Evening star., 1943-01-17
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The Pro Musica Quartet. consist
ing of Owen Lusak and Jeno Sevely,
violins; George Wargo, viola, and
Joseph Coppin, cello, will present
excerpts from Mozart's Zine Kleine
Nachtmusik," Kodaly's Trio Ser
enade, Op. g." and the Ravel quar-
tet tomorrow afternoon at pm. at
the Phillips Gallery.
Victor Herbert's Naughty Mari
eta" is in preparation for two per-
formances at the Roosevelt audi
torium February and 6, to be
presented by the Columbia Light
Opera Co.. Ethyl Manning, director.
Tickets go on sale tomorrow. They
are available also by mail, directed
to the Columbia Light Opera Co. IS
headquarters, 706 Thirteenth street
NV.
The Sunday music hour at the
YWCA, Seventeenth and K streets.
today, will be given by Helen
Hunt Laise, soprano; Frances
Tucker, mezzo- soprano, and Dorothy
Radde Emery, accompanist. The
program will consist of duets and
solos by Mozart, Proch, Rossi, Korn-
gold, Grieg, Samuels, Messenger,
Kreisler, Alvarez and Hagemann
and Strauss The program begins
at 5 o'clock and the public is invited.
Gertrude Austin Marti will pre-
sent Patricia Dunlap, 15-year-old
pianist, In a recital this afternoon
at o'clock at II Hesketh street,
Chevy Chase, Md.
Betty Baum, pianist. in collabora-
ton with her mother, Clara Baum,
will present one of their series,
Meet the Masters" musical por-
trait of George Gershwin, at the
Wednesday meeting Of the Brother
hood of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation.
On Friday at 1880 am, at Barker
Hall, YWCA, Seventeenth and K
streets NV, the Friday Morning
Music Club will present Genevieve
Hughes, contralto, in a song cycle
by Grieg, Sketches of Woods and
Fields" with Dorothy Emery, ac-
companist; Virginia Houghten, So
prano, with Allison Sanderford,
accompanist: Etheldreda Kaspar,
pianist, and Julia Mueller, violist
of the National Symphony Orches-
ira, with VILLA Semple, accompanist.
The United States Navy Band
Symphony Orchestra, 1t. Charles
Brendler conducting, will play at
the United States Marine Corps
auditorium, Eighth and I streets
Sc, Friday, at 8:15 pm. Musician
Bernard Greenhouse, soloist on this
program, will be heard in Anton
Dvorak's Concerto for Violoncello."
Among other works which will be
presented are Delibes' ballet suite
from "Coppelia" and Liszt's Hun
garian Rhapsody No. l."
The January meeting of the
Washington Music Teachers Asso-
citation, Inc, will be held at the
Arts Club the last Monday of the
month. Ann Moray, young English
singer, will present the program,
accompanied by Dorothy Radde
Emery. Miss Moray made her debut
at the age Of Is, with Dan Godfrey
at the Winter Garden, Bournemouth,
England. At II she sang the role
OF the Queen in THE Three Mus
keteers" at Drury Lane, singing
eight performances a week for
period Of eight months. Her train
ing includes study at Naples, Vienna
and Paris.
Her appearances In America are
made In the interest of good will
and cultural relations. In New York
she had the honor of being the first
non-American to sing "The Star
Spangled Banner" at the last
Armistice Day celebration in Madi-
son Square. She sang again In New
York to the Spanish Americans,
commemorating Pearl Harbor, and
represented Great Britain In New
York civilian defense Allied pageant.
Beatrice Pinkney Jones will pre-
sent a series of 10th century piano
sketches at All Souls Unitarian
Church on Sunday afternoons at
$50 O'Clock, beginning January "a, |
when the subject will be "Schu-
mann, the Browning Of Music"
On Sunday, February 81. Miss
Jones will feature Chopin. Poet of |
the Piano." and on Sunday, March |
al, 'MacDowell, Our Celtic Dream
er." There will be no admission
charge.