Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1908 — MUSIC IN SUMMER [ARTICLE]

MUSIC IN SUMMER

An Elaborate Program Is to Be Given During the Season at Winona Lake. LECTURERS AND READERS Many Eminent Pulpit Orators Will Also Be Heard on Winona Sabbaths

■—Choral Contest, Chicago Apollo Club and Concert Bande Among the Features. The Year Book of Winona Assembly shows that Its season will be marked by many musical affairs from the day it opens on July 5 until the regular Assembly season ends on August 15. The musical features really begin on June 26 with a choral contest In which many singing societies of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois will participate, drawing hundreds of singers to Winona Lake to compete for the >1,300 which is offered in numerous prises. These contests will be for men’s, women’s and mixed choruses, quartets, duets, vocal and piano soloists and reci tat ion i sts. The Ladles’ Treble Clef chorus of twenty-two singers will give two concerts, July 6 and 7. Dennis Chabot, a youthful Belgian pianist, who has never been heard in Indiana, will give a recital on July 8, when he will be assisted by Edith Harris Scott, singer. On the following afternoon she will recite F. Hopklnson Smith’s “Caleb West,” when Chabot will be the pianist. On the night of July 9, N. J. Corey will give a lecture recital, when he will speak on “The Life and Dramas of Richard Wagner,” and will reproduce phonographic records of the voices of Patti, Melba, Sembrich, Gadski, Calve and other renowned singers. On the following day he will give a similar recital from the works of Edward A. MacDowell. The Apollo Club, of Chicago, the chief musical organization to be heard at Winona, will give concerts on the nights of July 10 and 11. “The Messiah” will make up the program of one evening and Mendelssohn’s "Hymn of Praise” will be given at the second concert. The club includes 200 of the best voices of Chicago and a large number of its home friends will attend the Winona concerts. Rogers’s band, of Goshen, which has played at Winona for many years, will give a concert on July 11. The Dailey quartet, of Philadelphia, Is to sing during the week of the temperance conference, beginning July 13. Weil’s band, which playsd throaghout the St. Louis World’s Fair as the official musical organization, gives two concerts at Winona Lake, July 23 and 24. The Rooney choir boys sing on July 30 and 31. The Indianapolis Newsboys’ band will spend the week of August 3 at the lake, playing on the Assembly’s program and enjoying an outing in the woods. Madame Schumann-Helnk, the famous contralto, who sang at Winona to thousands of people last summer, will give concerts on Aug- 12 and 13. Many readers and entertainera will be heard during the Winona season. One of them is Mrs. W. E. Lewis, graduated from the Cincinnati College of Music and the University of Chicago; others are Adrian M. Newena of lowa, a monologist; Marjorie Benton Cooke, story teller; Emily Farrow Gregory, who will speak on “The Cabin Days in Dixie,” and read stories by’ Joel Chandler Harris, Ruth McEnery Stuart and others. Miss Blanche Cockrell will read “Esmerelda"; Pitt Parker, “the Crayon Wizard”; an exhibition by “Mascott”; an educated horse, and similar affairs, are on the program. Chief among the lectures to be given will be one by Mrs. Maybrick, who will speak on her life in English prisons. Leon Vincent will give a series of lectures on literary topics. A number of special lectures will be given for the students of the Winona Summer Schools. Among these speakers will be Dr. G. Stanley Hall, of Clark’s University; Dr. John M. Coulter, of Chicago University; Adelaide S. Baylor, superintendent of the Wabash public schools; M. V. O’Shea, of the University of Wisconsin, and William Wallace Stetson, former state superintendent of Maine. The Sabbath is one of the- meat important days, of the. week at Winona Lake, and during the Assembly season a number of prominent ministers will preach during the morning hour. The list of these speakers includes: Dr. Charles Goodell, of New York; Bishop Charles B. Galloway, of Mississippi; Rev. “BiUy” Sunday; Dr. Edgar P Hill, of MsCbrmick Theological Seminary, Chicago; Dr. Madison C. Peters, of tiie People’s Church, New York; Marion Lawrence, secretary of the International Sunday School Association. Every morning of the Assembly period “morning watch” will be held, to be led by Major Cole, of Adrian, Mich. This will be on the order of a sunrise prayer service. AU of the church services at Winona are given by the Winona Federated Church, made up of people from over the United States who are at this religions summering place for a few weeks. The Federated Church has members from about twenty different denominations. Through the winter this church organisation continues services for the reeffients of Winona Park, holding meetings in a chapel in oqe of the hotels, and many different pFBBOiMdni BtW tMMtttL