Evening star., 1935-11-24
In Local Music Circles

northwest. Those appearing are Gen.
evieve Billhimer, Judy Conklin, Mar
garet Doonan. Beth Bon Durant, Eloise
Cogswell, Jane Gass, Toi Lee, Alberta
Lockhead, Florence Lyman, Charles
Mitchell, Mary Claire Maloy, Home
| Stephens McAllister, Sylvia Pisner,
Marie Reitz, jeanette Stein, Carl Sted-
man, Julia Ann Warthen, Betty
Wheater, William Weaver. Betsy VAN
degrift and Frieda Veily.
The Washington Choral Festival
Association had a get-together meet
ing last Wednesday evening in the
| Sale de Recital, with Harman Nico-
demus as director, when plans were
formulated for the concert to be given
National Music week, 1885, 1t was
decided to study and give cantata,
THE Rose Maiden" by Frederic H.
Cowen.
Arthur Van Haelst, baritone, will
be the guest artist of the Rubenstein
Club at the first concert of the season,
January %, 1886. Thelma Donald
son, soprano of the Rubenstein
Club, will sing at the meeting OF the
District of Columbia Federation of
Women's Clubs to be held at the
Raleigh Hotel. Tuesday Edith White,
chairman of the Voice Committee,
will hear additions at her home by
! appointment.
Hazel Brown Piers, pianist, will play
at the monthly musical tea of the
music section of the Woman'S Club
of Chevy Chase. to be held in the
home of Mrs. Holland Huntington,
500 Cumberland avenue, Somerset, to-
morrow at 2 o'clock The program
also includes readings from the mod
ern poets by Mrs. Robert Rice; duet
by Jeta Horton and Mrs. John Sim
mons, soprano solos by Evangeline
Tully and piano solos by Mrs. Charles
INLAY.
A Sextet from the section will
furnish music for a meeting of the
P. E. o. at the home of Mrs. A. w.
Caldwell, 3720 Northampton street,
on Tuesday. The group will consist
of Mrs. Arthur H. Fast, Mrs. j. Lester
Brooks, Mrs. William S. Graham, Mrs.
Frank H. Wilmot, Mrs. Roland White
hurst and Mrs. August Koehler, with
Mrs. Dawson Olmstead at the piano.
Don Waite, tenor, and Minnie Hoch
Smith, tromboniSt, were guest Soloists
at the First Congregational Church
the last two weeks. Milton Marx,
violiniSt, will be the soloist tonight.
On December 2 concert will be
given by the Columbia Grand Opera
Quartet at the Shoreham Hotel, west
ball room. The singers are: Antonio
Rossitto, tenor; Alma Harris, soprano;
Rodolph Grasso, baritone, and Clelia
Fioravanti. Gustav and Greta
Heintze, Viennese pianists, will play
duets, with Mr.. Heintze at the piano
also for the singers.
Virginia Bestor presented the fol-
lowing pupils at an invitation recital
given last evening in the Sale de
Recital, 1925 G street northwest: Jean
Ransom, Eleanor and Jean Hoffman,
Joyce Gaddes, Rodney and Ann
GaunnitZ, Catherine Burger, Mar
garet Monteithe, Josiah McHale, Elva
and Orlo Dayton, Helen Burchard,
Margaret and David Elliott, Henrietta
Thomson.
Ann Sugar will be presented by
Felian Garzia in piano recital at the
Arts Club, Friday, December 6.
Special Thanksgiving music will be
rendered today by the quartet and
chorus choir at Trinity M. e. Church.
The newly organized quartet is COM
posed of Margery League, soprano;
Lenna Orr Gauss, contralto; John M.
Hall, tenor, and Randolph Hughes,
bass. Emma Louise Thompson is or
ganist and director.
Basil Toutorsky, pianist and COM
poser, vii be heard in piano recital in |
January. Mr.. Toutorsky is the author |
of numerous compositions and articles |
on the history of Russian music and |
is the founder and director of the Los |
Angeles Conservatory of Music, af1ili-
ated with the Radio Arts Academy.
The Music Department of Foundry |
Epworth League will present its Sec
ond annual Thanksgiving harvest mu-
sic festival this evening from $50 to 8 |
o'clock in dramatic hall, Foundry M. |
e. Church. This department, under |
the direction of Mildred Frizzell, will |
be represented by 40 young people In |
the league vesper chorus and Or
chestra.
Henry smidt Gregor, pianist, will |
appear as guest artist playing, among |
others, his own "Norrland Scherzo."
Others featured viii be James q. Snni- |
ley, organist; Helen Hunt, violinist, |
and a vocal trio composed of Gayle |
Hunt, Mildred Frizzen and Gladys