Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-21
THOMAS ORCHESTRA AND GRIN.
NELL CHORUS APPEAR IN
GRAND CONCERT.
NEW YORK soLoIsrs
ADD TO ATTRACTION
Capacity House Hears Concert, and
Welcome to Orchestra is Most En-
Basso, Sings Wotan's Farewell From
Wasnerian Opera.

That all the claims made for the
grand concert by the Theodore Thomas
Orchestra and the Grinnell Oratorio
Society We're upheld, and that the
event was one of the rarest of musical
treats, was the unanimous verdict of
the large audience that heard the con-
cert at the Odeon Monday night.
Seldom is a high class musical event
accorded a capacity house. but such
Was the case in last nights entertain
nent
1t has been six years ago this week
since the Thomas orchestra appeared
here. and the welcome to this superb
musical organization was most enthu-
siastic. If Frederick Stock had been so
disposed the audience would have been
content to have sat cut q night Of or
chestra music. The applause to each
number was extremely generous. but
emily once, after the closing overture,
was the encore responded to.
New York Solcists Please.
Four New York soloists-Miss Flor
ence Hinkle, soprano: Nine Nevada
Van der Veer. contralto; Reed Miller,
tenor: AID Herbert Witherspoon.
hasso. the latter of the New Yorl;
Metropolitan Opera COMMUNICATED
M .o-!oM.- r. the program. and ware
most pleasing. All were in the best Of
voice. and appeared in solo and trio
numbers. The orchestra numbers We're
given under the direction of Mr.. Stock,
who succeeded the late Theodore
Thomas in charge of the organization,
and Prof. George L. Pierce, head of the
School Of Music of Grinnell College,
conducted the numbers in which the
choruses We're sung.
Chorus Well Trained.
Choruses from the old masters. in
Guiding the Gloria and Sanctus from
st. Cecilia Mass" by Gounod, Behold
the Lamb Of God. Worthy is the Lamb.
and Halleiujah. from Handers The
Messiah" and Lift Thine Eyes, He
Watching over Israel and Thanks Be
to God, from Mendelssohn's Elijah"
were given by the oratorio society. The
$50 voices comprising the choral so
ciety showed the effect of an endless
amount of training. and the presenta-
ton reflected not only credit to the
students themselves but to Professor
Pierce, who has had the difficult task
of the training in charge The best
numbers by the chorus were those
from The Messiah" and the girls
chorus, Lift Thine Eyes. from Elijah"
The Orchestra Numbers.
The opening number by the orchestra
was Beethoven's overture "Egmont
This was followed by the musical
tableau. in Spring" by Glazounow. as
a special orchestra number. aside from
Az
choruses comprising the first part.
In opening the second part of the
program the orchestra gave the gem of
the evening. the overture "Sakuntala."
by Goldmark AS an encore to this
number Mr. Stock directed the playing
of the beautiful and popular "Humor-
eque" by Dvorak
Witherspoon in Wagnerian Opera.
The work of the New York soloists
brought forth much applause. and the
artists were com PEELED to return to the
stage several times in acknowledge
ment
Miss Hinkle. Mr. Miller and Mr..
Witherspoon appeared in a finished trio
number in the Gloria singing in the
Latin. The number also afforded a
display of Miss Hinkle's sweet soprano
in a solo. In the Sanctus from the
same mass Mr. Miller gave tenor solo
that was most pleasing. No more ex-
ausite contralto voice has ever been
heard from the Odeon stage than that
of Nine Van der Veer in her o. Rest in
the Lord. from elijah" The rich bass
of Mr. Witherspoon was displayed most
effectively in the closing number of the
program. when he appeared as Wotan
and sang in German Wotan's Farewell
as given in the magic fire scene from
Die Walkure." Mr.. Witherspoon's in
depreciation was intensely dramatic,
and most finished.
The music loving people of Mar
shalltown exhibited by their PATRONAGE
their appreciation of Mr.. Pierce and his
pupils in the Grinnell school in bring
ing the sttra ction of Monday night to
Marshalltown. Yesterday began the
fourth week of the spring tour Of the
orchestra. and is the second appearance
the musical orga niZation has made in
this state. Beginning on the 9th the
orchestra will appear for an entire week
at the North Shore festival at North
western University. Evanston.