Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-07
IN MAINE MUSICAL CIRCLES
q Glance At What the Musicians Of
Our Sta:e Are Doing.

Miss Annie W. McLeary Of Farming
! .oh VINO IS pursuing her musical stud
| les at the Conservatory of Music Bos-
! .on' expects to complete the course
this coming June.
An orchestra has been formed in
! Blddeford which is furnishing the mu-
sic at the FOss street church Sunday
evenings. 1t is to be further increased
! IN numbers and will play every Sun
day evening during the winter.
| The trials for the reader of the Bow
! uoih giee club We're held Thursday af-
| ternoon. The judges were Prof. Nit
| chell, Prof. McCrea and Prof. Stills
hey awarded post of reader for the
| club' to Francis Il. Upton, Jr., 'O7, of
! Orange, n J.
| georges Longy, the organizer and
| leader OF the Longy club which will
! pay at the third Ellis concert in Port
iaNa City hall Wednesday evening. is
one of the great musicians of the Ros-
! ION symphony Orchestra. AS an oboe
prayer he has few equals in Europe or
! America
| MISS Myrtle Booker of Brunswick.
| president of the Mozart club of that
| town, is in Dresden, Germany, where
| she Is studying German. Miss Booker
| expects to return in March. In the
| meantime the vice-preident of the club.
MISS Mary e. Ward, is serving as
| president.
y quartet has been organized in Will
lard with the following personnel:
Mrs. Eva Perkins. soprano; Mrs. Elmer
! l.. hho"lcS, contralto; Mr.. Frank C.
/ Smith, tenor; and Mr.. Henry L. Eustis,
bass. Miss Mabel Carr, accompanies
| The quartet will be known as the
| Schuberts.
| Three more instruments have been
added to Sangcrville band, a clarionet,
4 slide trombone and patent cornet
| Although the band has been organized
but a short time, the boys are doing
very efficient work under the leader
! ship of Fred c. Small and we hope to
| hear them in concert before the winter
is gone.
! a concert given by the Vincent club
of Bangor, Monday evening. was q,
pleasing event in musical circles OF
that city. Miss Margaret Geagan
made her first public appearance on
! that evening. He" voice is destined to
become popular in Bangor musical cir
| cies. She is a member of st. Marys
! church choir.
| Emma, Eamcs. the Maine prima
| donna, makes her rc-entry in New
| York opera as "Floria' in Tosco. at the
| Metropolitan. Later she will go on a
| spring concert tour with Emilio de
| GOgorza the baritone, who has so COM
pletely won the hearts of Boston
! musicians. The artists are already
practicing the duets they are to sing on
the forthcoming tour.
Mrs. Teresa Forrest, soprano, will
give a concert in Portland, on the
| evening of the 9th she will be assisted
| BY Dr.. George Clark bass. and the
! Shubert Quartet of Boston, Albert De-
| Votc. pianist and Charles X. North.
Mr. North is one of the most famous
futists in the world. His obligatos for
Madam Melba's singing in connection
with the prima donna's concert COM
pany two or three years ago. arc well
remembered.
| Brunswick lovers Of church music
have greatly enjoyed the violin playing
of Mr. Frank Kendric Bowdoin '09 in
connection with the Sunday service at
the First Parish Congregational church
in that town. during the absence OF
Miss Sue Winchell. 'cellist. who is the
regular soloist of the choir. Miss Win
| chcil has resumed her duties at the
chul CHI. Mrs. s. S. Thompson of Mel
rose Mass. soprano singer OF charm
is singing in this church.
The Stevenson song. Under the
Wide ana Starry Sky" which Kate
: \annah, the Gardiner Me, composer
has set to music. will be dedicated to
GwiIym Miles. Miss Vannah has been
asked by Clifford Wiley to write him
a big martial song, which she will do
a little later Mr. Wiley has fine
voice and a pleasing stage presence,
and is we'll remembered through his
singing at the Portland Music FeSti-
val last fall in connection with the or
. chcStral matinee.
| To celebrate the anniversary oi
Burns birth the oath of January. y
special musical program is being pre-
pared by the committee Of entertain
mcnt A quartet consisting OF MI
T,o1n,s Henderson o1 Wcstbrook. ten
or. Miss Evelyn Stctson OF Brunswick
soprano. Mrs. Maud Tcel McMurray
! SDDr1nD ana al bdNS SiliSIi iiob 49, ''-'
nounccd will add greatly to the attrac-
tivcncss of the program. Miss Mac
Heatrice Gatchell of Auburn Will De
accompanist The concert viii take
place in Auburn Hall.
| Tuesday evening production OF
..'rhe Messiah" was given I'm Portland
The Portland Festival Chorus sang TN,
chcral numbers. The soloists were >
Francis MacNichol of Augusta tenor
and director of the Augusta ana Port
land Festival Chorus; Willard BoWdoi'
bass: Mrs Lou Duncan-Barncy' so
prano: Martha f. 3. Halves. contraito'
THOMAS Henderson of Westbrook. ten
or: Mrs. Grace Harrington Homsted
contralto: Howard, r. Stevens. pass
and Julia +. NOycs, contralto. Inc
production of the oratorIo Is enthusi-
asticaIly spoken OF by the Portland
:, Press.
Nine. Nordica. one of Names favor
ite singers, says that the prettles
. compliment she ever received IN mel
life was paid her by a cowboy after