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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 8 Oct 1936, p. 34

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'love.s to Glencoe The season for sypiphony concerts on the north shore will open Monday afternoon, October 19, in the auditorium of New Trier Township Higb school, when tbe Illinois Symphony orchestra' will résume activities. Izier Solomon will direct. This group,'under tbe baton of tbe veteran conductor,, Max Bendix, was introduced to the nortb shore public at tbe higb school, last june, in two concerts. During the rnonth of August, under the direction of Mr. Solomon, the orchestra gave. weekly open-air free concerts on the. waterworks, esplanade in -the Wilmette lake fotpark. In these latter concerts the 'audiences frequently ran i to several. thousands. The matinee to be given October 19 i5 one of a series wbich will continue monthly throughout the, school. year. Plans bave been made to conduct a sale of tickets early in Novemnber for the evening concerts of the series to be given on monthly dates ientical with the student matinees. The Illinois Symphonv orchestra ia unit of the Federal Music Project of thje Works Progress administration. The- compensation of the musicians is paid by the federal. governmtent, and therefore the only expense connected with the new series is that of the incidentais of bringing the players to the north shore. This makes it possible to givethe.concrtsfor the student - Among the musicians who have recentIv corne into the community is Mrs. Charles H. Elliott. 260) jane, returnedat a[week Iom tLiir summer nome~AI5 Lincoti. drive, Glencoe. She moved to the siorthi at, Wiscasset, Maine. They had been in tbe east last springý witb her busband and' three sbore for t hree months.. Mr. Philbrick, who is on the childrien (rom St. Paul, Minu. Mrs. Elliott. a, faculty of the Art Institute, is. showing one of1 his etchings in tbe exhibit of the Chicago Society of pianist 'and contralto, is. also known throughott Et'chers wbich is being beld in tbe Roullier galthe middle west as Marjorie Eltiott, the ýcomposer. She baswiitten several hulndred concert songs, October to, 28 September f rom Chicago in leries 1o. Mr. Philbrick's entry is a drawing of the ýbirthand bas had >thiree plays podce. IAonth place of Edwin Arlington Robinson, the -poet, at* leading. artists who: have ùsed ber songs- arc Katbryn Meisle of the Metropolitan Opera coiHeaèdtide, Maine. panly, Marie Tiffany -of New York, City, Raymund Koch, James Allaîi of the Twin City ODpera company, and Adair McRae Roberts, promitient contralto soloist with the ineëapolis'Symphony orchestra. .Mrs. Elliott is also theý author of the encore song, "When Is a Ro6ster," and. a cburcb anthem, "Open Tbou My Eyes," publisbed bv- Paul Schmitt. company of Minneapolis,, Her igbt opera. "«Gypsy 'Moon"' was produced in St. Paul uncler the auspices of tbe Ramsey County S. League of Women Voters, and stiii another play for which shebhas written the music, "La Gamine," will be' presented in November. in St. -Paul at the Metropolitan theatre. The composer is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts of Syracuse university,. and is a meinher of Alpha Pbi sororit.v and P. E~. O. Sisterhood. She was a puvit of the Cmi township. The Program for the concert will be as follows: Symphonie Poem. Phaeton .Salnt-Saens Unfinlshed Symphony, lot Schubert Movemeit .............. 1'Arleslenne Suit, Farandole .... Bizet Dansle Macabre.......... Saint-Saens Tone Poem, Finlandia....... Sibeius Give Club Program prominent in music circles .and Nvas responsible for the organization of the first Music School settiernent, now a flourishing institution by means of which talented children of insufficient means secure a musical education for a nominal fee, It claimed as its membership 40,000 of the outstanding women in St. Her borne for a nuinher of vears~ was in St. Louis and there sie %vas ber inusîc Moves tb Auditorimi ycars. *»ror More thn peignr ycars,- Mr. jicnols writes, "I followed the established rules of art and blindly eccepted ail as being true. Two and one-haif yearu mgeo something happenedwitbin me The Woman'B 'Symnphony orchestra môves to the Auditorium thea ter thisý year, and opens a four concert season November 10 with a gala. Swedish program featuring Gertrude Wettergren ,and thle .S wedish: Choral society.. E~vans, are memnberghip Marjory chairman.. The. four new directors. Day, Evelyn LaSalle, Dorotby Rae; and eýulalJe Kober Stade. licity chairman, andi Frances

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