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Musical Courier 1926-05-20: Vol 92 Iss 20, 1926
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1FOREIGN NEWS IN BRIEF
3London
4FAUST DANCES FOXTROT.—(London) Following an experiment of giving Hamlet in modern dress, the Birmingham Grand Opera Society has come to the fore with an up-to-date Faust in which Mephistopheles wears evening dress and the villagers dance a foxtrot in the market place. M. S.
6MME. BUSONI IN STRAITENED CIRCUMSTANCES.—(London) Friends and admirers of Ferruccio Busoni will hear with regret that his widow has been left in very straitened circumstances owing to the expenses of the long illness which prevented him from playing in public for some two years before he died. On the initiative of the Zurich conductor, Dr. Volkmar Andreae, an international fund has been opened to buy an annuity for her, and Edward J. Dent has undertaken to collect subscriptions for it in this country. Those who are willing to contribute are requested to make cheques payable to the "Madame Busoni Fund" and to send them to the Westminster Bank, Cambridge, England. R. P.
8Paris
9NEW OPERA ENDS NICE SEASON.—(Paris) The operatic season at Nice ended with the presentation of a new work, Le Masque, a Venetian romance in four acts, libretto by Paul Choudens, music by Marc Delmas. It is a romance of Venice in 1860. Marc Delmas has written an excellent score of great variety of theme as well as beauty. He had already distinguished himself in Penthesile, but in this last work he places himself definitely among the composers of dramatic power. Popular airs intermingle cleverly with romantic passages, and the orchestration is excellent in every respect, being sober and yet modern. The staging was most carefully carried out and the interpretation good. N. de B.
11Vienna
12JERITZA AND THE VIENNA WEBER CENTENARY.—(Vienna) The Staatsoper announces a rather meager "festival" to commemorate the Weber centenary. There will be revivals of Euryanthe and Der Freischutz, under Schalk and Robert Heger, respectively, in June. In Der Freischutz, Marie Jeritza is to be Agathe, a role which she has not sung for about fifteen years. The soprano will also impersonate the role of Jenufa in the Staatsoper's revival of Janácek's opera. P. B.
14John Priest Dead
15John Priest, president of the Society of Theater Organists, and organist at the Cameo Theater, New York, died in New York following an operation, on May 11. Born an Englishman, he lived in America several years as organist of various leading moving picture houses. The esteem in which he was held by his fellow-organists was apparent in his election as president of the Motion Picture players' organization. The funeral was held at St. Mary's Episcopal Church on May 12, and was attended by his immediate family, consisting of wife, daughter and mother, as well as by representatives from the Society of Theater Organists, the National Association of Organists, and the American Guild of Organists.
17Frieda Hempel Seeks Divorce
18The newspaper reports which appeared last week stating that Mme. Frieda Hempel, now in Paris, is seeking a divorce there from her husband, William B. Kahn, are confirmed by Mr. Kahn. The rumor that Mme. Hempel will marry the seventy-eight year old retired philanthropist, August Heckscher, is, however, denied.
20Fritz Busch Coming to America
21Harry Harkness Flagler, president of the New York Symphony Society, has announced that Fritz Busch, musical director of the Dresden Opera, has accepted an invitation to come to New York as guest conductor next season.
23FRITZ BUSCH,
24who will be guest conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra for the last five weeks of the coming season, from March 7 to April 10.
26He will direct the New York Symphony Orchestra for five weeks, beginning March 7.
28Fritz Busch is only thirty-six years old, and has conducted since the age of nineteen when he became director at the Riga Opera House. He was born in Siegen, Westphalia, in 1890, the son of William Busch, a violin maker. While still a boy he made a brilliant reputation as a pianist, studying at the Cologne Conservatory. During 1911 and 1912 he was conductor for the Gotha Musikverein, at the same time directing the summer concerts at Bad Pyrmont. He was appointed city director at Aix la Chappelle in 1912, and in 1918 became Schilling's successor as director of opera in Stuttgart. He has held his present post of conductor in Dresden since 1922.
30Fritz Busch will immediately follow Otto Klemperer next season as guest conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, filling the post from March 7 to April 10. Klemperer's engagement is for January 6 to March 6, and the season will be opened by Walter Damrosch, who will conduct from October to January 7.
32BOSTON
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34ance of Tschaikowsky's resounding Marche Slav. A final group opened with the Bacchanale from Tannhäuser, which received a highly effective performance, continued with a transcription by the conductor of Godard's Pan and came to a colorful close with a brilliant performance of the Fandango from Rimsky-Korsakoff's Spanish Caprice.
36The orchestra of eighty symphony players, needless to say, is adequate to the demands of whatever music their leader undertakes to play. But adequate is hardly a fitting characterization of their work, for they can be brilliant, even eloquent, when desired. It is late in the day to enlarge on Mr. Jacchia's admirable qualities as a conductor. Gifted with extraordinary rhythmic sense and dramatic insight, he conducts moreover with a fine conception of musical structure and a nice Italian regard for the melodic line. There is also manifest that indefinable quality labelled personality, which has doubtless contributed in no small measure to the richly deserved popularity of this leader since he assumed the conductor's post at these concerts. J. C.
38Students' Compositions at the Institute of Musical Art
39Twenty-six students of the composition class of the Institute of Musical Art and Preparation Centers gave the annual recital of original compositions at the Institute, May 15. Most of the numbers were for the piano, but there were two groups of songs, two numbers for a string quartet, a sonata for piano, violin and cello, an allegretto in canon, for flute, viola and piano, and two numbers for clarinet and piano. There were excellent examples of both homophonic and polyphonic forms.
41In previous years the recital has been exclusively of work by the highest class in composition, but this year it included compositions by students in all grades, for the purpose of following through the development from year to year.
43The students whose work was performed, in almost all instances by the composers, were Mildred Nesson, Ruth Parker, Julius Cohns, Hazel Arnold, Robert Rodwell, Adelaide Lewis, Betty Lief, Evelyn Sedgwick, Regina Holmen, Abraham Samilowitz, Victor Weeks, John Alden Finckel, Clyde Sewall, Ronald Murat, Howard Talley, Louis Greenwald, Valentine Righthand, Arthur Loeseran, Milton Kraus, Max Meller, Helen Croll, Maude Kindred, Charles McBride, Maurice Popkin, and Gladys Mayo.
45Iva Dagley's Musical Activities
46Iva Dagley, of Lexington, Ky., who has been continuing her vocal studies in New York the past season, has recently appeared as soloist at several functions. Miss Dagley was guest of honor at the annual luncheon of the Society of Kentucky Women of New York and sang several numbers which were enthusiastically received. She also gave a recital at Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church and assisted at a musical service at Trinity Church on April 18. At a luncheon given by the Daily Food Alliance on April 17 Miss Dagley was one of the soloists, and she has done considerable radio broadcasting with marked success. Miss Dagley is an artist-pupil of the Florence Ware studios.
48ADELAIDE GESCHEIDT ARTISTS
49IRENE WILLIAMS—CLYTIE HINE—JUDSON HOUSE—ALFREDO VALENTI
50Engaged for
51THE FIRST MOZART FESTIVAL of AMERICA
52in
53THREE MOZART OPERAS
54"DON GIOVANNI"—"COSI FAN TUTTE"—"THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO"
55at
56Cincinnati, Ohio, May 6th, 7th and 8th, 1926
57Studios: 15 West 74th Street
58New York City
59Phone: Trafalgar 3398
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