Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-28

Isabel Hall and Miss Helen Crennan,
sopranos; Miss Beulah l.. Harper, Miss
| Grace Burnap and Mrs. Lenore Fuller,
| contralto; Messrs. Richard T. Backing,
| lie Roy Glider and w. s. Blanchard,
| tenors; ]. Walter Humphrey, James ,.
| Hicks and Roland Carter, bassos This
double sextct will sing for the first time
next Sunday afternoon. OF the double sex
| tet Of last year he has re-engaged Mrs.
Gawler, Miss Hall, Mrs Fuller, Mr.
Blanchard, Mr. Humphrey, Mr.. Backing
| and Mr.. Garter. The new members are
Miss Helen Crennan, who takes the place
| of Mrs. George H. Miller. formerly Ger
| trude Reuter-. and Miss Harper new
| conner here, one of the assistant teach
ers in the Washington College OF Music
who takes the place of Miss Faye BUM
| phrey. Miss Grace Burnap Is also a
newcomer She has been the soiolst In
| the Union Congregational church Oh
| Boston, from which she mas peen gwen
| one years leave of absence. she mas
| studied in the New England Conserva-
| tory of Music and the Whitney lnterna-
! tional School of Boston, and VIII take
, the place of Miss L.arner.
Mr.. Glider, tenor soloist of the Eplph-
| any Church, takes the place of Jack
Bowie, and Mr.. Hicks. bass soloist OF the
Metropolitan NJ E. Church, succeeds
George H. Miller. Mr.. Wrightson an
nounces also the formation OF a SOLO
| quartet which will sing in conjunction
| with the chorus choir at the evening
services of the church, the members be-
| ing Mrs. Gawler, soprano; Miss Harper.
contralto; w. S. Blanchard, tenor, ana
Charles Trowbridge Tittman, bass.
The choir of ST. Paurs English Luth-
eran Church, under the direction OF MIS-
William Hamilton Bayly, will open this
evening the series of evenings with the
choir" which have proved quite draw
ing card in seasons past. The solo quar-
tet. composed of Mrs. Arthur Glanville
Bertha Hansen Go,tsman); Mrs. Julian
| Brylawski, contralto; Herbert f AID
ridge, tenor, and Charles F. Roberts,
bass. will render the following proc program n:
But Strangers Here by Donizetti-
Dressler; Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is
Calling" by Harvey Murray; tenor and
bass duet The he G I;,,a by Taare; So Sv
Gounod; contralto solo, THE Prodigars
Cry" by Orr; organ numbers Mnuet.
by Beethoven; Andante. by Cadman;
"Serenade," by. Schubert, and Corona
ton March, by Meyerbeer.
Mrs. W. w. Burdette, who has served
as accompanist to the Rubinstein Club
for the past three years, has resigned
the position because of her health, which
has been far from satisfactory for sew
eral months past Mrs. Burdette, who
| was Miss Mamie Maurice. and was well
known here as soloiSt before her mar
riage. is an accomplished pianist and a
Skillful accOmpanist, and her resignation
| means a distinct loss TO the active per-
sonnet of the club. She will be succeeded
by Miss Julia Huggin. who came here from
the south two years ago, and has already
won an enviable place in local musical
circles as in many ways an exceptional
| accompanist, one of her unusual char
acteristics being the ability to memorize
on short notice whole program of the
most exacting accomplishments She Is
chairman of the program committee of
that enterprising body of young people,
the Music Study Club; was the accom-
PIANIST last season of the Y. w. c. A.
chorus, and has been engaged for next
season as accompanist to Miss Margaret
Wilson.
Mrs. E. E. Curry. who has sustained
the leading soprano parts in st.
months, gave with fine effect as the
offertory number last Sunday, Not
Ashamed of Christ" by banks.
Mrs. A. NJ. Blair, musical director of
| the Rubinstein and other clubs of the
city, will sail from Southampton on the
Cleveland for home and is due to arrive
| in Boston about October Z or s. She
will go to Annisquan for a day or two,
and will spend a few days also in the
publishing houses in New York, arrang-
next season. The first rehearsal of the
Rubinstein Club will be held October
% instead of October 10. as originally
planned, and the rehearsals will be held
as usual Wednesday mornings in the
ballroom of the Raleigh Hotel. The first
concert will be given some time before
the holidays, and the program will be
made up of music from the Italian COM
posers, Mrs. Blair having discovered
some charming novelties during her So
journ in Italy this summer. 1t is
III yJaf I,
three evening concerts instead of two. as
in seasons past
Miss Edith Gallant returned Tuesday
from an outing at Atlantic City. and has
resigned her position as organist at
St. Peters Catholic Church.
There will be an Evening With the
Choir" next Sunday evening at the First
/ Congregational Church.
Mrs Elizabeth Smith Maxwell. soprano.
who assisted the Confederate choir in an
entertainment given Friday evening at
Kensington Md, for the benefit of
Ridgley Brown Chapter. L. d. c., of
that place, gave as her first number the
premier rendering of a song entitled
"Dreamland, composed by Elliott
Woods, superintendent of the Capitol
building and grounds. The song was
given cordial reception. Both the words
and music We're composed by Mr.. Woods.
He is now working on an operetta
which may be given a professional rem
dering some TIME during the coming sea-
son.
Harry Wheaton Howard organist and
director of the choir of the Immaculate
Conception Church. is at home again,
after a trip to Panama, South America
and the West Indies. and is enthusiastic
over the beauty and destinations of the
wonderful old Spanish sixteenth CEN
fury cities. as we'll as the wonderful
achievements of modern engineering in
the great canal Mr. Howard viii at
the Immaculate Conception Church,
which is composed entirely of male
voices, and will sing again next Sunday
for the opening Of the winter schedule
of services.
/ The choir of the First Baptist Church,
composed of Miss Florence Nj. Noack, so
prano and director Miss May Whitaker.
contralto: William E. Braithwaite, tenor,
and Raymond Moore, bass. assisted by a
quartet of strings, Mrs. S. v. Cusack first
violin; Chris Meinninger. second violin;
Miss Lillian Milovich, viola, and Frank
Howard, cello. will render the followins
numbers this morning: Lead. Kindly
Light" by Schneider. vocal quartet;
open the Gates of the Temple" by
Klapt, Mr.. Braithwaite; "Andante Mod
erato." by Ambrose, and Prayer" from
'Stradella," string quartet, with Mrs. Ed
mund Barry at the organ. Beginning
next Sunday and continuing through the
Sunday night services of October, the
string quartet will render special pro-
grams of chamber music assisted nv the