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Musical Courier 1926-09-23: Vol 93 Iss 13, 1926
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1LUILLA MELIUS ARRIVES IN SAN FRANCISCO FOR OPERA SEASON
2Coming Directly from Successful Appearances at Ravinia Park—An Extensive Concert Tour Arranged Following San Francisco Engagements
4SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.—Coming directly from the Ravinia Park Opera, Chicago, where she sang during the entire summer season with unusual success, Luella Melius, coloratura soprano and star of more than twenty European Opera Houses during the last five years, has arrived here for her season with the San Francisco Opera Company, which begins on September 25. Mme. Melius will make her Pacific coast debut in opera, singing her favorite role, Rosina, in the Barber of Seville. Mme. Melius showed none of the effects of the strenuous operatic and concert campaign which her manager, S. E. Macmillen of New York, had arranged for her. The prima donna has met with instant favor from the devotees of opera gathered here for the San Francisco season, many of them having sought out Mme. Melius immediately following her arrival to congratulate her on the triumphs she has achieved in the last ten months. Particular importance was attached to the fact that Mme. Melius is an American, through and through, and as such has added another illustrious name to the fast growing list of Americans who have achieved, and are continuing to do so, justly deserved fame.
6During the last few months Mme. Melius has filled nearly a score of engagements at the two Chicago operas, meeting with almost unprecedented success on each occasion, according to more than one Chicago reviewer. In addition she has filled an even greater number of concert and recital engagements, including a record breaking recital at Orchestra Hall in Chicago at which the financial returns were more than $7,000 and a memorable appearance in Detroit where she was the stellar attraction at the dedication of the new $7,000,000 Masonic Temple. The receipts of this concert were considerably in excess of $15,000. Important festival engagements include the annual gala week at Hays, Kan., and the Spartanburg, S. C., Spring Festival.
8Immediately following her engagements in San Francisco, Mme. Melius travels to Los Angeles, where she will sing the leading coloratura roles with the Los Angeles Civic Opera under the baton of Richard Hageman, formerly of the Metropolitan and Chicago operas.
10S. E. Macmillen, Mme. Melius' manager, now in New York, is arranging the final details of the prima donna's fall and winter concert season. He has announced that at the conclusion of the Los Angeles season, Mme. Melius will come East for an extended series of recitals, her first stop being at Boulder, Col. Continuing eastward she will sing the opening concert of the concert season fostered each year in Winfield, Kas., by Southwestern University. Mme. Melius is then scheduled to open the concert series of St. Louis, fostered and promoted each season by Elizabeth Cueny. In quick succession come the following engagements: Columbia, Mo., opening concert on the University of Missouri series, given under the direction of James Quarrels; Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Janesville, Wis.; Milwaukee, Wis., with the Arion Club; Cincinnati, Ohio, as the star vocal attraction of the Matinee Musical Club series; Kenosha, Wis.; Normal, Illinois; two appearances on consecutive evenings on the extensive series given each season under the patronage of the University of Illinois at Urbana, Ill.; Bowling Green, Ky.; soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in Detroit on which occasion Mme. Melius will sing the "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Richard Strauss, at the special request of Ossip Gabrilowitsch; Danbury, Conn.; Montgomery, Ala., on the Montgomery Concert Course, managed and promoted by Kate C. Booth, Bessie Leigh Eilenberg and Lily Byron Gill; Birmingham, Ala., where Mme. Melius will be an outstanding vocal number on the series of five concerts given under the direction of the Birmingham Music Study Club; again in Detroit, as one of the seven concerts arranged for that city by Grace Denton of Toledo, Ohio; also on the Denton series in Toledo, which, by the way, appears to be among the most successful ever attempted in Toledo; Evansville, Ind., under the direction of the Musicians Club of Evansville, and many other important musical centers. M. S.
12JOSEFIN HARTMAN VOLLMER
13COACH AND ACCOMPANIST
14"The perfect accompanist."—Mme. Schumann-Heink
15157 West 106th St., New York City Phone 1914 Academy
17MISCHAKOFF
18RESUMES TEACHING IN HIS NEW STUDIOS
1938 West 70th Street, New York
20Phone: Susquehanna 9581
22Mr. Lazare Saminsky
23has returned from his concert tour in France and Italy and has reopened his classes of
24Composition and Orchestration
25AT
261117 MADISON AVENUE
27Corner of 84th Street
28NEW YORK
29All his pupils and new applicants are requested to send in their addresses by MAIL ONLY.
31De HARRACK
32Ampico Recording Artist
33AMERICAN TOUR
34Coast to Coast—1926-1927
35MASON & HAMLIN PIANO
36used exclusively by De Harrack
38EDWIN HUGHES
39Will Resume Instruction for Professional and Advanced Pianists on Sept. 27th
40APPOINTMENTS BY MAIL OR TELEPHONE ONLY
41Steinway Piano 338 W. 89th St., New York City Duo-Art Records
43Photo by Daguerre, Chicago
44LUILLA MELIUS
46SAN FRANCISCO
47SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.—When John McCormack appeared on the stage of the exposition Auditorium, September 8, it was to face a capacity house eagerly waiting to greet him and to show his appreciation of his splendid voice. Mr. McCormack, in this his only San Francisco recital of the season, enabled music lovers to experience two hours of sheer delight for he gave another singing lesson and revealed the true meaning of vocal art. The tenor was in genial mood, his voice displaying the sweetness of quality and rare versatility of tone for which it is known. Mr. McCormack sang with expressive ardor those songs of a dramatic character, and with tender, Irish softness, the lighter and more sentimental numbers which gave contrast to his well chosen program. His diction remains one of the most enjoyable and distinctive features of his many artistic assets. Seldom has a singer in San Francisco been compelled to respond to more encores than Mr. McCormack, and had it been left entirely to the audience he would have been forced to double his program. As it was, his admirers
49HALLIE HALL
50MEZZO-SOPRANO
51Assisting Artist with GIGLI at Montreal, Oct. 19th; Rochester, Oct. 21st, and Hartford, Oct. 24th
52Management R. E. JOHNSTON, 1451 Broadway, New York City
54Giulio Minetti
55Guest Conductor, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
56School of
57VIOLIN and ENSEMBLE
582615 California St., San Francisco, Calif.
60GALLI-CURCI
61SCHIPA
62RETHBERG
63TIBBETT
64Management Evans Salter 527 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK
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