Evening star., 1939-02-26
In Local Music Circles

Felian Garzia, well-known Wash
intgon musician. will give a piano
recital at the Arts Club of WASH
ington on Tuesday evening. Mr..
Garzia will play Bachs prelude
and Fugue," Saint-Saens' "Etude
Valse" and selections from Chopin,
Debussy, LisZt and Schumann.
At o'clock today the program
for the music hour at the Young
Womens Christian Association, at
Seventeenth and K streets NV,
will be presented by Francis Bow
ers. baritone, assisted by Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, jr., pianist. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club
will sing at Howard University
Chapel at o'clock today.
The Marine Symphony Orchestra,
w. F, Santlemann conducting. will
play Deane Shure's American SYM
phony" on Wednesday night at the
Barracks Concert Hall.
Another symphonologue of the
series being given by Charles Ed
ward Russell. assisted by Margaret
Tolson, pianist, will take place
Thursday evening at the Arts Club.
On Friday, the Friday Morning
Music Club will present solos and
duets by Ina Holtzscheiter, soprano.
and Edwin Steffe, baritone. Cecilia
Mahoney. violinist. will also appear
on the program. The meeting will
take place at Barker Hall, the
Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and K
streets NV, at 11:30 o'clock.
The Orpheus Quartet. directed by
Otto Simon-Hazel Gem Hughes,
soprano; Elaine Sebring Ford, con-
tralto; Jesse Nussear. tenor, and
Albert Trask, bass-will give a re-
cital OF quartets, duets and solos,
for the ladies of the Louise Home,
Sixteenth street and Massachusetts,
avenue NV, on Friday evening.
The District of Columbia FEEDER
alton of Music Clubs, Eva Whitford
Lovette, president. and Gertrude
Lyons, State Junior counselor, will
present members of the junior de-
partment in the 5th recital of the
18th season, on Saturday evening,
at O'Clock in the Sale de Recital,
1925 G street NV. The music will
be by Bach and Schumann. The
public is invited. The following
juniors will take part: Marian
Bonivita, Helen Burchard, Ruth Ann
Butler, Mary F. Cochran, Jane
Gass, Mary Jane Greene, Dorothy
James, Jeanne Kennedy, Jean Macy,
Carolyn Mease. Josephine Mease,
Mary Raitt, Patricia Roberts, Jean
Woodward, Allison Sanderford, pi-
anist, and Richard Cooley, violinist,
will be guest artists.
The counselors who have prepared
these juniors are: Camille Aliens
worth, Virginia Bestor, Thelma CAL
lahan, Helen Finnacom, Maria Mar
tins and Sarah A. Tacker:
Orchestral music under the di-
rection of DR.. Walter Bauer will be
heard at the third of the children S
concerts to be held next Saturday
at 2:30 pm, in Pierce Hall, Fiji
teenth and Harvard streets. This
concert will continue the successful
practice of the previous ones, DEM
onstrating to the children the vari-
Gus instruments. Again, every effort
will be made by the commentator to
encourage questioning and self-ex-
preston.
This evening beginning at 8
o'clock in the Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church the first musical
service of the season will be given.
The Mount Pleasant Chorus $50
voices under the direction of Norton
M. Little, with Claude Robson at
the organ. and Mildred H. Gross,
soprano; Mary S. Apple, contralto;
Raymond T. Pigott, tenor, and Car
roll E. Robb, bass, as soloists, will
give program of sacred numbers
arranged from the operas. The
public is cordially invited.
The mid-Lenten presentation of
Passion of Our Lord According to
st. Matthew" by the Washington
Choral Society under the direction
Of Louis Potter, will take place on
Monday evening, March 20, at $50
in Washington Cathedral, with a
group of prominent singers in the
solo parts, assisting the big chorus
which has been in rehearsal for
several months.
The National City Christian
Church Choir will present the Sec
ond in a series of monthly musical
vespers this evening at 6 o'clock.
w. E. Braithwaite, director; Mrs. J
H. Smithey, organist; Malcolm
Horne, violinist, guest soloist, and
Pauline Holcolm, Maxwell Galloway,
sopranos; Henriette Bagger Plum,
mezzo- -contralto; E. E. Condron,
tenor; Ward Du Vail, baritone; Jo-
seph B. Clawson, bass.
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