Evening star., 1940-04-28
Music Week
To Present
Many Events
Clubs Activities
To Be Greater
Than Before

The District Of Columbia Fedora
ton Of Music Clubs participation In
Music Week activities will be greater
this year than ever before. Not only
are most of the IS clubs and choirs
planning numerous concerts and re-
citals during Music Week, May to
II, but the organization itself is
sponsoring several major musical
events, the first of which is the
Junior Competitive Festival, in
Barker Hall, Saturday evening. On
Monday evening, May 6, at the Army
and Navy Country Club, will be held
the annual banquet and concert;
on Tuesday evening, the 7th, the
sacred choir festival will be held at
Mount Vernon M. E. Church, and
on Wednesday evening, the 9th, it
also will sponsor the concert of the
orchestra and symphonic choir of
the Department of Agriculture.
At the Barker Hall festival the
counselors of more than 30 Junior
clubs Of the federation will present
their pupils in specially selected
groups of voice and instrumental
numbers for adjudication. Ratings
up to superior" are awarded for
performances recognized on the
bases of age and experience, or years
Of study. This is individual judg-
ment, and pupils are not in compe-
tition with others. Certificates of
ratings will be awarded by the Ma
tional Federation of Music Clubs.
The event at the Army and Navy
Country Club is expected to be at
tended by upward of 200 guests, in
cluding many persons who are not
members. After the banquet,
musical program will be given in
the lounge. Mrs. Guy P. Gannett,
first vice president of the National
Federation, representing the presi-
dent, will speak. Several of the
senior clubs will sing. Guests who
do not have transportation may
obtain reservation on chartered
bus which will leave the home of
Eva Whitford Lovette, 1875 Connec-
ticut avenue NV, at $50 pm.
The banquet starts at 7 o'clock. Ar
rangements may be made with Mrs.
r. E. Espy, 1921 S street NV.
More than $50 voices, representing
six Of Washington's leading choirs.
will take part in the song festival
at Mount Vernon Church. Each
choir will sing separately, and the
program will begin and end with
hymns by the combined choirs
conducted by Eva Whitford Lovette,
federation president The public is
invited. Owing to the demand for
seats, admission is by card only, to
be obtained from the chairman of
church music, R. Deane Shure,
Mount Vernon Church. The pro-
gram starts promptly at 815.
On Wednesday, the 9th, an aug
mented Agriculture Orchestra and
Symphonic Choir will give its Music
Week concert in the Federal Audi
torium, Labor Building, Constitution
avenue, between Twelfth and -Four.
teenth streets NV. Besides the
more conventional works to be pre-
sented by the conductor, DR.. Walter
Bauer, Deane Shure's "Choric Sym.
phony" will receive its first Wash.
ington performance. In this work,
the human voice is employed as an
orchestral instrument. The tonal
effects include humming, tongue
rolling, kissing, screaming, laughter
and whistling. There is declama-
ton, and even a shot is fired. The
symphony deals with the Legend
OF Simon Girty," and the unusual
effects depict scenes of the life of
this outlaw, who operated in the
Pennsylvania Dutch country. The
public and the members of the
federation sponsoring the event are
invited to this concert, which starts
at $50.