The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-18

FROM SAIlHpAi ~ % IAN'-N+
This Saturday afternoon, 3 o'clock
Woman's Musical Club Rehearsal-A' u
Monday evening, o'clock Wheeling
oratorio Society Rehearsal-odd Fellows
Hall.
3 "Music is evidently necessity Of our
existence, and the more the taste TOT II
is developed in It's highest FORM, me
good and beautiful
Musical Wheeling was delighted to see
Events, the new addition to local lit
erature, devote Its first page to music
The article, what is Classical Muslc?'
by Mr. l.. c. Clement president of the
Wheeling oratorio Society, should be
read by all, 1t viii be found especially
encouraging to those to whom the word
classical" before music brings a want
to keep -away" feeling, Mr.. Clement is
conversant with everything pertaining
to music, artistic or mechanical, and
anything written by him is instructive
as well as interesting.
The work of the First Presbyterian
church choir last Sunday has been COM
mented on during the week as having
been above even the usual good work,
and Just here is the opportunity to
bring to the minds of the people, and
especially the cholrs OF all churches, the
great responsibility that rests on the
choir as regards elevating the musical
taste. The masses can be reached on
Sunday as they can be at no other time,
on their education the future of music
rests, and the best should prevail. II
Ia a fact not to be disquieted that the
hymnals found In many churches are
conglomerations of anything but good
music. The best composers have writ
ten sacred music, vocal and instrument
tai and high standard should at once
be adopted and maintained. The work
of the choir mentioned Is in the keeping
OF five representative types, and that
the ensemble should be good has never
beeen questioned since its formation.
With the exception of these Sunday
treats in the various churches, musical
Wheeling will not be entertained by To-
cal talent until the first Saturday of oc-
tober, for which day is booked the
Woman's Clubs first matinee of this
season, but the announcement of the
probable coming of the Chicago Marine
band augurs well for the loosening rein
to musical enthusiasm before then, and
anticipation IL at the highest, Aside
from magnificent band work, what may
be looked forward to concerning the
soprano soloist, Miss Slhyl Sammls, who
comes with the organization, may be
CLEANED from many ilattering press no.
tees.
one says: Miss eomm!s Is possessed
Of one of those indescrihable voices that
have no particular characterization, but
Is everything and anything that It's
owner chooses to make It, whether Il be
full rich contralto or soaring, rip
pling soprano 1t rises to the demands
Of every selection, from the sympathetic
to the sublime, never losing that beau
tiful, melOdlous quality that Is the
crowninE feature OF its popularity and
the secret Of its instantaneous success.
Her voice has an easy range OF three
octaves from low to high f. Miss Sam
mis- is a Chicago girl and is the favored
pupil Of the famous Raglan Lime, CO.
student Of Madame Melba.
All things considered, through this en-
gagemeut, Musical Wheeling is to have
treat, but into which entertainment
building ii Is to gather or from which
stage the music Is to be waited, has not
yet been decided, and the want Is felt
for dstinctively planned music hall.
Speaking of music halls, Reginald De
Koven, in an interesting article in this
months Cosmopolitan says At least
seventy-nvc per cent, ] should say, of
all the people who attend dramatic en-
tertainments Of any kind, go to the
music hall. and necessarily 1t follows
that there Is laid the foundation of the
musical education Of the masses, and as
at present Wheeling does not boast of
such school, the opportunity Of doing
the work, and from n better starting
point, is on Sunday in the churches, as
before stated
Again De Koven says: "There Is at
the present time such a vogue for coon
songs and plantation ditties as to lead
one almost to believe that there was
something in DR.. Dvorak's theory that
in negro melodies lies basis for the
foundation Of a national school Of music
in this country"
BY the way, Is It not a sad commen-
tary that Americas greatest song
writer, Stephen Collins Foster the man
who composed "Way Down Upon the
Suwanee River" "Old Black joe" MY
Old Kentucky Home" and scores OF
melodies, all Of them more distinctly
American than the product OF any other
song writer, should In an obscure corner
Of the Allegheny cemetery In Pittsburgh
sleep In n neglected grave?
This also brings to mind the recent
burial Of Amelia Koehler at Mt Vernon.
New York. 1t Is she who is supposed to
have Inspired and to whom Is dedicated
Thomas Moore's famous poem "Thc
Last Rose Of Summer" The story goes
that when young girl Of thirteen, sit
ting in the garden one day with the
poet, she plucked rose. and. placing II
on the lapel of his waistcoat exclaimed.
Nov have given you the last rose OF
summer"
That "thc last rose Of summer" or in
other words, the last day OF vacation
for the musical student. has been, Is
already In evidence, for the studio fires
are aglow. ID,
A Cure for BlIiona collie.
RESOURCE, scrcvens Co. on
have been subject to attacks OF billoua
collie for several years. ChambcrnIn's
Collie, Cholera and Dlarrhocn Remedy
In the only sure relief II acts like n
charm, ono dose Of It gives relief when
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