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Musical Courier 1926-04-22: Vol 92 Iss 16, 1926
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1Hageman Guest Conductor at Pittsburgh
2An article in the daily papers last week to the effect that Richard Hageman had been engaged to conduct the newly organized Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra was somewhat misleading. Other professional engagements already made would prevent him at the present moment from accepting any permanent conductorship. The new organization, however, did him the honor to engage him as first guest conductor, and he will conduct the first concert, which will be given at Pittsburgh on May 2. The following day he will start directly on across the continent for Los Angeles, where his five weeks' master class begins on May 10. From there he returns immediately to Chicago, to hold another master class at the Chicago Musical College, also lasting five weeks. Then for the first time in several seasons he will take a real rest for the following five weeks, after which he goes back to the coast to take up his duties as general musical director of the Los Angeles Opera Company, conducting both in that city and in San Francisco. As soon as that is over he will make his fourth transcontinental trip in six months, returning to New York to reopen his studio on October 25.
4Plans for Hollywood Bowl Season
5Allan C. Balch, new president of the Hollywood Bowl Association, has just made the first authentic announcement of preliminary plans for the coming Bowl concert season. Four guest conductors who have won popularity at previous appearances at the Hollywood Bowl will return. Negotiations are under way with a fifth, and possibly a sixth distinguished conductor and several eminent soloists, whose names will be announced later.
7Inaugurating the fifth season, Emil Oberhoffer will conduct during the first two weeks of the concert season, which begins July 6. Sir Henry J. Wood, who last year traveled 12,000 miles to direct the Hollywood Bowl orchestra in four concerts, will again be a guest conductor, directing during the third and fourth weeks of the season. Willem van Hoogstraten comes to the Bowl for just three days—August 3, 5 and 6. Alfred Hertz, pioneer conductor at the Bowl, has been chosen to be the last member of the musical celebrities to direct the "Symphonies Under the Stars."
9The concerts are to be held, as formerly, on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at 8:30 o'clock. The old, rickety wooden benches have all been removed, and 20,000 new and more comfortable seats are being installed. These and other improvements now being made are a part of the Allied Architects' $1,000,000 plan, announced last February, which will turn the old Bowl into a magnificently beautiful garden theater. Prior to the beginning of the regular concert season this summer, a grand dedicatory opening benefit will be given, detailed plans of which are to be announced later.
11Cara Verson Entertained
12The recital given by Cara Verson, pianist, at the Woman's Club Building, Aurora, Ill., April 13, was so greatly appreciated that a luncheon was given in her honor the following day at the Union League Club in that city. The ruling that ladies were not admitted at that club at noon was suspended in compliment to this artist.
14BOOS AND HISSES GREET NEW VARESE WORK
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16vinsky. Disgusting is the most charitable word to apply to such useless, senseless noise. At the end there was an instant's pause. The thing might have been dismissed in silence as a mere mistake in judgment on the part of Mr. Stokowsky had not some young standees in the back started to applaud. This was too much for the patience and forbearance of a long-suffering audience, before whom Mr. Stokowsky had already this season set one or two other very sour dishes. Hissing came from all over the house. Mr. Stokowsky came out and boos were added to the hisses. He came out four times altogether, the storm of protest getting louder all the time, and drowning out the feeble applause. The fourth time he called on the orchestra to stand, and these poor innocent gentlemen also had to hear the chorus of disapproval unjustly heaped on them as well. Mr. Varese himself was wise enough not to let the audience catch sight of even the tip of his nose.
18The Swan of Tuonela, scheduled for the first number, was played second. Mr. Stokowsky plays it faster than most other conductors. At the best it is not a particularly good work. After intermission there came Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, a masterpiece of its kind, but hardly the thing for the piece de resistance of the final program of a Philadelphia Orchestra season. The concluding piece was Mr. Stokowsky's well known orchestral transcription of a Bach organ Passacaglia. This is a gorgeous and stirring thing, though it did not sound as effective as in its early performance here, when Mr. Stokowsky still stuck to his old habit of mounting his men on built up platforms, instead of having them all sit flat on the stage.
20All in all it was not a very brilliant season's ending. The only thing that redeemed the evening was the superlative playing of the marvelous orchestra.
22Stuart Mason to Conduct N. E. Glee Clubs
23Stuart Mason, conductor of the People's Symphony Orchestra, Boston, has accepted the invitation to conduct the massed concert of twelve New England Glee Clubs, at Quincy, on April 24. Mr. Mason is well known in musical circles, being also a member of the staff of the New England Conservatory of Music and music critic on one of the Boston newspapers.
25The concert at Quincy, in which some five hundred male voices will be heard, is to be held on Saturday evening, following the prize competition which will take place in the afternoon. Both are to be held in the fine auditorium of the new high school and are open to the music loving public. The prize winning clubs will present their winning selections in the evening concert.
27It is anticipated that a capacity audience will hear each performance.
29Proposed National Academy in Glasgow
30GLASGOW.—The Carnegie United Kingdom trustees agreed, subject to certain conditions to contribute the sum of £10,000 (about $50,000) toward the cost of adapting the Athenaeum here to serve as the headquarters of a National Academy of Music. The scheme originated with Sir Daniel Stevenson, who has himself promised a contribution of £30,000 towards the necessary Endowment Fund. The project is the most important which has ever been put forward in the interests of music in Scotland. Edinburgh already has its Chair of Music under the direction of Prof. Donald Tovey, but Scottish students wishing to study further have had to go to London or abroad. When the scheme which Sir Daniel Stevenson and the Carnegie trustees have made possible is brought to fruition by the necessary contributions from the nation as a whole, the most advanced training in music will be obtainable in Scotland.
32Matzenauer Praises Musical Growth of U. S. A.
33Josephine Williams, critic of California, writing of her impressions of Mme. Matzenauer during an interview with her at Stockton, Cal., said in part:
34"Of two things Mme. Matzenauer is very proud—one is her American citizenship and the other is her little daughter, Adrienne. It is fourteen years since the Metropolitan Opera Company persuaded Matzenauer to desert European fields of triumph for America and since that time the great diva has sung to the people of the United States many times from coast to coast and border to border. What does she think of the musical growth of America during these past fourteen years?
36GEORGES MIQUELLE,
37who has successfully concluded his first season as cello soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, photographed in front of Orchestral Hall in that city the day he played the Saint-Saëns concerto with Mr. Gabrilowitsch's orchestra. Mr. Miquelle has made an enviable record since coming here from France some years ago. As solo cellist with the Boston Symphony "Pops" Orchestra, the New York Chamber Music Society and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, as well as on tour with such artists as Mme. Melba and Tito Schipa, Mr. Miquelle has won the admiration of press and public. He will give a special course in cello playing this spring at the Longy School of Music in Boston, teaching until June 10, when he sails on the De Grasse for a well earned vacation in France. Accompanying the cellist will be his wife, Rene Longy Miquelle, the pianist, and their infant son, Claude Hector. The Miquelles will summer on Georges Longy's farm at Montfleures, Abbeville, Somme. Considerable time will be given to the preparation of programs for their ensemble concerts, besides the customary search for new cello music. Mr. Miquelle will return in time to resume his work with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra the latter part of September.
39'The Americans are making remarkable progress in musical learning and appreciation. Everywhere I find my audience more eager, more alert, more knowing. Never is it necessary to build programs for metropolitan audiences distinctively different from those which are designed for audiences in smaller-communities.'
41"But perhaps Mme. Matzenauer has herself a keen understanding of people. She continues: 'I have, however, always worked on the premise that there is one kind of program that is good for every place. It is the good program. I do not believe in giving a program of good music to larger cities and a mediocre one to smaller cities. I believe that people recognize and enjoy whatever is finest.'"
43Witherspoon and Kinsey Go to Texas for Prize
44Chicago Musical College Competition
45Herbert Witherspoon and Carl D. Kinsey, president and general manager respectively of the Chicago Musical College, will attend the Texas Federation of Musical Clubs convention in Dallas (Tex.), April 29 and 30. While in Dallas, Mr. Witherspoon will judge Texas applicants for the competition for free fellowships in voice, piano and violin, offered by the Chicago Musical College. The contest is open to students living in the state of Texas. Two scholarships will be given in voice—one male and one female, and one each in piano and violin.
47Mrs. Carter Resigns
48Los Angeles, Cal.—Musical circles were rocked to their foundation in Los Angeles at the announcement of the withdrawal of Mrs. J. J. Carter, founder of the "Symphony Under the Stars" at the Hollywood Bowl, from the presidency of the board of directors of the Bowl. Mrs. Carter sailed for Europe this week. The business manager, Raymond Brite, stated that all plans for the season would remain unchanged. A. C. Balch, first vice-president, has been made president.
50RENÉ LUND
51BARITONE
52. . . Made a decided success with the exposition of his vocal art; his interpretative style and musicianship.
53—Chicago Daily News.
55. . . He knows how to project both the words and melody. . . . An artist of talent and industry.
56—Chicago Daily Tribune.
58. . . There was a gratifying heartiness in his interpretations. He made you feel that he had thought sincerely about what he was to sing and meant it every word.
59—Chicago Evening Post.
61"René Lund, disclosed abilities which place him immediately among the ranks of the artists."—New York Herald Tribune.
63"INTERPRETER of SONGS"
65. . . He presented the ten songs with splendid appreciation of their content, whether poetic, fantastic, humorous or sentimental.—Chicago Herald-Examiner.
67. . . A clear enunciation of the texts and a happy talent for the projection of the moods of the songs, made them interesting to the assembled listeners.—Chicago Daily News.
69. . . A sensitive response to mood and value.
70—New York Herald Tribune.
72. . . Singing with splendid tone and attractive art.
73—Chicago Herald-Examiner.
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77Management RENÉ LUND, 833 Buckingham Place, Chicago, Ill.
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