The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-06
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The pupils IL years Of age taught
by Mrs. w. A. Wheeler Of Mandan,
gave an excellent piano recital satur,
day evening a week ago. There were
nearly twenty numbers given and some
seventeen of the pupils took part.
I Among them were Louise Fuller, Cath
erin .Vallancey, Josephine Nuchols, Br-
BILE Steen, Eleanor Mcdonald, Margaret
Ntzhugh,, Josephine Hanley, Colin
Gary Alfreda FAR. Lois Larson M dns :
Holcornb, Katherine Ntzhugh, Mary
Clark and Anna Mcdonald. A feature
of the program was the song by Anna
Mcdonald, who has set to music q
poem from a school reader. ..-
The closing meeting of the Mandan
Musical club was "a Teesntt held "a at rms she
city. The meeting was in charge OF
the hostess and Mrs. w. M. Thompson.
Following the program officers for the
next club year were elected as fol-
lows:
President, Mrs. w. A. wheeler.
Vice president, Scott Conyne.
Treasurer, A. H. Peterson.
Recording secretary, Miss Resale
Burns.
Corresponding secretary, Miss Eunice
Lanterman.
General leader, Miss Ethel Haight.
Prof. and Mrs. A. J. Stephens of the
Fargo conservatory were suddenly
! called to Texas, Thursday evening, by a
telegram which conveyed the startling
intelligence that the father of Mrs.
! Stephens had been suddenly stricken
with paralysis and was expected soon
to pass away.
Leo Slezak: To win success the
musicians home life must be happy.
Kenmare Journal: Mrs. Constance
Thorsen, who will be remembered as
the music and drawing teacher in our
school last year, arrived Monday for a
visit with her many Kenmare friends.
Mrs. Thorsen has been supervisor OF
music and drawing in the Glendive,
Mont, schools this year and expects
to return there next year.
Many men who have gained fame In
opera and in the concert field feel pre-
cisely as l do and they follow the same
lines in much the same way. l know
| of an instance where a famous pianist,
whose technique was always a matter
of favorable critical comment, once
fumbled the keyboard as result of a
squabble at home just before the con-
cert. The inevitable moral is plain
keep, cheerful at home, play With the
| family and the music one makes will
be sweeter."-Leo Slezak.
Prince Paul Troubetskoi, the sculp-
tor, is visiting in Philadelphia. Opera
is false and degrading," he said, and
false standards. Music to be good
must be simple and from the heart
like Beethoven or Bach. We waste
time reading books when the skies and
fields are left unread"
Miss Dumke will teach music and
art in the public schools of Dickinson
during the mex school year. Last year
| uLo %n,4rIf fho 60 M SsHhfnnfc q Z Nov
Vile.
Slezak, the distinguished vocalist,
has the following among his impress
ions: If you would sing we'll, or flash
your fingers across the pianoforte key
board with effectiveness see that your
home life is happy for It is the life
with the smile that wins The musician
with the dual personality who wears a
glad smile away from his own fireside,
but who sulks and finds undue fault
when n the bosom of his family is not
the one who usually succeeds. Acting
is bound to show itself in the artistic
work of the musician.
Large classes of pupils of Miss Lipke,
piano teacher at Crosby, N. D., devoted
two evenings recently in giving their
r~ecitals to mark the closing of the
school year. Over forty pupils contri-
buted to the programs presented.
Beech's V~ersiegelt, a failure in New
York, failed to score also in Wiesbad-
en-.
Carl F~riedberg, the famous German
pianist. who will visit this country in
the fall for the first time and who al
ready is booked with most of the prin-
cipal organizations in the country will
make his first orchestra appearance
with the Cincinnati symphony orches-
ira, Nov. 6 and 7, under the leadership
Of DR.. Ernest Kunwald. Mr.. FriedberE,
who has the reputation of being a fine
ter's B major concerto, which has not
been heard in Cincinnati for several
years and therefore will be doubly in
teresting.
The musicians Of San Francisco, with
the cooperation of the Panama-PacihC
exposition, will be hosts of the organ
ICED bodies of musicians from every
state in the union in 1916.