Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-18
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left hand badly crushed in the block of
! hay fork, last week, 1t was neces-
! sary to amputate at the second joint
! The Village Improvement society
| WAL present the moving picture, The
! Christian" at the town hall, July 26
| The super-special production, Souls
| for Sale will be given Thursday eve
| ming for the benefit of the Badger
| baseball team.
Chester Parker has opened a studio
| in the Mason house on the Parker
| Point road. Mr.. Parker specializes in
high grade photography. developing,
charging and color work.
The dedication ceremonies of the
bronze war memorial, held at the town
hall Sunday afternoon, were simple
and impressive. After prayer by DR. j.
j; Martin Harry Htnckley, president of
the Village Improvement society, in
PRODUCED the speakers, Judge William
McAdoo chief magistrate of New
York, and Associate Justice Charles
); Dunn of the Maine supreme court.
me addresses We're inspiring, and held
the close attention of the packed
house Music was furnished by a string
quartette of DR.. Kneisers students,
witch and Prntz After the exercises
IN the hall. the tablet was unveiled by
TOUR school children. Phyllis Hnclley,
| Evelyn Williams, Newton Chase and
| Paul Saunders.
The Badgers lost a hard fought
| game to Bucksport July H. score 5 to
| j. Saturday they won to game
| from Brooklin.
July 16. s.
KREHBIEL MEMORIAL. CONCERT
On July Is concert was given at
kneiSel hall in memory of Henry E.
krehbiel, distinguished .tcritc and
author. The program was given by
direction of DIR. Franz Kneisel. and
was of high order. Mr.. Krehbiel had
spent his summers in Bluehill for
many years, and was known and loved
as public-spirited, great souled man.
The large place he had made for him
self in the hearts of the people, both
native and summer residents, was evil
denced by the throng which packed
kneisel hall to capacity.
1t lies outside the province of this
writer to attempt any exhaustive
criticism of the program of the after
noon. rollicking, but shrewd humor-
really {. great deal better than it
sounds" But this concert sounded
good. If we may resort once more to
the reporters shop-worn panegyric-
How infinitely more pleasing to the
ear than the music of the day which
seems to Salty the artistic craving of
those who are distinctly hoi polloi.
In DR.. kneiSefS concerts one hears
nothing of the "self-conscious, self
descriptive" music of our ultra
| modernists, of whom it is said, they
care as little for harmony as for tune,
and set out to express states of mind"
| He uses the musical instruments which
Wagner and Beethoven had in mind,
and not the tom toms of the savage
| tribes. automobile horns mechanisms
that initiate the crashing of a pile of
| dishes falling etc. Probably all of
| this ultra modernism in music results
| from trying to democratize it. We re-
member Mr. Krebhiel saying on one
| occasion that every attempt toward
| the characterization of music had in
| variably resulted in it's degradation.
The program was well selected for
the occasion, with Handlers stately and
serious Largo as the opening num-
ber and the harps carrying the burden
of the melody. The harp solos by
Carlos Salzedo We're pleasing, but it
must be said that the harp seems some
what limited in the range, of it's pos
| sibilities. Mr.. Wilfeke's violon-
cello number revealed his superb
musicianship and at the same time
caused us to realize anew the musical
possibilities of that instrument,
But perhaps the most appreciate ed
performance of the afternoon was
| Haydn's quartet in D. major, OPP. 10
This was, in the Judgment of the
! writer, wonderful exhibition of pure
| ensemble, the chamber music which
Mr.. Kneisel has done so much to
popularize in America through the
famous, "Kneisel quartet"
Two addresses We're delivered. one
| by DIR. Frank Damrosch, eminent in
| musical circles as the head of the
| Musical Institute of New York. He
| bore witness to the high place which
Harry" Krebhiel had in the field of
| musical criticism, as one of the great
| est opponents of classicalism, and as,
| perhaps, the greatest authority on
! American folk song as a scholarly and
| conscientious literary man. Dr. Dam
| rosch declared that musical critics
| We're as necessary as artists, and that
| no more fitting memorial could be
| erected to Mr., Krehbiel and his work
| than the establishment of departments
-, of musical criticism in the music
| schools.
The other address was delivered by
| DR.. H T. Fowler of Brown university,
| DIR. Fowler referred to the tributes
| paid to Mr.. Krehbiel by such persons
| as Paderewsk and Madame Sem
| brich. He spoke at some length of the
| genial personality of the man, his Sc
| we're artistic standards, and yet,
withal, his great simplcity-inter-
| nationally famous as literary man,
honored with degrees from the uni
| versitieS a CheValier of the Legion of
| Honor of France, and yet walking the
| streets of our humble village, the
friend of all alike. Blessed be the
memory of Henry E. Krehbiel!
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