The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-12-27
STUDIO RECITAL BY MISS POR.
TER'S PUPILS

recital at ten o'clock Saturday morn
| ing at Miss Marguerite Porter's stu
dio on Fort King avenue, given by her
piano and voice pupils.
About fifty were invited to the re-
cital, nearly all of whom responded
with their presence. They were seat
ed in the music room and the hall,
both of which were very festive in
their attractive Christmas array. Hol-
ly wreaths, Christmas bells and holly
sprays and red candles were used IN
every nook and corner. This was the
first recital ever given by Miss POr-
ter's pupils, and she certainly has ev-
cry reason to feel very proud of their
work, as both the children and the
older pupils did exceedingly well.
The program that had been arranged
was a most attractive one. The little
folders were printed in red and adorn-
ed with red ribbons, and were distrib-
uted among the guests by Master
James Porter Collier.
The first part of the program was
devoted entirely to the piano num-
bers by her pupils, mostly the young
er ones, each of whom did splendidly.
In this part was one sweet little
Christmas song by five little girls of
her junior class.
The first part of the program was
as follows:
Kindergarten March-Mlss Louise
Booze.
Christmas Song-Juniors.
Christmas Time-Orrie Williams.
Miss Porter
Baby's Lullaby-Estelle Howell, Sa-
rah Rentz.
Fairy Waltz-Gladys Geiger, Miss
Porter
Chndren's Christine Close,
Miss Porter.
4 Merry Time-FIora Bell Polly
Miss Porter, Ellen Stripping.
Military March-Misses Louise
Booze, Matte Williams.
Waltz-Mrs Goddard, Mabel Aiken.
The second part of Miss Porter's
program was a Nevin corner. In be-
ginning part second of the program
Miss Porter read a beautiful appre-
citation of this delightful American
composer. She read most pleasingly
as follows:
1T is refreshing to write of the life
and achievements of an American
composer who while his published
writings are along the smaller lines
of composition, has woa an enviable
place as a fervent worker in dia
monds. None of his gems are paste
and few have a perfection of solid
ity and fire that fit them for place
in the coronet one might fancy made
up of the richest of the jewels of the
worlds music-makers, and fashioned
for the very brows of the muse her
self. Ethelbert Nevin was born IN
1862 at Vineacre, few miles from
Pittsburg. There he spent the first
sixteen years of his life receiving his
schooling from his father and moth
err, whom the first Grand piano ever
taken across the Allegheny noun
tains was for. His later instruction
was gotten in Dresden, Berlin, Paris
and Florence, where his famous suite,
"Mayne Tuscany" was written. From
Florence Nevin went to Venice, where
he lived opposite the Browning Plaz-
"a, near the house where Wagner
wrote "Tristen and l Solde" One
day his man took a day off AMI
brought to Venice an Italian sweet
heart, who had lived a few miles
from the old dream-city, but had new
er visited it. The day these two spent
gondoliering through the waterways
where romance hides in every nook,
is imaginatively narrated in Nevin's
suite "Un Giorno in Venezra" The
from sweet harmonies in thirds and
sixths and it's frankly lyric nature.
The day in Venice begins logically
with the dawn. Then comes The
Gondoliers" having a morning round
of gaiety. There is a song of love.
and then the suite ends deliciously
with a night scene in Venice, begin
ming with a choral ave Maria" and
ending with a campanella of the ut
most delicacy. A bundle of water
scenes brought Neyin the greatest
popularity of all, thanks largely to
'Narcissus," which had found place
in very nearly every heart Other
less popular numbers of the suite are
Dragon Fly" "Ophelia,' and a Bar
carrolle of Nevin's. with many songs.
The httleness is only in their length,
and while melodious enough to justi-
fly them as lyrics, yet are near enough