Evening star., 1947-05-18

Robert Gross, VlOlInlSC, VINO was
heard here last Sunday as soloist
with the National Gallery Sinfon-
ietta, will give recital of contem-
porary works in the National Gall
lery of Art tonight at 8 o'clock.
Tansman's Three Pieces and Mr..
Cross own violin and piano sonata
will receive first local perform
ance. Erich Itor Kahn IS the ac-i
companist.
The Pentagon Choral Club, Whit
ford L. Hall, director, assisted by
the Pentagon Barbershop Quartet,
Pentagon Trio and the Brass Trio,
viii be presented at the YWCA
Music Hour this afternoon at 4::30.
Guest soloists are Marilyn Merkel,
Lynn Jacobson, Billy Balee and
Edwin Keck. Joy M. Ismond is the
accompanist.
Danielle Descours (Mme. Georges
Fleurieu), French pianist, will
give recital tomorrow night in the
Phillips Gallery at $3.50. A gradu-.
ate of the Paris Conservatory of
Music under Isidor Philipp. Nine.
Descours was in Lyons during the
occupation, where she appeared in
concerts.
Bonnie Smith, soprano, and
Camille Chautemps, pianist, will be
heard in a joint recital at the Wash
ington Club Friday at $3.50 pm,
presented by Gertrude B. Mustain.
The concert is for the, benefit Of St.
Johns Orphanage. Dominic las
cone, fiutist, will assist. Villa Sem
pie will be the accompanist.
Iris Bailey and jeanne Poole, yo-
calists, will be presented in recital
on Tuesday at $3.50 pm. at the
Arts Club by the Helen Turley Stu
dio. Saida Selby will be at the
piano. The concert is sponsored by
the Washington Alumnae Chapter
Of the Delta Omicron Sorority.
st. Adams Choir, directed by
Walter H. Nash. will give the first
Washington performance to Lang's
! The Jackdaw Of Rheims" Thurs
day night at the Arts Club at $3.50
o'clock. Gertrude McRae Nash will
assist at the piano. The music was
set to a poem by Thomas Ingoldsby
and composed for the Portsmouth
(England) Music Festival in 1880.
The Columbia Light Opera Com
pany is planning summer festival
OF Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
Additional sopranos, altos, tenos
and bases will be given an OPP
portunity to try out every Monday
through the month Of May from Z to
10 pm. by contracting Ethyl Man
ming, the director, at 920 Seven
teenth street NV.
The Anacostia High School Band
will give its second annual twilight
concert In the Anacostia High
School Stadium, Sixteenth and r
streets Sc, on Tuesday at Z pm
Horace ButterWorth will direct.
| Katharine Frost will present the
following students in recital this
afternoon at 1717 Twentieth street
NV. at 4 o'clock: Kit Walz, Suzy
bort, Connie Tobriner, Hannah
Helsing, Marie Gochnauer, Jane
Mcpherson, Edwyna Parks, Suzanne
Walker, Janet Derby, Sunny Sturte-
want and Virginia Ford.
On Wednesday night at a program
will be given in the Arts Club by
piano pupils of Mabel Frost. Bonny
Moeller, cellist Of the National
Symphony Orchestra, will be the
guest artist. The following will play
Patricia Moss, Danny Boone, Eleanor
Lund, Ruth Katz, Ramona Grigsby,
Virgil Teti, Barbara Rose. Mary Sue
Updike, Vernia Hall, Sue Sheriff,
lelbert Kendall. Janey Sober, Judy
Catlin, Margaret Leach and Edith
Giltner.
Fleurette JoHr1e, soprano and
Nordica Bost, mezzo- contralto, as
sisted by Arlington zetty, hutist and
Villa Semple pianist, gave a re-
cital in Pierce Hall on May-7.
Franceska Kaspar Lawson, So
prano is leaving this week for st
/ Louis to take part in the National
Folk Festival Saturday where she