the able di-
rection of Mrs. Fred Dudley, who organized
the society three years ago. Miss Seaman,
who is developing a beautiful voice. sus-
tanned her difficult role with sympathy and
perfect understanding. rising to her eli
MAKES with fine dramatic effect.
Mrs. Ryer. Mr. McGroarty and Mr. Noble
did particularly good work. The choruses
were given with sureness and fine shading.
Mrs. Dickinson. organist Of the Presby-
ciety. did effective work at the organ. as
sisted by Mrs. WILDER OF Washington at
the piano.
The young girls Of the Bristol School are
preparing an operetta, "The Japanese Girl"
by Vincent. to be given the evening of May
q In the seminary hall.
Miss Ethel Holtzciaw, recently, engaged
soprano at the choir of the Calvary Bap-
fist Church. will be the soloist today at the
offertory. when she will sing with Verdure
Clad from Haydn's Creation"
The Choral Society. which had prepared
its numbers for the opening of the James
town exposition. will appear there in con-
cert the middle of this north under the
baton Of the conductor, Mr.. Sydney Lloyd
Wrightson.
!, Rumors were rife during the past week
to the effect that Mr.. Franz KneiseI, whose
name Is so inefably associated with the
Kneisel Quartet, which stands unrivaled in
this country for chamber music. has been
selected as the successor to the late Mr..
Fritz Scheel as conductor of the Philadel-
phia Symphony Orchestra. This will be a
matter OF regret to music lovers In some
respects, for IL is feared 1t will mean the
breaking up of the famous quarter which
have made reputation on both sides of
the Atlantic. Another rumor about the
successor to Scheel was that he would be
selected from among a number of foreign
conductors not yet known here.
The organ at st. Luke's Episcopal Church
has been entirely rebuilt under specifca- |
tons prepared by Mr.. H. H. Freeman, or
raj iat of ar. I0hn'a Church wh0 will rive 4