The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
Alvin Roper to Give a Sacred Recital
- at the First United Brethren Church
ARRANGEMENTS have been

rem Cnurcn Oh the rev.
B. S.. MciJeely, and the membership
of the church take pleasure in an
nouncing that on Sunday evening,
Aug. l, at 7:45 O'Clock, in the audi
forum Of the church, at the corner
of Park Ave. and Walnut St., Alvin
Roper Of Winona Lake, famous all
over the United States and Eastern
Canada, and known in several coun-
tries abroad, has been engaged to
give n of his unique sacred recitals
to which the public is cordially in.
vited.
These Sunday evening programs
are a series that Mr.. Roper is giving
in city churches Of all denomina-
tons all over the country, and al
most every Sunday evening. when
he is not otherwise engaged, finds
him filing a date of this sort.
Mr.. Roper has been in profession
al work for nearly Twenty-Five years
His playing has included r~ecitals
and concerts; pastoral and taber
nacle evangelistic campaigns; hun
NtC0o VI lily oldNSs AldllOAldl anu
worlds conventions of various re-
ligious and reform organizations;
summer -chautauquas and Bible con-
~ferences, such as Winona Lake,
where he was official piano and or
gan soloist for ten successive seas
ons; and his public career has been
extensive in all these fields. His
travels have taken him into every
State in Inc Union, every province
of. Canada east of Detroit. and into
Hawaii, Japan, China, Korea. ST.
IBERIA, Russia, Poland and Germany;
and he has covered over three
hundred and sixty thousand miles of
travel, and has been heard by mil
lions of people in combined audiences
on conservative estimates he has
kept.
Before he commenced his profess
sional work he spent over twelve
years in study of piano and pipe
organ and kindred theoretical sub
jects. His training was both extern
sive and intensive and was taken
from first class private American
teachers, and his postgraduate work
was under n former teacher from
the Oscar Ref school of Berlin. He
took an extensive course in roper
toire and is thoroughly familiar with
the best works of both the classical
and ~the modern secular composers.
He also devoted considerable time
to the study of composition and has
written some very interesting mum
bers for both piano and voice.
His improvisational playing of
church hymns is known from one
country to the other, as he has
specialized in this in connection
with the many conventions he has
served as pianist.
The program follows:
'Pilgrim's Chorus" and ITO the Sweet
sc, Evening Star" (Tamhauser) Wagner
..;SSss,fIRtstueEs' Evening sonsj .s sSRRaPann
Prelude in D fat (Raindrop) .... Chopin
&oR EonerS MNarch In b fiat minor Chopin
,,,Nocturne in-E nat - 'Chopin
Saviour. Like a Shepherd. Lead
WAFER Lily woodland Sketches)
ITO Spring" McO GTieg
.,yoeglein',, (Birdlingj ...os'.G rieg
..SouNtnlr, ........... ....... Drdla
Hymn Imnrov;s, Ran
Jesus. Keep Ne Near the Cross"
....... Melody by Doane
aMingqssss a ffAntique. P -sGdeseSyfa
Prelude in G sharp minor" 'RacSmapinoa
Finale from S%symphOnic Studies" ee'noV'"
The public is cordially invited to
hear this program. Come and hear
one of the outstanding pianists of
the country, the pastor states.
1.-THE amusement season Is now
at its heighth at the Cincin-
IL natl (Ohio) Zoo, the attend
ance increasing daily. There have
been more out of town parties this
year than ever before.
Free parking space is provided in
side the grounds for all automobiles
and trained traffic men are on duty
at all times making entrance and
exit an easy matter, despite the
large number of machines parked.
The animal collection is now more
complete than ever, and includes
hundreds Of young deer, peacocks,
pheasants, dwarf donkeys and
others.
For the children there are the
pony track, merry.go-round, fun
house and new ELECTRICAL kiddies
playground. Free punch and judy
shows are given at frequent inter-
walls daily and attract hundreds of
grownups as well as children.
Free popular concerts are given
every afternoon throughout the sea-
son and these are always we'll at
tended.
The opera repertoire for the week
beginning Sunday, Aug. 1, is: Sun
day, Tuesday and Thursday, 'Fal-
staff" lin English and Monday,
Wednesday and Friday aida" Sat
urday evening there will be a pre-
mier production at the Zoo Of THE
Nuremberg DOLL sung in German.
There will also be a grand ballet
and advertisements.
Pasquale Montani, instrument
teacher of the Indiana College of
harp ~soloist, for the week of Aug. s.,
Music and Fine Arts, is engaged as
at the Apollo Theater.s