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Show Music club has interesting meet Springville Federated Music Club members spent an interesting inter-esting evening, Friday, at the home of Mrs. Annie Forshee. Zara Tonks read the collect. Jean Biesinger gave the lesson, les-son, telling of the many successful suc-cessful composers of the 1910 period, who had learned their art and craft in Tin Pan Alley Al-ley from the grown-ups. Among them were piano demonstators, song pluggers. sheet music salesmen and arrangers, who learned the basic tools of melody mel-ody writing and why an audience au-dience responds to a song. Among new composers who emerged in 1910, were Walter Donaldson, who wrote among other songs, "My Blue Heaven;" Hea-ven;" Harry Ruby who wrote "Three Little Words," and others; oth-ers; George W. Meyer, "For Me and My Gal," which sold some three million copies; J. Fred Coates, who wrote "Love Letters in the Sand," among other hits. Another composer who rose from the ramble of Tin Pan Alley times, was the genius, George Gershwin, who at an early age became interested in American popular music. Irving Ir-ving Berlin and Jerome Kerns were other outstanding composers compos-ers of the time. Mrs. Biesinger also discussed song hits of World War I and adding to the program of the evening were music numbers given by a' quartet from Salt Lake City, including Mrs. Bies-inger's Bies-inger's sister, LaRue Richmond. Mrs. Biesinger and Mrs. Richmond Rich-mond gave duets, accompanied by Betty Sumsion. Mary Bird played a medley of Gershwin song hits. The group also sang several numbers led by Erma Brailsford, and accompanied by Janet Packard. Refreshments were served at the close of the program to 22 members and guests. |