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Musical Courier 1926-07-08: Vol 93 Iss 2, 1926
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1FOREIGN NEWS IN BRIEF
3London
4COBBETT MEDAL AWARDED TO ALFRED J. CLEMENTS—(London) The Cobbett Medal annually awarded for "services to the art of chamber music" was presented this year to Alfred J. Clements, who for forty years has organized the South Place chamber music concerts. It will be remembered that Mrs. Coolidge received the medal last year.
5M. S.
7Paris
8NEW FRENCH WORKS—(Paris) The composer, Alfred Bruneau, member of the Institute, has just finished the score for a lyric drama, Angelo, Tyran de Padoue. The drama was written by Charles Méré from the great work of the same name by Victor Hugo. Alexander Tcherepnine, well known Russian composer, has just published a suite of ten melodies, entitled Haltes, the French version for which was written by Guillot de Saix. N. DE B.
10KOUSSEVITZKY CONDUCTS SENSATIONAL PREMIERE—(Paris) A sensation was created at the last Koussevitzky concert by the production of a new work, Préface du Livre de Vie (Preface to the Book of Life) by Obouhov. The audience divided itself sharply into two warring factions, which hissed or applauded according to their tastes. The composer chose to elaborate a new harmonic system and to seek absolutely new effects in his effort to convey his religious ideas and esthetic aspirations. He has curious glissandi and whistling, strange contrasts between a brutal realism and the mysticism of the subject. Yet in spite of all these efforts at originality, the effect of the whole work was one of monotony. The vocal parts were bravely undertaken by Martha Kerner, Brainow and Narçon.
11N. DE B.
13Berlin
14STOCKHOLM ORCHESTRA FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OLD—(Berlin) The royal orchestra in Stockholm is celebrating this year the 400th anniversary of its existence. This makes it one of the three oldest organizations of its kind in the history of music. It was founded under the régime of King Gustaf Wasa and has since been under the continuous patronage of the Swedish royal family. C. H. T.
16VON HOESSLIN IN ELBERFELD-BARMEN—(Berlin) The committee of the combined cities of Elberfeld and Barmen have called Franz von Hoesslin to become general musical director of the opera there. Von Hoesslin formerly held the same position in Dessau and was one of the conductors of the ill-fated Volksoper of Berlin. This newly created position is a most influential one and denotes a big advance for the conductor who has been making himself much talked of lately. Outside of his work at the opera the new general music director will also conduct a series of orchestra concerts.
17C. H. T.
19Vienna
20KALMAN AND PAUL WHITEMAN TO CO-OPERATE—(Vienna) Paul Whiteman, who is at present spending a few days in Vienna to arrange for the forthcoming concert here of his band, has had various interviews with Emmerich Kalman, Viennese operetta composer. According to Die Stunde, Kalman is writing a jazz composition (his first one) exclusively for the use of the Whiteman band.
21B. P.
23WEINGARTNER MAY TOUR AMERICA WITH VIENNA PHILHARMONIC—(Vienna) Manager Arthur Judson, who spent a few days in Vienna, preparing for the two concerts which the Philadelphia Orchestra intends to give at Vienna during its proposed European tour in the spring, 1927, has conducted negotiations with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra regarding an American tour of that organization under Felix Weingartner's direction. Director Schalk of the Staatsoper has so far withheld his consent for a leave of the orchestra, but negotiations will be continued.
24P. B.
26SALZBURG FESTIVAL PROGRAM ALTERED—(Vienna) At a press conference it was officially announced that the Salzburg Festival Theater will be completely reconstructed before the opening of the festival. The gallery will be lowered, and a sounding board fixed beneath the roof to improve the acoustics. The lobby will be decorated with modern paintings, and the place in front of the festival theater will be cleared and handsomely decorated. Instead of Goethe's Faust, Reinhardt will stage Gozzi's Turandot (from which Puccini's librettists took the book for his opera), probably with music by Hans Krasa, the young Prague composer. For next season, it is announced, Handel's Xerxes and Julius Caesar will be included in the festival schedule.
27P. B.
29Italy
30NEW POLISH CHILD PRODIGY—(Rome) Bronislaw Gimpel, extraordinarily magnetic fifteen-year-old violinist, hailing from Poland, scored an immediate and enthusiastic success in his first concert at the Teatro Valle, such as has not been known for years. His brother was a fine accompanist.
31D. P.
33MUSSOLINI OFFERS 10,000 LIRA FOR SONG—(Rome) Mussolini has offered a prize of 10,000 lira for the best song to be written for the popular feast of St. John on June 24.
34D. P.
36Miscellaneous
37INTERESTING VIOLIN AND CELLO DUETS HEARD IN COLOGNE—(Cologne) Under the auspices of the Cologne Society for New Music, the young Hungarian violinist, Zoltan Székely, and his compatriot, Paul Hermann, at the cello, recently gave a most successful evening of duets, including works by Kodály Bartók, Székely and Ravel. Kodály's duet in three movements was interesting by reason of its folk spirit and improvisational character, but it by no means reached the heights of Bartók's Rumanian Dances, which have a genuine local color, and are written with a masterly understanding of the two instruments. Ravel's work, new to Cologne, is attractive by reason of its formal construction and subtle treatment of the two voices, while Székely's "polyphonic and homophonic" movement gives more the impression of an exercise than a mature work. The two artists gave remarkable performances of these difficult works, showing themselves to be musically and technically fully equal to their task.
38E. T.
40RUDOLSTADT HAS SECOND HISTORICAL FESTIVAL—(Rudolstadt) The second historical music festival, which took place in Rudolstadt during the Whitsuntide holidays, had the same object as its predecessor (which took place in 1921), namely, the revival of works by old Rudolstadt composers. One of the concerts was given in the beautiful castle of Heidecksburg, where Ernst Wollong, the music director, conducted chamber and orchestral works of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The festival was opened with Whitsuntide cantatas by Erlebach, Gebel and Eberwein and closed with Handel's Jephtha and the Meistersinger finale. The performances were excellent and enjoyed a great success.
41R. P.
43REVIVAL OF WALKÜRE IN BRUSSELS—(Brussels) After a lapse of thirteen years the Theatre de la Monnaie, which had the glory of producing some of Wagner's operas in French even before the Opera in Paris, has revived Die Walküre with tremendous success. The noted Dutch tenor, Jacques Urlus, sang Siegmund. After Lohengrin, Meistersinger and Parsifal it seems as if Wagner has reconquered public favor.
44A. G.
46WIDOW OF WEBER'S GRANDSON RECEIVES BENEFIT—(Dresden) On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Carl Maria von Weber, the German stage society presented the widow of Weber's grandson, who is a resident of Dresden, with some of the money received at the performance of Weber's works. There is an exhibition of Weber's relics at the State Library and another is being held at the City Museum, where Weber's square piano and the desk which he used when conducting operas are being shown.
47R. P.
49JERITZA TO SING IN CZECH AT PRAGUE—(Prague) It is announced that Maria Jeritza will appear at the Czech National Theatre here for a few guest performances next season, singing in her native Czech idiom probably for the first time in her life. Leo Slezak will also sing in Czech at the same house. Both Jeritza and Slezak are natives of Brno (Brünn), capital of Moravia, which is now a part of the Czechoslovak republic.
50B.
52ARTISTS ENGAGED IN SCHEVENINGEN—(Scheveningen) Among the artists engaged by Manager Dr. de Koss for this season's big orchestral series in Scheveningen, under conductors Schneevoigt and Neumark, are (pianists) Harold Bauer, Carl Friedberg, José Iturbi, Jan Smeterlin, and Eleanor Spencer. Some of the violinists are Carl Flesch, Cecilia Hansen, Erika Morini, Erna Rubinstein and Albert Spalding. The cellists include Emanuel Feuermann; the singers, Ilena Durigo, Birgit Engell, Co van Geuns, Emmy Kruger and Jacques Urlus. Darja Collin and La Argentina will dance, and Paul Whiteman will also appear with his orchestra.
53R. P.
55REVIVAL OF GOETZ'S THE TAMING OF THE SHREW IN EDINBURGH—(Edinburgh) The Edinburgh Opera Company has made history again this year by its revival of The Taming of the Shrew, the opera by Hermann Goetz, which had not been done in Edinburgh for forty-six years. Two performances of this remarkable work were given in a creditable manner, and the production aroused widespread interest both in the press and musical circles. It is interesting to recall the fact that it was through the enterprise of a great American prima donna, Mme. Minnie Hauk, that The Taming of the Shrew was introduced to the British public in 1880.
56W. S.
58NOTABLE DEBUT IN EDINBURGH—(Edinburgh) So far as performances went, the annual productions of the Edinburgh Opera Company were chiefly remarkable for the first appearance in opera of a young Scottish soprano, Margaret Allan, a pupil of the celebrated Scottish baritone, Philip Malcolm. She made her debut as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, and her superb singing and magnificent acting have created quite a sensation in musical circles here. If she decides to continue in opera, we may expect before long to hear of her as one of the world's great prima donnas.
59W. S.
61Richard Burmeister Appreciated
62When Richard Burmeister, pianist, was in this country visiting friends, he was accorded a round of festivities and contributed many programs, much to the delight of his many admirers. Among some of his appearances were two in White Plains arranged for him by Edith Wood Austin, one at her residence and another at the White Plains Meeting House. At the first Mr. Burmeister gave an entire Brahms program, one of the numbers being his own concert arrangement of six of the waltzes from opus 39. At the second recital the pianist gave selections from Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert and Liszt, and this list also included several of his own arrangements. Mr. Burmeister's value as a pianist and composer is universally known and appreciated, and to those who had the pleasure of hearing him and coming in personal contact with him during this last short visit remember him as a talented musician and a rare personality.
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