Evening star., 1926-12-12
NJ Il S &c
BY HELEN FETTER,

sup VI d SHl, IL SSShhS
that she should possess the intel
lectual as we'll as technical grasp
of such compositions as tax the
ability of many virtuosos. In her
program last evening, tone OF love-
iy, singing quality, perfect intona-
ton, a grace and freedom of bowling
and a style that establishes her. at
once as a great artist, make her
one of the most brilliant stars in
the musical armament"
Buffalo Evening News-"Some un-
commonly good violin playing. was
done by the young American violin
ist. Sylvia Lent. who made her sec
ond local appearance Tuesday eve
ming in Elmwood Music Hall. MISS
Lents previous performance mere
was as a soloist with the Detroit
Symphony, and at that time she
scored a success. Tuesday evenings
recital program served further to
reveal her gifts and to deepen the
earlier favorable impression. The
voung yiolinist draws pure, lovely
tone. smooth and resonant. lhere
is authority both in her tone and
in her style Of performance and
the accomplishment of her task
causes her no apparent effort. With
seeming unconcern, with: no man
nerisms or unsightly habits OF per-
formance, she interprets her music
in admirably finished style, the voice
of her instrument ever wooing the
ear"
WITH choral music filling the air
w about our ears, it is especially
poignant to stop moment i'll thlS
rushing season and tell OF the pass
ing on of Joseph Pache, who TOR
quarter of a. century was noted lot
his work with a large choral or
panization in the sister city OF Bal
Stockv. white haired. indelibly
Teutonic. Mr.. Pache stood out as
a personality in the music world OF
both cities. He came from Germany,
where he was born IS years ago,
and where, in 1907, the tormer
Kaiser Wilhelm of that now. broken
empire decorated Mr.. Pache with
the Order of the Red Eagle Tor ms
services in promoting German music
in the United States.
Mr.. Pache began his musical ca
reer in the Berlin Conservatory, ut1-
der Scharwenka. and when the Ia
NOUS Pole came to New York to
found a similar conservatory Mr:
Pache came with him. In 1877
Otto Sutro of Baltimore invited Mr.:
pachr to take the conductorship OF
the Baltimore Oratorio Society,
which he did, taking up his residence
at 1882 Harlem street, in which
house he was stricken with the i'll
ness that caused his death Tuesday.
The funeral was held Friday.
In addition to his work with the
oratorio society,", Mr.. Pache MAIN
tanned studios in Annapolis, Wash
ineton and Baltimore for instruc-
t1en of individual pupils. In Wash
isuton he was director of the Choir
Invisible and was organizing this
Fail a new choral group, the Wom-
ems Philharmonic Society. he also
is noted for his remarkable and val.
uable collection of art objects and
ANTIQUES. Prominent in his treas
ures is a fine painting of Felix Men
delssohn, presented to Mr. Facne Dy
the famous composer. :.
Another strong musical individual
has been lost to local music circles
in the death of Joseph Pache.
II II X +
ALSO. as last note in this cob
IA umn on the subject OF choral
singing. il is a pleasant duty to an
nounce that the District of Columbia
Federation of Music Clubs is organiz-
ing its annual caroling groups to go
about to hospitals. orphan asyiums
and similar institutions, singing the
Yuletide and Noel carols that are
internationally beloved. Mrs. Charies
MacRoberts, Cleveland 629, is in
charge of this work.
An amusing note is struck in an
article we saw recently in an out
of-town paper-a note that brings
| the art of Christmas caroling dis
tinctly up to date. 1t reads as toi-
lows: =.
"An increasing number of cities,
towns and villages are adopting the
custom of singing Christmas carols.
Several Of the larger cities: such as
Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia. Bos-
ton, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Denver.
DAYTON, etc, are expanding their
plans for the Christmas season.
This Chicago program, which is
cited as a model for other large
cities. is under the auspices of the
Christmas Carols for Chicago Com
in;ttee with a representative men,
bership headed by the mayor. In
Detroit, which is the pioneer in the
movement, the caroling has of late
been in the hands of the Camp Fire
Girls and the Girl Scouts. with a
special advisory committee IN
charge"
| II is an admirable move in every
case, but somehow, it all sounds SO
extremely twentieth-century eff
cient; so much the American bigger
and ter-caroling sort OF thing. in
stead of the spontaneous way in
which little cliques of neighbors used
to get together in the old merrie
England days of early caroling and
circulate in a much less ordered and
systematic manner to sing of the
Savior's birth. However, as long as
the end achieved is the same the
method hardly matters, and, of
course, in these days there is not
the overhowing wassail bowl to draw
people forth in unorganized neigh
borliness in the United States OF
America, A. D., 1926.
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