Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-10
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| The Sunday evening musical service
| of the Church of the Covenant. which
| has been rendered heretofore by differ
| ent organizations, will in the future be
| given by permanent chorus choir under
the leadership of Otto T. Simon, with
| Lewis c. Atwater as organist The
| choir will start with sixty voices and
| it is proposed to increase this num-
| Der. a choral service of selections
| from the greater oratoros will be
| taken up and the choir will sing pre-
| liminary musical program each Sun
day evening at 7:3O. The musical serv-
| ice this evening will be the first ap-
pearance of the permanent choir and
| the selections will be taken from
Gounod's Redemption" The follow
ing choruses will be sung: Forth the
Royal Banners Co. 1.-The Reproaches,'
The Earth Is My Possession, Lord,
Jesus, Thou to All Bringest Light
Beside the Cross Remaining Love
ly Appear and unfold Ye Portals
Everlasting. The oratorios of the
Messiah. ST. Paul, Elijah, Life and
Death. Christus. Daughter of Jairus
are in preparation. Volunteers for
this choral work should apply to the
musical director a the church Satur-
days at 1880.
Mrs. Morgan d.. Lewis. chairman of
the music committee for the District
Daughters of the American Revolu
ton. desires to organize a d. A. r.
Chorus Club, to be composed of the
singers and musicians of the various
chapters of the District. The purpose
of the organization will be to study
music from the earliest period of his
tory of our country, beginning with In
of o
colonial and revolutionary times. \
meeting will be held at Everett Hotel
1880 III street. tomorrow evening at
1:3O in the interest of such an organl-
zatiOn and an invitation is extended
to the regents of the chapters and
their musical members.
The first annual banquet of the choir
of the First Congregational Church, Will
liam Wall Whiddit, director took place
Monday evening. The members of the
choir. each with an invited guest and
the members of the pastors council met
I'm the church parlOr for an informal
reception at $50, and dinner was served
by ladies of the congregation in the Sun
day school room. Following the banquet,
delightful program was gwen by prom
inent musicians from other cholrS, MT
Whiddit acting as master of ceremonies.
Among those contributing to the pleasure
of the occasion were Mrs. Ethel Holtz-
claw-Gawler. soprano. who sang La
Printemps'' and "Gavotte des Mathurion
Mrs. William r. Reed, contralto, who
gave Van der Stuckens 90 Come With
Me In the Summer Night" and Parting
and duet. Rossini's La Regatta, Mrs.
Gawler sustaining the soprano part.
Charles w Moore, basso, gave '"Tis T.
and Break, Break. Break" and j. F..
Bowie was heard in the tenor solos, Let
Me Like Soldier Fall and Westward
by the Devon Sea- Three-minute re-
ports from the secretary, Miss Frances
Arc Il irpS
and librarian, Mr.. Robson De S. Brown
proved among the most entertaining
features of the evening, Miss kolmer and
Mrs. Atkinson having each embodied
their statements in some clever verses.
Mr.. Browns report gave interesting in
formation concerning the library of the
choir. which contains 10000 copies of
musical compositions, OF which ne Lao
made complete card catalogue. DR..
Woodrow made short address on the
Importance Of music in religious worship,
Col. John Tweedale gave d reading. AL
bert OsgoOd gave the toast to our
Church, Newton Preston to Our Re-
hearsal' and O. II. Mcpherson to Our
Choir Mr.. Mcpherson, in tribute to
the late DIR. ]. w. Bischoff. told Of how
he organized the church choir. first as a
quartet, then as double quartet, AFTER
ward enlarging it to twenty then to forty
members, and gave also due consideration
to his successor. Mr.. Whddit, to whose
ability and enterprise the present flourish
ing condition Of the organization, now
numbering eighty voices. is due.
B. Frank Gebest entertained at a piano
recital last evening. the studio being
filled to overfiowing with friends and
relatives Of the young musicians. The
assisting soloists were Miss Richie Nc
Lean. contralto, and Miss Elizabeth
Love Is a Bird and Your Voice and
Miss Grahame played the Meditation"
from That's The overture to Mid
summer Nights Dream" arranged for two
the Misses Dortch and Hardesty and
Messrs. Jewell and Gebest: Miss Jose
phine Golden was heard in LeschetiZky's
caprice. 'Arabesque en- Forme d 'Etude";
Interpretation of group of MacDowell
numbers, ITO Wild Rose, Twill o. the
Wisp' and From an Indian Lodge:
Miss Elizabeth Tabler Petingale gave
skis ''valse Brilliante in A Flat for
two pianos. four hands. was rendered by
Misses Hardesty, Golden Stewart and
Maxam: Miss Joanna Petingale, Miss
Irene Hardesty and Edwin Russell Fewell,
each gave Chopin number in good
style. Miss Selene Wilmer Dortch played
the Beethoven sonata, OPP. TO- No. l. and
the program closed with the Mendelssoiln
'Scherzo' In E minor. by Mr.. Gebest.
The choir of Waugh NJ E. Church,
under the leadership Of John G. Klein. is
rehearsing an attractive program in
preparation for Christmas Sunday The
music today will consist of the anthems
% Come Let us Sing" by Gilbert, and
welcome, Sweet Grace. by j. c. May,
and soprano solo by Miss Ada Botelee.
Mrs. Klein will be at the organ. as usual
The Motet Choir directed bv Otto n.
Simon. will give its first invitation con-
cert OF this season Wednesday evening
next III the Memorial Continental Hall
twenty-five hundred invitations have
! been sent out and the program prepared
Is a strong one. On it are represented
the music of the three epochs of life
nativity, marriage, death. In the beauti-
full Agnus Del from Hameriks Requiem
Mass in Minor, the cOntralto soloist
will be Miss Marian Larner. John Wat
ers, as in last years concert, will sing
the baritone solo in the Christmas song,
| ''Stille Nacht. Heilige Nacht" which the
chorus will sing about the lighted tree.
Each year the Motel Choir will give this
| same expression of the Christmas spirit
| The womans chorus from Das Rhein-
gold promises to be an effective number
| as well as the Christmas chorus of 1.-THE
| Three Ships of Colin Taylor composer
| for the Musical Art Society of Elton Col
| lege and first brought out there in 1909
| 1t is work that Mr.. Simon found in
| London this summer and this is probably
| its first presentation in this country
| The suite for piano and strings by Hora-
| ito Parker, played by Mrs. Simon and
Messrs. Anton Kaspar and Ernest Lent,
possesses also much interest All appli-
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