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MUSICAL COURIER
June 15, 1922
(Esther Jones, Celia Roebucks, Katherine Bonner, Audrey Galloway, Bertha Phillips and Bessie Mae Harold) sang songs by Taylor and Salter, but it remained for “Sunlight Vocal Waltz” (Arditi) to bring down the house. There are thirty-five members in the glee club, under the able direction of Mrs. McLean Borthwick, and Floride Rogers, accompanist. Two entertaining recitations were given by Margaret Byers.
At the Sidney Lanier High School auditorium, on May 11, Marie DeSanty Riedel presented her pupils in a concert for the benefit of the Red Cross. The singers were Meta Brasell, contralto; R. Bickerstaff, tenor; Frances Feagin, soprano; Alonzo Coley, baritone; Isabel Norwood, coloratura soprano; Georgia Wagner, lyric soprano; Marie Whiteman, contralto; Florence Peebles, soprano; Katie Stephens, contralto; Mrs. Frank Morgan, coloratura soprano; Mrs. Charles Ingalls, lyric soprano; Mrs. Weldon Doe, soprano; William Watts, baritone. Others appearing were Bessie Leigh Eilenberg and May Bell Schwend, accompanists; Lillian Jacobi, violin; Mr. Lunix, flute, and C. Gumprich, cello. The last two are from Birmingham. The orchestrations were by Edwin Dicey of Montgomery. Two young singers made their first public appearances, Frances Feagin and Mrs. Frank Morgan, both of whom deserve much credit.
Montgomery boasts of a ninety-two year old pianist, Emily Virginia Semple, who sits in a wheel-chair, is interested in the happenings of the day and a constant reader ol the world’s happenings.
The soloists at the Pilot Club on May 3 were Katie Stephens, contralto, and C. G. Rollin, violinist.
“Love Smiled,” words and music by John Proctor Mills, dedicated to Lucrezia Bori and Rosa Ponselle, was sung at a radio concert at the Atlanta Journal broadcasting station on May 4 by Genevieve Ketcham (formerly of Birmingham), accompanied by William Oliver Munn, a former piano student of Mr. Mills, who is with the G. Schir-mer store in Atlanta.
Annie Dell McCann was soloist at a meeting held at the Settlement Home in North Montgomery, May 4.
Dr. J. E. W. Lord, the new organist at Temple Beth Or, also at the Strand Theater, is giving a series of fifteen minute organ recitals each Friday evening at the Jewish Synagogue. Dr. Lord is a member of the American Guild of Organists and also Fellow of the Incorporated Guild of Church Musicians of London, England.
The T. B. S. Quartet, accompanied by Milton Panetti, pianist, appeared before the Civitans, May 12, at the weekly luncheon.
Mumford De Jarnette, tenor, and Mrs. James Haygooa were soloists before the Kiwanis May 9; Emily Smith acted as accompanist.
A meeting of the Sacred Harp Singers was held at the Court House May 7. Twenty-five counties of the State were represented and there were about three hundred singers, among the oldest being J. C. Hanson of Anniston (eighty-one years of age) and Mr. Champion of Troy (eighty-two years of age) ; the singing began about nine and lasted until four in the afternoon, with an hour for dinner, which was served in the Court House.
Lila Edwards Harper, assistant piano teacher at the Eilenberg Studio of Music, sailed from New York June 6. She will see the Passion Play at Oberammergau, the Mozart Festival, at Salzburg and then spend a month in Constantinople with her friend Lucille Parker, a former Montgomery girl, who is secretary to the American Ambassador, Admiral Bristol.
The following students of the Alabama Woman’s College received certificates from the music department this season: Rosalee Reddingfield, piano; Ruth Ballard and Kathrine Bomar, piano; Zora Ellis of Jasper, diploma in piano, and Mary Riley of Tuskegee, diploma in voice culture.
Mrs. John Altschuler entertained the Montgomery Music Club on May 11. Montgomery’s talented composer, Thomas Clanton Calloway, was presented in his piano works. He is a brilliant pianist and was heartily applauded after each number. Mrs. Frank Neely was soloist. John Proctor Mills gave a reading, Fanny Marks Seibels, violinist, played three numbers, and Mrs. Howard Gerrish sang a group for which Dora Sternfeld was the capable accompanist. Mrs. James Haygood, solo-accompanist of the club, played all of the other accompaniments in a masterly fashion. This was the final concert of the season.
Mary Riley, vocal student of Mrs. MacLean Borthwick, and Zora Ellis, piano pupil of Lily Byron Gill of the Ala-(Continued on page 38)
The reorganized Masonic Choir of fifty male voices, under the capable direction of Albert Edmund Brown, gave a varied program May 4 in Colonial Hall. Under Mr. Brown’s training the choir has developed to a point where it was clearly justified in seeking a public test of its powers. The chorus was assisted by Clara Maentz, soprano.
Under the direction of Oliver David, choirmaster of St. Louis de France Church, a pleasing musicale was given on May 7. Mme. Louis Herbert Chalifoux and Georges and Marie-Anne Labranche were soloists.
On the following evening Theodor Botrel, French singer and poet, who is making a tour of America on a special mission for the Ministry of Education and Fine Arts of France, entertained a capacity audience in Colonial Hall. The French population of the city was well represented.
On the same afternoon the assembly hall at the State Normal School was filled, for the joint recital of two prominent resident musicians—Albert Edmund Brown, baritone, and William Heller, pianist.
The choir of the First Congregational Church, under the direction of Harry Hopkins, gave a capital performance of the operetta, “A Nautical Knot,” or “The Belle of Barnstapoole,” on May 10. Marion McKnight, one of the city’s best liked singers, sang the leading role. Mr. Hopkins himself sang the principal tenor role. Hazel Tuthill, contralto, and Andrew McCarthy, baritone, were effective, and the chorus did uncommonly good work.
Carmela Ippolito, a young Italian girl of Boston, was the feature of a recital at the State Normal School, May 17, when her temperamental playing of an exacting list of violin numbers quite enthused her audience. She shared the program with Henry J. Clancy, tenor, of Fitchburg, who made an equally good impression. Ruth Boulger, of this city, was the accompanist for Miss Ippolito.
Colonial Hall was filled to capacity May 21 by parents and friends of the pupils of Louis Napoleon Guilbault. Assisting him were Alice Renaud, Bertha Brodeur and Eugene Guilbault (member of his staff) and Mrs. Henri Archamhault, soprano, and Bernard Kopf, violinist.
The Y. W. C. A. Glee Club has again as its director Eusebius G. Hood, of Nashua, N. H., who is also conductor of the Lowell Choral Society. The club made an excellent impression at the annual concert in Kitson Hall, May 23. Assisting soloists were Etta Thompson, soprano; Earl Leadbetter, baritone, and Walter M. Smith of Boston, whose finely played trumpet solos were a feature of the program. Bertha Chapman Huse was accompanist for the club and Arthur C. Spalding for the soloists.
Advanced pupils of Loretta Mirault were heard in a piano recital, May 25.
The final concert of the series arranged by Inez Field Damon at the State Normal School, May 26, introduced the girls’ glee club and orchestra in a varied program of instrumental and vocal numbers. As soloist the club had the assistance of Georges Laurent, first flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who played in masterly fashion. The quartet of the organization—Muriel Weatherhead, Ruth Smith, Daisy Precious and Ruth Boulger—gave several numbers in capital fashion. They recently made a decided hit at the convention of music supervisors, in Springfield, Mass. The orchestra, which has been developed entirely by Miss Damon, attained surprisingly good results.
Miss Damon, by the way, is to be the head of the music department of the new summer school to be established by the State at North Adams, Mass. As it is near her summer home she will thus be able to combine her professional duties with needed rest and recreation. . S. R. F.
Luverne, Ala.—Mrs. W. I. Baxter entertained _ recently when a program was given by Mrs. W. B. Welch (pianist), Mrs. Roy Beall (vocalist) and Margaret Rogers (pianist)	J■ P- M.
Memphis, Tenn.—(See letter on another page.)
Montevallo, Ala.—Memorial exercises were held here recently in honor of Charles Calkins, former director of music. A tablet was unveiled by his little four year old son, Charles Calkins, Jr.	J. P. M.
Montgomery, Ala.—The glee club of the Alabama Woman’s College was presented on May 6 in a splendid program, given in the chapel. Margaret Stiles, teacher of violin in the college, was well received in her two numbers. The glee club, with Marion Neal, Esther Jones, Grace Griffin, Dorothy Patterson, Rowena Baker and Bertha Phillips, soloists, sang “Old Plantation Days.” Mary Riley made a tremendous hit with her singing. Nell Williams of the music department played brilliantly Rachmaninoff’s prelude in G minor; the sextet of the glee club
Bellingham, Wash.—(See “Music on the Pacific Slope.”)
Benton, Miss.—On Wednesday evening, May 10, Hattie Belle Jackson, mezzo contralto, gave her certificate recital, assisted by Susie Lee Ewing, soprano. Both are pupils of Rebekah Ellison Johnston. An interesting program, which opened with the recitative and aria, “He Shall Feed His Flock,” from “The Messiah,” and closed with two duets, was presented. At the Yazoo County Agricultural High School members of the music department, of which Rebekah Ellison Johnston is director, gave a program May 20. Those who participated were Margaret Newman, Gertrude Swayze, Fawnie Waller, George Stanley, De Witt Wright, Nelle Nabors, Mildred Brister, Susie Lee Ewing, Ethel Berry, Marguerite Sharbrough, Annie Louise Anderson, Margaret Guion. and Hattie Belle Jackson. . B. G. Boston, Mass.—(See letter on another page.) Canandaigua, N. Y.—(See letter on another page.) Chicago, 111.—■(See letter on another page.)
Denver, Colo.—(See letter on another page.)
Easton, Pa.—The Carter, Jr., Republic of Reding-ton presented at its twenty-fourth anniversary Cheesman A. Herrick, LL. D., president of Girard College, as the speaker of the afternoon. Mrs. J. N. LeVan, violinist, played delightfully numbers by Mlynarski and Kreisler. Eudora Sedger, mezzo soprano, accompanied by Grace Sut-er, sang “Ah, Love But a Day” (Mrs. Beach) and “It’s April in Killarney” (George B. Nevin). Both Mrs. LeVan and Miss Sedger were enthusiastically received and responded with encores.	G. B. N.
Greenville, Ala.—Pupils of Mrs. P. V. Spier were heard in recital on May 12 at the Opera House. The opening chorus was Denza’s “Merry Heart,” followed by piano solos by Carolyn Thaggard and Zetta Reid; duet by Edwina Whiddon and Hazel Holmes; piano, Elizabeth Wilson and Marjorie Beeland; violin duet, Victor Buffington and Vincent Spier; piano duet, Lucille Dees and Mrs. Spier; chorus, “Sweet and Low;” piano, Clara Jones and Eleanor Earle Thaggard; violin, Elizabeth Bryan, violin quartet, Elizabeth Bryan, Laurie Cater, Elizabeth Poole, Mrs. SpierNwith Corinne Parish; piano, Eugenia Glass and Frances Madfchman; flute, Robert Frazier; piano, Laurie Cater; Schubert’s “Marche Militaire,” Eugenia Glass and Corinne Parish (piano) with Elizabeth Bryan, Laurie Cater, Elizabeth Poole and Mrs. Spier (violin).
J. P. M.
Hartford, Conn.—Under the direction of Ralph L. Baldwin, a concert was given by The Choir of the Hartford Public High School, Friday evening, May 26, at Foot Guard Hall. An excellent performance of Haydn’s “The Creation” was given. The choir was assisted by Geraldine E. Merwick, soprano; Rulon Robison, tenor; Wellington Smith, bass; Rose S. Lishner and Ida H. Levin, pianists, and the high school orchestra, with Sadie R. Schwartz concertmaster. The patronesses included Mrs. Ralph L. Baldwin, Mrs. Herbert E. Belden, Mrs. Albert E. Carey, Margaret A. Dutting^Mrs. Robert C. Glazier, Mrs. Louis Goldschmidt, Mrs. William C. Holden, Mrs. William T. Hooper, Mrs. Clement C. Hyde, Mrs. Richard F. Jones, Mrs. R. Eston Phyfe, Mrs. James D. Price, Mary L. Weaver, Mrs. Leon A. Wheeler.	G.
La Pine, Ala.—The La Pine Music Club recently gave the following program at the school: introductory, by Mrs. F. A. Champion; “Mother Goose Jingles,” by children; chorus, the club; trio, Mesdames Whit Athey, John Bradley and Velma Grissett; reading, Emma Thrower; vocal solo, Mrs. Manford McRee; trio, Mmes. Ferman Spear, M. H. Bradley and Theo. Webster; quartet, Mmes. W. O. Bonham, Farley, Spear, Willie Jordan and McRee; reading, Mrs. S. E. Jordan; vocal solo, Mrs. W. O. Bonham; duet, Mesdames Clarence Champion and Ferman Spear; trio, Mmes. Velma Grissett, M. McRee and Mattie Pitts; piano solo, Lucy Webster; piano solo, Willie Tordan; piano solo, Ida Will Taylor; chorus, by the club.
J. P. M.
Los Angeles, Cal.—(See “Music on the Pacific Slope.”)
Lowell, Mass.—Reinald Werrenrath drew an audience which filled the spacious Strand Theater on May 11. The recital was for the benefit of the Tufts College endowment fund. There is little new in the way of praise that may be said of Mr. Werrenrath’s beautiful voice, artistic intelligence and culture. The program was excellently chosen for the occasion, and Harry Spier at the piano increased its charm.
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