Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-08
MUSICAL MENTION

The National Community Chorus
held a massed rehearsal of all its
units Tuesday evening at the Mount
Vernon Place NJ. E. Church in prepa-
"a ton for a concert to be given We'd
nesday on the south steps of the
State, War and Navy building. This
will be joint concert with the
United State Marine Band. and is
to be given at the request of the saw
ings division of the Treasury to slim
ulate the sale of thrift stamps. Four
thousand five hundred chairs have
been secured as reserved seats for
all persons buying one or more 25
cent stamps.
The music for this mornings service
at the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church will be given by Miss Frances
Scherger, soprano. and Miss Grace
Neidig, organist, substituting for Mr..
Claude Robson. The vesper services
have been discontinued until October.
Organ prelude, Sunrise Varg-Elert;
soprano solo. Miss Frances Scherger;
organ postlude, 'Festal March," Tell
man.
The music for the special musical
service at the Church of the Cove
nant tonight will be given by Miss
Thomas. violinist Richard Lorleberg.
cellist: William r. Schumacher, pre-
centor and w. r. Hamill, organist
substituting for Claude Robson. The
preliminary musical service starts at
7:45 and the regular service at s
o'clock
Organ prelude, Mr.. Hamill; contralto
solos, How Beautiful Upon the Noun
tains'' (Harker). by request, Now the
Day Is over" (Speaks): violin solo.
Swan" (Saint-Saens). trios for violin,
cello and organ, prelude" Kiobler).
'Serenade'' (Gounod); organ postlude,
Mr.. Hamill
In the absence of the choir of ST.
Johns Church. Lafayette Square. the
sung by H. LIE Roy Lewis. baritone,
who is an artist-pupil of Herbert
Witherspoon of New York. Mary c. D..
johnson will preside at the organ
throughout August.
The solo quartet at Petworth Meth
odist Episcopal Church for the coming
season has been announced by Dwight
s. Church. the musical director. Mrs.
Paul Russell will sustain the soprano
list in Los Angeles. Miss Mildred De
Hart. graduate student of DR.. Har-
ned, will be the contraito. Mr.. Clar-
ence p. Lewis. tenor, comes to this
church from Hamline, where he has
been tenor soioist for the past four
years. Mr.. Edwin r. BallinGer. for
meriy member of Petworth choir
and recently soloist at st. Paurs Epis-
copal Church. will sustain the bass
They will take up their work with
Petworth choir the middle of Sep
TENDER.
Miss. Berenice Randall. soprano;
Miss Ruth Bronson. violinist, and
Mrs. c. v. Byram gave a concert
Friday night at one of the govern
ment hotels on the Capitol plaza.
Miss Randalrs numbers included MY
Samson and Delilah" by the Shores
Of Minnetonka.' Oieurance). ''Ah
Love, But a Day" (Mrs. Beach,. and
Morning, Noon and Night" (Hawleyo.
Miss Bronson gave Fritz KFeisfer's
adaptation Of The Rosary" From a
Wiswam" Cecil Burleigh) and the
Chopin "Nocturne in e Flat" Among
Mrs Byram's selections were Magic
Fire Music" Wagner-Brassin), BELLS
in the Dark" (Hendrick). Lotus
Land" and Dance Negro" cyril
Scott) and Moszkowskis I'm Autumn"
PIANIST for her sister. The musical
numbers were interspersed with reci-
tattons by Charles Hanford.
MRS. MAI 3 ucIitc Alien Ross ana neT
two daughters. Dorothy ana Eliza
beth, are spending the summer at
their apartment at Braddock Heights,
Md. George F. Ross, tenor, has just
returned from a two-week stay with
them. and plans to return for week
ends for the remainder of the season.
Louis Thompson will sing the first
Sunday in September at the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Otto T. Simon, director of the
from, Cambridge. Mass, where he has
been icorrecting the proofs of 'sThe
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