Evening star., 1917-09-16

Musical affairs of the city show signs
Of the renewed activities OF the COM
ing season. Organizations are holding
board meetings to outline plans for the
winters work, choirs are resuming re-
hearsals. though in many the personnel
is incomplete, and announcements OF
designations and appointments in edu-
cational and church circles are, for the
moment. the absorbing topic of inter-
est. The executive board Of the Motet
Choral Society and its conductor. Otto
Torney Simon, after consultation with
members of the board of the Rubin
stein Club. announces the date of its
first concert at the opening of the sea-
son in order to avoid such contre-
temps as occurred the two winters
past. when these two representative
organizations gave concerts on the
same evening. thus compelling music
lovers who were in the habit of at
tending events by both clubs to forego
either one or the other.
The first concert of the Motet So
ciety will be given the evening Of De-
cember 10, in the New Willard ball
room and will have the usual Yuletide
features that were omitted last season.
Mr.. Simon has already called the first
rehearsal for Tuesday evening. Oc-
tober ., in the parish hall of old st.
Johns Church. on 18th street. George
B. Wilson. orgaplst of Foundry Metho-
dist Church, will be the accompanist-
The Rubinstein Club. Mrs. A. NJ Blair,
director. will resume rehearsals Wednes-
day morning, October Il, In the ballroom
of the Raleigh Hotel. The club will open
it's season with an artists recital some
time in November and will give two even
ing concerts after the holidays and pos
sibly also some morning affairs, the pro-
gram to be presented by the members.
Claude Robson, organist and choir di-
rector Of the Mount Pleasant Church.
who served as accompanist last season,
will continue with the club this winter.
The Washington Saengerbund. Armand
Gumprecht. conductor. will resume re-
hearsals next Wednesday evening at the
hall Of the bund. and the directors are
planning for a concert the last week in
October or the first in November. Tenta-
tive plans are being made also by the
board Of directors for return to the
Sunday evening gatherings, which for
merly proved so popular.
The choir of the West Street Presby-
teran Church. under direction of George
Herbert Wells, will resume rehearsals
shortly, preparatory to the opening of
the season the first Sunday IN October
Two changes are announced in the solo
quartet Miss Elsie Carleton Small who
has been solost for the past two years
at the Church of the Incarnation. has
been engaged as soprano. and Lester b.
Pool will fill the tenor position. Mr.. Pool
is a newcomer in the city. having had
previous experience in choir work at the
Church of the Covenant. in Cincinnati,
Ohio. Mrs. Helen Macleod Cliff and S.
Theodore Howard will continue as con-
tralto and bass Soloists.
The vested choir of the Petworth
Methodist Episcopal Church will re-
sumo singing the first Sunday in Oc-
tober and will be again under the
direction of Dwight Church. with
Mrs. John NJ Sylvester again presiding
at the organ. AS approved by the OFF,
cial board of the church. the choir will
consist of a chorus of fifty voices. with
a solo quartet composed OF Mrs. john
H Paine soprano: Mrs. II. W. Daubt.
contralto: ]. X. Forton. tenor. and H.
L. Buckingham, baritone. An orchestra.
including some exceptional Washington
talent will supplement the organ at
several musical services during the
winter and in the spring. when one OF
the standard oratorios will be given.
In addition. the choir will be heard in
three concerts during the year.
Miss Nelma Sharpe, who has been in
charge of the piano department of the
Colonial School. has been given years
leave of absence, which she will spend
at her old home in Alma. Mich. Miss
Pauline Jennings: who Will succeed her,
is a lecturer and author as well as
pianist. She has been for several years
with the Lachmund Conservatory in
New York, and has given course of
lectures on musical subjects in other
cities She has received the degree of
bachelor of music and last June was
given the honorary degree of master of
letters by Syracuse University
Announcement is made that william
J. Caulfield has been engaged as tenor
soloist of the Church of the Sacred
Heart and will assume his duties there
the first Sunday in October. Mr. Caul-
field was for nine years soloist at Epip-
hany Church and two years ago or
ganized the choir of the new St. An
drews Church. serving there for the
wear as tenor soloist and director. Ar
mand Gumprecht, organist and director
of the music at the Sacred Heart
Church announces also the re-engage-
ment of Miss Mabel Latimer. soprano:
Mrs. Edith Mccoy White, contralto, and
William Madigan. bass
Miss Mary Isabelle Hall, soprano. head
OF the vocal department of the Colonial
School has spent the summer at Allen
hurst, on the New Jersey coast.
Lewis Corning Atwater. organist of
IT
returned from trip. which took him as
far west as Nebraska. On his return
east he motored to Boston, stopping at
points of interest en- route on the re-
turn trip.
Ruth NJ. Bronson, viollnist. has re-
turned from vacation trip during
which she visited in New York city and
in the Berkshire hills.
Miss Pauline Whitake contralto So
loist of the New York Avenue Presby-
ter;an Church, has returned to her
home. on Oregon avenue, for the sea son,
having divided her time during the
summer months between the country
home of her brother in Fairfax county
and in motor trips to various points IN
Virginia and Maryland.
Anton Kaspar choir director of F'oun-
dry Methodist Church. with Mrs. kas-
mar and their daughter. Priska, has re-
turned 10 the city after an extended
stay at Waynesboro. Pa. He will be in
his place at the church today and the
quartet will sing this morning Il Am
Alpha and Omega by Stainer, and the
offevtory number will be d soprano solo.
save Me. 0 Lord" by Randeger. This
evening the quartet anthems will be
Dudley Bucks "Venite'' and 80 for the
Wings of a Dove" by Farland. Mrs.
Bachschmid will substitute for Mrs.
Mary Sherier Bowie. and the other
members of the quartet-MrS Anna
BRETT SUNNY, contralto; j. F. NJ. Bowie,
tenir, and Charles Moore, bass-will re-
sumo their work for the season. with
George Wilson again at the organ