The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-18
OUT AND ABOUT.

The Friday Morning Club will give
its first invitation musicale this season,
at Memorial hall, Y. W. c. A, Monday
evening, at o'clock. Members will be
admitted on presentation of the mem
bership card, which is not transferable,
and each honorary and active member
NAV invite one guest, who must present
the members visiting card at the door.
1t is hoped that ladies will come with
out hats, as it is the desire of the club
that the audience should feel as much
the guests of the club as in former
years, when the musicales nave peen
given in private homes.
The doors viii be closed during the
first number therefore it is desired that
the guests be seated before the enter
tainment begins:
The program follows:
Niels w. Gade adS1f-1S9O)
overture ....... .Naeho Klauge Won Ossian
Miss Bacon, Miss Ingraham.
Peter Ilytch Tschaikowsky lS4o-ISs4):
Song .... 'Nur wer die Sehnsucht Kermit
Mrs. Miller.
Violin obligato, Mrs. WlnsloW
Edouard Grieg qS431:
Piano-(a) Ginsamer wanderer.
(b) Schmetterling.
Trio Psyche
Hear thou what we have to teach thee. "
Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. Mitchell,
Mrs. Ruggles.
vioiin@(a) Erotikon
OBJ Au der Fruhling.
Mrs Ware.
Anton Rubinstein QS2s-lS9D;
Songs-(a) THE earth has rest
(b) ITO thy health drink I, Mary
Mrs. Knowles.
Tschaikowsky:
Piano Concerto 1.-TWO movements)..."Op. %
Miss Morse.
Orchestral accompanmenD.
Mrs. Brand.
Gade: Quartets-
(a) Summer night"
OBJ Approach of spring.
Mrs. Mrs R Harris Mrs. MIS-, R R9isTtt'
The program is made up from the
Scandinavian composers whom the club
has studied during the first half season,
and the Russians. who win be taken up
during the last half. The words of the
songs will be printed in the program.
The overture to "Ossian" when it was
first produced by the young composer,
was considered epoch making. Through
it he at once attained fame. 1t is found
ed upon the poem of Ossian. and in
spired by it's wild northern scenes.
The two Grieg solos, The lonely
wanderer," and THE butterfly" need
no further description than the names,
and the same may be said of the violin
solos, "Erotica" and "Sprlngtime."
Regarding the Tschaikowsky con-
certo, it may be of interest to know
that it was played for the first time on
any stage by Won Bulow, in Boston in
1875, and it was probably the only time
that a world famous work has been
brought out here Mr.. Apthorp says:
None of us will ever forget the i'm
preston made by the first few meas
ures. We had no idea of what Won
Bulow was playing; questions were
showered upon his business agent
tTschaikowsly,' was the reply Who
Tschaikowsky was, few if any then
knew this outlandish name told us
nothing. But before the rehearsal was
over, it had become evident enough
that this new Tschaikowsky was some
body
Mrs. Ernest II. Wood will entertain
the Germania Verein, Dec 20. from q to
6 o'clock, at her home, West and Will
liam streets. This will be the annual
Christmas celebration of the club, and
as usual, tree, Christmas carols, a
Christmas story and all the cheer Kriss
krindel brings YilI be enjoyed.
The German Evening Club will be
entertained by Col e. B. Glasgow.
Wednesday evening, at the Worcester
Club.
One of the questions which interested