Evening star., 1938-05-01
In Local Music Circles

TINE program for the Sunday
Hour of Music at Friendship
House. 6l9 D street Sc, today
will be presented by Mrs. Rad
de Emery, pianist; lone Hoffman. con-
tralto; Herman Hoffman, violinist,
and Alden Emery, lutist. The pub
lie is cordially invited.
The program for the Sunday Music
Hour at O'Clock today at the Y. w.
c. A.. at Seventeenth and K streets,
will be presented by the Girls Chapel
Choir of the National City Christian
Church; Helen Turley director; as
sisted by Jean Shirley Albert, flutist;
Margaret Clark, cellist, and Eoto Rus
sell and Helen McIlree, pianists. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
LIE Roy Lewis announces a series
of students recitals, the first to be
at the Catholic Sisters College this
afternoon by Margaretta Eckloff, So
prano, and Robert Ewing, baritone;
on May 81. at st. Andrews Parish
Hall. New Hampshire avenue and v
street, Ruth de Jarnette, dramatic
soprano, assisted by Elizabeth NC
Grory, contralto, and on June Z, at st.
Andrews Parish Hail. Margaretta
Eckloff and Robert Ewing will repeat
their program. Nation Boyce will be
the accompanist
Gretchen Hood will present her
pupils and the Glee Club of Gunston
Hall Academy for Girls in a recital to
be held this evening at Gunston Hall
Among those participating will be
Bernadette M Crouch, Robert Jarrett,
Marian Mckinley, Phil Young, Dorma
Herzog. Edna Roche, Frances Camp
bell, Minnie Mae Emmerich, Lorraine
Nicholson and Barbara Henning.
There will be two meetings of the
Rubinstein Club this week at the
Willard Hotel. The first rehearsal
will be this afternoon at 2:45 and
the second Tuesday evening at 7:45.
The second concert of the season is
scheduled for Wednesday evening, May
IL. at the Willard Hotel. Earl
Weatherford, tenor, is the soloist.
Franceska Kaspar Lawson, soprano,
will sing q group Of songs this eve
ming for the Young Peoples Service
League of Emanuel Church, Braddock
Heights, Va. Mrs. Lawson will also
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coronation in London last May.
Music by American composers,
treated from different angles, will be
the background for the two recital
programs that Henry Gergor will give
in his series at the Phillips Memorial
Gallery, 1900 Twenty-flrst street
street northwest, tomorrow afternoon
and Tuesday evening of this week.
Mr.. Gregor will talk Monday at 1886
pm. on Modernism and Jazz" Tues
day night, in the evening series of
Music Yesterday and Today" his
topic will be THE Americ an Idiom,"
Sylvia Kaplowitz Of the Homer L.
Kilt Music Studios will present an
accordion and piano recital tomorrow
evening at o'clock at Barker Hall,
Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and K
streets NV. The pupils featured will
be the Homer L. Kilt Accordion Octet
and Homer L. Kilt Accordion Band.
They will play a group of numbers
written and arranged by Mrs. Kaplo-
witz especially for this recital.
The soloists are Frederick Harris,
Mervin Cohen, Antonette Charuhas,
Leona Marans, Miriam Madden. Fran
ces Hidnert, Richard and Daniel Bra
love, Jane Strachan, Bob Arnold, Jack
Webb, Frances Reich, Gertrude Belts,
Ruth Kogod, Ruth Lerner, George
Scott, Donald Wolpe, Billy Lowdermilk,
Adele Brodie. Bernard Lipshutz, vi
Wan Cohen, Charlotte Footer, Naomi
Rule, Mary Jane McClintock, Bernice
Biron. Stanley Sterling, Ruth Ann and
Charles Sures, Billy Isaacs, Lawrence
kessel. Bobby Singer, Elizabeth Lee
Byers. Mary Grace Garnard, Charles
Greenburg, Nancy Mae Young, Alvin
Ostrow, Bobby Kaemmerer, Ellis Bar
ron, Harvey Rosendorf, Izatta Simon,
Marvin Yago and Konrad Kaplowitz.
The public is cordially invited. There
Is no admission fee.
A piano recital Of compositions BY
living composers will be offered by
the King Smith Studio Glass of Kath-
arine Frost as the first in Mrs. Frost's
spring recital series on Tuesday eve
ming at $50 o'clock at l7O8 S
street NV.
The group of students appearing on
this opening program will include
Esette Lttlehales, Elizabeth Watkins,
Suzanne Marshall, Jane Ellison, Har-
riet Eldredge, Katharine Nash; Anne
Rogers, Ann Watkins and Virginia
Spencer.
The Lovette Choral Club, under
the direction of Eva Whitford Lovette,
will present its 1lth annual spring
concert in the italian garden Of the
Mayfower Hotel on Friday, May 13.
This group has been invited to
sing at the biennial convention Of
the National Federation Of Music
Clubs In Baltimore next year. The
club will present one Of It's own artist