SINGING IS GIVEN
A GREAT BOOST
Community Work Plays Big
Part in Unifying Masses
of the Nation
nv JOHN W. PHILLIPS
The war is not responsible for
community singing. The idea had
been put into practical use before
llie war started. The war. however,
has given community singing a tre
mendous boost; and community sing
ing has, and is having, a big part in
unifying the masses.
In the past, when memorials, or
other expressions of gratitude and
love have been attempted; did we
gather together a thousand voices
nml join in a great memorial hymn?
Not quite. We hired a brass band
to be patriotic and devout for us. We
let George do it.
Times are changing. Beauty is to
have a place in our education after
nil. The slogan of our present sys
tem of education has been "Every- I
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thing for use and nothing for
beauty." We have held the idea that
only useful things should be taught,
and money would be the reward.
Educators, generally have had no
time for the teaching of the beau
tiful. hence music has had a hard
time in getting proper recognition.
We have been too eager to s£e "re
sults" and to see them quickly. The
lirst object of education should be
to teach human beings to see and
hear Intelligently—then thinking ana
doing will become easier. Music is
the most accessable of the fine arts.
It is essentially democratic, for it
belongs to the masses. And com
munity singing is but a natural
swinging of the pendulum in the
right direction. Now. the chief aim
of community singing should not be
perfection in sight reading technique,
etc., but beauty of tone and expres
sion; because it is certainly true
that the higher functions of the soul
of a man or community can be pre
served and developed only by being
exercised.
Community singing will teach self
expression; will furnish a pure and
wholesome diversion; it will equal
ize and foster brotherhood. It will
take men's minds off the profit and
loss column, overhead charges and
other like things, and give them a
new insight and larger vision of life.
The businessman will naturally ask
"Will concerts of this kind pay?" In
{STACCATO
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Splendid pictures of F. C. Hand andi
Chauncey C. Hand, together with a
fine appreciation of their work,
musically, in five Pennsylvania
cities, appeal's in last week's Musical
Courier.
The popular war song "Over
There," written by George M. Cohan,
in a few hours, was bought outright
by Leo Feist, the publisher, for
$25,000.
IJeutenant David C. Bispham, was
killed on the aviation field at Hen
don, England, November 4. Lieuten
ant Bispham was the son of David
Bispham, the distinguisled American
baritone.
reply let us ask: Does a. library pay?
Does any altruistic endeavor any
where pay? There is no money bal
ance on the profit side of the ledger,
ijut it does foot up in joy.
The finest thing that can be given
to people is that which makes them
huppier. Ileal uplift is of the soul
and not the body. In heaven we
cannot imagine libraries, nor art gal
leries*. but there will be music. The
mass of the people by phonograph
and playcrpiano, by newspaper and
magazine and other publicity means,
have betiome awakened to the ex
istance of the larger musical world
which they did not see or share.
The outcome ha sbeen a craving to
participate in it, and community
singing is the legitimate result. The
homelover should be a music lover.
Community singing will enable
neighbor to know neighbor; it will
do away with isms; it will teach us
that everything God created is in
tune, and that there is music in the
voict' of man, the singing of birds,
the whisper of the wind, the rustling
01 leaves and the moving of the
mighty ocean. Community singing
will help our church singing—it will
be of tremendous help in public
gatherings—at Thanksgiving and
Christmas—it will, in fostering the
beautiful, develop within us civic
pride. We must first have the peo
ple who love beauty and a beautiful
citv will follow.
Church Music
BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN
Morning—Prelude, Pax Vobiscum,
Frederic Lacey; anthem, "Lord, We
Pray Thee," William Reed; quartet,
"Incline Tour Ear," J. T. Field; of
fertory, Melody in F, Roland Die
pie; postlude, Postlude in D, R. F.
Maitland.
Evening Prelude (a) Andante
and Chorale, Ernest A. Dicks, (b)
Canzonetta, Guilmant; quartet, "Give
Peace, O God, Again," Harry Rowe
Shelley; anthem, "Praise the Lord,
O Jerusalem, the Rev. E. V. Hall,
M. A.; offertory, Andante from Vio
lin Concerto, Mendelssohn; postlude,
Festival March, Charles J. Grey.
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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
The fond father and the guest had
stopped a moment to listen to daugh
ter's piano playing. "What do you
think of ray daughter's execution?"
said the father. "I'm heartily in favor
of it," was the reply.
The Boston English Opera Com
pany is giving opera successfully, in
English, to large audiences in Chi
cago.
Do not forget the Sunshine Society
and the cause they represent, when
you are asked to buy tickets for the
intensely interesting opera "Out
Somewhere," to be given in the Or
plieum, December 7 and 8.
The Metropolitan Opera Company,
of New York, has decided not to per
form German operas this season.
This artion was taken partly in def
erence to public opinion, and partly
prompted by patriotic motives which
induced the directors to avoid any
thing which might give abroad the
slightest appearance of sympathy
for the enemy cause, and which could
be used as evidence in Germany that
the United States was divided in
sentiment.
The conductor of the orchestra
rushed up to the bass drum player
and shouted: "What are you banging
that drum for? Don't you see the
music is marked 'rest?' " "Oh, yes. 1
know," said the drummer, "but I
ain't tired."
Fanny Crosby, who died a year or
two ago at the age of 92, and who
was blind from childhood, wrote over
eight thousand hymns.
The orchestras all over the country
have subscribed liberally to the Lib
erty Loan Bonds.
The new concert and theater war
tax on tickets, according to reliable
reports, jp being paid promptly and
cheerfully everywhere.
No less than eleven concerts and
recitals were given in Chicago on
Sunday afternoon, October 28. This
is a record.
Caruso kissed the soil upon his ar
rival in the United States from South
America.
The concert booked for Aeolian
Hall, London, on Sunday, September
30, was given in the coal cellar under
the concert hall.
A packing case was the platform
and a violin was the only accompain
ment. The cause for the "coal cellar"
concert was the fact that enemy
raiders were hovering around.
We discovered in a history class
one day that Iceland, in the ninth
century, was the music center of the
world.
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Interesting Numbers at
*. ;t. Stephen's Church
A. C. KUSCHWA
Alfred C. Kuschwa, chorister nnd!
organist at the St. Stephen's Episco- J
i>al Church, will dedicate the new
organ at the church to-morrow even
ing, at 7.30 o'clock.
On Monday evening Professor!
Samuel A. Baldwin, of New York !
City, will give a recital at the'
church. The proceeds will be given I
to the Red Cross.
A splendid program has been ar-l
ranged by Mr. Baldwin, who, it is i
interesting to note, succeeded Dud-j
ley Buck as organist of Holy Trin
ity Church, Brooklyn, in 1902, which
position he held until 1911, when he>
was appointed head of the depart
ment of music at the College of the
City of New York, where he gives
semiweekly recitals on the large or
gan in the great hall of this col
lege.
The program to be given by Pro
fessor Kuschwa is as follows:
Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Vo
dorinski; Pastorale (from First So
nata), Guilmant; Adagio, (from Sec
ond' Symphony), Widor; Serenade,'
Andrews; "Evening Bells and Cradle j
Song," Macfarlane; March Rell
gieuse, Guilmant.
The following program will be
given by Professor Baldwin at the
recital in St. Stephen's, Monday eve
ning:
Finlandia, Sibelius; Adagio from
6th Symphony, Widor; Toccata '.n F
Major, Bach; Prelude to "Parsifal,"
Wagner; (a) Chanson du Soir (man
uscript), Sheppard; (b) "Oh, the
Lilting Springtime," Stebbins, (Ded
icated to Mr. Baldwin. The motive
is formed from the tones A, E, A, B,
A, D. The musical letters in the;
name of Samuel A. Baldwin), (c)|
"Will o' the Wisp." Nevin; "In the)
morning," Aase's Death, Peer Gyntl
Suite No. 1, Greig; Variations dei
Concert. Bonnet; (a) Chanson Plain
tive, Lynarski, (b) Prelude Pastor-)
ale, Biadoff, (c) Prelude in.C Sharpi
Minor, Rachmaninoff; ' Serenade,;
Schubert: Toccata from Fifth Sym
phony, Widor.
Members of First Baptist
Form Red Cross Auxiliary
Thirty mmbers off the First Bap- j
tist Church have formed an auxiliary I
to the Harrisburg Chapter of the
American Red Cross. Weekly sewing
meetings wil lbe held at which time!
the members will sew bandages and I
other hospital necessities. A commit
tee has been appointed to secure the
material for making the gauze band
ages, muslin and also the wool for
knitting. The members of this com
mittee are: Mrs. William Mailey, Mrs.
Charles Griffith and Mrs. John 1,.
Prescott.
'The nmle members of the congre
gation are helping to finance the pro
ject. The ofHcers of the new auxiliary
are as follows: President, Mrs. "Geo.
N. Spencer; vice-president, Mrs. Or
ville F. Smith; treasurer, Mrs. John
h. Prescott; secretary, Mrs. AVilliamj
S. Yontz. '
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Morning—Prelude, "March Fune
bre et Chant Seraphique," Guilmant;
"A New Heaven and a New Earth,"
Gaul, a contralto solo, sung by Miss®
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Flagler; postlude, "Toccata in D,"
Kinder.
Evening—Prelude, "Elevation," E.
Lang; "Offertory in A Flat," West;
anthem, "Grieve Not the Holy
Spirit," Stainer; postlude, "Grand
Chorus in D," Lacroix.
PINE STREET PRESBYTERIAN
Morning—Prelude, "Aria in D,"
Demarest; anthem, "O Worship the
Lord," Watson; offertory, "Prayer,"
Verdi-Shelly; anthem, "Give Me a
Perfect Heart," Wooler; postlude,
"Allegro Moderato," Lemare.
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"March Heroique," Lemare; "An
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field; anthem. "The Radiant Morn
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Church Music
ZION LUTHERAN
Morning Prelude, "Allegro,"
Stainer; anthem, "Hark, Hark, My
i Soul," Buck; offertory solo, "An
| dante," Beethoven, Mr. Decevee;
| baritone solo, Mr. Sliackley; post-j
lude, "March," Weber.
Evening—Prelude, "Processional,"
Kantor; quartet, "Rock of Ages,"
Shailey; offertory solo, "Cantique,"
Tliallon; solo, "Crossing the Bar,"
Decevee, Mrs. E. J. Decevee; post
lude, "Recessional," Clarke.
CHRIST LUTHERAN '
Morning Prelude, "Berceuse,"
Ashmall;*offertory, "Andante in F,"
Wely; antliem, "Search Me, O God,"
Baumbach; postlude, "Pilgrim
March," Smith.
Evening Prelude, "Evensong,"
Johnson; offertory, "Melodic -In
Ooeur" (Violin Solo), Ketelbey, .1.1
Earl Steinhauer; anthem, "My Kaith
Looks Up to Thee," Schnecker; post
lude, "Marclie Pontiflcale," Lem
mens.
Church Music
REFORMED SALEM
Morning—"Grand Chorus in D,"
Deshayes; anthem, "Fear Not Ye, O
Israel," Roberts; duo, "In His Hands
Arc All the Corners of the Earth,"
j Schnecker, Mrs. C. W. Myers and
Misa Wynne Cassel; "Finale in F
| Major," Wallis.
Evening—"lntermezzo in E," Ma
l jor; soprano solo, "Thou Only Canst
j Give Peace," Max Bruch, Mrs. C. W.
Myers; "Festival Postlude" (Old
Hundred), Eddy.
rirai STREET METHODIST
Morning—Prelude, "Praeludium
Ti," Mendelssohn; anthem, "I Will
Sing of Thy Power," Sullivan; offer
tory, "Offertory," Baclie; postlude,
"A Song of Thanksgiving," Bailey.
Evening—Prelude, "Vesper Hymn,"
' Truette; anthem, "God So Eoved the
World," Ntainer; ogertory, "Even
tide," Barker; postlude, "Postlude,"
Gounod.
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