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THE CORSTCANA DAILY SUN. -WEDNESDAY. JANTJABY 24, SEVEN LOCAL And NATIONAL IN MUSICAL CIRCLES By B. B. W.

ORGANIZATION 'ACTIVITIES NEVIN CLUB MET IN REGULAR SESSION ON MRS. MITCHELL IN CHARGE OF PROGRAM AT HOME OF MRS. BEAUFORD JESTER The Nevin Club met in regular session on Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Beauford Jester in Jester Place with the president, Miss Edna Webb, presiding, and a large percentage of the membership in attendance. During a short business session, It was voted almost unanimously to continue meeting at 4.15 o'clock instead of 3 o'clock on account of the operatic broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera Huse in New York City, which the membership of the club is taking advantage of, These broadcasts will continue for about ten weeks, and the members of the Nevin Club are very enthusiastic concerning the unusual opportunity afforded in hearing them- The program for the afternoon had its capable guide and leader, Mrs.

B. B. Mitchell, who took those present on a delightful tour romantic Spain, with Madrid, the particular destination. Many interesting facts concerning the people, their characteristics, their amusements, and their aesthetic tendencies as demonstrated in the lives of De Falla, Albeniz, and Granados, three of the world's outstanding composers, were splendidly and comprehensively given by the leader. The following musical numbers given as a fitting climax to the program: Tango Albeniz-Godowsky Mrs.

George Daniels A Spanish Love Song Kountzi Mrs, Jack Hagar Miss Pollock at the piano Mlramar (Valencia) Joaquln Turina Owen Elliott Dreamy SevlUs Frederick Logan Mrs. Boyce Martin Mr. Hearn at tho piano Habanera Alexis Chabrler Mrs. Harrell Roberts Eetrellita Ponce Mrs. W.

W- Binford Mr. Hearn at the piano The next regular meeting of the will be held at the studio of Miss Marie Waltman on West Fifth avenue on the afternoon of February 3rd, an which time Miss Blanche McKie will escort the members of the club on a pilgrimage Rome, Italy. "SHOCKING" OPERA MILD AFTER LONG BAN FeET of HEEOD MARV GARDEN That tho march of progress not only speeded up our Jives, but also worked wonders In broadening our moral viewpoint was Indicated by the storm of approval that greeted the return of "Salome" to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, "Sew York, after a banishment of 26 years. In 1907, after one performance, during which bejeweled occupants of the Diamond Horseshoe left their seats In disgust. Salome was banned.

Olive Fremstad, who played the feature role on that occasion, was present at the revival, when Goeta Ljungberg Interpreted the title role. In 1909, Salome was produced at tho Manhattan Opera House by Oscar Hammersleln, with Mary Garden as the star. But this was a modified version ol the opera. letter, Maud Allen attempted to make a London audience like it. But she failed and caused a furore which Members of Parliament and cabinet members were Involved.

TO ATTEND BANQUET FOR VON M1CKWITZ IN DALLAS FRIDAY fir. and Mrs. Andrew Slade will attend the annual homecoming and banquet of former Harold von Mickwitz pupils, which vill be held on Friday evening at o'clock at the Dallas Country club. With Harold von Mickwitz recently returned from Finland to reside in Dallas, the Mickwitz Club, a 19- year-old organization, will resume its annual custom of ban- jjuet and homecoming for the hundreds of Mickwitz pupils in the state. Mrs.

Slade of this city is charter member of the organization, and has been a regular attendant at these annual affairs through the years. The Mickwitz club consists of fifty members and seventy life members. Affiliates of many classifications and ages run the total of Mickwitz disciples into several hundred. A musical program will follow the banquet FORMER CORSICANA MUSICIAN PROISED FOR CHORUS WORK Mrs. H.

H. Fleming, a. former Corslcanan, who is now a resident of Sherman, received special commendation recently front Mrs. A. F.

Wood of Athens, president of tho Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers, upon the work of the Bomar Cramer Chorus, of which Mrs. Fleming is the director. The chorus presented several selections during the recent meeting of the P. T. A.

in Sherman, and wag active In entertaining those who attended the convention. Mrs. Frank Moon of this represented the Sam Houston P. T. A.

at the Sherman meeting, and was also high her praise of the Bomar Cramer Chorus and iis director, whose contributions to the program of the convention were outstanding in every way. POPULAR OPERA DREW ATTENDANCE OF 35,000 PEOPLE Demonstrating the popularity of "II Trovatore," the opera for dis- (Mission at the next regular meet; ing of the Fine Arts Club, is tha I'fact'that the opera drew an audience of 35,000 people when it was given a spectacular performance recently in the ancient arena of Verona, Italy. "II Trovatore" was, a success from the beginning, and It has been popular over since. Naturally, for it is full of melody from start to finish, and the action, If blood-curdling. Is swift and plentiful.

The harmonies are rich and varied, and the orchestration is masterful. "II Trovatore" preaches no moral, and aims only to tell a thrilling story of a vengeance in atraghiforwafd fwhion. NEW unqualified approval with which 'a distinguished audience greeted the revival of "Salome" in the Metropolitan Opera House here recently was rather striking evidence of our ever-changing definition of what constitutes naughtiness. Banned 26 Years was welcomed back with cheers to the place from which she was banished in disgrace 28 years ago. The return of the prodigal was in E-harp contrast to that occasion in January 1907, when tho opera was produced under the direction of Heinrich Conried.

There had been much discussion about the advisability of putting on a play with such potentialities for antagonizing tho clergy. But it wasn't the clergy that raised the loudest cries of protest. In the climatic scene of the opera, bejeweled occupants of the famous Diamond Horseshoe arose and left their boxes in unmistakable disgust and immediately after the final curtain, a. deputation of big-wigs called upon the management to protest against any repetition of this opera. Among the outraged gentlemen of the period were J.

P. Morgan, Ogden Mills, George Gould and William K. Vanderbilt. Mme. Olive that memorable 1907 performance.

She was in the audience at the revival, and her feelings may be better imagined than described on hearing the evidence of approval that greeted Mme. Goeta Ljungberg in the role of Salome. London, Too It wasn't only In New Tork that "Salome" was dismissed with the one word "shocking." When Maud Allen attempted to play excerpts from the opera in London, a hullabaloo ensued that finally developed into a cause celebre involving cabinet ministers and members of Parliament. Strangely enough, when Oscar Hammerstein produced the opera in the Manhattan Opera House In 1909, with Mary Garden in the feature role, there was little or no fuss. It was a big success from a financial viewpoint.

But the Hammers-teln version was much milder than the play as originally written by Oscar Wilde and set to music by Richard Strauss. Siren and Saint The story of the opera, which scores of dramatists, writers and poets have woven Into endless variations is taken from the fourteenth gospel according to St. Matthew. Salome, Princess of Judea, Is the Impetuous and beautiful Fermstad created the title 'role in daughter of Herodias. Accustomed to having gallants of the court of Herod obey her every command, she is irked when a humble holy man, Jokaanan, or John the Baptist, fails to succumb to her passionate wooing, taunting the Princess and court with denunciations of decadence.

Salome's father, Herodias, Indignant at St. John's denunciations, asks Herod to punish him. Herod, a wreck of degeneracy, Is easy prey for the wiles of the beautiful Salome. He asks her to dance for him and name her own reward. Then ensues the famous Dance of the Seven Veils, a hurricane of langor, caprice, 'seductiveness and savagery, all leading to murder.

The music at this point of the opera is the highspot of the entire production. It ends with -a crash of eymbalE-, and Salome asks for her head of John the Baptist. Herod Implores her to ask for anything else. But the Princess insists and he yields. There is a moment of expectant horror.

Then the head of John, on a silver salver is raised out of a cistern by a black arm and Salome, after another wild orgy of dancing, kisses the dead lips the saint had denied her in life. The play ends with Salome, Princess of Judca crushed to death beneath the shields of repentant Herod's JUNIOR DAY TO BE SPECIAL FEATURE STATE CONVENTION MASSED ORCHESTRA WILL BE ONE OF INNOVATIONS AT GALVESTON SESSION Junior Day at the annual convention of the Texas Federation of Music Clubs in Galveston this spring is to he different from those of the past, according to announcement by the State Junior Chairman. Among the innovations announced Is a massed orchestra, using any Juvenile, Junior or Student Musician of the State that will bring instruments with prescribed numbers prepared, an all-state chorus of three numbers, and- the presentation of the boy or girl winning in original composition. A special number from the department of Pageantry and Dancing will be given, and contesting numbers from all departments will be presented throughout. the day.

(Every Junior in Texas now has tho chance to be on the program. All-State Orchestra Numbers. Pomp and Chivalry, Procesnion- al March Roberts. Raymond Overture Thomas. Llebestraum Liszt.

All-State Chorus. Texas. Our Texa-s J. Marsh Prayer (Lithuanian Folk Song) Trehorne. (Serial Number Music Co.) Bridal Chorus from the Rose- maiden Frederic H.

Cowan. (No. 5030. Arr. by Clough- Leighter-Ditson Co.) As above stated, any Junior club member In the state may learn these numbers and take part In the festival chorus or orchestra which will be a feature of the Junior Day at Galveston, in April.

Mr. Otto Zoeller, 1139 Rigsby, San Antonio, as state chairman of orchestras, will have charge of the All-State orchestra. and Miss Lucille Skinner, 1002 North Jefferson, San Angelo, will have charge of the All-State Chorus. Music Federation History Past Twenty Years Be Compiled The Texas Federation, of Mufcic Clubs will have a history of thn 20 years of its organization as the board of directors voted at the I meeting in Tyler Oct. 28.

to gather all material possible covering I ho years sines 1915 to print in book The work was done by the historian, Mrs. Hambricjc. one of the original members of a committee of three appointed by tho president, Mrs. Lena Mllam. for this work.

The book probably will be ready for distribution in thi spring. SCANNING NEW BOOKS By JOHN SELBY NEW YORK Fitchcl Corday's "The Paris Front" seems important for a curious reason. It is a. war book, but it is written by a Frenchman who was middle-aged when tho war broke out, and who stayed at home and thought instead of going into the trenches to bleed. It really Is not book at all, but a literal transcription of M.

Cordray's diary, in which he set down day by day what the people at home were doing and thinking about the war, M. Corday was not swept away by the urge to kill. Killing seemed cruel to him at the beginning and it continued to seem so. He was riot fooled by propaganda, either, and refused to see all Germans as friends- He know many important people, and put into his diary their reactions as well; many men, one of them. Clemenceau, figure rather badly In the "The Paris Front" picture of war- All in all, completes the time France as perhaps no other book could.

Afloat. To the landsman, and perha.ps to most sailors, Erll'ng Tambs' decision to sail round the world In a. 40-foot, boat seems when Mr. Tajns was ready to start he did not have even a sextant! He is a Norwegian novelist, and bought, his pilot, cutter with the royalties from a novel. Before he was out of-the North pea he and his wife were almost wrecked.

The English Channel brought two more narrow escapes. In tho Canary Islands their first. In New Zealand increased again. child was born; the family was And on the coast of New Zealand their boat was lost. It.

sounds a little mad. but, "The Cruise of tha Teddy" makes fas- cidating reading. Billions. The Stillmans, father and son have neen drawn full length by John K. Winkle In his latest col- ume on financial First Billion." Mr.

Winkler is one of our leading exponents of "popular" biography, choosing to write in a style that once in a while reminds the reader of the sensational wing of the daily press. He emphasizes the odd fatures of his story, particularly domestic habits of the elder PUllman, and certain colorful events in the life of his son- But there also is a good deal about thn National City bank and its history, and about the Stillman allies, especially William Rockefeller. Anil for those to whom chills and horrors arc essential there is "The Cadaver of Gideon Wycl--." hy Alexander Laing. Mr. Laing's hook is cleverly put together, advancing from grisly detail to MUSICAL CULTURE CLUB OF SUTTON STUDIDSJN SESSION The Musical Culture Club sponsored by Mrs.

Minnie Sutton, Mrs. Edens Hyndman and Mrs. Finis Farr met in regular session Wednesday afternoon. Margaret Sullivan, president, called tho meeting to order and after roll call and reading of the minutes of last meeting the lesson was a review of the subject given last meeting, "Where Music Camo From," "The Childhood of Music" and "How Music Grew Tha new lesson was "How Music Camo to the People," with illustrations of the great-great-grandfather or the piano, the clavls, clavichord and harpsichord. The honor pupils for the month were Jimmio Nell Bush, Gerald Long, Jeanette Purifoy, Evelyn Joyce Price, Nancy Fittman, Marianna Bell, Jana Hill, Earlo Bush.

The following program was well rendered. Ice cream was served at the close: Yellow Bill Owl. morn grisly detail troad. with stealthy From these horrors one turns almost with relief to a strange little hook by Laura A'iamc Armer and Sidney Arrner called "Cactus." Mr. Bird With a Little Grey Little Drops of John Williams Mary Elizabeth Hutchlnson Violin: The Big Bass Gerald Long Accompanist.

Ernest Long Waltz Spaulding Nancy Pittman Playmates Crosby Jeanette Piirifoy Boy Scouts on Parade. Earle Bush Violin: Carnival of Venice Mary Ellen Sutton Wintry Lemont Helen Crouch Spanish Carnival Hatch Ernest. Guinne Long Violin: Katherine Hopkins Berceuse Godard Sullivan COMPETITION FOR PIANO TEACHERS AT DALLAHESTIVAL According recent announcement by Isabel Hutcheson, Dallas pianist who returned from abroad last September after fourteen years' study with Brlethaupt, Andraffy, Bree and Bachaus, fifty-three piano teachers of Dallas and Dnllas county will be presented in a piano teachers' music festival early in April. Mies Virginia Roberts, popular pianist of this city, will be among the number presented at the Festival, and other piano teachers from Ennis, Ft. Worth, Arlington, will be heard in ensemble as well as solo playing.

The place for tho Mrs. Armftr hae illustrated and i concert has not vet been chosen, described 50 forms of cacti, especi-1 but will be announced in the ally for the collector thereof, near futuro. OPERA "AIDA" WILL BE BROADCAST NEXT SATURDAYAFTERNOON VERDI'S POPULAR COMPOSITION TO BE GIVEN AT METROPOLITAN Much interest is being manifest in tho opera to bo broadcast Sa.turday at 1 o'clock from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Giuseppe Verdi was almost sixty years of age, had worked long, hard and successfully, and felt that ho had earned the right to retire. But the Viceroy of Egypt was to open the new Grand Opera House in Cairo, he wanted a new opera for tho dedication, and Verdi seemed the logical composer to write it.

A work dealing with the past grandeurs of Egypt was to be the subject- to which Verdi's genius for the grandiose seemed especially fitted. When approached, however, ho sought to evade the commission by naming an exorbitant a method by which Greig, in later years sought to avoid the rigors of a sea voyage, and an American concert tour. Verdi, Ilka Grieg, was embarrassed when his offer was accepted and he set to work. He soon became interested, as he felt the opera growing beneath his hand. When completed, it was realized to be the greatest work of his career.

Ho little dreamed that sixteen years later he was to bring forth an even greater one. "Aida" was successful from t.ha first. It lacked none of the composer's earlier fire, but it was more mature in stylo and more convincing in dramatic power. Itu vivid plot, its golden pageantry, Its richness of melody, of harmony, and of orchestral scoring, marked it not simply as one of the best of Verdi's works, but as one of the greatest of all time. And years have rather increased than diminished Its reputation.

Melody Provided. In Verdi realized he was preparing a opera In magnificent setting, with plenty of room for display. He was composing for large massos of people, and he did not fail to provide melody in its simplest and most impressive form. The more one studies "Aida" the more one is amazed at the. lavish genius of the.

composer. It is a landmark, not only in his own development, but in that of opera Itself. The opera had Its world premiere in Cairo. December 24th, 1871, and its first American production a.t the Academy of Music, New York in November, 1873. It, was produced in Philadelphia one month later, and in Now Orleans five years lat--.

The opera has always been a favorite one In America, and holds the Metropolitan Opera record for the largest number of performances, In 1904 Caruso, made his flra appearance at the Metropolitan as Rhadames. A highly imnros- slve open air production was given in 1912 at tho foot of the pyramids of Egypt. COMPOSITION lil CORSICANAN TO BE GIVEN DURING BALL Miss Rose Sizemore has been invited to Hlllsboro to present "Randy's Rhythm," a jazz dance number, as a special featxtre of the floor show at the President's Ba.ll on the evening of January 30th. This number, an original composition by Mrs. Lynne Wor tham, was given a.

successful presentation under the direction of Miss Slzemore at the recent pageant, "The Legend of Navarro." Thn number was inspired by the snappy rhythm of Randolph Mitchell, pianist. dancer, drum major of tho high school band, and accompanist for the Sizemore Studio of Dance and Expression. Participants in tho number will tie Delorcs Vcnable. June Ether idge, Patty Dunton. Settle.

Antoinette Robinson, Sue and Mildred Carroll, and Mary Anna Haney, with Randolph Mitchell at. the piano. Miss Sizemore will accompany thn youthful dancers to Hillsboro, where the President's Rail is to be the outstanding social event of the season. PRINCIPALS IN VALLEE SUIT VESPER PROGRAM IS LARGELY ATTENDED SUNDAYJFTERNOON CARL WIESEMANN, POPULAR ORGANIST, IN CONCERT AT THIRD AVENUE CHURCH Sensational disclosures are expected In the separate maintenance suit which Fay Webb (right), wife of Rudy Vallee, crooner extraordinary, recently filed at Los Angeles, naming Alice Faye (left) member of Rudy's troupe of musicians as a love rival. Mrs.

Vallee also accuses the crooner of having a "violent and vicious temper." CIRCLES FT. WORTH At regular meeting of the Eutcrpean Club at the Art Center in Ft. Worth recently, Mrs. Warren Ambrosle's contribution to the program featuring a dlscus- Teachers of Rachmaninoff selections, "The Me" and "The Wounded Birch." In a program given by the sion "Famous Voice" were two newly organized orchestra of the Polytechnic Church on Sunday afternoon in the Auditorium of Texas Woman's College in Fort Worth, Albert Luper, former violinist of Corslcana, was a featured performer, giving the Adams-Hendley arrangement of "The Holy City." Regular Session Of Junior Senor Harmony Club Held The Junior Senor HarmoftyClubj met in regular cession on Friday afternoon of last week at the! studio of Mrs. A.

J. Slade, sor of organization, which Is composed of junior members ofj the piano classes of Mrs. Sta.de- An interesting musical program, games nnd contests were enjoyed! hy tho youthful musicians, Misses Lilla Joan Brown and Lois Miller making the highest grades In tho "Ea.r and Memory Training" fea-! tures of the program. Mi 8 Stroud Now William Better Miss Emily Nell Stroud. talent- id Corslcana pianist, Is nqw pleasantly located at the "Three Arts Club" In New York, where she Is a student in the classes of William Seller, noted pianist and pedagogue.

It will bo remembered that Mr. Boiler conducted a master class In piano In Dallas last summer, and that Miss Stroud was one of the lucky contestants, winning a several weeks' scholarship with him. Miss Stroud ie not only enjoying her stidles In New York, but Is taking advantage of the many musical attrac- tions of the metropolis. Numerous complimentary expressions concerning the "Vesper Service" on Sunday afternoon at the Third Avenue Presbyterian, church, which presented Carl Wiesemann, organist and choirmaster of St. Matthews Catheder- al, Dallas, in recital, have been heard on every hand.

The au- dlenco which overflowed the church auditorium, was made up of known and proved mu- jslc lovers and they pronounced It a "stirring orga.n recital." In his program for tho occasion, Mr. Wiesemann avoided the beaten path of many organists and assembled a list of variety and vitality, which gave the artist splendid opportunity for osic revealment. Mr. Wlesemann's organ recitals in the Southwest during the past ten years attracted no little attention because of the artist's knowledge of the organ and Its literature, and his mastery of Its technique. Realizing that music is a vital part of religious worship, the entire Vesper Service on' Sunday afternoon was given over, to music by the Public Worship Committee of the church.

Mr. Wiesemann was assisted In the program by the splendid quartette of the church composed of Mesdames Ralph Stell and W. L. Kirk, Messrs. Roy Leeds and Robert Layton, and Lloyd Kerr, popular soloist of the city, each of whom added materially to the enjoyment of the occasion.

Mr. Wiesemann's numbers Included, "Aria" (Handel), "First Movement Sonata IV" (Gull- mant), Opus 28" (Beethoven), "Rondo" (Rlnck) "Etude de Concert" (Bonnett), "Aria" (Tenaglla), (Wolstenholme), 'The Virgin's Lullaby" and "Carillon" (Edmundson). "Tho Radiant Morn" (Woodward) was given by the Quartette, and God" (Gaul) tribution to the program. "To The Lord Our was Mr. Kerr'g con- Usi a Dally Sun Want Ad for quick DR.

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