Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22
MUSICAL MENTION.


The Motel Choral Society. Otto Tor
ney Simon. conductor. will give Its
last concert this season Wednesday
In addition to a choral program OF
classical interest. the organization will
continue its experiments in color
| music. Three such choruses will be
given in combination with mobile. pill
ant color. thrown upon a screen. These
selections are Springs Enchantment."
by Bantock., a Finnish song; Sorrow
by Palmgren. and a setting by Hol-
brooke of a poem, ITO Zante." by Ed
have charge Of the color manipulation,
Miss Caroline Curtis of New York will
be the assisting soloist and George H.
Wilson and Miss Lenore Baker will be the
accompanies. Miss Curtis will sing
two arias, Dove Sono." from Mozart's
Marriage Of Figaro" and I'll est doux.
il est bon." from "Herodiade," by
Massenet.
Invitations have been issued for the
annual spring recital in which Sydney
Lloyd Wrightson will present some of
his pupils in program of ngs/and
arias. The affair will take place to-
morrow evening in the chapel of the
Church of the Covenant. and among
those contributing to the affair will
be Miss Marian l.. King, Mrs. Gordon
Robinson, Mrs. Mary Barber HURT.
Mrs. Lenore Byrnes Fuller. Henry A.
s. Henning, Miss Flora Briggs, Wheeler
Wilson. Mrs. Florence Howard, Miss
Mary Jacobs. Miss Jewell Downs, Fred
East. Mrs. Beulah Harper Dunwoody,
Miss Meta Craig and Richard P. Back
Ing.
The annual dinner of the District
chapter of the American Guild of Or
ganists was held Monday evening at
the Teacup Inn. when speeches were
Comstock and the dean of the chapter,
Harry Wheaton Howard, who was
elected to serve in this capacity for
the second year.
The members present were L. C. At
water. Miss ]. Glennan, A. Gumprecht.
Miss NJ. I. Sewell, Mrs. G. Warfeld. ].
p. Robinson. F. D. karr. ]. E. Wilson. A.
w. Harmed. DIR. William Stansfield.
Mrs. F. Frost, Miss L. B. Adamson and
Mrs. c. n. Sylvester.
The guests present were Miss May s.
Brown, Mrs. M. G. Humphrey, G. H.
Owen. Miss Jessie MacBride, Mrs. will
liam Stansf1eld, Mrs. A. w. Harmed, c. n.
Sylvester. H. G. Wilbur. Miss Ruth
Gerlach, S. Lerch and c. w. O'Connor.
Charles Bright, soloist at st. Johns
Episcopal Church. Georgetown, has
been engaged to sing the baritone solo
part in the production of Pierne's
Children of the Crusade" which will
be given tomorrow evening at the Lyric
Theater in Baltimore by the Oratorio
Society, augmented by a chorus Of 400
boys and girls and assisted by the
Philadelphia Orchestra. Theo Karle. the
American tenor. and Mrs. Charles Nor
ton and Mrs. Walter H. Billingslea Of
Baltimore will be the other soloists
At the First Baptist Church the fol-
morning: Organ prelude. "Andante
Religioso." by Lemaigre: anthem. Il
Waited for the Lord" by Mendelssohn.
with duet for two sopranos: contralto
solo. He That Keepeth Israel" by
Schlosser; organ postlude. Largo" by
Haendel. Miss Fan r. Noack. soprano.
will assist the choir. which consists of
Mrs. Howard. soprano and director;
Mrs. Arthur Whaley. contralto; Henry
Kruger. tenor, and Wheeler Wilson,
list. Mrs. Howard will sing at the even
ing service Light in Darkness" by
Cowen.
The National colors," a spirited
march by Clarke Middleton. played
from manuscript by the U. S. Marine
Band, was one of the interesting
features of the program Wednesday
evening before The Star building. Mr..
Middleton comes of an old Washington
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complishments, and was for many
years organist and choirmaster Of st.
Johns Episcopal Church, Georgetown.
and st. Adams.
At the last meeting of the Peabody
Club of Washington Walter Charm
bury, president, gave a talk on The
Duties of an Accompanist." The next
meeting will be held Thursday at the
Y. NJ. c. A, and is open to the public
Piano pupils of Nine. Won Unschuld
and vocal pupils of Mrs. Stacey Will
liams rendered selected program
Monday evening at the Y. NJ. c. A.
warded the performance of the mu-
sicians. The program included Con
certo A Minor by Grieg, Miss Ethel
Conin; Love Song" by List. Miss
by Schubert. and 'valse." by Mrs. j.
Dorothy Roberts: "Scherzo," by Cho-
pin, Miss Constance Finckel.
Mrs. Edith Marmion Brosius,. harpist,
returned Thursday from Chicago, where
she was heard in recital under the aus
pices of the Catholic Woman's League,
and also at the Academy of Our Lady
and at the Convent of the Sacred Heart,
at Lake Forest. ILL., Mrs. Brosius was
the guest of honor at a reception Sun
day evening and at luncheon at the
Athletic Club.
Mrs. Florence Howard, soprano, ac-
companied by Mrs Edmund Barry, was
the soloist Thursday at the meeting of
the Southwest ParentTeachers Asso-
citation, when she was heard in "A
Morning in Spring." by Matthews, and
"One Spring Morning" by Nevin.
evening at the Mount Pleasant Congre-
Club. his program being made up Of
was assisted by Miss Florence Steffens.
contralto, who sang Ashes Of Roses"
by Woodman. and THE Cross" by Har-
riett Ware. Mr. Robson proved him.
self a master of the king of instru-
ments" in the following numbers: s"Pre-
lude." from Sonata in G Minor" by H.
B. Jepson: "Romanza" and Festival
Prelude" by Horatio Parker; 'Medita-
tion." by Ralph Kinder; .Springtime
Sketch" by Chester Beebe; "Scherzo
Symphonique," by Russell King Miller.
Miss Helma Cheesman entertained