Evening star., 1924-12-07
Club and School
Notes

HANDEL'S oratorio, 1.-THE Messiah"
4 viii be given at the Central High
School Tuesday evening by the Wash
| ington Choral Society, Charles Wen
! gerd, conductor. This is the fourth
season of the society In oratorial
work. Soloists engaged TO sing the
solo parts arc: Meta Craig. soprano
Richie Mclean, contralto; William +
Raymond, tenor, and Frederic Tag
CART, bass, from New York.
John II. Monroe presented Esther
| Geiander soprano. in recital, as
sisted by Grace Meyer, reader, in Ad-
/ vent Parish Hall last Monday night
Miss Gelander's program covered a
wide scope of song history, including
| selections by Mozart, Puccini, Handel,
Lully. Weckerlin, Oebussy, del Ac-
qua, Schumann, Brahms, Korngold,
Beethoven, Spross and La Forge.
Grace Meyer featured the scene
| from THE Piper" by Josephine Pres
ton Peabody.
katharine Riggs. harpist: Mrs.
| Tooke. pianist and Florence Howard,
soprano, will give the program Fri
day morning for the Friday Morning
| Music Club
Last Friday Mrs NJ. s. Hilton gave
an inter6 sting talk on the subject of
THE American Conservatory at Fon-
taineblau," and Helen Howison and
Charlotte Klein, Washingtonians who
| have attended the conservatory and
been in France recently, gave a pro-
gram of French songs and piano
| works.
Charles Wcngcrd. director of the
Washington Choral Society, an
nounces that all singers of Washing
ton who are familiar with the Handel
| oratorio, The Messiah" are invited
| to assist the society in the presenta-
tion of this work at Central High
School week from Tuesday evening.
Rehearsals are held every Monday
evening at o'clock at the Thomson
| School, 18th and l. streets northwest.
Hazel Bachschmid, soprano, will
take part today in the evening mu-
sical given in the lounge of the Grace
! Dodge Hotel.
| Mrs. Bachschmid will be assisted
| by Leanora Jones, pianist; Mr.. Lind
sey. futist, and her accompanist, Miss
| Russell.
The program will include: Trio,
Theme and Variations tProchD, Mrs.
| Bachschmid. Miss Russell and Mr..
| Lindsey; piano. "Fantasie 1mpromp-
| tu." opus 66 Chopin; "Etude Ma ia
| den i'm Quell" (Juon). Opus 40. No.
l. Chopin, Miss Jones; soprano,
The Clock (SachnowskD, The
OWL nehmann), Inter Nos Mac
| Faden), Mrs. Bachschmid; flute. "Ori-
$50" tBach). Mr.. Lindsey; trio, Char
| mant Oiseau" DAVID, soprano, flute
! and piano.
There will be a concert at the New
Willard Hotel Wednesday evening.
at SIS o'clock for the benefit of suf-
| ferers at Walter Reed and st. Eliza :
! beth Hospitals. given under the
| auspices of the Daughters of Vet
Grams. Those taking part will include
FranceSka kaspar Lawson, soprano
| Dora and Isaac Minovich. pianist and
violinIst: and Edgar Gray. bass, for
! merly of New York City. but now of
| Washington. This will be Mr.. Grays
| first appearance here.
Thelma Smith. contralto soloist at
the Church of the Covenant. will be
| presented in her first song recital at
/ the Studio of Allied Arts, 1712k ]
street northwest, Thursday night at
$50, by Leroy Lewis
Miss Smith will have a group of
! Handefs songs as her opening num-
| bers and will sing, also. a group each
/ Of modern French. German and Eng
lish songs.
The Orpheus Club had French
night Tuesday when they met in the
home of Katherine Riggs, harpist.
Miss Riggs played an interestin &
group by Debussy and Dubois. Ruby
Potter, soprano, sang songs of De-
busy and Saint-Saens, accompanied
by Louis A. Potter. Helen Gerrer,
violintst, gave several groups of un-
usual and even startling compost
tions of Milhaud, Boulanger, Ravel.
Pierne, Debussy, Chaminade and
Faure. all of the difficult ultra
modern school. She was brilliantly
accompanied by Mildred kolb Schulze.