Evening star., 1927-04-03

ri Ellen hON ISON, Opidio' anu
AA Charlotte Hartman. Contralto,
two of Washington's prominent sing
ers. we'll known I'm club and concert
circles here and popular with radio
audiences everywhere, will shortly ap-
pear "in person" in joint recital at
the Mayfower Hotel in this city.
Both singers are we'll established
here. Miss Howison as soprano solo
ist at New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church. and Miss Hartman
as contralto soloist at the Church OF
the Covenant, and both are equally
we'll known in other places. In New
York City Miss Howison has made fire.
quent appearances with the Barrere
Little Symphony.
This. their second local joint appear
ance in formal recital will occur Tues
day afternoon. April 10. at half-paSt
4 O'Clock in the ballroom of the May
flower under the patronage of a mum
ber of distinguished Washington wom-
en-. On that occasion they will have
as aCcompanist another popular Wash
ington musician. George II. Wilson.
Previous to the date of their joint
concert Miss Howison and Miss Harri-
| man will be heard Thursday with the
Interstate Male Chorus In Sir Arthur
SuIivans "The Golden Legend" in
the Central High Auditorium.
Dean Shure will play for the first
| time in public. his new organ suite,
Across the Infinite" at the organ re-
| cital at 730 pm. tonight at the Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal
| Church South. This suite was written
/ because of the popular demand for his
recent suite Through Palestine,
which was used in 700 churches dur
ing the first year Of it's publication
| The new suite Is built around the
Voice From the Infinite depicting
the following quotations from the
| Scriptures: Wings of Light, Weep
| ing Mary" willow Whisper" and
Wilderness March" Mr.. Shure's
Sacred Sepulchre." dedicated to Fe-
| liam Garzia, has pust been issued by
New York publisher, and his villa
Maria by the Sea" has just been pub
| lished by a Philadelphia house. The
SCriptural quotations accompanying
! the Across the Infinite" will be read
by Rev. w. A. Mckee. who also read
| the quotations for Through Pales-
tine" the first time it was given at
Mount Vernon by Mr.. Shure.
! The Friday Morning Music Club will
| present Gretchen Hood. soprano; kath-
crime Riggs, harpist, and Helen Corbin
Heinl, pianist, at its regular Friday
program this week at the Cosmos Club
| at II am.
| Florence Howard entertained mem
bers of the Tuesday Evening Music
! Club and others at the second of her
series of informal musical programs
at her home Thursday evening. Duets
were sung by Laura Hayes. soprano.
| and Catherine Gross, contralto. Solos
| were given by Helen Neumeyer, Har-
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| Doorley, Clara Forbes, Katherine Rives
| and Marjory Bowie.
| Mrs. Tooke and Mrs. Howard were
| at the piano for the singers. Gretta
Won Bayer pianist, was guest soloist
| and played n group of works by
Brahms and Chopin.
l. Lillian Evanti Washington colora
| tura soprano, gave a song recital re-
Gently in Paris, when Maurice Faure
was her accompa mist, and she included
on her program a group of negro
| spirtuals arranged by Fl. T. Bur
| leigh. singing Were You There"
Steal Away" and by and BY" She
also sang songs by Haendel. Campra,
Rameau. Proch. Marguerite Canal,
| Faure, Rachmaninoff, Pietro Cimara
and Hageman.
The Westbrook Trio. composed of
Jean Westbrook. violinist; Frank
| Westbrook, cellist, and Mrs. Frank
| Springs Westbrook. pianist. presented
a program at the Arts Club last Sun
| day evening. There were ensemble
and solo numbers. Oba Jan Gibson.
/ lyric, and Anna Donn, coloratura. ac-
companied by Marion May-Lawson,
pianist, gave Bits From Familiar
Operas" dramatized and costumed.
! Mabel Linton Williams, active mem.
| ber of the Arts Club, will be hostess
| at dinner Thursday evening. The
guests of honor at dinner are to be
! Mabel F'lehr and Floyd Williams.
Following the dinner, Mrs. Williams
| will give a number of piano solos.
Miss F'lehr will sing solos and duets
a group of French, Italian and Eng
lish songs and give short character
| readings.
| Julia Culbreth Gray, known as the
! Carolina contralto.'' sang for the
| members of the North Carolina So
ciety at their meeting Friday night
at the Washington Club. She also
entertained the employees of Wood
ward & Lothrop's yesterday morning
with a group of original negro dialect
songs, including Cotton Needs Pickin'
So Bad" and Joshua Fit de Battle
Oh Jericho" and introducing Yelling
| ton Adams new song. "kinky- Headed
| Boy" Mrs. Gray was accompanied
on both occasions by Paul Gable at
| the piano.
The regular monthly board meeting
of the District of Columbia Federation
of Music Clubs will be held Saturday
afternoon at 4;30 in the Metropolitan
Theater Building. A few clubs. choirs
and individual members have not vet
sent in their dues. They are requested
to do so at once. Mrs. Joseph M.
Stoddard and DR.. Alexander Henne-
man are new artist members.
Lewis Atwater will play a half
hours program of Russian and Jewish
| music this afternoon at o'clock in
All Souls Unitarian Church.
The Russian Club entertained at its
last meeting Estelle Allen. dramatic
| reader, and Mary I. Couch, pianist.
| whose numbers were very much en-
joyed Miss Allen gave "A Bachelors
Romance" and "Happiness"; Mrs.
Crouch. Percy Graingers Country
Dance" two etudes of Chopin and the
fourteenth rhapsodie of Liszt. Mrs
Crouch is new to Washington. She
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