Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-15
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Society announces its ninth season
of candlelight concerts, which will
be held at the Phillips Gallery on
Monday afternoons, December IA,
January II, 10 and rs. ..-..--
The Pro-musical Quartet, Owen
Lusak, Jeno Sevely, George Wargo
and Paul Dennis, will present the
opening program, which will include
the Gianneo "Suite" and Brahms
Quintet"
Anthony Chanaka, pianist, and
Marion Maxwell, violinist, faculty
members of the Preparatory School
Of the Washington College of Music
will present a program at Friend
ship House, GIG D street Sc, today
at o'clock. The honor music group
of Friendship House, will sing a
group of songs. under the direction
of Jessie M. DIN. The public Is
| cordially invited.
The series of Sunday evening con-
certs at Meridian Hill Hotel which
began last Sunday will feature guest
artists for each program. This eve
ming at $50 o'clock Mollie English,
pianist, of Boston, will give the pro-
gram.
Interest in cultural advancement
through music appreciation brings
two special groups Of guests to the
Twilight Musicales. scheduled for
tomorrow, Wednesday and Satur-
day, 8 pm. at the Washington
Chapel, Sixteenth street at Column
bia road. The Young Adult Fellow
ship of the Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church, and the Seventh
Day Adventist Teachers Institute
will be represented at the lecture
recital tomorrow, when thematic
elements from Beethoven will be
illustrated by D. Sterling Wheel
wright, organist.
Musical atmosphere for a mid
week retreat is planned in Wednes-
days program, and q variety of
most popular works by Handel,
Schubert and Wagner are scheduled
for Saturdays program of light
music, in which Edna G. Wheel
wright will assist. The public as
well as servicemen in the city are
welcomed without cost to these
musical events.
All Souls Church (Unitarian) an
nounces that the annual series Of
Sunday afternoon organ recitals by
the organist, Lewis Atwater, will be
inaugurated this afternoon at {
o'clock This first program, lasting
half an hour, will be memorial tc
Mrs. Bernard R. Green, the donor
of the organ. The public is cor.
daily invited. a
Gertrude Clarke Whittall will be
the honor guest at dinner anc
forum which The Washington Music
Teachers Association, Inc, is plan.
ming for the last Monday of this
month at the Arts Club. The forum
will be conducted after the manner
of Information Please" with .
panel Of experts to be announced a.
soon as 1t has been completed.
Betty Baum will present her pupil
Phyllis Schwartz, In a piano recita.
this afternoon at 1 o'clock in hel
studio, $500 Edmunds street NV
Miss Schwartz will play Beethoven's
&c Sharp Minor Sonata" group
of Chopin, two Gershwin prelude,
and Grieg's Concerto" Miss Baum
at the second piano.
| Guest Conductor william Strick-
land OF the Cathedral Choral So
ciety has announced the addition
Of q modern choral work to the
program which the group will pre-
sent In Washington Cathedral on
December 10. The new work, which
win be sung Is q curtain raiser" to
the Mendelssohn Elijah" IS Robert
Wards musical setting to the Walt
Whitman poem .Hushed Be the
Camps Tonight" This program Will
mark the flrst washington per-
Torrance Of the work.