Washington County News | 1941-05-15 | Page 4 | Athena Club Hears Wagner Opera Recordings Presented by Roy Welkers

Athena Club Hears Wagner Opera Recordings Presented by Roy Welkers Mrs.. Roy A. Welker assisted by Mrs. Woodruff Cannon entertained entertain-ed the members of the Athena club last Friday evening in the St. George Institute of religion building. Twenty members and, guests were present, As the principal feature of entertainment en-tertainment Mr. Welker played the recordings of the grand opera "Parsifal" by Richard Wagner, which they were privileged to attend at-tend in person while in Germany on an L.D.S. mission. The recordings re-cordings included the entire music of the prologue, and the principal princi-pal themes along with the outstanding out-standing vocal numbers in the roles of Parsifal and Kundri, the two principal characters. Mrs. Welker intrepreted the selections with the story of the opera which was greatly appreciated by the entire audience. During the serving of refreshments, refresh-ments, Mrs. S. K. Gerber obliged with two vocal numbers, "O, Little Lit-tle Mother of Mine" and Sing Me To Sleep." '