Evening star., 1927-05-29
NJ i S &c
BY HELEN FETTER.

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tirely appropriate for an audience
composed primarily OF children yet
composed of compositions by such
writer's of music as Haydn, Mendels-
sohn, Bohm, MacDowell, Schubert
dc Beriot, Mozart. Arensky
| Granger, Saint -Saens, Romberg and
others. Also the program was SO
we'll given that the many adults at
! tending found as much pleasure III
listening and watching the young
performers as the youthful portion
OF the audience did. The real secret
OF the success of this concert was
familiarity with that masterpiece
ticc.
Then in February the Junior clubs
which are affiliated with the District
| OF Columbia Federation of Music
Clubs gave their second annual con-
cert one evening az the Wilson Nor
NAL School auditorium and a laudable
program it was. One of the feature
qualities OF this program was that
much OF ii was. given in costume, yet
there was no long drawn-out waiting
and the program was finished by 10
o'clock. Miss Gutelius also was
chairman of this program and the
junior organizations represented i'll
cluded the Friday Evening Junior
Club, Mrs. George Gravatt. leader
the Young Composers Club, Karl
Holer, leader: the Cadence Club,
Helen Miller, leader: the B Sharp
Club, Mrs. G. +. Williams and Caro-
line Bender. leaders: the PreStissimo
Club, Mabel +. Muliken, leader; the
Nipivoce Club, Frances Gutclius, di-
rector; the CIaviarco Club. Mrs.
Williams and Miss Bender, leaders !:
Allegro Music Club OF Neighborhood
House, Mrs. !. NJ. Stoddard, leader !;
Friendship House Toy Symphony,
Carrie Brightwell, conductor, and the
Eastern High School Glce Club, NJ.
Louise Wood, director.
The novelty of the program was
series of five scenes depicting
events in the lives of five composers
when they were young; those repre-
sented were Johann Sebastian Bach,
Wolfgang A. Mozart. Ludwig van
Beethoven, Franz Schubert and
Edward MacDowcll The solo num-
berS were also very good and the
choral singing of the tiny children
of Neighborhood House was excel
lent. THE Dolls Symphony" written
by Thelma Callahan, one of the old
est members of the Vipivoce Club,
was another feature that gave va
riety and balance to an unusually in
teresting and different" chldrcn's
recital.
The third i'll this group of three
programs by the Youngest group of
musicians that were found in the
pile for 1907 is that of the first con-
cert ever given by a junior high
school organization, presented March
. in the auditorium of Powell Junior
High under the direction of George
+. Hurt, the enthusiastic and gifted
young conductor who came here in
the Fall from Asheville, N. c., and
joined DR.. T. n. c. Barnes capable
forces, who have in their hands the
great task of developing musical
taste and consciousness in a large
percentage of the future citizens of
Washington who will attend musical
affairs few years from now and
form the basis of the concert and
opera audiences. AS Miss Bertie
Bachus, the schools rpriftipal, said
that night:
The finest thing that this or
cheStra represents is not listed on
the program tonight, but it is the
fine sense of ideals, culture and back
ground that such work is giving the
members"
THE Summer music festivals are
- already well started abroad, and
a letter from Henrietta Straus.
noted music critic of New York City,
who is attending many of these
events this year during the scope of
the entire festival season, wifi be
printed elsewhere on this page each
week. Miss Straus gives a personal
touch to her subjects in these articles
that adds considerably to their value
and makes them readable. Next
week the lead will be devoted to fur
ther discussion of the dates and
types of festivals being held, literally
all over the world, this Summer. No
longer is Summer a period of three
languid months for singers and in
strumentalists to "rusticate" A few
do it, but the majority are find
ing the call of the Summer festival
and all enthusiastic audience too
strong to resist, simply changing the
locale and climate of their profess
siona1 engagements.