The Washington herald., 1917-03-11
MUSIC And MUSICIANS

Many OF the sin ers associated with
Sydney Lloyd Wrigntson have important
engagements to fill in and out Of the city
during the next six weeks. Richard p.
Backing will sing on March % and . in
Anderson, 6. C.. in an Artist program
one afternoon and Gauls Holy City the
next evening. He will sing the Crucifxion
with the Evening Choir at the Church
OF the Covenant on Good Friday evening
and on April 19 he will sing the Stabat
Mater with the Danville Choral Society,
Danville, Va, and the following evening
in the same city on miscellaneous pro-
gram with the same society. Leroy Gill
der will sing at Anderson. s. c. in Gaurs
Holy City on March o. Mr W. A Viii
son. bass soloist of the Evening Choir OF
the Church OF the Covenant. will sustain
the bass solos in From Olivet to Calvary
with the Gunton Memorial choir on
Maundy Thursday evening. Mr. J. Walter
Humphrey will sing the solo parts Of the
CrucihNion with the Evening Choir OF
the Covenant Church on Good Friday
night
At the Church OF the Covenant today
the music will be given by the TRIBE
Quartette and by the Evening Choir OF
100 voices with double r.lartette and four
additional so!oists. bo,h services being
under the direction OF sydney LLOYD
Nrightson with Harvey Murray al the
organ.
After the two farewell concerts at
carnegie Hall on March Is and II the
symphony Society OF New York. Wal
ter DsmrOSch, conductor, will have
given in New York this season fortv-
seven symphonic concerts. including
twenty-four at Aeolian Hall. twelve at
Carnegie Hall, six at Young peoples
concerts at Carnegie Hall and five in
Brooklyn. These concerts have met
with phenomenal success. the halls
having been sold out entirely for near
~ every concert: tho Young people's
concerts being entirely sold out before
the beginning OF the season. The high
ideals OF the society regarding pro-
grams and performances have been
maintained.
Mr.. Damrosch introduced many nov
elites and revived several unfamiliar
classical compositions
Standard symphonies given This sea-
son were: BeethoVcr third and sixth.
Brahms, first second and fourth: Saint
Saens. third: D.Orak Prom tho \av-
World: TsChaikows sFv. second: Cesar
Fran"k. D minor. aHd SChuman. first
Modern compositions and first per
formances Of older works were. No
zart, symphony In n tk0Chcl 2S5D. and
symphony concertante for violin and
viola: Bach. Sinfonia from tho cant ia
Dominica QuasimodoEoniti: stock con-
certo for the violin: Ravel. Nalses
mobiles at Sentimentales; Leroux. Les
Perses; Cesar Franck. Us Diinrs
Sommeil de Pysche and Psyche er-
levee par les zephirs: Haydn. SYM
phony in d; Rahsu6. symphony in +
minor; Elgar. Sospiri: Sinigaglia. etude
caprice for strings; Bach. suite in G.:
Stravinsky. suite from L'oiseau de fau:
Zandonai, symphonic impressions: Vim
cent d1ndy. symphonic variations Is
tar; Kalinnikow, symphony in G mi
nor; Brahms. tragic overture: Chad
wick. Aphrodite The proCrau a1>D
included very successful revival Of
Rams Lenore Symphony and Stanford's
Irish Symphony.
Mr.. Damrosch, in his efforts to keep
his soloists out of the rut of too often
repeated works, found hearty CO-Opera-
tion from many of them, resulting in
notable performances of Cesar
Franck's symphony variations CHarold