The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-27
.EUTERPEAN CLUB
 ANNUAL CONCERT To Be Held in High School
 Auditorium Tonight SOLOISTS ARE WELL KNOWN Miss Bessie Cunningham, Soprano; Miss Nunnally, contraIto; Miss
 Buckshaw, Alto, and Mir.
 Chairsell, Baritone.
SOLOISTS ARE WELL KNOWN

The annual musical entertainment of the Euterpean club of the Birmingham High school will be given tonight at S:S0 o'clock in the High school auditorium. The concert this year is possibly the most elaborate the club has ever undertaken. and while the music is of the most df- fioult class, the chorus has, under the proficient direction of Miss Leta Kits, musical director, made perfect the fine points and promises an excellent enter tainment.
 The programme consists of two parts, and the numbers of each part have been selected from the compositions of masters of music. A selection from Wagner's "Lo- hengrin, several selections by the Boys chorus of the club and two cantatas will be rendered.
 The soloists who will take the leading parts have been carefully selected, their voices being especially adapted to the parts they take. Miss Buckshaw's rich alto Is not unfamiliar to the music lovers of Birmingham, while Miss Nunnally has a charming contralto well known in the musical circles of the city. The name of MT. Arthur Chairsell in connection with the Euterpean club speaks for itself, for his splendid baritone has been heard in former Euterpean concerts. Miss Cum ningham displays her wonderful soprano to great advantage as the principal daughter of the Erl-King. where dramatic force is combined with unusual purity and sweetness of tone. Miss Cunningham has been studying in New Orleans for the past winter with great success, her voice having been compared to Sembrich's. The chorus forms a magnificent background for the solost, bringing out the voices and at the same time showing it's own power and capable training. This training has not only given pleasure and joy to the club members, but has raised ideals of good music that will last through life The chorus consists of about 125 voices. It has been diligently at work for nearly seven months, and has during the course of this training accomplished all that training can give. The voices have been selected from the school and each part of every chorus has had special attention The stage in the High school auditorium has been extended about ten feet in order to make room for the chorus and the soloists.
 Programme.
 The programme consists of eight num- bers as follows:
 PART l.
 Hail Great Hero Hail CLohengrin"- Wagner), chorus.
 Cantata, King Rene's Daughter (Smar) Miss Bessie Cunningham, so- prano; Miss Ida Nunnally contralto; Miss Buckshaw, alto; chorus, Euterpean club
 Boys Chorus.
 Western Beating Song, Olds.
 The Chase Geibel
 The Owl and the Pussy Cat, DeKoven. Aria from Carmen" (BizeD, Miss Bes- sic Cunningham
 PART II.
 Violin solo, Concerto No. 1 Op. 16 (De BerioD, Miss Regina Heinberg.
 Cantata, "Erl-Kings Daughter" (Cade). Miss Bessie Cunningham, soprano; Miss Ida Nunnally, contralto; MT. Arthur Chairsell, baritone; chorus, .Euterpean club
 The cantatas.
 In the cantata, "The Erl-King's Daugh- ters," the characters are Sir Oluf, young knight; his mother and the elfin sisters of the Erl-K King. At eve Sir Oluf stays his steed and rests beneath the aldsrr by the brook, where he is visited by two of the Erl-kings daughters, who induce him to join in their revels. It is the eve of his wedding day. They tempt him with silken robe for his bride and silver armor
 
 with them, they predict his death on the morrow.
 Home he rides to his anxiously wait ing mother with his helmet and shield gone and blood dripping from his spurs. As he draws rein at the door, he drops dead from the saddle.
 A short epilogue points the moral in quaint fashion. It is to the effect that knights who will on horseback ride should not, life Oluf. stay in elfin groves with elfin maidens till morning.
 The story of "King Rene's Daughter is as follows:
 Iolanthe, the daughter fo King Rene, Count of Provence, was betrothed from her infancy to the son of the Count of Vaudemont. When she was a year old she was stricken with blindness. She had been reared in ignorance of her affliction by a strict concealment from her of all knowledge of the blessings of sight. A wandering magician agrees to cure her by the use of an amulet, provided she Is first informed of the existence of the missing sense; but her father refuses per- mission Her betrothed has never seen her, but wandering one day through the valley of Caiicluse, singing his troubadour lays, he beholds her. and Is captivated by her beauty. His songs reveal to her the faculty of which she had been kept in ignorance, and the magician, his con- dition thus having been fulfilled. restores her to sight.
 Monetary End.
 Tickets to the Euterpean entertainment this year are 50 cents each for adults, as usual. but the price for school children has been reduced to 25 cents. They can be procured from every Buterpean mem Der, and a number of the other High school pupils also have tickets for sale. The monetary end of the club this year is the payment for the new piano recently purchased.
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