The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-03-19
RARE MUSIC.
That is What Was Heard at whitworth
Last Saturday Evening.


The large and cultivated audience
which assembled at Whitworth College
Chapel last Saturday evening to witness
the rendition of Franz Abt's captivating
Operetta, Red Riding Hood, by the music
pupils and a recital by the music faculty,
we're in no wise disappointed, unless a
realization of more than the highest au-
ticipations might be called such.
The leading parts in the operettta were
personated as follows: Red Riding Hood,
Miss Alice Fitzhugh; the Mother, Miss
Daisy Thiel; the Fairy Queen, Miss Min
ME Collier the Wolf, Miss Annie Casse-
dy; Red Rose, Miss Sadie Dove Night
engale, Miss Mary Cassidy Ten radi an I
school girls represented the "Fairies" and
ten others as many flowers of different
! names, and the whole, as they kept time
with the enhancing music furnished by
Miss Eta Russell, presented u picture of
grace and beauty rarely seen this side of
veritable fairy land.
All of those in the principal parts ac.
lH6luSClNCS nt SillR
ing of Misses Alice Fitzhugh Sadie Dove
and of Miss Mary Cassidy, whose sweet
clear notes indeed rivaled the nighten-
gales she represented, elected the enthu-
siastic admiration of every listener; while
the graceful, queenly beaIing of Miss
Minnie Collier, the tender, motherly So
licitude and sweet voice of Miss Thiel and
the grotesque wolfsh transformation Of
pretty Miss Annie Cassidy, was each a
distinct attraction.
After the operetta came the concert by
the music faculty, participated in by
Prof McKernan, Mrs. Murrah, Miss Rob
erts and Miss Kellogg. This was undoubt-
eddy one of the grandest musical feasts
which those present ever enjoyed, and
demonstrated beyond question, if such
proof were needed, that Brookhaven peo-
pie need never so from home to hear fine
music again, but have at their very doors
the best there is to be found in "the d.
vine art"
The selections were all from standard
composers and all of the singers were
loudly encored by the admring audience,
Miss Roberts, who has a peculiarly soft
and sweet voice, being called back for the
third time. Miss Kellogg, who is a grad
uate of the Boston Conservatory of Music,
is prodigy as a pianist, aud her execu
ton wonder to all who heard it. She
too was loudly encored by her enthusiast
ic hearers.
Toward the close of the entertainment
Miss Stone, the head of the elOcution de-
partment, furnished recitation (''Lau-
reame the Marble Dreamy which was
in full keeping with the high standard of
the rest of the Program and enthusiast
ticaIly applauded.
jackson, New Orleans and several inter
mediate places were represented in the
audience, and a neat sum was realized by
the small admission fee for the college
library.
1t affords the LEADER pleasure to say
in conclusion it does not believe any fe.
male College III the country offers such
musical advantages as Whtworth. Every
teacher in the Conservatory Department
has enjoyed the finest advantages and
training, and Prof. McKernan. the direc
tor is not only a master and an enthusiasts
tic lover of the art he teaches, but has
the rare faculty of imparting his own en-
thusiam to all under him, teachers and
pupils alike, as is evident to even the cas-
ual observer