Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28
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A RECITAL of piano music by selim
Palmgren. distinguished Finnish
composer, will be given Friday by
Katherine Dunning of Washington at
radio Station VOL at 6:45 pm.
This is the first of special series
of piano recitals. These special recitals
will present works by Granger, Cyril
Scott DebuSey and others. The plan is
10 give these exquisite tone poems that
have been composed by the so-called
modernists before radio listeners.
Selim Palmgren is one of the out
standing composers for the piano of
modern times. A native of Finland and
stepped in the folk music of his coun-
try. he has had distinguished career as a
concert pianist as we'll as composer and
director of choral music He came to
America several years ago and was as
ISOLATED with the Eastman School in
Rochester, N. Y, and made a concert
tour Of the United States.
H. Clifford Adams, tenor, will be solo,
lSG at Concordia Lutheran Church. this
morning at both the German and
English services.
He will sing the recitative Eye People
Rend Your Heart, and the aria '.if
With All Your Hearts Ye Truly Seek
Me" from the oratorio Elijah" of
Mendelssohn.
John r. Monroe is organist and choir
master of the church.
Little Sylvia Helder, violin student of
Ernst vladimir Ladoyitch. of the
Washington Conservatory of Music,
gave a concert recently at Hot Springs,
Va. where she played Seitzs violin
Concerto No. w." and was enthusiast
tically received. responding with several
encores. She also played recently in a
radio recital here. giving Wieniawski's
"Legende" and Kreisler-Lehar's "Fras-
quita."
Two Washington Conservatory of
Mus1c's student orchestra gave the en-
tire flrst symphony of Beethoven at its
semi-public rehearsal Wednesday eve
ming, amid the applause of friends and
relatives OF the orchestra members. This
number will be given in the August
concert of the conservatory.
A joint piano recital of classical
music by Conrad Bernier and Fritz
loder will be given this afternoon at
o'clock in the auditorium of Mcmahon
Hall, at Catholic University.
Selections written by Mozart. Bee
thoven and Chopin will be presented.
The public Is cordially invited.
Mary Helen Howe, coloratura So
prano. has returned from Frederick.
Md, where she was soloist for the
opening of Baker Park Her numbers
included the waltz song from Romeo
and Juliet" Sing. Smile. Slumber." by
Gounod. and Autumn by Matthews.
She was accompanied by the Baker
Park Orchestra, under the direction of
Maud Waters Dittmar.
Miss Howe was enthusiastically re-
ceived and invited to make a return
engagement before the park concert
series closes. Mrs. Dittmar directed her
orchestra in delightful program of
classic and popular numbers.
These park concerts have become a
civic pride of Frederick and are patron
lied by Marylanders from far beyond
the limits of Frederick County.
While in Frederick Miss Howe also
was soloist at the Evangelical Reformed
Church, singing 20 Divine Redeemer."
by Gounod. with Mrs. Dittmar at the
organ.
Ards Iona Atkinson, who was grad
uated from Syracuse University last
year with highest honors in the School
OF Music, will be guest soloist this eve
ming at the Lincoln Road Methodist
Episcopal Church.
For the past year Miss Atkinson has
been organist-chorister Of the Towson
M. E.. Church near Baltimore. She is
organ1st pianist and soprano.