Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-17


the National Federation of Music
Clubs is being started in a number of
! our local Sunday schools today. Dur
| ing the coming week several organ
| iZations. including the y. W. &. y. and
| settlement houses, Will begin work
| on IL
WRC will broadcast one HYMN with
| its story each week Of the contest.
F.! There is still time for other OrsaniZa-
! tons to enter. Information regarding
! the contest will he gladly furnished
/ by Miss Beatrice :. Goodwin, chair
man, Cleveland 62S. Mrs. George Ora
| watt, Cleveland 1921, or Miss Esther
Linkins local president, Cleveland
1914
| Federated clubs and choirs are re-
minded to send publicity or club or
| choir pictures for the National Fedora
! ton Bulletin to Mrs. Frank = West
| brook 1926 Mckinley street north
I west, by the 18th Of each month.
| Lillian Chenoweth. contralto. will
| go to Leesburg. Va. to sing At ban
! quet given the Confederate Veterans
! by the local chapter OF the United
| Daughters OF the ConfederaCy. She
! will sing by special request The
! Little Bronze Cross" The banquet is
an annual event given on Gen. Lees
| birthday.
! Hazel Wegner Bachschmid. soprano,
and Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, plan
| list. will give the recital al the City
! Club this evening. presenting the fyl-
| lowing program:
! "Prochs Theme and Variations. Proch
| Hazel Bachschmid ..-
| 90 Country Garden. .. Percy Granger
! tcl Turkish March" Beethoven Rubcnsten
! Elizabeth G. Coomhs ,,
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! Ehzaheth G. Coomhs
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| "Chdnsnn Provaucale .-........... Dell Acqua
Hazel Bachschmld
| Glenn E. Carew, aged q. assisted by
Helen Jane Langhe. soprano: Virginia
| Curetou and Fritz Male. ViOlinistS.
gave a recital last night at the studio
of &. Frank Gebest, IN which he
played Schumann's "Warum," Bach's
''Solfegietto," a group of short pieces
by MacDowell and the popular Rach-
maninoff prelude in c Sharp Minor. ;"
A delightful piano recital was given
recently in the Seymour School OF
| Musical Re-education, by Polly Fora
F.. ker. Mary Afeigs and Frances White.
| After the formal piano program. the
three little girls delighted their guests
! by plaving Christmas carols, folk
songs and musical games. The audi
| enCe responded euthusia StiCally when
/ invited TO sing the songs and play the
/ games, while the youthful performers
accompanied them at the piano.
!, y large music party. including all
/ the Seymour pupils. was given during
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scented by Helen Burkart. director of
| the Washington branch of the Sey-
mour School; Mrs. l. w. Burkart and
| Margaret Ashford.
] The Choral Club of the l. F. c. A.
will meet Tuesday az the Arthur Jor-
| dan Music Studio Following the Gus
, the members, will give 4 short pro
gram.
, Dr. Henneman of the Catholic Uni
versity. director. has divided the club
/ into groups, under the following cap
tains: Mae Brosnan. Nora Schrider
Edna Jones and Mrs. Frederick j.
! Rice.
The organization derives its member
ship from the local academies. namely
| Notre Dame de Namur. St Patrick :
! Visitation. Sacred Heart, Immaculate
, Conception. Holy Cross, Georgetown
| Convent, St. Cecilia Sacred Heart of
Mary.
The members of the Congressional
| Club enjoyed a recent musical when
Catherine Riggs, harpist, and Henri
cite Coquelet, lyric coloratura So
prano. gave the program at the at
| tractive clubhouse on New Hampshire
| avenue.
A large audience filled the auditori-
um Fine artistry was shown in Miss
| Riggs playing of the group which
! opened the program. The Largo from
p, the New World Symphony" by
Dvorak and several other numbers re-
| ceived encoreS.
Nine Coquelet sang two groups of
| songs in a pleasing manner. Her
voice is flexible and we'll trained. She
was accompanied by Margaret Bowie
| Grant
At the completion of the program,
Mrs Lindley Hadley, president, intro
| duced the members of her club to the
visiting artists.
Katherine Riggs, Washington con-
cert harpist, returned yesterday from
playing a number of recitalS in the
cities of North Carolina. including an
important Sunday afternoon concert
at the University of North Carolina.
at Chapel Hill, under the direction of
there.
The Cecilia Singers, 4 quartet of
mixed voices, and the Lyric Trio of
women's voices, both under the direc-
ton of Mrs Henry White, with Mar
| garet Scott Penn, accompanied. are
the latest groups of singers to affiliate
with the National Federation OF Music
Clubs. Recently they gave program
at the John Dixon Home, with Lucy
lDunwoody Higgins, mezzosoprano, as
the assisting soloist.
The MacDowell Music Club, Eleanor
Glynn president. held It's regular
!monthly meeting Monday evening
The program of music was given by
Fife Reeves, soprano; Alice Richmond,
contralto: George Cornwell Amelia
Suastegui, Edith Austermuhl and Mar
earet Loane, pianists, and Mary Tar
hell accompanist. A lovely letter of
appreciation from Mrs Edward Mac
Dowen was read by Miss Glynn.
At this meeting Margaret Loane was