Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

NNE HULL and Mary Howe will
~ be heard in one of their eX-
"A tremely popular two-piano re-
1 A citals Friday at IL am, to be
presented before the members
of the Friday Morning Music Club. in
the auditorium of the Cosmos Club.
The program will be quite out of the
ordinary. The pianists will be assisted
by the National String Quartet. A
group of Three Minor Pieces" writ
ten by Mrs Howe, will open the pro-
gram. The first of the three is writ
ten for violoncello, violin and piano;
the second for string quartet. the third,
fugue, also for string quartet. Mrs.
Howe will play the piano part of the
| first piece"
Ethel Glenn Hier. another American
woman composer. will be represented by
her string quartet, "A Carolina Christ
mas Week"
! Mrs. Howe and Miss Hull then will
play two dances by Debussy. "Danse
Sacree' and "Danse Profane," and the
| finale will be Johann Sebastian Bach's
| Concerto for Two Pianos in G Minor"
to be presented by the two pianists and
the quartet. the latter composed of
| Henri Sckolov, Max RoSenstein, Samuel
Feldman and Richard Lorleberg.
| A recital was given Thursday under
| the auspices of Mrs. Savona Griest at
| her residence studio. All numbers were
credtably presented and received with
enthusiasm by a large audience of
| friends. The piano numbers showed
! good technique and phrasing and the
vocal students had good tone quality
and clear diction. Ballet dances were
presented by Edith and Shirley Strauss
1 Clt1ot VNlo hun
| and Marion Michael. Mrs. Griest sang
a group of songs and also played the
| final piano number.
Those participating included, in adj
dition to those mentioned, Lillian
| Pruitt, Hilda Ball, Sarah Kirkman,
Elizabeth Ahern, Ruth Creagger and
Sophie Crouch.
Anita Schade, president of the Ger
man Literary Society, will read the
| libretto, in German, of Wagner's opera
''Das Rheingold' before members and
| friends of the society, at her home,
1929 Rhode Island avenue northwest,
Tuesday at $3.50 pm.
Friday, February g. Miss Schade will
| give similar reading in German of the
original Bayreuth text for "Goetter-
daemmerung"
Margaret M. Slattery directed the
music at special veSper service in st.
| Stephens Church for the Holy Name
| Societies of several downtown parishes.
The choir was composed of Rose Green,
! Angelina Cliffo, Nora O'Connor, Eu-
genia Slattery, D. Power Stanton, DAN
lei Stanton, Bill Cross, Joseph Repetti,
William Curtin, Felix Murphy, Earl
| Grimes and Albert Henkel.
Katherine Cannon, mezzo-soprano,
was presented in recital by lie Roy
| Lewis at his studio Wednesday night,
when she sang songs by Schubert,
Grieg, Hageman, Sinding, Hahn, Cham
| made, Rogers, Branscombe, Weatherly,
Del Riego, Cadman and Lieurance
r. Deane Shure, Washington COM
| poser, will play for the first time in
| public, tonight, his new suite for organ,
| entitled From Yonder Chapel" The
| suite has five numbers, depicting the
| experiences which come to an organist
in the regular days routine of duties.
The sub-titles are: "Dawn's Ecstacy''
wedding march,, "Fount of Faith"
baptism music, Altar Tears" (com-
munion), Divine Alteration" (prayer)
Lament of Twilight" funeral march,
/
Bermuda suite for organ, is being issued
| by leading New York publisher and
will be played in England and British
possessions as we'll as in this country.
The Chaminade Glee Club, Esther
Linkins, director, and Gertrude Walter
accompanist, will present a program
! jointly with Katherine Riggs, harpist
at the American Association of Uni.
versity Women'S headquarters tomorrow
night.
| The club will sing a group of work:
by SproSs, also songs by Brahe-Lucas
Vincert, Del Riego and Schubert-Saar
Miss Riggs will play works by Perilhou
Beaujoyeuse, Scarlatti, Loukine, Proko-
| fieff and Borodine.
4 Ruby Smith Stahl, soprano and di-
rector of the First Congregations
Choir, has two vacancies for second
sopranos and one for first tenor, fol
which she will be glad to hear appli-
cants in anticipation of an a cappells
program soon to be announced.
Recently the choir has received the
offer of a well known manager to put
it on tour, though because of the
business connections of the majority
of its members, such an expedition
would be fraught with difficulties
However, for this and other reasons
applications for membership in al
voices will be welcomed from those in
terested in doing this exacting type OF
singing.
AS new members are accepted anc
become familiar with the music. Older
members will be given an opportunity
to sit in the audience to listen, or an
occasional service of.
Mary O'Donoghue, meZzo-soprano
who was second in the local AtwateI
Kent contest, is in demand as soloist
since gaining this distinction. Last
week she was on the air In the Homer
in a program with Edna Jones and
Rita Mower, with Alexander Henne-
man at the piano. in a concert In
charge of Mrs Margaret Smith in the
Holy Comforter Hall Wednesday night
In conjunction with the Cantabile
Chorus, which Alexander Henneman
directs, she will be heard next Satur-
day night over the radio.
George Beuchler, baritone. is substi-
tuting at the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart for Talbert Haslett, who was
stricken with appendicitis the past
week. Mr.. Boucher probably will be
member of the solo quartet when the
Sacred Heart Choir gives its concert
February at the Willard Hotel.
Plans for this concert are progressing
favorably and the choir is putting forth
its best efforts to make the event both
a musical and social success.
The other soloistS are Mabel G. Lati-
mer, soprano Hazel G. Arth, contralto;
Robert NJ. OLone, tenor.
An interesting program of songs was
presented under the auspices of Otto
Torney Simon Friday at the regular
addition hour at the Institute Of Mu-
steal Art. Those participating were;