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Musical Courier 1926-05-20: Vol 92 Iss 20, 1926
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1May 20, 1926
3Irene Berry (Boston, Mass.); schedule for prizes, junior class—Esther Clears (Chicago), Martha Barkema (Holland, Mich.), Christine Eichemeyer (Crete, Ill.); Mildred Cleveland (Chicago).
5FREDERICA GERHARDT DOWNING POPULAR
7Frederica Gerhardt Downing, contralto, whose recent recital was so cordially received by the critics of Chicago, has been filling a number of engagements in the last few weeks. Among other dates, she sang on May 13 at the annual festival of Oskaloosa (Ia.), and on May 20 assisted at the dedication recital of the new organ at Albany Park Methodist Church.
9MUSICIAN'S CLUB OF WOMEN OFFICERS
11Following is the list of new officers of the Musicians' Club of Women for the coming season, 1926-27: president, Mrs. Hyde W. Perce; first vice-president, Mrs. Phyllis Fergus Hoyt; second vice-president, Marie White Longman, and the following directors—Rosine Morris Bachrach, Ruth Broughton, Anna Burmeister Boynton, Helen Abbott Byfield, Tina Mae Hines, Elizabeth Heath, Dagmar Andersen Herem, Daisy Heist Jones, Elizabeth Harthing Percy, Mrs. Morris S. Rosenwald, Grace Seibeling and Bessie Williams Sherman.
13MARION ALICE MCAFEE BROADCASTS REGULARLY
15Every Tuesday and Friday, between twelve and one, Marion Alice McAfee, Chicago soprano, broadcasts from station KYW. On May 21 she will broadcast Tito Schipa's song, Amor Mio, with which she has won much success since she first introduced it at her Chicago recital earlier this season.
17POUL BAI'S ACTIVITIES
19After a very busy season at Bush Conservatory, Poul Bai, Danish baritone, will sail for Europe, August 1, to visit Copenhagen and Germany. Mr. Bai will return to Chicago in September for the fall term at Bush. On May 21, Mr. Bai will sing in Jean Boyd's composition concert, rendering two manuscript numbers from that composer's pen, with the composer at the piano.
21Ruth Metcalfe, student of Poul Bai, scored heavily at a concert at Bush Conservatory, May 5, with Angela Weinzierl, pianist. Miss Metcalfe is a talented contralto who should go far in her art.
23BUSH STUDENT RECEIVES SECOND APPOINTMENT TO AMERICAN ACADEMY
25Robert Sanders, former Bush Conservatory student, who last year received a temporary appointment to the American Academy in Rome, has just been awarded a fellowship in the American Academy for two more years. Mr. Sanders, on the merit of his work during the past season, won the appointment over a number of other competitors and will spend the time allotted him in study and travel. While at Bush Conservatory, where he was a student for more than ten years, he specialized in composition with Edgar A. Brazelton and piano with President Edgar Nelson.
27MUELLMANN SCHOOL OF VOCAL ART AND OPERA
29On May 9, pupils of the Muhlmann School of Opera gave the nineteenth recital before an enthusiastic audience. Virginia Kingman's (fifteen-year-old), handling of the difficult Mad Scene from Lucia would do credit to a more mature artist. Helen Hildurn, who sang Thou, Oh Love (Marriage of Figaro) has a very pleasing voice. Agnes Ziegenhagen's singing of My Noble Knight (Les Huguenots) was charming and of bell-like clearness. Mendelssohn's aria It Is Enough, was sung by Frank Horstmeier with power and firmness.
31The ensemble pieces of the program were carried off admirably. Mr. Muhlmann's ability as a coach was very much in evidence here. The duets showed fine team work, the result of careful training. How Long in Torment Sighing, another selection from Figaro, was well given by Helen Hildurn and Frank Hildurn. The duet from Cavalleria Rusticana, given by Clara Stenssaas (Santuzza) and Leon Braude ("Turiddu"), was dramatically presented. The singing of both was impassioned, and yet in perfect rhythm. Beulah Mowers, pianist, contributed to the program with Liszt's etude in F minor. She was also the accompanist for the singers, playing very skilfully.
33Mr. Muhlmann's work as an operatic coach is too well known to need repeating. He is one of Chicago's most distinguished teachers and has trained many well known singers. He may well be proud of the performance given by the pupils at this recital. Augusta Lenska, of the Chicago Civic Opera, was the guest of honor. After the performance she gave a short speech, which was enjoyed by every one present. Her commendation of the ability of Mr. Muhlmann's pupils should be an added incentive for them.
35JEANNETTE COX.
37BERLIN
39(Continued from page 5)
41harmonic concerts, two of which were still waiting for him. He was accorded a hearty welcome by his admirers. The ninth concert contained as principal number Tchaikowsky's fourth symphony, played with extraordinary virtuosity by the Philharmonic Orchestra. Gregor Piatigorsky, a pupil of that most successful Russian educator of cellists, F. von Glehn (at present living in Berlin), proved himself one of the most accomplished cellists now before the public by an enjoyable and finished playing of the Dvorak concerto. In the tenth and last concert of the season the program was filled out by Beethoven's fourth symphony and Brahms' C minor, without the customary solistic intermezzo. Furtwangler gave an impressive reading of these masterpieces.
43THE LAST SYMPHONY CONCERTS
45Bruno Walter has also finished his cycle of symphony concerts. His last concert started with Mendelssohn's charming Midsummer Night's Dream music, played with the utmost refinement and in true romantic spirit. Richard Strauss' Don Quixote in a brilliant performance, was the closing number. Gregor Piatigorsky's playing of the intricate cello-solo was much remarked. Sigrid Onegin sang a Bruch aria and several Mahler songs. A concert conducted by Kleiber in the Philharmonie (the program comprising a Handel concerto grosso and Schubert's C major symphony, magnificently played) was especially attractive by virtue of Erica Morini's remarkable rendering of the Beethoven violin concerto.
47THE "BOHEMIANS" RETURN
49In chamber music the principal event has been the first concert of the Bohemian String Quartet since the beginning of the war, more than ten years ago. Messrs. Hoffman, Suk, Herold and Zelenka have for a generation been the most admired and popular quartet all over Germany, and their many Berlin friends heartily rejoiced in welcoming back these splendid artists, who have not lost anything of their superior art in the long interval. Smetana, Haydn and Schubert quartets were played with the temperament, vigor, passion and technical perfection characteristic of the "Bohemians." one of two readings
50In chamber music the principal event has been the first concert of the Bohemian String Quartet since the beginning of the war, more than ten years ago. Messrs. Hoffmann, Suk, Herold and Zelenka have for a generation been the most admired and popular quartet all over Germany, and their many Berlin friends heartily rejoiced in welcoming back these splendid artists, who have not lost anything of their superior art in the long interval. Smetana, Haydn and Schubert quartets were played with the temperament, vigor, passion and technical perfection characteristic of the "Bohemians." one of two readings
52The Busch Quartet has been rather handicapped this season by the protracted illness of its leader, Adolf Busch, necessitating repeated change of dates. This quartet also stands in the front rank and in its special domain—the classics—its interpretations are of the highest order. Gunther Raphael, a young Berlin composer, hitherto unnoticed, has been fortunate in enlisting the interest of the Busch Quartet and having two of his quartets in their programs. He deserves this interest by a decided talent, excellent schooling and serious aims. At present he stands in the Brahms-Reger line, a long distance from the ultra-modern group. His music, however, gives the impression of a genuine creative ability, and one may expect good results from his further development.
54MORE YOUNG COMPOSERS
56Paul Kletzki, another young Berlin composer of undoubted talent has been encouraged rather too lavishly by the publication of a long series of his compositions. The inevitable result of this prolific-writing is a loss of quality, a lack of finish in form and too superficial melodic invention. His new trio, op. 16, played by the Pozniak Trio, is open to all these critical objections, showing the modern gesture, a restless activity and abundant display of passionate energy, without convincing the listener of its genuine metal and full weight, save in a few episodes. The difficult piece was admirably presented.
58Alice Ehlers, at present the finest exponent of the old harpsichord in Germany, gave her last concert with the assistance of Paul Hindemith and his brother Rudolph, who played two obsolete instruments, the viola d'amore and the viola da gamba. It was a rare treat indeed to hear Bach's sixth Brandenburg concerto played by the instruments for which it was originally written. Handel and his contemporary, Attilio Ariosti, the classical master of the viola d'amore were also represented by valuable pieces. A Hindemith concert without a Hindemith composition seemed a rather strange affair, and many visitors of the concert were inclined to recognize Hindemith, composer and practical joker, in a curious, primitive concerto for viola d'amore by one alleged "Gauswind," entirely unknown even to the most learned students of eighteenth century music.
60JEWISH MUSIC
62The newly founded Society of the Friends of Jewish Music has given its first concert. The principal number of the program was Ernest Bloch's string quartet, played by the van Laar Quartet. Erich Walter Sternberg's Ostliche Weisen for piano, already heard in Berlin, were played by young Franz Osborn. Leo Gollanin contributed a number of vocal solos, including Ravel's Kadish.
64The final concert of the November Group consisted entirely of a new composition for one and two pianos by Vladimir Vogel, a Busoni pupil. Busoni's influence is noticeable in the earnest striving after purity of form, logical development architectural construction. A long and complicated piece of music, hard to grasp and demanding utmost attention, but uninviting because of its deliberate lack of melodic beauty, or charm of tone color effects. H. L.
66ALEXANDER BLOCH
67VIOLINIST
68Will Teach from June 1st to Sept. 15th
69at
70Hillsdale, N. Y.
71in the Berkshire Hills
72Address: 422 West 22nd St., New York
74ETHEL GROW
75Contralto
76"She has a fine diction, therefore there was a difference whether the songs were in English or not. We like our own tongue best when easily understood."
77—New York World.
78Personal Representative:
79LEONA M. KAHL
8064 Bank St., N. Y.
81Tel. Watkins 5347
83MUSICAL COURIER
85Master School
86OF
87Musical Arts
88of California, Inc.
89LAZAR S. SAMOILOFF, Director
90ALICE SECKELS, Manager
92A Summer School
93In San Francisco
94Fairmont Hotel
95May 31st to September 1st
96Announcing the Following Distinguished Faculty:
98Piano—
99{SIGISMUND STOJOWSKI
100{GERMAINE SCHNITZER
102Voice—
103LAZAR S. SAMOILOFF
105Coach—
106EMIL J. POLAK
108Harp—
109ANNIE LOUISE DAVID
111Composition—
112SIGISMUND STOJOWSKI
114Lecturer—
115ETHEL GRAHAM LYNDE
117Sight Singing, Ear Training, Accompanist—
118ANDREW KOSTELANETZ
120Other Masters to be announced later
122For dates of each Master and particulars address:
123ALICE SECKELS
124FAIRMONT HOTEL
125SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
126BALDWIN PIANO USED
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