The Washington herald., 1913-11-23

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Mrs. Adrienne Kirkman wentz; Inter
medic" e. ]. MondonIIIe): ..Roccoco."
La Poupee," (Franz Drdla), Mrs.
Dickey; Prelude and Fugue. z minor. =,
/ (Bach). Mr.. De Haas; "Freundiiche
Vision. "Traum durch die Diammsrung, :"
.Aorgen." Or. strauss). Mrs. De Haas;
Novelette," tSchumann); ''Nocturne,
B hat minor" Chopin, Mr.. De Haas;
'Auch Kleine Dinge." "Gesegnet sell, .
Nun lasst uns Frieden schliessen," ="
''Er lists" CHugo wolf1, Mrs. De Haas;
Improvisation upon given theme Mr..
De Haas: LEICESTER. hebster,'' Two in
Arcadia" Dutch Cradle Song" Louis
de Haas. Mrs. De Haas.
The Nordlca Mandolin and Guitar Or
ehestra, Mr.. Walter T. Holt director.
gave a delightful concert Wednesday
evening at the Postofiice Hail. 1a3 Park
Road. under the auspices OF the Mems
Society of the Mount Pleasant NJ. E.
Church South. The orchestra was ably
assisted by Miss Blaneh Prescott, So
prano: Mr.. Dufour Brown. banjoist; Mrs.
L. +. Holden, reader; Miss Alice Z. Hill,
mandolinist: Mr.. Herbert Hall, vioiinist;
Miss Agnes Catherine Whelan. soprano.
and Mrs. Grace Dlfour Brown. piano ac-
iccmpanist
The following program was rendered
with the, usual snap and brilliancy:
Nordica Mandolin and Guitar Orches-
ira, Gems of Scotland Carr odelD; So
prano solo, violin obligatc, Starlight
and Silver Sea- (Temple Gordon. Miss
Blanche Prescott, Mrs. Grace Dufour
Brown. accompanlst. and Mr.. Herbert
Hall, violinist: banjo solo, Polonaise
CEno), Mr. Dufour Brown: Nordica
Mandoline and Guitar Orchestra, (a)
Sing. Smile. slumber' (Gounod), (b)
"Wooing'' (Rosey); recitation, Mrs. L. F.
Holden; mandolin solo. Concert Waltz
(siegeD. Miss Alice Z. Hill: contralto
| solo, Miss Elizabeth Leckie; Nordica
Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra. "Caya-
tina" (RarO; soprano sole, (s) Sweet
heart CIV. T. HolD. Cb) "Unas Peu
D'Amour'' (silesu). Miss Agnes Catherine
Whelan, accompanied by Mandolin and
Guitar Club; violin solo. Serenata Mos
kowsky). Mr.. Herbert Hail; Nordica
Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra, Echoes
Of '61'' (0delD.
Beginning with this evening and every
Sunday hereafter the evening choir of
the Church of the Covenant, under the
direction of Sydney Lloyd Wrightson
will give ten minutes preliminary mu-
sical program at s o'clock at the open
| ing Of the service in addition to the regu-
lar music. The musical program for this
| evening is as follows:
Organ prelude. Evening" Bibl; abide
with Me-" Monk; "oh, Lord. How Mani
fold are Thy Works" Barnby; solo,
Guide Ne to the Light" Squire. Mrs
Gswler; "Oh. Saviour of the World. :"
Goss; THE Lord Is My Rock" Wood
man; "Still. Still with Thee" Speaks.
Miss Harper, Mr.. Tittmann and choir;
''seyen-fold Amen" Stainer; organ pre-
lude in A minor. Calkin.
At $50 o'clock this afternoon the double
sextet will render the following mu-
steal program at the Church OF the Cove
nant, under the direction OF Mr.. Wright
son:
BE Ye All of One Mind" Godfrey On
cidental solo. Mr.. Backing: solo, angels
OF Light" Marshall, Miss Hall: The
Silent Land" Heinrich Incidental solos,
Mrs. Gawler, Miss Burnal, Mr.. Humph-
rey); Judge Ne, Oh God" Mendelssohn I:
solo. IF God so Clothed the Grass" I"
Bischoff, Mr.. Humphrey; quartet, Sup
plication," Scott CMrs. Gawler. Miss
Harper. Mr.. Backing. Mr.. Humphrey.
The Students Club, of the Washington
College Of Music, gave a pupils recital
at the new college building last Friday
evening before a large gathering Of stu
dents and their friends.
These meetings are held every other
Friday throughout the school year when
the president and faculty of the college
will be glad to welcome any one who
might care to attend.
The program at this second meeting
was: Minuet Beethoven), Miss Becker:
Fantasia" (MozarD, Miss Terrett; Rob
ms Lullaby CKrogmann). Katheryn
Crowder; Spinning Wheel (SchmolD.
Margaret Fuller: Rustic of Spring
(Sinding). Eleanor Eby: The Two Sky
larks'' GeschetizI1y), EfBe DrexiIius; "A
Psalm of Love- Forster). and Twas a
Summer Garden Gohr), Miss Thomp-
son; Prelude No. Is Chopin, Miss Latus;
'Nachstueck'' (Schumann). Miss Hodges:
Scotch Poem CMacDowelD. Miss
Marks; Berceuse CTljinsky). Miss Kup-
fer; Pas des Amphores'' (Chaminade),
Miss Scanland; My Queen and Star
CHilD, and "A Summer Song (d'Harde-
loO. Miss Coldenstroth; Prelude CRacn-
manioff), Miss MorreIl; "Canzonetta''
(SchuetD, Miss Reynolds; Sonata, sec
ond and third movements (GTieg), Miss
Miller; 'Liebeswslzer" (Moszkowskf,
Miss Gladding, Preludes, Nos. rs and 1S
Chopin. and Etude. op. 10, No. 10
lChopin). Mr.. Thompson; Miss Higgins,
accompanist.
With forty years of notable achieve
ment to its credit. the oratorio Society
Of New York, Louis Koemnenich. con-
ductor. begins its forty-first season on
Friday, December 5. with a new, elo-
quent and highly dramatic setting of the
Biblical pastoral, Ruth by George
Schumann. (Op- 56)
This composer, who ranks among the
Conservative moderns, was born in
Konigstein. Germany, in 1856 His grand
father was an organist. his father an
orchestral conductor. His musical edu-
cation began when he was five and in
Guided piano, violin. and organ When
the lad was twelve his grandfather died
and the young musician became his sue
cessor in the village church. In 1873 he
went to Dresden for further musical tut
ton. From 1881 to 1883 he was a student
at the Leipsic. under the Holstein Sti-
pend. having for masters Reinecke ia
dassohn, and Zwintscher. He conducted
choral and orchestral concerts In Dantzic
from 1891 to 1896.
In 1886 he was made conductor Of the
Bremen Philharmonic (chorus and or
chestra). He became conductor of the
Berlin "Singakademie" in 1900, and still
holds this post. He has been fairly pro-
life in all forms save opera. and his opus
numbers now reach IS. Orchestral works
of his began to appear on American con-
cert programs as early as 1900
His Ruth" was sung first at Hamburg
December Z. 1908, and was repeated a few
months later in Berlin under the COM
poser's direction. Its first American hear
ing was at CHICAGO, where the Apollo