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Musical Courier 1927-04-28: Vol 94 Iss 17, 1927
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1MUSICAL COURIER
3Clarence Adler Completing Busy Season
4Clarence Adler, pianist, teacher and ensemble musician, is completing the busiest season of his career. His activities are many and varied. For a number of years he has been much sought after as pedagogue, his New York Studios invariably being filled with talented aspirants to pianistic fame. Almost each season an artist pupil is presented in debut recital. This season, Manya Huber made her debut at Aeolian Hall, scoring a success both from audience and press. Miss Huber appeared in a taxing program, ranging from Bach to Debussy. Next season she will again be heard in New York, Boston and Chicago.
6For the past eight seasons, Mr. Adler has been associated with his colleagues, Louis Edlin, violinist, and Cornelius Van Vliet, cellist, in the New York Trio, a leading metropolitan ensemble organization. The New York Trio is heard at least twenty-five times each season in New York and environs, besides in numerous other cities on tour. By reason of the unusual playing of these artists, the New York Trio has won wide recognition.
8Mr. Adler's music activities are not confined to the winter months, for he conducts master classes at Ka-ren-ni-o-ke, (his summer estate) at Lake Placid, in the Adirondack Mountains. Ka-ren-ni-o-ke comprises one hundred and ten acres of rustic splendor, in one of the most beautiful parts of the Adirondack Park. Ka-ren-ni-o-ke is attractive to those who want to continue their musical studies in a delightful climate, and in a modern home with every convenience, with the added attraction of being in the midst of forest and mountains. Practice studios, well situated in the quiet woods, invite study and concentration. A large rustic barn converted into an auditorium where a series of fine concerts is given by well known artists serves to recall, in a sense, the musical life of the metropolis, but in a more intimate way. Ka-ren-ni-o-ke is an ideal place for summer master classes, for here the student is not only in constant touch with the master, but has the advantage of association with distinguished musicians during the season. Ample practice bungalows are scattered about the place at sufficient distance from the main house to be unheard. In one of these, The Clouds, Aaron Copland, American composer and former piano pupil of Clarence Adler, wrote his Music for the Theater which was played with much success by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. William Thorner, teacher of Rosa Ponselle, Galli-Curci and other celebrated singers, has recognized the musical atmosphere and advantages of Ka-ren-ni-o-ke by conducting his master classes there last season. Noted artists have prepared their season's programs at Ka-ren-ni-o-ke, at the same time gathering strength and reserve energy for a year of strenuous activity.
10May Korb "a Delight"
11May Korb was well received when she appeared in Lewiston, Me., on April 4. April 13 she broadcasted over WCSH, Portland, and was again heard over the radio on April 27. She was soloist with the Portland Municipal Orchestra, conducted by C. R. Cronham, on April 26, at Bridgton, Me. Today, April 28, she is booked for an appearance at the Rossini Club Spring concert in Portland. The first part of May Miss Korb plans to be in New York, following which she will go to Lake Placid and then to Great Diamond Island for the summer.
13In commenting on the Lewiston recital, the critic of the Journal avowed that "No organist or musician would miss hearing Charles Raymond Cronham, Portland's very popular municipal organist, and no more would any vocal teacher or student let pass the opportunity to hear an artist such as May Korb. And so they came in large numbers and they went away satisfied. . . . In every selection she sang May Korb was a delight. Artistic training and a charming personality were at all times evident. She has a voice of sweetness and purity, with lyric smoothness and florid coloratura equally at her command. Another local critic was of the opinion that "Not in a long time has Lewiston been favored with a singer combining such a beautiful voice, with youth and engaging personality. Miss Korb has one of the sweetest voices heard in some time. It is full, persuasive, lyrical, yet high and melting. Her trills were delightful and her coloratura like a cascade of brilliant gems."
15Marmein Students Give Dance Program
16Students of the Marmein School of Dancing were presented in an interesting program at the Princess Theater, April 24. There were lyric, character and original dances, all given by the elementary, intermediate and advanced students. With the exception of five young women, so a program note stated, all had had but one winter season's instruction, several only one term.
18In view of all this, an added measure of credit is due the participants. All did the respective numbers well indeed considering the time they have studied. The star of the day, however, was Mildred Neff, who in an Aztec War Dance (Borodine) and the Leopard Woman (Saint-Saëns) was excellent; she has unusual talent. Anne Raphael (Un Petit Morceau de Ballet, Strauss), Lucille Dannenberg and Virginia Weil as Priscilla and John Alden (L. T. Levy), Emily and Elizabeth Koeniger as The Spider and the Fly (DeKoven) and Yrsa Anderson in Temptation (Brahms) were outstanding. Some of the groups of youngsters were delightful, and it is regrettable that lack of space prohibits the listing of all the many who took part. The whole program was a credit to the Marmein School of the Drama Dance.
20Elizabeth Gutman's Reengagements
21Three thousand people heard Elizabeth Gutman sing Beethoven's Adelaide and the aria from Egmont at the Beethoven celebration at Convention Hall, Camden, N. J., on March 23. An orchestra of forty members of the Philadelphia Orchestra gave the instrumental part of the program. Before Miss Gutman left the stage, she was immediately reengaged to broadcast a program of Jewish Folksongs on April 20 for the Big S Hour over WCAM. Another successful concert was given by this artist on March 31 at Johnstown, Pa. This appearance also resulted in an immediate reengagement, to take place in the early fall.
23On April 5, Miss Gutman participated in a concert of Latin-American music given at the Pan-American Union in Washington. There was a distinguished audience, including many representative South and Central American diplomats. Miss Gutman had the honor of being the first North American artist ever to appear on one of these programs. Her two groups (consisting of songs by Reynaldo Hahn—born in Venezuela—and of Spanish-American folksongs) were enthusiastically applauded, and she received many tributes from the Washington press. This concert was also broadcasted over NAA.
25Marie Novello in Bradenton
26Marie Novello, Welsh pianist, who has recently returned to the United States for appearances in concert, gave a recital in Bradenton, Fla., on April 5. Her program consisted of works by Chopin, Rameau, Debussy, Liszt, Arensky, Grainger and Schubert-Tausig. In speaking of the performance, the Bradenton Herald stated: "Rounds of enthusiastic applause filled the auditorium last night upon the appearance here in concert of the famous pianist, Marie Novello. . . . Miss Novello, lovely in appearance and manner, was recalled enthusiastically after each group of numbers and was forced to respond with extra selections at the end of her program. Miss Novello plays with masculine vigor and a most amazing technic, to which she adds a very pure and sure knowledge of her interpretations. . . . It is small wonder to those who heard her last night that she was acclaimed throughout Europe as the outstanding woman pianist since Carreño."
28Nina Morgana Reengaged for Metropolitan
29Nina Morgana has been reengaged by the Metropolitan Opera Company for the seasons 1927-28 and 1928-29. Miss Morgana was asked to sing at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, again this summer but she was obliged to refuse as she is spending the summer in Italy. She will, however, appear at the Colon during the summer season of 1928. In November Miss Morgana will make a concert tour of the Coast, and at the end of December she rejoins the Metropolitan Opera Company. Miss Morgana concluded her present season with the Metropolitan singing the doll, Olympia, in Tales of Hoffmann on April 15.
31Raisa and Rimini Sail
32Rosa Raisa and Giacomo Rimini sailed last Saturday on the S. S. Biancamano for Italy, where they will spend the summer. Before going they did some work for the Vitaphone. A duet from II Trovatore, especially, is said to be one of the finest recordings ever made for that company.
34Gladys Burns Gives Concert
35Gladys Burns, who has been coaching with Mme. Ada Soder-Hueck, gave a recital in the Wanamaker Auditorium in conjunction with J. Thurston Noe, organist, on April 11. Miss Burns is a coloratura soprano of repute, having won the national contest of the Federation of Music Clubs in Asheville, N. C., in 1923, and since then appearing with success in many cities of the United States and in Europe. On this particular occasion she gave selections by Handel, Debussy, Godard, Carew, Goatley and Elliott.
37Doris Canfield Dances
38Doris Canfield, assisted by a group of Ruth Doing Dancers, gave a varied and interesting program at the Edyth Totten Theater on April 17 which was enthusiastically applauded by an appreciative audience.
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