Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
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Each week brings the announcement
of changes and appointments in the
various choirs. Last week the new as
sisting quartet of the synagogue was
engaged this week announcement is
made of the reorganization of the choir
of st. Stephens Catholic Church. The
solo quartet that will furnish the
music there for next season will in
clude Miss Marguerite Howard
soprano, and Mrs, Nellie O'Hare Pol
| lard, contralto. both re-engaged for the
! third season: Herman Murrell, tenor
| and Thomas f. Moore, bass, and they
will be supplemented by a chorus. Mr.
Moore lis especially well qualified fol
his new position, having sung for three
years at st. Matthew's Church, and dur.
| ing the past two years having been the
second bass in the mixed choir of ST
| Patrick's Church under Miss Jennie
| Glennan, while Mr.. Murrell has beer
| second tenor in the same choir for two
| seasons. Miss Katharine Lackaye will
remain as organist. and the choir will
| reassemble the first Sunday in October
! Mrs. Grace Dufour Brown. organist O
| the Temple Baptist Church. will leave
| she will visit relatives now living a,
her mothers old home at Woodstock
Mrs. Brown will be accompanied by
her sen, Dufour Brown, who has de-
veloped into an accomplished player
of the mandolin and other stringed in
struments Dr. Brown, who was for
many years member of the Temple
Baptist quartet, will spend his vaca-
ton cruising about the Potomac in his
hoo thn oh \,
going repairs, the choir has been dis
banded until the middle of September
Mrs. Arthur Granville Dunn, soprano
of the quartet. accompanied by her
daughter Hazeltine is visiting an old
friend and a former Washingtonian,
| Miss Bessie Ceilings, at Newport, KY
Miss Mary Pond. the contralto, left
early in the season for kee Mar, Pa,
expecting to go from there to the old
family home in Maine for an extended
Mrs. Arthur b. Pierce, cOntralto, will
sing with the quartet until Miss Pond S
return. John Roberts, bass, will take
his outing at Atlantic City. The tenor
solost of the choir. Elisha Hanson will
probably not sing with the quartet an
other season on account of pressure of
other work.
of Calvary Baptist Church. and hel
mother. Mrs. Holtzclaw, returned sud
denly and unexpectedly from Virginia
Beach, where they had intended to
spend the month of August. Mrs. Cav
iers little son. Billy, was taken quite
i'll at the beach but has recovered his
usual health since their return.
Miss Marguerite O'Toole. organist of
! Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church,
has been spending two weeks at one of
the summer resorts on the eastern
shore of Maryland. She will return to
the city for a day or two during the
week. after which she will go to Phila-
delphia for the remainder of the month
of August. During her absence, Ar
mand Gumprecht. formerly organist
of st. Patrick's Church. is supplying
her place at the organ.
The music at the Shrine of the Sa-
cred Heart during the summer months
has been in charge of the Misses Ma
guire of Newton street, and has been
distinctly attractive feature. Miss
Lillian Travers Mcguire. who presides
at the organ, has studied with Carl
Stasny of Boston and Rafael Joseffy of
New York. Miss Helene Travers Ma