Evening star., 1943-12-19
In Local
Music Circles


be heard in recital tomorrow eve
ming at $50 o'clock in the Wash
ington Club. His program will in
clude the Bach-Liszt prelude and
Fugue in A minor" Couperins "Sil-
ber Bells Heralding the approach OF
Venus" Daquin's THE Cuckoo, -
Rameau's "Musette en- Rondeau'
and The Hen" Schumann's The
Carnaval" with the latter half OF
the program devoted to compost
tions by Chopin and Debussy.
The Cathedral Choral Society of
Washington will present program
of sacred music this afternoon at
$50 in the Washington Cathedral
The chorus. led by William Srtick-
land, guest conductor, will sing
works by Bach, Buxtehude, Handel
and Hoist Paul Galloway, director
will present several organ works and,
with Millard Taylor, Leo Sowerby S
Poem for Violin and Organ" This
work which will be played from
manuscript and for the first time
in Washington was written origi-
nally for viola and organ for Will
liam Primrose of the London String
Quartet.
THE Spirit of Christmas" or
open House on Christmas Eve, "
a play written for the Honor Music
Group of Friendship House by Ed
ward Tripp, will be presented by the
group assisted by members of the
Glee Clubs this afternoon. There
will be a performance for children
at 4 o'clock and short musical
program will precede the repeating
of the play for adults at o'clock
Betty Connolly will sing "Gesu Bam-
bino," by Yon, and "Panis Angeli-
GUS" by Franck. Violin obligato
will be played by Ensign Charles A.
Mengers.
The Honor Music Group will sing
two folk songs, "As Lately We
Watched" and Joseph Dear, o
Joseph Mild" arrangements and
descants by Robert Sheehan. A
double trio of girls will be heard
in The Shepherds Christmas
Song arranged by Dickinson.
The program is under the direc-
ton of Jessie M. Olin and will be
given in the auditorium of Friend
ship House, GIG D street Sc.
The Howard University Choir
will present its annual program OF
Christmas carols this morning at II
o'clock. The program will include
Kerr's Fantasy on Afro-American
Christmas Melodies" for organ, and
the choral part of the program will
close with the "Hallelujah Chorus"
from Handel's THE Messiah"
The Postal Service Orchestra,
under the direction of George Heis-
ley, which is sponsored by the We'll
fare and Recreation Association,
will give its nidseason concert to-
morrow evening at $50 o'clock in
the Postmaster Generals Reception
Room, Post Office Department
Building. Admission will be free
to employees of the department,
their families and friends Excerpts
from the Nut Cracker Suite" by
Tschaikowsky, the Stradella Over
ture" and the Carmen overture,
by Bizet, will be featured.
Graciela Rivera, young Puerto
Rican coloratura soprano, will give
song recital at the Phillips Memo
rial Gallery at $3.50 pm. tomorrow
night. Miss Rivera is a graduate
Of the Institute of Musical Art at
the Juilliard School of Music in
New York City, and Is presently re-
siding in Washington. She has
given several recitals locally, most
of which have been for the benefit
Of servicemen or charitable organ
izations, and all of which have been
enthusiastically received. Miss Riv-
era will be accompanied at the piano
by Dorothy Godfrey.
The regular Saturday concert by
the Soldiers Home Band Orchestra
will be omitted this week, owing to
special duty for the musicians on
Christmas Day.
The Washington Missionary Col
lege Oratorio Chorus of 120 voices,
under the direction of Minnie Iver-
son-Wood. will present HandeIs
Messiah" in the First Congrega-
tional Church, Tenth and G streets
NV, tonight at 8 o'clock. The solo,
lists will be Marjorie Brett-Slade,
soprano; Dorothy Wilson-Halbach,
contralto; Justin Lawrie, tenor; Pfc.
Richard Rogers, bass. Harold Doer-