The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-27
AMERICAN MUSIC IN
k|LOHANA CONCERT
Tvnical Selections From Works
of Our Own Composers
Given Last Night.

| A portion of the best musical talent
! of Honolulu was called into service last
night at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel to
interpret typical American music. If
rbe program was intended to set forth
| America s best in music it failed Of It's
| object for while the musical circle of
the Kilohana Art League which ar
ranged the program, chosed number
of America s foremost composers, the
program was married by a prolonged
similarity. Twentysix numbers were
| rendered, all of them more closely al
| lied in their themes than should have
been.
The program opened and closed with
piano solos by Mrs w. D. Westervelt,
! chosen as the opening number. In the
| face Of well-known compositions by this
musician it is rather surprising that the
selections were picked out as they were.
! Like most of the American composers
he struggles to keep along classical lines
and keep out his own American en-
| thusiasm and the effect was pretty with
out being satisfying. Mrs. Westervelt
only rendered the gavotte movement of
the suite. Her closing number, a
'scherzo (opus 32) of Clara Rogers was
more happily chosen.
| Arthur Foote s music appeared on the
program often, five selections from his
works being given. He has written
along lines popular with the German
romantic school, and his work is con
sistent and his themes good. Mrs. Bruce
| MackalI rendered his "There Sits a
Bird on Every Tree Mrs. stephen
Bobo's fuller voice interpreting his
'Constancy' His selection showing
the most individuality was q m Wear
! ing Awa'.' rendered excellently by
! Arthur Wall.
Mrs Mackall chose as her second
number "When Soul Is Joined to Soul, -
by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. Mrs. Beach
deserved the place given her on the
program as she is acknowledged by the
critics to be in the leading rank of
American composers. Her work is
based on Italian models, while having
considerably more depth than the aver
age Italian music Mr.. Wall rendered
her "Years at the Spring. and Mrs.
Bobo her "After,'' both selections
| them.
Mr.. Give Davies sang selections from
| Arthur Farwell and Gerald Barton.
Mrs. Bobo sang Mrs. Walter Frear s
"Peace,'' selection that compared
| favorablv with all the rest and one
which lost none of its sweetness in the
4 ;ol /
! Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond was the only
one singing compositions of her own,
doing so in the typical manner which
! has made her well known throughout
the country. Her music is good, her
best last night being her last, "Play
| Make Believe.' 1t won her an encore,
she being the only one to whom the
audience awarded this distinction.
! Mr.. Edward Vaughan sang selections
from Chadwick and Margaret Lang,
choosing as his representation from the
former "Dear Love, When in Thine
| Arms, y not by any means the best of
! this excellent composer 5 music. Mar
garet Lang's music, as typified by two
selections from it rendered last night,
is not deserving Of the notice it was
| given. Mr.. Vaughan s singing was
| SpoV- HIS N'''t btihS SllSuilN t4tuNt',
F! but remarkably true to scale.
Mrs. C. 5. Weight sang Foote 5 Eden
Rose which was well received and
Margaret Lang 5 "Spring" which
hardly compared favorablv with its
rivals on this theme.
Mrs. Alexander Lindsay, Jr., received
the welcome which her reputation in
local amateur musical circles deserved
rendering four selections, two of which
were Chadwick $ Her voice is sweet
and true and lacks only power.
Another selection by a local composer
was rendered in George F. Davies
Longing parenthised as song OF
Hawaii Mel. It was sung by Mrs. Mac
kali and has an ambitious theme well
carried out
The accompanies We're Mrs. Give
Davies. Mrs. Henry Bickne1l. Miss Mar
Igaret Clark and Miss Agnes Wickstrum
ttheir respective work at the piano being
IN every way well performed Dr. Carl
| Ramus played cello obligato to Mrs
Bobo' 5 opening number, and also. with
piano, accompanied her on the same in
strument for Mrs Frear 5 "Peace.''