Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-14
MUSICAL MENTION.

her son. last winter, for advanced pupils,
has proved a great success with the small
students of music.
An interesting violinist. formerly we'll
known in Washington. Mrs. c. G. Hequem-
bourg. formerly Florence billiard, was
| heard at the Womans Club in Richmond
| last Monday. AS a musical inspiration to
| the city the Womans Club has taken the
place of the old Mozart Association. Mrs.
Hequembourg is a gifted and charming
violinist and was heard with great pleas
| ure and appreciation. She was accom-
! panied by a young pianist of New York,
| Miss Mary Shelton, who is a guest of rela-
tives in Richmond. Mrs. Hequembourg
| spent several winters in Washington, and
| made many friends.
Puccini. who gave us the beautiful
Madame Butterfly" is now engaged upon
| a new opera, which is being written around
| an American subject. He is just COM
| pleting an opera the life of Marie An
| toinette.
Scores of his Washington friends will be
! interested in the recent marriage of Mr..
William Knabe of Baltimore to Miss Mar
| garet A. Mason, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick r. Mason of Cape May, N. J.
The ceremony took place Saturday. the 9th
of this month. in the Hotel Belmont in
Cape May. by the Rev. II. NJ. Warner,
pastor of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Only two three relatives of the bride
and bridegroom We're present, as the pro-
nOSeu WeCulUS HdU Dte1l CdIclulIy htpt q
secret. Mr.. Charles Keidel jr.. formerly
of this city. now of Baltimore, his home,
acted as best man for his cousin. A break
fast followed the ceremony, after which the
bride and bridegroom left for an automo-
bile tour through the Berkshire Hills. On
their return they will go to Allenhurst, N.
j.. where the bridegroom has already leased
cottage. Mr.. Knabe is well known in
musical and social functions. He is now
in charge of the knabe house in New York,
where he and his bride will make their
home in the winters Mr.. kedel was for
merly in charge of the business in Wash
ington, and has recently been transferred
to Baltimore.
Miss Lydia Hughes is spending her sum-
mer at Brookfield, Conn., attending a sum-
mer school of music under the direction
of Mr.. IL. w Green of New York.
Mr. Ernest T. Winchester. organist and
choirmaster of st. Paul's Catholic Church,
will play the organ at Calvary Baptist
Church both morning and evening to-
day. for Mr.. Arthur d. Mayo who has
left town for the frs; vacation he has taken
in over fourteen years. Mr.. Winchester
will later go to the Cathedral tRoinan
Catholic, in Cincinnati, to attend the course
of lectures in GregOran Chant. which are
to be given there by authorities, gathered
together from both this country and
abroad. and which is under the direct
patronage of the Archbishop of Cincinnati
From Cincinnati, Mr.. Winchester will go
to New York to take postgraduate course
in boy-choir training, all of which he is
enabled to do through the kind generosity
of a member of St. Paurs parish.
katherine Goodson the English pianist.
writes to her American managers that she
has secured some very interesting novel
ties by French and Russian composers
which she will present for the first time
during her next American tour. Her en-
gagements in England and on the continent
will afford her only a brief vacation be-
fore her return to this country next No
rember