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Annual Convention.

THE thirty-first annual convention Of
the American Guild of Banjoists,
Mandolinists and Guitarists will take
place on Thursday. Friday and Satur-
day Of this week. The president OF this
organization is Walter T. Holt OF this
city; William Butt Griffith of Atlanta.
Ga, is vice president and Miss s.
Franklin Harvey, also of this city, Is
secretary-treasurer.
Featured in this convention will be
the guild festival concert to be given
at the Washington Hotel on Thursday
evening at 8:15 o'clock. This will also
be the thirty-third annual concert OF
the Nordica Mandolin and Guitar Or
chestra, Nordica Hawaiian Guitar and
Ukulele Club and Nordica Banjo Club,
under the direction of Mr.. Holt.
Soloists at this concert, beside Mr..
Holt, will include Kenneth G. Warren
of Binghamton, N Y; Esther L. Linger
of this city, Laura Mason Crisp cStar-
light") of Kansas City, Mo-; Conrad
Gebelein of E@ltimore, Md; Fred j.
Bacon of Groton, Conn, and Alice E.
Hill of this city.
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MURPHY RECITAL WEDNESDAY.
Harmed to Direct Chorus.

DR. ALBERT w. HARMED, director
Of the National Capital Choir, has
been selected TO direct the great chorus
which is to participate in The, Great
American" a pageant-drams of George
Washington. This was amounted yes
terday by DR.. George c. Havenner, ex-
ecutive vice president of the District
OF Columbia Bicentennial Commission,
which body. together with the United
States Bicentennial Commission, Is
sponsoring the great George WASH
ington pageant play, which is to take
place on the Washington Monument
Grounds. June 90 to Is inclusive. More
than 1000 persons will participate in
this pageant and the chorus will have
much to do with the success Of the
event.
The bands of the United States
Army, Navy and Marine Corps, will
furnish the music on that occasion.
DR.. Harmed announced that the first
rehearsal of the great chorus will take
place tomorrow evening at 7:45 O'Clock
in Corcoran Hall, George Washington
University Twenty-first street. between
G and H streets northwest, and there
after on the same evening each week
until the days of the pageant
1t is his request that all persons who
desire to join in this great chorus and
participate in this historic event shall
meet with him at the first rehearsal
tomorrow evening
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Local Notes

A T the American War Mothers
~ annual service to be held this
Il afternoon at the Arlington
4 u Amphitheater at 2 o'clock. Rep
resentative Clifton H. Woodrum
of Virginia will sing Little Mother of
Mine; Gertrude Lyons will sing "Out
of the Night the Bugle Blows" and Dor
othy Reddish will sing Sweet Mother
Mine" written by the wife of Repre-
sentative Lozier of Missouri. The Navy
Band, under the leadership of Lieuten-
ant Benter, will play incidental music
during the service.
Announcement has been made that
the pupils of Bessie N Wild will be pre-
sented in recital at the Women's City
Club on Wednesday evening, MAY l3, at
Sis pm. This is to be a Colonial
program and it will be presented in
Colonial costume. A recital of the In
termediate Class. also a Colonial pro-
gram, will be given on Tuesday eve
ming at g. clock at the Takoma Park
Baptist Church.
The Rubinstein Club will hold its
annual banquet at the Willard Hotel
Tuesday evening at $50 o'clock.
Minnie Volkmann. soprano, was solo,
ist on Wednesday evening at the Spring
concert of Trinity Lutheran Church.
Baltimore. Md.
Elizabeth Gardner Coombs. pianist
and Frieda Hauf Irwin. yiolinist, were
featured recently in musical program
given at Colonial dinner in honor Of
Secretary Wilbur by George Freeman
Pollock, at Skyland. Va.
Sophocles Papas announces that the
fifth annual concert and dance ct which
he presents his pupils will be given on
Tuesday, May II. The major groups
that will participate are the Columbia
Mandolin, Hawaiian, Guitar and Banjo
Orchestras. There will also be featured
various small ensembles and soloists.
announcement of which will be made
later.
A graduation recital was given at
the Institute of Musical Art. 831
Eighteenth street northwest, last Fri
day evening by Anne B. Marley, violin
ist, assisted by Emily Bishop, pianist.
Mrs. Marley played compositions by
Handel. Brahms. Kreutzer, Svendsen,
from Brahms, Chopin-Liszt and Wien
iawski.-
Elsa Louise Raner, violinist, repeated
her lecture-recital. THE History OF the
Violin" for the final regular Tuesday
morning meeting of the washington
Club, April 26. Miss Raner has given
this recital several times during the
past season. Marie C. Hansen was at
the piano.
The program for the Sunday after
noon Music Hour at the Y w. c. A.
at O'Clock will be given by students
of the music division. Those appear
ing on the program will be Pauline Ter
rel and Louise McNerney, pianists; /;
Alma Day. soprano, and Thelma Math-
ews. contralto.
Miss Pearl Waugh. teacher Of piano
will preside for the program and will
give notes In regard to the piano num-
bers played.
Washington Alumnae Club. Of Mu
Phi Epsilon, national honorary musical
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Special Junior Concert.

THE junior department of the Dis
trict of Columbia Federation Of
Music Clubs, under the direction
of Ivalee Newell, junior chairman, has
arranged a special program for the
visiting members of the governing
board Of the National Federation Of
Music Clubs, which is holding its an
nual meeting at the Mayfiower Hotel,
May to IA. The concert will take
place in Sears, Roebuck Art Galleries,
llc6 Connecticut avenue tomorrow aft
ernoon at 4:30 O'Clock. The program is
as follows:
japanese Doll Dance" doy symphony,
American Music Appreciation Club.
Sonata in c" (adagio-presto) 49,. Haydn
Charlton Meyer.
Presented by Frances Gutelius
Georss AMOUR. Emile Joseph. Eliza
Presented By iyalee Newell.
"solfesietto' piano solol x. p. Z. Bach
Like as tie Har ehor enc wsm NoVeo Button
How Beautiful Are the Feet" vocal soiol.
.Morie Thomas.
'Jesu. Joy Of Mans Desiring Bach
Seen. !. ssst 5y 5y,dI Either Lnkin
Minu.tP Pressnsed 9nane s6lo 6y Josef KaspaP
..--, Presented BY Kathryn Arthur
The Swan tcsllo solol Saint -saens
Presented BY Daisy Fickenscher
Jaeaueline Embrey.
Presented by Evelyn Davis.
Andante from the Fifth SYMPHONY"
sosef kAsDar violin sussSSls SdlsA'''''
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Symphony Assured

Garfinckle has been one of the largest
contributors to the orchestra.
Further announcements include Hans
Kindler's current departure for Europe
and his return to this country in July
to be guest conductor with the Phila-
delphia Orchestra as we'll as soloist with
the same group: the news that up to
date there have been 300 donors to the
guarantee fund and approximately 1000
to the subscription fund; that already
the orders for season tickets are very
large, and that the orchestra may pos
sibly give a regular symphony series in
Richmond. following its successful debut
there last week.
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John Alden Carpenters
Song of Faith" Remains
Unsung in Washington
Important Work Not Performed as Yet-Was
Written at the Request of the George Wash
ington Bicentennial Commission.
By E. de S. Melcher.

~ F Mr.. John Alden Carpen-
ter's Song of Faith"
" which was mentioned
earlier in the year in these
columns, Mr.. Lawrence Gilman
has plenty to say in a current
article in the New York Herald
Tribune.
This work now may be recorded
as being among the unperformed
musical compositions in tbs city
and one which was written at the
express command of the George
washington Bicentennial Com
mission. So when Mr.. Gilman
says New York, in its usual dila-
tory fashion where new music is
concerned, has yet to acknowl-
edge the existence of a notable
new work by one of the most dis
tinguiShed of American composers,
though Mr.. Walter DamroSch.
enterprising as usual, conducted
a broadcast performance of the
piece in February" Washington
may feel doubly guilty-particu-
larly since the Bicentennial cele-
brationS are going on right and
left producing much that is good
in music, and also much that is,
perhaps, not half so worthy as
Mr.. Carpenters interesting work.
AS Mr.. Gilman states: 1T is a
curious fact that patriotism, one
of the most deep-seated and
urgent of human emotions, should
have yielded so little of music of
f1rst-rate quality. Love of God,
love of woman-theSe have been
transmitted by composers into
music that is among the greatest
that we possess. But love of
country has stirred men to no
such profundities and ecstasies of
song. 1t is not likely that
Mr.. John Alden Carpenter, Gre
ative artist, whose sensibility and
fervor are guided by an intelli-
gence that is delectably humorous
and poised, had any idea of chal-
lenging the high gods of tone
when he composed his Song of
Faith Yet the result that he
achieved Is in several ways re-
markable, and it has had less rec
ognition than it deserves"
This recognition, particularly
here under the very shadow Of
the Washington Monument, should
be brought about in one way or
another. The fact that Song of
Faith" was performed by the
Boston Symphony in February
and by the Chicago Symphony at
approximately the same time, and
has been recorded by the RCA-
Victor Co. on two 10-inch discs
(by' the Chicago a Capella Choir,
directed by Noble Cain-with SYM
phony orchestra and organ)
should make certain local orcheS-
trail and singing organizations
blush with remorse. To have such
composition lying neglected
around music shelves seems a
very great shame, and to have
some of the rest of the country
take it up (even If New York has
passed 1t by) and not Washing
ton-at least, not yet-is a mu-
sical crime of major proportions.
The composer has said: I'm the
writing of this work I have come
to new realization of the price
less inheritance that has come
down to us from George Wash
ington. I have felt, more than
ever before, that the enduring
value of this inheritance is based
not primarily on his military gen.
ius, or his contribution to the arts
of government, but on the self
less integrity of his character.
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1T is from that character that
we inherit the great American
dream-the dream which has
sustained us through storms and
trials, and which at this very mo-
ment we must strive in deepest
sincerity to recapture. For the
whole world is beSet by a danger
GUS psychology of defeat which
for us is but the modern counter
part of the SHOWS of Valley Forge.
And it is for our country now to
raise its eyes in the faith of its
founders and lead the way out.
And, therefore, if my Song of
Faith can succeed in lighting one
single candle of reaffirmation, I
shall be content"
Proof of Mr.. Carpenters sue
cess is visible in the quiet dignity
and the absence of rhetoric
from its "meditative and sober
pages" Those who have looked
over the score will recall the hint
of Yankee Doodle" in certain
sections and the lightness of its
tonal beauty II the place CT
bombaSt and terrific excitement.
Mr.. Gilman says: There are NO
brass bands, no blatant stump
speakers, suggested in this mu-
sic: no bombs burst in the air
from which it takes it's breath,
and its most impressive moments
are moments of almost devotional
quiet and absorption"
1t is, in other words, a musical
tribute of affection, done in Mr..
Carpenters best vein, neither
overstuffed with patriotism nor
underStuffed with skim milk en-
thusiasm. 1t is work worthy Of
the honor bestowed on it by the
Bicentennial Committee. 1t should
have, long since, been produced
on a grand scale in this city.
WHAT promises to be an inter-
esting event of the near fu-
ture is the appearance of Will
liam Rodon, former soloist with
the Metropolitan and Chicago
Opera Co.'S ballet, in a recital at
Wardman Park Theater on the
night of May. "a. Mr.. Rodon,
famed for the agility of his dane
ing feet, is being presented in this
recital by Mrs. Adolf Torovsky, as
a benefit for the guarantee fund
of the National Symphony Or
chestra. He will, incidentally, in
clude on his program the Debussy
"A'Apres midi dune Faun," in
which he will be assisted by Joan
Farnham.
Mr.. Rodon's first recital in this
city should be of particular inter
est to the world of the dance,
since his methods are said to ex-
press more of the masculisms of
an Escudero than some of the
more eSthetic revelations of some
of the other dancers. His school
ing at the Metropolitan was evi-
IDENTIFY of an auspicious nature
inasmuch as Mr.. Edward Ziegler
has said of him that he Is "a
painstaking and efficient artist"
His friends in the Thirty ninth
street opera house seem to be
legion, too-and such exalted
names as Rosa Ponselle, Lucrezia
Bori, Leon Rothier, de Luca and
others will appear on the program
as well-wishers and sponsors.
Different, too, will be this recital,
since, beside Mr.. Rodon, Lillian
Moore of the Metropolitan ballet
and Kathryn Reese, a former
Martha Graham pupil, will ap-
pear as SoloiSts.
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Concert by Fisk Singer.

EDWARD MATTHEWS. baritone, and
formerly a member of the Fisk
University Singers. will be presented in
recital here on Tuesday evening, May II,
at 8:l5 O'Clock. The concert is sched-
uled to take place at Lincoln Congre-
gational Temple. Mr. Matthews, who
has been highly successful on his many
concert appearances, is at present d.
rector Of Negro music at Fisk Univer-
sity. Nashville, Tenn.
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" HE Executive Committee Of the
National Symphony Orchestra
has announced that a symphony
l. series will be held next season in
this city, although the SIS, 200
guarantee fund is still incomplete The
dates for these concerts, which will in
clude symphony series, a Sunday after
noon popular series and childrens Sc
ries. are announced as follows with the
exception of the childrens concerts,
which will take place, as they did during
this season, in the morning at the Central
High School auditorium) The Thurs
day afternoon symphony concerts at
4:45 pm. will be given October 20, No
vember 8, December /, 1882; January
10, February 9. March 2. March % and
April 8, 1885, the Sunday afternoon
popular concerts will take place Octo-
Der 80, November 13, December II. De-
cember 20. 1882 January 20, February
19 and March IL, 1888.
Concurrently with this announcement
comes the news that the new Offices of
the orchestra, c. C. Cappel. manager.
VIII be located in Garfinckle's, and
that they will be officially installed
there on the first floor Nav is. Mr..
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Gabrielle Bernier Recital.

EEL1AN GARzIA is presenting Cab
rielle Bernier, pianist, at the Arts
Club on Wednesday evening. This is
the fourth piano recital given by four
pupils Of Mr.. Garzia this season The
program will include the Mozart Con-
certo in c minor, three Debussy num-
bers and works by Bach, Scarlatti,
Chopin, Schumann and Saint Saens.
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Madame Schumann-Heink.
And Paulist ChOristers
To Sing Here This Week,
Other Features of Bicentennial Music Week In
clude Massed Chorus Singing Cantata
And Hoxie Harmonca Band.
w y1TH Americas beloved song

E: : ::: q; '' 4: ;;: $#: q;
week, arranged under the
auspices of the District of Columbia
George Washington Bicentennial Com
mission, will open in Constitution Hall
tomorrow night with a program to be
continued nightly at $50 o'clock
through next Friday evening.
Nine. Schumann- -Heink arrived In
Washington last evening In fulhllment
of a promise made months ago to the
local George Washington Bicentennial
Commission to lend her voice in tribute
to George Washington whenever the
District commission should call upon
her. At the concert tomorrow night
she will sing two longtime favorttes
with American audiences-'Danny Boy"
and Taps"
Nine. Schumann- -Heink Is making
her re-entry to Washington as soloist
with the Philadelphia Harmonica Band,
which, under the leadership of Albert
N. Hoxie, will present program OF
unique and varied interest. Sixty Phil
adelphia school boys, ranging in age
from 10 to II years, comprise this band,
which for more than 10 years has been
in the forefront of the harmonica move
ment in this country.
The general program, opening with
such promise on Monday evening, will
include a wide range of musical talent,
night by night, until the end of the
series Friday evening with a concert
by the Senior and Junior High Schools
Of Washington, under the direction of
DR.. Edwin N. c. Barnes, supervisor of
music in the Washington public schools
The world-famous Paulist Choirsters
will present the program on Tuesday
evening, May TO- This is the first time
this choir has been in Washington for
years. It's response was prompt to
the invitation to participate In the
Bicentennial Celebration extended by
Dr. George c. Havenner, executive vice
president of the local commission. The
program to be presented by the Paulist
Choirsters will include secular as well
as sacred music and will range all the
way from lullabies of the thirteenth and
sixteenth centuries to modern Russian
| works.
On Wednesday evening, May IL. a
| massed chorus will present the cantata.
| Washington, assisted by the United
States Marine Band Orchestra. Capt
Taylor Branson. leader. This cantsta-
text by Edward c. Potter and music by
r. Deane Shure-was especially written
for the George Washington Bicenten-
NAL The chorus has been organized
by Mrs. Gertrude Lyons president of
the District of Columbia Federation of
! Music Clubs.
/ A special offering will be announced
for Thursday evening, and the program
by the public schools will be given on
Friday evening.
SPECIAL MUSICAL SERVICE.
DELEGATES here for the National
~ Board and Council meeting of the
Federation of Music Clubs, which con-
venes tomorrow at the Mayfiower Hotel.
have been invited to attend the special
musical service tonight at o'clock at
the First Congregational Church, it has
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been announced by Gertrude Lyons,
president of the District of Columbia
Federation of Music Clubs. Mrs. Lyons
is in charge of arrangements for the
meeting, which is being held in con-
junction with the George Washington
Bicentennial Music week, beginning to-
morrow.
The A Capello Choir of the First
Congregational Church, under the di-
rection of Ruby Smith Stahl, will render
concert tonight, including special re-
quest numbers recently sung at choir
concert. Rev. A. A. Stockdale, d. D.,
pastor, will deliver a brief address on
Music" Mrs. E. James Ottaway, presi-
dent of the National Federation, viii be
present at the service to speak on the
subject. Music in Religious Education"
Several hundred delegates represent
ing every State in the Union, are ex-
pected to be present for the annual
meeting of the National Federation,
which is sponsoring Bicentennial Music
week.
GARDINER DANCE PROGRAM.
"T'HE Program of Dances" to be pre-
= sented by Lisa Gardiner and her
Theater Saturday evening at $50
o'clock will include a classical ballet,
"Chopiniana." danced to Chopin's music,
to be followed by advertisements IN
classical form, including The De-
butante" to music by Delibes: THE
Little st. JOAN" to music by Schubert;
Fragment" (after Fra Angelico) to
music by Davies; Puck" to Grieg's
music: Lady With Mask" TO GodoW-
sky's music; Ruoinstein's "Valse Ca
price: Sor's Theme Varie." and others.
all of which have been arranged by Miss
Gardiner for this recital.
The 'Jamia" ballet Is modern in con-
ception and treatment, and is danced
to music by Balikirew. Its divertisse-
ments have been arranged to music by
Debussy, Lemaire, Moskowsky, Drigo,
Brahms. Strauss and Chaninaoe. The
third group is largely Spanish in char
acter and the music chosen for the
numbers lists such composers as Grana-
dos, Valverde, de Falla, Rubinstein and
Lope.
"Chopiniana" will present such dane
ers as Miss Gardiner, Anne Vucina-
vich, Kathleen Piazza, Lizzi Yoder and
the Misses Vaughan, Becker, Duns-
combs, Hortenstein, Bounds, Berkeley.
Rsnds. Stewart and Hunter.
Edith H. Hunter will be accompanist
for the Lisa Gardiner Dancers.
MURPHY RECITAL WEDNESDAY.
A INVOLVEMENT has been made
that the orman-Frauenheim Art
ist-Pupils Series will be inaugurated in
this city on Wednesday evening of this
week when Richard Murphy will pre-
sent a piano recital at Barker Hall at
$3.50 p. m.
Mr. Murphy. recently presented In
kAzk~ ~ - -T..A~
his program Beethoven's Sonata, Op
81, No. g." Mendelssohn's "Prslude and
Fugue in E Minor" the Myra Hess ar
rangement of the Bach Chorale. Jesus,
Joy of Mans Desiring" and works by
Scarlatti, Chopin, Debussy and Liszt
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SPECIAL MUSICAL SERVICE.

DELEGATES here for the National
- Board and Council meeting of the
Federation of Music Clubs. which con-
venes tomorrow at the Mayf1ower Hotel.
have been invited to attend the special
musical service tonight at 8 o'clock at
the First Congregational Church, 1t has
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. Mr.. John Alden Carpen- "It is from that charac
1 ter's Song of Faith" we inherit the great A
J uh,.L dream-the dream viii
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CONVENTION DRAWS
MANY FROM D. c..
Delegates Will Leave Today,
Accompanied by Numerous
Spectators.

The Republican National Convention
in Chicago this week will draw numer-
Gus spectators from the District of Co.
lumbia who will accompany the DIS
trict delegation, which leaves this aft
ernoOn.
Hopeful Of obtaining approval from
the Resolutions Committee and the con-
vention Of o plank In the 1882 platform
favoring representation in Congress for
the District, the local delegates will
join the majority which is expected to
renominate President Hoover and Vice
President Curtis.
Headquarters for the local delegates
and visitors were established last week
by Samuel j. Prescott, chairman Of the
State Committee in and for the District
of Columbia, who has opened an ONCE
for the duration Of the convention IN
the Blackstone Hotel which will be the
residence Of the District delegation.
Mr.. Prescott, accompanied by the
Districts National Committee members,
Edward F. Colladay and Mrs. Virginia
White Speel, went to Chicago ahead Of
the major part of the delegation to at
tend pre-convention committee meet
ings, hear contest cases in connection
With the seating Of delegates and COM
plete arrangements for the official dele
gates.
The oficial District delegates are Ed
gar C. Snyder, United States marshal,
and Rev. w. H. Jernagin, colored, pastor
Of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church
Rev. George F1ske Dudley. rector of the
Church of St. Stephen and the Incar-
nation. and Francis Wells, colored, are
the alternates.
Accompanying the delegation and at
tending as spectators will be Charles D.
Hamel, Mrs. Estelle w. Douglas, Mrs
Carrie Pratt, Mrs. Nellie F. v. Lyons
and Stephen Colladay. Secretary Of
Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde and q party
will join the local group in the special
car today. while Claude w. Owens and
Joshua Evans. jr.. vice chairman and
secretary Of the local State Committee,
expect to attend the convention for q
brief period later in the week. Other
local Republicans left several days ago.
while additional members Of the party
have arranged to make the trip tomor-
row or Tuesday.
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publican party in some of the Southern
States, movement which was under
taken socn after Mr.. Hoover went into
Office. The Old Guard in the National
Committee has resented, to some ex-
tent, the activities of Postmaster Gen
eral Brown in the matter, and yester-
day showed its resentment.
The Republican convention, however,
promises at this date to pass off quietly
enough, except for the struggle over
prohibition The ruction over the vice
presidential nomination has been manu-
factured by a few leaders and has still
far to 60 before 1t can amount to
much. With Congress In session in
Washington, many Of the strongest and
most prominent leaders of the party
will be absent from the convention.
Who will take command Of the situa-
ton should the convention start to get
out Of hand over liquor or the vice
presidency, IS still matter Of conjec-
ture. There have been plaintive walls
from some Of the National Committee
for Senator George H. Moses of New
Hampshire to come out here and put
some ginger into the convention with
rip snorting speech.