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Omaha Art Notes
By GEORGE BARKER, Jr.
FFICERS were elected tor
the ensuing year at the an
nual meeting of the
Omaha Art Gild, held last
Wednesday night at the
" library. Doane Powell was
elected president, Cordelia Johnson
secretary and George Barker tieas
urer. Miss Radcrsdorf, Mr. Raapke,
Miss Gertrude Yonng and Miss Lick
novsky were elected on the executive
committee. The Gild was shown to
be in sound financial condition. Plans
for 1917 were discussed.'
Next week Mr. Robert F. Gilder
will hold an exhibition of his land
scapes at Whitmore's gallery. Mr.
Gilder's pictures will undoubtedly
draw many admirers to the gallery.
As a result of winning scholarships
in the Chicago Art Institute. Eliza
beth Ferguson and Gay Williams, two
talented Omaha young women, are
now studying side by side at the in
stitute with tuition prepaid for a year.
Miss Williams is a pupil of J. Laurie
Wallace and Miss Ferguson is an cx-
CORLNNE PAULSON
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2Hk and Farnam Bta.
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Florence Basler-Palmer
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VERNON C. BENNETT
Concert Organist, Pianist and
Teacher
NEW STUDIOS
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Sixteenth and Farnam Sts.
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JEAN GILBERT JONES
PIANO
1804 Farnam St
DAVIDGE BLOCK
(Pupil 'of "Wager Swayne)
Walter B. Graham
.Baritone
Studio, Suite 1 and 2 Wead Bldg.
Phone Bed 4444
Luella Anderson
VIOLINIST AND TEACHER
518 McCague Bldg.,
Harney 6715
Elizabeth Casteel
TEACHER OF SINGING
ill Karbaeh Block
lttl Capitol Ave.
Phone Red lj97.
EMIL OBERHOFFER,
CoBduetar Mhuaaptlla Orchestra.
, inill
hibiting member of the Omaha Art
Gild.
Charles Kuchs, an Omaha artist now
in Chicago, writes: "I am trying to
have something really worth while
for the next Art Gild exhibition." Go
to it, Mr. Fuchs. That's the spirit
that counts.
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An exhibition consisting of eighty
four sketches in oil by Charles Paul
Gruppe. has been on display here
since February 1. Mr. Gruppe is the
artist whose works. "Overschie" and
"Connecticut Road," purchased by the
Friends of Art, now hang in the pub
lic library.
The work of Mr. Gruppe is thor
oughly familiar to many Omaha peo
ple, having been seen here frequently.
While sketches are not classed with
Hnished pictures, they ofien exhibit
attractive features which the pictures
do not have, in making pictures from
sketches, artists invariably lose some
thing of the freshness and spontaneity
of the original work. Some of Mr.
Gruppe's sketches bear unmistakable
signs of having been done on the
fields, while others seem to have been
painted in the studio far from the
original source of inspiration. As a
rule Jits work is so even in quality
that one wonders why the artist asks
different prices for different can
vases. Few will deny that color is tbe
chief glory of art, yet this is the qual
ity mpst lacking in the work of Mr.
Gruppe. His paintings all exhibit a
grey, artificial tone, which, while
charming to admirers of the Dutch
school, quickly grows tiresome to the
lover of nature who is accustomed to
more diversity of effects. Mr.
Gruppe's work does not sparkle with
the immortal freshness of nature, nor
does it seem to express any keen de
light on the part of the artist in the
phenomena of nature. But the work
will surely please those who, not be
ing conscious of a rather inferior
workmanship, may wander through
lowland pastures, beside sea coasts
and through fishermen's cottages.
The work would reproduce charm
ingly in black and white, and Mr.
Gruppe has an enviable list of med
als, prizes and exclusive art club
membership!.
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Music in Dark Holds
Peculiar Fascination
The next time you are at a concert,
try listening to the music with eyes
closed. Little melodies, beautiful
harmonies and interesting pictures
will come to your mind beauties
which you never realized were, there.
At the opera the action of the play,
the costuming, the orchestra all di
vert attention from solely listening
to the music. If it is an orchestral
concert you set the motions of the
conductors, you watch his baton, you
see the decorations, audience and
players, and the finer beauties of the
music are lost. Similarly when listen
ing to a soloist the mind wanders on
to making mental note of the costum
ing and the manner of singing or
playing. The same is even true when
listening to a phonograph or a player
piano in your own home. The in
strument itself takes part of the at
tention. Listen to the ODera and concert
with closed eyes, and to music in the
home alone and in the dark, and you
will readily find that the music will
reveal undreamed of and greater
beauties than you ever thought pos-
sioie.
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TEACHER OF PIANO -Rooms
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MRS." LOUIS MEIER
Wife o Ornniat at Strand Theater
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MUSIC
' ( Music Calendar
February lS-Creighton Glee
club, 8:15 p. m., Brandeii theater.
February 19 Mendelssohn Choir,
Thomas J. Kelly, conductor, and
Minneapolis Symphony Orches
tra, Erail OberhoSer, conductor,
' Omaha Auditorium, 8:15 p.
last number of the Omaha Re
tailers' Concert course.
February 20 Godowsky, in piano
recital, Brandeis theater, 3:30
p. m.
By HENRIETTA M. REES.
PROPOS of trish what is
it. musically speaking!' By
what earmarks do you im
mediately recognize it, turn
up your nose and pass on
to the contemplation of
something perhaps which you think
isn't trash?
And who are you, pray, that you
are so quick to judge of a composi
tion? , Are you a highly-educated musician,
versed in theory and filled with sound
musical knowledge which gives an
authority to your opinion? All right,
if you are we will listen to you. But
so many times you are not, yet you
arc just as ready to condemn this or
that piece of music as though you
really were, nay, sometimes readier.
It) is no crime for a composer to
write a small composition instead of
a large one. And because it is a small
one is no reason that it should be nec
essarily scorned as trash and cast
aside without further thought. It
isn't even a crime to write a song in
the English language, providing the
song contains poetic and musical
ideas, developed in keeping with its
sentiment and stvle.
But often if you hear a nice little
number which you have heard about a
thousand times before, you whisper,
' Trash, my dear, pure trash." If you
iiear a nice little new number, in
English, which you can understand at
the first hearing, you murmur again,
in bored accents, "Trash, just simply
trash." But how do you know it is
trash? Why is if some of you hear
a number on an artist's program and
say, "Lovely," and hear another just
as musically fine and say, "Trash?"
What are your standards for judg
ing? There is a vast deal of music
written and performed which one
must admit is poor. Sometimes there
is a poverty m musical ideas of a com
position, sometimes in the knowledge
and use of musical material tbat
makes it unavailable for the purpose
for which it was -written, mainly as
a piece of music. There are some
pieces of large dimensions which suf
fer from poverty of musical ideas and
a woeful dearth of interest.
There are a vast number of small
as well as large compositions
written which are poetic in thoneht.
consistently though simply worked
out, and technically well' written.
But just how do you separate the
wheat from the chaff in musical num
bers? .
The trouble with some of us musi
cal connoisseurs and even musical
performers is that we are afflicted by
a terrible germ. A sort of unique
germ by the way in that it has no
physical body, and cannot ever be
segregated (we never will know how
many millions of it can stand on the
point of a pin), bat a vicious and
dreadful germ and none the less dead
ly for air that. It js the germ of
musical snobbishness.
It makes its victims act in such a
peculiar manner. It makes them go
to a concert and sit in rapt attention
listening to a very mediocre piece
and rave over its beauties and depth.
Sometimes it will cause them to ap
plaud and rush up and congratulate
some ordinary performer for his or
her rare art, which really, alas, isn't
rare at all and causes them to ignore
some one vastly superior musically. It
is. the thing which makes them say
"trash" to a piece which they have
heard more than once, but which
errs in being modern rather than
classic, which one could wager that
if they heard for the first time on
some highly aesthetic artist's pro
gram they would think a wonderful
little musical gem. It obscures their
normal and common sense point of
view, i their modesty of opinion and
often makes them unreasonably and
unjustly intolerant. It keeps them
also from separating the good from
the best.
With singers and players it makes
them always appear in operatic arias,
or concertos and other things for
which they are not ready, instead
of sending them to hunt for less pre
tentious lieder or compositions which
are artistically written and grate
ful to present, numbers which are
perhaps just as beautiful as many of
the others, but for various reasons
lesser known. It sometimes makes
them present pieces which are in
themselves not interesting, and which
cause certain of the listeners to won
der how they ever riappened to select
But there is a cure for this germ,
deadly though it may be. The vic
tim must take a lot of bitter medi
cine, and with careful and systematic
education in more sanitary ways of
tittpnino: to and carefully judging
mnsic. he may eventually entirely
Art Exhibition
By
CHARLES PAUL GRUPPE
Of New York.
Collection of Interestinsr Sketches Painted
- In Holland,
AT
Whitmore's .Art Gallery,
1517 Dodge Street,
Until February 25.
eliminate this musical, snobbishness
from his system and find all music
more interesting both to listen to
and to talk about in the end.
Leopold C-odowsky. on February 20. .
at the Brandeis theater, promptly at
.1:30, will be the next musical at
traction offered by the Tuesday Morn
ing Musical club. Godowsky has vis
ited Omaha several times and he is
cAie of the favorites of the distinctly
musical set. His pianism is of a
rare sort. He is considered an au-
i thority upon his instrument and his
interpretations are marvels ot tne vir
tuoso's . art. Technical difficulties
seem not to exist for him and he ac
complishes the most delicate of pia
nissimos or crashing fortissimos at
will, Godowsky has .recently toured
America twice, although he first gave
a series of recitals here when he
was but 14 years old. Tickets have al
ready been mailed to the member
ship of tbe club, which must be ex
changed for reserved seats at the
box office of the theater. Other
tickets may be bought at the same
time. Membership sale begins Feb
ruary 14 and public sale February 17.
Special rates are made for students
for this recital. The club would like
to introduce the novelty at this re
cital of having everyone on time,
and asks your co-operation.
Under the head of "Local Composer '
to Give Original Opera," the Musi
cal Leader of last week announces
that the grand opera, "Louis XIV."
composed by Homer Moore of St."
Louis, will receive its first public per
formance in America at the Odeon
theater of that city Monday even-
Continued en Pace Nine, damn Vive.)
Musical Notes.
N.w February Vioter rerorfls: "Passing
By." suns by Julia Cain; "8u-h a J,i'l Fel
low." sunt by Aim Gluck; "Es stent ein'
I.lnd." aunt- by Alma Glnck: "Janet's
Choice." sung by Louise Homer: "Non e
ver," by John MrCormack; "The Roeary."
played bw Frits Kreleler: "When Teu and I
Were Tonus. Macsie," by Evan Williams.
Joseph A. Pssternack, formerly conductor
of the Metropolitan Opera company, has as
sumed the moslcal directorship of the Vio
ter Talking Machine comp'sny.
Dr. Freemantel wilt give a song recital
at the First Methodist church in Fremont
Monday evening. Mrs. Freemantel, upon ac
count of the severe snoiro. has been de
tained in Minneapolis and thns will be un
able to accompany her husband. Miss Heln
Sturgess will be the accompanist for this
occaaicn.
An Inl.realiDg students' program was
given Friday evening at Mise Luella Al
len's stieiios by her vioHn nupila. Those
taking pi,rt were Miss Plergue. Joseph Har
ding. Marguerite and Irene FiUmann, Don
ald Haln, Anloinetta Bea.1, Alice Sunderland.
Meriam Wiley. Frances Wilson, Miss
Uchnechen burger and I. 3. Meetachkin.
Seven of Hiss Annie Glasgow's pupils
Wf.re heard in recital at her aludlo Friday
evening. Vlrgli Taylor played the Value
friliante Op. 4 No. 1, Chopin, in a .truly
milaicisnty manner. Tbe Procession,,!
march for two pianos, eight hands, wss an
interesting number enjoyed by tbe appre
ciative audience of friends end parent.
Tbe Cler club will hold a banouet and
meeting Tuesday evening, February 13, ac
the Hotel Loyal at 7 p. m. .
W. H. Neidiinger, long eomposer, arrives
.edgy to spend eome time a tbe guest of
Mr. and Mrs. F: ,T. Adams and Mr. and Mrs.
R. K Sunderland.
. Omaha- musical circles have an interest
ing addition In th person of Miss Lucile
Coylngton, who has come from the east to
make bar home with her mother and
brother. L. L. Covington, at Sites Burt street.
Miss Covington is a ainger. having dons
eenslderable work in this country and in
Europe. Beginning with the Northwestern
university three-year course. Miss Coving
ton contlnned her studies at the Chicago
Musical college sod with privste teachers
in Chicago and Nrw Tork before going to
Florence. Italy, and to Paris, where she
ranked among the most brilliant pupils of
the late Frank King Clark. Miss Coving
ton has a soprano voice of pleasing quality,
which shows careful training and scientific
development. ,
' At the Sacred Heart Alumni tea at Mrs.
L. C. Nash's on Friday afternoon a short
program was reodered by Miss Loretta Da
Lone on the harp and several vocal selec
tions were given by Mrs. Hsller-Bursleln
of Blair, who now has charge of the vocal
department at Sacred Heart academy.
The harp recital to be given by Miss De
Lone Palm Sunday evening at the Fonte
nelle proralaea to be an unique and Inter
esting .vent.
'. This afternoon at tbe House of Hope, in
F'erence, pupils of Florence Bssler Palmer
will give a program for the old people. On
Thursday evening, February IS. Mrs.
Falmer'e pnpiis will give a program for the
Ben (lure in their lodge room in the Lyric
building. Next Sunday afternoon. February
lr, they will give a program for the In
mates of the Old People's home on Wirt
street.
Mrs. Loots Meier, whose husband is the
organist at th Strand' theater, has re
cently come here from Portland, Ore., where
Biro has been -prominent In mosical cir
cle. She was Instructor In piano In that
city, specialiatng in the teaching of small
chlsdren. Mrs. Meier wfll shortly open a
studio la Omaha
Henry Cex. violinist, will play the Bmeh
G. Minor Concerto with the Lincoln Sym
phony orchestra nest Thurvday afternoon.
This Is one of a series of symphony con
certs that are given evory other week.
Miss Alice Mackenale says: "Rabindfa
nath Tagore asked whether the American
vcman is ttwproving her wonderful oppor
tunity for study and advancement. I say
she is. There are few women who do not
belong to one or more elans, to which they
are giving earnest concentrated study for
their advancement. To my atndlo no leaa
than four young married wome,-; have come
to improve their voloes, alt unbeknownst to
their husnanda. They want to surprise them
with their Improvement, so In their thirst
for knowledge they aav. for the payment
of their lessons by depriving themaelvea
of material things."
. ,... hv th. inl.rm.ril.t.
and senior pupils of Miss Emily Cleve, vlo
liniat. Wedneeday evening, February 7, at
tier atndlo, S04 Karbarh block.