Evening star., 1925-06-28
Musigraph

The report comes from New York
that LucreZia Bori. soprano prinla
donna Of the Metropolitan Opera
House, is engaged to marry Edward
Johnson, tenor. who was heard here
in one Of Mrs. Townsends morning
musicals this Winter. Miss Bori. upon
the Paris to keep an engagement to
sing with Martinelli. another Metro
politan tenor, in open-air opera in
Chicago. Is said to have remarked:
1T is too early to announce it now:
we are still very young"
A new number Of Karl HoIer's "a
casted by Miss Frances Gutelius, pi-
anist, Friday night.
Rho Beta Chapter Of Mu Phi Epsi-
lon Honorary Musical Sorority held it's
last business meeting OF the season
Monday evening and installed the fol
lowing officers for the coming year:
dent. nellie Galley Canine: treasurer,
Frances Bronson. reelected: CORE
spending secretary, Hazel Gibson
Wood; recording secretary, Emily
Elkins: historian, Wynema Mckinley;
chorister, Edith Athey, reelected;
chaplain, Mary Thompson; warden,
Olive NJ. Winters; alumnae secretary,
Mabel Ward
This evening at o'clock at the
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. d. G. Jackson will give the sixth
and last of her series of organ recitals,
presenting the organ service of vari
Gus countries
The program by English composers
te. F~II L., L.
Bell' Wesley), Festival prelude Elm
Fete Buig" Faulker). prelude in G."
Hollins), "Berceuse in C" UulD, "Fes
tival March" BesU.
Orchestral selections today at the
Ninth Street Christian Church will
include: At the morning service, in
Arcadia" (SellarsO. IF / Were King"
overture tAdam); evening service,
simplicity" uee). overture to Calf
of Bagdad' tBoieldieuD, Butterflies"
Miles), and Flower Song Iang).
Music this morning at the Church OF
the TRANSPORTATION will include Pre-
lude Serenata" (MosZkowskn, "Venite"
NWoodward. "Jubilate" (Aldrich), offer
tory, Jesus, Lover Of My Soul'' (Mar-
tin). and postlude. Prelude" Rach-
mammoth.
Marie Humphries Little is organist
and choir director.
Miss Charlotte Klein, colleague, and
Adolf TorovSky, associate Of the Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter. A. G.. O.,
have returned from Chicago, where
they attended the fourth general con-
vention Of the American Guild Of Or
ganistS. held June 1913. They both
report a splendid time and many val
uable ideas were gotten from the pa
pers read and the organ recitals
played.
A feature was the recital by Miss
Klein at Grace Church Oak Park.
June 16. Her program selected was of
high order and her technique, registra-
ton and interpretations Of the vari-
Gus numbers seem to have been excep-
tionally well received.
The Herndon, Va, Music Study
Club, Mrs. Annie Robey- Wal6er, pres
fdent. met Friday evening with Miss
will entertain the club in July. The
resignation of Mrs. Francis Norvell
Larkin, who is leaving Herndon, was
accepted with regret.
Those who took part in the musical
program were Mrs. Larkin, Mrs.
Floyd Thompson, Miss Mary Nevi,
and Miss Crippen.
In her fifth appearance this season
in Vienna, Eleanor Spencer, Amer
lean pianist, as soloist with the Vienna
Oratorio Society and the Vienna Sym
phony Orchestra under the direction
of Rudolph Nilius, won great success
according to reports.
She played Liszt's "E Flat Con
certo," as the middle section of a pro
gram consisting Of LISTS symphonic
poem "Festlange" and his Mesa
Solomnis" for orchestra, chorus and
solo voices.
Two concerts were given May 18th
and 14th in the Grosser Musikverien-
sold out both eve-
nings.
After the concerts a grand recep-
tion was given in honor of Miss
Spencer by Prince Burhandelin, son
of the former Sultan of Turkey, Abdul
Hamid, in his palace in Vienna. which
was attended by representatives of
Austrian aristocracy and leading
lights in the musical world of the
Austrian capital.
Lucille Chalfant, young American
coloratura soprano, who is said to
have scored a sensational success
upon making her grand opera debut
recently with the American-Italian-
French Grand Opera Company in
Paris. has left the French capital for
Rome and Milan where she is to give
two concerts. At Baden-Baden she
will open the Mozart Musical Festival
early In August, singing the prima
donna role OF Queen of the Night"
in THE Magic Flute" under the di-
rection of Josef Stransky. former con-
ductor Of the New York Philhar-
monic and State Symphony Orches-
tras.
The Hebrew Opera Company in
Jerusalem, where ancient and modern
grand opera classics. are produced in
Hebrew, as part of the Jewish renais-
Boris NJ Morros, of a Boston syna-
gogue, who came to America as a
result of the Russian revolution. He
also will direct the Palestine Con-
servatory of Music.
Prof. Morros studied under Rimsky-
korsakoff and other noted Russian
musicians at the Imperial Conserva-
tory at Petrograd, graduating with
high honors in 1918. At the outbreak
of the Symphony Orchestra in the
Imperial Palace in Petrograd. The
red uprising broke up the orchestra
and Prof. Morros went to Jaffa,
Palestine, establishing a conservatory
of music, later going to Baku, where
he reorganized the Imperial Conserva-
tory He came to America In 1923 to
direct the presentation of some of his
music, later becoming musical direc-
tor of the Crawford Street Synagogue
of Boston.
Mrs. Vivian Church Matson has left
the city to spend July and August
in the White Mountaisn Of New Hamp-
shire.