Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-14
MAINE MUSICIANS.

| Miss Ethelynde Smith of Cumberland
avenue Portland has taken the position
of soprano in the choir Of the st.
Stevens church.
Miss Carrie White, the we'll known
vocalist of Brewer, has been engaged
as instructor in music in the Veazie
public schools.
A club has been organized in Farm
ington to promote the interest of music
among its members and for mutual i'm
| provemcnt.
RAYMOND Hitchcock has been en-
gagged to sing at the First Methodist
church in Bangor in the absence of
Byron Roberts who is passing the win
ter in Florida.
The Portland Festival chorus is plan
ming on giving THE Messiah at
Christmas time. The solo parts will be
taken by the members of the Erato
auartette-Mrs. Homsted. Miss Halves.
Frederick A. Kennedy, and Howard r.
Stevens There will be both piano and
organ accompaniment, Mrs. Gertrude
Sartwell Davis being at the piano.
Nine Susanna Adams. who delighted
Augusta music lovers with her beauti-
full soprano voice at concert given in
City hall in October 1903, has returned
| to this country and is now filling two
weeks engagement at the Auditorium
| in Chicago in advanced vaudeville.
After leaving Chicago. she will sing
/ in vaudev'le-hoUseS in New York.
Philadelphia and Boston for four weeks.
Then she probably will return 20 Lon
don. where she makes her home. 1t will
De remembered that Nine. Adams APP
peared in Augusta in company with her
husband, Leo Stern. the 'celloist, who
| has since died.
| Miss Charlotte Gum. o Portland
WHO is now in Paris, is to become a
pupil of the famous Jean De Rezke.
Miss Gum. with her sister and brother
| had been in Paris only few days
when the invitation to the Sunday
evening musicale. which always takes
place III Jean De Reckless private
theatre, came. This theatre is connect
| ed with the magnificent home of the
great artist and is always crowded
with nctableS of the world social,
musical and artistic. Before this as
semblaga Miss Gum sang and made n
very delightful impression as was evil
denced by the high words of praise she
received not only from the host but
| from other celebrities. Nothing was
said, however, by De Rezke as to future
lessons nor is this ever done. Later, il
| his interest has been aroused. he him.
self sends word that he will receive the
singer as a pupil and this most priced
opportunity of all young musicians
came to Miss Gum in the following
week, with an hour named for the les
son.
Katherine Kicker. the well-known
Portland contraltO, who has for num-
Der OF years been member of the
quartet at the Central Congregational
church in Boston, will enter the concert
field more extensively this esason than
for some time past. Miss Kicker has
| the distinction of being one of the two
vocalists who received individual di-
plomas awarded by the Bureau of
Music, of which Theodore Thomas was
the musical director at the Worlds
Fair in Chicago, 1898. She was the
youngest performer who took part and
represented The Rossini Club Of Port
land. She mas Il contralto voice of pow
err range and beauty and adds TO that
a charming stage presence and
thorough musicianship. Miss Kicker
studied for some time with Olivieri in
Boston and later in Florence, Italy
with Sig. Vannuccini. and in London
with Albert Randeger She also did
some preparatory study under the late
William Henry bennett and Elizabeth
Reed and William L. Whitney, of Bos-
ton. She has been one of the soloists
on three different occasions at the
Maine Music festivals and at two of
these appearances was a member Of
the quartet the other members of which
We're Nine. Gadski, Efrangcon Davies
and Evans Williams. She has also ap-
peared as soloist with the Boston
Singing club, Peoples Choral union.
BostOn;St. Georges society. Montreal
Choral Art club of Portland and other
organizations including the Handel and
Haydn society of Boston.