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The official blue book of the Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition, A.D. 1907. The only authorized history of the celebration. Illustrated, 1909
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1July 6—Special concert by the Kreutzer Male Quartette.
2July 11-12—J. H. Shepherd.
3July 13—William Wall Whiddit.
4Week of July 15—Ernest H. Cosby.
5July 19-22—William Wall Whiddit.
6July 23-27—A. S. Brooke of Brooklyn.
7July 29-31—E. C. Napier of Pittsburgh.
8August 1-2—E. G. Napier.
9August 3—William Wall Whiddit.
10August 5-7—C. Leslie Carpenter.
11August 6—Special recital by George S. Dunham of Boston.
12August 8-10—R. A. Laslett Smith of Waterbury, Connecticut.
13August 12—Edward Havens of New York. Mr. Havens was assisted by Miss Dorothea Moller, contralto.
14August 13—J. F. Richardson, Atlanta, Ga.
15August 14-16—S. F. Smith, Washington, D. C. Mr. Smith was assisted by Miss Moller.
16August 19-24—G. H. Fairclough of St. Paul.
17August 26—William Wall Whiddit.
18August 27-29—T. W. Musgrove.
19August 30-31—William Wall Whiddit.
20August 31—A special recital by T. W. Musgrove.
21September 2-6—Recitals by C. P. Landi of Duluth. At the first two of these Mrs. Herbert Brown, soprano, assisted.
22September 5—William Wall Whiddit.
23September 9-11—James McGarvin, assisted by Mrs. Blanche Armstrong Weinschenck.
24September 11—Special song recital by Mrs. Blanche Armstrong Weinschenck, accompanied by Mr. Whiddit.
25September 12-14—N. Hering, assisted by Mrs. Weinschenk.
26September 16-19—Walter Keller of Chicago.
27September 20-21—William W. Whiddit.
28September 24-27—Alfred Butler.
29September 28—William Wall Whiddit.
30September 30—Edward Kreiser of Kansas City.
31October 1-5—Edward Kreiser.
32October 7-8—William Wall Whiddit.
33October 9-11—J. Warren Andrews, New York.
34October 12—William Wall Whiddit.
35October 14-16—J. Percy Starnes, organist of All Saints' Cathedral, Albany.
36October 17-19—Recitals by J. J. McClellan, organist of the famous Mormon Tabernacle, who visited the Exposition with the Utah delegation.
37October 21—William Wall Whiddit.
38October 22-23—Clifford Demarest, Secretary of the American Guild of Organists.
39October 24-30—William Wall Whiddit.
40October 31—Shepherd Webb of Richmond.
41Piano recitals were given daily—from the opening day for the first two weeks by Mr. Shonert, assisted by Earl J. Pfouts, violinist. Joseph Maerz gave daily piano recitals for the remainder of the month of May, and through the month of June. Mr. Maerz also gave daily piano recitals during the month of July.
42On July 4, Sydney Lloyd Wrightson gave a special song recital. July 23 and 24, Mr. Rice, a baritone, gave two recitals.
43August 6-10, E. M. Shonert and Earl J. Pfouts gave piano and violin recitals. August 14-16, Mr. Maertz gave a piano recital, assisted by Miss Dorothea Moller. August 19-31, piano and violin recitals by Mr. Shonert and Mr. Pfouts. August 31, one of the principal musical treats of the Exposition was a concert given by the Arion Singing Society of Brooklyn. Fifty male voices under the direction of Mr. Clausen gave a delightful concert in the Auditorium. Mr. Whiddit presided at the organ.
44September 9-20 Otto Pfefferkorn gave daily piano recitals. There was a piano recital on September 21 by J. P. Rowland, and piano and violin recitals on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth by Mr. Shonert and Mr. Pfouts.
45From September 20 to the close of the month the Fisk Jubilee Singers from Nashville gave two concerts daily in the Auditorium. The singing of the negro melodies and folk songs was an attraction that proved agreeable to the large audiences that attended. September 23-28, special violin recitals were given by J. P. Rowland, accompanist. September 30, Madame Rosa Linde, song recital. September 24-30, special week's engagement with the Royal Artillery Band of Baltimore, giving two daily concerts in the Auditorium. September 26, a special song recital by Milla de Cygno. This charming artist had just come from Berlin and made her first appearance in America at the Exposition.
46October 1-12, the Fisk Jubilee Singers gave daily recitals. October 2-5, Madame Rosa Linde, contralto, gave special song recitals, assisted by J. P. Rowland, pianist. October 7-12, F. W. Weaver, the blind pianist, gave daily piano recitals. October 14-28, J. P. Rowland, piano recitals. October 10, Liberatti's Italian Band began a two week's engagement. October 14-31, the Filipino Orchestra gave daily concerts, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers also sang. October 17, David Bispham gave a song recital. This great artist delighted an audience of over a thousand people, who thoroughly enjoyed every number of his splendidly arranged programme. October 25 there was a special concert by the Confederate Choir and a violin recital by Francis McMillan.
48NOTE.—In some minor instances the accounts of the same item, given by the Director of the Division and by the Superintendent of a Bureau, disagree. No attempt has been made to harmonize. Where this article is not an exact quotation it is a true digest with this exception that some manifest inaccuracies have been omitted.—ED.
50J. WARREN ANDREWS, G. A. FAIRCLOUGH, EDWARD KREISER
51J. J. McCLELLAN, CLARENCE EDDY, WALTER KELLER
52ERNEST H. CROSBY, CLIFFORD DEMAREST, ALFRED BUTLER
53SOME FAMOUS ORGANISTS WHO GAVE RECITALS
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