The Washington herald., 1911-04-16
MUSICIANS

Miss Mary Cryder has gone to Clifton
Springs, N. Y, because Of serious illness
| brought on by overwork and a strenu'
Gus concert season. Miss Cryder was
obliged to discontinue her own musicales
after January. She has brought num-
Der Of great artists here this season.
Among these artists are Liza Lehman.
Mischa Elman, violinist; Bursom, the
pianist; Borchard, pianist, and Mary
Garden. Her concert Of the Alice Mel
son Company was Cancelled.
Oscar Gareissen. the delightful barry
tone. has issued cards for a song recital
next Thursday evening in the ballroom
Of the Foster Piano Building 1t has been
several years since he gave a recital
here, and 1t will be a genuine treat to
lovers Of the best music.
Mrs. Warner Gibbs has been giving
Lenten musicales at the Grafton. assisted
by Miss Marion McFar, accompanist,
and Miss Lillian Koechling, violinist.
She will have an Easter musicale there
tonight, with the Zimmerman orchestra.
ductor, will give one OF its best pro-
grammes Wednesday morning at the
April recital. They will sing Shelley's
Natures Resurrection" Huntington
Woodman's Ashes Of Roses" by request:
Czibulka's Loves Dream" also by re-
quest. and Raff's THE Day is Depart
Miss Dyer, Miss Brett, Miss Winston,
pianist. The clubs associate member
ship runs from January to January, and
will include the mid-winter concert and
recital next season.
Ralph Goldsmith will give a violin re-
cital on April 26, in the ballroom of the
New Willard, for the benefit Of the Foster
Home. He will be assisted by Miss Ethel
Tozier, pianist. Mr.. Goldsmith is a
scholarship pupil at the Peabody Con-
precedented PROGRESS in his work. both in
technique and Interpretation.
Mrs. Mabel Beard. mezzo-soprano.
gave a vocal recital at Carnegie Library
last Thursday evening. She was assisted
by Miss Mildred Harrison, pianist, who
played selections from Chopin and Pad
erewski. Mrs. Boards selections were
from Gluck, Widor, Dalcroze, Neuschel.
Benkert and Reichardt. Mrs. Beard was
formerly a pupil OF Miss Drew, and is
now studying with Otto Torney Simon.
The choir Of the Dumbarton Avenue
Church. with a chorus of thirty voices,
will give the cantata, "Olivet to Calvary"
in the church next Thursday evening.
under the baton of William T. Glover,
conductor of choir, and with Mrs. Isaac
Birch at the organ. The members OF
the quartet are: Miss Bessie Birch, So
prano; Miss Meta Craig; mezzo-soprano;
Mr.. J. Y. Bowie, tenor, and Mr.. John
Waters. barytone.
Tho Venetian Quartet, composed of
Earl Wagner, first violin; Miss Freda
Hauf. second violin; Frank Moskey.
third violin, and Joseph Beall, fourth
violin. held their third weekly rehearsal
at the Moskey home, Thursday evening.
These young musicians render their num-
bers with much skill, their performance
Of the Carnival de Venice" being par
ticularly effective.
The Rebew Orchestra, under the direc-
ton Of n. w. Weber, will give its an
nual concert next Wednesday evening.
An attractive programme has been ar
ranged. the soloists all being prominent
in Washington musical circles. Miss
Muir Dalgleish, contralto; Mr.. J. G.
Klein. tenor; Mr.. A. Owen Penney. bass,
and Mr.. Walter F. Crouch and Mr.. E.
T. Hart violinists, will contribute solos,
while the orchestra numbers will include
march. Flag Of Truce UaurendeaU,
overture Tampa" CHerold), selection
from Carmen CBizet, intermezzo from
''Cavalleria Rusticana" MascagnD. De
cenniar' march, composed and arranged
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and will be played from manuscript;
Symphony" (Schubert, and
plantation melodies. Sunny South"
Oampe).
The Arion Gesangverein will give its
fifth and last musicale Of this season to-
night, when the assisting artists will be
Miss Alice E. Hill, mandolinist, William
G. Atherholt, tenor; F. J. Leonberger,
and an orchestra of twenty,
with Karl Holer musical director. The
follows:
Overture: Poet and Peasant .suppe
Orchestra.
Choruses:
(a) "Vergessen Reuter
Cb) "Daheim ist doch daheim" .Kuenhold
Anpn Gesangveren.
Mandolin solo: The Brooket .................Aot
Miss Hill.
Uiu1tar accompaniment, MI. w. L. doft-l
FANTASIA: Carmen ..Bizet
Orchestra
Conet solo, "Zaraida Polka. .Losey
Mr.. Leonberger.
Tenor solo: Let Ne Gaze Into Your Eyes
....JennI
Mr. Atherholt
March: Iannhaer6er wagner
Orchestra
The Music Study Club met last Mon
lay, when a paper on the life and works
If Felix Mendelsshon-B artholdy was read |
BY Mrs. Charles Raymond Wentz. The
,oloists were Miss Leona Kidwell, So
,rano, and Miss Mildred Rider. pianist.
Hiss Kidwell sang Jerusalem, Thou that /
xillest the Prophets" from the oratorio
st. Paul." and Miss Rider played an
tude of Mendelsshon's. The next meet !
ng will be held at the home Of Miss \
Ruby Stamford.
Macfarlane Brockett, who Is to repre-
ent the Bard at the Scotch Festival
o be held at Mrs. F. B. Moran's. In the
interest Of the Central Bronze Door Fund,
,. A. R.. has recently filed an engage
nent with the famous Caledonian Club
Il New York, the most prominent Scot
ish club in the United States and Canada
Excerpts from the press of that city:
Mr.. MacfaIlane Brockett, at one time
| well-known vocalist of Glasgow, and
low hailins from Washington, sang for
lis first number Alton Water We had
'een led to form very high expectations
4 Mr.. Brockett, and these were amply
UTILIZED. He has a fine, sweet tenor voice,
which has been carefully trained, and he
tngs with great feeling and expression.
lie was heartily encored Other numbers |