Smyrna times., 1938-03-24
BOOST COOPERATE CONCERT
Smyrna Folks Will Join With Do
YER to Bring High Glass Concerts

Mrs. Leland Harmonson, Smyr-
ma, assisted by Mrs. Henry c.
Webb Mrs. w. G. Deakyne, Mrs.
]. E. Wilson, Jr., Mrs Joseph En-
mis-, Mrs. r. E. Corley, Mrs. How
ard r. Jones, and Miss Ann Raw
ley, have charge of memberships
for Smyrna in the first annual
membership campaign of the Do
yer Cooperative Concert Associa-
ton, now in progress, and which
ends this Saturday night, March
26th. The concert association
seeks to bring to the residents of
this section of the state, a series
of three concerts annually by mu-
sical artists of outstanding calibre,
the programs to take place during
next fall, winter and early spring
The reason for Spring drive now
for concerts next season, Mrs
Harmonson states, is to enable the
association to secure the best
choice Of available artists and the
most convenient dates for their ap-
pearances. No one may join the
association after Saturday Of this
week, and there will be no single
tickets sold for any individual con
cert during the season. Smyrna
music-lovers wishing to subscribe
to the concert series should com
municate Immediately with Mrs.
Harmonson, or the other members
Of her committee. Among the art
lists and musical attractions from
which will be selected the series of
three concerts for next season,
are: Sopranos, Josephine Antoine,
Natalie Bodanya, Charlotte Boern-
er, Hilda Burke, Agnes Davis, Rose
hampton, Bidu Sayao, Helen Jep-
son, Charlotte Symons, Rosa Ten
toni, all of the Metropolitan Opera
Association; Rosemarie Brancato,
Helen Marshall, Grace Panvini,
Carolyn Urbanek, Of radio and
concert fame; Helen Olheim, mez-
zo-soprano Of the Metropolitan;
Contraltos, Bruna Castagna, Anna
Kaskas. Kathryn Meisle, Enid
Szantho, of the Metropolitan OPP
era; Tenors, Paul Althouse, Joseph
Bentonelli, Charles Hackett, Fred
erick Jagel. Charles Kullman, all
of the Metropolitan; James Mel
ton, celebrated star of radio, con
cert and motion pictures, Ernest
McChesney, American tenor; Bari
tones, Frederick Baer, Richard /
Bonelli, John Brownlee, Norman
Gordon, Julius Huehn, all Of the
Metropolitan Opera, Wilbur Evans, /
Keith Kalkner, Igor CORN, Lans-
ing Hatfield, oCnrad Mayo; Two
piano recitalists, Bartlett and Ro-
bertson, Malcolm and Golden, I
Vronsky and Babin; Pianists, Si-
mon Barer Harold Bauer, Emile
Baume, Robert Casadesus, Jose [
Echaniz. Muriel Kerr, Eugene List, 4
Ezra Rachlin; Violinists, Iso Bris-
ELI, Marjorie Edwards, Mischa Ell
man, Stephan Hero, Joseph Knit
ger, Toscha Seidel, Albert Splad-
ing; Cellists, Gaspar Cascade, Mar
eel Hubert, Gregor Piatigorsky;
Special attractions, Dorothy Craw-
ford Gin a program of original
character sketches assisted by a
concert pianist), the Ionian Sing
ers, Russian Imperial Singers,
Charles Hackett and Hilda Burke
(opera recitaD; Harpists, Mildred
Beatrice Burford; Flaut-
lists, Georges Barrere, Lambros
Demetrios Callimahos; Ensembles,
Barrere-Britt Concertino, Gordon
String Quartet, Hart House String
Quartet, Kneisel- Alden-Turner Trio
(violin, cello, piano., Coolidge
String Quartet; Dancers, Garcia
Garcia Goya, Fowler and
Tamara, and Lisa Parnova Cam
paign headquarters are established
in Dover in the Parke Square
Building, near THE Green" tele-
phone 325. Membership books
close definitely for the season this
Saturday evening at 6 o'clock.