Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01
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ceremonies are elaborate and the music
a. most interesting feature. 1t will be
given by q double quartet of singers,
Mrs. Nellie Wilson Shircliff and Mrs.
Dayelle Taylor WEIGH, sopranos: Misses
Irma Stern and Pauline Whitaker. con-
| tralto; Messrs Harry Stevens and How
ard Butterworth. tenors. and John Nolan
and Theodore 7. Apple bassos. Lewis Corn
and with other numbers will play the
Prelude from the 'Martyrdom Of St Sc
bastian, by Debussey. The choir will
| render the music of the Inflamatus from
Rossinis "Stabat Mater" service by
Holstein, service by Schlesinger, and
many quaint and interesting traditional
chants. some of which are said to have
| been used since the time Of jeremiah, the
prophet. The ceremonies will be resumed
| tomorrow morning at $50 and will be
concluded at $50 tomorrow evening.
During the services tomorrow the choir
will sing Memberships Hear Ny
Prayer
Mrs. George A. L. Merrifield Of Falls
Church has returned from three
month trip abroad. Mrs. lherrifieid trav-
eled with a party Of congenial musical
friends. and various musical events were
the objective points In each Of the places
visited The tour included stops in Lon
don. Paris, Cologne, the Isle Of Wight,
Btngen, Frankfort Bayreuth. Munich,
Venice Florence. Rome and Naples.
Mrs. A. NJ Blair. musical director of
the Monday Morning and Rubinstein
clubs, has returned to the city from East
Gloucester, Mass. where she has a sum-
mer home. Mrs. Blair sang at the service
Of the Universalist Church last Sunday
morning, and Tuesday evening the choral
society that she organized this summer
among the residents of the town gave a
musical before an audience that taxed
the capacity OF the church. At the close
no D1ai
direction. she was the recipient Of an ova-
ton from the audience and many floral
tributes.
William Wall Whiddit organist and
choirmaster of the First Congrega tional
Church, will this evening resume the
practice Of giving fifteen-minute organ
recital before the service and will con- |
tinue giving these little programs each |
Sunday throughout the season. This even |
ing his numbers will include Grand Cho-
rus by Dubois: .'Idyle," by Kinder, and /
"Barcarolle' from ''Contes d'Hoffman."
cal service. Evening With the Choir" in |
which Paul Bleyden, tenor soloist of All |
Souls Unitarian Church, will he heard in !
solo and in ensemble work with the quar-
choir are "An Praise to God in Light
Arrayed,' Jerusalem, the Golden, by
Babylons Wave and Some Day. The
quartet. composed of Mrs. B. H. Smart
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tralto: Paul Bleyden. tenor, and J. Wal
ter Humphrey. basso. will sing Il Have
Longed for Thy Salvation" from Ros-
sini's ..Stabat Mater" and Miss Smith
will be heard also in contralto solo. |
Mr. Whiddit will close the program with
the organ postlude 'Toccata," by Dubois.
Miss Louise Allen. formerly assisting
soprano soloist of the Ascension Church
choir has been engaged for ST. Mar
yarets choir and assumed her place last
Sunday after vacation spent at Niagara
md Watkins Glen. n. Y.
Thomas Evans Greene, tenor. sang in
he quartet of Calvary Baptist Church |
asst Sunday. and was the offertory solo,
st at the evening service. his selection
,eing Van de Waters Publican" Mr..
Greene will sing with the quartet again to-
lay.
Miss Marian West. chairman Of the pro-
ram committee of the Music Study Club.
yesterday from a six-week out
ng at Orange, Va
Miss Hazel Franklin, soprano and for
ner vice president Of the Music Study q
'lub will return during October from c
4ondon. where she has spent the past v
drs. William Fairbanks the former one
f the secretaries of the American en- r
assy. =
The new pipe organ which has been in o
tailed during the past two months at In e
'ill be heard by the pubic for the first :
me this evening at special service. at d
ihich the choir. under direction of Mrs. q
ienry Hunt Mckee, will present the o
arrest cantata. Ruth. by Henry I,
'road There will be chorus of fifty =