Evening star., 1934-12-15
HE COMING OF THE
KING" a cantata by Dud-
ley Buck, will be presented
hv the choir and church

u Dy the CnOlr ana CnuTCn
school of the National City
Christian Church, under the direction
of Prof. Augustine H. Smith, director
of the department of church and
community music, Boston University,
who has dramatized the cantata. He
will be assisted by William E. Braith-
waite, director of the choir, and the
Rev. ]. Raymond Mills, minister of
religious education.
The cantata will be presented twice
Sunday, December %, at 4:30 o'clock
and 8 o'clock, at the National City
Christian Church on Thomas Circle.
The soloists will be Mrs. B. D.
Shreve, soprano; Helen Turley, con-
tralto; Mrs. Leo Tooley, alto; A. v.
Llufrio and Leo Tooley, tenors; A. M.
Peterson. baritone. and George Stone
braker, bass. Lyman McCrary, will
assist as organist. Mrs. j. B. Crosby
will play the role of the madonna and
Edgar Graham is representing King
Herod. THE Magi" will be portrayed
by Robert Martin, Ted Fretter and
Everett Dix.
The many friends of Louis Thomp-
son will be glad to know that he is
slowly recovering from long illness
of pneumonia. 1t is hoped that Mr..
Thompson will be able to continue
his many musical activities shortly
after the first of the year.
Helen Miller recently presented two
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holiday programs. Those in the
Sandy Spring group were Betty Cissel,
Margaret Farquhar, Caroline Barns
ley, Peter Hyde, Helen Gray Miller
and Cornelia Thomas. In the Wash
ington group, Barbara Beij, Eliza
beth Ford, Helen Lorraine Jones and
Dorothy Staples.
Mary liant Couch presents Dorothy
Neff Tyler, soprano, with Kathryn Hill
RaWlS at the piano, in a program OF
early Italian, German and English
songs at the Woman's City Club to-
morrow at $50 pm.
The Madrigal Singers, directed by
Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, will pre-
sent Christmas carols from French,
Polish and early English sources for
the Petworth Womens Club at the
residence of Mrs Alfred C. Norcross,
81e Taylor street northwest, Monday
at the Church Of the Incarnation
Evangelical Lutheran) on December
%, at Tilden Gardens for the Abra-
cadabra Club on December 26 and at
the Southern Relief Home on Decem-
ber 29.
Pattie Paul, 4-year old violinist, was
presented recently by Elena de Sayn
at Somerset, Md, and at the Junior
Federation of Music Clubs concert
last evening. She was accompanied
at the piano by her mother. Dorothy
Paul.
The Choral Group of the Arts Club,
under the direction of Otto Torney
Simon, will present Christmas con-
cert in the club auditorium on Thurs
day evening at $50 o'clock. Mar
garet Tolson will be at the piano.
The Piano Teachers Forum will
have its regular monthly meeting at
1890 am. Thursday at the studio of
the Homer L. Kilt Piano Co. An ar
ticle entitled Music Education in
Czechoslovakia," by Vladimir Vasa,
will be read. All piano teachers are
cordially invited to attend this meet
ing.
The Friday Morning Music Club
will present Charlotte Klein in an or
gan recital Friday at II am. at the
National City Church, Thomas Circle
Miss Klein will play a program of
Bach and Handel compositions, as
sisted by Vera Nicely Ross, contralto.
Franceska Kaspar Lawson, soprano,
assisted by Harry Wheaton Howard at
the piano, gave a song recital for the
faculty and students of the I'M
maculate Conception Church School
last Tuesday and on Friday the same
program was given for the Sacred
Heart School. On December S Mrs
Lawson and Mr.. Howard gave re-
eital for st. Cecilias Academy.
Crete Won Bayer will play Bach's
italian Concerto" arranged for two
pianos by Harold Bauer. with Helen
Grimes at the second piano, for the
alumni of the Rho Beta Chapter of
Mu Phi Epsilon, National Music
Sorority, on January IA.
At Miss Cryder's musicale last Sun
day Georgia Hazlett O'Leary substi-
tuted on short notice for Mrs. S.