The Washington herald., 1912-09-29

Inc Mount Peasant singing society
will hold its first rehearsal OF the season
tomorrow evening at the Mount Pleas
ant Congregational Church. Fourteenth
| Street and Columbia Road. It is an
nounced that the evening will be given
over more to business and social en-
joyment than to rehearsing.
Roy F. Carly. president OF the soci-
ETY.. will present plans for this seasons
work for discussion and the society will
be asked TO take action on several ap-
plications for membership. After the
business has been disposed OF. an infor-
NAL musical programme viii be given by
members OF the society. followed by re-
| freshments.
This singing society was organized last
January and gave three very successful
public performances during the spring
months, some OF the leading soIoists of
the city taking part. William Conrad
Mills is the director and Miss Marie
c. Hansen accompanist OF the society.
George H. Miller. a graduate OF the
Washington College Of Music. who was
for some time a member of the Savage
Opera Company, and is now singing with
the Aborn Opera Company. has accepted
the position as head OF the vocal de-
partment in Chevy Chase College. sue
ceeding Thomas Evans Green.
Mr.. Miller has an excellent harytone
voice and Washington musical circles
will be glad to receive him back. He
arrived in the city yesterday.
Miss Eugene de Guerin. violinist and
principal OF the De Guerin School Of
Music. re-opened the school in all its
branches of musical instruction last
Tuesday. Miss Mabel Linton will be the
new head OF the piano department OF the
crh rz-hN LII 4.
Northwest.
Mrs. Emile L. Maroon. pianist. has
returned from a two months sojourn on
the Massachusetts, coast and at Shelter
Island. R. l., where she appeared in re-
cital before a large New York and
Brooklyn audience. Mrs. Maroon was
most cordially received in the following
programme: Prelude CRachmaninof0.
"Egeria" CKroeger). "Papillon" (Rosen-
thaD. Moonlight Senate Beethoven.
Waltz, Eccossaise. Etude. and Ma
zurka Chopin, and TO Springs and
Weddingday" (Grieg).
Mrs. Maroon will give a series OF in
formal musicales on the third Tuesday
evening Of each month during the COM
ing season. at her studio in the New
Hampshire, 1923 Swami Street Northwest.
The music at the Church OF the Cove
nant tent will be furnished this evenins
by a quartet of soloists. The quartet Sc
lections for the evening include Behold
the Days Come" CWoodward. solo part
carried by William Conrad Mills. tenor.
and Fear Not Ye. o Israeli (Spicker).
Mrs Helen D. Deyo. soprano. and Ar
thur H. Deibert, bass, will each sing a
solo.
Miss Clara Asherfeld. Of the Peabody
r0v - - poI I1-il1
continue to spend Saturdays with her
pupils in Washington. at her studio, 1850
Columbia Road
The musical programme for the morn
ing service at the First Congregational
Church to-day will be as follows: An
them. 20 Paradise (GeibeD; anthem. |
THE Sun Shall be no More Thy Light"
(Woodward); offertory. soprano and con- |
tralto duet. TN His Hands Are All the |
Corners of the Earth" CMendelssohn), |
by Mrs. B. H. Smart and Miss Edna
Scott Smith.
For the first time this season an even |
ing service will be held at which the
musical programme will consist of an an |
them, Savior, When Night Involves the
Sky" (Shelley). and a bass solo. De
fend Me STILL (Jordan), by ]. Walter |
Humphrey.
Prof. Joseph Kaspar returned yester-
day to Washington for the season from
his mountain home above Bluemont. Va. |
George Moskey. the gifted young vio-
linist, has returned from Charlottesville. /
Va, where he enjoyed a months vaca-
ton.
Miss Gertrude Tweedy has besn added
to the faculty of assistant teachers In
the piano branches of the Won Unschuld
University of Music. Miss Mildred Kolb
and Mr.. Louis A. Potter will be in '
charge Of the sight reading class. J.