The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-14
RECEPTION TO GUESTS
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Town Improvement Present, Musical
Program With Woman. Club and
SOrOsiS as Guests.

Program With Woman. Club and
SOrOsiS as Guests.
The Town improvement society held
its regular meeting on Friday after
noon, Dec in the Congregational
vestry and received as its guests at
this time the members OF the Womans
club and Sorosis. The hostesses were
Miss Gertrude s. Weston. Mrs. Ella
T. Mooers, Mrs. Clara Emery, Mrs
Nina Hill, and these. with all other
members of the society as well. en-
deavored to make the welcome extend
ed a cordial one. and the social en-
joyment a prominent feature OF the
afternoon.
The topic assigned for consideration
was music more particularly as eX-
pressed in grand opera, and the sub
ject was very fttingly introduced by
the president Mrs Elizabeth Merrill.
Mrs. Merrill said in part.
Material prosperity leads to a re
birth of all the arts. Long ago Am
erica had a continent to conquer by
sword and commerce, today art and
culture have come into their own and
hold an ever increasing place in our
civilization.
Music is the most individual of all
the arts, also the most nervous, there
fore music is the art to which all
American people respond most readily.
Our public may not possess the Ger
mans scholarly appreciation OF music
but our standards in opera are h:eher
than those OF Europe. A knowledge
of Grand opera is an essential part ot
our education; il is as important as
knowledge of the classics. or best
books of the day. If one cannot a.
tend grand opera they can aeQuaiut
themselves with the plot, music and
ideas it seeks to convey. America is
producing some of tho finest voices in
the world, and the coming genera
ton will lead all races in the realm
of music. Grand opera appeals to tie
whole being. eye, ear heart, brain
The great pictures Of different lands
and climes appeal to the eye; the
magnificent orchestra and voices 10
the ear; the plots of love, romano e
and adventure to the heart, the
libretto and intellectual music 70 the
brain.
If grand opera is all of this it is
our task to learn all We can about ii.
thus eniarging our field of vision, and
broadening our conception OF life"
Following is the program:
PART
Grand GNllop Chromatique ......#.... Ltsst
Mrs Ames, Miss Lewis
The Flower Song ...... ..............-.. Faust
Miss Fancher Sawyer
Paper--Music and Its Relations to Life -
Mrs. Mabel Judkins
Violin Solo-Cavalleria Rusticana .#.
Mir. Abbott Kendall
II Was Not So To BE ....
Prom Trungpcter of Sakkiaoe,
MI Carroll Goodwin
NeneziR Gondollna Liss
Mrs. Dora Nye
PART II
aAh. SO Fair =.....#.... Marh,
bPrsyer ......-....##.#...##.... Frcischut
Mrs sawyer. Mrs steward
Love mong the Ruins Brorntn,
Miss Hazel Lcavitt
Meditation THAI.
Mr.. Abbott Kendall
The star .Taaahauscr
Mr.. Charles Turner
The Garden OF Youth Morrison
Mrs. Elizabeth Nerrin
Ny Heart At Thy Sweet Voice
.Sams9, d Deilah
Mrs. Amelia Gould
MurmuTing /ephyrS =..... Jtnsen
Miss Mary Emery
AS TO the carrying out of this pro
gram to particularzc with words of
praise would be superfluous: every
artist was az their best. entering
heartily into the spirit of their part
and the occasion and afforded their
hearers the highest degree OF pleas
ure. While encores We're not per.
mitted, the large audience greeted
each participant With an ovation and
with most generous applause ex-
pressed their appreciation at the c!osc
of each number.
Ice cream and cake that BY their
quality took no inferior rank as a
feature of the afternoon, were scrfel
with daintiness and dispatch at the
close of the program by committee
comprising Mrs. Ellen c. Smith, Mrs.
Emma Simpson, Mrs. Carrie MePher-
son, Mrs. Matte Fairgrieves.
The Christmas meeting of the So
ciety will be held on Friday afternoon
Dec. Sth in the Library parlors a the
usual hour,