Evening star., 1941-03-16

A program Ol JEWISH lOlk music
and dancing will be presented to-
night at the Jewish Community
Center by Benjamin Zemach and
Saul Meisels. The program is one
of a series given by the National
Center Forum to stimulate greater
interest in Jewish culture.
MI. Meisel is tenor of wide con-
cert and radio experience. His pro-
gram will consist of Hebrew, Pales-
tinlan and Yiddish folk songs. Mr..
Zemach is known as the originator
of the Jewish ballet. He began his
career as an actor in Moscow. The
concert is open to the public.
Orma Ewing and Bette Ryder will
give a joint recital at a tea this
afternoon from to o'clock at the
Florence Howard Studios of Sing
ing, l406 New Hampshire avenue
Dorothy Radde Emery is the ac-
cOmpaniSt.
The Washington Thrillharmonic
Society announces a series of popu-
r-priced recorded concerts of mu-
sical classics to be held Sunday eve
nings at 8 pm. at Fraternity House,
1900 New Hampshire avenue NV.
Tonight's concert will feature Mo-
zart's symphony No. 40 in G
Minor"
A musical tea with silver offering
will be held this afternoon at pm.
at the home of Mrs. M. Rea Shafer
at 6605 Meadow Lane. Chevy Chase,
Md. The artists appearing are Mrs.
V. V. Holcomb, soprano; Theresa
Schrader contralto; Louis Potter,
cellist; Horace Smithey, baritone;
Floyd Jennings, tenor, and Harriet
Ingersou, reader. The accompanies
will be Margaret Hyson, Virginia
Harpham and Mrs. Horace Smithey.
The annual tea is under the auspices
of the Women's Missionary Society
of the Chevy Chase Methodist
Church.
The RubinStein Club, Claude
Robson, director; Adele Robinson
Bush, accompaniSt, will hold its US
ual weekly rehearsal tomorrow eve
ming at 8 o'clock in the small ball
room of the Willard Hotel Any one
desiring information concerning
membership in this long established
club for women should communicate
with Mrs. IorWerth j. Roberts, 1880
IpffarcOn ctrppt NJ Wy
At the opening session of the Dis
trlct of Columbia State Conference
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, to be held in Memorial
Continental Hall tomorrow, Eleanor
Westergren Brazil, soprano, will sing
a group of American songs by Cad
man and Hageman. Mrs. Glen Edg-
ington will be at the piano.
The second annual presentation
of the Faure Requiem Mass" in the
Covenant-First Presbyterian Church
is announced for Wednesday eve
ming at $3.50 pm. The Covenant
Chancel Choir and the Baltimore
Brown Memorial Choir will Join
forces for this fifth musical Wednes-
day evening in the Connecticut ave-
nue. church. The chorus of 80 voices
will be conducted by Richard
Weagly, director of the Baltimore
choir, and accompanied by Theodore
Schaefer, minister of music in the
Covenant-First Church. Sylvia
Meyer, harpist with the National
Symphony, will assist. The soloists
will be Juanita Claxon, soprano, and
Gordon Barnes, baritone.
On Friday the program of the
Friday Morning Music Club will be
given by Gertrude Gundert, viol-
iSt; Julia Elbogen, pianist, and
Mildred Colvin, soprano. Frances
Gutelius Smith, pianist, will present
music of Mexico, in costume. The
meeting will be held in Barker Hall,
the Y. w. c. A, Seventeenth and
K streets NV, at 11:30 am.
The Junior division of the D. C.
Federation of Music Clubs will give
a patriotic musical program Satur-
day at 2 pm. at Friendship House,
under the sponsorship of Mrs. Mar
shall Stein of the Junior American
Citizens Committee of the Betsy
Ross Club. Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. This is primarily
a childrens program to which chill
dren of various communities will be
invited.
Constance Russell, resident con-
cert pianist. will appear In Q recital