The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-07-17

, Ampico. He said OF her. 81 can
heartily recommend her as fine
subject for reproduction. She has a
great deal of sentiment and plenty
of nuances TO. reproduce advanta-
geously."
This young artist is, too, the daugh-
ter of Alexander Henneman, B. M
the well known pedagogue and lee
turer on music, who is now director
of the Department of Music at the
Sisters College of the Catholic Uni
verSity. He was one of the chief
editors of the Progressive Series of
Piano Studies" published by the Art
Publication Society, with whom he is
the head of the Board Of Examiners;
and he came to Washington from st.
Lotus where he was also lecturer
on music for the st. Louis Society of
Pedagogy and tho st. Louis Univer-
sity
Miss Henneman is an American
made pianist, but then ''Why not ?"
as she says. for all the great teach
ers are in America now" Then, too,
she has had the advantage of a gen
uine critic in her father who is now
her co-worker.
The summer school of the Sisters
College at Brookland is now open,
with over 300 nuns from all over this
country and a few from across the
water. They are the leading educa-
tionaI nuns of the broad Catholic
educational forces, and come during
the holiday period to complete their
work for their college degrees.
Graduate Work.
This work at the Sisters College
in summer is really graduate work,
and to find so young an instructor as
Gertrude Henneman, who is but
twenty-one, is quite a surprise. But
the force of her personality and the
breadth of her concert programs
both reveal the fact that a new must
clan of interest has come to stay
among us, at least for a time. Ger
trude Henneman's ambition is for
the concert stage.
In a recital program of July II,
given in the auditorium OF Mcmahon
Hall at the Catholic University, Miss
Henneman played that intricate and
bewitching "Polichinelle" of Rach-
maninof, that the great pianist played
in Washington as encore in one Of his
recitals last winter. She also fea-
tured Mcdowell, with his poetic set
tings to his music thoughts, giving
that stark and noble THE Eagle"
with its poem by Tennyson:
He clasps the crag- with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringd with the azure world he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like q thunderbolt he falls.
D'Albert, Schumann and Chopin
were on this program Miss Henne-
man gives another recital at the uni
versity on August Z.
This holding the mirror up to ma
ture" in music is a valuable thing for
the artist student who aspires to q
professional career. at is a perfect
photograph OF the playing" Miss
Henneman says
Dir. Kimban, Of the Jordan Piano
Company, said that Mr.. Henneman
was an interesting critic Of his daugh-
ter's playing at his first hearing Of
her Ampico reproduction at the Jor-
dan studio.
The question then came up as to the
possibility of pianists using repro
auctions Of this sort for their own en-
lightenment, in hearing themselves
thus truly even when the company
itself did not intend to include the
record in their general list. He seemed
to think it could be arranged.
1t would be interesting to have q