Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

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van Francisco CHRONICLE Thursday April 28 , 1910 OHRONICLE , THURSDAY , APRIL 28 , 1910 . A Dancing Visible Music Declares Maud Allan and a . SPLENDID musical programme was presented at the meeting of the Wednesday Morning C110 yesterday at Christian Science Hall , which was listened to by a particularly large and enthusiastic audience , many of whom were men . The charmingly rendered musical numbers proved of secondary interest , however , when it was announced that Miss Maud Allan had consented to appear before the or ganization and speak of the art of which she is the brilliant exponenti Miss Allan was presented to tho club members and their friends in eulogistic words by the president ) Mrs. William A. Deane . To those who had seen Miss Allan only on the stage it was inter esting to compare her there clothed in her own personality and in her street clothes . Miss Allan was gowned in a quaintly picturesque fashion , with large drooping hat which accentuated every line of her unusual face . She has a low - toned , musical voice , an easy , natural conversational style of ad dress , and a gracefui , languid manner which lent a charm of glamor to the simple , unaffected things she said , Miss Allan declared that the critics who saw no relation between music and dancing were wrong and not to be taken seriously . That dancing was the first art and that music sprang from it brought , she said , the logical con . clusion that dancing , as she conceived and presented it , is visible music . She offered the explanation that her body was the instrument upon which she played , and as it was the only instru ment that God had given her with which to express herself , she was not ashamed of it , and the use of scanty drapery in her dancing was justified on this ground . That she never yet had been interviewed without the ques . tion being asked as to whether or not she was a suffragette .. In answer to this she read a chapter from a book she had written explaining 755 / 08 BALDWIN YAVD ZLAN LAN MT3S BLEA ATSON VAUCNAN 18 T £ / roze Miss Maud Allan and Two Others , Who Took Part in the Programme of the Wednesday Musical Club . 3 her views on the subject at length , al though she confessed to not having given the matter very serious thought . It was not original , and but for the charming reader's attractive voice would have been intolerably dull . From the conglomerate collection of axioms one concluded that she did not believe in woman suffrage . Miss Allan concluded by reading her interpretation of the dance of Salome , which aims to eliminate the sensuality in the kissing of the head of John the Baptist , on the ground that it was sig nificant alone of repentance . The opening number on the musical programme , which was given by Henry Perry , was particularly well received , especially three songs by Wallace Sa bin that have not yet been published , but which have been exploited by Lon don publishers as splendid examples of modern composition . Mrs. Lillian Bermingham Save group of four songs that were most artistically rendered . The complete pro gramme was as follows : Songs 1 Die Vatergruft L.Iszt 2 ( a ) A Voice on the Winds . Wallace A. Sabin ( b ) Down by the Sally Gardens .. Wallace A , Sabin ( c ) The Two Ships . ....... Wallace A. Sabin Henry L. Perry . Miss Edith Ladd and Miss Lydia Reinstein accompanists . Songs ( a ) Spring Time Taylor ( b ) Mein Lieb ist Gruen .. Brahms ( c ) Bolero from I Vespri Sleiliant . Miss Ella R. Atkinson , Piano quartet- Symphony O Minor , ..N . W. Gade Miss Joan Baldwin , Mrs. H. S. Manheim , Mrs. A. L. Lengfeld , Miss Jane Fanning . Violin selos Shepherd's Dance ; Morris Dance . Air on G String Bach ( 17th century dances arranged by Edward German . ) Miss Sallie Ehrman . Miss Therese Ehrman at the piano . 8 Dancer Says Body Is Only Instrument of Expression God Gave Her and She Is Not Ashamed of It An interesting announcement was made to the effect that Walter Dam rosch would give an Illustrated talk on " Pelleas and Melisande " on Mazr 11th at the Garrick Theater , which would be exclusively for members the Wednesday Morning Club .