New Britain herald., 1926-10-27
CONCERT DELIGHTS
 SCHOOL AUDIENCE
New Britain Musical Club Fur
 niSheS Pleasing Program

With second string quartet mak- ing its debut, and the inovation ot A lecturer describing the music as the program progressed the first free public school concert of the season given by the New Britain Musical club at the Israel Putnam school auditorium last evening was a highly satisfactory event The con cert was given in conjunction with the Parents and Teachers assocla- ton and marked the first public use of the rebuilt school building, which formerly was known as the Osgood Hill school.
 The new string quartet of the Musical club, consisting of George Westerman and Richard Porter, Vlo- lins; Raymond Ostman. viola, and Miss Margaret Perkins, cello, was formed recently and has been coach- ed by Herbert F. Anderson. The tact that the new quartet could so acceptably take part in the first con- cert of the season was matter of much qualification to the club. The quartet made two appearances, and was successful upon each occasion.
 The lecturer was Msis Ruth Edna Schade, who gave the audience q thorough description of the compo- sitions played and the circumstances attending their creation. Her sketches otthe composers represent ed were highly illuminating, yield ing evidence of much research and care. The plan of having a lecturer at the school concerts thus came to q successful fruition.
 Others on the program were Mrs. Ruth Goodrich Horton, soprano; John Lindsay, baritone; Miss Flor ence Tomassoni and Miss Gertrude Hine, pianists, and Theron W. Hart as accompanist to the singers.
 The program began with a sym pathetic rendition of two movements from the Beethoven Pathetique so- nata, played by Miss Tomassonl, con trasting delightful singing tone in the adagio and zestful spirit in the finale. MT. Lindsay sang two selec- tons lTDIl tNCu uLlldilll Q NN1 | Love-" sticking to the German text because satisfactory translations were not at hand. Both were done with exquisite feeling.
 The string quartet gave happy reading of the Kaiser quartet vari, ations by Haydn, at first suffering from little nervousness as behtteG such an suspicious occasion, bu' soon recovering and glorying In suave tone that pleased all hearers Mrs. Horton and Mir. Lindsay follow ed with that never-failing draugh of nectar, Nevin's 70 That We Two Were Maying," which was well sung and well received.
 To Miss Hine went the problem 0 making Debussy's modernlstc 'Noc turne" sound like more than vague impression to the audience After the lecturer had suitably pre- pared the minds of the hearers a to what to expect, the pianist gave careful and painstaking recital O inc. piece. navigating it's harmoni shoals with surety and dispatch.
 Mrs Horton, in a brace of thre American songs by Brahe, Curra' and Whelpley, well upheld tn claims of current art. The strin quartet finished the program wit two star selections, the Andante Can tabile from the Tschaikowsky quar tet, Op. 11--played oftener than an other movement from a string guar tet with the possible exception 0 the Haydn movement previousl played-and the famous Boccherlr minuet, which as usual transporte the audience to the realm of rhythr and unalloyed joy.
 Everything went well last nigh except that few small boys fror the neighborhood took iiendish de light in trying to break mp the pro ceedings until halted in their endea vors by the stern rebukes Of eldorl folk and the teachers.