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Musical Courier 1927-05-05: Vol 94 Iss 18, 1927
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1MR. AND MRS. HENRY HADLEY IN THEIR NEW HOME
3Master Institute Student Wins Gold Medal
4Eva Spector, violin pupil of the Master Institute of United Arts, New York, was awarded the gold medal in the senior class in the music contest conducted by the Metropolitan League. The contest was held in the Institutional Synagogue, and drew students from all parts of the city. Senior students were permitted five minutes in which to present their number. Miss Spector presented Ten Have's Allegro Brillante with such telling effect that the jury awarded her the senior prize. She is a pupil of Herman Rosen, American violinist, member of the faculty of the Master Institute of United Arts.
6Henry Hadley Leaving for Buenos Aires
7Henry Hadley is soon to depart for Buenos Aires where he has been engaged to conduct a series of concerts in June and July. This is the first time an American conductor has been engaged as guest in Buenos Aires, where they have had Richard Strauss, Felix Weingartner, and many other European celebrities.
9Mr. and Mrs. Hadley gave a garden party in their new home on West 24th Street on May 3 to meet their many friends before sailing on May 7.
11Against innumerable obstacles, Henry Hadley has forged ahead because he has stuck to his ideals. He will take many novelties to Buenos Aires where he will have a large chorus for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Mr. Hadley carries with him all good wishes from his many friends.
13Donates $1,000 to MacDowell Fund
14Abby Putnam Morrison Ricker donated $1,000, the net proceeds of her Opera Soliloquies concert at the Plaza in New York on February 18, to Mrs. Edward A. MacDowell for the MacDowell Fund at the banquet given for Mrs. MacDowell in Chicago on April 23, by the National Federation of Music Clubs at their Biennial Convention.
16ELEANOR SAWYER,
17of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., now singing as guest artist at La Scala, Milan.
19Mrs. Edgar Stillman-Kelley, national president, introduced Mrs. Ricker, who was sitting at the speakers' table and told how the soprano's successful and beautifully sung performance had brought in the second highest single donation to the MacDowell Fund. While at the Convention Mrs. Ricker was heard in a group of songs and operatic arias. She has been engaged to give her Opera Soliloquies program at a number of concerts this spring and next fall. She is giving the King's Henchman as a special feature of her programs with explanatory talk before it.
21Mr. and Mrs. Hageman Entertain
22On April 22, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hageman gave a little party in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Moore of Chicago. Some of the guests present were: Mrs. George Barrere, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bergh, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Britt, Mr. and Mrs. Mario Chamlee, Helen Stanley, Loudon Charlton, Captain Clausen, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Anna Fitziu, Archer Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. William Gustafson, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hadley, Fitzhugh Haensel, Count Janni, Maria Kurenko, Frank Perkins, Dr. and Mrs. Simon Rumchisky, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Salmon, Toscha Seidel, Richard Aldrich, Mrs. Frank Harling, Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini, Luella Melius, Louise Homer, Sidney Homer, Alexander Kahn, and Mr. and Mrs. Ona Blogett.
24Boston Music Critics Acclaim the
25HART HOUSE
26STRING QUARTET
27Géza deKresz, First Violin; Harry Adaskin, Second Violin; Milton Blackstone, Viola; Boris Hambourg, Violoncello
29L. A. S.: Christian Science Monitor
30… This Toronto organization has qualities which justify its venturing into territory which has had a reputation of being a musical stronghold. There may be quartets with a purer blend of tone, or with a finer lyrical quality; but certainly there are few with more vigor, greater accuracy or a more vivid dynamic play. And in the ultimate test of a string quartet, unanimity of musical understanding and aim, these players excel. … The Hart House Quartet, heard in these parts, we believe, only once before, might well come more frequently. An audience awaited them last night which was discriminating as well as large.
32H. T. Parker: Boston Transcript
33The Hart House String Quartet from Toronto—guests last evening of the Harvard Division of Music by grace of Mrs. Coolidge—are not as other quartets which go to and fro before Bostonian eyes and ears. … Mr. deKresz, the leader, gives the quartet singular aspect. … Chamber concerts are usually sedate occasions. Such a vivid apparition as the violinist from Hart House exhilarates them.
35The gentlemen from Toronto have also their own way of playing which is not the way of the quartets more commonly visiting us. By example of "The Flonzaleys," the goal of most American quartets is exceedingly polished and subtilized performance. … Now, as some believe, this super-refined playing is the present bane of chamber-music in both America and England. In their opinion, it both devitalizes and over-sophisticates the music in hand; while it titillates, rather than stimulates, the receiving audience. The Continent, they say, takes a more invigorating course with chamber-music, pointing to the Pro Arte Quartet, which visited Boston last autumn; to the Lener Quartet—away from English audiences—to the Rose Quartet of Viennese veterans.
37Those that hold with these disturbers of self satisfaction would have rejoiced in the playing by the musicians from Hart House of Schubert's posthumous quartet in D minor. … Schubert's melodies welled forth much, it was easy to fancy, as they flooded upon the Vienna that knew him living—a starveling, not a classic, composer. Periods "clicked"; modulations bit; transitions leapt. … Here as the quartet sounded was Schubert returned to natural, unclassicized, musical life. As Mr. Koussevitzky restores Beethoven symphonic, so the four from Hart House rescued Schubert from too songful dalliance. For once, who thought twice of lengths or of too easy a fecundity?
39Dissenters may object that the Torontan gentlemen rather overdid their prescription with Schubert. To their playing of Beethoven's Quartet in G major out of Opus 18, there could be no possible demur. Upon this young music they spared no appropriate energy; yet their tone flowed round and warm; while rich and full were their euphonies.
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