Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
MUSICAL MENTION.

The Choral Club of the Y. w. c. A. re-
Gently held it's annual election Of off,
GERS in the associations parlors. Miss
Gertrude Ellis being reelected presi-
dent and Miss Lillian Krause, librarian.
Mrs. Louise Ludewig was elected vice
president. Mrs. F. L. Chilly treasurer.
Mrs. F. w. Tucker secretary and Miss
Annette Miller. historian. This is
membership privilege of the associa-
| ton, and the club voted on each mem
Der. trying to interest the strangers
who are in the city now who care for
music. Mrs. A. N. Blair. director, is now
in Massachusetts and expects to stay
| there for the better part of the summer.
She will return to the city some time
about the middle Of September and the
| club expects then to have a large rally.
Washington talent contributed large
| ly to the success Of a musical given
! last Sunday evening in Emmanuel NJ. E.
Church at Beltsville. Md. the affair net
| ting s25, to be used by the Beltsville
Relief Auxiliary, which is working I'M
der the Red Cross. The program open
| ed with an organ solo, by Mrs. Howard
| open Mine Eyes; tenor solo. 1T Was
| For Me-" by Blount, Charles d. Church;
violin solos, Philip Barnes; soprano
solo. The Publican by van de Water.
solo, 'Minuet" by Beethoven, Mrs
Atha; trio. 81 Waited for the Lord" by
Mendelssohn; tenor solo. @ Eyes That
quartet, "A Perfect Day" by Bond:
America" by the congregation; organ
| postlude, Grand March," from Tam
hauser," by Wagner: The quartet num-
bers were rendered by Miss Stowell.
Mrs. a. L: Johnson, Mrs. "A. L. Sinclair
and Mrs. D. DIN Leech, with Mrs. Sin
| clair and Miss Beall supplying the ac-
companime
Piano pupils of Claude Robson were
heard in recital recently at the
| Mount Pleasant Congregational Church,
among those contributing to the pro-
gram being Eleanor Maxwell. Kathryn
Downing. Agnes Stuart Newmyer Dor
! othy Shore. Elizabeth Edmonds. Esther
! Goodpasture, Mae Keller. Constance
Church. Harvey Mansfield. Elmore Jo-
hannes, Barrett Knock. Tom Parks.
Lawrence Glover. James Mansfield and
William Bradford. They were assisted
| by Arthur Chester Gorbach. baritone,
| and the Mount Pleasant Congresa-
tional Quartet, consisting Of Mrs. A. L.
Haycock. Miss Florence Steffens.
Charles D. Church and James s. Hicks
|
urday evening at musical at her residence
studio, presenting her pupils in the fol-
| lowing program of piano selections:
"Minuet," by Mozart. "Dolly's Funeral"
by Tseh nal Walt" by Gurlitt.
thoven. Waltz "a minor) by Greig,
.'Tarantelle.'' by Heller, Miss Virginia
Hume; Prelude and Fugue" &c minor)
from We'll Tempered Clavichord," by
Bach. Miss Alice Stuart; prelude" (B
flaD from We'll Tempered Clavichord,"
by Bach. Allegro" from Sonata, Cd.
81" Beethoven. Mrs. Elizabeth D. Wells;
prelude" and .Rigaudon'' from "Fol-
berg Suite" by Greig, Les sylvains," by
| ''Idylle" and "Etude" in double notes, bv
MacDowell. "Melodie." by Rachmaninoff
Prelude" OF major), by Chopin, .'Rigau-
don" by Raft. Miss Alice Stuart: Pre-
| "kreisleriana" (No. -. by Schumann,
"Barcarole" "a minor, by Rubinstein'
Mrs. Elizabeth D. Wells: I'm der Nacht."
| by Schumann, Prelude (B minor, by
de Koven. Eighth Rhapsodie," by List
Miss Helen Rosenbusch; two movements
from "Keltic Sonata" by MacDoweu
Miss Bestor.
by pupils Of Mrs. Anna M Jorgensen
at olsen's Hall. Capitol Heights, Md.
Monday evening. The Nippon" maids
gave ,Darasol and fan drill to selec-
| tiOHS from MlkaQO, and an
operetta chorus and floral drill was
given by the younger pupils Among
those participating in the program
were Miss Ruth Bixler. Adeline Laura
nue.; Frances Wooden. Helen Fowler.
| Gibbs. Harry Simon. Elsie Hunt, Rosie
| Burkhart Catharine Gibbs, AdeIine.
| kunzel. Ethel shultz. Marian Rawlings
Louise Breen: Dorothy Adams and
[ Frederick J. Hardman. baritone solo
| ist of the Vermont Avenue Christian
| Church, Will sing this morning Mark
Andrews setting of the hymn, Come
| Ye Disconsolate,'' and this evening
| Lord. for Tomorrow and It's Needs"
| by Horatio Palmer.
| Pupils of Miss Elena Hall gave their
! annual recital at her studio Wednesday
evening, making a creditable showing
special mentiop being due the work Of
| Marion Hall. A lawn social followed
| the program.
At the Metro Titan Memorial M. E..
| Church this morning the duet. For
| ever with the Lord" by Gounod. will
| be rendered by Miss Myra McCatbran
| soprano, and Nell Lindsey Marks. bari
| tone.
Jack Whitman, baritone, will be the
soloist this evening at the Fourth
Presbyterian community tent service.
when he will be heard in Rodney's
Calvary"
| Sixth Regiment Engineers u s. A.
encamped at University Park, was en-
| tertained with a concert by the Ma
tiona1 Quartet Monday evening in the
! parish hall at st. Adams This was the
first entertainment arranged for Uni
! yersity camp. The quartet gave a mis-
cellaneous program of solo and ensem-
BILE numbers which was enthusiastically
received by the large soldier audience.
The National Quartet is composed of
Elizabeth S. Maxwell, soprano; Lillian
Chenoweth, contralto: w. Z. Braith-
waite. tenor: Harry N Forker. basso:
| with Ethel Garrett Johnston, pianist
The first public piano recital by pupils
OF Miss Cora A. Fitton was held recent
ly at Lincoln Road NJ. E. Church, and
was well attended. The careful per-
| formance of each of the numbers by
| the students made a pleasing impress
| sion and the playing of the principal
part of the last number by Miss Fitton
| brought forth an encore. Assisting in
giving the program was French s.
| Hufty. violinist: Catherine L. Grady.
pianist, and Leonard Crymes, vocalist
| Reeves. Matte A Reeves Ethel " Co
| berth. Walter E. Tliff, Mary Eliff, Edna
| Weisman, Mary Crosse, Charlotte Crosse
| Margaret Weisman and NJ. Ruth Fitton.
TWO of Washington's younger mu-
| sicians. Miss Mildred Hall, soprano, and
| Jack Whitman. baritone made a fine