Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-19
Johnsou-Harriss Recital
Treat to Music-LOyers.

Treat TO Music Lovers.
i. i, Paiatka music-lovers were given
an evening of pleasure when Maria.
}, Elise johnson, violinist, and Eliza
4 beth Harriss, pianist, appeared in
: concert at the Woman's club last
night. These artists charmed their
hearers from the beginning of their
varied program to its last clear note
Both Miss johnson and Miss Harriss
posSess youth and charm of person
alit& and add to the artistrysof their
musflsnship and graciousness Of
Sympathetic response 70 an audience.
i, The program rendered last evening
was. chosen with evident regard to
the pleasure and understanding of
the trained musician and of the lay
man. Before the first movement of
!Greig's Sonata in F, with which
Miss johnson and Miss Harriss to-
gether opened the program, was
more than begun, those present re-
allied that they were in the pres
ence of those who not alone were pos
sessed of the divine gift, but who
were conscientious and thoughtful in
terpreters of composers beautiful
dream. Following this difficult
work Miss johnson, accompanied by
Miss Harriss, played an exquisite
group of short numbers. This con-
sisted of the Necturne' in E Minor
Chopin Auer), Mazurka in A Mi
mort (Chopin-Kreisler), Oriental
tCui), and La Gitana (Kreisler).
Miss johnson possesses a strong and
fiinhsed technique, which enables her
to express the most brilliant pas
sages with ease, but it is perhaps in
the more soulful and spiritual num-
'bers, those works of the masters
which express the feelings and long
ings Of the human heart that she
shows her genius and interpretative
art most clearly. Miss johnson made
the Chopin numbers just what that
master of sentiment as expressed in
music intended. She made a witch
cry of La Gitana, and put the re-
pressed cry of broken heart into
the Orientale. Miss johnson , re-
4sponded to encore with a brilliant
rendition of Kreisler arrangement
of Nobody Knows the Troubles l
Have Seen"
Miss Harriss followed Miss john
son with a group of well-known
numbers. Miss Harriss makes of a
piano the musical instrument it is
meant to be but too frequently is not.
She possesses the true singing touch,
combined with a sure and brilliantly
adequate technique. She opened her
series of numbers with Schumann's |
Novelette, in E, following this mag |
NATIVE and tuneful composition with
two Debussy numbers, the Danse,
and Au Clair du Lune. Debussy,
was charmigniy interpreted by Miss
Harriss, and that misunderstood
writer was given his just due. 1t
seemed evident by her rendition that
Miss Harriss is a Debussy enthusiast.
AS, an encore, Miss Harriss played
with fitting grace and lightness
Chopin's Waltz in E Minor.
The concluding numbers of the
were "Chuck Wills Wild
ow," and "Gypsy Airs" by Miss
johnson. The first was of peculiar {
interest to Floridians, being written
by Miss Susan Dyer, head of the
music school at Rollins college, at
Winter Park, and carrying in it's
strains the aetes of the whip-poor- J
will and the mockingbird. "Gypsy t
Airs" is an arrangement of the va ]
,ious Hungarian Gypsy songs by Tir-
ndelli, the noted violin master, at C
;he Cincinnati conservatory, where I
Miss johnson was his pupil at one h
line. t
Following the recital, an informal h
reception in honor of the two mu- T
'icians, was held, the piano commit
ZEE, of. which Mrs. A. A. Corcoran is \
Hartman, and the music committee, n
# which Mrs. w. T. Hamm is chair a
nan, being in charge of arrange C
nents. Thus their hearers were en- ]
lbled to meet these gifted and charm g
ng young women. During this re-
.eption hour ice crea mand cake Il
we're served. n
The club auditorium was practic il
lily filled for this affair last eve n
ling, and the sum realized will go to h
he piano fund. Miss johnson is II
riend of Mrs. Corcora nand she and a
Hiss Harriss gave their recital with Il
tut charge, for the benefit of the ri
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frs. Gay Hostess to Club. e.
Mra GaArrn z Cav entertained ir