Evening star., 1917-03-11

/ The Monday Morning Music Club,
Edgar Priest conducting. will give the
second of this seasons musicals to-
morrow morning at the New Willard.
Mr.. Priest has secured two novelties
which will be of special interest.
| woodland Spirits" and wild Fawn-
! The first is by 2. Ladimrault. one of
! the younger set of French composers,
! who is now doing duty in the trenches
somewhere in France" 1t is intense
/ " modern in construction and was
! composed in one of the intervals be
tween the fighting and published only
a few months since. The second is
setting by Clough-Leighter of poem
relating an old Scotch highland legend
by Fiona Mcleod. The soloists, mem
bers of the club. will be Mrs. Ralph
Andre Quick, who will sing "Ah, Love
but Day by Mrs Beach: Venetian
Songs" by Bemberg, and Morning, pE
Speaks: and Mrs.-Jo ohm l.. Edwards, who
will sustain the solo in Xavier LerouX's
The Nile" to be rendered by the club
There will be also two duets, "A FISht
of Clouds and Nearest and Dearest,
l,y Caracciolo sung by Mrs. Mccarthy
Hangar and Mrs Harold Brooks, and
the other choruses by the club Will be
, the three numbers of the Peer Gynt
Suite" Asses DEATH Han of the
Mountain King" and Morning Mood.
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play the accompaniments and Anton
Kaspar will sustain the violin obligato
in The Nile
Mrs. Warner Gibbs of this city. a
former member of the Rubinsteiu Club,
who has been living abroad during the
period of the world war-the first year
at Calais and since then in Paris-has
been especially active in using her lels-
ure time and her musical talents at
benefit affairs and to entertain the con-
valescentS among the wounded in the
French capital and vicinity. y PARIS
critic and correspondent of an Amerl-
can musical journal writes recently OF
her success there, telling particularly
| of a Concert Intime." given at the
Sale Huyghens by the Music Branch
of the Latin Quarter Association. These
| concerts are really for the entertain
ment of the few artists and students of
the Latin Quarter who have remained in
Paris during her dark days, SO no admis
| sion is charged. The correspondent
writes: Il was particularly interested
| in the singing of Mrs. Gibbs. Her num-
bers were .Ah Jean by Charles Gill
bert SproSs; Mighty LAX a Rose, by
| Ethelbert Nevin; The Lily and the
! Rose, by Carrie Jacobs Bond. and
From the Land of the Slly-blue Water
/ by Cadman. Mrs. Gibbs is favorite in
Paris and is often called upon to sing
for benefit work" Mrs. Gibbs has also
visited in Italy and sung to the soldiers
| in the trenches there some of the folk
songs of sunny Italy that she learned
while she was studying here and which
! aroused such enthusiasm among the
soldiers that she was obliged to repeat
| them again and again.
! Arts Club members and their guests
have recital of unusual interest in
anticipation for this evening, when
program of chamber music Will be Civ
! en- by Herman Rakemann and +. Earl
Wagner, first and second violin; Jo-
seph Finckel. viola; Edward Matteos-
sian, cello. and George d. Mitchell,
bass. Assisting will be Mrs. Elliott
Woods. soprano, who will give Ruth
and Naomi by Ries; The Minstrel,
by Hildach, and "Rhoda Rae. COM
position by Mr.. Rakemann OF special
, interest, too. will be "Andante, from
Sonata for Viola" (opus 49). by Rubin
stein. played by Mr.. Rakemann. and the
Piano Quintet. Op. H." by Nawratil,
with Miss Stella Lipman at the piano.
There will be also the trio, Romance,
by Sibelius: String Quartet, by Baz-
zini and In der Heimath,' by Grieg,
! for string quintet.