Matinee Musicale Members' Book - 1916 - 1917, continued
ARTISTS' RECITALS, Season 1916 - 1917
Thursday, December Seventh.
Thuel BURNHAM, Pianist
Dorothea NORTH, Dramatic Soprano
Thursday, February Eighth
Cyreno VAN GORDON, Prima Donna Contralto, Chicago-Philadelphia Grand Opera Co.
Sascha JACOBSEN, Russian Violinist
Thursday, April Fifth.
Antonio SALA, Spanish 'Cellist
Agnes BERRY, Colorature Soprano, Chicago-Philadelphia Grand Opera Co.
AMERICAN MUSIC
PROGRAM
October Eighteenth
PRESIDENT'S DAY
Music Talk --- "How to Listen to Music".......Mr. Robert J. RING, Director
of Piano ---
Lafayette Conservatory of Music.
November First
"Folk Music of America"
Program Arranged by Miss Eleanor SMITH and Miss Agnes MEDSKER
Voice: Mrs. Erle G. MEEKS, Miss June JONES
Piano: Mrs. Harry ORR; Violin: Miss Lois WALLING
Quartette: Mrs. E. L. WRIGHT, Mrs. Paul NORRIS, Mrs. Earl GREEN, Miss Reba
HOOVER
Paper: Mrs. M. A. DORAN
November Fifteenth
PAINE --- PARKER --- CHADWICK --- FOOTE --- WHITING.
Program Arranged by Miss Sarah McCONNELL and Mrs. Marguerite GROULEFF
Voice: Mrs. A. C. MEEKS, Mrs. Orphie GAY, Mrs. Frank LEWELLEN, Mrs.
Orville FREELAND
Piano: Miss Ethel CUNNINGHAM, Mrs. Ray JOHNSON, Miss Maude THOMPSON
Organ: Mrs. Myrtle SOUDERS
Paper: Mrs. I. N. TRENT
November Twenty-ninth
THANKSGIVING CHARITY PROGRAM.
Arranged by Mrs. Charles DAVIS and Mrs. George SPENCER
December Thirteenth
CHRISTMAS MUSIC
Program Arranged by Miss CATES and Mrs. Eugene OESTERLE.
January Tenth, 1917
EDWARD MAC DOWELL
Program Arranged by Miss CUNNINGTON and Miss Mary MEEKS.
Voice: Miss Jessie HEIL, Miss Helen BOWMAN
Piano: Miss Etta KEMPER, Miss Irene RETTER, Miss Hazel HARDSOG, Miss
Marion BATH
Paper: Mrs. D. N. DAVIS
January Twenty-fourth
MASON --- BUCK --- GOTTSCHALK --- NEVIN --- HADLEY --- BULLARD --- CLAYTON
--- JOHNS
Program Arranged by Miss Mabel GILMORE and Miss Hazel HARDSOG
Voice: Miss Mary MEEKS, Mrs. Harry MAXON, Mrs. Charles DAVIS, Miss Mildred
BALDWIN
Piano: Miss Elizabeth HICKMAN, Miss Fannie FRIEDMAN, Miss Maurine DORAN,
Mrs. J. N. ORR
Organ: Miss Pearl HAWK
Paper: Mrs. W. C. STEPHENS
February Seventh
Program by MUSIC STUDY CLUB OF ANDERSON
February Twenty-first
STILLMAN --- KELLEY --- LOOMIS --- HENRY HOLDEN HUSS --- CLOUGH ---
LEIGHTER --- LA FORGE --- H. WOODMAN --- CAMPBELL --- TIPTON
Program Arranged by Mrs. J. N. ORR and Mrs Arthur C. MEEKS
Voice: Mrs. Alfred KILGORE, Mrs. George SPENCER, Mrs. John KRUG, Miss
Lorene SPENCER
Piano: Miss Georgia LUCAS, Mrs. Arthur ATKINSON, Miss Lucille VATET, Miss
Helen JACKSON
Paper: Mrs. J. R. MARSH
March Seventh
CADMAN --- JAMES ROGERS --- SYDNEY HOMER BROCKWAY -- J. CARPENTER --- CECIL
BURLEIGH
Program Arranged by Mrs. Frank LEWELLEN and Miss Fannie FRIEDMAN
Voice: Miss Ellen CATES, Mrs. John SIMPSON, Mrs. Marguerite GROULEFF, Mrs.
Donna McCAUGHN SWEENEY, Miss Bessie SCHWARTZ
Piano: Miss Sarah McCONNELL, Miss Mary LUDINGTON, Miss Mabel GILMORE, Miss
Ellen REMINGTON
Violin: Miss N. L. WERNET
Paper: Mrs. E. L. GRIFFITH
March Twenty-first
ENSEMBLE PROGRAM
Arranged by Mrs. Robert BRADBURY and Miss Hazel HARRIS
Piano Quartet: Mrs. Eugene OESTERLE, Mrs. Emory NIDAY, Mrs. Robert
BRADBURY, Miss Hazel HARRIS
April Fourth
STUDENTS PROGRAM
Arranged by Miss Helen BOWMAN and Miss Marion BATH
April Eighteenth
WOMEN COMPOSERS
MRS. H. H. A. BEACH --- MARGARET RUTHVEN LANG --- MARY TURNER SALTER ---
JULIE RIVE-KING --- HARRIET WARE --- JESSIE L. GAYNOR
Program Arranged by Mrs. A. C. SURBER and Miss June MEEKS
Voice: Miss Agnes MEDSKER, Mrs. R. C. OVERSTREET, Miss Ida MILLER, Miss
Jule ANDREWS
Piano: Mrs. W. H. HICKMAN, Mrs. Clyde MANSFIELD, Miss Wilma CLARK, Miss
Ola PARKER
Paper: Miss Flora BILBY
May Second
MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM
Arranged by Mrs. Alfred KILGORE and Miss Mary LUDINGTON
Voice: Miss Mary WYSOR, Miss June MEEKS, Mrs. Homer BRAGG, Mrs. M. L. ALTSCHUL
Piano: Mrs. A. C. SURBER, Miss Annie Mary CUNNINGTON, Mrs. Pauline CURRENT
HELLER, Mrs. W. R> STOGSDILL
Violin: Mrs. Josephine VAN NUYS
Harp: Mrs. George HAWK
Current Musical Topics: Miss Reba KOONS
May Sixteenth
RECEPTION AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Program Arranged by Mrs. R. C. OVERSTREET and Mrs. M. L. ALTSCHUL
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In the box with the Matinee Musicale membership book, was a handwritten
page, written by my great-aunt, Abbie Lynn (KUECHMANN) SURBER, wife of Dr.
A. C. SURBER. She was listed in the membership book as one of the
arrangers of the program of Women Composers on April 18, and this
handwritten page appears to the the program that was planned. It follows:
MATINEE MUSICALE
WOMEN COMPOSERS
Wednesday, April 18th 1917
Program Arranged by Mrs. A. C. SURBER and Miss June MEEKS
Paper: Miss Flora BILBY
Wiener Bonbons....................Julie RIVE-KING,
Wilma CLARK
(a) Boat Long.................Harriet WARE
(b) Chrysanthemum........Mary Turner SALTER
Mrs. OVERSTREET. R. C.
A Spring Idyl...............Margaret RUTHVEN LANG
Mrs. Clyde MANSFIELD
Five Indian Pieces:.........Cecil BURLEIGH
(a) A Legend
(b) Over Laughing Waters
(c) To the Warriors
(d) From a Wigwam
(e) Sun Dance
Lulu May HUFFMAN
"Polonaise Heroique"
Morceau de Concert.......Julie RIVE-KING
Miss Ola PARKER
(a) Spring..............Mrs. H. H. A. BEACH
(b) When Soul is Joined to Soul.........Mrs. BEACH
Agnes MEDSKER
Twilight...................Margaret RUTHVEN LANG
Mrs. William HICKMAN