Evening star., 1945-01-14
InLocal Music Circles

at Barker Hall YWCA Sunday aft
ernoonS at 4:30 o'clock will resume
today with a joint recital presented
by Wilburta Horne Oleson, soprano,
and Carolina Randell, violinist. Both
musicians are members of the Wash
ington Alumnae Chapter of Sigma
Alpha Iota, Women's National Pro-
fessional Music Fraternity.
The program will include sonata
for violin and piano by Handel, a
group of songs by Russian COM
posers and several short works for
violin by French composers. Nancy
Poore Tufts will accompany Mrs.
Oleson and Jean Appel will assist
at the piano for Mrs. Randell.
A chamber music program will be
given this afternoon at Sis o'clock
in the Phillips Gallery by a string
quartet from the United States Navy.
Alto Micci and Jesse Tryon. violins;
Francis Tursi, viola, and David
Soyer, cello, will play SchubenSs
Quartet in A Minor, op. &c." and,
with the assistance of John Wigent,
clarinet, the Coleridge-T Taylor "Quin-
tet for Clarinet and Strings" and
Mozart's quintet for the same in
struments.
The January meeting of the Wash
ington Alumnae Chapter of Mu Phi
Epsilon will be held tomorrow in
the studio of Tamara Dmitrieff. A
program arranged by Susannah
Coleman will include modern COM
positions for two pianos played by
Fannie Mae Henbest and Margaret
Tolson, q group OF soprano songs
and ariaS sung by Frances McCart-
ney and a suite for piano by
Berenice Wiers played by the COM
poser.
The rarely performed Concerto
in D Minor" by Sibelius, will be
played by Leopold Rybb, violinist
of the Marine Band Symphony Or
chestra with that orchtS ra, Wednes-
day at BIS in the Marine Barracks
auditorium. The orchestral part of
the program will consist of Gla-
zounov's Song of Destiny" overture,
Hinton's three orchestral scenes from
"Endymion," Honegger's symphonic
poem, "Pastorale d'Ete," and Cha
brier's "Espana."
Margaret Tolson and Fannie Ross
Henbest will give a two-piano recital
on Thursday at $3.50 pm. in the Arts
Club, which will feature Mary Howe's
"Castellana," written originally for
two pianos and full orchestra. Other
new works will be included in the
program.
A program devoted entirely to
compositions by Brahms will be
given by members of the Friday
Morning Music Club, assisted by
Julia Mueller, violist, on Friday at
11:30 am. in Barker Hall of the
YWCA.
Constance Russell, pianist; Fran
ces Tucker, mezzo-soprano. and a
choral ensemble consisting of Muriell
Henschen, Mary Russell Kelley, Ra-
mona Palmer, Dorothy Raynor, Vera
Nicely Ross, Margaret Sheridan and |
Rea Winters will participate. The
latter will sing 4Lieder fuer Frauen-
chor, op. a." Accomplishments will
be played by Dorothy Radde Emery
and Dorothy Guion, pianists.
The composers' group of the
FMMC will hold its monthly meet
ing with Mrs. Stuart Godfrey to-
morrow at 1880 am. Bainbridge
Crist will be the guest speaker.
Luncheon will follow.
The Navy Band Symphony Or
chestra will hold its regular concert
Friday at $3.50 pm. in the Depart
mental Auditorium, Thirteenth and
Constitution avenue NV. The solo,
ist will be Leonard B. Smith, trum-
petist. who will be heard in Haydn's
Concerto" for that instrument.
Other numbers on the program are
Mendelssohn's. overture, "Fingal's
Cave; Richard Strauss fantasie,
"Salome";; Ravel's Mother Goose
suite and Chabrier's "Espana."
For the National Symphony Forum
on Friday at $3.50 pm. in the Phil
lips Gallery, the speaker will be
Capt. William F. Santelmann, leader
of the Marine Band. He will dis
cusS dopble-reed instruments and |
their part in the modern symphony
orchestra, and members of the Ma
rine Band will offer demonstrations
The Howard University Choir,
under the direction Of Warner Law
son, will be presented under the aus
pices OF Asbury Methodist Church
on Friday at 8:15 pm. in that church.
Thomas H. Kerr, jr., will assist at |
the piano. Tickets for the concert
are nY sale af the church I