The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-08
COMMUNITY MUSIC
| PROGRAM ENJOYED.
First Of Series is Given Friday Night
Before Large Audience at
The Grand
Theatre.
MISS FIELDS TRIUMPH
Local Dancers Interpretation is Won
derfuI-Prof. P. C. Hay
den Planning Other
Programs.
MISS FIELDS TRIUMPH

Programs.
Friday night the high school or
chestra and the Girls Glee club, as
sisted by group of girls from Wash
ington school and Miss Ada Fiel0I
gave the first of series OF entertain-
ments which ars being arranged by
Supervisor P. G. Hayden as part or
a movement TO promote greater
use of community music.
This first concert was given in the
opera house and 4ss persons paid adj
mission at the door This shows
most conclalsiyely that the idea or
music by members of our school com
munity for the benefit Of our com
munity in general touchs popular
interest, and that the series being
planned by Mr.. Hayden will meet
with the approval and enthusiastic
support of Keokuk citizens.
To a great many the wonderful
dancing of Miss Ada Field was the
feature of the evening. Her oriental
folk dance was wonderfully sugges-
tive, interpreting the weird and bizarre
character of the oriental imagination.
BY her performance last night she
gave abundant evidence that she is
much more than dancer. She is an
interpreter of phase of mystic life
which can scarcely be comprehended
by the commonplace western mind.
She was recalled after each appear
ance.
A discriminating spectator said he
had never seen dance that seemed
to interpret mood or epoch SO
yividly as that.
The fifteen girls from Washington
school made beautiful picture on
the stage and went through their
Spanish folk dances with the greatest
precision and met with warm re-
ception.
The Girls Glee club, thirty mem
beers, sang three beautiful selections,
each in three parts, with piano ae-
compartment. The parts were most
evenly balanced and each part could
be easily followed. The tone quality
of the girls was especially pleasing.
Splendid Orchestra Work.
The orchestra played three stand
ard selections, brilliant and spiritsti
march by Gounod, version of four
Spanish dances by Langley, and March
Militaire by Schubert These young
players did splendid work and in
many respects showed the results o.
the hard practice which they have
been doing. Such training in orches-
ira practice not only makes possible
the performance of such numbers as
they gave last night, but adds to the
assets of the community for years to
coms. A community that is really
musical presents an atmosphere Of
refinement and culture, which is most
attractive to families seeking a home,
and this orchestra work is becoming
large elemmt in enlarging the
musical attachments of this commun-
ity.
1t is to be hoped that an increas-
ing number of young people will take
up the musical instruments and join
the orchestra and that eventually al
symphony orchestra comprising all
the orchestral Instruments will be
found in the high school,
Three more numbers are contem-
plated in this community music series
and it is expected that two of them
will include the folk dancing. In the
next one the singing parts will be
taken by the Boys GNee club ana
later a senm-chorus composed of boys
and girls glee clubs combined win
| furnish the singing feature, accom7
panied by the orchestra.
The Rose Maiden by Cowen is also
in rehearsal by the high school,
chorus Of nearly 200 voices and a,
chorus selected from this number
will present this beautiful cantata.
with orchestra accompaniment at the
opera house some time during March.
MIR. Hayden has organized an oiRuies-
ira for this performance and is al
ready practicing. 1t will be recalled
that two notable works have been
given with orchestra accompaniment,
King Rene's Daughter by Smart ana
the May Queen by Bennett.
Organize Big Chorus.
In order to have the grade schools
take their proper part in this CONF
munity music, general chorus Is
being organized in each of the grade
schools.
Mr.. Hayden estimates that the 9th,
9th and 7th grades in Washington
school will comprise a chorus OF 100,
/ the Grammar school, 100; Carey
school, 175; florence school, 12o;
Lincoln school, 100; Wells school,
! ITO, and the Garfield school, 100.
If these choruses In the different
llbuildings were brought together IN