Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-16
Music Memory
Contest Near ng Close
Music Memory ecital


When our readers have this paper
the following interesting recital will
have been rendered at the First M. Z.
Church, taking place at $50 o'clock
tonight (Ihursday) If it is as good as
1t promises and as good as the one OF
two weeks ago, the pleasurable re-
collection of it will make the report of
it acceptable even a week hence. Mrs
J. Is. Norman is in charge and the
numbers are:
Soldiers Chorus from Faust, with
two pianos.
Piano |. Julia Lovett and Helen
Williams.
Piano IL. Dessa Searcy and Mar
joric Denmark
Marche Militaire by Schubert, with
two pianos.
Piano |. Dessa Searcy and Mar
orie Denmark.
Piano IL. Julia Lovett and Helen
Williams.
Anitras Dance by Grieg-Miss Ro-
sale Patterson.
Souvenir by Drdla, Violin-Miss
Helen Patterson.
Celeste Aida by Verdi and Come
Where My Love Lies Dreaming by
Foster, Vocal-Mrs Frank Ward.
La Paloma by Yradier, Vocal-Mrs
Carl Fellars.
Castenet and Tambourine accom-
paniment.
Liebstraum by List, Piano-Mrs. ].
B. Norman.
Melody i'll F by Rubensten-High
School Chorus, Senior Girls.
Humorcsque by D'vorak. Flute, VIC
lin and Piano-the Misses Patterson
and DIR. Turner
Selection, Piano-Miss Biles.
Home To Our Mountains by YER
di-Victrola.
Selection-Christian Church Orches-
ira.
The selections for study during the
seventh week, Nov. 10Th to 9th are !:
| Bell Song-by Delibes.
z Home to our Mountains-by Verdi
3 | know that My Redeemer Liveth
by Handel.
q Meditation from ''Thais"-by Mas
senet.
S Prelude in c sharp Minor by
Rachmaninoff.
6 Toreador Song from Carmen
by Bizet
The dates and places will be as usual
Monday and Friday at Bradshaw's
Parlors.
Tuesday and Wednesday at the
schools.
Saturday will be specially announ-
,ced later.
Sunday at the churches. There will
be used as special numbers, offertor-
les and voluntaries, a variety of the
contest numbers.
1t is said that some of the
mothers are getting little impatient
about the time the children spend aft
or dismissal from school to hear the
weekly programs.
1t will not be quite fair to the child
rem who have spent four or five weeks
in this valuable pastime to cut off their
chances in the last lap OF the race to
test their own ability and to have a
chance of winning one of the many
fine prizes.
Mothers, if You have let your child
rem begin the music memory drill,
then in justice to them let them fin
ish. The world is full of cutters, will
you have your child be one of them?
The Shreveport Ga Times, in
speaking Of the Music Memory
Movement says, "The movement, in
itiated here, has for its purpose the
training Of the youthful mind primar-
lily. 1t is one of the many things on
the curriculum which the uunthinking
only too often term new wrinkles"
Those who give attention to the meth
cd of modern education, however, I'M
derstand that it is an element in the
broadening of the youthful mind.
And there is more to be said for
the Music Memory movement. 1t is
not only a splendid mental discipline
for the child, but also power which
leads to culture and refinement. The
child becomes attentive to higher and
nobler things. 1t hears everywhere
practically so-called music which in
truth, however, is nothing less than a
mixture of jumbled discords. Jazz mu-
SIC of the present day will not endure
But that which has been known as
music throughout the centuries does
endure. The compositions of the great
masters Of another time and the ster-