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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
MEMORIAL FOR
PROF. DECEVEE
Service Will Be Held in Zion
Lutheran Church
February II

The memorial services for Edwin
y. Decevee will be held in Zion Lu-
Fheran Church, next Thursday even
FnS, February 18th, at O'Clock.
The service will be conducted by the
Prov. w. S. Herman and the music
will be under the direction of the
Harrisburg Association of Organists,
pf which Mr.. Decevee was q founder.
IA chorus of thirty-five voices will
sins and the vocal numbers to be
Used Will be compositions by Mr.
|Decevee. Miss Sara Lemer, violin
lst, Will also play, and Newell AL
Pright, Alfred c. Kuschwa, Frederic
+. Martin and Frank A. McCarreil
viii preside at the organ.
Following are the singers:
Eoprano-Miss Martha Armstrong,
Miss William K. Bumbaugh, Mas
Mary Buttorff, Miss Mary Corhett,
Mrs. Roy G. Cox, Miss Mildred Gar
man Mrs. w. f. Harris, Mrs.
Arthur II. Hull, Mrs. Lee S lzer,
Mrs. Goblin Vallerchamp.
Altos-Mrs. Robert NJ. Bressler,
Mrs. Frank Eager, Mrs. Il. L. Hertz
er, Miss Belle Middaugh, Mrs. Rob-
frt B. Reeves, Miss Mary e. Sea-
man. Mrs. W. II. Witherow, Miss
Mary e. Worley, Mrs. ]. G. Sanders.
Tcnor-D. L. Bowers, John =. Glib
bon NJ. d. Hollenbaugh, Henry A.
<elller. Thompson Martin, Augustus
fchantz, Ralph Steever, C. A. Wen
|lch.
Bass-Stanley G. Backensto3s
Charles NJ. Cassell, A. w. Hartman,
William Kautz, Roy Mathies, Clar-
Fnce II. Sigler, George Sutton.
3wilym Watkins.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
STUDIO TALKS
ON SINGING
NO. 2, MUSICAL SENSE
BY JOHN w. PHILLIPS

Many fine, even beautiful voices
are never heard from as singers. be-
cause their owners are not endowed
with musical sense. Genuine music
al sense is a rare thing. Not every
well-known singer has it. Not every
teacher has it. Musical sense and
fine voice welded together is usually
winning combination. You have
only tc suggest to the student with
musical sense, and the idea becomes
Fart of him. Point out to him the
difference between II thrill with joy"
and II shout with joy," and he in
stinctively sees the force of the sug-
gestion and puts it into practice.
Suggest a poetical. or dramatic
tone in certain passages and 1t is
eagerly adopted. Point out a mistake
and it is not repeated.
If he can't tell the meaning of a
musical term he will look it up and
will not be caught mapping again.
lie is a good listener, and always an
alyzes wha the hears. and hears all
the good music possible. He knows
it will take time to attain poise and
proficiency. He knows in a short
while whether he is being well
tauSht. His head never gets so large
that il obscures the light. While he
allows his friends to tell him that he
is one CT the seven wonders of the
world, he does not believe 1t. He
knows better. and is able to estimate
his own ability very accurately. He
has a seLse of proportion and music
al detail, as we'll as artistic percep-
ton. He knows the meaning of at
IN a song. He knows the
finer things in music that can he sug-
gested, hut not explained.
The student who lacks this finer
musical sense, encounters many,
many obstacles. The kind friend
comes alcrg and tells him with all
seriousness that he ought by all
means to be in grand opera; that his
voit e-hi.: voice-is wonderful
Nothing is mentioned about wonder
ful talent or musical brains. The
s,u,;rnt has to get larger hat ard
the kind friend is not arrested.
Again, the student who lacks music
al brains, keeps on talking about c
natural or f natural, not realizing
that the word natural is superfluous
and brainless. If the pitch is c or
f or G it is exactly what is called
for. and nothing else. They can be
raised or lowered by sharps or flats,
but the word natural does not
change pitch. c is c, and i is f,
and nothing else.
The word natural is foolish. This
same kind of a student will ask a
teacher, How soon can ] go on the
concert STAGE" or How long will it
take to set into grand opera. The
wise teacher will refer this sort of a
student to the Fortune. teller, who
lives as far away from the
police station as possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
WITH ORGANIST AND CHOIR

Lord Is My Salvation" will be sung
at Reformed Salem Church .o-mor-
row morning.
When the Messiah Lutheran con-
gregation shall have completed 1rs
new church home there will he in
stalled therein a $1,000 pipe organ,
electrically operated and with four
| manuals from which will be played
the great choir, swell and echo or
gans. The instrument will also have
chimes and be complete in every
particular.
Meetch Stroup is the new or
ganist at the Second Reformed
Church, succeeding Melvin r. Smith,
whose playing has been heard at the
Colonial theater as substitute for
Harold Booth.
Miss Nellie Bennett has been play
ing the organ at Zion Lutheran
Church since the sudden death of
the lamented Edwin j. Decevee.
The long service of the musician
whose going out caused grief IN a
wide circle of musical companions
and a still larger host OF friends, to-
gether with an unusual musical per-
sonality has made Miss Bennntt's
task heroic and given her talent, en-
couraged by Mr.. Decevee, full op-
portunity for service.
The other day Mrs. Abigail Johns
ton died in Shippensburg at 81
years Mrs. Johnston, until a short
time before her death, was a mem
Der of the choir of the PRESBYTERIAN
Church and probably was the Oldest
active choir singer in the state at
the time of her death. 1t was at
this church, while his father. the
late Rev. DIR. W. A. McCarreII
brother of Judge S. ]. NJ. McCarrelI
was pastor, that Frank A. McCarreIl
organist and choirmaster of Pine
Street Presbyterian Church, this citv
had the first inspirations which led 70
his adoption of the profession Of
music.
with Easter, the next in order of
the important church festivals. an
preaching, choir leaders are turning
their attention to the selection Of
suitable music. c. Whitney Coombs'
AS 1t Began to Dawn" with solo
Tor baritone voice has been found
quite effective on choir proerams
Likewise Solly's Behold Sbe,v
You a Mystery; Granier's "FTos-
anna, and the Marshall Nevin
Christ Is Risen," are standard and
joyful anthems for the day
Stuart Black, organist, has gone
from Westminster Presbyterian
Church to the Bethlehem Lutheran
Church. Several years of hard work
have given this one of the younger
organists of Harrisburg training for
the more exacting demands OF
larger organ and accompaniments of
perhaps wider range.
Shortly before he died Edwin ].
Decevee composed a setting of Ten
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

The excellence and fitness of the
music chosen by organists and choir
masters for to-morrow's services
hardly can fail to uplift church
goers. AT the Grace Methodist
Church two of the best Of Dudley
Bucks arrangements of familiar
hymns will be sung as quartets,
Lead Kindly Light" in the orn-
ing and MY Faith Looks Up TO
Thee" at night. One of the most
grateful of Sir John Goss' compost
tions, 80 Taste and See How
Gracious" will be the morning
anthem.
How Beautiful Upon the Noun
tain," Harper's reverent setting of
the psalmist's exclamation, viii be
sung by Charles Cassel, basso, at
Reformed Salem Church. A num-
ber of Lemmens' dignity and
breadth, Lemmen's "Marche Pom
tihcale," will be the organ postlude.
Memories of the late DR.. Willfam
w. Gllchrlst, for many We Irs con-
ductor of the Harrisburg Oratorio
society, will be awakened by the
singing OF the morning anthem,
'NiN' hOW Thine Ear 10 Our
Prayer" at Market Square Presbv-
terian Church. This beautiful num-
Der from Elijah" one of the favor
lite oratorios of DIR. Gilchrist al
ways impresses. In it recur the
poetic despair of the prophet, Zion
Spreadeth Her Hand For Aid" and
The Infant Children Ask for 1'hem."
and There Is None to Feed Them"
these being clothed as only the great
Mendelssohn could invest Them.
The singing of praise Ye."
adapted to the music of the trio in
Verdis "Attila," by Mrs. w. X.
Bumbaugh, soprano; John p. Glib
son, tenor and Roy Matthias, boss,
at Bethlehem Church last Tuesday
evening recalled the frequency with
which B. H. Strickland, organist and
choirmaster at ST. Patrick'a pro-
cathedral for many years, selected
this gem on special occasions. In
those days Miss Julia Ryan was the
soprano, Mr.. Strickland, the tenor
and Glenn Johnson, though not in
frequently Harry B. Walters, was
the bass. A trio of Verdi's, "The
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

stage manager went on rehearsing
A little later the manager repeated
his request, and the youth obeyed
again.
Shortly afterward the director
once more asked him to "Step a lit
tie farther back"
But, if 1 do" complained the
youthful one, ruefully, II shall be
completely off the stage"
YES" answered the manager
quietly, that's the ideal"
To add to the troubles of Canada
we read that cover one thousand
patriotic songs have been written
since the declaration of war" We
are cheered by the fact that we won't
hear them all.
At a recital: Soprano, singing off
key, with her eyes closed.
Man in the back row: Gee, if
she'd open her. eyes, she'd see the
key"
There are three first class concerts
booked for Harrisburg in the early
spring.
The Ash Collectors Quartet was
practicing in the city council room,
and the First Tenor caused some
alarm when he sang his high note.
He got red in the face, the veins in
his neck got large, his eyes were
closed and his face was tied in
knot. The rest of the Quartet shiv-
cred and stopped him. They tried
again, again. There was knock at
the door and somebody said. do not
get any blood on the hardwood floor,
or carpet or walls If you've got to
kill it-whatever it is-put it in the
garbage can" The Quartet got sore
nd omit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

Ine Stuaent VINO lacks musical
sense. VIII sometimes take up as a
7 special hobby, the tremolo. This
! FORM or torture to the listener is q
disease of the mind and not of the
/ vocal chords. 1t is difficult to cure.
| once 1t hecomes chronic. A quar-
| tet OF tremolo artists is some.
| thing never to be forgotten. II
sounds like futurist music. 1t has
the quarter tone scale, the chrom-
! atc scale, the whole tone scale and
some to spare. And many people
pretend to like 1t. Listen-I know
-----wobble, wobble, wobble-w
(breath) that my-wobble.. wobble,
"ooble-ee Re-dee-wobble. wobble
wohhle--mer liveth. Now. doesn't
mis- singers belief sound shaky &?
me above is merely picked at ran
| oom as an example. This style OF
singing is still in vogue. even IN
opera, but only in a small degree. 1t
really went out with the hobble
shirt.
Another kind of student who lacks
musical sense is of the feminine ZEN
GER VINO Trusts to good looks. and
5000 friends to pull through, T IiS
lS the klnd of student that grows up
10 believe in chestless, and some
times backless gowns. The student
is not altogether to blame. Society
mas nodded approval and is ofttimes
more interested in the singers Co.'S
tume-or lack of it-than the music.
niney gush over the gown and po-
ntely applaud the music. When will
audiences get musical sense? Not
untll they get rid of some very SUI
perficial notions and pretenses. We
Will never be a musical Nation until
we are thoroughly honest with our
selVes. New York has gone daft
apout a singer they wouldn't listen
10 TWO years ago. The spasm will
pass ana another star will receive
the worship. The whole trouble lies
IN the desire for something new, or
olnerent, or startling.
1hls has compelled singers-who
Woulc otherwise be rated high-to
rIay to the gallery by singing and
p1oionging high notes entirely out of
keeplng with good musical taste.
Aiu yet people will judge everything
Dy what New York thinks or saws
Barnum was right. He is still riebt
community singing may do some.
thlng for us, but it may turn out to
be merely another hobby. The stu
dent with musical sense will make
hlmself a musician as we'll as a sing
er' lie has been endowed with ma
tural musical taste that incites am
bition.
IL Is, hard to understand why mu-
slcal sense is given to some and not
TO others. Ancestry must be taken
INTO account. Habits, customs. en-
vironment, pastinfes. religious be-
liefs, nationality and climate all have
tnelr influence. What we term native
ability or keen musical sense is in
herited, and can never be fully learn
ed and developed to the same degree.
Here then, is one reason-and an
important one-why teachers can
not develop more than one or two
great singers in a lifetime, and only
a Few successful singers. OF course
some teachers-in fact many never
develop even one real singer-but
there Is some excuse for this. when
we study the matter thoroughlv-
however, it is not our aim to excuse
poor teaching. which is very plenti-
tul, put rather to point out that the
pupil with musical brains plus voice
temperament, and a few other re,
quirements is indeed rare.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
Music in the Churches

PINE STREET PRESBYTERIAN
Morning - Prelude, Prayer"
Everett e. Truette; anthem, Father,
Thy Children Bow in Alteration"
Sullivan Dressler; offertory, 20 Solu-
toris Hastia,' Guilmant; solo, "By
the Waters of Babylon" Howell,
by Mrs. Saunders ;postlude, allegro
Risoluto," Nottingham.
Evening-Organ selections at 7.2O.
"Andante Grazioso,' Remand; /;
Sketch in B Flat" Harvey V. Gaul;
anthem, "The Lost Sheep" Foster;
offertory, 'Versat de Magnificat No
l " Salome; anthem, Turn Ye Even
Unto Me-" Steane; postlude, "Al-
legro Vivace," (Sonate ID, Guilmant
CHRIST LUTHERAN
Morning - Prelude, Communion
in A." Watkins; offertory, Berceuse, >"
GODDARD; anthem, "As the Deep"
Dudley Buck; postlude, "Postlude," +"
Whiting.
Evening-Prelude- in
A Flat" Genevrier; offertory, Mel
ody in f." Rockwell; solo, by the
Waters of Babylon" Watson Mrs.
Phoebe Turner; quartet, selected: !:
postlude, "Triumphal March," Mer-
kel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
Music in the Churches
MARKET SO. PRESBYTERIAN


Morning-Prelude, "Adagio in e
Flat" Merkel; anthem, Lord, Bow
Thine Ear" (from Elijah), Mendel-
ssohn; offertory, Ave Maria"
Verdi; postlude, Grand Chorus
Dubois.
Evening Prelude, Fuga, "Alla
Handel in f Major, Guilmant,
Berceuse, Delbruch; offertory in f,
Lemaigre; anthem, Thou Wilt
Keep Him in Perfect Peace" Buck;
postlude, professional March" j"
Guirand
RIDGE AVENUE Nj. Il.
Morning-Prelude, (a) "Andante
Maestoso," (b) "Romance," Ch.
Gounod; anthem, The World For
Christ" Giro Pinsuti; offertory
"Sercnata," Moszkowski; postludo.
"Allegretto Kiocoso," Filippo Ca
pocci.
Evening = Prelude, "Evensong," "
Edward F, Johnston; anthem, ION
Jordan's Banks" Heyser; offertory.
Meditation" Nathaniel Hyatt
postlude, Concert Fantasia 3" r. p.
Stewart. Llewellyn 1. Evans, organ
list and choirmaster.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
STACCATO NOTES

At a recent meeting where all the
Allied Natural Hymns were sung. the
audience was kept standing so long
that 1t grew weary. We suggest that
street car straps be supplied and
hung up for the next meeting of this
KIND. The audience would be educa-
ted to 1t. Street cars might also in
augurate the musical idea and COM
pei people to stand.
A Texas critic writes of the piano
playing of Leo Ornstein, the futurist
composer, when he played his COM
position THE Wild Mems Dance, -
as folloWs-"Sounds like cranking a
ford. Give me good pipe wrench
ana l could do that to a piano, too, "
MY baby can play just like that, and
She never took a lesson in her, life. :"
Part of the time he looks like he
was hunting for a needle on the KEYS
and then, he jumps up like he had
found 1t, point upward, in his chair"
AT a recent organ recital was over
heard the following: THAT organ re-
cltal was intolerably long" mo
wonder! Think of the stops required
for the performance"
You can visualize the hero OF this
one from Life:
Little Girl: Uncle Joe, will YOU
please practice on your saxophone for
Johnny Smith an me? 1 want him
to watch your Adams apple"
There is a certain stage manager
who has faculty for reducing the
size of over enlarged craniums.
Once. during the rehearsal of a new
opera, he asked a very young and by
no means brilliant singer, who fam
cied himself greatly, to step back a
little The singer did so and the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
Church Notices
BAPTIST

Tabernacle-The Rev. Millard Os-
more Peirce. 11.00, "A Conception
OF Cod; 7.30 What it Means 10
Know Him; 9.45. Sunday scnool.
st. Paul's-The Rev. e. ruther
- :, uInlngham. 1000, Human
Frailty"; 7.3O, sermon by visiting
minister: 1880; Sunday school.
= Second-The Rev. Albert Josiah
Greene. 1890, THE Interpretation
OF the Parable of the Tares"; 80
Perpetual Prayers For Saints Of
Christ zoo. Sunday school.
First-The Rev. William 7 T,oo1,
mart mart 1880, Christ in You"; $50.
eternal Life; 11.45, Sunday school
UNITED BRETHREN
flrst-The Rev. DR.. w e
Daugherty. 1890, The Ministrv
OF Meditation; 7.3O, Abraham
as Christian"
state-The Rev. II. F. Rhoad
dO:45. Man After the Falr": 730
Gods Estimate of the sinner.
$50, Sunday school.
Derry Street - The Rev. T. A
Lyter 1890 and 7.3O, preaching:
zoo, Sunday school,
Otterbein-The Rev. S. Edwin
$50, Forgiveness; 200, SUNDAY
school.
Calvary, Lemoyne-The Rev. p
r. koontz. $50, Sunday school. .
iV.oo, morning worship; 7.3O, even
ing worship
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
)rganists' Association
Holds Monthly Meeting

The Organists' Association held its
|nonthly business meeting in the
Market Square Presbyterian Church
|ast evening. Frank j. McCarrell
Fave an interesting talk on Music
|nd Its Relation to the Church."
The meeting was well attended.
The next meeting will be held in
he Pine Street Presbyterian Church
Pn Wednesday evening, March 6.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
REFORMED SALEM CHURCH

Morning = "Offertory (No. 5l"
Lefebuer-Wely; bass solo, How
Beautiful Upon the Mountains" Mr.
Cassel, Harker; trio, "The Lord Is
My Salvation" Verdi, Mrs. MYERS
Mr.. Cassel, Mrs. Helsley; "Marcbe
Pontificale," Lemmens.
Evening-"At Twilight" Stebbins.
anthem, Come Holy Spirit Heaven,
ly Dove" with solo by Mrs. Myers
Schneider; Second Grand Chosur." !"
Grey.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
MESSIAH LUTHERAN

Morning-Prelude. Prelude in
q, Logan; offertory, "Reverie. -
Eppel; contralto solo, Like as tbe
Heart (Mrs. Ernest Keys), Vest:
postiude, "Marche in Il Flat" Har.
wood.
Evening-Prelude, Melody in c."
torwitz anthem, 'The Radiant Morn
hath Passed Away" Woodward:
ohertory, Evening Song" GRAY:
quartet, Let Not Your Heart 8o
troubled" Foster; postlude, Finale
in F." Spinney.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
DERRY STREET II d

Morning-Prelude:: Meditation. ("
klein; anthem, selected; offertorv.
Morning Song" Merkel; postlHde
Prelude Heroique." Faulkes.
Evening - Prelude, "Serenoda {"
schubert; anthem, 30 Love. That
wit Not Let Me Co." Edward
Broone; offertory, "A Memory" Gil
iette; postlude, "Benediction," Al
bert Robins.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
.enten Organ Recitals
at St. Stephens S

The first in the sseries Of six Len
EN- organ recitals will he given next
Saturday afternoon, February 10 at
o'clock in st. Stephens Episcopal
Church by the organist, Alfred
= Kuschwa
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
Music in the Churches
ST. STEPHENS EPISCOPAL

Morning-"Venite," Turtle; "Te
Deum," Kinder. "Renadiot,. -
Heathcote; anthem Let Not Your
Hearts Be Troubled" Trembath.
Evening - "Magnificat," Jacob:
"Nunc Dimittis," Stainer; solo, Lord
correct Me- Handel, Master Ross
Paul; organ Might" Worth: an
them, The Splendors of Thy Glory"
woodward. Alfred C. Kuschwa. or
ganist and choirmaster.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

Shortly before he died Edwin ].
Decevee composed a setting of Ten
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-24
STATE FOOD ADMINISTRATION
OUT OF BUSINESS.

The United States Food Admins
tration has ceased to be. This is the
order received by County Administra-
tor Lawrence Mitchell from the State
and National headquarters. The
county and district food administra-
ton Office will be closed Immediately,
as there is no further need for such
an organization. During the past
year, through the service of the Food
Administration, by the Grain Corpor-
alton, the Sugar Equalization Board,
the price list committee, a corps of
inspectors and supervisors, it kas
been made possible for persons to
have had food commodities which,
if there had been no regulation,
would have been denied them. Prices
have been such that everyone could
afford products which would have
been only for those possessing ample
means had not prices been regulated
by the Food Administrator.
;, Fred M. Sackett, however, stated
in his communication to the local
Food Administration officials that he
desired that the volunteer members
of the organization be in readiness
to be called together at any time in
the near .future.O
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-24
GOVERNMENT WILL ASSIST WAR
WORKERS TO FIND JOBS.

The thousands of civilian war
workers in the Government service
who will soon be dismissed because
their services are no longer needed
will be assisted in finding re-employ-
ment through plans now being ar
ranged by the United States Civil
Service Commission.
On the recommendation of the Civil
Service Commission the President
issued on November 20 an executive
order which provides that the names
of persons in the competitive CLASH
fed civil service with unrestricted
status who were appointed either per-
manently or PROBATIONARY prior to
the date of the order, who have
served less than three years, who are
separated from the service because of
reduction of force, and who ere
recommended for further employ
ment by the government because of
demonstrated efficiency in the Office
from which they are separated will,
upon request, be entered by the Civil
Service Commission upon appropriate
eligible registers for reappointment,
eligibility thereon to continue for
one year from the date of separation.
The unemployment registers thus es-
tablished will be used so far as is
practicable for filing positions in the
Government service.
1t is expected, however, that there
will be a surplus of eligibles on these
unemployment registers and in order
that those who cannot be replaced in
the Government service may find po-
sitions in private employment, the
Civil Service Commission has asked
the cooperation Of the Department
of Labor in the work of finding suit
able employment in private establish
ments for dismissed war workers
who can not be further employed by
the Government.
1t is the view of the Civil Service
Commission that the machinery of
the Government should be used to
fullest extent in finding employment
for the war workers for it is realized
that a considerable number of them
entered the Government service at
some personal sacrifice to help with
the war program.