The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-12-15
THESE GIRLS ARE PIPERS.
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt Conducts "Pune-
Gull PuneCu a" with Baton Like The Kaiser.
HELEN GOULD as 4 SWEET HABPIST.
Mrs. Cleveland Has "A Master to Teach Her
Plantation Melodies, with Banjo-Miss
Belle Nelson is "A Flufist and Miss
Letter Knows the Taiiy-Ho
Bugle.


Paderewskis hair and Paderewski's
piano playing can both be duplicated in
New York and in no one knows how
many other cities. In certain lights the
Pa ierewski hair needs the Paderewski
combination OF face and form-the arrow
and the willow. In certain passages the
Paderewski music needs the Paderewski
shading taking these differences into
con iiGeration you can md the Pole
squal any day you please
II is only the young ladies who have
reached the Paderiwskis greatness. Men
do not approach il. No one outside OF the
professors of the conservatories know
how beautifully the young women are
performing the crescendoes ana dimihuth-
do They are so perfect that women
who were educated years ago wheh
pupil of List" was sufficient recommen-
dalton. cannot even play Llszt id'o'i''
melody" acceptably.
MRS. MCORMICK's VIoLINs.
And not as pianists alone do the girls
excel. They are violinists, cellists, harp-
lists. trombone players and even leaders
Of congregational singing, using the cor
net to keep the tune ana time
People who went to the auditorium az
Ocean Grove last summer were surprised
to see a young woman take her stahu
upon the front of the big platform, III
front of the bishops and clergy, and DO"
a shril blast upon the cornet ms was
the call 10 arms for the audience 10 sing.
Then. in tones Of loudest note, she leu
the music from beginning 10 end. pufilns
out her cheeks and blowing ike must
clan of the Little German Band. She IS
a cornetist OF ability and experience, ana
all the year round she earns her living
IL. al pff
Accomplished cornetists and yioltnists
are the daughters Of J. Pierpont Morgan.
These young ladies are brilliant Drn-
nettes. both beautiful, and the elder so
very classic IN feature that she has Deeh
photographed as Minerva. These girls
are at the head OF one Of the three girl
pedestrians OF New York Every fall at
this time they organize for another WIN
ter's playing. and they assign the instru-
ments to the different members OF the
orchestra. Themselves playing anything
that may be lacking when the orchestra
Is made up.
A remarkable thing about these girl
PLAYERS in the freedom with which they
change instruments. Mrs Harold Nc
Cormick, for instance, plays the violin
exquisitely well. She owns a Stradivarius
and a stremona. and several slender thin
yiolins that have been picked up in poor
music shops OF the city. When occasion
demands she can lay aside the violin ana
play the cello OF take her place at the
strings Of the harp for a solo. Her ability
i'm all fields is wonderful This winter IN
Rome she will spend a large lump or her
enormous amount OF spending money
upon the viollns OF Italy. An expert WIN
a small musical instrument called
the banjo is Mrs. Cleveland. She
..Ia "a
and she sings fairly well. Though
people do not know IL. the Presidents
wife has kept up her girlish accomplish
ment OF singing the popular songs OF the
day with dash and vim; and her music
teacher brings all the latest things In
that line.
Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt has an accom-
plishment of which she is all too proud.
She boasts OF it, parades It, cultivates II
and never forgets 10 practice II. 1t is
that of playing the mandolin. and In eN-
plotting her proficiency al this kind OF
music. Mrs. Vanderbilt explains that she
should be pardoned for being proud OF
it. The mandolin, she tells you, is
Spanish instrument, and she Of Creole
descent loves It's sound. 1t Is said that
Mrs. Vanderbilt boasts Of being descend
ed from the family OF the loveliest Creole
Of all, from Josephine. Empress or the
French. and that a picture Of Josephine
seated with a mandolin I'm her hand IS
i'm the MUSHROOM Of her house. The
mandolin plays the soft music OF the
South as no other instrument can render
it.
Miss Helen Gould is proficient upon
only one instrument. This Is the harp.
And the wonder IS that Miss Gould. de-
voted as she has been to charities for
several wears mast. could find time TO