The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-12
A DELIGHTFUL PROGRAMME.
It Was Rendered by Students Of the
Conservatory Summer School.


The flfty-fourth. recital of the Con-
servatory Of Music given in the Parish
House last evening was the first Of two
closing recitals of the Conservatory
summer school, which has been in ses-
| sion during the past eight weeks.
The recital opened with an ensemble
number played by the Misses Brandt,
Bedford, Doty, Ehrgood, Gates Haas
and Ehrgood. The selection was the
Sailors Dance" by Koelling, played
at four pianos. This composition and
the "Reine de Mai" played by the
same classs later in the evening were
charningly rendered, musically, rhyth-
mcally and technically.
The first soloist was little Annette
Howell, daughter of Professor George
Howell, who played most gracefully
three delightful little pieces by Swift,
Orth and Ducelle. Anna Wahl is an
other talented child who played with
spirit and precision two pieces by
Baumfield and Schneider. Millicent
Moore, who is very studious pupil,
gave the descriptive piece, the Birds
Song, by Schmoll, with excellent effect.
The playing of Charles Stirn, Of
Archibald, a young man not yet out of
HIS leeNS, uFeW loElu iedKly dD-
plause. A rather difficult selection, SAT
the Fountain" by Ducelle, was his
task, but he rendered it smoothly and
with good expression. The excellence
OF his work was the more remarkable
when it was announced that he had
never before played in public.
A selection that required a beautiful
touch and much poetical feeling was
Nt,~ so1,~ to, a,t
major, by Lange, a rather ambitious
number, and these necessary elements
were present to a marked degree in
the playing of Miss Helen Gates,
daughter Of DR.. L. M. Gates. I
Clara Haas is what the Germans
would call "wunder kind" a "won-
der child" and her rendition of the
difficult concerto movement by Mo-
zart captivated the audience. No mat
ter how intricate the passages those
small fingers found their way through
the labyrinth with not the slightest
hesitation or perturbation.
The most difficult concert selections
We're the Mazurka in G. minor, by Saint
Saens, and the Impromptu in c sharp
minor, by Rheinhold, which were played
by Miss Louise Slocum, who has al
tory recitals. Miss Slocum is musical
to her finger tips and her work Is ar
tistic to a marked degree.
Considerable time was given in this
recital to the exhibition of the Fael-
ten Fundamental training which the
Conservatory is using with such pro-
nounced success. Margaret Allen and
Jeanne Nickers, of Dunmore; Mary
Tracy, of Providence, and Raymond
Hodges, of Scranton, gave remark
able exhibition of what can be done in
Il few weeks work under this system.
With them should be mentioned Kath-
crime Dunning, of Green Ridge, and
Ruth Wilson, of Dunmore. The most
advancement in ability to transpose
was shown by Ella May Rex, who, as
the programme stated, could play a
selection in any of the thirty major
audience asked for, including the most
difficult, were correctly given in every
case.
Unison numbers We're played by
Charles Speicher and Robert Swartz,
who did surprisingly good work in an
Etude by Behr; Millicent Moore, Letta
Parry and Elizabeth Weyburn, who
played a Valsette by Brown: and
Helen Gates, Clara Haas and Flora
Kaufhold, who played l. Ruisseau,
Valse Etude, by Wollenhaupt
The closing ensemble numbers by the
advanced class were the March from
"Rienzi," played by request, and the
exquisite Hungarian Dance, by