Evening star., 1943-04-18
Music
Notes
Ronald Hodges
Piano Recital
At Arts Club

Arts Club OF washington will pre-
sent recital by Ronald Hodges,
pianist. Mr.. Hodges is scholar
ship pupil at the Juilliard School of
Music in New York City, where he
Is studying under James Friskin. He
hopes to complete his course at Juil-
lard this spring before going into
the Army. A native of Montclair,
N. j., Mr.. Hodges has appeared twice
as soloist with the Montclair SYM
phony Orchestra. He has played
with the State Teachers College
Orchestra and recently participated
In one Of the concerts held at the
Museum Of the City of New York,
sponsored by the Juilliard for the
war effort.
Howard Mitchell, solo cellist of
the National Symphony Orchestra,
will give a recital at Howard Uni
versity on Thursday evening. This
concert takes the place of the one
scheduled for February 16 by Ber-
nard Mason and closes the 1923
concert series.
The Phillips Memorial Gallery an
nounceS a concert this afternoon at
5 o'clock of voice and flute by Mary
Fraser, soprano; John Reachmack,
flutist, member of United States
Navy Band, and It. Edwin G. Davis,
U. S. F. A., piano. The program will
consist of works by Handel, Bach,
Gluck, Debussy, Faure, Stravinsky,
Mussorgsky. Purcell.
The Virgil Fox-Betty Baum piano
recital announced for today has had
to be postponed. Sergt. Fox and
Miss Baum will play at the gallery
on Sunday, May 80.
The program for the Sunday
Music Hour at the YWCA today will
be given by the Sligo Music Club
and the Evangeline choral group,
under the direction of La Vergne
Jef1ries. The program begins at 5
o'clock and the public is cordially
invited.
The following program will be
presented at the symphonic hour at
the YWCA on Wednesday at 9 pm:
Russian Easter Overture" Rimsky-
Korsakow; from "Parsifal," Wag-
ner; Prelude" and Good Friday
SPELL" recorded by Leopold Stokow-
ski and the Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra.
Gertrude Lyons will present mem
bers of the Glass de Chant, STU
dent club of the District of Columbia
Federation of Music Clubs, in an
hour of song, to the members of the
Womens City Club, 736 jackson
place NV. this afternoon at 5
o'clock. The following members will
participate: Nora Ann George,
Helen Joachim, Eta Millmore, Flora
Morris, Cathleen Preusser, Phyllis
Richardson, Janet Satterfeld, Vivian
Stonesifer. They will be assisted by
two artist pupils, Polly Fewell and
Lucille Wallace. Saida Selby will be
the a<companist.
Emerson Myers, president of the
Washington Music Teachers Asso-
citation, Inc, announces the semi
annual business meeting and elec-
ton of officers for tomorrow at The
Highlands, Connecticut avenue and
California street NV. Members
wishing reservations for the lunch
con at II should phone Evelyn Ran
dali, program chairman. Those un-
able to attend the luncheon are
urged to come for the business meet
ing at l o'clock.
The music division of the Public
Library, Eighth and K streets NV,
announces an Evening With the
Victrola" tomorrow evening at 7:3O
o'clock. Excerpts from the COM
plete recording of ''The Passion Ac-
cording to st. Matthew" by Bach,
will be played.
An Easter Monday concert en-
titled "An Evening of Song and
Story" featuring Julia Alloway, Vir-
ginia's mezzo-soprano, will be pre-
sented at pm. tomorrow in the
parish hall, Trinity Protestant Epis-
copal Church, Manassas, Va.
Miss Alloway, who has appeared
recently at the Del Ray Methodist
Church, Alexandria, and at the
marine chapel and auditorium at
Quantico in ballad concerts, will
have as her accompanist and assist
ant, John Elliot of fredericksburg
The evenings entertainment is
under the auspices of the Woman's 5
Guild of the church.
Thomas N. Leef, bass-baritone
soloist of St. Adams Church, will go
to Harrisburg, Va, today to sing the