Evening star., 1933-05-14
Local Notes

Giuseppe Bruno, baritone, Flttoild
de Andreis, dramatic soprano. and
Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, pianist, pre-
sented a program Of operate arias at
the Spring meeting Of the Maryland
State Society on May 8, at the Ken
wood Country Club.
A group of madrigal singers, led by
Mrs John Sylvester. gave program
of English. Scotch and American folk
songs at the Southern Relief Home last
Wednesday evening.
A concert of traditional Irish music
will be given by the st. Patrick's
Church Choir in the near future at
Carroll Hall. The program will include
folk songs in original Gaelic. Irish
selections played upon the Celtic harp.
as we'll as more elaborate numbers upon
the large modern harp. will also be
heard Edith Marmion Brosius will be
the assisting artist.
The Capital City Choristors. Dorothy
Radde Emery. director, will broadcast
an all-American program, including
one OF Mrs Emery's compositions. over
WRC, In the series of programs ar
ranged weekly by Thelma Callahan.
chairman of radio. for the District Of
Columbia Federation Of Music Clubs.
Members of the Mount Pleasant Con-
grcgational Church quartet and
chorus will give a vaudeville concert
at Sis O'Clock tomorrow evening in
Fishburn Hall, social center Of the
church An operetta. Way Down
South in Dixie" based on some OF
Stephen Fosters Negro songs, will be
act liy1y II q ry-i df a
Mitchell. Alice McFall. Jane Bennett.
M. A. Hubble, Miriam Franks, Mrs. ]. B.
Bennett, Tracy F. Tyler. J. F. Alex
ander, Richard Tuve, Horace Guiford.
F. v. Rand. Richard Duncklee and
Willard Buell.. Additional musical fea-
lures will include quartet and solo
numbers by members Of the Mount
Pleasant Church Quartet, Elsie Schultze
Mary Apple, William P. Shanahan and
Herman Fakler.
The chorus choir of the National
City Christian Church, under the d.
rection Of W. E. Braithwaite, will sing
Not Unto Us, o Lord" by Smith, as
the morning anthem today, and the
mixed quartet will sing Mother My
lude. played by Robert Ruckman. organ
ist. will be Moderate" from the So
nata in A Minor" by Rheinberger. and
the offertory will be Gluck's "Melodie. !"
The program for the music hour at
4 o'clock at the Y. w. c. A., Seven
teenth and K streets, today will be
given by Sarah Feltwell, pianist. as
sisted by Frances Boss. soprano.
Marjorie League will accompany Miss
Boss. The public is cordially invited.
The Ten O'Clock Club, 1903 K
street, northwest. will present an eve
ming concert by the Lyric Quartet next
Friday at $780, The singers are Edith
Hoffman-Jones. soprano; Adessa Ehr-
hart, contralto; Eugene Swygert, tenor;
and Howard Moore. baritone, with
Evelyn Wells, accompanist.
The Washington Oratorio Society
will begin rehearsals of HandePs
Messiah" tomorrow evening at the
and I streets northwest. Monday
evening rehearsals will continue there
after. Voice students and members of
church choirs are invited to attend
tomorrow evenings rehearsal with a
view to joining in preparing Handels
masterpiece for a performance in the
Fall. 1t will be sung in its entirety
under the direction Of Prof. George
F. Kortzenborn.
Lavinia Darve will sing several opera
tic selections In costume for the benef1t
to be given under the auspices OF the
Junior League of the Christ Episcopal
Church of Alexandria, May II and IL,
at Maury School auditorium.
George Cornwell, organist of Calvary
Church in Georgetown, will give the
last of series of programs this eve
ming at the 8 o'clock service. He will
be assisted by Shara Hochman Kerbel,
contralto and a sextet of ladies' voices
from the Ten O'Clock Club chorus.
Eva whitford Lovette will be in
Joint sessions of the Northern and
Southern Baptist Convention in Con-
stitution Hall on May 18 and %. Pre-
ceding each meeting on those dates,
Emily G. Dickinson will give an organ
recital and with Mrs. Lovette will lead
the singing by those present.
The Norman Frauenheim artist-pupils
series of concerts was inaugurated Fri
day evening by piano recital given
by Leila Sherwood Hall at the Ten
O'Clock Club. After early study under
Sherwood Mrs. Hall was sent to Berlin
to continue her studies under Ernest
Hucheson, with whom she remained for
several years before returning to New
York She has been a pupil of Norman
Frauenheim for the past two years.
She was assisted by Elizabeth Harris
in several piano numbers Of Philip EN-
manuel Bach, Bizet and Debussy.
Columbia Chapter, American Guild Of
orRanistS. On WedueSdey ct SIS p,w>