Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-12 | Page 4 | Philanthropist Makes Gift to Music Lovers with Lean Purses

st Makes Gift ito Music Lovers With Lean Purses An anonymous gift of 1500 has just been made to the Quincy lit Ill Civic Music association to be distributed among people of ot the city who love music but who during the present year will not feel able able to pay their own membership fees The contribution also benefits the regular members who have paid their dues by enabling the association to finance a larger series of concerts The Association functions according to the famous civic music plan originated originated originated 10 years ago by Miss Dema E. E Harshbarger Chicago business woman woman wo wo- vo- vo man and patroness of the arts Annual Annual Annual An- An An An- nual membership dues are 5 and the funds thus derived pay fora series of recitals and nd concerts by world fa famous famous fa fa- artists The more memberships the more money the more concerts During the current season Quincy music lovers will hear Attillo Baggiore Bag- Bag gioro giore the sensational new tenor of the Royal Opera of at Rome who is now making his first American concert tour Marlon Marion Claire who made her debut with the Chicago Civic opera a few seasons ago and who is now the reigning lyric soprano of the Berlin Berlin Bertin Ber Ber- lin tin and Francis MacMil MacMil- MacMillen len eminent violinist The St. St Louis Symphony orchestra under Vladimir Golschmann also will be presented In making his gift gUt the donor stressed his opinion that music helps the morale of a city and that it can cando cando cando do much toward creating inspiration in a time of depression Miss Harshbarcer Harshbarger received word of the thc gift gUt at her Chicago office and commented upon it in this fashion Civic music has been established in nearly cities during the pas past 10 years and has been sustained entirely entirely en by regular membership fees paid by those who attended the con con- However I am pleased that those of wealth are beginning to realize realize realize real real- ize the importance of music in daily life and are going to make it possible for lor the public to hear more music Sometime in the not far distant fu future future future fu- fu ture I think every civic music organIzation organIzation organization organ organ- will have an endowment fund which will make possible more more concerts concerts concerts con con- by symphony orchestras which are ore necessarily expensive owing to large personnel and arid huge traveling costs It has bas been proved to my great satisfaction that the really great music stirs a response in everyone Music is the great democratic art