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MAUDE DEES(For thi Arkansas Cit Music and Dramatic C lub)POWELL WEAVERFriday afternoon in the Meth-Hrodist Church, the Music Club ispros* nt.mg music by Powell Weaver. The program has boon arranged by Mrs. Willard Moncrief and consists ol organ solos, vocal solos, piano solos and organ andpiano,Powdl Weaver was always considered the finest talent in thefield of American composition and the most outstanding Kansas composer. He died in Decemer, 1951, and many memorial concerts have since hem given for him. His favorite instrument was the organ and he was a leader in bringing some of the greatest organists for concerts to show the organ as a concert instrument as well as for church worship.Mr, Weaver once stated that nowadays money is made only withPfaff and DomesticHales and ServiceCLAY SEWINGMACHINE SERVICE621 No. SummitPhono 615morbid music, but his urge wasto achieve artistic beauty and excellence. Many of his compositions were written at loo Mepowell colony in New Hampshire and ho stated he had b a n trying for years to write a symphonic version ofthe Twenty-Third Psalm and hadcreated all the different moods until he reached the final score and could not write a isfa«iory “1 shall dwell in the house of the I.ord forever.’* He had de« p religious convictions and hi* considered his anthem “Spirit of God as his best sacred number.Mrs. Bramard Newberry will play his organ solos, “The Squirrel,’ which annually holds leading place in musical magazines and is listfMl as the most-piaved organ work, “A Prayer of St. Chrysostom” and “Laughing Water.*'Mrs. Richard Curtis will sing “Moon-Marketing “ one of his best known songs which was first sung and introduced bv Tito Schipa, “Dream Dawn,** and “The Night Will Never Stay,” all written at the McDowell Colony.Mrs. Rex Woods will play the piano number “Don Quixote Visits Vienna,” his adventures told as wittily in music as in fiction. The world has been laughing at his adventures for centuries, as the hero of the novel.A vocal quartet will sing “Early to Bed and Early to Rise,” andSeventh St.Wallace Martin Rt. 1.Mrs. John L. Leith, Dexter. Ronald Dean Wright, 701 North C St.Don E Ross, Oxford.Mrs. Harley Webb, Hackney.Mrs. Howard Meador, 310 South C St.Mrs. J. Alfred Coffman, 222 W. | Adams Ave.cv ■ -V *» r. ,the closing number, organ and piano “Exultation” will be played by Mrs, R. (\ Bishop and Mrs. Robert Davidson In his earlk r life, Mr. Weaver had studied with Pietro Yon and this number is dedicated to him.Hostess chairman is Mrs. John Webster assisted by Mrs. Norman Iverson, Mrs. Floyd Wright, Mrs. C H. Manner, Mrs. Frank Keyes,Mrs D. E. White. Mrs. Guy Kirkand Mrs. Ernest Jennings.H—MRS. LOUIS Tomlinson Wichita, arrived in the city Tuesday to attend her mother, Mrs. WalteiH. Banning Sr., 1014 N. Eighth St., who underwent surgery atMemorial Hospital.HAROLD and ALYCELUNCHIS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
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Arkansas City Traveler
Arkansas City, Kansas, US
Wed, Jan 14, 1953
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