Evening star., 1914-09-27

Hansen Gottsman. soprano: Mrs. Julian
Brathawaite. tenor. and charles r
Roberts. bass. with Mrs. William Ham
ilton Bayly, organist and director. Be-
syenine. Sv The oSoir vii, be ei1en on
| the first instead of the last Sunday of
| each month.
Sydney Lloyd wrightson ana family
returned Thursday from OgunQuit, Me,
where they spent the summer. and are
I settled in their new home. While in
seas IN tSe Fe'f aossi and IN
| the Christian Church. as well at the
| home Of his friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Hoyt
Of St. Louis He will be the soloist at
Covenant this evening and will sing
| II Come to Thee" by Roma, and Come
Unto Me-" by Coenen, with Mrs. John
| L. Downs as accompanist.
Mrs. susanne Oldberg has returned
! from South Orange. N. J., where she
niece. Mrs. Paul Alexander Blair. Mrs.
Oldberg is arranging a program for
recital to be given next Sunday after
noon at her studio. when the program
| ruthers Of Round Hill, Va. and J. Har-
ris Franklin.
Mrs. Henry White has again taken up
her work as choir director of the
Church Of the Incarnation, with Miss
Emelie Margaret White. as last season,
pc1a.n presiding ssra,.. at the organ At the II
abeth Rennolds. soprano. will sing
.Hark. .Ila Hark. Ny Soul, by Chadwick,
them, I'm the Beginning God Created
the Heaven and Earth" by Custance,
;nrsds59sy, MIS- Guy Banning BAN Fay sustaining the
Inn Ind
branos. Misses Rennolds and Mabel
Evans. Mrs. Clarence Walker. Misses
Alys spharsholt. Alice Stewart. Kath-
Browne. Rosalie Rebinette, ana NJ A.
Foster and Mrs. White; tenors, Messrs:
=. l. Bowles and Guy Banning Fay:
bassos. George w. Evans and F. d.
Steffens.
Mrs, Huron Lawson, who has been
ing relatives, is expected to return to-
day. She has been re-enRaeed for re-
citals during October at Hannah More
Academy at Danville and at Wood
stock, Va. s1
The musical portions Of the services
at the Eighth Street Temple in cole
bratiou of the Day of Atonement,
which will take place Tuesday evening
and all day Wednesday. will be sung
by a double quartet composed of Mrs.
Nellie Wilson Shircliff and Mrs. Ethel
Holtzclaw Gawler, sopranos: Mrs. Kali
isher and Miss Pauline Whitaker, con-
traltos; Harry Stevens and J. F. M.
Bowie. tenors, and John Nolan and
John Waters, bassos, with Lewis Corn
ing Atwater at the organ.
The Homecoming social" given
Thursday evening at Ingram Congre-
gational Church attracted a large
gathering. one Of the most enjoyable
features Of the occasion being the
musical program arranged by the new
choir director. William H. starnell.
dered ''Over the Hills at Break Of
Day" by Adam Geibel; the children's
choir sang Marching to Canaan;
James K. Young. tenor. was heard in
IF I Were a Rose," and Miss Clara
Young. soprano: Warren Grimes. bari
tone, and J. E. S. Kinse1la, bass, each
contributed numbers.
Rathbone Smith, a young tenor Of
this city, who is spending the early
fall at the family summer home near
Bluemont, Va. will sing next Sunday
with the choir of Ascension Church.
under direction of Albert w. Harmed.
organist
musical studies in Berlin, Germany.
has written an ineresting letter. which
he sent to his parents in this city by
Mrs. Martha Bachrach of Chevy Chase.
who arrived from Berlin a few days
ago. He says in part as follows: You
say that you think 1t best for me to
come back right away. Mrs. Bachrach
will be able to tell you Just how
things are over here, and that there
isn't the slightest cause for anxiety. In
fact. here in Berlin, SO far removed
from the battlefelds, 1t is only by the
papers that one realizes that there is
all
been absolutely no disturbances OF any
kind here.
II am especially anxious to stay over
here now-hrstly. because 1t is really
necessary on account of my work. and.
secondly, because 1t is SO extremely in
teresting here now. Burmeister is
back. and I have already begun study
ing hard with him, at present the Schu-
mann Fantasie in c major, a big and
important composition. Burmeister
wrote you a letter relative to my stay
ing in Berlin this winter. However, as
can't get out of Germany-either to
Paris or Vienna-there Is no use argu-
ing. Burmeister says I will be ready
to give a recital here next spring, but,
of course, with this war, concerts-and,
in fact, all public art-are laid on the
shelf until better times.
But 1t will show you that am
making good progress and that it Is
the best thing 1 can do to study with
him this winter. Illmer Is also back
and studying. He and 1 helped Bur-