Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-01
MUSIC AT W0RLD'S FAIR.
Women's Amateur Musical Clubs Of America
to Have Splendid Exhibit.

PoRTLAS IN, April Especial. 1.-The
Bureau of Music of the Worlds Column
bian Explanation and the board of lady
managers Df the Worlds Columbian COM
missi on are desirous of making complete
exhibition of the work of the Women's
Amateur Musical Clubs of America. Con-
ventions have therefore been appointed to
be held during the Fair. Each convention
lin June and September) will last four
days, and the hours for its sessions will be
so arranged that those who attend will have
ample time free in which to see the fair
and hear the great choral and orchestral
concerts given under the auspices of the
Bureau of Music.
Delegates from all the best musical clubs
in America are expected to attend these
conventions and each club 10 invited to
send its president and as large number of
its active members As possible. Forty min
utes will be allotted to each club to make its
exhibit before the other clubs of the con-
vention. a diploma, or medal of honor,
will he awarded to those clubs whose work
comes up to the highest standard. After
each session the Amateur Musical Club of
Chicago will entertain the visiting clubs.
The bur eau of music and the board of
lady mana gers of the Worlds Columbian
Commission believe that these meetings of
Women's Amateur Musical Clubs from
widely SEN arated parts of America will be
productiyd of every important results by
showing tile world the character and quality
of the duc rational work being accomplished
by women in this direction, by stimulating
the formation of similar clubs in places
they exist. and by the inter change of ideas
which will take place amongst clubs whose
homes, objects and methods of work are SO
widely diverse.
The June convention will begin its ses-
sions at nine o'clock "Wednesday, June 2lst,
and continue the three following days in
the Music Hall building on the Lake Shore,
Worlds Fair Grounds. No charge will be
made for admission to its sessions, but no
one will be admitted without ticket.
The clubs to furnish the programme
are;
First day. June 2l.-Amateur Musical,
New York Ladies' Musical, Washington;
Matinee Musical, Indiana; The Musical
Club, Kansas; Ladies' Glee Club, Connec-
ticot; The Treble Clef, Montana; Cecilian
Society, Minnesota; Amateur Musical,
Ilhros
Second day, June 22-The Rossini.
Maine, Portland; Music Students Club
Iowa; The Treble Clef, California Cece-
Ian Society, Michigan; Beethoven Society.
Tennessee; Morning Musical. Indiana;
The Schubert, Minnesota: Friday Morning
Musical, District of Columbia.
Third day, June 23,-St. Cecilia, Wis
consin; Tuesday Musicale, New York; Mu-
sicsl Society, Texas: TUESDAY Musicale
Michigan; Ladies' Musical, Washington !;
The Ame'la, Vermont; Ladies' Matinee
Musical, Indiana; Liehling Amateurs, ILL
nois.
Fourth day, June 81 The Wednesday
Club, Pennsylvania The Mendelssohn, u
linois; Abby Cheney Amateurs. California :,
Bach Club, Minnesota; Musical Amateurs,
Indiana; Ladies Musical Society, Iowa !;
Amateur Musical, Illinois.
The lady managers consider that this
| nvsn'ion promises to be a very brilliant
| one. They are especially interested in the
Rossini Club, as it is the oldest established
of aay Of the clubs of this kind in America
| Any person in Maine interested in anna
tenr music Who expects to be in Chicago at
this time will be furnished with tickets (tliat
the audience may be thoroughly sympa-
thetic, tickets will be given only to persons
| interested in musical work If application is
made at once to Mrs. Eudly X. Rand.
President Portland Rossini CLUB. or to Miss
Alice Philbrook, Treasurer Portland Ros-
! sini Club.