The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-16
WOMEN COMPOSERS.
Mrs. Sutro Lectured Yester-
day in Mrs. Appleby's
Parlors-- Mrs. Knapp's
Telegram.

There is only one thing better tina tht
Psalmist's Song in the Night and thai
is a song in Lent. Music hath charms
but when Lent comes those charms are
doubled if not to the savage breast Al
least TO society. This fact was proven
yesterday at the residence of Mrs. j
Charles Appleby, when Mrs. Theodore
Sutro of New York, formerly Miss Flos-
ence Clinton of Jersey City, gave ar
Illustrated lecture on Women Compos-
ers."
Mrs. Sutro is President of the Music
Teachers National Association as well
as the Acknowledged champion of woman
in music and law, and has been successful
in organizing a Federation of Musical
Clubs. 1t was a little sketch of the
ways and means by which this Fedora
ton was formed that Mrs. Sutro gave in
her lecture of yesterday.
Grave novelists and philosophers
said she, "are fond of showing what great
events from little causes spring. The fab
of an apple led to the most sublime dis
covery in science. Rome was saved by
a goose and captured by a hare. 1t il
said hat had Cleopatra's nose been short
err Anthony might have kept the world
and who can tell what may happen
through this gathering having been called
by Mrs. Ready"
Some years ago / was asked to write
an essay on some phase of woman's work
in music, and from this little paper the
National Federation of Music Clubs was
evolved. / shall now ask you to go with
me through all the winding paths which
led to success, and hope the idea of a
composers club be started by those who
have so kindly attended this afternoons
entertainment"
Mrs. Sutro then gave a description of
the trouble she had and the difficulties
ton of Musical Clubs, from the time of
the first session of the Music Teachers
National Convention, held in the Grand
Central Palace, New York, une Is, 1897,
when the ladies requested Mrs. Sutro, as
their leader, to organize the Federation,
and when an after meeting was called
and the first steps toward that taken,
to the present time, when the National
Federation of Music Clubs is a recognized
feature of the musical world. She espe-
ciaily mentioned the persuasion she had
to bring to bear in getting Miss Amy
Fay into the work, and quoted several
very interesting letters both to n from
that lady on the matter.
Then Mrs. Sutro turned her attention
to the various woman composers, each
of whom were illustrated in turn with a
selection from her own composition. rem
dered by Miss Kathrin Hike. formerly
the soprano of ST. Johns Church, now
of ST. Patrick's Cathedral, New York,
who has a very clear voice, with plain
enumeration, of unusual sweetness and
power.
The selections were:-''Open the Gates,''
by Mrs. John Knapp; Sans Toi," by
d'Ardelot; Summer" by Chaminade; I'll
l Were a Bee by Jessie Gaynor, and
Willamette by Eva derAcqua; all witt
encores. There was also a duet" Oh,
That We Two Were Maying,'' by Alice
May Smith, in which Miss Hike vas
assisted by Mr.. Benjamin Old, of this
city.
Another illustration, Soldiers Fare
WE'LL by Johannah Kinkel. was rendered
by the quartette. which Professor M. E.
Schwartz, organist of st. Johns Church,
has been especially training for this oc-
casion, and which certainly did him cred
ence Bliss, Messrs, Benjamin Old and
Sydney Adams. An an encore the quar-
tette gave Sir Knight. Sir Knight, Oh
Whittier Away" by Macirone. All the yo-
cal selections were accompanied by Mrs.
Sutro. Miss Lucille Corbett, a New York
artist of note, who devotes her talent to
bringing out the productions of American
composers, was the afternoons pianist
rendered most charmingly, two pieces
both by Mrs. Clara A.. Korn, "Impromp-
tu' and waldorf Astoria Waltz" In her
execution is touch, feeling, expression
magnetism.
Just before the conclusion of the pro-
gramme a telegram was received from
Mrs. John Knapp, who was m~omentarily
expected to be presented, and whose COM
position, "Open the Gates" had been re-
served till the last in consequence 1t
was in verse and read. after expressing
regret at being unable to be present.
Beyond the shores of science,
Where intellect is crowned,
Lieth that land OF beauty,
Where dwells the power of sound.
ssStern reason cannot enter,
This charmed atmosphere,
The mystery of feeling
Alone is monarch there.
81 would come to thee. Oh, music,
For / never fail to find,
That thou art the great magician,
Of the myriad mood of mind.
The telegram was read by Mrs. Sutro
and concluded the afternoons programme
for the benefit of the Ladies Acorn
Society," of st. Johns Church.
Among those present We're: Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Charles Appleby, Miss Pitcher, Rev.
and Mrs. E. L.. S~toddard, Mrs. q. F. G..
Young, Mrs. George Smith, Mrs. Ed
ward Young, Mrs. Howard Slater, Mrs.
David Warden, Mrs. e. B. Kiersted, Mrs.
S. D. Mackey, Mrs. w. P. Underhill, Mrs.
Elmer Underhill, Mrs. ]. E.. Hulshizer,
Mrs. E. Linn, Mrs. Henry Neise, Mrs. J..
J. Toffey, Mrs. q. W. Bumsted, Miss
Post, Mrs. n. H. Gopsill, Mrs. 8. D..
Mackey, Mrs. o. H. Perry, Mrs. Louis
Apgar, Mrs. Robert Elliott, Mrs. Frank
Gray, Mrs. Willie Newcomb, Mrs. Edwin
Bennett. Mrs. Lee Condict, Mrs George