Evening star., 1932-04-24
American Music Festival
Offers Woman Composers
In Week of Many Recitals
Festival Continues Through Week-T. Arthur
Smith Bureau Announces Concert Series-Ked-
rolf Quartet Appears Here This Week.

| II IMPORTANT events scheduled in the
continuation this week of the April
| Music Festival, featuring America S
| Il foremost woman composers, will in
clude porgrams today at the Con-
gressional Club, the University Women's s
! Club House, the Sears-Roebuck CAL
leries and the Women's City Club. To-
morrow night composers concert will
be given at the home of Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson, Tuesday night a program
will be offered at the Arts Club, and on
Wednesday night a concert by composer
members will be given at the Mount
Vernon M. E. Church South. These
programs have been arranged by Dor
othy DeMuth Watson, national chair
man Of music, League of American Pen
Women.
| This afternoon at 4:30 o'clock the
| composers who will be honored at the
Congressional Club will include Gena
Branscombe, Annabelle Morris Bu-
chanan, Reah Jackson Irien and Pearl
| Adams. Those taking part on the pro-
gram. besides the composers, will be
| TIE Capital City Choristers, the Ferrara
String Quartet and instrumentalists
from the National Symphony Orchestra,
Evelyn Randall, soprano; Harlan Ran
dali, baritone; Edmund Caldwell, tenor;
1 SebO4lCIn DCtlSOll,f eSCSOQlJd11Aobs an
Dorothy Radde Emery.
The program at the Women'S City
Club, which will be given this after
| noon at 4 pm, will feature music by
Mary Carr Moore, Marjorie E. Dudley,
/ Josephine Forsythe, Margaret Mcclure
Stitt and Phyllis Fergus. The music will
be interpreted by string quartet, Mrs.
Ralph Hill, soprano; Mrs. LaVerne
Simms Fairchtld, soprano, and Math1lde
Kolb, contralto.
| At 8 o'clock this evening at the Amer
lean Association of University Women
music by Mary Carr Moore, Bonita
Grove, Lulu Jones Downing, Louise
i Crawford and Gena Branscombe will
be offered by Elena de Sayn, violinist;
| Edward Vaccaro, cellist; Alfred Sal
maggi, tenor; Winifred Lakeman, pian-
! ist, and Carolyn Boardman Mcdonald,
soprano.
At the national presidents reception
| to be held at 9 o'clock tonight at the
| Sears -Roebuck Galleries, music by
Marianne Genet, Dorothy Radde Emery,
Phyllis Fergus, Francesca Vallejo, will
be presented by the male quartet from
the American University Glee Club,
Nine. Elvina Stalinska, soprano; DR..
George E. Anderson. tenor: the Cham
made Glee Club, Evelyn Randall, So
prano; Arthur M. Tabbutt, baSs-bari-
tone; the Ferrara String Quartet, the
Capital City Cboristers and Catherine
Benson, pianist.
The national concert, which is to be
held tomorrow night at the home Of
Mrs Eleanor Patterson will include
music by the winners of the prizes, In
| terpreted by Harlan Randall, baritone;
John E. Caldwell tenor, and the Fer
rara String Quartet.
The program at the Arts Club Tues
day night at $3.50 pm. has been called
with the League of American Pen
Women, Composers and Explorers"
The concert by composer members at
| the Mount Vernon M E. Church South
on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock
will include a cantata by Mrs. Beach
entitled THE Canticle of the Sum-" and
an organ and piano suite by Louise
Crawford Interpreters Of these works
and others will be the Mount Vernon
Church Choir, under the direction Of
r. Deane Shure, Ruth Shaffner, So
prano, from New York; Marshall Bid
well, organist; John l.. Mithcell, tenor,
and Arthur M Tabbutt, bass. Other
works by Josephine Forsythe and Dor
othy Radde Emery will be played.
FIvE-STAR CONCERT SERIES.
A INVOLVEMENT comes from the
Z Office of the T Arthur Smith Con-
cert Bureau that O. f1ve-star series
| will be given at Constitution Hall next
| season The series will open with the
| English singers, who have sung over
| 800 concerts in the leading cities Of
| this country. This opening event will