The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-08-13
GARRETT COUNTY TO HAVE
PART In MUSIC FESTIVAL
Will Present Pageant Depicting
Maple Sugar Industry and ORA
Matte Star Spangled Banner
TO HAVE UNION CHOIR

A pageant depicting the maple SUI
gar industry of the Allegheny Table
land, the rendition of "Swing Wide
the Gates" from Etainer's Crucifxion
by a union choir from Oakland, and
the dramatization of "The Star Span
gled Banner, will be Garrett county's
contribution in the Allegheny Table
land Music Festival, which will be
held at Somerset, Pa, on Saturday
and Sunday, September 5 and 6, ac-
cording to Miss Sara B. Huff, West
Virginia State leader of music.
Miss Huff was in Oakland last Sat-
urday evening at meeting of inter-
ested citizens; at Grantsville on Tues
day afternoon and at Ryan's Glade
Tuesday evening. Preliminary plans
for the part Garrett county is to play
in the festival were outlined and ac-
copied by the various groups who
met with Miss Huff.
To Include Bugle and Drum Corps
1t is planned to include the junior
drum and bugle corps in the pageant
of the maple sugar industry, and the
Legion drum and bugle corps, the
Boys Band of Oakland, and the union
choir in the dramatization of the Star
Spangled Banner. The national an
them was chosen as it is known to be
distinct contribution to the nations
patriotic music from Maryland.
Rev. Charles A. Shilke was appoint
ed chairman for Garrett county, with
local chairmen from each section to
be named in the near future. These
committeeman will work in coopera-
ton with John H. Carter, county
agent, and through his Office.
The people of Grantsville, under
the direction of Miss Holmes and Miss
Wallace, of the Holmes and Wallace
studio, will have charge of the maple
sugar pageant. A maple sugar queen
will be crowned and princesses from
the seven other counties of the Table
land Association will be her attend
ants.
The union choir will be under the
direction of Mrs. Frederick A. Thayer
and the local union choir will join in
the general chorusses during the fes-
tival.
The music festival, designed to
bring together people of eight table
land counties from the three States
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Maryland-will have its program 'di-
vided into three sections.
Saturday morning will be devoted
to contests, including fly casting,
horseshoe pitching, woodchopping and
trapshooting. These will be the only
competitive features of the festival.
Saturday afternoon the music pag-
cant will be presented with liberal
mixtures of folk songs and ballads.
Sunday morning will be devoted to
religious songs. Gigantic arrange
ments are being made by Miss HUFF,
who expects to assemble her singers
in such a way tina ia vast chorus Of
several thousand voices will be to-
gether in the group singing, which
will climax the festival.
Miss Huff and Darcy Wilson, OF
Morgantown, w. Va, are securing the
tableland counties for talent and at
latest have found so much musical
and dramatic talent which might be
used in the pageant and religious
singing that the number in the grand
finale at the open air amphitheatre at
Rhoads Flying Field at Somerset will
number well on to 5000. Mr.. Wilson
is in charge of the pageant, while
Miss Huff is directing all musical ac-
tivity. a.. ... IL.
The tableland counties are Somer-
set and Fayette, Pennsylvania; Mon
ongalia, Preston, Tucker, Grant and
Mineral, West Virginia, and Garrett
county, Maryland. AS talent is I'M
covered it will be worked into the
pageant, the form of which will fit
into musical and dramatic possibilities
in the area. T..
The festival is intended to bring to-
gether in a mood of play, recreation
and cooperation the people of the
eight counties in the highland area,
and is the first move of the Allegheny
Tableland Association to popularize
the tableland as recreational, social
and economic portion of the Pitts
burph area.