The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-16
PEOPLES CHORAL UNION.
NEW MUSICAL ORGANIZATION TO
 RE FORMED IN NEW HAVEN
To Reach All Classes-Special Efforts
 WtI be Made to Secure People Who
 Are Employed in shops and stores

WiIl be Made to Secure People Who
 Are Employed in shops and stores-
 Plans WiiI Soon be Pc, fected.
 A new choral society is being organ" ized in New Haven by number Of la dies which will be known as the Peo- ple's Choral Union of New Haven. The first meeting of those interested in the society's formation has been held un- der most encouraging and promising auspices, and another meeting VIII soon be held. The new society will be mod eled after the famous societies of Dr. Damrosch in New York and Brooklyn, which have 2,50o and 5000 members, re- spectively.
 The idea of starting a similar society originated with Mrs. Porter wife of Professor Frank c. Porter, of Yale, and she has well begun the movement. The society will be of cooperative character, to aid all, male or female, who are in terested in music to get musical edu- cation. The society will be self-govern- ing and self-sustaining, the same as those of Dr. Damrosch. It will be en- tirely unsectarian and will have no con- nection with any charitable or religious association. The services of all the members, directors, conductor and off, cers will be given free of charge. The society's object Is to give those employ ed in shops and stores an opportunity to learn sight reading in music and to render in grand concerts the choral works of the great masters. William Haesche has very kindly consented to off1ctate as conductor of the society, and will take charge of all the classes.
 Announcement regarding the hall for the meeting place and the time for the classes to meet will soon be made. The meetings of the classes will be held on Sundays and the dues of membership will be very small, probably only ten cents year-a fee so small that none can feel debarred from proflting by the privilege the society will afford for ob- taining a knowledge of music and for voice cultivation.
 The value of such an opportunity as this society aims to afford will be read fly seen, as all, whether male or female, can have a chance to develop any mu- SlCIl or VOCAL LGleHl they pOoseSS. IhC idea, as already implied, is to gather up all the material in the city, not limiting the membership to any exclusive sphere, but taking in every section of the city wherever people with musical attain ments can be found. The proposed choral union will make special aim to get the women employed as operatives in factories and those who are employ ed in stores.
 The society is to attempt to accom- plish what has been done in the large manufacturing cities of England, as well as in New York and Brooklyn where large choral unions of unusual efficiency have been organized from the ranks of the working classes. The or ganizers of the union here believe that there is Just such material in the fac tories and stores of New Haven as In Manchester, England, where there is one large choral union composed of such a class. It Is intended that the proposed choral union shall be, as its name implies, a distinctly peoples chor- al union for all the people.