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Musical Courier 1927-01-06: Vol 94 Iss 1, 1927
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1January 6, 1927
3ARTISTS EVERYWHERE
5Shura Cherkassky, talented boy pianist, received his early training from his mother, herself a graduate of the Petrograd Conservatory and a pianist of distinction. After the young artist came to this country he studied for a short time with Stojowski, and is at present under the personal direction of Josef Hofmann. He was at no time a student at the Peabody Conservatory, as stated in a recent Baltimore letter.
7Mario Chamlee, who has been touring the Northwest in concert, sang the first performance of his Metropolitan Opera House season at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn on December 28 as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana. He repeated this performance at a benefit at the Metropolitan Opera House on January 5. Mr. Chamlee will be heard at the Metropolitan during the remainder of the season in leading roles which he has sung for the past five years with that company, as well as several new ones to be announced later.
9Curtiss Grove, at his second New York recital at Aeolian Hall on January 16, will include on his program a group of selections by Hermann Durra. These songs—Totenwacht, Der jungen Hexe Lied, Winter and Tanzlied—were written about twenty years ago, and at that time some of them were sung in Berlin with favorable press comments, but so far as is known, they have not been sung in New York before. Mr. Curtiss believes these songs to be the work of a genius—they follow very closely the art of Brahms, Hugo Wolf and, to some degree, Richard Strauss. The remainder of the program will include selections by Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms and Schubert. Walter Golde will be at the piano.
11Edwin Hughes, pianist, is appearing in recital in Albany, N. Y., on January 6, under the auspices of the Albany Institute of History and Art.
13Edward Johnson returned from Italy last month and has resumed activities in his native country. The delightful tenor was one of the artists appearing at the Bagby Musicale at the Waldorf-Astoria on December 27. He has been engaged for the North Shore Festival at Evanston, Ill., May 24, singing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Frederick Stock.
15Harry Kaufman, a member of the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, played the piano part of the Bach Brandenburg concerto No. 5, for flute, violin and piano, with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia on December 30 and 31 and in New York on January 4. Leopold Stokowski conducted. one of two readings
16Harry Kaufman, a member of the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, played the piano part of the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, for flute, violin and piano, with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia on December 30 and 31 and in New York on January 4. Leopold Stokowski conducted. one of two readings
18Benno Moiseiwitsch left recently for the French Riviera, where he is spending the holidays with the novelist, William J. Locke, at his villa in Cannes. Early this month he will be back in London, where he will play twice in the Queen's Hall with orchestra and once at the Wigmore Hall in his own recital. Following these appearances he will make a tour of the provinces, returning to take part in a recital in connection with the Ampico Company before he again sails for America on February 19.
20The National Opera Club of America, Baroness Katherine Evans von Klenner, president, will give its annual opera and ball on January 11 at the Waldorf Astoria. This is Presidents' Night, when presidents of many clubs in New York will be present. This annual gala evening is always a brilliant affair, and this season promises to eclipse all others in the past. Officers in charge of the affair are Mrs. Howard Doane, Susan Hawley Davis, Amy Ray Seward and Mrs. E. H. Cahill.
22Ignace Paderewski, who recently arrived here on his way to Australia, will play a few concerts in California and the northwest, beginning in Long Beach on January 21. He will sail from Vancouver on the steamship Arangi on February 9 for Australia, where he will play approximately fifty concerts, returning to America in June.
24Francesco Pelosi, director general of the Philadelphia La Scala Grand Opera Company, announces the engagement of Titta Ruffo as the leading baritone of the company for the week of grand opera to be presented in Pittsburgh, under the auspices of The Nurses Club, at the Syria Mosque, from January 15 to January 22. The cast will include James De Gavria, Fidelia Campagna, Henri Scott, Rosalinda Rudko-Morini, Graziano Lauro, Alfredo Valenti, Joseph Royer and Rhea Tonioio. La Scala Opera Ballet, with Catharine Littlefield, as premiere, and La Scala Opera Chorus of sixty-five will be outstanding features of the performances. The repertory will include Aida, Rigoletto, Cavalleria, Pagliacci, Traviata, Faust, Trovatore, Lucia and Tosca. The stage direction will be in the capable hands of Luigi Raybaut and Cavalleria Pirro Paci, Clarence C. Nice and Walter K. Grigaitis will be the conductors. The fourth performance of the Philadelphia Season will take place on January 15 at the Metropolitan Opera House, when Faust will be presented.
26Franklin Riker, well-known singer and voice teacher, will be tenor soloist with the Philadelphia Choral Society at its performance of the Messiah in Philadelphia on January 6. Mr. Riker has just accepted the position of head of the vocal department of the Cornish School in Seattle, and will move there to take charge of his new duties by the end of February.
28Elliott Schenck's In a Withered Garden, for orchestra, which has been acclaimed in Boston and Chicago, was a tremendous success on December 2 when played under the baton of Harmati in Omaha. The Omaha Bee said in part: "It was indeed an exotic bit of composition, written with a deft hand, secure in instrument resourcefulness, in a decided modernistic idiom. The work was striking in interest; it would well stand repetition." The World-Herald said that "the first impression is one of quaintness bordering on weirdness, but it is very captivating on account of the beauty and richness of its harmonies."
30Paul Stassevitch, violinist and teacher, has pupils who have been heard this season in Wisconsin, Oregon and Ohio, as well as in New York. Jane Dudley, in October, played recitals in Milwaukee, Fond du Lac, Waupun, Oshkosh, Madison and Platteville. Charles Fleshman played for the Men's Club of Cleveland, and Sylvia Weinstein Margulis gave a program for the Portland (Oregon) MacDowell Club, playing the Goldmark A minor concerto, the Brahms sonata in D minor with Ruth Keiser, and a group of pieces by Albeniz, Spalding and Burleigh.
32Madge Daniell Studio Notes
33Lucy Lawlor, soprano, was soloist at Daniel Frohman's studio on December 4, the occasion being the gathering of famous actors and screen stars to hear Ten Nights in a Star Room. She was also soloist at Mecca Temple for the Square Club on November 9, and at the Theater Assembly of Hotel Astor, November 5.
35Harold Hennessey, tenor, singing at the Commodore Hotel on November 24 and appearing in Queen High, is continually winning recognition with his resonant voice and finished work. All of his training has been with Miss Daniell.
37Stephens Pupil as Radio Announcer
38Alois Havrilla, artist pupil of Percy Rector Stephens, has been appointed staff artist and announcer for Station WPCH, with studios in New York City. Mr. Havrilla is well known in musical circles as concert baritone and for his dramatic work in several Broadway musical successes, including Louis XIV and Princess Flavia. For seven years he has been baritone soloist in the Englewood, N. J., Presbyterian Church, and he is conductor of the Briarcliff Choral Club. In addition to his vocal lessons with Mr. Stephens, the baritone has gained academic credits at New York University, where he has appeared as soloist in concerts of the University Summer Session Chorus and Orchestra.
40Henri Deering on Coast
41Following his successful appearances with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Henri Deering, pianist, went to the Pacific Coast for a number of dates that will keep him away from New York until February. A New York recital is then scheduled for him.
43PIETRO YON
44ORGANIST OF INTERNATIONAL FAME
45FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS
46ON PACIFIC COAST
47FEBRUARY 5-23
48Address: Institute of Concert Virtuosi
49853 Carnegie Hall, New York
51The Flonzaley Quartet
52Founded by E. J. de Coppet in 1903
54Re-Engagements
55are more
56Eloquent
57than
58Press Quotations
60Of the Ninety American Concerts This Season, Forty-Four Are Return Engagements, Twenty-Nine of these being annual re-engagements
62Season 1927-28 NOW BOOKING
64Exclusive Management
65LOUDON CHARLTON
66Carnegie Hall, New York
67VICTOR RECORDS
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