Evening star., 1924-06-08
Club and School Notes

|MRs. AUGUST KING SMITH pre-
sented a group of little children.
ranging in age from seven years to
the early teens, in an unusually in
teresting demonstration of teaching
harmony and the fundamentals of
music to little folk. at her studio
week ago yesterday before a large
audience.
The program included tests of ac-
curacy in hearing and identifying in
dividual keys when struck on the
piano. some distance away, the writ
ing of names of different kinds of
chords dictated on the piano the diff
ferentiation of various rhythms and
tempo changes and the recognition of
notes as shown on the blackboard.
Each small performer was required
to play his or her own simple compo-
sition in whatever key his classmates
suggested, sometimes transposing the
same melody in several different keys.
1t was really remarkable the accuracy
of ear, eye and memory shown in this
work
Children participating were: Glass
No. 1. age seven. Randall Connolly.
Kinney Brookings. Stella Golibart.
Rhythmical work at blackboard;
pa payed rSe Robin ana in dierens asr f1ss Kess
also expressing the rhythm by hop
ping it: played their own original
melodies. Boy Blue" by Stella Coli
bart and '.Tewitt Tewee." by Randall
Conholy. Glass No. ?, ages eight and
nine, Walter Connolly. Dubois Brook
ings. Margaret Clark. Louise Waller.
Robert Sommers and Blanche May
Golibart: Ear game with intervals:
played THE Scissors Grinder in any
key suggested: original melodies.
harmonized-.The Bee" by Margaret
Clark: Jack and Jill" by Dubois
Brookings; The Bugle," by Robert
Sommers. and Lullaby" by Blanche
May Golibart. Class No. 3. age eight,
Mary Martha Golibart and Martin
Henderson. Sang any interval named;
recognized time patterns. Original
compositions. THE Candy Lion" by
Martin Henderson, and The Hurdy
Gurdy Man, by Mary Martha Golibart.
KRONER. Jane KRONER, Francis Som
mers. Tessia McCully. Played Even
tide in different keys. Original mel
odies-"Balioons" by Leon KRONER:
melody to same words written in a
minor key by Tessia McCully. Glass
5. ages ten and eleven, Herbert
Cushing. Robert Brookings. Julia
Nefr, Mary Josephine Baker, Margaret
Fink. Game in recognizing triads .
Sur la Gace," played by Herbert
by Mary Josephine Baker and Robert
Brookings at two pianos, alternating
every four measures: also played in a
different .,in key by 6y,i Julian Neff and
N.Murmuring Breezes" BY leonard
Burman. Cello Solo" by Mary
Josephine Baker, "Somersaults" by
Margaret Fink, Leonard Berman at
monies By ear and writing them on
the blackboard; Waltz by Robert
Brookings. "O1d Black Joe" was
sung in parts by this class as har-
monized by themselves, Julia Nef
accompanying at the piano with her
own arrangement Glass No. 6, ages
eleven, twelve and thirteen, Charlotte
Partridge, Paul Henderson and Thad-
deus Jones. Thaddeus Jones played
mner hh own key sompos.tan charos PsrtraFe In
played Indian Mothers Lullaby" a
wierd melody of her own, with a
suggestion of tom-toms In the left
hand part The program was ended
tarantelle by Paul Henderson. with
freedom and a good tone quality.
The fifth and last concert Of the
Studios Studios. Otto % Simon, d Voice: La Sale
Spier, piano; Henri Sokolov, violin,
will take place Friday evening, at s
o'clock, in the auditorium of the
Young Mems Christian Association,
Blaisde1 and Otto Simon viii be at
the piano. The public is cordially
invited to attend
The following program Will be given
'Maiden's Song" Meyer r-Helmund)
n1anehe Gnsa BY Braxten " Howel,: eaast;' sereaade
Rachmaninoff), Virginia ShuI;
'sWanderer' (Jensen), Jean Stimson !;
-Madrigal" (SimonettD. Spring
senE R1sn;an fmsndslsSohn pane: nh enaiKax hurk
sky). Carroll Wolcott; -Mid-Summer
Lullaby" (MacDowelD, 90 Fair and
Holy" (Cantor), Lucie Murray; Flu
neral March" (Mendelssohn), 'raran-
tella" (Mendelssohnl: Thomas Clarke:
(Gossac), Herbert Buri1hart: Dance
er Suite" (Tschaikowsky), Sophie
Snyder; "The Lake" tSaIter), '1ast
(saiter,. Sylvia Grazzini; aRomance"
fSchumann), Jessie Blaisdell: Con
certo" (Accolay). Marion Blaisdell: !:
"Dove sono," aria from Figaro =
(Mozart). Nellie G. Canine; The
Bells of Geneva daszs, . & Marth. INC NC
som so Lightly Stirred (Kopyiow).
Hazel Gem Hughes. Anna Ledward
Patterson, Ida Willis Seaton, Lillian
Adelaide Watson, Frances van den
Boeert, Edith R. Granger. DR.. Car
SON Frailey, Charles Watts, John
Waters, j. Frank Duggan lby court
esy); "Hallelujah," chorus from The
Mount of Olives" tBeethoven), Fran
ces van den Bogert, Caroline Ida
burke. Flora Colonna, Mrs. Marga-
ret Do1an. Charlotte Engel, Carolane
B. Getty. Sylvia Grazzini, Blanche
Braxton Howell, Hazel Gem Hughes,
Lucie Murray. Anna Patterson. Ade-
laide Watson, Nellie G. Canine,
FLORENCE M. Conklin, Edith r..
GnAa1s Ida WIllie Seate0s Ruth