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Musical Courier 1927-01-06: Vol 94 Iss 1, 1927
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1January 6, 1927
3continued and as it died away persons sat to wonder just what made the violinist so different.
5"The audience was simply carried away by a class of music which is usually 'over the heads' of many in the crowd. Yet those great classics did not seem at all intricate or even difficult because of the consummate art of the little violinist who stood before them. . . . A return engagement of this great master of the violin would be welcomed by a capacity audience at no distant date."
71,800 AT SCHENECTADY AND OVER 1,300 AT ALBANY, N. Y.
9More than 1,800 heard her at Schenectady, N. Y., on December 8, and the reviews there hailed this star as one who interested all hearers in a manner so much more intense than any before heard in that city that she made a real sensation. On December 2 she thrilled Albany.
11RETURNS TO ROCHESTER
13In December she returned to Rochester, N. Y., and was heard this time by close to 8,000. Gray-Lhevinne had given two previous series in that city in the last year and a half.
15MORGANTOWN, W. VA., HAS 2,895 LISTENERS
17On the afternoon and evening of November 11, Gray-Lhevinne drew capacity audiences in Morgantown, W. Va., which were held spellbound. The Morgantown, W. Va., New Dominion and The Post both said: "She is the greatest woman violinist today."
19RETURNS TO WASHINGTON
21On December 12 a capacity audience of 1,175 greeted the return of Gray-Lhevinne to Washington, Pa.
23ANOTHER ERIE, PA. RETURN
25Gray-Lhevinne has been engaged for February, 1927, to give her fifth Erie (Pa.) recital. She was first brought to that city by the late Eva McCoy on the series which included Pavlova, Louis Graveure, the Flonzaley Quartet, Ethel Haydn, Zimbalist, Grainger and Schumann-Heink. Gray-Lhevinne's last recital at Erie, early this year, attracted over 1,400 people.
27RETURNS TO MANY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
29In July and again on October 22, Gray-Lhevinne returned to the Bloomsburg, Pa., State Normal College, which books an important artist series year.
31At Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, on October 22, at Bowling Green on October 25, and at Athens, Ohio, and the Ohio Northwestern University at Ada, October 12, this artist was given ovations. At the University of Pitt, the college band came out enthusiastically to greet her return.
33THIRD RETURN TO HARRISBURG
35Again this popular artist was welcomed back to the state capital of Pennsylvania.
37Said the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot: "Using a miraculous bow with astonishing strength, Mme. Gray-Lhevinne, one of the greatest women violinists appeared at Chestnut Street Auditorium in one of her rare, original daring programs that appealed to the musically educated, the portion who had no musical training, and the student who was deep in study of the classics."
39The Telegraph commented: "She ranks with the best the concert stage offers—of Mme. Gray-Lhevinne's artistry there can be no question. She showed in every number last night a delightful sense of interpretative ability and in her technic she was thoroughly and delightfully sensitive."
41DUNKIRK, N. Y. REPEAT DRAWS 1,900
43When Gray-Lhevinne returned by popular request to Dunkirk, N. Y., she gave two recitals to record crowds in October last.
45During the May Music Week, Gray-Lhevinne gave twenty-one recitals, at special hours of the day, to satisfy the desire of the special music festival committees to include Gray-Lhevinne in their national music week events. Under the auspices of the Conservatory of Music of Bluffton College, N. Y., this violinist was heard by 1,450 people.
47SERIES UNDER UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC
49During May Music Week, Gray-Lhevinne gave a series of four recitals at Warren, Ohio, being presented by Lynn Dana, president of the Dana Musical University, which has an enrollment of 1,800 music students from all over the country.
51During Music Week, Gray-Lhevinne gave a series of four concerts at Lakewood, Ohio, to capacity audiences. She appeals not alone to the small handful of educated musicians one finds in each community and who are only interested in analyzing the heaviest classics (after all, these folk are so few in number), but she also aims to interest the great mass of the public.
53No one is just like Gray-Lhevinne. She is a unique personality and as records of facts and figures prove, her popularity and success seem to know no bounds. R. L.
55Bonelli's First Rigoletto in Chicago
57When Richard Bonelli, young American baritone of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, recently sang the title role in Rigoletto for the first time in that city he received some extraordinary notices from the critics. The Chicago Journal in particular gave him a detailed and intelligent notice: "Richard Bonelli's first local performance in the name part of Rigoletto may have had elements of youthfulness, for the role is both big and antiquated enough to be one of the most ticklish in all the operatic repertoire. But in its conception, and in its details, it was peculiarly commanding. . . . This strikingly gifted baritone lost no opportunity to seize upon the elements in his text which would heighten the dramatic value of the role or serve for the building up of an effective stage character. He has genius in declamation, and he employed his fine, rich voice, drenched as it is with opulent color, with more variety of shading than he has ever achieved here before. . . . In his first season with the Chicago Opera, last winter, he proved to be an unusually satisfying singer. His performances this year suggest he has by no means neared the limits of a talent which embraces both distinguished vocalism and fine acting. An unusually interesting aspect of his performance Saturday was that it was made in terms readily understandable among Americans, and his decided hint that there may yet be a genuinely American style of operatic workmanship is by far the greatest impetus our patriotic movement in art has been given in many seasons."
59Walter Edelstein to Make Debut
61Walter Edelstein, who makes his debut as a concert artist in Aeolian Hall, January 9, is a Brooklyn boy, not only born and bred there, but also a present resident of that city. He is a graduate of the Eastern District High School and the Damrosch school of music, where he studied under the great Franz Kneisel. Upon the advice of that master he went abroad to continue his studies. At Fontainebleau Conservatory he took the highest honors attainable, first prize for violin and the honor of playing for the grand old master, Eugen Ysaye, winning his commendation. Through the enterprise of the Studio Guild he was recently heard on the air from station WOR.
63Hilda Reiter in Opera and Concert
65Hilda Reiter has been engaged for four operas, three with the Philadelphia Civic Opera and one—Babes in Toyland—with the same company in conjunction with the Matinee Musical Club. On November 21 Miss Reiter was soloist at the Friendly Church in Philadelphia, and on November 27 she was heard at a musicale at Willow Grove. The following day, November 28, she sang at St. John's M. E. Church and on November 30 was heard with the Phillips Jenkins Singers at the Matinee Musical Club concert. December 2 the soprano appeared in recital at Witherspoon Hall with Ermino Ialacci, tenor, and Romeo Cella, cellist, and the preceding day she sang at Drexel Institute. December 4 found her in Pennington, N. J., and December 13 fulfilling an engagement for the Ridley Park Women's Club. December 16 Miss Reiter sang Stephano in Romeo and Juliet, and two days later she appeared in Babes in Toyland. Her forthcoming engagements include Nella in Gianni Schicchi and Lieschen in Der Ring des Polykrates, a German opera which it is said has never been given in this country before.
67Suzanne Keener a Busy Artist
69Suzanne Keener, charming coloratura soprano, opened her season at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., on October 7, in a delightful costume recital. With three months of the present season past, Miss Keener already has filled to date twenty-nine concerts, which has meant constant traveling. A two weeks' vacation now is being enjoyed over the holiday season at her home in Miami, Fla., and then she will be off again to fulfill her remaining twenty-two concerts, commencing at Greenville, Tenn. The states of Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa lay claim to this artist, for she has appeared in thirty-nine recitals during the past two years in this territory alone, and twelve concerts already have been contracted for by her manager, Calvin M. Franklin, with the Horner & Witte Concert Bureau of Kansas City for the 1927-28 season. She will make a Pacific Coast tour next season. This year Miss Keener is appearing in French, Scandinavian, Russian and Colonial costumes, and songs, and next year will add a Spanish group to her program, appearing in the native costume.
71Master Institute to Have Summer School in Moriah, N. Y.
73In answer to the increasing demand for summer courses which will enable students to spend their vacations profitably and also enable teachers to take special pedagogical courses, the Master Institute of United Arts of New York announces the formation of a school in Moriah, N. Y., beginning July 1 and continuing for six weeks. The summer session will follow in its outline the work pursued at the Institute during the winter months, which includes the departments of music, painting, sculpture, architecture, opera class, ballet, drama and lectures in all branches. Supplementing the regular courses, there will be lectures, concerts and exhibitions, so that the students will have ample opportunity for cultural activities.
75The site which has been chosen for the center is in the Adirondacks. Ideally situated near Lake Champlain, Moriah affords a view across the Green Mountains into Vermont, and for beauty of landscape is perhaps unsurpassed in the Adirondacks. Near Port Henry, N. Y., it is easily accessible by railroad or boat. There also is opportunity for numerous summer recreations in addition to the studies, so that it will be possible to combine vacation with work.
77ADAMO GREGORETTI
78Formerly Leading Baritone in the Foremost Opera Houses of Europe and South America—Appeared as co-star with Tetrazzini in San Francisco
79VOICE CULTURE—DRAMATIC ACTION
80353 West 57th Street, New York
81Phone: Columbus 6068
83ALBERT BERNE
84TECHNIQUE—INTERPRETATION
85CINCINNATI CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
86B A Programs of unhackneyed songs of musical and literary value in English, French, German and Italian.
88INA BOURSKAYA
89Mezzo Soprano
90METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY
91RAVINIA OPERA COMPANY
92Management: UNIVERSAL ARTISTS, Inc., 1440 Broadway, New York
94NEW YORK STRING QUARTET
95CONCERT MANAGEMENT ARTHUR JUDSON
96Steinway Hall, New York
97Brunswick Records
98Packard Building, Phila
100MARJORIE HARWOOD
101Soprano
102CONCERT ORATORIO
103RECITAL
104112 Anderson Place or 407 Knabe Bldg.
105Buffalo, N. Y. New York City
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