Evening star., 1941-05-04
In Local Music Circles

As feature of music week there
will be a woman's chorus festival
in Silver Spring tomorrow in the
Woodside Methodist Church at 8:15
pm. Groups participating are the
Silver Spring Women's Club Choral,
Dorothy Emery director, and Mrs.
G.. Harris White, accompanist; the
Takoma Park Women's Club Choral,
Mrs. E. L. Green, director, and Mrs.
Waldo Schmitt, accompanist; the
Ohio Girls Club Choral, Velma
Barnett, director: the Woodside
Women's Club Choral, Emily Elkins,
accompanist; the Cecilia Choir of
Woodside Methodist Church, Doro-
thy Emery, director, and Frances
Gleckler, accompanist.
Each society will sing a group OF
choral compositions and the pro-
gram will close with joint numbers
by all five choruses, featuring
patriotic song, America for Me-
by a Washington composer, Eliza
beth Merz Butterfield.
The guest artists will be Jean
McCandlish, pianist; Clark Paulsen,
baritone, and Alden H. Emery, jr.,
flutist, all residents of Silver Spring.
The program is complimentary and
the public is cordially invited.
Betty Baum will present Louise
Rubin in a piano recital this after
noon, 4 o'clock, in her residence
studio, $500 Edmunds street NV.
Miss Rubin will play works by Bach,
Mozart, Chopin, MacDowel and will
close her program with the Haydn
Concerto in D Major"
Today the program for the Sunday
music hour at the Young Women's
Christian Association, Seventeenth
and K streets, has been arranged by
SophocleS PapaS and will be pre-
Sented by the following: Mandolin
and guitar orchestra directed by Mr..
Papas, consisting of Doris and Con-
rad Bruderer, mandolins; Marjorie
Brown, tenor mandola; Sophocles
Papas, mandocello: Helen Bruederer,
guitar; Pauline Blundon, mando-
bass; the Bruderer trio; Mary
Tomasello, Hawaiian guitar; guitar
quartet, the members of which are
Mrs. David Persinger, Mrs. Jack
Berkman, Mildred Waugh and
Sophocles Papas; Pasquale Ro-
mano, mandolin; Anne Arnold,
Emily Karr, singers.
The program will begin at S
o'clock and the public is cordially
invited to attend.
The Cleveland Park Community
Congregational Church will hold a
musical vesper service this after
noon at pm. The soloists will be
Gitta Kaplan, soprano, Jordan Bent
ley, jr., baritone; Bernice Mcdaniel,
pianist, and Bernice Moore, Or
ganist. Nine. Julia Elbogen will be
the accompanist. The program will
consist of two operate arias by
Ponchielli and Mascagni and indi-
vidual groups of songs for soprano
and baritone. There will be also two
duets for piano and organ by Saint
odCliS dIlu oOIOWSkl.
The A Cappella Choir. under the
direction of George w. Greer, a
choral group of so mixed voices from
Washington Missionary College, Ia
koma Park, will present group of
sacred songs at the Georgetown
Presbyterian Church, Thirty first
and P streets NV, this evening at
o'clock.
The program will include Wake,
Awake" I'm Heaven Above" and
Lost in the Night" by F. Melius
Christensen, director of st. Olaf
Choir; Rejoice and Sing" and
Come, Holy Spirit" by Bach, and
Unfold, Ye Portals" from THE Re-
demption," by Gounod.
The concert is open to the public.
The Village Singers of Kensing.
ton, a male chorus Of IS voices d.
rected by Arnold l.. Lovejoy, with