Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-02
MUSIC WEEK"
STARTS MAY 10
ENDING MAY II
Third Annual Musical Festival
to Extend Over Period
of 9 Days.

A nine-day community music festi-
val that will touch almost every home
in Great Falls was outlined for the
third annual music week program, May
10 to q. inclusive. at the meeting of
the general committee in charge of the
event Monday night, at Edison recital
hall.
W. l.. Beers. vice president of the
Great Falls Musical Arts association.
was elected chairman of the committee
and will supervise the arrangement of
the program. All music clubs, teachers
of music. prominent musicians of the
city and the Musical Arts association
will be represented in the weeks activi-
ties. The plan of the committee is to
have some musical program under way
at every hour of the afternoon and
evening of the nine days of the festi-
val.
Junior High School Orchestra
The week will be ushered in by a
concert of the Junior high school on
the evening of May 10, when the or
chestra and c~horuses. as well as other
musical numbers will be given. The
only other date Of the program now set
is for the grade school concert, May %.
which will be a feature of the program
III inc uuIllDtE VI CiilisfeH idhlUS part.
For Sunday, May 81, it is planned
to emphasize music in every church of
the city. Each church win arrange a
special program of singing. The fea-
ture of the day will be community sing
ing. TO be held simultaneously in the
theaters of the city. Some of the the
aters are planning to give special films
on musical subjects as a part of the
music program. On all of the nine
days ~soloists will be provided by the
general committee for such theaters
as may ask for them.
Municipal Band to Play
Places will be arranged on the pro-
gram for any musical organization, in
addition to those already signed for the
festival, according to Mr.. Beers. After
Don programs will be given by the
Tuesday Music club. the Edison shop
and Hops music store. Among the
evening programs will be those by the
pupils of Miss Louise Valverda Kelley,
pupils of Miss Louise Nalverda Kelly,
the pupils of Mrs. Adelaide Donovan,
the pupils of Professor r. A. Reyes,
African Baptist and African Methodist
churches. The new Municipal band
will give a concert as a part Of the
Plans of the n call for va
ried programs and meeting in several
places each day in order that all may
be accommodated. With the grade
and Junior high school pupils taking
part and all of the music organizations
represented, virtually every family In
Great Falls will be contributing to the
success of the music festival, accord
-ng to Mr.. Beers.
Civic Organizations Support Festival
During the nine days program the
of music will be stressed
through window decorations and other
means of bringing it before the public.
The leaders of many of the civic or
of the city indorsed the
plans prior to the meeting Of the gen
eral committee.
The program this year will be the
ever attempted in the work in
Great Falls and was decided upon in
view of the success and popularity
Of the music week in previous years.
The longer period will permit the rep
resentation of every organization and
will make it more and more a COM
enterprise, according to Mr..