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Musical Courier 1927-01-13: Vol 94 Iss 2, 1927
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1ARTISTS EVERYWHERE
3"Frederic Baer proved to be a singer of splendid power and gracious personality." . . . "Range and power of voice." . . . "Bass depth and resonance, with sweetness in upper register." These and other sentences appear in various papers in comment on baritone Baer's singing. A Western paper mentions the dramatic quality of his voice, a Southern paper the delicate quality of expression and sympathy, and still another praises his fastidious enunciation—all of which in some measure explains the popularity of Mr. Baer.
5Martha Baird, an American pianist, who has been successful in concert in Great Britain during the past four years, is now in America paying social visits to many friends and acquaintances. Before sailing for Europe the middle of January she will give a recital in Aeolian Hall on January 12. Miss Baird is not without recognition in this country, as she has appeared with the Boston Symphony, Orchestra under Monteaux, and with the Detroit Orchestra, under Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
7Ellen Ballon, Canadian pianist, will sail for Europe on January 14. She is booked for appearances in Vienna, Berlin, London and Holland and will remain abroad until the fall.
9Zlatko Balokovic, Yugoslav violinist, will appear during January in Vienna, Munich, The Hague, Amsterdam and Berlin.
11Evsei Beloussoff, cellist, has been booked for an appearance at the spring festival in Baldwin, Kans.
13Natalie and Victoria Boshko, well known violinist and pianist respectively, are this season playing only Beethoven. On January 5 they gave a program in Newark, N. J., among other numbers offering the Frenhling and Kreutzer sonatas. On January 9, at Hampden's Theater, they participated in a concert at which they played the triple concerto of Beethoven with the assistance of L. Shuk, cellist, and members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Zuro. After January 25 the sisters will have several appearances in Florida.
15Alexander Brailowsky, Russian pianist, who has as large a following in the United States as he has abroad, where he has just been the recipient of fresh triumphs in the Scandinavian countries, will give a concert at Carnegie Hall on January 15. Mr. Brailowsky will play three groups—the first a Liszt Sonata, the second Schumann's Carnival, Op. 9, and the third, seven numbers by Chopin.
17Geneve Cadle recently won favor in a New York recital at Town Hall. The critic of the Herald-Tribune declared her to be a young soprano of unusual talent and charm. He also stated that "Miss Cadle is gifted with personal beauty and dignity of presence; she has humor, not too much sentiment, and not only an appreciation of subtleties, but the ability to convey them over the footlights." In commenting on her recital the Times averred that "She knew how to give her songs with variety of expression, to turn from grave to gay as the situation demanded." To quote the American, "One caught the charm of youth and spontaneity in her singing, and these were supported by a certain command of style and musicianliness. Her acquaintance was broad, for she sang poetic songs by Quagliari, Cavalli, Carissimi and Legrenzi in Italian, modern works by Cornelius Wolf, Wolff and Strauss in German; six French numbers, and a closing group by Americans." One of Miss Cadle's forthcoming recitals is at the Playhouse, Chicago, Ill., on February 27.
19The College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University announces its second summer session of six weeks opening July 5 and closing August 12. Complete courses in piano, voice, violin, organ, public school music, harmony, advanced theory, ear-training and appreciation of music will be offered by principal members of the winter faculty. Dr. Adolf Frey, head of the piano department, who is now away on leave of absence, will return to take charge of the piano teaching for the summer session. William Berwald will offer courses in counterpoint, form and analysis, canon, fugue and composition. Harry Vibbard, organ; Conrad Becker, violin, and Lowell M. Welles, voice, are other prominent members of the faculty who will teach. The classes of public school music methods, sight reading and ear-training will be in charge of Zeno Nagel. Earl Stout will teach first and second year harmony and appreciation of music.
21Marie Dekyzer gave a tea December 30 at her New York studio in honor of her pupil, Myrtle Shaffer, contralto and teacher of voice, of Meadville, Pa.; she has been in New York for the past month taking daily voice work and repertory with Mme. De Kyzer. Many guests were present, among them Hallet Gilberte (American composer), Harriett McConnell of Paris, Florence Otis, Beatrice MacCue, Ann Munger, Nancy Stewart and Maude Tucker Doolittle, president of the Mecca School of Music. During the afternoon two of Mme. De Kyzer's artist-pupils sang. Winifred Ridge, coloratura soprano, contributed the Qui la Voce aria from I Puritani, and Lucile Millard, lyric soprano, gave a group of songs by American composers. Artistic accompaniments were played by Regenia Schiller, and Mrs. Arthur Means, Jr., presided at the tea table.
23Lynnwood Farnam's December 27 organ recital, Church of the Holy Communion, New York, completed his series, and was attended by the usual good sized audience, comprising both professional and amateur musicians. French composers, with one American and one English composer, made up the varied program. Four Bach recitals will be given by Mr. Farnam on Monday evenings in February.
25The Fiqué Choral winter calendar includes a social evening, January 8; card party, January 24; gala concert and dance, February 10, and the annual carnival, Apollo Hall, March 4, all these events being scheduled for Brooklyn.
27Carl Flesch, violinist and head of the violin department of the Curtis Institute of Music, gave his only New York recital this season on January 12 at Aeolian Hall, with Harry Kaufman at the piano. Mr. Flesch is now scheduled for an extensive concert tour of the Coast and Middle West.
29Samuel Gardner, American violinist and composer, after an absence of five years from the New York recital halls, makes his re-appearance in Carnegie Hall on January 5. During the interim Mr. Gardner's only New York appearances were as soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1925 and in 1926, under Willem Mengelberg as conductor. At these concerts he played the Mendelssohn concerto and his own violin concerto respectively. At his forthcoming recital some interesting novelties are promised, among which, the first performance publicly in New York of his transcription of the Vieuxtemps Fantasia Appassionata, in which is found a reconstructed piano accompaniment in the manner of the Wilhelmj transcription of the Paganini concerto; his new violin piece, Jazzetto, which promises to rival his well-known violin solo, From the Canebrake; and From the Rockies, a tone picture of quiet mood. Josef Adler, New York pianist, who has just returned from a tour of Japan will assist Mr. Gardner at the piano. This will be Mr. Adler's first appearance since his return to the metropolis.
31Anna Hamlin, soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, is now under the management of the Tillotson Concert Direction. Miss Hamlin is the daughter of the late George Hamlin, American tenor, who, for years, was a prominent figure in music both in America and Europe.
33Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish pianist, returned from Europe, where he had been playing in England, Germany and Italy, to give two New York recitals, the first at Aeolian Hall on January 11.
35Mischa Levitzki has just been booked for the Evanston Festival in May. He will appear as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Stock, playing the Beethoven C minor concerto.
37Abby Putnam Morrison sang Hear Ye Israel, from The Elijah, and Come Unto Him, from The Messiah, at the Christmas services at the Portsmouth, Ohio, Presbyterian Church. She presented a program of songs at the home of Mrs. Coe, and also was heard in Cleveland, where she visited George and Janet Kinney over the New Year holidays.
39Myra Mortimer, American contralto, created considerable of a sensation at The Hague when she appeared there on December 19, with orchestra. She sang in Italian an aria by Monteverdi, orchestrated by Respighi, and introduced two modern songs by Kurt Weil, a young German modernist. The audience staged an ovation for the singer, who had appeared there several times previously, and newspaper reviewers were very enthusiastic over her performance. She was recalled twelve times after the Monteverdi piece. A few days previously, when appearing as soloist with the Utrecht Orchestra in Utrecht, she was well received for her singing of an entirely different group, which included Dank des Paria with words by Goethe, Weyla's Gesang and Margit's Gesang with words by Ibsen. Miss Mortimer will return to America this month and will be heard in recital at Town Hall, New York, on February 2, and in Jordan Hall, Boston, on February 4.
41Mieczyslaw Munz plays another orchestral engagement in Boston in January, besides appearing on the People's Symphony Concert Course in New York and giving a recital in Louisville, Ky.
43The Musical Art Quartet gave a recital at the Institute of Musical Art on December 22, playing the quartet in G major by Mozart and the quartet in D minor by Schubert. This was the second of a series of concerts at the Institute being given by graduates of the Institute who have become figures in the concert world. Later, programs will be given by Rosa Eisner, William Kroll, Lillian Gustafson, Karl Kraeuter, Nora Fauchald, Margaret Hamilton and Samuel Gardner.
45Flora Negri appeared as soloist with the Reading, Pa., Choral Society recently in the choral arrangement of Faust, singing Marguerite. The critic of the Reading Times considered that "with her clear voice, lovely in its lyric quality, coupled with charm and attractive manner, she made an ideal heroine."
47Doris Niles, dancer, who made such a fine success with her two recitals in Carnegie Hall, will give a third recital in the same hall on February 1, when she will present a program of classical, interpretative, Oriental, Spanish and Russian numbers. She will again have the assistance of an orchestra conducted by Louis Horst.
49Joseph Regneas' annual New Year's eve party saw a gathering of well known musical people on hand and as usual many eminent singers, pupils of Mr. Regneas, collaborated in the informal musical program preceding the midnight feast. Among them, Sue Harvard, Alice Godillot, sopranos; Mr. Mathieu, tenor; Max Meller, Bach pianist, and Harry Hirt, accompanist, were heard to the delight of all. A quartet made up from among the foregoing, with Mr. Regneas himself as bass, formed the professional basis for the general singing of carols, the music being provided. Edwin Grasse, violinist and composer, showed himself in the light of humorist, giving imitations at the piano of various chimes and carillons, and other nonsense. At just midnight The Doxology was sung by the assembly.
51Elliott Schenck received a telegram from Chicago from Felix Borowski, December 13, saying, "Kindly rush immediately information about your Pastels which Stock plays next week; please state year of completion, date of first performance, name of orchestra, conductor, also program significance of each movement; also any additional information of interest."
53Joseph Szigeti had a rather busy Christmas "vacation," playing on December 27 at the Bagby Morning Musicales at the Waldorf and on the evening of the same day at the Beethoven Association with Harold Bauer, Hans Kindler, and Ernest Hutcheson. After that he left for Havana, Cuba, where he was scheduled for two concerts on January 4 and 7, and the closely booked eastern tour will be resumed on January 11. Mr. Szigeti will play thirteen dates in January.
55John Charles Thomas, American baritone, sang at the annual banquet of the Rubber Association of America at the Hotel Commodore, January 10. Mrs. Thomas Gilroy gave a reception at her home, in honor of Mr. Thomas after his recital in Carnegie Hall on January 9. The Mayor and Mrs. Walker, who occupied a box at the concert, were also invited.
57The Tollefson Trio's New York concert of December 16 drew a representative audience which manifested its appreciation with spontaneous, long continued applause. The daily papers of the metropolis gave the concert generous space. Annual tours through the south and west have served to increase the trio's popularity, as have also their well known Victor records and Welte-Mignon rolls.
59Gil Valeriano, who sang recently in Birmingham, Pa., scored an outstanding success there, according to the Tyrone Daily Press. The newspaper remarked that "he came
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