Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-22
COMMUNITY MUSIC
BIG SUCCESS
Patriotic Songs And Christmas
Carols
ECHO THROUGH STATE HOUSE
Community Hopes 1t Has Come To
Stay Credit Due Mrs. Low
The Direetress

Community music. it is highest and
| best sense. and all it stands for. was
heard here on Thursday night when a
concord of sweet sounds" echoed and
re-echoed throughout the State House,
filing not only the House of Dele
gates, but the lobby, and other cham
bers as well. and ascending to the very
apex of the dome.
II was the occasion of the High
Schol assembly. and Christmas carols
and patriotic songs were sung, the
community cooperating. Governor
Harrington presided.
Never was there such a throng of
people, and il is safe to say that never
was the House of Delegates so crowd
ed with people, even when the most
important bill was before the Legisla
ture for passage which was being Bit
terly fought by the opposing party.
Long before the hour announced for
the program, the floor of the House
was filled, not seat being available.
Both galleries were crowded. the
crowds being lined into the corridors
five and six deep beyond every door.
That the crowd attested to the popu-
larity of Community Singing" goes
without saying, for no such assem-
blage, in regards to numbers and
representative citizenship. was ever
seen here on a previous occasion.
But what of the actual community
singing Ii would take the pen of a
ready writer indeed to describe that
music. II beggars description.
That school children could be SO
perfectly trained in so short a time
to sing in such perfect harmony, uni
son and rhythm, and did sing in this
manner, is the highest tribute that
can be paid to their most capable and
efficient instructor, Mrs. Low, herself
a musician of high order, Peabody
instructor and a professor of music,
! as we'll as musical instructor of State
High Schools. Mrs. Low is little short
of a genius, real musical genius
She is one of the women instructors
who knows what to do and how to do
it. She brings order out of chaos,
music out of discord, by the mere
touch of her magic wand. as it were
The magnetism of her personality in
spires her pupils and she fills and
thrills them with the music that is in
her own soul.
To this is due her success, made
manifest in the Community Singing at
the State House on Thursday night
Every song, every carol, every an
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estness, and, where il need be, rever-
ence. 1t was an inspiration to the
crowd of people who heard it, the like
of which has never been heard here
before.
The singing of the Marseillaise by
Prof Costet was a masterpiece. To
musical voice he gave expression
and deep feeling. His soul was stir
red by the National hymn of his be-
loved France and the sweet musical
notes came from his soul, for after all,
real music must be soulful The
chorus by the High School was sung
with equal zest and vim, and could
France have loked in upon this scene
of one of her allies, it would have
AhA0S uSoi, uiafS, Souia6SouS, odIeiS-
rent France glad of heart and cheer
full of countenance.
A stirring address was made by DR..
c. Alphonso Smith, head of the De-
partment of English of the Naval
Academy.
So great was the success of the
Community Singing Of Christmas car
OILS and patriotic songs, so intensely
pleasing and inspiring to the largest
audience ever assembled in this city,
that the unanimous verdict is 1T has
come to stay"