Evening star., 1946-12-15

will give a program In the east
lounge of the YMCA Tuesday at
$50 pm.
The. 10th annual Christmas pro-
gram by students Of the music de-
partment will be presented In Wood
row Wilson High School Tuesday
night at 8. Tableaux Of the Christ
mas story with suitable music will
be one Of the features. The school
chorus, led by Gladys Sanders, will
sing "And the Glory Of the Lord,
from Handel's 1.-THE Messiah
Haydn's "Toy Symphony" will be
performed by the orchestra under
Hendrix EsserS direction. The
audience will sing carols.
The annual Christmas pageant OF
the Gordon Junior High School,
written and produced by Mary
Minge wilkins, will take place In
the school auditorium Wednesday
at 8 pm. About 40 boys and girls
will make up the cast and sing
Christmas music included In the
pageant in addition to Christmas
Prayer" with q musical setting
written by Miss wilkins.
The Madrigal Singers, Mrs. John
Milton Sylvester, director, will be
presented by the Arts Club Thurs
day night at $50. The program
will include Holst's Medieval Ali"
with recorder accompaniment: an
ancient Gaelic hymn, Taldh Chri-
osta," from 1.-THE Hebrides Islands"
accompanied by the harp, and
Vaughn Williams' arrangement OF
Bushes and Briars."
The George Washington Uni
yersity Glee Club, DR.. Robert Howe
Harmon, director. and soloists will
sing the Advent portion Of Handles
"Ti1e Messiah" in its traditional
Christmas concert Thursday night
at $3.50 in Lisner Auditorium. The
program will open with Christmas
carols and include Adams Can
tique de Noel" Christensen's ar
rangement OF beautiful Savior"
and Sleeping the Christ Child
Lay" Grace Ruble Harmon will be
the accoznpanist.
The Lovette Choral Club, directed
by Eva Whitford Lovette, will pre-
sent program of Christmas music
in the Phillips Gallery Thursday
night at $3.50, under the sponsorship
Of the National Symphony Forum
and the gallery. Carolyn Schultz,
soprano. will sing Schubert's ave
Maria" Eleanor Allen will be the
acccmpanist. This program will be
repeated on Saturday for patients
at Glendale CMd) Sanitarium.
Margaret Walker Barnwell, So
prano soloist and associate director
Of music at the Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church, will be the guest
artist at the meeting Of the Political
Study Club Saturday at 2:30 pm. in
the Washington Club.
The semifinals of the National
Capital Instrumental Contest will be
held Thursday in Eastern High
School, with "a boys and girls, rang
ing from 8 to II, competing.
Boy Scout Troop 538 will present
Scout Donald l.. Mckenzie in recital
in Israel Baptist Church this after
noon at 5 o'clock. Master Mckenzie
plays all percussion instruments. the
pipe organ. the vibraphone and the
and has entertained
church and community audiences as
well as servicemen at the Army
War College. He showed aptitude
for music at the age OF 4. Today
at Is. he Is proficient on many In
struments and is an organ mechanic.
Vera Neely Ross, formerly con-
tralto soloist at st. Margaret's Epis-
copal Church, has been appointed
choir director at Eldbrooke Metho-
dist Church. A graduate of Kansas
University and the Juilliard School
of Music, Miss Ross taught for some
years at Mary Washington College
of the University Of Virginia In
Va.