Evening star., 1945-04-15
In Local Music Circles

The YWCA Music Hours will re-
sumo again for closing group of
four concerts with a program this
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. given by
the Gault String Ensemble, Edward
A. Carey, conductor. George Mauos,
Washington pianist, will be the guest
soloist and will play one Of his
own compositions, Rhapsody No. O."
and an etude Of Rubinstein. Kath-
crime Crews and Bina Brown will
be heard in the second movement
of the Bach Concerto IN D Minor
for two violins, and Emma Jane
Adams will play as cello solo
"Canto Amoroso." by Sammartini-
Elman.
The ensemble will give two groups
of compositions in lighter vein
by Tschaikowsky, Dvorak, Bohm,
Mascagni and Davidson. Nine. Mar
guerite Voge is the pianist for the
group. The Gault Ensemble is made
up of about 80 Washington business
men and women who have for some
time chosen to follow their hobby of
gathering together and making
music.
Sophia Brown, pianist, graduate
of Cadek Conservatory in Chatta-
nooga and pupil, in New York, of
Katherine Bacon, Mildred Jamison
Dassett and Harold Bauer, and a
member of the faculty of Manhat-
tan School of Music, win give re-
cital this afternoon at o'clock in
the Phillips Gallery.
Her program will consist of the
Bach-Siloti Organ Prelude in G.
Minor" the Bach-Philippe organ
choral, Lord Jesus, May Thine
Aid the chorus from the "30th
Church Oantata' in SaintSaenS'
arrangement, Schumann's Sonata
in G Minor, Op. %" Brahms Cap
riccio in F Sharp Minor, Op. rs, No.
l, "Intermezzo in E Flat Minor, Op
118, No g." and Rhapsody in E Flat
Major, Op. l19, No. A. and group
by Debussy, Shostakovich, Arensky
and Scriabine.
Betty Baum will present Naomi
Biskin, pianist, in a recital tea to-
day at 4 pm, at her studio, $500
Edmunds street NV. Miss Biskin'S
program will consist Of three groups
of pieces, including Beethoven's
Sonata in c Minor" closing with
Haydns Concerto in D Major"
with Miss Baum at second piano.
The Chevy Chase Chanters, un-
der the direction of J. Horace
Smithey, and accompanied by E.
Earle Ferguson, will present pro-
gram at the USO. 1908 Old George
town road, Bethesda, Md. at $50
pm. tonight.
Zoltan Kodaly's Psalms Hun
garieus" and Julius Chajes' Psalm
l42" will be performed for the first
time in Washington in the Coven-
ant-First Presbyterian Church to-
night at $50 O'Clock. The Chancel
Choir, under the direction of Theo-
dore Schaefer, will sing the Kodaly
work with George Barritt as tenor
soloist and Sylvia Meyer, harpist. !
Psalm l42" will be heard with Hen
rietta Bagger Plum. mezzo soprano
Sergt. Glen Darwin, baritone, re-
Gently returned to this country after
a period overseas, and Mr. Barritt
as soloists Katherine Hansel, So
prano will sing Ernest Bloch's set
ting of Psalm 1877"
This presentation of contemporary
religious music is the second pro- |
gram in the spring festival of mu-
sic at the Covenant.
A joint song and piano recital will
be given in the Phillips Gallery to-
at $3.50 pm. by Lorraine |
Johnston Nolan, lyric soprano, and
Blanche Haesly. pianist. Mrs. Nolan
will sing the Air de Liza" from De-
bussy's "L'Enfant Prologue" an
Italian group, and two groups of
modern and contemporary songs ac-
companied by Rea Winters. Miss
Haesly will be heard in numbers by
Scarlatti, Chopin, Ravel and Liszt.
The April meeting of the Wash
ington Alumnae Chapter of Mu Phi
Epsilon will be held at the home of
Mary Louise Hill, 1929 Verplanck
place NV. tomorrow. Brahms
lieder will be sung by Evelyn Davis,
soprano, and Dorothy Guion, pianist,
will play Brahms "Intermezzo Op.
ll8, No. l.; Schubert's "Impromptu
in B Flat" Schumann's Bird as
Prophet and Dohnanyi's "Rhap-
sodie in c Major"
The concert of recorded music in
the music division of the Central
Library Eighth and K streets NV,
tomorrow night at 7:3O O. clock will
present BachS Concerto in D Mi
nor" for two violins played by Ye-
hudi Menuhin and Georges Enesco;
Mozart's symphony No. 3S in DI
Major, K 504,'' London Philharmonic
Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
conducting, and Beethoven's Con
certo No. T." played by Artur Selma
bel, pianist, and the London Phil
harmonic, directed by DR.. Malcolm
Sargent.
The program to be given by the
Marine Band Symphony Orchestra
at its concert Wednesday at 8:15
pm. in the Marine Barracks will
be Mendelssohn's overture, "Fingal's
Cave" the prelude to Wagner's 'Lo-
hengrin," Ernst's Concerto for Vio-
lin and Orchestra" played by Al
bert Schoepper; Strauss Emperor
Waltz" and Schumann's Symphony
No. T."
The Arts Club of Washington will
present Russell Palmer, pianist, inI
recital on Thursday at $3.50 pm.