Evening star., 1928-12-30
MUSIGRAPHS

THE vested choir of 40 voices of the
Church of the Epiphany, G street
northwest, will sing a service of Christ
mas carols tonight at o'clock.
The program will include French
carols, Slovakian carols, Spanish
carol and an English carol, as well as
several organ numbers.
A New Year greeting song is to be
broadcast by Radio Joes artists, to
President and Mrs. Coolidge. The exact
date and time of broadcasting is not
yet ready for announcement, but will
be duly given in the radio columns of
the paper.
The quartet choir of Foundry M. E.
Church will present a program of
Christmas music tonight The COM
positions will be we'll known works of
Dudley Buck, Tours, Gounod, Dvorak,
Barnby, Yon and Mailing.
The choir is composed of Mary
Sherier Bowie, soprano; Ritchie Nc
and j. E. S. Kinsella, bass, with Anton
KaSpar, director and violinist, and
George H. Wilson, organist.
A Festival Te-Deum in A fiat minor,
the recent composition of August King
Smith, organiSt and choir director of
st. Johns Church, Georgetown parish,
which was sung for the first time
Christmas day, will be repeated at the
service this morning. In this, his latest
work, the composer has endeavored to
provide appropriate musical setting for
the words of the text and yet have a
composition not too difficult for the
average church choir. The incidental
solos were sustained by Harcourt Som
taag, tenor; G. A. Johnson, bass, and
Master Robert Conlyn soprano.
In accordance with the annual GUS
tom the rector of st. Johns. George
town, the Rev. +. Bland Tucker. with
the choir, visited the washington Home
for Incurables. on Wisconsin avenue,
and held Christmas eve services for the
patients and their friends.
Nina Church Brann, chairman of
motion pictures for Montgomery County
Federation of Women'S Clubs. who is
interested in promoting music appre-
clation in motion picture theaters, fur
nlshed a selection of Christmas music
to be used by the organists of the STAN
ley-Crandall theaterS in making UP
their Christmas programs. Since the
inauguration of this plan these organ
lists have been giving hearty co-opera-
ton, and many of the selections played
during the regular performances are
taken from these lists.
Ida v. Clarke, organist of the Earle
Theater, who is a talented artist on the
piano-accOrdion also, contributed to
the entertainment of Mr.. Crandall's
Christmas parties for the neWsboys
wednesday at the Metropolitan Theater
and to the orphanages of the city
Thursday at the Tivoli Theater.
The Institute of Musical Art enter
tanned friends December 81 with a
musical evening"
An interesting program was rendered,
consisting of piano, violin and vocal
numbers
The following took part in the pro-
gram: Piano Frances Griffin Villaret,
Martin A. Dowd and Glen Carow; voice
Janet Shepherd. Dewitt Feeser and
Mortimer Davenport; violin, Flora
Clayton, Virginia Cureton and the
Cramer Quartet, consisting of Ford
Cramer, Everett Pugh, Nouris Thies
and Hanna Booth.
After the music q pleasant social
hour was enjoyed.
The Claviarco Music Club, Mrs.
George Francis Williams, counselor,
gave a program of Christmas carols at
the Homeopathic Hospital at o'clock
Christmas eve, then went to the
Soldiers Home, where they gave pro-
gram in the mess hall" Later they
sang in the hospital and also caroled
in the open air outside the homes of
many friends.
Ralph Williams took his violin along
and accompanied their joyful tidings.
Fifth Baptist Church, at Seventh
and streets southwest, will present
an evening with the choir tonight. A
pageant in two scenes, with musical
numbers illustrating the first Christ
mas, will be given.
The first. scene predicts. the. coming