The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-18
Mrs Charles j. Sharpe President OF Music Study Club
Talks Of the Approaching PadereWski ENGAGEMENT
~ DOLLY DALRYhIPIR

| Aren't you, as a loyal-hearted citizen
of Birmingham. proud of the Music Study
| club?
Do you realize what this magnificent
organization stands for in this town?
/ Composed of the most talented and
publie-spirited women in this great. big
hustlhg city do you know that it spells
Music with a,capital M?
/ All right
] Acknowledging that the Music STUDY
club means all this and much more. now
what do YOU stand for?
Do you stand shoulder to shoulder with
II when il comes to bringing the big
high-priced celebrities here to our door.
and are you giving it your whole hearted
support i'm matters of this kind?
II you are not YOU ought to, and you've
got a mighty good chance to show your
musical patriotism next Friday evening
when the great Paderewsk comes here
for an engagement.
One OF the most renowned artists in the
World-celebrated from one end of the
globe to the other-no greater treat could
possibly be in store for music loving
people than just his appearance here.
! take off my hat to Mrs. Charles J.
Sharp, the clever president of the Music
Study club, and her associates In shoul-
dering the tremendous responsibility of
bringing Paderewski here.
1t will cost. sloughs and sloughs of
money-and yet they are not dismayed.
Why?
Because they believe In you and in
me, and they believe that we want to
near the best music that the country
affords by the biggest artists, and if you
don't show your appreciation by your
presence at these affairs, then the re-
suit is going to be that Birmingham is
gong to be put ON the map as a little
country village, musically speaking. and
the trend of musical matters will ex.
perience very decided slump,
Mrs. Sharp is very remarkable in
r1any ways and in nothing has she
shown Ner fineness and her strength.
and her talent, and her energy moye
than by the excellent management of
the affairs of the Music Study club
during her incumbency as president of
that splendid organization
Always agreeable to work with, al
ways forging ahead and doing her
level best to keep music in Birming-
nam up to the standard of other south
ern cities she never loses an oppor-
tunity to lend her aid and her prestige
to anything that may develop musical
conditions here.
Sne is very enthusiastic over the ap-
preaching engagement of the great
Polish pianist and in speaking of the
occasion she said yesterday:
After the disappointment of not
having Melba fill her engagement here
ii was the determination of the Music
study club to have Paderewslli come. 1t
is true that he has cancelled many of
his dates for various reasons but Bir-
mingham is one of the fortunate cities
to hear this great pianist. He stands
pre- eminent today in the world of mu-
sic as we all know There are younger
artists, just there are those who
are younger in the world of art and
in the world of literature, but it Is
only when men have climbed the dizzy
heights of success and greatness that
they reach that degree of independence
eaualled only by kings and potentates
as Paderewski has done"
81 have heard him twice. Mrs Sharp
continued, and | can honestly say
that pianists may come and pianists
may go, but Paderewsli will remain
forever in my heart the most exquisite
exponent of poetic. dreamy, emotional
pianism that / have ever heard. OF
course in his later years he has be-
come more heroic in his style-perhaps
a bit volcanic so to speak, but his daint
mess, his tone quality and his exquisite