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week, under the direction of Charles W. Findlay. The first performance was lately given at the Lee Junior High School and reflected much credit on director and orchestra.
The December recital of the Thursday Morning Music Club was given in the Thurman and Boone Music Salon and offered solo numbers by Mrs. John T. Trout, soprano; Mrs. Herbert Gregory, soprano; Mrs. Robert Hatcher, contralto; Elizabeth Hill, pianist, and Charles Findlay, trombonist.
The music department at Virginia; College gave a Christmas concert in the college auditorium, which included numbers by the college choir, vocal, piano and violin solos.
A concert was given at Trinity Methodist Church by the choir, assisted by some of the leading solo voices of the city. The program consisted of sacred music, the most prominent number being Gounod’s Gallia. Mrs. Robert Hatcher, contralto soloist of the church and arranger of the program, has reason to feel proud of the acceptable manner in which the program was rendered.
A benefit concert was given at Greene Memorial Church under the direction of Herman Larson, with Mrs. Claude Guerrant at the organ. Those on the program were Mrs. Herbert Gregory, soprano; Mrs. Herman Larson, contralto; James Breakell, tenor; C. A. Woodrum and Herman Larson, baritones; Helen Hiatt, pianist; Mrs. Ruth Jones Fenton, cellist, and Mrs. Brooks Marmon, reader.
On Tuesday evening, December 12, the members of the Music Teachers’ Association were delightfully entertained by one of their members—Mrs. Ernest G. Baldwin—at her home on Albemarle avenue. After routine business had been transacted, a delightful musical program was rendered, including three songs by Maude Wilson, soprano, and piano numbers by Clinton Eley, Edna Brown and Mrs. E. G. Baldwin.
A program of Christmas music was rendered at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church by the Hollins College choir, under the direction of Erich Rath, head of the music department. This choir is composed of thirty picked voices and the program was a very enjoyable one.
The choir of Christ Episcopal Church, under the direction of. Gordon H. Baker, rendered The Christ Child, a sacred cantata by Hawley. The solo parts were taken by Mrs. John Trout, Mrs. F. W. Dowdy, Mrs. F. E. Maddox and Mary Kerr, sopranos; Mabel Garrison, contralto; John I. Bowman and Gordon H. Baker, tenors, and Clarence Huff, baritone.
The choir of Greene Memorial Church, under the direction of Herman Larson, gave The Coming of the King, by Dudley Buck. Those taking solo parts were Mrs. Frank Suthers, Mrs. J. P. Waggoner, Mrs. H. F. Larson, Clarice Hayman, Margaret Henderson. Harry Wicks, Harry Koehler, C. A. Woodrum and Herman Larson.
The first meeting in the new year of the Music Teachers’ Association was held January 2 in the studio of Mrs. N. C. Brophy.
The Roanoke Music Colony has received a valuable addition in the person of George F. Austin who has recently assumed the duties of organist and choirmaster of (Continued on page 58)
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nots, were given with a purity of tone and musicianly understanding which won hearty applause for her. Her encore was the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria.
At the annual election of officers which the Musicians Protective Association, Local 198, American Federation of Musicians, held, the following were elected: president, John T. Greene; financial secretary and treasurer, William Gamble; vice-president, Fred A. Caniff; recording secretary, Frank P. Wolberg; sergeant-at-arms, Charles A. Duggan; executive committee, J. S. Dailey, V. Villatico, Joseph Lemaire, Roy Gilbert; delegate to the convention of the American Federation of Musicians, Vincent Castronow.	G. F. H.
Roanoke, Va., January 3.—A huge audience greeted Sue Harvard, soprano, who sang at the Auditorium recently, under the auspices of the Kiwanis Club. Her well selected program was enthusiastically received. Admission to this concert was by card and the Kiwanis Club is to be congratulated upon the success of the occasion and for its liberality in affording the music lovers of our city the opportunity to hear this fine artist.
The second in a series of concerts being fostered by the Thursday Morning Music Club was given at the City Auditorium, December 15, when Frieda Hempel, soprano, assisted by Coenraad V., Bos, pianist, and Louis P. Fritze, flutist, were presented. The large auditorium was filled to capacity by a most enthusiastic audience including delegations from Virginia College and Hollins College. The program included solos by Mme. Hempel, Mr. Bos and Mr. Fritze, all of whom were most gracious in responding to insistent demands for encores.
Mrs. Paul Blackwell was appointed from the Thursday Morning Music Club and Mrs. Robert Curtis from the Music Teachers’ Association, who with Daisy Wingfield, supervisor of music in the public schools, composed the committee for this year’s Music Memory Contest. A period of two months was given for the study of fifty compositions which were selected chiefly from a list recommended by the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music. The children were encouraged to keep music scrapbooks, the material being collected from advertisements, newspaper articles, etc. C. D. Hewlett, editor of the Music Page, was of great assistance in collecting this data. At the close of the contest an exhibition of the one hundred best scrap books was made in one of the large store windows. Preliminary tests and a final test were held to choose the best school team and the three best individual students. Parts of twenty selections were played or sung and the primary children required to recognize the composition and state the name and nationality of the composer, spelling all words correctly. In addition to this, the junior high and the high school pupils were required to give the period in which the composer lived and two facts about his life and work. A Music Memory Contest pin was given each child winning a place on any team. The Thursday Morning Music Club gave fifty-five silver pins and the Music Teachers’ Association donated five gold ones to the first prize winners. A Columbia Grafonola was offered as the first school prize which was won by Commerce Street School. The second school prize was won by Virginia Heights School and was a portable Victrola. A violin outfit for the best individual test paper was won by Frances Showalter of the Virginia Heights School, while the next best paper was that of Nelson Dickinson, who won a ten dollar football. The prize of a ten dollar gold piece, offered by the Civics Division of the Chamber of Commerce, was won by Dorothy Gibboney of the high school. During this contest an entertainment was given and pantomimes arranged to represent different numbers on the memory list.
Cassye Young, a teacher in the Lee Junior High School of this city, feeling that an orchestra would be an asset to the school, undertook its organization and procured twenty high school pupils, who have rehearsed twice each
ensemble. The most effective of these were the Oriental dances and the elaborate dance drama, Xochitl, enacted by Ted Shawn, Martha Graham and Charles Weidman. The music was supplied by an instrumental quartet conducted by Louis Horst.
At its last meeting the Friends of Music enjoyed a program of violin music by Mrs. Ernest A. Reese and songs in English by Harry Disbrow, baritone, J. P. D.
Phoenix, Ariz., January 2.—Louis Graveure, baritone, appeared in recital, December 28, at the High School Auditorium, as the second number of the Artists’ Course sponsored by the Musicians’ Club. The artist sang a varied program in excellent voice and manner, and responded to several encores. Arpad Sandor played satisfactory accompaniments.
The Story of Bethlehem, by John West, was sung by Trinity Choir, December 24, at the cathedral. By special request it was repeated a week later. On both occasions the church was crowded to the doors. The chorus of forty voices was directed by Arthur Smith, organist; the solo parts were sung by Frances Redewill, soprano; Mrs. Raymond Battin, contralto; Howard Ewing, tenor, and R. H. Bloem, bass.	H. M. R.
Philadelphia, Pa.—(See letter on another page.)
Pittsburgh, Pa., December 31.—The San Carlo Opera-Company gave a week’s performance of artistic merit. Rigo-letto, Madame Butterfly, Martha, Aida, Traviata, Trovatore, Jewels of the Madonna, Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci were included in the list of operas.
Elena Gerhardt sang for the Art Society and received a rousing ovation. Her program included a group of Schubert, a group of Strauss, two airs by Handel, O Sleep, why dost thou leave me, and O, Had I Jubal’s Lyre; two songs of Erich Wolff’s and two by B. Crist.
Olga Samaroff and Jacques Thibaud gave a well-balanced program including the Bruch concerto, the sonata in B flat minor of Chopin and Cesar Franck’s sonata in A major for piano and violin.
All lovers of the C sharp minor prelude were on hand to hear Rachmaninoff’s yearly recital, nor would they be satisfied until they had been granted their desire. Some of the most worn compositions took on a new glow in the great composer’s hands; Weber’s Rondo Brilliant sparkled and the Chopin sonata in B minor, heard here so frequently, was made colorful and noble.
Queena Mario’s recital revealed qualities of voice and interpretive imagination, beautiful diction in the several languages of her songs, and a real charm of personality on the concert stage. John Charles Thomas assisted Miss *Mario.
The annual performance of Handel’s Messiah by the Mendelssohn Choir, under the direction of Earnest Lunt, was the only musical event of Christmas week. The augmented chorus was unusually brilliant and the quartet of soloists a fine feature of the performance. Jeannette Vree-land was loudly acclaimed for the genuine clarity and beauty of her soprano; Alta Schultz, a local contralto, disclosed a real feeling for the oratorio traditions; Charles Tittmann was the bass, using his vibrant voice most intelligently, and Arthur Kraft, tenor, sang with great virility.
The Apollo Male Chorus under the new director, Harvey B. Gaul, showed unusual growth, at its recent concert. The program was a miscellaneous one; the Saudek Ensemble contributed a Mozart trio, a quartet of Rimsky-Korsakoff, and the sextet by Ludwig Thuille; Chauncey Parsons, tenor, and Frederick Rodgers, baritone, sang modern songs and airs from Martha and La Boheme.
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Providence, R. I., December 20.—The Chopin Club, of which Mrs. Edgar J. Lounes is president, recently gave its monthly musicale in Sayles Hall. An enjoyable program was given by Helen Hogan and Gene Ware, organists, and Miss Meisle, who won the first prize for American-trained singers at the biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs in Los Angeles, in 1915. Her voice has unusual range and volume and her singing was marked by excellent diction and fine phrasing. Especially well rendered, were her groups of German and Russian songs. Mr. Ware proved an excellent accompanist and his organ solos were given with skill and musical taste. Miss Hogan, who has recently returned from a concert tour in Europe, gave an excellent presentation of the Bach fugue in G major.
Eva Gautier, mezzo soprano, was heard in a recital at Churchill House, under the management of Susan A. Clark. Mme. Gautier gave a vivid and interesting program of Old English, Irish and Spanish folk songs, French songs and compositions by American, English and Russian composers. Frederick Persson, pianist, played a group of Chopin numbers and was also the accompanist.
The Fox-Burgin-Bedetti Trio—composed of Felix Fox, pianist; Richard Burgin, violinist, and Jean Bedetti, cellist— was heard here for the first time in Memorial Hall. The trio was warmly greeted and reciprocated with unusually finished ensemble playing.	The program consisted of
Brahms’ trio in B major, the Saint-Saëns trio in F major and trio op. 50 by Tschaikowsky.
Geneva Jefferds, soprano, was the soloist at the concert given by La Monica and his band at the Emery Theater. The program consisted of selections from the Italian operas, all of which were played with good effect. Miss Jefferds’ numbers, II Bacio (Arditi), and an aria from The Hugue-
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