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> Mr. T. C. Rlggs, a prominent
I citizen of the Thurmond com
munity, was in thiB city Tuesday
looking after business matters.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Reynolds,
of Pfafftown, were business visi
tors in this city Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. £aul ^hoplin
have adopted a son, John Locke
Choplin, age two months.
Mr. A. R. Miller, a well known
merchant and farmer of the Van
noy community, was a business
visitor here Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Locke, of
Bridgeton, Maine, are here visit
ing in the home of their daugh
ter, Mrs. Paul Choplin.
Seaman Roby Travis Owens
has returned to his ship, the
USSS San Pablo, at Norfolk, Va.,
after spending a seven-day, leave
with his wife, Mrs. Ruby Owens,
of North Wilkesboro route one.
Mrs. Bernice Ulrich Ross, who
is now teaching in the Winston
Salem Schools, spent the week
end here as a guest of Mrs. Inez
Spainhower Wolf. Mrs. Ross is a
former resident of North Wilkes
boro.
Mesdames J. B. McCoy, C. C.
Sr., and €. Don Coffey, Jr.,
attended a meeting of the Execu
tive Board of the Presbyterial
held in Winston-Salem today.
Mrs. R. S. Gibbs also attendee as
a member of the nominating com
mittee.
Mesdames R. S. Gibbs, T. A.
Finley, A. L.. Brzostowski, Ivey
Moore, A. H. Clark, Misses Ro
berta Gibbs, Doris Ann Godbey,
Jimmy Day, and Jimmy and Ed
ward Moore went to Statesville
Monday evening to see the play
"School for Scandal" put on by
the Carolina Playmakers in the
high school auditorium.
Miss Ella Brame left Monday
for Wilmington where she will
be obstetrical supervisor of nurs
es in the James Walker Hospital.
Miss Brame, who had held a po
sition in the Baptist Hospital at
Winston-Salem for several years,
spent about ten days here with
her father, Mr. P. J. Bramev and
other relatives before leaving for
Wilmington. /Whhe here she had
as her guests over the week-end
Mrs. Wright Williams an^ son,
Bill Williams, of Winston-Salem.
Lester A. Gudger, aviation ma
chinists mate, second class, USN,
son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Gudger
of 609 -'O" St., North Wilkes
fooro, of the Naval Air Transport
Squadrons Ttlying with U. S. Air
Force planes in the Berlin airlift,
has received a "well done" from
the Air Force Commander for his
work. Despite the worst flying
weather in decades he has been
carrying coal an^ food into be
leaguered Berlin as the' Naval
Squadrons operates with the Air
Force from the Rhein Main Air
Force Base, near Frankfurt.
Bary Ensemble
Concert Here Is
Well Received
Enthusiastic Audience Calls
For Number Of Encores
By Concert Artists
(By J. Jay Anderson)
Concert music can be, and all
too frequently is, unmusical. On
Tuesday evening the Wilkes Com
munity Concert Association was
privileged to present to its mem
bership an outstanding program
of high calibre concert music
which was inspiring. The com
plete attentiveness of the audi
ence is evidence in itself that
the Bary Ensemble is more than
a group of lovely ladies—they
are musical human beings. Prom
the opening "Suite" by Corelli to
the final encore—the "Perpetu
al Motion" of Johann Strauss—
the audience sat and listened as
if spellbound.
Gertrude Bary proved herself
not only the head of a musical
organization and a part of that
organization—whereas her abil
ities definitely are outstanding as
an accompanist and a part of the
Ensemble, nevertheless, her pia
no interpretations were interest
ing. The Mozart "Variations" on
a theme by Gluck were indeed
charming and full of vivacity,
and were enjoyed to the extent
that the audience clamored for
an encore.
The 'cellist of the Ensemble
brought a solemn hush with her
first number, the "Ave Maria''
by Gounod on the "First Prel
ude" of J. S. Bach. Miss Peter
son held those present almost as
one of the strings of her 'cello
t h r o u ghout the "Hungarian
Rhapsody" and her encore which
was enthustially requested.
The opening movement of the
"Symphonie Espagnole" by Lalo
transcended technical muscian
ship in the playing of Mary Beck
er, and the violin became as a
thing alive in the hands of the
musician — all emotions were
wrung from the 'poet' of the mus
ical world. Miss Becker, as an en
core, played, and to the com
plete satisfaction of her audience,
"Banjo and Fiddle".'
Concluding the program was
the well-known and typically A
merican "Rhapsody in Blue" by
George Gershwin. The shining in
strument in this was, of course,
the clarinet. As a'matter of fact,
this particular arrangement used
by the Bary Ensemble would lead
one almost to the conclusion that
except in rare instances, the
"Rhapsody" wa^ a clarinet and
piano duet. The work was well
done, however, and the number
provoked a great deal of applause
for Miss Gugino, who played as
an encore the "Flight of the
Bumble Bee".
As regards Heen Bacchus, the
violist of the Ensemble, we were
ldisappointed not to hear her ex
cept as a member of the group,
but she Is to be complimented on
the tone heard from the viola
Not only are the members of the
Bary Ensemble a group of out
standing soloista—they are a
unit, and the playing together
was indeed a joy to the ear. As
proof of the audience's desire to
hear more of the Bary Ensemble,
they refused to leave until two
final encores were given by the
entire groups—the "Saibre Dance'
and ''Perpetual Motion"—and
and even%then the audience sat
and applauded.
We might paraphase Caesar
that the Bary Ensemble "came,
was heard, and conquered". This
reviewer must say that the re
ception given the first in the se
ries presented by the Wilkes
Community Concert , issociatlon
was ait • least duplicat id, if not
more tban duplicated; the Bary
Ensemble, with their i rogram on
Tuesday, evening, provi d that the
people -of Wilkes are not only
ready for good music- they want
and insist on the 'best. We are de
lighted that the Barj Ensemble
did not . play down tc us—they
played the best music in a superb
manner and we liked it.
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