The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-25
MUSIC CLUBS 7TH YEAR.
Many New Features VIII Be Added
During the Coming Season.

During the Coming. Season.
Preparations for the next season Of
the Savannah Music Club, the seventh
of its existence, are already being
made by the management. With the
close of the last season, the most sue
cessful that the club has enjoyed the
list of members showed a marked in
crease. growing from below 100, at the
commencement, to above 200 at the
close of the season, and the continued
interest among the general public in
it's affairs points to still greater in
crease next year.
Although the next season does not
open until the first Thursday in Octo-
Der, a committee for arranging the
fan programme has already been APP
pointed, of which Mrs. w, P. Bailey is
chairman, and the work for October
and November will be assigned MEM
bers at once. This is done in order to
give ample time to all for prepara-
ton. The two regular monthly meet
lngs of the club are no longer infor-
NAL presentations of musical numbers
as has been the case in the past. With
an audience of two or three hundred
people to appear before, those members
"AC nave OCtA oiSSlSllNu " pldCCS Oll
programmes now prepare themselves
with attentive thoroughness so as to
acquit themselves both to their own
credit and to the pleasure of their lis
teners. The meetings now have more
the effect of a concert than of a mere
meeting, and the performers realize
that more is expected of them than
formerly.
The work for the next season has
hpPIl h nj
will be more elaborate than any the
club has ever before attempted. The
chorus, under the direction of Miss Co
burn, will still be a special feature of
the years work, and will probably be
greatly enlarged. Besides repeating
Rossini's Stabat Mater in December, an
oratorio will be prepared and presented
in February or March. A new feature
will be the string department under
Mr.. Never.
Mr.. Meyer will organize and train
small orchestra from the material in
the club, and will also prepare cham
Der music for the programme. He is
himself an exceptionally fine violinist,
and his connection with and interest
in the affairs of the Music Club will
prove an excellent acquisition. The
club has long been in need of some one
who would take charge of the string
Meyer Will now step in and develop
this important branch of the clubs
work.
Whilst solo work, both vocal and in
strumental, will be much in evidence.
special effort will be made towards
presenting more concerted work aAl-
ready vocal quartettes are being formed
among the members and concerted
works of various forms being prepared
by them; and numbers for two pianos,
which proved so attractive last season
are being prepared by the pianists
Three artists concerts will be Given
next season. Efforts are being made
to secure the famous Kneisel Quartette,
and Holman will also be available. 1t
is undecided whether he will be
brought out again or whether Fannie
Bloomfield Zeisler will be secured for
a recital For the third concert some
one of the eminent vocalists will be
, brought out. There are some who
wish the club to present it's artists
concerts in the Theater on account of
the limited seating capacity of the
Lawton Memorial. There is no pros
pect of this being done, however. as
the Lawton Memorial is the establish
ed and recognized home of the Savan-
nah Music Club, and the management
consider that it fully answers all of
its rpOuiremanfS