The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-20
Out & About

dies will hold in Pilgrim Hall, Dec. 5.
Mrs S. H. Thurston presided over
the program which followed.
Miss Florence c. Morse presented the
work which is being done at the Idaho
Industrial Institute. This institution,
which is under the care of DR.. Pad
dock. is situated in Weiser, Idaho, and
works among the Mormon element.
Miss Alice Hobbs sang Come to the
Land of Rest"
It was voted to send barrel to the
Idaho Industrial Institute. The thank
offerings were presented and amounted
to goodly sum.
The Woman's Auxiliary to the Y. M.
c. A. met yesterday afternoon in the
parlor of the Association building.
President Mrs. A. c. Munroe presided.
Devotions were led by Mrs. Charles F.
Rugg. Reports were read and routine
business transacted.
The Auxiliary will hold turkey din
ner Dec. 10 from u to o'clock. Mrs.
Asia Kicker will be in charge Of the
culinary department, Mrs. Elizabeth M.
SibIey of the dining hall, and 1t is eX-
pected that the reception committee of
the Y. M. C. A will take charge of the
decorations.
The board Of directors met yester-
day after the regular meeting and
elected these officers: President, Mrs.
A. C. Munroe; secretary, Mrs. G. f.
Rugg; treasurer, Mrs. Horace Ken
dali. The president then appointed
these chalrmen of committees: Recep-
ton committee, Mrs. John F. Sherman;
religious and missionary work, Mrs. 5.
A. Harlow; rooms committee, Mrs. Z.
w. Hobbs: entertainment committee,
Mrs. F. E. Waring; Bible class suppers,
Mrs Lamson ZEN; pantry Miss Flor
ence Wyman; flower committee, Mrs.
Frank E. Williamson.
Rev. A. S: Garver's art class studied
Giotto and Cimabue yesterday after
noon at a 5 o'clock meeting. Miss Car
RE Hildreth read a paper and Mr.. Gar
yer gave a talk. The next meeting
will be on Dec. 2. Scrapbooks will be
used this year as last. The class
meets in the First Unitarian Church.
Miss Mary Tucker will give a piano
solo by Chopin at the meeting of the
Friday Morning Club today. Mrs. Dor
athy McTaggart Miller will sing two
arias from Samson and Delilah. The
Ol LllC plO5Aehi wa
Karneval Roman by Berlioz, for eight
hands, played by Mrs. Brand, Miss
Starr, Miss Ingraham and Mrs. Simp-
son; and a Saint-Saens arrangement in
the variations of a Beethoven theme,
for two pianos by Miss Morse and Mrs.
Brand.
Applications for admission to the pri-
mary class at the Normal School, Miss
Amy L. Boyden teacher, have been re-
ceived so continuously that 1t has been
found necessary to file all applications
of recent date, and thus establish
waiting list of pupils.
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The program for Arthur ]. Bassett's
piano recital in Memorial Hall on the
evening of Dec. u, is:
Schubert. Impromptu in A fiat major
Op. 142, No. 2. Scarlatti: (a) Pastorale;
(b) Capriccio. aganini-Schumann Ca
price. Tschaikowski: Arie des Fursten,
from Eugene Onegin Chopin: Senate in
p fat minor. Schumann: Nos. l, 2, 9, 4,
Z, from Diehterliebe Richard Strauss:
Traum durch die Dammerung. Sinding:
(a) Els war einmal: (b) Hunbert Eisen-
bewehrte. Tschaikowski: Scherzo.
Brahms: (a) Intermezzo, OPP. 49, No
8; Cb) Capriccio, Op. 76 No. 2. List:
Etude in = fiat major. Wagner
Brassin Feuerzauber.
The program for the second recital,
Jan. 9, will consist entirely Of works
by Edward Mcdowell.
Mr.. Bassett will be assisted BY J.
Melville Horner, baritone.
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There Is considerable romance in the
history Of the career of Pablo Casals,
the young Spanish 'cellist. of the
Emma Nevada company. Casais was
born in 1878, at Vendrell, small vii
lage in Catalonia, where his father
was the orgaEist of the village church.
He showed his love for music at an
early age and developed so rapidly
that at the age of eight years he took
his fathers place at the organ. He
! learned to play the piano, violin and
| clarionet but il was not until 1889
| that he commenced the study of the
violoncello under the direction of Don
! lose Garcia. It was shortly after the
| time that Casals assumed the position
of organist in the village church that
| the incident occurred which afterward
brought him the friendship Of the love
| " Spanish queen and. incidentally, the
| opportunities for making successful
career.
The queen was passing through
Catalonia in the fall of 1856. and while
! in Vendreil attended services in the
village church. A particularly we'll
[ chosen musical program found favor
with the queen. who desired that the
organist be brought before her. that
she might compliment him in person.
I Her sunrise can well be imagined
when a slight little lad in neat but