The Washington herald., 1913-10-05
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

Miss Grace Burnap, of Boston. Of the
Union Congregational Church, and so
Ioist of the North Avenue Baptist Church.
of that city, is new conner in Wash
ington music circles.
She has been secured by the Gunton-
Temple Memorial Church as soloist and
to take charge of the choral music IN
the evening. She has also been engaged
by the Church Of the Covenant for SOLO
work at their afternoon musical ser
vices.
Miss Burnap who received her training
at the New England Conservatory Of
Music and the Whitney International
School has done special work with Ger.
trude Edmunds, and is member Of the
Boston Cecilia Society. She is coach
ing this winter with Luckstone, of New
York, and leaves in the early spring to
go to Berlin to make special study of
sacred music.
She is the sister of George Burnap,
who is already known in this city as
the Landscape Architect of Public Build
ings and Grounds.
Mrs. Katie wiIson-Green. who is the
local manager of the concerts given an
nually in Washington by the Boston
symphony Orchestra, announces that re-
newals of Subscriptions have come in at
such rate and such large number
Of new applications for seats have been
received, that the New National Theater
will be sold out entirely for the season.
The past two or three years there
have only been a very few seats not
taken up by subscribers, and this year
the prospect is that there will be none.
The concerts, five in number, will be
given as usual on Tuesday afternoons
at 40 o'clock. The dates are Novem-
Der 4, December =, January 6, February
Il, and March II.
The soloists make an unusually brit
liant list. These comprise Fritz Kreisler,
Teresa Carreno, Paderewski, and Eliza
beth Boehn van Endert. Nine. van
Endert is the principal lyric soprano Of
the Royal Opera, Berlin, and comes to
this country to make her first appear
ances here as soloist with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to the Boston Symphony
concerts to be given under the local
management of Mrs. Wilson-Greene, she
has the honor to present this season a
number of the best artists for the
pleasure of the Washington musical pub
lie. Among the concerts already ar
ranged for are the following: NJ. Pader-
ewski, pianist in recital, November IL;
Nine. Bloomfield Zeisler, pianist in re-
cital, November p; Mime. Maggie Teyte,
prima donna of the Chicago Grand Opera
Company, in recital, December 9; NJ
Edward Clement. great French tenor of
the Metropolitan and Boston Operas,
date to be announced later; Nine. Schu-
mann-Heink contralto, date to be an
nOunced later; Fritz Kreisler, violinist,
in recital, January Il; Ysaye, GOdowsky,
and Gerardy, in joint recital, January
3; Miss Alice Nielsen, prima donna Of
the Metropolitan and Boston Operas,
February 4; John Mccormack. great Irish
tenor. March 20. A number of other con-
certs to be given under the local man
agement of Mrs. -Yilson-Greene will be
announced later.
A large audience was most delightfully."-
entertained last Wednesday evening by
Miss Louise B. SantorelIi, pianist, of
Ithaca, n. Y, at the recital hall of the
Percy S. Foster Piano Company, 1850
G Street Northwest.
The program played by Miss Santorelli
included the following: prelude and
Toccata," UachneD; ''Nocturne F Sharp |
Major" 'Impromptu c Sharp Minor"
Chopin: Silver Spring" CMasonJ: |
''Rondo Capriccioso.' Mendelssohn); |
CGreigl; Hungarian Rhapsody H."
UisZD. 4
Miss Santorelli has already opened her |
pianoforte studio at 81 c Street North |
west for the season.
The District of Columbia Chapter o: |
the American Guild of Organists will |
hold its first meeting Of the season to- |
morrow evening in Mr.. ComstOck's studio, |
1929 F Street Northwest. when the city's !
new organists will be rendered a recep- !
ton.
Mr.. Charles Trowbridge Tittmann will |
today resume his old position as bass |
soloist of St Johns Church in Lafayette |
Square, and beginning with the first |
Sunday in November will also sing as |
Church of the Covenant
Although known best as a soIoist Mr.. |
Tittmaun is no novice in the art OF d. |
recting a choir. He has just completed !
a very successful three months engage |
ment as choir director OF st. James |
Episcopal Church, Leesburg, Va. The |
choir of that church is volunteer or
ganization. but the work performed under
Mr.. Tittmann, was of a very high order.
Among the anthems sung were Bort
nyamsky's ''Cherubim Song Fosters
The Souls of the Righteous" and Oliver
Kings Il Am He That Liveth'' The |
choir of this church is fortunate in hav-
ing two excellent soprano soloists, IN !
Mrs. Chamblin and Mrs. Thomas, of |
Leesburg. and in having one of the best |
tenOrs of Washington in Mr.. Lawrence |
Lee, a winter resident of this city, and
one OF the leading Orchardists of Loudon
County.
The program for the Evening with the
choir at the First Congregational Church
this evening is as follows: Organ pre-
lude, "RienZi' (Wagner); chorus, I Am
Alpha and Omega" CStainer): alto solo