Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
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Bloom" Bembergs "Soupier" and Even
Bravest Hearts May Swell" from
Faust
The Rubinstein Club, Mrs. A. M. Blair.
director, will give It's first recital of the
season December IL IN the ballroom OF
the Arlington Hotel The program will
include choruses by George Henschedl.
Brahms, Stanley Smith, III. Lane Wilson
and Donizetti Miss Helen Crennan and
MRS isaac Cans, sopranos, and Mrs. James
Kerr, contralto, will each contribute some
solo numbers, and a quartet for piano and
strings by Johann StamitZ, played last
season on one of the members Cay"
programs, will be repeated by Miss Stan
ford and Miss Bloomer, violinists; NJ s;
Stanley. cellist. and Miss Brooks, pianist
The accompanist for the club will be NJ s.
Harrison, and Mrs. Burdette will play
for the sOloists.
Miss Marie Becker entertained at
complimentary recital in Studio Hall We'd
nesday evening. An attractive program
had been arranged and was successfully
presented by Misses NJ. Robin Breuninger
Carrie B. Brian, Cornelia NJ Cotton Vir-
ginia Shea, Ella D. Falconer Ruth f.
Staunton. r. Louise Young and Martha
W. Davis, who rendered the instrumen al
numbers. and Miss Katharine Eleanore
Crook. Miss Lillian Taft, Miss Anna C.
Bresnahan. James X. Young and R.
Louise Young, who gave the vocal Sc
lections. Special interest attached to the
singing of Master Frederick Granz Smil-
lie. who made quite hit in 1.-The Ballad
of Mike O'Day." the words of which were
written by Philander Johnson and the
music by Edmund Becker. Other num-
bers on the program included compost
tons by Chaminade. Mendelssohn. Les
chetiZhy, Test, Nevin, Rossin, Dudley
Buck and Chopin.
Miss Clara Drew. contralto, who has
been spending the last two years in Ber-
lin. sailed for Boston November g. on the
Ley, line from Liverpool. after spend
ing fortnight in London. Miss Drew will
he in this. country until the early sum-
mer, for a series OF concert and recital
engagements. and will visit in Washing
ton for few weeks some time this
month.
Mrs. A. NJ. Blair. musical director of
the Rubnstein and Monday Morning
clubs, has assumed the direction of a
chorus of young women at the Y. W. c.
A The chorus is composed entirely Of
members of that organization, and when
they held their first meeting and re-
hearsal last Saturday evening thirty
eight members were on hand, and it was
announced that by the second rehearsal
which will take place next Saturday,
there would be an enrolment OF about
seventy-fve members
Inc cholr OF st. JOhn Church, George
town under the direction of G. Thomp-
son Williams, will sing this evenin g
Maunder's sacred cantata, "Penitence
Pardon and Peace" The solos will be
sustained by Masters Lester Wilkinson
and John Reynolds. sopranos, and Messrs.
Charles B. Church, tenor, and Charles A.
Bright, baritone. Miss Ethel Lee, the
young ~cellist. will play Gounod's 'Medi-
tatiOn'' on the first prelude of Johan
| Sebastian Bach. at the offertory, with
Mr.. Williams at the organ.
| Mrs. Howe and Miss Sarah Willard
Howe. widow and daughter OF DR..
Franklin Howe, are making an ex-
tended visit through the south, taking in
! all the musical events Of consequences
| along the route. Last week they spent
in New Orleans, and very much enjoyed
! the presentation of Hamlet" in French
grand opera.
| Miss Clarine McCarty held the second
| of this years studio recitals last Satur-
| day afternoon. Several of the younger
| students In the preparatory class were
| given the opportunity to play, four of
them showing much ability in the rem
dition Of Tschaikowsky's Valse, opus 80
arranged for two pianos. eight hands.
Other numbers on the program were
! given by Gertrude Yung Kwai, Adelaide
Southwick, Durham Yung Kwai, Eliza