Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21
Edited by q g. q g.
Mrs. J. @. Green
CLUB GLEANINGS
Tuesday Musical Club.

be one of the prominent musical Or
CARNATIONS of the city and a little his
tory Of its inception and consequent
growth by one Of its members is in
teresting. 1t reads in the form of
letter to n friend in the east.
The letter follows:
you will be greatly interested l
know, to hear about our musical life
In Boise. There is IA club which is the
newest Of several musical organiza
tons in this beautiful, progressive
city, which | am going to describe in
this particular letter.
Let me see. it was in 1915. yes IAN
uary 16, 1915, that five music lovers
met at the home of one of the number
and expressed their desire to "brush
up their music; ! might say thew
wished thereby to renew their youth
understand, they really were not oldD
well, things musical moved rapidly
| assure you, and they then and there
decided to form a club with IL charter
members: to review the old masters
by giving a careful biographical sketch.
followed with both vocal and instru-
mental selections for examples of the
subjects style. 1t was also decided
to meet in the homes of the members
which explains why there was such a
limited number in the club A pro-
gram was arranged for the following
Tuesday morning; the master chosen
was John Sebastian Bach. Think of
it! only three days in which to re-
view the life and works of that dear,
grand old master.
MI
cool and clear and the loyal music low
ers met for their first program.
said the day was cool and clear, but
l can't prove that that described those
IL earnest women. The program was
prepared, but the club was not yet
named. There were several names
suggested and one dear, timid member
said, I think we'd better be called the
"Tremelo Club. OF course, we scot
fed the idea and told her to think of
something more cheerful for such an
ambitious coterie. 1t was decided that
The Tuesday Musical. was a most dig
nified name; and so the new organiza
ton was named
First there was an animated dis
cussion of current events from cur
rent magazines. (To this day those
friendly chats about things musical
stand out foremost whenever the mem
bers talk of old days.D After the
current events we all felt better and
we found our nerves quite calm-con-
sidcring. Then a charming chatty story
of Bachs life and works followed. VIII
we ever forget the thrills that came
with the tones of the first Bach num-
Der! Let me think It was not q
fugue or prelude but an aria or
course we had fugues. preludes and in
ventions of Bach on that first program.
Strange to say-after two or three
meetings we felt that no one was even
thinking criticisms of our efforts. In
fact, there seemed to be an unwritten
law from the first meeting that criti-
clsms were tabu; that each one was
living to Mendelssohn's advice, Think
more of your progress than of the
opinion Of others (You are such an
experienced musician that You will
doubtless think we were needlessly
nervous.)
Thus began the delightfully."- infor
NAL programs which continued until
our spring luncheon which closed the
work until the following October. At
this luncheon (Which was a Shakes
peare luncheon) the club voted to en-
large the membership to 25; to fire.
quently invite talent from outside to
assist the members
There was delightful program Civ
en- of English cathedral music-all in
a real cathedral with a vested choir
The orEanist- director and his choir
seemed to enjoy it almost as much as
we did. Again we had two afternoons
with lecture recltals by most talented
musician. These red letter events
were given by local musicians outside
of the club. Then we had charming
programs by two OF our members
one Strauss and another a Claude
Debussy program. Then an evening
was given with Enoch Arden read to
music. With these attractions men
toned which would grace any concert
stage, we felt more thankful than we
could say for our honors
At our last annual meeting we decid
ed to enlarge our membership again
This year we will have fifty active
members and an unlimited number of
associate members. We hope to have
all our friends come into this list who
do not care to do active work. our
first constitution is adopted and small
annual fees are charged. A charming
little hall will be used for our programs
of American Composers We real
ize that America is now acknowledged
by the world to be truly musical ma
ton; in fact, as you know. America
has arrived musically.' II will continue
to be policy Of the Tuesday Musical