Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
NJ USIGRAPHS

RETE L~orleberg Won Bayer will
play the following piano selec-
U lions at the meeting at 8 pm.
~ Saturday of the German Liter
airy Society at the home of Miss
Anita Schade: Sonata, Opus 49, No.
O." by Beethoven: "Grillen," by Schu-
mann: "Nocturne in F Minor. by
Schumann, and prelude and Fantasia
Impromptu," by Chopin.
Mrs. Won Bayer also will accompany
the reader, Miss Schade. in the melo-
drama THE Minstrel's Curse" a ballad
by Ludwig INLAND, with music by Mar
tin Roeder.
January meeting of the Washington
Readers Club Tuesday, wearing an old
fashioned costume and illustrating the
subject, AUD Lang Syne." Mrs. Gray
recently entertained at a banquet given
for the retiring controller of the cur
rency, Mr.. Mcintosh, at the Carlton
Hotel. She also has sung for the XII
wants Club of Frederick, Md. and the
Haywood class of Foundry NJ. E.
Church for its annual party, given at
the ChaStleton.
The Columbia Music Co., Inc, of
~IlICII 0OHIIOCICS L. 1dRdo ~ t4AC NAlCoAy
| the issue of a catalogue OF
imported guitar music. This catalogue
is said to contain the works Of all the
guitar masters and transcriptions of
works by other classical composers, in
Guiding all compositions in the roper
toire Of Andres Segovia, Spanish guitar
ist, who Is now touring this country.
Katherine Riggs, concert, harpist of
yXTochtt4nfNn 0nvQ a roNitQ1 last NIGHT
at the National Cathedral School be-
fore the faculty, students and their
friends.
Miss Riggs played some old harpsi-
chord numbers, including compositions
by Scarlatti, Perilhou, Daquin, Beau
joyeuse and Rameau, as we'll as several
| groups of modern numbers by Loukin,
Borodin, Tournier and Prokofieff.
This afternoon at 5 o'clock, in All
Souls Church ~(Unitarian), Sixteenth
and Harvard streets, Lewis Atwater,
organist, will play a program OF Ameri-
can music.
He will be assisted by Flora McGill
Keefer, mezzo-contralto, who will sing
Allah" by Chadwick, and Light" by
LaForge.
The public is cordially invited.
The Washington Conservatory Of Mu-
sic, which Is incorporated as a public
institution, is following the idea of
European Conservatives controlled by
state governments) offering free courses
in music to children between the ages
of 4 and IA.
This is done to discover and foster
talented youngsters-the musicians of
the future.
Applications may be made in person
bv the child's parents or by telephone,
North 6244.
The Conservatory Of Music is located
on New Hampshire avenue adjoining
Dupont Circle. The free courses are in
violin. piano, voice and sight reading.
The Washington College Of Music
has organized q string-wood ensemble.
The best music has been selected at
the Library of Congress, with the as
sistance Of Carl Engel. Mrs. Fanny
Amstutz Roberts, head Of the theater
organ department of the college and In
charge Of the theory department,
brought back with her from Cleveland,
Ohio, where she and DR.. Roberts at
tended the music teachers convention
during the holidays, a number of COM
positions arranged for strings and wood
wind.
The college cordially invites string
and woodwind players to attend the
rehearsals Tuesday evenings at 7:45
o'clock, feeling that it has something
worth while to offer serious musicians.
1.-TWO Centuries With the American
Composer" Is the title of a college and
conservatory text book DIR. Edwin N. G..
Bornes, director of music in the public
schools, Is preparing for the publishers.
He also plans to present a course Of
similar title at Washington College Of
Music. beginning February 4.
The book is divided into IL periods
and contains the biographies of over 200
composers. The periods are "Pre-Revo-
luton 1~,700-1775": "Post-Revolution,
1%775-180O"; Early Nineteenth Century,
1800-1840"; Middle Nineteenth Cen
fury, 1%S4O-1s60";; "Civh War Decade,
| 1860-1870"; Decade After the Civil
War, 1%87O-1880"; Decade of Artistic
Awakening, 1880-189O'; Closing Decade
of the Nineteenth Century, 1890-I9OO";
Opening Decade Of the Twentieth Cen
fury, 1900-1910"; World War Decade,
1~910-1920": Decade of Reconstruction,
192O-1930."
The book Is profusely illustrated with
reproducing piano and talking machine
| recordings.
Each period Is preceded by q Fore
word" These short introductions are
planned so that when combined they
will form q short history Of the progress
Of music in America.
Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, director
accompantSt, announces the following
changes in the personnel Of the Madri-
gal Singers: First sopranos, Lois Lille,
Elizabeth Waters: second sopranos,
Pearl Shindel Heffner, Elizabeth Taylor
Coping; first altos, Lucy Hopkins,
Norma Hughes; second altos, Cordelia
Eeffner Brown, Mary Lerch.
Miss Lille and Miss Hopkins take the
places of Miss Skinner and Miss Kerns
in the first soprano and first alto sec
lions. respectively.
This afternoon at 4:3O the vested
choir of st. Margaret's Church, Con-
necticut e and Bancroft place, will
render the Christmas cantata, 1.-THE
Holy Child" composed by John Adams,
organist of st. Adams Church, Holborn,
London.
The soloists will be Mrs. r. j. McFall,
soprano: Mrs. william H. Beck, con-
tralto; George Anderson, tenor; E. Kid
well. bass.
The event will be under the direction
Of Donald B. Macleod, organist and
choirmaster.
DR.. Albert Harmed. director of the
National Capital Oratorio Association,
is recovering satisfactorily from a Sc
we're attack Of double pneumonia and