Evening star., 1924-10-12


volume. She also has some exquisite
new costumes.
numbers were repeated by urgent re-
quest and aroused much enthusiasm.
The next Orpheus meeting will be
Octobre 81, in the homo of Miss Helen
Belt, with a program of modern Span
ish.
The Chorus Study Club will meet
Wednesday night at the studio of
the director, Florence Howard, for
reorganization and election Of Of
ficcrs. The membership this year is
limited to women'S voices and. is in
| the hands of a committee, Clara
Forbes, chairman, and Blanche Smith,
vice chairman.
The music section of the Twentieth
Century Club will meet at the home
of Mrs. Eugene Byrnes the second
Tuesday in November, when pro-
! gram of folk music will be given by
Florence Howard, soprano, and Zoe
Watson, pianist
Tho Vipivoce Music Study Clubs,
junior and juveniles. under the di-
rection of Frances Gutelins, have be-
gun work for the season. They are
| using the junior course of study
published bv the National Federation
of Music Clubs. which is a course of
work on the history Of the forerun-
ners of the piano.
Miss Gutelins, who is the director
Of the Vipivoce Clubs, is the junior
chairman of the District for the Fed
Grafton and hopes to interest many
| clubs in the Junior course Of study"
and in federation work.
Jack Charlton ward, mezzo-eoprano,
accompanied by Josephine Bird
the psychology class Of Baron Fersen
Friday evening. at the College Wom-
| ans Club, the occasion being the
guest evening. Miss Ward, who has
| voice of sympathetic quality and
sweetness, was heard to advantage in
20 cessate di piagarmi' tScarlattD.
TN the Time Of Roses" (Reichar0,
Lullaby" from ''JoseIyn," and MA
vourneen," an old Irish love song.
A scholarship in voice has been
| awarded by the Texas Federation of
| Music Clubs to Miss Mary Templin of
Houston. which gives her a years
tuition at the Lovette School of Music,
under Mrs r. S. Lovette. and a
! scholarship in piano has been given
to Miss Callie Smith Of Bay Minetti,
Clubs of Alabama, under DR.. T. S.
Lovette. Both scholarships were won
at the annual competition held for
scholarships in the two States.
Faculty events at the Georgetown
Visitation Convent were inaugurated
last Sunday evening by a joint re-
| cital by Mrs. Theresa Hubner, con-
| tralto, and Helen Gerrer, violinist;
Mrs. May Brooks Ramsdall serving
| as accompanist Mrs Hubner's mel
| low voice was most effective in the
aria, Mon Fills" from Meyerbeer's
lie Prophete"; Vale" by Kennedy
| Russell. and 'Lungi del Caro- Bene,"
| by Secchi. Each of her three groups
was received with such enthusiasm
as to necessitate additions to the
| program, among her other selections
being "The Voice in the Wilderness
by John Prindle Scott; Birth of
Morn" by Leoni: "The Star" by
Rogers; "EIegy." by Massenet. and,
by special request, "By the Waters
of Minnetonka." The last two num-
| bers were made additionally effec-
tive by violin obligatos.
| Miss Gerrer's playing is too we'll
known here to need further comment.
the numbers finding most favor with
| the audience being "Adagio," by Ries,
| and "Ziguenerweisen," by Sarasate.
She also played Waltz" by Brahms; !;
| "Rondino," by Beethoven kreisler;
| "Obertass," by Wieniawski, and sew
| eraI encoreS.
The Washington College of Music
will hold students informal recitals
| at the college every three weeks
throughout the school year. The first
will be next Friday evening at SIS.
when all students and their friends
ars invited.
| The program will be: Piano, "Alle-
monde" (DaIbert), Dorothy Russell;
violin, AVE Maria" (Gounod-Bach),
! 'tMinuet in c. (Beethoven), Victor
de Ladurantaye; piano, sonata Op.
! SO, First Movement (Beethoven), Benja-
| min Rather: violin, Romance" (Wien-
iawskD, allegro Brilliante" (Ortmann),
Fritz Maile; soprano, Dedication"
| (Franz), "Hindoo Song" Bemberg).
Hazel Bergstrom; violin. "Larghetto"
(Handel-Hubay), "Habanera" (Froe-
"Rondo La Matinee" Oussek), Sylvia
Altman; violin, 'Legende" (Wieniaw-
ski), Souvenir (Drdla), Mabelle
-Orleman: baritone, 'Where'er You
Walk" (HandeD, Raymond Luce:
piano, "Impromptu, c Minor" (Cho-
pin), Keith Steinbrucker, Miss Davis,
accompanist.
Alice Eversman and Elena de Sayn
| have taken a studio at the Belasco
Theater, where Miss Eversman will
start teaching next week. This stu
| dio will be used in connection with that
at the Art. Center, where the Elena
de Sayn School for Violin and United
Arts has it's headquarters. The en-
| largement of the school. which now
includes vocal, violin, cello and dane
ing departments, necessitated this
addition.
Among students Of Otto Simon's
studio who have received appoint
ments recently to solo positions in
church choirs as announced by Mr..
Simon, are: Hazen Gem Hughes, So
prano, and Ridgeway Taylor, BARI
tone, in the choir Of Emmanuel Bap-
tist Church; Caroline Burk, soprano,
at Ingram Memorial Church; DR.. Car
| son Frailey, tenor, and Frances van
den Bogert, contralto, have been re-
engaged in Grace Episcopal Church
of Georgetown.