The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-28

the lower floor, is done in a dun
green shade, with hangings to matcn.
The mantel was hung with training
nasturtiumS and there were bouquets
of daisies and delphinium. The dining
room is in old blue. The table was
commented with a gilded basket of
pink sweet peas, and on the sideboard
was a bank of the same flowers.
Small baskets of flowers were placed
about the room. One of the upper
rooms is furnished in mahogany and
papered in gold color with woodwork
of cream color. Another of the rooms
is in gray and furnished in Clrcasslan
Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, of juno
ton City, who is visiting her aunt
Mrs. w. F. Bowen, will have party
Saturday afternoon for some OF the
children of her neighborhood-
Mr.. and Mrs. James Troutman will
give a dinner party for few friends
Thursday evening.
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An interesting recital was given
Tuesday night in the high school au-
ditorium, introducing four or the pu-
pills of the Daniel Muller school OF
music. recently instituted in Topeka.
Mr. Muller will open his school in a
short time installing various depart
ments of musical instruction
His piano pupils who appeared in
the concert last night were: Miss Ann
MYERS, Miss Marjorie Petro, Miss Es-
Their Payne and little Bernice Hemus-
| The program presented was of a high
order, was handled admirably and was
heard by a large audience of musical
people.
Miss Payne, one of the most prom
Using music students in the city, APP
! peared in solo. ensemble and accom-
! paniment work. Her solo number, the
Tenth Rhapsodie, by List, was a re-
markedly brilliant performance of a
piece of music beset with technical
difficulties which she dispOses of in a
manner truly remarkable for so young
| a performer. Her runs are even and
| clear cut, every note distinct and exc
cuted with astonishing rapidity. The
crescendo measures she performs with
| a precision of graduation not often at
| tanned by any less than the finished
artist. She played the piano accom-
paniments for the violin numbers fur
nished by Miss Helen Phipps. Her
ability as an accompanist was eStab-
| lished when she played the Romance
| from Sarasate Concerto in D Minor
| The delicacy of her touch and the
sensitiveness of her interpretative in
sight could scarcely have been finer.
! She also played the first piano part in
the Grieg A Minor concerto. This is
a piano work of considerable length
through the two movements played
| last night, and it is one of the great
| pieces of concert music. Miss Payne
! played it from memory, and while the
performance was not faultless in every
particular, it was surprisingly well ac-
complished. Miss Payne has a won
/ derfully acute ear, a keen sense of
| rhythm, highly cultivated technical
powers. and she has the musical tenn
permanent and a devotion to the art
| She expects to become a concert pfa-
| her success She is still in her earlv
teens and is already attracting the
notice of those interested in the tall
ented people of the town
| Miss Myers played a double num-
! Der, Chopin nocturne, and an etude
/ by the same composer The piano
| gives out good, round tone under her
fingers, and her playing has refine
/ ment and shows a studious under
standing of the compositions She IS
to be one of the teachers in the piano
department of the new school. She
gave an interesting recital a year or
/ two ago which was the subject of
favorable comment.
Miss Petro played as her solo the
opening number of the program, Pre-
Iude IN Z Minor, by Rachmaninoff,
/ and she played the second piano part
in the Grieg Concerto. She is a stu
] dent with poise and self possession
and with musical ability that is sus-
ceptible to a high degree of cultiva-
ton. She has been with her present
instructor since last autumn.
Little Miss Hemus was a fayorite
with her audience, and we'll she de-
! served to be. She played two numbers
from memory which were well exc
cuted, judged even from the standards
/ of much older performers Her small
/ fingers are swift and strong, and she
gives promise of future musicianship.
assisting
Helen Phipps, vioIinist, and Mrs.
1 George Payne, soprano. Mrs c. J.
| Wilson furnished the piano accom-
paniment for Mrs. Payne
Miss Phipps has been engaged as the
! teacher OF violin in the Muller school.
she has appeared a good many tim es
before Topeka audiences with whom
she Is favorite. Mrs Payne is d.
rector If the chorus of the Woman's
club. organized last year under the ad-