Evening star., 1926-04-04

prove of special WM. ZERFFI.
interest to teach
ers students Of singing and vocalists
in general.
Mrs. Seldom p. Spencer was the
guest of honor, and Ruby Smith
Stahl, soprano, was the soloist at the
tea Friday afternoon at the Congress
sional Club.
Sophocles Il. PapaS of the School of
Fretted Instruments announces the
removal of that organization from G
street studios to 1921 Connecticut
! avenue in the Emile Building.
The Columbian Male Quartet. Paul
G.. Ledig and w. f. Braithwaite,
| tenors: Raymond G. Moore, baritone,
and John c. Smith, basso, will appear
| in two programs in New York this
week.
| Friday night they will sing in the
first annual concert given by the choir
| of ST. Paul's Lutheran Church, 141
| West One Twentythird street. of
which Mccall Lehman is the choir
! master. Soloists on the program will
| include Gladys l.. Davis, mezzo-con-
tralto: Felian Carrie, pianist, and VII
| liam +. Sherman. organist.
| Saturday night Mr.. Lanham, well
| known in Washington as we'll as in
| New York, will present group of art.
ist pupils in a program commemorate
| ing the twenty-fifth anniversary or
his teaching at the American Institute
of Applied Music, 212 West F'ifty-ninth
street, when the Columbian Quartet
will again give several selections. The
soloists will be Miss Davis, Charles
| Brandenburg. tenor, and GWiiym
Anwyl, tenor.
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| The Esmu Club Juniors, whose mem
| bers are the students under IA years
! of age, met Saturday afternoon. A
| special feature of the program was
! two piano duet played by Carol Nor
| rison Smith and Nancy Jane Sterling,
| little girls under 10 years OF age.
Others contributing were Amy Beh-
rend, Ruth Behrend, Betty Cain. Lou
| ise Fulton, Jane Lewis Parks. Gerson
| NordlingerF Claude Lea Pointer, Mary
Pointer, Marjory Mitchell, Carol
| Smith. Arian O'Brien. Nancy Jane
| Sterling, Mary Sterling, Evelyn
| Schloss, John and Charles Wells.
Persis Heaton, national president of
| Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary musical So
rority is an Easter guest of Rho Beta
! Chapter of the Washington College of
| Music. Last evening she was enter
! tained at the home of Lois l. Stuntz.
president of the chapter. The chapter
| is giving musical tea in her honor
| today from 4 to o'clock at the home
| of Mary NJ. Thompson. and tomorrow
| evening there will be business meet
| ing, followed by an initiation cere-
| mony.
Rho Beta's activities also included an
| initiation ceremony last Monday eve
| ming, at which time the following
i s~,;t II CriaGf
Goldie Hutchlns, Frances Cole, Ger
trude Dyer. Herminia Ellis, James
and Frances V. Bogart.
Charles Trowbridge Tittmann was a
guest soloist in two concerts given
under the auspices of the Ithaca Con
servatory and Affiliated Schools IN
Ithaca. y. Y, the end of March. Mr..
| Tittmann. whose oratorio style is we'll
known. was the bass soloist in Ros-
sini's "Stabat Mater" He sang, on
the other program, songs by Peri,
Bonocini, Bach. Russian and English
folk songs, and a Negro spiritual.
The other local soloists were Ruth
Rodgers and Amy Ellerman. Bert
Rogers Lyon, choral director: Patrick
Conway, orchestral conductor, and
George Daland. accompanist. Mr..
Daland will be remembered as a fine
| OTSdHiSt "ilO diSO gave SOillc AlllSICSl'
ing piano programs while in Wash
ington about three years ago.
Mr.. Tittmann was made an honor
ary member Of the Phi Mu Alpha Ma
tional Musical Fraternity, by Della
Chapter. while in Ithaca. He then
went to Detroit to sing in the Bach
"St. Matthew's Passion with the De-
| troit Symphony Choir under Ossip
! Gabrilowitsch. He will sing in that
works initial Washington presenta
ton Tuesday evening.
Virginia Bestor, assisted by Philip
Dimon, violinist, presented the follow.
ing young folks in recital March q
in her studio: Patricia Minar, Vir-
ginia Clementson. Austin Kiplinger
Virginia and Edward Dawson, Betty
Rose Sutton, Louise Hoover, Eugene
Hawley. Helen Rosenbusch and Mrs
Tacker. Co.,.
Ellen Sparrow, soprano soloist OF
Northminster Presbyterian Church
sang a duet version of Faure's "The
Palms" last Sunday. with Arthur
Jett, tenor soloist. Mrs. Sparrow re.
senting the following: Mrs. Mary
Pippin, Kate Mcbride and Susan
Jones, with Susanne Laing as accom-
panist.
Meta Craig. soprano, with Elizabeth
Collison-Hill, accompanist, and Mrs.
Fernando Treat Norcross, concert
pianist, will give the program at a
musical tea at the home of Mrs. w.
c. Ruediger, wife of the dean of
George Washington University. under
the auspices of Victory Chapter, d.
A. r., Tuesday afternoon.
Prof. Adam Geibel's Easter cantata,
which will be sung at couple of the
churches tomorrow, also will be given
a presentation by the Woodlothians,
the chorus at Woodward & 10th.
rop's store, Monday morning at 9:3c.
It will be sung from the balcony at the
G street entrance. DR.. Geibel himself
will accompany at the piano. Mrs.
Henry Hunt Mckee will play the or
gan part; William Starnell will con-
duct. Other soloists will be lie Roy
Herndon, violinist; Vance Caskey,