Williamsport Music Club Scrapbook: 1940-1941, 1941-1942

              THE Vg£LIAM$PQRT SUN,
Music Club to Hold
Meeting on Tuesday
The April program meeting of
the Williamsport Music Club will
be held at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening in Bradley Hall, Williamsport
Junior College,
Miss Louise Stryker will be. program chairman for the evening,, and
has arranged for the performance
of many interesting works illustrative of the subject, "Early Itafem
Music  and  Its  Influences."
Guests are welcome on payment
of the usual guest fee.
j APRIL 24,1940.
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Delegates Are
Selected By
llMusic Club
Plans'for local observance;- of
Music Week^May 5 to 11, wer*.,discussed and dfelegatesT^B the Pennsylvania i-FederatiiSn of Music Clubs
convention in Pittsburgh, Apr. 29
to May 4, were se^scted in the meeting of the Williamsport Mu|SeJCIub
Tuesday evening at Bradley Hall,
WilUamsportj.junior  College.
A^ogr^tt-sfeaturing "Early Italian v Music and Its Influence" was
presented-pS'the vocal ensemble,
violin solos,' vo(M >olos and the
string ensemble',  q UBtt>
Announcement' was made daily
broadcasts will be given by the
CluB'trirtag Music Week and that
programs-will be presented at various   organization   meetings.   .''
Mrs. C. W. Williamson and Miss
Albertalstead were named delegates to the state,convention.
•Hostess** jfwir the evening Jjrere
Mrs. Walter Ames, Mrs. John Cook,
Mrs. Joan B. Ross, Mrs. Leonard
Spotts, Mrs. Mitchell Yo.unkin, Mtss
Margaret Ames, Mrs. Clarence Hurr
and Mrs. Richard Bower:
out/
Italian Music
Theme of Meeting
Of Local Club
"Early Italian Music and Its Influence" was the subject for l the
April program meeting of the Williamsport Junior College.
Plkns, for local observance of
Music Week, May 5 to $k, were discussed and Mrs. C. W. Williamson
and Miss Alberta StSad were
named delegates to the Pennsylvania " Federation of Music Clubs
convention Hit Pittsburgh, April 29
to May 4. Thfeclub is planning daily
radio broadcasts during music week
and will present programs.il! lotfal
institutions-
Italian music to the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries which was
largely vocal, was stressed. Various
| music centers developed the polyphonic style, characteristic of the
music of this period. »■
The influence of Palestrina was
teft in the church where his music
was used as a model for plirity of
style. In the field of opera, such
composers as Alessandro Scarlatti,
Giacomo, Carissimi and others
made the music more suited to
the dramatic fction.
Instrumental music was used to
accompany opera singers, gradually
becoming an .Independent form and
composers soon found that more
florid music could be written for
instruments than for voices. Old
dance forms were used in the composition of chamber music. These
dance suites of the early Italian instrumental technic »»_- developed
by -such virtuosos as Tartini, Har-
dini, Veracipi and Vivaldi.
'""programs Presented
The first part of the programcon-
sisted of three illustrations, "O
Bono Jesu" by Giovanni Pietjuigi
da Palestrina, arranged by Harold
Geer; "MaDrigalo" by Giovanni
Gabriel! arranged by Gerald Reynolds; and "Nina" by Giovanni Per-
aB'lesi, ^transcribed by Franz Berns-
chein. Mrs. J. Frank Budd was director and Mrs. C. W. Williamson,
accompanist.
The "Concerto' in E Minor" by
Pietre Nardini and edited by Sam
Franke, consisting of three movements, Allegro Moderate; Andanta.
Cantabile and Allegretto Giacomo.
was played by Mrs. M. Z. Dworkin, vioyjjiirt, accompanied by Mrs.
Kurt Glasseri pianist.
I "Vittoria mio cora" by Giacomo
Carissimi and "O Cessato Di Pia-
garmi" fey Alessandre Scarlatti
were sung by Miss Elizabeth Sims,
contralto, accompanied by Mrs. Edward   Orwig,   accompanist.
Mrs. M. Z. Dworkin directed the
iftring ensemble in Suite No. 2 in
B Minor, by Johann Sebastian Bach
consisting ■ of the Overture, Polonaise, Minuet and Badineri.
Hostessed ffir the evening were
Mrs. Walter Ames, Mrs. John Cook,
Mrs. John B. Rose, Mrs. Leonard
Spotts, Mrs. Mitchell Younkiii, Miss
Margaret Ames, Mrs. Clarence Hurr
and Mrs. Richard Bower.
iMus^lubto
Be Represented ?
|iState Meeting
The 1940 convention of the Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs
which opens in Pittsburgh, April 30,
Hjopiises to be one of.especia£xn-'
teyest and to present a comprehen-
| sj#£ picture of trie part*|>ennsyl-
vj^ift'^s playedvin the develop-
nfefijk-'.ot music in^AiijerioaJ   :
Members ^i the W&fiamsport
Music Club who will 'atie&cf as delegates ,are.,.1iaEirs. C. ,W, :Vjrattiamson
aflSfHMrs. Alberta Steady >Jnrs. J.
^WBi'.Budd' will: also attend <&( her
SapaeHjy .as' vice chairhiSHte^p&'th.e
Js'tate',."-extension^MmmifteK;' The
beauti<S Stephe^'Fostfer'Memorial
^Tittstourg^rwiif ■ be the" s^we jof
the^re^t, which will.^mTafeuSB-.'froni
Tuesday; April 30' .through Jatur-
day, May 4:
in the program, developed by
the-state president, Mrs. -David V.
Murdock, youth is giveix, a prom-
inentplace from the youngest juve-
f,iiileii.to the juniorsjand student and
young artists' groups. •£?&•"■
Noted Persons WHJ AttMjjtl'-
Speakers af the American Composers luncheon will be Dr. Harvey B. Gaul, Dr. Charles Wakefield
Cadman and Mrs. Grace Towne.
Distinguished guests expected include Dr. "and Mrs. Edgar Stillman
Kelley as well as the state presidents of many neighboring states
and Mrs. Vincent' Billes Ober, president of the National Federation of
Music Clubs. . 'ilytfy
One of Mrs.  Ober's most ardent
desires is to bring about a general
participation   in  musical   activities.
More  community  singing,  a larger
pymber of choral gsoups, 'organization of non-profess&inal musicians
into orchestras and chamber music
groups would, she believes, bright-'
en. morale throughout the country,
'&K|i^|JI'riendly feeling among the
||li    various    sections,    and
L as an interpretive force, „
-.Eeople. of foreign  origins,]
SS^vine American,   to   under-
'Mil °ther.
Shut    her
\preached
f-.n agency
Jr.'.iand her
■ qrowned
regime, Mrs.
the gospel of
r-.for spiritual
.Charts ;were]
with success
k. 1939 BierihiaL jgpflvenf
more, a great national
np voices gathered from
f  the   United   States,
-j program  pt Amended in'jtange and ad-
ive oi the American,