The Washington times., 1917-01-11
Three Hundred More Singers
Wanted to Fill Out :
Vast Chorus.
CADET BAND ALSO DESIRED
About $1,000 Must Be Raised
to Purchase instruments for
Proposed Organization.

Wanted-1O0 choral singers for the
biggest community, singing festival
ever organized in Washington.
Wanted-A high school cadet band.
These two wants dovetaiI into each
other. First, though, about the
choristers
The musical festival. planned for
the week after Easter. in the big as
sembly hall of the new Central
School. is being arranged jointly by
the musical department of the public
schools. the District Symphony Or
chestra, and the Washington oratorio
Society.
Chorus Rehearsing.
Every Monday evening the chorus
is rehearsing at the Wilson Normal
School. and It now has about. 200
voices. At least 900 more singers
are needed il the volume is to make
any considerable impression n the
spacious auditorium of the school
above the orchestration of the seventy
pieces Of the District Symphony Or
chestra.
This orchestra, organized last year
by the employees in the District build
ing has outsrown the confines of the
City Hall. and is now a community
affair. Il holds rehearsals each Tues
day evening at the Thompson School.
Talent Plentiful
Now for. the high school cadet band.
Enough players have been discovered
in the ranks OF the younger cadets to
make up a band. The little matter Of
instruments needs to be arranged. At
the lowest estimate they will cost 5000
'Hamlin Z. Cogswell. organizer OF the
festival this spring, has conceived the
idea that the proceeds ought to go to-
ward buying those Instruments, and the
plan now awaits approval OF the super
intendent and the Board Of Education.
because Of certain restrictions about
giving entertainments to which admis-
sion is charged In the schools. Since
the law permits admission to be charged
for benefit OF athletic and military or
CARNATIONS. there is little doubt that
the board will give its approval to tie
TO the cadets band.
Drum Corps Already.
As a forerunner of the band. about
sixty cadets already have been enlisted
in the fife and drum corps. now rehears-
ing several times week. which win
lead the cadets In the Inaugural parade.
On Tuesday afternoon OF the week
following Easter, there win be matinee
concert at which $50 opifolic school pupils |
a s-SI.
grades win sing. The rest Of the pro-
gram win be made up Of numbers |
given by the pupils OF the fifth. sixth. |
seventh and eighth grades.
On Tuesday evening each high
school viii contribute 100 voices to q |
chorus, the alI-high school orchestra |
will play the accomplishments and /
will be heard in orchestral numbers,
and there will be soloists. Dore Wal
ton. OF Mckinley. will conduct the /
orchestra playing alone, and Mr..
Cogswell will direct the chorus and
orchestra. Miss Bernice Randall will
direct the normal school girls IN spe-
cial numbers.
To Sing "Fair Elem
On Tuesday evening the Washing
ton oratorb Society viii give Fair
Ellen" by Max Bruch and "Plaudrig
Crohoore." by Charles villiers Stand
ford. The District Symphony Orches-
ira will play the accomplishments.
The orchestra will render one or two
of Beethoven's. Pastoral
In the chorus there ought to be 500
voices, hence the 8. o. S. call for more
choristers. 1t matters not what other
the singers belong to,
they will be welcomed in this COM
effort.
On its second evening the Oratorio
Society will give HandePs Samson"
and there will be soloists from Wash
ngton and elsewhere.
Orchestra's First Appearance.
The District Symphony Orchestra
will be heard before its ost-Easter
appearance. 1t Will introduce itself
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