Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
WEDNESDAY CLUB
TO GIVE CONCERT
Thirty-Sirth Season to Be
Marked With Fine
Musical Program

The Choral Concert of the thirty
sixth season Of the Wednesday Club
will be given next Thursday evening,
at Fahnestock Hail. All kinds OF
members are privileged to attend
this concert.
Assisting the chorus will be Mrs.
Henry II. Rhodes and Miss Agnes
Hess, pianiste; Miss Sara Lemer,
violinist; Miss Margaret Vaughn and
Miss LeNora Fry, harpists; George
Sutton, baritone; J. Foster Shirk,
trumpet, and George w. Giede,
trombone.
The program will comprise two
of the classics, three ultra modern
choruses, one old French song of
the XVIII Century and the exquisite
Song for Twilight by +. l.. Ritter,
one of Americas best-known musi-
clans of the middle of the last CEN
tury. The closing number will he
The Tale of the Bell" by William
Lester, the distinguished Chicago
composer. The cantata was dedi-
Philadelphia, which gave it's initial
presentation.
The Wednesday Club Chorus is
under the direction of Mrs. Wilbur
T. Harris with Miss Mabel Witten-
myer at the piano and numbers
about forty-flve members.
Thursday Evening Program
The following is the program for
Thursday evening: God in Ma
ture," Schubert, The Wednesday
Club Chorus; waltz from Faust"
Gounod- List, Miss Hess; "Apres un
Reve," Faure; ''Valse Triste," Sibe-
Illus, Mrs. Bumbaugh, soloist; Beau
Soir," Debussy," Miss Middaugh, So
loist; The Wednesday Club Chorus,
The Pauper's Drive" Homer; To-
reador Song from Carmen" Bizet,
George Sutton, Mrs. Bent l.. Weaver
at the piano; THE Swan" Saint
Saens; The Death of Trenar,"
Grahms. with harps, trumpet and
trombone ''Jeux d'Eau," ("Frolic Of
the WatersD, Mrs. Rhoades; Cha
que Chose a Son Temps" XVIII
Century French Song for Twi-
light" sung unaccompanied, The
Wednesday Club Chorus; "Marche
Miss Fry, Miss Vaughn; The Tale
OF the Bell Lester, soloists, Mrs.
Cox and Mr.. Sutton, The Wednesday
Club Chorus; "The Star Spangled
Banner"
The Tale of the Bell" is founded
on THE Bells Biography" one of
Nathaniel Hawthorne's most charm
ing Twice Told Tales" shaped in
to verse by Frederick H. Martens.
The story is as follows:
The bell, of antique French manu-
facture was said, by tradition to have
been made from metal supplied by
a brass cannon, captured in one OF
the victories of Louis the Fourteenth
over the Spaniards, and at the
founding a Bourbon princess threw
her golden crucifix into the molten
mass. After it had been baptized
and blessed by a bishop, it was sent
to the Jesuits in America and sent
forth its first-born accents from the
tower of a log-built chapel sour
Lady's Chapel of the Forest" near
the st. Lawrence, westward of Lake
Champlain. The Indians were awed
were converted to the Catholic
faith.
The Legend
Meanwhile, in New England, the
Puritans, worshiped in a different
way. Their scouts brought word
that the Indians assembled at the
sound of the bell and some had
flaXen-haired scalps at thei rgirdles.
1t was believed in all New England
that the chapel had been founded
for the purpose of stirring up the
red men against the English sett-
lers. On the eve of a feast, band
of New England Rangers rushed in
to the chapel, slew the ministering
priests at the altar and set fire to
the chapel. One of the rangers sug-
gested that they carry away the bell
for their own Westinghouse. So it
was suspended on pole and borne
on their shoulders. The brass ton
que gave many stroke as the bear
ers staggered on their journey.
A war party of Indians followed
the rangers and, making an onset
in the middle of a swamp, killed
all and the bell was left to sink IN
ooze. Here it remained many years
till, near the close of the old French
war, a party of New England AK
men who preceded the march of
Col. Bradstreet toward Lake On
tario, were building a bridge of logs
through the swamp. Plunging down
a stake, one of these pioneers felt
1t Craze against some hard smooth
substance. The top of the bell was
raised to the surface, a rope made
fast and thence passed over the
horizontal limb of tree. The loud
peal echoed widely through the
forest and reached the ears of Col.
Bradstreet and his three thousand
men. The New Englanders hid the
bell in a shady nook and when the
campaign was over, carried it to
Boston where it was put up at auc-
tion in King street. 1t was bought
by a rich representative of the town
and by him presented to the meeting
house where it pealed out the sur
render of Quebec: rang out the good
news on the first Independence Day;
rang ioyously when Washington, in
the fullness of his glory rode through
the streets of Boston, and still again,
when Lafayette returned to America
and was so widely feted
The music of the cantata is
spirited and melodic and the solos
are of great beauty. Mrs. Roy G.
Cox and George Sutton will be So
loists.