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places in Belgium and England. She
will sail for home September 6.

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will sail for home September 6.
Miss Ruth Peter, soprano, will be
. the soloist at this evenings prelimi-
| nary musical service at the Church
Of the Covenant, when she wiz sing
| Crossing the Bar" a setting by
Cowles Of Tennyson's poem. Miss
Thomas. Mr.. Loreleberg and Mr..
Robeson will contribute two trios.
Melodie." by Sinding. and Album
Leaf" by Schumann. and Miss Thorn
as solo will be "Legende." by
Wieniawski.
! Mrs. william T. Reed contributed
I, two groups of songs on the program
l broadcasted Tuesday evening by
Hecht q Co.. her selections being The
| Blind Plowman," by Clarke; For You
Alone" by Gheel; deep River" by
Harry Burleigh. and MY Ain Folks"
Dy Lemon. She was supported at the
piano by her sister, Mrs. Stierlin.
Mrs. William Won Bayer. pianist.
who has given such delightful recitals
| Club and Arts Club. is spending the
| heated term with relatives in Ger
! many. She will go to Berlin before
her return, to remain some weeks
| coaching on next winters programs
| with Fraeulein Bender.
Midsummer events Of interest in
! musical way include the piano recital
| given Friday evening in Mcmahon
| Hall before the students of the sum
| mer school of the Catholic University
by Gertrude Hennemann- She met
! with warm commendation for her rem
/ dition of program, which consisted
of "GriRen." Novelette," Schumann.
| Three Preludes." "Mazurka" "Sherzo
Brahms: "c "ccnsoiation." Ioln Lisasi Latps"aHi aa
tumn:" Moszkowski; ITO a Wild
| "Cavottc. Albert. s. joliiwoy's Cake
| walk" 'Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum."
| Debussy; "Polichinelle." Rachmani-
| noff.
Choirs in virtually all OF the churches
| will conclude the seasons work with
| the services today. At Calvary Baptist
| Church the quartet. consisting Of Gla-
Reed. contralto; William Raymond.
tenor, and Fred East, baritone. with
Louis A: Potter tr., organist and direc
tor, will disband after this evenings
service. This morning the musical por-
tions of the service will consist Of the
anthems, In the Last Days" by Rog-
ers. with incidental solos by Miss Price
and Mrs. East. and Saviour, Like a
Shepherd Lead U.s. by Frey, and this
| evening the quartet will sing Dear
Lord and Father Of Mankind" and
there will be a duet, The City I'm
seen," by Gabrielle, sung by Messrs.
Raymond and East.
MrA T. S. Lovette is spending the
week end at Braddock Heights, having
motored to the Maryland resort with
her brother. Roy Whitford. She will
return Tuesday
Organists from all parts OF the
United States as well as from Canada
will be the guests of Chicago during
this week, when the fifteenth annual
convention of the National Associa-
tion of Organists will be held there.
Elaborate preparations have been
made to offer a feast of music lee
lures and recitals organists and
lovers of organ music have seldom
had the opportunity to enjoy. The
convention will open tomorrow and
will continue until August 4th, in
elusive. There is to be an opening
reception tomorrow evening at which
Mayor William Hale Thompson will
make an address of welcome to the
isiting organists. and the business
sessions will commence Tuesday
morning.
A rarely unique feature of the mu-
sic performances of the convention
will consist of recital in which the
two consoles OF the large organ OF
Medinah Temple will be played sim
ultaneously, the artist performers be-
ing Henry S. Fry, president of the as
ent's Episcopal Church of Philadel-
phia and Rollo F. Maitland, composer
and organst, also Of Philadelphia,
whose work has for many years at
tracted attention. They will play for
the first time a composition written
for two consoles by Pietro Yon, an
! Italian, now resident in New York,
where he has officiated at the organ
of the st. Francis Xavier Church for
many years. He was appointed. re-
Gently, honorary organist of the Vati-
can in Rome. Other recftalists who
have accepted invitations to play dur
ing the convention are Clarence Eddy.
who has been heard here in recital on
several occasions: Lynwood Farnun,
who gave one of the recitals here last
season under the auspices of the Dis
trict Of Columbia Chapter of the
American Guild of Organists: A. Cor
don Mitchell, Ernest Macmillan, Jesse
Crawford and C. Albert Tufts.
Mr.. Eddy is the dean of American
organists. is a former president of
the association, is equally well known
in Europe and America and has for
years ranked as one of the worlds
great organists. His career covers
longer period than that of any other
American organ virtuoso on record
Mr.. Farnum is one of the most schol-
arly organists of the day. is a mem
ber Of the Harvard Musical Associa-
tion and among many other appear
ances gave recitals at the Panama
Pacific Exposition. Mr.. Mitchell is
one of the members of the Organ
PLAYERS Club, Mr.. Mcmillan is in the
front rank of Canadian organists and
Mr. Tufts is a resident of Los Angeles
and well known for his modernistic
tendencies Mr. Crawford is said to
be one of the highest-paid theater or
ganists in the United States. Among
those who will present papers are
DIR. Felix Borowski. well known com
poser for the organ and president OF
the Chicago Musical College; DR.. Peter
r I,utkin. director of the Northwest
ern University School of Music. and
noted for years as an organisf ana as
conductor of the North shore Music
Festival, also as hymnologlst ana
composer: Or. Paul Sabine, the sclen-
fist. connected with the Riverbank
Laboratories at Geneva. Ill, and John
Alden Carpenter, one of the outstand-
ing composers of America. Plans are
under way to organize this fall a DIS
trict of Columbia Chapter OF the Ma
tional Association of OrganistS IN
Washington, where there are several
organists holding membership In the
association.
| Otto Torney Simon is spending MS
vacation abroad and the major part OF
his holiday in the city Of London. where
he is constantly meeting both Eng
lish and Americans eminent IN the
various forms of musical art. He has
dined several times with William
Shakespeare, who spent winter before
! st in Washington. and he is antici-
pating with great interest attending the
various functions of the centenary OF
the Royal Academy of Music now In
course of celebration. He was also
the guest at luncheon last week OF
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, well known
for his lectures and writings on