St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-10-07
MUSIC And BUILDING
Woman's Club Hear Address And
Study Plans For New Audi
tOrium Hall At Club House

The music committee had charge
of the October meeting of the st.
Johnsbury Woman's club and pre-
ented a splendid program, which
consisted of talks by Rev. George A.
Martin and violin selections by T.
F. Burroughs. Mr.. Martins first
talk was on Modern Music as the
Expression of Religious Thought"
He said that music is the youngest
of all the fine arts, scarcely 400
years old. With the earlier music
there was no demand for it's express
sing the emotions. The Greeks
probably borrowed from Phoenicia,
the Romans from the Greeks and it
remained for Christianity to release
mans emotional life. He said that
the first music of this kind was writ
ten in the monasteries by priests
and he traced the growth and his
tory of the oratorio, how it started
with a devout man in Florence who
gathered children in the oratory to
sing hymns and religious music and
by gradual development to the mas
terpieces of Handel, Haydn and
Mendelsoshn. The supreme design
and purpose of music is to express
the finest emotions of the soul and
the greatest themes of all are the
themes of religion.
The music of the afternoon was
rendered at this point and consisted
of three violin numbers by t. F.
Burroughs, Menuet, Beethoven; Pol
ish National Dance, Wieniawski;
Fantasie, Burroughs. The fist
number which is always fav-
orite in it's classic style, was pleas
ingly rendered. The second with its
brilliant chord effect, harmonics and
double stopping showed most IA
cile technique. Effective accompa-
niments to these numbers were play
ed by Miss Emily Moore. The third
number of the group was unaccom-
panied and was a most interesting
piece written by Mr.. Burroughs. 1t
abounded in technical feats and was
most successfully employed to dis
play the virtuosity at Mr.. Burroughs
command.
Nothing could have been more
timely just now than a review of
Norman Angell's book ''The Great
Illusion" which Mr.. Martin gave as
the second part of his talk. Mr.. Mar
tin said that Mr.. Angel has been a
student in Europe for the last 15
years and is we'll qualified to write
of conditions there. The author
shows that three of the fundamental
principles of war are not necessarily
true and that in time the nations of
the world will begin to see the alb
surdities of war and war will van
ish as have feudalism and slavery.
Three new members were admitted
to the club at this meeting, Mrs.
George A. Martin, Mrs. Walter H.
Young and Mrs. H. H. Eldridge. The
president stated the rest room COM
mittee reports that plans are we'll
under way for the room which is to
be provided in the Museum for the
use of teachers during the meeting
of Oct. 1917.
The plans for the annex to the
club house were shown after the
business meeting. A committee was
appointed to draft resolutions on the
death of Mrs. Eta B. Moxley. The
social science committee reported
through the presiding officer, Mrs.
Hovey, that plans for district nurse
work are we'll under way and the
work will be begun soon. The pres
ident appealed to all to respond when
the chairman of their committee calls
on them for meeting.