Evening star., 1917-09-30
MUSICAL MENTION.

ilton Bayly. Following this service
there will be q social hour in the rooms
below the church auditorium for the
soldiers and other strangers.
Oscar Franklin Comstock. for thirteen
years organist and choir director OF Trim
ity Episcopal Church. and for sixteen
years a well known musician OF Wash
ington. has left the city to resume his
residence at his old home in Flatbush.
N. Y, where he has been engaged as
organist Of All Souls Universalist Church.
Mr.. Comstock was the organiser and NOV
ing spirit in the District of Columbia
Chapter Of the American Guild OF Organ
lists and was dean Of the chapter for fve
years. being succeeded two years ago by
Harry Wheaton Howard. His stay here
was notable for the long list Of cantatas
and oratorios that he presented with his
choir and the many novelties that ne
introduced in his 109 studio recitals. not to
mention the many pupils who have proved
successful in Washington choir circles.
The community choir Of the Franciscan
grams OF music at the morning and
afternoon services on the feast OF St
Francis. which falls on Thursday next,
Kth KfH GeerFs H1psr Hsa W. M the
At the morning service. beginning at 10
o'clock. ''Ecce sacerdos Maguns.." by Lud-
wig Bonerin; Mass In E Flat" by Piel;
"sanctitatls," BY Father Peter Baptist Of
Falconara. o. F. NJ; offertorium. Mag
niflcabitur," and communion, Non sunt
Condignae," by George Herbert Wells. At
Cum Invocarem." "Qui Habitat" and
"Ecce Nunc"; hymn. ''Te Luce's Ante
Terminum." and "Nuno Dimittis." by
c. Kreutzer; "Tantum Ergo" by Carl
Zoellner; 20 Sanctissima Anima." 'rVoce
mea ad Dominum Blamavi' and "Salve
Sancte Pater," by Father Peter Baptist,
o. F. NJ.
The Washington Community orches-
ira. Hamlin E. Cogswell, conductor.
held a preliminary meeting Monday
evening at the Wilson Normal School.
Several new members were added to
the personnel and more in every SEQ
tion Of the orchestra are desired. Plans
for a series of concerts are being ar
details will be announced in the near
future. The first regular rehearsal will
be held tomorrow evening. when 1t
is urgently requested that every mem
be present, having their instruments
and stands. Application for member
ship can be made also at other times to
DR.. Cogswell. whose office is at the VIII
son Normal School
The Choral Club of tho Y. W. c. A.
will have its first business meeting on
the evening Of October 8. at the asso-
citation rooms. This meeting has been
called for general organization work
and the first regular meeting of the
Choral Club will be held Monday. octo-
ber 10, at the Elizabeth Somers house.
18th and NJ streets: This will be q raj
ly or get-together meeting and all
| those =
rolled for the coming winter and those
who at any time were members are
| asked to be present. Mrs. Blair. the d.
rector has recovered her health and is
planning a wonderful year of work.
good music and good times for the club.
1t is hoped that this will be the biggest
year in the clubs existence because OF
the promises in store for the winter
incident to the number of strangers now
in the city.
Miss Jennie Glennan. organist and
director of the mixed choir Of st. Pat
rick's Catholic Church. is organizing a
young peoples choir to sing at the
sodality service at that church We'd
nesday evenings, and extends cordial
invitation to music lovers with voices
to join the chorus. Previous musical
experience is not a requisite for eligi-
bility, as special training in sight read
ing will be given at the rehearsals.
brief rehearsal will be held Wednesday
evening after the service, and. this
being the opening sodality meeting Of
the season. the solo quartet of the
senior choir. composed of Mrs. William
Howard, formerly Edna Hillyard. so
prano; Miss Ella Niemann, contralto:
Nolan, bass, will sing, in addition to the
regular hymns. AVE Maria" by Mario
Carl F. stuhler. organist of the Ia
koma Park Presbyterian Church. and
Mrs. Stuhler. one of the contraltos of
the Rubinstein Club. have returned
from a two-month trip through the
middle west.
Charles F. Roberts. for many years
bass soloist of ST. PauFs Lutheran
| Church. will sing this morning at
Emanuel Episcopal Church. Anacostia.
Green. Fulton B. Karr. organist and
choir director will play this morning
for prelude Air" from "orpheus and
i Eurydice." by Gluck. and for p9stlude.
Mr.. Karr's numbers will be. br pre-
lude, Aria" by Pleyel and postlude.
! "Marche Girondins." by Scotson Clark.
on Composers day" at the national
American musical convention to be held
at Lockport, N. Y. September 80 to Oc-
| tober 6. and will sing the following new
SOERS Dy prominent american COM
posers. who will play the accompani-
ments to their respective compositions:
"A Song of the Hills" and "a Little Bit
o Honey" by Carrie Jacobs Bond; Song
Of the Thistledrift," Spinning Wheel
Song" and The Call of the Trail" by
Fay Foster. Leonard Liebling will give
an address on America Made Musical"
Mrs. Dorothy Houchen Baxter, organ
ist and choir director of the Church Of
Our Father Universalist). has arranged
the following music for the service this
morning: Organ prelude. "Morgenstim-
mung." from Peer Gynt Suite" by
Grieg: anthem. 1.-The Lord Is My Shep-
herd" by Smart. sung by Mrs. Sydney
r Hollingsworth. soprano: Miss Lillian
tenor Substituting for Mr.. Blanchard), ,
and Fred East, baritone; offertory solo,
Hold Thou My Hand" by Briggs, Mr..
East; organ postlude, March," by Franz
Liszt.
Miss Meta Craig. soprano soloist of the
Church Of the Covenant, has been en-
gagged as head Of the vocal department of
Martha Washington Seminary, and will
be heard there this evening In joint re-
I cital with Miss Ethel Garrett Johnston,
who Is in charge of the piano depart
ment.
At the Mount Pleasant Congregational
tions of the service. under direction of
Claude Robeson, organist, will include the
organ prelude, rIntermezzo." from PAS
toral Sonata" by Rheinberger; contralto
solo, "Still, Still With Thee" by Schenck-
er, Miss Marian Mccoy; offertory quartet.