Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-25
CLUB
CLOSES SEASON
Audience Well Pleased With
Concert Last Evening, Com
pleting Year of Study

II is a splendid thing to be able
to rest upon ones laurels secure i'll
the consciousness of work well done.
Such should be the rest of the We'd
nesday Club for with last nights
final general concert in Fahnestock
wonderful activity and achievement
in the world of music. The audience
overfiowed the auditorium and gall
cry, filled the lobby and even found
points of vantage on the stairs. Har-
risburg has proven her love and ap-
probation of good music on every
available occasion and last evening
she came at the call of her own for
with the exception of William II.
Scholz, of Milwaukee, the program
was composed of home talent. They
were all there, the names we have
grown accustomed to seeing when
our city has need to offer its best,
Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Bum
baugh, Miss Heicher, Miss Lemer,
Mr.. Albright and the others.
The Waltz Paraphrase" Chopin
Schultz was played by Miss Cumbler
and Miss Bennethum and eXemplified
the unison of two instruments in the
same selection. Miss Hess gave a
Ballad in C Minor" by the ever be-
loved Chopin in manner well
worthy of favorable comment. The
same may be said of Mrs. Rhodes
rendering of Fantasia, opus 40" also
by Chopin. Miss Martha Snavely,
who has spent the past winter in
New York studying under the eX-
pert tutelage of Prof. Earnest Hutch
inson. played a cycle of three selec-
tions the most beautiful being Rach-
maninoff's prelude in G Minor"
Mrs. BumDaugh sang John B.
Scott's Winds In The South" with
the joyous abandon characteristic OF
so much of her work and Mrs. Roy
G. Cox sang Debussey's "Recit ct Air
de Liza" with the touch of the finish
ed artist. Mrs. Wilbur Harris gave
Kreisler's Cradle Song 1915" The
great composer, so recently returned
from the war-torn countries, put into
this ballad the wealth of tragedy
whose weight he has seen.
Sara Lemer displayed her wonder
full skill as an expert Violiniste in
Wieniawskis Airs Russes" with the
double stopping and difficult chord
combinations peculiar to the music
of the New Republic in the East.
Miss Heicher was delightful in the
light airy ballad by Spross, Come
Down, Laughing Streamlet."
VIM. II. Schloz, vionnist, the visit
ing talent of the evening, was accom-
panied by Newell Albright at the
piano in his rendition of Borowslkl' S
Alteration and in the "Legende"
by Bohm.
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the work of the Wednesday Club
chorus, Miss Ruth Conkling, direc-
tor, for the excellence of its person
mel and the unity of its blending and
tone shading are we'll known to all
musical followers of Harrisburg.
From their eight selections last eve
ming perhaps the one which best
demonstrated their ability was the
Little. Dutch Lullaby" (Patty Stair
through which the alto undertone
ran as echo to the soprano aria.
The chorus had as its accompan-
lists Mrs. Weaver and Mrs. Rhoades
while Miss Kennedy was heard ir
violincello obligato to several chorus
numbers.
Mrs. Decevee made the announce
ment from the platform that the
young girl ushers were representa-.
tives of the Red Cross and were
ready and willing to enroll any oi
the audience who wished to join.
Large bouquets of roses were pass.
ed over the footlights to both Mrs
Weaver and Miss Conkling in recog.
milton of the seasons wonderful
work in the career of the Wednes
| day Club.
The program concluded with the
singing of the Star Spangled Ban
ner" in which the audience Joined.
| ANNA HAMILTON WOOD.