April 27, 1922
gardens are at their best late in March—the lovely spring flowers being now at their peak of glory.
The first attempt at a radio broadcasting station in Augusta was a successful one, being conducted by E. H. Diemar at his home on Jenkins street. Mr. Diemar has one of the finest radio sets in the country, and the concert given at his home was a long step towards the accomplishment of one of his fondest dreams—a permanent broadcasting station for Augusta.
A movement is on foot in Augusta, sponsored by Signora de Fabritiis, one of the most popular members of the local music_ colony, and by members of the Augusta Musical Association, to establish a studio building in Augusta, where artists may find suitable studios in the proper atmosphere. It is suggested that the first floor house the public library, now uncomfortably crowded in its unattractive and inadequate quarters, while the top floor would be fitted up for a recital hall. The suggestion has been made by Mrs. Willis C. Holt, Woman’s Club editor of the Augusta Chronicle, that the wealthy women of Augusta finance this project themselves, and the idea is gaining enthusiastic support everywhere.
The St. Patrick’s Day celebration, which was held in St. Patrick’s Hall, was one of the finest of its sort yet held in Augusta. Mrs. Joseph A. Mullarky and Mrs. Ellie Kellie Boone were in charge of the decorations and the program. Those who took part were Father Conaty, W. J. Cooney, L. J. Henry, James B. Mulherin, Capt. E. J. Connor, Joseph Mulherin, J. A. Mullarky, Godfrey Pfieffer, Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Harry Craig, Marion Craig, Mrs. E. K. Boone, Alice Doyle and Mary Purkall.
The Richmond Academy Glee Club made a distinct hit when it appeared at Tubman School in concert. Fred Wolfe’s “Egyptian Dance,” a burlesque of a famous classical dancer recently seen here, was one of the best special numbers of the evening. Every boy in the organization, as well as Helen Battle, director, and J. B. Sojourner, manager, deserves particular credit. Those in the club are Reid Johnson, Wilfred Hankinson, Grey Boatright, Hal Wright, William Law, Gene Halford, Howard Jordan, Tiny Beld-ing, Lewis Story, Dan Swift, Harry Robinson, A. Morris, Shot Verdery, Baillie Jones, “Skeet” Johnson, Lawrence Porter, Donald Saxon, Bob Heath, Charlie Cooper, W. C. Young, Stewart Sullivan, John Van Pelt, Ramsey Ergle, Carl Hogrefe and Fred Wolfe.
Mrs. Dan Sullivan and Mrs. Jesse Westmoreland were in charge of the musical program offered at the annual tea given by the directors of the Mary Warren Home on March 30.
The pupils of the Lucy Laney School gave a concert at the Partridge Inn on March 27 for the benefit of a little home they are trying to erect for Lucy Laney. These young colored girls have splendid voices, and they gave a program of genuine, old-time Southern negro melodies, sung only as a negro can sing them. The Northern tourists on the Hill, as^ well as the guests of the Inn, were more than delighted with the concert, which was a distinct novelty in many ways.
Louise Klebs sponsored a concert at Graniteville for the benefit of the tornado sufferers who lost homes in the recent storm which swept some of the small cotton-mill towns of South Carolina off the map. The concert was well attended and a neat sum was netted for the worthy cause.
A garden party for the benefit of the Children’s Home was given on March 29 at the Hardy Gardens. Those taking part in the program were Estelle Leaptrott, Logan Phinizy, Annie Printup, Mildred Mary Gazoles, Billie Hatcher, Loretta Rice, Theo Caswell, Claude Fleming, Paul Montell, Joe Brooker, Reuben Moorman, Gus Anglier, Louise Kuhlike, Sadie King Harrison, Mary Bothwell, Bet-tie Alexander, jack Harter, Katherine Hull, Anne Sylvester and Francis Phinizy.
The visit of Marjorie Squires (who has a lovely dramatic contralto voice) to Augusta was an epoch-making one. She was generous, and was heard several times during her visit here. She is a pupil of Louis Reilly; her accompanist and coach is John Doane, and her manager is S. Hurok.
The recital given by Bertha Myers Pendelton, under the auspices of the Woman’s Club, was the most important musical event of the past month. The program included “O Bocca Dolorosa” and two Gretchaninoff selections— “Over the Steppe” and “My Native Land.”
The music in Augusta churches has improved steadily in the past few months. March 26 the First Presbyterian Church offered an organ prelude, an anthem and a soprano-baritone duet. The First Baptist Church presented a quartet in several selections. Robert Irvin, director of the Augusta Musical Association, is director of the choir of First Baptist. At the Church of the Good Shepherd Mrs. C. B. Hansen sang a solo, and at St. Paul’s a beautiful duet was sung by Miss Weeks and Mrs. Griffin.	P. G.
Battle Creek, Mich., April 4.—Some 2,500 people listened to an interesting concert given in the Tabernacle by the Battle Creek Choral Society, directed by Mahlon H. Serns, and the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra, directed by John B. Martin. The soloists were Grace Ola Rosser, soprano; Mae Louise Buzzell, contralto; Harry Hacker, tenor; Day Slout, baritone, and Clarence Thayer, bass. Winifred Eisenhood added to the success of the concert by her artistic accompaniments, both for the soloists and with the orchestra. The symphony orchestra opened the program with a brilliant processional march from the “Queen of Sheba,” by Gounod. The “Ave Verum” of Mozart and a paraphrase of “Old Folks at Home,” by Carl Busch, whom Battle Creek music lovers know and revere, were played by the string section of the orchestra. The other numbers on the first part of the program were a bass solo and a quartet sung by four of the soloists. The chorus and orchestra united in the second half of the program in introducing to Battle Creek a new and modern work by Henry H. Hadley, the American composer. The text, written by Louise Ayers Garnett, includes some of the most beautiful poetry inspired by the late war, and the musical setting by Hadley is appropriate and unique. Miss Rosser, Mrs. Buzzell and the chorus of women did some very fine work. Mr. Hacker gave the tenor solo, “Comrades of the Cross,” leading into the “Lullaby.” One of the most effective parts of the work was the bass solo by Mr. Thayer, leading into the men’s chorus, “Winds of Strength,” illustrated by chromatic passages sweeping through the entire string section of the orchestra. The work closes with the “Song of the Marching
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the club secured the services of the sterling artists above mentioned and they gave a program that thoroughly captivated the packed auditorium. Professor MacRae sang a Handel group, a group of folk songs, and numbers by Guion, Gantvoort and Katie Moss, also a group of American songs. Miss Cook played piano selections by Jensen, MacDowell, Schlesinger and Strauss-Gruenfeld.
Professor MacRae and Miss Cook gave this same program at the benefit concert given by the board of directors of the Ames Women’s Club at the home of Mrs. Galen Tilden on March 29.	M. C. H.
Astoria, Ore., April 6.—Percy Grainger delighted an appreciative and enthusiastic audience when he made his first appearance in Astoria recently, under the auspices of the Friday Musical Club. His program opened with the prelude and fugue for organ in D major by Bach, transcribed for piano by Busoni, and included the Brahms variations on a theme by Paganini, works by Liszt and Gardner, and a group of settings by Mr. Grainger himself. Several encores were demanded and graciously given. Music lovers here feel very much indebted to the Friday Musical for this treat.	A. H. F.
Athens, Ga., April 1.—March 21 an interesting recital was given by the violin pupils of Mrs. John S. Allen. Those taking part were Gladys Odum, Grace Little, Leila Mae Fears, Merle Eubanks, Marguerite Barnes, Lucile Gunn, Mary Hargrove, Sarah Hudson, Mildred Greer, Winifred Harrison, Marion Murphy.
March 22, Margaret Estelle Burke and Aline Augusta Brooks gave a joint piano recital, assisted by Thelma Elliot, soprano.	P. G.
Augusta, Ga., April 1.—The Wesleyan Glee Club appeared in Augusta March 31. So much interest has been manifested in this splendid musical organization that a list has been published of the names of those who comprise it. They are Prof. Edgar Howerton, director; Mrs. Howerton, official chaperone; Elizabeth Jenkins, president; Fay Lockhart, business manager; Fannie Belle Outler, publicity manager; Lena Bell Brannon, secretary and treasurer; Ailzah Halstead, accompanist; Gladys Dismukes, Honorine Bollinger, Margaret Burhard, Lydie Tanner, Leslie Quillion, Mary Tanner, Leah Kitrell, Mabel Bond, Alene Corry, Pearl Koplan, Helen Goepp, Margaret Porter, Mildred Churchwell, Flora Rich, Mary Wilson, Ruth Daniel, Harriet Evans, Dixie Faust, Effie McDaniel, Martha Delay, Evelyn Dinkin, Celest Copelin, Mary Brevard, Frances Felton, Jewel Holt, Julia Glenn, Lena Belle Brannern, Mary Wans Rankin, Elizabeth Proctor and Frances Peabody.
The Obadiah Lodge No. 119, I. O. B. B., is to give one social evening each month, at which no admission will be charged, entirely for the pleasure of the lodge and their friends. The first of these took place on March 30, at the Y. M. H. A. Hall, the program being presented by the Eagles’ Brass Band, directed by Charles F. Pritchard. Several vocal solos were also offered.
The Richmond Academy Glee Club and Punaro’s Orchestra divided honors at the beautiful spring fiesta given for the benefit of the Children’s Home, in the Morningside Gardens. Morningside is the magnificent home of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Bourne, and the gardens are famous throughout the country. Once each spring they are opened to the public, always for some charity. Groups of debutantes, costumed as peasants of various nations, offered the folk songs of that nation, and there were several selections by a male quartet—Messrs. Cully, Rox, Cotter and Tracy. The
Albany, N. Y., April 3. ■—Laeta Hartley, New York pianist, was the assisting artist at the annual concert of the glee club of the Academy for Girls, Dr. Frank Sill Rogers conducting. Miss Hartley gave a group of Chopin numbers and the Liszt rhapsodie No. 11. “The Rose Maiden,” a cantata, pleased, and the club was also heard in a number of part songs. Assisting in the choruses were Mr. and Mrs. Edgar S. Van Olinda, Ernest A. Meneely, Theodore D. Sherman, Mrs. William James McCann, Edward L. Kellogg and Howard Smith. Emily Mosher, of the glee club, had the solo work in the cantata. The entire program, under the splendid guidance of Dr. Rogers, was most enjoyable.
The Junior Chorus held its closing program in Chancellors’ Hall, with Mrs. Edward E. Phillips as soloist and Lydia F. Stevens at the piano.
The choir of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will sing Stainer’s “The Crucifixion,” with Edgar S. Van Olinda and Edward L. Kellogg as soloists.
Mrs. James H. Hendrie, Mrs. Harry T. Irving, Mrs. Lowell D. Kenney and Elizabeth Kleist will give a two-piano recital for members of the Monday Musical Club. Viola Gunzel Hailes, soprano, will assist.
Dr. Frank Sill Rogers was presented with a handsome smoking stand, chair and lamp by the boys and men of St. Peter’s choir, and with an engrossed set of resolutions and a sum of money by the vestry of the church on his recent thirtieth anniversary as organist and choirmaster of the church.
Grace Liddane, soprano, of Amsterdam, who has frequently been heard in programs here, has gone to New York, where she is filling a number of engagements. Elza V. Busch, Russian pianist, of St. Timothy’s School, Catons-ville, Md., will give a recital in Chancellors’ Hall for the benefit of the music fund of Albany. The event is arranged by the Albany Music Teachers’ Association.
A number of musical selections were featured in the “Nine o’Clock Revue” of the Junior League.
At a meeting of the Students’ Study Club, Frederick W. Kalohn acted as accompanist.	E. V. W.
Ames, Iowa, April 3.—A delightful concert was that given yesterday afternoon at Eldoro, la., by Prof. Tolbert MacRae, bass-baritone, head of the music department of Iowa State College, and Rosalind Cook, pianist, of the music department. It was called a community concert—an annual affair given under the auspices of the Treble Clef Club of Eldoro. This is a wide awake club and believes in giving the people of the community the best artists obtainable for its annual concert, which is free to all. This year
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