El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-07
FL PASO'S TASTE FOR THE BEST IN MUSIC IS
BEING DEVELOPED BY THE WOdlANS CLUB
UDNLoDAL aLleI IOO- y q
music program day Of Il
music department Of the Won

~ EDNESDAY afternoon is the
w music program day Of the
music department Of the Wom-
ans club, and for the women who are
inclined to the serious things. this viii
be the chief event Of the weeks cal
endar.
For the frivolous, the coming week
seems to be a time when they will
begin planning for their Easter ward
robes, and resting up a bit as there
are few big society functions In view
The week viii see a number of lodge
and small social club meetings. The
Sunshine helpers viii meet Tuesday
with Miss Cathern Cox to work for the
DAY nursery. The university scholar
ship club will have a meeting some
time during the week to perfect a
permanent organization for the ad-
vancement Of the scholarship work the
younger set viii begin the week with
dance, given at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
q lanes A DICK, which was postponed
from last week, and there will be
number Of very informal affairs.
In the c9ltlVatlon and development
Of an appreciation of good music in
III PasO the effort. thought, study and
energy of the music department of the
Woman's club of FL Paso has played
a very big part FL PasO being so dis
Iant from the art centers of this coun-
try, has not developed In the art lines
at the same rate that it has grown
from a little border cluster of adobe
nuts to metropolitan city, that is un-
riyaled in the southwest. That il has
not developed as rapidly in things per-
tanning to the arts by no means implies
that 1t has not grown. And the growth
or whatever interest in good music
whatever knowledge of good music.
and the appreciation of good music,
u D.
club
The very conditions which have
given III PasO its commercial suprem-
acy, Its border situation, as the hub Of
the southwest, its isolation as the only
big city between san Antonio and Los
Angeles making FL PasO the market
pace, the trading center for this vast
territory, have been q handicap from
the arr development view point East
Texas cities have weeks of grand
opera El PasO has none The re-
SourceIulness Of the FL Pasoans have
been shown in creating for themselves
IN the music department of the WOm-
keep the musical interest. the musical
atmosphere that means so much TO
music lovers.
AS in other things a taste for the
better kind of music has to be Guilt
waited, and this the music department Of
the Woman's club has proceeded TO do.
Several years ago the club took UP the
study of grand operas. AT each of the
music department meetings some noted
opera was the topic, selections, vocal, /
plano, violin or concert, were given I
from the principal themes of the opera. [
The synopsis of the Hbretto was read, I
the life Of the composer was studied, /
and in that way the 500 club women !
of the city became familiar with the \
best opera music. Last year the study ]
of primitive music and its develop !
ment was taken up, beginning with the !
compositions Of the 18th century and 4
carried through to the present time
The entire years program of the !
music department OF the Woman's (
club this year is being devoted to 3