Evening star., 1935-03-24
In Local Music Circles

~ IANCA RENARD, pianist, and
- Lily Garrett, contralto, will
present the program at the
- Friday Morning Music Club on
Friday at IL am.
Maude Sewell will give a talk on
Handel and Bach before the Tuesday
Evening Music Club at $50 pm on
Tuesday at its studios, l408 New
Hampshire avenue. Greta Won Bayer,
pianist, will be the assisting artist.
Following the dedication of the new
Moller organ of the First Brethren
Church, Twelfth and E streets south
east, at 8 o'clock today an organ re-
cital will be given by Gene Stewart.
The program for the Sunday hour
of music at Friendship House, 324
Virginia avenue southeast, today at 5
o'clock will be presented by Fanny
AmstutZ Roberts, president of the
Washington College of Music, who will
talk on the lives and works of Bach
and Handel, followed by musical
program by Margaret Moncure, So
prano, and Melvin Creamer, pianist.
The public is invited.
A musical sketch. written by LIE Roy
Lewis. entitled "Milady's Rehearsal"
featuring Mary owen. soprano, and
Dorothy Andrews, pianist. will be pre-
sented under the auspices of the
Woman's Guild of the Georgetown
Presbyterian Church on Friday at $3.50
pm. in Cissell Chapel. The sponsors
for this presentation are Mrs. Robert
M. Skinner, Mrs. William L. Dunlop,
Katharine Dougal, Mrs. E. L. Allen
and Cornelia Caskey. Authentic cos
tunes of the olden days will be worn
by Misses owen and Andrews. There
viii. be an exhibition of antique cos
tunes.
This afternoon at 4 O'Clock Helen
Black Benham, contralto, and Oscar
Kuldell, basso, will be the guest solo,
lists at the Lenten service at the
Brookland Methodist Church, Four
teenth and Lawrence streets north
east.
The third recital in the Lenten
series at ST. Johns Church, Lafayette
Square, will be played by T. Guy
Lucas. organist and choirmaster of
the church, at 8:15 pm. tomorrow.
Francise Bass Wilson, mezzo-so-
prano, will be heard in recital at the
musical tea to be given by the music
section Of the Woman'S Club of Chevy
Chase, Md, at the home of Mrs.
John J. Underwood, 1920 Tilden street,
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock, as
sisted by Betty Ann Fast, pianist.
Mildred Himmelfarb will render the
| quarrel scene from Sheridan's School
for Scandal" Eva Whitford Lovette
will be the accompanist.
Warren F. Johnson. organist. will
play "Andante in F Ma jor With Varia-
| tionS," by w. T. Best, and "Legende, -
/ by Frank E. Ward. before the evening
service at the Church of the Pilgrims
today.
| A mixed chorus of over a hundred
voices will give musical program at
the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church
on Friday evening at $3.50 O'Clock.
under the auspices of the Deacon
Board, sponsored by Deacon George
E. Onley. Clevant Derricks is di-
rector and Vernice Fennell pianist.
As a part of a musical program
given last night in Somerset. Md.
Ruth Morgan and a group from the
Newcomb Bethesda Community Sing
ers presented a new song written by
Louise Morrell of Edgemoor, Md. The
song. Maryland, My Home" is the
story of the return of the wanderer tc
| Maryland after a prolonged absence
1t is well adapted to three voices.
The March meeting of the Lyric
Music Club. directed by Dorothy
Sherman Pierson, to be held on Tues.
day night at the home of Frances E
Staley, will be devoted to the music
of Franz Schubert, and a special pa.
Per on the composer will be read by
Miss Staley. Florence Dordell. Mary
Ellen Folmer and Betty Steele viii
sing Schubert songs, with Evelint
Monico at the piano. Violet Warren
Pierson. guest artist, will read The
Erlking"
Lorraine Esputa Daily. soprano. viii
be the guest soloist at the morning
service today at Christ Church. Alex
andria, Va. Mrs. Howard Blandy
choir director, will be at the organ.
The Piano Teachers Forum will
hold its regular monthly meeting or
Thursday at 1890 am. in the Homer
L. Kilt studios. 1880 G street north
west. The guest speakers will be La
Sale Spier and Oliver Strunk. AL
teachers and advanced students are
cordially invited to be present.
In commemoration of the 150th an.
niversary of the birth of Johann Sc.
bastian Bach, the musical part of the
IL O'Clock service at the BrooklanC
M. E. Church, Fourteenth and Law
renee streets northeast, will consist OF
numbers by that composer. At 4
O'Clock special Lenten vesper service
has been arranged by Pearl Hauer
organist and director, and Thelms
Mills Rector. soprano soloist, assisted
by Helen Black Benham, contralto:
Oscar Kuldell, bass. and the vested
choir of 80 voices.
A tea-recital was given by Gene w.
Crist for the mothers and friends OF
piano and harmony pupils of the Con-
servatory Preparatory School, 3025
Newark street, on March IA. The
program was all-American. Those
graduating were Gertrude McNabb.
Gloria Hyssong and James Duvall.
The sacred cantata From Olivet Il
Calvary" by Maunder, will be pre-
sented at the Takoma Park Seventh
Day Adventist Church by the COM
bined choirs, augmented to a chorus
of 100 voices, under the direction o,
Merrill Dawson, on next Sunday eve'
ming.
( The cantata will be illustrated by 81
lantern slides. The soloists will bs
Rotert Eldridge. tenor, and Charles