Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-04
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H. H. Freeman, organist and choir
master of st. Johns Church. Lafayette
Square, will represent the District Of
Columbia at the fifth annual convention
Of the National Association OF Organists.
which opens at Ocean Grove tomorrow
Representatives OF about 100000 organists
Of the nation, it is announced. Will meet
| in the Ocean Grove Auditorium during
! the five days of the convention.
During the six days of the convention
the relations which the organist bears TO
his minister. his music committee and his
public will be discussed. The possibilities
OF the organ as a concert instrument will
be considered. and ways for promoting its
more extended use will be devised.
portion OF the time OF the convention
will be devoted to a consideration OF the
future of American composition. and to
planning measures for the encourage
ment Of the American composer.
The United States Marine Band Will
give two concerts the opening day. AZ
the close of the evening concert by the
band there will be an informal reception
| to the delegates at the Hotel Arlington.
Tuesday the subjects to be discussed VIII
| be The Present Status of Organ Re-
citals." Program Building, The Free
Recital and Standardization of the Con-
session, consisting of a partial report OF
resolutions committee, reports of ban
quet and outing committees, report oil
nominating committee. followed by the
nual banquet in Hotel Arlington in the
evening; Thursday. the topics under dis
cussion will be THE Outlook. From the
Standpoint of the Publisher. What
Encouragement Is Offered by the organ an
Standard and Its Future; Saturday, the
| final report of the committee on resolu-
tions, and at O'Clock in the evening
THE Elijah" with soloists. chorus of 200
and full orchestra and organ.
| Pre-eminently the success of the season
! among musical events at the washington
Grove Chautauqua was the nome talent
concert which attracted the largest au-
dience and called forth enthusiasm more
than any of the musical affairs presented
| there this season. The program was IN
| charge of Charles E. Myers, who also
| contributed several numbers. The OPEN
ing number. .'Juanita." arranged for male
voices by Parks. was rendered by Messrs
\ Hoofnagle Myers, Crist and Woodman
and being recalled, they gave Parks ar
| rangement of I'm the Cleaning" This
was followed by the soprano solo. Be
| loved, 1t Is Morn by Alyward, sung by
| Mrs. Alonzo Tweedale. who was COM
PEELED to respond with another number
| when she gave I'm Wearin' Ava, Jean.
/ piano. Other numbers proving popular
| with the audience were the tenor solo
| Mother o. Nine" by Tours and In The
Moonlight" by Halle. DR.. Hoofnagie: SO.
Saint-Saens. Miss Ethel Foster. with
Percy s. Foster at the piano: violin solos
Souvenir" by Drdla, and "Berceuse. by
| Musso, Miss Bessie Grahame. Mrs. II. L.
| Davis accompanying; soprano solo, a
Bunch of Wild Roses" by Geibel. and
for an encore my Home Is Where the
Heather Blooms" Mrs. Herbert L. Davis;
duet. The Crucifix.' by Faure. and for
| encore "Larboard Watch, by Williams
Messrs Woodman and Myers: soprano
solo, Leave Me Not" by Mattel. and for
encore. My Love of the Old, Sweet
Days" Mrs Brockway; duet. Moonlign'
Hoofnagle and Myers; musical novelty,
Messrs. Graham and Reber: tenor solo,
"Arioso" from "Pagliacci," Charles E.
| Myers, and AUD Lang Syne" was then
sung by the talent and the audience clos
| ing an enjoyable evening. Miss Helen
Myers ably assisted with the accompani-
| ments.
| G. Thompson Williams. organist and
| choirmaster of st. Johns Episcopal
Church. Georgetown, has resigned his po-
| sition to accept similar engagement at
| st. Michaers Episcopal Church in Balti-
more. Mr.. Williams has had a very sue
| cessful season at st. Johns and the
| change to the musical field in Baltimore
| is not only to his material advantage.
| but enables him to resume pleasant asso-
| Citations formed during his student days
at the Peabody Conservatory, where ne
| obtained his musical education. He has
| already left the city for his summer va
| cation and during August Charles Crop
| ley will be in charge of the music at st.
Johns.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore T. Apple will
| leave Tuesday for their summer outing.
| Mr.. Apple having concluded his season at
| Calvary Baptist Church last Sunday.
Joseph F. Matthew. prominent for many
years in both church and concert work in
Washington. is meeting with much sue
cess in the enlarged field of the metropo-
| lis, where he took up residence last fall.
| His voice. with its pure tenor quality and
| exceptional range, rapidly brought him
recognition and he is now soloist at the
Fifth Avenue Dutch Reform Church.
Mrs. B. H Smart. soprano soloist of the
First Congregational Church. who is
spending the summer at North Beach,
will be in charge of the music at the
tdenominational churches there during Au-
gust. She Is preparing particularly at
| tractive program for Rally day services
| next Sunday. when the assistant rector
of the First Congregational Church of
this city will preach the sermon. The
solos In the musical program will be sus-
tanned on this occasion by Mrs. Smart
and j. waiter humphreys, ana MISS
Helen Gladman will assist as accompa-
mist.
William Clabaugh is substituting at All
Souls Church for Otto Leubkert, bari
Tone who is taking his vacation. and Mrs.
Annie Grant-Fugitt is still filling the place
of Mrs. H. Clay Browning, the regular
soprano and the director of the choir,
| who has been in Atlantic City since early
summer.
Miss Marjorie Follin has returned from
a two-week visit to friends at Edge Hill
Princess Anne. on the eastern shore of
Maryland. She will leave Thursday with