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Musical Courier 1926-03-11: Vol 92 Iss 10, 1926
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1March 11, 1926
3season Mr. Schwarz will be heard at a concert at Queen's Hall and also in a series of concerts throughout Europe. He will return to this country next season under the management of Charles L. Wagner.
5Charles Stratton, artist pupil of Adelaide Gescheidt, won new laurels on his recent tour in the Middle West, including two engagements with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, February 19 and 20, when The Faust Symphony and Liszt's Thirteenth Psalm were given.
7The Sittig Trio—Frederick V. Sittig, pianist; Margaret Sittig, violinist, and Edgar H. Sittig, cellist—is a very active organization. Besides the numerous ensemble concerts which the trio gives, these artists have filled many solo engagements. Among the appearances this season may be mentioned the following: New York (Aeolian Hall, Criterion Society, Commodore Hotel), Newark, Ridgewood, Bloomfield, Hoboken High School, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania State Normal School, Cresco (Pa.), Jackson Heights Music Club, Jackson Heights Women's Club, Roslyn, Carmel and Staten Island Academy; also Margaret Sittig's violin recital at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, and her appearance with the Brooklyn Orchestral Society at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn. Edgar H. Sittig appeared with Mme. Frances Alda in the Victor Radio Concert on January 14.
9Jerome Swinfond, baritone, sang in Detroit, February 15, and in Port Huron, Mich., February 16. On March 7, he appeared in New York with the University of North Carolina Glee Club.
11Julia Claussen appeared in a performance of Samson and Delilah with the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company on February 18. "The statuesque Julia Claussen was the Delilah," said the critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "She not only dramatically pictured the role of the Philistine siren in a manner most commendable, but she also sang not only with purity of tone but with an authority that was delightful to the capacity audience. Needless to say that the two great arias allotted to the role she essayed were rendered in a manner which brought forth all the beauties of the score and in addition this artist with dramatic vigor dominated in every scene in which she appeared."
13Gilbert Ross, on February 21, played Cecil Burleigh's C Minor concerto with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in Madison, Wis. According to one of the critics, the young violinist is a supreme artist. Five times the insistent audience recalled him, and twice the composer was called to the platform. Mr. Burleigh has dedicated this concerto to Mr. Ross.
15Jeannette Vreeland is booked for a tour of Northern New York state and Canada this month. On March 11 she is singing for the Matinee Musical Club of Montreal. The popular young soprano recently gave a more than usually successful New York recital at Aeolian Hall. In April she starts a six weeks' tour as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony under the direction of Henri Verbruggen.
17John Coates was acclaimed on the occasion of his recent Chicago appearance at the Studebaker, Eugene Stinson, of the Evening Journal, referred to his recital as one of the memorable events of the winter. Glenn Dillard Gunn considers the tenor a master of lyric diction. "His manner of music-making is one of the most interesting events of the season," was the conclusion of the Tribune. This was Mr. Coates' first visit to Chicago and he came, sang, and conquered, as is his unpremeditated way wherever he goes.
19Marcella Geon assisted William Burt, tenor, at his recital held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on February 10. Miss Geon is an excellent accompanist and invariably when she assists at the piano she lends a high artistic tone to the entire concert.
21"Dorsey Whittington is one of a few American pianists who can draw a large audience on a blizzardous night" says the Brooklyn Standard of February 10, and continues: "Aeolian Hall was nine-tenths filled last evening for his recital. Several eminent pianists were in evidence, and many of what seemed to be young piano students. Contemporary composers were also in evidence, three from a group of seven figuring on the evening's program. Mr. Whittington possesses in marked degree the instinct to play piano. . . . That is one reason why a 'stiff' or constrained atmosphere never prevails at a Whittington recital. His technic is brilliant but not gaudy; his tone exceptionally clear, his finger work clean, and wrist suppleness remarkable. But, over and above these mechanical assets, Whittington is a personality and his playing is never dull; he has an imagination richly strewn with poetic conceptions."
23"Paul Althouse gives the best performance of the season," is the verdict of the music critic of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, reviewing the recent production of Samson and Delilah, as staged by the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company. And the same writer goes on to say: "Paul Althouse was the Samson and took the role admirably; his action was excellent." The critic of the Inquirer, writing of the same event says very happily that "Althouse makes one forget even Dalmos. He was in especially good voice. It is a difficult part, and requires not only a voice of great resourcefulness but a presence of commanding masculinity, all of which requirements were more than met."
25Phyllis Archibald has been visiting Havana and Miami.
27Frederic Baer has been chosen to impersonate the role of Ramfis in a performance of Aida in concert form, to be given in Hartford, Conn., May 4, by the Hartford Oratorio Society.
29Marion Marsh Bannerman, harpist, jointly appeared with Mr. Saylor on Saturday afternoon, February 20 at the old First Presbyterian Church, in Newark, N. J. Miss Bannerman's rendition of Saint-Saëns' Fantasia was an artistic gem. Her second group ranging from Massenet to Debussy, were interpreted with fine balance and color. Other
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