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Second Number Whitworth Artist Course 1020-'21,The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Ysaye, conductor, Elsie Barge, soloist, passed into the history of Whitworth's Conservatory of Music as a musical event distinguished as was its predecessor of 1920 when the famous orchestra was heard in Brookhaven for the first time and when there were several hundred turned away for lack of seating capacity. Miss McVoy, Director of our Conservatory of Music and promoter of Whitworth's Artist Course had provided additional seats for Thursday evening last and the management was such that the immense audience was delighted from every standpoint.The orchestra won remarkable favor here last year and was greeted with enthusiasm this.Brookhaven had a Just pride in the nrst appearance of the orchestra when one of Whitworth's alumnae, Miss Jemmie Yardeman, an artist of the Cincinnati Conservatory, was chosen as soloist and again on their second appearance when Elsie Barge so capabily and excellently filled the role of piano soloist. Miss Bargewas accorded an ovation by her home people being called back time and again and made the recipient of exquisite floral tributes that the musicians who had “come from the snow country, as they expressed it, evidently coveted. The graceful and fra-frant baskets left on the stage by our local artist, were seized upon by the musicians during an intervalwhen the stage setting was rearranged, and were sportively passed from one to the other with many bows and smiles until the typically southernflowers—the narcissi and buttercups, the hyacinths and violets and roses—lost themselves in the melody of the evening and disappeared behind the scenes.On account of difficulty in securing a piano Miss Barge had not rehearsed with the great orchestra; but played perfectly, Ysaye seizing her hand and kissing it in admiration and, doubtless, gratification at the close of her number while the encores rang from pit to dome.It is interesting here to note that* Ysaye, the wonderful violinist and conductor, expects to accept the official invitation that has come to him to visit Mexico City and to give a series of concerts in the principal cities of our neighboring republic.Mr. W. J. Layton kindly loaned his Estey Piano for the occasion of Thursday evening. *-FOR A PERSISTENT COUGH.
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Brookhaven Semi Weekly Leader
Brookhaven, Mississippi, US
Sat, Feb 05, 1921
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