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Musical Courier 1927-04-07: Vol 94 Iss 14, 1927
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1J. FRED WOLLE
2ORGANIST
3Mgt. THE WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU OF NEW YORK, Inc.
4712-718 Fisk Bldg., New York
6LOUISE HARRISON
7SNODGRASS
8Pianist-Accompanist
91610 E. McMillan St
10Cincinnati, Ohio
11Tel. Woodburn 6285
13CECILIA
14GUIDER
15ON TOUR
16Address: JAMES GUIDER
171947 Broadway
18New York City
20MISCHAKOFF
21Concert Master of the New York Symphony Orchestra
22Violin Studio: 38 West 70th Street, New York
23Telephone: 9581 Susquehanna
25HELEN
26CHASE
27318 W. 86th Street, N. Y. VOICE—PIANO—Coach—Accompanist—Teacher Endicott 5644
29HERBERT GOULD
30BASSO CANTANTE
31622 FINE ARTS BLDG., CHICAGO, ILL.
33CARL BUSCH
34Cantata "The Hunter's Horn"
35For Baritone, 2 Horns, Woman's Chorus and Piano
36H. T. FITZSIMONS, Publ., 509 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.
38EDWIN SWAIN
39BARITONE
40Annie Friedberg, Fisk Bldg., New York
42JAN WOLANEK
43VIOLINIST
44Studios: 438 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
45Director Violin Dept. MAAS SCHOOL OF MUSIC, Rochester, N. Y.
47MAESTRO
48VITA
49Voice culture—Opera coach
50Studio 803-804, Carnegie Hall, N. Y. Tel. Circle 1350
52ARTHUR MIDDLETON
53Famous Concert Baritone
54Uses and Endorses the Kranich & Bach Piano
55KRAHNICH & BACH
56Grand—Reproducing—and Period Model Pianos
57237 East 23rd St. New York
5877 EAST JACKSON BLVD., CHICAGO, ILL.
59CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST UPON REQUEST
61MUSICAL COURIER
62April 7, 1927
64European Career of an American Lieder Singer
65VIENNA.—A comforting sign of the times—comforting for the advocates of American art and artists—is the steady conquest of Europe by enterprising young American artists. It is not so long ago that Europe held the export privilege in this field with America as the foremost market of consumption; and not so long that American artists were regarded here with certain more or less camouflaged misgivings as successful usurpers of European monopolies, or as mere disagreeable intruders—according to the quality and achievements of their talent.
67Operatically speaking, Geraldine Farrar and Mary Garden have done a great deal to overcome such prejudice and hostility, in Berlin and Paris, respectively. Since then, the American artist has been regarded as a legitimate candidate in European operatic life,—in fact the superior quality of American (particularly women's) voices for opera is now well-nigh acknowledged. Not quite the same success has so far attended the American lieder singer, particularly in Germany and Austria, where the Lied is jealously guarded by singers, public and press as a racial and linguistic monopoly of the German-speaking artist. It is therefore quite in place to speak in this connection of the achievements of an American singer who has recently brought herself—and America—to such a point in the recital field as well, namely Vahdah Gara.
69Like many concert singers, Mme. Gara has an operatic past, though one of short duration. In Italy she coached with Mugnone, the distinguished conductor, and appeared with notable success in Rome, Florence and Turin, as Nedda, Mimi, Tosca and Elsa. Her career as a recitalist is of quite recent date. She made her first concert appearance with orchestra in Vienna in 1924, a short time later (1925) entering the recital field proper. This also happened in Vienna, and her success was notable. Since then she has visited many cities and with an invariably splendid reception from public and press. She carried the gospel of Lieder into Italy—a sort of pioneer work, to be sure—singing in Milan, Rome and Florence. Paris heard her as an interpreter of songs, at the Salle Gaveau, in 1926. Then again Vienna, with two recitals devoted to classic and modern songs, respectively, and following this signal success Mme. Gara bearded the lion in his den in giving two recitals of Lieder in Berlin and thus acquired her final stamp of approval. Budapest and again Vienna, are next on her itinerary, and already the Austrian provinces are clamoring to hear her.
71No less an authority than Alfredo Casella sat in the audience at Mme. Gara's Berlin recital and voiced his approval of her interpretations of his songs in unmistakable terms. Such appreciation on the part of the composers themselves is, perhaps, even more gratifying to Mme. Gara than the applause of her audiences and the enthusiasm of most of her critics. In Vienna, Josef Marx praised Mme. Gara's work very highly, and authorized this American singer to introduce his songs in Paris.
73And already the young modernist composers of Germany and Austria, quickly recognizing the propaganda value of so distinguished an interpreter, are besieging Mme. Gara to include their music in her programs. She is in a position to do so not only by reason of her vocal and interpretative capacities; her linguistic talents are no less remarkable. Her programs are given in six languages of which each is sung with equal perfection, German, Italian, French, Hungarian, Spanish (Mme. Gara, incidentally, is partly of Spanish extraction) and, of course, English. In this connection it is worthy of note that American songs occupy no small space in Mme. Gara's programs, particularly those of Charles T. Griffes which she was the first to sing in Vienna and Berlin. All in all, she is one of the most interesting and unique of American recitalists now before the European public—and one of the most radiantly beautiful ones. It is hoped that before long Mme. Gara's countrymen, too, will have an opportunity to hear this distinguished home-product.
75E. W. V.
77VAHDAH GARA,
78American soprano, who is having notable success all over Europe and has become a much sought after pioneer of the young song composers.
80Milan Lusk in Wilmette Recital
81A capacity audience of North Shore music lovers greeted Milan Lusk, violinist, at his recital at the Woman's Club in Wilmette (Ill.) March 22. In fine fettle, Lusk was heard to excellent advantage and, as usual, his renditions were characterized by originality and much temperament. Lusk played as novelty a transcription by Ottakar Sevcik of a Bohemian folk song, The Blue-Eyed Maiden, which met with a most enthusiastic reception. Particularly effective was his brilliant rendition of the last movement of the Mendelssohn violin concerto, which evoked storms of applause. As usual, many encores were demanded.
83ASHEVILLE, N. C.
84ASHEVILLE, N. C.—Mrs. Edward MacDowell gave an inspiring concert on March 15 in the Woman's Club building. An interesting talk regarding the MacDowell Colony preceded the excellent program which was composed entirely of her late husband's compositions.
86Beth Peake Roberts has been engaged for six concerts, broadcasting from WWNC each Monday evening at ten o'clock. Mrs. Roberts has a beautiful high soprano voice. She comes from the Blanche Loftain Studio.
88The May Valentine Light Opera Company presented Bohemian Girl and Chimes of Normandy at the Asheville Auditorium, March 11 and 12.
90Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn appeared at the Auditorium on March 24, in a program of the dances that have made them so celebrated and also many new dances of the Orient.
92A mixed double quartet of negro singers from Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C., gave a well balanced program of spirituals at the Battery Park Hotel on March 15. K. D.
94New Manager for Chicago
95Martin Ross, who has been for some years instructor of English in the University of Illinois, has established a new concert bureau in Chicago with offices in the Kimball Building. This work is not entirely new for Mr. Ross since he has engaged artists frequently in the past and has also acted in an advisory capacity both to managers and artists. Mr. Ross will now have under his exclusive management a limited number of artists. Among them are Georges Baklanoff, noted Russian operatic and concert baritone, who, under Mr. Ross's management, will make his first transcontinental tour; Eulah Cornor, contralto, formerly with the Cincinnati Opera Company, Franz Pflau, pianist, and Raphael Spiro, violinist, who recently gave a New York sonata recital and proved their artistic worth.
97Nikola Zan Artist Pleases
98Mrs. Herbert Snead, soprano, who has been studying with Nikola Zan, had such great success at her recent appearance before the Montclair Music Club that she has been engaged as soprano soloist of St. Luke's Church in Montclair, N. J.
100ETHEL GROW
101CONTRALTO
102Specialist in Tone Production
103"She has a fine diction, therefore there was a difference whether the songs were in English or not. We like our own tongue best when easily understood."
104New York World.
105200 West 57th St., New York
106Phone: Circle 10117
108RUTH DAVIES
109Pianist—Teacher of Piano
110Elementary, intermediate, advanced students.
11144 East 50th St., New York Phone 5641 Plaza
113BORIS SASLAWSKY
114Russian Baritone
115Oratorios, Recitals, Orchestral Engagements
116Address: E. Q. Saslawsky, 22 East 89th St. Telephone: 10265 Lenox
118ERNEST TOY
119EMINENT AUSTRALIAN VIOLINIST
120For dates address 800 Orchestra Building
121Chicago, Ill.
123ROSA LOW
124Lyric Soprano
125Management: R. E. JOHNSTON
1261451 Broadway New York City
128Celebrated Spanish Piano Virtuoso
129Teacher of Many Famous Pianists
130ALBERTO JONAS
13119 West 85th Street, New York
132Telephones: Schuyler 1044 and Schuyler 9923
134SALVI
135Management
136R. E. JOHNSTON
1371451 Broadway New York City N.Y.
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