The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-11
MUSIC PATRON
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Festival Has It's Social
. Aspect; Many Gayeties
for Artists
BY JEAN ELIOT

OJ OA11AN
MRS COOLIDGE was a guest
IVA at luncheon yesterday of Mr..
and Mrs. Adolph Caspar Miller
not "our Mrs, Coolidge" but Mrs.
Frederick S. Coolidge. of New York,
Chicago and the Berkshires, who
has perhaps done more than any
one person for the development of
music and musical appreciation in
America.
The luncheon was the climax Of
round of gayeties incident to
the annual music festival of the
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foun-
dation in the picturesque little audi
forum of the Library of Congress.
This, it will be remembered. was
presented by Mrs. Coolidge to the
library, with the gift of her rare
collection of chamber music man
uscripts, many of them written es-
pecially for the famous Berkshire
Music Festival, of which Mrs. Coo
Idge was the organizer and which
was. in a way, the model for the
Washington music festival, now an
annual event.
The administration of the Eliza
beth Sprague Coolidge Foundation
Is unique, however, in that it in
wolves the first participation Of the
American government in the must
Gal development of the country.
The Mistress of the White House at
tended one of the early recitals at
the Library auditorium last week,
and was present again yesterday
afternoon, when several new and
striking chamber music compositions
were presented.
Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Frederick
Coolidge are old friends and Cor
years Mrs. Miller has always been
present at the music festival in
the Berkshires. There was<a small
company of guests assembled for
the luncheon yesterday, and in the
company were Secretary Of Com
merce Hoover. a neighbor Of, the
Millers, and William Phillips. Amer
lean Ambassador to Belgium. who
is in this country on leave.
Mr.. TiImont Fetes Countrymen
The Charge d'Affaires of Bel,
GUM, Raoul Tilmont. gave lun-
Sheon yesterday at Wardman Park
Hotel for the members of the Pro-
Arte Quartette. made up OF dis
tinguished Belgian musicians, which
took part in the chamber music
festival. Moreover Mrs Coolidge
arranged a number of parties for
the groups of musicians whose art
made the several recitals occasions
Of joy and for music lovers from
many cities who had come to Wash
fngton for the occasion.
There was a dinner at the May
flower, with Mrs. Coolidge as host
ess-some 80 guests-and then on
Saturday came a pilgrimage to
Mount Vernon, Mrs. Coolidge hav-
ing chartered a boat for the cruise
down the Potomac. The start was
made in the morning. a buffet
luncheon being served aboard
There were some 800 guests, most
of them visitors from other cities
drawn to Washington by the music
festival.
Other Parties for Mrs. Coolidge
Among the parties given for Mrs.
Coolidge and the visiting artists
was a supper following the opening
recital for which Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Bruce Howe were hosts.
And the Pro Arte Quartet, of
Brussels. was entertained at tea on
Saturday afternoon by the Chamber |
Music Society, of Washington, at |
the home of Mrs. Franklin II. Ellis. |
Mrs. Howe mary CARLISLE and Mrs. |
Ellis katherine McClintock) are
both gifted musicians and both |
have managed to keep their work |
up to professional standards in |
spite of the distractions of raising
families and fulfilling their social |
obligations.
Joseph c. Grew. Undersecretary
of State, is president Of the Wash |
ington Chamber of Music Society. |
which boasts such distinguished |
members as Speaker Nicholas Long |
worth and which meets three or
four times a season at the home
of some prominent hostess - Mrs.
Henry F. Dimock, Mrs. William
Corcorah Eustis, Mrs. Elmer Schles
niger Countess Gizycka) ct AL
1t takes itself so seriously that
publicity is avoided like the
plague and sometimes even the
performers appear anonymously.