N MU
LLOYD MARVIN COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL
SEASON AT NATIONAL MUSIC CAMP
Under the supervision of the distinguished accordion instruc-
tor Lloyd Marvin, the accordion department at the National Music
Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, made greater strides this year than
ever before.
The "active" Accordion Ensemble made up of a select group
of Mr. Marvin's students appeared on regular weekly recitals
at the Camp. During the Sunlay morning devotional services it
performed as an accordion choir. Other engagements included
conventions at the Traverse City Fair Grounds and the annual
banquet of the Michigan State Federation of Music Clubs held in
the hotel dining room at the camp. On Sunday, August 4th, this
outstanding accordion ensemble was presented over the N.B.C.
Red Network.
The accordion was formally accepted as a part of the regular
curriculum of the famous Interlochen Camp in 1936. Each sea-
son since then a nationally known figure in the accordion field
has been appointed a member of the National Music Camp faculty
along with prominent instructors of other instruments. This year
marks the second consecutive year that the honor was bestowed
upon Mr. Marvin.
"/ CAN LIVE ON MUSIC"
Picture, Courtfsy of Tl:e Chicago Daily News.
Mary Sullivan has the record in Chicago—and probably in
the country—of having played the organ in the same church for
68 years; and as the regular organist during all that time. She
never missed a Sunday until last winter, when sickness laid her
off just a week.
Miss Sullivan was the guest of honor on the evening of Sep-
tember 23, at a banquet in the Edgewater Beach Hotel, given by
the parishioners of the Church of the Annunciation, to celebrate
•her 68 years of faithful service. The Rev. Patrick J. Malloy,
pastor of the church, presented a gift to her.
"This is just the beginning of Mary's career," Father Malloy
said, and "As long as she is with us, she's going to be our organ-
ist." Miss Sullivan, a soft-spoken little lady, is the daughter of
one of Chicago's early settlers. She now lives at 1957 Schiller
Street.
"I began to play the organ for the children when I was only
nine years old," she recalled. "When 1 was 11, T became the reg-
ular organist of the church. It was a frame building then, on the
site where the huge brick edifice now stands.
"They seemed to think I did all right, so I just kept on being
organist. That's all there is to my story."
But there was more that the modest veteran organist didn't
tell. She has trained about 20 choirs in her time figuring a choir
changes its personnel about every three years. She has taught
thousands of Chicago youngsters their music. Among them are
Mother Gerase, mother general of the Sisters of Charity, Judge
Joseph McGarry, Tim Crowe, and the Rev. Edwin V. Hoover,
now musical director of the archdiocese. Miss Sullivan knew
them all as children.
Every day she is at the organ. Beginning with the 6 :45 a.m.
Mass on Sundays, the kindly, modest lady of the organ stays for
all services and plays at other church functions that require organ
music.
"I can live on music", is the way she explains her unusual
record and excellent health.
PEDLER
H. KAY KUHRMEYER HEADS MUSIC DIVISION
CHICAGO COMMUNITY FUND
The annual Giicago Community Fund drive, with a goal of
$3,604,000 had the opening dinner meeting of the drive at the
Hotel Stevens, 6:30 p.m., Oct. 3rd when final instructions were
given to the committee chairmen and team captains. Harold Swift,
chairman of the Industrial Division announced that more than
$700,000.00 had already been subscribed.
H. Kay Kuhrmeyer, president of Kay Musical Instrument Co.,
is chairman of the music industry branch and has named the fol-
lowing team captains to assist him :
Sol Dinner, Targ & Dinner, Inc.; Walter Nappe, George C.
Diver Music Co.; Ambrose Geib, Geib, Inc.; Charles Rubovits,
Harmony Co.; E. A. Warner, Chart Music Publishing House,
Inc.; J. Bradford Pengelly, Presto Music Times; J. Otto, Tonk
Bros. Co.; R. Mitchell and F. Bauer, The Gretsch Manufacturing
Co.; Albert H. Foster, Clayton F. Summy Co.; and L. P. Bull,
Story & Clark PPiano Co.
JOSEPH JVEICHER WILL PLAY FAMED GUANERIUS
VIOLIN WITH CHICAGO SYMPHONY
While the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was tuning up for
the opening of its Golden Jubilee season on Thursday, Oct. 10,
the rare violin known as "Baron Yitta" was taken today from the
vault where it has rested during the summer and placed in the
hands of the orchestra's first violinist, Concertmaster John
Weicher.
The instrument was made by Joseph Guarneri del Gesu in
Cremona, Italy, in 1730 and was loaned to the Chicago orchestra
by Mrs. Frances G. Lee. It is estimated that the violin, if placed
on the market would bring $25,000 or more. The only adjust-
ment necessary before it could be played was to reset the sound
posts.
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