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Musical Courier 1926-05-20: Vol 92 Iss 20, 1926
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1CHICAGO
3WOMAN'S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MAKES DEBUT
4CHICAGO.—A new factor in the musical life of Chicago came to light at the Goodman Memorial Theater, May 9, in the Woman's Symphony Orchestra. Though giving good account of itself under the fine leadership of Richard Czerwonky, the organization is still in the making, but if earnestness counts for anything, the Woman's Symphony Orchestra should go far toward making a name for itself.
6MME. OLGA CRISTO-LOVEANU
7A small gathering of music-lovers gathered at the Playhouse also on the afternoon of May 9 to listen to Olga Cristo-Loveanu, a charming singer of Roumanian folk-songs. She is a personality and affords delightful and attractive entertainment.
9ALBERT SEIBERT SINGS
10Albert Seibert, tenor of the Stuttgart Opera, also chose May 9 to make his Chicago debut and met with much success at the hands of an enthusiastic audience at the Princess Theater, under Bertha Ott's management. Here is a fine artist with much to recommend him to the public. He has a voice of beautiful quality and he sings German lieder as well as excerpts from lyric dramas and lighter songs with finished artistry.
12SHERWOOD SCHOOL CONCERTS
13At its eleventh annual concert at Orchestra Hall, May 8, the Sherwood Children's Chorus and Glee Club, Daniel Protheroe, conductor, accomplished admirable results with a well arranged and interesting program. The Children's chorus rendered the conductor's new cantata, The Spider and the Fly, and numbers by Lohr and Jones and with the Glee Club, Fanning, Strauss-Wilson, Nevin and Lohr selections. The Glee Club sang Ely, O'Hara, Gardner and Bliss numbers most effectively. To lend variety to the program there were several assisting soloists—Roberta Savler, Clara Siegel and Johanna Siragusa, pianists; Elizabeth Nauta and Stratford Schufelt, vocalists, and a trio made up of Walton Minford, pianist; Charles Bilek, violinist, and Harry Sturm, cello, all of whom acquitted themselves creditably.
15The Sherwood Music School presented its choral society in its fourth annual concert, May 11, at Fine Arts Recital Hall. As assisting soloists there were Audrey Call, violinist; John Kessler, pianist; Tom Morgan and Ernest John, tenors, and Edward J. Cook, bass. The Sherwood Choral Society, under Conductor Protheroe, sang effectively. Coleridge-Taylor's cantata, Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast, and numbers by Protheroe and Genee. Each soloist aided in making the evening most enjoyable.
17CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE STUDENTS' RECITAL
18Artist-students of the Chicago Musical College were heard in a recital at Central Theater on May 9. Viola Kneeland, Eulalia Kober and Paul Breitweiser, pianists; Ruth Johnston, Belle Wigodsky, Faye Crowell and Hazel Henderson, vocalists; Betty Cain, violinist, and Adelaide Liefeld, cellist, furnished the program, giving fine account of themselves and proving a credit to their individual teachers.
20CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE COMPETITION
21Review of the Chicago Musical College annual prize competition at Orchestra Hall, on May 10, will be published in next week's issue together with photographs of the winners.
23LYNNWOOD FARNAM AT KIMBALL HALL
24Closing the series of organ recitals at Kimball Hall, during the course of which Chicago has had opportunity to hear America's finest organists, Lynnwood Farnam, on May 11, revealed himself a master organist. Such playing as Farnam set forth should make the organ a popular concert instrument, for a more enjoyable concert than that given by this fine American organist would be difficult to imagine.
26DEBUT OF CHICAGO BACH CHORUS
27Another musical event of importance during the week was the debut of the Chicago Bach Chorus, William Boeppler, conductor, at Orchestra Hall, May 12. Conductor Boeppler has drilled this chorus of some two hundred and twenty voices for one season to fine avail, as its attainments at its first concert would attest. With a drillmaster who knows how to obtain best results from a choral body and who knows just how Bach's music should be sung, the Bach Chorus of Chicago undoubtedly will be counted among Chicago's best singing societies when time has smoothed the few rough spots yet noticeable in their singing. As a whole, it was splendid choral singing that the Bach Chorus set forth, marked with keen rhythmic sense, good tone and spirit. The Chorus had the assistance of forty members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and these soloists—Else Harthan Arendt, Arthur Boardman and Arthur Van Eweyk—all of whom had difficult tasks in trying to meet the demands Bach makes on the soloists.
29Mme. Arendt, one of Chicago's finest sopranos, was easily the star of the evening, and accomplished the most effective singing, although, she, too, was somewhat hampered and was not at her very best. The program comprised two cantatas, Thou Shepherd of Israel and My Spirit was in Heaviness; and aria from the soprano cantata, Make a Joyful Noise Unto God, All Ye Lands; chorals, organ and orchestral music by Bach. It may be said that the Chicago Chorus made a splendid impression at its debut, and other concerts to follow will be looked forward to with anticipation by Bach admirers.
31HOWARD WELLS PRESENTS PUPIL
32Howard Wells presented in Crescenz McCormack a most talented young pianist, who gave a piano recital, May 6, at Lyon & Healy Hall. A program made up of Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, MacDowell, Moszkowski, Rachmaninoff, Rhene-Baton and Leschetizky served to show Miss McCormack's qualifications, fine poise, unusual control of tone for one so young, and original style that she seems to be developing. She is another creditable pupil to be added to Howard Wells' lengthy list.
34COLUMBIA SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
35The twenty-fifth annual commencement concert of the Columbia School of Music, Clare Osborne Reed, director, will be given at Orchestra Hall, May 20. The Columbia School Symphony Orchestra, under Ludwig Becker's direction, will play orchestral numbers and assist the soloists—William Hughes, and Mary Esther Winslow, pianists; Goldie Gross, cellist; Katherine W. White, soprano, and Frieda Koehn, violinist.
37COLLEAGUES TO HONOR HERMAN DEVRIES
38Before his departure for Europe the end of May, Herman Devries, Chicago American's eminent critic, will be twice honored by his colleagues. On May 21 all the music critics of Chicago's dailies will give a dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Devries at the Cliff Dwellers Club, and later in the month, the heads of all department of the Chicago Evening American, including its editors, will honor these prominent figures in Chicago's musical life with a banquet.
40WILLIAM PHILLIPS DIRECTS ELEANORE CHORUS
41William Phillips conducted his third annual spring concert of the Eleanore Choral Club of the Central Eleanore Association on May 7, at the association's auditorium, Stevens Building. Particularly in Charles Gilbert Spross' Arabian Song Cycle and Henry Hadley's cantata, The Fairy Thorn, the chorus sang most effectively, showing the result of fine training. Throughout the program Conductor Phillips and his choristers held the rapt attention of the delighted audience.
43HANNA BUTLER PRESENTS PUPILS
44Throughout the season Hanna Butler, one of Chicago's best known voice teachers, presents her advanced pupils in interesting programs. One of the most unique was that given on May 10 by these students: Mrs. Henkle, Frances Foch, Catherine Ryan, Gloria Chandler, Blanche Lyons, Mabel Smith, little Marjorie Wescott, Mrs. Flick, Otis Adams, Rhoda Arnold, Terry Rivet, Lucienne Kirk, Grace Raymond and Ruth Heizer. The program, comprising operatic arias from Rigoletto, Pearl of Brazil, Carmen, Romeo and Juliet, Tosca, Lohengrin, Lucia, Le Cid and various numbers by such representative composers as MacDowell, Tosti, Cadman, Brahms, Wolfe, Hahn, Handel and Watts, was beautifully rendered and each participant is individually commended for his or her fine work, and Mme. Butler may justly feel proud of their accomplishments.
46BELESKA MALINOFF BUSY
47On May 4, Beleska Malinoff, young and gifted soprano, was engaged by Maurice Rothschild to give a concert at the Michael Reese Hospital for the Nurses' commencement. Miss Malinoff was most enthusiastically received and she sang a group of English songs and operatic arias for encores, which were many. Miss Malinoff sails for Milan, Italy, on May 29, for two years' study and concert work.
49AMERICAN CONSERVATORY CONTEST
50At the contest by members of the American Conservatory vocal department, which took place at Kimball Hall, May 8, the following students were successful: senior class, for appearance at the commencement concert, Auditorium, June 11—Jorn Bennett Ham (Crystal Falls, Mich.), Ethelyn Craw (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Mabel Goodwin (Chicago), Dorris
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