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The Horizon

MUSIC AND ART

MISS HELEN E. HAGAN, pianist, gave her first recital in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 23, at Steinert Hall. The program was as follows: Franck, Prelude Chorale, and Fugue; Schumann, Carnaval, opus 9; Liszt, Liebestraum; Debusey, Jardin sous la pluie; Coleridge-Taylor, Deep River, Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveler, Bamboula; Chopin, Scherzo in B-flat minor. The Boston Herald said of the recital: "Miss Hagan's tone is remarkable for its quality and depth. She has abundant technique, which is skillfully used for purposes of interpretation. Her legato is smooth. She can sing a melody. Her touch is now luscious, now caressing. As an interpreter, she listens to inner voices. In her playing there is idealism, as well as youthful intensity. She is both imaginative and emotional. In a word, Miss Hagan deserves an honorable place among the younger pianists."

Mr. Roland W. Hayes, tenor, appeared at Jordan Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on November 17. He was assisted by Mr. Wesley Howard, violinist, and Mr. William Lawrence, accompanist. The Boston Transcript made note of the excellence of Mr. Lawrence's accompaniments, while the Boston Globe said of Mr. Hayes: "His voice is one of uncommon beauty, holding deep within it that poignant call to the heart which is a heritage most of all to the singers of his race. The voice has grown year by year; its sweetness is no less appealing, and Mr. Hayes has increased greatly his breadth and authority of style in the delivery of a song."

Mr. Clarence Cameron White, violinist, is now on concert tour in the Middle West. He has given successful recitals at Columbus, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois. On November 15, he was heard in a joint recital with Miss Myrtle A. Burgess, pianist, at The Wheatley Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association, in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. White played numbers by Brahms-Joachim, Hubay, Dvorak-Kreisler, Chaminade-Kresiler, and his own "Three Bandana Sketches," written after the Negro idiom. 

Mr. Carl Diton, pianist, and Director of the Music Deparment of Talladega College, Alabama, is filling a series of concert engagements in the North. On November 10, he was heard at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, in Washington, D. C., where he was assisted by the choir of the church, Mr. C. H. Wesley, director, and The Dunbar High School Chorus, conducted by Miss Mary L. Europe.

Major Walter Loving, the retired conductor of The Philippine Constabulary Band, is to become the Director of the Washington, D.C., Concert Orchestra, which is to be re-organized into a symphony orchestra with its membership augmented to one hundred.

Mme. Mayme Calloway-Byron, soprano, of Chicago, Illinois, was enthusiastically received at the A. M. E. Zion Church, in Washington, D. C., on November 16. Her program comprised operatic selections from Charpentier, Verdi, Puccini, and Gounod. She was assisted by W. Henry Hackney, baritone, who sang with Mme. Calloway, in addition to his solo, the duet, "O Quant Occhi Fisi," from Puccini's "Madame Butterfly." Mme. Calloway has ad the distinction of appearing with the Philharmonic Orchestras of Munich and Dresden. 

Coleridge-Taylor's "Dawn" was one of the English songs that was given the distinction of repetition when sung by Mme. Alma Gluck, the noted American suprano, at her recital in Auditorium at Minneapolis Minnesota, late in October.

Mr. Henry T. Burleigh was at the piano when Charles Harrison, American tenor, sand songs by Burleigh at the second of Max Sander's musicales at The Harris Theater, in New York City, on November 5. Orchestral numbers were played by the strings and woodwind of the Russian Symphony Orchestra.

Messrs. Henry T. Burleigh and James Reese Europe participated in a program at Kismet Temple, Brooklyn, New York, November 16, to open the campaign for $100,000 needed to develop the work of Howard Orphanage. This orphanage was started by a colored woman, Mrs. S. A. Tillman, fifty years ago, and incorporated in 1868,

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and named in honor of General O.O. Howard, who became interested in the project. L. Hollingsworth Wood, 20 Nassau Street, New York City, is president of the institution.

The Orpheum Choral Society has been organized in Richmond, Virginia. It made its first appearance September 13, before a large audience.

ATHLETICS

THE following football scores have been made:
Fisk 35-West Virginia 12.
Fisk 0-Howard 16.
Morehouse 14-Fisk 0.
Morehouse 23-Tuskegee 0.
Morehouse 17-Atlanta 10.
Hampton 19-Lincoln 7.
Howard 7-West Virginia 7.
Livingstone 25-Shaw 11.
Atlanta 6-Tuskegee 0.
Prairie View 26-Bishop 13.
Biddle 14-Benedict 0.
Biddle 21-Livingstone 0.
Hampton 12-Howard 3.
Hampton 15-Virginia Union 6.

Mr. P.J. Carter, assistant coach at Howard University, selects the following colored All-American Football Team for the Border States:
End-Brewer (Fisk).
Tackle-Matthews (Howard), Capt.
Guard-Puryear (Union).
Center-Dabney (Hampton).
Guard-Dawson (Hampton).
Tackle-Banks (Hampton).
End-Green (Howard).
Quarterback-Harvey (Hampton.)
Halfback-Hughes (W. Va. Inst.).
Halfback-Dorsey (Hampton).
Fullback-Pinderhughes (Howard).

SOCIAL PROGRESS

THE city of Rochester, New York, is planning to celebrate the one hundred anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, February 15, 1917.

Mr. Raymond J. Knox, a colored railway postal clerk running between Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska, has made his third consecutive 100 per cent examination of states by routes. 

Mr. Benjamin Brawley, Dean and Professor of English in Morehouse College, has in the Sewanee Review, for October, a highly technical article, "English Hymnody and Romanticism." Mr. Brawley has had an active year of publication. Other important articles have been as follows: "Pre-Raphaelitism and Its Literary Relations," in the South Atlantic Quarterly, for January; "The Negro in American Fiction," in Dial, for May 11; "Lorenzo Dow," simultaneously published in July in Methodist Review and the Journal of Negro History; and "The Course in English in the Secondary School," in the Southern Workman, for September. In addition, Mr. Brawley has written the formal "History of Morehouse College" that is announced for publication in connection with the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the college, in February.

Mr. George W. Wheeler, of Dayton, Ohio, has been promoted from the police force to detective duty.

Mr. Wellington Willard has recently been selected as private stenographer to the treasurer of The Pennsylvania Sugar Company, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Willard has been with this corporation one year as one of the eight stenographers employed in the general offices. He won recognition by accuracy displayed in a recent efficiency contest held by the company.

Negro farmers in Jefferson County, Arkansas' cotton belt, are attracting much attention to themselves. Mrs. Rebecca Dawson, sixty-five years old, owns and drives her $1000 automobile; Mr. Frank Prewitt, a tenant at Sherrill, has paid his $800 debt, $725 on this year's debt, has $500 cash, and three bales of cotton worth at least $350; Mr. Files Sanders, a tenant at Ladds, has paid his $1000 debt, and has a surplus of $1500; Mr. Drew Sims, on the plantation of D. B. Niven, at Tucker, has bouth for cash a $1250 seven-passanger automobile; Mr. S. B. Adams, a blacksmith and farmer in Grady, recently left town in his $1250 car. 

Colored policemen attached to the Nineteenth District Station House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, won several prizes and the championship cup awarded the district scoring the highest number of points at the Policemen's Carnival held at the Philadelphia Ball Park, October 21. Their score was twenty-two, and that of their nearest rival, ten.

The membership of the colored Young Women's Christian Association, in Indianapolis, Indiana, has grown from 200 to 850 within the past month.