Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1912 — KENTLAND ORGANIZES CHORAL SOCIETY [ARTICLE]

KENTLAND ORGANIZES CHORAL SOCIETY

Our Neighbors in Newton Will Render Classic Oratorios Starting With “The Holy City.”

Newton County Enterprise. A movement that promises great benefit to the musical interests. of Kentland was inaugurated Monday evening in the organization of a Choral Society, which has for its purpose the rendering of some of the classic oratorios of the great masters. Sixtythree responded to the call for the opening meeting and enrolled their names. Others have signified their intention of taking up the work and it is expected that at least eighty will be present at'the rehearsal next Monday eveping, which will make a chorus aboht as large as can be accommodated on any of the stages of Kentland. Rev. C. W. Wharton is president of the hew society; Mrs. John W. Ryan, vice-president; Miss Ferol Davis, secretary, and Miss Nellie Ade, treasurer. ’ Kentland has some splendid musical talent and it is a grand thing that the voices are to be gathered together under a competent director. The first •production will be “The Holy City,” an oratoria that is numbered among the best. It is expected to have the piece ready for presentation by about holiday time. Prof. Lawrence D. Cover, of the Drake School of Music, at Chicago and Kankakee, has been engaged as director. Mr. Cover expressed great pleasure at the success of the first rehearsal, and freely commented on the many really fine voices in the chorus.