Evening star., 1940-02-11
In Local Music Circles

The Gertrude Clarke Whittall
Foundation makes the announce
ment that the concerts by the Pas
quier Trio originally scheduled for
Friday and Saturday will not take
place. Because of the war, the men,
bers of this ensemble have not been
able to come to this country to fill
their engagements.
Mrs Wallace Hales is in charge of
the program at the o'clock hour of
music at Friendship House today.
The program will be presented by
Lothair Rich, tenor; Florence Nc
Carthy, soprano; William Richards,
pianist, and jeanette Morrell,
reader. The public is cordially in
vited.
This afternoon the program for the
music hour at the Young Women S
Christian Association, Seventeenth
and K streets NV, will be an OBJ
servance of National Race Relations
Sunday. in cooperation with the
Phyllis Wheatley Y. w. c. A. Mary
Victorine Day will be reader, and
the program will include numbers
by Cleota Collins, soprano; Gladys
Thomas. pianist and accompanist;
Amy Martin and Ruth johnson,
duet; Muriel Abbott Marshall, vio-
linist. and instrumental ensemble
directed by Mrs. Marshall, accom-
panied by Elsa Munk- Petersen. The
program will begin at S o'clock and
the public is cordially invited to at
tend.
Felicia Rybier, well-known pian-
ist and instructor of Baltimore and
Washington, will introduce a group
of her pupils in recital today at
1728 Connecticut avenue. The fol-
lowing will participate: Roma and
Ina Bass, Bernice and Barbara
Susser, Rita Smith, Judith Kushner,
Evelyn Cohen, Lorraine Higger,
Morton Steinberg, Henrietta Os-
trower, Phyllis Rash and Marie Lou
Dettmar.
On Friday Miss Rybier will intro
duce her Baltimore and Washing
ton pupils in recital at Stief Hall,
Baltimore.
At the first special Lenten service
this evening at the Church of the
Ascension there will be 15-minute
organ recital beginning at 7:45, at
which the following numbers will
be played by the organist, Percy T.
Burness, A. A. G. O.: "Toccata and
Fugue in D Minor" Bach; "Adagio
From Second Symphony" Widor.
Members of the Lovette Choral
Club will entertain at a Colonial tea
this afternoon at the home of the
director. Eva Whitford Lovette, 1876
Connecticut avenue. A musical pro-
gram will be presented by the mem
bers, assisted by artists from the La
Sale Spier studio and dancers from
the Gnoocheff studio. The perform
ers will appear in Colonial costumes
Those who will take part are Vir-
ginia Ring, Francise Bass Wilson,
Ruth French, Violet Hobbs Hahn,
Nellie Barber Brooks, Emily Ten
nyson, Fay Bruce Swenson, Hazel
B. Cake, Hattie Moler and Elizabeth
+. Bugbee.
st. Johns Church, Lafayette
Square, announces a sacred concert
in the church tomorrow at $3.50 pm.
The program will consist of two sa-
cred cantatas by J. s. Bach, No. l40,
"Sleepers Awake" and No. 18O,
"Deck Thyself My Soul With Glad
ness" The cantatas will be sung by
st. Johns Choir of men and boys,
assisted by Katharine Harris, Raj
monde Aubrey and Sam Cotton, So
loists. The performance will be di-
rected by Arthur Howes, F. A. G. o.
Edward Clement Potter will give
an illustrated talk on die Meister-
singer" by Richard Wagner at the
Arts Club on Thursday at $50 pm.
The Washington Opera Guild,
Mime. Gurle Luise Correa, director,
will present Evangeline Tully, So
prano, and Henry Field, pianist, at
the Arts Club this evening for the
refugee fund, Polish Finnish relief.
Mary liant Couch will be the &C.
companist.
The piano Teachers Forum" will
hold their second recital Of the sea-
son on Thursday at B pm. at Cen
tral High School. Teachers win