The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-03
WITH MUSICIANS
AND MUSICAL PEOPLE.

The seventh annual May concert of
the Music Club will be given at the
l.awton Memorial Thursday night.
With this concert the club will close
fits seventh consecutive season. re-
cord never held by any other musical
organization in Savannah. This record
not only speaks we'll for the manner
in which the club has been managed
since its organization in 1896, but ex
h:bits the unabating interest shown in
it by the members. The regular semi
monthly meetings came to a termina-
ton with the concert on April 16. and
will not be resumed again until the
first Thursday in October.
The May concert this season prom
ises to be the most attractive and in
teresting annual concert ever given by
the club. The very best talent in the
city in every line of music will be
heard and an excellent programme has
been arranged. Mrs. NJ. Ed. Wilson
and Mrs. S. F. Smith recognized as
two of the foremost sopranos of the
city will give the two vocal solos of
the evening, and Mr.. Harry Raskin
will give the violin solo. Mr.. Raskin
has not appeared before the club dur
ing this season, but his performances
during last season won him many adj
mirers and friends. He will play two
movements from Beethoven's famous
"Kreutzer Sonata" number
with which he won great
praise from those who heard
heard him play it last season. Mrs.
Clarence Lilienthal, who has held a
prominent position in the May concert
programme of the club during the last
two seasons, will again appear to an
advantage which will, in all proba bility
surpass any of her former. perform
ances. She viii play the Rubinstein d.
minor concerto, a number famous for
all great concert programmes, and Mrs
S. B. Durham, appearing before the
club for the first time, will play the
orchestral accompaniment on the sec
ond piano. For this number two
Steinway grand pianos will be used,
Mrs. Durham having kindly loaned her
handsome Steinway for the occasion.
Mrs. Laura Mehrtens, recognized
throughout the South as one of the
most accomplished pianists this side OF
New York, will play the piano solo of
the evening, LISTS celebrated Taran-
tella, appearing before the club for the
first time, and also making her first
public appearance in Savannah in many
years. Under the able dictatorship of
Miss Emma E. Coburn, the chorus of
the club, numbering fifty voices, will
sing Memberships celebrated Alta
lie"
This will be the most pretentious
work attempted by the chorus, and I'M
der Miss Coburn's capable and thor
ough training, finished per-
Torrance may wen be ex-
pected. Rehearsals for this have been
in progress for some weeks, and the
two final ones will be held at the Law
ton Memorial on Monday and Wednes-
day evenings. The soloists in this
work will be Mrs. N. II. Finnie, Mrs.
]. ]. Gaudry, Mrs. w. H. Teasdale,
Miss Eleanor Allan, Miss Mary Won
Gundell, Miss Rose Putzel and Miss
Alberta de Four.
AS a fitting close to this portion of
the programme, the orchestra of the
club under Mr.. A c. Meyer will give
the War March of the Priests" from
the same work. Every member of the
orchestra who has played with it this
season will play on Thursday night,
and full rehearsal will be held this
evening. Though Mr.. Meyer and Mr.
Frank Guffrida. who plays the flute in
the orchestra, are at present filling a
summer engagement at Conida S,
through the courtesy of Mr.. Conida
they will be relieved from their en-
gagement next Thursday evening so as
to be with the orchestra. With the
increase in membership of the club this
season, the largest attendance ever
had at an annual concert is expected
on this occasion, each member being
entitled to invite two guests, and 200
extra chairs will be placed in the hall
Everything, therefore, points to the
most successful May concert in the
history of the club.
The concert last Tuesday night bv
the Music Club Orchestra, under the
conductorship of Mr. A. C. Never
shows what possibilities there are in
Savannah for the building I'D of an
orchestra here which will not have its
peer south of New York That such
programme as last Tuesdays could
have been given. and in the manner in
which it was performed, proves at once
that there is all the material here
which would be necessary. When 1t is
considered that those who gave the
programme have been together only
since last October. that they are most
ly amateurs and that they have re-
hearsed but once a week during that
time, the results have been remarka-
BILE. Such results have never before
been attained by local orchestra, and
Mr.. Meyer and those who have worked
with him may feel that they have ac-
complished results of the greatest
credit to themselves and to this COM
munity. In connection with these
good results, the continuous and faith
full work which Mr.. Frank Guffrida,
Mr.. Louis Muller Mr.. Arthur Riley
and Mr.. Richard Tarrant, the profess
SIGNALS in the orchestra, have done
during the past few months, along
with the amateurs, has been of the
greatest assistance in the sue
cess of the orchestra, and
these have by this placed themselves