The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-13
AFTERNOON MUSIC CLUB
Season Closed Last Evening
With a Delightful Con-
cert in Bergen School.

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There was an excellent audience at the
closing concert of the Monday Afternoon
Music Club, held in Bergen School for
Girls last evening. Everything about the
hall looked bright and pretty, from the
palms and ferns with which the room
was decorated to the young ladies, Misses
Helen Tanner, Elizabeth Scott, Flora
Eloise Clarke, Retta Smith and Mrs. j.
Bradley Tanner. who acted as ushers.
The programme was we'll chosen. It
was a pretty little leafet on parchment.
most neatly and artistically arranged,
with the club monogram or crest in
geniously formed, of a violin, mandolin,
flute, cornet, time mark and bar, into
M. A. M. c., Monday Afternoon Music
Club.
But the cream of the programme was in
side and consisted of eleven carefully Sc
lected numbers. The first was a quar-
tett, 'tSIavonic Dances" Ovorak), by
Miss Retta Smith, Miss Paddock, Mrs.
Frank Cavalli and Mrs. Slocum, all of
whom are too well known as piano ar
fists to admit of any criticism, save that
here, as throughout the entire pro-
gramme, the time was simply exquisite.
IN Z Al q NCSNi 1900
E La Notte,, L.. Gordigiani, was. a most
difficult selection, though to the uncul-
tivated ear this fact was not apparent,
with such ease and perfect ntonation did
Misses Flora Eloise Clark. Lucy Nelson
and Josephine Munson blend their voices
in the execution.
A piano solo, Scherzo from Suite"
Bargeil, was rendered by Mra Henry
Blauvelt with the same grace and ease
which characterized the first players, and
when Mr.. Wallace Canon sang Where
the Lindens Bloom by Buck, the audi
ence simply became enthusiastic. Mr..
Canon has a fine tenor voice about which
there is a magnetic charm.
The trio, "Minuette,D Schubert, by Mrs.
Frank Hall, violin; Miss Adelaide Scud-
der, cello, n Mrs. John Headden, third,
piano. was, it is needless to say, excep-
tionally rendered, as Mrs. Hall ranks
among the best violinists IN the city, and
Mrs. Headden as an a~ccompanist has a
reputation not to be beaten. Miss Scud-
der, with the cello, is perhaps not quite
as well known. but the Music Club may
well be proud of her.
Miss Simpsons execution of .Frei-
ScIulL, NGDCly WCo III q PoA - 49,
former selections, and the piano duo,
Senate, OPP. SO, Mozart, by Miss Alice
Francis and Mrs. Blauvelt, simply went
to prove how well the club has studied
the old master, while during Mr.. Cam
on's second solo, when he ~bracketed (a)
sDu Dist vie cine Blume,'' Wilson Smith.
and (b) ST love, and all the world Is
mine" Clayton-Johns, the audience fair
ly held its breath.
The piano solo, "Aus dem Carneval,"
Greig. by Mrs. Frederick Bennitt, was ex-
eaated with the ease, grace and TECH
nique for which Mrs. Bennitt is noted. &
Miss Lucy Nelson, renowned through
out the city for the peculiar sweet, mag
netic power of her voice and perfect in
tonation, bracketed (a) "Murmuring
Zephyrs," Jensen, and (b) open Secret"
Woodman, and again the audience could
scarcely contain itself.
The Choral Chorus, which is a new fea-
ture in the club, gave but one selection,
and this came last. 1t was Mendelssohn's
81 Waited for the Lord, n showed in
its execution the careful training of its
leader, Miss Lucy Nelson, even though
She had selected voices to work with.
This chorus was composed of the entire
club. comprising among it's members Mrs.
Frank Cavalli, Mrs. ]. B. Tanner, Mrs.
Charles Hartshorne, Miss Lucy Nelson,
Miss X. Pope, Miss c. Scott, Miss G. l..
Waldron, Mrs. Fl. E. Niese, Miss Alice
Francis, Miss Retta Smith, Miss Falkin-
burgh, Miss S. S. Paddock, Mrs. Henry
Blauvelt, Miss Forster, Miss Simpson,
Miss j. A. Munson, Miss Helen j. Tan
ner, Mrs. B. C. Slocum. Miss Lulu Man
ton, Mrs. Frank Hall, Miss M. Mcbride,
Mrs. F. H. Bennitt, Miss Adelaide Scud-
der. Miss Jessie Smith, Miss Mabe
Barnes, Mrs. John Headden. third; Miss
Clark, Mrs. Sydney Adams, Miss 3. Phil
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