Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-30
MAINE MUSICIANS.


Park.
Miss Anna G. Wiley for over 1S
years organist at the Park Street
Presbyterian church, has rendered her
resignation to that society.
A ladies' choir has been organized at
the Peoples Methodist Episcopal
church in Portland and rehearsals are
held On Wednesday evenings under the
direction of Miss Olive Gertrude
Flagg.
A musical club has been organized in
Dexter by 81 ladies of that town. The
following officers have been elected:
President, Miss Charlotte Kinney; vice
president, Mrs Irving Call: secretary,
Mrs Clara Grassland; treasurer, Mrs.
Ernest Rlaisdell; librarian, Miss Ethel
Carter
Creatorc, who made tour of Maine
a few years ago, has decided to retire
from the business of leading a brass
band He will, it is understood, make
one more tour of this country, under
the mana cement of Howard Pew, who
has directed the past seven tours Of
the Italian bandmaster.
A number of musical people as
sembled at the home of Mrs. G. r.
Libby in Limestone, recently and form
ed a music club: Beethoven VIII be
the first musician under consideration.
The officers chosen We're: President.
Miss Ethel Nichols; secretary. Miss
Mabel Ward; treasurer, Denis Getchell; ;
executive committee, Miss Florence
| Margisnn, Hattie Boulier, Margaret Ell
gee. The club will meet alternately
at the homes of the members whose
| name; are arranged alphabetically.
Miss Constance Freeman Of Yar-
mouth, whose progress at the New
England Conservatory of Music, Bos-
| ton, has been watched with great in
terest by her many friends, is one of
| the several more advanced students
who take part in a public recital. The
! opportunity to appear at these affairs,
| which are not intended as exhibitions,
| but as exercises in public performing,
is highly rrized among the 260d or
| more pupila of the big music school.
| Miss Frcnans selection for the last
recital was Chopin's Nocturne in f
| sharp jor
| Isabelle Bouton, who has SO many
Maine admirers is the central fig
ure of a home located amid ideal sur
roundings. The singer and her hus-
band have a capacious house in an
orange grove in Florida, situated on
the banks of small lake and covered
with clinging Spanish moss. From their
veranda they can pick oranges from
their trees, while their lake and the
surrounding forest seem like a pri-
vate preserve. Both of them are enthu-'
siastic over hunting and fishing. She
has requested her New York manager
to arrange her concert dates, as far as
practicable, at intervals of ten days
apart, to allow her an opportunity to
run down home" as often as possible
A Maine girl who is winning musical
success in Boston is Miss Annie Woods
McLeary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank f. McLeary of Pennington.
Miss McLeary comes Of a musical fam
lily. her grandmother, Mrs. Georgia
Burnham Woods, having been organist
for many years at the Methodist and
Congregational churches in Farming
ton, also singer of some note, and a
very successful teacher of music. Her
grandfather, John F. Woods, had fine
tenor voice Her mother is also gifted
musical circles in Pennington, and has
written several musical compositions.
Miss McLe;y'y is a graduate of the
Pennington High school. and of the
Pennington Normal class of 1902. At
the former school she was class vale
dictoran and at the Normal school she
composed the class ode, words and
music She was also member of the
T1n Svtn
club. and was piano soloist at the con-
certs of the club in their tour of the
State in 1862. Her musical education
began at an early age under the in
struction of her mother. Later she
studied with Miss Agnes Allen. we'll
known and thorough teacher Of Farm
ington. Her longest period of study
was with Prof Carl Jean Tolman, who
made Pennington better musically for
his four years residence there. Her
progress was marked, and she was Of
ten heard in concerts and in many
social events. She also pursued organ
study with Prof. Tolrnan. and early
played at recital the "Finale in L" =
by Lcmmensi. She next studied the
organ with Frank l.. Rankin<of Port
lanl, and harmony with an English
composer, r. III. Rollison. On her re-
turn to Pennington she taught music
for some little time, having large
class, and during the same period was
organist at the North church In the
spring of 1904 she entered the New
England Conservatory of Music for the
special study of piano and organ Her
teachers We're Nine. Antoinette Szano-
woska, and Wallace Goodrich. During
her studies at the conservatory she ap-
peared as soloist and accompanist sew
eral times at the conservatory with
her piano teacher, George Proctor, with
whom she is now associated as assis-
tant teacher in the conservatory. She
graduated from the conservatory in
the class of 1907, and finished the study
of harmony, counterpoint and ensem-
bic. Miss McLeary has been organist
in an East Boston church, and is now