The Washington herald., 1911-09-24

the prospect OF retaining tnelr OrBanlSt
end choir director, John Porter Law
renee, who resigned recently to accept
a similar position in the Calvary Bap-
tist Church. Mr. Lawrence was to have
taken up his duties in-his new position
on the first Sunday in October and In
the meantime was continuing in his old
position. He has been induced, before
! signing his contract with the Baptist
church, to withdraw the resignation
and remain where he has been for nearly
twenty years. Mr.. Lawrence Is one OF
the leading organists and musicians in
Washington and one of the best known,
and his loss would have been deeply felt
in the Presbyterian church. where some
| CT the members Of the choir have been
together for fifteen years.
Two of the younger singers Of Wash
ington left here on Tuesday for New
York to join the Savage English Opera
Company, Richard H. Backing, tenor,
and George H. Miller. basso. The former
was the tenor soloist in the Calvary
Baptist Church and the latter bass
| sOlOist in the Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church. Mr.. Miller went on quite
short notice and has been assigned the
| IL
| West" Just what part Mr.. Backing
will have is not yet known here, but he
also went to New York to join the
same company. Both Mr.. Backing and
! Mr.. Miller are graduates of the Wash
| lngtOn College of Music and their sue
cess in so quickly obtaining a profess
sional engagement is a matter Of much
congratulation. They both have excep-
tionaIly good voices, and their many
I Nwtn dc nn1ar NNGfF flT md
others, earnestly expect pronounced
! success for them. Mr.. Backing. whose
departure was announced several weeks
ago, was given an impromptu farewell
reception on Monday afternoon at the
College OF Music, when his FELLOWSHIP
dents. classmates and teachers had an
opportunity of wishing him God-speed.
Mr.. Miller was telegraphed for the next
day.
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas L. Jones, who
have been at Terra Alta, West Va, for
some time on account of Mr.. Jones'
health, returned to their home on Cap
itol Hill, on Thursday. Mr.. Jones is
not improved. as they had hoped he
would be, and Mrs. Jones is quite Ill
now also. Mr. Jones is one of the best
known tenors in local circles and Mrs.
Jones is equally well known and ap-
preciated, as an accompanist and or
ganist.
Oscar Gareissen. OF New York and
Washington, will return to Washington
next Saturday and will hereafter spend
only Saturday of each week here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Bleyden have re-
| turned from their summer outing in
and around New York and are estab-
lished in their apartment on Adams Mill
road. Mr.. Bleyden has already resumed
his work as tenor soloist in the choir
OF All Souls Unitarian Church.
Miss Marie Grice Young. pianist. who
was the piano teacher of the Roosevelt
children during their years in the White
House, will spend the coming winter in
Europe. She will sail next week as the
guest of Mrs. J. Stuart White, Of New
York. whom she has been visiting during
the summer at BriarclIff Lodge, Briar-
cliff Manor, n. Y. They have a charm
| ing schedule engaged for the winter.
Miss Marion McFaT has resumed her
work as soprano soloist and director of
the music in the First Baptist Church.
after a vacation of several months spent
at Braddock Heights, Nd Miss McFall
will have a quartet TO furnish the music
this season. composed of herself, as
soprano; Mrs. James Kerr. contraltO;
Platt Birch, tenor, and E. II. McLachlen.
basso. Mrs. Edmund Barry, who was
formerly Miss Hattie Mcfarland, is the
organist. The quartet will sing In
Heavenly Love Abiding" for an an
them this morning. and for the offertory
Bragdons duo for soprano and alto,
The Guiding Star" This evening they
will have the duet. Rubinstein's WAN
derer's Night Song" for soprano and
alto.
Miss Katharine McNeal pianist, left
last Monday for Philadelphia for the
winter to pursue her studies in piano
with Mime. Grugan. Miss McNeal will
go to Europe in the spring and spend
some time with Nine. Teresa Carreno.
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Garziglia, who have
spent the summer abroad visiting the
parents of the former at their home In
Nice, have been travelling for some time
in Switzerland. They sailed on Septem-
Der 9, from Marseilles for Naples.
Italy. They stopped in Spain and the
Azores Islands and will arrive in New
York next week after seventeen-day
trip. They will come at once to their
home in Washington.
Miss. Ethel Tozier, the well-known
young pianist, sailed for home last week
after a summer trip abroad and is eX-
pected here tomorrow. She played with
much success ip the drawing-room of
Miss Atkinson, in London, and at the
Hotel d'Orient, in Paris, during her
visits there.
Mrs. R. H Dalgleish. contralto, has
beeen engaged 10 sing for the Women's
Club on the afternoon of October 3, at
there annual meeting. The regular date
for the meeting was Thursday, October
8, but because of Mrs. Dalgleish's pro-
posed absence from Washington at that
time, they changed the date so as to
be able to have her sing for them. She
made a very pronounced hit as their
soloist last season at the annual meet
ing. Mrs. Dalgleish has had as her
guest during the past week Mrs. Har-
vey r. Schroeder, of the Peabody Con-
servatory of Music in Baltimore. Mrs
Schroeder is a prominent pianist in Bal
timore.
At Foundry NJ. E. Church a special
musical service has been arranged for
this evenings service at s o'clock.
Mr.. Wrightson had engaged Mr.. Backing
for his farewell appearance, but owing
to his having to leave for New York
Mrs. Helen Donahue Deyo. soprano So
loIst of st. Margaret's Church, has been
engaged as the Soloist of the eyenin1