The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-04-05

ana peasant program OF events IN
the near future, including a Memorial
Day concert program, it is believed by
those in charge of the project that the
community chorus will soon have es-
tablished itself as one Of the great in
fuences in the community and will
have attracted enough members to
make it rank as one Of the great
choruses of the state.
Inspired by Other Cities.
With the singing fest in Milwaukee
planned for the near future in which
the entire community is to take part,
a new impetus is given to the project
of the Kenosha chorus which gets in
spiration from what Milwaukee and
other cities are doing in the same line.
" Everyone who sings, said David
R. Fogwell, one Of the chief promoters
of the local chorus, today, is invited
to make a special effort TO come to the
chorus rehearsal which will be held to-
night at 7:45 clock in the High
FocuoO1 dSSSHlDly room.
Hopeful Despite Discouragements.
"We have had some few discourage
ments in connection with the chorus"
Mr.. Fogwell admitted, F'just as it is
likely that every such organization
must have encountered, but from the
general sentiment in regard to it we
feel the community is in favor Of the
effort, and [ wish that we could get
the encouragement of some of the ex-
listing choruses and music clubs of Ke-
nosha.
These clubs and choruses could get
much advantage from this aggregate
work and at the same time they would
contribute much to the strength and
influence of the community chorus. We
want to interest the greatest number
possible.
Develop a Great Audience.
81 feel that if the city's vocalists
would take time to consider what the
maintenance of community chorus
with its development of the spirit of
music-appreciation throughout the com
munity would mean to them in their
work, they would willingly sacrifice
themselves to some extent in an effort
to further the interests Of the body.
There can be no great musical impetus
in any community without the develop
ment of an appreciative audience and
it is through such aggregations as the
community chorus, and their work, that
an interest in music permeates the en-
tire community.
Money Less Than Appreciation.
In the small Italian cities the most
obscure citizen has love and an I'M
Outstanding for music which has
prompted operatic singers to say they
would rather go to one of those villages
and sing for small stipend than to
get thousands for singing before a
New York audience which is made up
of people who go because they consider
it the fashionable thing to do and not
because of love and understanding of
what they re to hear.
Kenosha can raise up an audience
that will be as appreciative as those
music loving Italian audiences. All it
needs is to let music permeate through
its citizenry. Like taste for olives
and many other things, the taste for
music grows by what it feeds upon and
the more familiar one becomes with
the best in music, the better one likes
it.
"Once more invite and urge every
Kenosha singer who has the musical
future of Kenosha at heart to attend
tonight s rehearsal and to help to do
what can be done for the development
Of this community chorus and the mu-
steal interests of Kenosha in general. -