The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-12
Convention Is
Scheduled For d. c.
Walter T. Holt ,Arranges Finet
Program for Session of Guild
of Social Instrumentalists..'
By ORPHEUS.


/ A music convention in Wash
ington! ThaR s real news for the
National Capital. For with art as
come nearer each time to the
GROWING achievement toward which
we are marching-a- Ministry of
Art in the Presidents Cabinet
This convention should interest
all of us. It has much to do with
hearth and home. 1t represents the
intimate social" hour of the young
folks.
1.-The American Guild of Banjo
ists, Mandolinists and Guitarists;''
of which Walter T. Holt, of this
city ,is now serving his third term
as president, meets at the Raleigh
Hotel April 22-25. inclusive. bring:
ing fully 200 teachers from all over
the United States, and representing
groups of from 100 to 150 each, so
you may compute the extent of its
influence yourselves.
This is the twenty-second annual
convention OF the American Guild
of the "fretted instruments" Last
year they met at the Hotel Aston,
New York city. ~.
Convention Events.
Events to interest Washington
will be the two concerts of the
Nordica Clubs, given in the
Raleigh ballroom on Monday and
Tuesday evenings. April % and "a.
with many visiting soloists and
complete change Of program each
evening.
Mr.. Holt will conduct the Nordica
Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra,
giving Schuber,s Unfinished
symphony" on one evening. and
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on
ones amazement, Mr.. Holt has
proven, by former renditions of this
music, to what symphonic proper
tons these CLUB" instruments may
aspire. The art of his players and |
his own mastery. Of this unique |
orchestra will both prove an IN
spiration to the visitors, for there |
are perhaps only three such organ |
iZations in the United States. Each |
concert is to be followed by. dan.
cling.
On Wednesday evening the con-
ventiOn banquet will be held at the |
Raleigh. Throughout each day the |
entertainment committee is arrang- |
ing for both social and educational |
events. Each afternoon will con-
tain some educational sessions
Exhibits, too, in connection with |
the convention will be big part of |
the program. Eight or more manu-
facturers Of these most social of
instruments. club" instruments, of |
banjo. mandolin, guitar and all the
orchestral family that includes
octave mandolas and
the like, will be on view.
Visiting artists will illustrate
these instruments in the exhibition
rooms. Besides which there win
be the Hawaiian guitar, the ukule1e
and guitar-banjos. So there are
many things with which the pub
ic" is uninforI1ed. The exhibit
viii be an Informal concert most
# the time. Special music maya
lines in the interest Of these In,
Itruments will also be on view.
Programs and Artists.
The visiting solo artists, in the
:wo; programs OF the Nordica Clubs
are Samuel siegeI, man.
iolinist of New York; William Ed.
ward Foster, mandocellist, New
FORK; Caud C. Rowden. banjo, Chi
ago; Lloyd LOar, mandotatSt,
Kalamazoo, Mich; Margaret Lichti,
guitarist, Sioux City. Iowa: Frank
=, Bradbury. banjoist, Hartford,
Conn, and Charles A. Conrard,
yuitarist, Washington, D. C..
In addition to the Nordica Orches-
.ra, the Nordica Hawaiian Guitar
md Ukulele Club will play and
he Nordica Banjo Club.
Guest conductors for the or
ehestra. in compositions Of their
own. will be George Muder, of
New Kensington, Pa, who will
conduct his unpublished March
[dyIl,'' Golden Rod and another
dyll Byzantine" and H. F. Odell,
If Boston, who will conduct his
Shifting Shadows" and "a Moon
light Frolic."
Miss Ruth Peter. soprano of this
,ity, will be the assisting artist Mt
ZACH concert. -
These concerts are the twenty
second Festival Concerts" Of the
American Guild Of Banjoists. Man
and Guitarists. They are
1nder the personal direction of
Mr.. Holt.