Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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REED COLLEGE ANNUAL 4- 1915 11271 MUSIC HE nucleus about which all later Reed College T musical activity was formd was the simple chapel servis of the first year. At that time an attempt $ was made to create in the students a taste for really good music, giving them the opportunity of hear- ing, every day at chapel, the work of some great composer. Mr. Stahl and Miss Frances Sheehy, a pianist of ability, then a student in the college, had charge of this part of the servis, and much of the success of the plan was due to their careful selection and arrangement of the music. The selections which wer playd wer chosen, not only for their artistic merit, but also for their melody, in order that they might appeal equally to those with or without musical train- ing. The result of this attempt was that the students became familiar with good music, and a high standard of taste was establisht, which has made itself felt in all the later musical work of the college. During the first year, 1911-1912, there was no one con- nected with the college who could undertake to direct any regular group singing. However, a corus, of which practically everyone in college was a member, was organized and child by Mr. Carl Denton, of Portland, who is prominently cone nected with the Symfony Orchestra and other musical bodies A4. :-,I: '2 ,.Lh:$.' in the city. This corus sang at the laying of the cornerstone of the Arts Bilding and also at the first College Day exercises. In the fall of 1912 Howard Barlow came to Reed from the University of Colorado. Upon the recommendation of the music department of that institution and of varius persons with whom he had workt, he was immediately made college corister, which position he has retaind ever since. A corus of about thirty voices was organized at once under his direction and gave its first concert at Christmas, 1912, and its second at Easter, 1913. During the second semester of this same year, 1912-1913, two musical events of importance took place. One was a Schubert recital arranged for the year before but never given, at which the best of Schubertls songs, such as xlDer Lindenbaumf ttDer Erlk'onigf, and ltDer Musensohnf, wer sung by Ruth Barlow, Clara Wuest, Harry Wembridge, Howard Barlow, and Raymond Branion. The other was Liza Lehmanls song-cycle, In a Persian Garden. The soprano and contralto numbers wer sung by Mrs. Delphine Marx and Mrs. Rose Bloch-Bauer, both prominent musically in Portland, and the tenor and baritone solos by Harry VVembridge and Ray- mond Branion. This concert servd to introduce the college to the city musically and won for it the cooperation of the musical interests of Portland. .2; ii 5': if i z i N.Idv