Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
MUSIGRAPHS

o'clock at All Souls Church (Unitarian),
sixteenth and Harvard streets. Mrs.
Potter will sing Cant de la Verge"
from an ancient mystery play and La
Colombia" a folk song arranged by
SCHNEIDER.
A short program OH the "Theremin,"
the new ether music instrument, was
presented by Zenaide Hanenfeldt before
a distinguished audience at tea given
by DR.. and Mrs. Hugh Roberts and
Nine. Hanenfeldt at the Washington
College of Music last Sunday afternoon.
1t was also the first appearance OF
Miss Hanenfeldt in connection with
the new School of Ether Music, afflliated
with the washington College of Music,
which Nine. Hanenfeldt, in answer to
numerous demands, is organizing in
and where ether music,
the music of the future" will be
taught by Miss Hanenfeldt and her
assistants.
The soloist for the German service
at Concordia Lutheran Church this
morning will be Esther Celander, So
prano, who will sing "Kommt Her Zu
him." from the Messiah" of Handel
At the English service the soloist will
be Cathreen Carrico, soprano, who will
sing 20 Lord, Have Mercy" by Stradella.
The chorus choir will sing the chorale
"AgnuS Del" of Decius and 1.-THE King
of Love My Shepherd Is" by Shelley,
with solos by Margaret Becker, con-
tralto, and Fred Strobel, baritone.
At the evening. service at 8 o'clock
Raymond Escherich, tenor will sing
Beside Still Waters" by Hamblen.
Phebe Gates will broadcast group
of Spanish songs Thursday night at 10
o'clock (station WJSV) and Saturday
night at o'clock (station WOL) on
special Spanish programs of the Walter
Holt Guitar Clubs. The guitar accom-
panimentS to her songs will be played
by A. Hill. Miss Gates is well known
in diplomatic circles, where her singing
of the Spanish songs at musicales has
become very popular.
The Capital City Choristers will sing
the cantata. THE Conversion of st.
Paul. by Matthews, Wednesday. at
the M. E. Church South in Alexan-
dria, Va.
The soloists will be Ella Mintz, Alice
Huber and Edith Beebe, sopranos;
Genevieve GerritS, contralto; Leslie
Coyle, tenor; Gilbert Clark. baritone;
Herbert Frawley, bass; Irving Horn,
Dorothy Radde Emery, pianist;
director.
Gilbert Clark, baritone, has been en-
gagged by Eva Whitford Lovette to sing
solos in the coming memorial service
which she is arranging in honor of her
late husband, DR.. Thomas Lovette. All
compositions rendered at this time will
be from the pen of DR.. Lovette.
Gertrude Lyons, lyric soprano, with
Margaret Bowie Grant at the piano,
gave a group of songs before the Unity
Society of Washington last Friday. She
sang Early Morning" Graham PeeD,
Songs My Mother Taught Me"
(DvoraH, "Harkl Hank! the Lark"
Woodman), There Are Fairies at the
Bottom of Our Garden" Liza Leh-
MANN.
Mrs. Lyons also gave group of Irish
songs for her radio hour over VOL
Tuesday, including "A Ballynure Bal
lad" II Know Where I'm Coin" "B
for Barney" all County Antrim folk
songs, and II Know My Love-" West
irish folk song; THE Little Irish Girl"
Hohr), IT Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble
Halls" from the Bohemian Girl
Irish, and the Low Back'd Car" Miss
Mabelle New Williams, violinist, q
graduate of the Ithaca Conservatory, >.
New York, and Beulah Beverly Cham
bers, pianist. will give a musical pro-
gram this afternoon at the Sunday aft
ernoon tea of the Women's City Club,
% Jackson place.
Prof. Eugene S. Costa. president of
the Herman School of Music, has
joined forces with the Washington
Conservatory of Music, at 1408 New
Hampshire avenue, as the head Of the
fretted instrument department there,
including guitar, tenor banjo, mandolin
and piano-accordeon. He makes OF
are in Europe. The guitar makes
fine solo instrument and is being heard
frequently in radio recitals.
Paganinni, the great violinist, Is said
to have often laid aside his violin for
months at time to devote his whole
energies to the guitar, which he played
like virtuoSo.
Programs given by the MadrigaI
Singers during March include those at
the Lutheran National Home and at
the John Dickson Home, with the regll-
lar appearance at the Walter Reed Hos
pital. Madrigals of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries are an important
part of these programs, which also in
clude folk songs and modern compost
tons.
Original interpretations of humorous
numbers and a fine. sense Of the art of
program making mark these presenta-
tons. The charming seventeenth cen
fury costumes worn by the group give
additional attraction to fresh, lovely
voices and careful training. The next
program will be given at the Florence
Crittenton Home Tuesday.
The personnel of the Madrigal Sing
ers is: Elizabeth Waters, Mary Def
limbaugh. Elizabeth Taylor Coping,
and Mary Lerch. Mrs. John Milton
Sylvester is director and accompanist,