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Musical Courier 1927-01-13: Vol 94 Iss 2, 1927
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1BOSTON
3FELIX FOX SOLOIST WITH PEOPLE'S SYMPHONY
5BOSTON.—Felix Fox, pianist of this city, added one more to his long list of successes when he appeared as soloist with the People's Symphony Orchestra on January 2 in Jordan Hall. Mr. Fox chose the songful, romantic concerto of Grieg as a vehicle for the display of his powers and gave it a reading that was notable for technical prowess, musical sensibility of high degree and poetic feeling expressed with fine artistic restraint. The pianist was vigorously applauded and recalled by his enthusiastic listeners.
7For purely orchestral numbers Stuart Mason led his excellent body of musicians in a lyrical performance of Schubert's overture to Rosamond and in a stirring interpretation of the perennially popular Pathetique Symphony of Tschaikowsky. This work fairly cries for the emphasis of under-statement on the part of him who would interpret its emotional significance, and Mr. Mason can always be depended upon to exercise a commendable artistic reserve in such matters. The orchestra gave fresh proof of its present powers, demonstrating how effectively it has been unified into a well-balanced, responsive instrument, thanks to the unceasing labors and lofty ideals of Stuart Mason. A very large audience was keenly appreciative.
9MILHAUD SOLOIST WITH BOSTON SYMPHONY
11At the Boston Symphony concerts of December 17 and 18, Darius Milhaud, French composer of the famous (or infamous) Six, was the guest of honor. Mr. Milhaud played the piano part in his Fantasia, the Carnival of Aix, drawn from his ballet Salade, for piano and orchestra.
13Of the twelve short movements into which the suite is divided we liked best those labelled Isabelle and Souvenir de Rio. Mr. Milhaud's music proved delightfully surprising in its freedom from that cacophony which we have come by reason of its simplicity, gayety, and piquant effects. The piano part hardly calls for any display of virtuosity, hence there is no occasion to comment on Mr. Milhaud's pianistic accomplishments. Suffice to say that his technic was fully adequate to the demands of the score. It was plainly evident that the audience enjoyed the work very much, and Mr. Milhaud was recalled a number of times.
15Schumann's joyous symphony in B flat major opened the program, Mr. Koussevitzky giving it a warmly flowing, delightful, reading, one that brought out its impulsively romantic spirit in effective fashion. The concert closed with a brilliant performance of Ravel's La Valse.
17ETHEL HUTCHINSON AND NELLY BROWN IN JOINT RECITAL
19Ethel Hutchinson, pianist, and Nelly Brown, soprano, divided a program, December 14, at Jordan Hall. Miss Hutchinson displayed an adequate technic, good musicianship and sympathetic understanding in pieces by Chopin, Moussorgsky, Ravel, Scriabin, Griffes and Liszt. Miss Brown, who comes from the studio of Arthur Wilson, disclosed a voice of naturally lovely quality, vocal skill of a praiseworthy order and excellent diction in old airs from Mozart and Galuppi and in pieces by Rachmaninoff, Palmgren, Vaughan Williams, Hugo Anson and Shaw. A large audience applauded the artists very cordially. J. C.
21Mme. Larsen-Todsen a Busy Artist
23Mme. Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Swedish dramatic soprano, has returned to New York for her third season at the Metropolitan Opera. She resides in Sweden and as usual she sang her great Wagnerian role at the beginning of the season at the Royal Opera, Stockholm. She also appeared in the gala performance given in celebration of the wedding of the Belgian crown prince with Princess Astrid of Sweden.
25DANISE
26Baritone Metropolitan Opera Co.
27Available Concerts—Recitals—May and October Only
28Exclusive Concert Manager, R. E. JOHNSTON, 1451 Broadway, New York
29BRUNSWICK RECORDS
30HARDMAN PIANO
32PROSCHOWSKY STUDIOS
3374 Riverside Drive, New York
34Telephone Endicott 0139
35Author of
36"THE WAY TO SING"
37Published by C. C. Birchard
38"Beginner's Book on Singing"—Theodore Presser—Off Press February
39MASTER CLASSES
40MacPhail School of Music, Minneapolis—July
41Glenn Dillard Gunn School of Music, Chicago—August
43SEASON 1926-27
44J H. DUVAL
45TEACHING IN EUROPE
46Bringing out his artist pupils in Opera in Italy
47Address
48HOTEL MARINO
49MILAN
50Only American Representative for Opera and Concert Coaching
51GERTRUDE CLARKE
52200 West 90th Street, New York
53Schuyler 4026
55Garo photo
56FELIX FOX
58to associate with his compositions. There is little or nothing to shock the mossbacks and much to divert the listener
60NANNY LARSEN-TODSEN
62It can be named as a curiosity that in this gala performance not less than four kings were in the audience.
64At the Metropolitan, Mme. Larsen-Todsen will sing, beside La Gioconda and Rachel in La Juive, both in Italian, the great Wagnerian roles, Isolde and the three Brünnhildes in Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. The Metropolitan this season celebrates the hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's death by presenting his only opera, Fidelio, and Mme. Larsen-Todsen will sing the title role. She will remain in New York until the end of the season. Between May 23 and the end of the month, she will sing the three Brünnhildes in the Nibelungen Ring at the Royal Opera of Covent Garden in London. At the fifteenth anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival, in July and August of this year, Mme. Larsen-Todsen will sing leading roles. She rehearsed the whole month of June last year at Bayreuth.
66Mme. Larsen-Todsen studied her great Wagnerian roles with Prof. Anton von Fuchs in Munich, who was stage manager at the Royal Opera there and formerly stage director at Bayreuth and at the Metropolitan Opera. After now having rehearsed the Wagnerian roles during the whole month of June, 1926, with Siegfried Wagner, she ought to be expert in them since the acting is at least of the same importance as the song.
68Ernest Davis Given Ovation in Utica
69UTICA, N. Y.—When Ernest Davis, tenor, appeared as soloist with the Haydn Male Chorus of Utica at the Olympic Theater, it was the consensus of opinion that he is one of the best tenors heard here in many years. Mr. Davis thoroughly delighted from his first to his last number, the audience becoming so enthusiastic at times that the applause practically stopped the performance. In his Welsh numbers, Mr. Davis was particularly well received, and his rendition of Open the Gates of the Temple held his hearers spellbound. It is significant that every selection on the tenor's program was encored. S.
71PARIS STUDIOS
72JOHN F. BYRNE
73TEACHER OF SINGING
74Recommended by Jean de Reszke
75Studio: 157 rue du Fourbourg, St. Honore, Paris
76JOHN HEATH
77PIANIST
78Villa Martine, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
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