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Musical Courier 1911-03-22: Vol 62 Iss 12, 1911
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1CHICAGO AND THE MIDDLE WEST
3CHICAGO, Ill., March 18, 1911.
5Mischa Elman gave his last Chicago recital of the season this afternoon in Orchestral Hall before another large and enthusiastic audience. He played with great success the following program:
7Suite for piano and violin………………………………………Goldmark
8Concerto No. 2, D minor………………………………………Bruch
9Sonata, D major…………………………………………………Handel
10Adagio e Allegro…………………………………………………Lotti-Elman one of two readings
11Adagio e Allegro……………………………………………….Lotti-Elman one of two readings
12Siciliano et Rigaudon………………………………………….Francour-Kreisler
13Love Song………………………………………………………..Sammartini-Elman
14Capricciotto………………………………………………………Mendelssohn-Burnmester
15Introduction et Jota……………………………………………..Sarasate one of two readings
16Introduction et Jota…………………………………………….Sarasate one of two readings
18The following letter, written by Mrs. John A. Norris, has just been received at this office:
20CHICAGO, March 18, 1911.
22Dear Mr. Devries:—In an issue of THE MUSICAL COURIER, under date of February 8, 1911, the death of John A. Norris was noted and a Mrs. J. E. Francke was mentioned as a surviving niece. This is an error which I desire to correct. Mrs. Julius Francke is not a niece nor is she any relative. Will you please make this correction? Thanking you in advance for your courtesy, I am,
24Sincerely yours,
25ELIZA B. NORRIS
26(Mrs. John A. Norris.)
28Bernice Fisher, a former student of the American Conservatory and pupil of Karleton Hackett, who joined the Boston Opera Company last Fall, achieved a pronounced success in the recent performance of "Carmen," when she assumed the role of Micaela upon a few hours notice. The Boston Transcript said as follows:
30Miss Fisher was a charming Micaela. For once we were permitted to see her, naive, unsophisticated, shy when alone with Don Jose, yet loving him with all her soul. Miss Fisher acted her part with unfeigned simplicity and natural grace that at once won the sympathy of the spectators. She sang as Micaela could sing, simply, from the heart, with purity and virginal warmth, both in the scenes with Don Jose and in the scene in the smugglers' camp. She richly deserved the long continued applause that followed the latter scene, although her performance in the first act was of equal excellence.
32The Chicago Madrigal Club gave its second concert of the season Thursday evening, March 16, in Music Hall, Fine Arts Building. The program comprised thirteen numbers, of which eight were the work of resident composers. A prize is offered each year for the best setting of some example of English verse by an American composer. Longfellow's "The Day is Done" was chosen this year, and Carl Busch, of Kansas City, won the prize. There were Scotch, Welsh and old Irish melodies given by the club.
34George Hamlin, tenor, will appear as soloist with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra at the Wagnerian concerts in Orchestra Hall, Friday afternoon, March 31 and Saturday evening, April 1. Mr. Hamlin has just returned from New York, where he scored heavily in concert.
36Saturday afternoon, March 25, the American Conservatory will give a recital with advanced pupils of Frank Van Dusen, Charles La Berge, Jennie F. W. Johnson and Susan Drought.
38M. H. Hanson, the New York manager, passed through Chicago this week on his way East. He made a hurried trip to California.
40Luella Chilson-Ohrman, soprano, came back last week from a successful tour including twenty-six concerts during February in the principal cities of Virginia and the South. She also had appearances in New York, Boston, Washington and Detroit. Mrs. Ohrman already has signed some big engagements in the East for next year.
42Edna Gunnar Peterson, pianist, has just returned from Grand Rapids, Mich., where she played on March 10 under the auspices of the St. Cecilia Society at its sixtieth artist recital. Miss Peterson is the delegate from the Amateur Musical Club, of Chicago, to the National Federation of Musical Clubs' biennial convention at Philadelphia. She is a pupil of Rudolph Ganz and a protégée of a prominent and wealthy Chicago woman.
44The Bush Temple Conservatory gave a pupils' recital in Bush Temple Recital Hall on Thursday evening, March 16. Those who participated were Mary McFie, mezzo-contralto, and Foss L. Fellers, pianist and talented pupil of Madame Julie Rive-King. Mr. Fellers was heard in a group by Chopin, the polonaise No. 1, nocturne No. 2 and valse, op. 64, No. 1, in which he proved to be exceptionally well equipped technically as well as temperamentally. The singer likewise reflected credit upon her mentor as well as upon the school in the aria "O, My Heart is Weary."
46A dramatic matinee was given this afternoon in the Bush Temple Theater by the dramatic department of the School of Acting under the direction of Edward Dvorák. Three little plays "Jack," "The Baron's Wager" (in which Edward Dvorák played the part of the Baron Octave de Gerandot), and "Confusion," a farcical comedy afforded much pleasure during the afternoon.
48Mabelle Arzella, one of the most competent members of the cast now singing "The Merry Widow," at McVicker's Theater, will be remembered in local musical circles as a promising and brilliant student under the late William Castle, of the Chicago Musical College.
50Du Bois' "The Seven Last Words" will be sung by the choir and choral society of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Englewood, Friday evening, March 24, under the direction of C. Gordon Wedertz. The soloists will be John B. Miller, tenor; Kirk Towns, baritone; Master James Wallace, soprano.
52"Gipsy Life," a composition by Adolph Brune, of the Chicago Musical College, will be sung under the auspices of the Musical Art Society at its next public concert. Mr. Brune's compositions have long occupied a place of prominence on the programs of this society.
54Cecil Fanning will give a song recital in Music Hall on Monday evening, April 24, under the management of Lulu Jones Downing, the Chicago composer. In the first part of the program Mr. Fanning will be assisted by H. P. Turpin, accompanist, and in the second part Mrs. Downing will furnish the accompaniment for her own songs, which will be interpreted by the brilliant baritone.
56At the third of the Lenten musicales given last Thursday, March 16, in the Louis XIV Room of the Hotel Sherman, under the direction of Eleanore Fisher, Marcus Kellerman and Hanna Butler furnished the vocal program. Both artists won much applause for their excellent singing.
58Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, the noted pianist, furnished the program in Mandel Hall last Tuesday, March 14. The recital was under the auspices of the University of Chicago and the brilliant recitalist won her customary success in numbers by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Weber, Chopin, d'Albert, Dvorák, Schuett and Rubinstein.
60Albert Borroff, bass, will sing in Italian, German, Russian, French and English at his song recital in the Illinois Theater, Sunday afternoon, March 26. The Italian group includes works by Durante, Caldara, Legrenzi and Lotti. The German group comprises numbers by Bach and
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