The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
Music Club PROGRAM.

Notwithstanding the rain, large
audience gathered at the Y. w. G. A.
auditorium to hear the program Of the
Monday Music club which had been
arranged by Mrs. n. l.. Reid and Miss
Clara Gertrude Fry. Preceding the
formal program, Professor Hayden led
the community singing, Mrs. w. H.
Carter playing the piano accompani'
ment. Two songs of the civil war
iperiod. Marching Through Georgia and
The Battle Cry Of Freedom were sung.
Four Of Miss Fry's advanced pupils,
Miss Catharine Reidy, Miss Clara EN-
ma Reed, Miss Coral Meador and Miss
Georgia Schell played March Militaire,
| by Schubert, on two pianos. They
played the numbers with much spirit
and in excellent tempo. so that the eff
feet was almost as if it had been play
| ed On one piano.
Mrs. Robert Lee Reid was the so,
prano soloist of the evening and ap,
peared three times on the program
Her first appearance was in a group
of three songs, Rest Thee My Spirit
by Strauss; japanese Cradle Song, by
Mary Turner Salter and Less Than
the Dust, by Amy Observation-Disclosures
Later she sang La Figlia del Reggi
menti, by Donizetti and Elegy, by Mas
senet, and responded to two encores
Perhaps the first number by Strauss
had the greatest depth and gave the
best opportunity to show the quality
of her voice. Elegy, by Massenet was
favorite with the audience, the
;beauty of the number being enhanced
by the cello accompaniment by DR.
Marsh. Miss Rollosson played the
piano accompanim ent with much sym
pathy. Mrs. Reid is conscientious
musical student and her voice has beer
carefully trained. She began he1
study years ago with Laura Moon,
McGavic and was a pupil of Herber
Joy for four years, later studied will
Mrs. o. l.. Fox at the Chicago musica
college and in recent years studiet
voice, history and theory at Columbi;
university and. while in New York wa,
the pupil of signor Luigi Parisotti.
Miss Clara Gertrude Fry was TIL,
pianist of the evening and appeared
three times: the first number was I'm
promptu Opus 142 No. /, by Schubert
the second was group of four mum
bers, Minuet a I Antico, by Seeboeck
Meadow Lark. by Roy Lamont Smith
Dancing Doll, by Poldini; Fantesie I'm
Ipromptu, by Chopin, and her last mum
Der was Concert Etude No. 2 Dance o
the Gnomes) by List. For encore!
she played Varum, by Schumann AMI
The Music Box. The Dance of tht
Gnomes almost infinite in it~ +o"','''o
al difficulties, was perhaps the mos
difficult of the numbers played ai'u l.
strong contrast with it was The Dane
ing Doll so simple in its composition
that the youngest pupil could easil!
read the music and yet most Difficult
in it's execution, because the slightes
error would mar it. Miss Fry Away:
plays in finished style and excels il
the use Of the pedal. a quality which
lis often lost sight Of by the average
Iaudience Mr. Gum, with whom Mis-!
|studied, has always commended he
luse OF the pedal. Her Interpretation
of Varum, that composition which
tasks the question why was particular
lily good
Mr.. Eugene Carter played three
violin numbers. Mrs. w. H. Carte,
iplayed the piano accompaniment
Adagio, by Corellf: Laure, by Boch
and Mozart's Minuet. His playing las