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Evening star., 1939-05-07

local chairman in Baltimore for the
American Music Festival and con-
vention of the federation, which
starts May 16. Dinner will be fol-
lowed by a variety of musical Of
ferings. There will be songs by
Francis Barnard, basso, and Mar
jorie Brett, lyric soprano, local win
ners in the recent music contest:
classic interpretations by Tatiana
Gnoocheff, remarks and piano Illus
trations on The American Idiom
in Music" by Henry Gregor, pianist
and composer, who is now on the
faculty of the University of Miami:
vocal duets by Evelyn OFT. soprano,
Of Norfork and Wendell Outland Of
New York, and impromptu vocal
numbers by the members Of clubs
reserving group tables.
A special feature Of interest TO
musicians will be two sound movie
shorts presented by the Bell Tele-
phone Co. One deals with the vari-
Gus devices developed by the Bell
laboratories for the aid Of the par
TALLY deaf, with specific reference
to the affliction of Beethoven. The
other film shows the structure and
operation of the circuits involved in
transmitting radio programs on
coast-to-coast broadcasts.
Several club tables have been re-
served and many individual reser-
vations have been made by musi-
clans both in and out of the feder-
alton. Tickets may be obtained
from the chairman, Mrs. r. E. Espy,
1921 S street, or from Mrs. J. Lester
Brooks, 4218 Thirty -tighth street.
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II Artists
Musicales
Seven Will Make
Debut Locally
Next Season

Mrs. Lawrence Townsend an
nounces that she will present IT
artists, including to make their
debut locally. in the seven morn
ing musicales to be given Mondays
next season at the Maydower Hotel.
The dates are: December IL and Is,
January 8. Is, % and 20. and Feb
ruary S. The hour will be Ills
am.
Singers who have won worldwide
repute, yet have not appeared in
the Capital previously, will open and
close the series. Lima Pagliughi,
Italian coloratura, who has been
spoken Of as "the equal of CALI
.Curci in her most glorious mo-
ments" and "the second Tetrazzini," +"
will make her bow on the opening
program. Appearing with her will
be Egon Petri, Dutch pianist, and
John Amadio, gifted f1autist.
Rise Stevens. the young American
contralto from Brooklyn, who was
the sensation of the Metropolitan
Opera season last winter, will make
her bow locally on the final pro-
gram, which she will share with
Richard Crooks, American tenor.
Miss Stevens has made her initial
operate high mark In the roles Of
Mignon and the Rosenkavalier. She
won operate honors in Prague and
Vienna before accepting the offer of
the Metropolitan. The season 1882
40 will be her initial concert sea-
son.
The postponed Lotte Lehmann-
Lauritz Melchoir joint recital that
was to have closed last seasons
series, will be a midway high-light
program on January 8. Mrs Town
send had tentatively planned to
open her season with this program
but found it impossible to do so as
the Metropolitan demanded that
Melchoir accept no engagements
out of New York for the month of
December.
Mrs. Townsend, who returns this
week end from Florida, will ac-
cept reservations after Tuesday.
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Faculty Program

A faculty program will be given
at the Washington College of Mu-
sic Tuesday at 8:45 by John Hreach-
mack, flutist, and William Holden
and Fanny Amstutz Roberts, pian-
lists.
A group of Bach chorales arranged
by Busoni opens the program. played
by Mr.. Holden, following which Mr..
Hreachmack will play, with Mrs.
Roberts at the piano. Schubert's
Introduction and Variations" on
an original theme in E minor.
The final half of the evening will
be given to the Stravinsky concerto
for two solo pianos; this work had
its first Washington performance at
a recent meeting of the Friday
Morning Music Club when the
Washington Music Teachers Asso-
ciation membership were guests of
the club and when Mile. Nadia
Boulanser, noted French musician,
spoke On this and other works Of
6travinsky.
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Conference Called
On Church Music

The District of Columbia Chapter
of the American Guild of Organists
is collaborating with the Washington
Federation of Churches in con-
ducting a conference on church
music tomorrow at the Y. w. C. A.,
Seventeenth and K streets NV,
beginning at pm. All choir direc-
tors, organists and ministers will be
welcomed at this meeting. The
principal speaker will be DR.. Carl
Pfatteicher, organist and professor
of music and sacred studies at Phil
lips Academy, Andover. Mass. Well
known as an organist, DR.. Pfat-
teicher's influence as teacher and
an editor have been widely felt. His
oxford American Hymnal' and his
translation of the recent Outline OF
the History of Music" by the Ger
man scholar Karl Neff are in use in
many schools and colleges.
DR.. Pfatteicher will speak on
Hymns and Hymn Tunes" and
"The Use Of the Organ in the Church
Service" He will also lead = dis
cussion of the question, How car
ministers, choir directors and or.
ganists cooperate more closely II
the conduct Of worship?" The lee.
lures will precede a dinner which
will begin at $50 o'clock. and the
discussion will follow Immediately
after dinner.
The committee on arrangements
includes the Rev. Canon William E.
Bradner. Rev. DR.. w. L. Darby, Rev
DR.. J. w. Rustin, Rev. DR.. E. H.
Pruden. Mrs. Ellis E. Fuller and
Arthur Howes. Any persons desiring
to attend the dinner may make
reservation by communicating with
Mr.. Howes at st. Johns Church
Sixteenth and H streets NV.
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Organist Is Honored

DR.. Charlotte Klein. organist and
director of music at St. Margaret's
Episcopal Church. will give an organ
recital in the Temple of Religion,
New York Worlds Fair, on SUNDAY,
July l6, one of series by nationally
known organists.
DR.. Klein has also been chosen
for the sixth time as a recitalist for
the national convention of the
American Guild of Organists in
Philadelphia the latter part of June.
In Philadelphia DR.. Klein will
give a one-half-hour program on
each of the following three organs:
Bala Cynwyd Methodist Church
(Estey).
st. Johns Episcopal Church
Cynwyd (Moller.
st. Mary's Episcopal Church,
West Philadelphia (Skinner). These
three programs will enable the con-
vention delegates to compare the
work Of the various organ builders.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
By Alice Eversman.

The Victor Co. features this month
a new recording of Victor Herbert's
music where all the old favorites will
be found sung or played to perfec-
ton. This is the second Victor Her
bert Album to be given out and this
latest one carries all the improve
ment that modern recording can
give. The singers are excellent, the
voices recording with clarity and
color and the orchestral numbers are
played with a spirit and polish.
1t is good to hear these lovely mel
odies again. all of them so spontane-
Gus, bright and charming 1t is
astonishing how great was the source
Of inspiration of this gifted Irish
American composer and what variety
he could draw from it. More than
that. the vitality and verve of every
thing that he wrote has still the
power to bring a thrill, to make the
pulse beat faster and to leave one
humming bits of the melodies.
The album contains medleys from
Naughty Marietta" The Fortune
Teller" Mile. Modiste," Babes in
Toyland." "Sweethearts" and The
Red Mill" and among the orches-
trail numbers "Badinage,' "Air de
Ballet" and "Al FreSco."
The singers are Anne Jamison, So
prano, lovely voice; Jan Peerce,
tenor: Tom Thomas, baritone, with
the Victor Salon Groupe, directed by
Nathaniel Shilkret and the Victor
Concert Orchestra and Vladimir Sc
linsky, violinist. You will enjoy this
album and be the happier for having
heard these gems from the much
loved light operas Of Victor Herbert
Another album which is especially
interesting is that Of representative
French piano music played by Emma
Boynet. Nine. Boynet is one Of the
best known pianists of Europe, as
sistant Of the great French teacher
Isidore Philip and now in this
country as representative of French
piano music at the Worlds Fair. For
this recording she has chosen works
some Of which have never before
been put out by the Victor Co.. but
all of them giving a comprehensive
idea Of the French style in compost
ton.
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Review of Recordings

Included in the list Is Faures
Fifth Barcarolle," Pierne's Noe
turne en- Forme de Valse," De
Severac's "Baigneuses au Soliel,"
Chabrier's "Bourree Fantasque" and
"Idylle" and Debussys Les Sons ct
les Parfums tournent dams lair du
Soir" and the Fourth Prelude From
Volume l."
The first three numbers are espec-
tally delightful and full of fantasy.
In her Interpretation, Nine. Boynet
displays her sympathetic UNDER
standing Of the many nuances which
give 50 individual a touch to this
music. The composers are the
prominent lights Of the period be.
tween 1841 and 1887.
A valuable addition to the Schu-
mann record library is the Sonata
in A Minor" for violin and piano
here played by that superb team of
artists Adolf Busch and Rudolf
Serkin. Although this sonata was
written in the years when the first
evidence of Schumann's illness be-
gan to manifest itself, it has many
points of interest. The dark hue
which prevails throughout and the
extreme simplicity of its form has
been seized upon by some to prove
that the mental collapse of Schu-
mann was already far advanced.
Looking further, one can see that
there Is real intention to econ.
omize the means of expression while
in the somber character can be felt
a profound emotional intensity.
No finer Interpretation could be
had than that which Busch and
Serkln give it. They are 50 COM
pletely in accord in their under
standing and their technical pro-
flciency lends itself to every effect
they desire.
A single disc carries a recording
OF the overture to Menotti's Amelia
Goes to the Ball" the opera which
had such a sensational success at
the Metropolitan last year and on
the reverse side the "Cakewalk"
from Harl McDonald's Third SYM.
phony" which is the Scherzo move
ment. Both recordings are played
superbly by the Philadelphia Orch
estra with Eugene Ormandy con-
Quoting.
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Janet Bracken
ToGive Concert

An attractive program Of vocal
numbers and piano pieces will mark
the benefit concert to be offered by
Janet Bracken, lyric soprano, and
Herbert Donaldson. pianist, both
we'll known in Chicago's musical
circles, and both appearing for the
first time in the Capital City IN
Masonic Auditorium, on Wednesday
night at $50 o'clock. The proceeds
from the concert will go toward the
building fund of the Northeast Res
cue Mission. at 1910 H street NE,
which is sponsored by number Of
the city's churches headed by the
Maryland Avenue Baptist Church.
The Debussy Suite Bergamasque"
and the Ravel "Sonatina" will be
the main numbers to be played by
the youthful pianist, who will open
the program with the Bach-Rummel
"Chorale Prelude" Jesus Christ,
Son of God" and the Cesar Franck
Prelude, Fugue and Variation"
Miss Bracken will also appear in
three groups, her opening numbers
being La Violette," Scarlatti: Elm
Schwan," Grieg; "Auf elm altes
Bid" Hugo Wolf, and "A Pastoral" !"
Veracini. Three French songs will
comprise the second group, Balm
bridge Crisis "C'est Mon Ami; the
Shepherd Air." that was Marie
Antoinette's favorite; Pierne's lie
Moulin" and Charpentier's De-
puis le jour-" from the opera Louise" I"
Songs by Rachmaninoff Strickland,
Horsman and Rummel will comprise
the final group. She will be accom-
panied by Reino Luoma.
Tickets for this concert are avail
able to the public at the Hotel Will
lard ticket bureau, and the WASH
ington Fundamental Bookstore,
1925 H street NE.
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Club to Give
Wednesday
Concert
Mary Boutwell,
And Shanahan
On Program

The Rubinstein Club of Washing
ton, under the direction Of Claude
Robson, with Adele Robinson Bush,
accompanist, will give the last con-
cert Of its 3lst season on Wednes-
day evening, beginning at $50
o'clock, at the Willard Hotel
The club will be assisted by Mary
Boutwell,, dramatic soprano, of New
York, and William P. Shanahan,
tenor. Miss Boutwell, possesses a
voice of wide range and evenness
of tone. A Canadian by birth, Miss
Boutwell, has appeared in her own
country in concert, opera and ora
torio and has toured the Far West
and Pacific Coast extensively. At
her New York recital her ability
and artistry drew the approval of
the press.
Among the numbers the club will
sing are "Afferentur Regi Virgines, -
by the late Rev. DR.. Abel L. Gabert.
who for many years was head of
the music department at Catholic
University.
The program will be as follows:
"Nocturne" Mendelssohn- Ryder
Silent Strings" Bantock- o Shea
"AfYerentur Regi Vireines' Gabert
The Rubinstein Club.
Aria di Polissena" from Radamis-
to- -- Handel
arr. by Frank Bibb
"Danza DANA Fanciulla Gentle"
Durante
'Traume" Wagner
"Standchen" -----Stra Strauss
"Du bist der Lenz' WAGNER
Miss Boutwell,.
Tales Prom the Vienna Woods"
StrAuss-Riegaer
tBy request
The Rubinstein Club.
"Dich Theure Halle" from Tam
hauser") ----Wakner
Miss Boutwell,.
In the Boat Herman
"Maytime" -- Stuart Ross
Sometime" tM 81 - Leo Russotto
"Grandpas Love- IN. s.,
Ethel Glenn Hier
who Calls Einor Remich Warren
Miss Boutwell,.
Before the Daybreak" Nevin Harris
Marie" Franz Bangert
tTenoI obligato. MI, Shanshanl
Good Might Rubinstein-Spross
The Rubinstein Club.
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Officers Chosen

At the annual business meeting
of the Washington Music Teachers
Association Monday in the italian
Garden of the Mayf1ower Hotel, the
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Fanny Amstutz Roberts; first
vice president. Felian Garzia; sec
ond vice president, Mrs. Hugo Hessel-
bach; recording secretary, Eta
Schmid Wells; corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. Gene Crist; treasurer,
Dorothy Tyler. and Mrs. j. Edward
Chapman. associate membership
representative. Appointment of the
Standing Committee chairman will
be made in the near future.
Following the business session a
program was presented by the
Washington Composers Club, ar
ranged by La Sale Spier.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Gurdy Heralds Spring
And AWakens Memories
JOYOUS Music of Humble Instrument
Is Linked to Past When Great
Composers Wrote for 1t
By Alice EverSman.

symphonic works
Of masters joy and but with the
spring brings there blossoms forth another kind Of
played the Now the mention of the
superclous shudder
nstant
the been nsepaabe the lifetime Of most and some OF
mechanical sounds
around these days. but
bright with its Carefree music
let the SOFT
sound Nothing Of
when
Smiling pounded out in strict rhythm but
artists
lifetime perfect and in the clear of melody which, whatever
Its is a
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Civic Orchestra
In Final Concert

Kurt Hetzel will conduct the final
concert this season of the Civic
Orchestra on Tuesday evening at
BIS o'clock. at the Central High
School Auditorium.
The program will be as follows:
Overture. "Fingals Cave" Mendelssohn
Piano concerto in fat Liszt
Soloist, Elizabeth Gates
Andantino from Symphony. No. A.
Tschaikowskv
London Suite" - Coates
Prelude to 'Meistersinger" Wagner
The concert is sponsored by the
Community Center Department.
Tickets are not on advance sale, but
are sold at the door.
Evening star., 1939-05-07

Which one of us does not remem-
Der when the music of the hurdy-
gurdy filled us with joy, when it
was a symbol of all that life prom
ised at time when none of us
dreamed what the actuality would
be- There could be no sorrow where
those carefree tunes were ground
out by worn and tired man. Some
times this man, with the warm i'm
print of the sun of a southern
cline on his face, would be accom-
panied by a monkey so solemn and
pitiful, yet wearing a gay little cap
rakishly on it's head. His bright,
tiny eyes would search our faces as
he stretched his small, bony hand
for the expected penny that would
be the limit of our financial indulg-
ence in music.
He spent his life on the end OF a
leash but sometimes was allowed 10
walk toward us as he begged. or TO
lump onto that marvellous mstru-
ment from where the music came
No otner monkey, we decided, in all
the world had such a delightful
time of it as did this old, puck
cred fellow who belonged to the
CAV music. That his distressed little
face never showed any pleasure did
not impress itself on us. for he was
4 symbol of interesting things, OF
adventure and delightful expert
ences that would surely be ours one
day.
How serious and involved has be-
come our attitude toward music
since the time when the hurdy-
gurdy was the true harbinger OF
spring and its deceiving promises.
Then rhythm and melody were all
that was needed to form music; no
complexities of content and form
were thought of. Happiness and
music were synonymous, for in the
music the hurdy-gurdy man played
there were no problems nor suffer-
ing. All that mattered was the
generosity of the few who appre-
ciated him, and how delighted we
were when the music suddenly stop
ped, right in the midst of phrase,
and we knew that some window had
been raised and a coin thrown to
augment the small sum of the days
earnings.
This affecting little story was told
us today as true occurrence in New
Orleans where the hurdy-gurdy still
is a beloved part OF the life of the
Vieux Care!
The scene was hospital room.
The specter of death rung like a
dismal drapery over the bedstead Of
a small child. An anguished mother
sat watching, waiting. The nurses
and internes, in white. and the old
doctor stood silent. 1t was early
spring, and suddenly through the
open window and into the hushed
room came the jangling rhythm of
hurdy-gurdy A nurse moved to the
sill to signal the street player to
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Baritone to Sing

Paul C. Troll, baritone Of Christ
Church, Greenwich, Conn.,. will be
presented in recital by Mccall Lam
ham at the Chevy Chase School on
Wednesday at noon. Mr.. Troll will
sing the "Dio Possente" aria from
Faust" Carrissimi's "Vittoria mio
CORE" Handels "Where'er You
Walk" Franz "Widmung," Strauss
"Zueignung," Schumann's wild
mung," Purcells Passing By"
Youman's Through the Years"
Huhn's "Invictus" and the spiritual,
Water Boy"
Evening star., 1939-05-07
COncertS

Today.
Y. w. C. A. Music Hour, Betty
Lasley, piano recital, Barker
Hall, S pm.
Tomorrow.
D. C. Chapter American Guild
of Organists. Music Conference,
DR.. Carl Pfatteicher, speaker,
Barker Hall, pm.
Washington Chapel, Ids, D.
Sterling Wheelwright, organ re-
cital, 8 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 2 pm. and $50 pm.
Tuesday.
Massed Choir Concert, r.
Deane Shure, conductor, Mount
Vernon Place M. E. Church,
evening.
Washington Civic Symphony
Orchestra, DR.. Kurt Hetzel, con-
ductor, Elizabeth Gates, pianist,
soloist, Central High School,
8:15 pm.
John Hreachmack. flutist;
Fanny A. Roberts, William Hol-
den, pianists, Washington Col
lege of Music. 8:45 pm.
Army Band. Army Band
Auditorium, 2:15 pm.
Wednesday.
Rubinstein Club, Mary Both
well, soprano; William Shana-
han, tenor, soloists, Willard
Hotel, $50 pm.
Janet Bracken, soprano; Her.
bert Donaldson, pianist, joint
recital, Masonic Auditorium,
$3.50 pm.
Washington Chapel, Ids, D.
Sterling Wheelwright, organ re-
cital. 8 pm.
Navy Band, Sail Loft, Navy
Yard, 2 pm.
D. c. Federation Music Clubs
banquet. with musical program,
240O 10th street NV, 7 pm.
Thursday.
George Washington Universe
ty Glee Clubs, DR.. and Mrs.
Robert Harmon, directors, Will
lard Hotel. 8:45 pm
Henry Gregor, lecture-recital.
Phillips Memorial Gallery, $3.50
pm.
Navy Band, Naval Hospital,
3 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, $50 pm.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 2 pm.
Friday.
Basil Toutorsky, piano recital,
Pierce Hall, 8:45 pm.
Suzanne Marshall, pianist;
Rose Berkshire, soprano, joint
recital, King-Smith Studios,
IL noon.
Washington Chapel, Ids, D.
Sterling Wheelwright, organ re-
cital; Edna Wheelwright, So
prano, soloist, 8 pm.
Navy Band, Sail Loft, Navy
Yard, 2 pm; Walter Reed Hos
pital, $50 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 2 pm.
Saturday.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 10:30 am.
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Pianist to Be Heard

This afternoon the program for
the 5 O'Clock music hour at the
Young Women's Christian Associ-
alton, Seventeenth and K streets,
will be presented by Betty Lasley,
pianist, of the music faculty of Fox
croft School at Middleburg, Va. Miss
Lasley is graduate of the Juillard
School in New York and has been
associated with Harriet johnson in
the Washington Laymen's Music
Course.
Evening star., 1939-05-07

Among the seasons closing events
at King Smith Studio School are
five recitals by graduates and stu
dents in the music department. The
series began on Tuesday. May 2, with
a piano recital by Jean Curran, Rose
Berkshire. and Jane Ellison. This
will be followed by three recitals by
candidates for certificates: Friday. II
noon. joint program by Suzanne
Marshall. pianist, and Rose Berk-
shire, soprano: Sunday, May IA, 4
pm, piano recital by Virginia Spen-
GER: Tuesday, May l6. 8 pm, piano
recital by Jane Ellison: and on Sum-
day, May 2l, there will be a two
piano recital. In these recitals, be-
sides composers of the classic and
romantic periods, such moderns as
the following will also be featured:
Jean Francaix, Kodaly, Mompou,
Satie, Debussy, Critics, Tansman
Gershwin, and Lord Berners. Those
interested in these recitals are cor
daily invited.
Helen Turley, teacher of voice,
will present group of her pupils in
a student recital at her studio, 1926
Massachusetts avenue NV, on Sat-
urday, at o'clock. Those taking
part will be Dorothy Bixby. Mar
garet Copeland, Betty Fast, Maxwell
Galloway. Margaret Smith, Dorothy
LOTUS, Barbara Sweet, Jean Shirley
Albert and Betty Adams.
At the Soiree Musicale, "A Spring
Evening" given by Elizabeth Lam
bert Hebb at Barker Hall on last
Saturday evening. the talented young
singer Francis Barnard showed his
versatility by playing the piano num-
ber Spanish Etchings," a suite of
four pieces.
The Washington Chapter of the
Fountainebleau Alumni Associa ton
met on Wednesday evening, April 26,
at st. Margarets Parish House. AS
the chapter has only recently been
organized. members were introduced
by roll call, and questions of organ
ization and future plans were dis
cussed, after which moving pictures
of Fontainebleau. the Chateau coun-
try and other places in France were
shown.
Anthony Chanaka, teacher Of
piano at the Washington College
Of Music and at Friendship House,
will present a group of his pupils
in recital in the Little Theater
at Friendship House. 619 D street
Sc. at o'clock today.
The public is cordially invited.
w. j. Oates will direct a program
at Powell Junior High School, Hiatt
place and Lamont street NV,
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The
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Operetta to Be Given

A Mozart operetta, THE Gift"
was given by the pupils Of Trinity
College Preparatory School in the
school auditorium last Sunday aft
ernoon for a Baltimore audience,
and will be performed today for q
Washington audience. A door prize
will be given.
Katherine Flaherty of Washing
ton will take the part Of Marie An
toinette, Anne Jane Donehue Of
New York win impersonate Mozart.
Evening star., 1939-05-07


ton equipment has been placed in
the Sunday school to care for an
overflow attendance.
A prelude, played by Raymond E.
Rapp, organist of the First Baptist
Church, will start at o'clock and
the invocation will be offered at
BIS by DR.. Frank Steelman Of the
Petworth M. E. Church. Groups
will be sung by each choir and at
the conclusion Eva Whitford Low
cite, president of the federation,
will conduct the combined choruses
in the presentation Of Gounod's in
spring hymn, Send Out Thy Light"
Choirs and choruses participating
are A Cappella Chorus, Washington
Missionary College, George w.
Greer, director; Anacostia M. E.
Choir, George F. Ross. director;
Calvary Baptist Adult Chorus, An
drew c. Wilkins. director; Church
Of Latter Day Saints Chorus, D.
Sterling Wheelwright. director; Pet
worth M. E. Choir, Ards Atkinson
Cannon, director, and st. Johns
Episcopal Choir, Arthur w. Howes,
jr., director.
The second event will be the an
nual banquet with musical diver
tisements at Hotel 24OO Sixteenth
Street on Wednesday evening at 7
o'clock. Eva Whitford Lovette, local
federation president and represen-
tative of the Music Week Commit
tee, will preside at the banquet.
Guests of honor will be Commits
sioner Melvin C. Hazen. DR.. Hans
Kinder and Mrs. Martin Garrett,