Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05

Claude Robson conducting. will be
held for the balance of the season at
the Mount Pleasant congregational
Church, Wednesday evening, at
o'clock. beginning this week. As the
last two meetings have been neces-
sarily omitted because of the two
holidays coming on Wednesday. full
attendance Is urged in preparation
for the concert which will be given
January 2s, with Louis Graveure,
baritone. as SoloiSt
Richard Lorleberg, yioloncellist,
will be the soloist assisting the
triple quartet at the uplift service
this afternoon at the Church of the
Covenant. when he will play cab
tilena," by Golterman. and Ave
Maria" by Gounod The program
otherwise will include the organ pre-
Jude Marcia 1.elisioso," by Parker:
anthem, 20 Savior of the World by
Steane and "a New Heaven and a
New Earth from The Holy City,
East; anthem. Crossing the Bal,
by Behrend. incidental contralto SOLO
Mary Jacobs: offertory anthem, IF l
Go Not Away" by Caldicott, Incl
dental tenor and baritone solos,
Richard P. Backing and Wheeler !.
Wilson; organ postiude, oaia
fron. ST Cecilia Mass" hv Gouncd
This evening the musical portions
of the service will be rendered by
choir of $50 voices, with double quar-
tet of soloists. both services oeihs
under direction of Mr.. Wrlghtson'
with Harvey Murray at the organ;
and. in the evening. with Armand
Gumprecht at the piano. Among the
numbers will be the organ prelude,
"Cantilena," by Grison; anthem. On
ward Christian Soldiers, by jude:
baritone solo, The Newborn King,
1. n
by Grieg: offertory, THE Americans
Come" by Foster; postlude. Marche
Solennelle," by Mailly.
Mrs. Florence Howard, soprano so
loist and choir director of the First
Baptist Church, will resume her work
at the church today after an absence
of several months, due to illness This
mornings program will include the
organ prelude, "Offertoire.' by Gull
mant, Mrs. Edmund Barry; anthem.
God Is Love" by Shelley. incidental
baritone solo. Wheeler Wilson; con-
tralto solo, Thy viii Be Done" by
Pheuger. Mary Jacobs; organ post
Jude, "F'ugue." by Bach. James S.
Hicks, bass. will be the offertory So
loist this evening, when he will be
heard in IF God So Clothed the
Grass" by Bischoff.
Among the announcements of cas-
ualties of war and fatalities from the
epidemic that have decimated the
ranks of Washington musicians in
the last year no one of them carried
q greater shock, not only to his asso-
ciates. but to musicians generally.
than the news that came during the
week of the death of Frank Norris
Jones, president of the Washington
College of Music. which occurred at
his home in Columbus. Ind, where he
had gone to spend the Christmas holi-
days with his parents. He was an in
defatigable worker and his duties at
the college, which were most exact
ing. did not prevent his keeping his
own pianistic attainment UP to a very
high standard. At his last appear
ance here in recital, three weeks ago,
at the Arts Club, his playing sur
passed all his previous efforts. both
as a technician and as an interpreter
of both the classics and modern
schools. He was a sterling musician
and loyal friend to his intimates,
and his place. either professionally or
personally, will be hard to fill.