El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-10
Won1en's Organizations

The first regular meeting OF the mu-
sic department of the Womans cluD
was held on Wednesday afternoon at
the home of Mrs W. r. Brown on West
Rio Grande street The spacious
rooms of the home were crowded ana
an excellent program OF primitive anu
folk music was given under the olrec-
ton of Miss Florence Comfort Mrs
Parvin Witte the chairman, opened
the meeting and the business OF the
club was discussed for few minutes
Mrs. W. r. BrWon spoke OF the ideals
of the club. She said that 1t was the
idea to make Ell Paso musical and that
the way to accomplish this was TO go
to musicals and in order to cultivate
musical atmosphere among the chill
dren it was necessary for the thinking
women to see that the children heard
good music.
Mrs. A. F. Sievers was elected vice
chairman of the music department OF
the club and Mrs. Roxy Loomis secre-
tary. Mrs A. F. Sievers gave most
interesting and logical talk on print
tive and folk music She spoke OF
music as the youngest art and said
there was not enough research work
done by the majority of musicians
Mrs Sievers said in speaking Of
primitive music that there was no idea
of pitch and that the clapping OF
hands and beating of sticks on shields
gave the idea of resonance while strik-
ing, being most inarticulate, very weak
and very narrow, in intervals of one
half tone Their forms of musical in
struments were rattles and later pipes
and the Tyre
In degard TO the development of the
folk song, il was said that at first
they were heard by men going about
monctonously. The gypsies were
spoken of as being not creative, the
German music as the fartherest away
from the folk song and the Chinese
music as having no scale, of only five
tones, the beauty lying in a single
tone, going from ear to heart and
thence to soul. as the Chinese de-
scribe it
Music" Mrs sievers said. '.is the
purest art of real nature and origin,
the motto Of which should be Ny
kingdom is not OF this world"
Mrs Francis L Moore opened the
musical program with two Cuban
dances, artistically executed on the
piano
Miss Florence Comfort sang beauti-
fully I'm Nino Ciegociso'' and Can
c1on de Maja," Samoan folk songs and
Ny Ain Kind Dearie o." Welsh
song Miss Comfort was accompanied
by her mother, Mrs Scion Comfort on
the piano.
Mrs A. H. GoIdstein then delighted
her hearers with two vocal solos,
When the Nightingale Shall Sing" a
troubadour song and Sally in Our Al
Adams in Peter Pan" beautifully ac-
companied by Mrs J. J. Pearce.
Miss Rena Carr sang "All Through
the Night" in a voice of rich contraIto
tone, and was accompanied by Miss
Anne Hughes.
Miss Comfort then sang four Ger
man songs, "Du, Du LEGS Mir Un
Herzen," .'Fucns du Hast Die Cans"
Morgen Muss Ich Sort" and Mus I
Den Zum Stadtle." accompanied by her
mother Mrs. Scion Comfort
Parvin Witte sang Dearest Maiden"
a Norwegian folk song; ''AhI See the
Old Pear Tree" Russian; The Out 4.
law, Bulgarian. and was artistically
accompanied by A F. Sievers-
The next numbers on the program
were Samoan folk songs, two Scotch
dances and three Hungarian dances,
delightfully."- played by a F. Sievers
Ir. Witte sang The Musician" a
Grecian folk song, and "Soleina'' from
the MOORISH, and Mr. Sievers closed the |
program with two japanese folk
songs.
Miss Florence Comfort read sketches !
OF the selections before they were ex- /
ecuted, which made it more interest |
ing.
At the meeting of the United Daush- |
tiers of the Confederacy on Monday /
afternoon 1t was announced that the /
cnapter was invited to meet during the
eEsulng year with different members
Inc hostesses will be Mesdames c. p.
NeI1y, Guy Hammett J. z. Bowen. Alice
Wooten-
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