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Musical Courier 1926-03-11: Vol 92 Iss 10, 1926
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1March 11, 1926
3Pitti Palace on January 2. She was compelled to give many encores and received most favorable mention from the critics.
5George Garner, tenor, artist-pupil of the conservatory, will be soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (popular concert), March 25. Mr. Garner was the winner of the contest for this honor given under the auspices of the Society of American Musicians in January. Mr. Garner will sing On Away, Awake, by Coleridge Taylor.
7The conservatory announces that the summer term for 1926 will extend six weeks, from June 28 to August 7. Practically all of the leading teachers will be present and in addition Mme. Valeri, of New York City, will give a master class.
9John J. Hattstadt, president of the conservatory, has returned from his winter vacation in Los Angeles and San Diego (Cal.).
11HOWARD POTTER GOES TO FLORIDA
13Howard Potter, assistant manager of the Chicago Musical College, left on March 5, for Coral Gables (Fla.), for a ten days' stay as the guest of Mary Garden.
15HOWARD WELLS ARTIST-PUPIL IN RECITAL
17On the program which opened the tenth season of the Young American Artists Series at Fine Arts Recital Hall, March 4, there appeared a most gifted young pianist in the person of Rosalie Saalfeld. In the Chopin B flat minor sonata Miss Saalfeld revealed genuine pianistic talent, keen understanding and well developed and clean-cut technic. Vivacity and vigor of youth characterize her playing, which reflects an imaginative personality. She also rendered a group of Chopin etudes and several Liszt selections, but these could not be heard. Miss Saalfeld is a young artist who should be heard from in the near future. She emanates from the well-known Howard Wells studio, where she has been carefully and efficiently taught.
19DORSEY WHITTINGTON PLAYS
21A new and interesting personality, Dorsey Whittington, made his appearance in piano recital at Kimball Hall, March 4, and proved a worthy addition to the list of artists who visit the Windy City annually. Technically well equipped, a real gift to address the public, and musical ideas of his own are among the qualifications brought out in the Chopin G flat minor sonata and a group of Russian numbers by Novick, Kosakoff, Deyo and Friml. Mr. Whittington is a pianist who has the wherewithal to make it a joy to listen to him.
23LOUISE ST. JOHN WESTERVET STUDIO NOTES
25On February 15, Louise St. John Westervelt brought her Columbia School Chorus out to the County Hospital for a concert for the tuberculosis ward, and February 24, they sang for the Park Ridge Woman's Club, when they were compelled to give many encores.
27Ivine Shields, soprano, a Westervelt pupil, sang with the Columbia School Orchestra at Orchestra Hall, March 3. Jeuel Prosser, contralto, has been engaged as soloist at the Rogers Park Methodist Church.
29Virginia Banford and Katherine Scherstrom, sopranos, and Bettye Hill, contralto, furnished the program for the regular Saturday afternoon studio musicale at the Westervelt Studio, on February 20. The interesting program was well sung and enthusiastically applauded by the listeners.
31APOLLO CLUB CONCERT
33As conductor of the Apollo Musical Club, Harrison M. Wild has many fine performances to his credit, and that given by the Club on March 5, at Orchestra Hall, added another feather to the cap of this able choral conductor. Whether the Apollos are so well versed on the Mendelssohn Elijah or whether they were in exceptionally fine fettle on this occasion, they set forth remarkably fine singing and made Orchestra Hall ring. They sang earnestly, spiritedly, and enthusiastically.
35Of the soloists, Flora Waalkes, singing the soprano part, carried off first honors. Through the sheer beauty of her voice and authoritative rendition, she gained the hearty approval of the listeners, who applauded her every solo vociferously. Miss Waalkes also deserves commendation for the manner in which she projected the English text—so clear was her enunciation that not a single word was missed. Roland Pease showed that he knows both the baritone and the chorus parts, as he sang throughout the evening with his book closed. The other soloists, Leah Pratt, contralto, and Eugene Dressler, tenor, seemed not in their element when singing oratorio.
37ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
39No symphony figured in the orchestra program of March 5 and 6, which was devoted to Mendelssohn's The Lovely Melusina overture, Bach's B flat major concerto for string orchestra, Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini Fantasia, Ibert's Escales, Wolf's Italian Serenade and Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. The Ibert selection, which received a first Chicago performance, proved a very happy addition to the symphonic literature, and met with unstinted success.
41BUSH CONSERVATORY NEWS ITEMS
43Alice Phillips, soprano; Frederica Gerhardt Downing, contralto; Le Roy Hamp, tenor, and William Phillips, baritone, will be soloists at the second concert this season of the Bush Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Richard Czerwonky, conducting, at Orchestra Hall on March 22. They will sing the solo parts of Rossini's Stabat Mater, given by the Conservatory Chorus of over 100 voices and accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra. The first half of the program consists of four numbers from the orchestra's repertory.
45The preliminary hearings for the annual prize contest of Bush Conservatory were held March 8. The judges in the vocal contest were Rose Lutiger Gannon, LeRoy Wetzel and Richard De Young.
47Seven young musicians of Bush Conservatory representing as many states, were initiated into Pi Chapter of Delta Omicron on March 6. They were Marjorie Barton, Evelyn Ecklund, Marguerite Gothart, Dora Roberts, Gretchen Smith, Angela Wienceirl, and Catherine Youngblood. The initiation and banquet were held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, with several national officers present.
49A recent program by members of Pi Chapter on Russian music enlisted the services of Carmen Anderson, Sarah Ruszel, Marjorie Terry, Marjorie Bullamore and Bessie Wedel.
51A chamber music program was given by the Bush Conservatory String Quartet—Robert Quick, first violin; Lorenz Hansen, second; Paul Stoes, viola, and John Weatherholt cello—at Recital Hall on March 5. JEANNETTE COX.
53MUSICAL COURIER
55Louise Hunter Here, There and Everywhere
57Louise Hunter will be soloist with the Boston Athletic Association on March 14, and will give a concert in her home town, Middletown, Ohio, on May 14. She is also doing his songs were interpreted by Elizabeth Gutman, with the composer at the piano. Miss Gutman has sung these songs on a number of occasions, and recently, did them with such success in New York, when Mr. Casella also played for her, that he especially requested that she assist him in his concert for the Baltimore club. The group included the Three Thirteenth Century Songs, and Two Old Songs, Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes and Flai'olet. Miss Gutman appeared last spring in Rome under the baton of Casella, as director of the Society for Modern Music, and also at his invitation. She scored a great success in her three appearances there.
59SYRACUSE, N. Y.
61SYRACUSE, N. Y.—The Syracuse University Glee Club won, for the third year in succession, the State Glee Club Contest which was held at Rochester, February 13. Syracuse was given 264 points out of a possible 300. This victory gives the Syracuse Club the permanent possession of the silver cup offered by the Syracuse Morning Musicales, and the right to enter the National Glee Club Contest in Carnegie Hall.
63Mme. Schumann-Heink filled the Mizpah to overflowing for her recital, February 9. When she appeared upon the stage she was given a veritable ovation. Every group was encored and she more than satisfied the desires of her listeners.
65February 10, Walter Gieseking, pianist, appeared before the Syracuse Morning Musicales. He displayed ample technic and beautiful tone.
67The College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University announces three piano recitals to be given in March by Tina Lerner, the Russian pianist.
69H. L. B.
71Chev. Corradetti in Schenectady
73Chev. Ferruccio F. Corradetti of La Scala, Milan, and the Costanzi, Rome, revealed a baritone of unusual range and quality in a concert recital given at the Van Curler Theatre in Schenectady. The Schenectady Union Star and the Schenectady Gazette write "that his singing was one of the real delights of the evening." Appearing with him were two pupils, Carmen Garcia-Cornejo and Pasquale Ferrara.
75FRANCES SEBEL
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81ELIZABETH QUAILE TEACHER OF PIANO
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85MARY LEWIS, SUZANNE KENYON and JOHN McCORMACK
86have been featuring with very great success Easthope Martin's lovely song
87"The Holy Child"
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92Elizabeth Gutman Sings Casella Songs
94When Alfredo Casella, Italian composer-pianist, gave a recital at the Baltimore Music Club on March 6, a group of
96"Music Is the Universal Language of Mankind"
97—LONGFELLOW.
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100Theodore's Little Symphony Orchestra Plays Daily
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102Large rooms are available for concerts, musical at homes, and banquets, and studio apartments are provided in which artists may practise and rehearse in absolute privacy, without over-hearing others. These exceptional facilities make the Hotel Majestic the resort not merely of artists, but of lovers of music.
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105Two West 72nd Street, New York
106Entire Block Fronting Central Park
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