The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-25
STATE MUSIC TEACHERS
PREPARATIONS AT COLUMBUS FOR
THEIR ENTERTAINMENT.
Programme of Exercises Normal
hoo Da~ccalaureate Sermon
Delivered by DIR. Kane.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

SIcCiai " ~ 4i1idiLdpOiAS JOuildi.
COLUMBUS, Ind, June 24.-The annual
convention of the Indiana Music Teachers
Association will be held in this city. com
mencing Tuesday and continuing through
Friday. An elaborate programme has been
arranged. and everything promises a we'll
attended and successful meeting. From
present indications the attendance of music
teachers. critics and others interested in
the art will be larger than at any previous
convention. The local management, as
sisted by almost every music lover in the
city, is perfecting arrangements to the end
that the meeting will long be remembered.
A huge banner across Washington street
announces that the ST. Denis Hotel Is the
headquarters of the association during the
convention.
The first recital will be given Tuesday
afternoon by Richard Byron Overstreet.
basso. of New York, formerly of Indianap-
oils, and Charles F. Hansen, organist. Fol-
lowing this the regular business session
will be held and an address by President
j. s. Bergen. of Lafayette, delivered. Mr..
Oliver Willard Pierce will give a piano
recital. commencing at A o'clock. and will
render compositions of Moszkowski,
Tschaikowsky. Remsky-K orsakow, Sind
ing, Gre1g and NOgrecn. AT the evening
session on Tuesday Mayor Caldwell will
deliver the address of welcome, and q re-
ception concert by Columbus musicians will
be given.
Miss Shirley Schumacer. of Indianapolis,
will give an organ recital Wednesday
morning. assisted by Rudolph Roster, vio-
linist. also of indianapolis. During this
session the following papers will be read:
of Richmond: Music in the intermediate
Grades" by Laura Jennings, of Green
field. and How can Pupils be Taught so
that They can Learn to Love Music" by
| Nellie Beach. of Princeton. At IL o'clock
a paper on Voice." by Edward Nell, of
indianapolis, will be given, and illustrated
by Frank N. Taylor. a pupil of Mr.. Nell.
The afternoon recital will be given by the
| indianapolis Philharmonic String Quartet.
Music and Music Critics" will be the sub
ject of a paper delivered at $3.50 O'Clock by
Grace Alexander, of Indianapolis, and the
recital at 4 o'clock will be given by Mrs.
Henrietta Kitchell Brakeman, piano. and
Mrs. Ida Gray Scott, soprano, both of In
dianapolis. The evening concert Will be
given by the indianapolis philharmonic
Club (male chOrus), assisted by Clarence
| veeder Nixon, pianist. and Miss Georgia
| Calvin, soprano, all of Indianapolis
w. II. Donley will open the programme
with an organ recital Thursday morning,
| after which w. s.. Sterling. of Cincinnati,
will read a paper on Cultivation of Chill
dren's Voices" At 10 o'clock the instru-
mental section will be in charge of Mrs.
/ It iOId VI. I1uIttIs Will a kcltid uictuSCiOi
on 1.-THE Commercial View of Piano-forte
Teaching" led by Mrs. Max Leckner, and
a paper on Some Hints on Teaching Chill
dren." by Professor Shuttle and Some
Points on Organ Registration" by Charles
f. Hansen. The vocal section will have M.
q. Tinker for its chairman. Mrs. James M
Fowler, of Lafayette, will read a paper on
MY Ideal Matinee Musicale and Its Man.
agement.' and Miss Agnes Morton. of Mad
| ison, will read of THE Value of Ear-train-
ing to Young Pupils" A general lecture at
in Current Music Study will be given by
w. s. b. Matthews, editor of the magazine
Music, of Chicago. The afternoon recital
will be given by the Herbert Butler Trio,
of Chicago. and at 3 o'clock there will be a
lecture on vital Tone and How to Obtain
It." by DIR. John Dennis Mehan, P~ittsburg.
and at 4 o'clock there will be a recital by
the Matinee Musicale, of Lafayette. in
which Miss Morrison, pianist, and Miss
Elizabeth Millspaugh, soprano. will take
part. The evening recital will be given by
William II. Sherwood. of Chicago. and VIII
be followed by a banquet.
Friday morning reports will be submitted.
At 10 o'clock Mr.. Arthur w. Mason, Column
bus. will be chairman of the instrumental
section for a. general discussion or the
Recent Developments in Piano Techni-
que" and Mr.. NJ. u. Tinker. head OF the
vocal section. will have a paper on Ear
Training" by j. E. Mack, of Evansville,
and High School MuSic-What Should IL
Be?' by j. j. Bergen, of Lafayette. The
IL o'clock recital will be given by Miss
Elsie Haggard, of Laporte, pianists, and
Miss Jessie Bowman, of Louisville, So
prano. In the afternoon Mr.. Arnold ]. Cant
WORT. of Cincinnati. will give a lecture on
Progress of Music Developments in In
diana" This Will be followed by a re-
cital by the Matinee Musicale of Indian
apolis. in which Mrs. Annetta Van Dyke
Loughmiller, organist: Mrs. Alice Flem-
ing Evans. contralto; Mrs. Winifred Hun
ter Mooney, pianist; Mrs. Lottie Adam
Raschig, Soprano; Mrs. Bertha G. Swain
soprano: Miss Benaldine Smith. violinisti
Miss Theresina Wagner. pianiste. and Mrs
S. L. Kiser, a~ccomDanist, will take part
The closing recital Friday evening will be
given by Mr.. Jaroslaw de Zielinski. OF
Buffalo, pianist. and Mrs. M. Hissem dc
Moss, of New York. vocalist.
The programme is one of the best ever
provided for the association. and was ar
ranged by the programme committee
| Hugh McGibeny, chairman, Mrs. Lottie
Adam Raschig. both of Indianapolis. and
Mrs. Carrie B. Adams, of Terre Haute.
Special rates have been secured on all the
railroads and ample hotel accommodation
are assured.