The Washington herald., 1913-03-30
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

Tomorrow evening the Young Peoples
choir Of Keller Memorial Lutheran
Church, Maryland Avenue and Ninth
Street Northeast, will render an Easter
| cantata- The pastor, Rev. Charles i.
Wiies will preach his last sermon at this
mornings service. He will leave on Mon
day for his new work in Philadelphia.
The usual oratorio will be given by the
choir of the New York Avenue Presby-
Haydn's masterpiece, the "Creation,"
has been selected, and among other num-
bers the popular favorites. with Verdure
Clad Rolling in Foaming Billows.' In
Native WORTH and "On Mighty Pens"
will be heard.
When Julia Culp. the famous Dutch
lieder singer. who returns to the Column
bia Theater next Friday at 4:50, first ap-
peared In Edinburgh, Scotland, writer
in the Edinburgh Evening News In his
review Of the recital stated: She has
the daring to conceive her tone and
phrasjng on a grand scale. and has the
power and skill to achieve her own con-
ceptions. She combines all that Is best
In different schools-has the Caruso-like
quality. quantity and duration of tone.
with all the grace and seeming simplicity
great art, is symbolic"
In Europe. particularly In Germany and
England Julia Culp stands unrivalled as
a singer and interpreter OF every school
OF singing.
Born in Holland. Julia CuIp became as
| young girl, the special protege or
| Queen Emma. the mother OF Queen Will
helmina. or Mother Queen" as the loyal
| Hollanders prefer to call the good wom-
an. Mime. Cups phenomenal voice and
still more phenomenal talents have at
tracted the sympathetic friendship of
many royal and noble born personages.
| Germany was truly startled when the
people in that country first heard Julia
| Culp. The beauty Of her voice, and those
\ mysterious interpretative powers which
| the Germans value even more than voice
| or personal beauty simply aroused the
music-lover and philosophic Germans to
crowd every concert hall when Nine Culp
was announced to appear. This adulation
made some of the Hollanders jealous, for
they feared that the Germans were pre-
pairing to claim Mime. Culp as their own:
but, as the more sensible persons have
declared. Its all for arts sake How
| ever. no Dutchman or Dutchwoman ever
| loses any time informing the world that
Julia CUP is Dutch and not German;
nevertheless. she sings the German lieder
| in the uplifting style. that has not been
surpa ssed. and in but one case equalled
| since the classic song has moved the
nations by its beauty and soul.
The programme given last Friday morn
ing at the Washington Club. 17l0 / Street.
before the Friday Morning Music Club,
was as follows: -Four subscriptions for
four violins. opus S, Oh. Won Dameckl:
I, Sarabande. CCorellD: .. Andante, from
Orpheus, CGluck): ;. Ave Nerum. CMoz-
arU: 4. Menuet from opus tHadynl:
Richard King. Miss Allen. Miss Bowers.
Mr.. Josef Kaspar: Susani, Susani -four
teenth century Christmas song,: Linden
laub fVolkslied Nurnberg 15-49; Gut
Nacht, tMitterheim Volkslied): There
Cried a Bird. Sylvelix christian Sind
ing) Miss Lucy Brickenstein: Romance,
CRiedingJ: Sarabande tBohmD. Richard
King: Terzetto for two violins and viola
CDvorakD, Introduzione. Larghetto,
Scherzo. Miss Bowers, Miss Allen, Mr..
Josef kaspar.
A large audience enjoyed the interesting
programme given last Thursday night. at
the eighty-eighth studio recital OF Mr..
Oscar Franklin Comstock. 1:o9 p Street
Northwest. The programme was fol-
lows: An einem Bache edward Grieg); ;
Die alte Mutter edward GriegD: Das
Ringlein IFrederic Chopin: Bacchanal
Frederic Chopin, Mr.. Oscar Franklin
Comstock: In Gentle Murmurs Jephtha,
George +. HandeD, Miss Ida Lea: Hay
oma leslie Elliott: The Call OF the
open Sea MARY Carr Moore); Let Me
Like a Soldier Fall Vincent Wallace.
Mr. Clarence +. Carpenter: Confession
Victor AllenI, duet, Mrs. Cole and Mr..
Comstock Sonata in F major (Wolfgang
a. Mozart. first movement. Mr.. James 1.
Turner: Snow (Henry Parker: 4 Childs
Prayer q. Harold; Philosophy David
EmmeD. Miss Lea; Somewhere Voice Is
Calling CArthur F. Tate; Heyho. for the
Morning Charles Marshall: A Secret
tWilfrcf SandersonD; Here's to the Ships
'John Irelandl. Mr.. Archie Gibson;
Love You Truly CarrIe Jacops-BondD;
Shadows ,Carrie Jacobs Bond: The Moon
boat eric Coates. Mrs. Cole: To the
Night ICarl BOnmI: II was a Lover ana
His Lass CArthur LidgeD, Miss Lea and
MIR. Carpenter.
Nine. Won Unschuld has returned
from series of concerts in the South
The criticisms equally pronounced her
one of the first leading pianists.
The second four girls 70 graduate
under Mr. Hopkins at the Washington
of Salisbury. Md. Her concert will take
place during the week of April, and
in this instance will receive a double
diploma. one for voice ard one for in
strumentaL Her programme will be
as follows: Prelude in d minor pal
mer): Die Lorelei." I.isz). Autumn
CMoszkowskn. ITO the Sea" ,MacDow-
eIn: Land of Sky and Blue Waters"
lCadmannl. vocal; Jewel Song, from
Faust" ,GounodJ. vocal: slow move
ment from r fiat minor. piano concer-
to. accompanied on second piano by
Mr. Hopkins (Tschaikowsky) aria from
Madame Butterfly" vocal (PuccinD.
Mrs. A. NJ. Blair, director of four of
the best known musical organizations
of the Capital, sails for Europe May II.
and will remain abroad until the musical
season reopens next October. These four
clubs have an aggregate membership of
nearly $50 singers, among whom are num-
bered a generous proportion of the city's
most popular soloists.
During the past winter Mrs. Blair has
made frequent visits TO New York to hear
the best musical offerings of the metropo-
lis. and to absorb still more the "atmos-
phere'' of the art to which she is thor
oughly devoted. Her trip abroad will be
of the same nature. In Paris she will
be Joined by her son Percy. and together
they will visit the musical centers along