The Washington times., 1920-01-25
New Music Soul Born.

ANV" AAuoAs
The new emphasis OF today, In all
united effort, Is on the socializinE
side of II. That does not mean a less.
ening of the artistic side, but IL
does mean-and mean intensely
the Americanizing OF this art
II is to the well-being OF the peo-
pie. to their happiness and better
ment. that music must look with
ever-increasing zeal.
Social growth!-that's the ideal
In Americas music this year OF 1920,
And this is our Renaissance! A
new music soul was born In Ameri-
ca during the war. Where Is II to be
kept alive?
In the following groups. right here
in Washington, and in many more
the Washington Times would like to
hear from.
Friday Mornins Music Club.
The Friday Morning Music Club
holds, perhaps. the longest record as
club for the promotion OF music
culture in the community. and for
music opportunity to it's large list
of active members that includes al
most all the foremost women mu'
sfcians OF Washington.
A total membership OF about 2oC
fosters the ideals and the worth
while motives of this organization
Its weekly programs are really week
ly recitals. and each year several
concerts are given by out
artists.
The club chorus Is one OF the activ,
titles this year under the direction
OF Lewis A. Potter. The chorus takes
part in two or three concerts each
year.
The Rubisstetn Club
The Rubinstein Club is a woman's
chorus composed of about 100 womer
singers OF this city. Several con-
certs are~given each year by this
organization that was organized q
number of years ago under the musi
cal direction OF Mrs. A. NJ. Blair.
Through the years, the Rubin
stein" has brought to Washington
many solo singers who were reapine
the first rewards of what became
later triumphs in the music world
These concerts were always semi
social in their attractive setting In
the ballroom of the Raleigh Hotel.
The club in the last two years has
taken UP its activities that were less
ened during the war. Claude Robe
son is now musical director of the
chorus, succeeding, Herndon Morsell
who took up the baton when Mrs
Blair'left Washington.
The next concert will be given In
Masonic Auditorium on the evening
Of February 10, with Maria Conde, ot
the metropolitan. Opera, as solo prims
donna. Weekly rehearsals keep tn,
interest of the club at it's height. anc
do much to further the music inter.
ests of the city.
Washington Opera Company.
When the war and an overcrowd-
ed population in Washington Lecessi
tated some cultural outlet for the ac,
tivities of the many who had left
all home environment to come Il
Washington to help win the war.
the War Camp Community Servic,
gave it's adherence to a plan for civic
opera that had been formulated b,
Edouard Albion.
Community opera became a fact il
Washington. Its success is history
The many war workers"-both di'
rectors and "casts"-went into thi.
new movement with enthusiasm.
The movement has been perpetu-
ated. Edouard Albion has kept alive
this nucleus of opera, created out Of
home material" and has proved thai
1t offers probably the most extensive
expression of the art of commu
nifty that can be assembled in any oLs
form.
The different elements that go tc
make up opera" are constantly a,
work, with the result that the mex