Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-01-02
The Closing Number in Artists Con-
certs is Given in, the Con.
gregational Church.
LARGE AUDIENCE IS PRESENT
The Fact Again Demonstrated That
This City has Exceptional
Home Talent.

EiIu6 uOlludy lAGlc VI ttAO So
}concert course was greeted by the
Largest audience that has been pres
tent at any OF the concerts and It was
an appreciative audience also. The
personnel of the performers was as
follows: Miss Annetta Helene Stark,
lcontraltoj Mr.. Earl 3. Swinney, bars
Iitone; Miss Rosalinds Cook, pianist
and saccompanist; Mrs. Louise Steele
Phillips, reader.
Each performer upon the program
was accorded al hearty encore to- each
lgroup OF numbers and the gracious
responses were delightful additions
Ito the regular program: In this fin
al concert 1T was surely demonstrated
that one does not have to go outside
of Webster City to hear real artists
I've have them within the borders
LOT u own neighborhood. The bibli-
zeal aHusion to a dearth Of prophets
In their own country, should be dis
proven here and we should wake .up
Ito the fact. that such singing, play
ling and reading as that heard Friday
|evening in the Congregational church
surpassed many chautauqua pro-
grams and most Of the concerts
Heard heretofore in this city.
Miss Annette Stark, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. B: q. Stark Of FREE
montstownship, has contralto voice
Iof unusual richness and with a GER
tain appealing quality which makes
1T a voice in a thousand. Her In
|struction has been received from
Prof. "A. E. Bullock Of Ellsworth Col
|lege, Iowa Falls, where she complet-
ed the course but did not graduate
on account OF illness, and in the De-
ltroit Conservatory Of music, where
lshes isa still q student. Miss Stark,
while. residing in Detroit and contin-
uing her musical studies. is also in
structor Of music in n Of the pub
llic schools there.
She: sang a group Of Italian songs
as the opening number upon the pro-
gram and later a group Of German
songs in which Du Bist Vie Fine
lBlume by Schumann was perhaps the
best. s.Know'st Thou NotY from
lMignon was most sweetly rendered.
Three numbers out Of the four in
1.-THE final group Of songs given in
,English were unusual. .The Danza,"
by Chadwick. was sung in this city
several years ago by Schumann-
lHeink and the rendition of that
particular song is perhaps a little
more critically heard than some 9TH
ers. Miss Stark's Interpretation of
this song was delightful, and rarely
Iso. Dawn in the Desert, by Ross,
WAS a, new theme with a rich orient
al favor in which Miss Stark's voice
was shown to perfection. The final
number Of the group and the last on
1.-THE evenings program, "Agnus Del"
in Latin, was a religious number
which Miss Stark confesses is her
favorite song. 1t was sung like a
loved song with great expression.
Her hearers will await further de-
velopments In this contralto's voice
with deep interest. for it is most evil
dent that the height of power and
beauty has not yet been reached by
the young wbman.-
Mr.. Earl e. Swinney is a SOC OF
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Swinney, Of this
city, and has been doing things in a
musical way for a number of years.
He is also a-pupil of Prof. Bullock
land a graduate Of Ellsworth College.
He has conducted. a conservatory OF
music in Washington for a year or
two but is now a student of Clippen-
ger of Chicago, also giving instruc-
tions in public school music in Ur-
bana University in Champaign. Ill.
He possesses a baritone voice OF
smooth, pleasing quality anu an I'M
usual range. In Vision Fair, from
Herodiade, his ability was more
clearly demonstrated than in any
number and was more highly appre-
ciated by the audience than any 9TH
er, although most excellent work
was evinced in Honor and Arms from
the oratorio Sampson by Handel.
A. group of ballads-My Little
Woman, Young Tom O'Devon. and
Yesterday and Today, was sung with
agreeable smoothness and charm and
to these numbers he responded with
an encore, THE Roumanians Noun
tains." AS a pleasing ballad singer
Mr.. Swinney has few equals who
have aver sung in this city. and as a
serious student of the voice, he evin-
lcos oroaf fhornf, ohpocc and real hard