The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-10-02
EASTMAN GIVES
MUSIC SCHOOL
To ROCHESTER
SPENDS s4.oco,ooo IN INTERESTS OF
ART-MANY STUDENTS
ENROLLED.
Unioue Wheeling Man Climbs High IN
Music-Sunday Afternoon Con-
osrts Planned.

DO YOU realize what George Eastman.
OF Kodak fame. has dono for his own
home city OF Rochester In the way or
music
Hc has Just completed n 100000
school 81 music. which includes one or
the finest theatres ever planned IN TINS
country. The seating capacity IS JAW
and the theatre will be used six days
week FOR moving pictures. Wednesday
will be given over 10 music.
The stage IS equipped for opera per-
for,nanccs and season ot opera Is
MANNED. The theatre is to serve as a
medium @, expression for tho Eastman
school OF Music. Of which Il Is part.
Organ students and orchestra students
win he given tho opportunity OF doing
ac.uol service IN connection win the
theatre productions.
The whole outfit belongs 10 the people.
the University Oc Rochester holding the
Title & the property. There arc no
stockholders and whatever profits accrue
will - d.yot.l 20 increasing thc Efforts
20 further music ADVANCES for the
people.
1900 Students Enrolled.
Thirteen hundred students are en-
rolled this first year and Rochester ~
destined to become one oc tho real art
Eastman saw the opportunity, saw tho
need and the benefits - be derived from
surh an enterprise and planned ana
consummQted the dream without regard
to expense.
What a bower one man with sufficient
means can be- IN z community IN par
ticular field has hrcn Overwhelmingly
demonstrated by Nj. Eastman. whether
other mon I'm such financial positions In
other cities In this couatry will consider
this cvamrlc and initiate K remains to
be seen, Lei us hope So
Some twenty years ago, in Wheeling.
there was uriqu" character in music
activities named Charles Zulaft. Dur
!ng the day ho was engaged in deliver
Ing !cc. Shovel!nC coal. etc. but no pos
sasscd a most remarkable singing voice.
Indend today hN = one Of P!ttshurgh's
prom,ncn. solOis:s. An Incident is re-
lated concerning ZulaR and some mem
hers "c 4 rand opera troupe who played
the Court theatre.
Iceman Artist.
The dav following their performance
Of IN" "Eohcmiau Girl the principal
members Of the cast dropped into a,
music store owned by +. w. Baumer
(now tn" firm Of Davis. Burkham
Ty.cr). NJ naumcr was telling tho
artists Of ZulaT and hlS remarkable
gifts when. CHANGING out OF the window.
10 saw Zulafr delivering ice into store
directly across tho street.
st"rri1r 20 tho door. ne called him
over and inter Z brief Introduction
asked him I" sing The Heart Bowed
Down" from tho opera which the art
iets had given Tho night before. 1t ~
said that Zulaif. dressed IN overalls, leo
Pill; IN ono hand and !Cc-tongs in tho
,-..,1
such appeal that tho ert!st audience was
really thrilled b. tn" rendition,
A. that ,!mn Zular was singing In a
choir ~ he Second Presbyterian church.
As tenor solo!gt In this same choir
which was directed by Prof. Henry
Hartmann. was 4 name named Robert
Ankle. He. too. has sine" become a.
prominent figure In music elsewhere.
Tho story IS told that Ankle was ap-
3cariug a| 4 Soloirt in a concert given
in ,rs Old opera house on the site of
which now stands N" Register build
Ing. Mr.. Arkic's solo on that occasion
was the "Cujus Amman" from stabat
Mater.
In tho closing phrase Of this remark
able solo. the singer ~ called upon to
execute j. short cadcnza which includes
Nigh n Nat. 4 taxing demand upon a
tenor voice.
Repeats Difficult Effort.
Mr.. Arflc sang beautifully until he
reached this final effort and then made
an attemr, which was n disappointment
both 70 himself and n" large audience
present. Waiting until the orchestra
finished the closing strains Of tho num-
Der he made n hricf announcement In !
which he stated that. with tho permits
sion az tho audience. no would repeat
the solo and sing tho difficult pa ssage as
- should he and rs he was capable OF
doing.
or course permission was given and
the result was triumph for him. You
must admit that such an incident on n
concert platform Is unusual. Last sea-
son IN AeolIan hall, New York. tho emf
nent brazilian pianist. Gu!omar Sovaes.
was laying n Beethoven sonata from
memory. rs well as an entire program. !
when suddenly the audience was
astounded 20 hear IN" music stop. to !
see The ar;ls. arise from the piano step
to the 'front.' OF the platform.
She stated that she had temporarily
forgotten tho number being played and ,
tina, with the permission OF the audi |
ence she would begin again. believing |
that she would remember the balance
OF the composition. She resumed her
seat and played the number beautifully |