Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-12


asked to telephone Mrs. Kinsler
Harvey 1881, or Mrs. R. Beechel
Howell, president, Harvey 662l.
Student membership also is open
Students of music are urged to join
Application blanks may be obtained
from teachers, and when filled out
giving name, address and telephone
number, should be mailed, accom-
panied by the annual membership
fee of 81, to Mrs. Kinsler, $500 Far
nam street
The gallery membership. which
includes the series of concerts and
which was such success last year
is again offered to any lover OF
music who does not wish to take
an active membership, and is not
eligible as a student member.
The opening program of the sea-
son 10000 will be given on the
evening of November II. when
Sophie Braslau, contralto, who will
be heard in opera at the Auditorium
the latter part of this month, and
Albert Spalding, American violinist,
viii be presented in a joint recital.
The Tuesday Musical club is
happy to announce that the Adolf
Bolm Ballet Intime and the Little
Symphony have been definitely en-
gagged for the closing program,
which will be given Saturday even
ing. April "A,
Appoggiaturas.
Many new operas will be pre-
scented by both the Chicago and New
York companies during their home
season.
The many prizes offered at the
present time for various types of
musical composition should incite a
more general and more careful
study of theoretical subjects.
An eastern paper remarks that
Now that opera tickets are 81
grand opera has been brought with
Several interesting papers on mu
n the reach of the working classes"
steal subjects appear in the current
Musical Courier.
If all those people who lent their
time, their countenance and their
activity as a part of the mob, and
this includes every one who was
there; if these same people had put
in the same time and energy at their
Auditorium, fixing it up, that they
spent at their court house tearing it
down, they would have saved taxes
instead of increasing them, and have
something decent, instead of some
thing disgraceful, to show for it.
Musical Mates.
The music classes of the Univer-
sity Of Omaha, of which Johanna
Anderson has charge. are growing
larger every semester. There are
now four classes in methods--kin-
dergarten, primary, intermedie and
a fifth class in har-
mony. Miss Anderson also has three
chorus classes at the High School of
Commerce, and this year has started
a class in harmony with % girls.
These girls will give an operetta
some time after Christmas.
The music department of the
Omaha Woman's club will hold its
opening program Wednesday after
noon, October Is, at 3 p. m. in the
Y. w. C. A. auditorium. The pro-
gram is under the direction of Mrs
Ray ]. Abbott Miss Gertrude Ann
Miller, Miss Celia Feiler, Mrs. Evelyn
Reese and Rev. A. H. Marsden will
furnish musical solos, in Parts I and
II, which will include dance num-
bers by Virginia Upham and Ellen
Peterson.
Vicomtesse de Ia Pannouse, who
rendered valuable services during
the war as president of the British
committee of the French Red Cross
has been decorated with the Order
of the British Empire by King
George.
An enterprising housewife has dis
covered new use for cats. Every
now and then she buys samples OF
milk from several dairymen. The
samples are put into saucers and
given to the cat, and the richest
milk she maintains is invariably
Tapped up first.
In order to color the enormous
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