The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
Music.

Mr. clarence F0rSytho Will return from 6tutt-
CART, Germany in April
Edwin 6. Clark has received many compli-
ments on his violin playing.
Miss Gertic Sproulc will sing at the concert to
be given at Greenfield next week.
The friends of Miss Susie Kackley would be
pleased to hear her voice oftener in public.
Mr.. H. Schumacher has placed before tho pub
lie brilliant galop, called Cyclone Forest"
Mr. John Geiger and Mr. Philip Haerle have
become active members of the Lyra Society.
The Shelbyville Matinee Musicale is in -four
ishing condition. It already has membership
Of fifty people.
A fine concert will be given by local musical
talent in Greenfield on the Goth and 9th of the
present month.
Mr. Maurer of No. 1T North Alabama street.
has purchased an elegant stage banjo, which
made to order.
Miss Ollie Torbett has left the Levy Concert
Company, and has returned to New York to fill
concert engagements.
Prof. Paul Bahr acted as accompanist at tn Q
Mendelssohn Society concert Tuesday evening,
in the place Of Miss May B. Brown.
Andrew Smith, Miss Annie Abromet and Miss
Maggie McGlinn were heartily encored in their
solos, at the celebration exercises St Patricks
Day.
At the service in the First Presbyterian
Church this morning Mrs. j. j. Cole viii sing,
by special request, ''Oh That Had Wings Like
a Dove"
Miss Annie Sickles, whose age is nine years
plays first violin in the Mendelssohn orchestra,
and nothing has yet proven too difficult for her
to execute.
Some people from this city recently heard
I41x .-s~ T.
express themselves charmed with the progress
she has made in music.
Greenfield has organized q quintet club,
composed of the following vocalists: Mr.. Win
Meek. Mr. Will Randall, Mr.. Ed Tolan, Mr..
Frank Hammel and Mr.. Asa New.
The members of the First Baptist Church gave
a social on Friday evening with an excep-
tionally good musical programme, which was
rendered by Mrs. Frank lowering S. L. Morri-
son and the Telegraph Quartet
Miss Minnie Bayliss, daughter Of Rev. J. a.
Bayliss, who has recently been appointed pre-
eeptress OF music at Clark University, Georgia,
studied music for four years under Mrs Emil
Wulschner, and owes her thorough knowledge
OF that art to that lady
A great many theater parties are being made
up for the Abbott opera season here which
commences the first of the week Curiosity is
aroused to hear Miss Abbott in ''1raviata, !" the
opera she wouldn't sing, and in "SemiramiSer
the opera the critics say she cannot eing.
Mr. L. A. Dochey, the oboe player in the
Mendelssohn orchestra, is sixty years Of age,
and has taken part in sixty eight different operas
under Strakosch and other leaders His highly
cultivated baritone voice was heard to advantage
in Meyerbeer's ''Chanson Huguenotsv at the
Mendelssohn concert on Tuesday night.
The Amherst College Glee Club viii appear
at Plymouth Church on Friday evening next
The boys are on spring vacation, and will sing
the songs that have given them splendid rep
utation in the East There are seventeen mem
bers of the club, and their entertainments have
been uniformly successful wherever presented
One of the most thoroughly enjoyed numbers
at the Cinderella Club, last evening, WIS the
'Parlor Qnadrille," which was especially ar
ranged by Professor Brenneke The music for
this charming dance was written by Barclay
Walker, was arranged in orchestra form by Pro-
fessor Beissenherz, and is now being played with
success by Harris orchestra.
The churches in Greenfield are making an in
novation in their music. by introducing the use
OF yiolins and brass instruments into the diff
ferent choirs Of that city. At the Presbyterian
Church, Miss Jessie Randall acts @ 6rst yiohnist