Evening star., 1940-02-18
In Local Music Circles

Participating in the Nationwide
observance Of the third annual Fes-
tival Of American Music, the Dis
trict Of Columbia Work Progress Ad-
ministration Music Project, Rowland
Roberts. State supervisor, will pre-
sent . series Of three programs,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
Illustrating Negro folk music. Amer
ican orchestral music and the music
Of outstanding composers Of Amer
ican popular dance music.
A program Of Negro spirituals will
be sung by the Glendale Commu-
nifty Chorus and vocal quartet on
Wednesday evening at $50 o'clock
in the Garnet-Patterson Auditorium,
Ninth and U streets NV. The
chorus was organized and is di-
rected by Beatrice Suydan, a District
Of Columbia w. P. A. music teacher.
The quartet consists of members Of
the project music education unit.
Thurman Cherry, also a member Of
the teaching staff, will act as COM
mentator. The teaching and choral
activities OF the Music Project are
under the supervision Of Harriet
Nash.
The chamber orchestra. Rowland
Roberts conducting, Will be heard
in concert Of selected American
compositions on Friday evening at
the Washington College Of Music at
$50 pm.
A 45-minute program of out
standing examples Of American
popular music will be presented
by project dance orchestra under
Robert Merchant, supervisor. on
Thursday evening at the Jewish
Community Center at $50 pm.
The Takoma Park Presbyterian
Church Choir, under the direction
of Mrs. Albert w. Volkmer, with
Mrs. Dudley G.. jackson at the
organ, will present the cantata '"The
Daughter of Jairus," by Stainer, this
evening at o'clock. John l.. Stin-
son, baritone, will sing the role
Of Jairus. Other soloists win be
Dorothy Skinner Walsh and Wini-
fred G. Clark, sopranos, and Frank
lin Garrett, tenor.
Vocal selections by Dorothy May
nor, Marian Anderson and Paul
Robson; Handel's water Music"
and Brahms Concerto for Violin
in D Major" will be outstanding
features Of the evening with the
Victrola program to be presented
in the music division Of the Pubic
Library, Eighth and K streets NV,
tomorrow at 7:30 pm.
Helen Turley will present Betty
Ann Fast in recital at the studio,
1926 Massachusetts, avenue NV,
Tuesday evening at 8:15., She will
be accompanied by Kathryn Jope.
The Baltic-Ametican Society Of
Washington, D. c., will observe
George Washington Birthday and
also will commemorate the inde-
pendence days OF Estonia and
Lithuania with q dinner musicale
on Sunday, February as, ut Z PM,
at the Colonial Hotel, Fifteenth and
M streets NV.
The musical program viii be
headed by RENO Luoma, Finnish
pianist, and by Alexander Wesley
Vasiliauskas, Lithuanian concert
tenor, Of New York. Mr.. Vasiliaus-
kas will also be q guest soloist at
the high mass In st. Dominics
Church, Sixth and e streets S.W,
on Sunday morning, February IS,
at 10 am.
The Won Unschuld University Of
Music, Inc, held . piano recital
Friday at the Womeps City Club.
presented by students Of Mime.
Marie Won Unschuld. The following
participated: Marian Hess, Doris
Jean Cone, Thelma Klohr, Virginia
Hodges, Mabel Long, Warren Hoyt,
Adele Misel. Dorothy Lakin, Bessy
Smith, Mrs. Thomas North and
Elizabeth Gates.
oirls' Club and Hospics, 1879 Six.
teeuth street NV. gave . musical