Evening star., 1944-02-20

early musicians of the Capital
are Josef Kaspar (lett), con-
ductor OF the Choral Society,
and Harry Wheaton Ho1Dard,
0rganist OF the Immaculate
Conception Church and noted
Gcc0mpaniSt.
The early meetings of the society were
held in the various homes Of the men,
bers, which included some of the more
prominent citizens OF Washington. In
1875 the organization moved to Dismers
Hail. 7o8 K street NV, over the .restau-
rant Of Charles Dismer, one of its men,
bers, and here it remained until it
moved to 3l4 c street NV, in the
Municipal Center, where it remained
until the building was removed.
The 4Oth anniversary OF the organ
ization at the Academy Of Music was
very fine affair, and included in its
program the following numbers: Cd
Overture, "Stradella" (Flotow), orches-
ira: (2p Hail Columbia" Iachner),
Saengerbund and orchestra with tab
leaU; go piano solo, "Rhapsodie Hon.
groise No. g. Lisztr, Richard Bur-
meister, from Baltimore; "a soprano
solo, Aria From Linda di Chamounix"
Donizette), Miss Alice Williams. from
New York; (5) "Fruehlings Zauber'
CWeinzierD, Saengerbund and orchestra;
Co violin solo, Fantasia Apassionata"
(Vieuxtemps), Anton Kaspar; CD So
prano solo, (a) The Sevilla," (b) "Unge-
duld" (SchuberD, Miss Alice Williams;
90 piano solo, (a) prelude and Song"
(Chopin), (b) "soirees de vienne No. 8"
lSchubert-LiszD, Richard Burmeister;
90 "Traeumerei" (Schumann), string
orchestra; Q0) Die Neiderwaldfahrt"
Pache), Saengerbund and orchestra
with tableau.
This was in 1891, when Paul Schulze
was president, John Waldman vice
president, F. Altrup corresponding sec
retary. Louis Faber treasurer and A.
Lepper financial secretary, and those
taking part ir the chorus were as
follows:
First tenor-J. Colignon, H. Klinge,
A. Pitt, l. Viedt, A. Weinhold L. Door,
F. Knoop, I. Steinem J. Waldmann~end
G. Wetzel.
Second tenor-G. Ackermann, w.
Berens, v. Conrad, S. Holmes, J. Karr,
G. Ritter, E. Schmid, A. Behrend, F.
Claudy, P. Haverstein, A. Joerss, E.
Nachtgall, S. Sawtell and Charles
Zander.
First bass-P. Bachsch. 'dt, w. Hage-
mann, I. Hutch, A. Lepper l. Mattern,
0. Schilling, G. Weber F. Escherich,
S. Hartbrecht. H. Kaiser, w. F. Lutz,
j. Michaelson, NJ Smell and H. Wolf.
Second bass-F. Altrup, F. Carl, C.
Herbert, E. Kuebel, H. Scheuermann, H.
Schminke, B. Schneider, NJ Altschuh,
L. Faber, E. Holer. J. E. Ruebsam. J.
Schlueter, H. Schmidtman and w.
Spangler.
Fortieth Anniversary Concert
The Star praised the concert in its
issue Of April 20, 1891, saying:
The Washington Saengerbund gave a
sacred concert last night at the Academy
OF Music, in commemoration of the
40th anniversary of the organization
1t was highly successful and we'll at
tended. The music, produced under the
direction of Mr.. william Waldecker,
was Of high order and seemed thor
oughly appreciated by the audience
One of the numbers was quite pictur-
esque, being descriptive, under the title
of 'Niederwaldfahrt,' or a trip to the
Neiderwald, near Bingen, where is a
monument dedicated to the unifcation
of Germany. The varied arrangement,
including nearly every known form Of
vocalism was heightened in its effect
by the appearance of Miss Lutz as Ger
mania in the act Of crowning the monu-
ment. Hail Columbia was rendered in
somewhat the same style, with Miss
Annie Muehleisen as America, Mr.. Rich
ard Burmeister of Baltimore was the
piano soloist, Miss Alice Williams Of
New York and Mr.. j. H. Kaiser the vo-
calists and Mr.. Anton Kaspar the violin
virtuoSo"
The Choral Society was or4anized in
1869, with DR.. Harry c. Sherman as di-
rector who served in this position for
eight years. At first, only male men,
bers were acceptable, but this did not
retard its growth for in one year its
membership numbered 180.
The first work of great note was 1.-THE
Specters Bride" given at the close of
the season of 1889, q cantata composed
by DR.. Antonin Dvorak It was subse-
quently repeated during the season OF
1s90-e1. Other works Of especial note
came "The Messiah" Elijah" and The