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Musical Courier 1911-03-22: Vol 62 Iss 12, 1911
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1WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17, 1911.
3Mary Cryder presented Mischa Elman in a violin recital in the Columbia Theater before a capacity audience on Friday, March 10. This wizard responded to the insistent applause, graciously giving three encores. The "Humoresque" of Dvorák was simply superb.
5Mrs. Taft's first Lenten recital was given Saturday evening to an audience of about 400. The Kneisel Quartet, with Arthur Friedheim at the piano, was the attraction. The state drawing rooms were used and a supper served later.
7The Mountain Ash Male Chorus of Wales, Great Britain, gave a concert in Immanuel Baptist Auditorium on Monday, March 13. The conductor, T. Glyndwr Richards, has his men under fine control. The chorus work was most pleasing. On its former visit to Washington this organization sang at the White House to a large number of guests.
9The Washington Symphony Orchestra closed its season Tuesday, March 14, with Herman Rakemann as soloist. The orchestra has improved greatly under the conducting of Heinrich Hammer. Mr. Rakemann is always received with appreciation, his work being both distinctive and artistic. Mr. Hammer will be tendered a benefit on the afternoon of March 24, which should call out all Washington music lovers, as he has given time and his best efforts, without one penny of compensation, toward building up this organization. The future plans all depend on the response to a call to the public for a subscription course.
11Under the local management of Mary Cryder, Adolphe Borchard, the French pianist, made his debut in the Columbia Theater on Wednesday, March 15, before an appreciative audience (as one paper had it), "assembled during the playing of the first number." Why do they assemble during the first number, and why do those at the back of a theater think their talking cannot be heard? Mr. Borchard's playing is dazzling to the point of confusing in the vigorous passages, but most pleasing was his work in the softer compositions, Mendelssohn's "Spinning Song," for example.
13Washington possesses one of the three great organs of America, or, rather, the Hebrew Congregation Temple does. The first recital was given by Howard R. Thatcher, of Baltimore, on Thursday, assisted by Ernest Lent, cellist. The sudden death on Tuesday of the Temple organist, George W. Walter, was announced by Rabbi Simon.
15Robert Stearns, a well known violinist of Washington, has dedicated a most charming little verse, called "Angel Ministries," to Gertrude Carroll, a pupil of Mrs. Oldberg. This song is arranged with chorus, and is suitable to Miss Carroll's fine contralto voice.
17OKLAHOMA MUSICAL ACTIVITY.
19Muskogee, Okla., March 16, 1911.
21The annual election of officers and delegates of the Ladies Saturday Music Club took place Wednesday, and resulted as follows: Mrs. J. M. Offield, president (re-elected); Mrs. W. H. Lindhard, first vice president; Mrs. Francis Marion Davis, second vice president; Mrs. Howard E. Condon, recording secretary; Mrs. F. A. Todd, corresponding secretary; Mrs. A. E. Livingstone, treasurer; Mabel King, librarian; Mrs. William Hatch Davis, delegate to the National Federation of Musical Clubs; Mrs. John D. Benedict, alternate; Mrs. T. B. Page and Mrs. Claude L. Steele, delegates to Oklahoma State Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Walter Eaton and Gladys Beale-Way, delegates to Third District Federation.
23Gladys Beale-Way, assistant piano teacher to Mrs. Claude L. Steele, has a large class in Muskogee, and also has the piano department in the State Agricultural School at Warner, Okla., which work Mrs. Steele is supervising.
25Muskogee is to be congratulated upon the acquisition of one of the finest pipe organs in the Southwest.
27Leda Crawford-Steele returned last night from Sedalia, Mo., where she was guest of honor of the Ladies Music Club of that city at the recital of Busoni. This little city furnished a large and deeply appreciative audience. Busoni was most gracious and kindly toward these new but loyal friends. Mrs. Steele was a student in Busoni's classes during his residence in America some years ago.
29Edith Marsh, who recently returned from two years' study in Berlin, gave a very interesting and well rendered program in St. Paul's Methodist Church recently. Her numbers included: Chopin's preludes, No. 23 and 21; etude, op. 25, No. 3; valse, op. 64, No. 2; polonaise, op. 40, No. 2; Liszt's "Gnomenreigen"; Rubinstein's concert etude, op. 23, No. 4, and Tchaikowsky's valse caprice. Icy Cobb, violinist, and S. B. Gamble, accompanist, assisted Miss Marsh.
31The Music Club held an enjoyable meeting in the Commercial Club rooms last week.
33Miss Miesch is visiting in Texas at present, but will soon return to resume her studies and duties as assistant in Mrs. Steele's studios.
35Susanne Lahoma is filling concert engagements in various parts of the State, and will sing also in Arkansas and Texas.
37The "Aeolian Four," a male quartet (Messrs. James, Hyde, Gamble and Stephens), recently made a successful appearance in Muskogee in the Presbyterian Church. This quartet is busy filling engagements in other sections of the State and is fast becoming a popular and much appreciated attraction.
39A May festival will be held in Muskogee this spring, the chorus to be under the able direction of J. Morris James, the musical director of the "Aeolian Four."
41The following program was given by members of the Ladies Saturday Music Club at its annual spring concert: Choruses, "The Stream" (Gwent), "Spring Song" (Parry) and "The Heavens are Telling" (Haydn), and organ voluntary offertory in D major, from "St. Cecile" (Batiste), S. B. Gamble; Aeolian Four, "Kathleen Mavourneen"; vocal solo, "Ich Liebe Dich" (Grieg), "Ess Muss un Wunderbales Sein" (Rubinstein), Mrs. Carl Cooper; piano, "Two Larks" (Leschetizky), "Sparks" (Moszkowski), Leila G. Munsell; vocal, "After" (Elgar), "The Year's at the Spring," Mrs. Lawrence; duets, "Friendship" (Marzials), "Wanderer's Night Song" (Rubinstein), Mrs. W. A. Green and Mrs. Carl Cooper; violin, "Melodie," op. 9 (Sarasate), Icy Cobb; aria, "O Mio Fernando," from "La Favorita" (Donizetti), Mrs. Claude Lurman Steele. One of the most pleasing numbers was given by two members of the Juvenile Musical Club, little Naomi Meserve, violinist, and Sallie Offield, at the piano (each aged ten years), who played with a tinge of the professional.
43The State A. and M. College at Warner is particularly fortunate in securing the services of Gladys Beale-Way as instructor and head of the music department.
45Mrs. Benjamin La Fayette, a leading pianist of Checotah, was a guest in the city recently.
47The Dietz Orchestra filled a very successful engagement in Wagoner recently.
49Mrs. C. L. Steele (auditor of the National Federation of Musical Clubs and member of the board of management); Mrs. J. M. Offield (president of the Ladies Saturday Music Club), and Mrs. William Hatch Davis (delegate from the same club), will attend the biennial in Philadelphia this month.
51Edith Marsh and Blanche Patterson were visitors in Oklahoma City recently during the engagement of the Russian dancers.
53The Ladies Music Club of Sedalia, Mo., Mrs. W. D. Steele, president, announces a concert by the Damrosch Orchestra this spring, and many Muskogeeans expect to attend.
55L. C. S.
57Nichols Pupil Secures Position.
59W. L. Watson, pupil of John W. Nichols, the New York tenor and teacher, has been engaged as tenor soloist at the West End Synagogue, Eighty-second street, New York City. Mr. Watson has been re-engaged by the Simpson Methodist Church of Brooklyn. He also sings in St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University, New York.
61"How was that musical comedy you saw?"
62"My wife thought the costumes were disgusting."
63"I guess I'll go."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
65RATCLIFFE CAPERTON
66Successor to the Maestro
67GIOVANNI BATISTA LAMPERTI
68LAMPERTI SUMMER SCHOOL OF VOCAL MUSIC
69BAXTER BLDG., PORTLAND, ME. BEGINNING JUNE 15.
70Address: THE GLADSTONE. Philadelphia, Pa.
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