Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

Plaster Miss Chambers; solo, Daddy
Behrend) Mrs. Bornschein: quartet
Aunt Margery' PARKS; reading. select
ed. Miss Chambers; quartet, There, Lit
tie Girl. Don't Cry" and COLLINS. All
the selections were we'll rendered and cor
daily received, the performers respond
ing generously with encores. In the abb
sence of Mr.. Percy Foster. DR.. Elmer ID.
Wider was in charge
Mrs. Henry Hunt Mckee. who has been
sojourning at the Shelburne. Atlantic
City, will go 10 New York during the pres
ent week to consult Mr. HI. Loren Glenn
ents about the production of his opera.
THE Virginia Romance" which is to be
presented this fall by the pupils of the
Odgen-Crane School of Opera. and Incl
dentally to obtain new material for teach
ing and operate work. Mrs. Mckee has
been re-engaged as organist and choir
master of the Episcopal Church of St.
Michael and All Angels and will resume
her duties there on her return to the city
about the Goth of September.
1t was noted in the Musical Mention of
Sunday last that Mr.. Harry Hall is the
assistant organist at st. AloysiuS and st.
Paul's Catholic churches. This is incor-
rect Mr.. Hall is not assistant organist
at any church. but is the regular organist
at ST. Aloysius Church.
Mr.. Ernest Lent. cellist. will be the solo,
list this morning at the New York Ave
nue. Presbyterian Church. his selections
including The Angelus,' by Florino;
Romance sans Paroles" won Goens). and
Traumerei. by Schumann. Miss Minnie
Alton Bailey will officiate at the organ.
Next Sunday the regular quartet, con-
sisting OF Mrs. Nellie Wilson Shircliffe
soprano: Miss Pauline Whitaker. con-
tralto: MIR. Joseph Matthew, tenor, and
Mr. John Nolan, bass, will resume their
places in the choir, with Mr.. John Por-
ter Lawrence again at the organ.
Miss Mary Helen Leefe. soprano of the
Swedenborgian Church, 18th and Cor
cOran streets, is spending her vacation at
East Orange, n. J.. where she and her
mother are being charmingly entertained
by relatives.
Nordfca is TO be heard this season in
concert work. Her manager. r. f.
Johnston, has arranged tour that takes
in all the principal cities of the United
States and many smaller places en- route
The season opens at Rochester. n. Y.
October Z. From this point she will work
as far south Columbia. s. c.. then
north to WISCONSIN, Minnesota and the
north Pacific coast, reaching San Fran
cisco. Los Angeles. etc, about the middle
of December. On her return east she is
to fill engagements in the vicinity of New
York, and with Pittsburg Orchestra at
Pittsburg, Cleveland and Buffalo.
The program OF music which has been
specially arranged or the services this
morning at St. Augustine's Catholic
Haydn's Third Mass. Gloria from Gou-
mods st. Cecelia's Mass. Credo Durand).
Sanctus. Benedictus and Agnes Del (Gou-
nod, and at the offertory. Jubilate Dec
OiabellD; Recessional NWagnert. Mr..
Anton Kaspar will direct the choir and
Miss Mamie Mullaly will preside, is usual,
at the organ.
Miss Katherine May Brooks. who has
been spending several weeks in Shelby
vile, Ina. visiting relatives, will leave
there Wednesday for Ithaca. N Y, where
she will be the guest of Miss Faith
Davis. daughter of the late James Y.
Davis of Washington.
Miss Lillian Haley. soprano of Epiph-
any Church. has returned from Ocean
Grove, n. j., where she had sojourned
three weeks.
The Nordica Concert Quartet. Mr.. Wal
ter T. Holt, director has returned from
Panama where they gave concerts in
Cristobal. Panama and other cities of the
Canal Zone. the local press notices re-
cording their progress series of sue
cesses. In fact, in each place where they
were engaged to give concert Mr.. Holt
found ii necessary to play return en-
gagement. The quartet consists of Mr..
Walter T. Holt, Washington. ID. c.: Miss
Harriet Cleveland Westcott. Boston.
Mass; Miss NJ. Elizabeth Tiffany. Wash
ington, ID. c.; Mr.. w. A. Morsell, Wash
ington. d. c., and their program at Girls
tobal included mandolin. mandola and
piano trio. Red MILL" selections 0Ier-
berD; contralto solo. Parted" CTostD
Miss WeStcott; mandolin obligato. mando-
lin SOLO Valse Fantasia (SeigeD Miss Tiff
fanny; Congo songs. Mr. MOrsell; piano