Friday, March 12, 2010

An interesting clipping from 1925

Sunday at First Lutheran will be an All Chopin concert - this harmonizes with this article from 85 years ago, March. Linnea Gord performs Chopin.

LEDGER, MARCH 22, 1925

Robert Weisbach Studio Program for KGB

Upper row, from left to right: Mildred Rosenberg, Josephine Peers, Mrs. R.K. Haskell. Lower row, from left to right: Maxine Knuppe, Linnea Goode, Elsie Carlson

Studio nights have become one of the most populat offering from KGB, The Ledger broadcasting station and it is with pleasure that KGB presents on Monday evening a studio program arranged by Robert Wiesbach, pianist-composer and teacher of the piano.

Mr. Wiesbach is one of the pioneer teachers of Tacoma and is a most schlarly musician and a composer of rare attainments. The program, as arranged for Monday evening, presents his advanced students and will prove of great interest to all lovers of good music.

The tentative program is as follows:

Polonaise in A Major............Chopin

Miss Linnae Goode

To Spring..................................Grieg

Miss Maxine Knuppe

Mazurka Elegante......

Miss Mildred Rosenbach (age 13)

Octave Etude in F.............Hendricks

Jesse Curtis

Prelude from Suite.............Debussy

Miss Josephine Peers

Staccato Caprico..............Vogrich

Miss Margaret McConville

Allegro de Concert.....Granados

Miss Elsie Carlson

Rhapsodie in B Minor.....Brahms

Mrs. R.K. Haskell

Romanza in F Sharp......Schumann

Etude in D Flat.......Liszt

Miss Winnifred Davis

Monday evening preceding the musical program arranged by Mr. Weis-

(end of clipping) Linnea Gord acted as an accompanist, a choir director (in Swedish, dirigent) for her heritage group's Swedish-Finnish choir - and as dance band piano player for their band, The Gord Family Orchestra. This was an avocation. She worked for fifteen years as a secretery in Tacoma, married at thirty-four. They had two daughters, one was myself. Linnea Gord was a life-time member of First Lutheran Church.




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