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Musical Courier 1926-02-04: Vol 92 Iss 5, 1926
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1February 4, 1926
3COLUMBIA, MO.
5COLUMBIA, Mo.—Basil Gauntlett, chairman of the piano department of the Stephens College Conservatory of Music, appeared in recital. His program was one distinctly appealing to lovers of piano music. Mr. Gauntlett is an artist having the technical equipment and feeling for music to give a finished performance. The entire program was warmly applauded.
7The second of the series of concerts and musical organizations, sponsored by the School of Fine Arts, University of Missouri, was the operetta, The Elixir of Love, presented by the Hinshaw Opera Company. It was amusing and pleasantly sung. The audience was responsive and appreciative.
9A recital consisting of voice, violin, and piano numbers, was given by the students in the School of Fine Arts, University of Missouri. Those who took part were: Doris Porter, Ruth Ann Houck, Lois Luckhart, Mary Ann McDonald, Elizabeth Sutherland, Rachel Way, Joan Abston, Milton Bennett, Mary Sue Guthrie, Jessie Branham, Mary Quisenberry and Bertha Thomas.
11The University Glee Club, Herbert Wall directing, made a short tour through southeast Missouri, appearing at Kennett, Carthage, Caruthersville and Flat River. Press notices from the respective towns spoke in warm praise of the work of the club and director, enthusiastic audiences being met at each concert.
13John Boone, blind negro pianist, was presented on January 8 in recital at Stephens College Auditorium. Boone is a gifted musician who has had small measure of instruction, but has won his way by his remarkable talent. His program consisted largely of his own compositions and was cordially received. One interesting feature of the concert was the playing of a classical number by a member of the faculty of the Stephens Conservatory and the immediate rendition of the same number by Boone from ear. He astonished his audience by the correctness with which he played selections with which he was unfamiliar—listening to them being played once by some pianist of the music faculty.
15January 10, Christian College Conservatory of Music broadcast over station WOS, Jefferson City, a program made up of readings and musical numbers. Those taking part were piano, Angelo Siegel, Virginia Wright, Alice Newell, Evelyn Ranson, Marguerite Eccles, Betty Moore, Elsie Burton, Lucille Gordon. Vocal numbers were given by Marguerite Eccles, Mary Potter, Melba Moore, Lillian Shields, Louise Hamilton, Mary Wright, Dorothy Nell Childers. Violin solos and musical readings were given respectively by: Harold Riback, Mildred Kimball, Maurine Campbell, Anna Margaret McKenzie, Dale Sanderson, Nan Riley, Mildred Holman and Donna Cole.
17January 13, a well arranged and interesting program was presented by the University of Missouri Glee Club of 100 members. Prof. Herbert Wall, of the School of Fine Arts, directed. The evening was opened by Prof. Wall announcing that the program was dedicated to Mrs. R. L. Stokes, Moultrie, Ga., whose son, Leonard Stokes, was making his last appearance with the club. Stokes, baritone, won favorable mention again and again last season by the press and in New York City at the National glee club contest. Stokes has shared honors, both last season and this, with Ben Symon, tenor, who has a beautiful lyric voice. The program presented by the glee club this season was grouped in seven parts of classical and modern selections. The organization deserves much praise for its fine phrasing and perfect ensemble. The skill of Professor Wall in training the club was apparent at all times in the balance of tone and clear enunciation of the entire group. The entire program was highly appreciated, several numbers being repeated, and many encores given. Credit is due Lee Montgomery for his musically accompaniments.
19James T. Sleeper, of the School of Fine Arts, has been appointed state supervisor of public school music for Missouri.
21L. W.
23Mme. Rider-Kelsey in Recital
25After a recent program given by Corinne Rider-Kelsey in Oberlin, Ohio, unanimous praise was given her not only by the listeners of the audience but also in the many press reviews. Mme. Rider-Kelsey is an artist who takes her art, her expression of her art and her audience seriously. The Oberlin Review was most enthusiastic over her art, stating in part: "The singer's voice showed marked gain in warmth and resonance as the evening advanced, so that with the French group the beauty of her art showed its fairest flowering. Here we found again that lyric charm and poignancy so well remembered from her former appearances in Oberlin. Here was the same refinement of style, the artistic restraint, the sureness of touch that we have always associated with her singing. Another real cause for gratitude is in this artist's self respect in the choice of her encores. There is nowhere to be found such a dead give away as in one's recall numbers. Fortunately with Mme. Rider-Kelsey the impertinent cuckoo must hide his head, and no sickly sentimental ballad dared intrude. It was a masterly bit of program making and a perfect finished performance."
27Gunster in Florida
29Frederick Gunster, tenor, won a distinct success before an audience that completely filled the auditorium of the Women's Club, at Winter Park, Orlando, Florida, December 10. Mr. Gunster's program was representative of the extensive repertory at his command, and served to display his rich, vocal endowments as well as his finesse of technic and style. As the final group he gave his popular costume feature, characterizing the antebellum negro, with great skill and charm.
31READING, PA.
33READING, PA.—Rarely has an artist been accorded a reception in this city marked by such warmth and enthusiasm as was given Ignaz Friedman, January 11, in the Strand Theater. It was the fourth of the Haage Course of concerts and none has been more worthy of the recognition and acknowledgment. The program, admirable in content and judiciously arranged, enabled this artist to give a demonstration of remarkable pianistic artistry and interpretative ability. It was his first appearance in Reading and local concert goers had been aroused to a high pitch of expectancy. Needless to say, they were not disappointed. His playing was confirmative of the unanimous opinions of reviewers in European and American music centers of his virtuosity and musicianship. Every number on the program was played with a keen and comprehending musical insight, with such incisive utterance and exquisite feeling that from the opening to the close instant and enthusiastic applause was given each work. Every seat in the large Strand Theater was filled, and many were standing. The artist played a number of extras. one of two readings
34READING, PA.—Rarely has an artist been accorded a reception in this city marked by such warmth and enthusiasm as was given Ignaz Friedman, January 11, in the Strand Theater. It was the fourth of the Hague Course of concerts and none has been more worthy of the recognition and acknowledgment. The program, admirable in content and judiciously arranged, enabled this artist to give a demonstration of remarkable pianistic artistry and interpretative ability. It was his first appearance in Reading and local concert goers had been aroused to a high pitch of expectancy. Needless to say, they were not disappointed. His playing was confirmative of the unanimous opinions of reviewers in European and American music centers of his virtuosity and musicianship. Every number on the program was played with a keen and comprehending musical insight, with such incisive utterance and exquisite feeling that from the opening to the close instant and enthusiastic applause was given each work. Every seat in the large Strand Theater was filled, and many were standing. The artist played a number of extras. one of two readings
36W. W. B.
38Elizabeth Quaile Pupils in Recital
40Florence Moxon, Pia Cafagna, Margaret Blom and Frederick Hart appeared in recital at Chickering Hall, New York, on January 9, and reflected credit upon themselves and their teacher, Elizabeth Quaile. The New York Evening Journal devoted considerable space to reporting the concert, stating among other things: "Pia Cafagna played what would ordinarily be about a third of the usual recital program, music of diverse styles and major technical difficulties. For a girl of her age, still frankly a student, she did remarkable things with it—remarkable not only for finger skill but also for the imaginative feeling she put into the expression of its content…. It was quite evident that young Miss Cafagna had been well schooled. Apparently she had been trained not alone in finger fluency and dexterity, but has been prompted to seek the inner meaning of music and let her individuality have its way with it. This idea seemed to be implicit in the work of all the pupils who appeared at the concert. No two of them played alike and yet all played well. Florence Moxon approached real brilliance in her performance of the difficult chromatic fantasia and fugue of Bach." Miss Moxon also played a Chopin group particularly fine, the scherzo in C sharp minor being most dramatic and stirring. Mr. Hart played two of his own compositions, in which he displayed an excellent sense of form and individuality. On a Fete Night was a fine piece of program music inspired by the celebrations in Paris of July 14, the Independence Day of the French.
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