Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24

dience of connoisseurs and music lovers
that filled the auditorium to Overlooking
Among the numbers We're Sonata in b
fat minor. Grave. Doppio movimento,
Scherzo. Marcia funebre finale: pre-
ludes. No /, c major; No ;, G major;
No. II, y fiat; No Ii, Il fat minor: No
10, ID fiat: No. IL. T. fiat; No. -. {
minor: No ~, G. minor: No. %, + major;
Scherzo in Il fiat minor; two etudes, t.
major. opus 10. No. :; and y minor. opus
-. No. IL; Berceuse and Polonaise in y
fiat.
The death of Huntington May. who was
buried Tuesday morning from St. Paul s
Catholic Church. leaves vacancy in
the ranks of local musicians not easily
filled. Possessed of a bass voice of great
resonance and q large hearted person
atty, Mr.. May was foremost among those
who gave their time and talents in every
worthy cause His first public singing
was in the choir of st. Matthews Church,
under Miss Jennie Glennan, and for three
years he was one of the most reliable
members of that organization. Later he
took up professional work and was en-
gagged to sing with the Aborn Opera Com
pany and when he returned with the
company for season here, was received
with great enthusiasm. \ memorial serv-
ice or months mind" will be held for
him April r. and Miss Glennan will be
in charge of the music. which will be i'm
pressive and will be rendered by his old
associates in choir work and other prom
inent musicians Of the city.
The Music Study Club met Monday aft
ernoon at the home of Miss Ethel Lee.
\ paper on the Life of Chopin was
read by Miss Iverna Child, and illustra-
tons of his work We're given as follows:
Prelude. opus IS. No IL; Nalse in G fiat
major. opus 20, and Etude, opus -. No.
l. Miss Mildred Rider: Fantasia In
promptu, sharp minor, Miss Helene
Oyster: Ecossaise. No. l, and Nocturne.
opus H. Miss Edith Strasburger: Noe
turne opus y. No. >. arranged for cello,
Miss Lee. Miss Nancy Reed. the organ
iZer of the club. who has been absent for
some time in Florida. was the guest of
honor.
Claiming Williams Lefebore. the young
orsanist of st. Stephens Church, will be
heard in his first recital in Washington
Wednesday evening, at o'clock. at the
church, assisted by Henry Purcell NeaZte,
baritone. He will play the following pro-
gram from the classics: Mendelssohn' s
Sixth Sonata. The Guilmont Marche
Dvorak Humoreske and Gavotte from
"Mignon.' by Thomas: the Schumann
Canon in B minor and Bach's Toccata in
G major. Mr.. Veazie will sing the Fourth
| Word from The Seven Last Words of
Christ" by Dubois; Before the Cruel
| fix" by Frank La Forge. and 1t Is
| Enough" from ''E;lijah. The public is
| invited to attend.
Miss Angela Small, daughter of Mr.. and
| Mrs. William Small of Euclid street who
spent the winter studying in Paris has
| been singing with much success in yari-
| Gus affairs among the American resi-
dents. At a recent concert of the Amer
| lean Art Club Miss Small gave a group OF
songs, her voice and method causing
much favorable comment. She will be So
| lost again at the April concert of the or
ganiZation.
Mrs. Whiddit has been engaged as or
ganist of Ingram Memorial Congrega-
tiOnal Church to succeed Mrs. Henry
Hunt Mckee, resigned. Mrs. Whiddit
was formerly organist of the Client Pres
byterii.n Church in Norfolk and was
prominent in the musical work of the
Virginia city She is the wife of William
Wall Whiddit. organst and choir di-
and Mr. Whiddit will direct also the choir
of Ingram Church at their rehearsaIs,
which will take place Friday evenings.
Harry Patterson Hopkins of the Wash
ington College Will give an organ recital
tomorrow evening at the Franklin Street
Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.
Miss Sallie Mckinley, soprano, will sing
al the annual bauuet of the Nassar Col
morrow evening a the Shoreham Hotel
Miss Mckinley will be heard in The Gay
Butterfly" by Hawley.
\ musical service will be. given by the
double quartet choir of the Eastern Pres
byterian Church. Stanton Square. Palm
Sunday evening at 40. The program will
consist of solos duets and quartets from
Staners "CrucifiXion' and THE Day Is
Past and over by Marks. The solo
parts will be sustained by Miss A. Ger
trude Trow, Soprano: David A. Hart
Truman Burchard. tenors. and Edwin
Callow, basso, with Miss Nellie Sacrey,
organist.
Miss Clara Drew, VINO is in America for
a short time, was heard in song recital
Thursday evening at the Raleigh Her
program included a group of modern Ger
man songs by Bra Inns. Wolf and Strauss
a group of Norwegian, Russian. Scotch
and English folk songs and ballads, three
French songs by Holmes. Debussy and
Faure, an aria from the "Pique Dame"