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Musical Courier 1927-04-07: Vol 94 Iss 14, 1927
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1ARTUR SCHNABEL,
2pianist, whose seven matinees devoted to Beethoven achieved notable success in Berlin recently. Nearly two thousand persons, comprising the elite of Berlin society, many hundreds of artists together with crowds of simple working people, filled the huge auditorium of The Volksbühne seven times in succession to hear his masterful performances. A triumph indeed!
4THE PICK OF THE PUBLICATIONS
6Vocal
7(G. Ricordi & Co., New York)
8Six Biblical Songs by Dvorak, edited by Edward Keith Macrum.—This completes Mr. Macrum's setting of these devotional, beautiful works, for mixed voices, with occasional obbligato solo. Careful study of these shows this to be the work of a skillful musician and organist, who understands voices. Clouds and Darkness is highly dramatic, with soprano and baritone solos; My Refuge Thou Art, is graceful in the accompaniment, with effective soprano or tenor solo; Hear My Prayer is easy, with soprano solo, afterward repeated in full harmony; Turn Thee Unto Me has a striking introduction phrase, repeated as interlude, with fine climax, and soprano or tenor solo; I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes begins in delicate fashion (soprano solo), continuing the solo with four-voiced (women) accompaniment, and ending softly; Sing a New Song is pastoral in character, with tenor solo, and characteristic organ accompaniment, an unaccompanied chorus, until the climax, when voices and organ unite in joyous climax.
9(Lorenz Publishing Co., Dayton, O.)
10The Heavenly Light, A general cantata, by Carrie B. Adams.—The composer of this work has had a long and successful career in her musical life, especially as a writer of church music. She wrote her first anthem in 1876 under the supervision of W. T. Griff, just fifty years ago. For a great many years Mrs. Adams has been a very prominent figure in the musical life of Terre Haute, Indiana, where she was for a time professor of music in the State Normal School. Since 1920 she has made her home in Portland, Oregon, and has found a large place in the musical circles of the far west. In this cantata Mrs. Adams has arranged the text besides composing the music, and has put out a prodigious piece of work. She has made use of full choir and tenor, soprano, alto and baritone solos. The trend of the cantata is of exultant mood in which there are twelve sections. These are so expertly handled and so complete in themselves that each can be used separately as religious selections and as anthems for various occasions. Mrs. Adams' knowledge of music and of this particular form of it is so vast that she has been able to achieve beautiful choral effects without any unnecessary difficult harmonization. The work is sixty-four pages long and choirmasters having a full choir at their disposal will find in it some original and interesting material.
11(Evans Music Company, New York)
12Two Pleasing Miniatures, by Benjamin F. Rungee.—These are entitled Gathering Daisies and The Birds of May. The former is dedicated to Fred and the latter to Elinor. This in itself will suggest the type of work these are. Delightful numbers for children of about third grade difficulty. They are expertly edited with obvious knowledge of the needs of the juvenile. The Birds of May is a bit more elaborate than the Gathering Daisies, employing the use of the transposed octave and bass for the right hand. Chords are also used on both hands in this number, while in the other the right hand merely carries a flowing melody. They are of true educational value and, furthermore, are sufficiently sonorous to attract the child.
14Music Courses at Carnegie Tech
15Courses in Music are featured in the plans for the summer session this year at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, from June 27 to August 5. The Department of Music of the College of Fine Arts announces subjects of interest not only to teachers and supervisors but to professional musicians as well. The nature of the summer work will be similar to that of the regular course and students of the department will be given credit for summer work on the same basis as that of the college year. The work is arranged in two main courses consisting of the Public School Music Course and the Instrumental Course, each consisting of a combination of subjects of instruction.
17BOSTON
18(Continued from page 18)
19skill as a saxophone player in the days when that instrument was occasionally used in the symphonic orchestra and had not fallen to its present low estate. A list of the works now deposited at the Conservatory shows the appreciation of Mrs. Hall's talent and her generous encouragement of orchestral music, as manifested by some of the most eminent of contemporary composers, both in America and Europe."
20Among the manuscript scores are compositions by Ch. M. Loeffler, C. Debussy, Vincent d'Indy, Jules Mouquet, Th. Gaubert, Jean Hure, H. Wollett, Georges Longy, Gabriel Grovlez, Leon Moreau and others.
21J. C.
23Haensel & Jones Manage Beethoven Symphony
24The concerts of New York's newest orchestra, the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra, Georges Zaslawsky, conductor, will hereafter be managed by Haensel & Jones. This organization made its debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on February 22 last, and was well received by both critics and public. This performance was an introductory event and will be followed by another concert this season at Carnegie Hall on April 29, at which Marguerite D'Alvarez will be the soloist. The Beethoven Symphony Orchestra has now been organized on a permanent basis and beginning next fall will give a series of eight subscription concerts with prominent soloists on four Wednesday and four Friday evenings. Founded in the year of the centenary of Beethoven's death, the new orchestra has taken its name from that master, but its programs will be eclectic, including works of every time and of every school and with compositions by American composers on every program.
26Mrs. Edison Engages Anna Case
27Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, president of the Woman's Guild of the M. E. Church in Orange, N. J., has signed a contract with the Metropolitan Musical Bureau for a recital by Anna Case at the new High School Auditorium, Orange, N. J., on Friday evening, April 22. Miss Case is an Edison recording artist and well known in Orange although this will be her first appearance there in a public recital.
29Lea Luboshutz Recuperating from Operation
30Lea Luboshutz, Russian violinist, is recuperating from an operation for appendicitis. Mme. Luboshutz has been appointed to the Curtis Institute Faculty—the first time a woman has been slated for the violin department.
32MUSICAL COURIER
34In America Now and Season 1927-28
35BENNO MOISEIWITSCH
36"Possesses one of the most charming and exquisitely tempered pianistic styles before the public today."—The New York Sun.
38Boston Recital – – – April 6
39Chicago Recital – – – April 17
41Press Echoes of his New York Recital March 26
43. . . As usual, a performance of the highest musicality was sufficient to put to rout matters of theoretic or academic concern. Mr. Moiseiwitsch's full-blooded and stirring interpretation of the G minor fugue swept aside discussion. . . . Mr. Moiseiwitsch triumphed in an admirable performance. . . . Mr. Moiseiwitsch moved his hearers deeply by his coloring and the sensuous beauty of his single tone.—Olin Downes, New York Times, March 27, 1927.
45. . . He played beautifully on Saturday, and at times with a wealth of power and impressive musical utterance. . . . He possesses a rare blend of delicacy and strength of fleeting color and forceful tone. There is facile magic in his fingers. Supporting these important traits is a well-rounded mental grasp of his music; a power which transforms a beautifully executed performance into a moving interpretation filled with significance and authority.—C. H. N., New York Sun, March 28, 1927.
47. . . showed his familiar and notable technical skill . . . fluency and polish . . . his playing suggested an energetic mood. There was opportunity to notice Mr. Moiseiwitsch's lightness of tone, swiftly flowing runs and command of shading. . . .—F. D. Perkins, New York Herald Tribune, March 27, 1927.
49Management—RICHARD COPLEY, 10 East 43rd St., New York City
50Mason & Hamlin Piano
51Ampico Recordings
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