Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-02-15
MARSH AND HAVENS DELIGHT
PATRONS ENTERT AINMENT COURSE
WITH VOICE AND PIANO SKILL

A concert of the highest type, given
by two recognized artists. was enjoyed
to the full by patrons of the Augusta
Entertainment Course Monday evening
in City hall when Miss Lucy Marsh.
soprano. and Raymond Havens. pianist,
appeared in the fifth of the seasons
series. The concert was originally
scheduled for Thursday evening last.
but owing to the illness Of Miss Marsh
was set ahead to Monday. The singer
had apparently recovered and was in
beautiful voice, and charming and de-
lightful to her hearers. Mr.. Havens
has an established place in the hearts
of Augusta music lovers and his work
on Monday night only increased his
popularity as a master of the piano.
Mrs. Jennie M. Case, accompanist for
Miss Marsh, did some excellent work.
Mr.. Ravens opened the concert pro-
gram with Schubert's Impromptu in B
fiat major, OPP. 142. He is known as
the player who makes the piano sing
and this first number in his program
was a remarkable demonstration of his
power. This Schubert work is a long
one with several varied movements in
varied moods, and made an excellent
overture.
Mr. Havens played group from
Chopin including an Etude in A fiat
major. short piece with perhaps more
of technique than melodiousness; the
Nocturne in d fiat major, OPP. 81, a
graceful number with sustained,
swinging melody of great beauty; and
the Scherzo in B fiat minor, a piece
familiar to all Chopin students. Mr..
Ravens played this with viSpr and
his rendering brought aut fully the
sudden surprises with which it is
filled. He responded to hearty en-
core with another Chopin composition,
the Butterfly Etude.
Miss Marsh sang three Russian
songs for her first group. Mother
Dearest" by SCHNEIDER and 'Iilacs' by
Rachmaninoff were somewhat similar
in style and of that peculiar minor
sweetness which is typically Russian.
THE Snow Drop" by Gretchaninoff
was a simple little spring ballad. Miss
Marsh was heartily applauded and re-
sponded with Huerter's Pirate
Dreams"
the modern composers and included
Palmgren's Cradle Song, the Orien-
tale by Amani and Moskowski's jug
Cling Girl" The Cradle Song was
somewhat out of the usual manner of
pieces of this kind, having a PEN
dulum-like swing throughout. The
second number, as it's name sugges is,
contains the rather harsh harmonics
of the East. The last of the group
was also suggestive of the orient but
in quite rapid time and full of mo-
ton. Mr.. Ravens encore was the
Schubert-Liszt Ave Maria.
Miss Marsh sang only one display
piece, the Shadow Song from Dinorah.
This Meyerbeer work is in the old,
ford style and useful mainly for vir-
tuosity. Miss Marsh proved herself
fully equal to the rather difficult de-
mands of the piece. After this she
sang, in decided contrast. There Are
Fairies in the Bottom of Our Gar
den," by Liza Lehman
In the last group which Mr.. Ravens
played, the Schubert-Liszt interpreta-
ton of the gloomy tragedy OF the Fri
king came first. One can almost hear
the hoof beats of the father riding with
his child through the dreary night and
at the end the tragic discovery that
the child is dead. Mr.. Ravens played
a prelude in B major by Alkan and
finished the group with the Blue DAN
ube Waltzes His encore was Chopin
waltz in A fiat major. OPP. AZ.
The final group was by Miss Marsh.
four short songs, two of them by Mac
Dowell and Prelude by Landon Rom
aid. The last and one of the most beau
tiful in the entire program was by
John Prndle Scott, 1.-The Winds in the
South" a charming lyric of springtime
and happiness.