Evening star., 1925-12-13

Christ Church. Alexandria: Overture
, torgan); tenor recitative and aria.
Comfort Ye My People" and Every
! Valley Shall Be Exalted: chorus.
, And the Glory of the Lord; con
tralto recitative. aria and chorus, Be
hold. Virgin Shall Conceive and
| 20 Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to
Zion; bass recitative and aria. For
Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the
Earth and The People That Walked
| In Darkness Have Seen Great
Light; chorus. For Unto Us Child
Is Born; Pastoral Symphony
Corganl; soprano recitative, There
| Were Shepherds. ." And Lo. the Angel
OF the Lord" And the Angel Said
! Unto Them And Suddenly There
/ Was With the Angel q Multitude;
| chorus, Glory TO God; soprano aria.
! Rejoice Greatly: contraltO recitative
and aria, Then Shall the Eyes Of the
! Blind Be Open'd" lie Shall Feed His
I Flock; soprano aria. Come Unto
, Him; chorus. "Hallelujah."
| The solos will be sung by Janet l..
| Pickett soprano: Olive Travers Hough-
ION, contralto; William +. Raymond,
! tenor; Wired {. Gilbert, bass. The
! choral parts will be sung by a chorus
Of 80 voices. composed of the regular
choir Of Christ Church and assisting
I singers. Katharine Seelye Wallace IS
/ the director and organist.
! This Is the famous old historic
! Christ Church, and visitors are vel
come to the service.
! The Girls Glee Club OF George
| Washington University, directed by
! Estelle Wentworth, gave it's first con
/ cert of the season Monday night at
/ Corcoran Hall, in an attractive and
| well arranged program of solo, quar-
| tet, group and ensemble numbers. On
the whole, the concert was we'll re-
ceived and personal successes were
made by Eleanor Judd. Edith Finney
and Ruth Barnhart.
| A group from the club will sing at
the Church Of the Ascension this
evening.
| The Bach Quartet, composed Of
| Hazel Wegner Bachschmid. soprano;
Stella Eames Nelson. contralto; Ever
EFT s. Hardell, tenor. and Paul r..
Bachschmid. jr.. bass. ia furnishing
the music for the Samuel Gompers
| Memorial Service TO be held at Elks
! Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The quar-
tet will sing "IIark. Hark. My Soul
| Shelley. Coin Home" Dvorak),
THE King of Love My Shepherd Is"
| (Shelley) and Taps" tArthur Gus
| tance) Hazel Wegner Bachschmid
will sing as solo Nearer, My God,
! To Thee" albert Holden). Everett S.
| HardeH will sing the solo in Taps.
| Gertrude Lyons. chairman of music
! of the District Of Columbia Society
I Daughters OF the American Colonists.
has planned an appropriate musical
| program for the meeting tomorrow
! evening The Women's City Glee
Club, of which Mrs. Lyons is director
will sing the following Christmas
carols arranged for women's voices:
"Luther's Cradle Hymn" Silent
Night" THE First Noel" 1t Came
| Kings Of Orient Are" 'Hark, the
/ Herald Angels Sing" and 20 Little
Town Of Bethlehem
! Ruth Roberts Hammer. soprano
sang a group Of songs by Edward
| MacDowell at the monthly meeting of
| the music committee of the Petworth
| Women's Club. Mrs Hammer gave
! a short talk on the life and works of
| this American composer, followed by
| renditons of The Robin Sings in the
Apple Tree" Thy Beaming Eyes"
and ITO a Wild Rose"
At the December meeting of the
Emmanuel Baptist Women's Society
| Mrs Hammer sang Rock of Ages
tJohnson).
Mrs. Duff Lewis is arranging a pro-
gram to be given at the Episcopal
Home next Tuesday evening. Mrs.
Lawrence Hynson and Mrs. Lewis will
give piano selections. Mrs. Lewis will
play several violin numbers. Miss
Helen Calhoun will present a poem,
with music accompaniment. besides
| dramatic and dialect readings.
| Mary Apple, contralto. will be the
guest. soloist this evening at the Co
lumbia Heights Christian Church.
Miss Apple will sing II Met Ny Mas
| ter Face to Face" (Miller).
This evening at the Takoma Park
Presbyterian Church Mrs. ID. &. Jack
son. organist. will give the tenth in
her series of organ recitals. This pro
gram includes transcriptions of Rus
sian composers works. There will be
numbers by Bubech, Cui. Anton and
Nicholas Rubinstein. Liadoff and
! Tschaikowski and d special feature of
the program will be the use of piano
and violin with the organ, Mrs. Jack
| son being assisted by Mary Garret and
Ruth Hayes.
Betty Baum was presented by Miss
I Pearl Waugh as the soloist at the
Esther Linkins at Friendship House
! last Sunday afternoon. Today the
| youthful audience will be entertained
with trio work by Paul Britenburg,
John Lassier and Gladys Towsel, pre-
sented by Mr.. Joseph Kaspar.
! At the Church Of the Holy City. at
the morning service today. Mrs. Ralph
+. Barnard, contralto. will sing Pre-
pare Thyself. Sion from Bach's
Christmas Oratorio. Miss Mabel Dun
can, cellist, will play Schubert s
! "Preghiera." and an "Andante" by
Tartfni Miss Sewall, organist and di-
rector. will play Basch's ''Fugue in F
Minor for postlude.
Plans for the Georgetown Christmas
Festival to be given in Montrose
Park. December %, at 7:30 pm. are
going nicely, according to Meta
Craig, chairman Of the music commit
tee. Miss Craig announces that re-
! hearsals of the church choirs and all
other singers interested are scheduled
for Mondays. tomorrow and December
p, at 7:3O pm, at the Dumbarton NJ.
E. Church, under the direction of Will
/ liam I. Glover. Western High School
will contribute its glee club under the
direction of Miss Lucy Lynch and chill
dren of the jackson School and the
Parent-Teacher Association are CO.
operating. Four members Of the
United States Marine Band will give
! their services with horns. Mrs. Alice
Coyle Torbert will direct a nativity
pageant. The carol Three Kings
will be sung by male voices. giving
another unique feature to the event.
The Washington College of Music
held an informal recital Friday eve.
ming, including piano, violin and vocal
numbers by pupils of the elementary
and advanced departments. These