The Washington herald., 1920-12-12
Edwi. Kraft. Organ Recital.

EDWIN hrafts Organ Heeitnl.
The appearance of Edwin Arthur
Kraft, +. A. C. o., organist Of
Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio.
under the auspices Of the local
chapter American Guild of Or
ganists on Thursday evening. marks
the commencement of the eleventh
year for this organization. The re-
cital will begin at $3.50 and will be
given at the Epiphany Episcopal
Church Seats are to be reserved
Tor subscribers to the recital fund
until $50. following which time
they will be released for the use
OF the general public which Is in
Vited to attend. A silver offering
will be taken to defray necessary
expenses incurred by the presenta-
ton OF the program. Any amount
above expenses will be placed in
the recital fund for the concerts
which are to follow. Mr.. Kraft Is
one of Americas leading concert
organists and his appearance Is
James Townsend Russell. who sent
Mr.. Kraft abroad to study. now re-
sides here and will have Mr.. Kraft
with him at the Lafayette Hotel as
his guest during his stay here.
His program will be as follows:
'Marche Triomphale" (Hagg), Min
uetto" from the Eleventh Symphony
(Haydn). Concert Prelude and
Fugue" (Faulkes), Choral Improv-
isations" (Karg-Elert). Allegro
Gieioso (Dethier), Meditation
!R.. SRsuchssDs schsrzO sS; .Snsu.: Saollins};
(Rachmaninoff), Caprice, The
Brook" (Dethier), Dreams"
(Stoughton), Scherzo Uemare) and
Toccata di Concerto Oemare).
The second recital of the guild
will be given on Monday evening,
January 10, and will also be held
at Epiphany Church. Charles NJ.
guest-soloist of the Wanamake,
Auditoriums, Philadelphia, also or
ganist OF the First Baptist Church,
Syracuse, will appear on this occa-
sion
Following Mr.. Courboin will be
Will C. Macfarlane, of Portland,
Maine, who will probably appear in
February.
The December meeting was heio
on Monday evening at Louis Pot
ter's studio, a large number of
members being present. Plans
were arranged for increasing the
membership OF the chapter. invita-
tions to be sent to organists who
have never become aniliated with
the organization. Many important
topics were under discussion and
several constructive propositions
were presented and given consid-
GRAFTON
a G. Hayden Nominated.
An event OF great Importance to
the members of Musicians Protect
i've Union. Local No. ISL, will be
the election of officers for the COM
ing year. The polls will be open
next Sunday between the hours of
10 q m and p. m A. c. Hayden,
who has been the president of this
local for the past fourteen years
and whose devotion to the interests
Of members OF the A F. OF N. is
SO well known, is a candidate for
reelection A. Gallo Is again a can
didate for the once of vice pres
ident a position he has successfully
filled for five years The list of
candidates is as follows: President,
A c. Hayden and Fred Midgley;
vice president. A Cello and Louis
ScCTcldFys "" M Ag nth
treasurer. Harry c. Maxwell; SER
geant-at-arms, r. L. Crawford; di-
rectors (six to be elected). Robert
Bond Gotta. Ray Hart. A. F. Hoy
berger, L. Z. Manoly. s. G. McAllis-
ter. Sol Minister, c. v. Schofield. Ray
D. Schroeder, Herbert Todd; trus-
tees (three to be elected), Frank
Fauth, W. W. Greenwell and ]. F.
MouIden: delegates to the conven-
ton of the American Federation of
Musicians to be held at St Paul.
MINI, in May, 1921 (three to be
eleeted), A Cello. R. L. Crawford,
W. W. Greenwell. w. NJ. Lynch. H.
c. MAXWELL, Sol Minister and P. ].
Schwarz
Classic Cemposers' Lecture.
Harriet Zell. soprano, made a very
favorable impression when she sang
at the lecture-recital by Thomas
whitney Surette at Central High
School auditorium on Monday even
ing. The subject Of this lecture.
which Is given under the auspices
OF the Washington Society of Fine
Arts, was the Classic Composers"
Illustrations from the works OF Mo-
zart and Handel were given by Miss
Zell and by Mary Carlisle Howe, pi-
anist, who played Mozart's Fan
tasia in c minor for pianoforte."
Miss Zell was heard in HandePs
Care Selve" and in Mozart's ''Cheru-
bfno"-''Voi che sapete" (Nozze di
Figaro), '-Zerlina" ''Vedrai, Carino"
CDon Giovanni), and "Pamina," "Ah,
10 so" (F1auto Magico).
Mis-. wauxh's Course.
Miss Pearl Waugh gave the first
in her course OF ten illustrated les
sons in musical appreciation on
Tuesday morning at IL o'clock at
the woman's City Club in Jackson
place. To Judge by the initial lee
ture, this course will be of ines
timable value to those who have not
studied music seriously, but who
would like to know how to listen to
it more intelligently.
FIonsaIey Quartet.
On Monday evening. December 20.
the first of a series of concerts will
be given by the Flonzaley Quartet
in the Central High School audito-
rum under the auspices Of the
washington Society of the Fine Arts.
Their program will include Quartet
in d Major, Op. rs, No. (Haydn).
Quartet in A Major, Op. Al, No. 3
(Schumann), Berceuse Russo" Os-
ten Sacken), and Scherzo, Op. 30
CTschafkowsky). These concerts by
this noted organization are given in
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