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Robinson, Annie Kirtley Long, Marion Cfiapman, Boyce Savage, Stanley Harold, Helen Kurth, William Krug, William Tabor, George Gurney, Lois Spencer. Assisting Miss James’ club were pupils of Clara Whips, director of music of Wyatt High School, who sang a berceuse, the gypsy song from “Carmen,’•’ and the “Gobble” duet from “Mas-cotte.” Dorothy Harris and Sam Parker sang a duet from “Bulbul.”
Two concerts were given this week under the direction o.f the County Federation of Parent-Teachers, by Charlotte Peege, contralto; Philip Sevanta, harpist, and Florence Brinkman, pianist. The National Society for Broader Education is sponsoring their itinerary.	K. M. V.
Cheyenne, Wyo., March 7, 1922.—The auditorium of
the First Methodist Church was filled with music lovers on the night of February IS, when the faculty of the Music School of the University of Wyoming, of Laramie, gave a concert. Roger Frisbie, organist; George F. Knapp, baritone; Margery Mitchell, mezzo soprano; Mabel Babington, pianist, and Daisy Wharton, violinist, gave the program, which was put on under the auspices of the Baptist Young Chaps. The proceeds will be used for church building purposes.
Miss Flanagan, supervisor of public school music, a graduate of Northwestern Conservatory of Minneapolis, is fostering music in many directions. Besides her activities in the public schools she is directing and training the Elks’ Glee Club, the members of which put on an Irish program on St. Patrick’s Day in Elks Home. Miss Flanagan is organist-director of St. Mary’s (Catholic) male choir. When this organization was formed about a year ago, a male choir was an innovation in the church music of our city. The choir at present contains sixteen voices and has proven a success. At Christmas time Gounod’s “Messe Solemnelle” was admirably sung, and it will be repeated at Eastertide, with the addition of the “Hallelujah Chorus.” James Wool-cox and William Keating are the bass soloists and Arthur Bachmann and Charles Edwards the tenor soloists
The Music Study Club was recently given an impetus by the addition of four active members from the musical circles of Fort D. A. Russell, the United States military reservation, located just northwest of town. Mrs. Essig, wife of Captain T. W. Essig; Mrs. Ware, wife of Captain Ware; Mrs. William Neeley, wife of Colonel Neeley, and Mrs. Garrison, wife of Chaplain William Garrison, arrived lately on the post from Camp Grant with the Fifty-third United States Infantry. Mrs. Essig is a pianist of talent and for some time was connected with the Chicago Musical College as instructor in piano. The other three ladies are delightful vocalists. Mrs. E. H. Cook and Mrs. Frank Wes-cott, both of Cheyenne, and Mrs. Essig, of Fort Russell, have joined in inaugurating “musical evenings,” an evening a week devoted to things musical at the homes of the matrons.	W. L. L.
Connersville, Ind., March 7, 1922.—The annual concert of the Chaminade Club was given on the evening of
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solo and an encore. The Ladies' Chorus next rendered several numbers, one without accompaniment, and demonstrated the fine control of the director and response by the chorus. The glee club’s “Comrades in Arms” (by request), brought forth a demand for an encore. Lester De Varney, second glee club soloist of the evening, sang a group of two songs and an encore, and then followed the two big numbers of each organization. The program closed with joint numbers—“The Lost Chord,” Sullivan-Brewer, and the “Recessional,” DeKoven.	R• M.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, February 27, 1922.—In response to a request from the Schubert Memorial Committee in New York, Coe College Conservatory celebrated Schubert’s birthday with a program of the great master’s music. The following participated:	Arline Jones, Katherine Jacobsen,
Grant Perrin and Mr. Daehler (piano) ; Allan Schirmer, Margaret Deacon, Margaret Hearn and Mr. Newcomb (vocal) ; Mr. Kitchin (violin) ; Mr. Bidwell (organ).
The second recital on the College and Community concert course was given on January 26 by R.ccardo Martin, tenor of the Chicago Opera, with Hubert Carlin at the piano. Mr. Martin sang opera arias and groups of songs in English, French and Italian. Mr. Carlin also added two groups of piano solos.
Joseph Kitchin, head of the violin department of the College Conservatory, assisted by Virginia Paul, accompanist, gave a recital at the Memorial Chapel, February 7, the program including the Handel sonata in A major, the Vieux-temps “Fantasia Appassionata.” op. 35, and two groups of interesting shorter numbers.
The third of the Community Concert Course recitals was given on the evening of February 23 by Josef Lhevinne to a large and delighted audience. In addition to the printed program there were five encores. Numbers by Beethoven. Schubert. Schubert-Liszt, Chopin, Moszkowski, Balakireff and Liszt-Busoni were. played.
The annual spring music festival will occur in April, with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as the stellar attraction.
E. A. L.
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 6, 1922.—Cadek Conservatory presented Anna Pavlowa and her Ballet Russe, under the direction of S. Hurok, to a large audience in Wyatt Auditorium, on the night of February 20. Pavlowa’s program, arranged in three groups, comprised “Polish Wedding,” “Amarilla” and a suite of interpretive forms, the dancer making three appearances during the evening, sustaining the stellar role in the second group, and dancing “Gavotte Pavlowa” with M. Vajinski, and a bacchanalle with Laurent Novikoff.
The one hundred and sixty-fifth recital of Cadek Conservatory was held last week at the Temple of Music, twenty-four pupils appearing upon the program.
Mattie James, director of the Junior Music Club, presented a number of jmung people in concert in the Court House Auditorium recently. Those taking part were Sarah
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and well received. The Ambassador Ensemble tvas heard in Mendelssohn’s “Fingal Cave” overture, Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” suite, and Leoncavallo’s operatic fantasy, “Pagliaeci.” Harry Loventhall, conductor-violinist, is very efficient.
J. V. B.
Augusta, Ga., March 1, 1922.—The announcement of Grand Opera Week in Atlanta from April 24 to 29 has fired the heart of music-loving Augusta to the hope of having at least two or three concerts, at which two or more of the artists from the Metropolitan Opera Company can be induced to appear. It is the consensus of opinion that such a series of concerts could be made tremendously successful, and the music clubs of the city are working towards this goal. Signora de Fabritiis, one of the most influential and popular members of the local circle of musicians, is the chief leader in this movement, and is being backed enthusiastically by both local newspapers.
The Southern School of Music gave an ambitious recital February 24 and 25, which was called “Through the Years with Music,” given in costume. Mrs. S. T. Battle and Helen Battle were the directors. Grace Etheridge and Leah White opened the program with a brief but interesting discussion of music, and gave a few facts about each group, which made the recital not only interesting, but also instructive. Each participant was dressed in costume, thus adding a note of color and charm. The groups were divided as follows:	Colonial, Indian, In the Sixties,
Gypsy and modern. Those taking part were: Lester Goss, Mary Kirkley, Pickens Grenecker, Angela Kirsch, Marion Busbia, Olive Morgan, Katheryn McKeller, Isbale North, Lucile Dozier, Sara Mills, Nonie Mullins, Ellioner Elliott, Eunice Chapman, Christine Greene, Earline Silvey, Dimple Toole, Marion and Rebecca Andrews, Marjorie Ramp, Margaret Goldfarb, Mary Peters, Dellie Evans, Louise Thompson, Ellen Street, Mildred and Herbert Lorick, Norma Thomas, Anna Gray, Edith Bowden and Grace Etheridge.
The music pupils of Gretchen Bredenburg gave a beautiful recital at the studio on February 25. Those taking part were Mary Scruggs, Rose Dunning, Idaline Kimbrell, Elizabeth Bailie, Florence Henderson, Dorothy Grimes, Margaret Bailie, Elsie Edmonds, Margaret Werner, Evelyn Holland. Margaret Hildebrandt, Ruth Kimbrough, Charlie Belle Humphrey, Edmonia Elliot, Edward Hessel, and Ivey Hixon.
Fulcher’s Orchestra gave a concert at Hephzibah recently which was so marked a success that the members have been invited to offer the same program at Blythe very soon. Those taking part in the program were Charles Fulcher, violin and leader; Mr. Griffin, violin; Mr. and Miss Thompson, saxophone; James Carswell (the composer of a number of new songs, set to music by Mr. Fulcher), tenor, and Isabelle Kendrick, pianist.
The second of the recitals to be given by the organists of the city was offered February 23, at St. Paul’s, by Prof. George L. Johnson, and Lucile Weeks.
The ladies of St. Paul’s church gave a musicale. tea at the residence of Mrs. W. B. White, 1005 Milledge Road, February 25. No admission was charged, but a free-will offering was collected for a really beautiful purpose—the purchase and installation of a magnificent set of chimes to be installed in St. Paul’s, one of the oldest churches in the entire South—believed to be one of the three oldest in America.
It is with genuine regret that Augusta received the announcement that Henry P. Cross, organist of the First Presbyterian Church, who has for some time been a valued member of the city’s music circle, leaves very shortly for Sharon, Conn., where he will make his home. He has done much to crystallize the local interest in music and he will be sadly missed.
The musicale given at the Mary Warren Home on Washington’s Birthday by• the ladies of St. John was much appreciated and a splendid success.
The Richmond Academy Glee Club gave a fine program for the benefit of the wounded and invalid soliders at Len-wood, Friday night, February 24.
On February 22, Elizabeth Jackson took a group of her music pupils to the hospital, where their appearance elicited much applause from the soldiers. Those taking part were the Misses Bothwell. Jack Harker, Miss Verdery, Marie Myers, Furlow Hollingsworth, Mr. Chandler, Mary and Frank’May, and others.	P. G.
Boston, Mass.—(See letter on another page.)
Canton, Ohio, March 1, 1922,—The first joint concert in the history of musical circles in Canton, in which mixed voice organizations had an equal part, was enjoyed Monday evening, February 27, by an audience of eight hundred Canton ’ and Massillon people in McKinley High School auditorium. The Canton Ladies’ Chorus, one of the oldest organizations in the city, and the Elks Glee Club, comparatively a newcomer in the ranks of music here, essayed a program that was varied and gave general satisfaction to the audience. The program was so arranged that each organization shared equal honors. Both clubs had selected the highest class of numbers in their repertory, and there was just enough friendly rivalry to produce all that was best in each unit. The Ladies’ Chorus used “Fantasy on a ■Russian Folk Song,” by Gaines, with violin solo and obligato by Mrs. Gail Watson Cable. Seventeen minutes were required in the rendition of this number and, under the able direction of Sarah Lavin, the women gave a fine demonstration of the ability which won for them the first prize at a contest in Pittsburgh several years ago. It is a number that required the finest skill and shading, and the chorus arose to the occasion that won for it long and hearty applause. Mrs. Cable’s work during the number was particularly pleasing and her artistry added greatly to the enjoyment of the number. The Elks’ Glee Club Used “Martyrs of the Arena,” De Rille, as its principal number. This is one of the heaviest male choruses ever written. Director David P. Reese had devoted several weeks to preparation of the number and the sixteen voices, of the men brought out all that the author had put into the piece. It was a skillful demonstration of the excellence of this new men’s club of singers. The program opened with “The Star Spangled Banner.” The Ladies’ Chorus then sang a group of three light numbers, selected to show the various capabilities of the club. The Elks’ club followed with two songs. A Southern melody was particularly well done and brought great applause. Tuttle C. Walker, of the glee club, sang a
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