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Musical Courier 1927-01-06: Vol 94 Iss 1, 1927
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1BOSTON
3CASSELLA AND RESPIGHI TO BE GUEST CONDUCTORS IN BOSTON
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6BOSTON.—When the Boston Symphony Orchestra returns from its impending trip to New York, Mr. Koussevitzky will take his annual fortnight's holiday. During his absence the orchestra will be directed by two guest conductors—Alfredo Casella, at the concerts of January 14 and 15; Ottorino Respighi, at the concerts of January 21 and 22. Presumably both leaders will include music of their own writing in the programs to be presented by them, and it is altogether likely that Walter Gieseking, pianist, who will be soloist at the first pair of concerts, will play one of Mr. Casella's compositions.
8KOUSSEVITZKY PRESENTS INTERESTING PROGRAM
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11As conductor and personality, Serge Koussevitzky has given frequent proof that he is not bound by convention. It was therefore to be expected that his holiday program for the concerts of Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, December 24 and 25, should be devoid of music appropriate to the occasion. Instead, he happily presented a list of pieces that would suit any concert the year round. Opening with Handel's Concerto Grosso, No. 6, the Russian leader gave it a beautiful reading that brought out the nobility and tenderness inherent in this music, the strings incidentally playing with a resonance and warmth that recalled the glories of another era in local symphonic history.
13Then came a novelty, the first Norfolk rhapsody of Vaughan Williams, played here for the first time. Inspired by folk tunes heard in a Norfolk village, the composer chose several songs of a melancholy character and one of a characteristically vigorous and rollicking nature. These he has treated in a fashion both original and charming, resulting in music that gives pleasure, a noteworthy event in the chronicle of contemporary composition.
15An impassioned performance of the Prelude and Love-Death from Tristan preceded the intermission, Mr. Koussevitzky revealing with irresistible dramatic power the sensuous longing, overwhelming ecstasy and final desolation of the lovers in Wagner's epic music drama. Richly deserved were the plaudits that followed, with no let-up until the orchestra had risen three times to share the ovation accorded their great leader.
17Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherazade was, as usual, a highly effective closing number. Essentially barbaric both in literary inspiration and as music, its gorgeous coloring, songful warmth and riotous revelry gave Mr. Koussevitzky abundant opportunity to prove once again that if you scratch a Slav you find a Tartar. Be that as it may, the Russian conductor and his band of virtuosos gave this work the most brilliant performance we have ever heard, one which will remain a standard by which all other interpretations of the ever-welcome Scheherazade will be judged.
19HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY GIVES MESSIAH
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22The Handel and Haydn Society, Emil Mollenhauer, conductor, gave a well-routed performance of Handel's Messiah, Sunday afternoon and Monday evening, December 19 and 20, in Symphony Hall. The chorus was assisted by the Boston Festival Orchestra and these competent soloists: Gertrude Ehrhart, Grace Leslie, Joseph Lautner and Royal Dadmun. Large audiences attended both performances.
24PEOPLE'S SYMPHONY PLAYS AMERICAN NOVELTY
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27At the People's Symphony concert, December 26, in Jordan Hall, Stuart Mason presented a novelty of American origin, A Persian Fable, by Elliott Griffis. Mr. Griffis studied at the Ithaca Conservatory, at Yale with Horatio Parker, and in Boston with Stuart Mason and George Chadwick. His composition is appropriately Oriental (as we have come to know this flavor in music) and is distinguished by definite ideas and workmanlike treatment. All in all, it is a work of agreeable quality and was well received. The composer, who was present, bowed his acknowledgments.
29Other purely orchestral numbers were Gluck's overture to Iphigenia in Aulis, serenade for two orchestras by Mozart, and Saint-Saens' Suite Algerienne, all interpreted by the excellent Mr. Mason with that fine regard for structure, rhythm and style that mark his conducting. The soloist was Maria Conde, substituting for Joseph Lautner, who was suffering from a heavy cold. Mme. Conde exhibited her familiar abilities in a group of songs by Gretschmanoff, Fairchild, Aubert and Rogers.
31J. C.
33MORGANA AND STRATTON FOR ARTISTIC MORNING
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36Nina Morgana, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and Charles Stratton, tenor, will be the soloists at the fifth of the De Segurola-Piza Artistic Mornings at the Hotel Plaza on January 13. Paul Layssac also will appear in dramatic readings. Miss Morgana recently gave a brilliant New York recital at Carnegie Hall and is now on tour before returning to the Metropolitan for the second half of the season. Mr. Stratton has made a number of appearances with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra this year in New York and on the road, singing the tenor solo in Casella's La Giara.
38FIVE QUARTETS UNITE IN EXTRAORDINARY PROGRAM
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44Orchestra had been added for support. The program selected by Mr. Rich was ideal for the occasion. It began with a suite in C major of Purcell, played by the entire string ensemble. The players were assembled upon the balcony shelf in front of the organ. This suite, which was arranged by the English musician, W. Y. Hurlstone, is made up of a number of Purcell's harpsichord compositions and finely arranged. It preceded the Bach suites by a goodly number of years and shows the undoubted source of the latter's inspiration. It is delightful music, especially the third movement, and will doubtless be frequently heard here now.
46The noble tone quality produced by the expert players of the ensemble must be heard to be appreciated. Each one of the players performed upon an ancient instrument of great value from the splendid collection of Rodman Wanamaker, and there was a roundness, warmth, resonance, and indescribable beauty to the tone body. Later in the program the ensemble and the organ, most skillfully handled by Charles M. Courhoin, played the Prelude to Saint-Saens' Le Deluge, while Mr. Rich gave a beautiful performance of the long violin solo. To conclude the program, the in 1698 and a Gofriller made in 1727. The violoncellos were one each of the two greatest masters of the art of making great violoncellos, Dominico Montagnana and Mathias Gofriller, besides instruments by G. B. Guadagnini, David Tecchler and Francesco Ruger, and the four contrabasses which completed the capella were by Antonio Testore, Pietro Testore, Carlo Antonio Testore and G. B. Rogeri.
48I SEE THAT
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51Howard Hanson completes organ concerto.
52Paul von Klenau is to make phonograph records for Columbia.
53The French Opera Comique Company has closed its interesting season in New York.
54Rochester plays host to the M. T. N. A., at its annual convention.
55The famous collection of old and precious violins and violas is described in an interesting article.
56Harold Samuel finds it impossible to escape Bach.
57Milton Charles now head of the Department of Theater Organ at the Gunn School in Chicago.
58Marguerite Potter is active as lecture and costume recitalist.
59Molinari inaugurates concert season in Rome.
60Wiesbaden witnesses fine performance of Hindemith's Cardillac.
61Clarence Lucas describes an afternoon spent with Godowsky. Samson and Delilah is given for the first time in several years by the Chicago Civic Opera Company.
62Philip James' new overture wins critics' praise.
63Rudolph Thomas is presented in role of conductor.
64Povla Frijsh gives the first of her series of four song recitals in Aeolian Hall on January 17.
65Sylvia Lent, violinist, will be guest soloist with the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra on February 27.
66Ernest Hutcheson has been elected director and trustee of the Naumburg Foundation.
67Yolanda Mero, "the Brunnhilde of the piano," after a year's absence from the concert stage, is returning for a busy 1927-28 season.
68Elsa Foerster, American prima donna of the Cologne, Germany, opera house, won success as Turandot, November 5.
69Elliott Schenck's orchestral works are being performed in Omaha, Chicago, and elsewhere.
70Helen Sheridan will appear in prima donna role of Mozart's Die Gartnerin, at the first performance in New York, January 17.
71Alice Crane was an honored guest at the concert of the National League of Pen Women, Washington, D. C., when her compositions were performed.
72Pauline Turso, youthful soprano, studying with Salvatore Avitable, makes her debut at Aeolian Hall, New York, January 13.
73A Maud Morgan Benefit Trust Fund has been established.
74Nevada Van der Veer will be solo contralto in the Ninth Symphony under Verbrugghen, in Minneapolis and St. Paul, January 20.
75Thaddeus Rich conducts five string quartets at Wanamaker's in Philadelphia.
76Estelle Gray-Lhevinne's violin recitals and concerts establish a remarkable record.
78WORKERS' MUSIC LEAGUE OF AMERICA
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81This league announced the appearance of a number of the leading players from various local symphony orchestras "to make up the first night of broadcasting for the new Workers' Orchestra," on Sunday, January 2, between the hours of 9 to 10 p. m. from station WPCH. The same announcement said that the first meeting of the league was to be Wednesday, January 5, and that Loblov's Workers' Orchestra would start rehearsing Sunday mornings, apparently at WPCH, 119 West 57th Street.
83A MAUD MORGAN BENEFIT
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86Honoring Maud Morgan, eminent harpist, a trust fund is to be established, the income payable to her, and on her death it goes to a fund named after her, the income of which will be paid a harpist, or several of them, who show talent. Charles A. Terry, 150 Broadway, New York, is trustee of the fund.
88SASLAWSKY TO SING AT BRYN MAWR
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91Boris Saslawsky is giving a recital at Bryn Mawr College on January 10. He will sing the Russian folk songs by Sedicke arranged for trio, which he sang at the Washington Festival in October. On January 25 he will give a recital at Terre Haute, Ind.
93JOSEPH REGNEAS one of two readings
94JOSEPH REGNEAS VOCAL STUDIO one of two readings
96135 West 80th Street, New York
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99From the rudiments of singing to the fully developed artist for
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102OPERA — CONCERT — ORATORIO
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105Consultation by Appointment only
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108Telephone Trafalgar 4386
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