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Musical Courier 1925-12-17: Vol 91 Iss 25, 1925
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1ARTISTS EVERYWHERE
2(Continued from page 15)
3Edwin and Jewel Bethany Hughes, at their recent two-piano recital in Aeolian Hall, won the unanimous and enthusiastic approval of the New York press. The New York Sun found that the pianists "possess the requisite insight and sympathy with the composers' purposes to render their readings illuminative and convincing," while the Herald-Tribune wrote that their "perfect accord and mutual support sustained a noteworthy brilliance." The World said that they "presented the program admirably, playing well together and yet without loss of individuality," and the Times remarked on the "evident satisfaction of the intimately musical audience." The "authoritative, musically manner of their playing" was commented upon by the Evening World, and their "exemplary ensemble and sparkling but unobtrusive technic" by the New York Staatszeitung. Other papers were equally commendatory.
5Yolanda Mero was soloist with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra at a concert in that city on November 28.
7Os-ke-non-ton, whose recitals of Indian music, with his informal discourses on Indian song and story, form an interesting contribution to the concert stage, will give an evening at the Booth Theatre, Sunday, December 27. This date was chosen because of Os-ke-non-ton's popularity with young people, who are spending the holidays in New York.
9Joseph Martel, baritone, is on tour in the southern states with the Student Prince Company, appearing in the part of Dr. Engle.
11Frederic Baer is especially busy this month. Added to his list of engagements already announced is a song recital in Bridgeport, Conn., on December 11. Other important engagements for the baritone are four appearances with the New York Symphony Orchestra, a song recital in Albany, and an appearance with the Brooklyn Woodman Choral Society.
13Ruth Breton is adding to her repertoire the violin concerto of Moszkowski, a work which rarely has been heard in this country.
15Fraser Gange will spend his second consecutive Christmas in Minneapolis, having been reengaged to sing in The Messiah with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra on that day. Amy Evans, who is Mrs. Gange, will sing the soprano part in the oratorio.
17Charles Stratton gave a short recital in the old Vanderbilt House in New York on December 2 under the auspices of the Society for the Blind.
19Florence Bowes, who recently gave her New York debut recital, was engaged for the Kiwanis Club musicale in Washington, D. C., on December 5.
21Ethelynde Smith's song recital at Massanutten Academy, Woodstock, Va., on November 5 was given before a capacity audience. Her program of Songs of Many Nations was so well liked by the boys of the school that three encores were added at the conclusion of the recital. November 7 Miss Smith gave an entirely different program at Fairfax Hall, Waynesboro, Va., and the enthusiasm was so great that four encores were given. The soprano is now on a concert tour which will occupy about five months and will cover practically the entire country.
23Sigurd Nilssen, basso, made his American debut in opera, December 8, as Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet, with the National Opera at Washington, creating a most favorable impression. A recent recital appearance was at the Maryland State Normal School.
25Helen Stanley, according to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, made an outstanding success with the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company as Mahiella in The Jewels of the Madonna. "Into her characterization of this madcap, violent, reckless girl, Mme. Stanley infused a degree of reality that carried one back to the Carmen of the early Geraldine Farrar. Possessing a voice of incent clarity, powerful but never strident, Mme. Stanley's upper notes struck fire in her second act duet with Gennaro, and her delivery of the Canatella in the first act displayed sure intonation and vocal flexibility. Twice by the charm of her singing, she 'halted the show' while her delighted listeners, well knowing she could not make a bow, nevertheless insisted on applauding."
27Edgar Schofield sang recently in Manchester, N. H., and according to the Manchester Union, "He has a voice which runs the entire gamut from deep bass tones to a high baritone of clearest, smoothest quality." The critic of that paper also stated: "He has been heard extensively both in this country and in Europe and has one of the most important church positions in New York, in the First Presbyterian Church, with which Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick was identified." On December 6 Mr. Schofield appeared in joint recital in Port Chester, N. J.
29Alfredo Casella, pianist-composer-conductor, has left New York for his first visit to the Pacific Coast. On November 27 and 28 he appeared with the Cincinnati Orchestra, and received a hearty welcome from the many music lovers who remembered him on his first visit to that city in 1921-22.
31Isadore Freed, pianist and composer, who formerly was on the faculty of a number of leading music schools, including the Curtis Institute of Music, is now heading the piano department of the School of Musical Art in Philadelphia. He is in the midst of a busy season which includes many concert appearances and much teaching both in Philadelphia and New York. A new book by Mr. Freed on piano playing will be issued by Carl Fischer, Inc. This book should prove of interest to the music teacher who is looking for new ideas in piano instruction.
33Henrietta Speke-Seeley, whose lecture-recitals for private schools and clubs and for the N. Y. City Board of Education is well known, is doing some interesting work in lectures on the Music of Pilgrims and Puritans. In October Mme. Speke-Seeley gave a lecture before the Montclair Colony of New England Women, and as a consequence a second date was booked for a neighboring club, the Glen Ridge Woman's Club House, for December 16. Following her Montclair lecture some of the early music, arranged by the lecturer, was sung by Lillian Morlang-Koehler from the Speke-Seeley studios.
35Elizabeth Gutman, who recently returned from a successful concert tour in Europe, opened her American season on November 22, at Overlea, Baltimore. Miss Gutman's program consisted of classic arias, German lieder, Spanish songs, Russian and Jewish folk-songs, as well as a group of American and English songs. She was enthusiastically received, the Spanish and Russian songs meeting with the greatest approbation of the audience. Among the distinguished patrons of the concert were the Governor of Maryland and the Mayor of Baltimore. Ruth Gervais supplied admirable accompaniments.
37Walter Greene, baritone, sang in Manchester, N. H., on November 23 and 24, and on November 30 he gave a program before the Woman's Club at Long Beach, L. I. Mr. Greene is booked for appearances in the west in January.
39George Liebling, pianist-composer, who was in New York again for two concerts on November 21 and 22, left for Chicago and the West to continue his tour of twenty-five concerts. He has already played in St. Paul, St. Louis, Sioux City, and many cities in Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas and Ohio. His successes have been such that he has been re-engaged in most of these places. Notable features were his lectures and master classes to the Piano Teachers' Associations in some of the towns.
41Rafaelo Diaz has just completed his first records for the Columbia Phonograph Company. He is very enthusiastic about the reproduction of his interpretations of the tenor arias in the operas Carmen and Manon, and the songs Because, by d'Hardelot, and How d'You Do Miss Springtime, by Guion.
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