The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-22
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

Commencement week exercises Of = the
! Washington College OF Music begin this
evening with the baccalaureate service
at the Foundry NJ. Z. Church at o'clock.
The sermon will be preached by Rev. w.
r. wedderspoon, who is a personal friend
of Mr.. wrightson. president of the COZ
lege.
| Tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock the
class banquet will be held at the Shore
ham Hotel given by the class OF 1918. The
guests OF honor for the evening will be
Mr. Wrightson. Mr.. Fabian. and Mr..
Delano. Many members of the alumni
have signified their intention OF attending
the banquet.
| On Wednesday afternoon at o'clock
at the Columbia Theater. commencement
exercises will be held, for which an
elaborate programme has been prepared.
The diplomas will be presented by the
president of the college. and the address
delivered by Rev. Charles Wood. ID. D.,
pastor of the Church Of the Covenant.
| In addition to the regular numbers by the
graduates. Miss Effie Drexilus, pupil of
Mr. Fabian in the Junior department.
will play and solos will be sung by Mrs.
Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler and Mr.. Henry
Purcell Veazie, pupils of Mr.. Wrightson,
and Miss Gertrude Reuter- and Mrs.
Lenore Fuller, pupils of his in the class
OF 1872
On Wednesday evening from $50 10
II 80 the class of 1913 will hold a recep-
ton in the ballroom Of the Shoreham
Hotel.
'of Music at this time celebrate its sixth
\ a. MI ~ the plnsinor Of itS sixfh
year. but 1t will also celebrate its tenth
| birthday on July /. by moving into its
new building now being rebuilt especially
| for the college at 1li7 Connecticut Avenue.
| just South of Rhode Island Avenue and
NJ Street, and opposite the Connecticut
Apartment House. The college was found
ed in 1905 by Mr.. Sydney Lloyd Wright
son. and incorporated in 1897. Mr.. Wright
tson retaining the presidency Of the corpo-
ration. OF the original faculty there still
remain as teachers in the institution Mr..
Wrightson, Mr.. S. NJ. Fabian, Mr.. Will
| berfoss G. Owst, Mr.. Henry Jaeger, Mr..
Andre Coda. Signora r. S. Chiaventoni.
Carl Otto, Carl Neumann. Dore Wolf
steiner, and Charles Schroeder. In the old
quarters at 1220 F Street, during the last
nine years. many of the most prominent
musicians OF the world have visited. in
GLIDING DIR. Richard Strauss and his
Mark Hamburg. William Shakespeare.
| who taught there for ten days in 1903;
Gertrude Peppercorn. David Bispham.
Madame Schumann-Heink,M Madame Nor
dica, Max Heinrich, Eugene Ysaye.
Clarence Eddy, Alberto Jonas. William
Sherwood. Jane Osbourn Hannah, Ger
maine Arnaud, Reginald DeKoven, Victor
Herbert. Charles Gilbert Spross. the late
Fritz Scheel. DR.. Rubner. and various
other prominent musicians noted through
out the country and abroad.
During the last nine years the college
has graduated over fifty pupils. some of
| whom are teaching in the various colleges
throughout the country. or in private
studies. Others are singing in opera or in
| some of the leading churches in the
country.
The demand for larger. improved, and
increased quarters made it necessary to
move further up town. The entire two
upper floors OF ll47 Connecticut Avenue
have been rebuilt solely for the purposes
of the college, which has rented same on
long lease. The college will open its
tenth year on July /, in its new building.
At the Washington College of Music
last Friday an intermediate examination
recital was given by Miss Briggs. Miss
Gladdlng, and Mrs. Hamilton. of the
ed by Miss Emma Lowell, class OF Mr..
Sydney Lloyd Wrightson.
The following programme was given:
| Prelude. c major BACH; Invention
c major Bach; Eccossaisen Bee
thoven), Miss Gladding: "Florians Song"
CGodar0, Dedication Franz, Miss
Lowell; Prelude and Mazurka CHeller),
| Song Without Words" G minor Men
| delssohn): Arabesque (SchuberO. Miss
Briggs: Gavotte CGluck-Brahms). Noe
turne CGrieg). Scotch Poem" Mac
that Is Lovely Cwoodford- Finden).
None But the Lonely Heart (Tschai-
kowsky). Miss Lowell; Barcarolle CTschai-
kowsky), Meditation GODDARD "Papil-
Ions U-avaIlee). Miss Briggs: Der
ceuse" uljinsky); Valse. Charmeuse
(Coningsby-C Clarke. March mignonne
CPoldinD, Mrs. Hamilton: My Dreams"
CTostD. Aria of Musetta from "Boheme"
PuccinD. Miss Lowell; Rondo Field).
Pierrt reveur (SchuetO. Valse glamour
| CMoszkowsky), Miss Gladding.
Miss Gladding has completed the in
termediate and Miss Briggs the lower
intermediate grades. Miss Lowell has
completed the course leading to a teach
er's certificate. Mrs. Hamilton Is a pri-
vate pupil of Mr.. Jones in the college
and is not studying for diploma.
The closing exercises of the Virgil
Clavier Piano School. 14oS II Street North
west, Miss Georgia E. Miller, director,
were held at st. Johns College Hall.
Vermont Avenue and n Street North
west, last Friday evening before a large
audience.
Teacher eertificates were awarded to
Mabel White, Washington, d. c.; Anna
Isora Bingham. Pennsylvania: Louise
Marbut. Missouri, and Ruth Ebaugh.
Washington, ID. c.
The gold medal in the intermediate
class for application and progress was