The Washington herald., 1911-06-04

Inc programme at the commencement
of the Bristol School showed unusually
good music, with Paul Bleyden, tenor;
Anton Kaspar, violinist, and 8. NJ. Fa-
bian. pianist They gave two numbers
each. Mr.. Kaspar played Sarasate's
Zapateado, and Beethoven's Minuet; Mr..
Fabian played the CHOPIN "Berceuse," and
valse; Katten's Serenade and Rubin
stems staccato Etude, and Paul Bley-
den sang Ceehrs For You Alone"
Speaks "On the Road to Mandalay,"
Chadwick's Before the Dawn" and
Rueckaufs Lovers Call" The pro-
gramme closed with the school song by
the chorus.
College, Tex, are the guests of Mrs.
Lovette's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. K.
Whitford. at 1853 Eighteenth street. They
will spend next week here, en- route to
Europe. DR.. Lovette has been engaged
to act not only as Judge at the three
festivals of contests known as ''Eistedd-
fodan" during the summer, but has been
made chief adjudicator. The first fes-
tival will take place in Wilkesbarre, Pa.
where fine prizes have been offered for
the best performances of mixed choruses,
mems choruses, womens choruses, solos,
duets, and Quartets. Associated with
DR.. Lovette in this work are w. ]. Hen
derson, of New York; Hollis Damn, direc-
tor of music at Cornell University. and
DIR. Walden, of London, England. Dur
ing their stay abroad DIR. and Mrs. Low
ette will visit his home and relatives
in Wales, and then visit London, Berlin,
and Paris, and travel through Belgium,
Holland, Switzerland, and Germany. Mrs.
Lovette is we'll known here as Miss Eva
Whitford, singer and dramatic reader.
L. Cd H,,
the music department of the college of
which he is director. He is a pianist
and composer with a brilliant reputation
in Europe and in the West and South
in this country.
The marriage of Paul Bleyden, tenor
soloist in the choirs of the Church of
the Covenant and All Souls Unitarian,
to Miss Charlotte Sessler, daughter Of
MIR. Charles Sessler, of Philadelphia, will
take place tomorrow at noon in the Sess-
Ter home. Only the members of the i'm
mediate families will be present, and
there will be no attendants. The cere-
mony will be followed by a wedding
breakfast at the Hotel Walton after
which Mr.. Bleyden and his bride will go
TO Atlantic City for a few days and re-
turn here before the end of the week,
ard will be at the New Willard until the
choirs take their vacation, when Mr..
Bleyden and his bride will probably sail
for Italy. Miss Sessler was educated
abroad pursued her study of the piano
in Berlin and Paris and is as brilliant
linguist as she is pianist, speaking
four languages we'll
Mr.. Bleyden gave up his operatic
career at the height of his successes,
when tenors were scarce and he had
many offers. He prefers the private life
and living in one spot He has made
successes in grand opera in Europe and
in both grand and light opera in this
country, and is distinct acquisition
10 Washington's music and social circles
Mrs. Josef Kaspar will leave next
Thursday for Boston, whence she
will sail Saturday for Europe on her
annual trip abroad. She will return in
Mr.. Kaspar and their daugh-
ter. Mrs. Lawson. will spend the summer
at Mont Saliva. Bluemont, Va, and DR..
Lawson will spend the week-ends there
until late in the summer, when he will
stay some time Mr.. and Mrs. Henry |
kaspar and their baby daughter. Oe- |
ella, will arrive late in the summer to |
make their home here.
Louis A. Potter. jr., who has gradu- |
ated from the Won Unschuld University |
Of Music, carried off the honors Of the !
institution. and is the most brilliant and |
artistic pianist yet graduated from that
university. He won the diploma OF virtu- |
osity and the gold medal of the year by
a unanimous vote of the judges. who were
Hammer, r. Z. Seel, Of the
Marine Band; Miss Sarah Willard Howe,
Mime. Won Unschuld, and Percy S. Foster.
He had previously taken a diploma in
the teachers course Mr.. Potter played
a difficult and eXacting programme with
much beauty of tone. brilliant technique
and poetic, artistic temperament. When
Mr.. Potter was quite a small boy he
made a reputation as an organist. and
his accompaniments were a delight to
tne choir singers. He is also gifted
with a voice which ne Is cultivating. His
programme at his graduation was as fol-
lows: Schuman, Etudes Symphoniques
Weber. Momento Capriccioso; Chopin. Oc-
taVe Etude in B minor, Scherzo in G
sharp minor; List. Concert Etude. D fiat:
Paganini-Liszt, Campanella: Gounod- |
Liszt, Faust Valse.
The American Guild of Organists, D. |
c. Chapter. has invitations out for the |
eighth in a series of organ reCitals /
1t will be given in st. PauIs Church,
in Twenty-third street tomorrow even
ing, by James W. Cheney, jr., assisted |
by Mrs. James Henry COX.
Mrs. a. NJ. Blair, conductor of the /
and Monday Morning Music !
clubs. left last Monday for her summer
home at Annisquan, accompanied by
Miss Blanche a. Yewell. secretary Of |
the Rubinstein. Mrs. Blair's mother, Mrs. |
and her younger son, Francis |
Blair, who are still at her apartment at |,
the Dresden, will join her at Annisquan !
next month. Her older son, Percy Blair, |
returned from Paris, preceded |
his mother to Gloucester.
The Music Study Club closed its sea- |
son last Monday at the home Of Miss |
Marion West The meeting was an ex- |
ira one and the programme Of miscel- |
laneous composers. Miss Brooks sang |
Vol Che Sapete.'' from Mozart's La |
Nozze di Figaro" Miss Mabel Roberts. |
soprano. who was the guest Of the club, |
sang Inter Nos" by Alexander Mac |
Fadyen, and Schumanns "Du Bist VIE |
Fine Blume;" Miss West. "Canzonetta."
by Loewe; "Tosca's Prayer and AN |
Irish Love Song" by Margaret Ruthven |
Lang, and III No One Ever Marrtes Mo -
by Liza Lehman; Miss Leona Kidwell,
Delilah:" Miss Mildred Rider played Mac
dowelrs Witches Dance Miss Mar
guerite Howard sang the famous aria
from Puccinrs Madam Butterfly" and
'Titania's Cradle" by Liza Lehmann: