Evening star., 1923-11-25

The first concert Of the thirteenth
season of the Motet Choral Society.
Otto T. Simon director. Mrs. Walter
Nash at the piano. will take place
on Thursday evening. December 90.
at the Memorial Continental Hall.
for the benefit Of the Foundlings'
Home Of Washington.
Incidental solos will be sung by
Victor Golibart. tenor, and John
Waters, baritone. AS in former
years. the last part of the program
will be given to motets and choruses
of Christmas, s1ncluding Damrosch' S
arrangement of Holy Night" sung
around the lighted tree.
The entire program is as follows:
lHandeD; Motet and chorale. from
"Sleeperes. Awake" (Bach); three
choruses. from THE Tower of Babel
(Rubinstein); tenor solo and chorus.
from Flight Into Egypt" (Berlioz),
soloist. Victor Golibart; chorus. 10,
How a Rose Fer Blooming" (Prae-
torius); baritone solo and chorus.
Three Kings Have Journeyed" (Cor-
nelius), soloist, John Waters; chorus.
Holy Night traditional Christmas
Is Born" Messiah" (HandeD.
The MacDowell Music Club, Georgia
E. Miller president, had its regular
! monthly meeting last Monday After
a short business meeting, an inter
esting program of music was given
by some of the members. as follows
Three pieces for piano cyril Scot).
Harriet Hine: "Aufschwung," War
! um" and novelette, No. Z" (Schu-
mann). Edith Austermuhl: Pastoral
I lscarletti-Tausig). "czardas," March
/Naonawelll' and sEf0ht N
Hungarian Rhapsodie" Hiszp. kath-
arine offterdinger, Mrs. Ralph Ro,
hey, contralto. sang, TO You
(Speaks,. "Roumanian Night Song
(Lohr) and Fate" (Finden); Eliza
beth Waters. mezzo-soprano. sang
beth's Prayer" from 'sTannhauser"
(Wagner). and Kathryn Beck played
Fun Sospiro" (Liszt).
At the next meeting, Mrs. Helen
Corbin- Heinl will give a recital an6
one Of her interesting talks.
Nine. Marie Won Unschuld. viennese
pianist. and her daughter Madeleine.
Juvenile pianist. will give the firsi
musical program Of an the n.ssa season o, !
o'clock. They will be assisted BY,
the well-known violinist. DAME
Breeskin. and Martin Dowd, accom-
panist. Nine. Won Unschuld and he.
daughter made transcontinental
concert tour Of the United States las
spring which brought them in i'm
portant musical centers of the coun-
try. Many critics have acclaimed
Nine. Won Cnschuld one OF the great
est woman pianists OF the day and
praised the precocious musicianship in
technique as well as In Interpretation
shown by Madeleine. predicting her
brilliant artistic future.
Mrs. Susanne Oldberg and Mrs
Myra McCathran Marks: gave thei'
studio in the Art Center. when Mrs
Edith Mcintosh of Brentwood. Md.
sang with finish and temperament tht
following songs: "Vissi d Arte," from
La Tosca"; 1.-THE World Is Waitin.
For the Sunrise" (Seitz): ia Sere-
cobs- Bond. and 20 Promise Me
(De koven).
Mrs. Oldberg gave a talk on tn
impatience of the irst-year student
who does not realize that the grea
Caruso practiced his exercises five
days before be passed away. He still
considered II necessary to keep his
voice in good condition to carry on
The lobby concert of the service
department Of the Y. NJ. c. A. las,
Monday evening was presented b
Frank A. Schroeder. pianist; NJ. H
Leonard. baritone: Miss Grace Brom-
ley. reader: Miss Naomi Phelps, so
prano; Prof Lionel G. Reno, memory
expert: Miss Marjorie G. Davis ant
Mrs. Guy Fitch Phelpt, accompanies
The Chaminade Glee Club gave ar
interesting and artistic concert at
the Metropolitan Memorial NJ.
Church last Tuesday evening before
a large and appreciative audience
The cantata, Three Springs" by
Bliss. was given with artistic re-
straint, Miss Esther Linkins showing
unusual versatility when. in addition
to conducting the chorus, she sang
A feature Of the evening was "Ros
Baby" composed by one of our loca
musicians. Mrs. Jessica Tabler Ben
ham. The three parts were evenly
balanced, the seconds and altos
showing to good advantage in their
The Chaminade number. Duet o.
the Stars" was particularly bright
and pleasing. Among other numbers
"a Scotch Rhapsody" by Vincent.
which included such fayorites as
Is My Darling" Coming Through
the Rye" and AUD Lang syne." was
well received.
Miss Helen Belt gave several violin
selections, playing "Minuet' tPader
e"SRl-hrelSlerD WIN NTH StIohe anu
"Rod;no'' (Beethoven-K Kreislerl. Miss
Mary Louise Cockerille accompanied
both the glee club and Miss Belt.
The club made its first appearance
in its club dress. adhering to the
club colors, red and white, the dress
being white wit "d neck cord.
The program q. .-.usic given for the
Ruth Chapter. No. /. Eastern Star.
Monday evening in Brightwood. in
cluded LISTS Rhapsody No. 12," by
Mildred Kolb Schulze; Liza Leh-
mann's "Endymion." by Thelma Rice.
soprano. and the anthem. God Is
Love-, by a quartet composed OF
Berenice Calhoun, soprano; Lucy
Hopkins. contralto; Stanley Bell.
tenor. and George Lambert, bass.
The Junior Study Club of the
Master School Of the Piano held it's
meeting la Sunday in. the studio
were: Betty Jones. Nan Jones, Mary
Katherine Koenig,. Benjamin Koenig,
Kathleen Nestor. Frances Benner.
Siegel. Frances Butler. Dorothy Bar
ton, Bobby Reineck, Haskell MIL
stone and Edwin Leventhal.
The Junior Club. in which the chill
dren play for each other and recite,
meets every three weeks, and Is con-
Quoted by Gustav Weckel, who gives
them a short talk on Musical His
tory" each time.