Evening star., 1924-11-30
Club and School Notes

| Cunningham, Janice Holland, Ma
! tilda Principe. Frances Pope, Eliza
| beth Mack. Winifred Isreal, Frances
Colella, Eugene White and Monty
| Saxon.
Edith Mcintosh. dramatic soprano,
| gave a song cycle by Woodford-
Finden and sang several other modern
| songs Suzanne Oldberg was her ac-
| companist.
| Louise Bessey and Virginia Cooper
sopranos. and Helen Neumeyer con-
! tralto, gave the program at the last
| meeting of the Tuesday Evening
Music Club.
Fundamentals of voice placing and
sight reading and study of musical
history are features of the club meet
| ings, held at the studio of the direc-
tor. Florence Howard Ensemble
singing is also a regular feature. with
| Mrs. Edward Partridge as accompa-
| mist.
| Thelma Rice, soprano. was pre-
sented in a song recital in the audi
| torium of the Allied Studio of Arts
by Leroy Lewis last Wedne sday eve
ming. Mrs. Macon McArtor was the
accompanist.
Miss Rice opened her program with
Bizets "Agnus Del and followed it
with group of Russian songs. which
she sang with unusual dramatic in
! terpretation- They included Rach-
| maninof's 1.-The Fountain" .Fareweu'
and Near to Thee" by Gabrilowitsch,
and Tschaikowsky's "Pourquoi' The
next group of modern songs was pre-
scented with some especially lovely
pianissimo effects. The songs were
Henschers Morning Hymn" Tre-
harne's "A Widow Bird Sat Mourn
| ing" Watts wings OF Night" and
Robison's When I'm With You" Her
| last number was Liza Lehmann's
musical version of Longfellow's beau
tiful poem, "Endymion."
The Choir Invisible, that unique
| group recently organized by Otto
Torney Simon, director, with a group
Of soloists of many local church
choirs for the purpose of giving con-
certs by radio. is working on an un-
usually interesting Christmas pro-
| gram at the rehearsals held every
Wedne sday evening in the studio of
Myra McCatherau Marks, at the Play
house. Fine progress has been made
| in preparation for the first appear
ance, or rather hearing" over
WCAP during the pre-holiday season.
Included in the carefully selected
choruses for these performances are
such Christmas numbers as "Sleepers.
Awake" from the oratorio OF st. Paul" );
10! How a Rose Fer Blooming" by
Praetorius; the Christmas folk song
Holy Night" arranged by DAM
rosch, and shepherds Watching"
with incidental soprano solo by Mrs.
Marks. "Adeste Ffdeles" and other
| Christmas anthems also will be sung.
The present personnel of the. club
| includes: Sopranos. Myra NJ. Marks
of st. Margaret's Church, Hazel
Hughes of Emmanuel Baptist. Mrs. c.
c. Mcdonnell of All Souls Episcopal.
Ida Seaton of Trinity NJ. E. Church
and Miss Rose of St Margaret's: sec
| ond soprano, Mrs. Richardson of St.
| Margaret's: altos, Mrs. w. II. Beck
of ST. Margaret's, Mrs. William H.
Renham of St. Margaret's. Miss r.
Bogert OF Grace Episcopal and
Thelma Smith, Church of the Cove
nant; tenors, Carson T. Frailey of
Grace, w. f. Johnson Of All Souls,
Paul G. Ledig of Vermont Avenue
Christian and Leroy Goff of st. Mar
garet's: basses. John Waters of st.
| Thomas, ]. Frank Duggan Of st.
Matthews Catholic, George H. Will
son, william H Waters, All Souls, ,
and Alexander H. Calf, baritone, of
All Souls, and Gertrude McRae Nash,
accompaniSt.
The Grace Dodge Hotel will present
the Columbia Trio at it's musical at
o'clock this afternoon.
Rena Greenberg, violinist; Miriam
Larking, cellist, and Kathryn Crow
ley, pianist, who comprise the trio,
are well known to Washington music
lovers. The program will be: En-
semble. "Barcarolle" tOhenba ch)'
! .'Polish Dance" (Scharwenka), aria,
Samson ct Dalilah" (Saint Saens) ;
gavotte "Amaryllis" (Ghys) violin,
''Song of India" tRimsky-Korsak off
Miss Greenberg; ensemble, "Serenade"
(SchuberD, "Humoreske" Dvorak),
"Liebestraume' UiszD; cello, Sara
| bande" (Bach), "Collombina Sere-
nade," "Pagliacci" neoncavallo),
Miss Larking; ensemble, Sere-
made" (Herber), 'Intermezzo," Ca
| valleria Rusticana" (MascagnD,
"Cinuuantaine" (Gabrie1-Maria), va
yatina" (Raff).
The musical program last Sunday
at the tea given at the headquarters
| Of the District League OF American
Pen Women was arranged by Mar
jorie Webster, chairman of the pro-
gram committee of the league, and
was particularly pleasing.
The soloist, C1elia Fioravanti, had
given careful thought to her program
and her selections were received with
enthusiasm. Accompanied by Mar
| cell Greenhalph at the piano, she gave
| an "Old Italian Song OF the Seven
teenth Century,; "Elegy," by Masse-
net; "Mattinata," by Leoncavallo, and
"At Dawning," by Cadman.
The following musical program will
| be given by Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler,
soprano; Mrs. Rose Maxwell Dickey,
yiolinist, and Mrs. Irene NJ. Chainey,
accompanist, at meeting of the
West Virginia State Society, Masonic
Hall, Fourteenth and Kenyon streets,
Wednesday evening: THE Holiday
| fCurran), "Lundy" (Neidlinger), "A
Birthday" (Woodman), Cheer" (Chai-
ney), Wind Song" (Rogers), Mrs.
| Wheeler; Melody" Dawes), 1.-The
| Rosary (Nevin- Kreisler). From the
Canebrake" (Gardner), Deep River"
| (Taylor-PowelD, Mrs. Dickey; "Fid-
die asd T. (Godeve), Mrs. Dickey and
Mrs. Wheeler.
Frances Gutelius announces the ap-
pointment of an assistant director
of the Vipivoce Juveniles - Faye
Thomas, who has studied the art of
appreciation at the Damrosch School.
in New York. The boys and girls
| who regularly attend the meetings
each Saturday are Ted Crum, Ernest