Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1915, Page 20

§ i > ¢ . I T SRS 5 P Induce Big Theatrical Attrac- tions to Stop in Omaha. BEEK FIVE HUNDRED MEMBERS (Continued from Page Two.) and Mr. Carl Jacobsen, took place ves- terday morning at 11 o'clock In the par- «#onage of the Dietz Memorial church Rev. Mr. Dawson, pastor of the church, performed the ceremony in the presence of the immediate family only. Mr. and Mre. Jacobsen will reside in Omaha. To Honor Bride. A miscellaneous shower was given Thursday evening at the home of Ming DRAMA LEAGUE ORGANIZED| Boociety People Form Organization to NE day in the summer of 1908 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J Kelly of Omaha, Ne#., United States af America, were seated in the great cathedral at Worcester, England. Besides them sat Frank Damrosch. Other well known Americans of the musical world | were in the audience | The occasion was the great '‘Festival of the Three Cholrs,” which is held every year alternating between the cities of Worcester, Hareford and Gloucester. | Tt takes ita name from the fact that it | was originally given by the three cathe | dral choirs of the cities named. | “"Originally” is n potent word here this Important Bnglish for musical fostival Dorothy Kieve, in honor of Miss Mayma | N&d Its beginning long ago. while America Guinane, a brice of the week Ing was spent in music and games. Those present were: Misges- von Agnes Yambor ™ Robb, nna Dunnin Elfzaheth Hildinger, Blondena Polen, Jean Blesendorf Sorana Polen, Ruth Biesendorf, Margaret Carroll Grace McCollister Plldr‘d Herbert, Mae Black, Ciste Hanse Ada Piack Amy Humphrey Margaret Black, Dorothy Kieve Mayme Guinane, Freda Kieve, Margaret Grinane, Anna Nichols, Nelife Guinane. Jot Dare, Mary Dore, Mesdames— Mesdamen— P Guinan H. Stryker, R Kieve At Seymour Lake Club. The Seymour Lake Oountry club will give the first of a series of subseription parties Friday evening, April ), at the club house. These parties are to be given before the formal opening of the club and the first one will be a dance About 20 couples are planning to attend the affair. Those in charge of arrange- ments and the recoption committee in. clude: Messrs. and Mesdames— John 8mith, H. G. Windheim, Allen Dudley, Charles I. Vollmer, L. M. A John Bekins, J W, \;I!Mm:(n }T“ll':"""' [ %yt oberts, ohn Urlou, Omaha Girl’s Musical Success Miss Florence Rhoades, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Rhoades, who grad- uated from Barnard college with high honors Inst year, especially distinguish- ing herself as a planist, Is continuing her musical studies in York this year, Miss Rhoades is now studying voeal ‘music there, while acting as accompanist at the Barratt studios, and will take part shortly on & program to be given at the Waldort, Affairs of the Last Week. Mra, ¥rank Alvord entertained at her home Friday atterncon in honor 6f Mra. Magnolia Duke of North Platte and Mrs, O'Brien of Omaha, grand lady of ‘| ana’ Miss to be gone three months. Mr. jand ‘Mra. George A. Joslyn left Saturday evening for California, taking thelr car with them. They Wwill be at Hollywood for some time and expeet, to e gone two months Future Affairs. Miss Janet Hall has lssued invitations for a luncheon and Brandels theater party for Tuesday The North Side Progressive club will Sive & card party Tuesday afternoon in its hall at Twenty-eighth and Fowler strveis. Mre. Anthony Freach Merrill will ‘be honor guest at & dinoer given by Mr. Lucius Wakeley today and will be the Supper guest of Mr. and Mre’ Sam Cald- well. Mre. J. J. Hanighen will entertain afterndon at'her home in' honor of her son, Bernard's, birthday. About twenty children will be entertained. Miss Eleanor Mackay will entertain the Debutante Bridge club Friday after- The Original Monddy Bridge club will be entertalned Monday at “Kirkwood, the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. F. P,/ Kirkendall. This club during the sulmmer f f £ 3 i ] ’ii The even- | . | copal chureh. was still an English colony, in 1774 { The annual festivala grew in Importance and popularity and increasing numbers |of am ateur singers Jolned with the | choristers for the purpose of studying the | works to be performed In 183 the festivals were extended to {four days' duration and this plan still | holds. The programa include the szreat | oratorios and other choral works of the | great composers pest and present | The cathedral of Worcester in which the festivals are held in one of the old | cathedrals, the cornerstone having been 1aid by Bishop Wulfstan In 1084 ‘A, D,, | and completed in 1216. King John, Arthur Prince of Wales (eldest son of Henry VIT) and Rishop Guaden are among the | distinguished persons burled in the | anclent edifice | We have left Mr, and Mrs. Kelly and Mr. Damrosch sitting in the cathedral, but as they have the splendjd music of the famous cholirs to cntertaln them the seeming neglect is quife exousable. The moss-covered walls of the anclent cathedral in the historie city, the tombs of great men and above all the melody of the choirs of that generations-old organization combined to produce an {deal atmosphero for thinking great things. And there an idea came to Mr. Kelly. The idea was to organize in far-oft Omaha & cholr of the best volces and to ®ive a festival of music every vear at which the very best choral music should be produced with the assistance of an orchestra. 1t Worcester with a population of some 45,000 people can do this, what can Omaha do? Thus reasoned Mr. Kelly and thought ithat Omaha's greater population would Targely offsét the advantage of the 134 years running start that the Worcebterites had. He did not stand upon the order of his acting, but acted at once through the malls; and by the time he returned to Omaha, {nterest had leaped up to th project and Luclus Pryor of Hospe' had already booked forty members. sohn cholr after the Mendelssohn choir of Toronto, which for:years as the greatest body of singers notice” on its visits to the metropolls. to build up the choir. ‘was thon and always has been a e %% men of genlus, the Men- Plasterer-Hultgrex Wedding. The wedding of Miss Jennie Flultgren, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hult- | chestra. and Mr. Ciaude Plasterer, was cele- | psychological moment, the agent for the brated Saturday evening at the Pearl | Chicago Symphony orchestra, at that time Memorial church, the Rev, Mr, Dawson | the Theodore Thomas orchestra, was in gren, with palms, ferns, and potted plants. bouguet of bride's roses. . Miss Agnes Hultgren, sister of the bride, was the mald of honor. She wore & gown of pink pussy willow taffeta, made round length, and carried ap arm bouguet of Killarney roses. 4 The bridesmaids were Miss Maud Plas- terer, & sister of the groom, and Mise of yoMow charmeuse and carried a bou- It must act the part which it i roses, lss Pratt e ::::o‘dl‘n’-:k blue fl:b chine | 1t must feel it and must show that feeling m carried an arm bouguet of Ameri- can Beauties. Little Miss Ruth Hultgren was the flowér gifl, and was daintlly gowned in white silk. She carried a large basket of pink sweet peas. The ushers were Dr. Frank Taylor of Ariington, Neb., and Mr. Oscar. Hult- gren. A wedding reception followed the ceremony at the home of the bride's par- ents. After & trip west, which will include the expositions and other western points, Mr. and Mrs. Plasterer will be at home June 1, in Omaha. Personal Mention. Mrs. N. H. Loomis plana to visit her mother in Salina, Kan., next week. Mre. W, J, Hynes sucoeeds Miss Louise McPherson as vice president of the Vis- iting Nurse association. A Mre. George J. Henderson of 380 Call- fornia street is confined to her home suf- fering from a severe fall. p- Mrs. C. H. Goulden of Montreal, Can- 4da, his be¢n called to Omaha by the serfous iliness of her mother, Mrs. John E. Mackenste Miss Eugenie Patterson left ‘Friday eve- ning for Kansas City to visit her cousin, Miss Mildred Patterson. Her sister, Mrs. Boyce, remains here till next week Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gallagher, who have been in California on their wedding trip, are expectad home today. They will make their home for the present with his mother, Mrs. Ben Gallagher. Bishop Arthur L. Willlams left yester- day for Lincoln, Neb., where he will ad- minister confirmation at 8t. Luke's Epis- While in Lincoln he will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Mar- ohall. Sore Throat and Chest quickly relieved by Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar- Money. It eases the throat, seoties the Jungs, loosens phlegm. Only e Al A@ruggtsie. —Advertisement. weeding. out process so that | singers rehearsed without giving any pub- igers are all picked men and | llc concert, working with the raw ma- lly, persistently and strin- | terial of human vecality a The church was profusely decorated | D | DIRECTOR OF THE MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF OMAHA | Thomas . & Helly for taking pains.” From September until April weekly rehearsals are held and as the time of the festival approaches there are even more frequent rehearsals. The cholr numbers about 175 volces. And the average attendance at rehear: is about 84 per cent, a remarkable figure when sickness, absence from the city and other unavoldable circumstances common to humanity are considered Three prime requis are named for membership in the cholr: 1. To sing musio of ordinary difficulty readily at sight. 2. To attend all yehearsals faithfully. 3 To mark all instructions in the musfe, The last of these is wery easy, but it requires assiduity and Mr. Kelly declares that in the Mendelsohn cholr “the lead Tt was declded to call it the Mendels- | Pencil is mightier than the sword” or any other instroment in the hands of the been recognized | membors, ““That is one of the ns why attend- in America, & cholr which has made the | Ance at all rehearsals is absolutely essen- oritios of New Yorie “sit up and take | tial, " he sald. *I unhesitatingly put the lead pencil next only to their voices and . Work started at once and there was no | their brains. They must use all three in lack of the raw human material with | order to be acceptable members of the choir,"” For two years the newly organized the! potter works with his clay. And it is an in- for #hirkers or for excuse- | finitely more difficult tesk to mould 175 volces into harmony of sound than to cholr has “an infinite capasity |mould dne plece of ciay into harmony of | number of years. : ! 3 torm. The first_concert of the choir was given carnations and the prizes for high |10 the new Brandeis theater, in which ne ‘wers a Miss concert had given before. it MeKes “'"'m Poople -tllt.m.k of the beautiful pleture | predented when the curtain and the lights went up at the same time. Assisting the choir at that Initial ap- pearance was the celebrated Swedish baritone, John Forsell of the Royal Opera, Stockholm, now one of the prin- clpal aingers of the Royal Opera in Berlin. The next importait problem to be met by the choir was the securing of an or- It happened that, just at the the city and made a proposition of part- ership. A contrhct was closed on this basis and Cwan ractive gown of | the two organizations are partners. Last e~ ol i p i Her | yéar when money was lost on the :n:v.l ‘was held in place with lilies | the orchestra bore its share of the loss :“:m“:llfl. and she carried a shower | and no call was made on the guarantors {or any pecuniary assistance. The Mendelssohn Cholr is decidedly an exponent of th llvely choral style of Wagner and Belasco as contrasted with the old school In which the chorus gave no intimation that it was human except by the movement of the lips. ‘“The cholr must not be merely a sup- Leon Pratt, Miss Plasterer wore a gown | plement to the orchestra,” sald Mr. Kelly. It must be intelligent. nging. “It must be alive, vocally. ! “The old style chorus stood, stiffly, like #0 many wooden Indians and sang words. Wagner was the first to break these old ideals. In “Tannhacuser,’ for instance, the hunting chorus enters with horns and then come the attendants actually bearing the game—deer, boars, stags. Then the masters of the hunt enter on horseback and finally the two masters of the hounds lake thelr places at the foot of the proscenium arch, each holding four hounds In leash. ““Belasco introduced this school 1in America. One of his Roman mobs s really & mob and got merely a body of men making ise like a flock of owls. The same is true of the productions of Henry W. Bavage. “Of course the Mendelasohn cholr doesn’'t act physically but it does, de- cidedly, act vocally. If we are singing 1 mple, about the hammer of Thor, the god of thunder, we do not sing in the same tone as though we were singing about ‘how sweetly sleeps the moonlight on the river's bank.' “1 remember that much favorable com- {ment was made on how the cholr sang the "Bda! ‘chorus from ‘Elah' This chorus is the song of a lot of barbarian, heathen Philistines and the choir was taught to realise and remember that and to sing it accordingly “In ‘By Babylon's Wave' there is an offect that speaks of the babes being dashed against the stones, and the choir puts a realism’ into the word ‘dashed’ that makes one almost shudder. Again, the line, “Take all the prophets of Baals, Let not one of them escape’ must be sung with an absolutely murder ous tone. ‘He that shall endure to the ena Bhall be given & crown of life' /18 to be rendered with a tone of calm confidence which is different again from the voeal acting In the glad line, “Thanke be W God; He laveth the thirsty land.’ “Some of the most difficult themes are those of & lighter vein. The choir worked four vears on one plece, ‘Laprahaun’ or 'The Fairy Shoemaker' of Irish folklore, before presenting it in public It is no easy thing to get a person to #ing with expression. Ringing with ex pression means far meore than the sentl mental whining of a love song, far more.” Sacred music always occuples an im- I.wv..nt place on the programs the | Mendelssohn Cholr, ranging from the old- ort things like Lotti's “Crucifixus,”” which |12 centuries old (1t was given last vear), | [¢own to such comparatively modern pieces | exclusive to Goodyear. tral accompaniment One of the new features introduced into the rehearsals this yeaf by Mr. Kelly was the turning out of the lights in the fiddle of a rehearsal to see whether the chofr could sing without the music. This gives some idea of the thoroughness with #inging in a foroign language “We have not yet sung in public in any forelgn language except Scotch,” he sald | A young Englishman who was lfs:ening immediately, with great perspicacity pointed out that Scotch is not a forelsn ‘lflhl\lllfl “No one has any idea,” continued Mr. Kelly, “how difficult it is to teach the | 8coteh’ dinlect to a large choir of modern |American singers, owing to the tendency {ef Americans to slight the ‘r’ or, at any | |rate, to slight it compared with the prom- ‘lnanca that our 8 otch cousins give to it {The Seotch love that letter. BEvery time |they come to it they seem to linger lov ingly and only with an effort do they |tear themaelves away and hurry on to the next place where they meet the beloved | letter. Wae once sang a plece called ‘Chatlle Is My Darling," and it was al- most fmpossible to get the cholr to linger with those ‘r's’ long enough.” \ Few musical organizations have lcaped more quickly into wide fame than the Mendelssphn “Cholr. Though the concerts to be given to- morrow night will mark only the scventh year of its existence, It {is known throughout the length and breadth of the | [land. Particularly throughout the west |ts the choir famed, and music lovers come from great distances to be present at the annual lc.ll of music and flow of melody, ) Leonard Liebling, editor of the Musica) Courler,” after attending one of the con- certs, declared, “For two and a half hours I listened to choral music that 1 have pever heard surpassed.” A long list of such leaders as Archer Gibson, Carnegle's organist, have horne | public testimony to the sterling worth. of the organization. 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