Evening star., 1940-01-28


the name Of the program to be
presented at the Washington Club
on Tuesday, IL am, with Florence
Howard, speaker. Mrs. Howard will
discuss the music and drama fes-
tivals she attended In England last
summer Her talk will be illus
trated by Elizabeth Everett, soprano:
Frances Tucker, mezzo- soprano, and
Lois Abernethy, pianist, all members
of her studio.
This afternoon the Columbia Light
Opera Co. will present a program
of selections from light operas be-
fore the Women's City Club S
monthly membership tea, held from
8 to 7 at 736 Jackson place. This
occasion is virtually memorial to
the great composer, Victor Herbert,
and an anniversary for the opera
company. Victor Herbert was born
in Dublin February l, 1859, and the
Columbia Light Opera Co. was Or
ganized in February, 1887.
Herbert's THE Red Mill" will be
presented February Is and 16. The
operetta has not been presented in
Washington since 1918.
Jesse Nussear, lyric tenor, accom-
panied by Otto T. Simon, and Grace
Powell, violinist, accompanied by
Lyman McCrary, will give a recital
at Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and K
streets NV, this afternoon for the
5 o'clock music hour. Mr.. Nussear
will sing compositions by Handel,
Giordani, Beethoven, Schubert, Men
delssohn, Hahn, Donizetti, Nevin.
Miss Powell's numbers are from
Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Gossec.
This evening, beginning at o'clock
in the Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church, the first musical serv-
ice of the season will be given. The
Mount Pleasant Chorus $50 voices
under the direction of Norton M.
Little, with Claude Robeson at the
organ, and Prudence Jackson, So
prano; Selma Last, contralto; Ray
mond T. Pigott, tenor, and Carroll
E. Robb, bass, as soloists, will sing
selections from the classical masses.
The public is invited.
Iva Loughlen Guy is presenting a
group of her pupils in piano re-
cital this afternoon at her residence
studio, 5519 Connecticut avenue NV.
Those on the pprogram are Nancy
Abbot, Harris Ball, Betsie and Kim
brough Bassett, Peggy 10 Brown,
Joanne Dillon, Barbara Harter, Bar
bara Latta, Jean Lund, Ann Myers,
Iris Rawls, jeanne Rouse, Janet
Tooley, Mary Van Veen and Nancy
Wakefield.
Minnie Volkmann, soprano, will
be the soloist at the midwinter con-
cert of the United Singers of Balti-
more to be given at the Alcazar
today. John Eltermann will accom-
pany Miss Volkmann.
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a studio for voice and violin at 524
Van Buren street NV. Her UNDER
graduate work was done at the
Ohio Wesleyan School of Music,
where she graduated in voice under
Marcel Rozer de Bouzon. At the
same school she was violin stu
dent of Ferdinand Fillion. AFTER
several years of teaching in Ohio
she completed her masters degree
in music at Columbia University
and the Institute of Musical Art in
New York City. Immediately fol-
lowing her study in New York, Mrs.
Swallen directed music at State
Teachers College in Kutztown, Pa.
On Friday the Friday Morning
Music Club will present Felian Gar
zia, pianist, and Helen Turley,
contralto. The program will be held
at 1880 am. in Barker Hall, the
Y. w. G. A., Seventeenth and K
streets NV.
Tamara Dmitrieh of the Dmi-
trien Gnoocheff Studio in Chevy
Chase Is presenting her piano stu.
dents in their monthly informal
recitals on SATURDAY afternoon at 1