Evening star., 1939-12-10
In Local Music Circles

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On Friday the Friday Morning
Music Club will present Villa Sem
pie, pianist; Lily Garrett. contralto,
and Grace Powell, violinist. Mrs.
Garrett will sing a group OF songs
by Grieg. The meeting will take
place at Barker Hall, the Y. w. G. A.,
at 1880 am.
Anthony Chanaka and William
Collins, piano teachers Of the prepa-
ratory department of the Washing
ton College of Music, and of the
music department of Friendship
House, will present program in the
Little Theater of Friendship House
today at S o'clock. The public is
cordially invited.
George Irving Chandler, tenor,
will assist Lewis AtWater, organlst,
in a program of modern French
music this afternoon at S o'clock at
All Souls Church, Unitarian.
The Washington Missionary Col
lege Chorus of $50 voices will sing
Handel's Messiah" at Mount Ver-
non Place Methodist Church to-
night at 8 o'clock. The soloists will
be Mrs. Sterling Wheelright, So
prano Lottie Volkmer, contralto.
Justice Lawrie. tenor, and Robert
Adams, bass. The chorus and Or
chestra will be conducted by George
w. Greer, with Raymond Casey act
ing as concertmeister Eunice
Graham will be the accompanist.
On Saturday night this oratorio
will be repeated in Columbia Hall,
corner of Carroll and Flower ave-
nues, in Takoma Park, at 8 o'clock.
Elizabeth Clayton Bacon will pre-
sent the Silver Spring Singers in a
program of Christmas carols of all
nations and living pictures of the
Nativity. tonight at o'clock. in the
parish hall of the Church Of the
Ascension in Silver Spring. Nd. and
Tuesday evening at the Church OF
Our Saviour, Sixteenth and Irving
streets NE. Anne O'Brien. harpist,
and Thelma Nixon at the piano, will
supply the musical Accomplishments.
At the Sunday music hour today
at the Young Womens Christian
Association. Seventeenth and K
streets NV. a program of Christ
mas music will be presented by the
Wesley Chorus of Woodside Meth
odist Church, under the direction of
Dorothy Radde Emery, and accom-
panied by Mrs. Herbert j. Rowland.
The program will begin at 5 o'clock
and the public is cordially invited
to attend. Soloists include Phyllis
Rowland, Mary Elizabeth Smith,
Mary Jane Whittlesey, John Goog-
ins, Richard Googins and Alden H.
Emery, jr.
The Glee Club of the Chevy Chase
Junior College. under the direction
of Mrs. Frederic E. harrington, will
give a musical program at the
Foundry Methodist Church this eve
ming at o'clock.
The Washington Alumnae Chap
ter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national
music sorority, will meet tomorrow
evening at the home of Helen Tor
rey. Study subject of the meeting
will be THE Music of Haydn and
Brahms" Piano numbers, Theme
and Variations in F Minor" Haydn;
RHAPSODY in B Minor" Brahms
will be played by Fannie Ross Hen
best. I'VE, Thy People, Praise Thee" "
Haydn, and "Barcarolle." Brahms,
will be sung by Lola Orr, Helen
Torrey, Inez Miller, Olive Pratt and
Kate Fisher, accompanied by Quinta
Frey. Inez Miller is in charge of
the program.
Felicia Rybier, well-known pia-
mist of Washington and Baltimore,
will be one of two soloists at a
concert at the Lyric Theater, Bal
timore on Tuesday which is be-
ing given for the benefit of Polish
war refugees. The concert is spon-
sored by the Maryland Committee
for Polish Refugees. The second
artist is Constance Nowakowska-
Hejda, contralto. The following Or
ganizations also will participate:
The Baltimore & Ohio Glee Club
Handel Choir, the Polish Chorus
and a Polish dance group in cos
tunes.
Frances Dowden presented Chris
tine Tudor in an informal piano re-
cital at her studio, 20O7 R street
NV, on Tuesday evening. Novem-
ber %.
Handel's Messiah" will be sung
by the choir and quartet of Hamline
Methodist Church, Sixteenth and
Allison streets NV, under the di-
rection of John H. Marville, on Sun
day, December II, at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon.
Constance Russell, Washington
pianist and teacher, has opened her
music studio at 1712 Connecticut
avenue NV. Miss Russell has re-
Gently returned from France. where
she completed course with high
honors at the American Conserva-
tory at Fontainebleau, studying
with Robert Casadesus and Nadia
She is doing teaching
and concert work this winter in
Washington.
The Columbia Light Opera Co.,
through the Adult Education ASso.