Evening star., 1915-08-29

The last sunday of August marks the
close of vacation days for many of the
choirs and brings each season addi-
iional announcements concerning the
personnel of church organizations and
plans of the choirmasters and musical
clubs for the coming season.
II. w. Weber, conductor of the Re
bew Orchestra. announces the opening
of the eighteenth season Of the organ
ization with a "get-together' meetir G
and rehearsal on the third Monday OF
September. The meeting will be held
in the lecture room of Keller Memo
rial Church. the building in use in past
seasons having been replaced during
the vacation by a new and larger au-
ditorium which will seat 400 persons
Beginning the first Monday evening in
October, the orchestra will give a free
public rehearsal once each month, in
which prominent local soloists will as
sist. and which the music-loving public
is cordially invited to attend. Mr..
Weber plans for the programs during
the winter to include the rendition of
one of MoZart'S symphonies and the
presentation of new overture at the
annual spring concert, as well as a
manuscript number by member of
Ehe organization. If the present ar
Iangements materialiZe the manuscript
number will he q piano concerto, with
orchestral accompaniment. written by
w j. Weber, son of the conductor,
which VIII be an unusual feature on
the program of an amateur organlZa- :
tion Mr.. Weber expects TO introduce
also at some of the public rehearsals
a new string quartet. in charge of NJ.
F Maxwell. first violin; w. Carroll Gill
bert. second violin: Walter [. Allen.
viola, and j. y. ID. Turner, violoncello.
The SnInfStS assisted nrcbpS-
ira al the concerts during the past sea-
son were Miss Emma Cohen, Mrs. D.
oIin Leech. Miss Mabel Louise Benzler.
Miss Josephine NJ. Mack Miss Viola
Schippert. Miss Lillian Chenoweth. Miss
Tilda Bostrom. Miss Ada Boteler. Miss
k.stele Wild. Miss Mary C. Whitaker,
Mrs. Amy Law ormsby, Mrs: Olive
Josephine T. Gould. Messrs. John G..
Klein. RAYMOND Moore Frank Goebel.
Alfred H. Rodrick. W. w. Keeler.
Maurice Fitzgerald. Benjamin A. Line
back. A. ". Jett and J. Wesley Jones.
The personnel of the orchestra in
cludes:
H w Weber director: first violins.
Warren Seltzer. Pauline Scott. W. Car
roll Gilbert. Grace Mae Hopewel1, Jo-
seph A. Nash. Marguerite T. Harbers,
Edward L. Weber, Gertrude Murphy.
NJ. F. Maxwell. Nan Dousherty. Lily S.
Gerry and Henry Weber: second vio-
Inns. B. H. Gather. Virginia Gray, Job
bert. Harry ElderSrook and P. H
Luehrs; violas. G. J. Weber Walter c.
Allen and G. A Geiger; cellos, J. A. D.
Turner and Bernard Hanshew: bass. S.
G. McAllister; piano, Bessie Humphreys
and W. J. Weber; flutes. D. D. Ward
Raymond Gilbert and Laura Holmes
HUtchings: oboe, ]. A. Brearley; clari-
nets, H 3. Schmidt, A NJ. Van Loock
and P. Blaauboer; bassoon. A. l. Bod
we'll; first cornets, Adolph Daily and
James Nalley; second cornets. Edwin
c. Glasscock and Robert Nash: trum-
pets. Benton c. Gardner and Albert
Lindstrom; horns, Otto c. Hauschild
and c. W. Fridley: trombones, Lester
Pearson, and drums and tympanies, J.
l. Fox.
II. H. Freeman. organist and choir
master of old ST. Johns Church. with
his daughter. Miss Helen Freeman, is
sumner'ng at Greystone Inn. Blue
Ridge summit where he is presiding
at the organ of the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION. Mr.. Freeman will go
to New York early in the coming
month for short stay, returning to
Washington in time to resume his du-
ties at st. Johns the third Sunday in
September In addition to his work at
this church, which requires his pres
ence only mornings and afternoons
Sundays, Mr.. Freeman will train and
conduct chorus choir at the evening
services at Hamline Methodist Church
He plans to organize a choir of approx
lmately fifty voices from among the
young people of the congregation,
which. assisted by the solo quartet of
the church. will give number of spe-
clal musical services and at least three
sacred cantatas at intervals during
the coming winter The solo quartet
has for some time past been composed
OF Miss Marian Green. soprano; Mrs.
John Humphries, contralto: George v.
Blakeney. tenor and director, and J. E.
s. kinsella, bass with Miss Edith
Athey at the organ.
Mrs. Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler, soprano
soloist of the Church of the Covenant,
has been engaged as the soprano of the
Musurgia Quartet. which had an un-
usually successful first season last
winter. Mrs. Gawler succeeds Mrs J.
Tlnsiey Halter. until recently Helen
Donohue De Yo, who will in future
make her home in New York.
Miss Mary A. Cryder and her father,
William Wetmore Cryder, have con-
cluded their stay at Rehoboth Beach,
Del. and after stopping en- route for
several days in New York city have
gone to Flushing. L. l., where they are
house guests of Miss Cryder's aunt,
Mrs. Gibson They will return to Wash
ington in the near future.
Mrs. Edith Marnion Brosius, harpist,
and her three children are settled for
q HloNtH stay at Buena vista farm,
near the old Marmion HON tead, at
Iarpers Ferry, W. Va. Mrs Brosius is
not spending all of her holiday visit
Ing with her relatives and old friends
but has taken her instrument with her
and is industriously at work on some
new harp compositions to be added to
her recital programs next season. She
VIII give a joint recital with other
summer visitors for the benefit of the
little mountain church during her stay
there.
Mrs. Emily Frech Barnes has Joined
her daughter, Miss Marjorie Barnes
81 Pocono Pines. Pa, and will not re-
turn TO Washington until after Labor
day.
Miss Ethel Lee, the young Washing
ton cellist who had such a successful
season last year In New York, is also
At Pocono Pines, and has been heard
there in recital this summer on sew
eral occasions.
Miss Minerva Bailey, organist of
Trinity Methodist Church. has been
spending her vacation at Hotel Massa-