The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-22
CAUSES
PROGRAM CHANGE.
Ricardo BOnelli Unable to
Sing as Part of Chau-
tauqua Program
PIANO SMASHED
BY AUTOMOBILE
Prof. Hines Used Another Instrument
However, and Audience Manifests
I It's Pleasure at Both Performances
Yesterday.

An accident and the illness of one
of the members of the concert company
made changes necessary in the after
noon and evening attractions at the
Chautauqua tent yesterday, but these
did not detract from the pleasure of the
audiences in the musical renditions bv
Prof. Gabriel L. Hines, noted pianist
and composer, and the Corella- Bonelli
Company, and the lecture by Supt. A.
Hunt Cook on Five Months with the
French Army
It had been announced that Prof.
Hines would bring his Steinway grand
piano on a special truck to Brattleboro
but an automobile collision in Concord
Wednesday, in which the piano was de-
mollshed and the driver of the truck,
John Patterson, was injured, made this
impossible and his selections were in
terpreted on the piano which Is used
daily at the tent
Ricardo Bonelli, baritone. whom the
audience expected to hear in the eve
nlng concert, was unable to sing on
account of an attack of larvngitis
which came upon him while in New
Brunswick last week, and his place on
the program was taken by Percy Ba
con of Boston
Following the lecture by Superin-
tendent Cook, in which he told MANY of
has experiences, Prof Hines rave an
excellent piano-lecture recital. First he
divided music lovers into fonr classes
those who like music, who find pleas
ure and entertainment in it, those who
crave for its initiative side, the depic-
ton of certain stories and scenes, th,
so-cailed student class, and the emo
tional class, those who are able to en-
JOY and can open up their hearts to il
but profess to have no real knowledge
of it. Pleading for a democratization
of music. Prof Hines said: "'Of all the
arts music alone appeals to the emo.
tons; all others appeal to the intellect
1t should be taken out of the hands of
| the few and put into the hands of the
many. He then Illustrated the -four
classes Of music by playing numerous
selections, many of them original
In his solo work in the afternoon as
well as IN his evening accompaniment
for the Corrella Bonelli company Prof
Hines performance was remarkable for
ITS artistic reserve and technical per
fection
Prior to the evening concert Mai
William A. Atkinson, lately returned
from 10 months service in France
spoke on Thrift and the Need ot
Thrift. Maj. Atkinson, sent out by
the United States government, repre-
sented the war savings division of tn,
treasury department and spoke in be
half of the campaign of education be
ing put on this year for the promnlga
tion of thrift. He urged the continued
| buying of war savings stamps and tn,
| organization of war saving societies
thereby turning surplus earnings int
government securities.
Miss Pauline Corella had a soprant
voice of rare sweetness and sang he
numbers with a sensitive tone full o.
subtle shadings, her echo song being
appreciated most by the audience, an,
in her selections with piano and violir
accompaniment she was especially pleas
ing. Mr.. Bacon s numbers were pivei
with splendid Interpretation and hi
closing secular songs were received en-
| Enthusiastically. Miss Ruth Colling
bourne, violinist, drew the heartiest an
| pause of the evening and was com
| PEELED to give several encore numbers
She is an artist of exceptional ability
The accompaniments, too by Prot
Hines added much to the program