Evening star., 1942-05-31
| In Local
Music Circles

The junior. youth and senior
choirs of the Georgetown PreSby-
terian Church, Thirty-first and P
streets NV, will present a choral
festival concert at the church this
afternoon at 4:30 pm. The soloistS
will be: Mary Russell Williams, So
prano; Mildred Courtney Snesrud,
contralto; Barrett Fuchs, tenor;
John P. Waggoner. baritone. Nancy
Poore Tufts is the organiSt and
choir director.
H Gray Swain, baritone, Will be
heard in a song recital at the Uni
versalist National Memorial Church
this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, pre-
sented by H. Jerome Graham. or
ganiSt. Mr.. Swain Is cantor at St.
Agnes Episcopal Church and has
sung over the radio and in private
circles.
The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club
of the Young Women's Christian
Association will sing two groups
of songs at the tea to be given by
the Federation Music Clubs this
afternoon at 4 o'clock Mary M.
Burnett will direct with Merle Bod
die as the accompanist.
The Helen Turley Studio will pre-
sent Dorothy Bixby, soprano. in re-
cital this afternoon at o'clock at
the Women's City Club. Her pro-
gram. will include THE Lutte Song"
from Korngold's opera. The Dead
City; a vocalise by Rachmaninov,
German Lieder and songs in Eng
lish. Emilia d'Aliberti of Baltimore
will accompany Miss Bixby. The
public is invited.
The District of Columbia Fedora
ton of Music Clubs, Thelma Gala
han, president, will present a musi-
cal program this afternoon at 4
o'clock in the ballroom of the Wash
ington Club, Seventeenth and K
streets NV. Choral numbers, voice,
piano and violin solos vii. be pre-
sented by members of the student
and senior clubs of the federation.
The national piano playing audi
tionS will be held in Washington
Thursday through Monday in the
Sidweu Friends School. 1901 Wis
consin avenue NV. Carl Roeder,
formerly of the Juilliard School Of
Music, New York, and his assist
ant, Doris Frerichs, will be the
judges. Thirty teachers will enter
approximately $50 pupils.
A piano recital was given recently
by the pupils of Rosa Long. Those
participating were:
Ann Clarkson, Joan Good, Audrey
Hyatt, Patsy Sullivan, Barbara
Gragg, Doris Camara, Joan Olsen,
Bernie Good, Jean Norford. Norma
Plaughter. Joyce Bugenhagen, San
dra Southard, Bonita Burwick, Doris
Apple, Mabel Long, Ida May Devine,
Nancy Santmyer, Doris Russell,
Helen Bowman, Lottie Ann Worley,
Vera Compton, Faye Nelson, Paul
NeuhauS, Nancy Burton. Joyce Bu-
ker, Frances Fillman, Jane Laidlaw,
Marian Unkle, Warren Bowman,
Mary Ann Larsen, Barbara Chen
ault and Mary Grapes.
The music department of the Con-
vent of the Visitation, Georgetown,
presented a series of three recitals
during the last week of May. Joan
Becker, Mary Coughlin, Marilyn
Mercer and Adele Dillon, pianists,
and Cobbie di Cristina, Marjorie
Walsh and Jane Simpson, singers,
from the Junior college, were heard
on May "a.
Laura Allen, Barbara McHugh,
Jane Dexter, Mary Shipe and Edith
Wolf, pianists, and Anne Neifert,
soprano, from the college prepara-
tory department, we're heard on
May Is.
Angelique de Golian. pianist, and
Mary Coughlin, soprano, of the
junior college, presented a Joint re-
cital on May 26. Lois Abernethy
was the accompaniSt. Helen Corbin
Heinl is head of the piano depart
ment and Florence Howard is the
teacher of singing