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THE OPERETTA, "MARENKA"--
Friday and Saturday.

Gay, lovely folk songs and dances
Of many countries will he presented
in "Marenka," an operetta given by
the Girl Reserves of the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association Friday and
Saturday evenings at SI5, in Barker
Hall of the new Young Women's
Christian Association Building, at
Seventeenth and X streets. The scene
Of the story is laid in Czechosloval<ia,
land Of song and color, and takes
place on the eve and morning of
May day. The Czech chorus In the
first and third acts is composed Of
Girl Reserves from Eastern High
School. the Italian and Irish groups
from Business High School, the Hun
garian group from Mckinley Tech
nical High School, the Polish group
from Western High School and the
dancers in the battle of Winter and
Spring from Central High School.
The principal parts of Marenka,
Honza, Maminka and Tatinek will be
sung by Ina HoItzscheiter. Eastern
High School; Norvelle Newton, Nc.
KinIey Technical High School: Janet
Mcdonald, Mckinley Technical High
School, and Kathryn Townsend, West
ern High School, The parts Of Spring
and Winter will be played by Mary
Day and lone Whaler Of Central High
School. Spring songs from other coun-
tries will be sung as solos by Alice
Mclean and Cora Sponsler. The or
chestra will be composed Of students
from the Washington College of
Music.
Marie Lenore Moran is directing the
stage production, Ethele SWenson the
folk dances and lmogene b. Ireland
the music.
The proceeds from the performance
will be added to the Y. w. c. A.
building fund.
The chairman of the Girl Reserve
department, producing the operetta, is
Elsa Peterson; the secretaries in
charge are Marian Casey and Mabel
II. Cook.
Nine. Lipa. wife Of the counselor
of the Czechoslovakian legation. is fur
nishng the costume which the lead
ing character, Marenka. will wear.
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pied seamstress, at Fourth Presbv.
terian Church, Friday night at 815
Mrs. Wayne r. Wheeler arranged the
program, assisted by the Aid Societies
of GuntOn Temple and Fourth Presby-
terian Churches. The guests Of honor
participating include Florence Turner.
Maley, a song composer Of New York;
John Prindie Scott, another New York
song composer, who has been visiting
in Washington for several weeks, and
Karl Holer, we'll known Washington
composet Assisting viii be the Cha
ninade Glee Club-Esther Linkins,
director: Mary Apple, contralto: Her
man Fakler. baritone; Helen Belt, vic.
linist, and Mrs. Chester Adair and Ger
trude Walters, accompanies.
|he program will be:
''The Voice in the Wilderness
John PrndIe Scott
Breath Of Spring" Florence Turner -Maley
Chaminade Giee Club.
"Ah Sweet Is Tipperary'
Song of sunshine Fiorence Turner T2re Msiey MMsiey
Mrs. Wheeler.
Caprice in A Minor Kari Raj Hoier Ioie
'Berceuse" first tlmel .... Kari Holer
Revelation" MISS Beitit itohr prira,o Scott
aRnnes in Georgia John Prinde Scott
TN Follow YOU. Florence Turner Maley
In a Garden wiId' Florence Fi1rs Turner Maley
T3s az od IGhn obn nde Prndle Scot Scot
i"e secret Miss Annie ,2ohn Frindle scot"
Love Is Riddle" first ,tme)
THE Winds in the South Y0'''l I ''"''s 'eo''
Mrs. Wheeler
Triumph Of the Dance. ..,..... Karl Holer
Chaminade GIee Club. '''''
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McKENDREE NJ. 4. Church pre-
sented one Of the finest Of the
many ambitious Easter music pro-
grams last Sunday, when. under the
direction of Stanley William Bell, two
Cantatas provided the music for the
two services. In the morning selec-
tions from Schnecker's The Risen
King were given. and at the evening
service the choir sang Evan s. Eos
ter's elaborate Cantata, The Prince
of Life"
Mrs Harry Jeffries was at the organ
for both services, and the Easter story
was sung by the quartet, composed
Of Nell Erwin. soprano: Mabel LOTUS,
contralto: Stanley Bell. tenor, and
Jack Tarr, baritone.
Virginia Bestor presented a group
Of students in piano recital recently
in her studio, when Mrs. Anderson.
soprano. was the assisting soloist.
The children participating included
Patricia Minag. Austin Kiplnger,
Anne Tolson, Kathryn Tipton. Vir-
ginia Da JsOn, Dorothy Rose, Philip
Shreve, Leila Rose, Virginia Clement
son, Betty Rose Sutton, Eugene Haw-
ley, Edward Dawson and Louise
Hoover.
The fifth annual concert of the
music section of the Chevy Chase
Woman's Club viii be given Wednes-
day evening, May 4, at $50 o'clock,
in the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal
Church, Connecticut avenue and Joce.
lyn street. under the auspices OF the
Woman's Guild Of the church.
The program has been arranged by
the director Of the section, MIR. Hern.
don Morsel, and by the leader, Miss
Alice Broas. A special feature will
| be guest artists. They will be the
| Chevy Chase Chanters, a group of
men who organized last Winter under
/ the direction of Mr.. Morsell. and who
/ are rapidly making a name for them
| selves in music circles. The other
| guest artists will be a saxophone
! quartet, who will play classical music
| as well as modern jazz dance music
| Tickets for the concert can be haC
| from Mrs. Roger Whiteford. 1O1
| Leland street, any other member OF
| the music section, and at the churct
| the evening of the concert.
Barrett Fuchs, baritone, who was
/ guest soloist at the Easter service
| held at the Silver Spring Baptist
! Church last Sunday evening, will sins
/ the offertory tonight at Christ Church
| Georgetown. He is a member Of the
| choir of this church. His selection
will be "Open the Gates of the
Temple"
! Geni SaderG, singer and arrangel
| of Italian folk songs, Romeo Qua
raldi, baritone and a member of the
/ embassy staff, both gave groups oil
| songs at the evening musical giver
| Tuesday at the Italian embassy
| Signora Sadero played her owl
accompaniments and Mildred Kolt
| Schulze accompanied Signor Guaraldi
| The Royal Rumanian Orchestra. gaS
! in natural costumes, played Ruma
nian airs and also for dancing.
Ruby Potter, soprano. and Louis
| Potter, pianist and organist, botf
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The Technique of Singing
BIZ MYRON w. WHITNEY
member Of the American Academy Teachers Of snginE

of the sentiments and emotions But
this, however. is not by any means
its complete function. The thing that
the artist wishes to communicate TO
his fellows Is not a grief or Joy of
his own, but the reflection from the
mirror of his soul, of the grief or joy
of all mankind. His own emotions are
useless to him until they have cooled
and merged into the universal UNDER
standing OF happiness and sorrow.
Then. indeed, they become his cur
rency Of expression.
Beauty I conceive to be the ineyi.
table byprOduCt of art. In every no.
riod where beauty has become the
chief object of artistic endeavor. art
has degenerated and beauty has dis
appeared, for beauty is the product of
exquisite adjustment and proportion.
plus nobility of thought and express
sion. To aim at beauty as the prime
motive of art is to eliminate the pro-
found element which creates beauty.
Charm IS chiefly a matter of skiIlful
and delicate workmanship. It NAV
occur when beauty is absent
Musicianship does not end with
knowledge of musical theory. IL is
rather a comprehension of the pur-
poses of music 1t includes the ability
TO discriminate between that which
has merit and that which is meretri-
cious-between real sentiment and
sentimentaiity. This ability is not to
be acquired in the studio The stu
dent should supplement his studies by
hearing all the music which is avail
able
As for expression, We must realize
that it is the spirit of man which
sings. The vocal instrument is mere.
ly physical adjustment tn make
audible the song Of the spirit The
voice is incapable of a sound which is
devoid of expression. Whatever
thought predominates in the mind dur
ing the act Of singing will be reflected
in the tone of the voice. The clear
ness of this reflection will be in exact
proportion to the intensity and lucid.
ity of the minds precOnceptios. Some
of the mental attitudes are fiattering
TO the voice, and some impart 10 II
their own ugliness of quality.
We are to use a standard tone and
a standard vowel, as we have seen.
We must also make use of a standard
mood. This mood is composite. il
has for it's base a confident plaCidity.
Upon this foundation is spread a
stratum of eagerness to sing and de.
light in singing Thus far this mood.
which must remain constant, is for
the personal use and inspiration of the
singer. Upon this he may superim-
pose the expression of all the varied
sentiments and emotions required for
the Interpretation of the music.
The purpose of the singer should be
to create an Illusion and not TO dis
play an actual condition. If he sings
that he is in despair because his love
has deserted him, he must do so with
ferVOr and enthusiasm quite impos-
sible If the circumstances were aCtu-
ally as he describes.
Thus there is a technique Of express
sion as we'll as a technique of vocal
production. and the one without the
other is useless.
Evening star., 1927-04-24
No. 9-Expression.


HAVING completed in very cur
sorry fashion our study of those
rules of technique which govern the
physical activities of the vocal instru-
ment. it remains to investigate the
ideals upon which these rules are
predicated, and the psychological
processes by which the instrument
must be induced to perform in such
a manner as to realize these ideals.
To make an exhaustive study of
tone, expression, art and musician
ship would demand vastly more
space than we may hope TO command,
but, since they are of primary inn
portance, we must at least glance at
them.
Tone, art, and muslcianship are all
matters of education and the cultiva-
ton of taste.
No one is born with good taste. It
must be acquired by the study Of
time -honored standards.
The unbroken golden thread of art,
which pricks out the design in the
turbulent pattern of the tapestry of
European history, supplies the ma
tions OF the continent with back
ground of culture, which explains to
the student of those older civilizations
the high place which accomplishment
in the arts occupies in their national
pride.
The fathers of our country chose de-
liherately to omit the strand of art
from the fabric of our history, weav-
ing it's place an inffeXibe fiber of
reticence and intolerance Of emotional
expression America is only now be-
ginning to accept art as an inevitable
and indispensable manifestation of
civilization. Our interest is still some
what studious. but that is as it
should he. 1t is better to acquire than
to inherit.
I am too humble a servitor at the
feet of my mistress to pretend to de-
scribe her adequately or with au-
thority. No one yet has, though the
nature and uses of art have been the
subjects of discussion and dissension
from the beginning. If my memory
serves me, it was Boileau who said
that no matter how ugly the object
to be described. it must appear beauti-
full when it issues from the mind of
the artist. TOlstoi. on the contrary,
says that beauty has no part in art.
Sincerity is his watchwOrd. Wagner
was his "bete noir' and De Maupas-
SAINT his admiration. He has a con-
tempt for Wagner, whom he calls the
supreme artiticer. He applauds De
Maupassant, presumably for his use,
as motive for his stories, of char
acters completely devoid of any sort
of inhibitions, blown hither and yon
by winds created by the laughter of
the gods He regards as supremely
artistic his altogether brutal and ruth
less lack of reticcnce in the treatment
of his subjects
The Chinese have some 16 cate
gories into which all their works of
art fall for the determination of their
excellence. There are dozens Of other
estimates of the meaning of art. 1t
seems to me that art has for it's pur
pose first and foremost the expression
Evening star., 1927-04-24
Capt. Santclmann Is Hon
ored in Program Wednesday

4 concert by the United States
"A Marine Band Orchestra will be
given Wednesday eevning. at Sis
o'clock in observance of the retire
ment of Capt. William II. Santelmann
from active service as leader of the
United States Marine Band The con.
cert will be held in tho band auditor
ium, Marine Barracks, William II. San
telmann. leader; Taylor Branson,
second leader.
The program will include;
"Synph2ny i9. F Minor Opus a5' from
the New World ....: Anton Dvorak
1 Adagio-allesro motto.
g. Scherzo
Solo for violin, Concerto IN G Minor
OnIs 2t, i...'.'.' '.'....' Max Bruch
Finale allegro energco.
Musician William r II. .Santelmann.
Waltz suite, The Deentannte .n s..,.
Overture "Tannhauseri' Richard wagner
The Star spangied Banner"
Another concert by the United
States Marine Band Orchestra will be
given Friday afternoon at $40 in the
auditorium. Marine Barracks.
The program will be;
Parade Mlitaire" .........,..., Massenet
Overture In Bohemia Opus es" Hadley
"Yalse Mignonne" from the ballet la
violia f5'stS SOLO Concerto in q Minor opus
20 pre,,,,,s ot a,dario. 0'0c"
Musician William, H; santslmqpnn pas,o,,
"@''z soi'e' i"e William H santelmann
Finale '.Polaceo" from Suite No; 3 .,,.
NJ ayines URias 20 bymn The Halls of Montezuma."
The Star Spanged Banner.
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A Grand Piano Prize
For a Contest In November

servatory from which the student comes.
t. No contestant is eligible who has given
a personal recital for which tickets have
been sold.
3. All selections must be played from mem
Ory. with the exception of the first move
ment OF the N Major Mozart Sonata
lOriginal for two pianosl the use of
music notes with this number is op-
tional with the contestant.
;. Students desiring to enter the contest
should make application Immediately at
the Arthur Jordan Piano Co. and secure
blanks provided for this purpose by the
Arthur Jordan Piano Co.
z. All applications for admittance as a
contestant shall be sent TO the educa-
tIonal de Iartment Of the Arthur Jordan
Piano o.. Thirteenth and streets
northwesh Washington D. G.
3. The contest viii he held the latter part
of November. 1927
.. Contestants will not be required to pay
any fee of any kind.
., All contestants entered will he notified
by mail as to when and where the con
test will be held,
/. The name of the winner will be an
nounced through the public press.
.. The Judges viii he screened from the
contestants and will call for them by
number. The decision OF the Judges
shall be final.
3. The Judges reserve the right to dsquali-
fy any contestant. when in their opin-
ion such contestant for any reason Is
not eligible under the rules of this con-
test.
T. An elimination contest NAY he held prior
80 the final contest II deanled necessary
The contest will take place in one OF
the allditoriums in the City of Washing
ton. d. G.,
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NJ USIGR A PHS

formerly active members OF Washing
toms younger musical circles. are IN
washington for a short visit. Mrs.
Potter will spend the week here. Mr.
Potter, who is director OF the music
at the leading Baptist church oc
Charleston, ". Va, VIII go on 10
New York City for some brOadcasting
programs, but expects 10 be back IN
Washington Tuesday night.
Franz C. Bornschein, we'll known
American composer. now resident
OF Baltimore. will be the honor guest
Of the Washington Composers Ciuh
at their Song Fest" Thursday eve
ming in the studio Of Jerome Williams.
Mildred Kolb~ ~Schulze, Washington
ni8nist and composer, viii be hostess
this afternoon at musical tea' when
the guest of honor will be GEM
Sadero. the Italian arranger OF folk
songs that have become so widely
popular for concert programs. Signora
Sadero. herself. interprets her songs
Charmingly in a very high, 1ute-like
soprano voice.
The Daniels Music Club gave
program recently at Asbury Church i'm
| the afternoon. Musical selections were
/ presented by Kelsey Farr. Irene Wat.
/ son. Eliza Wheeler and George Bat.
| ties.
/ Mary Minge wilkins, organist Of
/ Christ Church, Georgetown, motored
1 to New York the day after Easter, and
/ will he absent from the city for TWO
/ weeks. She expects to spend the sec
/ ond week away In New Haven, Conn.
where she will attend the meeting Of
/ the International kindergarten Union.
| While there. Miss wilkins viii intro
| duce to the teachers her recent pub.
| lication, Song Phrases for Little
Children" This group of "a sonSp
! has been written for the express nss
of very young children and has just
| appeared in published form. The book
may be purchased from local music
| and hook stores or from the composer
herself. Miss Wilkins will return to
Washington Saturday.
The Washington Ladies Quartet
will sing THE Resurrection" by Shelly
and "Hosauna" by Granier at the
Albright Memorial Evangelical Church
tonight. The personnel includes Isabel
Garvin Shelley. soprano and director;
| Mary McAninch, second soprano: Ade-
laide Boyd, first alto; Ruth Clark,
second alto. with Florence Rims,
accompanist.
The choir of st. pauls English Lu-
theran Church win give the following
musical program this evening at s
o'clock: Anthems. "Magdalene" WAR
rem. Calvary" rodney and "Beauti-
ful Savior" tChristiansen); tenor and
bass duet, "Angelus" (Chaminade); So
prano solo, Ave Maria" tKahnD, with
violin obbligato played by Dorothy Sea-
/ man: contralto solo, Gloria" (Buzzi
Peccial, and organ solo. "Berceuse"
(F'Tysinger). The members of the
choir are Dorothy Wallauer. soprano:
Evelyn X. Mcintosh, contralto; +. r.
Whitman, tenor; G. NJ. Seaman, bass
Continued on Eleventh PageJ
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A Song Prize Offered.

A prize Of 500 is offered by Cha
teau de Bures. an American school
for boys in France, for the words and
music of school song. The compe-
tition closes September /. 1927.
The Chateau de Bures is situated
Just one hour out OF Paris, within
easy reach of historic Versailles and
the famous chateau, The school aims
to give American boys a new world
outlook, yet to prepare them for
American colleges and American life.
There will be students there from all
over the world, but the majority will
be American boys.
The words and music should suggest
the historic associations Of the school,
it's American ideals and Its interna'
tional outlook.
An illustrated booklet describing the
school will be sent to any competitor
on request. Address inquiries and
copies of words and music to Thomas
c. Burton. headmaster. AZ Claremont
avenue, New York City.
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Folk Spring Contest.

TUESDAY afternoon at o'clock in
Barker Hall of the new Young
Women's Christian Association Build.
ing, at Seventeenth and X streets, the
Girl Reserves from the Junior High
School Clubs will take part in folk
song contest. Two of the contest songs
are taken from the operetta Ma
renka,'' which will be presented by the
Senior High School Girl Reserves Fri
day and Saturday. The club winning
the Junior high school contest viii
sing between the first and second acts
of the operetta. The judges will be
Miss Jane Blinn, Miss Alice Edwards
and Prof. Charles H. Farnsworth.
There win be no admission charge.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

4 prize CONTEST'-a piano
A stUdent contest-has come to
Washington. 1t is aimed TO focus
attention on the piano accomplish
ment among students who claim
Washington as their home. Between
now and November %, 1927-the
time of the final contest-the piano
students of our city will have ample
time to prepare a program into
which may be put mere technical
perfection, but which may be fur
ther developed into real "interpreta-
tioIl," which is the ultimate goal of
musicianship.
The Arthur Jordan Piano Co. is
presenting this contest, with
Chickering grand piano as the prize.
That in itself is a huge incentive.
The program to be played in
November is:
sonata Pathetiaue Opus -, First Move
Etede igds Opus 25. No. ........: Chopin
sonata, ta,s t. D MA Major first Movement. for
" CoriginsL for two pianos)
The contestants will play the first
movement of the Mozart sonata, with
Maurice Dumesnil, internationally
famous French pianist at the second
piano. All compositions must be
played from memory, with the eX-
ception of the Mozart sonata, for
which the use of notes is optional
Application blanks, with the signed
certificate Of the teacher to insure
the sincere attitude of the applicant,
must be filled out and the student
enlisted as soon as is possible at
the Jordan Piano Co.
h. NNit
contest in November include:
Maurice Dumesnil French concert
pianist: Alexander Henneman. COM
poser and pedagogue; Il. \. c.
Barnes. supervisor of music of the
-, c. public schools; Julia Schelling,
pianist. lecturer and music authority;
Mary Howe. composer -pianistS Jessie
! Mae Bride music critic of the Wash
! ington Times; Elizabeth Poe, music
critic of the Washington Post. and
Ruth Howell music critic OF the
Washington News.
! Scanning the program, even the
! layman will see the diversity OF talent
! that will register in such a perform
ance. Beethovens pathetic Sonata"
demands sympathy and depths of feel
! ing beneath the command of the notes
and phrases. Chopin, the romanticist,
becomes Eariously individual TO diff
fere1t temperaments. Debussy's Clair
/ de Lune' is one Of his most subtle
moonlight" sketches, and the Mozart
sonata will have the inestlmable
/ privilege of concerted work with q
concert artist Of world fame.
The rules governing the contest are
| l. The prize 10 be awarded will be a beau
ntul Chickering grand piano valued al
! ,. Each contestant must he resident o1
| the District of Columbia at the time o1
! the final contest in November and must
| have been resident of the District oi
| Columbia Tor at least ak months prior
4 10 that time
| 8 All contestants must sign the application
| blank in their oHD handwriting and the
| appncaun1 must bear the intiofsemeni
Of the teacher, school, academy or con
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY.
The recital of Edward MaeDowc music by Mrs MacDowel
scheduled for this afternoon the Library Congress-
celed due 0 Mrs. MacDowers illness.
Gcni Sadro Italian noted for her of folk
will give of these
$3.50 D. the Wardman Park Theatcr.
concert Ruby soprano; organi
Hermann Hoffman voinist, Columbia Heights Christian
Church, at s
TUESDAY,
the Imperial Male Quartet Metropolitan Memorial
NJ. E. Church, pm.
WEDNESDAY,.
Tee baritone will recital 80 the
Tew:-h Center. Sixteenth .
FRIDAY.
Composers 815 pm, Church.
works by Florence Turner Maley Of New York John
Prudle of New York and Karl Hoer Washington d. C.
performance operea "Marenka"
of the Y. W. G. A., in the building streets,
SIS pm
SATURDAY.
Second performance, sis pm, of "Marcnka' w c. A.
headquarters.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

JUftN FINtAEA NlLLItAMCVASy
regular conductor of the famous Day
ton Westminster Choir, will come to
Washington early next month TO con.
duet the big massed chorus of local
singers May 18. While here he also
will give some special courses.
His course in choir and choral di-
recting, to be held five days in May,
is creating much interest. 1t offers
helpful instructions in a clear cut, con-
4 sefi course at small cost. Registra-
tions are being received in the Office of
Rev. ], r, DufReld, Room 9l0, Wood
ward Building.
Classes viii be held in Epiphany
Parish Hall at 4:45 the afternoons of
May IL, 13, 16, II and IS. In the
evenings of the aforementioned dates
Mr.. Williamson will held final re-
hearsals for the massed concert to be
given under auspices of the District
of Columbia Federation of Music
Clubs and the Washington Church
Music Council
W. e. Braithwaite, chairman for the
concert, extends a cordial invitation
to- all choirs, clubs. quartets and in.
dividuals to participate in this, Wash
ington's first massed concert. Already
there are $50 enrolled for the women's
group, and it is. expected that other
groups will be equally large.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

Margaretta Campbell. soprano, from
the studio of Estelle Wentworth, gave
her second annual concert before the
Business Women's Council of Wash
ington at. Church of the Covenant
Tuesday evening.
The Schola Cantorum of the Catho'
lie University win resume it's weekly
meetings tomorrow. The Schola has
it's sessions in the auditorium of Nc
Mahon Hall at the university. All in
terestcd in liturgical music are in
vited. The Schola will join the uni
versity choir and sing at the~closing
Poi'eAi"e'A i"e'N9 ''' e
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COMPOSERS CONCERT-FRIDAY

The American composer is receiving
much notice and appreciation In Wash
jngton this season. The newest effort
OF this kind Is a Composers Concert
to be given for the benefit Of Grip.