Evening star., 1924-09-28
M u ig r a p h s.

MARY A CRYDER gave a talk at
= the Arts Club last Thursday,
before an appreciative audience. on
"Some Memories of Great Artists"
telling anecdotes of Ysaye, Lilli Leh-
mann. Journet, Chaminade. the De
Reszkes. Campanar, Scotti, Plancon.
Liza Lehman. Busoni. Josef Hofmann.
Gilbert. Heinrich Meyn, Massenet,
Saint -Saens and others.
Elsa Louise Raner, concert violnist.
has returned to her home here after
spending the Summer in Vermont
Miss Raner gave a recital before the
Summer school of Middlehury College
4 August l4th and September 10th She
gave another program in Biuemont, Va.
when the accompaniments were played
by George II. Wilson. also of Washing
ton.
Fulton B. karr has returned to the
city and reopened his studio after
spending his vacation in the Blue Ridge
Mountains.
Meta Craig. soprano, is spending
two weeks at her summer home in
Washington Grove. Md, before re-
suming work for the coming season.
She will return to Washington to-
morrow. Miss Craig spent an un-
usually busy Summer in church work
and concert engagements. She has
announced that she has been engaged
for next Summer as her third season
as soloist at st. Andrews by the Sea,
. Allenhurst, n. j.
Miss Craig will begin concert and
recital work this Fall with a costume
recital at Asbury Park, ~ j., the
third week in October. Robert Gay
1or, pianist. of New York city, will
he her accompanist, and Maj. Harry
Webb harrington, poet. will give
readings. Miss Craig and Mr.. Gaylor
will give other recitals a Perth Am
boy, Belmar and Ridgewood, y. j.,
and in New York city.
Charlotte Klein, Washington pian-
ist, and Miss Craig will give joint
recitals at colleges and other institu-
titons in Pennsylvania, Maryland.
West Virginia and Ohio during the
season. Miss Craig also has church
and oratorio engagements through
the month of March for Asbury Park
Ridgewood, Harrisburg and Chicago
as well as in Washington this year.
Lester Cappon. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Cappon of Milwaukee, Wis, and
Sympa thetic and talented young
student of the piano. gave an informal
recital 1t the studio of n. Leroy
Lewis baritone, when in Washington
recently en- route for Harvard Col
lege, where Mr.. Cappon will take up
special post graduate work in history
and political economy. lie played d
ballad of ChopinS and some selections
by MacDowell. Mr.. Lewis sang a
group of ballads, including songs by
~ humann, Gretchaninoff, Schubert
and John Barnes Wells.
Georgia +. Miller, director of the
Virgil Clavier Piano School. has re-
turned to the city after a vacation in
New York and New Jersey While in
New York Miss Miller was guest Of
Ethel Pattee, a former Washington
pianist. Miss Miller and Miss Pattee
attended the Philharmonic Orchestra
concerts given at the Stadium.
Frances Gutelius, pianist, of this
city, and Walter NJ. Taylor, tenor, of
New York, gave joint recital from
WRC last Thursday evening.
Mr.. Taylor, formerly a resident of
Washington, has been studying in
New York during the past two years.
lie will resume his duties as first
tenor soioist of the Yale University
chapel Choir the first of October a
position he has filled for the past six
years. He is also member of two of
the Glee clubs in New York.
Miss Gutelius has been presenting
q series of radio programs. Lorraine
Eoetzel was on Saturday night pro-
gram in August and Kathryn Lati-
mer, ten-year-old piano student
gave a recital recently.
Nine Nassilief, formerly of the i'm
perial Russian ballet and Diagileff
Ballet Russo, has offered a years
scholarship to any child or student of
dancing who has a perfect foot for
that work.
Nine Vassilief will appear in the
"Baba-Y -Yaga" performance, under the
auspices of Elena de Sayn this sea-
son. and will give programs in Balti-
more, Md; Philadelphia. Pa; Ruther-
ford, N. j., and other cities in the
East.
Alice Eversman. soprano, has left
for New York, where she is filing two
concert dates. She will return to
Washington Wednesday to teach.
Voice trials for her offered scholar
ship will be held next week at the
Art Center. Miss Eversman is we'll
known here. She has appeared with
the Chicago and San Carlo opera
companies, and gave a joint recital
with Elena de Sayn, violinist, last
March.
Mabel Duncan. cellist, has announc-
ed that she will be associated with
the Elena de Sayn School for Violin
and United Arts this season.
Flora McGill keefer, .contralto, an
nounces the opening of her studio to
coming season.
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