Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-26

| Dr. William Stansfield, organist and
choirmaster of the First Congregation
al Church. has arranged some special
| musical programs to be given this
week in view of the C. A. r. encamp-
ment. Each evening at Sis O'CLOCK
there will be an organ concert of popu-
| lar music. A special feature VIII be
descriptive piece, entitled The Storm,
depicting day in camp on a patriotic
holiday, with bugle calls, stirring mar
| tial music patriotic songs, the approach
and passing of a thunder storm. 1t will
| be presented for the first time this
evening, together with a request pro-
\ gram of songs, orchestral and organ Sc
lections The program will begin with
organ selections and will be followed by
vocal solos from to 9:15 o'clock and
| THE Storm from 9:15 to $40 The
public is cordially invited to attend.
| Announcement is made by Sydney
Arthur Chester Gorbach as bass soloist
of the evening choir of the Church of
| the Covenant, to take the place of
| Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, who re-
signed last spring to accept position
| at All Souls Unitarian Church. Mr..
| WrightSon has also arranged to nave
a double quartet in place of the single
| quartet for the same organization, the
| personnel to be Mrs. Ethel Holtzclaw
| Gawler and Mrs. Jewell Downs. So
prans: Miss Beulah Harper, contralto;
W. S. Blanchard and Henry A. Kruger,
tenors, and Mr.. Gorbach. bass. with an
| other contralto and an additional bass
| to be engaged in the near future. The
| evening choir will reorganize for this
| seasons work Tuesday evening. Octo-
! Der 5, in the chapel of the Church OF
| the Covenant. New members are cor
daily invited to join the choir ana
neither a knowledge of music nor the
ability to read same at sight is neces-
| sary, as these essentials are taught at
the regular rehearsals. All that is
necessary is for the applicant to have
a good voice. The evening choir of the
Church of the Covenant is. in some re-
SpectS, unique among Such ofsanlZa-
lions, as it's members become members
of 4 subsidiary organization, called the
| Evening Choir Club of Washington. 1t
is a social organization for the uplift
of its members, and the executive board
| is planning for three entertainments TO
be given during the season. The officers
of the club are Walter A. Gawler, presi-
dent; Miss 6. Il. Taylor. vice president
| sydney Lloyd Wrightson, treasurer: w.
E. Cosins, recording secretary, and Mrs.
F. NJ. Avery, corresponding secretary
| Henry H. Freeman, organist and choir
master of old St. Johns Church, has
returned to the city after spending the
closing week of his vacation on nsh-
ing trip to Wades point. on chesapeake
bay, following threemonth stay at
Blue Ridge Summit. Mr.. Freeman has
lengaged H. ]. Jeffries for the coming
season in the chorus bass section OF
st. Johns choir. Mr.. Jeffries is an eX-
perienced church singer, and has a
voice of good quality and range
The board of managers of the Wash
ington Oratoric Society will hold It's
first meeting of this season tomorrow
evening, and the first rehearsal will
be held Monday evening, OCTOBER ., III
the chapel of the Church of the Cove
nant Henry II. Freeman, associate oil.
rector will conduct the rehearsals, anC
the first performance of the society
which will take place the latter part OF
November.
| NJ and Mrs Alfred G. Eldridge and
their young son, Alfred Elson, are in
town again after a long holiday spen,
in Massachusetts, mostly at Marbleheat
Neck. where they were guests at tne
GUNNER home of Charles Lawrence. Mr.
Eldridge has resumed his work as Or
ganist and choirmaster at 81 Marsa'
| refs F. r.. Church. and mas aireaus
heard more than fifty soprano soioists
| 60 the nosition left vacant when Heller
| Dopohue De Yo became Mrs r.. IihsieA
Halter. No decision has been so fai
reached as to her successor
Don, pleyden. tenor soloist of old st
Johns Episcopal Church. has been en-
J gagged to sing Tuesday evening AT th'
reunion of the G.. A. r. at the Emery
| huilding when he will give Ihe Stal
SnaneIeJ Banner" with accompaniment
nv the United States Marine Band.
Miss Florence Macdonald. in charge
| of the vocal department OF beicouI
|
signed her position and will remain
this season at her old home in Mans
field, Ohio. She will be succeeded a
-BeIcourt by Mrs. Huron Lawson, wh'
, will take up her new duties at I'M
opening of the scholastic year.
Miss Hilda Koehler, mezzo soprano
will be the offertory soloist at West
minister Memorial presbyterian IN lr,
when she will sing Forget All Tn!
: sorrows by Willard. The choir an
them will be Babylon" by Watson
Shepherd, with Mrs. Byram directing.
Frank Norris Jones has returned t.
; the CITY after a vacation spent visiting
his family and friends in Ohio and In
diana.
Miss Alma Thomas has been added t.
the faculty of the vocal department o
, the Washington College of Music.
The Home Club Chorus. which mad
such a successful debut last spring a
Memorial Continental Hall, under tn
. direction of Otto Torney Simon will re
sumo rehearsals at the clubrooms TIL
third Thursday evening in October ant
the committee in charge is making
e plans for a series of events for the sea
I son now opening.
| Harry Wheaton Howard, organist o
a the Church of the Immaculate Concep
$ ton and president of the District o
$ Columbia Chapter of the America
= Guild of Organists. has returned from
:. a two-month trip which took him a
y far north as Alaska and as far south a
= Mexico. He stopped en- route at bot
Yellowstone Park and Yosemite Parl
e and visited both the San Diego and tn
e San Francisco eXpositions.
c Mrs. Grace Jackson. for many year
g ! organist of C;untonTemplc I'resbyte
u | rianl church, is substituting at til
|. | Church of All Saints tI.piscOpaD i