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sand crowded the high school auditorium and generously applauded the young performers.	W. H. H.
Muskogee, Okla., May 4.—Mrs. Claude L. Steele, who is voice and choral director for the Oklahoma School for the Blind, presented the results of a year’s work in three programs recently. The Junior Chorus concert on April 29 was divided into two parts, the first part made up of Nature Studies and the second part devoted to Jessie L. Gaynor’s operetta, The Toy Shop.
The Girls’ Glee Club gave an American Indian operetta called The Feast of the Red Corn, by Paul Bliss. This was prefaced by choral numbers by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Fenn and Warner, a vocal duet by Bonnie Hayes and Clau¿-ene Johnson and a piano duet by Gretta Owen and Goldie Cummings.
The Boys’ Glee Club gave a Minstrel Show which proved very popular. Robert Boynton was interlocutor and other blackfaces were Frank Daniels, Harry Austin, Orbie Guthrie, Lyle Fessenden, Walter Atha, Jesse Emerson, Elmer Lightner, Jacob Siemens and Malcolm Coney.	B.
New Haven, Conn., May 7.—A large audience attended the recital given on April 10 by the St. Ambrose Music Club at the Hotel Taft. Kate Lee Lewis was in charge of the program, which consisted of compositions by Polish and Hungarian composers. The guest performers were Dorothy Sterling Lalley, soprano; Lilian M. Heinz, pianist, and Emma E. Goergen, alto, all of whom acquitted themselves admirably and gave genuine pleasure to the audience.
On April 18 and 25 Mr. Simonds lectured about Elgar, Ireland and Pizzeti. At the first lecture he and Hi'lde-garde Nash Donaldson played Elgar’s sonata in E and Ireland’s sonata 2 in A, both of which were greatly enjoyed. At the last lecture they played Pizzeti’s sonata in A, which was composed during 1918-19 and which showed the imprint of the war in the first two movements. The closing movement is^ bright. New Haveners “have had the privilege of hearing played at these lecture-recitals violin sonatas rarely played on any concert program.
On April 18, at Center Church House, Ethel M. Welch, poet and reader; Frederick W. Welch, tenor, and W. Frank Chatterton, pianist, gave an interesting concert assisted by Beatrice Marsh, soprano; Harry Hadley Schyde, basso, and Frank De Matteo, violinist. A large and representative audience gave generous applause to the *various numbers. Miss Welch read from her own varied writings. Mr. Chatterton played two of his own piano compositions which proved melodious and meritorious. His composition, Twilight, suggested MacDowell’s To a Wild Rose in its simple directness of melody. Although still in his ’teens, Mr. Chatterton is an able organist as well as pianist. Mr, Welch and Mr. De Matteo are both graduates of the Yale School of Music and are excellent musicians. Miss Marsh and Mr. Schyde are well known church singers and rendered their groups of songs pleasingly.
The Woman’s Club Chorus gave its annual musical program with William E. Haesche as conductor and Helen Cain, accompanist, assisted by Sarah Tarleton Fiske, soprano; Grace Burnes Munson, alto, and George Davidonis, violinist. The program opened and closed with selections by the Ensemble Club. The chorus sang two groups of songs, one of which was composed by Mr. Haesche. Miss Fiske sang one group of songs in her usual finished style and seemed to be at her best. Mr. Davidonis played a group of three violin compositions by Mr. Haesche, all of which were excellent. Edith Lang’s The Shepherd Lady was sung by the chorus, assisted in the incidental solos by Miss Fiske and Mrs. Munson. Mr. Haesche will begin his duties as professor of theory at Hollins College in Virginia next fall.
An interesting and illuminating concert was given by pupils of the Neighborhood House Settlement Music School
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The regular monthly students’ recital was held at the studio of Dora Sternfeld on Alabama street, displaying a splendid array of talent. Florence Fuller, a twelve-year-old girl student of Miss Sternfeld’s, competed in the students’ contest held during the State Federation and showed marked talent for one of her years.
The members of the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers held their regular “sing” early in April at Montgomery County-Court House.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with Rudolph Ganz as director gave two fine concerts here. In the afternoon a children’s matinee was given with Max Steindel as cello soloist. A splendid feature was the introduction of the different instruments of the orchestra to the children in attendance by Mr. Ganz, who was exceedingly clever and won great admiration from the children. In the evening Carolina Lazzari was the soloist and shared with Mr. Ganz the hearty welcome.
The Civitan Club gave the twenty-two children from the Children’s Home an afternoon of pleasure and joy by having them as guests at the matinee given by the St. Louis orchestra.
The Auburn Glee Club under the direction of Bidez appeared at the Alabama Woman’s College recently and created a furore.
Mary Frances O’Connell sang (Mrs. James Haygood at the piano) before the open meeting of the B’Nai Brith recently. Eugenia Meller gave two piano solos.
American Business Men held ladies’ night recently and the _ following musicians gave a splendid program: Mrs. Eloise Neely (soprano) with Eleanor Neely at the piano; Mary Frances O’Connell (soprano) with Mrs. E. E. Cobb at the piano, and Mrs. Earle Elmo Cobb (soprano) with Mrs. S. H. Bennett at the piano. Mrs. Neely sang a recent song by a local composer with the composer, Thomas Clanton Calloway, at the piano.
Mrs. Neely and Miss Cromwell gave several solos and duets before the Praetorians recently.
Meta Brassell was contralto soloist before the Philatheans at Clayton St. Baptist Church.
The three music clubs, Le Club de Vingt Musiques, the Montgomery Music Club and the Treble Clef Club presented the operetta In the Garden of the Shah under the direction of Mrs. Earle Elmo Cobb recently. The cast, with the exception of Eleanor Neely (soprano), was the same as in another presentation of this musical affair.
Mrs. Eloise Neely was reelected president of the Montgomery Music Club at its recent election of officers, this being her fifth year as president, which is a decided compliment to this singer. The other officers for the new year will be Mrs. Joshua Clark (vice-president), Mrs. Claude Hendrix (treasurer), Inez Powell (recording secretary), Mrs. Terry Mastin (corresponding secretary), Ruth Elliot (librarian), Harriett Huber (historian), Mrs. Reed Lan-cater (accompanist), Mrs. James J. Campbell (assistant accompanist), Frank Woodruff (director), who was also re-elected; Mrs. Patillo (senior federation director), and Mrs. Carr Buchanon (junior federation director).
Each Saturday morning a musical program is given by some member of the Alabama Women’s College faculty, or some talented student. Plans for a new hall have been made and new pianos will be installed next season. Recently the musical faculty broadcasted a concert from the Alabama Power Plant’s station at Birmingham. There are between three and four hundred students this season, more than two hundred of which are studying music in some form or other.
Mr. J. E. W. Lord, organist at Temple Beth Or, has been giving a series of fifteen minute organ recitals on Friday nights.
Grace Lorrey Clyde (mezzo-soprano), artist pupil of Tecla Vigna of Cincinnati, Ohio, visited her relatives, the Mills family. She appeared before the Civitan Club with Mrs. James Haygood at the piano. She also sang many times with John Proctor Mills as accompanist.
The Treble Clef Club recently held its election of officers which resulted as follows: Mrs. C. Guy Smith (president) re-elected; Mrs. Charles Mitchell (vice-president) ; Mrs. Joe Matthews (treasurer) ; Mrs. S. L. Jordan (secretary) ; Mrs. W. B. Fleming (reporter), and C. Guy Smith (director). Mr. Smith has been director of the club since its inception and has done splendid work.
The piano students of Mrs. Joseph Kaufman gave a recital recently. Mrs. Emil Wise sang several numbers by Harriet Ware and Edward German for the students, who thoroughly enjoyed it.
A. L. Kimbrough was re-elected chairman of the Sacred Harp Singers’ Society of the State; H. L. Walton, as vice-chairman, and W. B. Allgood as secretary. The society’s semi-annual convention will be held the first Sunday in May in this city.
Pauline Garrett Chilton presented her students, Bessie Reese, Julia Grace Collier, Margaret Haigler, Martha Jack-son, Margaret Young, J. B. Jenkins, Olive Bomar, Mrs. Charles Keane, Robert Gorrie, Nancy Garrett and Mrs. Frank Hurley in a vocal recital.
Bessie Reese (violinist) and Mrs. Bruce Kennedy (pianist) are giving much pleasure with their musical programs each evening at the Exchange Hotel.
Bessie Leigh Eilenberg presented the following students in recital: Anne Thetford, Margaret Peck, Estelle Linkow, Anne Garrett Sheehan, Flora Frank, William Winkenhofer, Luck Hudson, Leota Barker, Sylvia Monsky, Elizabeth Beasley, Lucy Loulthrop, Letitia Allen, Ellen Sanderson, Marjorie Levy, Caroline Haralson, Clarabel Henderson, Mary E. Darby, Nell Watkins, Sadie Wilson, Loraine Schlessinger, Josephine Powell, Mary Smith, Laurie Bell Weil, Alvena Stewart, Estelle McGowin and Olive Gardner.
Thelma Lee, violin prodigy of Paul Verpoest of Alabama Woman’s College, played some splendid numbers at radio station WSY at Birmingham recently. She was accompanied on the piano by Gladys Pinkston.	J. P. M.
Mount Vernon, N. Y., May 4.—The annual concert by the public school children was held on May 1. The program included numbers by the combined orchestras of the grade schools numbering over one hundred players, the school band, and the rendition of the cantata The Walrus and the Carpenter, by Percy E. Fletcher, sung by a chorus of two hundred children selected from the fifth and sixth grades. The supervisor of music is Russell Carter; the assistant supervisor is Loretta M. Knights. An audience of a thou-
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