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ate to the Easter season at the Ma
tional Gallery Of Art this evening at
8 o'clock in the east garden court.
The choir is under the direction of
Coleman Cooper.
The combined choir and chorus
of 160 voices Of the New York Ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church will pre-
sent the Easter portion Of Handel's
"The Messiah" tonight at 8 o'clock
under the direction of Charles Dana
Beaschler. Soloists of this annual
presentation will be Audrey Prindle,
alto, and Robert Nicholson, nass.
The senior choir of Calvary Bap-
tist Church, Eighth and H streets
NV, will sing cantata No. 4,
Christ Lay in Deaths Dark
Prison." by j. S. Bach, and "All
Breathing Life" from the motet,
Sing Ye to the Lord" by the same
composer, tonight at 8 O'Clock.
Thomas Moss is organist and Her.
bert V. Pate is director.
Alto Micci, U. S. NJ, violin, and
Francis Tursi, U. S. NJ, viola, as
sisted by Charlotte Shear, piano,
will give joint recital at the Phil
lips Gallery tomorrow at $3.50 pm.
The program will open with Le-
clairs Sonata in D Major" played
by the ensemble. which will be heard
later in Bax's Trio in One Move
ment" as closing number. Spohr s
Concerto No. 8" (Gesangscene) for
violin, Bruch's 'Romanze, Op. 85,"
Edith Evans Braun's "Ballade,"
heard here for the first time, and
Marcello's Sonata in G Major" for
viola and piano, are the remaining
numbers.
Wilma Mirelle, scholarship stu
dent at the Juilliard Music School,
prima donna of the San Carlo and
Cosmopolitan Opera Companies and
concert singer at the Radio City
Music Hall, will give a song recital
Wednesday at $3.50 pm. in st. Glenn
ents Chapel on Seminary road for
the benefit of the organ fund.
Villa Semple will be the accom-
paniSt.
The April meeting of the District
of Columbia Chapter of the Amer
ican Guild of Organists will be held
Wednesday at pm. in Epiphany
Church. Robert Stofer, organist OF
the Church of the Covenant, Cleve-
land, Ohio, will be the guest Of
honor and will speak on "Descants." !"
The Marine Band Symphony Or
chestra has scheduled the following
program for its Wednesday concert
in the Marine Barracks at 8:15 pm:
Goldmark's overture, I'm Spring, Op.
&c.; Forest Murmurs," from Wag-
ner's "Siegfried";; Dvorak's Con
certo, Op. 1O4," for cello, played by
william Saputelli, and Stravinsky's
"Firebird Suite"
DR.. Richard Stoehr, formerly Of
the Vienna Music Academy, will give
a lecture recital on the Origin Of
Music" Tuesday at II am. in the
chapel of Howard University. He
will give a recital of his own COM
positions on Friday at $3.50 pm. in
Rankin Chapel.
Annabelle Hoge, resident soprano,
will be presented in a song recital by
the Arts Club of Washington on
Thursday evening at $3.50. Mrs.
Hoge's program, Cancelled in Feb
ruary because of illness, will be high
lighted by Schumann's Frauenliebe
und Leben"
William F.. Watkins, A. A. G. O.,
has been engaged as organist of the
First Congregational Church. Be-
fore entering the Army, from which
he received a medical discharge in
January after two years service, he
studied on a scholarship at Peabody
Conservatory and with Virgil Fox.
While stationed near Wilmington,
N. c., he served as organist of the
First Presbyterian Church in that
city,
Special features Of the Navy Band
Symphony Orchestra's concert Fri
day, $3.50 pm, in the Departmental
Auditorium, will be "Nocturne," by
Franz Doppler, for flute. violin and
cello, played by H. Houdeshel, O.
Shumsky and B. Greenhouse, and
Widor's Choral ct Variations" for
harp and orchestra, with william T.
Cameron as soloist. The orchestra
program will be Mozart's Fantasy
for Musical Clock" Weiner's "Ser-
enade" and Liszt's symphonic poem
'Hungaria."
Concert at Howard U.I
Carol Blanton, pianist, will be
presented by the Howard University
in recital Tuesday evening at $50
O'Clock in the Rankin Memorial
Chapel The artist win be heard In
Brahms Sonata In F Sharp Minor,
Op. g." Chopin's "Balade in r, Op.