The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-02-14
TAKE STEPS
FOR FORMING
MUSIC LEAGUE
IN RICHMOND
Lovers of High Class Enter
tainment Favor Commun-
ity Plan to Hear Artists at
Low Cost.
SOME COMMUNITIES DO
By FORREST DAVIS


Musical Richmond is snoozing.
While other cities are up at
dawn and are developing their
musical tastes and appreciation,
Richmond has drawn the quilts
closer and loiters in her artistic
four-poster.
The worlds greatest musi-
clans go up and down the land,
travelling from one artistic port
of call to another. But Richmond
is not listed on the charts.
Richmond's music-lovers, and
their name is legion, are forced
to travel to Indianapolis or Gin
cinnati or Dayton when they
wish to refresh their spirits
with the work Of the modern
masters.
Known as Seat Of Culture.
Richmond is college city. IT is
known as seat of culture and an
artistic center. The art of painting
has shrine and band of faithful
devotees These devotees have given
the city front rank among the cities of
the nation as an artistic community
But in the appreciation of the art OF
music, Piqua and Middletown,. Ohio.
are running several laps ahead of
Richmond.
OF course Richmond's local musical
interests are not asleep. The schools
are progressive, the college maintains
its high standing, the musical organi-
cations are vigorous and the teachers
are serious and conscientious.
All these organizations. together
with hundreds of individuals through
out the city who find pleasure in
music, give the city musical spirit.
No Inspiration Offered.
Local efforts, no matter how serious,
hold no true inspiration for the stu
dent or patron of music.
II you could entertain one Of the
great artists in your own home and,
sitting comfortably by the fire, listen
to one OF their programs you would
be enraptured.
II Alma Gluck were to visit you
for an evening and Groom some of her
charming lullabies and sing some of
her simple heart lyrics you would be
delighted.
If Fritz Kreisler were to call and
run his magic bow over his enchanted
violin you would be in the seventh
heaven.
If a great symphony orchestra were
to appear in your home and provide
you with an evening Of tone poems, ar
tistically interpreted, your hearth
would be the envy Of all other house
holds in town.
Entertainment is Possible.
You can entertain these marvellous
artists and organizations!
You can't entertain them in your
home for you haven't the money to
pay tho fee their art demands.
Bnt you can play host to them.
along with hundreds of your neighbors
and friends, In the Coliseum. You can
entertain them at community party
and be. in turn. entertained by them.
And you can be host to the worlds
greatest at price so small you would
consider it trivial. .....>
Other communities, some not so
large as Richmond, annually provide a
series OF musical evenings with the
worlds most eminent artists as en-
tertxincrs.
They do it through the medium of a
community musical organization. into
which all patrons put their mites,
share and share alike.
Local Organization Possible
Such an organization can be formed
here il musical Richmond will rub
Ter eyes and roll out of the covers.
Plans for such an organization have
not been crystailized. But they are
in the making.
William G. Frizzell, globe-trotter
and art-patron of Dayton, who is man.
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