The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-06
MUSICAL CONVENTION
NATIONAL IN CHARACTER WILL
 MEET IN MOBILE.
The Occasion Will Draw on the Musi- cnl Talent of the Country and Be Great Social

Mobile. June B.--(special. )--The con.
 vention of Music Teachers to be held
 here next week will bring together
 the largest gathering of musicians.
 amateur and professional. ever held Tn
 the South. Responses have been re-
 ceiyed from all parts of the Union in- dicating that the interest in the con' vention is not confined to the member ship of the two Associations directly concerned, but Is in fact of national ex- tent. Several musicians of high repu- tatlon abroad will also be In attend ance. .. Day sessions of the convention will be held in German Relief hall and the concerts in Mobile Theatre. The boxes occupied by the Clara Schumann Club will be decorated in blue and gold Those of the city music teachers asso- citation, green and gold. Mrs. J. E. Mosely, representative of the Musical Club of Biloxi. Miss. will be the guest of the Clara Schumann Club.
 The chorus will be composed of loo
 selected voices. trained by siegfried
 Brutkiewicz. MT. Brutkiewicz is late of Berlin, but is now of Mobile. He belongs to a thoroughly musical fami- ly. At years of age he cantertizeo and was known as a wonder pianist
 For his own musical education he gives
 credit to Leonhard Emil Bach.
 Mrs. Norman Baugh Krassin, Mo
 bile's most excellent exponent of mu. sical kindergarten system, has beer asked to contribute. q paper and illus trate her system with a class of chil' dren. Mrs. Krassin has been an earn est student of Nina K- Darlington's system of Kindergarten music build ing. and has met with great success ir her work. She Is a women of strone
 personality and charming way wlu children.
 During the convention Mrs. Maude E l Fruit will entertain two very distinl guished visitors; August Geiger ant | Mrs. Jaunita Hanna. Mir. Geiger | l President of the Georgia Teachers As l sociation, and head of the piano mu | sical pedagogy and harmony of Brsn nan College Conservatory. Gainesville | Ga. Mrs, Hanns is .Viee-President o | the Southern Association and ie q mu | violinist of marked ability and l
 scheduled to play several times durlnl | the convention.
 Others who will entertain delegete | are Mrs. Norma Baugh Kfassin, wh' | will have as her guest Miss Caroline B | Bpurgard, director of music in the pub l He schools in Louisville, Ky, and Mrs | J. E. Mosely, representative of . nlp | sic club at Biloxi. Miss. Mrs. J. B ! ORlEIkHah aHhA cAttfthS4+ ~ttS N-N~N~f~N cd organist of New York. F., ". Ries l berg and wife; Mrs Inge Selden, Mr I Burt Richardson and Miss Kathieel | Waller; Miss pearlie Wilson, Miss Ermi | Black of Opelika. Mss Boardfnan Q | Montevalio and Miss Stella Dayie Q l Clayton, Ala; Miss Grace Restor, Mis 1 Fannie March of Montgomery; Mrs R | L. Maupins Mss Kathleen 6hjvsrs Montevalles Mrs. Nlolin, Miss sadt | Bowling, Monlgomerys Mrs. H. | HIrschheld, Miss Belle Benish. Selma
 Mrs. c. J Torrey. Miss Mathilde Bil | bro and Mrs. Eorney Hughes, Gadsden | Mrs Charles Moore, Miss Francis Ed | na Bush, Macon. Miss.
 Mrs. J. D. Torrey of the Windso' I will entertain her brother, John Proc l tor Mills of Montgomery. MT. Mills i | a musician of more than local reputa I tion. His poem, "A Roses Lullaby" at | tracted the attention of PTef. 5trach ausr, who gave it . musical setting. sl The reception rendered the delegate
 of the Alabama and Southern Must
 Teachers Association, will he one Q the most brilliant affairs of the seq
 son. Fully 800 people will be in at
 tendance Prominent society peopl
 have taken great interest AH the af fair. Mrs. c. B. Pareys ie Chairman Q l the Rsfreshment Cornnr4ttees and vii be assisted in serving tbs punch by | heyy of beautiful young society girls.