The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-08

city, and studied two years IN tne
! Chicago Musical college, where she
won scholarship and gold medal
Her voice is contralto.
The judges at the contest were:
Charles s. skilton, dean Of the State
university school of fine arts; D. b
Downing, professor of voice; Wort S
Morse, professor of violin; Miss Har-
riet Greisinger, associate professor OF
piano, and Mrs. c. G.. Dunlap, critic
The contest was conducted by Mrs
OIin Bell, state vice president of the
Federation of Music clubs.
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A missionary tea for the women OF
Grace cathedral parish will be given
at the home of Mrs. C. w. Merriam,
901 Buchanan street, Friday afternoon
at 2:30 O'Clock, by the woman's auXil-
larry. All the women of the parish
are invited to attend.
The members of the College
A1umnae club will have a luncheon
Saturday at 1 o'clock at the Y. w.
G. A.
A series of informal art lectures are
planned to be given at the art exhibit
in the Mills building. Miss Marie Wit
wer, of the Ceramic Art club, will
make the address Friday afternoon at
four o'clock" The members of the
Ceramic club will attend the meeting,
and they and all others who are visit
ing the exhibit at that hour will have
the benefit of the lectures
Mrs L. D. Whittemore, who is at
the head of the art department of
washburn college, will speak at $3.50
o'clock Saturday afternoon she Will
invite the Washburn students to at
tend the exhibit, and it will be open to
all other visitors as well.
A special arrangement for the grade
school children has been made. They
will be admitted for five cents each,
Saturday morning. Miss Bunker, who
teaches are in the grades, will be
there, and will tell about the pictures
from 9 to 10 o'clock.
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The music department of the To-
peka Federation of Women, which
has developed into one of the 1mpor-
tant and active committees of the
federation this year, will offer its last
free concert for the season at the au-
ditorium Friday night. In speaking
of the purposes of the concerts that
have been given without charge
through the winter, the committee
chairman, Mrs. George Parkhurst, re-
fers to an editorial in a recent num-
Der of the Delineator, as expressing
something of her idea in offering the
series of recitals. DR.. Claxton, who is
federal commissioner of education,
says: Good music is necessary, not
only for enjoyment and recreation, but
also for inspiration and salvation from
death in the din and dust of trade.
This music should be democratic in
the truest and best sense"
The editorial referred to by Mrs.
Parkhurst comments on the doctors
observation. ITO the highly nervous
American people, music is one of the
best sedatives and tonics- We know
how in the present war singing has
saved the soldiers from sheer mad
ness. The din and dust of trade is
war enough for the most of us. By
democratic music is meant the kind
that one observes in Germany and
Holland where great popular audi
ences revel in popular music at trifl-
ing expense
Mrs Parkhurst says that in carry
ing out her idea of giving concerts to
all who are interested in the music
that is offered, she has had the assist
ance and cooperation of many of the
professional musicians of Topeka, and
the auditorium has been free for the
use of the committee for these con-
certs, enabling them to be given gra-
tuitiouSly.
Those who will furnish the program
for Friday night are: Mrs. Robert
Shoemaker, contralto; Miss nellie
Kouns, soprano; Mr.. Herman Spring
er, baritone; and Mr.. Glenwood Jones,
tenor Miss Myrtle Radcliffe will play
the piano accomplishments. The pub
lie is invited to attend.
The program for the evening will
be as follows:
Quartet
o. Drink to Me Only With
Thine Eyes" old English
(a) Hear Ye Winds and Waves
(from "Scipio') Handel
OBJ Meet Me by Moonlight"
odd English
Mr.. Springer.
Power Eternal (from "Stabat
Mater"). ........ .Rossini
Miss Kouns and Mrs. Shoemaker.
Aria
(a) I'm Native Worth (from
CD "Jo 6reati9n Song, tfrom : .aTRe
Girl of the Golden West.
-. ..........P uccini
Mr.. Jones.
From Faust. ..Gounod |
Miss Kouns. Mr.. Jones, Mr.. Springer.
Solo
(a) '1ch Wandelte unter den
OBJ "A Birthday. ......
Huntington Woodman
Mrs. Shoemaker.
I'm This Solemn Hour (from
La Florza Del Destino'') 49, Verdi
Mr.. Jones and Mr.. Springer
''One Morn if 1 Remember Well''
(from "RigolettiD Verdi
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A weekly bulletin, Harmony and
Melody" issued by the managers of |
York, says: Harold Henry, an |
American pianist of sterling worth, is |
adding to his repertory a new work |
which has been written for and dedi- |
Gated to him by Rossiter G. Cole, the !