The Washington times., 1933-05-19
ELKS BOYS BAND
IN CONCERT
TONIGHT

6C1lG JIIG ALAOAl VA " S~AANS N
spring concerts tonight at 1880
at Griffith Stadium.
The band was recently awarded
first prize in the competition for
boys bands of the District of Co
lumbia, sponsored by the Board
of Trade. The judges were Capt.
Taylor Branson, of the U. >.
Marine Band; Lieut.. Charles Ben
ter, of the U. S. Navy Band; Capt
William Stannard, OF the U. 5.
Army Band.
The concert will be under the
direction of James l.. KldWell,
assisted by Lawrence Leer, assis-
tant director.
Katherine Riggs, concert harp
list, and Anne Yago McGuffey,
prima donna contralto, will be
heard in program of music
this afternoon at 4:30, at Martha
Washington Seminary. Miss Riggs
will play a group of delightful
old troubadour melodies. Mrs.
McGuffey, accompanied by Mrs.
Earl Wagner, will sing Secchls
'Lungi dal caro- bene"; the Aren-
sky-Koshetz "Valse"; Gretchanin-
offs MY Native Land and
Saint Saen's MY Heart at Thy
Sweet Voice" For their final
number, Miss Riggs and Mrs, Nc
Guffey will be heard in Hunting
ton Woodman's Il Am Thy
Harp"
At the annual breakfast of the
International Federation of Catho-
lie Alumnae Sunday morning at
the Mayflower Hotel, Mrs. Fred
Rice. chairman of music. will pre-
sent Miss Grace Mary Colliflower.
winner of the recent oratorjcal
contest; Miss Marion Mccarthy,
soprano; Miss Edna Jones, con-
tralto; Miss Rosanne Roach,
reader; Miss Leontine Gallen-
horn, ezzo-soprano; Miss Pau
line Grant, pianist, and Miss
Angela Brosnan. accompanlst.
A presentation of unusual musi-
cal interest will be given Dy the
choir of st. Margaret's Church, in
the Parish Hall, Connecticut Ave.
and Bancroft Pl. N. w., on the
evening of May % at O'Clock,
Charlotte Klein, organist and choir
director. conducting.
A. Goring Thomas cantata,
""The Swan and the Skylark,' a
collaboration of the romantic
English poets John Keats, Percy
Bysshe Shelley and Felicia He
mans, will be given.
The solo parts will be sustained
by Carolyn Boardman Mcdonnell,
soprano: Vera Rose, contraito;
George E. Anderson, tenor, and j.
Edgar Kidwell and Erbin G.
Thomas. bassos. Miss Klein will
be the accompanist.
The Symphony Orchestra Of
Howard University will appear in
annual concert next Wednesday
evening at 8 o'clock in Andrew
Rankin Chapel.
On Saturday at 4 p. m. the
Junior Violin Department will
give it's annual recital in chapel,
and at o'clock in the evening
the pupils recital of the violin
department of the School of Mu-
sic will be held. Louisa Vaughn
Jones is head of the department
Of violin.
Helen Corbin Heinl, Washing
ton pianist. will be the soloist at
next Wednesday nights concert |
of the United States Marine Band |
Symphony Orchestra. Mrs. Heinl
will play LISTS Hungarian
Fantasy" accompanied by the or
chestra. Capt. Taylor Branson
will conduct. The program. to be
given at the Marine Barracks
auditorium. will begin at o'clock,
and will be the last of the season.
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Madame Marie Zalipsky will
present a group from her studio
in costumed bits from four operas,
at Pierce Hall. Fifteenth and Har-
ward SITS. NJ W., Wednesday night,
at $50 p. M. May "a. Assisting
the singers will be members of
the ballet of Bekefi Institute,
Theodore Bekefi, director. In
strumental music will be pre-
sented by Milton Schwartz. violin.
list; Richard Tuttle Bell, organist,
and Nine. Zalipsky, pianist and
general conductor.
The opening scene will be
from Gluck's opera. "Orpheus."
Domenic Baiardo, tenor. will sing
the beautiful solo from the last act
of Puccini's "Tosca"-''E lucevan
le stelle." The third scene will
be the famous duet from Verdi's
III Trovatore" The final Selec-
tion is operetta, the first act of
"Dle CSardas FuerStin" (The
Dancing Princess) by E. Kalman,
with music VienneSe in character.
Foundry Junior Choir, Esther
Linkins, director. will give a bene-
fit concert in the dramatic hall
of the church, Sixteenth and P
SITS. N. W., Friday, May 26, begin
ming promptly at 8 p m. They
will be assisted by Karl Holer, ac-
CompaniSt; Marguerite Pope,
mezZo-soprano; Margaret Yana-
gita and HARLAN Meyer, young
pianistS, and Philip Wright, young
celliSt.
Mrs. Edgar B. Merritt chair
man of music for the Political
Study Club, announces that the
breakfast at the Mayflower on