Evening star., 1924-06-01

Margaret A. Mccormack was reap
pointed publicity editor.
The activities of the past season
were reviewed and plans for next
year discussed. The club has COM
pieted its third season of work. Its
weekly rehearsals have been held
the last two seasons in the Kilt
knabe studio. One of the outstand-
the very successful banquet given by
the club in January. 1t is planned
to make this an annual affair.
Great progress has been made by
the club since its organization, sew
eral fine concerts having been given
| this season. The members also have
sung at number of the local hos
pitfalls and institutions.
Rehearsals have been discontinued
during the summer months. They
| will be, resumed the first Monday in
October. A social hour was spent
after the business meeting.
| One of the most famous of all local
musical organizations is the Rubin
stein Club. organized March 2S, 1905.
| The club has membership of 100
| active. 400 associate and 200 sustain
ing members. and its success in
| choral work has placed 1t in the front
ranks among similar organizations
held recently closed a successful sea-
/ son. The following were elected as
officers for the coming year: Mrs.
Robert Dalgleish, reelected president
unanimously for the eighth season:
Mrs. John w. Dawson. reelected
ham. second vice president: Mrs.
James Dalgleish. secretary; Miss
Ann Ford, treasurer, and Miss Euell.
librarian.
tivities of the club to include philan-
| thropc concerts for hospitals and
| charitable institutions. The club will
also offer prize to the composer
writing the best composition for
women's chorus, the work to be sung
| by the club some time during the
| year. Other plans are to educate mu-
financially able to have the proper
| training. The club will hold the first
meeting next season in October.
The MacDowelI Music Club, Georgia
| E. Miller, president, met Monday
evening in the clubrooms. There
were several resolutions offered and
adopted for next years work, one be-
ing the Halloween party in October
for the Peterborough Col
ony fund another that there shall be
one program of American composers
and one program of MacDowell COM
positions. After a short program,
more Colborn. pianists, and Elizabeth
Waters. soprano. the club adjourned
for the season, to meet again on the
first Monday in. October.
, Prominent among the many musica
programs which have marked the
close of the academic year in the
music studios of Washington, are the
I:<-o open lesson" programs given by
the Louise Lakin School of Founda-
tion Music on the two Saturday after
moons lust past.
Unless most affairs of their kind,
these open lessons featured the en-
tire work of the school, interspersing
the finished interpretations of the ad-
vanced pupils. with simple melodies
played by the youngest beginners.
Every number demonstrated the tech
nical foundation insisted on in this
system.
Interesting features were the class
drills in notation and elemental har-
mony which at this studio go hand
in hand with pianoforte instruction.
More than fifty children took part in
the two recita1s. On both occasions
Miss Lakin was assisted by Miss Will
muth Doyle and MISS PhoeDe REM
ing.
Mrs. Robert Dalgleish entertained
the Dalgleish Music Study Club at the
Hotel Roosevelt for the closing meet
| ing of the season last Monday even
| ing A varied program preceded the
dance in the ballroom. The musical
selections, with Miss Pauline Knoeller
| as accompanist, were given by Miss
Clara Stack. Mrs. Edith White, Miss
Lila Smithson, Mrs. Madeline Cor
nish Nickles, Mrs. George E. Corbett,
| Miss Mary Lee Chapman. Miss Cecile
Sale. Mrs. Frank r. Lord, Mrs. Thorn
| as A. Schilling, Mrs. Ernest Klinge.
Miss Mabel McCalip. Madrigal Quartet
| (Mrs. Frederick Klinge, Mrs. Thomas
A. Schilling. Miss Gertrude Misel and
Mrs. Edith white). Mrs. Murray Tay-
| lor, Mrs. Herbert Riley. Mrs. J. J.
| Underwood, Mrs. Frederick Klinge,
Miss Gertrude Misel. Miss Margaret
' Hughes, Miss Frances Scherger,