The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
ORGANISTS WILL
GATHER IN CITY
FOR CONCLAVE
Tenth General Sessions OF
Guild viii Begin Next
Week.

-Four hundred organists, including
some OF the most distinguished in
the United States and Canada, will
gather in indianapolis next week for
the tenth fve-day general conven-
ton of the American Guild Of Or
ganists.
Business sessions, recitals, lectures
and receptions are on the program
opening Monday afternoon with
registration at the Lincoln.
Governor Harry G. Leslie and
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan are to
express the welcome of the state
and city to the visitors Tuesday
morning at the Broadway Methodist
Episcopal church, where Harold L.
Heerennans, organist and choir mas
ter Of University Temple, Seattle,
Wash. will be heard in concert at
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Afternoon luncheon at the church,
guild members will be taken to the
home Of Mrs. j. A. Goodman for a
recital by Arthur Durham, organist
and choir master Of Methodist
Temple, Chicago.
annual Service at Christ Church
After dinner at the Columbia
Club at 6:l5, the guilds annual
service will be conducted in Christ
Episcopal church, the Rt. Rev.
Joseph M. Francis, D. D., bishop of
the indianapolis diocese, officiating.
Wednesday mornings program in
Tabernacle Presbyterian church will
include an address at 9:15 by Alfred
l.. Booth, dean of the guilds Mis-
souri, chapter, st. Louis, on 1.-THE
Art Of Creating Atmosphere in the
Church Service" followed by re-
c1tal by Or. Melchiorre Mauro-
Cottone of New York City.
In the afternoon, David L. Neafus,
carilloneur, will be heard in a re-
cital from the Scottish Rite cathe-
dral carlton, after which Edwin
Arthur Kraft, organist and choir
master of Trinity Cathedral, Cleve-
land, will be heard on the cathedral
organ.
The Mendelssohn Choir of Indi-
annapolis, with Elmer Andrew Stef-
fen conducting, will be heard In re-
cital with Miss Louise G. Titcomb,
organist of the Church of the Holy
Communion, in Broadway Methodist
Episcopal church, Wednesday night
at $3.50.
Recital at Woodstock Club
At 10 Thursday morning, at the
North Methodist Episcopal church,
the Rev. Father Finn, director Of
the Paulist Choristers, New York,
will discuss Essential and Differ
entiating characteristics of Boy
Choirs." A recital will follow at
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ton ID. O. organist.
Bomar Crarner, indianapolis
pianist, and Mrs. Marie Simmelink
Kraft, Cleveland contralto, will be
heard in recital at reception for
the guild members at Woodstock
Country Club at 4 80 p. m. Palmer
Christian, head of the organ de-
partment of the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, will give
concert on the Scottish Rite
Cathedral organ at 8:15.
Fridays program, in Tabernacle
Presbyterian church, will open at
els with q discussion of problems
of the guild, followed at 10:45 by
a recital by Marshall Bidwell,
municipal organist of Cedar Rapids,
Ia. Moving to the North M. E..
church for the afternoon program,
the visitors will hear a recital by
Arthur w. Poister professor Of
organ, University of Redlands, Red
lands, Cal.
Banquet to Close Sessions
The convention will close Friday
at $50 p. m. with the annual BAN
Quet in the Travertine room of the
Lincoln. Frank L. Sealy, one of the
las organists who founded the guild
in 1896, will be POSTMASTER. Mere
dith Nicholson, the novelist, will
make the principal speech on 1.-THE
Land of the Hoosiers."
Outstanding object Of the guild,
insured by rigid examinations for
those who would become fellow"
associate" and colleague" members,
is to raise the standard of efficiency
of organistS by examinations.