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Musical Courier 1926-05-20: Vol 92 Iss 20, 1926
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1Bach Festival May 14 and 15
2The Bach Choir, organized twenty-eight years ago by Dr. Fred J. Wolle, gave its twentieth festival in the Packer Memorial Church, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., May 14 and 15. The choir of three hundred voices was assisted by soloists, orchestra, organ and the Moravian Trombone Choir. The Friday afternoon and evening program included the cantatas, Christian, Give Ye This Glad Day, O Praise the Lord for All His Mercies, Jesus, Now Will We Praise Thee, Christ Lay in Death's Dark Prison, God so Loved the World, Whoso Doth Offer Thanks, O Christ, My All in Living, and the motet for double choir, Sing Ye to the Lord a New-Made Song. The soloists for these concerts were Mildred Faas, soprano; Mabel Addison, contralto; Arthur Kraft, tenor, and Henri Scott, basso. As is the usual custom at the series of Saturday afternoon concerts the Mass in B minor was given, the soloists being Emily Stokes Hagar, soprano; Mabel Beddoe, contralto; Nicholas Douty, tenor, and Henri Scott, bass. A detailed report of the festival will appear in next week's MUSICAL COURIER.
4some admirable singing of songs by modern composers. Strafford Wentworth, whose voice is a robust tenor of beautiful quality, sang a group by modern composers.
6Philipp Mittell, violin pedagog, will leave New York City on July 1 for Provincetown, where he is accustomed to going each summer and taking with him a large class of advanced pupils.
8The New York Symphony Orchestra will give thirty-three concerts in five weeks at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, this summer. As in the past five years, all of the concerts will be conducted by Albert Stoessel.
10The Pittsburgh Musical Institute, Inc., will have a summer session of six weeks, from July 21 to July 31. The faculty will include: piano—Dallmeyer Russell, William H. Oetting, Charles N. Boyd, Ada Clark, Florence Graybill Foust, Martha Groff, and Albert Reeves Norton; voice—Adrian E. Freni, Charles Edward Mayhew and Mrs. Charles E. Mayhew; violin—Roy E. Schumacher; theory—Mr. Boyd, Mrs. Mayhew and Mr. Oetting; organ—Mr. Oetting, Mr. Boyd and Mr. Norton. The piano instructors include Lucy Coscia, Lillian Erickson, Agnes Guckelberg, Melvin S. Hemphill, Alfred H. Johnston, John W. Kelso, J. C. Krimbelhane, Aline Murphy, Gertrude McCabe, Mollie Nauhaus, Irene Punschke, Helen Hull Salsgiver, Agnes Shonka, Elsie Thurn, Rhea L. Wickline and Eleanor Wills. Among the violin instructors are William Haus, John Schimpf and Ruth Wilson.
12Fred Patton, "old-timer" in the Messiah, as the critic on the Kansas City Star characterized the popular artist, was bass soloist when that oratorio was given on April 30 at State Teachers' College, Pittsburg, Kans. It was the verdict of this correspondent that while Patton "has a wide range and a thoroughly serviceable voice, he has another attribute of even greater importance—a minute and ready knowledge of the stage, and how to emphasize both his own good points and the impressive features of his music. He was most pleasant to hear."
14"John Powell made a favorable impression on a large audience at the public auditorium with a program which was chiefly enjoyable for the four Beethoven numbers and a group of modern American tunes. Mr. Powell performed the lovely sonata (Waldstein) opus 53 in C, in scholarly and masterly fashion," declared the Portland Oregonian of April 6. Susie Aubrey Smith in the Portland Telegram wrote: "Mr. Powell displayed all the qualities that make his playing enjoyable—a clean cut technic, a pleasing and powerful tone and an individual conception of the composer's purpose."
16The Pennsylvania Chapter, N. A. O. (State Council), hold its sixth annual convention at Lancaster, Pa., on May 25, the program having as recitalist Edward Rechlin and Richard K. Biggs, with talks on organ playing and recent developments in organ building.
18George Perkins Raymond will sail for Europe on June 5, after completing his second concert season. Annie Friedberg, his manager, reports that the tenor's success has been such as has been seldom achieved by so young an American singer. He has been studying with Mme. Schoen-René for more than three years. Important concert engagements fulfilled by Mr. Raymond have included appearances in such cities as Cleveland, (twice) Cincinnati, Chicago, Alliance, Wheeling, Erie and Plattsburgh. Mr. Raymond's bookings for 1926-27 already include recitals in Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland and Detroit and a tour of California.
20Florizel Von Reuter, American violinist, is returning to Europe this month. He has given two New York recitals on this trip with very great success. His criticisms were unanimous in their praise of his masterly playing. Mr. Von Reuter expects to return to America during the season of 1927 when he will have quite a tour.
22Frederick Schorr, baritone of the Metropolitan Opera, will be heard in recital in December, just before joining the Metropolitan Opera Company. He will return to America in November, and have a concert tour under the management of Richard Copley.
24Mme. Ida Haggerty Snell presented her artist-pupil, Reinold Strobeker, in a second concert on April 25, at a Carnegie Hall studio. Mr. Strobeker has a splendid voice, finely placed, and his interpretation is most artistic; another notable feature is his excellent diction. He was ably accompanied by Maestro De Macchi.
26Carlos Salzedo's harp classes at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, have been so successful and have grown so rapidly that not only has he been re-engaged for next season but he also is to have an assistant, Florence Wightman. Artist pupils of Mr. Salzedo are appearing in churches and in concert in various parts of the world.
28W. Warren Shaw recently broadcasted a lecture over WMCA on Everybody Should Learn to Sing.
30Louise Smith, alto, and Cyril Pitts, tenor, from the Klibansky studio, gave a recital at the Wurlitzer Auditorium, May 3. Miss Smith proved an artist of great promise; her beautiful and controlled voice is charming in all registers, and she interprets with understanding. She sang songs by Strauss, Schubert, and the Spring Song of the Robin Woman by Cadman. Cyril Pitts was heard in an artistic interpretation of the aria of Don Jose from Carmen; his tenor voice of sympathetic quality gave much pleasure. In songs by Beethoven, Schubert, etc., he showed breadth of style, and both did vast credit to their teacher, Sergei Klibansky. Mary Ludington was the accompanist.
32The Kriens Symphony Club will give its annual Carnegie Hall concert, Saturday evening, May 22, playing standard works by Goldmark, Beethoven, and Kriens' own Holland Suite. Gladys St. John, soprano, and Edgar Schenkman, violinist, will appear as soloists. The program is to be broadcast via Station WNYC.
34The University School of Music, Ann Arbor, Mich., will hold a summer session of six weeks, from June 21 to July 31, at which, courses will be offered in practically all branches of music. The faculty will include Theodore Harrison, James Hamilton and Nora B. Wetmore, voice; Mabel Ross Rhead and Nell B. Stockwell, piano; Otto J. Stahl, piano and theory; Marian Struble Freeman, violin; Wilfred Wilson, wind instruments; T. P. Giddings, J. E. Maddy and Norman Larsen, public school methods. Earl V. Moore is musical director and Charles A. Sink secretary and business manager of the school.
36Jeanne le Vinus, who studies with Hilda Grace Gelling, evidently absorbing fine ideas from that instructor, was heard in her own song recital at Chickering Hall, New York, May 6, singing groups of songs in German, French and English, as well as the Forest Aria by Tchaikowsky. Three of these, by Laparra, Fauré and Sibelius, she gave at her instructor's Wurlitzer auditorium Music Week recital; her singing showed a splendid dramatic voice, with much musical instinct, high intelligence and distinct articulation. Lou Olp played efficient and sympathetic accompaniments.
38Carolyn Webb, a young southern girl with a beautiful soprano voice, sang Strausiana, the brilliant waltz-song arranged from Straussian melodies by Estelle Liebling, at a West End school recently. Paolo Gallico wrote the Italian words and the fluency of the music as well as Miss Webb's singing, made it most effective.
40The West Side Y. M. C. A. Glee Club's fourth concert was given on April 29, in the auditorium of the West Side Y. M. C. A. The club was assisted by Christine Phillipson, violinist; Vernice Gay, pianist; Warren Lee Terny, tenor; Malcolm Maynier, accompanist, and was conducted by Mary Browne.
42Fred Rycroft a Busy Man
43Few well known figures in New York musical circles have had a more extensive or more varied experience than Fred Rycroft, well-known dramatic vocal coach and teacher. Mr. Rycroft's connections with musical comedy, comic opera, vaudeville and similar fields are the closest, and graduates from his studio are to be found regularly in a dozen New York theaters.
45For five years Mr. Rycroft was general musical director for Henry W. Savage; he has organized various quartets, trios, small choruses and other ensembles for vocal work in every field; he has been choir director and organist in various New York churches, and at present is in charge of St. James', Fordham, and St. James', Scarborough; he is also director of music for the Scottish Rite Masonic bodies in New York; and he is consulted regularly by many leading musical comedy producers, often being entrusted with the selection of the entire cast and chorus. Among all his various activities, Mr. Rycroft is a busy man, as might be imagined. At the present time he is especially interested in the development of his studio, and has openings for a few talented pupils.
47Events at the Cornish School
48Recent special events at the Cornish School, Seattle, have included a violin recital by Frederick Heward, pupil of Peter Meremblum, on April 22; a dance recital on May 1, when pupils of the School of the Dance presented three ballets. At the Court of Old King Cole, April, and Snegourotchka; a program of Modern French Composers in the performance of which Emma Reynolds, Rae Spiegelman, Mrs. L. L. Thompson, Doris Suckling, Fidelia Burgess, Mrs. S. W. Bushnell, Margaret Joslin, Dorothy Russell, and May Neel participated, pupils of George May and Jacques Jou-Jerville; and a song recital by the following pupils of Sara V. Peabody; Bertha Compton, Edna Ward, Gladys, Hershberger, Elda Lee Rudebeck and Amalia Mertz.
50The summer session promises to be the busiest ever.
52Artists Under Charlton Management
53The following artists will be under the management of Loudon Charlton for the season 1926-27: The Flonzaley Quartet, now in its twenty-third season; John Coates, tenor; Marie Morrisey and Emma Roberts, contraltos; Lambert Murphy, tenor; Edgar Schofield, bass-baritone; Helen Stanley, soprano; Shura Cherkassky, Ernest Hutcheson, William Murdoch and Yolanda Mero, pianists; Sylvia Lent, Georges Enesco (for season 1927-28), violinists. The ensembles will include Edgar Schofield and Mildred Billing, harpist, and The American Grand Opera Trio, composed of Helen Stanley, Paul Althouse and Arthur Middleton, (the two latter by arrangement with Haensel & Jones).
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