Evening star., 1939-12-03
In Local Music Circles

Singing will present the first OF a
series OF recitals on Wednesday at
$50 pm. Four duets by Johannes
Brahms will be sung by Elizabeth
Everett and Frances Tucker. Ina
Holtzscheiter, soprano. will present
group of rarely heard Spanish
songs by Fernando Abradors, and
the aria La Maja Y el Ruisenor, -
from "Goyescas," by Granados.
English songs by Armstrong Gibbs,
Edward German and Roger Quilter
will BE- sung by Margaret Warthen.
soprano. and Selma Last. contralto.
Irene Lerch. pianist, is the guest
soloist, and the accompanies are
Lois Abernethy and Marjorie q.
Davis. The studios are located at
l408 New Hampshire avenue NV.
Mrs. Henry T. Parrett. soprano,
will assist Lewis Atwater. organist,
in a program of early French music
at All Souls Church this afternoon
at 5 o'clock.
The Friday Morning Music Club
will present Constance Russell.
pianist, and Margaret Besler and
Charlotte Watkins. singers. on Fri
dav morning, 1870 am, at Barker
Hall
Miss Russell will play the first
movement of the Schumann con-
certo. with Jean Phillips at the
second piano. With Louis Potter,
ST., pianist. and Louis Potter. ir.
cellist. Mrs. Watkins will sing Der
Hirt auf dem Felsen." by Schubert.
Russian music will be the theme
of the second of the Music Appre-
citation programs of the Jewish Com
munitv Center to be held tomorrow
evening at $50 pm. Musical record
ings will be used.
The program will be held in the
hospitality room of the Jewish
Community Center. Sixteenth street
at @. 1t is open to the public. Mrs.
Rubin Borasky is in charge. For its
January Music Appreciation pro-
gram the center will present the
Center Symphony Orchestra under
the direction of DR.. Henry Goldsteln
in it's first concert this season.
The Rubinstein Club, women's
choral club, under the direction OF
Claude Robson, will hold its next
rehearsal Tuesday evening, 7:45
pm, at the Willard Hotel. The
regular monthly business meeting
will follow the rehearsal. Additions
may be arranged with Edith M.
White. addition chairman, or Mrs.
I. j. Roberts, secretary.
The board of directors of the Dis
trict of Columbia Federation OF
Music Clubs will meet Wednesday
evening at $50 o'clock at 1876 Con-
necticut avenue NV, the studio
home of Eva Whitford Lovette,
president of the federation.
The National Capital Choir, Jes-
sic Masters, director; H. Jerome
Graham, organist, will give a con-
cert at the Western Presbyterian
Church, Nineteenth and H streets
NV, on Wednesday evening at
SIS o'clock. The program will in
clude a group a cappela, old folk
Christmas carols. and numbers by
Mendelssohn, Handel, Schuetky and
HAYDN. The soloists are Irene
Koehl, soprano; Luella Stockett,
contralto; Howard Ludwig, tenor;
H. Gray Swain, baritone. Organ
numbers will consist OF compost
tions by Borowski, Stcherbatchen
and d'Aquin.
The Civic Grand Opera Associa-
ton presents Helen Robichaux, So
prano, and Jean Bishop, contralto,
in an opera appreciation program
before the National Council Of Jew
ish Juniors at the Jewish Commun-
ity Center on Thursday evening.
Myrtle Alccrn will play accompani-
ments.
The chorus of the association
sang selections from "Cavalleria
RuSticana' at the banquet during
the past week of an important busl-
ness association. Baltimore. repre-
sentatives issued an invitation for
its appearance in that city.
The Piano Teachers Forum will
meet on Thursday at Columbia
Heights Church, 1885 Park road at
1O:45 am. Laura MacCartney will
speak on THE Importance of Pre-
Piano Study" The public Is in
vited.
The Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church announces the en-
gagement of Selma Last as contralto
soloist to succeed Mary s. Apple,
who has resigned to accept the po-
sition of contralto soloist at the
Central Congregational Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Last recently came to Wash
ington from Seattle, Wash, where
she was soloist in the First Baptist
Church. Since coming here she has
been the soloist at Trinity Methodist
Church.
Frances Gutelius Smith presented
Kathryn Lee Rucker in recital OF
piano and voice, Saturday at her