Evening star., 1925-11-08

Beulah Beverley Chambers and Mrs.
Duff Lewis gave a two-piano recital
| Thursday evening at Beverly Court,
assisted by Gloria Ruiz, Spanish So
prano; Rawley G. Donohue, baritone,
and Suzanne Oldberg, accompanist.
| The plano numbers included Busoni's
arrangement of Bach's Concerto in G
major" a Mozart sonata in ID major,
Henselt's Isl oiseau j'etais, a tot, je
volerais," and Saint-Saens' 'Danse
| Macabre.' Miss Chambers also played
as solos Chopin's "Impromptu in G
| sharp minor" and Brassin's arrange
ment of Wagner's Magic Fire Spell"
music from die Walkuere."
Miss Ruiz sang Spanish songs by
| De Fuentes, Tejada and Valverde.
Mr.. Donohue sang the famous "Pagl-
| iacci" prologue and songs by Richard
| Hageman and Pearl Curran.
| Georgia Hazlett, soprano. IS an eX-
| ceedingly promising young singer.
| She has rich tonal wealth of material
and seems to be conquering the Ger
man and French languages with accu-
rateness of enunciation. In a recital
| Tuesday evening at the Arts Club,
| when presented by Miss Mary A. Cry
| der, Miss Hazlett showed much i'm
| provement and development She at
| tempted an ambitious collection of
| SOISS, llCluulIlB IleuclS DS ldiiLi
| Grieg and Wolff that are beautiful but
| difficult songs. Her French group in
| cluded a song by the American COM
poser Mabel Wood Hill that has
| never been sung in public here before
| and seems to be musiCianly piece of
| song writing, logical and very melo-
| dious. There were also TostiS lovely
| "Ninon,' and son Num-" by Nine.
| Chaminade. Two more French num-
| ha oil Il
and Lerouxs lie Nil" were given
with cello obligato. The English
songs We're Chadwick's THE Danza, .
| La FORCES 'EXpectancy" and &c
stasy," by Rummel.
| If only every singer in Washington
| could have heard the marvellous work
| of that SeXtet of artists, the English
| Singers, who were here for the Eliza.
| beth Coolidge festival. The wonderful
way in which each tone was covered,
| the poise of perfect relaxation in pos
| ture and throat, the "spinning" of the
pianissimo tones. These are the
| things for which all young singers
have to work so hard. These are the
| things that make artists. Singing
| should not seem a difficult, nerve-rack-
! ing strain for the performer. 1t
| should be a natural joy.
| Lois Stuntz proved extremely SYM
| pathetic in her piano accompaniments
{ for Miss HaZlett, and Miriam Larking,
whose cello playing is well known IN
| Washington, gave a special arrange
ment by Chaliapin of the ''Volga Boat
| Song" which sounded like glorlf1ed
| Russian Snore: a GoossenS' arrange
| ment of a Chinese Folk Song" and
the ever delightful Bach "Gavotte.
| One is always grateful for Bach
II. F.
Meta Craig, soprano. and Elizabeth
Collision Hill, pianist, will be present
ed in a program by the American Le'
| gion at Walter Reed Hospital Friday,
first of a series to be given, also in
| Guiding Mount Alto and the Naval
| Hospital in the list. Miss Craig will
give one of her costume recitals.
She also announces that engage
ments to sing in towns and cities OF
| Pennsylvania, Maryland. New Jersey
Virginia and New York City in re
citals that have been postponed be
cause of her mothers illness will be
taken care of with Washington dates
The Washington College of Music
presented the first informal recital oi
the season Friday evening. Those so
loists participating were Kathryn
Hereford, Emile Mann, Fictorine
| Bouillon and Gertrude Dyer, planlSts
jeanette Ealck, Mary McCready, 10
seph Barbe and Elizabeth Stewart
singers; Flora Clayton and Fritz
| Maile, violinists.
A feature was Papini's "Ballata,'
for four violinS and piano. played by
Victor De Ladurantaye, Samuel Gantz
| Freddy FugleSter, Julius and Sylvia
! Altman. The accompanies for the
i evening were Marjorie Davis and Bur
rus Williams.
The annual business meeting for al
active members of the Friday Morning
| Music Club will be held at $50 O'Clock
at 2120 Leroy place this week
Nina Norman, soprano, sang a
! group of songs at the visitation OF
Grand officers at Mount Pleasant Ma
sonic Lodge Monday, and at the ban
quet given by the Sons of American
Revolution at Rauscher's recently.
Frances Montgomery, soprano. sang
at lexington Presbyterian Church
last Sunday and at the Caravan Clut
luncheon at the City Club October 80
accompanied by Estelle Wentworth.
Elizabeth Thornberry filed the so
prano soloist's position at Eckingtor
Presbyterian Church October IS.
Roy Miller, tenor. sang at the First
Baptist Church. Alexandria, Sunday
| Blanche Kerr is singing at Chris
Church. southeast, in the absence o1
the regular soprano soloist. All the
singers were presented by Estelle
| Wentworth.
The Washington Male Quartet, W
P. Shanahan, first tenor: w. w
GantZ, second tenor: Earl Carbauh
first bass: Edwin Callow, second bass
with Mrs. Earl Carbauh at the piano
gave the program at the Grand V1Si
tation of King David Lodge, F. A
! A. NJ, Brookland, last week.
Several numbers were rendered by
the quartet, solos by Messrs. Carbauf
assisted by Ed Callow, gave his i'm
pressions of the Grand Lodge mem
bers.
The Washington Male Quartet sans
at the Press Club Friday at l o'clock
of Columbia Chapter, A. G.. o., wa:
held Monday, at the Church of the
Epiphany. Five new members have
been added to the chapter, and an in
vitation is extended to all church
organists interested in the American
Guild of Organists to join the 1oca
chapter. No entrance examination i:
required.
Plans are under way for joint
meeting with the Chesapeake Chap
ter, Baltimore, Md, some time in De
cember, at which the visiting chapter
will be guests at q dinner, and after
ward participate in the guild choir
service, to be held in one of the
churches selected for the purpose.
4 After the business meeting, Kath
arine Fowler and Percy Cox gave ar
interesting half hour of organ play
ing. Miss Fowler played the Cesar