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Musical Courier 1926-02-04: Vol 92 Iss 5, 1926
103 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 40. See the scan on archive.org.
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1CHICAGO
3MAIER AND PATTISON
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6CHICAGO.—Maier and Pattison played one of their unsurpassable two-piano recitals at the Great Northern Theater, January 24, for an audience that crowded the theater to capacity. So insistent were their auditors in their demand for encores that the program was more than doubled and the recital finished somewhere around six o'clock. Such is the popularity of these duo-pianists and the best reason for it is that they play con amore everything listed on their programs, be it an ancient sonata, a Bach fantasia and fugue or an old fiddler's tune. A great pair, Maier and Pattison!
8ESTHER DALE'S RECITAL
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11In a beautifully chosen program of songs, Esther Dale, soprano, won the approval of a goodly audience at the Blackstone Theater on the same Sunday afternoon. Remembered for her recital in our midst last season, at which time she made her initial Chicago bow, Miss Dale strengthened the impression then made and added to her list of admirers. She was most enthusiastically applauded and most gracious with her encores. During the course of this reviewer's stay at the Blackstone the recitalist rendered Handel's Lusinighe più Care and a German group by Mendelssohn, Brahms Loewe and Wolf. At the piano was that much admired accompanist, John Doane, a former Chicagoan, who lent excellent support.
13BELESKA MALINOFF SINGS
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16Making her recital debut, Beleska Malinoff was most successful with a large audience at the Princess Theater, on January 24. Miss Malinoff's method of projecting the song is very effective—so effective indeed as to call only for words of commendation. Her ability to deliver the composer's message is one of her chief assets, added to which is a clearcut enunciation which increases the listener's enjoyment. Hers is a voice of lovely quality and used with artistic skill. She was assisted at the piano by Edouard Nies-Berger, pianist-composer, who rendered a group of his own piano numbers. Two numbers from his pen (still in manuscript) were sung by Miss Malinoff, none of which could be heard.
18ELLA BANTA MAKES DEBUT
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21Another highly successful debutant was Ella Banta, contralto, who was heard at the Playhouse, also on January 24, by an encouraging audience. Miss Banta, who has had the advantage of Mrs. Herman Devries' efficient training, gave a fine account of herself in several songs from Graham Peel's The Bad Child's Songs about Beasts, also Rubinstein's The Tear, Kenneth Todd's A Cradle Song and Berwald's In the Woods. In the Peel songs, particularly, Miss Banta showed a decided flare for light opera and, should she choose, no doubt would be most successful in that field. Possessed of a contralto voice of pleasing quality, which shows the result of careful guidance along the right road, Miss Banta sings gracefully and effectively and her enunciation is such as to make every word understandable. All in all, a most promising debutante! Leon Benditzky, prominent accompanist, assisted at the piano.
23LUILLA MELIUS IN CHARITY CONCERT one of two readings
25LUELLA MELIUS IN CHARITY CONCERT one of two readings
26In a concert for the benefit of the Women's and Children's Hospital at Orchestra Hall, January 25, Luella Melius scored a huge success. No tickets having been received for this concert, it cannot be reviewed, but we quote Edward Moore's review from the Chicago Tribune of January 26:
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29"For Mme. Melius can show them all a number of things in the matters of purity of tone and glittering execution. Not that she confines herself to vocal fireworks; like a sensible artist she holds such displays in reserve for purposes of climax.
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32"You will make quite a search before you find any better singing that she did in Handel's Care Selve, or Hageman's Me Company Along, two songs completely diverse in age, manner and style, but both with complete honesty and therefore beautifully. Also, it is a little astonishing to hear how a voice naturally rather cool in quality can lend itself to the graces and sentiments of La Forge's arrangement of the Mexican Estrellita.
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35"The display songs were done with careless, almost scornful ease to the last stroke of perfection."
37MRS. SOLITI'S SERIES CLOSES one of two readings
39MRS. SOLIT'T'S SERIES CLOSES one of two readings
40A fine cellist, Hans Kindler and a fine pianist, Leo Sowerby, brought the Edna Richolson Solitt Kimball Hall Series to a close with a very entertaining program, January 26. Both combined forces in the pianist's sonata for cello and piano, giving it an effective reading. In an old sonata by Valenti and a group of lighter cello numbers, Kindler showed himself an artist in the best sense of the word, bringing forth fine tone, brilliant technic and keen musicianship. Such a splendid cellist affords real enjoyment and should be heard often in Chicago.
42FRITZ KREISLER
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45Kreisler's recital at the Auditorium, also on January 24, was a repetition of all other Kreisler recitals as to audience, encores, playing and applause.
47GORDON STRING QUARTET
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50A program containing a novelty, Casella's Siciliana (a concerto for string orchestra), Gliere's A minor and Beethoven's F major quartets, played by the Gordon String Quartet, at Orchestra Hall Foyer, January 27, gave chamber music devotees reason for rejoicing. Not only were the numbers of uncommon interest, but the straight-forward, clean-cut and artistic playing of the Gordon Quartet made the concert one of the most enjoyable ever heard. Jacques Gordon and his associates have done much toward the perfection of their art, and today the quartet is capable of setting forth ensemble playing of a high order.
52ANASTASHA RABINOFF'S FATHER COMES FROM RUSSIA
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55On January 23, while Anastasha Rabinoff was singing at Temple Beth-El, she was happily surprised by a long distance telephone call from New York from her father, who had just landed in America. Miss Rabinoff has not seen her father for nearly sixteen years, since she left Russia. She will have her father as guest at her Chicago recital.
57MUSICAL COURIER
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60February 4, 1926
62VITTORIO TREVISAN
63OF CHICAGO OPERA ASSOCIATION
64Vocal Studies: one of two readings
65400 Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill. Phone 4109 Wabash one of two readings
66Vocal Studies: 400 Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill. Phone 4109 Wabash one of two readings
68ISADORE L. BUCHHALTER
69PIANO PEDAGOG
70Studio: 915 Kimball Hall Building Chicago, Ill.
72THOMAS NOBLE
73Full Stage Experience Each Week
74608-609 Fine Arts Building, Chicago Phone, 5968 Wabash
76EDGAR NELSON
77Piano and Organ Instruction
78BUSH CONSERVATORY 839 North Dearborn St., Chicago
80MUHLMANN SCHOOL
81Voice Placing Opera
82400 Fine Arts Building Chicago
84KATHRYN BROWNE
85CHICAGO CIVIC OPERA CONTRALTO
86Mgt.: CLARENCE E. CRAMER
87AUDITORIUM BUILDING, CHICAGO
89BARONESS TURK-ROHN
90VOCALIST—VOICE BUILDER
91Kimball Hall Bldg. (12th Floor) Chicago, Ill.
93THOMAS A. PAPE
94CHORAL CONDUCTOR-VOICE PEDAGOG
95Chicago Studio 422 Fine Arts Bldg.
97OUIMIROFF
98Famous Baritone of Paris and London
99Master of the Art of Breathing
100Builder of Many Famous Voices
101Eminent authority on the art of Lieder Singing and Grand Opera
1021105 Lawrence Ave., Chicago Edgewater 0868
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