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Musical Courier 1927-04-07: Vol 94 Iss 14, 1927
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1CLAUDIA MUZIO
2Beloved on Three Continents!
3Mar. 25th—Sailed from New York for Milan, La Scala season
5Excerpts from the press:
6"Miss Muzio as Violetta, set the pace for the rest of the cast. To it she gave the plenitude of her vocal resources, rich, luscious tone in all registers with a clarion ring to her high notes sung fortissimi. At other times she employed one of the smoothest and downiest mezza-voces ever heard."—Dallas Morning News.
8"Claudia Muzio gave a beautiful interpretation of the title role (Aida); her histrionic talents outshadowed only by her wonderful soprano voice."—Joplin News Herald.
10"Muzio's singing of the Vissi d'arte aria was a thing of muted beauty."—Birmingham Age-Herald.
12Management
13Civic Concert Service, Inc.
14DEMA E. HARSHBARGER, President
15Auditorium Tower, Chicago, Ill.
16Baldwin Piano Used
18MUSICAL COURIER
19Irene Williams Praised in Opera
20Irene Williams appeared recently as Laura in the American premiere of Erich Korngold's Der Ring des Polykrates. The performance was given by the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company, and that Miss Williams scored a success is evident from the following excerpt from the Philadelphia Inquirer: "Altogether charming, vocally and in acting and appearance, was Irene Williams as the young wife. Her voice was crystal clear and her utter lack of affectation was irresistible." An appearance as Micaela in Carmen won this tribute from the Philadelphia Bulletin: "Irene Williams made a graceful and appealing Micaela, being ingenuous without over-emphasizing the simplicity of Don Jose's country sweetheart. The famous aria in the third act revealed the purity and sweetness of her voice. She sang it in a manner that won her a real ovation." After a performance of Faust, the Philadelphia Public Ledger declared that "Irene Williams made a very personable heroine and sang the many arias well, notably the Jewel Song. Her acting was good throughout, but especially in the closing scene where she did her best singing."
22Kubey-Renbrandt photo
23IRENE WILLIAMS,
24as Laura, the role she created in the American premiere of Korngold's opera, Der Ring des Polykrates.
26Devries' Pupil Active
27Roberta Dodd Crawford, lyric soprano, a student of Mrs. Herman Devries of Chicago, who has entered the professional field most successfully, has had these dates booked to May 6: March 14, Little Rock (Ark.); 15, Marshall (Tex.), Wiley College; 18, Bonham (Tex.), home-coming benefit, Court House; 24, Fort Worth (Tex.); 28, Dallas (Tex.), Greater Macedonia Baptist Church; April 1, Prairie View (Tex.), Prairie View N. and I. College; 6, Houston (Tex.), Coleridge Taylor Choral Club; 7, Beaumont (Tex.), Music and Art Society; 11, Baton Rouge (La.), Southern University; 13, New Orleans (La.), New Orleans High Schools; 15, Atlanta (Ga.), Spelman College; 18, Fort Benning (Ga.), Twenty-fourth Infantry Band; 20, Birmingham, (Ala.), Shiloh Baptist Church; 22, Memphis, (Tenn.), Parents' and Teachers' Association; 23, Pine Bluff (Ark.), A. M. and N. School; 25, Pine Bluff, Local branch, N. A. A. C. P.; 26, Little Rock (Ark.), Shorter College; 27, Little Rock, State Federation of Women's Clubs; 29, Hot Springs (Ark.), Roanoke Baptist Church; May 2, Nashville (Tenn.), Roger Williams University; 4, Louisville (Ky.), St. John Baptist Church, and May 6, Terre Haute (Ind.), Music Promoters' Association.
29Oppenheimer to Book Hawaiian Theaters
30By an arrangement with the Consolidated Amusement Co., Ltd., of Honolulu, Selby C. Oppenheimer, San Francisco manager, has arranged for the exclusive booking of musical artists and attractions in the theaters of that corporation in Honolulu and other Hawaiian cities. The Consolidated Amusement Co. is owned by San Francisco and Honolulu bankers, Louis R. Greenfield of San Francisco being president. The theaters are generally devoted to the presentation of the better class of motion pictures, but by his arrangement with the officers of the corporation, Mr. Oppenheimer is able to open up any night at the convenience of the visiting artists. By the terms of the agreement made, all concert attractions will be booked direct with the owners of the theaters through the Oppenheimer office in San Francisco.
32Claussen Sings New Role at Metropolitan
33On March 2, Julia Claussen sang a new leading role at the Metropolitan—Laura Adorno in La Gioconda. "Claussen's performance was probably the most distinguished of the evening, said the New York Herald Tribune. According to Grena Bennett in the American, "Scandinavia was well represented with Larsen-Todsen in the title role and Julia Claussen as Laura. Each brought beautiful vocalism to her share." And to quote W. J. Henderson in the New York Sun, "Among the women the most distinguished figure was Julia Claussen as Laura. This singer has had abundant experience in opera of the type represented last night and what she had to do she did as one to the manner, if not born, at least trained."
35Walter Golde Active
36During the past twelve months, Walter Golde, at his studio in the Steinway Building, has coached and instructed about one hundred singers, several of whom are of outstanding reputation. Among them are the names of Bruce Benjamin, Anna Case, Richard Bonelli, Jeanne Gordon, Mina Hager, Grace Leslie, Kathryn Meisle, Marjorie Meyer, Emma Roberts, Princess Tsianina, Helen Traubel, Crystal Waters and Anna Graham Harris. During this time Mr. Golde has also accompanied more than thirty well known artists in public, some of the number being Richard Bonelli, Elisabeth Rethberg, Harriet Van Emden, Bruce Benjamin, Jeanne Gordon, Ruth Breton, Lula Myz-Gmeiner, Lauritz Melchior, Anne Thursfield, Vladimir Resnikoff, Godfrey Ludlow, Marjory Maxwell, Max Kaplick, Anna Case, Curtiss Grove, and Irving Jackson. Surely a wonderful record!
38Rudolph Reuter a "Sensation" on West Coast
39"Reuter's performance at a recent concert was one of the sensations of the musical season," so said Patterson Greene, music critic of the Los Angeles Examiner, in his announcement of that artist's reengagement for his third concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Walter Henry Rothwell. Brune David Ussher, critic of the Record of that city, said: "Rudolph Reuter is a pianist of phenomenally sure, fleet, and enduring technic. Of him, too, must be said that he makes coloratura music of the keyboard into something poetic. Playing in the first movement with great metallic (not pugilistic) tone, Reuter could subdue and nuance himself anon. His al fresco, yet controlled, playing of the cadenza will be long remembered, though the steel-like springiness of his rhythms in the finale likewise remain exemplary. Reuter was much feted."
40Of his appearances with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Post said: "De Falla's work . . . enabled Reuter to display his masterly technic with rapid changes in tempo and great variety of tone color and shading. . . . The brilliant cadenza he gave with overpowering force, and a passion worthy of Rubinstein himself." Of his appearance in Pasadena, the Post said: "Pianist recalled six times at Playhouse . . . Rudolph Reuter enthusiastically received . . . The Philharmonic Orchestra Concert last evening at the Playhouse was exhilarating. Though we were prepared, through Mr. Reuter's advance notices, his playing created a real furor. . . . He carried his listeners to the heights of enthusiasm. With all his pianistic devices, the Rubinstein concerto evoked a storm of applause. He is master of the keyboard."
42New Harriet Ware Song
43With this article is reproduced a facsimile of the first page of Harriet Ware's three-page song, The Nightingale and the Ant, words by herself. This humorous, up-to-date song, something in a new style for this composer, reads as follows:
44Said the Ant to the Nightingale "look at me and learn!
45I work from morning 'til night, and all the world proclaims me the paragon of industry while you do not.
46Do nothing at all but sing in a tree and sing!"
47"True," sang the Nightingale. "But last night in the starlight My song inspired a poet to write an immortal sonnet."
48"What good are sonnets?" said the Ant.
49One gets some inkling of the originality of both poem and music by the first page, printed herewith. The piano accompaniment is very descriptive, and at the end the ant runs madly down to the last note of the piano and drops into his hole, supposedly. The strain of music, which occupies six measures, wedded to the words "But last night in the starlight my song inspired a poet to write an immortal sonnet" is certainly as beautiful as any known to man; it has the heart and expressive characteristics present in the Ware music, but somehow with an individuality, a beauty, all its own.
51PARIS STUDIOS
52BYRNE STUDIOS for Opera, Oratorio, Concert gave 20 Operas in France during past season.
53Complete staff of Instructors
54JOHN FRANCIS BYRNE, Director
55(Recommended by Jean de Reszke)
56157 Foubourg, St. Honore, Paris
58JOHN HEATH
59PIANIST
60Studio, 45 rue des Acacias, PARIS, May until January
61Villa Martine, Beaulieu sur Mer, France, January until May
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