Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-07-11
A SPLENDID PROGRAM
Grants Pass People SwOOp Down On
Chautauqua and Please Large
CroWd-TrOubadOurs Pleasing.
(By Henry G. Gilmore. }

hO hiHuis spirit eAnlDlJed Dy the
good citizens of Grants Pass in pa
tronizing the twentieth annual as
sembly OF the Southern Oregon Chau-
tauqua Assembly in our city was full
ly appreciated by Ashlanders as one
more link in the chain of that good
fellowship which should perpetually
exist among the dwellers in our beau
tiful Rogue river country.
Grants Pass people left no stone
unturned that socially and intellectu-
ally could render July 10, 1912. a
red letter day in the 20 years record
of Chautauqua successes. A musical
and literary entertainment partici-
pated in exclusively by the good peo-
pie of Grants Pass was the order of
"Wednesday afternoons attraction at
the assembly hall at 2:3O. and. all
things considered, our visitors from
the capital OF Josephine county did
nobly ~ the bill OF fare offered on
the occasion of their annual visit.
A.osslnl both opened and closed the
concert by overtures that we're cred
ltaDly performed by visiting instru-
mentalists, and the vocal and liter
airy features were also we'll sustained.
/ A ladies' quartet sang Hawley's
| Song OF the Season" and was en-
cored, but it was in the double quar-
tet or mixed voices in Lehnert's
! Nightingale and Rose" that the best
ensemble effects were produced by
the visitors. The parts were well
balanced and the voice production
and phrasing generally such as to
I m q ,rfn
tribution.
The participants were the Misses
Nina Paddock, La Costa Mangum,
GeRevieye Pattilo, Millie Drake. and
Messrs. l.. l.. Herrick, G. B. Cramer.
A. e. Noorhies and Theo. p. Cramer,
with Mrs. l.. l.. Herrick accompanist,
Mrs. w. Walker sang Dudley
Bucks When the Heart is Young"
with an acceptance that secured her
an encore, while, later in the pro-
gram, Miss La Costa Mangum and
Professor MacMurray gave a con-
scientious Interpretation of Balfe
well-known duo, Excelsior" This
composition by no means ranks with
Balfe's best work, and in the face of
so much that is artistically beautiful
and singable, singers have treated it,
as II were, with studied Indifference.
Mendelssohn's Concerto in G
Minor by Miss w. flanagan and a
brilliant number from the pen of st.
Saens, the prolific French writer,
played from memory by Miss B. Quin-
Ian, with Miss Ethel c. Palmer at a
second piano in both instances. were
the two most ambitious numbers on
the program. Both numbers called
for Herculean strength, an unerring
technique and the possession of very
decided interpretative powers, with
out which there can be little or no
music
The Clarinet Quartour" was hard
/ ly musical success, and by reason
of the fact that the presence of three
clarinets in company with a single
other instrument is too much of a
muchness of one sort.
1t remained for Miss Ethel c..
Palmer to champion the good name
of Grants Pass for piano playing. m
Chopin's brilliant "Soherzo" she dis
played both technically and inter
pretively, the highest powers. Miss
Palmer has not only the gift for
drawing fine quality of tone from
the piano, but her brilliancy, correct
phrasing and finished style of eXecu-
tion appeals at once to the listener
appreciative of the best there is In
musical art.
Mrs. Gunnell, professional teach
er of elocution, gave three splendid
recitations to appropriate piano ac-
compartments furnished by Miss
) Palmer. Mrs. Gunnell was vocifer-
ously applauded for her every effort
and certainly contributed her quota
to the artistic success of the Grants
Pass visitation to Ashland.
Byron's Troubadours.
This clever and pleasure giving
company of performers took posses
sion of the boards last evening and
was greeted, perhaps, by the largest
and most enthusiastic audience of
the season. Before the performance
proper, Professor MacMurray with
two of his pupils, Miss La Costa Man
gum (soprano) and Miss G. Pettilo
(contralto), contributed several de-
lightful numbers. Those by Profess
sor MacMurray himself were a cou-
pie of songs. "At Nightfall, 3"
by Metcalf, and "Invictus,' by
Huhn. Professor MacMurray is Wen
known in Ashland as the possessor
of musical and well-trained bari
tone voice, and capable of doing JUS
tice to many departments of vocal
art. His rendition of these two songs
was such as to secure him much ap-
plause, while the singing of both
Miss Mangum and Miss Pattilo evi-
denced the fact that the essentials of
emission of tone, correct breathing,
1 enunciation and pronunciation, and
an intelligent telling of the story,
were points we'll drilled in the pupils
minds.
Regarding the Troubadours them
selves, their performance rast even
ing was of that varied and attractive
character that combines the best
there is in musical literature. The
serenade style of music, colored
somewhat with many of the best fea-
lures of negro minstrelsy would
seem to characterize their perform
ances. Judging from Wednesdays
concerts, visitors to our Chautauqua
will have just cause to appreciate
the coming of Byron's Troubadours
to fill out the many musical and
other attractions offered the public