St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-04

known in eastern cities than in her
present home. Her musical training
received a great advance under Fred
erlck Root, of Chicago Her appear
ances before the musical public are too
numerous for mention, but being in
connection at different times with the
Slaton Star Concert company, and Han
gel d Hayden, her training has been of
sae pest. She first appeared before
noted musician as Carl Zerrahu spoke
OF her voice in the oratoria Creation"
In the following words: -''Her high
notes were as clear as crystal, and were
tsaken SO easily and so naturally and
handled with so much skill, begotten of
cultivation, that her audience knew no
bounds in its praise" All who attend
the church are delighted by the peculiar
sweetness of the voice of this charming
soprano in the solos she renders.
%. +. Clark has for over a year borne
tne part of baSSO in the church choir.
MIR. Clark is we'll along in years, but
stlli takes great pleasure in music. He
studied in Washington and during the
the choir of the Metropolitan M. E.
church, where the general always at
tended. Grant, we Beseech Thee"
which OF course was no allusion to the
president, but in those days brought a
smile over the faces of the audience,
Miss Carrie E. Neal has sweet con-
tralto voice, and has joined it for some
time past with the choir of the church.
For three years SHE has been in Mime
apOlis. Her home was formerly at
Dedham, Mass, and the young lady has
mad the advantage of the instruction of
some OF BOst0n's musicians. Mrs.
Williams and Mrs. Capin have been her
instructors in Minneapolis.
Leon II. Waite, young medical stu
dent or the college, is one of the t. or
singers of the church. Mr.. Waite :
as boy, at his old home in Excea
Ill the Congregational church. A
student at Sturgis, Mich, he was in the
cholr OF tie Congregational church of
that place. during the two years he
mas been in Minneapolis, he has sang
in the NJ. E. church of the East side,
and in the Unitarian church.
Miss Hattie Bedbury tells her friends
that she is no musician, in fact. that she
don't know how to sing, but the people
OF the church say that her cOntralto
voice is great aid to the good music
rendered by the choir, and they don't
want to have it replaced by any other.
Miss Bedbury has lived in Minneapolis
has sang in the Lyndaie Congregational
church, and the Third Universalist.
Her former home was in Marshall.
ChaS. +. Stephens possesses fine
baritone voice, but adaptS himself to
carry tenor in the choir when necessary.
He is known to Minneapolis people as
having taken prominent part in the eX-
position chorus, and the philharmonic
chorus. For nearly year Mr. Stephens
has sang with the Unitarian choir. His
study has been under Professor Porter
and Miss Julia May.
Miss Amanda Miller is the girlish
soprano of the choir, and is of the num-
Der who have always sang" in whom
singing is a second nature; and so her
voice is of the pure and natural order,
appreciated by all and spoken of by
musicians as having future, with
culture. Miss Miller has only lately
Joined the choir, having sang in the
Third UniVerSaliSt church. Her home
has been i'll Macon, Mo-, until the last
few months.
Thomas Dawson is of the number
who are proud to say that they were
ScOtchmen once, but now are Ameri-
cans. The tenor voice of Mr.. Dawson
would tell that it was of the Bonnie
Scotch" AS lad, Mr.. Dawson sang in
Dunblane, in the neighborhOod of Ster-
ling. When twenty years of age he
came to America. He is musician by
nature and has made music part of his
life.
Prof. Yapp, a musician of st, Paul,
furnishes the accompaniment from the
organ. He is looked to by the choir and
congregation as an ideal OrganiSt.