The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

direction Of Mr.. William Wall whiddit.
This organization offers an exceptional
| opportunity not only to the young people
OF the church, but to all who are inter
ested in the study OF vocal music A
part OF the hour is given to breathing
exercises and tone placing. From this
organization new members are chosen to
| MI any vacancies in the large choir of
the church. The chorus will continue to
meet Tuesday evenings in the church
parlor at 7:3O. There is no cost to the
members, and all are invited.
| The following selections will be sung
by the choir at the morning service in
this church; Anthem, Great and Marvel
ous' Farmer); I'm Heavenly Love Abid-
ing (BischofD, and ]. Walter Humphrey
will sing a barytone solo. Mr.. Wall
| Whiddit, the organist and choirmaster,
VIII play the andante from the Fourth
symphony beethoven. and a festival
march by Kinder.
Mrs. Mary V. Ashby, at the Jackson,
will go on to New York later to meet her
son Henry. who returns from his musical
studies abroad. Mr.. Ashby is well known
here as pianist and critic
Mr.. Edward Hart has returned from the
mountains Of North Carolina and has
removed to Calvert street
Miss Hazel Franklin, a former officer
of the Music Study Club, who spent the
past six months in London with Mr.. and
Mrs. William Fairbanks, formerly Of this
city, will return here in October.
st. Joseph's choir has been reorganized.
mixed choir instead of the girls choir.
Preparations are under way for frequent
rehearsals before the winter schedule Of
services. The choir is composed of
volunteers members as follows: Misses
Hillyard, Orbello. Lynch, Harvey. Smith,
| Maisak, Dwire, Hughes, Dorr, Perkins,
Fisher, ThOrnet. and Dillon. and Messrs.
| Shafer, Hess, Curtin, Cullen, Maloney,
| Hughes, Lyons. Fealy, Hart, Coombes-
The choir will be under the direction OF
| Miss Marie Louise Sullivan.
Miss Mary Isabel Kelly. Washington
pianist, who has been abroad for the
| last two years, studying with xaver
Scharwenka in Berlin, will return home
early in October. Miss Kelly's father was
! formerly organist Of one of the we'll
known churches here.
The talent for the first smoker OF Cap
| ital Council, Royal Arcanum. was fur
nished by the newly organized Enter
tainers' Club, of Washington. The smok-
| er was held in Pythian Temple Thurs
| day evening. September A. The Enter
| tainers Club was represented by Byron
Blodgett. pianist and accompanist; Ar
| thur Butler Pierce, coon coloraturist,"
and Edwin Callow, reader, who was
heard for the first time in his "Docta
Wiley" stories. Mr.. NJ. D. Schaefer. OF
| the committee. says Capital Council has
planned a number of social evenings,
and, as he expresses It, he is in strong
for headliners for each event"
The Musical Art Society, known as
the Motet choir of 100 voices, will be-
gin its third season of activity at the
first rehearsal on Tuesday evening. Oc-
tober 3. at s o'clock. in the Parish
| hall of st. Johns Church, Sixteenth
street, near N street.
| This organization in two years of its
| existence has made an unusual impress
sion by the classicism of it's pro-
| grammes and their artistic rendition.
| Although known as a choir, the Motet
Society is Unconnected with any church
organization. The term is used as in
| England and has reference to a chorus
of limited membership. Two concerts
will be given during the season. the first
| in the early part of December, will in
the latter half of the programme be an
expression of the Christmas spirit
The old Latin motets about the lighted
tree will again. as in past years. be a
| featuRe of this concert. The audiences
will be invited guests, and a list of
| sustaining members will assist in de-
! fraying the necessary expenses. These
works of the society, of undoubted ar
| tistic worth, should have the interest
| and ~ al
cation for active membership in the
| chorus should be made to Charles L.
Smell, Seward apartments. The musical
| director of the Motet Choir Is Otto T
Simon. with Mrs. Simon at the piano.
The other officers are Edgar r s. En-
| brey, president; Charles L. Smell, secre-
tary and treasurer; Miss Ethel Grimes,
corresponding secretary, and Robert n.
Atkinson, librarian.
B. Frank Meyers, senior bass soloist
and director of the choir of st. PauIs
Lutheran Church, has arranged preten-
! tiOus programmes for the last Sunday!
evening in each month, beginning this
evening, when they will sing the follow
ing selections: Unfold, Ye Portals" He
Watcheth Over Israel" My Soul Doth
Magnify Thee Thy Hallowed Pres
ence," with incidental solos for the tenor:
1HOu, LOTu, ArI MY hope ana Like as
a Father Pitieth His Children" Mrs
Flora Bernheimer Brylawski, contralto,
will sing by special request The Ninety
and Nine" for offertory. The duet 1T
Will Magnify Thee" by Mozenthal, will
be sung by Miss Bertha Hausen, soprano,
and Mr.. Charles E. Myers, tenor. The
choir will sing Schmucker's ''Te Deum''
this morning. Mrs. William Hamilton
Bayly is the organist-
Mrs. neutrality-suspicious. prin-
cipal of the Washington Heights School
of Music, returned last week from
abroad. On the outgoing trip she
stopped at the Azores, and from Gibral-
tar sailed to Italy, travelling from South
ern Europe to the countries as far north ,
as England She had the pleasure of (,
hearing Carreno under the most favor
able circumstances at Lucernc5 and also
attended the organ recitals of DR.. F. j. !
Breitenbach in the Church Of the
Spires at the same place, each pro- /
Yamme concluding with his famous I
''Pastorale Fantasie."
The summer grand opera season in
Paris, the open-air concerts on the I
Thames embankment. in London, and the (,
best conducted bands throughout Ger