Evening star., 1933-04-16

TINE choral ensemble Of the Bur-
rail- class. Calvary Baptist
Church, with Edwin Steffe. bari
L tone, and Evelyn Scott. violinist
as assisting artists, will be heard
in recital next Wednesday night at $50
o'clock. Florence Howard is the d.
rector Of the ensemble and Evelyn
Wells will act as accompanist.
Elena de Sayn, violinist, accompanied
by Winifred Lakemann. will play at the
annual authors breakfast Of Che Ma
tional League of American Pen Women.
to be held next Saturday at the Willard
Hotel Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
be the guest Of honor.
The Friday Morning Music Club will
hold its regular meeting at the chapel
of the Mount Vernon Seminary, Ne
braska avenue near American Uni
yersity, next Friday at II O'Clock. Adolf
Torovsky, organist, and Milton Schwartz
violinist of the National Symphony Or
chestra, will be the artists on the musi-
cal program.
Nine Edythe Marmion Brosius
harpist, will be the guest artist at the
sixth annual Spring concert by the
Lovette Choral Club, it has been an
nounced, and the solosists, all OF whom
are club members, will be Nellie Barber
Brooks. Ethel Lynn Fast, Matilde Kolb
Bartlett and Francise Bass Wilson.
Betty Brown and Ruth Hobbs, violiniSts,
will assist at the concert, which will be
given on Tuesday evening. April Is, at
Barker Hall, under the direction Of Eva
Whitford Lovett. Winifred Lakemann
is the acconpanist
The adult department chorus of
Calvary Baptist Church, s. S.. directed
by Andrew Clifford wilkins, will pro-
vide the radio program next Wednesday
evening, Z o'clock, over WRC in the
District of Columbia Federation of Mu-
sic Clubs series. Mrs. Glen Edgington
will be the accompanist.
Virginia Darlington Thomas, New
York concert organist, will give recital
next Sunday night at the Christ
Lutheran Church, Sixteenth and Gala
tin streets, at 8 O'Clock. Mrs. Thomas
will also play two recitalS Thursday at
the D. A. r. Congress at Constitution
Hall.
The Junior contests Of the District Of
Columbia Federation Of Music Clubs will
be held in Barker Hall on May 13, and
will be the closing event of Music week.
The program will include piano and
violin solos, ensemble strings. choruses
and two-piano compositions. Students OF
the following teachers have applied for
entrance in the contests: Edith b.
Athey, Mime. Louise Coutinho, Eta
Schmidt Wells, Evelyn Sewell Mayors,
Arsenic Ralon, Virginia Bestor. Flora
Clayton, Sarah Tacker, Frances Gutelius
and Esther Linkins. All applications
must be received by Mary e. Gresham,
chairman, not later than April "a.
Warren F. johnson, organist of the
Church Of the Pilgrims, will play the
following program Of Easter music in q
concert before the evening service to-
morrow: "Eastertide, Op. 145." by Max
Roger; "An Easter Spring Song" by
Garth Edmundson, and Candlyn's
tocatta on "Neander" (He is Risen)
Miss Volkmann, soprano. and Mr.. Daven-
port, baritone, will sing the duet,
"Hosanna," by Granier. The junior
man, will sing Wake up My Glory,
Easter Day."
The second annual concert of the
Manning choral ensemble, directed by
Ethel Manning, will be given Friday,
April 20, atthe Masonic Hall in Hyatts-
vile. Choral numbers by Schubert,
Mendelssohn, Ibelius, Dvorak, HUM, q
group Of folk songs. and gypsy
fantasy in costume will be included In
the program. Jessie Blaisdell, pianist,
will be the guest soloist.
The Capital City choristers, under
the direction of Dorothy Rade Emery,
are now holding rehearsals at the studio
of Helen Ware, 1901 Connecticut ave-
nue.. in preparation for their annual
Spring concert. which will be given
May 18 at the Jewish Community
Center.
Dorothy Davenport, coloratura So
prano, and Atwater Kent. audition win
ner, gave recital Of classic and popular
ballads at Harding Hall, Government
Printing once, recently. Elizabeth
Gardner Coomhs. accompanist. gave
several piano solos,