New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
Timely Notes of the
Musical World

Musical World
Mr.. John Hyatt Brewer has been
organist and musical director at the
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
in Brooklyn since 1881 and the fact
Is TO be commemorated In an ami
yersary service 70 be held In the
church this evening. The service Will
be conducted by the Rev. c. {. Albert
son, d. d., pastor Of the church, aud
the Rev. David Gregg, who was pastor
from 1890 70 1904. The solo quartet
and q chorus choir Of thirty voices
will sing, and among the musical
pieces will be Mr.. Brewers ut lie
good thing" and anthem, 30 God, The
Rock Of Ages" Miss Elizabeth Tudor.
who has been the solo soprano Of the
church since 1906, will sing Haydn's
with verdure clad"; Miss Mary Jor-
dan, the contralto, Max Spicker's "ln
Thee. o Lord; william II. Glenn,
tenor. Dudley Bucks "My voice shalt
Thou hear" and Jackson c. Kinsey,
barytone, Horatio Parker's "zion re-
turning"
Cleveland G. Allen, young negro
newspaper man, IS to deliver sn illus
trated lecture on the history, artistic
value and origin Of Afro-Ameriean
folksongs In the St. James Presby-
terrain Church, at Lenox Avenue snd
/ West l37th Street, at I o'clock this
afternoon. Mr.. Allen states his pur-
pose to be to bring about a better
understanding Of the significance Of
| the songs of the black slaves and OF
emphasizing the character OF the
/ negro.
/ During the last Ave years there has
been an endowed class OF United
/ States enlisted bandsmen at the Insti-
/ tute of Musical Art In this city under
the practical instruction Of Arthur \.
Clappe, bandmaster. Five students
have Been graduated annually after
I studying the practical technique OF all
band instruments, ear training, solfes-
/ gio, theory, harmony, composition, his
tory, arranging OF band music. con-
Quoting and teaching, the purpose
being to At students 70 become band
masters. The five students who will
be graduated this year are Francis r..
Lee, sergeant 14th Infantry; Eugene
u. Graves, sergeant Sd Cavalry; DOR
sey Rhodes, sergeant 10th Cavalry;
Dillon Poison, corporal 9Th Cavalry,
and Manuel o. Columada, private 9Th
Band Coast Artillery Corps. They will
unite In a demonstration recital be-
! fore General Wood and the officers and
/ ladies of Governors Island in Corbin
/ Hall on next Wednesday evening. All
the arrangements on the programme
( will be the work Of the members OF
the class, each of whom will play upon
the flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet,
trombone and barytone.
The Teuton-Sinn Fem alliance is
sbundantly in evidence a. the concert
to be given by Victor Herbert In Car
negie Hall on Saturday night for tho
benefit of the widows and orphans %
the Irish revolters who fell in tho
recent outbreak in Dublin. An inter
esting item Of TIE programme, consId-
ering the protests that are being made
over Nine. Johanna Gadskrs singing
at the Yale performance Of "sieg-
fried Is this sopranos singing OF
"How Scoflngly They Sing About Ne"
from Tristan and Isolde" Otto
Goritz is also to sing 8 number Of
songs.
John Mccormack will give . benefit
concert at the Century Thestre on
/ Tuesday evening in aid OF the Dublin
sufferers. The concert t. under ias
+ patronage OF His EulTence Cardinal
+ Farley and the Lord Mayer OF Dublin,
and the list Of box holders includes the
names of many Of the most prominent
men and women Of Celtic extraction r.
this city. All Of the boxes were dis
posed Of by Mrs. Mccormack. The
programme will be along popular lines
and will include many Of the songs
which we're fayorites Of Mr. Mccormack
when he first appeared in Dublin.
There are many references TO tho
Morris in the dramatic and other liz
[ erature of the sixteenth and seven
/ teenth centuries and there has been
| much latter-day comment on the feat
accomplished by william Kempe, who
in 1900 made sort Of Morris pilgrim
age ga very un-Morrislike escapade'
Mr.. Sharp calls I'D from London 20
Norwich in 1900 and wrote a book
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