Mr. Joseph Ockmey is organist of the Bethel (Methodist) Church.
The following are members of the Sharp-street Church choir:—
Mr. Simpson, leader; Mr. Dongee, organist; Miss Mary F. Kelly, soprano; Miss Emma Burgess, soprano.
Baltimore has an association of musicians called "The Monumental Cornet Band," of which Mr. C.A. Johnson is the efficient leader.
Some time ago I found in the musical column of "The Boston Herald" of Sunday, July 9, 1876, the following notice of another "Blind Tom:"—
"A rival of 'Blind Tom' has been found at Blount Springs, Ala., in the person of James Harden, a colored boy from Baltimore. He plays the guitar, and sings the most difficult music, exceptionally well; and is also something of a composer. He has received no instruction, but is most emphatically a natural-born musician."
Louisville, Ky., shows its appreciation of music by organizing a society devoted to the latter, numbering over a hundred persons. This fact has attracted the attention of Brainard's "Musical World," which journal, in the number for October, 1877, alludes to it as a bright evidence of the dawn of better times in the South.
In St. Louis[17] live Mrs. Georgetta Cox and Miss Nellie Banks,—two ladies who have won golden opinions for their exhibition of fine musical qualities. They are both excellent vocalists and pianists.
Mr. L.W. Henderson as a vocalist, Mr. Alfred White and Mr. Samuel Butler as vocalists and instrumentalists, all possess artistic abilities of a fine order.
Miss Johnson has attracted the attention and won the high praise of competent judges for her proficiency in piano-forte performance.