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Musical Courier 1926-05-20: Vol 92 Iss 20, 1926
35 lines. Read by computer on 29 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 31. See the scan on archive.org.
1PRINCIPALS AT ITHACA CONSERVATORY SPRING CONCERTS.
2Two concerts were given recently under the auspices of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and Affiliated Schools. The first program brought forth the Conservatory Orchestra, Patrick Conway conducting, assisted by Amy Ellerman, contralto, and Charles Troubridge Tittmann, bass. The first part of the second concert was devoted to miscellaneous numbers by assisting artists, and Stabat Mater was the offering for the second half of the program, given by chorus, solo chorus, orchestra, and organ, under the direction of Bert Rogers Lyon, Miss Ellerman; Wendell Hart, tenor; Mr. Tittmann; Ruth Rodgers, soprano, and George Daland, organist, were the soloists. The accompanying photograph shows the principals in these two concerts. Top row, left to right, Mr. Daland; W. Grant Egbert, musical director and founder of the Ithaca Conservatory; Mr. Lyon; Albert Edmund Brown, manager; (second row), Mr. Hart; Miss Rodgers; Miss Ellerman and Mr. Tittmann.
4AT THE ROCHESTER MANUSCRIPT CONCERTS.
5Here is a group of composers and critics brought together recently for the third American composers' concert given by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in the Eastman Theater. Following the Eastman policy, a list of new compositions by American composers were given their first public performance on this occasion, as reported in the MUSICAL COURIER for April 29. In the picture are, left to right, Ernest Bacon, composer, coach in the Eastman School Operatic Department; Roy Harris, composer, of Los Angeles; Dr. Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music; Edward Royce, composer, of the Eastman School faculty; H. O. Osgood, associate editor of the MUSICAL COURIER; Pierre V. R. Key, editor of the Musical Digest; Frank D. Perkins, associate critic of the New York Herald Tribune.
7PHRADIE WELLS,
8soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, being greeted in Des Moines, Ia., May 4, by Mayor Fred Hunter (left) and Governor Hammill. She appeared as soloist for the Y. M. C. A. Glee Club concert, which was a feature of the Music Week observance in Des Moines. Miss Wells recently was made an honorary member of the Delta Omicron National Musical Sorority.
10CLAIR EUGENIA SMITH,
11mezzo-soprano, who plans to build a theater in New York which she claims will be absolutely different from any other ever conceived. It is said that the new edifice will be a replica of French and Italian architecture and that the decorations will be colorful, reflecting something of the Riviera. Mme. Smith has gotten much inspiration for the programs to be presented at this theater from her travels all over the world. (Campbell Studios photo.)
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14JASCHA HEIFETZ SEES THE PYRAMIDS AND THE SPHINX. one of two readings
15Between recitals in Cairo and Alexandria the noted violinist hit the sandy trail to see the sights. one of two readings
17RAOUL QUERZE
18AND LYDIA LYNGDREN.
20Raoul Querze, young Italian tenor, and his wife, Lydia Lyngdren, formerly of the Chicago Opera, photographed in Florence, Italy. (Left) Before Santa Maria del Carmine. (Below) At the Piazzetta Michelangelo, with all Florence in the background. Signor Querze has been winning fresh laurels in Italy this winter. Perugian critics referred to him as the first Italian Almaviva of the day. one of two readings
21Raoul Querze, young Italian tenor, and his wife, Lydia Lyngdren, formerly of the Chicago Opera, photographed in Florence, Italy. (Left) Before Santa Maria del Carmine. (Below) At the Piazzetta Michelangelo, with all Florence in the background. Signor Querze has been winning fresh laurels in Italy this winter. Peruvian critics referred to him as the first Italian Almaviva of the day. one of two readings
23THE BERKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE TRIO,
24consisting of Bruce Simonds, piano; Hugo Kortschak, violin, and Emmeran Stoeber, violoncello, has recently been established, under the auspices of the Playhouse-in-the-Hills, Katharine Frazier's Summer School at Cummington, Mass., where these artists will teach and give a series of intimate chamber music concerts. It has already won its initial success in recitals at Mount Holyoke College (April 23), Yale University (April 26), and at the Westover School (two programs, May 7 and 8). (Photo © Underwood & Underwood.)
26JASCHA HEIFETZ SEES THE PYRAMIDS AND THE SPHINX. one of two readings
27Between recitals in Cairo and Alexandria the noted violinist hit the sandy trail to see the sights. one of two readings
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30CECIL ARDEN,
31mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, sang many concerts during the present season, her dates taking her all the way to the Pacific Coast. One of her favorite songs is David Guion's little negro melody, Howdy Do Mia' Springtime. She was one of the first singers to use this number, and has programmed it for two seasons.
33A RARE PORTRAIT OF BACH.
34This Bach portrait (now on exhibition in Wurlitzer's window, West Forty-second street) belonged to the renowned Berlin music publisher, the late Henry Schlesinger (1807-1879). A large part of the interesting and historically valuable Henry Schlesinger collection of musical autographs and manuscripts was sold last winter at the Anderson Galleries, among them Beethoven's Fury Over a Lost Penny, Chopin's B major nocturne, and many other most interesting manuscripts. The Bach portrait, and in fact the whole Schlesinger collection, is practically unknown. The artist is not known and some doubt exists whether it is a contemporary work. If it is a copy it must have been painted soon after Bach's death. At all events, whether it is a painting from life or not, it is an interesting discovery, as there are very few Bach portraits in existence. It is now the property of H. F. von Gleissenberg, a grand-nephew of Henry Schlesinger.
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