Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-05-09
A MUSICALE.
Mrs. Frederick klapp Gives
Her 18th Successful
Musical Event.
A State Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company to be
Organized.

VI S0IuL0Ns
Mrs. Frederick Klapp's parlors were
filled Friday evening:by guests and pupils
assembled to participate in one Of the
lady's always pleasant musicales. Dur
ing her work of musical instruction in
the city, Mrs. Klapp has given some
fifteen of these musicale. social events
and the interest and success of the one
last night was fully equal it not exceed
Ing that of any preceding.
There were twelve numbers on the
program which comprised selections by
the best composers. The playing by the
pupils, of all degrees OF advancement.
was very creditable and showed the i'm
press of the teachers method and
enthusiasm in the work Of instruction.
The opening number, duet by Miss
Belle Tilden and Mrs. Klapp, gave the
key to what was to follow, in the way OF
good instrumental music, we'll rendered.
A bright little gem, "The Mill" by Miss
Eta McElroy, played in splendid man.
ner, was the next number. Miss Minnie
Hofacker rendered an Etude in A fiat
by Raft, and Mrs. Willis Smith the slow
music of minuet selection, by Delahaye'
very creditably, the latter playing for
the first time in public. Lulu Klapp
made decided hit with the "Harmoni-
Gus Blacksmith" by Handel. Selections
from we'll known "Songs without Words"
of Mendelssohn, were beautifully rem
dered, as No. 6, by Miss Bessie Wihslow.
One of the best things on the program
was the trio, by three little girls, who
gave Mendelssohn's fine old wedding
march. The performers we're the Misses
Florence Wells, Minnie Hofacker, and
Lulu Klapp. Miss Belle Tilden. one of
the advanced pupils, showed the excel.
lence Of her musical education and abil-
lty, in the rendition of Beethoven's
"Andante and Finale. sonata Op. 2, No.1,"
while the CHEEKY SPINNING Song" by
Litolff, was sweetly given by Miss Lizzie
Bonham.
Miss Florence Wells gave selection
from Mozart, Romance" most excel
lently for SO young pupil Mrs. 8. A.
Wilder, Of the advanced clase, delighted
her hearers with two bright selections.
ITO the Spring" and march, by Grieg.
Her playing as we'll as that Of each per-
former received the promptest of encor.
ing. Mrs. Klapp closed the musical
features of the evening by rendering, in
her unapproachable style, a difficult
number from Wagner's opera OF "Trls-
| tan and Isolde" arranged by Lizst.
| She crowded into the selection, without
the assistance of notes, all her we'll
known fire and force, bringing out the
| music and the theme as only true
musical interpreter can.
Refreshments-cake and ices--fol-
lowed the music, and in tie smoking
] room the gentlemen chatted over cigars.
The evening, most agreeably passed
! added another to the long list which
Mrs. Klapp has provided for friends and
| admirers OF herself and pupils. Among
those present in addition to participants,
| we're:
Professor and Mrs Schmidt, Mr. and
Mrs Wilder, Mr. and Mrs Pearce, Mr. and
| Mrs Wells, Mr. and Mrs Glaspe, Mr. and
| Mrs Shattuck, Mr. and Mrs Winslow,
! Mrs Hofacker, Mrs McElroy, Mr.
| and Mrs Gleseler, Mr. and Mrs Alfred
Steel. Misses Powell, Clark, Klotzbach,
Burke, Scanlln, Wells, Donnelly, Father
Connolly. Messrs. Kellogg, Ellsworth,
| Helm, Ferrier, Thompson, Wells.