The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-08
DIVERSIFIED PROGRAM is
OFFERED AT MUSIC TREAT
Annual Music Festival Will Be
Held Saturday Evening And
Sunday at Mt. Lake Park
PITTSBURGH MAYOR HERE

Participants from all sections
of the Allegheny Tableland area
will gather at Mountain Lake
Park on Saturday evening and
Sunday, August 10 and II, for
the fifth annual music festival.
Among the celebrities to be
present will be Hon. William n.
McNair, mayor of Pittsburgh,
who will make an address at 2::30
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Pitts
burgh's mayor has become nationally
known and his acceptance of place
on the festival program is considered
an honor by those in charge. Mayor
and Mrs. McNair will arrive at the
Park on Saturday, when a reception
is being planned in his honor.
The entire Tableland area has been
searched to provide talent for an in
tcresting and diversified program
which would compare with the great
music festivals of the east and for
mer festivals of the Tableland.
The program Saturday evening is
being furnished entirely by the Male
Chorus of the Pittsburgh Chamber of
Commerce. There will be solos, duets,
quartets, full choruses and instrument
tai numbers. Leading male church
singers, concert artists and radio stars
are members of the chorus, and Aneu-
rim Bodycombe, music director of radio
station KDKA, is accompanies for the
group.
Sunday morning at 1890 o'clock
there will be a combined worship SER
vice in the amphitheatre when DR.. Roy
McCuskey, president of the West Vir-
ginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon,
will deliver the sermon. Combined
choirs under the direction of Mrs. Iva
lee Newell Holden, will sing two
special numbers.
Honored places on the afternoon
program at two o'clock have been
given to the following artists:
Gilbert-Brown Boys Band, Oak
land;
Vernon Ball, trombone, Grafton;
Mrs. Wendell Lohr, Grantsville;
Davis-Elkins Violin, Flute and Piano
Trio, Elkins;
Trumpet Quartet, Uniontown Music
Club, Uniontown, Pa;
Pinto Quartet, Pinto, Md;
Florence Caplon, piano, Clarksburg;
Chester Abramson, violine, Frost
burg;
Christ Episcopal Church Choir of
Fairmont.
Honored places on the evening pro-
gram at seven o'clock have been given
to the following artists:
Kappa Sigma Pi Harmonica Band,
Clarksburg;
Mrs. Flora Phelps, soprano; Mrs.
Marjorie Penrod, alto, and Mrs. C. E.
pianist, Davis, W. Va;
Ralph Santangelo, cornet, Thomas,
W. Va;
Gormania Night Hawks, Gormania,
West Va;
Kingwood GIee Club, B. D. Ward,
director, Kingwood, w. Va;
Leanore White, violin, Uniontown;
William Riley, trombone, Parsons;
David Bane, baritone, Oakland.
There will also be community sing
ing on Sunday evening.
The festival is being held at Noun
tain Lake Park for the second con-
secutive year. Other festivals have
been held at Kingwood, W. Va, and
Pa.
1t annually attracts from 10000 to
10000 people. All programs will be
presented in the huge Bashford amph-
theatre at the Park where more than
i've thousand persons can be comforta-
ply accommodated. There will be am
pie free parking space provided and
may be purchased on
he grounds and meals served at the
many hotels and boarding houses in
he Park.
The festival this year is being di-
'ected by Mrs. Ivalee Newell Holden
md Frank E. Holden, of Youghio-
sheny Forest, who have had expert
nee in directing concerts of the Fed
ration of Music Clubs in Washing
on, D. c.
Rev. C. A. Shilke, of Oakland, is
business manager.
The Tableland area includes Monon-
ALA, Grant, Tucker, Preston and Min
raj counties, West Va; Garrett coun-
y, Md, and Somerset and Fayette
ounties, Pa.