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Musical Courier 1927-04-07: Vol 94 Iss 14, 1927
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1April 7, 1927
3purity of tone, while his artistry and musical intelligence are developed to a superlative degree."
5Irene Williams was cast as Mimi in the performance of La Boheme which was given by the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company at the Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia, on March 10. In reviewing the opera the Philadelphia Public Ledger acknowledged that "Miss Williams is admirably suited to the role in appearance and had evidently prepared the characterization very carefully because, dramatically, it was most convincing throughout. It was intense, light-hearted, pathetic or appealing as the character requires at various times, and all was done with the utmost good taste." The Bulletin and the Inquirer also were enthusiastic in their praise of the young artist, the former daily stating that she was convincing and the latter that "It was refreshing to have in Irene Williams a Mimi who not only sang the music with lovely lyricism, but whose appearance was also charming and suitable, and who brought genuine poignancy of pathos to her performance."
7GOTHAM GOSSIP
9IDA HAGGERTY-SNELL STUDIO MUSICALE
10Fourteen piano and vocal numbers made up the March 6 studio musicale given by Mme. Haggerty-Snell in her Metropolitan Opera House studio. Various singers won applause for their excellent singing; they were Misses Celia Bronstein, Elizabeth Strack, Jeanne Petrokopulos, Alice McElroy, Carmelisa Arra, Yvette La Rose, and Messrs. Jose Martin and Joseph Benanatti. Pianists were Misses Henrietta Lipselder, Irene Metzner, Laurette McElroy, Gertrude Swartz, Ernest Cafuso and Master Morris Schwarz. The usual large and highly interested audience attended, despite bad weather, and registered much pleasure in the music and performance.
12BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MUSIC
13Scandinavian composers were presented by Dr. Dickinson at the March 18, Friday Noon Hour of Music, Brick Presbyterian Church, through the medium of Mary Craig, soprano; John Mundy, cellist, and Dr. Dickinson, organ. The golden voice of Mary Craig was a special feature, her numbers including songs by Grieg, Sinding, and a folksong. In all these her beautiful voice, distinct enunciation, and warm feeling was truly admirable. Cello numbers were by Grieg and Kjerulf, and the organ numbers included works by Buxtehude, Grieg and Sinding.
15Music by Jewish composers was presented by Clarence Dickinson, with Louise Stallings, soprano, and Vladimir Resnikoff, violinist, at the Friday Noon Hour of Music at the Brick Church, April 1. The program included: Sonata (Salomone Rossi), Introspection (Held), Kammenoi Ostrow (Rubinstein), Sea Sketch (Bloch), March (Meyerbeer) for organ; Hebrew Lullaby (Saminsky), The Lark and Morning (Rubinstein), Speak to Me (Mana-Zucca), V'Shomru and May the Words from the Temple Service, for voice; Didin (Bloch), Hebrew Dance (Zimbalist), Hebrew Melody (Achron), for organ.
17PFIFFER-SHEFKOWITZ HONORS
18Mme. Pfiffer, of the Viennese Opera Company, was guest of honor, March 20, at a recital given by Sylvia Shefkowitz and her sister, Ruth, vocalist; it was held under the auspices of the School of Cultural Arts. The audience was enthusiastic and appreciative, and the Carlyle Room on West 72nd Street was crowded with guests.
20MUSICIANS' CLUB DINNER
21The Musicians Club of New York, Arthur Bergh, president, gave its monthly dinner on March 17, at the Hotel Hamilton, when the dining room was packed to overflowing, with 125 present, the decoration in accord with the day; green candles, favors and ferns trimmed the tables. The Hemstreet Singers entertained during the evening. Dancing closed an evening long to be remembered.
23BEETHOVEN MASS AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
24Commemorating the Beethoven centenary, his Mass in C was presented at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, March 20, the following soloists collaborating with the chorus under direction of Dr. Farrow, with Channing LeFebvre, organist; Grace Kerns, Mrs. Benedict Jones, Arthur Kraft, and Frank Cuthbert. The andante from the Fifth Symphony, and two short excerpts for four trombones were also performed, and Dr. Walter Damrosch delivered an address.
26WALEVITCH-FEODOROVA RUSSIAN EVENING
27An evening of Russian music was given at Steinway Hall, March 23, by Saveli Walevitch (in costume) and Ludmilla Feodorova, soprano; folksongs and art-songs by modern composers made up the program.
29WILDERMANN GIVES BEETHOVEN COSTUME RECITAL
30Mary Wildermann and a group of advanced pupils from her Institute gave a memorial costume recital of Beethoven's most notable compositions at the new Masonic Temple, Port Richmond, S. I., March 26.
32N. A. O. AND A. G. O. NEWS
33A meeting of the executive committee of the National Association of Organists was held at Town Hall Club, March 21; matters connected with the annual convention in St. Louis, Mo., as well as prize-money to be awarded winners of composition contests, were discussed. The American Guild of Organists gave a Service of Evensong, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, April 5; academic members in the procession wore gown and hood.
35DAMMBMANN STUDIO NEWS
36Emma A. Dambmann will give her annual junior vocal pupils' recital, assisted by professionals, at Steinway Music Salon, on April 22; Elenora Marshall, Florence Keefe, Frances Haggerty, Emma Wangerman, Ina Deal Phelps, Louise and Dolores Gatto, Theodor Wachter, Elsie Pente, Jean Rouse, Rachel Jensen and Carmela Gatto. Rachel Jensen sang at a delightful Madrigal Club affair of March 17, and will give her song recital at Bergen Lyceum, Jersey City, April 26. The Gatto sisters will give their annual spring joint song recital at Mt. Kisco on May 12. Bunolla Kucker of Los Angeles left for Paris, February 26, to be gone six months; she will give a recital at Carnegie Hall early in the fall. Mme. Dambmann arranged a concert at the Home of the Blind, Grand Concourse, March 22, when the following took part: The Gatto sisters, Frances Haggerty, Florence Keefe and Rachel Ringborg Jensen. Miss Dambmann goes to Paris in June for four months' stay.
38RUBY GERARD ON WORLD TOUR
39Ruby Gerard, violinist, starts April 1 on a trip 'around the world, with friends, per automobile; she will play at the American Embassy in Berlin, and various Chambers of Commerce have booked her in Africa, Arabia, Asia, Persia, Japan, etc.
41GRASSE, ORGANIST, VIOLINIST AND COMPOSER, IN WASHINGTON
42February 28, in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., Edwin Grasse gave an organ recital on the new three-manual organ, playing works beginning with Bach, and ending with his own Nocturne, Serenade, and Toccata, by request of Carl Engel. It was a very conservative program. Washington papers gave the affair much attention and praise. He also gave a radio organ recital over the Washington station, WRC. March 26 he played his own organ transcription of Les Preludes (Liszt), and violin solos, at a concert in Aeolian Hall, New York, among them his newest composition, Joy; this was composed after a thrilling horseback ride on Grasse's horse, Tommie.
44MUSICIANS' CLUB DINNER
45The March dinner of the Musicians' Club of New York, Arthur Bergh, president, took place at Hotel Hamilton on the evening of St. Patrick's Day, with everything appropriate for the occasion.
47PLAINFIELD SYMPHONY SOCIETY CONCERT
48Assisted by the Harriet Ware Choral Society, Howard Savage, conductor, the Plainfield Symphony Society gave its twenty-fifth concert, seventh season on March 7; Christiana Kriens conducting. Assisting artists were Marion Meeker, soprano; Bruce Campbell, tenor, and Marguerite van Zandt, pianist. Works for orchestra were by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Chabrier. The Ware work was Undine, lyric tone poem, and the composer was present.
50DICKINSON'S BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MUSIC
51Coleridge-Taylor's The Atonement was sung by the choir of the Brick Presbyterian Church, under the direction of Clarence Dickinson, March 20, with Inez Barbour, Rose Bryant, Charles Stratton, and Frank Croxton, soloists. A Beethoven program was given at the Friday Noon Hour of Music, March 25, by Clarence Dickinson, with Grace Leslie, contralto, and John Corigliano, violinist, and included: A Song of Penitence, Invocation to Nature and May Song for contralto; Romance, Rondino, Minuet and Dance of the Dervishes for violin; Overture to Egmont, Gavotte, Adagio (Moonlight Sonata), for organ, with the Turkish March for four hands (organ), played with Charlotte Mathewson Lockwood.
53GERTRUDE LYONS HEARD OVER RADIO
54The blind soprano, Gertrude Lyons, heard recently at Guild Hall (Steinway Building) was broadcasting artist, March 5 and 10, over station WGL.
56HANNAH KLEIN AT THE BARRINGTON SCHOOL
57Carl M. Roeder's pupil, Hannah Klein, gave a piano recital at the Barrington School, Mass., March 13, playing a program of works beginning with Bach, then Chopin, MacDowell and ending with Albeniz, Beach and Liszt. She is the brilliant, youthful pianist who won the New York Music Week first prize in 1925; her playing is marked by high-grade technic and musical spirit.
59N. Y. SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS RECITAL
60Misses Hitch, Banks, Griffen, De Cew, Street, and Messrs. Noonan, Poplet, Littman and Williams were the student singers and players at the March 10 weekly recital given at the New York School of Music and Arts, Ralfe Leech Sterner, director; Messrs. Kremer and Dresel of the faculty gave a piano and cello duet, and Alice Davis was the accompanist.
62Boghetti Artist Sings With Skill
63Marian Anderson sang recently at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg, Va., before a densely packed auditorium of music lovers and was given a rousing reception. "Miss Anderson," said the Progress-Index of March 6, "demonstrated her right to be classed with musical artists of distinction by the character of the numbers she sang and the skill and ease and grace with which she sang them. There was no artificial air in her manner, but she was natural and modest, well composed and in entire sympathy with her audience. The range and quality of her voice were, to say the least, marvelous. Her high tones were accurate and made with unusual sweetness; her low tones were melodious and full. It must be added also that there was soul portrayal in all the numbers she sang. Miss Anderson is an artist who sings with feeling." She is a pupil of Giuseppe Boghetti, of New York and Philadelphia.
65Cottlow Pupils Successful
66Nina Entzminger Gunin, one of Augusta Cottlow's talented pupils, gave a successful recital recently in the Concert Hall of the MacDowell Club. Miss Gunin had a capacity audience, and was warmly applauded for the poetry of her interpretations. Her program was shared by Catherine Rogers, who gave some charming songs, in costume, to the delight of the audience. This gifted young pianist was engaged to give a recital in Pittsburgh during Music Week, the first week in April.
68Another gifted pupil, Ralph Fortner, has been collaborating on programs with Walter Leary, baritone, and meeting with decided success. These programs have been broadcasted through WABC.
70New Church Position for Della Baker
71Della Baker has been engaged as soprano soloist at the Munn Avenue Presbyterian Church in East Orange, N. J. Miss Baker gave a highly successful recital at the Town Hall, New York, on March 17.
73Teachers' Chorus of Prague Coming
74News arrives from Europe that the Teacher's Chorus of Prague (Czechoslovakia), directed by Metod Dolezil, is coming to the United States for an extended visit during the season of 1928-29. The reputation of this organization is sufficient to count the news of its coming among future events of interest. There is a real musical treat in store.
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